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Virtues and Vices in the Nineteenth-Century Humanities
(2025)
What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly practice, this volume ...
The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England
(2025)
It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others. But there is no consensus as to which sorts. Loosely-bound books, deluxe ...
Small Sample Size Solutions
(2020)
Researchers often have difficulties collecting enough data to test their hypotheses, either because target groups are small or hard to access, or because data collection entails prohibitive costs. Such obstacles may result ...
The Mobility Control Apparatus
(2025)
This book critically explores the complexities of intra-Schengen border control and migration dynamics within Europe. It provides a comprehensive analysis of how various actors, including border officials and state ...
Emerging Memory
(2016-03-01)
This incisive volume brings together postcolonial studies, visual culture and cultural memory studies to explain how the Netherlands continues to rediscover its history of violence in colonial Indonesia. Dutch commentators ...
Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations
(2018)
This book offers a view of shifts in labour relations in various parts of the world over a breathtaking span, from 1500 to 2000, with a particular emphasis on colonial institutions.
Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan
(2018)
The bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990s shook the very foundation of the post-war economic 'miracle' and marked the beginning of a gradual shift in the environmental consciousness of the Japanese. Yet, it by no ...
Environmental Protection and Transitions from Conflict to Peace
(2017)
This book is the first targeted work in the legal literature that investigates environmental challenges in the aftermath of conflict. The volume brings together academics, policy-makers, and practitioners from different ...
Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies
(2023)
Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to nature. For example, social media challenges democracy; artificial intelligence raises the question of what is unique to humans; and the ...
Conditional Freedom
(2022)
While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political ...
Aramaic Daniel
(2022)
The first half of the book of Daniel contains world-famous stories like the Writing on the Wall. These stories have mostly been transmitted in Aramaic, not Hebrew, as has the influential apocalypse of Daniel 7. This Aramaic ...
The Rise and Fall of the People's Parties
(2023)
The decline of the centre-left and centre-right people’s parties is arguably the most poignant feature of the crisis of democracy in Western Europe today. To understand why, this book explores the striking parallels between ...
Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek 39
(2022)
This colloquium focuses on urban and princely space in the Duchy of Brabant in the late Middle Ages and early modern period. The focus is on how territorial developments were perceived in different social milieus. After ...
Far From the Truth
(2024)
Information and knowledge were essential tools of early modern Europe’s global ambitions. This volume addresses a key concern that emerged as the competition for geopolitical influence increased: how could information from ...
The Matter of Mimesis
(2023)
Mimesis or imitation comes in many forms, from animal and plant mimicry to artistic copies ‘from life’. This book offers eighteen essays addressing mimesis from diverse perspectives. From the recreation of galaxies to Iron ...
The Saqqara Necropolis through the New Kingdom
(2022)
This book is the first comprehensive monographic treatment of the New Kingdom (1539–1078 BCE) necropolis at Saqqara, the burial ground of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, and addresses questions fundamental to ...
Facing Authority
(2024)
When your friends call on you to take to the streets and demand the fall of the regime, this presses a practical predicament that we all address, often implicitly, in our everyday lives: Is this regime legitimate? Facing ...
The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches
(2023)
The ancient commentaries and scholia to Cicero’s speeches have hitherto received relatively little scholarly attention. This volume is dedicated to Asconius’ first-century commentary and the corpora of the scholia stemming ...
The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān
(2022)
This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a ...
Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia
(2023)
Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia: Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries is a collection of fourteen studies by a group of scholars active in the field of Central Asian Studies, presenting new ...
Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation between Body and Soul
(2022)
This is a ground-breaking philosophical-historical study of the work of Galen of Pergamum. It contains four case-studies on (1) Galen’s remarkable and original thoughts on the relation between body and soul, (2) his notion ...
Traces of Contact in the Lexicon
(2023)
What can the languages spoken today tell us about the history of their speakers? This question is crucial in insular Southeast Asia and New Guinea, where thousands of languages are spoken, but written historical records ...
Viral Lobbying
(2022)
Pandemic policies have been the focus of fierce lobbying competition by different social and economic interests. The contributions in this book analyse patterns in and implications of this ‘viral lobbying’. Based on surveys ...
The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe
(2022)
Empires stretched around the world, but also made their presence felt in architecture and urban landscapes. The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe traces the entanglement of the European built environment with overseas ...
Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850
(2023)
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types ...
Ergativity and Other Alignment Types in Neo-Aramaic
(2021)
The alignment splits in the Neo-Aramaic languages display a considerable degree of diversity, especially in terms of agreement. While earlier studies have generally oversimplified the actual state of affairs, Paul M. ...
Sinophone Southeast Asia
(2021)
This volume explores the diverse linguistic landscape of Southeast Asia’s Chinese communities. Based on archival research and previously unpublished linguistic fieldwork, it unearths a wide variety of language histories, ...
Infectious Inequalities
(2022)
This book explores societal vulnerabilities highlighted within cinema and develops an interpretive framework for understanding the depiction of societal responses to epidemic disease outbreaks across cinematic history. ...
The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine
(2021)
This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, ...
Protecting the Fatherland: Lawsuits and Political Debates in Jülich, Hesse-Cassel and Brittany (1642-1655)
(2021)
This open access book presents a comparative analysis of the use of fatherland terminology in a political and legal context in Jülich, Hesse-Cassel and Brittany from 1642 to 1655. Fatherland terminology includes words such ...
Agonal Perspectives on Nietzsche's Philosophy of Critical Transvaluation
(2021)
Nietzsche’s concept of the agon or Wettkampf, a measured and productive form of conflict inspired by ancient Greek culture, has attracted a good deal of interest in Nietzsche studies and beyond. This book, by a leading ...
Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case
(2021)
The fine-grained morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive elements across European languages is far from being well-described, let alone well-understood. This volume focuses on Partitive Determiners, ...
Kunstenaars in de groep
(2020)
De positieve beleving en de waardering van het kunstproject bij betrokkenen laten zien dat het project op zich een waardevolle en verrijkende bijdrage aan de voor- en vroegschoolse educatie is. Er zijn voldoende aanwijzingen ...
Rapportage innovatiecentrum Heerlen
(2021)
Deze studie maakt deel uit van het onderzoek naar ‘Innovatiecentra vve’. Voor vve - voor- en vroegschoolse educatie - komen kinderen in aanmerking die risico lopen op een onderwijsach-terstand. De innovatiecentra vve zijn ...
Rapportage Innovatiecentrum Leiden
(2021)
Deze studie maakt deel uit van het onderzoek naar ‘Innovatiecentra vve’. Voor vve - voor- en vroegschoolse educatie - komen kinderen in aanmerking die risico lopen op een onderwijsach-terstand. De innovatiecentra vve zijn ...
Thuis voorlezen met digitale prentenboeken
(2020)
Gezinnen met jonge kinderen zouden vrij toegang moeten hebben tot een website met digitale prentenboeken. Digitale boeken worden vaker herlezen waardoor ze de taalinput van contextrijke taal in het Nederlands enorm kunnen ...
Building with Nature perspectives
(2021)
This publication offers an overview of the latest cross-disciplinary developments in the field of Building with Nature (BwN) for the protection of coastal regions. The key philosophy of BwN is the employment of natural ...
Blockchain en smart contracts
(2020)
Een samenleving zonder internet is tegenwoordig ondenkbaar. Toen het protocol
waarop internet gebouwd is (TCP/IP) midden de jaren 1970 ontwikkeld werd, kon
niemand de impact door het ontwikkelen van allerhande ...
Give peace a chance
(2021)
How is it possible that people kill each other?
And above all: how is it possible that people who are able to
peacefully live with each other at one moment, can kill each other
at another one?
These are fundamental ...
Eindrapport innovatiecentra voor- en vroegschoolse educatie
(2020)
In deze brochure bundelen we de resultaten van vijf deelonderzoeken die onder de noemer onderzoek naar ‘Innovatiecentra vve’ zijn uitgevoerd in de periode najaar 2018-medio 2020. Vve staat voor voor- en vroegschoolse ...
National Courts and Preliminary References to the Court of Justice
(2021)
This book has attempted to answer four questions relating to the different
phases in the interaction between national courts and the ECJ in the context of
the preliminary ruling procedure: question, answer and follow-up. ...
Portraits and Poses
(2022)
The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. Portraits and Poses adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses ...
Introduction to microkinetic modeling
(2018)
This book started out as two separate documents. One was a set of exercises for the
Advanced Thermodynamics and Catalysis course and the other was a method and theory
section at that time envisioned for my PhD thesis. ...
Aries netwerk
(2016)
Columns presented to Arie Verhagen on September 30, 2016 on the occasion of his retirement as professor of Dutch Linguistics at Leiden University.
Constructions – central to Arie's work – are conventionalized connections ...
Naar een betere startpositie op de arbeidsmarkt
(2021)
MBO students with a non-Western migration background experience a less successful entry into the labor market than MBO students without a migration background. There are various explanations for the backlog, which partly ...
Inquisitive Semantics
(2018)
There is an age-old tradition in linguistics and philosophy to identify the meaning of a entence with its truth-conditions. This can be explained by the fact that linguistic and philosophical investigations are usually ...
The Skandapurāṇa Volume IV
(2018)
Skandapurāṇa IV presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 70-95 from the Skandapurāṇa , with an introduction and annotated English synopsis.
The text edited in this volume includes the myths of Viṣṇu’s manifestation as the ...
Digital Media, Denunciation and Shaming
(2025)
This book offers a common set of concepts to help make sense of online shaming practices, accounting for instances of discrimination and injury that morally divide readers and at times risk unjust and disproportionate harm ...
Public Governance and Emerging Technologies
(2025)
This open access book focuses on public governance’s increasing reliance on emerging digital technologies. ‘Disruptive’ or ‘emerging’ digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, are often portrayed ...
Sexually and Gender Diverse Adolescents
(2025)
Drawing on psychology, sociology, pedagogy, and prevention sciences, this book offers a comprehensive perspective on the contemporary and complex experiences of sexually and gender diverse (SGD) adolescents worldwide.
...
ASML en de Nederlandse natuurkunde
(2025)
In 2014, the global market leader in advanced chipmaking machines ASML joined forces with NWO, AMOLF, the University of Amsterdam, and Vrije Universiteit to establish a new research institute in the Netherlands: the Advanced ...
Finding the Limits of the Limes
(2019)
This open access book demonstrates the application of simulation modelling and network analysis techniques in the field of Roman studies. It summarizes and discusses the results of a 5-year research project carried out by ...
Genocide
(2016)
The twentieth century has been called, not inaccurately, a century of genocide. And the beginning of the twenty-first century has seen little change, with genocidal violence in Darfur, Congo, Sri Lanka, and Syria. Why is ...
Popular Music in Southeast Asia
(2017)
From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book ...
Beijing Garbage: A City Besieged by Waste
(2019)
Why do central and local government initiatives aiming to curb the proliferation of garbage in Beijing and its disposal continue to be unsuccessful? Is the Uberization of waste picking through online-to-offline (O2O) garbage ...
The Hackable City
(2019)
This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making ...
Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850)
(2020)
Spain has been a fruitful locus for the European imagination for centuries, and it has been most often perceived in black-and-white oppositions -- either as a tyrannical and fanatical force in the early modern period or ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2019)
This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. This book, LNCS 11429, is part III of the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2019, ...
Sonic Skills
(2019)
It is common for us today to associate the practice of science primarily with the act of seeing—with staring at computer screens, analyzing graphs, and presenting images. We may notice that physicians use stethoscopes to ...
Early Printed Narrative Literature in Western Europe
(2020)
The shift from hand-written to printed books left its mark on narrative literature in Western Europe. The essays in this volume address developments in the history of early printed narrative texts as well as publication ...
Marine Carbon Biogeochemistry
(2019)
This open access book discusses biogeochemical processes relevant to carbon and aims to provide readers, graduate students and researchers, with insight into the functioning of marine ecosystems. A carbon centric approach ...
Border Deaths
(2019)
Border deaths are a result of dynamics involving diverse actors, and can be interpreted and represented in various ways. Critical voices from civil society (including academia) hold states responsible for making safe ...
Aquaponics Food Production Systems
(2019)
This open access book, written by world experts in aquaponics and related technologies, provides the authoritative and comprehensive overview of the key aquaculture and hydroponic and other integrated systems, socio-economic ...
Well-being, Sustainability and Social Development
(2018)
This open access book examines more than two centuries of societal development using novel historical and statistical approaches. It applies the well-being monitor developed by Statistics Netherlands that has been endorsed ...
Museums in a Digital Culture
(2017)
The experience of engaging with art and history has been utterly transformed by information and communications technology in recent decades. We now have virtual, mediated access to countless heritage collections and ...
Chapter 3 Autophony: Listening to your Eyes Move
(2017)
I observed many instances of self-percussion during my fieldwork researching how listening
to sounds is learned, taught and practiced in a Melbourne medical school and it’s connected
teaching hospital. The students were ...
Universal Śaivism
(2018)
In Universal Śaivism Peter Bisschop provides a critical edition and annotated translation of the sixth chapter of the Śivadharmaśāstra `Treatise on the Religion of Śiva’, the so-called Śāntyadhyāya 'Chapter on Appeasement’. ...
Logik
(2016)
This book presents the long-awaited critical edition of an unpublished manuscript of 277 pages containing Twardowski’s lecture notes on logic given in German at the University of Vienna. As to length, language and topic, ...
Deleuze and the Passions
(2016)
In recent years the humanities, social sciences and neuroscience have witnessed an ‘affective turn,’ especially in discourses around post-Fordist labor, economic and ecological crises, populism and identity politics, mental ...
The Making of the Humanities, Volume III. The Modern Humanities
(2014)
This comprehensive history of the humanities focuses on the modern period (1850-2000). The contributors, including Floris Cohen, Lorraine Daston and Ingrid Rowland, survey the rise of the humanities in interaction with the ...
The holy drama. Persian passion play in modern Iran
(2013)
Persian passion play or ta‘ziya depicts the role of the Prophet’s granddaughter Zeynab during the tragic death of the third Shiite Imam Hoseyn in Karbala in 680. This book describes how Zeynab has become a role model in ...
The Universal Art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678)
(2013)
The art of Samuel van Hoogstraten
Contemporary Culture
(2013)
Are the humanities still relevant in the twenty-first century? In the context of pervasive economic liberalism and shrinking budgets due to a deep and prolonged recession, the exigency of humanities research for society ...
Hiding Making - Showing Creation
(2013)
The aim of Hiding Making - Showing Creation is twofold. In the first instance, we seek to trace the Nachleben of these studio
topoi from the nineteenth century to today, in particular focusing on
how artists have employed ...
Syntax of Dutch: Verb and Verb Phrases. Volume 2
(2015)
Syntax of Dutch: Verbs and Verb Phrases consists of three volumes. Volume 1 opens with a general introduction to verbs, including a review of various verb classifications and discussions on inflection, tense, mood, modality ...
Playful Identities
(2015)
In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day ...
Syntax of Dutch: Verbs and Verb Phrases. Volume 3
(2016)
The Syntax of Dutch aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all ...