In this book, photography historians Flip Bool and Lienke Moerman extensively describe and document the life and work of the Rotterdam photographer Jan Kamman, a pioneer of New Photography. This modernist movement advocated the most objective use of photographic possibilities while eschewing the artistic interventions and pretentiousness of the 'art photography' in vogue at the time. Kamman specialized in advertising and architectural photography. Kamman's archives were destroyed by the bombardment of Rotterdam in May 1940, which is one of the reasons why his work has not received as much attention as that of his kindred spirits Gerrit Kiljan, Paul Schuitema and Piet Zwart. Exhibition: Chabot Museum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (24.06-03.11.2014).

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Grunberg reist naar Georgie, Oekraine en Polen en onderzoekt hoe het vluchtelingen vergaat

Sociaal-wetenschappelijk proefschrift relevant voor hulpverlening (aan volwassenen), Kath. Univ. Nijmegen. Summary in English

When Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, both Masons, set out to find the origins of Freemasonry they had no idea they would find themselves unravelling the true story of Jesus Christ and the original Jerusalem Church. As a radically new picture of Jesus and his ultra-Jewish sect started to emerge, the authors came to the controversial conclusion that the key rituals of modern Freemasonry were practiced by the sect as a means of initiation into their community. Rigorously analyzing and comparing ancient Egyptian records, the Old and New Testaments, early Christian and rabbinical texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the rituals of Freemasonry, the authors have been able to reconstruct the lost story of Jesus and his brother James and describe their struggle to establish the "kingdom of heaven" upon earth using Masonic-style rituals. The establishment of the Christian Church is shown to be a political invention that has little connection with the man we call "Christ."--Adapted from dust jacket

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Rusland is opgestaan als een wereldmacht en Poetin wil historische vergissingen herstellen. De Krim is de eerste correctie die is aangebracht. Alle gebieden buiten de grenzen van het huidige Rusland waar Russisch wordt gesproken zijn tot historische Russische grond verklaard. Van Oekraïne tot Novorossija, van het Balticum tot Kazachstan. Dit boek beschrijft de periode waarin Poetins Rusland via massale propaganda op een oorlogstraject is gezet. Een oorlog voornamelijk tegen zichzelf. De Rus heeft sinds Poetins herverkiezing in 2012 ingepeperd gekregen dat Rusland uniek is, zijn geschiedenis, zijn cultuur en de Rus zelf. Poetin eist ook van de wereld die unieke status te erkennen.

Het Belgische en Vlaamse verleden in de romantische boekillustraties

When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just 25 years old. It was a time he would later call the 'most stupendous experience of my life'.

That war ended with Hitler in a hospital bed, temporarily blinded by mustard gas. The world that he opened his newly healed eyes on was new and it was terrible: Germany had been defeated, the Kaiser had fled and the army had been resolutely humbled.

Hitler never accepted these facts. Out of his fury rose a white-hot hatred, an unquenchable thirst for revenge against the 'criminals' who had signed the armistice, against the socialists who he accused of stabbing the army in the back and, most violently, against the Jews, a direct threat to the master race of his imagination, on whose shoulders he would pile all of Germany's woes.

But this was not all about the war; the seeds of that hatred lay in Hitler’s youth.

By peeling back the layers of Hitler's childhood, his war record and his early political career, Paul Ham's Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer seeks the man behind the myth. How did the defining years of Hitler’s life affect his rise to power?

More broadly, Paul Ham seeks to answer the question: Was Hitler a freak accident? Or was he an extreme example of a recurring type of demagogue, who will do and say anything to seize power; who thrives on chaos; and who personifies, in his words and in his actions, the darkest prejudices of humankind?

Beschrijving van de stad 's-Hertogenbosch die tegelijkertijd een pleidooi is tegen klakkeloze moderne stedenbouw en voor het zorgvuldig omgaan met de kostbare stedenbouwkundige en energetische structuur ervan.

Een onderzoek naar de typologische ontwikkeling en de toekomst van lokale bouwwijzen bij de Dogon in Mali

A practical guide to introducing Japanese design elements into the Western home. 120 colour photos and 200 black and white floor plans illustrate step-by-step DIY projects.

In this book the author writes about the more than 4 years he spent visiting hundreds of Japanese homes and learning as much as possible about their construction, design, furnishings, and relative merits. It is the only authentic record of the traditional home, mats, lamps, screens, gardens, from its general plan to the smallest decorative detail. 307 illustrations.

Part of the Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art series (nr. 13), this text is concerned with the feudal domestic architecture of Japan. Other titles in the series include Nara Buddhist Art and The Silk Road and the Shoso-in.

Sheldrake argues for a return to the view of nature as a living organism as a precondition for ecological survival. In his opinion, modern mechanistic conceptions of the environment lie at the root of its destruction. His previous books are `A New Science of Life` and `The Presence of the Past`.

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De rooms-katholieke Kerk als machtsinstituut vanaf de kruistochten en Katharen tot heden.

In the fifty years since his suicide amid the ruins of Berlin, Adolf Hitler has been the subject of more biographies than any comparable figure of our time, and at the center of a crucial historical debate over the nature of evil and moral responsibility in the twentieth century. In this brilliant and original book, the historian John Lukacs climbs above the fray to produce a definitive "history of a history: the history of the evolution of our understanding of Hitler's life and our debates about its meaning."

Like an expert attorney, Lukacs puts the biographies on trial, identifying their strengths, weaknesses, and hidden agendas. And through their intersecting and conflicting accounts, he addresses the enduring enigmas surrounding the demiurge of the Third Reich. Was Hitler a revolutionary or a reactionary? How successful was he as a statesman and a strategist? What was his primary motive for the extermination of the Jews? The Hitler of History answers these questions as fully as any modern work can hope to, with an intellectual boldness that makes it absolutely essential to any understanding of the post-Hitler world.

This country`s most distinguished historian of the Second World War ... Overy`s book is easily the best account of Europe`s descent into the death and destruction that were Hitler's element` Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard

24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will help him. The West must stop them. If they fail, the world will go to war.

Richard Overy`s dramatic account re-creates hour-by-hour the last days of peace, as politicians and the public braced themselves for a war they feared might spell the end of civilization.

Exploration of the personality and life of Hitler`s Chief of the SS