Analyse van de gevolgen van resp. het gebruik van kolen en kernenergie voor de opwekking van electriciteit in Nederland

The defining calamity of the post-cold war era', in Peter Oborne's words, took place in 2003. The invasion of Iraq led to the collapse of the state system in the Middle East. Iraq is shattered, Syria will never be put back together again, and Lebanon hasn’t functioned as a unified state for a long time. And the great wave of refugees unleashed by this breakdown is threatening what is left of democracy in Turkey and the very existence of the European Union.

Oborne provides a forensic examination of the way evidence was doctored and the law manipulated in 2002 and 2003 in order to justify a war for regime change. The government bent facts to fit its determination to join the US invasion, Parliament failed to scrutinise evidence, the intelligence service was perverted, and the media lost its head.

This is a masterly account of the making of a disaster, written by a passionate British democrat.

Een Amerikaanse vrouw reist met haar moeder naar Duitsland om het verleden van haar moeder te begrijpen die in 1938 vanwege haar joodse afkomst door haar ouders naar de Verenigde Staten is gestuurd.

Beschrijving van het modernistische karakter van de islamitische terreurbeweging Al-Qaida in vergelijking met diverse westerse maatschappelijke en politieke verschijnselen.

Bundeling van columns over uiteenlopende onderwerpen. Uit de bundels: Tot zoens, Eetlezen, Graag gedaan [en] Het Bijzettafeltje

Recounts the life of the American poet, and traces her involvement in the socialist movement

Vom Autor für die deutsche Fassung neu überarbeitet

Bundeling columns die de auteur (1962-2005) schreef over zijn leven als kankerpatiënt.

Essays over onderwerpen op de raakvlakken van biologie, menselijk gedrag en kunst.

Dagboek van de Duitse schrijver, bijgehouden tijdens zijn mobilisatie als reservist tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Parijs en Rusland.

In this new novel, Calisher explores a family united in blood yet divided by ideas. The elder son Charles hopes to be a Supreme Court justice; the family beauty Nell has children by different lovers; the art expert Erika has altered her appearance but still insists on being custodian of the family's Jewishness; and Zach, the artist and manipulator, has two wives. The mother of these disparate siblings is Zipporah-Zoe, an academic, infamous in Israel, born of a well-to-do Boston background but no longer rich. She is intellectual, yet bound by memory to the past, a past that never quite dies.
Challenging them is Bert, the grandson, who becomes a rabbi despite his ambivalence toward Jewish institutions. The buried history of their most significant Sunday visitor, Lev, resurfaces when he brings Debra, the young Sabra nurse and war veteran, to them as his wife--and then vanishes.
A compelling family saga that resonates with today's issues of national and religious identity, "Sunday Jews" is a tour de force from a writer whose fiction has been compared with that of Eudora Welty and Henry James, and whose ability to delineate our lives is unparalleled.

Portret van Adolf Hitler aan de hand van de belangrijkste biografieën die er in de loop van de tijd over de Duitse dictator zijn geschreven.

Beschrijving in woord en beeld van vogels die naar een voederplaats gelokt kunnen worden.

The colourful salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London - from Wolfson Prize-winning author Vic Gatrell

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZE 2014

In the teeming disordered and sexually charged square half-mile centred on London's Covent Garden something extraordinary evolved in the eighteenth century. It was the world's first creative 'Bohemia'. The nation's most significant artists actors poets novelists and dramatists lived here. From Soho and Leicester Square across Covent Garden's Piazza to Drury Lane and down from Long Acre to the Strand they rubbed shoulders with rakes prostitutes market people craftsmen and shopkeepers. It was an often brutal world full of criminality poverty and feuds but also of high spirits and an intimacy that was as culturally creative as any other in history. Virtually everything that we associate with Georgian culture was produced here.

Visie van een wiskundige op het beleggen in aandelen.

Biografische schets van de Vlaamse schrijver (1882-1960).

In dit boek wordt aan de hand van 380 korte biografieën getoond hoe de kleine groep van joodse overlevenden van de Shoah door hun werk en inzet een opmerkelijke bijdrage heeft geleverd aan naoorlogs Nederland. Die bijdragen waren op vrijwel elk maatschappelijk terrein, zoals in de journalistiek, cultuur, sport, wetenschap, openbaar bestuur, en het bedrijfsleven.

Un panorama des arts plastiques en Europe dans les années 30.

Brieven van de Franse dichter (1854-1891) uit de periode 1870-1875.

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

Biografie van de Nederlandse dichter en essayist (1899-1940).

Dit optimistische essay laat zien waarom de Amerikaanse maatschappij zoveel dynamischer is dan de Nederlandse, en Amerikanen de toekomst dus met veel meer vertrouwen tegemoet kunnen zien dan wij. Met de globalisering en de groeiende internationale concurrentie wordt je succes als land immers steeds meer bepaald door hoe creatief en innovatief je bent. Je wilt de iPhone niet maken, dat doen ze in China beter en goedkoper: je wilt hem uitvinden. Creatieve ideeën ontstaan bij uitstek in vrije en competitieve samenlevingen. Alleen als wij nog beter leren ondernemend te zijn en ons te ontplooien als zelfredzame individuen, zal Nederland in de toekomst nog meetellen. 'Wat wij van Amerika kunnen leren' rekent af met de centraal geregelde, grootste-gemene-deler-mentaliteit die ons land al te lang in een fluwelen wurggreep houdt. Om Buzz Lightyear? Amerikaanse actieheld bij uitstek? te citeren:?To infinity ... and beyond!?

The Lion Man is counted among the most significant discoveries in prehistoric archeology. The statuette - made from mammoth ivory from the Lone Valley near Ulm - is the largest known sculpture of Ice Age art. At nearly 40,000 years old, it is one of the oldest pieces of figurative art made by mankind. New excavations in the Stadel cave led archeologists to the surprising re-discovery of the original finding place of the statuette from the 1939 excavation- They were also able to retrieve numerous additional fragments from the figure. As a result, it was possible to further reassemble the Lion Man in the course of a complex restoration project. The project culminated in a special exhibition at the Ulmer Museum, which focuses on the Paleolithic statuette. This present companion volume also serves as the most current and comprehensive guide to Ice Age art and culture of the Swabian Jura.

This is a revised and updated version of Rhona Black's successful and highly acclaimed textbook. Aimed at students approaching the subject for the first time, The Elements of Palaeontology achieves an approach simple enough for beginning students, yet with sufficient depth and breadth of coverage for those wishing to delve further into the early history of life. The author deals systematically with all the groups of fossilised organisms: invertebrates and vertebrates, microfossils, plants and trace fossils, describing their morphology and dealing briefly with the biological aspects of palaeontology. The relevant technical terms are clearly defined and a glossary is included for each of the main invertebrate groups. In this second edition, a chapter on trace fossils has been added, the chapter on microfossils expanded, and a section on pollens included with the plants. In each case the superb illustrations have been added to, with the inclusion of many new electron micrographs.