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by Richard Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
There is relatively little information on The Netherlands written in the English language which is easily accessible to social science students and even less which is systematically assembled between the covers of a single book. This is unfortunate not only because The Netherlands is an important...
Geology of Gas and Oil under the Netherlands
Selection of papers presented at the 1993 International Conference of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, held in The Hague
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Contains 21 papers on the petroleum geology of the Netherlands, combining work by the industry, the Geological Survey and universities. The wide range of topics presented includes reservoir characterization through 3D seismic and borehole log evaluation of single oil and gas fields, as well as reviews...
Euthanasia in the Netherlands
The Policy and Practice of Mercy Killing
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
The Dutch experience has influenced the debate on euthanasia and death with dignity around the globe, especially with regard to whether physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia should be legitimized or legalized. A review of the literature reveals complex and often contradictory views about the Dutch...
by R. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
My interest in the 'refugee question' of the 1930s stemmed initially from time spent as an undergraduate at Manchester University, an interest which has been expanded, via a doctoral thesis, to the writing of this book. In wri ting about the German and Austrian refugees who fled to the Netherlands...
The Future of European Defence
Proceedings of the second international Round Table Conference of the Netherlands Atlantic Commission on May 24 and 25, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In May 1985 the Netherlands Atlantic Commission organized its Second International Round Table Conference in the Ridderzaal at the Binnenhof in The Hague. The Conference was attended by 52 direct participants from the United States of America, the United Kingdom, France, the Federal Republic of Germany...
by E.W. Hofstee, Kingsley Davis, W. Petersen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As Mr Petersen points out in this study, since the war there has been a very strong belief in the Netherlands that emigration is necessary. Even those who never before occupied themselves with these matters now speak of the large natural increase, the overpopulation, and the lack of opportunities...
Perspectives on Educational Quality
Illustrative Outcomes on Primary and Secondary Schooling in the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
The quality of education is a term that is frequently used in public debates. Understood in the sense of education being “generally okay” , or rather, most frequently, as “not okay”. Perhaps there is an overruling nostalgic view that formerly education was better than today. In scholarly discourse...
Diversity in Family Formation
The 2nd Demographic Transition in Belgium and The Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The aim of Diversity in Family Formation is to examine changes in the start of the family formation process. Rather than giving a rough overview of demographic changes in many countries, a comparison of differences in changes in family formation and fertility behaviour between Belgium and The Netherlands...
Creativity and Innovation: towards a European Network
Report of the First European Conference on Creativity and Innovation, ‘Network in Action’, organized by the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO Delft, The Netherlands, 13–16 December 1987
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Report on the First European Conference on Creativity and Innovation, `Network in Action', organized by the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO Delft, The Netherlands, December 13-16, 1987
Britain and The Netherlands
Volume VII Church and State Since the Reformation Papers Delivered to the Seventh Anglo-Dutch Historical Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The theme chosen for the seventh conference of Dutch and British historians - relations between Church and State in the two countries since the Reformation - cannot pretend to any originality. A subject so germane to the history of Europe, and indeed of those parts of the world colonized by Europeans...
by Maurice C. Blanken
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Netherlands is an unusual nation in many ways. It is not only that nearly half her land is below sea level. Nor is it that she is one of the world's most crowded lands; her more than 13 million people create a population density of about 1000 per square mHe. Nor is it that half her national income...
AIDS up to the Year 2000
Epidemiological, Sociocultural and Economic Scenario Analysis, Scenario Report Commissioned by the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In March 1983 the Secretary of State for Welfare, Health and Cultural Affairs appointed the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios (STG). The task of the STG is to advise the Minister on the future of public health and health care in the long term in the Netherlands with a view to increasing...
A history of surgery
with emphasis on the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Surgery as a medical discipline has from its beginnings appealed to the imagination of many. It is therefore not surprising to find that its colourful past has induced quite a few authors to take up their pens. The truth of this in the Netherlands is witnessed by a number of dissertations and monographs...
by Cornelis C. Goslinga
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
To English-speaking historians, the author of this book, a Dutchman who for many years now finds his base at the University of Florida, became well known when his The Dutch in the Caribbean and on the Wild Coast, 158~I680 was published in 1972. At that time Professor Goslinga, who prior to his academic...