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Michiel Meeusen Plutarch's science of natural problems
a study with commentary on quaestiones naturales
The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era. In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, meteorology and their respective subdisciplines. By...
Non-fictie
Engels | 556 pagina's (PDF, 2,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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A versatile gentleman
consistency in Plutarch's writing; studies offered to Luc van der Stockt on the occasion of his retirement
Essays on erudite versatility in Plutarch's works. Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober...
Non-fictie
Engels | 310 pagina's (PDF, 1,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Everyday life practices of Muslims in Europe
Bijdragen over de dagelijkse gewoonten van moslims in Europa.
Non-fictie
Engels | 234 pagina's (PDF, 1,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Greg Houwer Into the white
Kafka and his metamorphoses
Into the White lays bare a hidden overall logic in Kafka's work. Instead of restoring an initial but perturbed balance - the standard pattern for a piece of fiction -, Kafka's characters always do the opposite: they do everything they can to maintain the imbalance. The book shows how this should be linked to Kafka's own attitude as a writer. Writing, for Kafka, always gave birth to promises that could not be kept. It opens up gates that the writer is not allowed to enter. In the stories that deal...
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub, 0,3 MB | Acco, Leuven | 2011
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H. Dornseiffen Beelden van zorg
geestelijke verzorging zichtbaar gemaakt
Foto's over de geestelijke verzorging in zorginstellingen zoals ziekenhuizen en verpleeghuizen.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 64 pagina's | Kok, Kampen | 2008
Gedrukt boek
Marten Visser Conversion growth of protestant churches in Thailand
Non-fictie
Engels | 298 pagina's | Boekencentrum, Zoetermeer | 2008
Gedrukt boek
L. Welchman Women and Muslim family laws in Arab states
a comparative overview of textual development and advocacy
Drawing on original legal texts and explanatory statements as well as extensive state-based secondary literature, Welchman places these discussions in a contemporary global context that internationalizes the domestic and regional particularities of Muslim family law. Accompanied by a full bibliography and an appendix providing translated extracts of the laws under examination Women and Muslim Family Law considers laws from the Gulf States to North Africa in order to illustrate the legal, social,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 254 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2007
Gedrukt boek
Uwe Hummel | Tuhoni Telaumbanua Cross and adu
a socio-historical study on the encounter between Christianity and the indigenous culture on Nias and the Batu Islands, Indonesia (1865-1965)
Non-fictie
Engels | 447 pagina's | Boekencentrum, Zoetermeer | 2007
Gedrukt boek
Jan Dirk Blom Deconstructing schizophrenia
an analysis of the epistemic and nonepistemic values that govern the biomedical schizophrenia concept
Non-fictie
Engels | 301 pagina's | Boom, Amsterdam | 2003
Gedrukt boek