'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.'Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos. It's a journey that will take you into the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, genocide, brain surgery, robotics, and the search for immortality. On the way, amidst the infinitely dense tangle of brain cells and their trillions of connections, something emerges that you might not have expected to see: you.

You are negotiating every day, whether it's with business partners, colleagues, in the community or at home. The challenge isn't to get as much for yourself as you can at the other's expense. It's in the art of searching together for possibilities that serve as many interests as possible. The premise of this book is that it's both possible and necessary to create value together, distribute the consequences fairly, while strengthening the relationship. In times where 'win as much as you can' i...

This collection book presents 106 late-medieval and Renaissance highlights. In this era the cultural centres of Europe were booming. The book introduces the wonderful collection of the Rijksmuseum in 106 illustrated entries and an essay focusing on the artist's world. Book design: Irma Boom.

Online auction sites often show photographs where details or sections of the photograph have been covered up due to privacy and/or censorship issues. As a result sellers are forced to come up with smart and practical solutions so that the photograph conforms to privacy and censorship guidelines but still show enough of the image to interest prospective buyers. This version of 'Ein Volk ehrt seiner Führer' was purchased at an online auction. Coins were used to censor the images.

This new book of investor Harm de Vries and VC lawyers Menno van Loon and Sjoerd Mol, who together have been involved in hundreds of venture capital transactions, explains all of the most common clauses used in VC deals. It includes many examples, as well as negotiation tips for both entrepreneurs and investors and a full termsheet template as annex. Furthermore, the book explains the economics behind the deal terms, which makes them easier to understand. The result is a practical guide to ve...

What are the sources of authority for evangelical Christians in their debates and practices? Evangelicals often refer to the Bible, but it is not their sole source. Practical results are also important, as are personal feelings and experiences. In this volume, fourteen researchers examine the sources of authority to which evangelicals appeal. It was assumed that evangelicals accepted a certain balance between the authority of the Bible, tradition, experiences and rationality. In the past two ...

Friends means that it remains far from anomie and underhanded behavior or treason against each other. One should just be ready for another. Belief or disbelief God is irrelevant, because a friend has never come before each closed door. Friendship is especially unconditional support each other and synonymous with human solidarity, even if they do not have time or do not feel in trouble of another.

By infidelity and betrayal, people are a bit lost confidence that they had in the other. There ar...

'Of Beauty and Doubt' is de eerste monografie over het werk van beeldend kunstenaar Silvia B. Het boek biedt een uitgebreid overzicht van haar beelden, tekeningen, foto's en installaties van de afgelopen 25 jaar. De lezer wordt meegenomen in haar met zorg geconstrueerde universum, dat wordt bevolkt door ongrijpbare wezens die het midden houden tussen mensen, dieren, kinderen, volwassenen, mannen en vrouwen. Met tekstbijdragen van Arnoud Odding, Marcel Möring, Jaap Röell, Werner van den Bel...

Dit beknopte boek introduceert de notie van 'ervaring' als belangrijkste concept binnen de methodologie van artistiek onderzoek. Janneke Wesseling traceert een genealogie van 'ervaring' van William James, John Dewey en Alfred North Whitehead tot Brian Massumi en plaats dit in een theoretisch kader. Haar betoog is gebaseerd op de praktijk van artistiek onderzoek en de verwevenheid van denken en maken. Deze publicatie is een iets uitgebreidere versie van Wesselings inaugurele rede aan de Univer...

The new ARM Edition of Computer Organization and Design features a subset of the ARMv8-A architecture, which is used to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies, and I/O. With the post-PC era now upon us, Computer Organization and Design moves forward to explore this generational change with examples, exercises, and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the Cloud. Updated content featuring t...