Leven en werk van de uitvinder en wetenschapper (1629-1695).

A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary experiment to redefine marriage. The results of this experiment separating marriage from childrearing are in, and they are bad news for children and for the country as a whole. The family upheaval has hit African-Americans especially hard. We forgot what American marriage was designed to do: it ordered lives by giving the young a meaningful life script. It supported middle-class foresight, planning, and self-sufficiency. And it organized men and women around The Mission-nurturing their children's cognitive, emotional, and physical development. It is The Mission that separates middle-class kids from their less-parented and lower-achieving peers. In fact our great family experiment threatens to turn what the founders imagined as an opportunity-rich republic of equal citizens into a hereditary caste society.

Churchill's Deception is the gripping story of how Winston Churchill outwitted Adolf Hitler into invading the Soviet Union - a move that changed the course of World War II. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Louis C. Kilzer has uncovered documentation which exposes this great and untold story, adding a new dimension to the legacy of Winston Churchill. Churchill's Deception describes how Great Britain shunned opportunities to end the war because it sought to dismember Germany, not merely to destroy Hitler. German generals were ready to topple the Fuhrer in 1939 and 1940, but only if Britain agreed not to take advantage of a civil war that would follow. England did not agree. And because of Hitler's own obsession about obtaining a pact with Great Britain, he offered to return his Western conquests in exchange for guarantees concerning Germany's interests in the East. Though Churchill held out for more, he took note of Hitler's obsessive desire for peace with England. He stoked the Fuhrer's illusions about Britain's desires for peace, in order, at first, to gain time to build its defenses. Later, when it appeared that Hitler was on the verge of victory, the British launched a final bid to hold him off. They invited the Deputy Fuhrer of Germany, Rudolf Hess, to attend a peace conference at which Hitler would negotiate the coming invasion of the Soviet Union with the British "Peace Party". Though Hitler did turn his attentions East, in the end, the game was not successful for England. She lost her empire anyway, while failing to stop a war that took more than fifty million lives. Had the British adopted an anti-Hitler, instead of an anti-Germany, foreign policy, the history of the twentiethcentury could have been dramatically altered. Kilzer raises the significant question: Would another policy have avoided the Holocaust? Engrossing and controversial, Churchill's Deception will fuel the debate over Churchill's legacy, and be an invaluable addition to any World War II collection.

Vertaling van de derde herziene en vermeerderde druk door Catherine Barel

In dit boek betoogt Thierry Baudet dat het negentiende-eeuwse bestuursmodel dat we nog altijd in hoofdlijnen hebben, een structuurprobleem kent: kartelvorming. De politieke elites zien het niet, omdat ze er middenin zitten. Maar de kiezer haakt af. Referenda vormen een unieke en noodzakelijke aanvulling op het systeem - niet om de representatieve democratie af te schaffen, maar om haar te corrigeren waar zij niet representatief meer is.0.

Een aantal huisdieren van bekende Nederlanders ontmoet elkaar op het Groningse platteland om zich te beklagen over alle aandacht van de media.

The Bible contains four Gospels which tell the story of Jesus of Nazareth. And yet, many more Gospels once existed. Who, then, determined which Gospels would, for the next two thousand years, serve as the main gateways to Jesus and his teaching?Recent books and films have traced the decision to a series of fourth-century councils and powerful bishops. After achieving victory over their rivals for the Christian name, these key players, we are now told, conspired to 'rewrite history' to make it look like their version of Christianity was the original one preached by Jesus and his apostles: the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John became the prime tools for their re-sculpting of the Christian story, leading to the destruction ofpreviously treasured writings like the Gospels of Judas, Mary, and Thomas. Are the four canonical Gospels, then, in the Bible as the result of a great, ecclesiastical conspiracy? Or does this explanation itself represent another 'rewriting of history', this time by a group of modern academics?Who Chose the Gospels? takes us to the scholarship behind the headlines, examining the great (and ongoing) controversy about how to look at ancient books about Jesus. How the four Biblical Gospels emerged into prominence among their competitors is a crucial question for everyone interested in understanding the historical Jesus and the development of the Christian church.

In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New introductory material reveals the renewed importance of Polanyi's seminal analysis in an era of globalization and free trade.

Richard Thaler challenges the received economic wisdom by revealing many of the paradoxes that abound even in the most painstakingly constructed transactions. He presents literate, challenging, and often funny examples of such anomalies as why the winners at auctions are often the real losers--they pay too much and suffer the "winner's curse"-- why gamblers bet on long shots at the end of a losing day, why shoppers will save on one appliance only to pass up the identical savings on another, and why sports fans who wouldn't pay more than $200 for a Super Bowl ticket wouldn't sell one they own for less than $400. He also demonstrates that markets do not always operate with the traplike efficiency we impute to them.Richard Thaler challenges the received economic wisdom by revealing many of the paradoxes that abound even in the most painstakingly constructed transactions. He presents literate, challenging, and often funny examples of such anomalies as why the winners at auctions are often the real losers--they pay too much and suffer the "winner's curse"-- why gamblers bet on long shots at the end of a losing day, why shoppers will save on one appliance only to pass up the identical savings on another, and why sports fans who wouldn't pay more than $200 for a Super Bowl ticket wouldn't sell one they own for less than $400. He also demonstrates that markets do not always operate with the traplike efficiency we impute to them.

From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. 
 
Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live.

A New York Times Notable Book
A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year
Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award 

**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE**

'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis?

Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians.

An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science that can provide expert insight into our modern world.

'The most absorbing account on offer of the emergence of a world divided between have and have-nots... Never before put together so coherently, with such a combination of expertise, charm and compassion' The Times

Geschiedenis van het circuswezen in Nederland van 1901-1971

The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the '60s hippies, and the consumer rights movement. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, not only has American consumerism triumphed, there isn't even an "ism" left to challenge it. An All-Consuming Century is a rich history of how market goods came to dominate American life over that remarkable hundred years between 1900 and 2000 and why for the first time in history there are no practical limits to consumerism.

By 1930 a distinct consumer society had emerged in the United States in which the taste, speed, control, and comfort of goods offered new meanings of freedom, thus laying the groundwork for a full-scale ideology of consumer's democracy after World War II. From the introduction of Henry Ford's Model T ("so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one") and the innovations in selling that arrived with the department store (window displays, self service, the installment plan) to the development of new arenas for spending (amusement parks, penny arcades, baseball parks, and dance halls), Americans embraced the new culture of commercialism-with reservations. However, Gary Cross shows that even the Depression, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the inflation of the 1970s made Americans more materialistic, opening new channels of desire and offering opportunities for more innovative and aggressive marketing. The conservative upsurge of the 1980s and '90s indulged in its own brand of self-aggrandizement by promoting unrestricted markets. The consumerism of today, thriving and largely unchecked, no longer brings families and communities together; instead, it increasingly divides and isolates Americans.

Consumer culture has provided affluent societies with peaceful alternatives to tribalism and class war, Cross writes, and it has fueled extraordinary economic growth. The challenge for the future is to find ways to revive the still valid portion of the culture of constraint and control the overpowering success of the all-consuming twentieth century.

Sweeping away misconceptions about the "Me Decade," Bruce Schulman offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant examination of the political, cultural, social, and religious upheavals of the 1970s. Arguing that it was one of the most important of the postwar twentieth-century decades, despite its reputation as an eminently forgettable period, Schulman reconstructs public events and private lives, high culture and low, analyzing not only presidential politics and national policy but also the broader social and cultural experiences that transformed American life. Here are the names, faces, and movements that gave birth to the world we now live in-from Nixon and Carter to The Godfather and the Ramones; from Billie Jean King and Phyllis Schlafly to NOW and the ERA; from the Energy Crisis to Roe v. Wade. The Seventies is an astutely provocative reexamination of a misunderstood era.

Memoires van de radio-dj Rob Stenders (geboren in 1965). In dit boek verhaalt hij over zijn carrière in de omroepwereld. Zoals iedereen dat van hem gewend is neemt hij hierbij geen blad voor de mond, en met de nodige zelfspot neemt hij ook zichzelf genadeloos onder de loep.

Guy Poppe heeft de historische gebeurtenissen in Congo van nabij gevolgd, tot aan Joseph Kabila's eedaflegging als radiojournalist en daarna als gepassioneerde getuige. Zijn dagboek geeft een uniek beeld van de getormenteerde periode die Congo het voorbije lange decennium meegemaakt heeft.

Vogels herkennen in woord, beeld én geluid! Nog nooit verscheen er een boek waarmee je zonder verdere apparatuur naar zoveel vogelgeluiden kon luisteren! Duik in de heldere teksten en prachtige foto's en illustraties van 150 Europese vogels, terwijl je tegelijkertijd luistert naar hun geluiden. Als je door het menu van de geluidsbox loopt, kun je in no time de miauwende roep van de buizerd of de prachtige zang van de merel vinden. De unieke combinatie van
tekst, illustraties, foto's en geluiden, bijeengebracht door de grootste Europese vogelkenners van dit moment, maken die fantastische boek tot een absolute must-have voor zowel de beginnende als de gevorderde vogelliefhebber.

Brieven van de Nederlandse schrijver en activist (1915-1998) uit de 13 maanden dat hij gevangen zat vanwege betrokkenheid bij het Algerijnse verzet in de periode 1954-1962. Op 10 juli 1960 werd Sal Santen samen met Michel Raptis opgepakt, omdat hij betrokken was bij de oprichting van een verboden wapenfabriek in Marokko. Hij werkte ook mee aan het illegaal drukken van persoonsbewijzen en was medeplichtig aan de vervaardiging van valse Franse francs voor het Algerijnse Bevrijdingsfront. In afwachting van een proces bleef hij meer dan een jaar in voorarrest, wat aanleiding gaf tot hevige protesten in de pers en zelfs tot vragen in het Parlement. Uiteindelijk heeft Santen ruim vijftien maanden in de cel doorgebracht. Dapper zijn omdat het goed is bevat de brieven die Santen in die periode aan zijn vrouw schreef. Zij laten de persoonlijke kant van het verhaal zien. In een inleiding, die Santen ruim dertig jaar na dato aan zijn brieven toevoegde, kijkt hij nog eens terug op deze moeilijke periode, en gaat hij in op zijn beweegredenen en de politieke omstandigheden van destijds. Dit alles maakt Dapper zijn omdat het goed is tot een document van grote historische en menselijke waarde.

Een deels op fictie, deels op bronnen steunende beschrijving van Fritz Pfeffer, die als "Dussel" in het dagboek van Anne Frank voorkomt.

"For 2,500 years, since the time of Herodotus and Thucydides, historians have sought to record the truth about the past. Today, however, the discipline is suffering a potentially lethal attach from the rise to prominence of an array of French-inspired literary and social theories, each of which denies that truth and knowledge about the past are possible. These theories claim the central point on which history was founded no longer holds: there is no fundamental distinction between history and myth or between history and fiction." "Historians in classrooms from Berkeley to Paris have embraced these views, and an increasing number of literary critics and social theorists now feel free to define their own work as history and to call themselves historians. The result is revolutionary: historians have not only changed how history is taught, they are also increasingly obscuring the very facts on which the truth must be built. In The Killing of History, Keith Windschuttle offers both a devastating expose of the absurdity of these developments and a defense of the integrity of Western intellectual traditions which are now so widely attacked." "Windschuttle examines exactly what is being taught about Columbus' discovery of the New World, the history of asylums and prisons in Europe; the fall of Communism in 1989, and the Battle of Quebec in 1759. He offers a much needed defense of traditional history as a properly scientific endeavor and argues that the great works of history should still be regarded as among the finest forms of Western literature."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

De correspondentie tussen de beide Vlaamse auteurs (1912-1979 en 1882-1960) uit de periode 1942-1947.

Keuze van 15 brieven van de Nederlandse humanist (1469-1536) met toelichtingen en annotaties.

De Antwerpse auteur Willem Elsschot (1882-1960) is eigenlijk maar dertig jaar literair actief geweest. Vóór alles was hij de reclameman/'marketeer' Alfons De Ridder. Zijn zakelijke correspondentie, hoofdzakelijk in het Frans geschreven, overtreft dan ook in omvang vele malen zijn literaire brievenproductie. In 1993 bezorgde Vic van de Reijt samen met Lidewijde Paris de Brieven-editie, waarin vooral het schrijversleven aandacht kreeg. De afgelopen jaren kreeg hij toegang tot De Ridders zakelijk archief, dat wonderwel bewaard gebleven is in een vochtige Antwerpse kelder. De vele ontdekkingen die hij daarin deed vormen het hart van een Elsschot-biografie die voor het eerst recht doet aan de schrijver én de zakenman. En dan blijkt dat de zachtmoedige Frans Laarmans het in de praktijk vaak tegen mijnheer Boorman moest afleggen.

Shallow Seas are the most biologically rich and productive areas of the world ocean. This latest New Naturalist volume provides a natural history of this environment and its biological communities.

The margins of the continents, especially broad in the North Atlantic region, are drowned by shallow seas, creating a sea floor environment which is part of the wider and deepening benthic realm – the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean or a lake, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. These ‘shelf seas’ are the most biologically rich and productive areas of the world ocean. In his latest New Naturalist volume, Peter Hayward addresses some aspects of the natural history of the benthic environment of the shelf seas of northwest Europe and its biological communities.

Away from rocky coastlines the seafloor is rather flat, often muddy, beneath turbid water with low or no visibility. Benthic faunas mostly live within the sediment of the seafloor, or are sparsely and patchily distributed upon it, and if at all motile are likely to withdraw into burrows or move quickly away on disturbance. Yet, dredges and grabs reveal an often extraordinary diversity and density of animals, suggestive of complex interacting communities. This is not a textbook of marine benthic ecology, nor is it a comprehensive review of the benthic communities of the northwest European shelf seas. Rather, it describes the natural history of some benthic habitats and associations characteristic of our region.

De Bataafse hut is een historisch cultuurwetenschappelijk boek van Auke van der Woud dat onderzoekt hoe eenvoudige traditionele hutten en hun beeldvorming een rol gingen spelen in de Nederlandse cultuur tussen circa 1750 en 1850. De structuur van het boek is thematisch en analytisch: het wisselt logisch opgebouwde hoofdstukken af die elk een ander facet bekijken van hoe deze hut-symboliek is ontstaan en verspreid, in plaats van een doorlopend narratief.

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