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Book of Requiems, 1550-1560
From the Earliest Ages to the Present Period
Few western musical repertories speak more to the imagination than the Requiem mass for the dead. Yet, surprisingly, despite the significance of Requiem settings for our musical culture, the literature concerning them is sparse. The Book of Requiems presents essays on the most important works in this tradition, from the origins of the genre up to the present day. Each chapter is devoted to a specific Requiem, and offers both historical information and a detailed work-discussion. Conceived as a multi-volume...
Engels | 270 pagina's (PDF, 7,8 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
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Dirk Lauwaert. Selected Writings, 1983-2008
Radically subjective. Radically unapologetic. Radically demanding. These are the hallmarks of Dirk Lauwaert's skill, attitude, and sensitivity, which are the result of radical attention. Belgian writer and critic Dirk Lauwaert (1944-2013) wrote about images, be they moving or still, historical or contemporary, overfamiliar or unseen. He experienced them intensely, studied them attentively, and connected them to ethical, philosophical, or social issues in texts that invited readers to do the same,...
Engels | 208 pagina's (PDF, 1,3 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
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Dirk Lauwaert. Selected Writings, 1983-2004
Radically subjective. Radically unapologetic. Radically demanding. These are the hallmarks of Dirk Lauwaert's skill, attitude, and sensitivity, which are the result of radical attention. Belgian writer and critic Dirk Lauwaert (1944-2013) wrote about images, be they moving or still, historical or contemporary, overfamiliar or unseen. He experienced them intensely, studied them attentively, and connected them to ethical, philosophical, or social issues in texts that invited readers to do the same,...
Engels | ePub2 | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
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Hugo Grotius Annals of the war in the Low Countries
The Annals of the War in the Low Countries is one of Hugo Grotius' lesser-known works. Grotius expresses a contrarian view of the early revolt, which he presents not as a united battle for the true faith and the ancient liberties of the land but as a protracted and painful struggle, not only with the great power of Spain, but also with discord, selfishness and religious fanaticism among the Dutch. To convey this complex and controversial vision of the foundational years of the Dutch Republic, Grotius...
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Engels | PDF, 63 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
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KuroDalaiJee Anarchy of the body
undercurrents of performance art in 1960s Japan
In Anarchy of the Body, art historian KuroDalaiJee sheds light on vital pieces of postwar Japanese avant-garde history by contextualizing the social, cultural, and political trajectories of artists across Japan in the 1960s. A culmination of years of research, Anarchy of the Body draws on an extensive breadth of source material to reveal how the practice of performance by individual artists and art groups during this period formed a legacy of resistance against institutionalization, both within the...
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Engels | PDF, 57 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
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Vivian Helena Murdered in cold blood
To get away from her troublesome ex-boyfriend for a while, Kate decides to supervise a ski camp for children at the Les Portes du Soleil ski resort. Before the children have even arrived, the camp is overshadowed by a murder. When another death occurs a day later, the camp is stopped. Kate no longer knows who she can trust. Especially for her roommate Tristan, she has extremely conflicting feelings for. Fear and attraction are dangerously close to each other while a heavy snowstorm rages outside....
Engels | 203 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Zors Books, Edegem | 2023
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Rani De Vadder Evil Wears a Crown
Welcome on board the Queen Mary ... if you dare. Flashbacks of a forgotten, dark part to her past, force Maeve to go back to the place where it all began: one of the most haunted places on earth, the RMS Queen Mary. She convinces her reluctant friends to come along. Once arrived on the ship, they find themselves constantly tormented by invisible forces, while trying to figure out why Maeve gets flashbacks. Will they be able to solve the mystery? Tamara Arts is the author of the dark, paranormal thriller...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Hamley Books, Edegem | 2023
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Abraham de Kock Pardidoe
Is it better to spend your life moving from place to place, forever having new adventures, meeting interesting people and accepting new challenges, or would it be a curse -- to be always unrooted and adrift, like a wandering spirit far from home? Born in the Dutch colony of New Guinea and raised in the Netherlands, Abraham de Kock spent his professional life travelling the world and working for the UN, rising to the position of acting country director of the World Food Programme in North Korea. Between...
Engels | 160 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | Gopher, 's-Hertogenbosch | 2023
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Fabio Bolzonar Catholicism and the Welfare State in Secular France
Continuities and Changes in the Catholic Mobilizations in the Social Policy Domain (1940-2017)
Even though the policy impact of Catholicism has increasingly been acknowledged, existing scholarship lacks a coherent view on its changing influence over time and in different political contexts. In this book, Fabio Bolzonar investigates the influence of Catholicism on developments in French social protection from World War II to the mid-2010s. He discusses the factors that have favoured or inhibited it and explores the hybridization between Catholic values and secular principles in the social engagement...
Engels | 224 pagina's (PDF, 2,2 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
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Ellen van Herk At home in the Algave
After her mother's death, Tessa, a Dutch woman, discovers that her father is a Portuguese. Impulsively, she travels to the Algarve to find him. She meets Viv, an English woman living on her father Jorge's estate. However, the marvellous Quinta Esteves in the village of Fábrica is less beautiful than it seems. Soon it turns out that behind the attractive front many family secrets are hidden. Meanwhile, something special develops between Tessa and the eldest son, but what if she says that she is family?...
Engels | 224 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Ellessy, Prinsenbeek | 2023
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Boreal Bushcraft
Living in the wild from the wild
What if you disconnect from society altogether? Urban nomads know what that's like, but they continue to live in the city in frayed corners and live on a kind of handouts and what others throw away. In countries with lots of nature and few inhabitants per square kilometer, some daredevils disconnect completely. They make a place where they live and live entirely self-sufficiently. Bushcraft is called that, the skill of living in the wild from the wild. They do have some trade with the "inhabited...
Engels | 206 pagina's (PDF) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2023
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Tamara Arts Dark and Twisted Souls
Welcome on board the Queen Mary ... if you dare. Flashbacks of a forgotten, dark part to her past, force Maeve to go back to the place where it all began: one of the most haunted places on earth, the RMS Queen Mary. She convinces her reluctant friends to come along. Once arrived on the ship, they find themselves constantly tormented by invisible forces, while trying to figure out why Maeve gets flashbacks. Will they be able to solve the mystery? Tamara Arts is the author of the dark, paranormal thriller...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Hamley Books, Edegem | 2023
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Temple of Zong? Never heard of.
Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated by the Vietminh. In the south, the French are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in Saigon in power. We meet him in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarked from a French ocean liner in search of a monastery that a dream said had to be somewhere in the mountains of Annam. It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents a small skeleton. Accompanying the chest was a manuscript...
Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2023
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Blind Timo and the baker's daughter
It is a love story. About a boy, blind, but free as a bird. And about the sweet, headstrong daughter of a stubborn baker. She, too, was free. With a dying girl of wealthy parents, whom they took in their unconditional love and set her free. It happened in a fishing village on the Côte d'Azur, during the summer of 1957. As long as no one interfered with them, everything went well. Has it really happened? Has this love story stood out in the Akasha Chronicles that much that a writer could pick it...
Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2023
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen When the climate goes feral
Coming of age in a tipping world
All the sawmill's forest is lost in devastating fires. After years of drought, a period of torrential rain breaks out. The barren slopes no longer hold water, and a black tidal wave rages through the river valley. Eleven-year-old Mindra and her invalid grandmother are the last inhabitants of a village near the abandoned sawmill, high on the mountainside. She rescues some survivors, who become her new family. The world is tipping and they must make it on their own. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 262 pagina's (PDF, 1 MB) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2023
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Epicureanism and Scientific Debates Vol.1
Antiquity and Late Reception
Epicureanism is not only a defence of pleasure: it is also a philosophy of science and knowledge. This edited collection explores new pathways for the study of Epicurean scientific thought, a hitherto still understudied domain, and engages systematically and critically with existing theories. It shows that the philosophy of Epicurus and his heirs, from antiquity to the classical age, founded a rigorous and coherent conception of knowledge. This first part of a two-volume set examines more specifically...
Engels | 350 pagina's (PDF, 7 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
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Eva Lievens | Simon Verschaeve | Carl Vander Maelen An Introduction to Law & Technology
Technology is omnipresent in today's society. Education, health, work, interactions with the government, leisure, communication, and research are just some of the contexts in which digital technologies play an increasingly important role. To understand this better, this book aims to offer insights into and critical reflections on the impact of technology on society, the interaction between technology and law, and the impact of technology on the legal profession. The book is divided into four thematic...
Engels | 508 pagina's (ePub2, 2,4 MB) | Owl Press, Edegem | 2023
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Hamish Williams The Southern Tide
A First Adventure in Basthinia Tricked into signing a royal contract, Oliver Lamb has precious little time for preparations before he is whisked off to Basthinia; there he must find a way to defend the country of Laubendum against an invasion of Sarcynthians, a southern tide flooding northwards and devouring everything in its path. Oliver and his schoolfriends Sage and Peregrin must navigate their way through squabbling senators, secretive monks, and cumbersome bureaucrats in the capital city, Nova...
Engels | 311 pagina's (PDF, 6,5 MB) | De Wereld Leest, Beverwijk | 2023
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Kelly Weekers Happy Life 365
the art of a joyous mindset
Engels | 184 pagina's (ePub2, 2,7 MB) | Moonshot Publishing B.V., Laren | 2023
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Iris Pinson Black-box Testing
Career, Eroticism, and Tragedy
Black-box Testing An erotic triptych depicting sin, starting with the original sin, ending in hell. Inspired by the Haywain Triptych by the Dutch painter Jheronimus Bosch. How does the paradisiacal innocence relate to guilt? Lila, Péar, and Victoria Van Gelre are three sisters who have it all. They are attractive, highly intelligent, articulate, and have a strong appeal to men of status. However, the ladies are selective and only receptive to men of good lineage, who also have wealth to spare. The...
Engels | 300 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Pinson Publisher, Maassluis | 2023
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