Inspired by the vision of the future of humankind in outer space, an international team of technical experts, lawyers and political scientists examined topical issues of law and policy under the leadership of the editors – not only with respect to international space flight and space exploration, but also in view of the safe and sustainable use of space technology for the benefit of our planet. After all, our original habitat should not be sacrificed on our way to Moon and Mars!

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This volume contains the proceedings of the 63rd Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space held virtually in October 2020, as well as the report of the IISL Standing Committee on the Status of International Agreements Relating to Activities in Outer Space.

Around 1500, portraiture flourished like never before. In countless European cities major Renaissance artists like Hans Holbein II, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Memling and Antonello da Messina produced lifelike portraits at the highest artistic level. For the first time in history, they not only immortalized kings and noblemen but also, and increasingly, powerful bankers, wealthy merchants and renowned scholars. These paintings, busts, medallions, prints and drawings still bear witness to their pow...

Auteur Amit Biswas (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1987) raakte na zijn vestiging in Nederland gefascineerd door het nieuwe logo van zijn woonplaats Eindhoven. Het inspireerde hem om informatie over alle logo’s en beeldmerken van alle gemeenten van Nederland te verzamelen wat geen geringe opgave bleek aangezien niet in alle gemeenten de benodigde informatie eenvoudig beschikbaar was. Hij heeft meer dan vier jaar geïnvesteerd in het onderzoeken en verzamelen van alle mooie verhalen van de gemeenten.

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Early modern heraldry was far from a nostalgic remnant from a feudal past. From the Reformation to the French Revolution, aspiring men seized on these signs to position themselves in a changing society, imbuing heraldic tradition with fresh meaning. Whereas post-medieval developments are all too often described in terms of decadence and stifling formality, recent studies rightly stress the dynamic capacity of bearing arms.

Heraldic Hierarchies aims to correct former misconceptions. Contributi...

The idea that women are dangerous – individually or collectively – runs throughout history and across cultures. Behind this label lies a significant set of questions about the dynamics, conflicts, identities and power relations with which women live today.

The Art of Being Dangerous offers many different images of women, some humorous, some challenging, some well-known, some forgotten, but all unique. In a dazzling variety of creative forms, artists and writers of diverse identities explo...

Male bonds were omnipresent in nineteenth-century European artistic scenes, impacting the creation, presentation, and reception of art in decisive ways. Men’s lives and careers bore the marks of their relations with other men. Yet, such male bonds are seldom acknowledged for what they are: gendered and historically determined social constructs. This volume shines a critical light on male homosociality in the arts of the long nineteenth century by combining art history with the insights of g...

Phoebus Focus XX

In this Phoebus Focus edition, Lieke Wijnia takes the reader through the history of Saint Mary Magdalene and the little-known artist Melchior de la Mars. Moreover, the author holds up a mirror. In these crazy COVID times, De la Mars’s Mary Magdalene is perhaps more relevant than ever.

As we face new technological developments and new ways of working, rapid economic growth, globalisation, climate change, growing inequality and Covid-19, no-one can deny that times are changing fast. Therefore, organisations’ human resource management also needs to adapt: this is where Sustainable HRM (or SHRM) comes into the picture.

But what is Sustainable Human Resource Management? How does it differ from HRM, and what makes it a truly new way of looking at the management of people and o...

We are not talking about the Sex Pistols presenteert een reeks van 97 composities met bloemen van Werner Mannears (°1954,

België). Mannaers omsluit in zijn gouaches meerdere kunsthistorische referenties, die hij linkt aan filosofische quotes en elementen uit de popultuur. Door middel van deze ‘sampling’ techniek, creëert de kunstenaar een multidimensionale context die hem is staat stelt om de vaak existentiële thematiek te temperen met ironie en humor.

Vele jaren geleden begon Manna...