Focusing on the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy and Hungary, countries that represent key variations in European public administration, this textbook explores how the cultural, organizational, personnel and financial dimensions of public administration compare. The guiding questions are whether, to what extent and why the politico-administrative systems and their reforms show convergence or divergence from Europeanization. Key features of the second edition: Country profiles, comparative r...

"Just 16, Greta Thunberg is already one of our planet's greatest advocates." --Barack Obama

The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations General Assembly

In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest the climate crisis. Her actions sparked a global movement, inspiring millions of ...

Mark Dion (b.1961) is an American artist who, in making his art, metamorphoses into explorer, biochemist, detective and archaeologist. In his gallery installations around Europe and America since the 1980s, Dion has constructed the laboratories, experiments and museum caches of the great historical naturalists - following in their footsteps in his own adventurous, eco-inspired journeys to the tropics. His research and magical collections are presented in installational still lifes that combin...

We are no strangers today to visual representations of human suffering at sea: the refugee crisis that continues to play out in the seascape between Europe and Africa (and not only there) yields an ever-growing archive of humanitarian tragedy. As both a visual backdrop and a lethal medium of unequal mobility, maritime space and landscape play a significant role in mediating the ethical demands of this crisis. Yet there has been little exploration of the longer history of morality’s role in ...

The earliest painting by Rembrandt whose owner is documented depicts the prophet Balaam, on his way to blessing Israel. The man who bought it was a Sephardi Jew in the service of Cardinal Richelieu of France. The first known buyer of an etching plate by Rembrandt, depicting Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael, was a Sephardi Jew of Amsterdam. Seen through their eyes, Rembrandt was the creator of images with a special meaning to Jews. They have been followed through the centuries by Jewish c...

Didactisch meesterwerk

Een van de meest complete én toegankelijke inleidingen in de kunstgeschiedenis. In Eeuwige schoonheid krijgt u een goed overzicht van de diverse perioden en stijlen in de architectuur, schilder- en beeldhouwkunst zonder door de veelheid aan details de hoofdlijnen uit het oog te verliezen, vanaf de vroegste grottekeningen tot experimentele kunst.De auteur weet als een ware meester(verteller) zijn liefe en enthousiasme voor kunst in heldere taal over te brengen. Oo...

De zeeschilderkunst is een vierhonderd jaar oud specialisme van de traditionele Hollandse schilderschool. Het schilderen van schepen en de zee vereist zowel nautische kennis als een groot artistiek talent. Cécile Bosman onderzoekt de achtergrond, opleiding en onderwerpkeuze van de negentiende-eeuwse zeeschilder. Ook beschrijft ze hoe tegen zeestukken werd aangekeken door de zeeschilders zelf, hun collega-schilders op de kunstenaarsverenigingen, door kunsttheoretici en in de kunstkritiek.

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How did objects move between places and people, and how did they reshape the Republic’s arts, cultures and sciences?

‘Objects’ were vitally significant for the early modern Dutch Republic, which is known as an early consumer society, a place famous for its exhaustive production of books, visual arts and scientific instruments. What happens when we push these objects and their materiality to the centre of our research? How do they invite us to develop new perspectives on the early moder...