• Yves Knockaert Wolfgang Rihm, a Chiffre

  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...

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• Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain

  Many of the most significant studies devoted to Ambrogio Spinola have focused on one particular aspect of his life: his successful military career. This volume, through its interdisciplinary and cultural approach, breaks open this all too narrow perspective and expands our understanding of Spinola and his world. As a great military strategist and Catholic knight, entrepreneur in the international finance market, courtier, and diplomat, Spinola was certainly a Genoese, but he was also a member of...

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• Simon Verdegem Plutarch s Life of Alcibiades

  At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch's biography of one of classical Athens' most controversial politicians functions within the...

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• Ewald Roodenrijs TMap NEXT Testing Clouds

  TMap NEXT® Testing Clouds is different from its TMap predecessors. Whereas the books in the TMap series are handbooks with step-by-step information, this book is an innovation, about testing clouds for the early adopter. It describes the cloud business model for testing, Business Technology and steps we took in cloud projects. The Cloud is still at an early stage, but the growth of cloud-based computing is outstripping even the most optimistic predictions. Its early 2011 and almost...

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• Radulphus Brito

  The history of logic and its development during the medieval period. Radulphus Brito's Quaestiones super Priora Analytica Aristotelis is a major work written in the early 1300s which treated Aristotle's text devoted to the theory of the syllogism. Brito, perhaps one of the most influential medieval thinkers known as the Modistae, examines both categorical and hypothetical syllogisms. In his text, based on six known manuscripts which are complete or nearly complete, Brito was critical of many of...

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• Piotrek Swiatkowski Deleuze and desire

  Gilles Deleuze is among the twentieth century's most important philosophers of difference. The style of his extended oeuvre is so extremely dense and cryptic that reading and appreciating it require an unusual degree of openness and a willingness to enter a complicated but extremely rich system of thought. The abundant debates with and references to a variety of authors of many different domains; the sophisticated conceptual framework; the creation of new concepts and the injection of existing concepts...

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• Alexandra Moschovi A Gust of Photo-Philia

  Photography was long regarded as a "middle-brow" art by the art institution. Yet, at the turn of the millennium, it became the hot, global art of our time. In this book-part institutional history, part account of shifting photographic theories and practices-Alexandra Moschovi tells the story of photography's accommodation in and as contemporary art in the art museum. Archival research of key exhibitions and the contrasting collecting policies of MoMA, Tate, the Guggenheim, the V&A, and the Centre...

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• Jolanda Bouman Tips and tools for managers

  So much is expected of managers; supervising the staff, running the department, motivating employees, open communication, delegating tasks, finding creative solutions, providing and processing feedback, creating budgets, reaching targets. Who couldn’t use help with all this? Whether you are just starting out in a supervisory role or are a highly experienced manager, you will find this book an enormous benefit. For the new supervisor it will answer such questions as ‘Just how do I deal with this?’...

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• Adri Blonk Love

  Love and happiness: few people will not be looking for these things in their life. Sometimes the search takes up a lifetime. Especially where unconditional love and happiness are concerned, it is not an easy quest. People often look for the answer in money, possessions, prestige, power, relationships and the like. They tend to find that while these can contribute to short-term happiness, they are not a permanent solution. People need to look beyond these things to discover where they can find true...

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• Boris Bouricius The new medicine man

  For the New Medicine Man, there is no patient that cannot be treated; no one is `beyond treatment. The modern doctor or specialist has simply done his job, and now he has run out of tricks. Resigned, they tell their patient he has to learn to live with his disease. The New Medicine Man says this is nonsense. An ailment is a disturbance in the system, which can be healed. The New Medicine Man has all the qualifications of a modern doctor, but he has more to offer: white magic. For this he uses...

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