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Kadoc Mission & science
missiology revised
Science as an instrument to justify religious missions in secular society. The relationship between religion and science is complex and continues to be a topical issue. However, it is seldom zoomed in on from both Protestant and Catholic perspectives. By doing so the contributing authors in this collection gain new insights into the origin and development of missiology. Missiology is described in this book as a "project of modernity," a contemporary form of apologetics. "Scientific apologetics" was...
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Engels | Frans | 438 pagina's (PDF, 3,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Minoan earthquakes
breaking the myth through interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinary study on the role of earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean. Does the "Minoan myth" still stand up to scientific scrutiny? Since the work of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos (Crete, Greece), the romanticized vision of the Cretan Bronze Age as an era of peaceful prosperity only interrupted by the catastrophic effects of natural disasters has captured the popular and scientific imagination. Its impact on the development of archaeology, archaeoseismology, and earthquake geology in the...
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Engels | 408 pagina's (PDF, 9,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Platonic stoicism, Stoic Platonism
the dialogue between Platonism and Stoicism in antiquity
This book examines the important but largely neglected issue of the interrelation between Platonism and Stoicism in Ancient Philosophy. Several renowned specialists in the fields of Stoic and Platonic analyse the intricate mutual influences between Stoic and Platonic philosophers in the Hellenistic period, the Imperial Age, and after. Although it has been repeatedly claimed that the phenomenon addressed in this book could best be labelled eclecticism, it emerges from the various articles collected...
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Engels | Frans | Italiaans | 310 pagina's (PDF) | Leuven University Press, Leuven, Belgium | 2017
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(Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera
multidisciplinary perspectives
The role of mythology in Ancien Régime opera. Throughout the Ancien Régime, mythology played a vital role in opera, defining such epoch-making works as Claudio Monteverdi's La favola d'Orfeo (1607) and Christoph Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride (1779). The operatic presence of the Greco-Roman gods and heroes was anything but unambiguous or unproblematic, however. (Dis)embodying Myths in Ancien Régime Opera highlights myth's chameleonic life in the Italian dramma per musica and French tragédie en...
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Engels | 184 pagina's (PDF, 4,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Medieval manuscripts in transition
tradition and creative recycling
Manuscripts constitute the source material par excellence for diverse academic disciplines. Art historians, philologists, historians, theologians, philosophers, book historians and even jurists encounter one another around the codex. The fact that such an encounter can be extremely fertile was demonstrated, during an international congress in Brussels on November 5-9, 2002. A record of the discussions can be found in this volume of the Mediaevalia Lovaniensia. The editors selected those lectures...
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Engels | Frans | 384 pagina's (PDF, 5,8 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Gerard Mak F*cking blauw
smeuïge waargebeurde politieverhalen
Belevenissen van twee politieagenten in de Amsterdamse binnenstad.
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Nederlands | 224 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2018
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Gerard Mak Toffe peren, rotte appels
warme waar gebeurde politieverhalen
WARME WAARGEBEURDE POLITIEVERHALEN De vorming van de Nationale Politie gaat gepaard met grote problemen. De kritiek neemt met de dag toe en zelfs de top moet nu erkennen dat het allemaal te hoog gegrepen was. Zo hangt het personeelsplan van de reorganisatie als het zwaard van Damocles boven de politiemedewerkers. Niets is meer zeker. Functies kunnen wijzigen, opgeheven worden of men kan worden herplaatst. Al dan niet tegen de zin van de medewerker. Politiemedewerkers staan onder zware druk. Er zou...
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Nederlands | 268 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2018
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Isabelle Crevecoeur Étude anthropologique du squelette du Paléolithique supérieur de Nazlet Khater 2 (Égypte)
apport à la compréhension de la variabilité passée des hommes modernes
L'étude de l'origine, de la variabilité et du comportement des hommes anatomiquement modernes a fait l'objet de recherches intenses durant deux périodes distinctes de l'évolution humaines: celle des stades isotopiques 6 et 5e avec les plus anciens hommes modernes en Afrique et au Proche-Orient; et celle des stades isotopiques 2 et 1 avec l'expansion des hommes modernes dans toutes les parties du monde. Les résultats actuels des recherches en génétiques s'accordent pour dire que les populations...
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Frans | 318 pagina's (PDF, 85 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Laura Manzano Baena Conflicting words
the Peace Treaty of Münster (1648) and the political culture of the Dutch Republic and the Spanish monarchy
The Peace of Münster, signed between the Catholic Monarchy and the United Provinces in 1648, went against the political culture of both polities. The fact that the Spanish Monarchy definitively accepted the independence of its former subjects clearly negated the policy put forward by the Monarchy during the 'eighty' years that the war lasted and to the Monarchy's declared main goals. For the United Provinces, signing a peace with the archenemy without having brought liberty and religious freedom...
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Engels | 284 pagina's (PDF, 2,4 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Jeroen Cornilly Architect en ambtenaar
de West-Vlaamse provinciaal architecten en de 19e-eeuwse architectuurpraktijk
Het ambt van provinciaal architect in de 19e-eeuwse Belgische architectuur. De provinciaal architecten wisten met hun ontwerpen voor plattelandskerken, pastorieën, lagere scholen en andere openbare gebouwen sterk hun stempel op de 19e-eeuwse Belgische architectuur te drukken. Dat zij tezelfdertijd ambtenaar en architect waren, had een belangrijke invloed op hun ontwerpen en sociale positie. Aan de hand van een 'biografie' van het ambt in de provincie West-Vlaanderen legt de auteur vakkundig de relaties...
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Nederlands | 350 pagina's (PDF, 9,2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Peter Van Kemseke Towards an era of development
the globalization of socialism and Christian democracy, 1945-1965
A world of difference separates global politics in 1945 from 1965. In the twenty years after the second world war, a 'Third World' was added to the Cold War concepts of the 'First' and 'Second' worlds, and post-war decolonization had ushered in an 'era of development'. For the first time ever, theories and policies to eradicate underdevelopment became prominent on the global agenda and advanced to the top priority on the United Nations' agenda. This international evolution inevitably had a dramatic...
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Engels | 324 pagina's (PDF, 3,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Aurora Corti L'adversus Colotem di Plutarco
storia di una polemica filosofica
In-depth analysis of Plutarch's anti-Epicurean treatise Adversus Colotem. L'Adversus Colotem, composto intorno al 100 d.C., fa parte, insieme al non posse e al de latenter vivendo, della cosiddetta 'trilogia anti-epicurea' di Plutarco. Questo volume analizza l'Adversus Colotem nel suo complesso, approfondendone, in particolar modo, le strategie polemiche, le alleanze filosofiche e le tecniche argomentative. Il libro si articola in quattro capitoli, rispettivamente dedicati: 1) all'analisi della struttura...
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Italiaans | 326 pagina's (PDF, 1,6 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Elsa Giovanna Simonetti A perfect medium?
oracular divination in the thought of Plutarch
An in-depth analysis of oracular divination in Plutarch's thought. Oracular divination was of special concern for Plutarch of Chaeronea (45-120 AD), Platonic philosopher as well as priest at the oracle of Apollo in Delphi. The peculiar nature of Delphic divination as an (im)perfect intermediary between the material and the immaterial world is fathomed in a thorough study of Plutarch's Delphic dialogues. This in-depth philosophical-conceptual analysis will disclose an original interpretation of oracular...
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Engels | 256 pagina's (PDF, 1,2 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Juan Carlos Flores Henry of Ghent: metaphysics and the trinity
with a critical edition of question six of article fifty-five of the Summa Quaestionum Ordinariarum
The book elucidates Henry of Ghent's philosophical and theological system with special reference to his trinitarian writings. It demonstrates the fundamental role of the Trinity in Henry's philosophy and theology. It also shows how Henry (d. 1293), the most influential theologian of his day at Paris, developed the Augustinian tradition in seminal ways in response to the Aristotelian tradition, especially Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274). Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
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Engels | Latijn | 247 pagina's (PDF, 1 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Patricia Posner De apotheker van Mengele
het gruwelpact tussen regime en industrie in het Derde Rijk
Biografie van de Roemeense apotheker Victor Capesius (1907-1985), die werkte voor het farmaceutische bedrijf Bayer en in Auschwitz actief betrokken was bij de massamoord op talloze mensen.
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Nederlands | 237 pagina's (ePub2, 4,7 MB) | Omniboek, Utrecht | 2018
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La Casa de Borgoña
la Casa del rey de España
La Corte y las Casas Reales resultaron fundamentales en la organización política de las Monarquías modernas. Sin duda, Borgoña resultó de especial relevancia en la gestación de dicho proceso, pues su Casa Ducal adquirió una perfección reconocida por el resto de monarquías del momento. Dicho servicio a la borgoñona llegó a la Monarquía Hispana a través de Felipe I, consiguiendo imponerse a las Casas menos desarrolladas de Aragón y Castilla y convirtiéndose en la Casa de una Monarquía...
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Spaans | 576 pagina's (PDF, 2,2 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Michiel Meeusen Plutarch's science of natural problems
a study with commentary on quaestiones naturales
The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era. In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, meteorology and their respective subdisciplines. By...
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Engels | 556 pagina's (PDF, 2,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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David Grann De maand van de bloemendoder
Journalistiek onderzoek naar de moorden onder Osage-indianen in de jaren twintig van de twintigste eeuw, die plaatsvonden nadat onder hun reservaat in Oklahoma olie was gevonden, en de rol van de FBI daarbij.
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Nederlands | 308 pagina's (ePub2, 8,2 MB) | Q, Amsterdam | 2017
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Ian Buruma Hun beloofde land
mijn grootouders in tijden van liefde en oorlog
In Hun beloofde land vertelt Ian Buruma het verhaal van zijn grootouders Bernard Schlesinger en Winifred Regensburg, de in Londen geboren kinderen van Duits-Joodse immigranten. Hun liefde hield zestig jaar stand, hoewel de geliefden jaren van elkaar gescheiden waren. Want tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog diende Schlesinger in Frankrijk en het Midden-Oosten, in de Tweede in India. Ze schreven elkaar brieven, bijkans dagelijks, waarin ze vertelden over hun leven, maar ook over kunst, muziek en hoop....
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Nederlands | 218 pagina's (ePub2, 3,2 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2016
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A versatile gentleman
consistency in Plutarch's writing; studies offered to Luc van der Stockt on the occasion of his retirement
Essays on erudite versatility in Plutarch's works. Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober...
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Engels | 310 pagina's (PDF, 1,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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