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    Voodoo Histories

    Voodoo Histories

    Dikke hardback in zeer goede staat. Klein scheurtje in stofomslag. Geillustreerd. Engelstalig.

    Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere - from Pearl Harbour to 9/11, from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of Diana. Bookshop shelves threaten to collapse under the weight of texts devoted to proving myriad conspiracy theories true, while even quality newspapers and serious TV channels are prepared to give them credence. For David Aaronovitch, there came a time when he started to see a pattern. These theories used similar dodgy methods with which to insinuate their claims: they linked themselves to the supposed conspiracies of the past (it happened then so it can happen now); they carefully manipulated their evidence to hide its holes; they relied on the authority of dubious academic sources. Most importantly, they elevated their believers to membership of an elite - a group of people able to see beyond lies to a higher reality. But why believe something that entails stretching the bounds of probability so far? Surely it is more likely that men did actually land on the moon in 1969 than that thousands of people were enlisted to fabricate a deception that they did. In this entertaining and enlightening book - aimed to provide ammunition for those who have found themselves at the wrong end of a conversation about moon landings or twin towers - Aaronovitch carefully probes and explodes a dozen of the major conspiracy theories. In doing so, he looks at why people believe them, and makes an argument for a true scepticism: one based on a thorough knowledge of history and a strong dose of common sense.

    David Aaronovitch;

    € 10,90
    € 7,50

    Emerson Among the...

    Emerson Among the Eccentrics

    Halflinnen. Dikke hardback met stofomslag in goede staat. Enkele kleine aantekening in index. Geillustreerd. Engelstalig.

    When Carlos Baker died in 1987, he had completed all but the finishing touches on what will be considered his masterpiece. An esteemed literary critic and mentor to several generations of younger scholars, Carlos Baker had a lifelong interest in the writers of the American Renaissance, particularly in Ralph Waldo Emerson, its intellectual centerpiece, but also in Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Amos Bronson Alcott, and Margaret Fuller, all of whom made Concord a mecca for American intellectuals, with Emerson undoubtedly its foremost citizen. Lucky for us that in his last years Carlos Baker poured his resources, wisdom, and affections into this remarkable book." "Emerson Among the Eccentrics is that rarest of accomplishments: a magnificent biography that functions equally as a group portrait and a highly detailed reconstruction of an entire area. Carlos Baker was indefatigable in going through all of the principal characters, journals, and correspondence to reconstruct, minutely, entire days; the result is a vivid and textured mosaic not just of the group's interrelationships but of their daily lives - what they ate, what they wore, what they did for entertainment, what they valued and what they did not, how they "managed" life. All of this, though, went to serve Baker's larger aim and hope of bringing Emerson to life in his quotidian relationships: as young man and old; husband, father, son, and brother; preacher, lecturer, editor, and clubman; farmer, householder, host, and guest.

    Carlos Baker;

    € 17,50

    The Shadow Man

    The Shadow Man

    Hardback met stofomslag in zeer goede staat. Engelstalig.

    "My father died when I was seven years old. I've always thought that was the most important thing anyone could know about me." The beloved, lost father - the Shadow Man: in this searing memoir, one of America's finest writers discovers the truth about the man whose romantic image defined her life. But who was David Gordon really? In Mary Gordon's memories of him, he was an erudite and charming man: an intellectual, a writer and publisher, a Harvard dropout and Jazz Age bohemian. But at midlife she began to question these loving memories and to go in search of the man whose presence - and absence - haunted her life. Unburying startling truths, Gordon discovers both a devoted, inventive, and loving father and a person desperate to cover up the underside of the immigrant's encounter with the American dream. As Gordon tracks her father - in the archives, in libraries, in the middle of America - she uncovers lies, despair, madness: a man who lied about many things, including his date and place of birth, his native language, his family, his education. A Jew born in the last years of the nineteenth century, he became a convert to Catholicism and to right-wing politics, a literary critic who was also a pornographer, and a vicious anti-Semite. As a realistic portrait of her father emerges, Mary Gordon reevaluates herself in the light of these painful discoveries about her heritage and past.

    Auteur onbekend;

    € 9,50

    Sterrebos. Het Groot...

    Sterrebos. Het Groot Heyvelt op Oud Herlaer

    Grote hardback in goede staat. Aantekening op titelpagina. Verder netjes. Rijkelijk geillustreerd.

    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.

    Jan M. M. van der Vaart;

    € 20,00
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