Willem: 307 books
by Willem H. Buiter
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
This title, first published in 1979, presents the Ph.D. thesis of the world-renowned economist and financial expert, Willem Buiter. In Part I, three alternative specifications of temporary equilibria in asset markets, including their implications for macroeconomic models, are discussed; Part II examines...
Our War on Ourselves
Rethinking Science, Technology, and Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2011
Our approach to knowing and doing is based on delegating physical phenomena to physicists, biological phenomena to biologists, social phenomena to sociologists, economic phenomena to economists, and so on. This approach to knowledge and practice works very well when one category of phenomena dominates...
Our Battle for the Human Spirit
Scientific Knowing, Technical Doing, and Daily Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Western society has become saturated with scientific and technological modes of thinking that impact our lives and our relationships. Expanding social inequality, the use of social media and the rise of mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression are manifestations of this shift in our civilization.
Our...
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc.
The Dynamics of a New Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
On the eve of June 30, Hong Kong was officially passed back to China. This event will mark what Willem van Kemenade sees as the start of an increasingly problematic -- and even dangerous -- reintegration of the old Chinese empire into a new world superpower. Since the early 1980s, investment money...
by David Steffen, A. Merc Rustad, Rachael K. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
This anthology collects all 24 original stories from the third year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Lovecraftian food bloggers, doors that bring back the dead, fantastical roommates apartment hunting in Brooklyn, oversea octopus explorers, sisterly love and...
Content-Based Video Retrieval
A Database Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The area of content-based video retrieval is a very hot area both for research and for commercial applications. In order to design effective video databases for applications such as digital libraries, video production, and a variety of Internet applications, there is a great need to develop effective...
by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
DEDICATION To HANSJE AND WILLEM. My darling boys, You are twelve and eight years old. Soon you will be grown up. You will leave home and begin your own lives. I have been thinking about that day, wondering what I could do to help you. At last, I have had an idea. The best compass is a thorough understanding...
Creation
From Nothing Until Now
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Where do we come from? Where are we going? These are fundamental questions, which the human race has asked itself for centuries.
Presenting a brief and accessible overview of contemporary scientific thought, Creation is an imaginative and poetic exploration of the origins of the universe. WIllem Drees...
The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom
A Short Account of the Early Development of the Modern Kingdom of the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
First published in 1914, this vintage book contains a detailed historical account of the Dutch Kingdom between 1795 and 1813. Willem van Loon (1882 – 1944) was a Dutch-American journalist, historian, and successful author of children's books. Contents include: “William I Frontispiece”, “The...
Naar Moskou! Naar Moskou!
memoires van een officier uit de lage landen in het leger van Napoleon
Language: Dutch
Release Date: July 8, 2014
`De weg is geheel verlaten. Het wordt donker en ik vind geen enkele aanwijzing welke kant ik op moet. Dan zie ik plotseling in de verte, links van de weg, een dode ruiter, gekleed in het rood. Hij ligt vlak bij een gehucht, half begraven in de sneeuw. Het lijdt geen twijfel dat het een van onze lansiers...
Reis van de ziel
met een gebruiksaanwijzing voor het leven op aarde
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Iedereen heeft bepaalde eigenschappen en karaktertrekken in zich die bijdragen aan het geluk in je eigen leven, maar ook aan de wereld om je heen. Dat is jouw 'schat'. Tijdens je leven maak je een reis. Je ontwikkelt jezelf tijdens die reis, ontdekt steeds meer dingen en komen zo steeds dichterbij...
Operatie laat niets in leven
Het bizarre leven van oorlogsmisdadiger Guus Kouwenhoven
Language: Dutch
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Rotterdammer Guus Kouwenhoven begon zijn carrière als zakenman en sjacheraar, om te eindigen als de grootste Nederlandse oorlogsmisdadiger van de laatste decennia. Op 21 april 2017 werd ‘Mr Gus’ tot 19 jaar cel veroordeeld voor medeplichtigheid aan oorlogsmisdaden en wapensmokkel voor de Liberiaanse...
by Theo Willem
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
A memoir: While growing-up in Holland, with the constant rain and wind, Magnum, P.I. was my only view to a world of palm trees, white beaches, beautiful women and a red Ferrari. In 1983, at the age of eighteen, I moved to America where I found my first job as a busboy in a restaurant on the highest...
by Willem Meiners
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
De Gooi- en Eemlander was het laatst overgebleven onafhankelijke dagblad in de vorige eeuw. Dankzij de megafoon van de buren, de Hilversumse omroepen, maakte de krant tussen de jaren ’60 en ’90 een furore die ver reikte buiten de 35 kilometer van zijn verspreidingsgebied. Ik was erbij, gaf tussen...