ZeroMQ
Dive into A MQ (aka ZeroMQ), the smart socket library that gives you fast, easy, message-based concurrency for your applications. With this quick-paced guide, you'll learn hands-on how to use this scalable, lightweight, and highly flexible network...
Vintage Tomorrows
Can you imagine what today's technology would have looked like in the Victorian Era? That's the world Steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st Century-inspired contraptions powered by stream and driven by gears. It's more than just a...
Pieter Bruegel
The exciting rediscovery in Spain of a missing canvas by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525-69) has jolted a revived public awareness of this great Flemish painter. Best known for his amusing depictions of peasants, landscapes, and Bosch-like fant...
Pieter Hugo
Pieter Hugo's images are unflinching and unforgettable. Beginning with "Looking Aside," his series of portraits of marginalized people, Hugo has striven to capture the African continent with empathy and impartiality. Whether confronting ...
Pieter Snayers
It remains a stroke of fortune that in the turbulent times of the 17th century with its numerous cultural and military upheavals the artistic depiction of human life took a similarly rapid and proliferous development. Never before in history had society in all its squalor and splendor been presented in so many pictures of outstanding artistic quality. At the end of the 16th century the Golden Age of Painting began to evolve especially in the Low Countries. Many contemporary paintings also show events from the Eighty Years War, the United Provinces' struggle for independence from Spain. However, an entire generation of artists also chose to paint events from the great European conflict which erupted at the same time: the Thirty Years War. Born in Antwerp, Pieter Snayers was a fairly typical representative of this generation of painters. From a military historian's point of view, his works are considered particularly authentic. Many of his paintings showing sieges betray meticulous care
Nooten Pieter: Stem
Nooten Pieter: Stem [CD]
Wispelwey Pieter: Weinberg
Wispelwey Pieter: Weinberg [CD]
Nooten Pieter: Stem
Nooten Pieter: Stem [Vinyl LP]
Wispelwey Pieter: Cello Works
Wispelwey Pieter: Cello Works [SACD Hybrid]
Wispelwey Pieter: Shostakovich / Kodály
Wispelwey Pieter: Shostakovich / Kodály [CD]
Wispelwey Pieter: Schumann/Hindemith
Wispelwey Pieter: Schumann/Hindemith [CD]
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Brugel the Elder - Fall of the Rebel Angels argues that many of the hybrid falling angels are carefully composed of naturalia and artificialia, as they were collected in art and curiosity cabinets of the time. Bruegel's much noted emulation...
Pieter Hybbinette som tecknare
Skulptören Pieter Hybbinette säger att varje teckning han gör är resultatet av ett ögonblicks iakttagelse. Han tecknar mest under resor, då finns alltid skissboken till hands. Det som fascinerar honom mer än annat är de ansikten han möter med sina högst olika karaktärer. Det han presenterar i denna bok är ett urval av bilder tagna ur hans skissböcker från 1977 till 2024.
Wispelwey Pieter: Rococo Variations
Wispelwey Pieter: Rococo Variations [CD]
Nooten Pieter: Surround Us
Nooten Pieter: Surround Us [CD]
Physical Chemistry of Foods
Exploring the structure and physical and chemical properties of solutions, dispersions, soft solids, fats, and cellular systems, Physical Chemistry of Foods describes the physiochemical principles of the reactions and conversions that occur during...
Bilingual Speech
This book provides an in depth analysis of the different ways in which bilingual speakers switch from one language to another in the course of conversation. This phenomenon, known as code-mixing or code-switching, takes many forms. Pieter Muysken ...
Wispelwey Pieter: Chopin/Fauré/Poulenc
Wispelwey Pieter: Chopin/Fauré/Poulenc [CD]
Wispelwey Pieter: Hindemith / Sessions / Ligeti
Wispelwey Pieter: Hindemith / Sessions / Ligeti [CD]
Hellendaal Pieter: 6 Concerti Grossi
Hellendaal Pieter: 6 Concerti Grossi [CD]
Wispelwey Pieter & Giacometti Paolo: Rococo
Wispelwey Pieter & Giacometti Paolo: Rococo [CD]
Masterpiece: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
2019, 450 years after the Old Master's death, will be celebrated as the Year of Bruegel, culminating in the exhibition 'The Age of Bruegel' at The Royal Museum of Fine Arts (KMSKA), Antwerp. In the run up to the numerous exhibitions and festivitie...
Wispelwey Pieter: Shostakovich/Britten/Cracovia
Wispelwey Pieter: Shostakovich/Britten/Cracovia [SACD Hybrid]
Nooten Pieter: Here Is Why
Nooten Pieter: Here Is Why [CD]
Habermas and Aesthetics
In this important new study, Pieter Duvenage shows that Habermas's work on aesthetics, far from being marginal to his core concerns, is central to understanding and evaluating Habermas's entire theoretical enterprise. This important new study show...
History of Murder
This book offers a fascinating and insightful overview of seven centuries of murder in Europe. It tells the story of the changing face of violence and documents the long-term decline in the incidence of homicide. From medieval vendettas to stylise...
Divide and Pacify
Despite dramatic increases in poverty, unemployment, and social inequalities, the Central and Eastern European transitions from communism to market democracy in the 1990s have been remarkably peaceful. This book proposes a new explanation for this...
The Spectacle of Suffering
Present-day unease about the treatment of lawbreakers has deep historical roots. Pieter Spierenburg traces the long period of evolution that gave rise to the modern debate about punishment, and relates it to the development of Western European soc...
Literature and the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene has fundamentally changed the way we think about our relation to nonhuman life and to the planet. This book is the first to critically survey how the Anthropocene is enriching the study of literature and inspiring contemporary poe...
Principles of Computational Fluid Dynamics
This is a softcover reprint of a very popular hardcover edition, published in 1999. An account is given of the state of the art of numerical methods employed in computational fluid dynamics. Numerical principles are treated in detail, using elemen...
El Infierno: Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder
"Gato's head snapped back? We could make out the shots of several 9mms, a couple of 38s and one or two 45s. I hurled myself through the doorway and into the room. I didn't look back." Caught in an Ecuador hotel room with 8kg of cocaine, ...
AI for Everyone?
We are entering a new era of technological determinism and solutionism in which governments and business actors are seeking data-driven change, assuming that Artificial Intelligence is now inevitable and ubiquitous. But we have not even started as...
History of Murder
This book offers a fascinating and insightful overview of seven centuries of murder in Europe. It tells the story of the changing face of violence and documents the long-term decline in the incidence of homicide. From medieval vendettas to stylise...