Amsterdam University Press: 29 books
by Benjamin B. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in the Dutch Golden Age focuses on the generation of rich young men that grew up in the seventeenth century in the Dutch Republic. These men had more money to spend on clothes, music, and recreation than the generation before them. This fascinating account of male adolescence...
Making Media
production, Practices, and Professions
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Making Media uncovers what it means and what it takes to make media, focusing on the lived experience of media professionals within the global media, including rich case studies of the main media industries and professions: television, journalism, social media entertainment, advertising and public...
The Art of Political Framing
How Politicians Convince Us That They Are Right
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
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...
by Mariska van Sprundel
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Is het nodig om extra koolhydraten te eten voor een hardloopwedstrijd? Slijt het kraakbeen in je knieën sneller door hardlopen? Gaat dagelijks joggen depressies te lijf? Kan je verslaafd raken aan sporten? Is de mens überhaupt gemaakt om lange afstanden te rennen? De hardloopwereld staat bol van...
Gravity does not exist
a puzzle for the 21st century
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Every scientific fact was born as an opinion about the unknown - a hypothesis. Opinion gradually becomes fact as evidence piles up to support a theory. But what if there are two theories, each of which has produced a myriad of things that correspond perfectly to the phenomena but can't be combined...
Three months in Mao's China
between the great leap forward and the cultural revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher traveled for the first time to China, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar,...
Higher Education in 2040
a global approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This book explores the future of modern higher education by looking at it on a global scale. Bert van der Zwaan compares European developments with those taking place in North America and Asia to argue that the phoenix of an entirely new type of university will rise from the ashes of the classical...
Turbulence
a corporate perspective on collaborating for resilience
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The ever tighter coupling of our food, water and energy systems, in the context of a changing climate is leading to increasing turbulence in the world. As a consequence, it becomes ever more crucial to develop cities, regions, and economies with resilience in mind. Because of their global reach, substantial...
by Hans Luiten, Sven de Graaf
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Bijna vier jaar na het begin van de Arabische lente is het Midden-Oosten grotendeels veranderd in een conflictzone waar landen elkaar bestrijden, burgeroorlogen uitgevochten worden en de Islamitische Staat (IS) de chaos heeft aangegrepen om een moorddadig bewind in te stellen. Er gaat vrijwel geen...
The big reset revised edition
war on gold and the financial endgame
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
A system reset seems imminent. The world's financial system will need to find a new anchor before the year 2020. Since the beginning of the credit crisis, the US realized the dollar will lose its role as the world's reserve currency, and has been planning for a monetary reset. According to Willem...
by Leo Samama
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
For virtually all of our lives, we are surrounded by music. From lullabies to radio to the praises sung in houses of worship, we encounter music at home and in the street, during work and in our leisure time, and not infrequently at birth and death. But what is music, and what does it mean to humans?...
Power Politics
how China and Russia reshape the world
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
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...
The TESLA revolution
why big oil is losing the energy war
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
We burnt our oil supplies up so fast that the era of cheap oil is over. Finally there is a widespread recognition for the need to move to a post-fossil fuel age. Yet promises of too cheap to meter nuclear, household power stations, the hydrogen economy, or abundant bio-based fuels, all remain dreams....
Art and politics
between purity and propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
At first glance, art and politics seem like they couldn't be more separate, with politics focused on the grubbiness of everyday reality and art busily creating a fantasy world of creative expression. Yet the two realms frequently come together, and the collision can be fiery. This book explores the...