Manifestos and immodest proposals from China's most famous artist and activist, culled from his popular blog, shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009.

In 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, and autobiographical writings. He wrote about the Sichuan earthquake (and posted a list of the schoolchildren who died because of the government's “tofu-dregs engineering”), reminisced about Andy Warhol and the East Village art scene, described the irony of being investigated for “fraud” by the Ministry of Public Security, made a modest proposal for tax collection. Then, on June 1, 2009, Chinese authorities shut down the blog. This book offers a collection of Ai's notorious online writings translated into English—the most complete, public documentation of the original Chinese blog available in any language.

The New York Times called Ai “a figure of Warholian celebrity.” He is a leading figure on the international art scene, a regular in museums and biennials, but in China he is a manifold and controversial presence: artist, architect, curator, social critic, justice-seeker. He was a consultant on the design of the famous “Bird's Nest” stadium but called for an Olympic boycott; he received a Chinese Contemporary Art “lifetime achievement award” in 2008 but was beaten by the police in connection with his “citizen investigation” of earthquake casualties in 2009. Ai Weiwei's Blog documents Ai's passion, his genius, his hubris, his righteous anger, and his vision for China.

"The information has been methodically collected and divided... [giving] the reader a clear picture...The analysis of the Holocaust period is enriched by accounts from the human aspect, which further our understanding of the individual's action and their motives."--Prof. Dina Porat, the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University"A comprehensive work on the third largest Jewish community in Poland during the Nazi occupation...The research constitutes an important contribution to the history of the Holocaust in general and to the history of Polish and Ukrainian Jewry of this period in particular."--Prof. Israel Gutman, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and former Head Historian, Yad Vashem

Adolf Hitler. De beeldbiografie' geeft een fascinerend en indringend beeld van de opkomst en ondergang van de dictator en de prominente rol van foto's bij het creëren van de Führermythe. Het naziregime maakte op geraffineerde wijze gebruik van beeldmateriaal om Hitlers populariteit te vergroten. Een stortvloed aan propagandafoto's versterkte zijn zorgvuldig opgebouwde imago. Niet alleen professionele fotografen zetten de toon, maar ook amateurfotografen legden de charismatische Führer vast.0De foto's in dit boek laten zien hoe Hitler van een onbeholpen, maar fanatieke nationaalsocialist transformeerde in een nietsontziende en oorlogszuchtige alleenheerser en uiteindelijk uitgebluste oorlogsleider aan het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Van het zorgvuldig gecreëerde Führerbeeld bleef ten slotte niets over.0Historici Erik Somers en René Kok deden uitvoerig onderzoek in Duitse en internationale fotoarchieven en -collecties. Niet eerder verscheen een zo veelomvattend fotoboek over Hitlers leven en werk gebaseerd op diepgaand foto-historisch onderzoek. Ruim 450 foto's voorzien van uitvoerige bijschriften, plaatsen het fenomeen Hitler in historische context. Op elke afbeelding staat hij centraal of is er een direct verband met zijn persoon. Pers- en propagandafoto's worden afgewisseld door privé- en niet voor publicatie bestemde opnames die - al dan niet bewust - de mens achter de Führer in beeld brengen.

In this work the author selects more than 150 of those he considers to be the most influential and unusual journeys of discovery, setting each firmly in its historical context. This book chronicles the personalities, the conditions that were endured, and the contribution that exploration has made to our knowledge of the world.

Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars--nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. Karl Toepfer presents this dynamic subject as a vital and historically unique construction of "modern identity."

The modern body, radiating freedom and power, appeared to Weimar artists and intelligentsia to be the source of a transgressive energy, as well as the sign and manifestation of powerful, mysterious "inner" conditions. Toepfer shows how this view of the modern body sought to extend the aesthetic experience beyond the boundaries imposed by rationalized life and to transcend these limits in search of ecstasy. With the help of much unpublished or long-forgotten archival material (including many little-known photographs), he investigates the process of constructing an "empire" of appropriative impulses toward ecstasy.

Toepfer presents the work of such well-known figures as Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer, along with less-known but equally fascinating body culture practitioners. His book is certain to become required reading for historians of dance, body culture, and modernism.

An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I--conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century. For the Western allies, November 11, 1918 has always been a solemn date--the end of fighting that had destroyed a generation, but also a vindication of a terrible sacrifice with the total collapse of the principal enemies: the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. But for much of the rest of Europe this was a day with no meaning, as a continuing, nightmarish series of conflicts engulfed country after country. In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass expulsions, and further major military clashes. If the war itself had in most places been a struggle mainly between state-backed soldiers, these new conflicts were predominantly perpetrated by civilians and paramilitaries, and driven by a murderous sense of injustice projected on to enemies real and imaginary. In the years immediately after he armistice, millions would die across Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe before the Soviet Union and a series of rickety and exhausted small new states would come into being. It was here, in the ruins of Europe, that extreme ideologies such as fascism would take shape and ultimately emerge triumphant in Italy, Germany, and elsewhere. As absorbing in its drama as it is unsettling in its analysis, The Vanquished is destined to transform our understanding of not just the First World War but of the twentieth century as a whole

Maatschappelijke veranderingen hebben gezorgd voor een veranderd ik-gevoel. Paul Verhaeghe onderzoekt de effecten van dertig jaar neoliberalisme, vrijemarktwerking, privatisering en de relatie tussen de maakbare samenleving en onze identiteit. Wie wij zijn wordt zoals altijd bepaald door de context waarin wij leven. Die context bepaalt op dit moment: Wie geen succes heeft zal ziek zijn. De dwang tot succes en geluk blijkt een keerzijde te hebben: het leidt tot verlies aan zelfbesef, tot desoriëntatie en vertwijfeling. De mens is eenzamer dan ooit. De liefde is moeilijk te bereiken en betekenisvol leven is diepgaand problematisch geworden. Vanuit zijn klinische ervaring als psychotherapeut laat Verhaeghe zien hoezeer de veranderde maatschappij doorwerkt in de hedendaagse individuele psychische problemen. Mensen komen met andere psychische klachten bij de psychiater dan voorheen.

Renate Dorrestein is niet alleen de auteur van tientallen boeken, zij schreef bovendien talloze artikelen en gaf vele lezingen. In dit boek presenteert zij de praktijk van haar schrijversleven aan de hand van een selectie van teksten die onder meer laat zien hoe lang zij al bezig is bepaalde thema's te exploreren. Samen vormen die teksten een indrukwekkend schaduwoeuvre en geven ze de bronnen van Dorresteins werk prijs. Wat evenmin eerder tussen twee kaften belandde, is Dorresteins correspondentie met lezers, redacteuren, boekverkopers en collega's. Bij elkaar laten deze hoogst uiteenlopende verbale uitingen onverwachte facetten van 'een schrijversleven' zien.

The discovery of fundamental laws of nature has influenced the fate of Homo sapiens more than anything else. Has modern physics already understood these laws? Many puzzles formulated by Albert Einstein or Paul Dirac are still unsolved today, in particular the meaning of fundamental constants. In this book, it is argued that a rational description of nature must do without any constants. A thorough analysis of the history of physics leads to the conclusion that there is a serious problem with what have been considered the basis of reality for centuries: Space and time. These may be the most accessible concepts for human perception, but are probably unsuitable for a basic understanding of nature. A methodological and historical analysis shows, however, that the underlying problem of physics is deep, unexpected and fatal: the concepts of space and time themselves, the basis of science since Newton, could be fundamentally inappropriate for the description of reality, although-or precisely because-they are so easily accessible to human perception. A new understanding of reality can only arise from mathematics. By exploring the three-dimensional unit sphere, which could replace the concepts of space and time, the author presents a mathematical vision that points the way to a new understanding of reality.

When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an Àqua Detox' footbath, releasing her toxins into the water and turning it brown, he thought he'd try the same at home. L̀ike some kind of Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General', using his girlfriend's Barbie doll, he gently passed an electrical current through the warm salt water. It turned brown. In his words: b̀efore my very eyes, the world's first Detox Barbie was sat, with her feet in a pool of brown sludge, purged of a weekend's immorality.' Dr Ben Goldacre is the author of the BAD SCIENCE column in the Guardian and his book is about all the b̀ad science' we are constantly bombarded with in the media and in advertising. At a time when science is used to prove everything and nothing, everyone has their own b̀ad science' moments from the useless pie-chart on the back of cereal packets to the use of the word v̀isibly' in cosmetics ads. This book will help people to quantify their instincts that a lot of the so-called s̀cience' which appears in the media and in advertising is just wrong or misleading. Satirical and amusing and unafraid to expose the ridiculous it provides the reader with the facts they need to differentiate the good from the bad.

The archaeology of early Rome has progressed rapidly and dramatically over the last century. The excavation of the shrine of Aeneas at Lavinium and the report of walls of the Romulean city discovered on the slopes of the Palatine Hill are two of the widely reported major developments of the last quarter century. Less well-known are the richly furnished tombs of the seventh century BC, once known solely from the tombs at Praeneste, and now documented by finds throughout Latium. The largest necropolis of the early Latian Iron Age, some 600 tombs, has been explored at Osteria dell'Osa. In Rome, patrician houses of the sixth century BC have been excavated beside the Sacra Via. New archaic inscriptions, notably that of Publius Valerius from Satricum, have been found, and the authenticity of the inscription once thought to be the earliest example of Latin writing (the graffito of the "Praeneste Fibula") has been challenged.
The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latinum fills the need for an English guide to these discoveries and the many controversies resulting from them. In preparation, the author interviewed most of the leading figures in current research on the early periods of Rome and has illustrated the book with over 130 photographs, maps and line drawings

With new and updated material.

Now, for the first time, Kissinger gives us in a single volume an in-depth, inside view of the Vietnam War, personally collected, annotated, revised, and updated from his bestselling memoirs and his book Diplomacy.

Many other authors have written about what they thought happened—or thought should have happened—in Vietnam, but it was Henry Kissinger who was there at the epicenter, involved in every decision from the long, frustrating negotiations with the North Vietnamese delegation to America's eventual extrication from the war.

Here, Kissinger writes with firm, precise knowledge, supported by meticulous documentation that includes his own memoranda to and replies from President Nixon. He tells about the tragedy of Cambodia, the collateral negotiations with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, the disagreements within the Nixon and Ford administrations, the details of all negotiations in which he was involved, the domestic unrest and protest in the States, and the day-to-day military to diplomatic realities of the war as it reached the White House.

As compelling and exciting as Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, Ending the Vietnam War also reveals insights about the bigger-than-life personalities—Johnson, Nixon, de Gaulle, Ho Chi Minh, Brezhnev—who were caught up in a war that forever changed international relations. This is history on a grand scale, and a book of overwhelming importance to the public record.

Nagelaten proza van de Nederlandse schrijver (1963-2008): columns, poëzierecensies, verhalen en fragmenten van een onvoltooide roman.

Overzicht van belangrijke wetenschappelijke ontwikkelingen op het gebied van de natuurwetenschappen vanaf de achttiende eeuw.

Ontboezemingen van een emeritus hoogleraar over zijn vroegere lidmaatschap van onder andere de communistische partij, waar hij met forse zelfkritiek op terugkijkt.

The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey's history - which illuminates the nation

'Through the spellbinding career of a single, ill-fated leader, Jeremy Seal illuminates a bitterly divided country' Colin Thubron

'Read this book if you're interested in Turkey. Read it if you're interested in power, hubris and redemption. Read it' Christopher de Bellaigue, author of The Islamic Enlightenment

In the spring of 2016 travel writer Jeremy Seal went to Turkey to investigate perhaps the most dramatic, revealing and little-known episode in the country's history - the 'original' coup of 1960, which deposed the traditionalist Prime Minister Adnan Menderes. The story of Menderes - to his adoring supporters the country's founding democrat; to his sworn enemies its most infamous traitor - goes to the heart of the feud that continues to rage between the Western and secular ambitions of a minority elite and the religious and conservative instincts of the small-town majority. A Coup in Turkey is a thrilling account of the events leading up to the coup and the trials and executions that followed, a story of political subterfuge and score-settling, courtroom drama, state execution, authoritarian intolerance and ideological division.

Seal travels through President Erdogan's Turkey, tracking down eye-witness accounts from survivors of the Menderes era in Istanbul, the historic metropolis, and the new capital at Ankara. As he expertly guides us through this extraordinary story, so the compelling parallels between past and present become strikingly clear, and he illuminates this troubled nation with a deep sympathy and love for the people and places he writes about. By focussing on one key event - one which many Turks regard with shame - this evocative, gripping portrait of Turkey recentres our understanding of the past and makes sense of one of Europe's most bewildering yet intriguing neighbours.

'A wonderful writer' Robert Macfarlane

De mens is een beest, zeiden de koningen. Een zondaar, zeiden de priesters. Een egoïst, zeiden de boekhouders. Al eeuwen is de westerse cultuur doordrongen van het geloof in de verdorvenheid van de mens.Maar wat als we het al die tijd mis hadden? In dit boek verweeft Rutger Bregman de jongste inzichten uit de psychologie, de economie, de biologie en de archeologie. Hij neemt ons mee op een reis door de geschiedenis en geeft nieuwe antwoorden op oude vragen. Waarom veroverde juist onze soort de aarde? Hoe verklaren we onze grootste misdaden? En zijn we diep vanbinnen geneigd tot het kwade of het goede?Adembenemend, weids en revolutionair - De meeste mensen deugen herschrijft niet alleen de geschiedenis, maar werpt ook nieuw licht op onze toekomst

Beschrijving van de activiteiten van de Colonne Henneicke, een groep van zo'n 50 Nederlandse jodenjagers.

About the Book : - With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done.

Now, at last, the man himself tells us the story of life in the crossfire hurricane. And what a life. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records as a child in post-war Kent. Learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones` first fame and success as a bad-boy band. The notorious Redlands drug bust and subsequent series of confrontations with a nervous establishment that led to his enduring image as outlaw and folk hero. Creating immortal riffs such as the ones in `Jumping Jack Flash` and `Street Fighting Man` and `Honky Tonk Women`. Falling in love with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the US, `Exile on Main Street` and `Some Girls`. Ever increasing fame, isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Mick Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Solo albums and performances with his band the Xpensive Winos. Marriage, family and the road that goes on for ever.

In a voice that is uniquely and intimately his own, with the disarming honesty that has always been his trademark, Keith Richards brings us the essential life story of our times.

Once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend.

About the Author : - Keith Richards was born in London in 1943. A guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and cofounder of the Rolling Stones, he has also released solo albums with his band, The X-Pensive Winos. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Patti Hansen. James Fox was born in Washington, D.C., in 1945 and has known Keith Richards since the early 1970's when he was a journalist for the Sunday Times in London. His books include the international bestseller White Mischief. He lives in London with his wife and sons.

Dagboek van de Duitse toneelschrijver (1813-1863).

Keuze uit het dagboek van de Franse letterkundige (1872-1956).

Wie had gedacht dat het beschamende einde van de LPF definitief een einde zou maken aan het bozige Nederlandse populisme, kwam bedrogen uit. Zowel Rita Verdonk als Geert Wilders heeft gedemonstreerd dat het populistische kiezerspotentieel bepaald niet kleiner is geworden. Voor de objectieve waarnemer blijft dat een verbazingwekkende zaak, gezien de baarlijke nonsens die de populistische voorlieden meestal uitkramen. Rita Verdonk is ondertussen gestruikeld over haar eigen organisatorische onvermogen. Wilders heeft het stokje overgenomen en excelleert vooral in handig geformuleerde borreltafelpolitiek. De enorme attractie van deze politieke kermisgasten is dus verrassend stabiel. Hoofdoorzaak lijkt toch wel de bangmakerij voor de niet-bestaande 'islamisering' van Nederland, en de rest van Europa. Er is echter meer aan de hand. De populistische partijen zijn brede protestpartijen. Een aanzienlijk deel van het electoraat ziet de overheid, het politieke systeem en de maatschappelijke elite kennelijk als de vijand. De vraag is hoe dat komt.