Dirk: 1047 books

The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670 argues that the application of tools, developed in the study of ancient Greek and Latin authors, to the Bible was aimed at stabilizing the biblical text but had the unintentional effect that the text grew more and more unstable....

Dirk Kurbjuweit schreef met Angst een intens spannende en ongelooflijk donkere thriller die doet denken aan het werk van Herman Koch. De vertaalrechten zijn wereldwijd aan 14 landen verkocht. Randolph is getrouwd, heeft twee kinderen en een prachtig huis in Berlijn. Er is één smet op dit perfecte...

In the modern model of evolution theory the evolution of a protein or of an organ behaves like the accidental changes in a drunk man's walk. Mutations in the hereditary DNA occur due to accidental processes. The natural selection of those mutations also is the result of accidental processes. The rapidity...

Dirk van Dalen’s biography studies the fascinating life of the famous Dutch mathematician and philosopher Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer. Brouwer belonged to a special class of genius; complex and often controversial and gifted with a deep intuition, he had an unparalleled access to the secrets and...

In the late 1990s, in the wake of German unification, multiculturalism, and globalization, a surge of historical novels about German colonialism in Africa and its previously neglected legacies hit the German literary scene. This development, accelerated by the centenary in 2004 of Germany's colonial...

De colleges van Hannah Arendt over de late (politieke) geschriften van Immanuel Kant kunnen worden beschouwd als voorstudies voor wat het afsluitende deel van 'Het leven van de geest' moest worden: een boek over het oordelen. Dirk De Schutter en Remi Peeters verzorgen een nieuwe vertaling van deze...

Es ist ein relativ neu entdecktes Phänomen: Etwa ein Fünftel aller Menschen empfindet wesentlich sensibler als andere - eigentlich eine ganz besondere Begabung. Doch Hochsensible leiden oft, finden ihre feine Wahrnehmung und ihre Reaktionen eher peinlich, werden auch von ihren Mitmenschen selten...

Lucianus of Samosata lived in the second century A.D. He wrote many texts in Greek, of which more than eighty are still extant. One of these texts is his "True History", his "monument of lies". In it he asserts: "One thing I confidently pronounce for a truth, that I lie"....

According to the author's analysis the Underworld was not a location inside the Earth, but rather it was a huge space station in a geostationary orbit below our planet in space. Aeneas is brought there in a spaceshuttle by his guide the Sibyl and he returns to the Earth by means of a stargate. He...

Much of this book consists of quotes - mainly from Wikipedia articles about in particular Bushrangers, with some digressions about Irish / English highwaymen and USA Outlaws. This book makes sense of the information in these quotes and shows how it relates to the gods of Heaven and Underworld and...

There is a plethora of asteroids and comets in our solar system: Apollo's, Amors, Hilda's, Hungarians, Main Belt asteroids, Trojans, Cybeles. There are asteroid 'families' and there are interloping comets. The asteroids appear have been sorted. This article / E-book proposes that...

Dit boek bevat veel citaten - voornamelijk van Wikipedia artikels over in het bijzonder Bushrangers, met enkele uitwijdingen over Ierse / Engelse Highwaymen en USA Outlaws. Dit boek interpreteert de informatie die deze citaten bevatten en laat zien hoe die informatie verband houdt met de goden van...

Dirk Vlieks was at the top of his game. At the age of thirty-two he was a top-ranked triathlete with numerous Ironman finishes under his belt. That all changed in an instant one day in June of 2006 when he stepped groggily from his bike in Honu, Hawaii, and collapsed. He had suffered a stroke so devastating...

For some, he was the greatest chancellor Germany ever produced, others have stylised him as a "demon" and made him directly or indirectly responsible for almost everything that subsequently went wrong in German history.   It seems to be clear that the truth – or better,...