This story is based on fragments of scribbles accumulated by the British-Jamaican-bred, Monica Armstrong.

It’s captured amid the heat of the economic recession in England; the reason she and her family moved to the Netherlands in the hope of a better life. The years were demanding and testing and their marriage turned out not to be as happy as the couple would have hoped for; she and her husband struggled to maintain an equilibrium to no avail.

Being a mother to young children and also a ...

Naar aanleiding van het dertigjarig bestaan van Galerie Ronny Van de Velde duikt auteur Jan Ceuleers in haar kleurrijke geschiedenis. Vanaf midden jaren 1990, toen de kunstmarkt ten gevolge van de Golfoorlog door een diep dal ging, besliste Van de Velde om resoluut in te zetten op namen uit de historische avant-garde. Na een eerste retrospectieve van Marcel Duchamp groeide de galerie in enkele maanden tijd uit tot een selfmade museum met alles erop en eraan. Nadien volgden retrospectieven van...

The pedagogy of Maria Montessori.

The idea for instigating this book was simple: to provide an international platform for professionals so that they can voice their perspectives on how the Montessori philosophy has impacted them. Our curiosity led us to contact twelve renowned authors from around the world to share their views and we are enormously proud and grateful to present their perspectives in this book.

Our appreciation goes out to Saxion and Thomas More Universities of Applied Science...

On 4 April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was created ‘to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down’. Seven decades later, the largest military alliance ever created still exists. Yet we live in a different world with immense security challenges. Are we ready for this?

Is NATO ‘brain-dead’, as French President Emmanuel Macron has it said?

Or does it just have a new future ahead of it?

In this book, Theo Francken, Hendrik Bogaert and Peter Buy...

For nearly 40 years, Rosen's Emergency Medicine has provided emergency physicians, residents, physician assistants, and other emergency medicine practitioners with authoritative, accessible, and comprehensive information in this rapidly evolving field. The fully revised 10th Edition delivers practical, evidence-based knowledge and specific recommendations from clinical experts in a clear, precise format, with focused writing, current references, and extensive use of illustrations to pro...

Encyclopedic, definitive, and state-of-the-art in the field of vascular disease and its medical, surgical, and interventional management, Rutherford's Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy offers authoritative guidance from the most respected and innovative global thought leaders and clinical and basic science experts of our time. The thoroughly revised 10th Edition, published in association with the Society for Vascular Surgery and authored by multidisciplinary and international contribu...

For clinical professionals or students who are learning anatomy, participating in a dissection lab, sharing anatomy knowledge with patients, or refreshing their anatomy knowledge, the Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy illustrates the body, region by region, in clear, brilliant detail from a clinician's perspective. Unique among anatomy atlases, it contains illustrations that emphasize anatomic relationships that are most important to the clinician in training and practice. Illustrated by clinicia...

Uber. Airbnb. Amazon.

Apple. PayPal. All of these companies disrupted their markets when they launched.

Today they are industry leaders. What's the secret to their success? These cutting-edge businesses are built on platforms: two-sided markets that are revolutionising the way we do business. Written by three of the most sought-after experts on platform businesses, Platform Revolution is the first authoritative, fact-based book on platform models.

Whether platforms are connecting sellers and ...

Why do human beings believe in divinities? Why do some seek eternal life, while others seek escape from recurring lives? Why do the beliefs and behaviors we typically call "religious" so deeply affect the human personality and so subtly weave their way through human society?Ideal as a supplementary text in introductory religion courses or as the main text in theory and method in religious studies or in sociology of religion courses, Ten Theories of Religion, Fourth Edition, offers an illumina...

Reflecting the most update-to-date coverage of institutional changes within the European Monetary Union, the fourteenth edition of De Grauwe's established textbook continues to encourage students to think critically about the sustainability of the Eurozone. The author uses an authoritative, concise and exciting approach to analyse theories and policies relating to monetary union, allowing students to develop a balanced understanding of different arguments andperspectives. Part One examines th...