Alain Badiou is een van de meest spraakmakende hedendaagse filosofen. Onder de noemer 'inesthetiek' introduceert Badiou een radicaal nieuwe verhouding tussen kunst en filosofie: kunst is niet langer het passieve onderwerp van kunstbeschouwing, maar vormt de voorwaarde voor het denken, en precies daarin ligt haar politieke betekenis.Alain Badiou. Inesthetiek: filosofie, kunst, politiek bevat de sleutelteksten uit Badiou's kunsttheorie en plaatst deze in de context van zijn recente pleidooi voo...

Dit boek is samengesteld en bestemd voor diegenen die recentelijk kennis hebben gemaakt met de Islam. Het werk dient als een handboek om de Islam binnen een redelijk afzienbare tijd vanuit de authentieke bronnen te leren kennen. Vanwege zijn bondige weergave van de basisconcepten van de Islam is dit werk ideaal voor hen die over deze religie inleidende informatie wensen.Het boek begint met een uiteenzetting van de verbindingen tussen menselijke wezens, het universum en de Schepper en de relat...

With an accessible approach, the third European edition of Principles of Economics provides students with the tools to analyze current economic issues. The book is underpinned by a focus on seven Core Principles, which help students to make the link between economic theory and practice. The 'economic naturalist' approach, supported by exercises, problems and examples, encourages students to employ economics principles to understand and explain the world around them.Developed from the well-reg...

Ship Stability for Masters and Mates explores all aspects of ship stability and ship strength, squat, and interaction and trim, as well as materials stresses and forces. Organized into 56 chapters, the book looks at the relationship between ship stability and ship motion, with emphasis on group weights in a ship. It also explains how TPCs are calculated for a range of drafts extending beyond the light and loaded drafts, along with form coefficients, including the coefficient of fineness of th...

For upper-level undergraduate and MBA students enrolled in an international business law course. August emphasizes the diversity and similarity of how firms are currently regulated and governed around the world.

Structured Computer Organization, specifically written for undergraduate students, is a best-selling guide that provides an accessible introduction to computer hardware and architecture. This text will also serve as a useful resource for all computer professionals and engineers who need an overview or introduction to computer architecture. This book takes a modern structured, layered approach to understanding computer systems.

Its highly accessible - and its been thoroughly updated to reflec...

Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life’s work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world’s most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners and politicians across the world, he uncovers questions large and small whose answers are both counterintuitive and deeply significant. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Why can’t my nephew afford an apartment in New York? Is London the new f...

Transatlantic Relations Since 1945 offers a comprehensive account of transatlantic relations in the second half of the 20th century (extending to the present-day). The transatlantic relationship has been the bedrock of international relations since the end of World War II. This new textbook will focus on the period since the defeat of Nazi Germany, when the multitude of links between United States and Western Europe were created, extended, and multiplied.

Written in an accessible style, it em...