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Jan J.B. Kuipers
Auteur, geb. Zaamslag 1953.
De Gouden Jakhals
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Quaternions and Rotation Sequences
Ever since the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton introduced quaternions in the nineteenth century--a feat he celebrated by carving the founding equations into a stone bridge--mathematicians and engineers have been fascinated by these mathematical objects. Today, they are used in applications as various as describing the geometry of spacetime, guiding the Space Shuttle, and developing computer applications in virtual reality. In this book, J. B. Kuipers introduces quaternions for scientists and engineers who have not encountered them before and shows how they can be used in a variety of practical situations. The book is primarily an exposition of the quaternion, a 4-tuple, and its pr...
Het verhaal van Zeeland
Geschiedenis van de provincie Zeeland vanaf de prehistorie tot heden.
Nederland in de Middeleeuwen
'Een canon,' aldus Piet de Rooy, een van de initiatiefnemers van de historische canon van Nederland, 'heeft zich de laatste tijd ontwikkeld tot een nieuw historisch genre'. Nederland in de Middeleeuwen is een nieuwe aanwinst in dit genre. Deze canon bevat geen onwrikbare ijkpunten, maar presenteert onze middeleeuwse geschiedenis op toegankelijke wijze voor een breed publiek. Bij de keuze van de vijftig vensters spelen zowel de traditie als nieuwe inzichten een rol. De lezer zoekt niet vergeefs naar overbekende feiten als de moord op Floris V, maar verneemt ook over plattelandsleven, ridderideaal en kloosterwezen, overzeese handel, klimaatontwikkeling, ketters en bonte volkscultuur. Een evenr...
Art, Trade, and Cultural Mediation in Asia, 1600–1950
This Palgrave Pivot explores the social and cultural impact of global trade at a micro-level from around 1600 to 1950. Bringing together the collaborative skills of cultural, social, economic, and art historians, it examines how the diffusion of trade, goods and objects affected people’s everyday lives. The authors tell several stories: of the role played by a host of intermediaries – such as apothecaries, artisans and missionaries who facilitated the process; of objects such as Japanese export lacquer-ware and paintings; of how diverse artistic influences came to be expressed in colonial church architecture in the Philippines; of revolutionary changes wrought on quotidian tastes and preferences, as shown in the interior decoration of private homes in the Dutch East Indies; and of transformations in the smoking and drinking habits of Southeast Asians. The chapters consider the conditions from which emerged new forms of artistic production and transfer, fresh cultural interpretations, and expanded markets for goods, objects and images.
Language, Writing, and Mobility
This book explores the interaction between three key aspects of everyday life--language, writing, and mobility --with particular focus on their effects on language contact. While the book adopts an established view of language and society that is in keeping with the sociolinguistic paradigm developed in recent decades, it differs from earlier studies in that it assigns writing a central position. Sociolinguistics has long concentrated primarily on speech, but Florian Coulmas shows in this volume that the social importance of writing should not be disregarded: it is the most consequential technology ever invented; it suggests stability; and it defines borders. Linguistic studies have often emphasized that writing is external to language, but the discipline nevertheless owes its analytic categories to writing. Finally, the digital revolution has fundamentally changed communication patterns, transforming the social functions of writing and consequently also of language.
Dwepers en dromers
De Nederlandse samenleving veranderde razendsnel aan het eind van de negentiende eeuw. Oude, vertrouwde waarden wankelden door een stroom aan nieuwe ideeën en levensstijlen. Alles moest anders: de inrichting van de maatschappij, de omgang met het lichaam en ook religie en spiritualiteit. Anarchisten, vegetariërs, theosofen, spiritisten, utopische kolonisten, feministen, strijders voor homorechten: de verschillende stemmen van linkse activisten tot ultrarechtse ‘trekvogels’ en reactionaire cultuurcritici vormden een verwarrend koor. Jan J.B. Kuipers belicht de versplintering van het levensbeschouwelijke landschap in een periode die werd gekenmerkt door vaak extreme opvattingen. Hij laat...
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