Het Tawang klooster in India is na de Potala cpmplex in Lhasa het grootste klooster ter wereld. Dit boekje behandelt onder meer de bouwkundige en historische aspecten van het klooster.

Tent.cat. van gelijknamige tent. (Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Brussel) met 500 cat.nrs. waarvan het merendeel in kleur is afgebeeld.

Picturebook with colourful photographs of forgotten tribes in india and text in French.

Tweede deel van de tent.cat. bij gelijknamige tent. (Brussel, Kon. Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis) met 226 cat.nrs. waarvan vele in kleur zijn afgebeeld.

Oorspronkelijk verschenen in het Duits; met 365 illustraties waarvan 37 in kleur.

Colour photographs of one of the last warrior peoples living in Northern Kenya focusing on the ritual of circumcision.

Verslag van een reis door de Verenigde Staten langs een aantal religieuze sekten.

In Questioning the Millennium, Stephen Jay Gould applies his wit and erudition to one of today's most pressing subjects: the significance of the millennium.
In this beautiful inquiry into time and its milestones, he shares his interest and insights with his readers. Refreshingly reasoned, erudite, and absorbing, the book asks and answers the three major questions that define the approaching calendrical event:
First, what exactly is this concept of a millennium and how has its meaning shifted? How did the name for a future thousand year reign of Christ on earth get transferred to the passage of a secular period of a thousand years in current human history?
When does the new millennium begin: January 1, in the year 2000 or 2001?
Finally, why must our calendars be so complex, leading to our search for arbitrary regularity, including a fascination with millennia?
As always, Gould brings into his essays a wide range of compelling historical and scientific fact, including a brief history of millennia fevers, calendrical traditions and idiosyncrasies from around the world, the story of a sixth-century monk whose errors in chronology plague us even today, and the heroism of a young autistic man who has developed the extraordinary ability to calculate dates deep into the past and the future.
Ranging over a wide terrain of phenomena - from the arbitrary regularities of human calendars to the unpredictability of nature, from the vagaries of pop culture to the birth of Christ - Stephen Jay Gould holds the mirror up to our millennial passions to reveal our foibles, absurdities, and uniqueness - in other words, our humanity.

This first, and some would say greatest, poet of the English language stands before the gateway of the early modern age. He lived at a time when the elite languages of former conquerors, French and Latin, were both giving way to English - no longer just the vernacular of the common people, but increasingly the language of the court, the law, and of literature. Richard West weaves a fascinating picture of this extraordinary man, whose character has puzzled lovers of his comic masterpiece, "The Canterbury Tales". How did he remain so apparently cheerful and serene, through one of the cruellest eras of history? As a child he survived the Black Death, later he fought in France during the Hundred Years War, served as a diplomat in Italy, and became an MP at the angry beginnings of the Protestant Reformation, the Peasants' Revolt and the overthrow of Richard II.

'Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.' Douglas Adams, Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

We human beings have trouble with infinity - yet infinity is a surprisingly human subject. Philosophers and mathematicians have gone mad contemplating its nature and complexity - yet it is a concept routinely used by schoolchildren. Exploring the infinite is a journey into paradox. Here is a quantity that turns arithmetic on its head, making it feasible that 1 = 0. Here is a concept that enables us to cram as many extra guests as we like into an already full hotel. Most bizarrely of all, it is quite easy to show that there must be something bigger than infinity - when it surely should be the biggest thing that could possibly be.

Brian Clegg takes us on a fascinating tour of that borderland between the extremely large and the ultimate that takes us from Archimedes, counting the grains of sand that would fill the universe, to the latest theories on the physical reality of the infinite. Full of unexpected delights, whether St Augustine contemplating the nature of creation, Newton and Leibniz battling over ownership of calculus, or Cantor struggling to publicise his vision of the transfinite, infinity's fascination is in the way it brings together the everyday and the extraordinary, prosaic daily life and the esoteric.

Whether your interest in infinity is mathematical, philosophical, spiritual or just plain curious, this accessible book offers a stimulating and entertaining read.

If you gotta be a dog, be a bitch Sandra Francy is seventeen and under pressure - pressure to be good and work hard at school. But she's fed up with all that. Sandra's been having fun, running wild - some say too wild. Then she gets turned into a dog. She's frightened at first, but she quickly finds pleasures she hardly knew existed. Sandra starts to wonder, is being human worth all the effort?

"Remarkable" and "astonishing," says Jan Morris of Roy Moxham's account of his search for "one of the least-known wonders of Queen Victoria's India," and John Keay finds it "a compelling read, simply told, and simply wonderful." An unquestionably fascinating tale, as well as a travel book and historical detective story, The Great Hedge of India begins in a secondhand bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road. There Roy Moxham buys the memoir of a nineteenth-century British colonial administrative officer, who makes a passing reference to a giant hedge planted by the British across the Indian subcontinent. That hedge--which for fifty years had been manned and cared for by 12,000 men and had run a length of 2,500 miles--becomes what Moxham calls his "ridiculous obsession." Recounting a journey that takes him to exotic isolated villages deep in the interior of India, Moxham chronicles his efforts to confirm the existence of the extraordinary, impenetrable green wall that had virtually disappeared from two nations' memories. Not only does he discover the shameful role the hedge played in the exploitative Raj and the famines of the late nineteenth century, but he also uncovers what remains of this British grand folly and restores to history what must be counted one of the world's wonders--and a monument to one of the great injustices of Victorian imperialism. "Grandly entertaining ... close to being a perfect story of a fanciful quest."--Boston Globe

In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. The IWM aural archive has become the most important archive of its kind in the world. Authors have occasionally been granted access to the vaults, but digesting the thousands of hours of footage is a monumental task. Now, forty years on, the Imperial War Museum has at last given author Max Arthur and his team of researchers unlimited access to the complete WWI tapes. These are the forgotten voices of an entire generation of survivors of the Great War. The resulting book is an important and compelling history of WWI in the words of those who experienced it.

Herdruk vanBuschs volksprenten, z-w plaatjes met praatjes in het Duits.

Met 396 z-w ill.

Over een in 1944 blootgelegd grafmonument in Midden-Bulgarije met vroeg-hellenistische wandshilderingen, met 37 z-w en kleurenill. veelal opgeplakt.

Die essayistischen Schriften Klaus Manns erscheinen in einer neuen, auf vier Bände angelegten Ausgabe. Das vorliegende Buch enthält die frühen publizistischen Arbeiten des Schriftstellers, von ersten Theaterkritiken des Siebzehnjährigen bis zu seinen Aufsätzen unmittelbar vor dem Exil. Aus einem Enfant terrible wird ein Zeit- und Literaturkritiker von Rang.

Deel III van reeks platenboeken met highlights uit de kunstgeschiedenis met tekst in Engels, Duits, Frans en Spaans.

Kleuren panorama-foto's van een groot aantal bruggen in Europa met tekst in Engels en Nederlands.

Met 272 korte biografieen en z-w ill.

Met z-w en kleurenill.

Platenboek met z-w en kleurenill. en bibliografie.

Platenboek met 78 kleurenill. en begeleidende tekst in het Duits.

Nederlandse vertaling met paginagrote kleurenfoto's.