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Approaches to Human Geography
Philosophies, Theories, People and Practices
2020 || Paperback || Stuart C Aitken e.a. || SAGE
A long awaited new edition of this now classic human geography textbook. Fully updated throughout, it includes chapters written by some of the leading names in the field.
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MINOAN LINEAR A, Volume I
2017 || Paperback || Peter George van Soesbergen || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
MINOAN LINEAR A, VOLUME I, HURRIANS AND HURRIAN IN MINOAN CRETE, PART 1.
The author has reviewed previous attempts to decipher Minoan Linear A concluding that none can be accepted as presenting consistent phonological and morphological evidence, which is required for identification of an idiom written with an undeciphered script. Using phonological and morphological evidence, he has shown that Linear A may well be the notation of an idiom with specific phonological features and a morphology o...
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Scientific Life in Ancient Egyptian Civilization
Historical and Analytical Study of Geometry, Mathematics, Astrology and Astronomy
|| Paperback || Ayman Waziry || Sweek
This book presents outlines of History of Sciences in Ancient Egyptian Civilization. The late Egyptian and Greek sources praised the ancient Egyptian cultural centers as a source for knowledge and science, thus ancient Egypt was a source of inspiration for the legislator 'Solon', as well as 'Thales of Miletus' who was a mathematician and astronomer, where He learned and practiced the sciences of ancient Egypt, then taking this knowledge to the Greeks. The First Chapter provides 'The Historica...
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Geographies of Embodiment Critical Phenomenology and the World of Strangers
2023 || Paperback || Simonsen || SAGE
Geographies of Embodiment provides a critical discussion of the literatures on the body and embodiment, and humanism and post-humanism, and develops arguments about "otherness" and "encounter" which have become key ideas in urban studies, and studies of the city.
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Minoan Linear A, Volume I, Part 2
2017 || Paperback || Peter George van Soesbergen || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
MINOAN LINEAR A, VOLUME I: HURRIANS AND HURRIAN IN MINOAN CRETE, PART 2: The author identified the idiom written with Linear A as a language of agglutinative character. The Hurrian language appeared to be the best candidate from a linguistic and historical point of view. The predominantly Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni, with its vassal states in Syria such as Alalakh and Aleppo (Khalba in Hurrian, Khalab in Semitic), was the only great political and military power next to Egypt, contemporary with...
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The climate in perspective
New insights
2022 || Paperback || Drs.P.A.J. Coelewij || Brave New Books
Here you can read the latest insights on how the climate is created and the mechanisms that determine it, and why the climate fluctuates between tropical hot and icy cold.
These mechanisms include:
-Plate tectonics that controls the import of CO2 into the atmosphere and chemical processes to remove the CO2 from the atmosphere.
-New logically constructed analyses of the ice cores drilled in the Antarctica ice cap that shows the minimum reaction temperature of the CO2 removal chemical processe...
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Key Methods in Geography
2023 || Paperback || Nicholas Clifford e.a. || SAGE
Covering both qualitative and quantitative methods, this is a new edition of the essential companion for human and physical geography students. The book has 8 brand new chapters and brings greater diversity of positionality and perspective to the volume.
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Critical and Scientific Thinking
A Short Introduction
2022 || Paperback || Michael Vlerick || Open Press Tilburg University
Critical thinking is one of the biggest hiatuses in our education system. Learning to distinguish sense from nonsense is of great importance in the information age that we live in. In a systematic way, this book helps you to gain insight into, and subsequently eliminate, the most important reasoning errors that we all tend to make. It also helps you to debunk weak and fallacious arguments and unreliable information.
In addition to understanding what critical and scientific thinking entails, y...
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The University in Transition
2024 || Paperback || Henk Kummeling e.a. || Publishers of Trial and Error || met inkijkexemplaar
Open Science is the great cultural change in academia today. Through the practice of Open Science, the university wants to anchor itself more firmly in society by making the major societal challenges at local, regional and global levels more central to education and research and thus be able to give more back to society.
From this perspective, the question at the heart of this book is: how will the university develop in its core tasks of education, research and societal impact? The universit...
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Who are those People?
Causes and Consequences of Polarization in the Schooled Society
2024 || Paperback || Quita Muis || Open Press Tilburg University || met inkijkexemplaar
The only thing we do not seem to be polarizing on these days is the worry that we are polarizing. To what extent are these worries really justified? In the public as well as scientific debate, much is still unclear about what kind of polarization is taking place, who is polarizing and why, and what the consequences of polarization are. By focusing on the role of social identification and the particular importance of education in our schooled society, I aim to clarify the “what,” “who,...