The increasing hectic nature in the world surrounding us makes us more than ever ponder on fundamental questions. What is the meaning of existence? Who am I really? What do I truly want? The answers to those questions are obvious when you take your Soul as a starting-point. This book is the manual for discovering your Soul Path. 15 years of experience on the subject have been summarized into one global statement. It can be seen as the Bible of the New Age. Insightful, fascinating, inspiring, ...

A visual historical renditionHave you always wondered what the Herengracht and Keizersgracht looked like around 1750? And what they look like now? The panoramic photographs of the buildings along these canals have been placed above the drawings by Caspar Philips. These drawings were made and published around 1768. See what remains of the old grandeur and how 'innovation' can also lead to deterioration. In a short introduction, information is provided on the formation, history and growth of Am...

De artistieke praktijk van Rafaël Rozendaal bestaat uit websites, installaties, prints en teksten. Zijn werk tekent zich af binnen en serie transformaties-van beweging naar abstractie, van virtuele naar fysieke ruimte, en van website naar print-die met elkaar in verband staan. Al zijn werken hebben een ding gemeen: ze ontstaan vanuit een fascinatie voor bewegend beeld en interactiviteit in de meest basale vorm. Everything, Always, Everywhere staat stil bij de veranderingen die Rozendaal's we...

Europa 2017, dansen we weer op een vulkaan? Bereiden vreemdelingenhaat, gebrek aan vertrouwen in de politiek, en economische onzekerheid ons voor op een verschrikkelijke ondergang? Misschien wel. Het zou hoop moeten bieden voor dit project, aangezien de beste kunst wordt gemaakt op de rand van wanhoop, wanneer beschavingen uiteen vallen en we afstevenen op een nieuwe wereldorde.Dit boek vertelt over de totstandkoming van The Painted Bird, een collaboratief kunstwerk door negentien kunstenaars...

This book is about work floor experiences of professionals at work floors of housing organizations in The Netherlands in their attempts to apply supply chain partnering. I did not only choose this topic because of its academic and practical relevance. The choices I made, and the personal motivation behind those choices say a lot about what has driven me to do this research. Therefore, this prologue focusses on the experiences

that have led me to conducting this PhD-research. In answering this...

Now in its tenth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine has been fully revised, with five new authors on the writing team bringing content fresh from the bedside. Space has been breathed into the design, with more core material at your fingertips in quick-reference lists and flow diagrams, and key references have been honed to the most up-to-date and relevant. Each page has been updated to reflect the latest changes in practice and best management, and the chapters on gastroenterol...

Individual Differences and Personality, Third Edition provides a comprehensive overview of research on personality. The book begins with the main approaches to the study of personality, basic principles of personality measurement, the concept of personality traits, and the major dimensions of personality variation. Further chapters review personality change and stability, biological causal mechanisms, genetic and environmental influences and evolutionary adaptive function.

Personality disorde...

Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease, Third Edition, is an adjunct approach to health practice that seeks to deal with the more complex modern determinants of chronic diseases—primarily lifestyle and the environments driving such lifestyles—in contrast to the microbial ‘causes’ of infectious disease. Our lifestyle choices have a profound effect on our health. As we live longer, one thing is clear: many of us will spend time livin...

Building upon the success of best-sellers The Clean Coder and Clean Code, legendary software craftsman Robert C. "Uncle Bob" Martin shows how to bring greater professionalism and discipline to application architecture and design. As with his other books, Martin's Clean Architecture doesn't merely present multiple choices and options, and say "use your best judgment": it tells you what choices to make, and why those choices are critical to your success.

Martin offers direct, no-nonsense answer...

'This is a blast of fresh air' Jonathan Clark, TLS'Thank goodness for Gottlieb' Daily Telegraph'A joy to read' EconomistThe author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosoph...