Een jonge vrouw krijgt een baan bij het grootste ICT-bedrijf ter wereld; na verloop van tijd begint ze te twijfelen aan de werkwijze van het concern.

Uitgave van boekhandel Roelants ter gelegenheid van een ontmoeting van J.J. Voskuil met zijn lezers op zondag 31 januari 1999. Een bundel met 27 meest academische reacties op 'Het Bureau'.

"Vanaf het eind van de oorlog tot begin 1948 vertrekken er ruim 30.000 Nederlanders naar Indië. De vader van de auteur ging er werken voor het Rubberfonds, het NIRUB. In Indonesië weet je nooit hoe lang een reis duurt. ‘Jam karet’, klinkt het daar, tijd is als rubber zo rekbaar. Rubbertijd gaat over de Indische jaren van zijn ouders. Van Blijdorp naar Batavia, van de diergaarde naar de jungle. Met een vliegtuigje op inspectie naar bedreigde plantages, tussen rondtrekkende revolutionairen en rampokken. Een reis op papier door hun Indië. In 2014 gaat hij er zelf rondkijken, eindelijk. Hij zoekt een stukje uit de familiegeschiedenis en krijgt er het verleden tussen twee landen bij. Met onderweg een tussenstop in de haven van Rotterdam, bij een havenbaron. En een speurtocht omgeving paleis Noordeinde en de rosse buurt bij station Holland Spoor, in de jaren ’20 en ’30 het werkterrein van zijn ‘grootvader’, zoals de schrijver ontdekt."--

Izak is een waargebeurde geschiedenis die de gedaante aanneemt van een Ambonees sprookje. Het is het verhaal van Izak, een onopgemerkt kind in de oorlog van anderen. De gebeurtenissen spelen zich af op Oost-Java, ten tijde van de Japanse omverwerping van het Nederlands-Indische koloniaal gezag en kort erna, in de chaos van de Indonesische onafhankelijkheidsstrijd. Izak, kleine Ambonees, droomt van pianomuziek, vingers die over het klavier regenen, zoals hij heeft meegemaakt in de grote salon van njonja Alma. Hij droomt ervan dat hij deze kunst zelf zal beheersen en dat de schitterende muziek in zijn lichaam zal komen wonen. Op een dag is de salon vernield, de vleugel weggevoerd. Izak gaat op zoek, de oorlog in. Maar wat oorlog is voor anderen betekent voor hem vrijheid, hij hoort regen op de bladeren en 's nachts de bamboefluit. Izak is het verhaal van kinderogen, van een verbeelding waar het verstand niet bij kan. April 2008: de Duitse vertaling van Izak door Andreas Ecke staat op de shortlist van de Else Ottenprijs 2008. ' Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Het leven van Franciscus van Assisië (1180-1226) naar eigentijdse bronnen verhaald met een poging zijn persoon te plaatsen in zijn tijd.

Confessions of a connoisseur: Insiders' tips on how the design art market really works "Art is about life, the art market is about money." --Damien Hirst

Whether you're an art fan, aficionado, or collector, this completely unique book should be on your required reading list. Like a textbook for a class given by all of the world's leading experts, Collecting Contemporary Art is the one and only book to teach you everything you ever wanted to know about the contemporary art market. The introduction explains the ABCs of buying art on the primary and secondary markets, at auction, and at art fairs and gives an overview of the world art scene and its social circles. The main body of the book brings together tell-all interviews with the biggest players in the global art market: the Critic (Rimanelli), the Dealer (Boesky, Brunnet/Hackert, Coles, Deitch, Fortes, Gagosian, Gladstone, Glimcher, Hetzler, Lybke, Perrotin, Rosen, Shave, Wirth), the Consultant (Cortez, Fletcher, Heller, Segalot, Westreich), the Collector (Brant, Broad, Habsburg, Joannou, Lambert, Lehmann, Lopez, Paz, Pinault, Rothschild Foundation, Saatchi), the Auction House Expert (Cappellazzo, de Pury, Meyer), and the Museum Curator/Director (Dennison, Eccles, Heiss, Lowry, Peyton-Jones).

Rounding up the book are chapters on the year in art collecting--giving a timeline of the most important annual auctions, exhibitions, fairs, etc. around the world--as well as a glossary of terms every art savvy player should know. The text is illustrated by the work of the hottest artists in today's market, including Matthew Barney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Lisa Yuskavage, and many more.

All in all, these elements add up to the equivalent of an invaluable and privileged real-world collector's education--all between the covers of one book.

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Door de zelfmoord van haar moeder krijgt een veertigjarige vrouw een heel andere kijk op haar familie.

Beschrijving van een pelgrimstocht naar de heiligste plaats in het Tibetaans boeddhisme, de berg Kailas.

Stanley Fischer served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 1994 to 2001. IMF Essays from a Time of Crisis collects sixteen essays written for the most part during his time at the IMF, each updated with Fischer's later reflections on the issues raised. The IMF drew much criticism for some of its actions during Fischer's tenure, and he vigorously defends the "battlefield medicine" practiced by the IMF during a series of economic crises, which included the problems of economic transition in the former Soviet bloc and the Asian financial crisis. Fischer addresses the subsequent calls for reform of the international financial system and makes the case for the IMF as an international lender of last resort.

The first section of essays, "The Role of the IMF and the Reform of the International Financial System," considers the IMF's role in the international financial system in light of the crises of the 1990s. The second section, "Macroeconomic Policy, Stabilization, and Transition," examines such topics as exchange rate regimes, inflation, and Eastern Europe's relation to the European Union. The final section, "Poverty and Development," reflects Fischer's basic belief that economic policies should explicitly target poverty reduction. These engaging and accessible essays will appeal not only to economics students, economists, and policymakers but also to the general reader interested in the international monetary system.

Once upon a time, students who were willing and able to work hard could obtain an affordable, high-quality education at a public university. Those times are gone. Intensified admissions competition coupled with opposition to public spending has scorched every campus. Budget cuts, tuition hikes, and debt burdens are undermining the best path to upward mobility that this country ever built.

But despite all of this, Americans still embrace ideals of equal opportunity and know that higher education represents a public good. Students, faculty, staff, and advocates are beginning to build political coalitions and develop new strategies to improve access, enhance quality, and simplify financial aid. This book celebrates and will fortify their efforts.

In Saving State U, economist Nancy Folbre brings the national debates of education experts down to the level of trying to teach--and trying to learn--at major state universities whose budgets have repeatedly been slashed, restored, and then slashed again. Here is a brilliant firsthand account of the stakes involved, the politics, and the key debates raging through public campuses today. In a passionate, accessible voice, Folbre also offers a sobering vision of the many possible futures of public higher education and their links to the fate of our democracy while looking at the practical ways in which change is now possible.

Bespreking van een aantal aspecten van de geschiedenis en cultuur van het oude Egypte.

Analyse van de internationale politiek vanuit de stelling dat democratie (het vrije Westen) steeds meer tegenover autocratie (nationalistische en fundamentalistische regimes) komt te staan.

Our study deals with the question of whether the structure and nature of Islamic religiosity differs significantly from the religiosity of adherents of the three major Christian confessions. Four religious culturol settings - a Bosnian Muslim one, a Slovenian Catholic one, a Serbian Orthodox one and an American Protestant one - are compared on the basis of a variety of measures of religiosity, resulting from a survey carried out on large student samples in 2005. Allthough certain cultural peculiarities of the Muslim group are noticeable, these peculiarities do not suffice to characterize Islamic religiosity as significantly structurally different as compared to the three Christian groups. On the other hand, some interesting differences appeared in the comparison of the two most intensively religious groups: the American Protestants and the Bosnian Muslims.

What makes for a great meeting? As a leader, how can you keep discussions on point and productive? In "How to Run a Meeting", Antony Jay argues that too many leaders fail to plan adequately for meetings. In this bestselling article, he defines the characteristics that contribute to success , from keeping formal minutes to acknowledging junior staff first. These guidelines will help you get demonstrably better results from every meeting you run. Since 1922, "Harvard Business Review" has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. "The Harvard Business Review Classics" series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

Drawn to an image of her great-grandfather's ornately carved cane, scholar Elisa New embarked on a journey to discover the origins of her precious family heirloom. Treading back across the paths of her ancestors, she travels from Baltimore to the Baltic to London in order to find and understand an immigrant world profoundly affected by modern German culture, from the Enlightenment through the Holocaust. Deeply ambitious in its narrative sweep, Jacob's Cane captures the rich texture of life on several continents as New's family searches to establish itself in the tobacco trade. A fascinating history of one family's story of progress, innovation, and struggle, Jacob's Cane will change the way we think about the Jewish American experience.

Verslagen van gesprekken met overledenen die via het Amerikaanse medium George Anderson zijn gevoerd om nabestaanden te helpen.

Aan de gangbare spelling aangepaste editie.

Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); “a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping& deserves a lasting place among histories of the war.” (The Sunday Telegraph), Hunting Evil is the first complete and definitive account of how the Nazis escaped and were pursued and captured  -- or managed to live long lives as fugitives.
 
At the end of the Second World War, an estimated 30,000 Nazi war criminals fled from justice, including some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi Party.  Many of them have names that resonate deeply in twentieth-century history -- Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann, and Klaus Barbie -- not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers.  Aided and abetted by prominent people throughout Europe, they hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, and were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic, featuring vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, and daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives.
 
In this exhaustively researched and compellingly written work of World War II history and investigative reporting, journalist and novelist Guy Walters gives a comprehensive account of one of the most shocking and important aspects of the war: how the most notorious Nazi war criminals escaped justice, how they were pursued, captured or able to remain free until their natural deaths and how the Nazis were assisted while they were on the run by "helpers" ranging from a Vatican bishop to a British camel doctor, and even members of Western intelligence services.  Based on all new interviews with Nazi hunters and former Nazis and intelligence agents, travels along the actual escape routes, and archival research in Germany, Britain, the United States, Austria, and Italy,Hunting Evil authoritatively debunks much of what has previously been understood about Nazis and Nazi hunters in the post war era, including myths about the alleged “Spider” and “Odessa” escape networks and the surprising truth about the world's most legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. 
 
From its haunting chronicle of the monstrous mass murders the Nazis perpetrated and the murky details of their postwar existence to the challenges of hunting them down,Hunting Evil is a monumental work of nonfiction written with the pacing and intrigue of a thriller.
 


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Bezoekersgids van het Anne Frank Huis in Amsterdam.

On his death bed, David, warrior-king of Israel, reflects on his life, future representations of him, and his troublesome family, while he awaits God's apology.