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The Art of Political Framing
How Politicians Convince Us That They Are Right
2019 || Paperback || Hans de Bruijn || Amsterdam University Press
Politicians employ a wide range of strategies to achieve their goals - and language is one of them. What impact does their language have on us, on their opponents, on the public opinion?
If language matters, then the interesting question naturally arises how politicians use language to their advantage? How do they use it to convince us of the truth of their views? These questions take us into the world of political framing, which has attracted a lot of attention in recent times and forms the...
Human Evolution and Development / 2nd Edition
Textbook for Life Sciences
2019 || Paperback || Nico M. van Straalen e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
Our understanding of human evolution is proceeding at an unprecedented rate over the last years due to spectacular fossil finds, reconstructions based on genome comparison, ancient DNA sequencing and new insights into developmental genetics. This book takes an integrative approach in which the development of the human embryo, the evolutionary history of our body, the structure of human populations, their dispersal over the world and their cultures are examined by integrating paleoanthropology...
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The Life of Texts
An Introduction to Literary Studies
2019 || Paperback || Kiene Brillenburg Wurth e.a. || Amsterdam University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
This innovative introduction to literary studies takes 'the life of texts' as its overarching frame. It provides a conceptual and methodological toolbox for analysing novels, poems, and all sorts of other texts as they circulate in oral, print, and digital form. It shows how texts inspire each other, and how stories migrate across media. It explains why literature has been interpreted in different ways across time. Finally, it asks why some texts fascinate people so much that they are reprodu...
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Managing Authentic Relationships
facing New Challenges in a Changing Context
2019 || Paperback || Jean Paul Wijers e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
This book focuses on building and managing a strong network and reciprocal relationships for the entire organization by implementing a professional relationship management approach at strategic, tactical and operational level.
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Academic Skills for Interdisciplinary Studies
revised Edition
2019 || Paperback || Koen van der Gaast e.a. || Amsterdam University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
What's a theoretical framework for? How do you effectively present your data in a figure? What's the secret to a good presentation?
As an interdisciplinary student, you delve into theories and research methods from a whole range of disciplines. Academic skills are the tools that you can use to take in, develop, integrate and question knowledge. This guide provides specific instructions, tips and examples to help students develop these skills, both during and after their studies.
As academic e...
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Finance and the Common Good
2019 || Paperback || C.L.J.M. Van Beuningen e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
Over the past fifty years, (financial) capitalism has brought about an enormous growth in wealth. Millions around the world have been lifted out of poverty. However, the downsides of the present global economic constitution are rapidly becoming evident as well. Rising inequality, soaring debt levels, and repeated cycles of boom and bust have proven to be some of its key characteristics. After the 2008 crisis brought the financial system to the brink of collapse, new regulations, stricter supe...
History and Philosophy of the Humanities
An Introduction
2019 || Paperback || Michiel Leezenberg e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
History and Philosophy of the Humanities: An Introduction presents a reasoned overview of the conceptual and historical backgrounds of the humanities.
The humanities include disciplines as diverse as literary theory, linguistics, history, film studies, theology, and philosophy. Do these various fields of study have anything in common that distinguishes them from, say, physics or sociology? The tripartite division between the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities may seem se...
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Global Europe
The External Relations of the European Union
2019 || Paperback || Otto Holman || Amsterdam University Press
The European Union is facing the worst existential crisis in its 60-year history. At the same time, it is confronted with old and new challenges in its environment that call for joint action. But how do matters stand with the EU's capacity to act? Does the EU manage to effectively combine the different components of its external relations-such as trade, development aid, and security policy-better than it did in the past? How is the EU's external action determined by the internal socio-economi...
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Van Gogh's Sunflowers Illuminated
Art Meets Science
2019 || Hardcover || Ella Hendriks e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
This book is entirely devoted to the research performed over the years into Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, an icon of Western European art.
Vincent van Gogh’s *Sunflowers* are seen by many as icons of Western European art. Two of these masterpieces – the first version painted in August 1888 (The National Gallery, London) and the painting made after it in January 1889 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) – have been the subject of a detailed comparison by an interdisciplinary team of experts. The pict...