A Moment of Anguish captures the dramatic events leading to the historic separation of Singapore from Malaysia. This book is based on research material drawn from the archives in Singapore. Britain, Australia and the United States. It goes beyond other studies to unravel the hidden story behind this traumatic and controversial episode in Singapore's recent history. Unpublished sources have been put together to recreate key events which bring out the tensions and conflicts of the period - the "snap" election in Singapore in 1963, the controversial participation of the PAP in the Federal elections of 1964, the two race riots in Singapore in 1964, the formation of the Malaysian Solidarity Convention and the secret negotiations for disengagement. Written in an engaging style, the book also offers new insights into the principal personalities of the period and the circumstances under which painful and fateful decisions were made.

In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)--the most widely used measure of economic activity--is a reliable indicator of economic and social progress. The Commission was given the further task of laying out an agenda for developing better measures.

Mismeasuring Our Lives is the result of this major intellectual effort, one with pressing relevance for anyone engaged in assessing how and whether our economy is serving the needs of our society. The authors offer a sweeping assessment of the limits of GDP as a measurement of the well-being of societies--considering, for example, how GDP overlooks economic inequality (with the result that most people can be worse off even though average income is increasing); and does not factor environmental impacts into economic decisions.

In place of GDP, Mismeasuring Our Lives introduces a bold new array of concepts, from sustainable measures of economic welfare, to measures of savings and wealth, to a "green GDP." At a time when policymakers worldwide are grappling with unprecedented global financial and environmental issues, here is an essential guide to measuring the things that matter.

Born and raised on a small Canadian farm, Galbraith began teaching at Harvard during the Depression. He was FDR"s "price czar" during the war and then a senior editor of Fortune before returning to Harvard and to fame as a bestselling writer. Parker shows how, from his early championing of Keynes to his acerbic analysis of America"s "private wealth and public squalor," Galbraith regularly challenged prevailing theories and policies. And his account of Galbraith"s remarkable friendship with John F. Kennedy, whom he served as a close advisor while ambassador to India, is especially relevant for its analysis of the intense, dynamic debates that economists and politicians can have over how America should manage its wealth and power. This masterful chronicle gives color, depth, and meaning to the record of an extraordinary life.

In this revolutionary, acclaimed book, bestselling economist Tim Harford introduced us to a selection of fifty radical inventions that changed the world.

Now Harford once again brings us an array of remarkable, memorable, curious and often unexpected things, inventions, that teach us lessons by turns intimate and sweeping about the complex world economy we live in today. From the brick, blockchain and the bicycle to fire, the factory and fundraising, and from solar PV and the pencil to the postage stamp, this brilliant and enlightening collection resonates, fascinates and stimulates. It is a wonderful blend of insight and inspiration from one of Britain's finest non-fiction storytellers.

Een populair-historisch overzicht van de Rotterdamse en Schiedamse bioscopen (1896-1996)

Verbeter jezelf, begin bij de wereld. Ontdek de kracht van het wij in jezelf.  Het ik-tijdperk is voorbij, samen op weg naar een nieuwe ethiek

'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of pleasures which we would like to experience but seem to miss.


'Community' conveys the image of a warm and comfortable place, like a fireplace at which we warm our hands on a frosty day. Out there, in the street, all sorts of dangers lie in ambush; in here, in the community, we can relax and feel safe. 'Community' stands for the kind of world which we long to inhabit but which is not, regrettably, available to us. Today 'community' is another name for paradise lost - but for a paradise which we still hope to find, as we feverishly search for the roads that may lead us there.


But there is a price to be paid for the privilege of being in a community. Community promises security but seems to deprive us of freedom, of the right to be ourselves. Security and freedom are two equally precious and coveted values which could be balanced to some degree, but hardly ever fully reconciled. The tension between security and freedom, and between community and individuality, is unlikely ever to be resolved. We cannot escape the dilemma but we can take stock of the opportunities and the dangers, and at least try to avoid repeating past errors.


In this important new book, Zygmunt Bauman takes stock of these opportunities and dangers and, in his distinctive and brilliant fashion, offers a much-needed reappraisal of a concept that has become central to current debates about the nature and future of our societies.

Beschrijving van de oorlogsgeschiedenis van een welgestelde Nederlands-Duits-Baltische familie in de twintigste eeuw.

Filosofisch verslag van hedendaagse arbeidsprocessen.

De Twents-Achterhoekse textielindustrie kende vele felle en langdurige sociale conflicten. Pas na de Tweede Wereldoorlog dwongen grote personeelstekorten de fabrikanten om hun arbeiders niet langer als kostenpost te behandelen en rekening te houden met de wensen van de vakbonden. In 1948 erkende de Enschedese grootindustrieel H.J. Blijdenstein dat de textiel industrie 'in het verleden de menschelijke factor te veel over het hoofd heeft gezien en dat dit één van de belangrijkste ondergronden is van de tegenzin tegen het textielvak'. In samenspraak met de vakbonden lieten de ondernemers deze 'textielaversie' uitvoerig onderzoeken. Dit boek omvat, naast een uitvoerige inleiding over het ontstaan van de textiel industrie, een achttal nooit gepubliceerde deelstudies naar de sociale verhoudingen en over de stakingen tijdens het inter bellum en de april-mei-stakingen uit 1943.

"In de late negentiende eeuw steeg de materiële welvaart spectaculair, en de mensen gingen anders kijken, ervaren en denken. Zo ontstond de nieuwe cultuur die tot op de dag van vandaag als de moderne wordt gezien. In de oude beschaving stond het streven naar 'het hogere' voorop, de hoogste waarden waren immaterieel, 'geestelijk'. De nieuwe cultuur kwam met andere, heel aardse waarden en normen. Die werden massaal omarmd, het eerst en vooral in de grote steden. Daar waren de spraakmakende winkels, de verbluffende horeca concepten, de eerste bioscopen, daar waren alle nouveautés te zien. In deze nieuwe cultuur werd het concrete, het materiële, belangrijker dan het ideële. Het hebben van spullen en een goede gezondheid werden de bronnen van geluk. Auke van der Woud beschrijft de culturele revolutie zoals die plaatsvond inde etalages, in de cafés, de theaters en de bioscopen, de musea en bij de monumenten, de badplaatsen, de nieuwe modieuze bloemen en planten, in de scholenbouw en de nieuwe stadswijken. Dit machtige panorama toont de bakermat van de nieuwe mens, onze directe voorouders."--Back cover.

Autobiografische fragmenten van de Nederlandse schrijver-schilder (1938- ).

Reisbrieven van de Nederlandse vertaler uit de jaren 1967-1984.

Hoe kon de vroegere, relatief rustige kolonie van België, sinds 1960 onafhankelijk, zo veranderen? David Van Reybrouck beschrijft voor het eerst de verbijsterende geschiedenis van Congo, van ruim voor de komst van de ontdekkingsreiziger Stanley tot en met de invloed van China in de laatste tien jaar en de recente economische crisis.

Op de dag van de capitulatie wil de Japanse militaire politie nog een paar voortvluchtige officieren van het Indonesische vrijwilligersleger terechtstellen.

During the last few decades the study of the family has flourished, and in the process many myths about what life was like two or three centuries ago have been debunked. For example, contrary to popular belief, we now know that most women in the preindustrial West did not marry before they were twenty-five. Most households consisted of no more than four or five people, usually including unrelated young people working as servants. And perhaps most surprising of all, multigenerational households were not very common. Pulling together much fascinating information about the family in the preindustrial Western world, Beatrice Gottlieb presents every aspect of this rich subject with clarity and fairness. Her generously illustrated book deals with the households of the wealthy and the poor, courtship and marriage, the care and training of children, and the bonds (and strains) of kinship. The matter of inheritance receives special attention, as it played a substantial role in a world permeated by rank and status, and its importance gave the family a peculiar social and economic significance. With a focus on the ordinary people whose everyday lives strike a responsive chord in all of us, as well as brief appearances by famous people and important events in history--Henry VIII's divorce, Benjamin Franklin's apprenticeship to his brother, and Mary Wollstonecraft's death in childbirth--this remarkable, eminently readable work brings to vivid life the wives and husbands, servants and masters, children and parents of a not too distant past.

Onderzoek naar en verklaring voor de geografische bodemtekeningen in Peru.