De nieuwe dichtbundel van Gerrit Kouwenaar opent met de reeks een glas om te breken, die ter gelegenheid van zijn vijfenzeventigste verjaardag als extra fraaie leparello verscheen. Hij sluit een indrukwekkende reeks gedichten van rouw, die hun aanleiding hebben in de dood van Kouwenaars vrouw Paula, maar op de lezer in de eerste plaats een algemeen geldige, ja nu al klassieke indruk maken. Tussen die twee afdelingen in staan gelegenheidsgedichten in engere zin, maar als het waar is dat alle g...

Verschillende auteurs constateren dat er een fundamentele veranderingen plaatsvinden in onze economie. We evolueren naar een beleveniseconomie. In een wereld van overvloed zijn mensen meer op zoek naar psychische behoeftebevrediging: behoefte aan inspiratie, aan het bij een betekenisvolle gemeenschap horen en aan zingeving in het algemeen. Dit boek is geschreven in het licht van dit besef.

In Imagineering wordt de stelling geponeerd dat het Amerikaanse antwoord op de nieuwe vragen die deze eco...

Es ist spontane Entscheidung. Die Fahrkarte von Moskau nach Berlin kostet nur 96 Rubel, er braucht kein Visum, und außerdem lockt das Abenteuer - kurzerhand packt Wladimir Kaminer seine Sachen und reist im Sommer 1990 nach Deutschland. Berlin erweist sich schnell als ganz besondere Stadt. Hier trifft Wladimir seine zukünftige Frau Olga, ruft die Russendisko ins Leben und bringt sich mit dem russischen Lehrbuch "Deutsches Deutsch zum Selberlernen" eine neue Sprache bei. Mit hintergründigem ...

Levensbeaming is de eerste aanduiding van het leerproces dat in dit boek filosofisch wordt omschreven. Minachting of verwaarlozing van delen van de werkelijkheid (zoals materie, lichaam, gevoel, verstand) is evenzeer een karikatuur van spiritualiteit als exclusivistische verabsolutering van enig deel van de werkelijkheid (eigen volk of klasse; een heilig boek of instituut; markt, mode, media). Levensbeaming, niet in de zin van berusting of van alles toejuichen wat er gebeurt. Maar eerder zoal...

This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants amongst the pantheon of Western philosophers as well as the one with the most powerful and broad influence on contemporary philosophy. It is well known that Kant spent his entire life in an isolated part of Prussia living the life of a typical university professor. This has given rise to the view that Kant was a pure thinker with no life of his own, or at least none worth considering seriously.

In this biography, Manfred Kuehn debunks that myth once and for all. Taking account of the most recent scholarship Professor Kuehn allows the reader (whether interested in philosophy, history, politics, German culture, or religion) to follow the same journey that Kant himself took in emerging as a central figure in modern philosophy...

War has always been close to the centre of British culture, but never more so than in the period since 1850. "Warrior Nation" explores the way in which images of battle, both literary and visual, have been constructed in British fiction and popular culture since this time. The rise of war reporting has helped to shape a society fascinated by conflict, and the development of mass communications has aided in the creation of mass-produced martial heroes and the relation of epic adventures for po...

Looks in detail at the theory of words and at how students learn new vocabulary Offers practical advice on how to help students build vocabulary in new and effective ways and how to test students’ word knowledge Major developments, such as language corpora and lexical approaches, are clearly explained and related to your needs as a teacher The Task File develops a teacher's skill in identifying parts of speech including lexical fields, word families, etc. to build more confidence in ...

This book is a study of the interaction of the Western societies of Europe and America with others around the world in the past two centuries - the age of European empire. It deals with the European threat and the non-Western response, but the focus is on the ways in which people in Asia, Africa, and Indian America have tried to adapt their ways of life to the overwhelming European power that existed in this period. The challenge and the response are presented through a series of selected and...

MicroC/OS II Second Edition describes the design and implementation of the MicroC/OS-II real-time operating system (RTOS). In addition to its value as a reference to the kernel, it is an extremely detailed and highly readable design study particularly useful to the embedded systems student. While documenting the design and implementation of the kernel, the book also walks the reader through the many related development issues: how to adapt the kernel for a new microprocessor, how to install t...

Drawing together literature from a variety of fields, Food Texture and Viscosity, Second Edition, includes a brief history of this area and its basic principles. It reviews how texture and viscosity are measured, including the physical interactions between the human body and food, objective methods of texture measurements, the latest advances in texture-measuring instruments, various types of liquid flow, and more. This revised edition contains approximately 30% new material, including two ne...