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  • Controlling Comitology

    Accountability in a Multi-Level System

    by G. Brandsma ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
    Comitology is the most important form of multi-level governance in the EU. Member State and Commission actors together create roughly 2,500 executive acts per year amounting to half of all European laws. Using new European and national data, this books argues that its accountability has improved over time, but that unexpected gaps have emerged. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Mindfulness Teaching Guide

    Essential Skills and Competencies for Teaching Mindfulness-Based Interventions

    by Rob Brandsma ...
    You must embody mindfulness in order to teach it. The Mindfulness Teaching Guide offers a thorough and practical guide for mindfulness teachers and professionals, offering a systematic approach to developing the teaching methods, skills, and competencies needed to become a proficient mindfulness teacher.Mindfulness has captured public attention like never before. From the classroom to the ... Read more

    $34.39 USD

  • Controlling the EU Executive?

    The Politics of Delegation in the European Union

    Every year the EU Commission issues thousands of rules based on powers delegated by the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. But delegation is carefully controlled. Traditionally, control has been exerted through a system of committees of member state representatives ('comitology'). However, this system was contested by the European Parliament which was left without any influence. The ... Read more

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  • The silent screams from Myanmar

    Fear, Love, Hope, Arrests, Intimidation, Friendship, Despair and Violence. Based on true events, the Silent Screams from Myanmar tells the frightening story of refugees. They are threatened in their home country by a violent junta regime, and exploited and mistreated in a seemingly open and tolerant society. It tells the story of a few and of millions of people alike, who are hoping to build a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Arthur of the Low Countries

    The Arthurian Legend in Dutch and Flemish Literature

    Series series Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
    In the medieval Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French material (like Chrétien’s Conte du Graal and the Prose Lancelot), but also created romances of their own, like Walewein. This book provides a current overview of the Dutch Arthurian material and the research that ... Read more

    $93.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bridging the Skills Gap between Work and Education

    Edited by W.J. Nijhof, Jittie Brandsma ...
    This book takes up the debate about matching vocational education with the labour market and shows progress in terms of theoretical models, tools (transformation and matching processes), and learning environments. The solutions, showing up the need for core or key skills, the necessity of embedding learning skills in authentic and guided learning environments, shows a perspective of research and ... Read more

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  • Newsletter March 2021

    “Lori’s life was never easy. With alcoholic parents who were rarely there and no other stable adults present, she soon found herself in two different abusive marriages with a son to care for.When an urgent need to move arose, Lori gathered her courage and drove toward Zillah, where she was granted a place to stay with relatives. But Lori’s beloved son was spiraling out of control and she had no ... Read more

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  • Phantom Armies of the Night

    The Wild Hunt and the Ghostly Processions of the Undead

    An exploration of the many forms of the ancient myth of the Wild Hunt and its influence in pagan and early Christian Europe• Recounts the myriad variations of this legend, from the Cursed Huntsman and King Herla to phantom armies and vast processions of sinners and demons• Explains how this belief was an integral part of the pagan worldview and was thus employed by the church to spread Christian ... Read more

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  • Walking Home

    by Eric Walters ...
    Set in both the wilds and slums of Kenya, a powerful story about a brother and sister's brave journey to find a place to call home.13-year-old Muchoki and his younger sister, Jata, can barely recognize what's become of their lives. Only weeks ago they lived in a bustling Kenyan village, going to school, playing soccer with friends, and helping at their parents' store. But sudden political violence ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They have inspired some of the most important works of European literature, particularly in the medieval period: the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. In the nineteenth ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Misconceptions About the Middle Ages

    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now.Ranging across religion, art, and science, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages unravels some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period, including ... Read more

    $70.99 USD