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This essential work views the place of religious architecture, including mosques, churches, temples and synagogues, in modern society.

Landscape Biographies explores the long, complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives.

A look at what the current digital revolution will mean for conventional books in the future.

This book presents a close look at the growth, success, and proliferation of ethnic politics on the peripheries of modern South Asia, built around a case study of the Nepal ethnic group that lives in the borderlands of Sikkim, Darjeeling, and east Nepal.

This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukacs's concept of reification and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle.

This books investigates 'tourist utopias' as cultural laboratories for testing new protocols for neoliberal governance and capitalist production.

Dirgantoro presents the first comprehensive study of feminisms and contemporary art in Indonesia.

In this book, Anne-Marie Schleiner explores a concept she calls 'ludic mutation', a transformative process in which players seize back some of the power otherwise lost to the game itself.

How can multinational companies develop a set of new collaborative business models that can contribute to increased system resilience of cities, regions or countries?

A convincing argument as to why the West's military superiority scarcely matters, looking at the lack of decisive use of force in critical situations.

This book aims to explore the larger consequences of taking in large number of immigrants.

This book proposes a new way to look at the relationship between women's rights and multiculturalism.

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.

An interdisciplinary collection of essays on migration by European and Southeast Asian scholars.

How did the integration of Jews into Dutch society influenced Jewish resistance during the German occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War?

The rich history of the Cannes Film Festival as seen from the inside.

The Institutionalisation of Political Parties in Post-authoritarian Indonesia: From the Grass-roots Up provides detailed examination of how much the local party branches of Partai Golkar, Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan, Partai Amanat Nasional, and Partai Keadilan Sejahtera in Malang (East Java) have institutionalized since the end of New Ord

Fellini unravels the universe of Federico Fellini, one of the most image-defining masters of post-war Italian cinema.

This book explores the Dutch post-colonial migrant experience within the context of a wider European debate spanning sixty years and three generations

An investigation on the care arrangements set up by working parents of young children and of adults who hold a job while caring for their elderly relatives.

A look at the challenge of developing a foreign policy for a Union of 27 states while taking internal political processes into account.

A selection of the most important text on immigration by Michael Bommes.

When David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published, his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century readers

In our modern knowledge economy, the life sciences constitute a major driver of innovation, involving many people and huge capital investment. Frank Miedema discusses how external forces changed the life sciences and how this affected the lives and careers of scientists. He argues that the romantic view of science as a consensus machine with scient

A meticulously researched, illuminating study of the use and significance of Roman weaponry and horse gear from non-military contexts in the territory of the Batavians

Anthropologist Dr Ad Borsboom, chair of Pacific Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, devoted his academic career from 1972 onwards to the transmission of cultural knowledge. Borsboom handed the insights he acquired during many years of fieldwork among Australian Aborigines on to other academics, students and the general public. This collection o

The WRR makes a strong case that government, companies and citizens alike should learn to cope pro-actively with uncertainties. The council gives suggestions how the government can stimulate this process.

This illuminating study offers a comprehensive analysis of the rural habitation in the northern provinces of the Roman empire. Transcending the traditional studies, the author traces developments in the organisation of settlement space and house building, drawing on fieldwork from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France. Thanks to the broad ge