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    Spring Fever. The...

    Spring Fever. The illusion of islamic democracy

    Engels.  als nieuw


    The first fundamental truth about the "Arab Spring" is that there never was one. The salient fact of the Middle East, the only one, is Islam. The Islam that shapes the Middle East inculcates in Muslims the self-perception that they are members of a civilization implacably hostile to the West. The United States is a competitor to be overcome, not the herald of a culture to be embraced.

    Is this self-perception based on objective truth? Does it reflect an accurate construction of Islam? It is over these questions that American officials and Western intellectuals obsess. Yet the questions are irrelevant. This is not a matter of right or wrong, of some posture or policy whose subtle tweaking or outright reversal would change the facts on the ground. This is simply, starkly, the way it is.

    Every human heart does not yearn for freedom. In the Islam of the Middle East, "freedom" means something very nearly the opposite of what the concept connotes to Westerners – it is the freedom that lies in total submission to Allah and His law. That law, sharia, is diametrically opposed to core components of freedom as understood in the West – beginning with the very idea that man is free to make law for himself, irrespective of what Allah has ordained. It is thus delusional to believe, as the West's Arab Spring fable insists, that the region teems with Jamal al-Madisons holding aloft the lamp of liberty. Do such revolutionary reformers exist? Of course they do . . . but in numbers barely enough to weave a fictional cover story. When push came to shove – and worse – the reformers were overwhelmed, swept away by a tide of Islamic supremacism, the dynamic, consequential mass movement that beckons endless winter.

    That is the real story of the Arab Spring – that, and the Pandora's Box that opens when an American administration aligns with that movement, whose stated goal is to destroy America.

    Andrew C. McCarthy ;

    € 7,50

    Between the World and Me

    Between the World and Me

    Engels. Paperback, als nieuw

    In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: it is the story of the black body, exploited to create the country's foundational wealth, violently segregated to unite a nation after a civil war, and, today, still disproportionately threatened, locked up and killed in the streets. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can America reckon with its fraught racial history?

    Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ attempt to answer those questions, presented in the form of a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his own awakening to the truth about history and race through a series of revelatory experiences: immersion in nationalist mythology as a child; engagement with history, poetry and love at Howard University; travels to Civil War battlefields and the South Side of Chicago; a journey to France that reorients his sense of the world; and pilgrimages to the homes of mothers whose children's lives have been taken as American plunder. Taken together, these stories map a winding path towards a kind of liberation—a journey from fear and confusion, to a full and honest understanding of the world as it is.

    Masterfully woven from lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me offers a powerful new framework for understanding America's history and current crisis, and a transcendent vision for a way forward.

    Ta-Nehisi Coates ;

    € 7,50
    € 14,50

    Het 50-plus brein,...

    Het 50-plus brein, ouder wordende hersenen in de moderne maatschappij

    Mooi ex. paperback in goede staat

    Het wordt steeds duidelijker dat er bij het ouder worden allerlei veranderingen optreden in de hersenen. Er is niet alleen sprake van verlies maar ook van ontwikkeling van hersenen en vaardigheden. Het is van groot belang dat we oog krijgen voor deze specifieke fase in een mensenleven, zodat we de winst ervan ten volle kunnen benutten en eventuele nadelen kunnen compenseren. In Het 50+ brein combineert Margriet Sitskoorn nieuwe wetenschappelijke inzichten over de ouder wordende hersenen met eerder in haar boek Lang leven de hersenen beschreven kennis. Zij koppelt deze inzichten aan de hedendaagse maatschappij van langer doorwerken, digitalisering, steeds meer zelf moeten doen en zo lang mogelijk genieten.Naast de meest recente wetenschappelijke kennis bevat Het 50+ brein ook een programma om zelf vitaal ouder worden te bevorderen, en tips voor het breed toepassen van alle kennis in zowel privé- als werksituaties.Dit boek is actueler dan ooit, want met de kennis van het 50+ brein kunnen we onbenutte mogelijkheden gebruiken, dogma's doorbreken en de kwaliteit van werk en leven van velen verbeteren.Margriet Sitskoorn is hoogleraar klinische neuropsychologie aan Tilburg University en BIG-geregistreerd klinisch neuropsycholoog. Naast haar wetenschappelijke werk publiceert zij in verschillende bladen, is zij een graag geziene gast bij tv-programma's en een veelgevraagd (internationaal) spreker.

    Margriet Sitskoorn;

    € 5,00
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