A good hot bath is one of the most sensual pleasures in life. More than a matter of cleanliness, it holds a mirror up to the prevailing culture - a social activity at the Roman baths, an act of purification in the Oriental hammam, contemplative in the Japanese furo and restorative in the Scandinavian sauna. Revealing the secrets of bathrooms from the hedonistic and Epicurean world of the Roman thermae to the simmering warmth of the medieval bathhouses, from the 19th-century cabinet de toilette in its disguise as a boudoir to the comfort and technological efficiency of the modern bathroom, 'The Book of the Bath' is an exceptionally well-documented and beautifully illustrated account of bathing through the ages.

This work illustrates the earliest pioneers of 20th-century design, who devoted their time to creating what is now known as "Avantgarde design". It covers over 200 original pieces from the collection of Dusseldorf art dealer and collector Torsten Brohan.

De invloedrijke beweging in de beeldende kunst, die met ingang van 1917 in het gelijknamige tijdschrift en in kunstwerken abstractie propageerde.

Hoe zou de situatie in het door God aan de joden `beloofde land` zijn verlopen wanneer Gods belofte indertijd zou zijn begrepen? Dan zouden er in het `Heilig land`, Israël en Palestina geen oorlogen, bezettingen, en etnische zuiveringen zijn uitgevoerd. De Universele Verklaring van de Rechten van de Mens zou dan niet geschreven hoeven zijn. De huidige tragische overeenkomsten met de Tweede Wereldoorlog zouden we dan nu niet waar kunnen nemen. Zijn deze vragen en constateringen niet al te provocerend, nu we kunnen waarnemen hoe de Verenigde Naties worden gebruuskeerd in het streven naar rechtvaardigheid en vrede in deze wereld? Heft daarom de psalmist in de reeks psalmen vele malen dramatisch zijn handen ten hemel bij het zien van alle onrecht? Waarom werpt hij zich schreiend ter aarde en provoceert en tuchtigt de mens vele malen. Spreekt zich zeer vrijmoedig uit en looft vele malen de Almachtige, zoals in psalm 180, staande bij de Klaagmuur!

Aan de hand van 22 voorbeelden van overwegend in Den Haag gemaakt zilver wordt de geschiedenis van het Nederlandse zilver belicht.

Leven en werk tot 1860 van de Nederlandse schrijver Multatuli (pseud. van Eduard Douwes Dekker 1820-1887).

Alistair Cooke, then a Washington correspondent for the Guardian, recognized a great story to be told in investigating at first hand the effects of the Second World War on America and the daily lives of Americans as they adjusted to radically new circumstances. Within weeks of the Pearl Harbor attack, Cooke set off with a reporter�s zeal on a circuit of the entire country to see what the war had done to people. He talked to everyone he encountered on his extensive trip, from miners to lumberjacks, to war-profiteers, to day-laborers, to local politicians � even the unfortunate Japanese-Americans who had been rapidly interned in stark, desert camps. This unique travelogue celebrates an important American character and the indomitable spirit of a nation that was to inspire Cooke�s reports and broadcasts for some sixty years.

Biografie van de Vlaamse letterkundige (1898-1989) op basis van analyse van diens werk.

Donald Trump s catastrophic final year

Grunberg reist naar Georgie, Oekraine en Polen en onderzoekt hoe het vluchtelingen vergaat

Sociaal-wetenschappelijk proefschrift relevant voor hulpverlening (aan volwassenen), Kath. Univ. Nijmegen. Summary in English

When Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, both Masons, set out to find the origins of Freemasonry they had no idea they would find themselves unravelling the true story of Jesus Christ and the original Jerusalem Church. As a radically new picture of Jesus and his ultra-Jewish sect started to emerge, the authors came to the controversial conclusion that the key rituals of modern Freemasonry were practiced by the sect as a means of initiation into their community. Rigorously analyzing and comparing ancient Egyptian records, the Old and New Testaments, early Christian and rabbinical texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the rituals of Freemasonry, the authors have been able to reconstruct the lost story of Jesus and his brother James and describe their struggle to establish the "kingdom of heaven" upon earth using Masonic-style rituals. The establishment of the Christian Church is shown to be a political invention that has little connection with the man we call "Christ."--Adapted from dust jacket

The new novel that says all there is to say about the marijuana society

Alles over het verschijnsel Bed. Met illustraties

Het Belgische en Vlaamse verleden in de romantische boekillustraties

When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just 25 years old. It was a time he would later call the 'most stupendous experience of my life'.

That war ended with Hitler in a hospital bed, temporarily blinded by mustard gas. The world that he opened his newly healed eyes on was new and it was terrible: Germany had been defeated, the Kaiser had fled and the army had been resolutely humbled.

Hitler never accepted these facts. Out of his fury rose a white-hot hatred, an unquenchable thirst for revenge against the 'criminals' who had signed the armistice, against the socialists who he accused of stabbing the army in the back and, most violently, against the Jews, a direct threat to the master race of his imagination, on whose shoulders he would pile all of Germany's woes.

But this was not all about the war; the seeds of that hatred lay in Hitler’s youth.

By peeling back the layers of Hitler's childhood, his war record and his early political career, Paul Ham's Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer seeks the man behind the myth. How did the defining years of Hitler’s life affect his rise to power?

More broadly, Paul Ham seeks to answer the question: Was Hitler a freak accident? Or was he an extreme example of a recurring type of demagogue, who will do and say anything to seize power; who thrives on chaos; and who personifies, in his words and in his actions, the darkest prejudices of humankind?

Beschrijving van de stad 's-Hertogenbosch die tegelijkertijd een pleidooi is tegen klakkeloze moderne stedenbouw en voor het zorgvuldig omgaan met de kostbare stedenbouwkundige en energetische structuur ervan.

Een onderzoek naar de typologische ontwikkeling en de toekomst van lokale bouwwijzen bij de Dogon in Mali