Sidestone Press

Sidestone Press is an academic publishing house founded by scholars, for scholars. As a publisher they have one clear ambition, that is to make scientific information available to all. They believe scientific information should be available at all times, at all places and to each and every one. This means that the printing and selling of books is but one part of what they believe a good publisher should do.

Apart from printed books that can be found in libraries and bookstores around the world, Sidestone books can also be freely accessed online through different channels such as Google Books, Google Scholar and through their own digital ebook library. By offering access to their books for free, more people than ever have access to our publications. First of all this is beneficial for our authors as it greatly increases the exposure of their work, and in effect, the impact of their research. Second, of course, it enables their readers – scholars and students around the world – to access their publications at any time and at any place, including those parts of the world where access to good quality academic libraries is not guaranteed.

From 2012 onwards Sidestone books have been published under one of three different imprints: Sidestone Press Academics, Sidestone Press Dissertations and Sidestone Press.

Living near the dead Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9789088900556
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2011
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
The hills overlooking the north flank of the Rhine valley in the Netherlands are dotted with hundreds of prehistoric burial mounds. Only a few of them were ever investigated by archaeologists and even nowadays the many barrows preserved in the extensive forests of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug are the oldest visible witnesses of a remote but largely unknown prehistoric past. In 2006, a team of archaeologists of the Ancestral Mounds project of Leiden University set out to investigate these age-old monuments.
RRP: £38.00
Deciding about Design Quality Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 338
ISBN: 9789088900532
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2011
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
In the past few years the image of tender procedures in which Dutch public clients selected an architect has been dominated by distressing newspaper headlines. Architects fear that the current tender culture will harm the quality of our built environment due to a potential lack of diversity, creativity and innovation in architectural design. Due to potential risks clients often allow legal requirements to overrule their actual wishes.
Ani-La Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 125
ISBN: 9789088900464
Pub Date: 24 Aug 2010
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
No, but we are different. Tonpa Sherab treated men and women in the same way, he passed on his teachings to both men and women and that is why we nuns are on equal footing with the monks, quite unlike the Buddhists.' The Bön religion is often seen as a part of the Tibetan Buddhism but its bond is actually far more complex and has its own origin in the history of Tibet.
Blijvende Inzetbaarheid in Langere Loopbanen Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 236
ISBN: 9789088900440
Pub Date: 24 Aug 2010
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Psychologist Felix Steemers has studied the way in which companies and employees can contribute to a longer 'employability'. The cognitive flexibility enables people to adapt to changing requirements by reviewing their own thoughts and acts. Employees with a high cognitive flexibility have shown to adapt easier to changes in their professional career.
Renewing the House Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 370
ISBN: 9789088900457
Pub Date: 24 Aug 2010
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
This study is a contribution to the household archaeology of the Caribbean. The aim of the research was to come to a material definition of the pre-colonial house, rather than rely on the few, short, Spanish colonial descriptions. Archaeological research from the indigenous Taíno site of El Cabo in the Dominican Republic is presented and seven centuries of community history from development and growth, to eventual demise after European contact is narrated through the dominant structure, the house.
RRP: £45.00
Vuurstenen Werktuigen Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 286
ISBN: 9789088900433
Pub Date: 24 Aug 2010
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: col illus throughout
Description:
Flint was the primary raw material used for tools until c. 4000 years ago. Its properties allow the production of very sharp edges, which made it essential in many activities related to craft and subsistence.
Candi, Space and Landscape Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9789088900396
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2010
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Central Javanese temples were not built anywhere and anyhow. On the contrary: their positions within the landscape and their architectural designs were determined by socio-cultural, religious and economic factors. This book explores the correlations between temple distribution, natural surroundings and architectural design to understand how Central Javanese people structured the space around them, and how the religious landscape thus created, developed.
Rethinking the World Trade Order Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 370
ISBN: 9789088900365
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2009
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) have proliferated at an unprecedented pace since the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Although the WTO legally recognizes countries' entitlement to form RTAs, neither the WTO nor parties to RTAs have an unequivocal understanding of the relationship between the WTO and RTAs. In other words, the legal controversies, the result of uncertainty regarding the application of the WTO/GATT laws, risk undermining the objectives of the multilateral trade system.
Vóór de veearts kwam... Volksdiergeneeskunde van weleer Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9789088900136
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2009
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
A veritable veterinary museum, a large collection of historical objects used in treating animal diseases in the past brought to life with the stories about their use and collection. Farmer Servais Hutschemakers illuminates a lost world. (Dutch text) Volksdiergeneeskunde is een vrijwel verdwenen,en wat geheimzinnige, wereld van praktische oplossingen, kwakzalverij, toverij, geloof en bijgeloof.
Built Environments, Constructed Societies Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9789088900389
Pub Date: 22 Dec 2009
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Archaeology, as the discipline that searches to explain the development of society by means of material remains, has been avoiding the big issues involved with its research agenda. The topic of social evolution is concealed by anxiety about previous paradigmatic malpractice and the primary archaeological division of the world in culture areas still suffers from the archaic methods by which it was established. Archaeological inference of developing societies is weighed down by its choice of particularism within agency approaches and overtly reductionist due to the prevalence of statistical, classificatory and biological approaches.
The TRB West Group Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789088900235
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2009
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
A classic study of the pottery of the TRB West group, originally published in 1979. Bakker deals with the research history and typochronology of the TRB pottery. Also he gives a detailed account of the other TRB finds such as flint and stone artefacts and of course the most important TRB sites.
The Future of the European Union Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 100
ISBN: 9789088900112
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2009
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
On November 29th 2007, the Dutch United Nations Student Association (SIB Leiden) organized a Conference, titled: The Future of the European Union: How to Proceed in an Ever Closer Union? The conference was meant to offer students, young academics and professionals the opportunity to engage in a debate with prominent scholars and politicians on the Future of Europe. This book contains an overview of the various issues that were discussed during the conference and attempts to do justice to both the interdisciplinarity of the conference programme and the variety of people who attended.
Net het echte leven Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 340
ISBN: 9789088900228
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2009
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Hoe overleven leden van professionele teams in een wereld die gekenmerkt wordt door individualisering, versnelling en winstmaximalisatie? In tegenstelling tot de theorieën in de gangbare managementliteratuur concludeert dit onderzoek, dat de dynamiek in teams in commerciële organisaties vooral beheerst wordt door eigenbelang, angst, bindingsverlies en macht. Daarin onderscheiden deze professionals zich nauwelijks van gewone mensen in het alledaagse leven: Net het echte leven.
Cadastres, Misconceptions and Northern Gaul Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 169
ISBN: 9789088900242
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2009
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
A Roman cadastre is a particular form of land allotment which looks like a chequerboard. It was implemented by the Romans in regions throughout the Empire, from Syria to Gaul. Yet, how did a Roman cadastre exactly look like?
Hilversumsche Oudheden Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 132
ISBN: 9789088900211
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2009
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
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Challenging Climate Change Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789088900310
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Throughout history, climate change has been an important driving force behind human behaviour. This archaeological study seeks to understand the complex interrelations between that behaviour and climatic fluctuations, focussing on how climate affected the social relations between neighbouring communities of occasionally differing nature. It is argued that developments in these relations will fall within a continuum between competition on one end and cooperation on the other.