Van Den Berg: 128 books
The Student City
Strategic Planning for Student Communities in EU Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Student communities are without doubt a strategic resource for urban development and students are the citizens and the high-skilled working class of tomorrow. They are seen as an 'invisible population' with little say in local policy and decision-making. Co-operation between educational institutions...
Evolutionary Dynamics
The mathematics of genes and traits
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Written for researchers and postgraduate students with a background in physics or applied mathematics and a desire to apply their skills to problems in the life sciences, this beautifully illustrated and stimulating book develops an understanding of the gene-to-trait problem in the context of evolutionary...
At the Origins of Mathematical Economics
The Economics of A.N. Isnard (1748-1803)
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2005
Achille Nicolas Isnard (1749-1803) an engineer with a keen interest in political economy, is best known for demonstrating the concept of market equilibrium using a system of simultaneous equations. The breadth and depth of his work undoubtedly established him as one of the forerunners of modern mathematical...
European Cities in the Knowledge Economy
The Cases of Amsterdam, Dortmund, Eindhoven, Helsinki, Manchester, Munich, M�nster, Rotterdam and Zaragoza
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Across Western Europe, the emphasis has shifted from physical manufacturing to the development of ideas, new products and creative processes. This has become known as the knowledge economy. While much has been written about this concept, so far there has been little focus on the role of the city....
Growth Clusters in European Metropolitan Cities
A Comparative Analysis of Cluster Dynamics in the Cities of Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Helsinki, Leipzig, Lyons, Manchester, Munich, Rotterdam and Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This title was first published in 2001. Analyzing and comparing several growth clusters in nine European cities, this compelling volume examines the critical success factors that determine the economic development of urban regions.
by Alexander Otgaar, Leo van den Berg, Carolien Speller
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This insightful book analyzes the development of cross-border and cross-sector partnerships in a number of European cities and regions. Including, amongst others, Copenhagen, Budapest, Helsinki, Munich and Catalonia, these case studies shed light on the factors determining the success or failure of...
Language of the Heart
A Sufi Interpretation of Form (Sura) and Meaning (Mana) in Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
This book seeks to examine how Sufi thought might provide critical understanding of contemporary life and a pathway towards the recovery of a more meaningful existence. Rumi’s mystical teachings are of great value at a time of rampant materialism and indiscriminate consumerism, and have the potential...
Does Education Have a Future?
The Political Economy of Social and Educational Inequalities in European Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume has been prepared in the framework of Project 1: "Educating Man for the 21st Century" of Plan Europe 2000, sponsored by the European Cultural Foundation. While most of the studies launched under this Project deal with specific aspects or levels of education the present volume...
The Economics of Immigration
Theory and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
The Economics of Immigration is written as a both a reference for researchers and as a textbook on the economics of immigration. It is aimed at two audiences: (1) researchers who are interested in learning more about how economists approach the study of human migration flows; and (2) graduate students...
New Beginnings
Letting Go of the Past to Prepare for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
New Beginnings is a chapbook of poems that will inspire the courage to let go of the past, live in the unknown, and take advantage of what one already has to create new beginnings. Sometimes life will take us on all sorts of twists and turns that we would never have imagined. The poems reveal the...
Communicable Medical Diseases
A Holistic and Social Medicine Perspective for Healthcare Providers
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Although communicable infections have been known to man since the dawn of time, outbreaks of communicable infections still occur regularly. Known and unknown communicable infections continue to emerge and re-emerge due to factors such as drug-resistant microbes, the over-use of antimicrobial drugs,...
Kant on Proper Science
Biology in the Critical Philosophy and the Opus postumum
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This bookprovides a novel treatment of Immanuel Kant’s views on proper natural science and biology. The status of biology in Kant’s system of science is often taken to be problematic. By analyzing Kant’s philosophy of biology in relation to his conception of proper science, the present book...
by Zirk van den Berg
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
A South African policewoman has found the perfect way to make sure people in her witness protection programme stay hidden: she kills them! Then Daniel Enslin enters the programme… A tense, spare tale which contrasts the claustrophobic interiors of its perfectly cast characters' lives with places nobody...
Combating Poverty
Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades. While Canada is routinely classified as a single, homogeneous ‘liberal market’ regime,...