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    De eeuw van mijn vader

    De eeuw van mijn vader

    Dikke paperback in goede staat. Lichte gebruikssporen.

    Wat verbindt ons met al diegenen die in de voorbije eeuw geleefd hebben? Is het niet hun menselijkheid, hun blindheid soms, meer nog dan hun grote en kleine heldendom? Geert Mak schreef een biografie van het Nederland van de twintigste eeuw in de vorm van een familiegeschiedenis. Aan de hand van interviews, oude krantenberichten en vele honderden bewaard gebleven brieven vertelt hij over het landelijke Nederland aan het begin van de eeuw, over de opkomst van de katholieke, protestantse en rode zuilen, over de crisis en het antisemitisme in de jaren dertig, de andere wereld van 'ons Indië', de oorlog in Europa en Azië, de mentaliteit van de wederopbouw, de dromerijen van de jaren zestig, de zakelijkheid daarna. Het is een geschiedenis door de achterdeur, verteld vanuit de keuken van een doorsnee Nederlandse familie - zijn eigen. Hoe ging men om met ziekte, seks en dood in 1910? Wat bezielde die merkwaardige emancipatiebeweging van de gereformeerde mannenbroeders? Hoe dachten de Nederlanders in hun tijd over grote historische gebeurtenissen als de Eerste Wereldoorlog, de machtsgreep van Hitler, de Duitse bezetting, de politionele acties? En hoe ging het daarna verder, met de rock-'n-roll, de televisie, de neergang van de zuilen, de auto, het geld? In De eeuw van mijn vader zijn ze voortdurend aanwezig, de gewone Nederlanders van deze eeuw, met hun eigen geschiedenis, hun beperktheden, hun wanhoop en geloof.

    Geert Mak;

    € 6,00

    Cassell's Dictionary...

    Cassell's Dictionary of Modern American History

    Forse hardback met stofomslag in goede staat. Naam op schutblad. Verder netjes. Engelstalig.

    Cassell's Dictionary of Modern American History is a guide to the people, events, movements and ideas that have shaped modern America. Taking as its starting point the period immediately preceding the American Revolution, the dictionary guides the reader through the birth of the United States and its 19th-century territorial expansion, examines the traumatic impact of the Civil War and America's rapid ascent to great-power status, and goes on to consider the economic consequences of the Great Depression, America's decisive role in two world wars and the many domestic upheavals of the 20th century, from the Civil Rights Movement to the Lewinsky Scandal.
    The dictionary contains over 1000 articles focusing not only on major political, diplomatic and military topics but also on economic, social and cultural matters. Extensive thematic articles on core subjects such as the Civil War and Reconstruction blend clear and readable narrative with trenchant analysis, whilst a wealth of briefer entries define essential terms from baby boom to bussing, provide biographical data on public figures as diverse as Eleanor Roosevelt and Sitting Bull, deliver key facts about battles, treaties and acts of Congress from the Banking Act to the Bay of Pigs, and explain the significance of crucial Supreme Court verdicts from Marbury vs. Madison to Roe vs. Wade.

    Peter Thompson;

    € 12,00

    Russia's Bitter Path...

    Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity

    Hardback met stofomslag in goede staat. Aantekening op schutblad. Verder netjes. Engelstalig.

    Will it follow the model of the Western capitalist democracies, as those who applied the economic shock therapy of the early 90s hoped, or will it chose its own distinct path of development? In this history of Russia from 1917 to the present, Alexander Chubarov teases out certain themes developed in his previous book on tsarist Russia (The Fragile Empire). One of the key factors to Russia's distinctiveness is its halfway location in the center of the Eurasian landmass. This lends an inevitability to the traditional cultural schism between Westernizing reformers and Slavophiles. Neither approach, says Chubarov, will work on its own. Chubarov offers "a balanced view, abstaining from narrow, ideologically biased assessments," and examines the triumphs (yes) and failures of Russia's Soviet development "within Russia's own cultural and historical context." Without ever minimizing the brutalities of the Soviet period-the state terror, the collectivizations, the labor camps, the deportations of whole peoples-Chubarov demonstrates much continuity between tsarist and Soviet Russia, with the latter often repeating the former's mistakes. Russia, says Chubarov, cannot turn its back on its Soviet experience. Far from being a blind alley or "aberrant phase," the Soviet period was an organic part of Russia history and "was largely successful in turning Russia and most of the other Soviet republics into modern states.

    Alexander Chubarov;

    € 35,00

    Juliana en Bernhard

    Juliana en Bernhard

    Dikke hardback met stofomslag en leeslint in goede staat. Fotokatern.

    Na meer dan een halve eeuw geeft dit boek eindelijk volledig opening van zaken. Cees Fasseur, die naam maakte met zijn tweedelige biografie van koningin Wilhelmina, kreeg als eerste en voorlopig enige historicus toestemming van koningin Beatrix alle stukken in het Koninklijk Huisarchief over de eerste twintig jaar van het huwelijk van koningin Juliana en prins Bernhard in te zien. Het huwelijk van koningin Juliana en prins Bernhard maakte aan het einde van die periode, tussen 1949 en 1956, een ernstige crisis door. De onderlinge spanningen liepen hoog op. Een echtscheiding dreigde. De huwelijkscrisis werd veroorzaakt door een geheimzinnige vrouw, Greet Hofmans. In het begin als gebedsgenezeres ten behoeve van prinses Marijke, later met behulp van `doorgevingen of wenken, die zij van `Boven kreeg, wist zij grote invloed op koningin Juliana te verwerven. Uiteindelijk moesten drie `wijze mannen , de commissie-Beel, eraan te pas komen om het conflict op te lossen. Zo gemakkelijk ging dit intussen niet, want Juliana wilde Hofmans aanvankelijk niet loslaten. Het rapport van de commissie-Beel werd nooit gepubliceerd. Het bleef, samen met de in het Koninklijk Huisarchief gedeponeerde dossiers van de commissie, voor onderzoekers gesloten. Cees Fasseur, die naam maakte met zijn tweedelige biografie van koningin Wilhelmina, kreeg als eerste en voorlopig enige historicus toestemming van koningin Beatrix alle stukken in het Koninklijk Huisarchief over deze kwestie in te zien en in zijn boek te gebruiken. Beperkingen werden hem niet gesteld. Juliana & Bernhard bevat de integrale tekstvan het rapport van de commissie, terwijl door hem ook allerlei andere brieven en documenten van Juliana, Bernhard en de `doorgeefster , Greet Hofmans, openbaar worden gemaakt. Op de hem eigen, sprankelende wijze beschrijft Cees Fasseur niet alleen het conflict dat een einde dreigde te maken aan het huwelijk van koningin en prins. Hij reconstrueert ook hun huwelijksleven in de voorafgaande periode, vanaf hun trouwdag in 1937 tot de ontknoping van de Hofmanscrisis in 1956, aan de hand van de persoonlijke brieven en aantekeningen van Juliana en Bernhard. Vooral over de Tweede Wereldoorlog bleek in het Koninklijk Huisarchief veel, tot dusver onbekend, materiaal aanwezig dat zonder restricties mocht worden gebruikt. Onder meer bleef de complete briefwisseling uit de oorlogsjaren bewaard tussen Juliana in Ottawa en Bernhard in Londen. Hun brieven werpen een nieuw licht op Juliana s Canadese jaren, waarin zij nauwe contacten onderhield met de Roosevelts, het Amerikaanse presidentsechtpaar, en op Bernhards avontuurlijke leven in Engeland. Juliana & Bernhard is daarmee niet alleen het verslag van een huwelijksstrijd, maar ook het `portret van een huwelijk.

    Cees Fasseur;

    € 6,00
    € 12,00

    The Big Con

    The Big Con

    Dikke paperback in zeer goede staat. Engelstalig.

    Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political accountability and impedes our collective mission of halting climate breakdown.

    The 'Big Con' describes the confidence trick the consulting industry performs in contracts with hollowed-out and risk-averse governments and shareholder value-maximizing firms. It grew from the 1980s and 1990s in the wake of reforms by both the neoliberal right and Third Way progressives, and it thrives on the ills of modern capitalism, from financialization and privatization to the climate crisis. It is possible because of the unique power that big consultancies wield through extensive contracts and networks - as advisors, legitimators and outsourcers - and the illusion that they are objective sources of expertise and capacity. To make matters worse, our best and brightest graduates are often redirected away from public service into consulting. In all these ways, the Big Con weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies.

    Mazzucato and Collington expertly debunk the myth that consultancies always add value to the economy. With a wealth of original research, they argue brilliantly for investment and collective intelligence within all organizations and communities, and for a new system in which public and private sectors work innovatively for the common good. We must recalibrate the role of consultants and rebuild economies and governments that are fit for purpose.

    Mariana Mazzucato; Rosie Collington;

    € 14,00

    Knowing what We Know....

    Knowing what We Know. The Transmission of Knowledge

    Dikke paperback in goede staat. Engelstalig.

    From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds.

    With the advent of the internet, any topic we want to know about is instantly available with the touch of a smartphone button. With so much knowledge at our fingertips, what is there left for our brains to do? At a time when we seem to be stripping all value from the idea of knowing things - no need for maths, no need for map reading, no need for memorisation - are we risking our ability to think? As we empty our minds, will we one day be incapable of thoughtfulness?

    Addressing these questions, Simon Winchester explores how humans have attained, stored and disseminated knowledge. Examining such disciplines as education, journalism, encyclopedia creation, museum curation, photography and broadcasting, he looks at a whole range of knowledge diffusion - from the cuneiform writings of Babylon to the machine-made genius of artificial intelligence, by way of Gutenberg, Google and Wikipedia to the huge Victorian assemblage of the Mundaneum, the collection of everything ever known, currently stored in a damp basement in northern Belgium.

    Studded with strange and fascinating details, Knowing What We Know is a deep dive into learning and the human mind. Throughout this fascinating tour, Winchester forces us to ponder what rational humans are becoming. What good is all this knowledge if it leads to lack of thought? What is information without wisdom? Does René Descartes' 'Cogito, ergo sum'--'I think, therefore I am', the foundation for human knowledge widely accepted since the Enlightenment--still hold?

    Simon Winchester;

    € 15,00

    The Mirror and the...

    The Mirror and the Palette. Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience

    Paperback in goede staat. Naam op titelpagina. 2 Fotokaternen. Engelstalig

    Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Lois Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained dress, scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Cezanne solved the problems that she too is facing. She's railing against her corsets, her chaperones, her husband and her brothers; she's hammering on doors, dreaming in her bedroom, working day and night in her studio. Despite the immense hurdles that have been placed in her way, she sits at her easel, picks up a mirror and paints a self-portrait because, as a subject, she is always available. Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In THE MIRROR AND THE PALETTE, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery. This is a dazzlingly original and ambitious book by one of the most well-respected art critics at work today.

    Jennifer Higgie;

    € 15,00

    China, Hong Kong,...

    China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc.

    Engelstalige pocket, in very good condition, like new. Text in English. Translated from the Dutch by Diana Webb.

    On the eve of June 30, Hong Kong was officially passed back to China. This event will mark what Willem van Kemenade sees as the start of an increasingly problematic -- and even dangerous -- reintegration of the old Chinese empire into a new world superpower. Since the early 1980s, investment money has been pouring into China from Hong Kong and trade has escalated at a rocket's pace. A few years later, the same pattern began between China and Taiwan. The combination of Hong Kong/Taiwan management, financial and export know-how with China's inexhaustible pool of cheap labor and land has enabled China in one decade to leap from an impoverished revolutionary state to a major international trading power. This economic boom, in conjunction with the violation of intellectual property rights, systematic tax fraud, and the corruption of the police force, has helped shape the "socialist market economy," China's third way -- and a new mix of old-fashioned Soviet Communism and East Asian capitalism.

    The formal addition of Hong Kong will add to this mixture the democratic structures set in place by the British. And, as China moves to reclaim Taiwan (the process has already begun), it will be incorporating a rival Chinese sub-nation with a fully election-based political system and a powerful independence movement. Can such a reunified China resist the "spiritual pollution" of democratic values, human rights, and political freedom? Will it become the first depoliticized "corporatist superpower"? What are the prospects that reunification will be peaceful?

    Van Kemenade's portrait of the true internal power structures of the three Chinas provides our clearest look yet at the fastest-rising new empire in the world today.

    Willem Van Kemenade ;

    € 9,50

    The Dictionary of...

    The Dictionary of Jewish Biography

    Dikke hardback met stofomslag in goede staat. Aantekening op schutblad. Rug stofomslag licht verkleurd. Verder netjes. Engelstalig.

    From Abraham to Saul Bellow, from Moses Maimonides to Woody Allen, from the Baal Shem Tov to Albert Einstein, this comprehensive dictionary of Jewish biographies provides a first point of entry into the fascinating richness of the Jewish heritage. Compiled with the assistance of a distinguished group of scholars, theDictionary of Jewish Biographyprovides a rapid reference to the biographies of almost 4000 Jewish men and women who, over the past four millennia, have contributed to the life, history, and study of Judaism in all its facets. Those profiled represent every walk of life and every area of accomplishment. Included are rabbinic scholars, key religious figures, spiritual leaders, founders of modern movements, major writers, Enlightenment figures, novelists, journalists, scientists, mystics, Israeli politicians, musicians, actors and actresses, film stars, famous rabbis, distinguished cantors, biblical figures, economists, architects, athletes, and radicals and heretics. Each entry is followed by a short bibliography. The book includes an extended Introduction, which explains the criteria for inclusion, and outlines the history of Israel and the Jewish diaspora. This dictionary will prove essential for general readers interested in the evolution of Judaism from ancient times to the present day, a perfect study aid for students and teachers. This panoramic bibliographic survey provides a unique guide to the leading figures of the past and present.

    Dan Cohn-Sherbok;

    € 6,50
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