Arms Against Fury examines the dramatic struggle of the Afghan people through the lens of Magnum photographers, dating back to co-founder George Rodger's documentation of the country's role in World War II. Ever since, Magnum's intrepid photographers have crisscrossed the country's striking landscape from the Central Asian steppes to the parched southern desert by way of the Hindu Kush mountains surrounding Kabul and the adjacent Panjshir Valley.

As early as the 1950s, Eve Arnold and Marc Riboud filed unprecedented stories from a legendary Shangri-La, showing a small kingdom struggling for statehood against the forces of underdevelopment and unfortunate geographic position during the Cold War. The ultimate overthrow of the monarchy and brutal liquidation of Afghanistan's constitutional government in 1978 heralded the arrival of Soviet-style communism. Peasants in Nuristan rebelled immediately and initiated a jihad that was covered first by Raymond Depardon and then by Steve McCurry, and later by renowned photojournalist Abbas, who also focused on the progress of the mujahedin, who eventually faced a massive Red Army invasion and savage aerial bombardments.

The victory against the Soviets also signaled the beginning of a civil war that began in 1992. Documented by Luc Delahaye, Christopher Steele-Perkins, Abbas, and Steve McCurry, Afghan militias destroyed large swathes of Kabul. The Taliban militia subdued warring factions in 1996 and proclaimed an Islamic emirate. Steele-Perkins was one of the few journalists to report from Afghanistan during this period of theocratic tyranny. In the wake of the September 11 attacks on the United States, the hated Taliban were shaken from power by a loose alliance of mujahedin backed by American forces. Yet nothing seemed to remedy the miserable spectacle of a ruined country littered with ten million land mines and thousands of innocent victims of the hi-tech war on terror.

The future of Afghanistan, as depicted by Abbas, Eve Arnold, Luc Delahaye, Thomas Dworzak, Alex Majoli, Steve McCurry, and Francesco Zizola, remains uncertain at best.

Containing additional photographic work by Ian Berry, Elliott Erwitt, Stuart Franklin, Philip Jones Griffiths, Susan Meiselas, and Wayne Miller; commentary by the photographers; and several illustrated essays, Arms Against Fury will become an indispensable reference for documentary studies, social history, and critical photography.

Boven de 7500 meter hoogte bevat de atmosfeer zo weinig zuurstof dat menselijk leven er praktisch onmogelijk is. Om toppen van dergelijke hoogten te beklimmen moet de klimmer, los van het zuurstofgebrek dat zijn hersenfunctie doet afnemen, tal van gevaren trotseren zoals ijslawines, bittere kou, peilloos diepe gletsjerspleten, maar bovenal jetstreams, winden die met orkaansnelheid dergelijke hoge bergtoppen geselen. Ronald Naar is als geen ander bekend met deze gevaren. Liefst tienmaal was hij op deze extreme hoogten getuige van fatale en bijna fatale gebeurtenissen. Dit boek bevat een beschrijving van zijn meest aangrijpende ervaringen, onder andere beklimmingen van de twee hoogste toppen ter wereld, de Mount Everest en de K2. Ook geeft hij een beeld van wat het inhoudt om een expeditie in een levensbedreigende omgeving te leiden. Dit exemplaar bevat een handtekening van deze beroemde bergbeklimmer met een persoonlijke boodschap.

Karel Tomeï (Rotterdam, 1941) is een Nederlands fotograaf die is gespecialiseerd in luchtfotografie. Hij publiceerde verschillende boeken met luchtfoto's van Nederland en België. Verder fotografeerde hij de Antillen en Zuid-Afrika vanuit de lucht. Alle beelden zijn genomen in 2007 en 2008. Vijftien ‘bekende’ Nederlanders werden uitgenodigd iets over Nederland te schrijven.

Large format and super thick book with 350 artistic aerial photographs of the Netherlands, interspersed with text contributions from sixteen famous Dutch celebrities. The photos show the Netherlands as a rigidly organized, manicured country where even the breakers' yards seem neat and tidy. Ditches, roads, dykes and lakes form the contours of the photo compositions, in which man also plays a role. The photographs are pinpoint sharp, with a strong color construction. The photos are, without exception, remarkable and are captured in a clear, logical lay-out. Captions are handily arranged at the back of the book in rows of photo blocks. This book, weighing 4.3 kilograms, is a masterpiece by the photographer and a wonderful attention getter.

Kookboek voor de gevorderde vegetariër, met inspiratie uit de gehele wereld, waardoor je anders naar eten gaat kijken

Vliegtuig British European Airways 

Impressies van de Nederlandse schrijver (1933- ) bij zijn omzwervingen door Spanje.

Cultuurhistorische causerie over zesduizend jaar lezen.

Can a song change a nation? In 1964, Marvin Gaye, record producer William 'Mickey' Stevenson, and Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter wrote 'Dancing in the Street.' Recorded at Motown's Hitsville USA Studio by Martha and the Vandellas, it was supposed to be an upbeat dance recording - a precursor to disco, a song about the joyousness of dance, the song of a summer. But events overtook it, and the song became one of the anthems of American pop culture.

The Beatles landed in the United States in early 1964. By that summer, the '60s were in full swing. 1964 was the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Act, and the lead-up to a dramatic election that completely changed American politics. As the country grew more radicalized in those few months, 'Dancing in the Street' gained currency as an activist anthem. The song took on new meanings, multiple meanings, for many different groups that were all altered as the country changed.

From the writer legendary for finding the big story in unlikely places, Mark kurlansky's Ready for a Brand New Beat recounts that extraordinary time and showcases the role that a simple song about dancing played in our nation's history.

Praise for Mark Kurlansky

'Every once in a while a writer of particular skill takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea and turns out a book of pure delight.' David McCullough

'Fascinating stuff . . . Kurlansky has a keen eye for odd facts and natural detail.' The Wall Street Journal

'Kurlansky continues to prove himself remarkably adept at taking a most unlikely candidate and telling its tale with epic grandeur.' Los Angeles Times

Nimzowitschs ideas about how to play better chess have had a profound influence on modern chess thinking. It is commonly agreed that almost every chess master in the world has studied Nimzowitschs work.

reisImpressies van de Nederlandse schrijver (1933- ) bij zijn omzwervingen door Spanje.

Foto's met toelichtende tekst van de Olympische Spelen in Amsterdam in 1928.

Powerfoodrecepten om mee te nemen voor het ontbijt of de lunch, met tips voor de voorbereiding. Op veler verzoek komt Rens Kroes, bekend van Powerfood en Powerfood – Van Friesland naar New York nu met heerlijke meeneemgerechten. Ontbijtjes on the go; inspiratie voor je lunchtrommel; heerlijke salades voor bij een zomerse picknick; zalig zoet voor na je work-out: On the go biedt je 49 powerfoodrecepten die goddelijk smaken, goed voor je zijn én makkelijk zijn mee te nemen.

Reisgids met beschrijvingen van drie routes door IJsland. Met culturele en historische informatie over het land en tips voor verblijf, activiteiten en bezienswaardigheden. Met kaarten en kleurenfoto's.

The 'history of ideas', better known these days as intellectual history, is a flourishing field of study which has been the object of much controversy but hardly any historical exploration. This major new work from Donald R. Kelley is the first comprehensive history of intellectual history, tracing the study of the history of thought from ancient, medieval and early modern times, its emergence as the 'history of ideas' in the 18th century, and its subsequent expansion. The point of departure for this study is the perspective opened up by Victor Cousin in the early 19th-century on 'Eclecticism' and its association with the history of philosophy established by Renaissance scholars. Kelley considers a broad range of topics, including the rivalry between 'ideas' and language, the rise of cultural history, the contributions of certain 19th- and 20th-century practitioners of the history of ideas in interdisciplinary areas of philosophy, literature and the sciences, and finally the current state of intellectual history. The central theme of the book is the interplay between the canon of philosophical thought and the tradition of language and textual study, the divergence of the latter marking the 'descent of ideas' into the realm of cultural history.

Vraag het een willekeurige voetbalsupporter en hij heeft altijd een voorkeur voor Ajax of Feyenoord. Feyenoord-Ajax, Ajax-Feyenoord: ook in 2013 zijn het nog de meest beladen wedstrijden in Nederland, of de clubs nou bovenaan staan of niet, of er publiek bij aanwezig mag zijn of niet. Altijd heftig, soms te heftig, zowel binnen als buiten het veld. Al bijna honderd jaar. Dit boek beschrijft en duidt de ontwikkeling van de rivaliteit tussen 010 en 020 op basis van cruciale gebeurtenissen en ervaringen van hoofdrolspelers.