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Napoleon | Sun Tzu | Niccolò Machiavelli Learn Strategy with Napoleon, Sun Tzu and Machiavelli
Unleash your inner tactician and unlock the secrets of strategic brilliance with "Learn Strategy with Napoleon, Sun Tzu, and Machiavelli." This captivating guide invites you to delve into the minds of history's greatest military and political strategists. From Napoleon's audacious campaigns to Sun Tzu's timeless wisdom and Machiavelli's cunning political insights, this collection offers a treasure trove of knowledge to sharpen your strategic thinking and decision-making skills. Born in Florence,...
Engels | 1 uur 19 minuten (58 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Klaas A.D. Smelik Antisemitisme
actualiteit van een historische ontwikkeling
Geschiedenis en analyse van het antisemitisme door de eeuwen heen.
Non-fictie
Engels | 382 pagina's | Garant, Antwerpen, Apeldoorn | 2015
Gedrukt boek
Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens
a brief history of humankind
Geschiedenis van de evolutionaire ontwikkeling van de mensheid vanaf de homo sapiens tot in de 21ste eeuw.
Non-fictie
Engels | 502 pagina's | Vintage, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
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
E-book
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
E-book
G. Roskam Plutarch's Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum
an interpretation with commentary
The question of the political relevance of philosophy, and of the role which the philosopher should play in the government of his state, was often discussed in Antiquity. Plato's ideal of the philosopher-king is well-known, but was precisely his failure to realise his political ideal in Syracuse not the best argument against the philosopher's political engagement? Nevertheless, Plato's ideal remained attractive for later Greek thinkers. This is illustrated, for instance, by one of Plutarch's short...
Non-fictie
Engels | 252 pagina's (PDF, 3,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
E-book
Ton Toutnu The beginning, the end and everything in between
under the auspices of Dr. anTONius F.W. Morselt
The beginning, the end, and everything in between stars the man. It's about the life of a Dutch man, born in 1939 and up to the end that is yet to come. Preparations have started for that end, however. Judging by the large membership numbers of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Vrijwillige Euthanasie-the Dutch euthanasia association-he is not the only one. Most of this book, however, is about what happens between birth and death. You have to talk to a Dutchman in half-English; that's what they like...
Non-fictie
Engels | 336 pagina's (PDF, 73 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
E-book
Between text and tradition
Pietro d’Abano and the reception of Pseudo-Aristotle’s Problemata physica in the Middle Ages
New insights into Pietro d'Abano's unique approach to translations. The commentary of Pietro d'Abano on Bartholomew's Latin translation of Pseudo-Aristotle's Problemata Physica, published in 1310, constitutes an important historical source for the investigation of the complex relationship between text, translation, and commentary in a non-curricular part of the corpus Aristotelicum. As the eight articles in this volume show, the study of Pietro's commentary not only provides valuable insights into...
Non-fictie
Engels | Frans | 280 pagina's (PDF, 1,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
E-book
Emiel Lamberts The struggle with Leviathan
social responses to the omnipotence of the state, 1815-1965
A panoramic picture of international politics and the formation of the modern State. The opposition to the omnipotence of the State - as symbolised by Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651) - had a significant impact on the political organisation of European society. A liberal strategy intended to provide a protective legal status for individual citizens, whereas a social strategy aimed to strengthen the social fabric to counterbalance the power of the State. Gradually both strategies became interwoven....
Non-fictie
Engels | 344 pagina's (PDF, 21 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
E-book
Kadoc Mission & science
missiology revised
Science as an instrument to justify religious missions in secular society. The relationship between religion and science is complex and continues to be a topical issue. However, it is seldom zoomed in on from both Protestant and Catholic perspectives. By doing so the contributing authors in this collection gain new insights into the origin and development of missiology. Missiology is described in this book as a "project of modernity," a contemporary form of apologetics. "Scientific apologetics" was...
Non-fictie
Engels | Frans | 438 pagina's (PDF, 3,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
E-book
Thomas Paine Gezond verstand
gericht tot de inwoners van Amerika
Pamflet uit 1776 waarin de Britse auteur de Amerikaanse kolonisten oproept zich vrij te maken van Groot-Brittannië en een eigen staat te vestigen.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 174 pagina's | Mastix Press, Amsterdam | 2014
Gedrukt boek
Luke Pepera Motherland
a journey through 500,000 years of African culture and identity
"Historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist Luke Pepera presents a groundbreaking new exploration of African history and identity. He takes us on a personal journey discovering 500,000 years of African history and cultures in order to reclaim and reconnect with this extraordinary heritage. He tackles the question many people of African descent ask - Who are we? Where do we come from? What defines us? And it explores how knowledge of this deeper history might affect current understandings of African...
Non-fictie
Engels | 254 pagina's | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London | 2025
Gedrukt boek
Niccolò Machiavelli The prince
Need to seize a country? Have enemies you must destroy? In this handbook for despots and tyrants, the Renaissance statesman Machiavelli sets forth how to accomplish this and more, while avoiding the awkwardness of becoming generally hated and despised. "Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of...
Engels | 172 pagina's | Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books, London | 2014
Gedrukt boek
Bill Manley | Ptahhatp | Kagemni The oldest book in the world
philosophy in the age of the pyramids
Non-fictie
Engels | 224 pagina's | Thames & Hudson Ltd, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens
a brief history of mankind
Geschiedenis van de evolutionaire ontwikkeling van de mensheid vanaf de homo sapiens tot in de 21ste eeuw.
Engels | 498 pagina's | Vintage Books, London | 2014
Gedrukt boek
Karel Steenbrink Catholics in Indonesia, 1808-1942
a documented history
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 528 pagina's | KITLV Press, Leiden | 2003
Gedrukt boek
Sjouke Voolstra Beeldenstormer uit bewogenheid
verzamelde opstellen van Sjouke Voolstra
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | Westerlauwers Fries | 351 pagina's | Verloren, Hilversum | 2005
Gedrukt boek
Thomas Piketty Nature, culture, and inequality
Engels | 82 pagina's | Scribe, Melbourne, Victoria | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Nicholas Spencer Magisteria
the entangled histories of science and religion
Engels | 467 pagina's | Oneworld, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Timothy Snyder On freedom
Politiek-filosofische beschouwing over vrijheid als kernwaarde van de democratie op basis van het werk van filosofen en politieke dissidenten, gesprekken met hedendaagse denkers en de persoonlijke ervaringen van de auteur.
Non-fictie
Engels | 345 pagina's | The Bodley Head, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek