Klassieke Arabische erotica vertaald door Hafid Bouazza

Pamflet over het het verloren gaan van het onderscheid tussen hoge en lage cultuur, de nivellering van kunstenaar en intellectueel en de opkomst van de massa.

Ervaringen tijdens een verblijf in Burkina Faso en in Ivoorkust.

Een jonge vrouw van Indische afkomst wordt voortdurend geconfronteerd met haar anders zijn.

Een in een psychiatrische opgenomen oudere man kijkt terug op de jaren twintig.

Autobiografisch relaas van de ervaringen van een marathonloper.

Theatermonoloog van een Palestijns acteur die de rol van de jood Shylock speelt uit 'De koopman van Venetië' van Shakespeare.

Verhalen over het oude en nieuwe Turkije aan de hand van ontmoetingen op de brug die het Europese en Aziatische deel van Istanbul met elkaar verbindt.

Bundel satirische columns over uiteenlopende onderwerpen.

One evening, journalist Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites and began an epic quest that would unravel three centuries of intrigue, politics, and passion. Winner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize, The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic narratives: the disappearance of Bach's manuscript in the eighteenth century; Pablo Casals's discovery and popularization of the music in Spain in the late-nineteenth century; and Siblin's infatuation with the suites in the present day. The search led Siblin to Barcelona, where Casals, just thirteen and in possession of his first cello, roamed the backstreets with his father in search of sheet music and found Bach's lost suites tucked in a dark corner of a store. Casals played them every day for twelve years before finally performing them in public. Siblin pursues the mysteries that continue to haunt this music more than 250 years after its composer's death: Why did Bach compose the suites for the cello, then considered a lowly instrument? What happened to the original manuscript? A seamless blend of biography and music history, The Cello Suites is a true-life journey of discovery, fueled by the power of these musical masterpieces.

Verslag van een reis van vier maanden over de Orinoco naar het hart van het Amazonegebied.

An extraordinary portrait of a fast-changing America—and the Western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity

At once an intimate portrait of an unforgettable group of writers and a history of a cultural revolution in America, The Bohemians reveals how a brief moment on the far western frontier changed our culture forever. Beginning with Mark Twain’s arrival in San Francisco in 1863, this group biography introduces readers to the other young eccentric writers seeking to create a new American voice at the country’s edge—literary golden boy Bret Harte; struggling gay poet Charles Warren Stoddard; and beautiful, haunted Ina Coolbrith, poet and protector of the group. Ben Tarnoff’s elegant, atmospheric history reveals how these four pioneering writers helped spread the Bohemian movement throughout the world, transforming American literature along the way.

“Tarnoff’s book sings with the humor and expansiveness of his subjects’ prose, capturing the intoxicating atmosphere of possibility that defined, for a time, America’s frontier.” -- The New Yorker

“Rich hauls of historical research, deeply excavated but lightly borne.... Mr. Tarnoff’s ultimate thesis is a strong one, strongly expressed: that together these writers ‘helped pry American literature away from its provincial origins in New England and push it into a broader current’.” -- Wall Street Journal 

The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in Katherine Bergeron's engaging and literate study. Bergeron traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, whose founder hoped to rebuild the moral foundation of French culture on the ruins of the Benedictine order. She draws out the parallels between this longing for a lost liturgy and the postrevolutionary quest for lost monuments that fueled the French Gothic revival, a quest that produced the modern concept of "restoration."
Bergeron follows the technological development of the Gregorian restoration over a seventy-year period as it passed from the private performances of a monastic choir into the public commodities of printed books, photographs, and Gramophone records. She discusses such issues as architectural restoration, the modern history of typography, the uncanny power of the photographic image, and the authority of recorded sound. She also shows the extent to which different media shaped the modern image of the ancient repertory, an image that gave rise to conflicting notions not only of musical performance but of the very idea of music history.

Cool Hotels 2nd edition is an updated edition of teNeues? highly successful Cool Hotels, giving an up-to-the-minute overview of the most stunning contemporary hotels across the globe. This invaluable flexicover guide showcases the finest examples of original and innovative hostelry design. Lavishly illustrated with approximately 400 color photographs, these views of hotel exteriors and interiors are a feast for the eyes and the imagination. This volume features designs from Matteo Thun, Antonio Citterio, and Stephen B. Jacobs, in locations as diverse as New York, Berlin, an Bangkok. Loft Publications is a Barcelona-based company that specializes in architecture, interior design and lifestyle books and has co-edited several teNeues titles. ? An extensive compilation of cutting-edge hotels from around the world ? Illustrations and text are an invaluable resource to both designers and international travelers

Handleiding voor de gevorderde sportschutter met een klein kaliber geweer.

Wiskunde speelt een belangrijke rol bij de compositie en analyse van muziek: toonhoogte, toonduur, notatie, golven en reeksen.

Analytische annotatie: Reprint van zeventiende eeuwse kaarten van de zeventien- ooit verenigde- Nederlanden (de tegenwoordige Benelux).

The archives of the World Press Photo Foundation offer a history of the world over four decades, as seen through the eyes and cameras of international photojournalists. Every year since 1955 an international jury has met in Holland to choose the year's finest press photographs. This new book presents 200 of the best images from that collection, therefore reviewing the key stories of the past 40 years through photographs taken by some of the world's most talented photojournalists - Robert Capa, Robert Doisneau, Annie Leibovitz, Mary Ellen Mark, Steve McCurry and Sebastio Salgado, among others. In his introduction, photographer Richard Avedon discusses the role of photojournalism, the function of news reporting, and the different ways in which reporters intrepret their world. The images are grouped into thematic sections.

This is the first international publication in English and Armenian on the history of Armenian printing commemorates 5 centuries of printers, their books, and their printing types. For technical and political reasons, until 1771 all Armenian books were printed outside Armenia. The book describes the diaspora of Armenian printing, highlighting the role of Amsterdam. With its plentiful color illustrations, it takes the reader on a typographic odyssey through time and space.