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Inner Development Conversation Starters
2024 || Paperback || Amsterdam University Press
Contributing to societal change starts with nurturing inner development: personal growth equips individuals with the skills, attitudes and awareness needed to contribute effectively to their communities and society.
Inner Development Conversation Starters is a powerful tool for transition makers, encouraging deep reflection and dialogue. Each of the 46 cards features a thought-provoking question, based on the Inner Development Goals.
Through guided explorations of skills and attitudes, such ...
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Power of the Invisible
The Quantessence of Reality
2024 || Hardcover || Sander Bais || Amsterdam University Press
Quantum Physics is the solid basis of most of our understanding of nature and has been the driver of many technological advances. The trilogy Power of the Invisible: The Quantessence of Reality gives a coherent account of this huge domain of knowledge, which is linked to some fifty Nobel prizes and is one of the greatest scientific achievements of the twentieth century.
This quantum story follows three lines in parallel: a pictorial, an explanatory and a mathematical one.
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Homopolitiek in Nederland (1966-2023)
De symbolische kracht van wetgeving
2024 || Paperback || Joke Swiebel || Amsterdam University Press
Vier wetswijzigingen markeren de geschiedenis van homoseksualiteit in Nederland van na de Tweede Wereldoorlog: de intrekking van art. 248bis van het Wetboek van Strafrecht in 1971, de totstandkoming van de Algemene wet gelijke behandeling in 1994, de openstelling van het huwelijk voor personen van hetzelfde geslacht in 2001 en de toevoeging van ‘seksuele gerichtheid’ aan artikel 1 van de Grondwet in 2023. Deze wetswijzigingen behelsden veranderingen in de rechtspositie van homoseksuele ma...