In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past two hundred years, Hitchens brings the character of Jefferson to life as a man of his time and also as a symbolic figure beyond it.

Conflicted by power, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as Minister to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. Predicting that slavery would shape the future of America's development, this professed proponent of emancipation elided the issue in the Declaration and continued to own human property. An eloquent writer, he was an awkward public speaker; a reluctant candidate, he left an indelible presidential legacy.

Jefferson's statesmanship enabled him to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase with France, doubling the size of the nation, and he authorized the Lewis and Clark expedition, opening up the American frontier for exploration and settlement. Hitchens also analyzes Jefferson's handling of the Barbary War, a lesser-known chapter of his political career, when his attempt to end the kidnapping and bribery of Americans by the Barbary states, and the subsequent war with Tripoli, led to the building of the U.S. navy and the fortification of America's reputation regarding national defense.

In the background of this sophisticated analysis is a large historical drama: the fledgling nation's struggle for independence, formed in the crucible of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and, in its shadow, the deformation of that struggle in the excesses of the French Revolution. This artful portrait of a formative figure and a turbulent era poses a challenge to anyone interested in American history -- or in the ambiguities of human nature.

Srebenica werd tijdens de oorlog in Bosnië in 1993 uitgeroepen tot 'veilige enclave' waar moslimvluchtelingen werden beschermd door VN-troepen. In 1995 viel de enclave in handen van Bosnisch-Servische troepen, en vond er een massaslachting plaats onder de mannelijke vluchtelingen. Selma Leydesdorff, een autoriteit op het terrein van oral history, reconstrueert deze feiten op basis van de verhalen van de overlevende vrouwen.

Tekstuitgave met moderne historische inleiding.

Interviews met bewoners van Curaçao over de slavernij, het koloniale verleden en de toekomst van het eiland. Curaçao heeft een geschiedenis achter de rug van 200 jaar slavernij gevolgd door bijna 100 jaar kolonisatie. Hoe wordt er momenteel in de Curaçaose gemeenschap gedacht over de doorwerking van dat verleden? Welke slagschaduwen worden zichtbaar in de samenleving van vandaag? Colet van der Ven vroeg het een veertigtal Curaçaoënaars, van scholier tot oud-ministerpresident en van psychiater tot kunstenaar. Hun antwoorden leverden een bont palet aan meningen op. Slagschaduwen wil de lezer uitnodigen om in samenspraak met al die verschillende stemmen een eigen standpunt te formuleren en hoopt zo een inhoudelijke bijdrage te leveren aan een hoogst actueel debat.

It's the end of the world as we know it...
Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are. And liberals will still tell you that "diversity is our strength"--while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesn't violate the "separation of church and state," and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy. If you think this can't happen, you haven't been paying attention, as the hilarious, provocative, and brilliant Mark Steyn--the most popular conservative columnist in the English-speaking world--shows to devastating effect. The future, as Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while the West is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization. But America can survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that our country really is the world's last best hope. Mark Steyn's America Alone is laugh-out-loud funny--but it will also change the way you look at the world.

Thomas Paine was one of the greatest advocates of freedom in history, and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution, Paine's text is a passionate defense of man's inalienable rights. Since its publication, Rights of Man has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted. But in Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, the polemicist and commentator Christopher Hitchens, "at his characteristically incisive best," marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness (The Times, London). Hitchens is a political descendant of the great pamphleteer, "a Tom Paine for our troubled times." (The Independent, London) In this "engaging account of Paine's life and times [that is] well worth reading" he demonstrates how Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the United States, and how, "in a time when both rights and reason are under attack," Thomas Paine's life and writing "will always be part of the arsenal on which we shall need to depend." (New Statesman)

"The idea of 'civilisation' has always been debated, even fought over. At the heart of those debates lies the big question of how people - from prehistory to the present day - have depicted themselves and others, both human and divine. Distinguished historian Mary Beard explores how art has shaped, and been shaped by, the people who created it. How have we looked at these images? Why have they sometimes been so contentious?In Part One, she examines how the human figure was portrayed in some of the earliest art in the world - from the gigantic stone heads carved by the Olmec of Central America to the statues and pottery of the ancient Greeks to the terracotta army of the first emperor of China. And she explains how one particular version of representing the human body, which goes back to the ancient world, still influences (and sometimes distorts) how people in the West see their own culture and that of others. Throughout this story, she is concerned not only with the artists who made images, but with those who have used them, viewed them and interpreted them. In other words: 'How Do We Look?' In Part Two, Mary Beard turns to the relationship between art and religion. For centuries, religion has inspired art: from the Hindu temple at Angkor Wat to the Christian mosaics of Ravenna to the exquisite calligraphy of Islamic mosques. But making the divine visible in the human world has never been simple. All religions have wrestled with idolatry and iconoclasm, destroying art as well as creating it - and asking how to look with 'The Eye of Faith.'"--Jacket.

John Parkinson's beautiful Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris inspired Anna Parkinson from an early age. Who was this man who wrote so engagingly about plants? Was he a relation, as her father believed? And why was so little known about a man who was a key influence on the flowering of the English garden in the 17th century? Intrigued, she set out to find the answers. Now, for the first time, John Parkinson can be seen as a man whose story reveals the excitement and agony of those turbulent times. His lifelong passion for plants was bound up with the new dawn of scientific enquiry and the struggles of faith. We follow him from a humble childhood in Lancashire to a career as an apothecary in London which would bring him to high office under Charles I. We see how he tried, with his medical colleagues, to create a new 'common wealth' to replace the old monastic system, vesting his effort in writing the most comprehensive and scientific herbal there had ever been in English. Yet as a Catholic he kept a low profile, quietly growing an extraordinary range of flowers for 'delight and pleasure' in his notable garden in Covent Garden. He carefully recorded them all and had them engraved for his wonderful books.

Bloemlezing uit de brieven van de Nederlandse schilder (1853-1890).

De praktijk van het onderhandelen, met een overzicht van valkuilen, technieken en strategieën en aangevuld met oefeningen.

Onderzoek naar de samenzweringstheorieën rond het ongeluk waarbij prinses Diana in 1997 om het leven kwam.

For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text is now available in a new edition. Thoroughly updated, the fourth edition includes expanded sections on numerous topics, among which are samurai values, Zen Buddhism, the tea ceremony, Confucianism in the Tokugawa period, the story of the forty-seven ronin, Mito scholarship in the early nineteenth century, and mass culture and comics in contemporary times.

With evocative black and white drawings, this is a thorough yet accessible history of Ireland, written in 1868 (this editions is from 2001) and featuring the famous and infamous inhabitants and events of Ireland.

Semco is in Brazilië het meest geliefde bedrijf om voor te werken: zonder vaste werktijden en andere verplichtingen, zoals bedrijfskleding. Velen bepalen zelf hoeveel ze verdienen, werknemers kiezen en beoordelen zelf hun baas, financiële informatie is beschikbaar voor iedereen - en er wordt winst gemaakt, veel winst. Bij Semco werken ze in Semco-stijl: een nieuwe, menselijke, productieve, stimulerende en in alle opzichten lonende manier van werken. 'Semco-stijl' inspireert en daagt uit tot een nieuwe manier van werken. Ondernemer en bestsellerauteur Ricardo Semler lapt alle conventionele regels van organisaties aan zijn laars. En met succes. Hij is president-directeur van het succesvolle Semco S/A, wereldwijd beroemd om zijn ongebruikelijke werkomgeving.

'Een toekomst die te mooi is om waar te zijn.' Trendwatcher en futurist Richard van Hooijdonk geeft je een kijkje in de verbazingwekkende wereld van morgen. Hij laat zien hoe snel ons leven verandert en welke impact dat heeft op de manier waarop we leven, wonen en werken. Hoe ziet de samenleving er in 2035 uit? - Een chip in je lichaam voorkomt dat je ziek wordt - Met een hersenchip leer je binnen enkele seconden Chinees - Ons eten komt uit een voedselprinter - Slimme meubels verplaatsen zichzelf - Een robot brengt de kinderen naar bed - We wonen op Mars - Met zelfrijdende auto's kun je onderweg gaan slapen - We hebben een fascinerende relatie met een robot - We hoeven nooit meer te werken dankzij het basisinkomen - Het olietijdperk is ten einde. Hoera! - Jouw energievoorziening komt straks uit de ruimte Het boek De wereld van morgen is een 'must read' als je klaar wilt zijn voor de toekomst. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Economische, politieke en militaire analyse van de landen rond de Indische Oceaan, die volgens de Amerikaanse journalist in de nabije toekomst de toonaangevende rol van de Verenigde Staten zullen overnemen.

In this revised and updated edition of Kinship and Gender, Linda Stone uses anthropological kinship as a framework for the cross-cultural study of gender. Connecting kinship with gender, she focuses on human reproduction and the social and cultural implications of male and female reproductive roles. Her insightful narrative introduces new ways of approaching and understanding cross-cultural variations.Stone provides coverage of the field of kinship at the introductory level, but she also explores the major issues and debates in the study of the interrelation of gender and culture. She reviews studies of primate kinship, considers ideas about the evolution of human kinship, and looks at kinship and gender in relation to different modes of descent as illustrated through ten in-depth ethnographic case studies. Stone examines marriage through case studies of marriage in ancient Rome and Himalayan polyandry and she offers a history of Euro-American kinship and gender, as well as an examination of the repercussions of the new reproductive technologies on both kinship and gender. In this new edition, material on primate kinship and new reproductive technologies has been updated; three new case studies on primate kinship, American kinship, and new reproductive technologies have been included.

Proefschrift Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht met achterin een samenvatting in het Engels. 

Cultuurhistorische studie over veroudering en vergankelijkheid van mens en dier, voorwerpen en gebouwen.

Standaardwerk over wezen, ritueel en ceremonieel van het orthodoxe joodse leven, geschreven door de in 1944 in Bergen-Belsen omgebrachte rabbijn.

Columns (Vrij Nederland) over uiteenlopende onderwerpen. Altijd verrassend en wijsgerig. 

Pp. 23-126 contain the diary of Jakobs (1925-1944), who emigrated from Oldenburg, Germany to the Netherlands in 1938 with her parents and three siblings. The diary was found by her sister Edith after the war; it is now being published for the first time. The diary covers the period 30 August 1942-1 October 1944. The members of the family all went into hiding in different towns. Rose was with an aunt, uncle, and cousin in Nijmegen. She went out into the street on 2 October 1944 and was instantly killed by bomb fragments. All the other members of the family survived.

Herinneringen aan de Nederlandse uitgever en schrijver (1909-1987).

Selma Vos was de enige Nederlander die in China woorden ten tijde van Laat Honderd Bloemen Bloeien, de Grote Sprong Voorwaarts en de Culturele Revolutie. Zij en haar gezin werden slachtoffers van de grootse idealen van de maoïstische heilstaat. De joodse Selma Vos groeide op in IJmuiden en wist tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog aan de nazi's te ontkomen. Tijdens haar studie in Cambridge ontmoette ze Chang Tsao, de man van haar leven. Na de geboorte van hun kinderen Greta en Dop bouwden ze een bestaan op in het China van Mao. Chang was vooraanstaand lid van de Partij en leidde het Psychologisch Instituut, toch bleven Selma en haar kinderen buitenstaanders. Tijdens de Culturele Revolutie werd Chang uit zijn functie gezet en door zijn collega's aangevallen. Selma, lerares aan de Tweede-talenschool, werd uiteindelijk samen met hem gearresteerd. De Culturele Revolutie betekende de ondergang van het hele gezin.