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.

Eichmann-proces

"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."--

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.

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.

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.

over de extreme of wellicht irrationele liefde voor troeteldieren

Maakt de beeldcultuur ons apathisch? Schuilt er waarheid in de onderbuik? Waarom zie je nooit échte gesprekken op televisie? Hoe kunnen we het succes van de PVV verklaren? Kan keuzevrijheid ongelukkig maken? Wat is het doel van het onderwijs? Hoe komt het dat Europa als idee niet leeft? Wat maakt een boerka eigenlijk "religieus"? Zijn klimaatsceptici wel echt sceptisch? Bestaat het multiculturalisme nog wel? Waarom zijn terroristen bijna altijd jonge mannen? Heeft de evolutie een doel? Hoe ver kun je gaan met een baby op maat? Waarom zijn voorspellingen, ook economische, praktisch waardeloos? In zijn nieuwe boek geeft Rob Wijnberg, als altijd fris en opgewekt, zijn visie op het hedendaagse leven.

Oriana Fallaci is back with her much-anticipated follow up to The Rage and the Pride, her powerful post-September 11 manifesto. The genesis for The Force of Reason was a postscript entitled Due Anni Dopo (Two Years Later), which was intended as a brief appendix to the thirtieth edition of The Rage and the Pride (2002). Once Ms. Fallaci completed the postscript, she chose to expand it into a book, a continuation of her ideas set in motion in The Rage and the Pride.In The Force of Reason Fallaci takes aim at the many attacks and death threats she received after the publication of The Rage and the Pride. Ms. Fallaci begins by identifying herself with one Master Cecco, the author of a heretical book who was burnt at the stake during the Inquisition seven centuries ago on account of his beliefs, and proceeds with a rigorous analysis of the burning of Troy and the creation of a Europe that, to her judgment, is no longer her familiar homeland but rather a place best called Eurabia, a soon-to-be colony of Islam (with Italy as its stronghold). Ms. Fallaci explores her ideas in historical, philosophical, moral, and political terms, courageously addressing taboo topics with sharp logic.

A spirited and insightful examination of the need for American tax reform—arguably the most overdue political debate facing the nation—from one of the most legendary political thinkers, advisers, and writers of our time.

A thoughtful and surprising argument for American tax reform, arguably the most overdue political debate facing the nation, from one of the most respected political and economic thinkers, advisers, and writers of our time.

The United States Tax Code has undergone no serious reform since 1986. Since then, loopholes, exemptions, credits, and deductions have distorted its clarity, increased its inequity, and frustrated our ability to govern ourselves.

At its core, any tax system is in place to raise the revenue needed to pay the government’s bills. But where that revenue should come from raises crucial questions: Should our tax code be progressive, with the wealthier paying more than the poor, and if so, to what extent? Should we tax income or consumption or both? Of the various ideas proposed by economists and politicians—from tax increases to tax cuts, from a VAT to a Fair Tax—what will work and won’t? By tracing the history of our own tax system and by assessing the way other countries have solved similar problems, Bartlett explores the surprising answers to all of these questions, giving a sense of the tax code’s many benefits—and its inevitable burdens.

Tax reform will be a major issue debated in the years ahead. Growing budget deficits and the expiration of various tax cuts loom. Reform, once a philosophical dilemma, is turning into a practical crisis. By framing the various tax philosophies that dominate the debate, Bartlett explores the distributional, technical, and political advantages and costs of the various proposals and ideas that will come to dominate America’s political conversation in the years to come.

Bundeling van drie eerder verschenen boeken, waarin een Italiaanse vrouw haar leven in Afrika beschrijft.

In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks and Jorg Hensgen have collected the best fiction about war in the twentieth century. Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, these stories depict a soldier's experience from call-up, battle and comradeship, to leave, hospital and trauma in later life. Truly international in scope, this anthology includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque and Pat Barker, Isaac Babel and Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich Boll and Norman Mailer, JG Ballard and Tim O'Brien, Julian Barnes and Louis de Bernieres. Together they form a powerful and moving evocation of the horrors of war.

Met o.a. L.F.Celine: Could I be the last coward on earth?, Remarque, Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, and many others,with biographical notes.  

Neerslag van een jaar lang reizen langs plaatsen die een belangrijke rol hebben gespeeld in de geschiedenis van Europa van de twintigste eeuw.

Geschiedenis van een jonge Britse vrouw, die als hulpverleenster naar het door een burgeroorlog getroffen Soedan ging en daar trouwde met een beruchte warlord.

Duitsland, 1936. De Joodse Monika Merton, wier echtgenoot al is omgekomen in het concentratiekamp Dachau, is op de vlucht voor de Gestapo. Ze heeft haar woonplaats München verlaten en hoopt in Beieren de Oostenrijkse grens te kunnen oversteken. Onderweg ontmoet ze in de trein dichter Andreas von Cornides, die zich nauwelijks bewust is van het geweld en de misdrijven in Duitsland. Hij leeft, zo lijkt het, in een andere wereld. Ondanks zijn onwetendheid ontwikkelt Monika een zwak voor hem, en hij voor haar. Haar plan om te vluchten verzwijgt ze. Samen met Andreas verlaat Monika de trein in een afgelegen bergdorp, waar haar 'langlauftocht' moet beginnen. Maar door het slechte weer worden ze gedwongen om samen een paar dagen te verblijven in een berghut. Ver van de rest van de wereld onthult Monika aan Andreas haar ware beweegredenen en vertelt ze over haar leven in München en in het turbulente Berlijn van de vroege jaren dertig; over haar huwelijk met haar grote liefde, de reizen die ze maakte en haar werk op een school in Beieren, totdat de opkomst van de nazi's en het groeiende antisemitisme aan dat alles een einde maakten.

Ineens kende de hele wereld die twee letters: IS, een terreurgroep die midden in de chaos van Irak en Syrië de Islamitische Staat uitriep. Het Westen was overdonderd en greep in, maar IS laat zich niet makkelijk verslaan. Wie zijn deze mensen precies, wat willen ze en waar komen ze vandaan? 0In dit boek neemt de ervaren oorlogsverslaggever Hans Jaap Melissen de lezer mee op reis; naar het New York van net na 9/11 en de oorlogen in Irak en Syrië. Als een van de weinige journalisten gaat Melissen nog naar plekken waar een aantal van zijn collega's is ontvoerd en later onthoofd. 0Melissen laat zien hoe een vruchtbare voedingsbodem kon ontstaan van waaruit een onbeduidend groepje rebellen uitgroeide tot een van de rijkste en meest meedogenloze terreurbewegingen ooit. Een beweging die handig gebruik maakt van sociale media en een grote aantrekkingskracht uitoefent op buitenlandse jihadisten, ook uit Nederland. Inmiddels probeert een internationale coalitie onder leiding van de Verenigde Staten IS te verslaan. Maar gaat dat lukken? Of zal IS altijd weer van zich laten horen met aanslagen, waar ook ter wereld?

Persoonlijke verhalen en portretten van dak- en thuislozen, die vertellen waarom ze op straat zijn beland.

Lanzmann praat zonder franje met overlevenden, slachtoffers, beulen, bewakers, ooggetuigen. Een heroïsche poging het onmenselijke te vermenselijken

Gedetailleerde beschrijving van de loopbaan van de Amerikaanse president Kennedy (1917-1963) en van de moord in Dallas door Lee Harvey Oswald.

Triest verslag uit Soedan over hoe het regeringsleger met mensen omspringt, gevangenschap, marteling

Verslag van een zeven jaar durende zoektocht naar gegevens om het leven van de joodse gemeenschap in het Poolse stadje Konin te reconstrueren, voordat daar door de nazi's in 1941 een einde aan werd gemaakt.

Increasing oil prices . . . America struggling with a recession . . . European nations at risk of defaulting on their loans . . . A possible global financial crisis. It happened before, in the 1970s.

Oil Kings is the story of how oil came to dominate U.S. domestic and international affairs. As Richard Nixon fought off Watergate inquiries in 1973, the U.S. economy reacted to an oil shortage initiated by Arab nations in retaliation for American support of Israel in the Arab- Israeli war. The price of oil skyrocketed, causing serious inflation. One man the U.S. could rely on in the Middle East was the Shah of Iran, a loyal ally whose grand ambitions had made him a leading customer for American weapons. Iran sold the U.S. oil; the U.S. sold Iran missiles and fighter jets. But the Shah’s economy depended almost entirely on oil, and the U.S. economy could not tolerate annual double-digit increases in the price of this essential commodity. European economies were hit even harder by the soaring oil prices, and several NATO allies were at risk of default on their debt.

In 1976, with the U.S. economy in peril, President Gerald Ford, locked in a tight election race, decided he had to find a country that would sell oil to the U.S. more cheaply and break the OPEC monopoly, which the Shah refused to do. On the advice of Treasury Secretary William Simon and against the advice of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Ford made a deal to sell advanced weaponry to the Saudis in exchange for a modest price hike on oil.

Ford lost the election, but the deal had lasting consequences. The Shah’s economy was destabilized, and disaffected elements in Iran mobilized to overthrow him. The U.S. had embarked on a long relationship with the autocratic Saudi kingdom that continues to this day.

Andrew Scott Cooper draws on newly declassified documents and interviews with some key figures of the time to show how Nixon, Ford, Kissinger, the CIA, and the State and Treasury departments—as well as the Shah and the Saudi royal family— maneuvered to control events in the Middle East. He details the secret U.S.-Saudi plan to circumvent OPEC that destabilized the Shah. He reveals how close the U.S. came to sending troops into the Persian Gulf to break the Arab oil embargo. The Oil Kings provides solid evidence that U.S. officials ignored warning signs of a potential hostage crisis in Iran. It discloses that U.S. officials offered to sell nuclear power and nuclear fuel to the Shah. And it shows how the Ford Administration barely averted a European debt crisis that could have triggered a financial catastrophe in the U.S. Brilliantly reported and filled with astonishing details about some of the key figures of the time, The Oil Kings is the history of an era that we thought we knew, an era whose momentous reverberations still influence events at home and abroad today.

An international manager has a tough job, coping with three different cultures: the culture of origin, the culture in which he or she is working and the culture of the organization. Fons Trompenaars has been studing the effects of culture on management for many years and he profoundly disagrees with the widely held theory that internationalization will create a common, worldwide culture. In this challenging book he claims that there is not, and can never be 'one best way of managing and organizing' regardless of where the company is located. RIDING THE WAVES OF CULTURE provides cultural insights into the global v. local dilema, and most importantly, gives readers a better understanding of their own culture and cultural differences in general Rich in case studies and anecdotes, the book is based upon the author's own experience plus field studies in 30 companies in a total of 50 countries, including Royal Dutch Airlines, KLM, Volvo, Lotus, Kodak, AT&T, Royal Dutch Shell, ICI, Heineken, Mars and Glaxo.

This volume, simultaneously published in Russian and English, demonstrates that an American and a Russian of different views can engage in civil and informative discussion of their different and common problems. In the summer of 1987, Galbraith and Menshikov, of World Marxist Review met for 10 days in Vermont. This volume records their discussions, which cover the history and development of the socialist economy and of capitalism, the economic problems of the two systems, the impact of technological revolution on them, and glasnost and Reaganomics. Other topics include: the military spinoffs of space research, arms sales to the Third World, Keynesian follies, cultural and diplomatic cooperation, human rights, and the dangers of a nuclear holocaust. These discussions point the way toward more peaceful and enlightened relations between the two countries. ISBN 0-395-47316-0: $17.95.

From the Publisher: Thomas L. Friedman's No. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world, and globalization, in a new way. With his latest book, Friedman brings a fresh and provocative outlook to another pressing issue: the interlinked crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy-both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to the 2008 presidential election-and to all of us who are concerned about the state of America and its role in the global future. "Green is the new red, white, and blue," Friedman declares, and proposes that an ambitious national strategy-which he calls geo-greenism-is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating, it is what we need to make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure in the coming E C E-the Energy-Climate Era. Green-oriented practices and technologies, established at scale everywhere from Washington to Wal-Mart, are both the only way to mitigate climate change and the best way for America to "get its groove back"-to "reknit America at home, reconnect America abroad, retool America for the new century, and restore America to its natural place in the global order." As in The World Is Flat and his previous bestseller The Lexus and the Olive Tree, he explains the future we are facing through an illuminating account of recent events. He explains how 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the flattening of the world by the Internet, which has brought three billion new consumers onto the world stage, have combined to bring the climate and energy issues to main street. But they have not really gone down main street yet. Indeed, it is Friedman's view that we are not really having the green revolution that the press keeps touting, or, if we are, "it is the only revolution in history," he says, "where no one got hurt." No, to the contrary, argues Friedman, we're actually having a "green party." We have not even begun to be serious yet about the speed and scale of change that is required. With all that in mind, Friedman lays out his argument that if we are going to avoid the worst disruptions looming before us as we enter the Energy-Climate Era, we are going to need several disruptive breakthroughs in the clean-technology sphere-disruptive in the transformational sense. He explores what enabled the disruptive breakthroughs that created the IT (Information Technology) revolution that flattened the world in information terms and then shows how a similar set of disruptive breakthroughs could spark the ET-Energy Technology-revolution. Time and again, though, Friedman shows why it is both necessary and desirous for America to lead this revolution-with the first green president, a green New Deal, and spurred by the Greenest Generation-and why meeting the green challenge of the twenty-first century could transform America every bit as meeting the Red challenge, that of Communism, did in the twentieth century. Hot, Flat, and Crowded is classic Thomas L Friedman-fearless, incisive, forward-looking, and rich in surprising common sense about the world we live in today.