A well written, easy to navigate and comprehensive guide to how to develop core skills and to make the most of one's abilities in written work.

Why bother refuting your opponents, when you can just take away their platform or career?First Amendment rights lawyer Greg Lukianoff teams up with Rikki Schlott to show how a trend of intolerance on university campuses in America has spread to a wide range of workplaces and cultural spaces, which are giving up on a culture of free speech in favour of cancel culture. Drawing on original research and data, along with hundreds of new examples from publishing to psychotherapy, comedy, science an...

Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog deden Chinese arbeiders uit Rotterdamals stoker dienst op olietankers van de Curaçaosche ScheepvaartMaatschappij (Shell). Dat was een gevaarlijke klus, want de Duitsersnamen transportschepen regelmatig onder vuur. In april 1942 gingen dearbeiders in staking. Toen de staking grimmige vormen begon aan te nemen,schoten politie en bewakers van de olieraffinaderij vijftien Chinezenzonder pardon dood. Zij werden op begraafplaats Kolebra Bèrdè, ook welbekend als 'he...

Technology today is often presented as our best hope of solving the world's social and sustainability problems. And that's nothing new: engineers have always sought to meet the big challenges of their times-even as those challenges have shaped their technology. This book offers a historical look at those interactions between engineering and social challenges, showing how engineers developed solutions to past problems, and looking at the ways that those solutions often bring with them unintend...

This book is an introduction to Intercultural Communication (IC) that takes into account the much neglected dynamic paradigm of culture in the literature. It posits that culture is not static, context is the driving force for change, and individuals can develop a multicultural mind.

It is also the first IC textbook in the field that incorporates insight from evolutionary biology and the newly emerging discipline of cultural

neurosciences. Such an interdisciplinary approach provides readers wi...

Lytse bal, grut spul fan Pieter Breuker is in boek oer acht ieuwen keatshistoarje en keatskultuer. It is taspitst op Fryslân, mar omdat rûnom op de wrâld noch oare keatsfarianten spile wurde, sjocht de auteur ek geregeld oer de grinzen, te begjinnen yn Nederlân.

De fjouwer haadtema's binne (keatsen en): Histoarje; Kultuer algemien; Taal; Literatuer. De auteur leit hieltiten wer ferbiningen tusken keatsen en kultuer en snijt dêrtroch ûnderwerpen oan dy't yn de algemiene oersjoggen koart ...

Welfare Words analyses a number of keywords and phrases commonly used by policy-makers, news-outlets and wider society, when referring to social policy, welfare reform and social work in the present-day culture of neoliberal capitalism.

Facsimile heruitgave naar de uitgave uit 1937.

Historicus Johan Huizinga verkent in De wetenschap der geschiedenis de grenzen van geschiedschrijving als wetenschappelijke en artistieke discipline.