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This is who we are and how we live!
stories and faces of the Vietnamese LGBT Community.
2016 || Paperback || Diana van Oort || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
This is who we are and how we live!
Many Vietnamese LGBT persons lead invisible lives. Their stories are seldom told and those who dare to come out of the closet are often alone and have a low self-esteem. At the same time it’s hard for those who want to come out without any examples of how good and normal life can be as a Vietnamese lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Our goal is to give the LGBT community a face and a voice. This book is filled with interviews and photographs, packed ...
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Gorky in the Netherlands, 2nd edition
The gods reward the bold, Aeneas
2024 || Paperback || Frank Libertas || Brave New Books
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...
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On Green Liberty
A political philosophical treatise
2020 || Paperback || Floris Van den Berg || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
ON GREEN LIBERTY calls us to the inconvenient truth of applying consistently the liberal outlook. Van den Berg extends John Stuart Mill’s no-harm principle to include non-human animals and future generations. ON GREEN LIBERTY notes that, just as there is consensus among all contemporary political parties that slavery is unacceptable, so also should the exploitation of non-human animals and the harm done to future generations by degrading planet Earth be unacceptable. Green liberalism is l...
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This is Europe
(according to its doctors, hairdressers, police officers, sex workers and other experts)
2017 || Paperback || Mark Schalekamp || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
The European Union is one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. Why is Europe so important, and at the same time, why is no one really interested in it? Dutch writer Mark Schalekamp set out to find answers to these and other questions and travelled to all 28 of the European Union’s member states to interview eight people in each capital city: a doctor, a police officer, a hairdresser, an entrepreneur, an artist, an immigrant, a sex worker and a local celebrity.
What is Europe? Wh...
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Consecutive
How South African Art teaches Us to Omit Without to Forget.
2023 || Paperback || Gert R. Rebergen || Brave New Books
Because methodologies and didactics in education do not always conduct very well, the consecutive approach has been developed.
This book describes this educational approach with various practical examples. Exposing visual idiom of South African art.
Key words: activity thinking, didactics, methodology, education, physical education, consecutive approach.
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Ant(h)ology
2024 || Paperback || Anna A. Ros || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
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.
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The Wrong Choices of Civilization
2016 || Paperback || Carl Denef || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Over the last two centuries humans in the Western World have become the only species living at an ever-increasing productivity and consumption. This is an astonishing paradox as all cultures originally developed intuitive understanding of limitation, the frailty of existence and the sacredness of natural environments. In search of prosperity modern civilization has forgotten what intuition had learned and developed an economic system that was primarily concerned with making money in an elitis...
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Socrates was no midwife
essay
|| Paperback || Richard Livingstone || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Socrates didn't operate as a midwife - contrary to what he said about himself.
Nor is it that God sent Adam to the world and then realised he had to send somebody extra, Eve,
in order to save it.
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Love - A History of Hate in SURINAME. Hide, Flee or Suicide
Execution – Extinction – Existence - Expression. An Insight into a Country’s Gay History
2023 || Paperback || Ivan Patrick Liesdek || Brave New Books
Six years of research with the purpose of having the untold account of Suriname’s LGBT history at long last comprehensively divulged and documented, has resulted in this publication:
Love – A History of Hate in Suriname - Hide, Flee or Suicide
Execution Extinction Existence Expression - An Insight into a Country’s Gay History.
Until now, due to taboo, legal and social repercussions from a repressive ‘heteronormative’ biased society, this has been a forgotten, concealed disguised o...
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Save the planet by doing nothing
Learn how!
2021 || Paperback || Arjan Mulder || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
On average, mankind uses 1.7 Earths each year for raw materials, food and energy. Many countries even more. Most green initiatives call for action, but do not address the over-consumption and its causes. This manifesto shows our true escape: stop doing, degrowth and help Mother Earth to regenerate. Work with nature, not against it. The knowledge is still here.
People are doers and always call for action. But doing is exactly the root cause of the ecological problems we now face. All of our do...