ISBN 9789402138467

Bob Maram (1931, Chicago) made his career as a banker who transformed nightly into an avant-garde actor in downtown Chicago. When retired he joined his wife Ineke in Ghana where she worked as a tropical doctor.

Bob is an critical reader of history and American literature and delights in music and acting. In Ghana his writing started with his play (2007), followed by essays, book reviews and loose notes left here and there in drawers, his diary.

In his work, like in a del...

In ‘Simul Terminus,’ the spectator gets some honest, very engaging, often disarming and moving images from the lives of two residents in a retirement home. They’re both 87 years old, walking together through a field of memories towards their final destination. A funny, sometimes moving dialogue theatre, that takes us into the world of growing older. The setting is the recreation room in a home for the elderly. Not much comfort, a sofa, a few small tables, some chairs, an old radio on a ...

MVRDV heeft met Ilka en Andreas Ruby een vernieuwende architectuurmonografie over de gerealiseerde werken samengesteld met gebruikerservaringen, journalistieke artikelen, niet eerder gepubliceerde beelden en toegankelijke tekeningen.

Sinds MVRDV de wereld versteld deed staan met het ontwerp van het Nederlandse paviljoen op de Expo 2000, behoort het bureau tot de internationale top. De architecten van MVRDV zijn beroemd om hun visionaire onderzoeken en tot nadenken stemmende projecten als Pig ...

This doctoral thesis presents research on the integration and transfer of knowledge from the specialized field of urban microclimatology into the generic field of urban design. Both fields are studied in order to identify crosslinks and reveal gaps. The main research question of the research is: How can the design of urban neighbourhoods contribute to microclimates that support physical well-being and what kind of information and form of presentation does the urban designer need in order to m...

The research reported in this dissertation contains three complementary and overlapping parts:

One, “findings”: It assesses the factors of urban morphology that contribute to increased rates of greenhouse gas emissions per capita, and the ways they interact. It finds a significant but underrepresented set of factors, distinct from but relating the factors at the individual building scale and the scale of regional transportation systems.

Two, “strategies”: It assesses the methodologies...

This book/magazine is based on the conference regarding Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's is a developing disease, which basically means more and more people are affected by it.

The book gives an overview of the days of the conference, of the hopes and thoughts of some of the participants and besides that it gives some extra information about dementia, Alzheimer's and important organisations.

Within this book you can find interviews held during the conference and photos made during the confere...

Many aspects of e-commerce and its effect on competition and the intensity of competition have not yet been covered or are already outdated due to the enormously fast pace of change in e-commerce. The following study will cover new aspects of competitive change and tries to analyse the effect that e-commerce has on the competitive intensity of an industry’s environment.

Not only will this study focus on the essential components that differentiate e-commerce from traditional commerce, addit...

De invoering van de Drooglegging in de USA op 17 januari 1920 had een aantal onbedoelde consequenties. De gedwongen nationale geheelonthouding maakte goedwillende burgers van het ene op het andere moment tot misdadigers als zij na een lange dag van hard werken een biertje dronken. Daarom had de Drooglegging weinig draagvlak onder de bevolking, en de voortdurende vraag naar alcohol veranderde de positie van de onderwereld en de gangster in de Amerikaanse samenleving drastisch.

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How honest can you be when no one is watching?

Tumblr, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, texting, Snapchat, YouTube…the world has become one giant confessional. In a reversal of this trend, Burn After Writing encourages you to share nothing. With its incisive questions and thought experiments, this private journal challenges you to play a game of Truth or Dare with yourself.

Push your limits, reflect on your past, present, and future, and create a secret book t...

The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries is an innovative multimedia course for advanced students of Chinese. Written by a team of highly experienced instructors, the book offers advanced learners the opportunity to consolidate their knowledge of Chinese through a wide range of activities designed to build up both excellent language skills and cultural literacy. Divided into four thematic units covering popular culture, social change, cultural traditions,...