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| Title: Effective Scientific Writing |
| Sub-title: An Advanced Learner's Guide to Writing Better English Research Papers |
| By (author): Aleth Bolt, Walter Bruins |
| ISBN10-13: 9086599109 : 9789086599103 |
| Effective Scientific Writing (8th Revised Edition) is a comprehensive and practical guide to writing research papers in English. The book addresses the specific challenges faced by non-native speakers of English who have to produce well-structured and coherent academic texts in grammatically, stylistically and idiomatically correct English. It covers everything from basic grammar to effective style choices and from overall text structure to advanced advice on coherence and flow, with many example sentences providing both clarification and inspiration. The bookâ s hands-on approach talks students and researchers from various disciplines through the academic writing process, and its unique linguistic focus guides them to a deeper understanding of the principles of effective writing in English. Effective Scientific Writing covers all essential elements of academic and scientific research writing: â ˘ getting started â ˘ structuring your thoughts â ˘ structuring your paper â ˘ citing sources â ˘ writing well-structured and coherent paragraphs â ˘ constructing effective sentences â ˘ considering information placement and word order â ˘ making informed style choices â ˘ using appropriate vocabulary and idioms â ˘ avoiding the pitfalls of English grammar and punctuation Based on the authorsâ extensive experience in writing, editing and teaching, this fully revised and updated eighth edition of Effective Scientific Writing is packed with practical tools to help non-native writers of English convey their message accurately, clearly and effectively. |
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Pages: 176
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| Published: VU University Press (NL) - October 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 31.50 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 1 of: 10 |
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| Title: Evangelical Theology in Transition |
| By (author): C Kooi, E van Staalduine-Sulman, A W Zwiep |
| ISBN10-13: 9086596002 : 9789086596003 |
| This first instalment of the AmSTaR series explores recent developments in Evangelical Christianity in the Netherlands. Dutch Evangelicalism can be understood as rooted in the Reformation, Pietism and other renewal movements. This collection of articles by a number of experts in the field reflects on the boundaries and intersections of the Evangelical tradition in the Netherlands, with a special focus on the themes of transition and fusion. In new cultural and societal circumstances, Dutch Evangelicalism is rapidly changing from a minority group of dissenters to a more established and respected movement within Protestantism and Dutch society. This raises a number of questions about identity, core values, practices and beliefs. The contributors to this volume explore these issues from historical, practical-theological, political, biblical-theological and hermeneutical perspectives in an attempt to understand the role and significance of Evangelical faith in the twenty-first century. |
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Pages: 270
Size: 235x155mm
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| Published: VU University Press (NL) - October 2012 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: 21st century history: from c 2000 - : Christian theology : Religious groups: social & cultural aspects : 21st century |
| List Price: 24.50 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 2 of: 10 |
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| Title: From Stress to Success |
| Sub-title: A Practical Guide for Students |
| By (author): Mirjam Pol |
| ISBN10-13: 9086598498 : 9789086598496 |
| Countless students in higher education suffer from stress. The good news is that to a large extent you can learn to manage stress. This practical book gives you tools to do so. It covers the most common forms of stress (rumination, fear of failure and perfectionism) and takes a closer look at writing anxiety and public speaking anxiety. By going through this book, you will experience less stress, stressful periods will pass more quickly, and you will recover faster from stressful events, allowing you to get more enjoyment from your studies. |
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Pages: 168
Size: 170x120mm
Illustrations: illus
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| Published: VU University Press (NL) - January 2022 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Study & learning skills: general |
| List Price: 12.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 3 of: 10 |
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| Title: Get Smarter! |
| Sub-title: Set Yourself Up for Study Success |
| By (author): Mirjam Pol |
| ISBN10-13: 9086598471 : 9789086598472 |
| Research shows that study success in higher education depends much more on behaviour than on intelligence. The good news is you can learn to study efficiently and effectively! This practical book gives you all the tools you need to do so. Using this system will not only boost your performance but also help you get more enjoyment from your studies. |
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Pages: 128
Size: 170x120mm
Illustrations: illus
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| Published: VU University Press (NL) - April 2022 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Study & learning skills: general |
| List Price: 10.50 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 4 of: 10 |
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| Title: God Remembers |
| Sub-title: Towards a Theology of Remembrance as a Basis of Reconciliation in Communal Conflict |
| By (author): Binsar Pakpahan |
| ISBN10-13: 9086596037 : 9789086596034 |
| This is a search for a theological basis of remembrance in communal conflict. Starting with a case study of a real conflict within the HKBP/Christian Batak Protestant Church in Indonesia in the years 1992-1998, this book relates a biblical understanding of remembrance to the work of Johann Baptist Metz, Alexander Schmemann and Miroslav Volf, three theologians who have made significant contributions to the understanding of conflict and remembrance in their own respective Christian traditions. The author argues that history's traumatic wounds are healed by a transformative remembrance of the past rather than by forgetting or ignoring what has gone wrong. And that the act of remembrance in the liturgy of the Eucharist is a highly appropriate place for the actual healing of memory. |
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Pages: 333
Size: 235x155mm
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| Published: VU University Press (NL) - October 2012 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Philosophy : Theology : Indonesia |
| List Price: 28.50 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 5 of: 10 |
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| Title: Honour Killings, Moral Panic and the Emergence of an Organizational Field |
| Sub-title: A Case Study of the Processes, Actors and Actions Involved in the Emergence of an Issue-based Organizational Field |
| By (author): Nicole Brenninkmeijer |
| ISBN10-13: 9086597726 : 9789086597727 |
| At the beginning of the new millennium, honour-related violence was at the very forefront of public attention in the Netherlands. The emergence of the issue was facilitated by evolving discourses on multiculturalism and was driven by four events, the shootings of Kezban, Hassan, Zarife and GĂ"l. This combination of processes contributed to a reconceptualization of domestic violence against migrant women into honour-related violence. Moreover, the extensive media coverage of these shootings contributed to a moral panic about this issue: honour killings were perceived as a sign of the failing integration of migrants. Together these processes provide an explanation for the widespread public attention for this issue and the emergence of an honour-related violence field. This case study illustrates that the emergence of an issue-based organizational field is a multi-layered process in which various actors, actions and processes come together and influence each other. |
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Prologue; Introduction; How to make sense of these activities; Institutional theory and organizational fields; Reintroducing Bourdieu into institutional theory; Central research questions; Outline; Part I Studying an organizational field; 1 Institutional theory’s pendulum swings; 1.1 In search of a balanced theory of action; 1.2 Swinging back and forth; 2 Bringing Bourdieu back into institutional theory; 2.1 Applying Bourdieu in a piecemeal fashion: a critique; 2.2 A theory of practice; Concluding remarks; 3 Methodological contemplations; 3.1 Bourdieu and the interpretive perspective; 3.2 Reconstructing the issue’s emergence; 3.3 An organizational field ethnography; 3.4 Reflection; Part II How honour-related violence became an issue within the Dutch public discourse; Introduction; Part II: theoretical underpinnings; Part II: outline; 4. Defining honour-related violence; 4.1 The emergence of a contested label; 4.2 Developing a new label: honour-related violence; 4.3 How these labels contributed to the emergence of a Dutch HRV field; 5 Honourkillings as field-configuring events; 5.1 Analysing field-configuring events; 5.2 How honour killings become critical events; 5.3 Discussion about the attribution of the “honour killing” label; 5.4 Disputes about the cultural background to honour killings; 5.5 How these events contributed to the emergence of a Dutch HRV field; 6. Changing macro-cultural discourses; 6.1 Multiculturalism and gender-inequality; 6.2 Social cohesion, national imaginaries and the creation of the other; 6.3 How the changes in macro-cultural discourses contributed to the emergence of a Dutch HRV field; 7. The moral panic driving the attention for honour killings; 7.1 Amplifying issue attention: the moral panic concept; 7.2 Honour killings, moral panic and the emergence of an issue-based field; 7.3 How the moral panic about honour killings contributed to the emergence of a Dutch HRV field; Part III State practices and emerging field configurations; Introduction; Bourdieu on state power; Part III: outline; 8. The political field as a field of struggle; 8.1 Field-configuring events with in the political field; 8.2 Accelerating the honour-related violence debate: Gül’smurder; 8.3 Developing a better understanding of the problem: two studies and a pilot; 8.4 Assigning honour-related violence “priority project status”; 8.5 Questioning the priority project’s adequacy; 8.6 Presenting the interministerial programme; 8.7 How these state practices contributed to the emergence of a Dutch HRV field; 9. Key actors and their capital; 9.1 Key actors and their roles within the emerging HRV field; 9.2 The agenda setters; 9.3 The experts; 9.4 The bridge builders; 9.5 The financiers; 9.6 The regular function; 9.7 Concluding remarks; 10. Discussions about the label of honour-related violence; 10.1 The Working Definition versus the Definition-in-use; 10.2 Moving beyond the definition; 10.3 Concluding remarks; 11. Collaborative practices within the HRV field; 11.1 Emerging field configurations: a schematic representation; 11.2 Collaborative practices between the state and umbrella organizations; 11.3 Collaborative practices between the state and local network partners; 11.4 Network collaboration within the HRV field; 11.5 Network partners and migrant organizations: lack of trust; 11.6 Concluding remarks; Conclusion and discussion; The emergence of the Dutch honour-related violence field; Field emergence: a multi-layered process; The three phases of issue-based field emergence; Critical preconditions for field emergence; Bringing Bourdieu back into institutional theory: an update; Bourdieu and the structure-agency dilemma; The added value of Bourdieu’s theory in practice; Updating Bourdieu’s framework with the addition of institutional concepts; Future research; Lessons for the public domain; Epilogue: Newsletter of the Platform for Honour and Freedom; References; Appendix 1: Occurrences of the “honour killing” and “honour-related violence” labels in the media and in politics; Appendix 2: Example from the matrix on Gül’s murder; Appendix 3: Observations; Appendix 4: Information on the respondents and their backgrounds; Appendix 5: Interview schedule; Summary ; Acknowledgments."
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Pages: 281
Size: 240x170mm
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| Published: VU University Press (NL) - January 2018 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Violence in society : Sociology |
| List Price: 34.95 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 6 of: 10 |
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| Title: My Soul Doth Magnify |
| Sub-title: The Appropriation of Choral Evensong in the Netherlands |
| By (author): Hanna Rijken |
| ISBN10-13: 9086598129 : 9789086598120 |
| There is a popular practice of Anglican choral evensong in the Netherlands outside the context of the Anglican Church. Dutch choirs perform the Anglican daily prayer liturgy: with preces and responses, psalms, canticles, hymns and an anthem, as well as lessons and spoken prayers. Choral evensong attracts many people: believers (of all denominations), ex-believers and non-believers. This paradox, the popularity of choral evensong in a so-called secularised country such as the Netherlands, attracts attention and raises questions. What exactly is going on here? Why is choral evensong so popular in contemporary society? The central topic of the research presented in this volume is the appropriation of Anglican choral evensong within the Dutch context in relation to religious dynamics in Dutch culture. |
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"In this remarkable, ground-breaking and important work, Hanna Rijken expertly guides us through the fascinating and paradoxical phenomenon of the rise in popularity and appropriation of Anglican Choral Evensong in the Netherlands since the 1980s. Dr Rijken is uniquely qualified in this ethnographic task, as a musician, minister and scholar. The result is not only a rigorously researched thesis but also an accessible and enjoyable exploration of how, in a ‘post-secular’ country, the beauty, sacrality, rituality and, of course, music of Choral Evensong appeal to a wide sector of society, including atheists, agnostics and believers, that seeks this transcendental and transformative experience. This is a wonderful book for our age." -- Revd Dr Jonathan Arnold, Director of Communities and Partnerships, Diocese of Canterbury, UK. Author of Sacred Music in Secular Society (2014) and Music and Faith: Conversations in a Post-Secular Age (2019). Dr Arnold has been Dean of Divinity and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
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Pages: 180
Size: 240x170mm
Illustrations: 6 illus
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| Published: VU University Press (NL) - February 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Christian liturgy, prayerbooks & hymnals : Christian theology : Netherlands |
| List Price: 31.50 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 7 of: 10 |
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| Title: Sense of Serving |
| Sub-title: Reconsidering the Role of Universities Now |
| Edited by: Meindert J Flikkema |
| ISBN10-13: 9086597319 : 9789086597314 |
| A different vision of the societal role of universities, free universities: this is what nineteen scientists, lecturers and students wish to promote in this publication. Its contributors envisage universities as institutions that have liberated themselves from modern forms of megalomania and perverse incentives. They call upon universities to become places where the Bildung of students is given centre stage and where research will thus become more meaningful for society at large. They picture universities as part of an ecosystem making society more vital and dynamic, more committed, more service oriented, more tolerant and richer: a society where people share their lives with others and where a sense of serving others fosters wellbeing, tranquillity and wisdom. |
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| Preface by Jaap Winter (President Executive Board VU University Amsterdam); The Schools of Athens: Educating Students to Develop Knowledge for Life by Jos Beijshuizen; ‘The Times They Are a-Changin’ by Halleh Ghorashi; An Educated Guess by James Kennedy; Back to the Drawing Board: Do Universities Need a Redesign? by Elco van burg; Tragedy at the Modern University: An Advocacy for Bildung & Participatory Pedagogy by Tineke Abma; ‘Eppur si muove : The Earth Revolves Around the Sun’ (Galileo) by Steven ten Have; Meaningful Education to Nurture Servant-Leaders by Sylvia van de Bunt & Frans Trompenaars; The Serving University: A Matter of Prospective Ethics by Johan Wempe; Serving Society by Making Teachers the Linchpin of Academic Education by Frank van der Duijn Schouten; The Teacher as Mentor by James Kennedy; Shaping Better Professionals: The Case of Practice Based Learning by Mario van Vliet; Great Teachers Care by Meindert Flikkema; Unlocking Student Potential by Sjoerd Martens, Nishand Sardjoe & Tom Zegers; Providing Courses in the Master’s Phase is No Fast Track to Mastery by Osman Aksoycan, Loes Hafkamp & Laurens Walinga; Deeply Caring about the Core by Anne-Laurette Leijser; Professing with the Labour Market Top of the Holistic Mind by Lita Napitupulu; Sense of Serving: The Extended Story by Meindert Flikkema. |
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Pages: 184
Size: 230x155mm
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| Published: VU University Press (NL) - July 2016 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Education : Universities |
| List Price: 19.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Reprint under Consideration
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| Title: The Future of Lived Religious Leadership |
| By (author): Rein Brouwer |
| ISBN10-13: 9086597742 : 9789086597741 |
| "Written by a group of internationally acclaimed researchers in empirical theology and religious studies, this book presents the reader with a state of the art review of leadership theories and practices related to the diverse context of lived religion. Every chapter is based on in-depth research on cases of religiously inspired leadership, including pastoral professionals in religious communities, and people who are not ordained by a religious denomination but who do play a pivotal role in promoting a religious cause. An important part of the research is focused on developments in entrepreneurial religious leadership, and communicating religious content via internet and social networking. Keywords: leadership theory, empirical research, lived religion, entrepreneurial leadership, social networks. " |
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| Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Rein Brouwer: Introduction. The Future of Lived Religious Leadership; 2.Johann-Albrecht Meylahn: Postcolonial Leadership between the Sovereign and the Beast; 3. John Eliastam: Discursive Leadership and the Other; 4. Rein Brouwer: Leadership in a Deconstructed Church;5. Ian Nell: Virtual Leadership? The e-Church as a South-African Case Study; 6. Jan-Albert van den Berg: Tweeting God: Redefining Future Christian Leadership through Twitter?; 7. Theo Zijderveld: The Pastor as a Brand? The Use of Social Media by Pastorpreneurs for Personal Branding; 8. Leslie J. Francis: Healthy Leadership: The Science of Clergy Work-Related Psychological Health; 9. David W. Lankshear: Lay Leadership in the Church of England: A Study in an Urban Diocese; 10. Shantelle Weber: Youth Leadership in Urban South-African Contexts; 11. Thomas Girmalm: The Common Priesthood and Swedish Church Politics: An Analysis; 12. Udi Lebel: Pre-Military Academies and the “Making” of Religious-Zionist Communal Leadership Capital; 13. Joke van Saane: Epilogue: Back to the Roots. Paradoxes in the Development of Leadership Theories; 14. Bibliography; 15. Book and Article References; 16. Webcontent References; 17. Index of Modern Authors.
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Pages: 258
Size: 234x155mm
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| Published: VU University Press (NL) - April 2018 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Christian theology |
| List Price: 35.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 9 of: 10 |
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| Title: Walking in a Widening World |
| Sub-title: Understanding Religious Diversity |
| By (author): Hendrik M Vroom |
| ISBN10-13: 9086596525 : 9789086596522 |
| In his almost forty-year career as a theologian, Hendrik M Vroom has become an intelligent observer and authority in the field of religious diversity. For more than a century Western theology has been exposed to rigorous criticism, while granting space to other worldview traditions. What was once common has lost its self-evidence, leading to intriguing questions. Do theistic religions worship the same God? Do religions have "the same" morality? Do they accept "the same" rules for accounting what one believes? And as our world becomes more pluralistic as religions change and affect each other, how can their followers be certain about their beliefs and moralities? These are stimulating and essential questions for anyone interested in the phenomenon of religion. |
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Pages: 504
Size: 235x150mm
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| Published: VU University Press (NL) - August 2013 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Religion & beliefs : Theology |
| List Price: 35.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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