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This obscure thing called transparency
politics and aesthetics of a contemporary metaphor
Transparency is the metaphor of our time. Whether in government or corporate governance, finance, technology, health or the media - it is ubiquitous today, and there is hardly a current debate that does not call for more transparency. But what does this word actually stand for and what are the consequences for the life of individuals? Can knowledge from the arts, and its play of visibility and invisibility, tell us something about the paradoxical logics of transparency and mediation? This Obscure...
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Engels | 280 pagina's (PDF, 21 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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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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Engels | PDF, 16 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Sarah Hegenbart From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso
Christoph Schlingensief’s Opera Village Africa as postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk?
Opera Village Africa, a participatory art experiment by the late German multimedia artist Christoph Schlingensief, serves as a testing ground for a critical interrogation of Richard Wagner's notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner's introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Bayreuth to Schlingensief's attempt to charge the idea of the total artwork with new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso. Schlingensief developed Opera Village in...
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Engels | PDF, 16 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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States of emergency
architecture, urbanism, and the First World War
More than one hundred years after the conclusion of the First World War, the edited collection States of Emergency. Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War reassesses what that cataclysmic global conflict meant for architecture and urbanism from a human, social, economic, and cultural perspective. Chapters probe how underdevelopment and economic collapse manifested spatially, how military technologies were repurposed by civilians, and how cultures of education, care, and memory emerged from...
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Engels | 351 pagina's (PDF, 15 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Pedro Moura Visualising small traumas
contemporary Portuguese comics at the intersection of everyday trauma
Portugal's vibrant comics scene originated as early as the 19th century, bringing forth brilliant individual artists, but has remained mostly unknown beyond Portugal's borders to this day. Now a new generation employs this medium to put into question hegemonic views on the economy, politics, and society. Following the experience of the financial crisis of the past decades and its impact on social policies, access to and rules of public discourse, and civil strife, comics have questioned what constitutes...
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Engels | 237 pagina's (PDF, 2,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Olga Smith Contemporary photography in France
between theory and practice
This compelling publication traces the broad arc of photography's development in France from the 1970s to the present day. A decade-by-decade account reveals unexpected points of convergence between practices that are not usually considered in a comparative perspective. These include photographic practices in contemporary art, documentary, photojournalism, and fashion. Author Olga Smith sets these practices in dialogue with French philosophy - the writings of Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and...
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Engels | PDF, 13 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Who owns Africa?
neocolonialism, investment, and the new scramble
The independence of African countries from their European colonizers in the late 1950s and 1960s marked a shift in the continent's political leadership. Nevertheless, the economies of African nations remained tied to those of their former colonies, raising questions of resource control and the sovereignty of these nation-states. Who Owns Africa? addresses the role of foreign actors in Africa and their competing interests in exploiting the resources of Africa and its people. An interdisciplinary team...
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Engels | PDF, 2,7 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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The truths of psychoanalysis
Truth has always been a central philosophical category, occupying different fields of knowledge and practice. In the current moment of fake news and alternative facts, it is mandatory to revisit the various meanings of truth. Departing from various approaches to psychoanalytic theory and practice, the authors gathered in this book offer critical reflections and insights about truth and its effects. In articulations of psychoanalysis with (for instance) philosophy, ethics, and politics, the reader...
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Engels | PDF, 3,4 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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David Pinho Barros The clear line in comics and cinema
a transmedial approach
The "clear line", a term coined in 1977 by Dutch essayist and artist Joost Swarte, has become shorthand in the field of comics studies for the style originally developed by Hergé and the École de Bruxelles. It refers to certain storytelling strategies that generate a deceptively simple, lucid and hygienic narration: in Philippe Marion's words, it is a style "made out of light, fluidity and limpid clarity". By cataloguing and critically analysing clear line comics from historical and theoretical...
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Engels | PDF, 18 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Jan Van Caneghem The book that helps you become the epic designer of our tomorrows
... and that everyone needs to read
The book that helps you become the EPIC designer of our tomorrows wants to convince you about the need for creative thinking and, in an applied form, design thinking . We investigate the nature of creative thinking and how that is undervalued in education and corporate life. We gather an understanding of the emphasis on R&D in organisations and governmental support and why it is harming businesses and the people they work for. With the EPIC design maturity model , we help to emphasise that empathy,...
Engels | 216 pagina's (ePub3, 1,6 MB) | BORGERHOFF & LAMBERIGTS, Brussel | 2022
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Petrus de Alvernia | Marco Toste Petrus de Alvernia
Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum; a critical edition and study
This volume is the first complete critical edition of Peter of Auvergne's Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum. The Questiones was produced at the Faculty of Arts of Paris sometime between late 1291 and 1296 and is the earliest surviving commentary in question form on Aristotle's Politics. As the introduction explains, the Questiones was philosophically innovative and became the most influential question commentary on the Politics in the Middle Ages. The volume also includes a critical edition...
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Engels | Latijn | 902 pagina's (PDF, 15 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Koen Van den Eeckhout Powerful charts
the art of creating clear, correct and beautiful data visuals
Charts are an excellent way to share complex ideas or large amounts of data with your audience. But they are also hard to make: which chart works best in which situation - and why? What color scheme should you use to strengthen your message? What are some common pitfalls to avoid? How can you add the perfect title, labels, legend and caption? And how do you move beyond a boring pie or bar chart? Powerful Charts explains how basic design and communication principles help you decide which chart type...
Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 19 MB) | Owl Press, Ghent | 2022
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Carin Vijfhuizen How persistent, that tropical blue sky
poetic verses
'Images that touch us make words redundant.' -- Anne Wil Petterson This collection of poetic verses provides a fascinating insight into everyday life in an African village. By establishing a homestead, we not only enjoy the view from the veranda, but live with the people in the village as they creatively secure a livelihood, consult their spirits, healers and prophets and fear the power of the witches. We experience the remnants of the colonial period and the governance of the village, chieftaincy...
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Engels | 173 pagina's (ePub3, 11 MB) | Elikser Uitgeverij, Leeuwarden | 2022
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Urban Andes
design-led explorations to tackle climate change
Against the backdrop of climate change and intensifying human occupation, explorative design strategies can play a role in recalibrating the relation between landscape logics and urbanization patterns in the Andes. Urban Andes marks the start of the new series LAP on innovative design research in architecture, urbanism, and landscape. It is the result of a two-year collaboration (2018-2020), initiated by the CCA in cooperation with KU Leuven and various partners, including local organizations and...
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Engels | 160 pagina's (PDF, 91 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Johan Verbeke Diplomatic skills
The Basics
Whether you're negotiating a deal, giving a presentation, or conducting a challenging discussion, diplomatic skills are invaluable. Diplomats are skilled practitioners when it comes to negotiation, public speaking and debating. But these skills aren't exclusive to diplomats, they are essential for professionals across various fields. This book reviews these and other skills in depth, highlighting their universal applicability. Ultimately, we are reminded that we're all diplomats in our own way, influencing...
Engels | 232 pagina's (ePub3, 2,6 MB) | BORGERHOFF & LAMBERIGTS, Brussel | 2022
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Abraham de Kock Pardidoe
chronicles of a wandering humanitarian
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) | Uitgeverij Gopher, 's-Hertogenbosch | 2022
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George Fargo The labyrinth of the soul
The Labyrinth of the Soul - A modern-day parable When Jason Leonard decides to take a few days off for himself to sail on the Mediterranean, he cannot imagine the adventure that awaits him. Stranded after a shipwreck, he enters a magical labyrinth, in which he encounters a series of strange but inspiring "life coaches". A ragtag group of dieties, shamans and shape-shifters, they help the lost but searching Jason find his way out of the maze and back to his family. In doing so, they accompany him...
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Engels | 124 pagina's (ePub2, 5,4 MB) | Vergouw Publishing, Amsterdam | 2022
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Els van Steijn The fountain, make wise choices
expand your systemic consciousness and live your life well
Using the fountain as metaphor for the family system, you learn what your own, unique place is. Once in your place, you receive the flow essential to how your life progresses. Some people are somehow able to get the almost impossible done. But what do you have an influence on, and what do you not have an influence on? The trick is to make that distinction. When you're better able to recognize the force fields in which you find yourself, when you learn to observe without judgment and surrender to...
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Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Het Noorderlicht, [Nederland] | 2022
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Lauren Asher Final offer
SPECIAL EDITION – Meet the Dreamland billionaires! Callahan I'm the Kane brother everyone gossips about behind closed doors. Trust fund brat. Washed-up athlete. High-functioning alcoholic. No one knows the real me but her. Lana Castillo―my childhood best friend and the only woman I ever loved. When I broke her heart six years ago, I promised to never return to Lake Wisteria. I kept my word until my grandfather's will changed everything. To receive my inheritance, I was tasked with spending a summer...
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Engels | 421 pagina's (ePub2, 1,1 MB) | Love Books, Amsterdam | 2022
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Elle Kennedy Misfit
Welcome to Sandover Prep, where the delinquents roam…and you can’t trust a soul. Finding out your mom is marrying some rich dude you’ve never met is enough to make any eighteen-year-old guy’s head spin. But for RJ SHAW, it only gets worse: he’s being sent to Sandover Prep for senior year. If there’s one place a misfit hacker like RJ doesn’t belong, it’s an ivy-covered all-boys boarding school for rich delinquents. RJ knows his stay at Sandover will be temporary. Which means there’s no point making...
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Engels | 383 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Love Books, [Amsterdam] | 2022
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