In recent years, Kiev and Russia have been in the news negatively almost every day. In the West, we know very little about Europe's largest border country and they view us there through rose-tinted glasses. Through a number of social issues, the author takes the reader on a quest through thisformer impressive country with a very fascinating history and culture, strongly intertwined with that of Russia. We in the West are far too complacent and have a lot to learn from Eastern Europe. The aim...

Ant)h)ology is a bundle of essays on current main issues in society, politics, technology and climate. Written with the knowledge of the world literature of the past 200 years and the thoughts and solutions found in that literature that might help us finding a way out of all of that. Because the wisdom from the past is essential to the understanding of the challenges of today.

Veel mensen vragen me "waarom schrijf je alleen Engelstalige boeken?".

Dat heeft een reden:

Als kind las ik thuis voornamelijk Engelstalige boeken, aangezien mijn ouders deze veel hadden liggen. Mijn moeder bracht haar jeugd door in Australië, en was die taal zo eigen geworden dat er vooral Engelstalige boeken in huis waren.

Hierdoor leerde ik op jonge leeftijd Engels lezen, en ben ik daar eigenlijk altijd mee doorgegaan.

Zelfs nu ik de 50 ben gepasseerd, heb ik nog steeds een voorliefde voo...

- Written from an international perspective;

- discusses ethics on multiple levels and includes many examples;

- offers students methods to critically assess ethical dilemmas.

Ethics and Business is an introduction to ethics in the context of international business. The book stimulates an open debate on norms and values. Ethics should cross not only the borders of a country, but also the borders of one’s mind. It emphasizes that ethics is not only about harmony, but also about dealing with ...

Zahra confidently wears the hijab and challenges the widespread assumption that Islam and feminism are mutually exclusive. Hamza, on the other hand, grapples with various toxic stereotypes about masculinity and the roles he is expected to perform. Mariama, as a Black Muslim woman, navigates the realisation that her life is influenced by colonialism and discrimination, while Amari charts their own path through seemingly rigid categories of sexuality and gender.

These four young protagonists ta...

In Humanity is Not a Plague, Cees Buisman argues that it is possible for 10 billion people to exist together on this Earth – as predicted for the year 2100 – provided that the richer part of the world no longer merely focuses on its own health, prosperity and happiness, and instead starts working seriously on developing a higher consciousness.

In this essay, Buisman sharply analyzes some of the problems facing mankind, such as fresh water shortages, whilst overturning several clichés and...

Spanning Malaysia’s post-independence period, and using the repression-mobilization nexus as a key theoretical framework, this study outlines how its Christian community delicately and simultaneously defends its religious rights without being construed as anti-Islam in the face of state-led “Islamization”. By primarily focusing on the 1980s to the contemporary period, while considering subnational differences between East and West Malaysia, this study charts the changes in the community...