3. Filmkunst als vlucht uit en overwinning van de werkelijkheid; 4. De 'film noir' ; 5. De aantrekkingskracht van de western

When is it sound to be onorthodox? Can it be wise to play deliberately against the odds? When is it safe to gamble? Een klassieker voor gevorderde bridgespelers

"Bij Shakespeare is Lear een oude middeleeuwse koning. Bij Tom Lanoye een bejaarde hedendaagse 'Leading Lady': Elisabeth Lear. Het regionale familiebedrijfje van haar vader heeft zij in de loop van haar loopbaan uitgebouwd tot een multinationale mastodont. Aan de vooravond van een wereldwijde bancaire crisis verdeelt zij het concern geheel onverwachts onder haar drie zonen. In ruil voor hun eed van liefde en dankbaarheid. De jongste zoon weigert. De gevolgen zijn niet te overzien. Met 'Koningin Lear' tekent Tom Lanoye het portret van een oud geworden 'captain of industry' die het zicht op de realiteit kwijt is en de eigen machtspositie niet meer gebruikt om wezenlijke problemen op te lossen - Lear is alleen nog bezig met haar populariteit en haar eer. Dat levert een meervoudig en tragisch gevecht op. Zoals altijd 'gevat in meesterlijke poëzie' - zo omschreef de Volkskrant Lanoyes vorige Shakespeare-bewerking, 'Hamlet versus Hamlet'."--Cover.

Boudewijn Büch was al bijna twintig jaar op zoek naar rijke, kleine, bijzondere of vergeten bibliotheken. In 1982 reisde hij maanden over de hele wereld op zoek naar eerder bezochte boekerijen, maar bracht hij ook bezoeken aan bibliotheken waar hij al vele malen was geweest. Op basis daarvan heeft hij dit boek geschreven.

Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this captivating account, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt take us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its flourishing book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms.

Famed engraver Bernard Picart and author and publisher Jean Frederic Bernard produced The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, which appeared in the first of seven folio volumes in 1723. They put religion in comparative perspective, offering images and analysis of Jews, Catholics, Muslims, the peoples of the Orient and the Americas, Protestants, deists, freemasons, and assorted sects. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work was a resounding success. For the next century it was copied or adapted, but without the context of its original radicalism and its debt to clandestine literature, English deists, and the philosophy of Spinoza.

Ceremonies and Customs prepared the ground for religious toleration amid seemingly unending religious conflict, and demonstrated the impact of the global on Western consciousness. In this beautifully illustrated book, Hunt, Jacob, and Mijnhardt cast new light on the profound insight found in one book as it shaped the development of a modern, secular understanding of religion.

De Nederlandse schrijver doet verslag van zijn wandelingen in een kleurrijk en sociaal verdeeld Parijs.

Een internaatsdirecteur gaat aan de ambities van zijn vrouw en zijn eigen verdrongen seksualiteit ten gronde.

De schrijver verheerlijkt in de vorm van een sprookje het ongerepte en ongeremde driftenleven, dat in een sprookjesachtige omgeving door de jonge prins, de hoofdfiguur van het verhaal, beleefd wordt.

Drie verhalen, waarin de seksuele bezetenheid, de "religie" van deze tijd wordt ontmaskerd.

Bundeling van de kleine roman "Menuet", het lange gedicht "De kleine Eva uit de Kromme Bijlstraat", het verhaal "Twee spoken" en de groteske "Vaarwel krokodil of prijslijst van het geluk".

The Pulitzer Prize winner's "latest indispensable oral history" (New York Times) of the twentieth century's most celebrated musicians.

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Studs Terkel hosted a legendary daily radio show in Chicago, presenting listeners with his inimitable take on an eclectic range of music, from classical, opera, and jazz to gospel, blues, folk, and rock. And They All Sang is nothing less than "a tribute to music's universality and power" (Philadelphia Inquirer), featuring more than forty of Terkel's unforgettable conversations with some of the greatest musicians of the past centuryincluding Louis Armstrong, Leonard Bernstein, Big Bill Broonzy, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Mahalia Jackson, Janis Joplin, Rosa Raisa, Pete Seeger, and many others.

A unique survey of photography from its origins until now From a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, George Eastman`s career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film, and today holds the largest collection of its kind in the world. The continually expanding photography collection contains over 400,000 images and negatives - among them the work of Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams and others - as well as 23,000 cinema films, five million film stills, one of the most important silent film collections, technical equipment and a library with 40,000 books on photography and film. The George Eastman House is a pilgrimage site and a place of worship for researchers, photographers and collectors from all over the world.

This volume shows in chronological order the most impressive images and the most important developments in the art of light that is photography. It provides in its huge collection and themes a unique survey of the medium from its origins until now.

Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this captivating account, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt take us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its flourishing book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms.

Famed engraver Bernard Picart and author and publisher Jean Frederic Bernard produced The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, which appeared in the first of seven folio volumes in 1723. They put religion in comparative perspective, offering images and analysis of Jews, Catholics, Muslims, the peoples of the Orient and the Americas, Protestants, deists, freemasons, and assorted sects. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work was a resounding success. For the next century it was copied or adapted, but without the context of its original radicalism and its debt to clandestine literature, English deists, and the philosophy of Spinoza.

Ceremonies and Customs prepared the ground for religious toleration amid seemingly unending religious conflict, and demonstrated the impact of the global on Western consciousness. In this beautifully illustrated book, Hunt, Jacob, and Mijnhardt cast new light on the profound insight found in one book as it shaped the development of a modern, secular understanding of religion.

The piano is the best loved of musical instruments, thanks in part to the elegant symmetrical design of its ivory and ebony keyboard, relative to pitch. And yet this 'equal temperament' tuning was once a hugely controversial proposition.

For hundreds of years, musicians, craftsmen, church officials, heads of state, and philosophers fought heatedly against the introduction of 'equal temperament' tuning. Stuart Isacoff, editor of Pianom Today magazine, recounts this great battle over the best way to create music - one that culminated in the decisive victory of piano over harpsichord.