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The General Data Protection Regulation in Plain Language
2020 || Paperback || Bart van der Sloot || Amsterdam University Press
'The General Data Protection Regulation in Plain Language' is a guide for anyone interested in the much-discussed rules of the General Data Protection Regulation. In this legislation, which came into force in 2018, the European Union meticulously describes what you can and cannot do with data about other people. Violating these rules can lead to a fine of up to 20 million euros.
This book sets out the most important obligations of individuals and organisations that process data about others....
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Yewuá: A Mystical African Story
Characters and Beings
2020 || Paperback || Sonia Noboa Ribadeneira || Mayra Publications
But I do know, however, that I will return one day to Africa to learn its true history, to unravel its mysteries, to walk down its endless routes and trails, to enter the magic of its legends; to become entranced in its wild and rough places, to enjoy its seas and deserts, its heavy rains or sandstorms, its shiny moons or bright sunshine.
I will live again with its people to dream again I am a bird that flies over this vast geography, a painter who slowly captures the colour of its scenery, ...
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THE RIGHT DEAL
Making the Case for a more Respectful Country
2020 || Paperback || Peter Hendriks Okello || Mijnbestseller.nl || met inkijkexemplaar
This book explains the alarming and developing influence from radical liberalism on political, social and spiritual matters in the US and Canada. In Canada, two political parties, Liberals and NDP, publically oppose long-existing Judeo-Christian values, norms and principles.
In the US, the Far Left show similar disrespect for the same long-held values, norms and principles. The history of radical liberalism reveals the immense human suffering it has caused in the world. We may expect that tod...
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Next Nature
Why Technology Is Our Natural Future
2020 || Paperback || Koert van Mensvoort
Think of nature and you’re likely to picture a forest, not a freeway. But how natural is nature really? We live in a world of constructed wildlife reserves, rainbow tulips, designer babies and cultured meat. We control a tomato’s biology so precisely, you can hardly call it natural anymore. Meanwhile, our grip on the Internet and the financial markets has grown so slight that they’re coming to resemble forces of nature.
Using countless well-known examples and scientific insights, Koert ...
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Migration, Equality and Racisms
44 opinions
2021 || Paperback || Ilke Adam e.a. || VUBPRESS
Migration, Equality and Racisms trigger ever more salient societal debates. More than 80 VUB academics and co-authors joined forces. Philosophers, lawyers, psychologists, health scientists, sociologists, geographers, criminologists, communication and political scientists … Together they aim to contribute to an exercise of humanism as a praxis of criticism or a ‘technique of trouble-making’, in the words of Edward Said. Through 44 thought-provoking and informed opinion pieces, they quest...
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Straightforward
The Narrative Construction of Heteronormativity from Homer to The Hobbit
2021 || Paperback || Marcus Attwater || Mijnbestseller.nl || met inkijkexemplaar
When asked to name an archetypal love story, most people will reply 'Romeo & Juliet', although some say 'Tristan & Isolde' instead. Very few will come up with a classical example, and the reason for this is simple: when you say archetypal, it is assumed you mean love between a man and a woman, and instances of this in classical accounts are rare. The reason for this is also not hard to find: as it does now, 'love' in the ancient world meant the affection of equals, and given the inferior posi...
Rekindling Democracy
2020 || Paperback || Cormac Russell || Cascade Books
Finally, a book that offers a practical yet well-researched guide for practitioners seeking to hone the way they show up in citizen space.
At a time when public trust in institutions is at its lowest, expectations of those institutions to make people well, knowledgeable, and secure are rapidly increasing. These expectations are unrealistic, causing disenchantment and disengagement among citizens and increasing levels of burnout among many professionals. Rekindling Democracy is not just a prac...
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Alphansum Sovereign Necessarius
2020 || Paperback || Munayem Mayenin || Sweek || met inkijkexemplaar
Cause is that duantum magnum magnetism force, that is indefinitum in scope: for human purposes, it is, hypothetically, infinite: forcing the cut out segment of its inner core, which is nothing but invisible fibre-cabling: prospect-lines of the Duantum Universe with indefinitum power, from all directions inwards, bringing it to an invisible dot to become Solidaas and, then, as it is let go off that pressure, suddenly, the effect appears in an explosion of beyond imagination ferocity, speed and...
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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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Academic English: Writing a research article
Social and behavioral
2020 || Paperback || Academia Press || met inkijkexemplaar
Are you a doctoral student or a researcher in the field of Natural Sciences?
Would you like to present your research in a well-structured and readable manner? This book shows you how to make sure your article receives the attention it deserves. Advanced Academic English: Writing a Research Article addresses the following questions:
- How can I acquire an academic writing style?
- How can I develop an elaborate and accurate academic vocabulary?
- How can I integrate the literature into my paper?
- How can I structure an introductio...