Bloemlezing van gedichten en verhalen over de Watersnoodramp van 1953.

Is historical scholarship compatible with commitment to social values? Do professional historians have particular social responsibilities and if so, how can they best exercise them? These are questions which are chronically open to debate in the light of changing historical circumstances and changing historical practices. In recent years, they have re-emerged as a result of a number of theoretical and cultural developments: the increasing realization that historians 'construct' history in selecting some topics for investigation rather than others; the calls among professionals and non-professionals alike to give priority to the preservation of private and collective 'memories' of the past; the increasing power of the mass media in disseminating views of the past and in thus competing with professional historians.
In the light of these developments, the present collection surveys the relationship between historical writing and social values. It aims to stimulate and to inform discussion by clarifying, from a variety of points of view, the theoretical and the practical issues confronting contemporary historians.

• Is it ethical to pass yourself off as black if you are Caucasian, as Rachel Dolezai, the president of a local chapter of the NAACP, did in 2015?
• Was it ethical for Donald Sterling, the former owner of the NBA team, to use racially inflammatory language?
• Is it ethical to exaggerate or fabricate the importance of one's role, as Brian Williams apparently did when he anchored the NBC nightly news?
• Is it ethical for a journalist to pay a source for a story, tips, and photos, as TMZ, Gawker and others do regularly?

The above questions as well as other questions definitely illustrate the need for studying ethics.

Real-World Media Ethics provides a wide showcase of real ethical issues faced by professionals in the media field. Numerous case studies allow readers to explore multiple perspectives while using realistic ethical principles. This book includes the basics in ethical journalism, as well as the tools to navigate through the landscape of mass media such as public relations, entertainment and other forms of visual communication. The second edition has been updated to encompass globalization, new media platforms, current copyright issues, net neutrality, sports ethics, and more. An accompanying companion website provides additional interviews demonstrating ethical principles in practice. Being a former ABC executive, author Philippe Perebinossoff gives readers an inside look at circumstances with an ethical, experienced eye.

Geschiedenis van de Deense familie achter de populairste speelgoedblokjes ter wereld. Met zwart-witfoto's.

In 1962 was het afgelopen met de Nederlandse overheersing op Nieuw-Guinea, tropisch eiland in de Pacific. Deze roman beschrijft de laatste stuiptrekkingen van ons kolonialisme ... Zo werd in 1963 Springers eerste roman aangekondigd maar het boek werd vervolgens niet gepubliceerd. De auteur trok het manuscript terug, omdat hij er bij nader inzien het drama van de oorspronkelijke bevolking in miste. Vijftig jaar later zei hij: "Ik had juist tóén de kans moeten grijpen om het publiek te laten weten hoe wij verbeten onze plicht tegenover de aan ons toevertrouwde Papoeas bleven doen." Door de roman te bewerken en alsnog te publiceren, ontfutselt hij deze geschiedenis alsnog aan de vergetelheid.

Columns en essays over literatuur, muziek en calvinisme.

Relaas van het lot van naar Duitsland gevoerde dwangarbeiders in de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

In de Europese geschiedenis vormt de Eerste Wereldoorlog een keerpunt, niet alleen politiek maar ook cultureel. De Grote Oorlog wordt wel de Literaire Oorlog genoemd, omdat gedichten als 'In Flanders Fields' en 'Dulce et decorum est' tot op de dag van vandaag tot het collectieve geheugen over de wereldbrand behoren. Over Britse dichters als Siegfried Sassoon en Wilfred Owen verschenen al tientallen studies, maar nooit eerder werd het verhaal van de oorlog verteld in zijn volledige Europese context. Aan de hand van hun werk en lotgevallen belicht Geert Buelens in dit boek hoe onder meer Rainer Maria Rilke, Fernando Pessoa, Paul van Ostaijen, Anna Achmatova, Vladimir Majakovski, Giuseppe Ungaretti en Guillaume Apollinaire de oorlog hebben beleefd en beschreven. We zien hoe de Italiaanse futuristen enthousiast campagne voerden om hun land in het conflict te betrekken, maar ook hoe in 1916 het dadaïsme ontstond vanuit een gevoel van walging over een cultuur die zo'n oorlog voortbracht. Gedichten werden massaal ingezet als propagandamiddel, maar tegelijk ook om te experimenteren met nieuwe vormen en ideeën. Met Europa, Europa! schreef dichter en essayist Buelens een prachtige cultuurgeschiedenis waarin aan de hand van dichters en denkers van toen wordt nagedacht over oorlog en vrede, nationalisme en internationale samenwerking, revolutie en catastrofe.

Autobiografie van de Amerikaanse filmster/activiste/fitnessgoeroe (1937- ).

Biografie van de popster, met name gericht op zijn muzikale carrière en ambities.

Radiocolumns uit de periode 1979-1991 over veelal actuele kwesties, door de Nederlandse letterkundige (1921-1999) uitgesproken voor de Wereldomroep.

De twaalf brieven van de Duitse dichter (1920-1970) aan een Nederlandse vriendin, vooral handelend over zijn werk, geschreven in de periode 1949-1950, in facsimile, transcriptie en vertaling.

First time in paperback, with a new Introduction and final chapter

World affairs expert and intrepid travel journalist Robert D. Kaplan braved the dangers of war-ravaged Afghanistan in the 1980s, living among the mujahidin—the “soldiers of god”—whose unwavering devotion to Islam fueled their mission to oust the formidable Soviet invaders. In Soldiers of God we follow Kaplan’s extraordinary journey and learn how the thwarted Soviet invasion gave rise to the ruthless Taliban and the defining international conflagration of the twenty-first century.

Kaplan returns a decade later and brings to life a lawless frontier. What he reveals is astonishing: teeming refugee camps on the deeply contentious Pakistan-Afghanistan border; a war front that combines primitive fighters with the most technologically advanced weapons known to man; rigorous Islamic indoctrination academies; a land of minefields plagued by drought, fierce tribalism, insurmountable ethnic and religious divisions, an abysmal literacy rate, and legions of war orphans who seek stability in military brotherhood. Traveling alongside Islamic guerrilla fighters, sharing their food, observing their piety in the face of deprivation, and witnessing their determination, Kaplan offers a unique opportunity to increase our understanding of a people and a country that are at the center of world events.

Historie en biologie alsmede economische achtergronden rond de overbevissing van de tonijn.

'Superlative... definitive and genuinely gripping' SUNDAY TIMES

'Utterly engrossing' EVENING STANDARD

'Compulsively readable... Beautifully written... Definitive' OBSERVER

Appointed by Philip Roth and granted complete access and independence, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the post-war literary scene.

Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class Jewish milieu to achieve the heights of literary fame, how his career was nearly derailed by his catastrophic first marriage, and how he championed the work of dissident novelists behind the Iron Curtain. Bailey examines Roth's rivalrous friendships with Saul Bellow, John Updike and William Styron, and reveals the truths of his florid love life, culminating in his almost-twenty-year relationship with actress Claire Bloom, who pilloried Roth in her 1996 memoir, Leaving a Doll's House. Tracing Roth's path from realism to farce to metafiction to the tragic masterpieces of the American Trilogy, Bailey explores Roth's engagement with nearly every aspect of post-war American culture.

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The fateful span of Japan's modern history, in which it has undergone as dramatic a transformation as any country has known.

Wandelgids van Amsterdam, vooral gericht op bouwstijlen in historisch perspectief.