Written through a constant exchange between LGBTQIA+ young people, researchers, professionals and foster families, this book offers a valuable tool to improve the practice with LGBTQIA+ youth at a personal, organizational, and policy levels. This book shows the powerful influence of relationships and networks for the LGBTQIA+ young person growing up in child protection and welfare systems. LGBTQIA+ youth need meaningful connections with individuals within their communities in order to be able...

“Pioniers waren we tijdens de eerste jaren van het in 1959 opgerichte Rekencentrum. Veel moest er nog worden uitgevonden. Door de trage verwerking van de programma’s en de gebrekkige programmeerhulpmiddelen ging alles moeizaam en traag. Je moest je levenstempo erop afstemmen en alleen mensen met veel geduld voelden zich er helemaal gelukkig bij.”

Jan Kraak was programmeur bij het in 1959 opgerichte Rekencentrum van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, later het Centrum voor Informatie Techno...

This book explores the problem of causal inference when a sufficient number of comparative cases cannot be found, which would permit the application of frequency based models formulated in terms of explanatory causal generalisations.

De geschiedenis van het beleg en ontzet van Groningen in 1672 spreekt nog altijd tot de verbeelding. Er was sprake van spanning, tragiek, sensatie en blijdschap. Er waren helden, verliezers en vooral veel onnodige slachtoffers. Nadat vijandelijke troepen grote delen van Nederland hadden overmeesterd, rukten Keuls-Münsterse soldaten op naar Groningen. Onder leiding van hun bisschoppen vuurden zij wekenlang bommen en granaten op de stad af. Dat was tevergeefs, want Groningen hield stand. Zo we...

Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, has great historical and cultural significance. The city was captured and occupied by the Islamic State in early June 2014 and one month later Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi used Mosul’s al-Nuri Mosque to declare the formation of the caliphate. After a fierce battle, the city was liberated in 2017, however, large parts of the city, including most of the old city, were completely destroyed. Currently, the city is undergoing reconstruction. This book focuses on that...

De Hongaarse wetenschapper Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893 – 1986) won in 1937 de Nobelprijs voor de Fysiologie of Geneeskunde voor zijn ontdekking van vitamine C en onderzoek naar de ademhaling van cellen. Door dit succes is hij tot op de dag van vandaag een nationale held in zijn thuisland. In Groningen is hij minder bekend en dat terwijl hij in deze stad de basis legde voor zijn grote ontdekkingen.

In dit boek kijken we terug op Alberts veelbewogen leven. Een leven vol oorlog en controverse,...

During the turbulent period following the First World War, Dutch photographer Frank Scholten (1881-1942) travelled to Palestine with the aim of producing an ‘illustrated Bible’. He arrived in Palestine in 1921, ultimately staying for two years, documenting Palestine as the British Mandate was formally being established. Contrarily to many other European photo graphers portraying Orientalist inspirations, Franck Scholten photographed daily life through the various confessional and ethnic c...

Gerard Heymans (1857-1930) was the founder of psychology in the Netherlands, and established the first psychological laboratory. After becoming professor, he first looked for general psychological laws, and later became interested in how people differ. Heymans investigated this question by studying biographies and collecting survey data. With this rigorous approach that far exceeded the standards of his time, he arrived at three basic dimensions in which people can vary in their temperament. ...