A pandemic, a war in Europe and a climate that is getting warmer and warmer; in recent years, Alexander De Croo has had little option but to be a crisis prime minister. Even so, he is more convinced than ever that tomorrow will be better than today.

Why the best is yet to come radically challenges the doom-laden thinking, nationalist tendencies and destructive negativism that characterise so much of modern politics.

Our country is bursting with talent. If we give our people freedom, confidenc...

This journal helps you move further in the direction of your dreams and further to who you truly are. It contains four questions to reflect on each month, focusing on these key topics:

- Deciding what you truly want to create in your life right now

- Tuning in with your biggest dreams and desires

- Letting go of what no longer serves you

- Focusing on what truly matters to you

You can also use the left-hand pages as a scrapbook. Paste an image from an inspirational magazine, pull an intention card...

Veel mensen vragen me "waarom schrijf je alleen Engelstalige boeken?".

Dat heeft een reden:

Als kind las ik thuis voornamelijk Engelstalige boeken, aangezien mijn ouders deze veel hadden liggen. Mijn moeder bracht haar jeugd door in Australië, en was die taal zo eigen geworden dat er vooral Engelstalige boeken in huis waren.

Hierdoor leerde ik op jonge leeftijd Engels lezen, en ben ik daar eigenlijk altijd mee doorgegaan.

Zelfs nu ik de 50 ben gepasseerd, heb ik nog steeds een voorliefde voo...

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...

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.

Zahra confidently wears the hijab and challenges the widespread assumption that Islam and feminism are mutually exclusive. Hamza, on the other hand, grapples with various toxic stereotypes about masculinity and the roles he is expected to perform. Mariama, as a Black Muslim woman, navigates the realisation that her life is influenced by colonialism and discrimination, while Amari charts their own path through seemingly rigid categories of sexuality and gender.

These four young protagonists ta...

Spanning Malaysia’s post-independence period, and using the repression-mobilization nexus as a key theoretical framework, this study outlines how its Christian community delicately and simultaneously defends its religious rights without being construed as anti-Islam in the face of state-led “Islamization”. By primarily focusing on the 1980s to the contemporary period, while considering subnational differences between East and West Malaysia, this study charts the changes in the community...