Name: PUR Facts - Thea van Oosten - eBook (9789048512072)
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PUR Facts - Thea van Oosten - eBook (9789048512072)

Flexible Polyurethane (PUR) foams, in use since the 1950s and familiar from furniture upholstery and other domestic textiles, can be found in museum collections in numerous art and design objects. However, these exhibits pose severe conservation problems due to the ageing of the foam caused by photo-oxidation, leading to discoloration, loss of strength and fl exibility, and fi nally the crumbling of the object. This defi nitive work outlines the most up-to-date methods of restoring fl exibility of older foams and protecting new foams from degradation by coating them with stabilising systems acting effectively as a `sunblock. The author, an experienced conservator, describes the research involved in developing the new methods and their impact on the visual, textural and chemical properties of treated PUR foams. One of the chapters details the preparation and application of the light stabilizing system to PUR foams.

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De tapuit - Herman van Oosten - eBook (9789045036526)

In ‘De tapuit’ beschrijft bioloog Herman van Oosten zijn onderzoek naar en bevindingen over een van zijn meest geliefde vogels. De tapuit dwingt van oudsher grote bewondering af: geen ander zangvogeltje legt namelijk zo’n grote afstand af tussen broedplaats en overwinteringsgebied. Want hoewel tapuiten over de hele wereld broeden, zelfs in Canada en Alaska, overwinteren ze allemaal in Afrika. In de broedtijd kun je tapuiten zingend in de lucht zien vliegen. Tenminste, als je je best doet. De tapuit was een veelvoorkomende broedvogel op ons platteland, in de duinen en op de heide, maar tegenwoordig broeden er hooguit nog driehonderd paartjes in Nederland. Alleen in het voorjaar zijn de vogels hier nog talrijk, als ze vanuit Afrika doortrekken naar hun noordelijker broedgebieden en even in Nederland blijven om aan te sterken. De tapuit is te herkennen aan zijn staart: daarop vind je een omgekeerde T.

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Christian Divination in Late Antiquity - Robert Wisniewski - eBook (9789048541010)

In Late Antiquity, people commonly sought to acquire knowledge about the past, the present, and the future, using a variety of methods. While early Christians did not doubt that these methods worked effectively, in theory they were not allowed to make use of them. In practice, people responded to this situation in diverse ways. Some simply renounced any hope of learning about the future, while others resorted to old practices regardless of the consequences. A third option, however, which emerged in the fourth century, was to construct divinatory methods that were effective yet religiously tolerable. This book is devoted to the study of such practices and their practitioners, and provides answers to essential questions concerning this phenomenon. How did it develop? How closely were Christian methods related to older, traditional customs? Who used them and in which situations? Who offered oracular services? And how were they treated by the clergy, intellectuals, and common people?

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Colonizing, decolonizing, and globalizing Kolkata - Siddhartha Sen - eBook (9789048530687)

This is a unique book about architecture, urban design, and urban planning in Kolkata from the late seventeenth century to the turn of the twenty-first century, told in the context of India. The author presents a new interpretive history of the transformation of a colonial city into a Marxist one and its attempt to become a global city. Drawing from multiple theories such post-structuralism; theories of dependent urbanism; Marxist political economy; postcolonial theory; contemporary urban theory; and studies of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs), Community Based Organizations (CBOs), and civil society, the book positions architecture, urban design, and urban planning in Kolkata's political economy and social milieu. The author employs critical ethnographical and other qualitative methods to narrate the amazing saga of Kolkata's urbanism. The book is accessible to a wide-ranging audience and is visually rich.

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Ten oosten van de afgrond - Thomas Engström - eBook (9789026333071)

Ten oosten van de afgrond is de vierde deel in de prijswinnende Ludwig Licht-serie over barkeeper, problem solver en voormalig Stasi-agent Ludwig Licht. Eerder verschenen in het kwartet van Thomas Engström Ten westen van de vrijheid, Ten zuiden van de hel en Ten noorden van het paradijs. Tbilisi, juli 2016. Zakenvrouw Pauline Hollister draagt een aantal duistere geheimen met zich mee. Ze wendt zich tot Ludwig Licht, die nu werkt voor een bewakingsdienst in Georgië. Maar voor ze iets kan onthullen, verdwijnt ze. Tegelijkertijd brokkelt de Kaukasische republiek af. Terroristische aanslagen treffen de hoofdstad, en de dreiging van het machtige Rusland wordt steeds groter. Wat wilde Hollister vertellen? Welke krachten heeft ze in gang gezet? Op het kruispunt tussen Oost en West, Noord en Zuid, het christendom en de islam wordt Ludwig geconfronteerd met zijn meest rücksichtslose vijand ooit: een van zijn voormalige chefs van de Oost-Duitse Stasi. Het is tijd voor een laatste, wanhopige st…

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We love beef - Alain Caron, Richard van Oostenbrugge - eBook (9789048827565)

Let op: Epub3 fixed lay-out, niet geschikt voor e-reader. In We Love Beef laten chefs Alain Caron en Richard van Oostenbrugge zien hoe veelzijdig én veelomvattend een rund is. In hun recepten gebruiken ze alles, van tong tot staart, van borst tot haas. Als je rundvlees koopt van topkwaliteit, geniet je van meer dan alleen biefstuk en burgers. We Love Beef is gelardeerd met foto's van Richard en Alain in Engeland, waar ze gepassioneerde veeboeren en slagers bezochten, door Londen scharrelden speurend naar rundvlees en daar van alles aantroffen; van een memorabele bagel met pekelvlees in de ochtend, runderlever met uien for lunch, tot de beste steaks van de stad in de avond. Extra: Een uitgebreid beef-abc. 'Deze bereidingen met beef door Alain en Richard zijn smaakvol, met lef en respect voor het mooie product bereid. Voor iedereen die rundsvlees adoreert en dit zelf graag klaarmaakt voor de mooie momenten in het leven.' - Sergio Herman 'Toen ik bij The Fat Duck werkte, was chef Hesto…

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What does Tropical Medicine stand for today? - Martin Peter Grobusch - eBook (9789048514571)

The Tropics in geographical and astronomical terms simply refers to the area between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer; Tropical Medicine as a discipline, however, whose origins date back at least to the age of exploration, remains ill-defined and encompasses a wealth of different medical specialties and scientific areas, forming altogether the highly dynamic field of Medicine in the Tropics. The Tropencentrum within Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine and AIDS at the Amsterdam Medical Center contributes together with numerous partners and collaborators worldwide to the broad field of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine through a wealth of clinical care, teaching and research activities in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and abroad. Martin Peter Grobusch is Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam. He previously held the Chair of Infectious Diseases at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and remain…

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Higher Education in 2040 - Bert van der Zwaan - eBook (9789048535170)

This book explores the future of modern higher education by looking at it on a global scale. Bert van der Zwaan compares European developments with those taking place in North America and Asia to argue that the phoenix of an entirely new type of university will rise from the ashes of the classical system: less tied to buildings and set locations, the new university will embed itself more deeply in society by offering innovative forms of digital knowledge and making customized teaching available on demand. A timely discussion of a topic whose worldwide impact continues to grow, this is essential reading for anyone concerned about the state of higher education-both for today's students and in the decades to come.

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Movie Circuits - Gabriel Menotti - eBook (9789048527540)

Movie Circuits is a book about cinema; more precisely, it is about how technological changes are negotiated within the operation of the medium, thus resulting in the preservation, obsolescence and expansion of its conventional apparatus. Based on an active effort to take distance from traditional disciplines, the author produces scholarship from the standpoint of the flusserian functionaries of the apparatus. He deploys his empirical, hands-on experience with the medium underpinnings, both as a projectionist and a curator, as a form of practice-based approach able to pierce through the veils of the scientific paradigm and medial ideology alike, in order to better comprehend the relationship between moving image and media technology. Departing from the modes of organization of cinema promoted by different cultural practices, from art making to piracy, the volume does a critical revision of current theories, putting into question the institutional character of medium ontology.

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The global city debate reconsidered - Jeroen van der Waal - eBook (9789048525409)

It is hard to overestimate the scholarly impact of Saskia Sassen's theorising on the 'global city', which revolves around the impact of economic globalisation on the social, economic, and political reality of cities in advanced economies. Yet, more than two decades of research dedicated to a 'global city debate' have left its main issues unresolved. In The Global City Debate Reconsidered, Jeroen van der Waal argues that this is because scholars have hitherto merely used theorising on the global city for interpreting urban change, while neglecting to systematically assess the empirical validity of this theoretical framework. In order to enable rigorous empirical scrutiny, Van der Waal unravels the global city debate into various distinct theoretical propositions, and relates these to competing theoretical notions of Richard Florida, Edward Glaeser, Chris Hamnett, and others. The resulting fresh hypotheses are tested by using data on one of the most urbanised and globalised developed eco…

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