Schrijnende en onvergetelijke roman over Noord-Korea, die uw ogen zal openen, uw hart zal breken en het dan weer aaneensmeedt. 

Kritiek op de westerse cultuur wegens het ontbreken van een deugdelijke metafysische grondslag, aangetoond door beschouwende analyses van kunstwerken en filosofisch-spirituele bronnen.

This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic).

* A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award *An NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Book of the Year *

In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. Only weeks later, Rosa Parks thought about young Emmett as she refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Five years later, Black students who called themselves “the Emmett Till generation” launched sit-in campaigns that turned the struggle for civil rights into a mass movement. Till’s lynching became the most notorious hate crime in American history.

But what actually happened to Emmett Till—not the icon of injustice, but the flesh-and-blood boy? Part detective story, part political history, The Blood of Emmett Till “unfolds like a movie” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), drawing on a wealth of new evidence, including a shocking admission of Till’s innocence from the woman in whose name he was killed. “Jolting and powerful” (The Washington Post), the book “provides fresh insight into the way race has informed and deformed our democratic institutions” (Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Carry Me Home) and “calls us to the cause of justice today” (Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, president of the North Carolina NAACP).

The late Professor Basil Willey's important and influential inquiry into the history of religious and moral ideas in the nineteenth century has become (since its first appearance in 1949) a seminal study for all students of English literature and the history of ideas. Instead of surveying a complex nexus of ideas from a single vantage point, the author examines a shifting succession of beliefs. Religion and ethics are both the clue to those beliefs and an index of their fluctuations, and Professor Willey offers a lucid exposition and impartial evaluation of the issues raging at the heart of Victorian life: progress, original sin, enlightened self-interest and the moral imperative. Individual chapters are devoted to Coleridge, Thomas Arnold, Newman, Carlyle, Bentham, Mill, Comte, George Eliot and Matthew Arnold. Professor Willey's particular achievement is to have clarified and reanimated these controversies so as to show their continuing relevance.

Virtuoos familie-epos over de ondergang van de DDR

An hour-by-hour account of Flight 007 which was shot down by a Russian interceptor killing all 269 passengers and crew on board the Korean jet.

Central to this novel is Lieutenant Billy Prior, recently released from treatment for shell shock by psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers. Prior is in London, assigned to a domestic Intelligence unit. His position demands that he investigate an imprisoned female pacifist accused of plotting a political assassination - a woman who raised him as a child, and who now accuses him of betraying that childhood. At the same time, he has had a casual but intense sexual encounter with a fellow patient of Dr.

Based on a mix of real and imagined characters and events, this book concentrates on Sarah, a young woman working in a munitions factory, and on Wilfred Owen. The position of women has been a sub-theme throughout the books and here it moves to the forefront. (Spaanse griep, eerste wereldoorlog, ingrediënten voor een goed verhaal)

Vertaling van het 21e boek van "Ab urbe condita" van de Romeinse geschiedschrijver (59 v. Chr. - 17 n. Chr.)

Journalistieke analyse van de opkomst en ondergang van Pim Fortuyn en zijn partij LPF.

Verslag van de speurtocht van de auteur naar zijn familie.

The systematic destruction of Jews, carried out by the German state under Adolf Hitler during the Second World War, is still almost impossible to comprehend. This book examines how it was possible for a modern state to carry out systematic murder of a whole people, detailing Hitler's ideology, anti-Jewish legislation and the annihilation camps.

Oor- en ooggetuigen van de holocaust

Biografie van de Nederlandse filosoof G.J.P.J. Bolland (1854-1922).

The basics of how computer hardware, software, and systems work, and the risks they create for our privacy and security

Computers are everywhere. Some of them are highly visible, in laptops, tablets, cell phones, and smart watches. But most are invisible, like those in appliances, cars, medical equipment, transportation systems, power grids, and weapons. We never see the myriad computers that quietly collect, share, and sometimes leak vast amounts of personal data about us. Through computers, governments and companies increasingly monitor what we do. Social networks and advertisers know far more about us than we should be comfortable with, using information we freely give them. Criminals have all-too-easy access to our data. Do we truly understand the power of computers in our world?

Understanding the Digital World explains how computer hardware, software, networks, and systems work. Topics include how computers are built and how they compute; what programming is and why it is difficult; how the Internet and the web operate; and how all of these affect our security, privacy, property, and other important social, political, and economic issues. This book also touches on fundamental ideas from computer science and some of the inherent limitations of computers. It includes numerous color illustrations, notes on sources for further exploration, and a glossary to explain technical terms and buzzwords.

Understanding the Digital World is a must-read for all who want to know more about computers and communications. It explains, precisely and carefully, not only how they operate but also how they influence our daily lives, in terms anyone can understand, no matter what their experience and knowledge of technology.

After almost 50 years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children are all making catastrophes of their own lives. Enid however, has her heart set on one last family Christmas.

Boek of brandstapel is geen vrolijk, maar wel een rijk boek. Oorlogen, opstanden en veroveringen met geweld waren er genoeg. Levendige verhalen worden aangevuld met boeiende informatieve teksten. De gravures en vooral de kleurige illustraties, vaak paginagroot, geven de historische figuren een gezicht. Een verademing voor jongeren vanaf 12 jaar die op een verfrissende manier kennis willen maken met de geschiedenis. Ook scholen kunnen er natuurlijk hun voordeel mee doen. Achterin o.a. een kaart van Europa in 1648. Best een belangrijk boek. 

Dit boek bevat een selectie gepubliceerde artikelen over zenboeddhisme, geschreven vanaf 1970 tot 2010. Zij zijn verschenen in tijdschriften (o.a. Zen en Speling) of in boeken waaraan meerdere auteurs een bijdrage leverden. Zij bestrijken een periode van veertig jaar spiritualiteit. Met publiceren is Tydeman begonnen toen hij werkzaam was als staflid van het toenmalige meditatiecentrum De Kosmos. Vanaf die tijd leerden verschillende leraren hem de zenweg: Kalfried Dürckheim, Thich Nhat Hanh en vooral Genpo Merzel Roshi. De essays zijn een weerslag van zijn ontwikkeling vanaf deze beginfase tot aan de tijd dat Tydeman zelf officieel leraar werd. Zij gaan over de belangrijke thema’s: de beoefening van zazen, de plaats van het zenboeddhisme in het publieke (Nederlandse) domein, zen en de dood, compassie, verlichting – en wat daarna?, over Dogen Zenji, de stichter van de soto-school. De betekenis van de christelijke mystiek blijkt uit een artikel over meister Eckhart. In deze verzamelbundel zijn ook enkele niet gepubliceerde artikelen opgenomen, o.a. over erotiek en verlichting en een bijdrage aan de interreligieuze dialoog. Dit laatste is de tekst van een lezing uitgesproken op een conferentie gehouden ter ere van Mimi Maréchal, tien jaar na haar overlijden.