At the end of the 5th millennium BCE, some of the vastest settlements of the time emerged on the forest steppe north of the Black Sea. The largest of these sites were found between the Southern Bug and Dnieper river. There they occur only tens of kilometres apart and are assumed to be partly coeval. The Trypillia 'mega-sites' reached sizes of up to 320 hectares with up to 3000 buildings in one place. During their peak times as many as 11.000 people could have lived in one of those settlements.

But how did people come together in these Trypillia 'mega-sites' with several thousand dwellings? How long were such sites inhabited, and how many people lived there? Were these settlements the first towns, preceding the Mesopotamian development? To address these questions, this book presents the results of the investigations at the Maidanets'ke 'mega-site'...

‘Na een zeer traumatisch huwelijk van bijna twee decennia lang heeft de auteur, na veel wikken en wegen, de knoop doorgehakt en de beslissing genomen om alleen verder te gaan met haar vijf prachtige zonen! In de periode van herstel is zij begonnen met het schrijven van dit deel, ‘With God, all things are possible!’ In haar boeken behandelt zij de verschillende, zeer actuele onderwerpen zoals verslaving (in al haar vormen, geuren en kleuren), borderline én narcisme. Je zult de manipulat...

In his thirty-five-year career he worked in Turkey, former Dutch Nieuw-Guinea and Indonesia. These were during the controversial cold war years in countries going through massive changes themselves coming out of colonialism. For Motorsports, this was deemed the Golden Era where sex was safe and racing dangerous. He was part of the generation that laid the foundation for Indonesian Motorsports to what it is today. In this remarkable autobiography, his son takes you on a rough-and-tumble ride t...

Is it time for jurisdictions to undertake recodification, decodification, or even

codification of their private laws? This volume addresses this recurring question in

legal science by presenting recent developments and new perspectives on the

codification of private law from a comparative law viewpoint. Contributions in this

volume explore how jurisdictions from America, Asia and Europe currently stand

regarding codification and help generate awareness on different paths, yet also

of common g...

This edited volume brings together scholars in the field of law and the cognitive sciences to analyze and illustrate what the current relationship between law and the cognitive sciences is and what it should be from a theoretical perspective, for example by asking in what way and to what extent insights from the cognitive sciences can and should impact legal concepts, rules and paradigms. The topic of criminal responsibility exemplifies this relationship and several authors analyze specific e...

Lean organisations seem to work in a simple manner and operate with an innate calmness. They have removed much of the complexity that inhibits the performance of other companies, but achieving this level of simplicity is not easy. In The Simplicity of Lean, Philip Holt provides a comprehensive handbook of the Lean principles, presented in an accessible and easy to apply manner.

The Simplicity of Lean is a step-by-step guide to the Lean Thinking that makes your organisation more efficient and ...

This small booklet contains the inaugural speeches of Th. K. van Lohuizen and Cor van Eesteren on their appointments as professors at the Technical College of Delft. The texts provide novel insights into their respective teaching programs, and appear here for the first time in English. An analytical reflection on their work by the architectural historian Herman van Bergeijk introduces them.

In 1990 the then Minister for Culture, Hedy d’Ancona, issued the Delta Plan for Cultural Preservation: a large-scale and national program to thoroughly improve collection storage conditions in Dutch museums. This signalled the start of a transformation of the Dutch museum.he reason for this radical transformation of Dutch museums was the pending privatization of the country’s national museums. From the beginning of the 1990s, national museums had to stand on their own feet. That gave the ...

This doctoral thesis mainly consists of a series of journal publications written by the author between 2015 and 2019. The doctoral thesis presents the results of ten years of research on informal settlements, with particular reference to Brazilian favelas. The research aimed to understand the social dynamics of the production of space in these settlements. To this purpose, the author took residence in favelas and performed field research for a total of six years, including the witnessing of a...