Een jonge plattelandsjournalist wordt undercover ingezet bij het onderzoek naar een vermoedelijke moord binnen een groepje filosofiestudenten in Amsterdam.

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Ethiek is een wijsgerige discipline waarin de systematische normatieve reflectie op ons praktische leven centraal staat. Hoe dienen we met elkaar om te gaan? Wat is een zinvolle manier van leven? Welke waarden moeten we in onze samenleving hoog houden? Wat is juist en wat is niet juist? Wat mag wel en wat mag niet? In dit boek vatten drie oud-hoogleraren ethiek hun vak op hoofdpunten samen. Zij baseren zich op jarenlang onderzoek en presenteren de laatste wetenschappelijke inzichten, maar ze vermijden filosofische geheimtaal en onnodig vakjargon. Govert den Hartogh, Frans Jacobs en Theo van Willigenburg bieden een kritische bespreking van de belangrijkste ethische theorieën, zonder dat zij een keuze maken voor of tegen een bepaalde theoretische invalshoek. De lezer wordt uitgenodigd om zelf te denken en een beredeneerde afweging te maken.00.

Het levensverhaal van een onder erbarmelijke omstandigheden opgegroeide jongen, die na de Eerste Wereldoorlog in Boedapest in heel uiteenlopende milieus komt te verkeren.

Anti-oorlogsboek. Beschrijft wreedheden en roofzucht en ontmaskert de krachten die er achter zitten. 

Herinneringen van de jongste broer van de schrijvers Thomas Mann (1875-1955) en Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) aan zijn familie.

Biografie van de Vlaamse schrijver (1882-1960).

Ontwikkelingsroman

The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

De eerste volledige en authentieke geschiedenis van ontstaan en gevolgen van het Stalinisme

Bundel essays over een breed scala aan onderwerpen waarover de historicus (1943) zijn veelal non-conformistische meningen uit.

Een waterbouwkundig inspecteur in Israël vertelt over zijn werk in de Negev-woestijn en over zijn opgroeien tussen vijf vrouwen.

Refael Maier is als inspecteur van een waterbedrijf werkzaam in de Negev-woestijn. Hij is de oudste nog levende man van zijn familie. Zijn vader, grootvader en beide ooms zijn op jonge leeftijd omgekomen bij ongelukken. Refael is opgegroeid bij 'de grote vrouw': een mengeling van zijn boekenverslindende moeder, zijn gierige grootmoeder, zijn beide tantes en zijn spottende zuster. Hij vindt toevlucht bij de kinderloze steenhouwer Avraham, die in de buurt woont en een grote liefde koestert voor een van Refaels tantes. In afwachting van het bittere lot dat de mannen in zijn familie treft, vertelt Refael over zijn leven in de woestijn, zijn jeugd in Jeruzalem, de bewoners van het nabijgelegen blindeninstituut, zijn ex-vrouw, de vrouwen bij wie hij is opgegroeid en hun overleden echtgenoten.

De kleine blonde dood (1985) was zonder twijfel Buchs succesvolste werk. De roman werd in 1993 verfilmd door Jean van de Velde.

Verhalen die op ironische en navrante wijze het conflict burger-dichter en het schipbreuk lijden van jeugdidealen op een materialistische maatschappij weergeven.

Op zijn handelsreizen naar Japan ontmoet een 19e-eeuwse Fransman een mysterieuze vrouw. De betoverende novelle Zijde (1997) betekende de definitieve doorbraak van de Italiaanse auteur Alessandro Baricco. Het boek werd in 1998 uitgeroepen tot ‘Booksellers International Book of the Year’. Het verhaal speelt in de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw. De economie van het Zuidfranse dorpje Lavilledieu draait helemaal om de productie van zijde. Door een ziekte onder de zijderupsen, traditioneel aangevoerd uit Egypte en Turkije, moet men de eitjes voor de rupsen daarom helemaal uit Japan gaan halen. In die tijd nog een mysterieus en geheimzinnig land. De grenzen voor niet-Japanners zijn nog maar net geopend. Hervé Joncour wordt vanuit Lavilledieu vier keer op expeditie gestuurd om de eitjes te gaan halen. Elke keer raakt raakt hij meer in de ban van een intrigerende, jonge vrouw, tevens de echtgenote van handelaar van wie hij de eitjes van de zijderupsen koopt. Een ingenieus en wonderschoon vertelt verhaal vol verlangen en onbereikbaarheid, dat zowel ratio als gevoel aan het wankelen brengt.

Alessandro Baricco toont bouwt met weinig woorden prachtige, levensechte personages. De 65 kleine hoofdstukjes bouwen een oosters sprookje, vol sensuele, exotische symboliek. Een 'zijde' zacht, poëtisch kleinood, met een haast onvermijdelijke, tragische en ontnuchterende ontknoping. In 2007 is het boek verfilmd door de Franse regisseur Francois Girard met Michael Pitt en Keira Knightley in de hoofdrollen. Het boek is echter 1000 keer beter en intrigerender dan de film!

Clear, insightful, and nondogmatic, this book gives us a new appreciation for one of our most ubiquitous institutions. From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, "What makes these institutions work? How important are they? How can we improve them?" Taking us on a lively tour of a world we once took for granted, John McMillan offers examples ranging from a camel trading fair in India to the $20 million per day Aalsmeer flower market in the Netherlands to the global trade in AIDS drugs. Eschewing ideology, he shows us that markets are neither magical nor immoral. Rather, they are powerful if imperfect tools, the best we've found for improving our living standards. Peter Bernstein's Against the Gods enabled us to see risk in a whole new light. McMillan's book will do the same for markets.

Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren't fixed.

Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown--made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners--were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose. He traces the deepening fault lines in a world overly dependent on the indebted American consumer to power global economic growth and stave off global downturns. He exposes a system where America's growing inequality and thin social safety net create tremendous political pressure to encourage easy credit and keep job creation robust, no matter what the consequences to the economy's long-term health; and where the U.S. financial sector, with its skewed incentives, is the critical but unstable link between an overstimulated America and an underconsuming world.

In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right. He outlines the hard choices we need to make to ensure a more stable world economy and restore lasting prosperity.

No one has more authority to call the shots the way they really are than Paul Krugman, whose provocative New York Times columns are keenly followed by millions. One of the world's most respected economists, Krugman has been named America's most important columnist by the Washington Monthly and columnist of the year by Editor and Publisher magazine.

In this long-awaited work containing Krugman's most influential columns along with new commentary, he chronicles how the boom economy unraveled: how exuberance gave way to pessimism, how the age of corporate heroes gave way to corporate scandals, how fiscal responsibility collapsed. From his account of the secret history of the California energy crisis to his devastating dissections of dishonesty in the Bush administration, Krugman tells the uncomfortable truth about how the United States lost its way. And he gives us the road map we will need to follow if we are to get the country back on track.

With ISIS metastasizing into more than two dozen countries, a massive refugee crisis threatening to negatively impact America much the same way it has decimated Europe, and increasing numbers of homegrown terrorists, radicalized into embracing jihad, within our own borders, Muslim Mafia is the book you need in order to understand what is really happening to America.

Muslim Mafia is the sensational result of a six-month undercover penetration of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations that resulted in the collection of thousands of pages of smoking-gun documents from this terror-linked front group for the dangerous, mob-like Muslim Brotherhood.

Muslim Mafia delivers all the elements of a top-flight mystery novel, except that the situations and conversations are totally real. The book's frightening allegations are supported by more than 12,000 pages of confidential CAIR documents and hundreds of hours of video captured in an unprecedented undercover operation. This trail of information reveals the seditious and well-funded efforts of the Brotherhood under the nonprofit guise of CAIR to support the international jihad movement against the United States. Posing as an intern, Chris Gaubatz courageously gains the trust of CAIR's inner sanctum, working undercover while posing as a devoted convert to Islam, and blows the whistle on the entire factory fueling the wave of homegrown terrorism now plaguing America.

How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author of Crash Proof, Peter Schiff teams up with his brother Andrew to apply their signature "take no prisoners" logic to expose the glaring fallacies that have become so ingrained in our country?s economic conversation.

Inspired by How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn?t?a previously published book by the Schiffs? father Irwin, a widely published economist and activist?How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes incorporates the spirit of the original while tackling the latest economic issues.With wit and humor, the Schiffs explain the roots of economic growth, the uses of capital, the destructive nature of consumer credit, the source of inflation, the importance of trade, savings, and risk, and many other topical principles of economics.

The tales told here may appear simple of the surface, but they will leave you with a powerful understanding of How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes.

There are no more respected voices in the environmental movement than Paul Hawken and Amory and Hunter Lovins, true counselors on the direction of twenty-first-century business. With hundreds of thousands of books sold worldwide, they have set the agenda for rational, ecologically sound industrial development.

In this inspiring book they define a superior and sustainable form of capitalism based on a system that radically raises the productivity of nature's dwindling resources. Natural Capitalism shows how cutting-edge businesses are increasing their earnings, boosting growth, reducing costs, enhancing competitiveness, and restoring the earth by harnessing a new design mentality. The authors offer dozens of examples of businesses that are making fourfold or even tenfold gains in efficiency, from self-heating and self-cooling buildings to 200-miles-per-gallon cars, while ensuring that workers aren't downsized out of their jobs.

This practical blueprint shows how making resources more productive will create the next industrial revolution.

The story of this storm in the global markets is the story of how government intervention to solve previous crises laid the foundation for a new one, writes Johan Norberg in his important new book. Tracing the causes of our current financial crisis with liveliness and clarity, Financial Fiasco shows the mistakes made in Washington, on Wall Street, and in communities across America that led to the economic meltdown. While many analysts have placed the blame solely on Wall Street, Norberg exposes the crucial role government regulation played in creating the opportunities and incentives that led to the financial collapse. In six concise chapters, Financial Fiasco tells the complex story of the crisis, showing how monetary policy, housing policy, and financial innovations combined to create financial catastrophe. The final two chapters describe the government's mismanagement of the crisis and how we are now dangerously repeating many of the very same mistakes that caused it. An understanding of the roots of the financial crisis is crucial for every American who has felt its effects - and would like to prevent the same disaster from happening again. Financial Fiasco provides that understanding, with great insight, clarity, and wit. Just as important, the book serves as a profound warning against pursuing the wrong solutions. After government authorities had helped create the worst financial crisis in generations, the climate of ideas has now shifted dramatically in the direction of bigger and more active government," Norberg writes. Financial Fiasco is the perfect antidote to those ideas, a cautionary tale on how to stop confusing the disease with the cure."--Jacket.

In this groundbreaking history of the Armenian Genocide, the critically acclaimed author of the memoir Black Dog of Fate brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts, Peter Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Young Turk government implemented the first modern genocide behind the cover of World War I. And in the telling, he also resurrects an extraordinary lost chapter of American history.

During the United States' ascension in the global arena at the turn of the twentieth century, America's humanitarian movement for Armenia was an important part of the rising nation's first epoch of internationalism. Intellectuals, politicians, diplomats, religious leaders, and ordinary citizens came together to try to save the Armenians. The Burning Tigris reconstructs this landmark American cause that was spearheaded by the passionate commitments and commentaries of a remarkable cast of public figures, including Julia Ward Howe, Clara Barton, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alice Stone Blackwell, Stephen Crane, and Ezra Pound, as well as courageous missionaries, diplomats, and relief workers who recorded their eyewitness accounts and often risked their lives in the killing fields of Armenia.