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Roman over de wederwaardigheden van een jonge Russische intellectueel in het politieke roerige tsaristische Rusland van 1900

vertAan het begin van de 20e eeuw wordt een ontwikkelde Javaan in Nederlands-Indië zich bewust van zijn plaats in de wereld.

Een Javaanse jongeman raakt begin 20e eeuw verbitterd over de houding van de Nederlanders tegenover zijn volk.

Profielschets van een vorst, een heerser, zoals hij zal moeten staan aan het hoofd van een ideale staat door de Italiaanse geschiedschrijver (1469-1527).

Keurbundel uit de light verse van de Nederlandse auteur (1919- ).

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.

The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town's inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.

"All life in all worlds" -- this was the object of the author's seventeen-year quest for knowledge and discovery, culminating in this book. In a manner unmistakably his own, Murchie delves into the interconnectedness of all life on the planet and of such fields as biology, geology, sociology, mathematics, and physics. He offers us what the poet May Sarton has called "a good book to take to a desert island as sole companion, so rich is it in knowledge and insight".

Een tuinder raakt in de ban van een calvinistische predikant net zoals eerder zijn diep religieuze vader.

Detective and mystery stories. When THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK was published, the Observer declared: 'The book is superb, both as a thriller and as a novel of social observation.' Now, with that same astute social observation, narrative drive, and richness of plot and character, Stephen Carter returns us to the New England university town of Elm Harbor, where the murder of a renowned African-American economist opens a door on the racial complications of the town's past, on one family's secrets, and on the most hidden and powerful bastions of African-American political influence. At the centre are Lemaster and Julia Carlyle. He is president of the university, she is a dean at the divinity school - African-Americans living in 'the heart of whiteness'. Lemaster's connections lead to the President of the United States, his old college room-mate. Julia is connected to the dead man, Kellen Zant, her lover before she met Lemaster. The meeting point of these connections - a murder committed and covered up in Elm Harbor thirty years ago, and the shocking plans carried out by a fraternity of the 'darker nation' - forms the core of a mystery that deepens even as Julia, guided by clues left her by Zant, closes in on the politically earth-shattering motive behind his murder. Suspenseful from first to last, galvanising in its exploration of the profound difference between allegiance to ideas and to people, NEW ENGLAND WHITE is a resounding confirmation of STEPHEN CARTER'S gifts as a writer of fiction.

reisImpressies van de Nederlandse schrijver (1933- ) bij zijn omzwervingen door Spanje.

Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) is rightly regarded as one of the founders of modern anthropology. This volume is the author's own abridgement of his great work, and was first published in 1922. It offers the thesis that man progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.

"At the end of the twentieth century, scientists understand better than ever before the scope of the Universe and its origins; the variety of objects it contains, from quasars and pulsars to galaxies; and the inner workings of our own Sun. But such has been the pace of progress, especially in the past couple of decades, that the story has been fragmented, with no single, user-friendly guide to present the broad sweep as well as the detailed discoveries." "Companion to the Cosmos tells the whole story of the Universe and the people who made the discoveries." "The Companion begins with an extended introduction in which Gribbin sets out the present state of knowledge and explains the key discoveries of twentieth century cosmology: the Universe is evolving and growing. The main section of the book, an A-Z encyclopedia, is a mixture of lengthy feature articles on major subjects (for example, black holes, gravity, our Galaxy, life in the Universe, supernovae), shorter entries, and biographies of the scientists. In the final section, "Timelines," cosmological discoveries are set out alongside key dates in general history and the history of science, from the time of the ancient astronomers of Greece up to the present day."

De geschiedenis van Nederland in de eerste decennia van de twintigste eeuw, toen op economisch, cultureel en sociaal-maatschappelijk terrein een sterke vooruitgang te zien was.

Geschiedenis van de Franse militaire expeditie naar Egypte in 1798, die plaatsvond onder leiding van Napoleon.

Een jonge vrouw, die vervreemd is van haar echtgenoot, voelt zich in haar eenzaamheid aangetrokken tot de jachtopziener, die haar wekt tot een intens sensueel en seksueel leven.

In Mexico spelende roman met autobiografische inslag, waarin op vaak chaotische wijze de vertwijfeling wordt getekend van een aan de drank verslaafde man.

Is de hemel een organisatie die op het punt staat begrepen en opgerold te worden door de technologisch hoogontwikkelde mens van de twintigste eeuw?De ontdekking van de hemel (1992) is een totaalroman waarin alle thema's en obsessies uit het werk van Harry Mulisch in 65 hoofdstukken bijeenkomen. Dit monumentale boek is tegelijk een psychologische roman, een filosofische roman, een tijdroman, een ontwikkelingsroman, een avonturenroman en een alles overkoepelend mysteriespel. '- Opdracht volbracht. De zaak is rond.

Foto's met toelichtende tekst van de Olympische Spelen in Amsterdam in 1928.

De gefingeerde autobiografie van de Romeinse keizer P. Aelius Hadrianus (76-138).

In de overgangstijd tussen Middeleeuwen en Renaissance spelende roman over de geestelijke vrijwording van de mens, belichaamd in een Vlaamse chirurgijn en filosoof met moderne denkbeelden.

Bijdragen in proza, poëzie en beeldende kunst van vrienden van de Nederlandse letterkundige bij diens 70e verjaardag.