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Cultural mediation in Europe, 1800-1950
International exchange in European cultural life in the 19th and 20th centuries From the early nineteenth century till the middle of the twentieth century, cultures in Europe were primarily national. They were organized and conceived of as attributes of the nation states. Nonetheless, these national cultures crossed borders with an unprecedented intensity even before globalization transformed the very concept of culture. During that long period, European cultures have imported and exported products,...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 1,2 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Thomas Coomans Life Inside the cloister
understanding monastic architecture: tradition, reformation, adaptive reuse
Sacred architecture as reality and metaphor in secularised Western society. Christian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best part of 1,500 years, are now at a crossroads. This study attempts to understand the sacred architecture of monasteries as a process of the tangible and symbolic organisation of space and time for religious communities. Despite the weight of seemingly immutable monastic tradition, architecture has contributed to developing specific religious identities...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 17 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Yves Knockaert Wolfgang Rihm, a chiffre
the 1980s and beyond
Wolfgang Rihm ( b. Karlsruhe, 1952) is the most performed living German composer. With his personal, expressive, and versatile music, he became the most prominent representative of his generation. His individual approach to music was established in the 1980s and he continues to explore and enlarge his original concepts today. His 1980s work is at the core of this book, more specifically his instrumental music: the Chiffre cycle and the string quartets. Thinking about Rihm includes reflecting on his...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Orpheus Institute Artistic research in music: discipline and resistance
artists and researchers at the Orpheus Institute
The Orpheus Institute celebrates 20 years of artistic research in music. Artistic research in music is now at a generational stage of development. How should it deal with its own maturing? From a kaleidoscope of individual pursuits, ethos and methodologies have emerged to encompass more distributed approaches. This transformation has taken place in parallel with changes in the dynamics and structures of culture, its institutions and constituencies. Artistic research maintains a productive dialectic...
Non-fictie
Engels | 316 pagina's (PDF, 5 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Han Peeters The Cheetah mystery
faction
ENGLISH EDITION Robin de Graaf and his parents were looking forward to a fun day out with a drive through the wildlife park. Unfortunately, things went differently and their life turned into a nightmare. In front of their eyes people got out of their car, seemingly unaware that uncaged cheetahs are dangerous predators. Robin filmed the event and then posted it on his YouTube channel where it caused mixed excitement among the viewers. The film went viral. The family organized a press conference to...
Fictie
Engels | 120 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | ClusterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2018
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Sander Cruz Dewy in the world of colors
'Who are you, orange one?' asks Betsy the butterfly. In the beginning Dewy has no idea. Dewy starts on an adventurous journey, from the lowlands to the tropics, searching for his family. With the help of several colorful animals he discovers that he is unique, but not alone. A picture-book for children to discover colors, animals, emotions and friendship - together with Dewy. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Engels | 32 pagina's (ePub3, 63 MB) | [Arpenco], [Zoetermeer] | 2018
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Jane C. Judge The United States of Belgium
the story of the first Belgian revolution
New and comprehensive insights into the seminal events that shaped Belgian identity In 1790, between the birth of America (1776) and the creation of the French National Assembly (1789), nine provinces nestled between the French and Dutch borders declared themselves a new free and independent country: the United States of Belgium. Before then, the provinces had been part of the vast Austrian Habsburg Empire ruled by Joseph II. In 1789 revolutionaries from Brussels to Ghent to Namur recruited a grass-roots...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 9,3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Andy Dennis | Anna Simon Ebola behind the mask
October 2014 and a devastating epidemic of the viral disease Ebola is raging in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The non-governmental aid organisation Doctors without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is one of the major actors in the fight against the disease. MSF needs more and more nurses and doctors to work in their expanding Ebola Management Centres. The authors responded to MSF's call for volunteers, and left behind their regular jobs for two months to work in an Ebola Management...
Non-fictie
Engels | 260 pagina's (ePub2, 3,2 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2018
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The astrological autobiography of a medieval philosopher
Henry Bate's Nativitas (1280-81)
Critical edition of the earliest known astrological autobiography The present book reveals the riches of the earliest known astrological autobiography, authored by Henry Bate of Mechelen (1246-after 1310). Exploiting all resources of contemporary astrological science, Bate conducts in his Nativitas a profound self-analysis, revealing the peculiarities of his character and personality at a crucial moment of his life (1280). The result is an extraordinarily detailed and penetrating attempt to decode...
Non-fictie
Latijn | Engels | 290 pagina's (PDF, 4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Petrus Thomae Petri Thomae Quaestiones de ente
Editio princeps of Peter Thomae's De ente It is generally acknowledged by historians of philosophy that medieval philosophers made key contributions to the discussion of the problem of being and the fundamental issues of metaphysics. The Quaestiones de ente of Peter Thomae, composed at Barcelona ca. 1325, is the longest medieval work devoted to the problem of being as well as the most systematic. The work is divided into three parts: the concept of being, the attributes of being, and the descent...
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Latijn | Engels | 590 pagina's (PDF, 7,2 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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René van Blerk At the Van Gogh Museum
Ga je mee naar het Van Gogh Museum met Bax, Toby en Pepper? Maak kennis met Vincent, leer Engelse woordjes en ontdek van alles over kijken naar kunst en het mengen van kleuren.
Fictie
Engels | ePub3 | StoryZoo B.V., Amsterdam | 2018
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Shammah Hart Woman a new beginning for you too
I meet regularly women who went through hard times in life. I want to encourage them to never lose hope. It does not matter what we go through in life, we must keep our hope and trust in the Lord.
Non-fictie
Engels | 108 pagina's (ePub2, 4 MB) | Highly Favored Publishing, Almere | 2018
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BA Paris Bring me back
Als de vriendin van een Britse man plotseling verdwijnt en de politie meezoekt, blijkt na twaalf jaar zonder resultaat ineens uit kleine tekenen dat zij misschien nog in leven is.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | ePub2, 2,3 MB | HQ, [Nederland] | 2021
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Marian Keyes Rachel's holiday
Een jonge Ierse vrouw ervaart bergen en dalen in haar poging zich te bevrijden van haar drugsverslaving in een afkickcentrum.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | 640 pagina's (ePub, 4,3 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Sophie Kinsella Mummy Fairy and Me
Fairy-in-Waiting
Hello. I''m called Ella Brook and I live in a town called Cherrywood. I have blue eyes and dark brown hair. My best friends at school are Tom and Lenka. My worst enemy is Zoe. And then there is my mummy. She looks normal, like any other mummy . . . but she''s not. Because she can turn into a fairy. She just has to shut her eyes tight, say ''Marshmallow'' . . . and POOF! She''s Mummy Fairy.Ella''s family has a big secret - her mummy is a fairy! She can do amazing spells with her computawand. Only,...
Engels | ePub3, 64 MB | Puffin, [Nederland] | 2018
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Sophie Kinsella Mummy Fairy and Me
Hello. I''m called Ella Brook and I live in a town called Cherrywood. I have blue eyes and dark brown hair. My best friends at school are Tom and Lenka. My worst enemy is Zoe. And then there is my mummy. She looks normal, like any other mummy . . . but she''s not. Because she can turn into a fairy. She just has to shut her eyes tight, say ''Marshmallow'' . . . and POOF! She''s Mummy Fairy.Ella''s family have a big secret . . . her mummy is a fairy! She can do amazing spells with her computawand to...
Engels | ePub3, 58 MB | Puffin, [Nederland] | 2018
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Alex Scarrow TimeRiders - Book 1
Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029.Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, 'Take my hand . . .'But Liam, Maddy and Sal aren't rescued. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose - to fix broken history. Because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past. That's why the TimeRiders exist:...
Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Robert Harris Selling Hitler
the story of the Hitler diaries
His classic account of The Hitler Diaries. Spring 1983: it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after documents had finally come to light - the private diaries of Adolf Hitler.What followed was a fiasco of fakery, greed, the duping of experts, and the exchange of extraordinary sums of money for world-wide publishing rights. But that was just the beginning of the story. . . Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub, 0,9 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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Olga Tokarczuk Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she''s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2018
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Camilla Lackberg The Ice Princess - Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falck, Book 1
The psychological thriller debut of No.1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg.A small town can hide many secretsReturning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen in an ice-cold bath, it seems like she's taken her own life.Meanwhile, local detective Patrik Hedstrom is following his own suspicions about the case....
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub2, 2,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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