The Crimean War combines an extraordinary oral and visual account of the Crimean War -- including many photographs and accounts never previously published. The history is told from eyewitness accounts from people on all sides of the conflict (British, French, Russian and Turkish) -- in the forms of letters and diaries of soldiers, sailors, doctors, artists, nurses and reporters. And as the Crimean War was the first war to be photographed and to which war artists were assigned, the book is heavily illustrated with striking images of war. The combination of art and personal accounts makes for an incredibly fascinating and original perspective on the events.

Von Ammen, Quacksalbern oder Köhlern mag der ein oder andere schon gehört haben. Doch welche Arbeiten sich hinter Namen wie Sandmann, Rosstäuscher oder Beutetürke verbergen, weiß heute niemand mehr. Solchen verschwundenen Tätigkeiten forscht dieser wunderschön illustrierte Band nach. Mit detektivischem Spürsinn haben Michaela Vieser und Irmela Schautz in Archiven, auf Gemälden oder in Romanen ausgestorbene Berufe ausfindig gemacht und ihren gesellschaftlichen Hintergrund beleuchtet. Sie erzählen zum Beispiel, dass der Kaffeeriecher als Teil des preußischen Steuersystems in Häusern nach geschmuggeltem Kaffee schnüffelte, oder berichten vom Abtrittanbieter, der mit Eimern auf Messen eine schnelle Lösung für kleine und große Bedürfnisse anbot.

What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as resistant to their work, as captured through their use of the metaphor of the "brick wall." On Being Included offers an explanation of this apparent paradox. It explores the gap between symbolic commitments to diversity and the experience of those who embody diversity. Commitments to diversity are understood as "non-performatives" that do not bring about what they name. The book provides an account of institutional whiteness and shows how racism can be obscured by the institutionalization of diversity. Diversity is used as evidence that institutions do not have a problem with racism. On Being Included offers a critique of what happens when diversity is offered as a solution. It also shows how diversity workers generate knowledge of institutions in attempting to transform them.

Overzicht van de activiteiten van militaire eenheden tijdens veldslagen en veldtochten.

Teksten en tekeningen over chassidische hoogtijdagen.

In de overgang van de achttiende naar de negentiende eeuw bestond er onder de nieuwe stedelijke elite een groeiende belangstelling voor het ontginnen van woeste gronden. De wens zich in te zetten voor de ontwikkeling van de landbouw- en veeteelt voor het algemeen welzijn berustte veelal op idealistische motieven en het veronderstelde kennis van de materie. 0Naast een of meerdere boerenhoeven die op een ontginning werden gebouwd, werd in veel gevallen ook een stenen huis opgetrokken voor de pachtheer. Het stenen herenhuis bood de familie gelegenheid tot recreatie in de vrije natuur, weg uit de stedelijke omgeving. Een bescheiden voorbeeld van een dergelijke ontginningsonderneming is het kleine landgoed Sterrebos, onder Oud Herlaer, dat meer dan twee honderd jaar geleden werd aangelegd door Jacob Willem Halfwassenaer van Onsenoort.0Architectuurhistoricus Jan van der Vaart verdiepte zich in de ontginningspraktijk aan het begin van de negentiende eeuw en ontrafelde de twee eeuwen bouw en bewoningsgeschiedenis van het kleine buiten Sterrebos.0Het brede spectrum van zijn onderzoek leidde tot een ongekunsteld inkijkje in de verhoudingen binnen de kringen van de bestuurlijke elite, van de militaire bovenlaag in de stad, de opkomst van de gegoede burgerij in de negentiende eeuw en de rol van de lokale overheid aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw.

Overal in 's-Hertogenbosch vind je sporen van het verleden. Zelfs in de nieuwste wijken zijn gebouwen, straten, sloten of voorwerpen die iets zeggen over de geschiedenis. Een eendenkooi, een oude dijk, een kasteel, een stuk steen van een Romeinse tempel of een typisch voorbeeld van een huis uit de jaren '70. Dit lees-, kijk- en bladerboek voor jong en oud laat heel veel van die sporen zien. Met schatkaarten, spannende verhalen, foto's, tekeningen en ruim 150 lange en korte stukjes tekst, vol anekdotes en weetjes.

The first comprehensively researched biography of Queen Victoria ever, by one of Britain's best biographers. This magnificent biography sheds new light on Victoria not just as a queen, but as a woman.

The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place - and what happened to them after they left?

The real story of the Durrells is as surprising and fascinating as anything in Gerry's books, and Michael Haag, with his first hand knowledge of the family, is the ideal narrator, drawing on diaries, letters and unpublished autobiographical fragments.

The Durrells of Corfu describes the family's upbringing in India and the crisis that brought them to England and then Greece. It recalls the genuine characters they encountered on Corfu - Theodore the biologist, the taxi driver Spiro Halikiopoulos and the prisoner Kosti - as well as the visit of American writer Henry Miller. And Haag has unearthed the story of how the Durrells left Corfu, including Margo's and Larry's last-minute escapes before the War. An extended epilogue looks at the emergence of Larry as a world famous novelist, and Gerry as a naturalist and champion of endangered species, as well as the lives of the rest of the family, their friends and other animals.

The book is illustrated with family photos from the Gerald Durrell Archive, many of them reproduced here for the first time.

Naslagwerk met mythologische figuren uit de hele wereld.

Brieven uit het doorgangskamp Westerbork, daterend uit de periode november 1942 tot september 1943.

Verslag van het begin van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, zoals de schrijfster dat onderging en verwerkte.

Rechtsfilosoof en ethicus Cliteur gaat in zijn essays uit van dagelijkse voorvallen die ons confronteren met de culturele verschillen in opvatting in een pluriforme samenleving.

From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society—and especially parents—to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized beings. In Just Babies, Paul Bloom argues that humans are in fact hardwired with a sense of morality. Drawing on groundbreaking research at Yale, Bloom demonstrates that, even before they can speak or walk, babies judge the goodness and badness of others’ actions; feel empathy and compassion; act to soothe those in distress; and have a rudimentary sense of justice.

Still, this innate morality is limited, sometimes tragically. We are naturally hostile to strangers, prone to parochialism and bigotry. Bringing together insights from psychology, behavioral economics, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Bloom explores how we have come to surpass these limitations. Along the way, he examines the morality of chimpanzees, violent psychopaths, religious extremists, and Ivy League professors, and explores our often puzzling moral feelings about sex, politics, religion, and race.

In his analysis of the morality of children and adults, Bloom rejects the fashionable view that our moral decisions are driven mainly by gut feelings and unconscious biases. Just as reason has driven our great scientific discoveries, he argues, it is reason and deliberation that makes possible our moral discoveries, such as the wrongness of slavery. Ultimately, it is through our imagination, our compassion, and our uniquely human capacity for rational thought that we can transcend the primitive sense of morality we were born with, becoming more than just babies.

Paul Bloom has a gift for bringing abstract ideas to life, moving seamlessly from Darwin, Herodotus, and Adam Smith to The Princess Bride, Hannibal Lecter, and Louis C.K. Vivid, witty, and intellectually probing, Just Babies offers a radical new perspective on our moral lives.

The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores key anthropological concepts including:

• what is anthropology?
• how can we distinguish cultural differences from physical ones?
• what is culture, anyway?
• how do anthropologists study culture?
• what are the key theories and approaches used today?
• How has the discipline changed over time?

This student-friendly text provides an overview of the fundamental principles of anthropology and is an invaluable guide for anyone wanting to learn more about this fascinating subject.

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of the West's retreat from reason.



'The Death of Truth is destined to become the defining treatise of our age' David Grann



'The first great book of the Trump administration ... essential reading' Rolling Stone

We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the US President. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced, proven science is once more up for debate, and Russian propaganda floods our screens. The wisdom of the crowd has usurped research and expertise, and we are each left clinging to the beliefs that best confirm our biases.



How did truth become an endangered species? This decline began decades ago, and in The Death of Truth, former New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani takes a penetrating look at the cultural forces that contributed to this gathering storm. In social media and literature, television, academia, and political campaigns, Kakutani identifies the trends - originating on both the right and the left - that have combined to elevate subjectivity over factuality, science, and common values. And she returns us to the words of the great critics of authoritarianism, writers like George Orwell and Hannah Arendt, whose work is newly and eerily relevant.



With remarkable erudition and insight, Kakutani offers a provocative diagnosis of our current condition and presents a path forward for our truth-challenged times.

For well over a century the Wagner clan has run the Bayreuth Festival and played host to many of the greatest and ghastliest figures in the arts and politics. Drawn from extensive interviews with members of the family, Jonathan Carr presents a portrait of the Wagners and their circle.

Justice is simultaneously a practical and an ideal concept: when we think of justice, we refer to its day-to-day administration, involving police, lawyers, judges, and politicians--but we also refer to a larger ideal, a set of basic values that guide our attempts to live together and balance competing interests, obligations, and freedoms. If we lose sight of the practical, the ideal will fail--but if we forget the ideal, the practical becomes pointless.

On Rules is the culmination of decades of thinking about and working within the law as both an ideal and a realm of practical action. Gherardo Colombo brings to his rich philosophical analysis of the culture of justice thirty years of experience in the Italian judiciary, which saw him head up numerous important and sensitive commissions and inquiries. His exploration of the concept and application of rules of justice is powerful and clear: if we don't root our experience in a fundamental respect for rules, we cannot have a functioning, just society.

Sociologische essays.

Visie vanuit een evolutiebiologisch standpunt op de doelmatigheid van de natuur als ontwerper.

The modern state is hugely important in our everyday lives. It takes nearly half our income in taxes. It registers our births, marriages and deaths. It educates our children and pays our pensions. It has a unique power to compel, in some cases exercising the ultimate sanction of preserving life or ordering death. Yet most of us would struggle to say exactly what the state is.
The Modern Stateoffers a clear, comprehensive and provoking introduction to one of the most important phenomena of contemporary life. Topics covered include:
* the nation state and its historical context
* state and economy
* state and societies
* state and citizens
* international relations
* the future of the state

In Egypte worden de politieke en religieuze tegenstellingen steeds groter. Vooral tussen moslims en christenen. Als Amal (13) ontdekt dat haar moeder interesse heeft in het christelijke geloof, is ze bang voor de gevolgen. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.