Uit veel peilingen blijkt dat Nederland tot de gelukkigste landen ter wereld behoort. Hoe is het ons door de eeuwen heen gelukt om zo'n koppositie te verwerven? Zit er iets in het karakter van Hollanders, Groningers en Brabanders waardoor een klein land groot kan zijn? Wat zit er in ons DNA?

Begin in Nederland niet over identiteit. Dat doen alleen politici die een standpunt over asielzoekers moeten innemen. Ontken in Nederland niet de Nederlandse identiteit. Want dan brult de Nederlandse Leeuw...

Anthropocene, post-humanism, biopolitics ... These terms are often used first in an academic context before being used outside the academic world, once their usefulness has become known to the wider public. Whether in official policy documents, in catalogues of expositions or in applications for subsidies, these terms tend to show up regularly.

In this book, 50 terms that are important in contemporary cultural theory are explained by experts in the field. They clarify what the term means, how...

Technology today is often presented as our best hope of solving the world's social and sustainability problems. And that's nothing new: engineers have always sought to meet the big challenges of their times-even as those challenges have shaped their technology. This book offers a historical look at those interactions between engineering and social challenges, showing how engineers developed solutions to past problems, and looking at the ways that those solutions often bring with them unintend...

This book is an introduction to Intercultural Communication (IC) that takes into account the much neglected dynamic paradigm of culture in the literature. It posits that culture is not static, context is the driving force for change, and individuals can develop a multicultural mind.

It is also the first IC textbook in the field that incorporates insight from evolutionary biology and the newly emerging discipline of cultural

neurosciences. Such an interdisciplinary approach provides readers wi...