Kritische analyse van de financiele praktijken die aanleiding gaven tot de wereldwijde kredietcrisis in 2007 en 2008.

Filosofische causerietjes over stofzuiger, wasmachine, strijkijzer, koelkast, vaatwasser, inductiekookplaat, magnetron, afzuigkap, koffiezetapparaat, centrale verwarming, keukenradio en citruspers.

Niemand is een grotere nachtmerrie geweest voor de internationale veiligheidsdiensten dan Osama Bin Laden. Wie was deze man? Hoe ging hij te werk? Was het niet beter geweest als hij niet was uitgeschakeld, maar een proces had gekregen? Hoe had dit proces eruit gezien? En hoe zit het met de 'war on terror' nu Bin Laden niet meer leeft?

Columns over televisie.

Biografie van de Dalai Lama. De wijsheid en het mysterie van het Tibetaanse boeddhisme, en zijn eigen ideeen over wereldvrede en individuele verantwoordelijkheid.

Bloemlezing met werk van Lou Andreas-Salomé, W.N.P. Barbellion, Willem Bilderdijk, the Bronté Sisters, Lord Byron, Elias Canetti, Denis Diderot, A.G. Dostojevskaja, Gustave Flaubert, Jean-Paul Franssens, Luuk Gruwez, Edmond and Jules de Concourt, Friedrich Hebbel, Zinaida Hippius, Søren Kierkegaard, Paul Léautaud, Michel Leiris, Alma Mahler, Thomas Mann, Adrian Morriën, Multatuli, Boris Pasternak, Fernando Pessoa, Françoise Sagan, Stendhal, August Strindberg, Sofia Tolstoj, Bellen van Zuylen.

He was the enfant terrible of graphic design in the nineties. His tortured typography prompted a vocal camp of critics to accuse him of being flippant and of destroying the communicative basis of design. But now the techniques of David Carson (and those of his countless imitators) dominate advertising, design, the Web, and even motion pictures. With 35,000 copies of the original sold, this revised edition of The End of Print includes a striking new cover and first chapter that puts Carson's work in context. The rest is vintage Carson—cutting edge and explosive. The End of Print tracks his career from skateboard and surf magazines, to the landmark Beach Culture magazine and his groundbreaking grid-breaking work for Ray Gun, and finally to handling major corporate identity accounts. The End of Print marks a turning point in design that ushered in the look of today.

The Art of Working laat zien hoe digitalisering de architectuur en inrichting kan revolutioneren, zodanig dat een verlaging van kosten gepaard gaat met een verhoging van de arbeidsproductiviteit.

Verhalen over gebeurtenissen in Nederland en zijn koloniën in de 17e eeuw van mensen uit die tijd.

The astounding historic espionage operation on that propelled America into World War I. The Zimmerman telegram was a top-secret message to the President of Mexico, inviting Mexico to join Germany and Japan in a invasion on the U.S.

Guy de Maupasssant publiceerde in tien jaar meer dan twintig verhalenbundels en een handvol romans. Een leven als een meteoor, dat bepaald werd door sport, schrijven en seksueel vertier.

Bundel prozafragmenten en gedichten.

Bevat naast brieven aan Constant d'Hermenches, een polemische uitval tegen Mmde de Staël in het pamflet 'Aanklacht en verdediging van Thérèse LeVasseur (= vrouw van J. J. Rousseau) en de roman 'Drie vrouwen'. 'Drie vrouwen' gaat over Emilie, van wie de ouders zijn omgekomen in de strijd van de Franse Revolutie. Zij vlucht met haar toegewijde dienstmeid, Josephine, de tweede vrouw, naar het Duitse Altendorf. Daar ontmoeten zij de bemiddelde Constance. Deze derde vrouw wordt de eerste twee in de schoot geworpen doordat zij bij hen voor de deur een ernstig ongeluk met haar koets krijgt. Constance besluit het huisje naast dat van Emilie en Josephine te betrekken. Vervolgens belanden ze in allerlei amoureuze verwikkelingen, die aanleiding zijn tot uiteenlopende gedachtes over moraal, huwelijk en plicht.

Geschiedschrijving van de oudste vrijmetselaarsloge in Nederland.

Biografie van de Frans-Nederlandse schrijfster.

The final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy is devoted to processes of global social change induced by interaction between networks and identity.

This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all aspects of society Includes coverage of the influence of the internet and the net-economy Describes the accelerating pace of innovation and social transformation Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe.

An analysis of how technological, economic, and social change are steering us toward a depression provides a personal economic survival plan that includes hundreds of investment tips and forecasts and a list of troubled and sound banks.

Michael Covel reveals the "underground" network of little-known traders and hedge fund managers who've been using trend following for decades. He introduces its fundamental concepts and techniques, showing why market prices contain all the information investors need, and how to understand price movements well enough to profit from them. Using 100 pages of easy-to-understand charts from top trend followers, Covel proves the strategy works - and shows why only a technical system based on following price trends can win over the long term. Covel presents more than a decade's worth of data: information you'd otherwise pay a fortune to see presented this clearly. He also shows even more backtested trend following results, so you can gain even greater confidence in the method. Along the way, Covel thoroughly debunks misinformation and failed advice from pros who ought to know better. This timely book capitalizes on today's intense volatility and uncertainty to give investors what they're desperately searching for: a strategy that really works.

The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself.

Here is the story of a precarious childhood, with an alcoholic father (who would die when she was nine) and a devoted but overburdened mother, and of the refuge a little girl took from the turmoil at home with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother. But it was when she was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes that the precocious Sonia recognized she must ultimately depend on herself.  She would learn to give herself the insulin shots she needed to survive and soon imagined a path to a different life. With only television characters for her professional role models, and little understanding of what was involved, she determined to become a lawyer, a dream that would sustain her on an unlikely course, from valedictorian of her high school class to the highest honors at Princeton, Yale Law School, the New York County District Attorney’s office, private practice, and appointment to the Federal District Court before the age of forty. Along the way we see how she was shaped by her invaluable mentors, a failed marriage, and the modern version of extended family she has created from cherished friends and their children. Through her still-astonished eyes, America’s infinite possibilities are envisioned anew in this warm and honest book, destined to become a classic of self-invention and self-discovery.

'Nooit', schreef de Haagse Post in 1983, 'is een Nederlands politicus dieper gevallen dan Willem Aantjes; een val die alleen zo diep kon zijn omdat ook nooit zo in een politicus was geloofd'.

Op maandag 6 november 1978 kwam met een daverende klap een einde aan de carrière van een man die op dat moment gold als de machtigste en meest integere politicus van Nederland. Volgens een rapport van directeur Loe de Jong van het Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (RIOD) zou CDA-fractievoorzitter Aantjes in de oorlog lid zijn geweest van de Waffen-SS en als kampbewaker hebben gewerkt in Drenthe.

In De val van een Bergredenaar wordt aan de hand van tal van nieuwe documenten en gegevens het dramatische levensverhaal van Aantjes verteld. Zijn jeugd in de Alblasserwaard, de oorlogsjaren in het Duitse Güstrow en in kamp Port Natal in Assen en zijn opmars op het Binnenhof, waar hij zich ontpopte van een conservatieve antirevolutionaire backbencher tot een bevlogen 'Bergredenaar'. Uitgebreid wordt stilgestaan bij de cruciale rol die Aantjes speelde ten tijde van het christen-democratische eenwordingsproces en bij de rumoerige kabinetsformaties van 1973 en 1977. En natuurlijk is er ruim aandacht voor de dramatische gebeurtenissen die leidden tot zijn met complottheorieën omgeven val en de jaren in onvrijwillige ballingschap die volgden.

The Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, has explored a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more "dispassionate" notions held by most cognitive psychologists, political scientists, and economists—and Democratic campaign strategists. The idea of the mind as a cool calculator that makes decisions by weighing the evidence bears no relation to how the brain actually works. When political candidates assume voters dispassionately make decisions based on "the issues," they lose. That's why only one Democrat has been re-elected to the presidency since Franklin Roosevelt—and only one Republican has failed in that quest.

In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins. Elections are decided in the marketplace of emotions, a marketplace filled with values, images, analogies, moral sentiments, and moving oratory, in which logic plays only a supporting role. Westen shows, through a whistle-stop journey through the evolution of the passionate brain and a bravura tour through fifty years of American presidential and national elections, why campaigns succeed and fail. The evidence is overwhelming that three things determine how people vote, in this order: their feelings toward the parties and their principles, their feelings toward the candidates, and, if they haven't decided by then, their feelings toward the candidates' policy positions.

Westen turns conventional political analyses on their head, suggesting that the question for Democratic politics isn't so much about moving to the right or the left but about moving the electorate. He shows how it can be done through examples of what candidates have said—or could have said—in debates, speeches, and ads. Westen's discoveries could utterly transform electoral arithmetic, showing how a different view of the mind and brain leads to a different way of talking with voters about issues that have tied the tongues of Democrats for much of forty years—such as abortion, guns, taxes, and race. You can't change the structure of the brain. But you can change the way you appeal to it. And here's how…

In the late summer of 2007, shares of Northern Rock went into free-fall, causing a run on the bank - the first in over 150 years. Northern Rock proved to be only the first. Twelve months later, as the world was engulfed in the worst banking crisis for more than a century, one of its largest banks, RBS, came within hours of collapse. Back from the Brink tells the gripping story of Alistair Darling's one thousand days in Number 11 Downing Street. As Chancellor, he had to avert the collapse of RBS hours before the cash machines would have ceased to function; at the eleventh hour, he stopped Barclays from acquiring Lehman Brothers in order to protect UK taxpayers; he used anti-terror legislation to stop Icelandic banks from withdrawing funds from Britain. From crisis talks in Washington, to dramatic meetings with the titans of international banking, to dealing with the massive political and economic fallout in the UK, Darling places the reader in the rooms where the destinies of millions weighed heavily on the shoulders of a few. His book is also a candid account of life in the Downing Street pressure cooker and his relationship with Gordon Brown during the last years of New Labour. Back from the Brink is a vivid and immediate depiction of the British government's handling of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe. Alistair Darling's knowledge and understanding provide a unique perspective on the events that rocked international capitalism. It is also a vital historical document.

The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, Diane Coyle argues, is a reckless disregard for the future--especially in the way the economy is run. How can we achieve the financial growth we need today without sacrificing a decent future for our children, our societies, and our planet? How can we realize what Coyle calls "the Economics of Enough"?

Running the economy for tomorrow as well as today will require a wide range of policy changes. The top priority must be ensuring that we get a true picture of long-term economic prospects, with the development of official statistics on national wealth in its broadest sense, including natural and human resources. Saving and investment will need to be encouraged over current consumption. Above all, governments will need to engage citizens in a process of debate about the difficult choices that lie ahead and rebuild a shared commitment to the future of our societies.

Creating a sustainable economy--having enough to be happy without cheating the future--won't be easy. But The Economics of Enough starts a profoundly important conversation about how we can begin--and the first steps we need to take.

Dit boek gaat over een aantal ervaringen van J.A. van Kemenade gedurende een periode van dertig jaar, waarin hij verschillende functies in de politiek en het openbaar bestuur heeft vervuld. Zo was hij Minister van Onderwijs in twee kabinetten, lid van de Tweede Kamer, voorzitter van het College van Bestuur van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, burgemeester van Eindhoven en commissaris van de Koningin in Noord-Holland.

It's Wall Street's most painful paradox. Investors are more sophisticated than ever, are enabled by unprecedented technology, and protected by more government oversight and regulation than at any other time in history. Yet Wall Street is becoming a riskier and riskier place. Crashes and catastrophic losses seem commonplace. Hedge funds wreck on the financial shoals with a disturbingly familiar pattern. Worse, today's financial crises do not arise from economic instability or acts of nature, but from the very design of the financial markets themselves.

In A Demon of Our Own Design, Richard Bookstaber paints a vivid picture of a financial world that is ever edging toward disaster. As a hedge fund 'rocket scientist,' Bookstaber provides an insider's perspective to the tumultuous management decisions made by some of the world's most powerful financial figures from Warren Buffett to Sandy Weill to John Meriwether,as well as recounting his own contribution to market calamities. He designed some of the complex options and derivatives that, combined with the globalization of the world's markets and the ever-increasing speed of transactions, allow markets to slide out of control. And he explains why the best efforts of institutions on the front lines to create safeguards, manage risk, and regulate the markets may end up contributing to instability. Bookstaber argues that many of the financial innovations and regulations that are supposed to level the playing field instead make the markets more dangerous for all the players, big and small.

Drawing on his intimate knowledge of such infamous disasters as the 1987 Crash and the demise of Long-Term Capital Management, Bookstaber identifies the key areas that make markets vulnerable: liquidity that begets greater leverage; innovation that creates greater complexity; and a structure that demands a nonhuman level of rationality. The twofold solution he suggests—reducing complexity and breaking the tight coupling of transactions—goes against the prevailing winds of Wall Street, but will lead to a more robust and survivable market.