samengesteld (in iets groter lettertype) door Sonja Barend

On June 22, 1941, Hitler launched a massive three-pronged attack on the Soviet Union, and in days his troops were within reach of Moscow. The attack was stunning, but Stalin's response was even more astonishing. During the invasion, the mighty Soviet military stood in place while its soldiers were slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands.
Drawing on a wealth of newly available documents, from classified Politburo papers and diaries of key generals to diplomatic cables and secret police memos, the Russian historian Constantine Pleshakov paints a startling portrait of Stalin, one of history's most feared despots, as a vulnerable and paralyzed leader. Refusing to believe that the Germans would strike first, despite repeated warnings, he continued to supply them with war materials in the days before the attack, then tied his generals' hands in the crucial first hours of the invasion. For more than a week, while Hitler rolled over Soviet territory, Stalin cowered in his dacha, leaving the country rudderless and -- as Pleshakov reveals here -- nearly losing power. The Red Army's effort to regain the territory lost in those first ten days cost more than 10 million Soviet lives.
Stalin's Folly is a dramatic hour-by-hour account that sheds light on an enigmatic and ruthless figure while providing a new and far deeper understanding of Russian history.

Homerus, Vergilius, Sophocles, Ovidius en de vele andere klassieke schrijvers hebben een belangrijk stempel gedrukt op de westerse cultuur. Ze speelden door de eeuwen heen een grote rol in het onderwijs en hun werken verschenen in tal van edities en vertalingen. Maar vooral vormden de klassieke mythen, toneelstukken en gedichten een voorbeeld dat Nederlandse schilders, theatermakers en schrijvers uitdaagde tot navolging. Ook is de invloed van de klassieke schrijvers te traceren in de politieke theorie, de filosofie, ideeëngeschiedenis en de massamedia. In "De klassieke traditie in de Lage Landen" schetst classicus René Veenman een veelomvattend beeld van de receptiegeschiedenis van de klassieken in Nederland en België.

The humanities and the sciences face challenging times, each in their own way. The humanities suffer shrinking enrollments and budgets, and are perceived by some as irrelevant in a changing economy. The sciences face a political climate that disrespects academic expertise and challenges settled debates. Meanwhile age-old disputes about their spheres of knowledge continue: does scientific knowledge subsume that of the humanities? Are their forms of knowledge complementary, or ultimately at odds?

Richard Foley, a philosopher of knowledge and the former Dean of Arts and Sciences at New York University, here provides a concise and accessible overview of what the overarching goals of these disciplines are, relative to one another, and what kind of knowledge they aim to produce. His fundamental argument is that the sciences aim at insights that ideally are not limited to particular locations or times and are also perspective-free and wholly descriptive, whereas the humanities appropriately seek insights about specific locations and times, with the insights being perspective-based and having evaluative as well as descriptive elements. He also finds these two spheres of knowledge to be complementary in the search for understanding of our world and the human condition. The ultimate goal of Foley's investigation however is an eloquent defense and celebration of the culture of academic research. In an era of sound-bites and tweet-length falsehoods, this culture values and supports long-term intellectual achievements for the good of humanity - produced with hard work, dedication, and patience. The Geography of Insight is essential reading for readers both inside and outside of the academy.

Het uitdragen en visualiseren van de eigen lokale of regionale geschiedenis werd in de late middeleeuwen en de vroegmoderne tijd als een belangrijke taak van literatuur, beeldende kunsten en architectuur beschouwd. Als bronnen werden niet alleen de klassieke schrijvers gebruikt, maar ook middeleeuwse kronieken, lyriek van de minnezangers, (echte en vervalste) inscripties en archeologische voorwerpen, en bovendien ruïnes uit allerlei periodes die men veelal op een creatieve manier interpreteerde. Monumentale gebouwen, of de resten daarvan, golden bij uitstek als bewijs van de grootsheid en ouderdom van de voorouders.

Contained in this volume is a book by Aristotle on the subject of logic or as the author would describe it, analytics. Topics is presented here in this volume translated by W.A. Pickard-Cambridge. This volume together with - Categories, On Interpretation, and On Sophistical Refutations -, and - Prior Analytics and Posterior Analytics - forms the  - Organon - or complete books of Aristotelian logic. Students of classical philosophy and literature will find this volume of much interest.

Contained in this volume are books by Aristotle on the subject of logic or as the author would describe it, analytics. 'Categories, On Interpretation, and On Sophistical Refutations' are collected here in this volume translated by E. M. Edghill and W. A. Pickard-Cambridge. This volume together with 'Prior Analytics and Posterior Analytics', and 'Topics' forms the 'Organon' or complete books of Aristotelian logic. Students of classical philosophy and literature will find this volume of much interest.

This book, the fifth in the series developing Bernsteins code theory, presents a lucid account of the most recent developments of this code theory and, importantly, shows the close relation between this development and the empirical research to which the theory has given rise. Pedagogy, Symbolic Control and Identity addresses the central issue of Bernsteins research project: are there any general principles underlying the transformation of knowledge into pedagogic communication? In Bernsteins view, we have studied only pedagogic messages and their institutional and ideological base. We have not studied the nature of the relay which makes messages possible. The discussion of this research forms part II of this book, where Bernstein makes explicit the methodology of the research and, in particular, the crucial significance of languages of description. This new edition of Bernsteins classic book is updated with three new chapters: on discourse, on official knowledge and identities, and a wide ranging interview with Joseph Solomon. The new edition, published as Volume Five in his Class, Codes, and Control Series, builds on the continuing tradition of Bernstein's highly influential work on class, education, language, and society.

1857. Jaffy Brown is running along a street in London's East End when he comes face to face with an escaped circus animal. Plucked from the jaws of death by Mr Jamrach - explorer, entrepreneur and collector of the world's strangest creatures - the two strike up a friendship. Before he knows it, Jaffy finds himself on board a ship bound for the Dutch East Indies, on an unusual commission for Mr Jamrach. His journey - if he survives it - will push faith, love and friendship to their utmost limits. Brilliantly written and utterly spellbinding, Carol Birch's epic novel brings alive the smells, sights and flavours of the nineteenth century, from the docks of London to the storms of the Indian Ocean. This great salty historical adventure is a gripping exploration of our relationship to the natural world and the wildness it contains. Longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.

“Europe is a molehill….” Everything here is worn out…tiny Europe has not enough to offer. We must set off for the Orient; that is where all the greatest glory is to be achieved.”—Napoleon Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt was the first Western attack in modern times on a Middle Eastern country. In this remarkably rich and eminently readable historical account, acclaimed author Paul Strathern reconstructs a mission of conquest inspired by glory, executed in haste, and bound for disaster. In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte, only twenty-eight, mounted the most audacious military campaign of his already spectacular career. With 335 ships, 40,000 soldiers, and a collection of scholars, artists, scientists, and inventors, he set sail for Egypt to establish an Eastern empire in emulation of Alexander the Great. Like everything Napoleon ever attempted, it was a plan marked by unquenchable ambition, heroic romanticism, and not a little madness. Napoleon saw himself as a liberator, freeing the Egyptians from the oppression of their Mameluke overlords. But while Napoleon thought his army would be welcomed as heroes, he tragically misunderstood Muslim culture and grossly overestimated the “gratitude” he could expect from those he’d come to save. Instead Napoleon and his men would face a grim war of attrition against an ad hoc army of Muslims led by the feared Murad Bey. Marching across seemingly endless deserts in the shadow of the pyramids, suffering extremes of heat and thirst, and pushed to the limits of human endurance, they would be plagued by mirages, suicides, and the constant threat of ambush. A crusade begun in honor and intended for glory would degenerate toward chaos and atrocity. But Napoleon’s grand failure in Egypt also yielded vast treasures of knowledge about a culture largely lost to the West, and through the recovery of artifacts like the Rosetta Stone, it prepared the way for the translation of hieroglyphics and modern Egyptology. And it tempered the complex leader who believed it his destiny to conquer the world. A story of war, adventure, politics, and a clash of cultures, Paul Strathern’sNapoleon in Egyptis history at once relevant and impossible to put down. From the Hardcover edition.

In de Russische literatuur is Aksakovs naam in de negentiende eeuw steeds in één adem genoemd met die van Toergenjev, Dostojevski, Gontsjarov, Gogol en Tolstoj. Aksakov geldt als de nestor van het nieuwe realisme. Gogol bekende: "zoals Aksakov zelfs over vogels en vissen weet te schrijven, zo kan ik het niet eens over mannen en vrouwen.

In een even precieze als poëtischel en altijd warme stijl tekent Aksakovde wereld en het landschap van zijn jeugd, zijn intellectuele groei en vorming, de idylle van zijn jeugd, de nachtmerries daarvan.

Tijdens de verschrikkingen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog worden gewone, bange mensen in Rusland verleid tot allerlei kleine, banale vormen van verraad. Een van de meesterwerken van de twintigste eeuw een breed opgezet epos over de Russische Tweede Wereldoorlog, naar het voorbeeld van Tolstojs Oorlog en vrede nu voor het eerst in het Nederlands vertaald. Leven & lot, het inmiddels klassiek geworden meesterwerk van Vasili Grossman (1905-1964), is zelfs in de bewogen geschiedenis van de Sovjetcensuur een uitzonderlijk geval. Het boek staat bekend als roman die werd `gearresteerd , terwijl de auteur ongemoeid werd gelaten. In februari 1961, drie maanden nadat Grossman zijn boek had voorgelegd aan de redactie van het tijdschrift Znamja, verschenen er twee agenten van de KGB aan zijn deur met een huiszoekingsbevel. Vadim Kozjevnikov, de tijdschriftredacteur die had toegezegd Leven & lot in afleveringen te publiceren, was zo geschrokken van wat hij onder ogen kreeg dat hij het manuscript, zonder de auteur op de hoogte te stellen, had doorgestuurd naar de veiligheidsdienst. Het appartement van de schrijver werd grondig doorzocht en alles wat verband hield met de roman werd in beslag genomen: alle uitgetypte exemplaren, het oorspronkelijke manuscript, de kladversies en de aantekeningen voor het boek. Vervolgens werd Grossman beleefd verzocht de veiligheidsagenten te begeleiden naar de adressen waar zich afschriften bevonden bij zijn typiste werden behalve haar exemplaar ook het carbonpapier en het typelint dat ze had gebruikt geconfisqueerd waarna hij weer netjes thuis werd afgezet. De Sovjetstaat had geleerd van de ontluisterende affaire rond Boris Pasternak, wiens Dokter Zjivago triomfen vierde na de publicatie in het buitenland: ze deed er alles aan om Leven & lot op een geruisloze, onberispelijke manier te laten verdwijnen. In de resterende jaren van zijn leven werd Grossman niet vervolgd, en zelfs niet uit de Schrijversbond gezet, maar vakkundig gemarginaliseerd en doodgezwegen. `Ze hebben me gewurgd in mijn eigen portiek, zei hij zelf, kort voordat hij in 1964 aan maagkanker overleed. Het zou nog bijna twintig jaar duren tot een door Grossmans vriend Semjon Lipkin bewaard exemplaar van het boek naar Zwitserland werd gesmokkeld, waar de roman in 1980 voor het eerst verscheen. 

An original and profound reflection on the many uses of the language. For almost three centuries, Latin dominated the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world. From the moment in the sixteenth century when it was adopted by the Humanists as the official language for schools and by the Catholic Church as the common liturgical language, it was the way in which millions of children were taught, people prayed to God, and scholars were educated. Francoise Waquet's history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries is a highly original and accessible exploration of the institutional contexts in which the language was adopted. It goes on to consider what this conferring of power and influence on Latin meant in practice. Among the questions Waquet investigates are: What privileges were, and are still, accorded to those who claim to have studied Latin? Can Latin as a subject for study be anything more than purely linguistic or does it reveal a far more complex heritage? Has Latin's deeply embedded cultural legacy already given way to a nostalgic exoticism? Latin: A Symbol's Empire is a valuable work of reference, but also an important piece of cultural history: the story of a language that became a symbol with its own, highly significant empire.

The only book to tell the full story of how and why Britain voted to leave the EU. Based on unrivalled access to all the key politicians and their advisors - including Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, George Osborne, Nigel Farage and Dominic Cummings, the mastermind of Vote Leave - Tim Shipman has written a political history that reads like a thriller, and offers a gripping, day-by-day account of what really happened behind-the-scenes in Downing Street, both Leave campaigns, the Labour Party, Ukip and Britain Stronger in Europe. Shipman gives his readers a ringside seat on how decisions were made, mistakes justified and betrayals perpetrated. Filled with stories, anecdotes and juicy leaks the book does not seek to address the rights and wrongs of Brexit but to explore how and why David Cameron chose to take the biggest political gamble of his life and explain why he lost. This is a story of calculation, attempted coups, individuals torn between principles and loyalty. All the events are here - from David Cameron's pledge to hold a referendum, through to the campaign itself, his resignation as prime minister, the betrayals and rivalries that occurred during the race to find his successor to the arrival of Theresa May in Downing Street as Britain's second female prime minister. All Out War is a book about leaders and their closest aides, the decisions they make and how and why they make them, as well as how they feel when they turn out to be wrong. It is about men who make decisions that are intellectually consistent and - by their own measure - morally sound that are simultaneously disastrous for themselves and those closest to them. It is about how doing what you know has worked before doesn't always work again. Most of all it is about asking the question: how far are you prepared to go to win?

the only one-volume edition containing a full selection of poems, critical essays, political writing, letters

How language evolved has been called the hardest problem in science. In Adam’s Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn’t the only thing that sets us apart from other species—our cognitive powers are qualitatively different. So could there be two separate discontinuities between humans and the rest of nature? No, says Bickerton; he shows how the mere possession of symbolic units—words—automatically opened a new and different cognitive universe, one that yielded novel innovations ranging from barbed arrowheads to the Apollo spacecraft. Written in Bickerton s lucid and irreverent style, this book is the first that thoroughly integrates the story of how language evolved with the story of how humans evolved. Sure to be controversial, it will make indispensable reading both for experts in the field and for every reader who has ever wondered how a species as remarkable as ours could have come into existence.

What is the relationship between the financial system and politics? In a democratic system, what kind of control should elected governments have over the financial markets? What policies should be implemented to regulate them? What is the role played by different elites - financial, technocratic, and political - in the operation and regulation of the financial system? And what role should citizens, investors, and savers play? These are some of the questions addressed in this challenging analysis of the particular features of the contemporary capitalist economy in Britain, the USA, and Western Europe. The authors argue that the causes of the financial crisis lay in the bricolage and innovation in financial markets, resulting in long chains and circuits of transactions and instruments that enabled bankers to earn fees, but which did not sufficiently take into account system risk, uncertainty, and unintended consequences. In the wake of the crisis, the authors argue that social scientists, governments, and citizens need to re-engage with the political dimensions of financial markets. This book offers a controversial and accessible exploration of the disorders of our financial capitalism and its justifications. With an innovative emphasis on the economically 'undisclosed' and the political 'mystifying', it combines technical understanding of finance, cultural analysis, and al political account of interests and institutions.

A former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and an eminent economist tackle the biggest social issue of our time.

Of all the issues swirling around the 2008 election, the staggering projected costs for the upkeep of America's largest entitlement programs—Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—loom with gathering intensity. Government revenues alone cannot solve the problem, but a solution must be found. In this book George P. Shultz and John B. Shoven take a practical—and optimistic—look at the issues at hand, offering an agenda for reform that will make these essential programs solvent. Drawing on a trove of original research, they take stock of the current situation, consider plans on offer from major thinkers in the field, and chart a course toward a system that provides income for the elderly and universal access to health care in ways that are fiscally sound. This book is a must-read for anyone looking to make an informed decision about the country's future.

In the 19th century American Protestants firmly believed that when progress had run its course, there would be a Second Coming of Christ, the world would come to a supernatural End, and the predictions in the Apocalypse would come to pass. During the years covered in James Moorhead's study, however, moderate and liberal mainstream Protestants transformed this postmillennialism into a hope that this world would be the scene for limitless spiritual improvement and temporal progress. The sense of an End vanished with the arrival of the new millennium.