The best of The Minimalists. 

Simplicity: Essays is The Minimalists' second essay collection, a follow-up to their bestselling Minimalism: Essential Essays. In the two years since the authors quit their six-figure corporate jobs and embraced simpler lives, they have written more than 200 essays on the subject of simple living. Simplicity: Essays serves as a "best of" collection for their most important collaborative writings. 

Misha Glenny's groundbreaking study of global organized crime is now the inspiration for an 8-part AMC crime drama starring James Norton (War and Peace), Juliet Rylance, and David Strathairn. 

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have foreseen that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the worldwide rise of organized crime. Today, it is estimated that illegal trade accounts for one-fifth of the global GDP.

In this fearless and wholly authoritative investigation of the seemingly insatiable demand for illegal wares, veteran reporter Misha Glenny travels across five continents to speak with participants from every level of the global underworld--police, victims, politicians, and even the criminals themselves. What follows is a groundbreaking, propulsive look at an unprecedented phenomenon from a savvy, street-wise guide.

During the past ten years, few issues have mattered more to America’s vital interests or to the shape of the twenty-first century than Russia’s fate. To cheer the fall of a bankrupt totalitarian regime is one thing; to build on its ruins a stable democratic state is quite another. The challenge of helping to steer post-Soviet Russia-with its thousands of nuclear weapons and seething ethnic tensions-between the Scylla of a communist restoration and the Charybdis of anarchy fell to the former governor of a poor, landlocked Southern state who had won national election by focusing on domestic issues. No one could have predicted that by the end of Bill Clinton’s second term he would meet with his Kremlin counterparts more often than had all of his predecessors from Harry Truman to George Bush combined, or that his presidency and his legacy would be so determined by his need to be his own Russia hand. With Bill Clinton at every step was Strobe Talbott, the deputy secretary of state whose expertise was the former Soviet Union. Talbott was Clinton’s old friend, one of his most trusted advisers, a frequent envoy on the most sensitive of diplomatic missions and, as this book shows, a sharp-eyed observer. The Russia Hand is without question among the most candid, intimate and illuminating foreign-policy memoirs ever written in the long history of such books. It offers unparalleled insight into the inner workings of policymaking and diplomacy alike. With the scope of nearly a decade, it reveals the hidden play of personalities and the closed-door meetings that shaped the most crucial events of our time, from NATO expansion, missile defense and the Balkan wars to coping with Russia’s near-meltdown in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. The book is dominated by two gifted, charismatic and flawed men, Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin, who quickly formed one of the most intense and consequential bonds in the annals of statecraft. It also sheds new light on Vladimir Putin, as well as the altered landscape after September 11, 2001. The Russia Hand is the first great memoir about war and peace in the post-cold war world.

Born and raised on a small Canadian farm, Galbraith began teaching at Harvard during the Depression. He was FDR"s "price czar" during the war and then a senior editor of Fortune before returning to Harvard and to fame as a bestselling writer. Parker shows how, from his early championing of Keynes to his acerbic analysis of America"s "private wealth and public squalor," Galbraith regularly challenged prevailing theories and policies. And his account of Galbraith"s remarkable friendship with John F. Kennedy, whom he served as a close advisor while ambassador to India, is especially relevant for its analysis of the intense, dynamic debates that economists and politicians can have over how America should manage its wealth and power. This masterful chronicle gives color, depth, and meaning to the record of an extraordinary life.

This journalistic pilgrimage seeks out the forgotten people of the Holy Land-its Christians-and shows how their dwindling numbers offer a sober lesson in understanding the modern Middle East. . Retracing the path of Jesus' life at the turn of a new millennium, award-winning journalist Charles M. Sennott finds a region riven by political revolt, religious conflict, apocalyptic prophecies and the quest for Jerusalem-just as it was 2,000 years ago. The Body and the Blood is Sennott's journalistic pilgrimage through the Holy Land from Nazareth and Bethlehem to Egypt and Lebanon and finally Jerusalem itself, during a gripping a year that was also a critical turning point in the future of the region. Sennott's journey weaves through the local Christian communities of the Middle East, a population which is disappearing dramatically in the land where the faith began. Where a century ago Christians represented as much as 20 percent of the population of what is today Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, now they comprise less than 2 percent of the total population. Historians and demographers fear that within two more generations, native Christianity could virtually disappear in the Holy Land. Timely and moving, firmly grounded in the troubled history of the region, The Body and the Blood dares to ask questions of the spirit as well as of politics. Two thousand years after Jesus' birth, is there a place for his followers in the land he called home? Has the West fatally misunderstood, even abandoned, the Christians of the Middle East? And most provocatively, could Christianity help answer the riddle of peace in the region? Sennott's elegiac, controversial book is sure to spark national, and international, discussion

Als de nazi's aan de macht komen, besluit steracteur Kurt Köpler om niet te emigreren. Ook na de oorlog is hij een ster, in dienst van een nieuw bestel. Uit integere passie voor het acteren of als volmaakt lege opportunist? De roman Mephisto. Roman einer Karriere (1936) van Klaus Mann baseerde zich op het leven van Gustav Grüngens - Manns voormalige zwager en cabaretkompaan, tevens een succesvol toneelspeler in het Duitsland van de jaren dertig. Een van Grüngens glansrollen was Mephisto, de duivel in Goethes Faust.

Als de nazi's aan de macht komen, staat de steracteur voor de verscheurende keuze: emigreren of niet? In tegenstelling tot de familie Mann blijft hij. Hij wordt al snel de directeur van het grootste staatstheater en zelfs een graag geziene gast in de hoogste kringen van het Derde Rijk. Acteren is immers zijn passie, en de kunst is hem heilig, boven alles... Maar ten koste waarvan?

Mephisto bleef in het naoorlogse Duitsland werken een verboden boek, tot het van de vergetelheid werd gered door de toneelbewerking van Ariane Mnouchkine (Théâtre du Soleil) en de Oscarwinnende film van István Szabo (starring Klaus Maria Brandauer). De bewerking die Lanoye met regisseur Guy Cassiers (Toneelhuis) nu maakt gaat verder. Zij trekken het verhaal van steracteur door tot na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Want ook na de instorting van het Derde Rijk werd de protagonist weer een ster, in dienst van een nieuw bestel. Uit integere passie voor het acteren? Of als volmaakt lege opportunist?
Zodoende wordt Mefisto for ever geen documentaire karakterschets meer over één enkele acteur, maar een universele theaterparabel over kunst en politiek, macht en acteren, regie en propaganda.

Een verhaal uit het niemandsland, tussen SF en de werkelijkheid, zodat de werkelijkheid fantastischer blijkt dan je ooit had gedacht...

THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

In this revolutionary, acclaimed book, bestselling economist Tim Harford introduced us to a selection of fifty radical inventions that changed the world.

Now Harford once again brings us an array of remarkable, memorable, curious and often unexpected things, inventions, that teach us lessons by turns intimate and sweeping about the complex world economy we live in today. From the brick, blockchain and the bicycle to fire, the factory and fundraising, and from solar PV and the pencil to the postage stamp, this brilliant and enlightening collection resonates, fascinates and stimulates. It is a wonderful blend of insight and inspiration from one of Britain's finest non-fiction storytellers.

In the future, how many identities will you have? How many do you want? Digital technology is causing us to think differently about who we are and who we could become, but with the right knowledge we can turn this incredible capacity to our advantage.

'Who am I?' is one of the most fundamental questions of all. But it is becoming increasingly difficult to answer as technology enables us to negotiate and create many different versions of ourselves.

In our digital, data-driven world, Facebook gets a say in verifying who we are, science can alter our biology, and advances in AI are revolutionizing not only how we interact online but with the physical world around us. Understanding and defining ourselves is becoming confusing but, as this fascinating book argues, it is possible to embrace this new era of transformation while preserving our autonomy.

Binnentitel: Album der zee

waarin te bevestigen Klaverblad s plaatjes

met 110 illustraties door J.W. Heijting

Een populair-historisch overzicht van de Rotterdamse en Schiedamse bioscopen (1896-1996)

Verbeter jezelf, begin bij de wereld. Ontdek de kracht van het wij in jezelf.  Het ik-tijdperk is voorbij, samen op weg naar een nieuwe ethiek

The Art of Corporate Storytelling