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The Widowers' Manual
The Widowers' Manual is a practical guidebook for men who have lost their wives and are looking for a way out of the chaotic situation they find themselves in. The Widowers' Manual offers an effective methodology, and addresses the mindset that is needed in order to grab hold again and build a new future. In addition it triggers you to use the experience of loss to act on an even higher level in the game called life.
The Widowers' Manual
The author of I’m Sorry for Your Loss presents a practical guidebook for men who have lost their wives and are struggling to move forward in their grief. In The Widowers’ Manual, Wouter Looten—who lost his wife more than a decade ago—uses his own journey and experience to effectively guide you through a new and strange world: the realm of the widower. When you find yourself in this unknown reality you feel lost, angry, and numb. Now get ready to exchange these negative sensations for empowerment, caring, and being present in the world. The Widowers’ Manual presents a set of five anchors that helps you, step by step, to sort out the biggest challenge you have had to deal with: the death of your partner. This comprehensive book offers you a practical outline on how to get back on track. It reveals how to put the experience of becoming a widower into perspective in a way that gives you the ability to create order from chaos. This is not your everyday book on how you could overcome your spouse’s demise. The Widowers’ Manual shows you how to proficiently turn the experience of losing your loved one into new ways in which you can create a prosperous and compelling future.
Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives
A novel and female empowering interpretive approach to these artistic archetypes in her analysis of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age.
Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam
In this study of Amsterdam's Golden Age cultural elite, John Michael Montias analyzes records of auctions from the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam through the first half of the seventeenth century, revealing a wealth of information on some 2,000 art buyers' regional origins, social and religious affiliations, wealth, and aesthetic preferences. Chapters focus not only on the art dealers who bought at these auctions, but also on buyers who had special connections with individual artists.
The Mindful Hand
Although manual labour and theoretical invention might now seem separate ventures, history teaches us that they are closely linked processes. The Mindful Hand explores innovative areas of European society between the late Renaissance and the period of early industrialisation where the enterprise of knowledge and production relied on the most intimate connexions of thought and toil. This volume explains how philosophers and labourers collaborated in an environment where artisans and instrument-makers, administrators and entrepreneurs simultaneously pioneered technical change alongside knowledge formation. The essays gathered here help show how these projects were pursued together, yet why, in retrospect, the very categories of science and technology emerged as seemingly distinct endeavors.
The World's First Stock Exchange
This account of the sophisticated financial hub that was 17th-century Amsterdam “does a fine job of bringing history to life” (Library Journal). The launch of the Dutch East India Company in 1602 initiated Amsterdam’s transformation from a regional market town into a dominant financial center. The Company introduced easily transferable shares, and within days buyers had begun to trade them. Soon the public was engaging in a variety of complex transactions, including forwards, futures, options, and bear raids, and by 1680 the techniques deployed in the Amsterdam market were as sophisticated as any we practice today. Lodewijk Petram’s award-winning history demystifies financial instrum...
