Spring 1934. In a boggy clay polder south of Amsterdam, the first sods are cut for what would become the largest urban forest in the world: Amsterdamse Bos. Over the next decades, the so-called Boschplan expanded into a unique project. Creating woodland in the polder was a technological tour de force, and Cornelis van Eesteren and Jakoba Mulder’s modern design caused a sensation at home and abroad. Equally unique were the conditions that surrounded the Bos’ birth. Amidst the hardships of ...

In the historiography of the period of Dutch rule in the Cape of Good Hope, from 1652 until 1795, Cape burghers are represented as the perpetual underdogs bristling against the rule of a restrictive Dutch East India Company (VOC). But was this relationship really so antagonistic?

The author places Cape colonial society in the wider context of the Dutch Republic and, in doing so, compares the political structures, institutions and dynamics of the Republic and its overseas settlement. He shows ...

The terracotta figurines from Akragas (Agrigento) with their chubby faces, splendid furniture, and rich adornments, depict a prosperous life in the late sixth and early fifth century BCE. The extensive jewellery on the figurines contains strikingly large fibulae appliques fastening pectoral chains with several sorts of pendants. They are modelled after existing items. The form of the jewellery items changed fast, influenced by different peoples and changing fashions, which can be compared wit...

The book 'Live with Passion!', written by integral coach and management consultant Humphrey Isselt, is dedicated to providing insight with regard to what is actually meant by passion. Not from an academic principle or scientific framework, nor a 'dictionary definition', but based on the essence of passion: the balance between feeling and reason.

Passion is a powerful drive, it motivates and inspires. Passion is an expression of feeling and therefore a reactive process. It is in fact a reacti...

With his book "What Do You Need?" Humphrey Isselt offers a guide to answer the essential life question: What do I need? Can the question "What do I need?" be answered in such a way that you know what is expected of you or what you expect from the other person? The question is often asked with the aim of 'being happy'. "What do I need to be happy?" However, people generally do not know what makes them happy. One then strives for short moments in which one strives for desires and wishes (impuls...

Parliaments of the European Union van de Nederlandse fotograaf Nico Bick (1964) biedt een unieke fotografische kijk op de ruimten voor plenaire vergaderingen waarin de Europese democratie daadwerkelijk wordt gerealiseerd. Het boek bevat foto's van de ruimten waar de parlementen van de 28 lidstaten van de Europese Unie en de twee Europese parlementen in Brussel en Straatsburg hun voltallige vergaderingen houden. Elk van deze ruimten is in drie of vier foto's gefotografeerd vanuit een enkel sta...

Dit is een Engelse vertaling en geheel geüpdatete versie van het boek Recht van de Europese Unie.

The many references, both to primary and secondary sources, and the analysis

and reflections offered throughout the book in clearly marked textboxes will aid

the more advanced student and scholar of EU law in their studies.

This textbook deals with:

- the basic principles underlying the EU legal order,

- the institutions of the Union,

- legal protection in EU law,

- the law on market integrat...

International Criminal Investigations: Law & Practice is the first of its kind – a resource book on selected topics assessing more than twenty years of international criminal investigations, while addressing the practicalities and challenges of such investigations. It explores, from the perspective of expert practitioners, a thematic approach to important issues such as investigative strategies, planning and interview techniques for specific witnesses, financial investigations, while incorp...