This outline of Korea’s civilisation is a cultural history that examines the ways the Korean people over the past two millennia understood the world and viewed their place in society. In the traditional era, the interaction between several broad religious and philosophical traditions and social institutions, state interests and, at times, external pressures, provides the framework of the story. In the modern era, the chief concern is with the rapid and momentous cultural changes that have o...

In Moving Together onderzoekt Rudi Laermans hedendaagse dans vanuit zowel een praktijk- als een theoretisch perspectief, met verbindingen over en weer. Laermans analyseert de drie belangrijkste stromingen: 'pure dans', danstheater en (zelf)reflexieve dans en stelt een (theoretisch) begrippenkader voor. Hij onderzoekt tevens op basis van gesprekken met dansers en choreografen hoe dans in artistieke samenwerking tot stand komt.

Rudi Laermans is hoogleraar Sociologische Theorie aan de KULeuven. ...

The Wirtz Gardens III is a continuation of the books I and II, edited in 2003 and reedited 2 times after. It contains 30 gardens, a mixture of private, public and corporate projects in Belgium, Switzerland, Japan, the USA, France and England. For the first time, private projects in the USA and Switzerland are shown, gardens which enchant by their beautiful setting, their scale or their exclusiveness. Unusual projects like the cloister's gardens of the Hauterive Abbey (Switzerland) or the Haut...

Poetry expressing criticism of social, political and cultural life is a vital integral part of Persian literary history. Its principal genres - invective, satire and burlesque - have been very popular with authors in every age. Despite the rich uninterrupted tradition, such texts have been little studied and rarely translated. Their irreverent tones range from subtle irony to crude direct insults, at times involving the use of outrageous and obscene terms. This anthology includes both major a...

Aegean archaeology has mainly concentrated on Prehistoric and Greco-Roman times and has provided relatively little information on human activity and material culture in the medieval period. Historical research concerning the medieval era is sufficiently developed but archaeological research on the medieval Aegean has mainly focused on matters of art and architecture. In fact, we have an overall picture of the medieval and post-medieval periods for only a few islands of the Aegean. This ASLU v...

The increasing complexity of the IT value chain and the rise of multi-vendor supplier ecosystems has led to the rise of Service Integration and Management (SIAM) as a new approach.

Service Integration is the set of principles and practices, which facilitate that collaborative working relationships between service providers required to maximize the benefit of multi-sourcing. Service integration facilitates the linkage of services, the technology of which they are comprised and the delivery or...

This book is my story, as it is lived. At the end you may feel unsatisfied, but that is not of my concern. I am not here to satisfy anyone or any feeling. I wrote this book, so I could leave the streets out of love for a girl. This is not going to happen, but I continue to publish it, because I feel like this story, my story, needs to be told. It is a story about a young man that decides to do that one thing that every man has had the idea of doing, at least once in his life. And some women a...

Op dit moment leeft de helft van de wereldbevolking in steden. Binnen twee decennia zal dit oplopen tot 60 procent. Extreme rijkdom en extreme armoede komen naast elkaar voor, maar steden blijven magneten die mensenmassa's aantrekken. Steden bieden voor velen de mogelijkheid voor werk en inkomen, scholing, en betere voorzieningen. In een achttal thema's geeft het boek een intrigerend beeld van deze ontwikkelingen en schetst het een mondiaal toekomstperspectief.

Cities in Transition onderzoek...

In its parallel pursuit of an increased competitivity for design offices and more pleasurable and easier workflows for designers, artificial design intelligence is a technical, intellectual, and political challenge. While human-machine cooperation has become commonplace through Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools, a more improved collaboration and better support appear possible only through an endeavor into a kind of artificial design intelligence, which is more sensitive to the human perceptio...

We tend to think of ourselves as living in a time when nations, for the most part, obey the rule of law - and where they certainly don't engage in the violent grabs for territory that have characterised so much of human history. But as Rob de Wijk shows in this book, power politics very much remains a force on the international scene. Offering analyses of such actions as Putin's annexation of the Crimea and China's attempts to claim large parts of the South China Sea, de Wijk explains why pow...