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Making room for people: choice, voice and liveability in residential places
Making Room for People elaborates on preferences in housing. It explores how users, occupants, and citizens can express their needs, searching for the enhancement of individual choice and control over their residential environment, and the predicted positive spin-off’s for urban collectives. The central question is: What are the conditions under which an increase of people’s choice and voic…
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- 9789085940449
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- 195 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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- 363.5 MAK m
Well-being, Sustainability and Social Development : The Netherlands 1850–2050
This open access book examines more than two centuries of societal development using novel historical and statistical approaches. It applies the well-being monitor developed by Statistics Netherlands that has been endorsed by a significant part of the international, statistical community. It features The Netherlands as a case study, which is an especially interesting example; although it wa…
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- 9783319766966
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- xxxii, 572p. : ill.
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- 113 WEL w
Tobacco control policy in the Netherlands : between economy, public health, a…
Governments have known since the 1960s that smoking results in irreversible health damage. This open access book examines why governments have done so little to combat this when they have been aware of the problem and its solutions for decades. What are the strategies and decisions that make a difference, given that policy environments are often not conducive to change? Taking the Netherlands a…
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- 9783319723686
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- xxi. 373p. : ill.
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- 320.6 WIL t
International reflections on the Netherlands didactics of mathematics : visio…
This open access book, inspired by the ICME 13 Thematic Afternoon on “European Didactic Traditions”, takes readers on a journey with mathematics education researchers, developers and educators in eighteen countries, who reflect on their experiences with Realistic Mathematics Education (RME), the domain-specific instruction theory for mathematics education developed in the Netherlands since …
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- 9783030202231
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- ix, 366p. : ill.
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- 510.71 INT i
Western Arabia in the Leiden collections : traces of a colourful past
"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Dutch diplomats, scholars and travellers assembled unique collections in Jeddah, Mecca and Medina. The Dutch presence in Arabia, where they established a consulate in Jeddah, was intimately connected with the supervision of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca from the Netherlands East Indies, present-day Indonesia. Notable guests at this consulate …
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- 9789087282592
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- 191p. : ill.
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- 953.8 MOL w
Scholars, travellers, and trade : the pioneer years of the National Museum of…
Today, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden is internationally known for its outstanding archaeological collections. Yet its origins lie in an insignificant assortment of artefacts used for study by Leiden University. How did this transformation come about? Ruurd Halbertsma has delved into the archives to show that the appointment of Caspar Reuvens as Professor of Archaeology in 1818 wa…
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- 9780203634547
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- xiv, 182p. : ill.
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- 069.09492 HAL s
Letters as loot : a sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-c…
The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of letters focussing on a unique collection of Dutch private letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which comprises letters from the lower, middle and upper …
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- 9789027269577
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- xiii, 426p. : ill.
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- 306.44 RUT l
Language planning as nation building : ideology, policy and implementation in…
The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst these international events, the case of Dutch in the Netherlands offers a unique example. After the rise of the ideology from the 1750s onwards, the new discourse of one …
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- 9789027262769
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- x, 312p. : ill.
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- 306.449492 RUT l
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