Irene Beckman appears to have a perfect life: two grown children, a house in a prosperous suburb of Copenhagen, and a successful career as a family lawyer. She is cool, sophisticated, and still exotically good-looking, the dyed hair her only concession to time.
Then her husband announces that he's leaving her, and her mother reveals some unexpected information about Irene's father. Suddenly, Irene Beckman is neither wife nor daughter. Nor, she realizes, is it at all clear who she has been all these years. It is time to find out.
From the internationally acclaimed author of Silence in October, An Altered Light is another fascinating exploration of the nature of chance and relationships-between parents and children, husbands and wives, friends and strangers.

From one of today's foremost commentators on religious affairs and the author of A History of God comes an insightful chronicle of the fundamentalist form of religion and the forces of modernism that have, paradoxically, brought it into existence.

This book aims to arouse curiosity about English words and about the nature of language in general, especially among introductory students who do not intend to specialize in linguistics. It examines words from various backgrounds - including poetry, journalism, advertising. No previous knowledge of linguistics is assumed. The approach to the study of words is descriptive rather than theoretical. It looks at the structure of words, their meaning, spelling and pronunciation, how new words are manufactured or imported, and how the meaning of words change with time. Katamba also investigates how the mind deals with the amazing intellectual feat of retrieving the right word from its mental dictionary during conversation. The author has also published Morphology (Macmillan, 1993), and Introduction to Phonology (Longman, 1984).

Schetsen voor een nieuwe moraal, die een omkering van de christelijke waarden inhoudt.

Studie over de ontwikkelingsgang van het denken van de Duitse filosoof (1844-1900) tot en met diens "Die fröhliche Wissenschaft", toegespitst op zijn visie op de wetenschap en de relevantie daarvan voor het hedendaagse postmoderne relativisme.

Onderzoek naar en verklaring voor de geografische bodemtekeningen in Peru.

Margaret A. Haley (1861-1939) was the leader of the nations most militant association of teachers - the Chicago Teachers Federation. She played an active role in the public affairs of Chicago and Illinois and campaigned for causes as tax reform, municipal ownership, teacher benefits, elected schoolboards, womens suffrage and democratic school administration. She fought corrupt politicians and autocratic school administrators and was a dynamic living force convincing the governor to sign the 1913 suffrage bill for women of Illinois. 

The fascinating story of a young man’s disillusionment with the Communist system and his journey around China in search of himself and his country. “My painter friends think I am a die-hard conservative, my writer friends think I am a man of loose morals. In Jushlin Temple I am a quiet disciple; in the Propaganda Department I am a decadent youth. Women call me a cynical artist, the police call me a hooligan. Well, they can think what they like. I only have 20,000 days left to live.” Lots of Chinese women have given us their stories – now Ma Jian tells us of his overwhelming desire, in 1983 at the age of 30, to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. All around him China was changing. Den Xiaoping was introducing economic reform but clamping down on “Spiritual Pollution” – rebellious young people. With his long hair, denim jeans and artistic friends, Ma Jian was under surveillance from his work unit and the police. His ex-wife was seeking custody of their daughter; his girlfriend was sleeping with another man; and he could no longer find the inspiration to write or paint. One day he bought a train ticket to the westernmost border of China and set off in search of himself. Ma Jian’s journey would last three years and take him to deserts and overpopulated cities, from scenes of barbarity to havens of tranquility and beauty. The result is an utterly unique book; an insight into the teeming contradictions of China that only a man who was both an insider and an outsider in his own country could have written.

The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structurally and culturally distinct from traditional patterns of `decent' working-class life, has become increasingly popular in the 1990s. Anti-work, anti-social, and welfare dependent cultures are said to typify this new `dangerous class' and `dangerous youth' are taken as the prime subjects of underclass theories. Debates about the family and single-parenthood, about crime and about unemployment and welfare reforms have all become embroiled in underclass theories which, whilst highly controversial, have had remarkable influence on the politics and policies of governments in Britain and the US,
Youth, the `Underclass' and Social Exclusion constitutes the first concerted attempt to grapple with the underclass idea in relation to contemporary youth. It focuses upon unemployment, training, the labour market, crime, homelessness, and parenting and will be essential reading for students of social policy, sociology and criminology.

In deel 1 wordt de theorie dat seksualiteit vanaf de 18e eeuw alleen maar stelselmatig werd onderdrukt, verworpen. Er werd juist een heel (wetenschappelijk) apparaat in gang gezet om over seksualiteit 'ware vertogen' en bekentenissen te produceren. In deel 2 gaat Foucault terug naar het Griekenland van de 4e eeuw voor Christus. Hij maakt duidelijk dat voor de Grieken zelfbeheersing en beteugeling van de hartstocht elementen waren van een levenskunst waarin je soeverein over je zelf kunt zijn. HIj licht dit o.a. toe aan de hand van de 'regels' die golden voor pederastische relaties. In deel 3 stelt hij dat in de Romeinse cultuur van de eerste twee eeuwen seks werd geproblematiseerd. Tegen de geslachtsdaad bestaat achterdocht en onthouding en matiging worden gepropageerd. De liefde voor knapen krijgt minder aandacht en verliest zijn pedagogische accent.