Onderzoek naar en verklaring voor de geografische bodemtekeningen in Peru.

The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structurally and culturally distinct from traditional patterns of `decent' working-class life, has become increasingly popular in the 1990s. Anti-work, anti-social, and welfare dependent cultures are said to typify this new `dangerous class' and `dangerous youth' are taken as the prime subjects of underclass theories. Debates about the family and single-parenthood, about crime and about unemployment and welfare reforms have all become embroiled in underclass theories which, whilst highly controversial, have had remarkable influence on the politics and policies of governments in Britain and the US,
Youth, the `Underclass' and Social Exclusion constitutes the first concerted attempt to grapple with the underclass idea in relation to contemporary youth. It focuses upon unemployment, training, the labour market, crime, homelessness, and parenting and will be essential reading for students of social policy, sociology and criminology.

Imagine waking up one day to find that virtually everything you do has become a paid for experience. It is part of a fundamental change taking place in the nature of business, contends Jeremy Ritkin. After several hundred years as the organising principles of civilisation, the traditional market systems is beginning to break down. On the horizon looms the age of access, where we trade experiences instead of objects.

Biografie waarin onder meer gesteld wordt dat Vestdijks homoseksuele gevoelens vooral bij een depressie sterk naar boven kwamen.

Until Josiah Wedgwood, Britons ate from wood and pewter plates. Until Henry Heinz, women toiled over pickled foods. Until Michael Dell, few people owned a personal computer, let alone dreamed of buying one "built to order." According to business historian Nancy F. Koehn, these pathbreaking entrepreneurs shared a powerful gift: the ability to discern how economic and social change would affect consumer needs and wants.

In Brand New, Koehn introduces us to six extraordinary leaders of brand creation who lived and worked during periods of widespread change: Josiah Wedgwood in the Industrial Revolution; Henry Heinz and Marshall Field in the Transportation and Communication Revolution; and Est?e Lauder, Howard Schultz of Starbucks, and Michael Dell in the Information Revolution. Through compelling and engaging profiles of these entrepreneurial visionaries, she reveals a provocative relationship between economic turbulence, household priorities, and company strategy that holds important lessons for today's brand builders.

According to Koehn, these forward-thinking individuals understood the profound effects that socioeconomic change has on what customers want, have, and can afford as much as on what companies make-and were masters at exploiting the enormous business opportunities these demand-side shifts created. Indeed, the brands and companies created by these individuals have become such a part of everyday life that we've made them part of common speech: we pass the Heinz; eat off Wedgwood; order a Starbucks.

Koehn draws from their diaries, correspondence, and official business records to demonstrate that these entrepreneurs were more than savvy marketers; they were institution builders. She shows how each used brand not as a logo, but as a vital strategic tool for creating best-of-class companies-and for building powerful organizational capabilities that supported their connections with customers and helped make new markets for their offerings.

Distilling critical lessons for businesses operating in both the traditional and on-line worlds, Brand New will convince every entrepreneur of the remarkable power of brands to transform start-ups, gain competitive advantage, and change lives.

China, the world's oldest and most populous state, remains an enigma to most people in the West, even at a time when that country is playing an increasingly prominent role on the international stage. At the heart of modern Chinese history have been the efforts of the Chinese people to transform their polity into a modern nation state, the Confucian orthodoxy into an ideology that can help direct that process, and an agrarian economy into an industrial one. These efforts are ongoing and of great importance.

This book is both an introduction to the major features of modern Chinese history and a resource for researchers interested in virtually any topic relating to the Chinese experience of the last 220 years. This valuable reference contains:

- a historical narrative providing a comprehensive overview of five core aspects of Chinese history: domestic politics, society, the economy, the world of culture and thought, and relations with the outside world;

- a compendium of 250 short, descriptive articles on key figures, events, and terms;

- a resource guide containing approximately 500 annotated entries for the most authoritative sources for further research in English, as well as descriptions of important films depicting modern China and a guide to electronic resources; and

- appendices, including a chronology, excerpts from key primary source documents, and a wealth of tables and graphs on demographic, social, and economic trends.

Thematische bloemlezing met toelichtingen uit brieven en scheepsjournalen van de Nederlandse zeeheld (1607-1676). In Michiel de Ruyter in eigen woorden komt De Ruyter zelf aan het woord. Zijn eigenhandig geschreven brieven en journalen bieden prachtige citaten over allerhande onderwerpen uit zijn dagelijkse leven: de walvisvaart, de kaapvaart, de koopvaardij, de marine, de navigatie, de politiek, zijn geloof, zijn gezondheid.

- Intrigerende citaten uit brieven en dagboeken van Michiel Adriaenszoon
- De Ruyter zoals we hem niet kennen: als schrijver

Een helder en toegankelijk geschreven boek dat uiteindelijk een weinig rooskleurig perspectief schetst; dat van een crisis en een toenemende internationale concurrentiestrijd om energie. 

Na de Russische inval in Oekraïne draaide Poetin de gaskraan naar Europa dicht. Plots werd duidelijk dat de stelselmatige keuze voor goedkope energie een enorme afhankelijkheid van Russische gasleveranties had gecreëerd. Het gevolg: dreigende tekorten en torenhoge gasrekeningen. Nog nooit was de onzekerheid over een basisvoorziening voor huishoudens en bedrijven zo groot. Ook het klimaat betaalt de prijs voor onze verslaving aan fossiele brandstoffen: de aarde warmt alsmaar verder op en weersextremen richten ieder jaar meer schade aan. In 2008 voorspelde journalist Roy op het Veld dat de wereld door toenemende energiehonger en geopolitieke machtsverschuivingen in een energiecrisis terecht zou komen. In deze herziene editie van De strijd om energie laat hij zien waar de wortels van de crisis liggen en waarom de wetten van de vrije markt en de geopolitieke macht van olie- en gasrijke landen de omschakeling naar groene energie inde weg staan

Deel 1: De jaren van vervolging 1933-1939

In dit standaardwerk over de meest schokkende periode in de moderne geschiedenis verklaart Saul Friedländer hoe Duitsland, een van de economisch en cultureel meest ontwikkelde landen ter wereld, zich tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog schuldig kon maken aan genocide op de Europese joden

Herinneringen van de Ierse toneelschrijver (1923-1964) aan de jaren 1941-1955, in welke periode hij tot veertien jaar gevangenisstraf veroordeeld werd wegens politieke delicten

Herinneringen, met name aan vrouwen, van de Franse linkse intellectueel (1892-1976).

Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this text focuses on US/Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. It identifies major policy-makers and explores major crises in the post-1945 period. The author also looks at how the Cold War was shaped by domestic events in both the USA and Soviet Union. Material new to this edition includes: a rewritten post-1989 final chapter, the rewriting of the events in the 1950s, the Lyndon Johnson presidency and the Reagan presidential years; and a stronger focus on Soviet/Russian developments

In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the modern-day Central Asian states of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan. In eight chapters, the author explores the revitalisation of Persian culture under the Samanid Empire in the Tajik heartlands of historical Khorasan and Transoxiana, analyses the evolution of the politics of Tajik identity and traces the history of the ethnic Tajik diaspora today.