• Steven Vande Moortele Two-dimensional sonata form

  Two-Dimensional Sonata Form is the first book dedicated to the combination of the movements of a multimovement sonata cycle with an overarching single-movement form that is itself organized as a sonata form. Drawing on a variety of historical and recent approaches to musical form (e.g., Marxian and Schoenbergian Formenlehre, Caplin's theory of formal functions, and Hepokoski and Darcy's Sonata Theory), it begins by developing an original theoretical framework for the analysis of this type of form...

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• Advising on research methods

  Advising on research methods: Selected topics 2014 results from a research master course Methodological Advice that was given at the University of Amsterdam at the end of 2014 by Gideon J. Mellenbergh and Herman J. Adèr. The course had the same format as the course given in 2013. The objectives of the course were: (a) to acquire methodological knowledge that is needed for advising researchers in the behavioral and social sciences, and (b) to get experience with methodological consultancy.

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• Anna Reid Leningrad

  On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two and a half years and during the 872 days of blockade and bombardment as many as two million Soviet lives would be lost. Had the city fallen, the history of the Second World War - and of the twentieth century - would have been very different. Leningrad is a gripping narrative history interwoven with personal...

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• Els Kloek, Floris van Straaten Children who changed the world

  What do Malala Yousafzai and Anne Frank have in common? Both opened the eyes of the world to the injustice done to them as children. Malala deliberately set out to fight for her right to education. While Anne Frank unwittingly became a symbol of the effect of war on the lives of children. Children Who Changed the World, tells the stories of more than twenty children who have opened the worlds eyes to serious problems in society, and who have contributed to the solution. As children, they have changed...

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• Bart Hellinckx, Frank Simon, Marc Depaepe The forgotten contribution of the teaching sisters

  For far too long Catholic teaching sisters have been denied their rightful place in the history of education. It is only during the past twenty-five years that researchers in many countries have begun to reveal the fundamental role played by these women in the schooling of children of both the masses and the elite during the 19th and 20th centuries. This essay provides for the first time a detailed overview of the historiography of the teaching sisters in Western Europe, North America, Latin America...

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• Work well from home

  An increasing number of people are deciding to work from home. Whether they are setting up their own business or trying to cut down on the amount of time they spend commuting, the idea of turning a space at home into an office is an appealing one. Work well from home helps you make that idea a reality. Filled with help on making working from home work for you, this book covers a range of essential issues including setting up your office, working as part of a virtual team, managing professional relationships,...

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• Marry de Gaay Fortman Don't drown a dead duck

  Leading Dutch lawyer Marry de Gaay Fortman shares in ‘Don’t drown a dead duck’ her experiences as a woman at the top of a man’s world, and her advice on how to make connections in order to be more successful, decisive and innovative. In this book, Marry warns us not to ‘drown a dead duck’. In other words: don’t waste energy on a negative situation. Drawing on her time in boardrooms and courtrooms, Marry describes with panache how she has learned to avoid ‘dead ducks’ by learning the art of gentle...

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• Henry of Ghent Summa (Quaestiones ordinariae) art. LX-LXII

  Henry of Ghent was the most important thinker of the last quarter of the 13th century and his works were influential not only in his lifetime, but also in the following century and into the Renaissance. This critical edition of Henry of Ghent's Summa, art. 60-62 deals with the Trinity. The respective articles are based upon this scholastic philosopher's lectures in the theology faculty at the university in Paris and can be dated to slightly after Advent 1290. For Henry and his contemporaries,...

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• Ruth Brooks A slow passion

  posed this question: Do snails have a homing instinct? The nation was gripped by the unexpected thesis and by Ruth's online diaries, which catalogued her trials and tribulations as she got to grips with these slimy little gastropods. A Slow Passion is Ruth's story, with anecdotes and misadventures galore. What starts out as a ruthless vendetta against the snails that are decimating her hostas becomes a journey of discovery into the whys and wherefores of snail life. When Ruth dumps a group of the...

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• Anna Simon, Andy Dennis 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...

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