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Law and Morality Revisited
2024 || Hardcover || A. Ellian e.a. || Boom juridisch
The contributions to this edited volume explore, from various perspectives, the relationship between law and morality. The authors analyze specific issues in the domains of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, constitutionalism, the universality of human rights, animal rights, democracy and terrorism. What unites them is their search for an answer to the question of what values such as justice, fairness, and respect for human rights might mean. The focus on said domains ensures the societa...
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Facing the Past
Policies and Good Practices for Responses to Illegal Intercountry Adoptions
2024 || Hardcover || Elvira Loibl e.a. || Eleven international publishing
In a growing number of countries, inquiries into past intercountry adoptions take place that identify systemic abuses and irregularities and conclude that adoption stakeholders encouraged or facilitated illegal intercountry adoptions. However, so far, the response from these stakeholders has been inadequate in addressing the profound human rights violations endured by those affected by illegal adoptions. Despite the growing movement of adoptees advocating for justice on behalf of themselves a...
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Taiwan Strait
Conscious City Incubator
2024 || Hardcover || Raoul Bunschoten || Jap Sam Books
The Taiwan Strait is a liminal space, and a natural incubator. These two conditions create a unique opportunity for implementing a future city-making process.
The Conscious City concept brings together all the challenges facing contemporary city-making. It is a concept for the urban curation processes required for future cities; for adapting to the impacts of climate change, emerging intelligences, a growing population, affordable housing, the need for a new pact with nature, as well as navi...
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Ecology and conservation of the Dutch ground beetle fauna
Lessons from 66 years of pitfall trapping
2024 || Hardcover || Hans Turin e.a. || Wageningen Academic Publishers || met inkijkexemplaar
Over the past decades, large amounts of data about carabids have been collected in the Netherlands, initially for the purpose of creating distribution maps for the country. In addition to information from collections and faunistic publications, a significant amount of data came from ecological studies using pitfall traps. Because of the rich tradition of carabidological research in the Netherlands, an exceptionally large database of these pitfall data is available. The database is a mix of ap...
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Anatolian Livestock Trade in the Late Ottoman Empire
2024 || Hardcover || Yonca Köksal Özyaşar e.a. || Leiden University Press
This book analyzes the expansion of the Anatolian livestock trade, focusing on sheep and cattle, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries— a period marked by significant changes in state policies, society and environment. It examines the impact of these changes on both human and non-human actors, maps trade routes and networks, and explores their transformations over time, thereby contributing to the literature on Ottoman environmental and socioeconomic history.
The book identif...
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Inner Stance
Distinctions for living a faster, stronger, more effective life.
2024 || Hardcover || Straight-Line Leadership Group B.V.
Inner Stance is geschreven door Dusan Djukich, uitgegeven door Straight-Line Leadership International.
Eindelijk is het zover. Het allereerste Inner Stance boek, geschreven door de legendarische coach Dusan Djukich, is vanaf nu in het Engels verkrijgbaar. Dit boek is bedoeld om de koers van je eigen leven te bepalen. Het heft terug in handen te nemen.
In dit boek zet de auteur diverse distincties uiteen die direct verbonden zijn met prestaties in het leven en het bedrijfsleven. Deze distincti...
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7 Perspectives on Leadership
Insights from Executive Coaching in a Changing World
2024 || Hardcover || Annejet de Blécourt e.a. || Kloosterhof Neer BV
In a time where boundaries blur and responsibilities shift, executives are faced with the challenge of developing a new and adaptive form of leadership.
Drawing on many years of experience, five senior executive coaches present seven perspectives to further develop your executive leadership and enhance your effectiveness. Each chapter contains practical examples, theoretical frameworks, useful methodologies, and reflective questions. The last chapter provides a self-test and guidance on findi...
Epicureanism and Scientific Debates. Epicurean Tradition and its Ancient Reception
Volume II. Epistemology and Ethics
2024 || Hardcover || Attila Németh e.a. || Leuven University Press
Epicurean philosophy is a philosophy of knowledge, nature and pleasure. The second part of a two-volume set, this edited collection examines the core areas of Epicureanism : physiology, epistemology and ethics. The study is carried out from multiple perspectives: the reconstruction and analysis of primary sources, an examination of the debates and controversies surrounding the school of Epicurus, and a review of the reception of Epicurean philosophy. By challenging the widespread stereotype o...
Designing Brand Identity / 6th edition
A Comprehensive Guide to the World of Brands and Branding
2024 || Hardcover || Alina Wheeler e.a. || Wiley
Whether you're managing a rebrand or educating your staff or students about brand fundamentals, Designing Brand Identity is the quintessential resource. The sixth edition has been updated throughout to address the challenges faced by branding professionals today. From research to brand strategy, design execution to launch and governance, Designing Brand Identity is a compendium of tools and best practices that demystifies, inspires, and provides a road map to creating sustainable and successf...
Why Machines Learn
the Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI
2024 || Hardcover || Anil Ananthaswamy || Allen Lane
Machine-learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us: approving mortgage loans, determining whether a tumour is cancerous, or deciding whether someone gets bail. They now influence discoveries in chemistry, biology and physics - the study of genomes, extra-solar planets, even the intricacies of quantum systems.
We are living through a revolution in artificial intelligence that is not slowing down. This major shift is based on simple mathematics, some of which goes back centuries...