Bestaat er een verband tussen ras en IQ? Welk ras is het beste? Deze vragen zijn allerminst gedateerd. De rassentheorie beleeft een zorgwekkende comeback, in wetenschap en in politiek. Angela Saini onderzoekt in Superieur pseudowetenschappelijke beweringen en theorieën over ras, en toont aan waarom ze onhoudbaar zijn.Superieur is een broodnodig onderzoek naar de verraderlijke geschiedenis en consequenties van de rassentheorie. Dit boek geeft onweerlegbare argumenten om die theorie en racisme te bestrijden.

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From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class

Deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of American lives. Anne Case and Angus Deaton explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class. As the college educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair. Case and Deaton tie the crisis to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and a rapacious health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages into the pockets of the wealthy. This critically important book paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline, and provides solutions that can rein in capitalism's excesses and make it work for everyone.

A Nobel Prize–winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuries

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Nobel Prize–winning economist Angus Deaton—one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty—tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250 years ago, some parts of the world experienced sustained progress, opening up gaps and setting the stage for today's disproportionately unequal world. Deaton takes an in-depth look at the historical and ongoing patterns behind the health and wealth of nations, and addresses what needs to be done to help those left behind.

Deaton describes vast innovations and wrenching setbacks: the successes of antibiotics, pest control, vaccinations, and clean water on the one hand, and disastrous famines and the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the other. He examines the United States, a nation that has prospered but is today experiencing slower growth and increasing inequality. He also considers how economic growth in India and China has improved the lives of more than a billion people. Deaton argues that international aid has been ineffective and even harmful. He suggests alternative efforts—including reforming incentives to drug companies and lifting trade restrictions—that will allow the developing world to bring about its own Great Escape.

Demonstrating how changes in health and living standards have transformed our lives, The Great Escape is a powerful guide to addressing the well-being of all nations.

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.

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Graven en grafmonumenten van bekende personen uit heden en verleden. Met alfabetisch register.

This is a masterly narrative history of the Seven Years War, in which the British decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean, and yet also managed to ignite the slow-burning fuse of the American Revolution.Fred Anderson observes how the war displaced native peoples from their previously central role in an American diplomatic system; how it gave American colonists their first encounters with real live Englishmen; and how Americans were consequently emboldened to rally against the men who were once their masters. Anderson offers a wholly engrossing account of the conflict, interweaving the stories of kings and officers with those of traders, Native Americans, and colonial peoples.

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.

A tremendously engaging account of the turbulent relationships between the Pre-Raphaelite painters and the models who seemed to embody their dreams. Two photo inserts.

Het Brexit-referendum heeft het Verenigd Koninkrijk in een existentiële crisis gestort. Noord staat tegenover Zuid, jong tegenover oud, arm tegenover rijk. 'FD'-correspondent Mathijs Schiffers was erbij toen de Britten tot hun verrassende besluit kwamen om de Europese Unie te verlaten. Hoe kan het dat de gevestigde orde zo op het verkeerde been werd gezet? Is de afstand tussen politici en het volk te groot geworden? Is de Brexit de wraak van de achterblijvers? Of heeft de landenunie simpelweg zijn beste tijd gehad en moet de EU voor meer afvallers vrezen? Schiffers ging op zoek naar antwoorden. Hij sprak met mensen uit alle uithoeken van het eilandenrijk, voor en na het referendum, en maakte een studie van 's lands excentrieke politici. Het resultaat is een informatief maar lichtvoetig relaas, met een kritische maar liefdevolle analyse van de Britse samenleving.

In dit boek beschrijft Regina Grüter de geschiedenis van het Nederlandse Rode Kruis tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Wat waren de prioriteiten van de organisatie en het in mei 1940 opgerichte Londense Comité van het Nederlandse Rode Kruis? Hoe bemoeilijkten de bepalingen van de geallieerden de hulpverlening? En wat ging er wel goed? Lokale Rode Kruisafdelingen en -vrijwilligers zetten zich met gevaar voor eigen leven in voor slachtoffers van de bombardementen en de heftige eindstrijd. Zo hing het succes van de organisatie als geheel af van individuele initiatieven, persoonlijke moed en vindingrijkheid. Pas in 2005 erkende het Rode Kruis dat het in de tweede Wereldoorlog weinig tot niets heeft gedaan om de joodse gemeenschap te helpen.

Robin Wright, the acclaimed Mideast expert and foreign correspondent, returns to Iran, which she has visited more frequently than has any other American since the fall of the shah, to give us a portrait of the revolution -- a generation after Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile to end 2,500 years of monarchy. She shows us how the Iranian revolution has taken on even greater importance since Khomeini's death, and how it transformed Iranian society as well as Islam. She describes the revolutions within the revolution that have resulted in a movement as radical in the world of Islam as Luther's Reformation was in the Christian world -- empowering women, modernizing social traditions, creating a fiesty, independent cinema and arts industry and giving birth to a new generation that is redefining Iran's political agenda.
Wright makes abundantly clear why she believes the Iranian revolution will stand along with the French and the Russian as one of the three innovative revolutions -- and the last great revolution -- of the Modern Era.

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Studie over het algemeen culturele tijdschrift in Nederland rond 1800.

Deze studie tracht een indruk te geven van de gangbare achttiende-eeuwse ideeën over godsdienst, moraal en maatschappij, zoals die verwoord werden in de prijsverhandelingen van het Stolpiaansch Legaat te Leiden, Teyler's Godgeleerd Genootschap uit Haarlem en de Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen.

Honderd jaar geleden zaten de godshuizen nog vol. Niet alleen in de kerk, maar ook buiten de kerkdiensten zongen de Nederlanders massaal stichtelijke liederen. Vooral daarover gaat dit boek. Wat zong men precies? Waar kwamen de liederen vandaan? Hoe werden ze verspreid? 'Eén in het lied en leven', richt zich op de protestantse liedcultuur; de liederen waarmee meer dan de helft van de Nederlandse bevolking vertrouwd was. De auteur staat stil bij de rol van de verzuiling en de verschillen tussen orthodoxe en vrijzinnige stromingen, de drang tot (her)kerstening en de verhouding van de protestanten ten opzichte van de (liberale) Nederlandse cultuur in het algemeen. Een van de opmerkelijkste verschijnselen die de auteur signaleert is de populariteit van de Angelsaksische gospel hymns.

Historische analyse van crises in het verleden van de Verenigde Staten en de ontwikkeling van het gedachtegoed en de identiteit van Amerika, op basis waarvan conclusies worden getrokken voor de toekomst van deze natie.

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De geboorte van het huidige Noord-Amerika wordt gevolgd vanaf de dag dat 65 miljoen jaar geleden een meteoor van tien kilometer in doorsnee in de Golf van Mexico insloeg. Deze catastrofale inslag maakte onder meer een einde aan het tijdperk van de dinosauriërs en vernietigde een groot stuk van het nog jonge continent.

Flannery volgt de wedergeboorte van de planten en dieren en het ontstaan van het huidige klimaat en de vorm van het landschap. We reizen met hem mee van het ijzige Alaska tot Panama in het tropische zuiden en ontmoeten enorme vleesetende beren en laten de oneindige regenwouden van Groenland aan ons voorbij trekken. Ook ontdekken we hoe de zo typische Indian Summer en de cactussen in de Sonora-woestijn zijn ontstaan.

De eerste voetstap van de mens volgde veel later, nu zo'n 13.000 jaar geleden, en Flannery geeft een verrassend beeld van de invloed van de mens, die het continent opnieuw veranderde, vooral nadat in 1492 Christoffel Colombus in Amerika aankwam.

Een ecologische geschiedenis van Noord-Amerika toont op bevlogen wijze hoe dit fascinerende continent door de eeuwen heen een rijke bron was voor talloze generaties van zowel dierlijke als menselijke emigranten.

Van der Putten legt de vinger op de hyper-individualistische levensinstelling die Italianen kenmerkt, verdiept zich in de geschiedenis van de negentiende eeuw waaruit de eenheidsstaat Italië opduikt, laat zien hoe Italianen de politiek en politici bezien, dringt door het wezen van corruptie en misdaad en ontrafelt de strijd die rechters daartegen voeren. In een angstaanjagend portret van de politicus, televisiemagnaat en multimiljardair Silvio Berlusconi legt de auteur de persoonlijkheid bloot die als geen ander de hol-hedonistische kant van het individualisme vertegenwoordigt. De allerminst eenduidige omgang van Italianen met geloof en kerk vormt een hoofdstuk apart, evenals de wijze waarop zij tegen het hen omringende decor van kunstschatten en resten uit de klassieke oudheid aankijken.

Herinneringen aan het leven in een traditioneel Spaans vissersdorpje vóór de komst van het toerisme.

Michiel Schwarz and Joost Elffers' Sustainism Is the New Modernism declares the dawn of a new cultural era, as we transition from modernity to sustainity--towards a world that is more connected, more localist, more digital and more sustainable. As the authors of this clear-eyed manifesto argue, "sustainism marks a shift not only in thinking and doing but in collective perception--of how we live, do business, feed ourselves, design, travel and communicate, as much as how we deal with nature." In the twentieth century, whether we knew it or not, our world was shaped by modernist values, from the design of our cities to our homes, technologies and our conceptions of progress. Sustainism recasts our relationship to all of these things, binding ecological issues to a larger picture of our world. Through a series of graphically dynamic aphorisms, quotes and symbols designed for worldwide use by businesses, individuals and institutions, to signal support for sustainism, Michiel Schwarz and Joost Elffers show how the movement is already reshaping global culture, technology, food and media. With this concise manifesto, they launch the term sustainism into the public consciousness. The sustainist era has begun.
Michiel Schwarz is a Dutch independent cultural thinker, innovator and producer, now working from Berkeley, California. Originally trained as a sociologist of technology, he has initiated projects on global issues, the future of design, technology and media. His publications include The Technological Culture and Speed: Visions of an Accelerated Age.
Joost Elffers is a designer, "symbol maker" and creative producer of award-winning and innovative books such as 48 Laws of Power, Play With Your Food and Tangram: The Ancient Chinese Shapes Game.

Weinreb (1910-1988), a Jew, was born in Lvov; his family fled to the Netherlands during World War I. He became an economist and senior staff member of the Nederlands Economisch Instituut. At the time of the Nazi occupation, he had a wife and two daughters. In November 1941, Weinreb lost his job due to the anti-Jewish measures. He then started an emigration swindle, telling Jews in distress that he had permission from the Nazis to organize Jewish emigration to unoccupied France and Portugal; he charged 100 guilders per adult. The Nazis arrested him in September 1942; after three days he was freed. He then became an informer for the Nazis. After the liberation he was accused of betrayal and arrested; he was sentenced to six years in prison, but was released after two months. In the 1950s, he was appointed professor of economics in Jakarta, and then in Ankara. He was involved in scandals relating to Dutch-Indonesian politics and false representation of himself as a gynecologist. However, he developed a following due to his charismatic personality, and became a type of "guru". In the 1960s a furor arose in the Netherlands as to whether Weinreb was a wartime hero (as he described himself in his memoirs) or a collaborator. In 1976, after a thorough investigation, the RIOD published a report concluding that he was a liar and a swindler, and that his collaboration with the Germans had resulted in 70 deaths. Examines Weinreb's life and personality - his fantasies, deceit and credibility - and his interaction with the groups he dealt with - the persecuted, his defenders, civil servants, his "patients", and the social critics.

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