M Van: 248 books

In ‘Het ontbijtbuffet’ zijn dertien verhalen van H.M. van den Brink opgenomen die zich afspelen in het verraderlijke niemandsland dat vakantie heet. De figuren in ‘Het ontbijtbuffet’ willen door het maken van een verre reis of een verblijf in een rustig vakantiehuis aan hun dagelijkse zorgen...

With the encouragement of his family and friends, Jack M. Van Hooser shares a humorous personal account of growing up on the road with his father and older brother on the heels of the Great Depression. Unimaginable in modern times, the two young brothers spent their formative years occupying themselves...

Op een koude ochtend in 1961 beginnen twee jongens hun werkzame leven in een kantoor aan een slordige gracht in Amsterdam. Meer dan veertig jaar later moet een van beiden afscheid nemen. Terwijl alles om hem heen veranderd is, lijkt Karl Dijk al die tijd dezelfde te zijn gebleven. Maar juist dat maakt...

The first book to systematically discuss the skills and literacies needed to use digital media, particularly the Internet, van Dijk and van Deursen's clear and accessible work distinguishes digital skills, analyzes their roles and prevalence, and offers solutions from individual, educational, sociological, and policy perspectives.

‘Tot mijn verrassing, mijn aangename verrassing, zeiden alle benaderde auteurs meteen “ja” op het verzoek om een verhaal naar aanleiding van De Tuin der lusten te schrijven. Hoe dat komt? Ik denk dat het met de dubbelzinnigheid van het schilderij te maken heeft. De afbeeldingen zijn heel concreet...

This is a factual account of a man and two young sons who hitchhiked throughout the Southeastern United States from 1939 to 1944. They lived in rooming houses and relocated every few weeks because of the father's work. The boys rarely attended school but learned priceless lessons on the streets...

Martin van Hees presents a new approach to the study of law - legal reductionism - which combines elements of legal positivism, new institutionalism and decision theory. From legal positivism Van Hees derives some fundamental insights into the nature of legal systems, but he also revises some of its...

Throughout the twentieth century, interest in sport has evidenced a major increase worldwide and a new field of sports medicine has emerged. Sport spectators hip has been stimulated in part by the increased ease of international travel and the intro­ duction of new means of communication. Interest...

How best can we understand why the application of information and communication technology in organizations succeeds or fails? Calling on technical, organisational, social, psychological and economic perspectives, this book provides a fresh and comprehensive framework for answering this question. Consideration...

For at least three centuries, Holland has been at the centre of research on intestinal malabsorption. In the 17th and 18th centuries, early descriptions of coeliac disease and tropical sprue were published by physicians trained in Holland, and it was in 1950 that Dicke published his painstaking and...

Karma Peace, a frustrated 36 year-old writer, is two quarts low on confidence and three floats shy a parade. Unwilling to accept a questionable diagnosis of mild schizophrenia and postpartum psychosis, she abandons her husband and twin three year-olds for the land of India. There, she crosses swords...

The regulation of civil society provides the framework under which those organisations can most effectively provide services in education, health, social services, housing, development aid and so on. Civil Society in Europe identifies common principles of civil society law in two ways. First, the...

A seminal shift has taken place in the relationship between Internet usage and politics. At the turn of the century, it was presumed that digital communication would produce many positive political effects like improvements to political information retrieval, support for public debate and community...

“Insurrection is the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties.”–Marquis de LaFayetteThe stories that are told, that are written, are of those who influence the world around them. They are of men and women who could make people dance to their tune, who rose to greatness...