R. Widemann Money is a mind thing

Money was a mind thing long before certain goods were used as money and coins started circulating. As it happens money isn't a thing, but an idea, an idea of debt. What we generally take for money, are merely symbols of this idea of money. In this book a reader accompanies the author on a tour along various ideas on value man had from the beginning of time. The result is a colourful description of the historical development of ideas on money and values from ancient history to our present time. Reinold...

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Engels | 300 pagina's (PDF) | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022

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Arne Peter Braaksma Human dignity

eleven defenders of human rights at close range

Verhalen van elf mensenrechtenactivisten.

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Engels | 325 pagina's (ePub2, 3,3 MB) | Pixel Perfect Publications, 's-Gravenhage | 2015

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Bui Thanh Hieu Speaking in silence

censorship in Vietnam

In the holiday paradise Vietnam, social media are allowed only to provide and exchange personal information. Bloggers and cyberdissidents who dare to question the government’s legitimacy or domestic policies are ruthlessly suppressed. Political blogger Bui Thanh Hieu (1972) nevertheless uses the Internet to criticize politically hot topics, such as Vietnam’s territorial claims within China as well as its handling of land disputes with the Catholic Church. In response to this, Hieu was arrested, his...

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Engels | 57 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Fosfor, Amsterdam | 2015

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Dina Meza Kidnapped

censorship in Honduras

Freedom of expression in Honduras has been kidnapped. Those who are afraid of the truth attempt to imprison it in the depths of the earth. Kidnapped seeks to expose the problems for freedom of expression in journalism and literature in Honduras, the forms of censorship that have been introduced to conceal the truth, but also the creativity of Hondurans who refuse to be defeated in the face of this oppressive system. Kidnapped describes how the Honduran state, responsible for protecting this right,...

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Engels | 72 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Fosfor, Amsterdam | 2015

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