Vrije Tijd

Handreiking vanuit een christelijke invalshoek voor ouders en opvoeders betreffende de seksuele vorming van jongeren.

More than 100 hands from international play illustrate every important aspect of defensive strategy. This is high quality, entertaining bridge writing at its best, from the best.

Essays over enkele Engelse auteurs (Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Orwell, Lowry, Dylan Thomas en Brendan Behan)

Every page of Masterpieces of Declarer Play offers a piece of wisdom on how to play as a declarer. Together with the companion book on defence, this book captures the essence of the author's extensive knowledge about and instinct for the game. It additionally features a refreshing and exciting collection of hands which will be appreciated by any bridge player. The advice is certain to improve your game while the classic hands will keep you turning the pages.

In the past, slipcasting was primarily considered an industrial method. Today, however, ceramic artists are adapting its techniques to create a wide range of beautiful and highly individualised pieces. This guide explains and demonstrates the techniques involved and shows how they can be adapted for the studio workshop. It uses the work of an international group of artists to illustrate the breadth and versatility of the work that can be created with slipcasting.

Through her fiction, Alice Adams has shown herself to be a perceptive and humane social portraitist. Here, she applies these talents in describing her 30-year love affair with Mexico. An astute and entertaining travel companion, Adams reveals Mexico as a country of infinite delights and endless sorrows. 1 map.

Vergeet alles wat je denkt te weten over vakantie vieren. Reizen door een moeilijk land is niet ontspannen, en vaak heel erg lastig. Maar dat maakt het natuurlijk ook leuk. Reisveteraan Jelle Brandt Corstius bereidt je voor op je reis, en helpt je onderweg. De "Universele reisgids voor moeilijke landen" maakt alle andere reisgidsen overbodig. Je leest onder meer hoe je een politieagent moet omkopen, in welke rij je het beste kunt gaan staan, hoe je een weg oversteekt en wat je aan moet met de taximaffia die je opwacht op het vliegveld. Maar ook lees je welk restaurant je het beste kunt kiezen en hoe je diarree voorkomt (er is een verband tussen die twee). En hoe je, als je ergens te gast bent, vieze hapjes pijnloos doorslikt. Een gids voor de avontuurlijke reiziger en de ondernemende expat.

This book presents a powerful view of the history of dance, contrasting its role in Western civilization with its significance in other cultures. Highwater--a renowned critic, author, and lecturer on art, theater, music, and dance--links the history of dance to cultural forces as diverse as Karl Marx and Elvis Presley. Beginning with the original, ritualistic, and primal forms of dance, he traces its decline into empty ceremonial forms while all along insisting that dance is a fundamental life impulse made visible in motion--a spontaneous transformation of experience into metaphoric meaning. Considering the historical and creative context from which dance emerged, Highwater goes on to point out the specific contributions and cultural influences of such 20th-century dance giants as Isadora Duncan, Twyla Tharp, Robert Wilson, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Alwin Nikolais, Erick Hawkins, Jose Limon, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, and Garth Fagan. Also examined are many newer artists, such as Bebe Miller and the Urban Bush Women.

Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford's oldest English Literature professorship.

He frankly portrays the snobberies and rituals of 1950s Oxford, but also his inspiring meetings with writers and poets - Auden, Graves, Larkin, Heaney - and his forty-year stint as a lead book-reviewer for the Sunday Times.

This is a book about the joys of reading - in effect, an informal introduction to the great works of English literature. But it is also about war and family, and how an unexpected background can give you the insight and the courage to say the unexpected thing.

With enthusiasm and probing intelligence, Colin McGinn (“an ingenious philosopher who thinks like a laser and writes like a dream”–Steven Pinker) embarks on a fascinating philosophical consideration of the allure of movies–what it is we experience when we watch them and what makes them such a universally compelling form of entertainment. McGinn examines how movies work on our minds: how looking “into” the movie screen allows us to imagine the characters portrayed and know their thoughts and feelings . . . how what we see on the screen can seem to recapitulate the workings of consciousness itself . . . how the screen image is ideally suited to capturing both physical and emotional movements, depicting human feeling in all its variations . . . how heightened reality characterizes both film narrative and dreams . . . how our connection to and perception of movies enables us to better understand aspects of our own nature. A fresh, invigorating look into the art of film and the minds of filmmakers and filmgoers,The Power of Moviesis certain to change the way you watch movies. From the Hardcover edition.

Een pleidooi voor kleinschaligheid, uit artikelen in Vrij Nederland

Komen er in de toekomst groenten die smaken als snoep? Kun je in 2030 nog frisdrank met calorieën kopen? Slikken alle ouderen dan een polypil? Niemand kan de toekomst voorspellen. Erover nadenken kan wel. Moet wel. Want veranderingen van morgen beginnen bij keuzes van vandaag. Nieuwe technologie maakt steeds meer mogelijk. Van het maken van steeds complexere moleculen, tot het meten van minuscule veranderingen in het lichaam of het gericht afleveren van stoffen in bepaalde organen. Technologie kan helpen bij het verbeteren van onze gezondheid, maar het kan ook bijdragen aan een ongezonder leven. Dit boek geeft een overzicht van huidige trends en onzekerheden op het gebied van voeding, geneesmiddelen en ziektepreventie en vertaalt deze naar verschillende beelden voor de toekomst.

Looking back almost 1,000 years, the mists of Japan's chaotic past shroud the development of a way of life, an ancient struggle waged against fierce feudal lords who ruled the island nation with swords of steel and a code of death before dishonor. The people of the mountainous regions of what is now Iga prefecture wanted to live in peace, but their lords had other plans-so the people learned the martial arts of self-defense and used their meager farm tools as weapons against the samurai blades of their oppressors. Nine traditions of the ninja arts grew out of this seemingly endless struggle, and legends were told of the supernatural abilities of the ninja fighters. The ninja never gained the kind of power that topples tyrants, but they gained a reputation that made tyrants cautious. And they gained the kind of power that makes the spirit endure and the mind the master of its fate. Told in actual stories of past grandmasters and in dojo lectures on techniques-with photographs, drawings, and paintings-the last surviving grandmaster of the ancient art of ninjutsu, Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi, presents Essence of Ninjutsu: The Nine Traditions. In it, he explains why, after more than 900 years, the art of the shadow warriors continues to inspire and serve practitioners from around the world. Dr. Hatsumi's book contains historic ninja scrolls and describes techniques for self-defense, and it debunks tricks that are attributed to the ninja but actually derive more from the circus than the martial arts. Essence of Ninjutsu is a fascinating, authoritative look at the roots of ninjutsu and how it continues to enrich the lives of its practitioners today. Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi is a bone doctor, artist, and writer, as well as the 34th grandmaster of the nine schools of the ninja arts in Japan. He has toured the United States in recent years to help Americans better understand the ninja and their way of life. His articles have appeared in all of the major martial arts magazines.

Voedsel. In sommige landen is er te weinig, in andere juist weer te veel. Hoe staat het met de voedselproductie wereldwijd en in ons eigen land nu en straks? Elke dag groeit de wereldbevolking met netto 220.000 mensen zodat we groeien van 7 miljard naar 9 miljard mensen in de periode 2012-2050. Daardoor zal de druk op de voedselproductie oplopen. Kunnen we dit als mensheid aan? En zo ja, welke rol speelt bijvoorbeeld genetica in dit geheel? Kunnen we straks eten wat we willen zonder pretspekjes te krijgen? Hoe werkt de medicalisering van food door? Open innovatie, co-creatie en crowdsourcing veranderen de foodsector. Opkomende economieën leveren elkaar eten. Genetische modificatie wordt normaal en er komen nieuwe plantensoorten uit het lab. We eten meer 'biologisch' food en er komen nieuwe vormen van recycling en bioraffinage. We krijgen gepersonaliseerd voedsel en meer functional foods. Vreugdeloos nutritionisme groeit maar lekkerbekken gaan in de tegenaanval.

De auteurs beiden psycholoog willen door 'cognitieve gedragstherapie' de zelfwaardering van cliënten en lezers vergroten. In tien hoofdstukken worden met name de rol van de innerlijke kritische stem en de omgang met kritiek toegelicht. Veel aandacht is er ook voor denk- en waarnemingsfouten, oefeningen en leefregels.