"One would think solitude was seldom demanded, yet it became our primary endeavour."

This story is about Yama, a monk who lives in a temple settled high in the mountains. He, together with several other monks, inhabit this remote monastery, yet where the others live according to the way of the monk, Yama doesn't. He thinks where others don't, he doubts where others are certain.

Yama carries a burden, a burden that makes him want to doubt everything, thus he wants to obtain that which he will...

Matthijs Maris initially acquired fame as a painter in the style of the The Hague School, just like his famous brothers Jacob and Willem. However, over the years he abandoned this realistic palette for more introverted and symbolic themes and started portraying dreamy children, young people on the verge of adulthood, fairytale figures and mythical landscapes using an increasingly smudged painting technique. Even in his own time, Maris was admired at home and abroad by collectors and artists i...

Which role, competences, and ethical mind-set should legal professionals have in order to contribute meaningfully to the challenges of contemporary societies? How should universities prepare students for their future roles as lawyers, judges, or legal scholars?

In this inaugural lecture, Elaine Mak traces the emergence of the image of the T-shaped lawyer, which has become prominent in current debates in law schools and legal practice. She demonstrates how organisational demands - relating to ...

At the crossroads of philosophy, artistic practice, and art history.Though Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were not strictly art historians, they reinvigorated ontological and formal approaches to art, and simultaneously borrowed art historical concepts for their own philosophical work. They were dedicated modernists, inspired by the German school of expressionist art historians such as Riegl, Wölfflin, and Worringer and the great modernist art critics such as Rosenberg, Steinberg, Greenbe...

The elusive and ungraspable in Rihms's music.

Wolfgang Rihm ( b. Karlsruhe, 1952) is the most performed living German composer. With his personal, expressive, and versatile music, he became the most prominent representative of his generation. His individual approach to music was established in the 1980s and he continues to explore and enlarge his original concepts today. His 1980s work is at the core of this book, more specifically his instrumental music: the Chiffre cycle and the string quar...

Dit is de eerste monografie over beeldend kunstenaar Tirzo Martha (Willemstad, Curacao 1965). Deze omvangrijke publicatie omvat een intrigerende compilatie van zijn kunstwerken, performances en installaties. Martha wordt gedreven door een diep engagement met de wereld om hem heen, in het bijzonder met Curaçao en het Caribische Gebied. Zijn werk is veelzijdig, kritisch, politiek en maatschappelijk geladen. Het oeuvre van Martha omvat beelden, installaties, assemblages, video's en performances...

In this book, Farid Tabarki describes how the middle disappears. Travel agents and record companies, as middle men in an antiquated production process, are certainly on the way. However, as Tabarki claims, the entrepreneur, HR manager, civil servant and school teacher also may see themselves falling into oblivion.

In his book, Farid describes three megatrends that bring about the liquid society and the disappearance of the middle. Firstly, surging online platforms are taking over the jobs of ...

Research shows that 88 percent of employees are not enthusiastic about their work. This is a huge waste of talent and energy. In this book, teacher and researcher Bas Kodden presents a step-by-step plan towards a more enthusiastic approach to work, all on the basis of practically applicable management theories, personal experience and meetings with highly-skilled (sports) legends.

This book helps you become a HELD: Highly Energetic Responsible Operator. A HELD - literally a HERO in Dutch - is...

The Surrealists made abundant use of photography, and some even devoted themselves to it entirely. But Magritte never considered himself a 'photographer' - he reserved this practice for special moments and specific uses: family photos, models for paintings and advertising work, photos of paintings in progress, and scenes improvised with friends. Nevertheless, Magritte's photographs and films are closely related to his paintings and demonstrate a similar methos in their grasp on reality.

Intuitive Biostatistics takes a non-technical, non-quantitative approach to statistics and emphasizes interpretation of statistical results rather than the computational strategies for generating statistical data. This makes the text especially useful for those in health-science fields who have not taken a biostatistics course before. The text is also an excellent resource for professionals in labs, acting as a conceptually oriented and accessiblebiostatistics guide.

With an engaging and conv...