Tegen het einde van de elfde eeuw, tijdens een expeditie om voor koning Alfonso VI de beschermingsgelden te innen van de stadstaat Sevilla, raken de jonge Castiliaanse neven Eloy en Carmelo van elkaar gescheiden. Terwijl Carmelo in Sevilla onder de hoede wordt genomen van vizier Ibrahim ibn Badul, Arabisch leert en dienst neemt in het leger van Sevilla, wordt Eloy benoemd tot infanzón in het door León-Castilië veroverde Toledo. Uiteindelijk zullen hun wegen elkaar pas weer kruisen wanneer zij tegenover elkaar staan op het slagveld. Aan het begin van de twaalfde eeuw wordt de mozaraabse broeder Pius vanuit Toledo naar een klooster van de orde van Cluny gesommeerd om de biecht te horen van de stervende Teresa van Tui. Deze edelvrouwe is vastbesloten de monnik haar gehele levensverhaal te vertellen en blijft intussen de confessie van haar zondes eindeloos voor zich uitschuiven. Langzaamaan gaat Pius begrijpen naar wat voor plek hij precies is afgereisd en waarom juist hém deze taak is toebedeeld. Miquel Bulnes (1976) schreef de romans 'Zorg', 'Lab' en 'Attaque', waarna hij in 2011 de grote historische roman 'Het bloed in onze aderen' publiceerde, dat op de shortlist van de Libris Literatuurprijs terechtkwam en in het Frans werd vertaald.

Thomas Cromwell heeft inmiddels, het is 1536, een machtige positie aan het hof van de Engelse koning Hendrik VIII, maar lukt het hem zich te handhaven bij een koning die steeds angstiger wordt voor hoogverraad?

culturele geschiedenis van koloniaal Mexico

Verslag van een reis door Zuidoost-Mexico op zoek naar de geschiedenis van de Maya's, alsmede een beschrijving van het alledaagse leven van de Maya's voor de komst van de Spanjaarden en de teloorgang van de Maya-beschaving.

This unique and extraordinary guide to seven major sites of Maya civilization highlights the pioneering work of two great scholars of ancient America. For readers at every level -- from the casual tourist to the serious student -- The Code of Kings relies on Linda Schele and Peter Mathews's revolutionary work in the decipherment of the hieroglyphs that cover the surfaces of Maya ruins to give us a far clearer picture of Maya culture than we have ever had.
Richly illustrated with line art and the incomparable photography of Justin Kerr and Macduff Everton, The Code of Kings is a landmark contribution to our understanding of the Maya and a phenomenal guided tour of seven of the most awesome and magical spots on Earth.

Uiteenzetting over de filosofische consequenties van de nieuwe natuurkundige inzichten.

Charles Saatchi's collection of young British artists is one of the most celebrated collections of contemporary art in the world. 'But is it art?' was a frequent cry during the mid-90s, when he exhibited the works of artists such as Damien Hirst, Marc Quinn, Gavin Turk and Marcus Harvey. Artists such as these soon fulfilled their promise and consolidated their reputations, vindicating Saatchi's enthusiasm and their inclusion in this eclectic group. The book explores the ideas, aspirations and attitudes that inform each artist and the way that they are manifested in the end product. This publication, long out of print, remains an essential record of 35 artists that were collected by Charles Saatchi during the 1990s and is being reprinted to celebrate the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery later this year.
The book explores the ideas, aspirations and attitudes that inform each artist and the way that they are manifested in the end product.
This publication, long out of print, remains an essential record of 35 artists that were collected by Charles Saatchi during the 1990s and is being reprinted to celebrate the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery later this year.
'Art today makes approaches towards the unknowable... artists reflect something both psychological and social off that gaze, something that may hint at the face the future will present. In this activity artist and critic are linked in an intimate collaboration. The artist makes unverifiable hypotheses or intuitive proposals about the unknown, and the critic drives out into the verbal open their networks of implications.' Thomas McEvilley, 'Father the void' in 'Tyne International: a new necessity' 1990, p.133.
The name of this book is derived from Damien Hirst's extraordinary sculpture, 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, ' 1992, a fourteen-foot tiger shark suspended in a tank of formaldehyde. It is appropriate that Hirst should introduce this anthology, since he was responsible for making visible many of the artists included in these pages and, in many people's minds, has come to epitomize the wild boy whose shock tactics and cool media manner give art a high profile and a bad name. His presence emphatically colours the 20water.
In 1988 while still a student at Goldsmiths', Hirst organized 'Freeze, ' an exhibition that included sixteen of his fellow students. This marked the beginning of a vital period of optimism and enthusiasm. The recession provided a plentiful supply of empty factories, warehouses and offices and young artists seized the initiative, raised funds and mounted further shows such as 'Modern Medicine' and 'Gambler' in these dramatic spaces.
Charles Saatchi had been collecting their work and bought Hirst's first major piece, 'A Thousand Years, ' with its rotting cow's head and flies. Support of this kind is of incalculable value; it sustains energy and optimism. Whereas struggling in a vacuum is soul-destroying, the prospect of having one's work enter a major collection provides both a goal and a context; it generates hope. Damien Hirst's shark swam into view in the first show of Young British Artists mounted at the Saatchi Gallery in 1992 and attracted unprecedented media attention.
At first sight there seem to be few links between the thirty-five artists represented in this book. What possible preoccupations could be shared by a minimalist painter and a pickler of sharks? In writing about them, the author was determined not to impose artificial groupings. Despite their work being lumped together under the rubric of 'conceptualism, ' often by those hostile to it, these artists do not form a group or a school. Many of them studied at Goldsmiths' and some are friends, but others have never met or even heard of one another. Kerry Stewart graduated only recently, Jenny Saville lives in Scotland, Carina Weidle has returned to Brazil and, although most of the others live in London, it is a big city. There is no cafe society or artists' meeting place and these people do not form a cosy coterie.

Die Ausstellung im Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum zeigt die Entwürfe des Meisters in ihrer ursprünglichen Form, so wie er sie bei der Arbeit vor Augen hatte. Dabei darf man nicht vergessen, dass das gedruckte Werk stets die gespiegelte Wiedergabe der ursprünglichen Komposition auf der Kupferplatte ist. Nicht selten verändert sich dadurch die Wirkung entscheidend. Auch wenn sich jeder Grafiker dessen bewusst ist, so bleibt die Frage, wie weit dies im Einzelfall berücksichtigt wird. Beim Großteil der so genannten Reproduktionsgrafik, also der drucktechnischen Vervielfältigung etwa von Gemälden, finden sich Seitenverkehrungen, und das selbst dann, wenn dieser Prozess von den Schöpfern der umzusetzenden Werke genau überwacht wurde, wie im Falle Rubens. Technische Möglichkeiten für seitenrichtige Reproduktionen hatte man durchaus, wie etwa Marcantonio Raimondis frühere Stiche nach Raffael zeigen. Exhibition: Suermont-Ludwig Museum, Aachen (12.11.2011-5.2.2012).

Eichmann-proces

Despite his colourful claims, Diego Rivera was not actually raised by a magical nurse who let him roam the forest. After studying in Mexico, he became a key figure in the heyday of Montparnasse. This book follows him through the free love of Paris and into World War I.

"Bedrijven die niet bijdragen aan een betere wereld hebben geen bestaansrecht. Ze moeten zich op het goede richten, de wereld beter maken, het geld komt dan vanzelf. Na de door hebzucht en overmoed gekenmerkte crisis van 2008 wordt deze boodschap van de nieuwe CEO van Unilever met gejuich ontvangen. Onverbiddelijk en onvermoeibaar legt Paul Polman uit: multinationals als Unilever spelen een hoofdrol in het uitbannen van armoede en het aanpakken van het klimaatprobleem. Dit is het grote gevecht om de ziel van het kapitalisme. Maar de moedige pionier loopt zo ver voor de troepen uit dat ?zijn? duurzame Unilever in 2017 dreigt te worden opgeslokt door concurrent Kraft-Heinz. Na deze ?bijna-doodervaring? gaat Polman op zoek naar een veilige haven voor zijn experiment. Door dagkoersen geregeerde Britse aandeelhouders en Nederlandse politici versperren de slecht luisterende ?CEO-priester? de weg. Zijn poging om er eindelijk echt één bedrijf van te maken met één hoofdkantoor in Nederland, mislukt op dramatische wijze. 0In 'Het drama Ahold' (2004) en 'De Prooi' (2008) reconstrueerde Jeroen Smit hoe falend leiderschap, opgejaagd door op snelle winst gerichte aandeelhouders, veel waarde vernietigde. De wereld snakt naar een bedrijfsleven dat zich over de grote vraagstukken van deze tijd ontfermt. In 'Het Grote Gevecht' laat Smit zien dat we daarvoor allemaal, als consumenten, werknemers en vooral ook als beleggers, een grote draai moeten maken.

Biografie van de Franse filosoof en letterkundige (1905-1980).

"Vanaf het eind van de oorlog tot begin 1948 vertrekken er ruim 30.000 Nederlanders naar Indië. De vader van de auteur ging er werken voor het Rubberfonds, het NIRUB. In Indonesië weet je nooit hoe lang een reis duurt. ‘Jam karet’, klinkt het daar, tijd is als rubber zo rekbaar. Rubbertijd gaat over de Indische jaren van zijn ouders. Van Blijdorp naar Batavia, van de diergaarde naar de jungle. Met een vliegtuigje op inspectie naar bedreigde plantages, tussen rondtrekkende revolutionairen en rampokken. Een reis op papier door hun Indië. In 2014 gaat hij er zelf rondkijken, eindelijk. Hij zoekt een stukje uit de familiegeschiedenis en krijgt er het verleden tussen twee landen bij. Met onderweg een tussenstop in de haven van Rotterdam, bij een havenbaron. En een speurtocht omgeving paleis Noordeinde en de rosse buurt bij station Holland Spoor, in de jaren ’20 en ’30 het werkterrein van zijn ‘grootvader’, zoals de schrijver ontdekt."--

Het leven van Franciscus van Assisië (1180-1226) naar eigentijdse bronnen verhaald met een poging zijn persoon te plaatsen in zijn tijd.

Confessions of a connoisseur: Insiders' tips on how the design art market really works "Art is about life, the art market is about money." --Damien Hirst

Whether you're an art fan, aficionado, or collector, this completely unique book should be on your required reading list. Like a textbook for a class given by all of the world's leading experts, Collecting Contemporary Art is the one and only book to teach you everything you ever wanted to know about the contemporary art market. The introduction explains the ABCs of buying art on the primary and secondary markets, at auction, and at art fairs and gives an overview of the world art scene and its social circles. The main body of the book brings together tell-all interviews with the biggest players in the global art market: the Critic (Rimanelli), the Dealer (Boesky, Brunnet/Hackert, Coles, Deitch, Fortes, Gagosian, Gladstone, Glimcher, Hetzler, Lybke, Perrotin, Rosen, Shave, Wirth), the Consultant (Cortez, Fletcher, Heller, Segalot, Westreich), the Collector (Brant, Broad, Habsburg, Joannou, Lambert, Lehmann, Lopez, Paz, Pinault, Rothschild Foundation, Saatchi), the Auction House Expert (Cappellazzo, de Pury, Meyer), and the Museum Curator/Director (Dennison, Eccles, Heiss, Lowry, Peyton-Jones).

Rounding up the book are chapters on the year in art collecting--giving a timeline of the most important annual auctions, exhibitions, fairs, etc. around the world--as well as a glossary of terms every art savvy player should know. The text is illustrated by the work of the hottest artists in today's market, including Matthew Barney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Lisa Yuskavage, and many more.

All in all, these elements add up to the equivalent of an invaluable and privileged real-world collector's education--all between the covers of one book.

Stanley Fischer served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 1994 to 2001. IMF Essays from a Time of Crisis collects sixteen essays written for the most part during his time at the IMF, each updated with Fischer's later reflections on the issues raised. The IMF drew much criticism for some of its actions during Fischer's tenure, and he vigorously defends the "battlefield medicine" practiced by the IMF during a series of economic crises, which included the problems of economic transition in the former Soviet bloc and the Asian financial crisis. Fischer addresses the subsequent calls for reform of the international financial system and makes the case for the IMF as an international lender of last resort.

The first section of essays, "The Role of the IMF and the Reform of the International Financial System," considers the IMF's role in the international financial system in light of the crises of the 1990s. The second section, "Macroeconomic Policy, Stabilization, and Transition," examines such topics as exchange rate regimes, inflation, and Eastern Europe's relation to the European Union. The final section, "Poverty and Development," reflects Fischer's basic belief that economic policies should explicitly target poverty reduction. These engaging and accessible essays will appeal not only to economics students, economists, and policymakers but also to the general reader interested in the international monetary system.

Once upon a time, students who were willing and able to work hard could obtain an affordable, high-quality education at a public university. Those times are gone. Intensified admissions competition coupled with opposition to public spending has scorched every campus. Budget cuts, tuition hikes, and debt burdens are undermining the best path to upward mobility that this country ever built.

But despite all of this, Americans still embrace ideals of equal opportunity and know that higher education represents a public good. Students, faculty, staff, and advocates are beginning to build political coalitions and develop new strategies to improve access, enhance quality, and simplify financial aid. This book celebrates and will fortify their efforts.

In Saving State U, economist Nancy Folbre brings the national debates of education experts down to the level of trying to teach--and trying to learn--at major state universities whose budgets have repeatedly been slashed, restored, and then slashed again. Here is a brilliant firsthand account of the stakes involved, the politics, and the key debates raging through public campuses today. In a passionate, accessible voice, Folbre also offers a sobering vision of the many possible futures of public higher education and their links to the fate of our democracy while looking at the practical ways in which change is now possible.

From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll

He was born in England but reared in L.A., surrounded by the leading artists of the day amidst the vibrant hotbed of music and culture that was the early seventies. Slash spent his adolescence on the streets of Hollywood, discovering drugs, drinking, rock music, and girls, all while achieving notable status as a BMX rider. But everything changed in his world the day he first held the beat-up one-string guitar his grandmother had discarded in a closet.

The instrument became his voice and it triggered a lifelong passion that made everything else irrelevant. As soon as he could string chords and a solo together, Slash wanted to be in a band and sought out friends with similar interests. His closest friend, Steven Adler, proved to be a conspirator for the long haul. As hairmetal bands exploded onto the L.A. scene and topped the charts, Slash sought his niche and a band that suited his raw and gritty sensibility.

He found salvation in the form of four young men of equal mind: Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Steven Adler, and Duff McKagan. Together they became Guns N' Roses, one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands of all time. Dirty, volatile, and as authentic as the streets that weaned them, they fought their way to the top with groundbreaking albums such as the iconic Appetite for Destruction and Use Your Illusion I and II.

Here, for the first time ever, Slash tells the tale that has yet to be told from the inside: how the band came together, how they wrote the music that defined an era, how they survived insane, never-ending tours, how they survived themselves, and, ultimately, how it all fell apart. This is a window onto the world of the notoriously private guitarist and a seat on the roller-coaster ride that was one of history's greatest rock 'n' roll machines, always on the edge of self-destruction, even at the pinnacle of its success. This is a candid recollection and reflection of Slash's friendships past and present, from easygoing Izzy to ever-steady Duff to wild-child Steven and complicated Axl.

It is also an intensely personal account of struggle and triumph: as Guns N' Roses journeyed to the top, Slash battled his demons, escaping the overwhelming reality with women, heroin, coke, crack, vodka, and whatever else came along.

He survived it all: lawsuits, rehab, riots, notoriety, debauchery, and destruction, and ultimately found his creative evolution. From Slash's Snakepit to his current band, the massively successful Velvet Revolver, Slash found an even keel by sticking to his guns.

Slash is everything the man, the myth, the legend, inspires: it's funny, honest, inspiring, jaw-dropping . . . and, in a word, excessive.

Analyse van de internationale politiek vanuit de stelling dat democratie (het vrije Westen) steeds meer tegenover autocratie (nationalistische en fundamentalistische regimes) komt te staan.

Drawn to an image of her great-grandfather's ornately carved cane, scholar Elisa New embarked on a journey to discover the origins of her precious family heirloom. Treading back across the paths of her ancestors, she travels from Baltimore to the Baltic to London in order to find and understand an immigrant world profoundly affected by modern German culture, from the Enlightenment through the Holocaust. Deeply ambitious in its narrative sweep, Jacob's Cane captures the rich texture of life on several continents as New's family searches to establish itself in the tobacco trade. A fascinating history of one family's story of progress, innovation, and struggle, Jacob's Cane will change the way we think about the Jewish American experience.

Beschrijving van de lotgevallen (1903-1945) van een joodse familie uit Frankfurt waarvan de leden zich over de hele wereld hebben verspreid.

Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); “a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping& deserves a lasting place among histories of the war.” (The Sunday Telegraph), Hunting Evil is the first complete and definitive account of how the Nazis escaped and were pursued and captured  -- or managed to live long lives as fugitives.
 
At the end of the Second World War, an estimated 30,000 Nazi war criminals fled from justice, including some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi Party.  Many of them have names that resonate deeply in twentieth-century history -- Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann, and Klaus Barbie -- not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers.  Aided and abetted by prominent people throughout Europe, they hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, and were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic, featuring vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, and daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives.
 
In this exhaustively researched and compellingly written work of World War II history and investigative reporting, journalist and novelist Guy Walters gives a comprehensive account of one of the most shocking and important aspects of the war: how the most notorious Nazi war criminals escaped justice, how they were pursued, captured or able to remain free until their natural deaths and how the Nazis were assisted while they were on the run by "helpers" ranging from a Vatican bishop to a British camel doctor, and even members of Western intelligence services.  Based on all new interviews with Nazi hunters and former Nazis and intelligence agents, travels along the actual escape routes, and archival research in Germany, Britain, the United States, Austria, and Italy,Hunting Evil authoritatively debunks much of what has previously been understood about Nazis and Nazi hunters in the post war era, including myths about the alleged “Spider” and “Odessa” escape networks and the surprising truth about the world's most legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. 
 
From its haunting chronicle of the monstrous mass murders the Nazis perpetrated and the murky details of their postwar existence to the challenges of hunting them down,Hunting Evil is a monumental work of nonfiction written with the pacing and intrigue of a thriller.
 


From the Hardcover edition.

Essays geschreven ter gelegenheid van de expositie die Komrij samenstelde op basis van de schilderijen die lagen opgeslagen in de kelders van het Stedelijk museum Amsterdam. Toelichting op zijn selectie. Over kijken naar kunst, kunstkritiek, de ontwikkeling van beeldende kunst en literatuur.

Wij, Europeanen, leven met het gevoel dat de toekomst aan ons voorbijgaat. De crisis woedt als een storm over het continent en zet alle zekerheden op losse schroeven. Maar hebben we echt de boot gemist? En begrijpen we wel goed wat er aan de hand is? Jonathan Holslag beschrijft in dit boek op overrompelende wijze de naoorlogse economische geschiedenis van Europa. Het is een episch verhaal over onze drang naar welvaart en de manier waarop we het noorden zijn kwijtgeraakt. Als chroniqueur van zijn tijd kent Holslag zijn gelijke niet. Tegenover het haarscherpe, ontstellende portret van een continent met een kapseizende economie, plaatst Holslag de mogelijkheid van een nieuwe renaissance. Diep in Europa zit nog steeds de kracht van het paradijs. 0.

Levensbeschrijving van de echtgenote van de in 2008 gekozen Amerikaanse president.