Jan: 4507 books
Peasants and the Art of Farming eBook
A Chayanovian Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Peasants and the Art of Farming: A Chayanovian Manifesto focuses on the structure and dynamics of peasant farms and the historically highly variable relations that govern the processes of labour and production within peasant farms. Jan Douwe van der Ploeg argues that peasant agriculture can play an...
Coexistence
The Ecology and Evolution of Tropical Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This book is about tropical biology in action- how biologists grapple with the ecology and evolution of the great species diversity in tropical rainforests and coral reefs. Tropical rainforests are home to 50% of all the plant and animal species on earth, though they cover only about 2% of the planet....
Earth Fever
Living Consciously with Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The human species is in a rather precarious situation. Poverty, the energy and financial crises, and above all the challenge of climate change mean that our civilization has come to a dangerous edge. Our safety nets-on both collective and individual levels-have been removed. Can we create a future that...
Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet
My Summer with the Danish Filmmaker
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Regarded by many filmmakers and critics as one of the greatest directors in cinema history, Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889--1968) achieved worldwide acclaim after the debut of his masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), which was named the most influential film of all time at the 2010 Toronto International...
Touching and Imagining
An Introduction to Tactile Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Jan Svankmajer wrote this remarkable book on tactile art when he stopped directing films and experimented intensively with tactile art after repeated censorship by the communist governmnent of Czechoslovakia. Illustrated with over 100 imges, this book is organised around many reproductions of Svanmajker's...
by Jan Narveson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Ethical questions lie at the very heart of all philosophy, and no one is better equipped to untangle the many facets of ethical theory than respected thinker and professor Jan Narveson. Drawing from theoretical notions as well as everyday applications, Narveson simplifies these nuanced ideas for any...
Turn, Turtle!
Reenacting The Institute
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Performing Urgency #2 – Series Edited by Florian Malzacher. 'Turn Turtle, Turn! Reenacting The Institute' is a creative and intellectual analysis of the new turn in the perception and workings of the institutes in the performing arts. What has become apparent in the last ten years or so is a move...
The First World War and German National Identity
The Dual Alliance at War
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
The First World War and German National Identity is an original and carefully researched study of the coalition between Imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary during the First World War. Focusing on the attitudes taken by governmental circles, politically active groups, intellectuals, and the broader...
In stilte
een filosofie van de afzondering
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Ooit was het individualisme het grootste goed van de moderne mens, nu lijkt het ons grootste probleem: we willen vrij zijn, maar onze hebzucht dwingt ons in een economisch keurslijf; we willen authentiek zijn, maar de omgeving bepaalt in belangrijke mate onze identiteit; we willen betrokken zijn,...
Kinderdromen
wat kinderen echt willen voor ze 12 zijn
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Het eerste opvoedingsboek door kinderen zélf geschreven 'Wat wil jij zeker doen voor je 12 bent?' Die vraag stelde Ketnet aan Vlaamse kinderen. Maar liefst 100.000 antwoorden kwamen er binnen. Met hun antwoorden houden de kinderen ons een enorme spiegel voor: over de gezinnen waarin ze wonen, over...
Greatest Kan and Li
Gathering the Cosmic Light
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
A fully illustrated guide to the most advanced Kan and Li practice to birth the immortal spirit body and unite with the Tao
• Explains how to establish the cauldron at the Heart Center to collect cosmic light, activate the Cranial and Sacral Pumps, and align the Three Triangle Forces
•...
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity.
Volume 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleur
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to...
Russia and Courtly Europe
Ritual and the Culture of Diplomacy, 1648–1725
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
In this new book on early modern diplomacy, Jan Hennings explores the relationship between European powers and Russia beyond the conventional East-West divide from the Peace of Westphalia to the reign of Peter the Great. He examines how, at a moment of new departure in both Europe and Russia, the...
Longing for Home
Forced Displacement and Postures of Hospitality
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
What is it about the concept of “home” that makes its loss so profound and devastating, and how should the trauma of exile and alienation be approached theologically? M. Jan Holton examines the psychological, social, and theological impact of forced displacement on communities in the Congo and South...