Cornelis Jetses werd beroemd door zijn historische taferelen en vooral van de tekeningen van Ot en Sien en Afke's tiental. Veel minder bekend zijn de prachtige tekeningen die hij maakte voor de sprookjes van onder anderen Andersen en Grimm.
Jan A. Niemeijer vult deze lacune in Jetses' werk met dit fraaie en kleurrijke overzicht over de beroemde illustrator als sprookjestekenaar. Het staat onomstotelijk vast dat men nog steeds niet is uitgekeken op het werk van Cornelis Jetses (1873-1955). Aan zijn verfijnde tekeningen en aquarellen voegde hij een bijzondere dimensie toe, waardoor ze ook nu nog boeien en fascineren. Wat ook in zijn sprookjesprenten opvalt, is zijn uitstekende compositievermogen en de knappe verdeling van de objecten over het vlak. Zijn aquarellen zijn prachtig transparant, zodat de donkerste partijen nog doorzichtig blijven en de helderste kleuren warm en feestelijk opbloeien. In zijn illustraties paart hij monumentaliteit aan speelse beweeglijkheid. Altijd ademen zijn tekeningen sfeer.

Jan A. Niemeijer uit Groningen is de absolute kenner van het werk van Cornelis Jetses. Hij publiceerde eerder de titels Uit het schetsboek van Cornelis Jetses, Kinderen van het platteland, Toen je nog op straat kon spelen, Leven op het platteland en de geïllustreerde biografie De wereld van Cornelis Jetses.

Nieuwe hersenscantechnieken maken het mogelijk om te zien wat er in ons hoofd omgaat als we praten, lezen of gewoon nadenken. MRI-scans laten zelfs zien wat zich in de hersenen afspeelt voordat we een beslissing nemen. Met deze technologie kunnen we ook de hersenactiviteit van een embryo in de baarmoeder bestuderen, of de oorsprong van psychische afwijkingen. De onbegrensde mogelijkheden van dit nieuwe onderzoeksveld stellen ons ook voor volkomen nieuwe ethische vragen. Zijn wij wel ons brein?

J.M.W. Turner is one of the greatest artists the world has ever known. His output was prolific and astonishingly varied. Focusing on 125 paintings and drawings from the Tate, which owns the world's largest collection of Turner's work, this lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh and lively survey of his genius. Familiar masterpieces are reproduced along with less well-known prints and sheets from sketch-books; subject matter ranges from landscapes and natural subjects to ancient and modern history; marine subjects; literary illustration; and images of contemporary life.In his essay, David Blayney Brown reveals the paradoxes and contrasts that abound in Turner's life and work: as a painter he looked both backward and forward, bridging the gap between the 18th century and modernism, compelled constantly to reexamine and reinvent his own art, with astonishing success.

This is the first book to celebrate the cell phone phenomenon. It not only gives an insider's view of the design and feel of handsets and interfaces, but also highlights those little (and sometimes not so little) differences in how our favorite invention is used around the world. The perfect mix of information and entertainment, it explains everything from how Japanese schoolgirls set global trends to why text messaging is big news during Ramadan, to the popularity of push-to-talk in the United States.Phone Book examines how different generations use cell phones and how and why they have become fashion items. It covers the history of the development of handset design; the fifty most influential designs; predictions for the future that have turned out to be right (and wrong); and the influence that cell phones have on other products. And there are in-depth case studies of leading brands, including Nokia, Samsung, SonyEricsson, Vertu, and Motorola, as well as the lowdown on technologies such as camera phones, texting, connectivity, and 3G.

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.

"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.

Sunday Times Book of the YearTelegraph Science Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain.Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once and for all?Galloping through centuries of wild speculation and ingenious, sometimes macabre anatomical investigations, scientist and historian Matthew Cobb reveals how we came to our present state of knowledge. Our latest theories allow us to create artificial memories in the brain of a mouse, and to build AI programmes capable of extraordinary cognitive feats. A complete understanding seems within our grasp.But to make that final breakthrough, we may need a radical new approach. At every step of our quest, Cobb shows that it was new ideas that brought illumination. Where, he asks, might the next one come from? What will it be?

Historische en cultuurhistorische geschriften van de historicus Huizinga (1872-1945) geplaatst in een breed internationaal kader van Europese cultuurkritiek in de eerste helft van de twintigste eeuw.

Researcher and designer Caroline Nevejan focuses on the implications of technology on society. The artistic research explores new values for the (meta) design of participatory systems in which people accept responsibility for their words and deeds and negotiate trust and truth in a networked world. Artists are Kadir van Lohuizen, Debra Solomon, Ronald Ophuis, Zoro Feigl, Afaina de Jong, Chin-Lien Chen & Chris Vermaas, Anna Carlgren, Merlijn Twaalfhoven, Martin Butler, Karen Lancel & Hermen Maat, Jodi, Luna Maurer & Andreas Zangger and Angelo Vermeulen.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.