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A controversial and timely exploration of the dark side of American idealism - and its potentially dangerous consequences for the world. In this thoughtful critique of America's role in the world, Lieven contends that US foreign policy since 9-11 has been shaped by the special character of its national identity, which embraces two contradictory features. The first, a civic nationalism or 'creed' which espouses liberty and democracy, sometimes irrespective of the needs and desires of others. The other feature, Jacksonian nationalism, has its roots in the defensive White America, and is fed by a profound pessimism and a sense of personal, social and religious defeat. Lieven examines how these two opposing impulses have played out in recent US policy and suggests that, in the Middle East in particular, the uneasy combination of policies has gravely undermined US credibility and complicated the war against terrorism. Drawing comparisons with earlier European models, Lieven offers powerful insights into alarming elements of the American psyche and their disturbing implications for the coming century. and on the curious mixture of chauvinism and idealism that has been exploited by the Bush administration.

Allerlei wetenswaardigheden over de riddertijd komen aan de orde. Met zwart-wittekeningen. Vanaf ca. 9 jaar.

Analyse van de ontwikkeling van de welvaart, waarom het misging in 2008 met de economische crisis als gevolg en de daaruit te trekken lessen.

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrowis Sophia Loren's definitive autobiography, revealing her personal journey from the hardship of her childhood in Naples to her life as a screen legend, sharing stories of work, love, and family.

Each chapter begins with a letter, a document, a photograph, or object that prompts her reminiscences. In her own words, these memoirs originated as, "Unpublished memories, curious anecdotes, tiny secrets told, all of which spring from a box found by chance, a precious treasure trove filled with emotions, experiences, adventures."

In her incredible life story, Loren vividly recounts her difficult childhood in Naples during World War II, remembers her parents and their tempestuous relationship, and reveals the pain of growing up in her grandparents' house with her single, unmarried mother and younger sister. She tells how she got her start by winning a beauty pageant ('La regina del mare') and how her ambition drove her success in cinema before revealing the influence of the producer Carlo Ponti, who cast her in her early roles and later became her husband.

Loren takes us behind the scenes of the movies, her early stardom and move to Hollywood revealing intimate and never before shared stories of her famed costars: Brando, Newman, Burton, Peck, Heston, and many more.

Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashionable in his time, but his sacrilegious subject matter and use of lower class models were violently scorned. Michelangelo Mirisi de Caravaggio lived a life riddled with crime and scandal, producing a body of work that wouldn't be appreciated until centuries after his mysterious death. Though his body was never found, he is assumed to have been murdered by ruffians on a beach south of Rome-a fate strangely similar to that of controversial Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini who was, like Caravaggio, a homosexual.

Caravaggio's reputation was decidedly poor during his lifetime; sometimes rich, sometimes penniless, when he wasn't in prison he was running away from the police or his enemies. Perhaps no other painter has suffered such injustice: his works were often attributed to more respected painters while he was given the credit for just about anything vulgar painted in the chiaroscuro style. Caravaggio's great work had the misfortune of enduring centuries of disrepute. It wasn't until the end of the 19th century that he was rediscovered and, quite posthumously, deemed a great master.

Hoe was het om rond het begin van de jaartelling de Lage Landen te bereizen, om naast Kenau Simonsd. Hasselaar op de muren van het belegerde Haarlem te staan, of om als kind de watersnoodramp van 1953 te beleven?
Geert Mak verzamelde voor Ooggetuigen van de vaderlandse geschiedenis ruim honderd authentieke verslagen van belangrijke momenten uit de vaderlandse geschiedenis over een tijdvak van meer dan twintig eeuwen. Uit dagboeken, brieven, reisverslagen en krantenartikelen distilleerde hij een reeks kleine en grote reportages die eigenschap gemeen hebben: de auteur is er persoonlijk bij geweest. De verslagen zijn heet van de naald op papier gezet; soms met duidelijk hoorbare emotie, vaak met verwondering, en altijd met een scherp oog voor details.
In deze geheel herziene uitgave zijn veel verslagen voorzien van bijzondere en vaak aangrijpende illustraties die de historische sensatie nog extra voelbaar maken.

Sanne Groot Koerkamp (1982) werkt voor Nieuwe Revu en reist regelmatig voor dit blad naar het Midden-Oosten. Marije Veerman (1982) publiceerde het eerste interview met Hofstadlid Jermaine W. en portretteerde Abida Kabbaj, de vrouw van Samir A.
In Het slapende leger gaan zij op zoek naar de drijfveren van jonge moslims die bereid zijn te vechten in een heilige oorlog, de jihad. Ze spreken diverse deskundigen, maar vooral talloze geradicaliseerde jongeren en hun familieleden, zoals bijvoorbeeld de Nederlandse, tot de islam bekeerde schoonmoeder van Samir A. en Celestina, de stiefdochter van Abu Khaled, de vermeende leider van de Hofstadgroep.
De journalistes bezoeken islamitische 'getto's' en omstreden moskee in Den Haag, Amsterdam en Eindhoven en worden, op zoek naar de achtergrond van de Hofstadgroep, gearresteerd door de Marokkaanse Mukhabaraat in het Rif-gebergte.
Om te achterhalen wat er leeft onder extreem radicale moslimjongeren, gaan zij diverse keren undercover, hun blonden lokken weggestopt onder een niqaab.
Zonder een oordeel te vellen, beschrijven Sanne en Marije van binnenuit hoe leeftijdsgenoten hun eigen toekomst en de toekomst van Nederland zien en ontrafelen ze het systeem van de zogenaamde 'ronselaars'.

Bespreking over hoe je met ondermijnende spanningen en ergenissen op je werk kan omgaan. Het gaat om een bondige, inleidende presentatie van de beproefde Rationele Effectiviteits Training.

Een bijna 100-jarige Vlaamse vrouw beschrijft haar ervaringen rond de Eerste Wereldoorlog in Vlaanderen en Noord-Frankrijk om en aan het front.

In "De grote recessie" geeft het Centraal Planbureau uitleg over de ingrijpendste economische crisis van onze tijd. Hoe lang zal de recessie duren en wat zijn de economische gevolgen op langere termijn? Wat betekent zij voor het klimaat en het milieu? Maar ook: wat moet er aan worden gedaan? Hoe zinvol is de revival van het Keynesiaanse denken? Biedt een verbetering van het toezicht op financiële markten soelaas? En ten slotte: wat betekent dit allemaal voor u? Wat gebeurt er met uw inkomen, uw pensioen, uw huis en uw baan? Dit boek, door de economen van 's lands vooraanstaandste economische denktank met veel vaart geschreven, biedt de lezer een dieper inzicht in de crisis. Het laat hem bovendien op toegankelijke wijze kennismaken met de nieuwste economische inzichten.

Summary: Op 13 november 2007 vallen vijfhonderd rechercheurs en dertig officierenvan justitie op ruim vijftig adressen in Nederland binnen. Een strafrechtelijk onderzoek legt een wijdvertakt fraudenetwerk aan de top van het Nederlandse bedrijfsleven en de vastgoedwereld bloot. Er blijkt sprake te zijn van graaien op het hoogste niveau. Een wereld die tot de kredietcrisis werd gedomineerd door de verheerlijking van geld, zeiljachten en Ferrari's. Projectontwikkelaars, pensioenfondsdirecteuren en vastgoedhandelaren konden met de hulp van accountants, bankiers en notarissen ongestoord tientallen miljoenen euro's stelen. Slachtoffers zijn Rabo Bouwfonds en de gepensioneerden van Philips, zo is de verdenking. In het najaar van 2009 begint naar verwachting het monsterproces.

Artikelen over de verdere ruimtelijke, economische en bestuurlijke ontwikkeling van de Nederlandse doorvoerhavens, zoals de Rotterdamse haven en Schiphol.

[Dressed to kill] seeks to show naval uniforms from a new perspective because it is important that the development of uniform be viewed alongside contemporary civilian fashions. The essays at the beginning not only examine the progression of regulations but also, more significantly, place the uniforms in their economic, social and historical contexts. They are followed by a catalogue of selected uniforms from the rich collections of the National Maritime Museum, which serve to reinforce the themes drawn out in the essays. The last section of line drawings of selected patterns provides an insight into the construction of the garments.

This is a unique reference source on the armies, battles, weapons and leaders of the first of the great wars that shook Europe and the World during the twentieth century. There are over 250 contemporary photographs and engravings and clear maps that illustrate the principal battles and campaigns. The book includes: * The Campaigns: chronology, battles * The Weaponry: arms, strategy, tactics on land and sea * The Warring Sides: armies, navies, leaders and led * The Commanders: the significant leaders and characters * The Sources: contemporary records, books, graphic arts, photography and videos * Miscellanea: statistics, pay, clothing issue, weapons performance etc. * Glossary of period and technical terms

The Great War was in many ways without precedent in the annals of history. Never had so many nations taken up arms at a single time; never had a war reached so deeply into the lives of people far away from the battlefield. Presenting an account of this critical and violent period of world history, and tying in with a BBC2 television series, this book focuses on the social and cultural effects of the war, supported by letters and diaries, poems and photographs.

Volume II of the Chronicle starts at the beginning of 1917 and covers the war on all nine fronts (as in Vol I), in day-by-day detail, up to the armistice of 1918 and on through the peace process until 1921. The presentation of the vast amount of information affords the reader a two-way perspective. Horizontally across the columns is a time-line perspective showing what was happening where on any given day. Vertically, throughout the two volumes of the Chronology, is an account of the activity on each of the nine fronts listed above.

Biografie van de Nederlandse dirigent (1929- ) tot aan zijn afscheid van het Concertgebouworkest in 1988.

In Somme Lyn Macdonald explores one of the most harrowing battles in British history.'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle of the Somme...'The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever been so meticulously planned. Yet while there were good political reasons to launch a joint offensive with a French Army demoralized by huge casualties at Verdun, the raw troops on the ground knew nothing of that. A hundred and fifty thousand were killed in the punishing shellfire, the endless ordeal of attack and counter-attack; twice that number were left maimed or wounded. Here, almost for the first time, Lyn Macdonald lets the men who were there give their own testimony. Their stories are vivid, harrowing, sometimes terrifying - yet shot through with humour, immense courage and an astonishing spirit of resilience.'What the reader will longest remember are the words - heartbroken, blunt, angry - of the men who lived through the bloodbath...a worthy addition to the literature of the Great War...' Daily MailOver the past twenty years Lyn Macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian of the First World War. Her books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the First World War. Most are published by Penguin.

The Classic Account of Passchendaele - Reissued for the First World War Centenary The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of the most appalling campaigns in the First World War. A million Tommies, Canadians and Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient in the summer of 1917, mostly raw young troops keen to do their bit for King and Country. Lyn Macdonald's Passchendaele tells their tale of mounting disillusion amid mud, terror and desperate privation, yet it is also a story of immense courage, comradeship, songs, high spirits and bawdy humour. Passchendaele portrays the human realities behind one of the most disastrous events in the history of warfare. 'It is rare to find a history of the First World War which manages to convey the front-line soldiers' experiences and to describe what it was that enabled those who survived to get through it. Lyn Macdonald has done just that' Sunday Times Over the past twenty years Lyn Macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian of the First World War. Her books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the First World War. Most are published by Penguin.