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  • QUIET CLASSROOMS, EDUCATIONAL SOUNDSCAPES, AND THE POWER OF SILENCE
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    QUIET CLASSROOMS, EDUCATIONAL SOUNDSCAPES, AND THE POWER OF SILENCE
    PIETER VERSTRAETE
    This highly novel book provides an exploration of the role of silence in the school setting and interrogates the value of silence and quiet in contemporary educational practices, looking at pedagogies and classroom practice to guide this increasingly popular subdiscipline of the history of education. Arguably the first contribution written in English on the educational value of...

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  • THE DUTCH IN THE ATLANTIC ECONOMY, 1580-1880
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    THE DUTCH IN THE ATLANTIC ECONOMY, 1580-1880
    PIETER EMMER
    This volume provides the first survey in English of the Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and slave system. It covers the period from the origins of the trade and the Dutch conquest of part of Brazil in the early 17th century, to the abolition of slavery in the Dutch West Indies in the later 19th century. Individual chapters focus on the ’investment bubble’ in the D...

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  • THE MUSIC OF STRAVINSKY
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    THE MUSIC OF STRAVINSKY
    PIETER C. VAN DEN TOORN
    The most celebrated of Western composers in the twentieth century, Igor Stravinsky may have been the greatest as well. Stretching across forty or so years, the essays in this volume address the dynamics of Igor Stravinsky’s music from a variety of analytical, critical, and aesthetic angles. Underscored are the features of melody, harmony, rhythm, and form that would remain cons...

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  • A REFUTATION OF POSITIVISM IN PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
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    A REFUTATION OF POSITIVISM IN PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
    PIETER A.M. SEUREN
    This book argues that positivism, though now the dominant paradigm for both the natural and the human sciences, is intrinsically unfit for the latter. In particular, it is unfit for linguistics and cognitive science, where it is ultimately self-destructive, since it fails to account for causality, while the mind, the primary object of research of the human sciences, cannot be u...

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  • THE FRIAR AND THE PHILOSOPHER
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    THE FRIAR AND THE PHILOSOPHER
    PIETER BEULLENS
    William of Moerbeke was a prolific medieval translator of Aristotle and other ancient philosophical and scientific authors from Greek into Latin, and he played a decisive role in the acceptance of Aristotelian philosophy in the Latin world. He is often criticized for an allegedly deficient translation method. However, this book argues that his approach was a deliberate attempt ...

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  • BUILDINGS AND SEMANTICS
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    BUILDINGS AND SEMANTICS
    PIETER PAUWELS
    The built environment has been digitizing rapidly and is now transforming into a physical world that is at all times supplemented by a fully web-supported and interconnected digital version, often referred to as Digital Twin. This book shows how diverse data models and web technologies can be created and used for the built environment. Key features of this book are its technica...

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  • DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AS INSTITUTION BUILDING
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    DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AS INSTITUTION BUILDING
    JAN PIETER KRAHNEN
    In this comparative study of programmes against poverty in developing countries, the authors argue that building sustainable, target group-oriented financial institutions is important and feasible, and that it is likely to have greater development impact than the channelling of external funds to poor target groups (small and micro-scale business, small farmers, and women). The ...

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  • LIFE AFTER MY MOTHER’S STROKE
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    LIFE AFTER MY MOTHER’S STROKE
    TASHI HANSEN DU TOIT / PIETER DU TOIT
    Tashi Hansen du Toit was 15 years old when her mother, Karen, suffered a severe haemorrhagic stroke which left her with multiple physical and cognitive impairments. This beautifully written and poignant account tells Tashi’s story from the first moments after her mother’s stroke, following her and her family through the experience of her mother’s hospitalisation and rehabilitat...

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  • MANAGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OUTSOURCING
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    MANAGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OUTSOURCING
    ERIK BEULEN / PIETER M. RIBBERS
    For decades, outsourcing has been a major international phenomenon in business. The areas of Technology, Information Technology and Management represent a unique case for outsourcing both in terms of benefits and potential interorganisational problems. This fully updated text has been brought up to date with this new landscape, including discussion of Robotic Process Automation...

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  • WORLD LITERATURE AFTER EMPIRE
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    WORLD LITERATURE AFTER EMPIRE
    PIETER VANHOVE
    This book makes the case that the idea of a "world" in the cultural and philosophical sense is not an exclusively Western phenomenon. During the Cold War and in the wake of decolonization a plethora of historical attempts were made to reinvent the notions of world literature, world art, and philosophical universality from an anticolonial perspective. Contributing to recent deba...

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  • MAKING CLIMATE ACTION MORE EFFECTIVE
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    MAKING CLIMATE ACTION MORE EFFECTIVE
    W. PIETER PAUW
    Almost every country has formulated its Nationally Determined Contribution to the global response to climate change. These national climate action plans were key to the landmark adoption of the 2015 Paris Agreement. They will also be central to its implementation – even if, taken together, current plans are insufficient to meet the aims of the Paris Agreement. Every five years,...

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  • URBANISATION IN ROMAN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
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    URBANISATION IN ROMAN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
    PIETER HOUTEN
    The principal aims of Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire are to provide a comprehensive reconstruction of the urban systems of the Iberian Peninsula during the Early Empire and to explain why these systems looked the way they did. While some chapters focus on settlements that were cities or towns from a juridical point of view, the...

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  • HEALTH NORMS AND THE GOVERNANCE OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
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    HEALTH NORMS AND THE GOVERNANCE OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
    ANDERS GRANMO / PIETER FOURIE
    This book maps the emergence of health in global development discourse and governance since 1990. It argues that health norms have emerged, diffused, and subsequently become internalised through the various direct and indirect negotiation processes that created the global development goals. Covid-19, Ebola, and HIV/AIDS are prime illustrations of the fact that health is supreme...

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  • LITERATURE AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
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    LITERATURE AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
    PIETER VERMEULEN
    The Anthropocene has fundamentally changed the way we think about our relation to nonhuman life and to the planet. This book is the first to critically survey how the Anthropocene is enriching the study of literature and inspiring contemporary poetry and fiction. Engaging with topics such as genre, life, extinction, memory, infrastructure, energy, and the future, the book makes...

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  • PRIVATE SECURITY AND THE MODERN STATE
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    PRIVATE SECURITY AND THE MODERN STATE
    DAVID CHURCHILL / ‎DOLORES JANIEWSKI / ‎PIETER LELOUP
    Based on extensive research in several international contexts, this volume provides a nuanced assessment of the historical evolution of private security and its fluid, contested and mutually constitutive relationship with state agencies, public policing and the criminal justice system. This book provides an overview of the history of private security provision in its multiple f...

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  • PEST MANAGEMENT IN TRANSITION
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    PEST MANAGEMENT IN TRANSITION
    PIETER DE JONG
    This volume examines current pest control strategies, introduces new alternatives for pest control in the interior West, and documents successful integrated pest management programs from across the nation. The contributors include leaders in alternative pest control research, representatives of regional and federal agencies, grower organizations, i ...

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  • COMPUTATION FOR HUMANITY
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    COMPUTATION FOR HUMANITY
    JUSTYNA ZANDER / ‎PIETER J. MOSTERMAN
    The exponential progress and accessibility of computing has vastly increased data flows and revolutionized the practice of science, engineering, and communication. Computing plays a critical role in advancing research across almost every scientific discipline. Computation for Humanity: Information Technology to Advance Society is a guide for the creation of services, products, ...

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  • MODEL-BASED DESIGN FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
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    MODEL-BASED DESIGN FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
    GABRIELA NICOLESCU / PIETER J. MOSTERMAN
    The demands of increasingly complex embedded systems and associated performance computations have resulted in the development of heterogeneous computing architectures that often integrate several types of processors, analog and digital electronic components, and mechanical and optical components—all on a single chip. As a result, now the most prominent challenge for the design ...

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  • CHANGING CLINICAL CARE
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    CHANGING CLINICAL CARE
    ANDREW GRAY / PIETER DEGELING / ABAYOMI MCEWEN
    "Changing Clinical Care" adopts a fresh, nursing and patient-centred approach to systemisation to aid patients and their carers. The evidence-based methodology outlines real-world experiences in various sectors of healthcare including primary care, cardiac services, general surgery, and care of long term conditions. It sheds light on possible difficulties and examines the key l...

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  • ECONOMIC POLICY MAKING IN CHINA (1949–2016)
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    ECONOMIC POLICY MAKING IN CHINA (1949–2016)
    PIETER BOTTELIER
    This book explores the key ideas and the key people who were responsible for the development of China’s economy from 1949 through 2016. It discusses how economic policy evolved, how economic policy was formulated and how the role of economists in decision making evolved. It considers the interplay between ideological and practical questions, provides biographical details of key...

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  • THE DIFFERENTIATED POLITICISATION OF EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE
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    THE DIFFERENTIATED POLITICISATION OF EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE
    PIETER DE WILDE
    This book on the differentiated politicisation of European governance provides an overview of research on the growing salience of EU governance, polarisation of opinion and expansion of actors and audiences engaged in monitoring and influencing EU affairs in the national context. The contributors empirically map the diversity of these three core components of politicisation acr...

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  • EARLY STATE ECONOMICS
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    EARLY STATE ECONOMICS
    HENRI J.M. CLAESSEN AND PIETER VAN DE VELDE
    The central theme of this volume is the political economy of early state societies: the ways in which the income of the central government of such systems was collected and spent. The work contains descriptive as well as narrative and commemorative essays. Contributions present data on early states as diverse as the Interlacustrine states of East Africa, the Sudanic states of W...

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  • STUDENT REVOLT, CITY, AND SOCIETY IN EUROPE
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    STUDENT REVOLT, CITY, AND SOCIETY IN EUROPE
    PIETER DHONDT
    Due to the strong sense among the student community of belonging to a specific social group, student revolts have been an integral part of the university throughout its history. Ironically, since the Middle Ages, the advantageous position of students in society as part of the social elite undoubtedly enforced their critical approach. This edited collection studies the role of s...

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  • HEINRICH SCHEIDEMANN'S KEYBOARD MUSIC
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    HEINRICH SCHEIDEMANN'S KEYBOARD MUSIC
    PIETER DIRKSEN
    One of the most remarkable tales of recent resurrections in the field of early keyboard music concerns the music of Heinrich Scheidemann (c. 1595-1663). Long considered a minor master overshadowed by such figures as his teacher Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck or his fellow student Samuel Scheidt, a number of major source discoveries made in the second half of the twentieth century - ...

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  • SOIL AND SOIL FERTILITY MANAGEMENT RESEARCH IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
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    SOIL AND SOIL FERTILITY MANAGEMENT RESEARCH IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
    HENK MUTSAERS / DANNY COYNE / STEFAN HAUSER / JEROEN HUISING / ALPHA KAMARA / GENEROSE NZIGUHEBA / PIETER
    Judicious soil fertility management is crucial for sustainable crop production and food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This book describes the various concepts and approaches underlying soil and soil fertility management research in SSA over the last fifty years. It provides examples of important innovations generated and assesses the position of research within the rese...

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  • CATHY BERBERIAN: PIONEER OF CONTEMPORARY VOCALITY
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    CATHY BERBERIAN: PIONEER OF CONTEMPORARY VOCALITY
    PAMELA KARANTONIS / FRANCESCA PLACANICA / PIETER VERSTRAETE
    Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) was a vocal performance artist, singer and composer who pioneered a way of composing with the voice in the musical worlds of Europe, North America and beyond. As a modernist muse for many avant-garde composers, Cathy Berberian went on to embody the principles of postmodern thinking in her work, through vocality. She re-defined the limits of compositi...

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  • THE POLITICS OF AIDS DENIALISM
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    THE POLITICS OF AIDS DENIALISM
    PIETER FOURIE / MELISSA MEYER
    Successive South African governments have had controversial views on HIV and AIDS which have led to allegations that South Africa is in a state of denial about the AIDS epidemic. This book attempts to determine the validity of such claims of government denial by formulating and testing a denial hypothesis.The hypothesis is contextualized with an overview of the South African ep...

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  • INSTITUTIONS OF WORLD LITERATURE
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    INSTITUTIONS OF WORLD LITERATURE
    STEFAN HELGESSON AND PIETER VERMEULEN
    This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the basis of an extended, active, and ultimately more literary sense of what it means to institute world literature, it views processes of institutionalization not as limitations, but as challenges to understand how literature may simultaneously function as ...

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  • CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP IN POLITICAL THEORY
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    CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP IN POLITICAL THEORY
    VEGA, JUDITH / BOELE VAN HENSBROEK, PIETER
    Cultural citizenship is a recently developed concept in discussions on multicultural society, the media society, consumerism, and political theory. It addresses the various ways in which citizenship is becoming mixed up with culture, either through globalisation processes (involving new cultural identities, immigrations, culture industries) or by increasingly life-style oriente...

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  • THE MIDAS MURDERS
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    THE MIDAS MURDERS
    PIETER ASPE
    In the second novel by the international bestselling Pieter Aspe, Inspector Van In races against the clock to thwart a series of terrorist plots One quiet snow-covered Sunday morning in Bruges, a prominent business executive is found dead in the streets, apparently due to an alcoholic hemorrhage, but for Inspector Van In, there is something about the autopsy that does not add u...

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