This volume approaches a central concern of oral literature studies worldwide: how to deal with oral genres in a world where new technologies have become available to more and more people? What is new in the present book is that the spotlight is directed towards (old and new) '`interlocutors" who cooperate in the making of technologized oral genres in an increasingly technologized world. Their interactions affect the performance as well as research; their roles and positions raise methodologi...

De Engelstalige publicatie 'Wild Park. Commissioning the Unexpected' is geschreven door Jeroen Boomgaard, als zesde deel van de essayreeks van het Fonds BKVB.

'Wild Park' is een essay over het verschil in kwaliteit van kunst in de openbare ruimte. Niet alleen vorm en iconografie bepalen een kunstwerk, ook de functies en betekenissen waarmee het op voorhand wordt opgezadeld. Boomgaard gaat op zoek naar werken die er in slagen te ontsnappen aan de belangen en intenties waarmee een plek beladen ...

The Altai region has yielded a cluster of Middle and Upper Paleolithic stratified sites that have been recently excavated using a multidisciplinary approach. These sequences provide key evidence illustrating changes in material culture corresponding to the transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic. In Europe, this phenomenon is associated with the replacement of Neandertals by modern humans. Based on this archeological data set, local scholars have put forward a scenario of regional...

The purpose of this book is to provide an easy access to and overview of the case law of the ECJ (the Court of Justice of the European Union, previously Court of Justice of the European Communities) pertaining to private international law. The book contains edited extracts from all ECJ decisions of immediate private international law relevance made before 1 January 2012.

Most of the cases are important for the interpretation and understanding of the numerous existing European regulations and ...

On the 23rd of October 2009 the Montesquieu Institute Maastricht hosted a conference on parliamentary involvement with military missions. Even where it does not concern the actual waging of war, sending troops on military missions abroad is never undertaken lightly. No matter how many safeguards are put in place, it remains a decision that potentially risks the lives of men and women in the armed forces.

When lives are so directly influenced by political decision making, the question arises ...

In today's globalized world, jurists cannot limit themselves to studying the laws of their own country. This book is mainly intended to be used as a textbook for beginners taking introductory courses on foreign and comparative law. Its concise format makes it fit for use also in other courses, such as legal history or jurisprudence, having the ambition to provide the students with a basic knowledge about English, American, French, German, Chinese and Islamic law and legal culture, as well as ...

On September 22, 1914 between 06.20 am and 07.55 am three British cruisers went down o the Dutch coast, HMS Aboukir,Hogue and Cressy. Of the combined crew of 2296 no less than 1459 men perished on their ships or in the sea. ere were 837survivors. e perpetrator was a simple German submarine, U-9. is event in the early days of the First World War came as a big boost to the Germans. But for the British it was a dire blow, the biggest loss ever in icted on the Royal Navy, hitherto deemed invinc...

Inspiring and motivating students from the moment it published, Organic Chemistry has established itself in just one edition as the students' choice of organic chemistry text. Its explanatory, mechanistic, evidence-based approach makes it perfect for fostering a true understanding of the subject.

Seeing is believing with the Atlas of Normal Roentgen Variants That May Simulate Disease, edited by the late Theodore Keats and Mark W. Anderson. Now streamlined into a more concise, portable print format, with a wealth of additional content online, this medical reference book's thousands of images capture the roentgenographic presentation of a full range of normal variants and pseudo-lesions that may resemble pathologic conditions, helping you avoid false positives.

You'd be hard pressed to ...

During the past decade, the science of dynamic meteorology has continued its rapid advance. The scope of dynamic meteorology has broadened considerably. Much of the material is based on a two-term course for seniors majoring in atmospheric sciences.

This book presents a cogent explanation of the fundamentals of meteorology and explains storm dynamics for weather-oriented meteorologists. It discusses climate dynamics and the implications posed for global change. The new edition has added a com...