Bijdragen van Nescio, Lieneke Frerichs.

Russia's current president, and a racing certainty to be re-elected in 2004, Vladimir Putin seemed to have come from nowhere when he succeeded Boris Yeltsin in March 2000. It was as if he had taken the Kremlin by stealth -- perhaps using the skills he acquired as a senior officer in the KGB. In fact, Putin's rise to prominence owes more to a combination of canny manoeuvring and good old-fashioned patronage. A fiercely loyal citizen of St Petersburg, from a poor but stable background, he has throughout his life maintained close contacts with key officials in that city. And his links with the powerful Yeltsin clan made him the heir apparent as his predecessor's health declined. Since then Putin has trod a tricky but careful path between overtures to the West when it suits him and a hardline approach to problems at home. His handling of the Chechen crisis, including the Moscow theatre siege, has inspired admiration and condemnation in equal measure. But what does he stand for? And to what extent is a policy of 'Russia First' compatible with a world in which US primacy holds sway? Drawing on interviews with all the key players in Moscow, London and around the world, Peter Truscott's masterly and incisive biography sheds new light on one of the most enigmatic of modern leaders.

The last morning star symbolizes all that is ephemeral in this world. Talking on the playful and provocative poetry of Daya, Osho takes us on a journey from the transient, from our world outside, to the eternal, our boundless world within. This is the journey of the heart - the joyous, spontaneous, and at times uncompromising way of an enlightened woman mystic. 'Bear this in mind. When the dissatisfaction you have with thins is turned inwards and the contentment that you have towards the inner is turned outwards, you have already become a religious person. You only have to make this small change.' - Osho

Het leven van Janice Miller is te omschrijven als de American dream, totdat haar man haar inruilt voor een ander. Haar gelukkige leven verandert na deze onverwachte gebeurtenis in een boze nachtmerrie. Samen met haar twee dochters besluit ze zich te wreken. 

The first comprehensive history of the oldest religious Jewish women's organization in the U.S., Gone to Another Meeting charts the development of the National Council of Jewish Women and its impact on both the Jewish community in the United States and American society in general.

Describes nineteenth century Paris and offers profiles of ten writers, spiritualists, social theorists, intellectuals, politicians, and artists

Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written by leading historians, anthropologists, and archeologists, these lively essays take us from Mayan states to twentieth-century Benin in Nigeria, to the palace of Japanese Shoguns, the Chinese Imperial courts, eighteenth-century Versailles, Mughal India, and beyond. Together they investigate how women's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the structures of power and societies in which they lived. This work also furthers our understanding of how royal courts, created to project the authority of male rulers, maintained themselves through the reproductive and productive powers of women.

Geillustreerd met tekeningen en 150 gekleurde plaatjes.

Met illustraties door Piet Nienhuis