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SCIENCE
POLITICAL SCIENCE / asian studies
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Gravity Does Not Exist
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The Malaysian Islamic Party 1951-2013 Foreign Policies and Diplomacies in Asia
FILM AND MEDIA
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BUSINESS STUDIES
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Technē/Technology Fellini Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity
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The Essence of Scenarios The Big Reset
CULTURAL STUDIES / ARCHITECTURE
SOCIAL SCIENCE
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Fabricating the Absolute Fake Religious Architecture
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ARCHEOLOGY 6 The Archaeology of South-East Italy 6
in the 1st Millennium BC Identity and Power
ART HISTORY
8 Mediating Netherlandish Art and 9
Material Culture in Asia Confronting the Golden Age
Making Migration Work 12 Older Workers 12 Prolonged Employment of Older Workers 18 Work and Care under Pressure 18 Early School Leaving & Youth Unemployment 19 Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism 19 Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia 20 Religion in Dutch Society 2005 LINGUISTICS 20 Syntax of Dutch: Adjectives and
Adjective Phrases
HISTORY 7
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Emerging Memory Seeking Peace in the Wake of War This Cannot Happen Here
POLITICAL SCIENCE
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Sales and order information Sales representation
10 The Domestic Sources of European Foreign Policy
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Vincent Icke
Gravity Does Not Exist
GRAVITY DOES NOT EXIST VINCENT ICKE
A Puzzle for the 21st Century Every scientific fact was born as an opinion, gradually becoming fact as evidence piles up to support a theory. But what if there are two theories that correspond to the phenomena but can’t be combined into one? One theory replaced the mystery of gravity with a model of space and time. The other theory replaced the mystery of matter with a description of quantum particles. As we understand our universe, we keep each in its own domain: space and time for very large things, particles for very small ones. However, 13.8 billion years ago, those two incompatible domains belonged to a single realm. Who will crack this seemingly impossible puzzle?
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Combining robust scientific argument with intellectual playfulness, Icke succeeds in making a notoriously difficult subject accessible to all readers interested in understanding our universe.
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Vincent Icke is professor of theoretical astrophysics at Leiden University, professor of cosmology at the University of Amsterdam, visual artist and writer.
Icke takes on Einstein’s theory of gravitation and succeeds beyond one’s expectations. Martin Veltman Nobel Prize winner in Physics
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Edited by Annie van den Oever THE KEY DEBATES
Technē European / Technology Film Studies Mutations and Appropriations in
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FILM AND MEDIA
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Sam Stourdzé
Fellini “There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.” Federico Fellini’s career spanned forty years and made him perhaps the most illustrious of all the Italian filmmakers. This stunningly designed volume taps into the sources of Fellini’s baroque imagination bringing the power of his work into the limelight, and providing new insights into the dazzling talent of the man behind La Strada, La Dolce Vita and 8½. The book is organised in four parts. Popular Culture focuses on Fellini’s engagement with the popular culture of his time. Fellini at Work shows the director on the set. The City of Women celebrates Fellini’s most important subject and obsession: Woman, in all her many guises. Finally, Biographical Imagination presents his various film personae, with particular focus on his ‘Book of Dreams’. Packed with images and quotes, this unique book offers a magical journey through the director’s compelling universe.
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Sam Stourdzé is the director of the Musée de
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l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland and specialises
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in photography.
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Edited by Jaap Kooijman
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America in Contemporary Pop Culture
Oskar Verkaaik is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the university of Amsterdam.
“Compelling and thought provoking collection of essays by anthropologists on religious architecture that shed new theoretical light on the relation between the material and immaterial in the realm of religion in our so-called secular world.” Jojada Verrips, em. professor of Cultural anthropology, university of Amsterdam
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Edited by Oskar Verkaaik
156 x 234 mm 230 pages ISBN 978 90 8964 511 1 e-ISBN 978 90 4851 834 0 €29.95 / £24.50
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American pop culture dominates the world through its hegemonic presence. This fascinating study applies elements of postmodern theory to this globally mediated phenomenon to examine both the culture itself and its Dutch wake. Exploring how other cultures create their own “America”, the author reflects on what it might mean to truly take part in American popular culture.
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Religious Architecture
Fabricating the Absolute Fake
Religious Architecture: Anthropological Perspectives develops new anthropological perspectives on religious architecture, including mosques, churches, temples and synagogues. Borrowing from a range of theoretical perspectives on space-making and material religion, this volume looks at how religious buildings take their place in opposition to the secular surroundings and the neoliberal city; how they, as evocations of the sublime, help believers to move beyond the boundaries of modern subjectivity; and how international heritage status may conflict with their function as community centres. The volume includes contributions from a range of anthropologists, social historians, and architects working in Brazil, India, Italy, Mali, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, and the uk.
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Jaap Kooijman is assistant professor of media and culture and
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Oskar Verkaaik is associate professor at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam.
230 pages
Compelling and thought-provoking collection of essays that shed new light on the relation between the material and immaterial in the realm of religion in our so-called secular world.
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Jojada Verrips
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Emeritus professor of cultural anthropology,
€34.95 / £28.50
University of Amsterdam
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CULTURAL STUDIES / ARCHITECTURE
Michael Cowan
Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity
FILM CULTURE
IN TRANSITION
Avant-garde – Advertising – Modernity The name Walter Ruttmann recalls enthralling and often controversial contexts. A leading figure of the interwar avant-garde, Ruttmann enriched the language of the cinema through numerous innovations in film form. His celebrated montage film Berlin. Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, 1927) is still seen as the quintessential documentary of urban life in the 1920s. But Ruttmann also made numerous propaganda films after 1933, even working alongside Leni Riefenstahl. The first monograph on Ruttmann in English, Cowan’s study presents the entire aspect of Ruttmann’s work, while also re-assessing his significance in the light of current transformations in film studies. Drawing on the growing interest in “useful” cinema and “sponsored film,” Cowan shows how Ruttmann’s films incorporated and enacted contemporary strategies for “managing” the multiplicities of mass society from Weimar democracy to National Socialism.
Walter
Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity Avant-garde – Advertising – Modernity
michael cowan Amsterdam University Press
Michael Cowan is associate professor at the
Film Culture in Transition
Department of German Studies and Program in World
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Cinemas at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Hardback 156 x 234 mm 340 pages 96 b/w illustrations ISBN 978 90 8964 585 2 e-ISBN 978 90 4852 189 0 €99.00 / £80.00
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Douwe Yntema
The Archaeology of South-East Italy in the 1st Millennium BC Greek and Native Societies of Apulia and Lucania between the 10th and the 1st Century BC
Amsterdam Archaeological Studies JANUARY Hardback 210 x 297 mm 312 pages 50 colour and 134 b/w illustrations ISBN 978 90 8964 579 1 e-ISBN 978 90 4852 187 6
The first millennium BC witnessed dazzling changes: in ninth- to tenth centuries BC the Mediterranean societies began to evolve from a great variety of mostly small entities of predominantly tribal nature until they became the enormous state known to us as the Roman Empire. The Archaeology of South-East Italy in the 1st Millennium BC offers a broad narrative, synthesising the available data and demonstrating how cultural, societal,
economic and landscape changes interacted, and how people adapted to their environment as distinct societies began to emerge. Douwe Yntema is professor of Mediterranean archaeology, member of the Research Institute CLUE at the VU University Amsterdam and fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
S t u d i e s A r c h a e o l o g i c a l
Manuel Fernández-Götz
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Manuel Fernández-Götz
Identity and Power the transformation in northeast gaul
A m s t e r d a m
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The Transformation of Iron Age Societies in Northeast Gaul
of iron age societies
Amsterdam University Press
Amsterdam Archaeological Studies FEBRUARY Hardback 210 x 297 mm 306 pages 48 colour and 95 b/w illustrations ISBN 978 90 8964 597 5 e-ISBN 978 90 4852 215 6 €79.00 / £64.00
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Identity and Power
ARCHAEOLOGY
This remarkable volume explores the transformation of Iron Age communities in northeast Gaul, giving special consideration to questions of social identity. It surveys the multi-dimensional levels of socio-political organisation, the cycles of centralisation and decentralisation, the origins of the La Tène culture, the emergence of the oppida, and the role of sanctuaries in the construction of collective identities.
Manuel Fernández-Götz is Chancellor’s Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology of the University of Edinburgh.
Paul Bijl
Emerging Memory Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance This incisive volume brings together post colonial studies, visual culture and cultural memory studies to explain how the Netherlands continues to rediscover its history of violence in colonial Indonesia. Dutch commentators have frequently claimed that the colonial past and especially the violence associated with it has been “forgotten” in the Netherlands. Uncovering “lost” photographs and other documents of violence has thereby become a recurring feature aimed at unmasking a hidden truth. The author argues that, rather than absent, such images have been consistently present in the Dutch public sphere and have been widely available in print, on television and now on the internet. Emerging Memory shows that between memory and forgetting there is a haunted zone from which pasts that do not fit the stories people live by keep on emerging and submerging while retaining their shadowy presence.
Emerging Memory Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance Pau l Bi j l
amsterdam university press
Paul Bijl is assistant professor of Dutch language
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and culture at the University of Amsterdam.
Hardback 156 x 234 mm 255 pages 42 b/w illustrations ISBN 978 90 8964 590 6 e-ISBN 978 90 4852 201 9 €89.00 / £64.00
HISTORY / ASIAN STUDIES
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THOMAS DACOSTA KAUFMANN AND MICHAEL NORTH (EDS. )
Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia
Amsterdam University Press
amsterdam studies in the dutch golden age
Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
Edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and Michael North
Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia While the socio-economic and historical aspects of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) have been extensively researched, the role of the VOC in visual culture and the arts has been relatively neglected. This authoritative volume addresses various aspects of cultural exchange between the Low Countries and Asia. Increased prosperity and the flood of imported goods from Asia had a huge influence on seventeenth-century Holland. To cite some examples: when the VOC spread its merchandise throughout the various regions of Asia, Chinese decorative motives became popular in Indonesia. After the lifting of the seventeenth-century ban on the import of Christian books to Japan, a wave of interest in Dutch culture hit the country, giving rise to Hollandmania, imitation of anything Dutch.
May Hardback 210 x 260 mm 432 pages 69 colour and 45 b/w illustrations ISBN 978 90 8964 569 2 e-ISBN 978 90 4851 986 6
Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia offers new insights into the world routes travelled by seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture, as well as the rise of Asian influence in the imagery of the Dutch Golden Age.
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Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann is Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Michael North is Professor and Chair of Modern History at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany. MAY Hardback
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ART HISTORY / ASIAN STUDIES
Junko Aono
Confronting the Golden Age
JUNKO AONO
Confronting the Golden Age
Imitation and Innovation in Dutch Genre Painting 1680-1750 Although a growing number of studies are being published on the Dutch art and society of 1680-1750, genre painting of this era continues to be dismissed as an uninspired repetition of the Dutch Golden Age. Grounded in close analysis of a range of paintings and primary sources, this beautifully illustrated study illuminates the main features of genre painting, and how these related to the painters’ close connections to, on the one hand, collectors, and on the other, to classicism, one of the dominant artistic styles of the time. Three case studies offer the first clear picture of the genre painting of the period while providing new insights into painters’ activities, collectors’ tastes and the contemporary art market. Junko Aono is associate professor of art history at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan.
Imitation and Innovation in Dutch Genre Painting 1680-1750
Amsterdam University Press amsterdam studies in the dutch golden age
Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age august Hardback
This study offers fresh insights into the art of the early eighteenth century and significantly alters our art-historical perception of this period. It is excellently written, well structured, and accessible.
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Koenraad Jonckheere
€79.00 / £64.00
272 pages 150 colour illustrations ISBN 978 90 8964 568 5 e-ISBN 978 90 4851 984 2
Assistant professor in Northern Renaissance and Baroque art at Ghent University
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Omar Serrano
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The Domestic Sources of Work Making Migration European Foreign Policy
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NE T HERLANDS SCI EN T I FIC COUNCI L FOR GOVERNMEN T POLIC Y
Defence and Enlargement
This book shows that the complexion of migration has changed. Most of the migrants who come to the Netherlands now are Europeans, many of them from Central and Eastern Europe. Some stay for good, and others return home after a shorter or longer stay. The Netherlands also welcomes a growing number of skilled professionals, many from outside Europe. Thanks to the eu’s open borders, migration policy has largely become a labour market issue.
This timely study considers the challenges of developing a foreign policy for a union of 27 states while taking national political processes into account. Serrano analyses the relevance of domestic political processes for the EU’s common policies and examines the democratic deficit in the EU foreign policy, thereby highlighting what is unique about it and reflecting on its possible evolution.
If we are to improve our migration policy, we must have a better understanding of the labour market structure in tomorrow’s globalising economy. Only then can we balance labour migration more effectively against other alternatives. Is it better to invest in training or to recruit employees from abroad? Will foreign workers even want to come to the Netherlands in future? And how can we adapt our integration policy to reflect the changing complexion of migration? That will require more from government and employers – and above all, from Brussels.
making migration work
The population of Europe is shrinking. Does that mean that we need more labour migrants? And will they adapt smoothly to our economy and society? Or has Europe already opened its doors too wide? Making Migration Work considers how labour migration policy in the Netherlands and the European Union should be developed, both now and in the future. Several internationally renowned researchers analyse current European labour migration flows and the related challenges.
156 x 234 mm 126 pages ISBN 978 90 8964 557 9 e-ISBN 978 90 4851 951 4 €24.95 / £21.50
Jan Willem Holtslag, Monique Kremer and Erik Schrijvers (eds.)
Making Migration Work The future of labour migration in the European Union
ISBN 978 90 8964 557 9
Amsterdam University Press • www.aup.nl
Omar Serrano is senior researcher and lecturer in political science at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.
amsterdam university press
Edited by Jan Willem Holtslag, Monique Kremer and Erik Schrijvers
Making Migration Work The Future of Labour Migration in the European Union
The Domestic Sources of European Foreign Policy Defence anD enlargement Omar Serrano AMS TERDAM UNIVER SIT Y PRESS
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The complexion of labour migration in the European Union has altered dramatically in recent decades. Not only has there been a shift in the length of time labour migrants spend abroad, but the nature, scale and direction of the migration flows have also changed dramatically. The enlargements of the EU in 2004 and 2007 were influential in this respect. The EU’s open internal borders made it easy for the migrants to return home or to move on to another member state. This publication considers what this means for the future of labour migration and how policy should address this issue.
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The editors are current or past members of the Scientific
200 pages
Council for Government Policy (WRR), an independent
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research body advising the Dutch government on policy issues.
e-ISBN 978 90 4851 832 6 €44.50 / £35.50
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SOCIAL SCIENCE
Angela Wilkinson and Roland Kupers
The Essence of Scenarios Learning from the Shell Experience
THE ESSENCE
In 1965 Royal Dutch Shell started experimenting with a different way of looking into the future: scenario planning. Shell’s practice has now survived for almost half a century and has had a huge influence on how businesses, governments, and other organisations think about and plan for the future. To produce this illuminating study, the authors interviewed almost every living veteran of the Shell scenario planning operation, along with top Shell executives through the years. They identify several principles that both define the process at Shell and help explain how it has thrived for so long. Angela Wilkinson is Counselor for Strategic Foresight with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Roland Kupers is an associate fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University and co-author of Complexity and the Art of Public Policy.
OF SCENARIOS
Learning from the Shell Experience ANGELA WILKINSON ROLAND KUPERS
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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
This is a major case study of scenario planning, something that is not easily available to the student of scenario planning.
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Kees van der Heijden
185 pages
Director and co-founder of the Global Business Network (GBN)
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and emeritus professor of Strathclyde University
e-ISBN 978 90 4852 209 5
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€29.95 / £24.50
Global scenarios are increasingly relevant in today’s fast moving, interdependent world than when they began to be developed 50 years ago. Uncertainty should not be an excuse for failing to shape a brighter future, but an incentive to pursue better policies for better lives. Angel Gurría Secretary-General, OECD
With unique access to all the Shell players, the research done by the authors Angela Wilkinson and Roland Kupers should be extremely useful for all those companies and governments that have already introduced or that will be introducing scenario planning in the near future. Arie de Geus Former Corporate Planning Director at Royal Dutch Shell
BUSINESS STUDIES
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Wieteke Conen
Older Workers The View of Dutch Employers in a European Perspective
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Prolonged employment of older workers
Determinants of managers’ decisions regarding hiring, retention and training
Kasia Karpinska
Netherlands Interdisciplinairy Demographic Institute
ISSN 0922-7210 ISBN 978-90-6984-666-8
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the attitudes and behaviour of Dutch employers with those of employers in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the UK. Wieteke Conen is researcher at the NIDI Institute in The Hague and at Utrecht University.
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What do employers consider to be the main consequences of ageing personnel? Have organisations been changing their recruitment and retention behaviour towards older workers over time? And what can governments do – according to employers – to increase labour force participation of older workers? This timely study addresses the employers’ perspective on an ageing workforce, considering and comparing
FEBRUARY Paperback 150 x 225 mm 144 pages ISBN 978 90 6984 666 8 €19.75 / £17.50
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SOCIAL SCIENCE
Prolonged Employment of Older Workers Determinants of Managers’ Decisions Regarding Hiring, Retention and Training Prolonged and productive employment of older workers is a necessary condition to maintain welfare and social security systems threatened by ageing populations. Yet not much is known about the factors that define the opportunities for older workers in the labour market. The current study has evaluated which individual characteristics of older workers, organisations and managers affect managers’ decisions to hire older workers, offer them training opportunities and retain them in organisations, as well as the
potential role of managers’ attitudes on their behaviour with respect to older workers. Kasia Karpinska is postdoctoral researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Willem Middelkoop
The Big Reset War on Gold and the Financial Endgame What is money really worth any more? This compelling study outlines the rise of ‘fiat’ money and its associated economic implications. The author provides enough circumstantial evidence to claim a secret War on Gold since the London Gold Pool of the 1960s, highlighting gold’s traditional role as the anchor of financial systems. To combat the economic fallout of the credit crisis, governments have allowed their budgetary deficit to increase dramatically. To redress that imbalance, they then have to sell enormous amounts of bonds. As investors stop buying bonds, central banks have to step up to the plate by printing more and more money. Piling more and more bad debt onto the balance sheets of central banks is not a sustainable way to revive the economy. Middelkoop highlights the process as part of our economic endgame which he predicts will eventually lead to a big reset of our worldwide financial system. Willem Middelkoop is an independent financial analyst and founder of
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An outstanding book about the coming transfer of the economic world power due to the decline of the world supremacy of the United States.
250 pages
Louk de Wilde
e-ISBN 978 90 4852 219 4
Former CEO at Fortis Switzerland
€19.95 / £14.95
137 x 215 mm 25 b/w illustrations ISBN 978 90 8964 599 9
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Edited by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Sandrine Kott, Peter Romijn, and Olivier Wieviorka
S t u d i e S o f t h e N e t h e r l a N d S i N S t i t u t e f o r Wa r d o c u m e N tat i o N
Seeking Peace in the Wake of War The Reconfiguration of Europe, 1943-1947 Until recently Europe in the wake of World War II has been studied mainly from the perspective of national states. A whole historiography has been built on studying how national elites worked to restore institutions, power positions and infrastructure in order to re-establish central authority within the territory assigned to each state at the end of the war. The contributors to this illuminating study argue that the issue how peace was conceived and constructed in the postwar period should be understood as an episode of ‘reconfiguration’ in each country, new arrangements were reached within the society, the state and with the international order. Working from an all-European perspective, the authors survey social life during emergency and transition as connected to reconfiguration at the regional, national and international levels. Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman is associate professor in the
Edited by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Sandrine Kott, Peter Romijn and Olivier Wieviorka
Seeking Peace in the Wake of War The Reconfiguration of Europe, 1943-1947
Ams terdam Univer sit y Press
Studies of the Netherlands Institute
Department of History at the University of California
for War Documentation
Berkeley.
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Sandrine Kott is professor of contemporary
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European history at Geneva University.
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Peter Romijn is Director of Research at the Institute
300 pages
for War-, Holocaust-, and Genocide Studies (NIOD) in
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Amsterdam and professor of history at the University
e-ISBN 978 90 4851 525 7
of Amsterdam.
€37.50 / £32.50
Olivier Wieviorka is professor of history at l’École normale supérieure in Cachan, France.
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HISTORY
Ben Braber
This Cannot Happen Here
THIS CANNOT HAPPEN HERE
IOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Ben Braber is an rs the question whether Honorary Research gration of Jews into Dutch Fellow in the School d their resistance to of Humanities of the ng the German occupation University of Glasgow. ds in the Second World War. He is a specialist social position of Jews and on integration of immigrants into modern determined Jewish resistance, Western European hts other factors such as societies and on Jewish This important study investigates stances that influenced resistance, two subjects nce took. For this purpose, whether and how the integration of Jews on which he has nd inclusive definition of published extensively. into Dutch society influenced their e, a specially designed ework of integration and resistance to persecution during the s to measure the speed and German occupation of the Netherlands ntegration process. It makes al comparisonsintothe bringSecond out World War. In addition to lly Dutch phenomena and the social position of Jews and their group s with the existing literature traitsthethat determined Jewish resistance, material to further debate istance. This book not thisisstudy highlights other factors that mprehensive study in English influenced the forms of their resistance. nce in the Netherlands aust, but it also offers a new For this purpose, the author uses a broad Dutch and Jewish history.
Integration and Jewish Resistance in the Netherlands, 1940-1945
Studies of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
THIS CANNOT HAPPEN HERE INTEGRATION AND JEWISH RESISTANCE IN THE NETHERLANDS, 1940-1945
ISBN 978 90 8964 583 8
Critically engaging with the existing literature and biographical material to further the debate about Jewish resist㤀 㜀㠀㤀 㠀㤀 㘀㐀㔀㠀㌀㠀 ance, this volume is not only the first www.aup.nl comprehensive study in English of Jewish resistance in the Netherlands during the Holocaust, but also proposes a new interpretation of Dutch and Jewish history.
Ben Braber
definition of Jewish resistance, applies a specially designed conceptual framework of integration and uses specific yardsticks to measure the speed and direction of the integration process.
Ben Braber
Studies of the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies JANUARY
Ben Braber is an Honorary Research Fellow in
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192 pages ISBN 978 90 8964 583 8 e-ISBN 978 90 4851 997 2 €79.00 / £64.00
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Farish A. Noor
Political Religion in asia
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The Malaysian Islamic Party 1951-2013 Islamism in a Mottled Nation The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS is the biggest opposition party in Malaysia today and one of the most prominent Islamist parties in Southeast Asia. This work recounts the historical development of PAS from 1951 to the present, and looks at how it has risen to become a political movement that is both local and transnational, tracking its rise from the Cold War to the age of the War on Terror, and its evolving ideological postures ̶ from anti-colonialism to post-revolutionary Islamism, as the party adapted itself to the realities of the postmodern global age. PAS’s long engagement with modernity and its nuanced approach to the goal of state capture is the focus of this work, as it recounts the story of the Islamist party and Malaysia by extension.
Farish A. Noor
The Malaysian Islamic Party 1951-2013 Islamism in a Mottled Nation
Farish A. Noor is associate professor for the Contemporary Islam Programme at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and
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member of the United Nations’ Alliance of Civilizations Panel of Global Experts on Religion and Politics in Asia.
Political Religion in Asia february Hardback 156 x 234 mm 268 pages ISBN 978 90 8964 576 0 e-ISBN 978 90 4852 181 4 €79.00 / £64.00
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Foreign Policies and Diplomacies in Asia Changes in Practice, Concepts, and Thinking in a Rising Region The observation of a rising Asia and its rapidly growing economic powerhouses has become a truism. These impressive economic development stories provide the backbone for the growing political assertiveness in the region. Asia’s economic prowess is rapidly being transferred onto the diplomatic stage. In the light of these larger developments, the authors of this timely volume investigate the regional and international implications of a rising Asia and problematise critical developments. The first section focuses on the lack of a proper regional security community in Asia. The second part analyses the usefulness of ‘Asia’ as a catch-all for very distinct subregions. While not denying the utility of the concept of Asia as one region, the authors support the need to maintain in parallel a clear focus on issues, approaches, and characteristics that are unique to sub-regions within the continent. A third group of authors probe the regional foreign policies of key players in the region, exploring the security strategies and diplomacies of major regional actors.
Edited by Matthias Maass
Foreign Policies and Diplomacies in Asia Changes in Practice, Concepts, and Thinking in a Rising Region Ams te rdam Uni ve r si t y Press
Global Asia january Hardback
Matthias Maass is assistant professor of international
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International Studies in Seoul, Korea.
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Work and Care under Pressure
Work and Care under Pressure
Care Arrangements across Europe
Care Arrangements across Europe
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European states representing different welfare regimes are experiencing tensions between changes in the labour market and the caring responsibilities of the households. This book contributes to the analysis of these tensions by focusing on carers “under pressure”, who have to juggle work and caring responsibilities. The authors investigate care arrangements set up by working parents of young children and of adults who hold a job while caring for their elderly relatives. Drawing on evidence from six European countries, they combine policy and family levels of analysis. This timely investigation of the
generations of men and women who take care of young children or/and elderly relatives while earning a living, is an essential resource for researchers, scholars and policymakers. Blanche Le Bihan is professor of political science at the School of Public Health (EHESP) in Rennes, France. Claude Martin is research professor at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Chair of Social Care at EHESP in Rennes, France. Trudie Knijn is professor of interdisciplinary social science and Head of the Centre of Social Policy and Intervention Studies at Utrecht University.
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Early School Leaving & Youth Unemployment Early school leaving and youth unemployment are top of the social and political agendas throughout Europe. More and more observers fear a ‘lost generation’ of young people who, by the combined effects of educational failure and chronic unemployment brought on by the continuing economic crisis, see their chances for a fulfilling and productive life seriously diminished. This important work draws on research of the P&V Foundation, a Brusselsbased body dedicated to combatting
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early school leaving and protracted youth unemployment. The authors come from a range of academic backgrounds such as sociology, economics, education and labour market studies. Saskia De Groof is coordinator of the P&V Foundation in Brussels, an organization that
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and chairman of the P&V Foundation.
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Yolande Jansen
Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism French Modernist Legacies
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This remarkable study develops a theoretical critique of contemporary discourses on secularism and assimilation, arguing that the perspective of assimilating distinct religious minorities by incorporating them into a secular and supposedly neutral public sphere may be self-subverting. To flesh out this insight, Jansen draws on the paradoxes of assimilation as experienced by the French Jews in the late 19th century through a contextualised reading of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. She proposes a dynamic, critical multiculturalism as an
alternative to discourses focusing on secularism, assimilation and integration. Yolande Jansen is Socrates Professor of Humanism at the VU University Amsterdam.
Jansen’s brilliant and insightful analysis draws on a variety of fields and lucidly shows how the crisis is a crisis in modernity. Subtly weaving Proust into the argument, she brings a dry subject to life. Brian Klug University of Oxford
Edited by Volker Gottowik
global asia
Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia Drawing on recent ethnographic research in Southeast Asia, the authors demonstrate how religious concepts contribute to meeting the challenges of modernity. Modernity is surrounded by an almost magic aura that casts a spell over people all over the world. In fourteen chapters, the authors demonstrate how religious concepts and magic practices contribute to meeting the challenges of modernity. Against this background, religion and modernity are no longer perceived as in contradiction: rather, it is argued that a revision of the western notion of
religion is required to understand the complexity of ‘multiple modernities’ in a globalised world. Volker Gottowik is associate professor at
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dynamics of religion in southeast asia
the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Heidelberg.
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Asian Heritages february Hardback 156 x 234 mm 225 pages ISBN 978 90 8964 424 4 e-ISBN 978 90 4851 627 8 €79.00 / £64.00
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Edited by Rob Eisinga et al.
The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the syntax of dutch, including advanced students of language and linguistics.
Comprehensive Grammar Resources
Comprehensive Grammar Resources Henk van Riemsdijk & István Kenesei, series editors
Religion in Dutch Society 2005 Hans Broekhuis is a researcher at the meertens Institute in Amsterdam.
Richard Larson, Professor of Linguistics at University of Stony Brook
Adjectives and Adjective Phrases
This project is, by all measures, an extraordinary one, both in conception and execution. to a remarkable degree the Syntax of Dutch project manages to harmonize demands of depth and breadth. In part this appears to be due to the highly systematic approach followed. I believe the Syntax of dutch project will ultimately become a model for comprehensive grammatical description in the years ahead.
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This volume provides the documentation of a national survey on religious and secular attitudes and behaviour in Dutch society in 2005. The data files as well as additional documentation can be downloaded “ from the online archiving system EASY of Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). DANS ” promotes sustained access to digital research data. In addition, the institute provides training and advice, and performs research into sustained access to digital information. DANS is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Syntax of
The volume Adjectives and Adjective Phrases discusses the internal make-up as well as the distribution of adjective phrases. topics that will be covered include: complementation and modification of adjective phrases; comparative and superlative formation; the attributive, predicative and adverbial uses of adjective phrases. Special attention is paid to the so-called partitive genitive construction and the adverbial use of past/passive participles and infinitives.
Comprehensive Grammar Resources
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Syntax of Dutch: Adjectives and Adjective Phrases Syntax of Dutch, to be published in at least seven volumes throughout 2012-2016, aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of this language. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language and linguistics. Topics covered include: complementation and modification of adjective phrases; comparative and superlative formation; the attributive, predicative and adverbial uses of adjective phrases.
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T he hum anness of heroes studies in the Conclusion of Virgil’s Aeneid
michael C.J. Putnam Amsterdam University Press
FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES ISBN 978 90 8964 291 2 e-ISBN 978 90 4851 383 3
ASIAN STUDIES ISBN 9789089644398 e-ISBN 978 90 4851 682 7
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Mutations and Appropriations in
Contributions by: Kay Armatage, Martin Barker, Raymond Bellour, Ranita Chatterjee, Ian Christie, Torben Grodal, Nicholas Hiley, Laurent Jullier, Frank Kessler, Jean-Marc Leveratto, Roger Odin, Annie van den Oever, Clara Pafort-Overduin, John Sedgwick, Tim J. Smith, Judith Thissen, Gregory A. Waller.
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A book on the spectator, today, is a challenge – if not a provocation. Cinema is relocating on new devices and in new environments: in its migration, it asks us to change our habits and our attitudes. Are we still spectators – or are we users, surfers, nostalgic buffs, technology experts, hackers and face-book friends? This book provides a deep insight in such a controversial situation, both at the theoretical and empirical level – retracing a history and facing a destiny. Francesco Casetti – Yale University
The Key Debates is a film series from Amsterdam University Press. The series’ ambition is to uncover the processes of appropriation and diffusion of key concepts that have shaped Film Studies. The series editors are: Ian Christie, Dominique Chateau, and Annie van den Oever.
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Essays on Cultural Resistance, Subversion, and Diversion
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AUDIENCES engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to the early interest of sociologists and psychologists, which was overtaken by concern with the “effects” of film, linked to calls for censorship rather than to understanding the mental and behavioral world of the spectator. Early cinema history has revealed the diversity of film-viewing habits, while traditional mass market box office analysis has given way to more sophisticated economic and sociological analysis of attendance data. And as the film experience fragments across multiple formats, the perceptual and cognitive experience of the individual viewer (who is also an auditor) becomes increasingly accessible. This book spans the spectrum of contemporary audience studies, revealing work being done on local, non-theatrical and live digital transmission audiences, and on the relative attraction of large-scale, domestic and mobile platforms.
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This textbook offers an advanced introduction to international migration studies from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Its main focus is on European experiences, thus filling a longstanding gap in this field. Unlike people, theories and concepts do not travel easily, meaning we cannot take for granted that research results are equally applicable on all continents. The first volume of the imiscoe (International Migration and Social Cohesion Research Network) Textbook Series answered the pressing need for a European perspective on migration. This 15-chapter second volume presents central topics in an accessible textbook format.
Northeast Migrants in Delhi Race, Refuge and Retail
Marco Martiniello is research director of the National Fund for Scientific Research (frs-fnrs) in Belgium and a professor of sociology and politics at the University of Liège, where he also serves as director of the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies (cedem). Jan Rath is a professor of urban sociology at the University of Amsterdam and associated with the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (imes) and the Center for Urban Studies at that university. “Anchored in the European experience of post-war migration, but with essays that extend far beyond, readers will benefit from up-to-date and reflective works on the key topics in the field.” Robin Cohen, University of Oxford “The imiscoe network includes many of the world’s foremost immigration scholars. The crème de la crème of them have contributed to this extraordinarily valuable book, which I will be assigning to my students for years to come.” Mark J. Miller, University of Delaware and author of The Age of Migration “A superb introduction to international migration studies. This well-designed collection of essays by first-rate scholars ... provides the most up-to-date review of migration theories and of major types of moves.” Joaquín Arango, Complutense University of Madrid
An Introduction to International Migration Studies
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Verzamelaars van Vorm geeft een rijk geïllustreerd beeld van de Amsterdamse anatomische verzameltraditie, zoomt in op de lange geschiedenis van het museum en belicht de wetenschappelijke en culturele waarde van de verzameling. Want een collectie als die van Museum Vrolik mag werkelijk gezien worden.
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Door de foto’s van Hans van den Bogaard kan het moeilijk anders of ook de onderhavige uitgave zal aan de belangstelling bijdragen.
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In de negentiende eeuw was Museum Vrolikianum een begrip onder artsen en wetenschappers uit binnen- en buitenland. Op bezoek in Amsterdam kwamen ze zich maar al te graag vergapen aan de vijfduizend preparaten; een verzameling die reikte van curieuze misgeboorten tot de skeletten en schedels van gezonde en zieke mensen en van allerhande vreemde en minder vreemde dieren.
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