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Author
Publisher
Kuperard
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Culture Smart! will help you navigate the cultural terrain and get closer to its beating heart. Insights into the people's values, attitudes, codes and customs - and the key historical events that have shaped them - will help you make sense of your experiences and approach them with understanding. Each guide also includes many tips on what to expect in certain situations, and on good communication - both verbal and non-verbal.
Author
Publisher
KITLV Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
World War I had just broken out, but colonial authorities in the Netherlands Indies heaved a sigh of relief: The colonial export sector had not collapsed and war offered new economic prospects; representatives from the Islamic nationalist movement had prayed for God to bless the Netherlands but had not seized upon the occasion to incite unrest. Furthermore, the colonial government, impressed by such shows of loyalty, embarked upon a campaign to create...
Author
Publisher
Springer Open
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Governments have known since the 1960s that smoking results in irreversible health damage. This open-access book examines why governments have done so little to combat this when they have been aware of the problem and its solutions for decades. What are the strategies and decisions that make a difference, given that policy environments are often not conducive to change? Taking the Netherlands as an example, this book helps to understand the complex...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
excerpt from GENERAL INTRODUCTION
A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of these volumes—on the one-hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
excerpt from GENERAL INTRODUCTION
A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of these volumes—on the one-hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip.
Author
Publisher
WRR
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This study focuses on the attitude of Dutch citizens to the euro, the European Union (EU) and the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and other institutions, based on the psychology of economic preferences, awareness and behavior. The series of WRR web publications includes studies that have been produced as part of the work of the WRR. The responsibility for the content and the positions taken rests with the authors
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Art of Staying Neutral offers a fascinating insight into the problems and challenges associated with neutrality in an age of 'total war'. It explains how the Netherlands upheld and protected its non-belligerency during the First World War despite constant interference from its warring neighbours. Staying neutral was an artform that the Dutch managed to master through clever diplomacy, conscientious adherence to international laws, comprehensive...
8) Women and the Colonial State: Essays on Gender and Modernity in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Woman and the Colonial State deals with the ambiguous relationship between women of both the European and the Indonesian population and the colonial state in the former Netherlands Indies in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on new data from a variety of sources: colonial archives, journals, household manuals, children's literature, and press surveys, it analyses the women-state relationship by presenting five empirical studies on subjects,...
Author
Publisher
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
How do states respond to the new diversity? Providing a striking image of societal accommodation through the prism of cemeteries, this book compares state responses to Muslim and humanist burial needs. Such accommodation is typically understood in terms of national models. French laïcité, Dutch pillarization, or Norwegian establishment, authors argue, explain how these countries react to newcomers. This book shows that, upon closer scrutiny, policy...
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Dutch second generation of Turkish and Moroccan origin is coming of age and making a transition from education to the labour market. This first publication of the TIES Project (Towards the Integration of the European Second Generation) studies the social situation and views of this ethnic group, drawing on the research carried out in Amsterdam and Rotterdam in 2006-07 among the Dutch-born children of immigrants from Turkey and Morocco and a comparison...
12) All about flags
Author
Publisher
Cicada Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that the flag of the USA was inspired by that of the East India Company - a private shipping company that traded in the spoils of the British Empire? Do you know what the black star on the flag of Ghana means? Or why the Russian flag looks similar to that of the Netherlands? Find the answers to these questions and more in this gorgeously presented, accessible atlas of flags. Through simple designs and colours, national flags can tell...
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A vital source of solace and compassion for those whose loved one has dementia, rooted in the author's unflinching experience of caring for her mother."--Provided by publisher.
Dementia enters life through the back door, slipping in unnoticed. Once it's there, it can make you feel powerless, angry, and unsure how to move forward. When her mother developed dementia, Helmink wasn't prepared. As she learned firsthand, when your loved one is suffering,...
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Language
English
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Description
"Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully disrupts the constraints of race, gender, and disability. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings held within love, time, and...
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