Publications
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Digital Gaming and the Advertising Landscape
(2019)
The evolution of the game industry and changes in the advertising landscape in recent years have led to a keen interest of marketers in using digital games for advertising purposes. However, despite the increasing interest ...
The Thought Remolding Campaign of the Chinese Communist Party-state
(2012)
In its comprehensive analysis of a wide range of primary and secondary sources in both Chinese and Western languages, this authoritative work stands as the definitive study of the theory, implementation and legacy of the ...
Syntax of Hungarian
(2017)
These books aim to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language, rooted in theory but providing highly detailed descriptions, and intended to be of use to researchers, as ...
Educational Reception in Rotterdam and Barcelona: Policies, Practices and Gaps
(2014)
The reception of newcomer youngsters by schools constitutes a policy issue in Europe already for decades. This book deals with how practitioners in Rotterdam and Barcelona apply existing policies for the reception of ...
Focus op functies
(2005)
Traditionally, the Netherlands has enjoyed being a test market for many ideas in the media. But over the last decade, progress has been severely hampered by lengthy discussions on the future structure of just one sector ...
The Dynamics of International Migration and Settlement in Europe
(2006)
A fundamental issue in society today, migration has been undergoing a new dynamic transformation, calling for new policy approaches. This new dynamic is not yet understood clearly, let alone that adequate policy answers ...
Strindberg on Drama and Theatre
(2007)
Sweden's August Strindberg (1849-1912) has long been recognised as one of the leading dramatists around the turn of the last century. His electrifying theatre work resonated with the public in his lifetime, and continues ...
Arbeidsflexibiliteit en ontslagrecht
(2007)
Sociology
Chapter 1 De toekomst van de sociale (on)zekerheid
(2016)
Lang ging het debat over de toekomst van de sociale zekerheid vooral over de vraag wat er aan technische aanpassingen aan het stelsel aangebracht
moeten worden. Inmiddels dienen zich twee fundamentelere vragen
aan. ...
The Dynamics of International Migration and Settlement in Europe
(2006)
A fundamental issue in society today, migration has been undergoing a new dynamic transformation, calling for new policy approaches. This new dynamic is not yet understood clearly, let alone that adequate policy answers ...
Arbeidsflexibiliteit en ontslagrecht
(2007)
Sociology
Digital Material
(2009)
Three decades of societal and cultural alignment of new media have yielded a host of innovations, trials, and problems, accompanied by versatile popular and academic discourse. New Media Studies crystallized internationally ...
A Continent Moving West?
(2010)
Sociology
A Continent Moving West?
(2010)
Sociology
The Netherlands and the Oil Crisis
(2004)
The Netherlands played a remarkable role during the October War and the oil crisis of 1973. In secret, the Dutch government sent a substantial amount of ammunition and spare parts to Israel. The Dutch supported Israel also ...
Moving Forward, Looking Back
(2007)
This first critical overview of the European film avant-garde ushers in a new approach and creates its own subject. Arguing that a European perspective is the only way to understand the film avant-garde of the 1920s and ...
Moving Forward, Looking Back
(2007)
This first critical overview of the European film avant-garde ushers in a new approach and creates its own subject. Arguing that a European perspective is the only way to understand the film avant-garde of the 1920s and ...
Diplomatie en geweld
(2022)
Lecturing the Dutch in public probably makes them more stubborn rather than less stubborn. And they are already stubborn enough,' wrote a British diplomat in July 1947. How did the United States, the United Kingdom and ...
Diplomatie en geweld
(2022)
Lecturing the Dutch in public probably makes them more stubborn rather than less stubborn. And they are already stubborn enough,' wrote a British diplomat in July 1947. How did the United States, the United Kingdom and ...
Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe: Past Developments, Current Status and Future Potentials
(2014)
One of the most important challenges concerning the future of the European Union is the demographic reproduction of the European population. Decreasing birth-rates and the retirement of the baby boomers will dramatically ...
Chapter 1 De toekomst van de sociale (on)zekerheid
(2016)
Lang ging het debat over de toekomst van de sociale zekerheid vooral over de vraag wat er aan technische aanpassingen aan het stelsel aangebracht
moeten worden. Inmiddels dienen zich twee fundamentelere vragen
aan. ...
Chapter Het VOC-verleden van Cornelis Pronk en Thomas Hope – Chinees porselein en Sri Lankaans roofgoed als stille getuigen
(2024)
This article deals with two objects of art and history. They are considered here as silent witnesses of the VOC antecedents of two Dutch Mennonites in Amsterdam: Cornelis Pronk and Thomas Hope. They were employed by the ...
Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy
(2002)
Pottery made in the aegean during the Late Bronze Age has been found widely distributed in many parts of the Mediterranean. At some four hundred sites outside Greece, Mycenaean dinner and storage vessels, as well as some ...
Braving Troubled Waters
(2009)
Dwindling fish stocks, changing markets and often ill-advised government intervention have affected the lives of Dutch fishermen for decades. The author of this study has spent years among the fishermen of the Dutch island ...
International Migration in Europe
(2008)
Over the past twenty years international migration issues have gained a growing importance in public debate in most of the European countries. Public opinions are more and more concerned about the arrival of new immigrants ...
Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation
(2007)
This book argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is less likely to succeed because the mainstream neoinstitutional approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. This ...
The Company that Changed Itself
(2007)
The role of industrial research in the development of the company that sponsors it is an essential question. This book takes up this question in an historical perspective with a case study of the Dutch chemical company ...
The Company that Changed Itself
(2007)
The role of industrial research in the development of the company that sponsors it is an essential question. This book takes up this question in an historical perspective with a case study of the Dutch chemical company ...
Onzekere veiligheid
(2008)
New technologies, climate change, infectious diseases and major crises like the BSE-affair make us realize that our knowledge of risks threatening our society is very limited. The shaping of the responsibilities of our ...
Landscape Biographies
(2014)
Landscape Biographies explores the long, complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. Twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which ...
Ethiek van DNA tot 9/11
(2005)
Are there limits to cultural diversity? Does an animal have rights? Do we overlook the implications of stem cell technology? Do the public media have their own accountability? Does sport go together with gene therapy? Is ...
Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China
(2019)
With its emergence as a global power, China aspires to transform from Ÿmade in ChinaŒ to Ÿcreated in ChinaŒ. Mobilised as a crucial source for solid growth and Ÿsoft power,Œ creativity has become part of the new China ...
Visualizing the Street: New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City
(2018)
From user generated images of street protests in Istanbul and Hong Kong, to professional architectural renderings of future streets, to GPS-tracked walks in London and Amsterdam, and the visualisation of Sydney's urban ...
Seeing the City
(2020)
The city is a complex object. Some researchers look at its shape, others at its people, animals, ecology, policy, infrastructures, buildings, history, art, or technical networks. Some researchers analyse processes of in- ...
World of Difference
(2017)
Public debates tend to see social inequality as resulting from individual decisions people make, for instance with respect to their education or lifestyle. Solutions are often sought in supporting individuals to make better ...
Chapter Het VOC-verleden van Cornelis Pronk en Thomas Hope – Chinees porselein en Sri Lankaans roofgoed als stille getuigen
(2024)
This article deals with two objects of art and history. They are considered here as silent witnesses of the VOC antecedents of two Dutch Mennonites in Amsterdam: Cornelis Pronk and Thomas Hope. They were employed by the ...
Synode over gewetensvrijheid
(2008)
This book (A Conclave on the Freedom of Conscience) is an account of a fictitious dialogue on religion. Coornhert depicts representatives from the various religious camps whom he sometimes cites literally (including Beza, ...
The Crisis Imperative
(2005)
The Netherlands and Belgium exemplified the pathology of 'welfare without work' that characterized continental welfare states - until a political crisis in both countries produced a surprising divergence in scope and extent ...
Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy
(2002)
Pottery made in the aegean during the Late Bronze Age has been found widely distributed in many parts of the Mediterranean. At some four hundred sites outside Greece, Mycenaean dinner and storage vessels, as well as some ...
Postcolonial Netherlands
(2011)
The Netherlands is home to one million citizens with roots in the former colonies Indonesia, Suriname and the Antilles. Entitlement to Dutch citizenship, pre-migration acculturation in Dutch language and culture as well ...
Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages: Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities
(2019)
The history of medieval learning has been studied both as a vertical master-student phenomenon, and as part of a broad 'educational environment'. This volume centers on the ways in which cohabiting peers learned and taught ...
Herscheppen
(2022)
Imitating models was the main early modern poetical principle. This study discusses Dutch novelistic prose translated from three European bestsellers: François de Bellesforest’s Histoires Tragiques (translation 1612), John ...
Europe's Invisible Migrants
(2002)
Following the decolonization movements that swept the globe after World War II, between four and six million people were 'returned' to Europe from the colonies. From an exporter of people, Europe turned to a site of ...
Mappae Mundi
(2002)
Never before in history was the interaction between people and their natural environment as complex and problematic as it is today. A proliferation of scientific research has yielded valuable insights into various aspects ...
Educational Reception in Rotterdam and Barcelona: Policies, Practices and Gaps
(2014)
The reception of newcomer youngsters by schools constitutes a policy issue in Europe already for decades. This book deals with how practitioners in Rotterdam and Barcelona apply existing policies for the reception of ...
Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT 7)
(2008)
This volume collects together revised papers originally presented at the 7th Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT 2006). LOFT is a key venue for presenting research at the intersection ...
Battlefields of Negotiation
(2013)
The massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft has become one of the most popular computer games of the past decade, introducing millions around the world to community-based play. Within the boundaries ...
Hiding Making - Showing Creation
(2013)
The aim of Hiding Making - Showing Creation is twofold. In the first instance, we seek to trace the Nachleben of these studio
topoi from the nineteenth century to today, in particular focusing on
how artists have employed ...
Persuasive Gaming in Context
(2021)
The rapid developments of new communication technologies have facilitated the popularization of digital games, which has translated into an exponential growth of the game industry in the last decades. The ubiquitous presence ...
Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World
(2017)
Maritime trade is the backbone of the world’s economy. Around ninety percent of all goods are transported by ship, and since World War II, shipbuilding has undergone major changes in response to new commercial pressures ...
Perfect Worlds
(2011)
Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses finally the rise of dystopian writing – a negative expression of ...
Sign Here!
(2006)
Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of New Media features a number of articles from different fields, reaching from cultural and media studies to literature, film and art, and from philosophy and information studies to law ...
Onze Revolutie
(2023)
Our Revolution contains a selection of translated Indonesian articles about the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) and the significance of that revolution for the development of the nation. The articles - written by ...
Onze Revolutie
(2023)
Our Revolution contains a selection of translated Indonesian articles about the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) and the significance of that revolution for the development of the nation. The articles - written by ...
Chapter Musea voor een betere wereld
(2023)
Over the last forty years, ‘the world’ has entered ‘the museum’. Collections and presentations that were supposed to be self-evident had to be reconsidered. This chapter demonstrates that two more or less simultaneous ...
Orchestrating Public Opinion
(2017-12-21)
Orchestrating Public Opinion for the first time examines in detail music's persuasive role in political ads for US presidential campaigns.
Studies on political ads tend to consider music something of an afterthought, ...
Orchestrating Public Opinion
(2017-12-21)
Orchestrating Public Opinion for the first time examines in detail music's persuasive role in political ads for US presidential campaigns.
Studies on political ads tend to consider music something of an afterthought, ...
Battlefields of Negotiation
(2013)
The massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft has become one of the most popular computer games of the past decade, introducing millions around the world to community-based play. Within the boundaries ...
Herscheppen
(2022)
Imitating models was the main early modern poetical principle. This study discusses Dutch novelistic prose translated from three European bestsellers: François de Bellesforest’s Histoires Tragiques (translation 1612), John ...
Gaps and Dummies
(2005)
In this study the syntactic properties of empty categories and dummy pronouns are investigated within the framework of Government-Binding theory. The assumption that clauses must have a subject is present in most, if not ...
The Family in Question
(2008)
The family lives of immigrants and ethnic minority populations have become central to arguments about the right and wrong ways of living in multicultural societies. While the characteristic cultural practices of such ...
Missionary Men in the Early Modern World
(2020)
How did gender shape the expanding Jesuit enterprise in the early modern world? What did it take to become a missionary man? And how did missionary masculinity align itself with the European colonial project? This book ...
The Making of the Humanities, Volume III. The Modern Humanities
(2014)
This comprehensive history of the humanities focuses on the modern period (1850-2000). The contributors, including Floris Cohen, Lorraine Daston and Ingrid Rowland, survey the rise of the humanities in interaction with the ...
Migration and Integration Research
(2013)
Rinus Penninx's groundbreaking work has helped to systematise and classify existing research in the field of migration and ethnic studies. His heuristic model makes an important distinction between immigration and integration ...
The Making of the Humanities, Volume III. The Modern Humanities
(2014)
This comprehensive history of the humanities focuses on the modern period (1850-2000). The contributors, including Floris Cohen, Lorraine Daston and Ingrid Rowland, survey the rise of the humanities in interaction with the ...
Chapter Geleerde weerloosheid
(2024)
In the oldest Mennonite books on faith education, defenselessness and revenge are not initially topics that parents present to their children. The rejection of violence comes up only when the educators are teaching their ...
Of Reynaert the Fox
(2009)
The mid thirteenth-century Dutch beast epic Van den vos Reynaerde is a fascinating reworking of the most popular branch of the Old French Roman de Renart and one of the finest examples of this popular genre, consisting of ...
De kredietcrisis
(2010)
Public administration; Economics; Political science
Dynamics of Power in Dutch Integration Politics
(2012)
Integration politics in the Netherlands has changed dramatically between 1990 and 2005. Whereas ethnic and religious differences were hitherto pacified through accommodation, a new and increasingly powerful current in Dutch ...
Dynamics of Power in Dutch Integration Politics
(2012)
Integration politics in the Netherlands has changed dramatically between 1990 and 2005. Whereas ethnic and religious differences were hitherto pacified through accommodation, a new and increasingly powerful current in Dutch ...
Odd Couples
(2011)
The concept of marriage as a union of a man and a woman was fundamentally challenged by the introduction of registered partnership in Denmark in 1989. "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789052603810">Odd ...
Het heilige huis
(2006)
Culture and history; Literature (Belles lettres) and rhetoric; Culture and institutions
Decline of the Corporate Community
(2007)
From its inception, big business in the western industrialised world has been organised in national business communities. Central elements of these business communities are corporate board interlocks that constitute the ...
Odd Couples
(2011)
The concept of marriage as a union of a man and a woman was fundamentally challenged by the introduction of registered partnership in Denmark in 1989. "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789052603810">Odd ...
Nederlandse elites in de twintigste eeuw
(2004)
Sociology
De perfecte verleiding
(2004)
Music; Stage presentations; History of Amsterdam
Chapter Signalementen
(2024)
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(2024)
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Persuasive Gaming in Context
(2021)
The rapid developments of new communication technologies have facilitated the popularization of digital games, which has translated into an exponential growth of the game industry in the last decades. The ubiquitous presence ...
Islam on the Move
(2012)
Much nuance and variability have been lost in the process of the reductivist analysis of Islam post 9/11 and, as this study amply demonstrates, we are all the poorer as a result. This exhaustive examination of the rise and ...