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...

Dorothy and her nephew have a special connection. When he finds a way of escaping the drudgery of the 1960s English Midlands, Auntie Dorothy, being the loving, caring and devoted Auntie that she is, tags along to take care of him, while he learns to dance, make dresses and fall in love. Many times. He helps her avoid arrest by the New York Police Department; she helps him quell a mutiny on the Caribbean. They march through the Gay Liberation movement in 70s London, witness the 'plague years' ...

Human beings are quite obsessed with control. We all are aware that by taking control, we are able to influence the outcomes of certain things in life. By doing that we are able to give ourselves a better life.

A life in which we are able to enjoy our visions and expectations on real life situations. So, when we find ourselves losing control in life, how do we deal with that? When we fall into autopilot and lose our way towards happiness, confidence and fulfillment, how do we find our way o...

The construction of European family law is a very complicated process which requires time, patience and effort. On one side, the EU Member States share a common vision of the future, they are united in diversity and they work together on building a sound construction of a common European system of family law. On the other side, the Member States have different historical backgrounds, cultural values and social views on such delicate subjects as family law. The Member States are keen to prot...

Only three months after the succesful launch of his debut book The Amsterdam Confessions of a Shallow Man, Simon Woolcot releases his second book, The Shallow Man Guide to Dating the Dutch. He continues where his first book stopped: dating. Simon reached out to his more than 9000 Facebook followers and asked them to share their dating experiences in the Netherlands.

This must read book on the Dutch dating scene provides advice on how to hook up with this world s most spoiled men, and accordi...

Only man is capable of birth-control, both population growth and contraception. The explosive growth in population and famine on earth has led to the breeding of animals solely for consumption. Genocide, the accelerated extinction of species, and Ecocide, large environmental damage are the consequences. This process is self-ending .... and forces us to reconsider. Sooner or later in the 21st century the chimpanzee will die. Wild life conservation, restoring the amount of available wild fish...

In a Business Intelligence project usually a – possibly large – number of documents is made available, which describe the desired information and KPI’s from the information consumer’s point of view. These information consumers are always knowledge workers in the company that are fully accomplished in their own domain, such as physicians in a hospital. Together with the specifications of all the reports that the knowledge workers want to see, these reports constitute the basis for the ...

In the years when I studied transpersonal psychology I wrote three

books on kabbalah and science. Now for the first time you get all three-in-one.

The book gives a first and unique glance

on the intimate relations between the old kabbalistic teachings and the present day psychological sciences.

Understand more about present wars in the Middle East and attacks on the West. The struggle for energy, played a central role in world politics before!

Reading like a thriller, this biographical adventure shows how oil played a decisive role in the 2nd World War and how the struggle for energy led to personal tragedy. Was Henry van der Waerdens’ death in 1937 murder, or did he commit suicide?

The events bring us to the year 1937 in Europe, when two prominent Shell-oil-men were swept off th...

GOOD SENSE will help us through most of the day, but there are moments when we need to purge our soul with pointless fun. In such emergencies we turn to nonsense literature. This pea-green book is a celebration of nonsense literature from all over the world, written both for children and adults. It is a reader’s guide with a simple premise: if you like the works of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, you may also like these hundred or so other books. This guide may read like a parody on a litera...