Author: Willem Otterspeer
Publisher: Amsterdam University Pre
Keywords: university, press, leiden, amsterdam, academic, yesterday, bastion, liberty
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2009-02-15
List price: $69.50
ISBN-10: 9087280300
ISBN-13: 9789087280307

Leiden University was founded as an institution that would embody a particular set of academic ethics that sought to improve society through the acquisition of knowledge. In this volume, author Willem Otterspeer draws on the idea of Leiden as a “bastion of liberty” and proposes that concepts such as “equilibrium” and “scale” are key to understanding the university as an institution, ultimately showing how universities are a form of social capital, one of Western society’s answers to the dilemma of collective action, and an instrument for preserving and restoring continuity in the

Author: Willem Otterspeer
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: leiden, university, vol, history, studies, oriental, connections
Number of Pages: 391
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $231.00
ISBN-10: 9004090223
ISBN-13: 9789004090224

Authors:Willem van Reijen, Willem G. WESTSTEIJN,
Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
Keywords: studies, critical, garde, avant, subjectivity
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-01
List price: $124.50
ISBN-10: 9042007389
ISBN-13: 9789042007383

Subjectivity is one of the central issues of twentieth-century philosophy, literature and art. Modernism, which "discovered" the subconscious, put an end to the belief in the Cartesian Subject as the autonomous centre of knowledge and self-consciousness. Instead, the subject became something uncontrollable, unreliable, incomplete and fragmentary. The attempts to recapture the unity of the subject led to the existential quest and the flight into ideology (nazism, communism).Postmodernism, the cultural movement of the second half of the twentieth century, did not consider the subject any longe

Authors:Willem Melching, Willem Melching, Wyger Velema,
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Keywords: essays, history, cultural, trends, main
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1994-01
List price: $58.50
ISBN-10: 9051837453
ISBN-13: 9789051837452

Author: Mo Willem
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Keywords: finds, pigeon
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2004-05-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0786818697
ISBN-13: 9780786818693

Sesame Street veteran and Emmy Award-winner Mo Willems returns with a fast, funny follow-up to Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!--only this time, the short-tempered pigeon faces his perfect foil in a "special guest star" duckling. In the previous Pigeon book, author and illustrator Willems expertly distilled the escalating emotions of preschoolers all too anxious to get their way. The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog--also a simple and sparsely illustrated story--explores the flip side of that coin, exposing the poker-face persuasive powers of young negotiators. The pigeon just wants to greedily

Author: Eys Willem J. van
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: french, fran�ais, basque, dictionnaire
Number of Pages: 470
Published: 2009-05-20
List price: $36.75
ISBN-10: 1110289294
ISBN-13: 9781110289295

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Author: Jan Willem Blankert
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: china, world, general, scientific, series, business, century, asia, rise, west, rising, cope, real, term, challenge
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-05-26
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 9812837957
ISBN-13: 9789812837950

Why do some countries get rich and other countries don’t? Does one country’s gain mean another country’s loss? How do we address the biggest challenge of all: the fact that our environment suffers when we all want to have our share of the cake? These key questions in international economics and business are addressed in this timely book. Covering issues such as economic growth, the drivers of economic growth and international competition, pollution and the division of labor, the book focuses on China’s emergence, but examples of other countries provide context and persp