This book presents the first anthology of Flemish prose on the Congo, the former colony of Belgium, in English translation. Because of the Dutch language barrier, Flemish literature on the Congo has traditionally remained inaccessible to and thus neglected by international scholarship, as opposed to French or English prose on this part of the African continent. That this particular perspective has thus far remained underexposed, or even disregarded, is all the more regrettable in light of the...

Exile and migration played a critical role in the diffusion and development of modernism around the globe, yet have long remained largely understudied phenomena within art historiography. Focusing on the intersections of exile, artistic practice and urban space, this volume brings together contributions by international researchers committed to revising the historiography of modern art. It pays particular attention to metropolitan areas that were settled by migrant artists in the first half o...

Comedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with questions of German national identity and Turkish German migration. The German majority society and its largest labour migrant community have been asking for decades what it means to be German and what it means for Turkish Germans, Muslims of the second and third generations, to call Germany their home. Benjamin Nickl examines through the social pragmatics of humour the dynamics that underpin these questions in the st...

The analysis of translated texts and investigations into the cognitive mechanisms involved in the process of translation have been at the core of translation studies so far. Yet Personality Matters ventures into the previously uncharted territories by bringing the translator’s inherent psychological and cognitive features into the limelight. Combining psychology and translation studies, this monograph looks into the role of the translator’s psychological features in self-revision, the mai...

Hydraulic and lubrication systems have developed significantly in the past sixty years. The range of applications continue to expand. In modern systems, the application of proportional valves is a particularly important stimulus for the application of increasingly complicated and more accurate hydraulic drive systems.

With the availability of more accurate production techniques that enable the possibilities of minimal tolerances, the operating pressures have more than doubled in the last 25 y...

The recent production of case studies in chaplaincy care combines the narrative nature of chaplaincy with the rigors of research demanded in contemporary care settings. The contributions in this volume from both practitioners and academic researchers join reflections on the challenges and promises of case study research in chaplaincy care with the results of specific case studies. Based on reflections on methodology and professionalization in chaplaincy, the volume hopes to contribute to answ...

The American Netherlander staat helemaal in het teken van het 25-jarig verblijf van de Amerikaanse komiek Greg Shapiro in ons kleine kikkerlandje. Zijn assimilatie met de Nederlandse samenleving, taal en cultuur verloopt na al die jaren nog steeds onhandig en stroperig, wat leidt tot hilarische situaties die Greg maar al te graag aan het papier toevertrouwt.

Zijn nieuwe boek is geen wetenschappelijke gids om de Nederlandse cultuur en waarden te snappen en eigen te maken. Maar als je op zoek b...

GOOD JOB! RETAIL is een beroepsspecifieke methode Engels die is afgestemd op de kwalificatiedossiers voor de mbo-opleidingen Retail, zoals verkoopspecialist detailhandel, manager retail en ondernemer retail. In de methode staat communicatie centraal, zodat je leert jezelf passend uit te drukken in uiteenlopende situaties. De methode is geheel in het Engels.

Het startpakket vaan Good Job! Retail bestaat uit:

* een overzichtelijk leerwerkboek waarin zowel theorie als oefeningen worden aangebo...

This is an original and accessible introduction to the modern idea of history and its value, and an indispensable companion to the study of history and its philosophical underpinnings.

The book answers two basic questions: What is history? And what is its value? It also shows how the answers to these questions are mutually dependent. The old view that history is the teacher of life, for instance, assumes that the past is a reservoir of examples from which moral lessons for the present can be ...