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Basisprincipes van de theorie en praktijk van de rationeel-emotieve therapie.

Psychologische studie over de tegengestelde menselijke behoeften aan intimiteit en individualiteit.

Beschouwingen over het hedendaagse Engeland door een Nederlandse correspondent.

Ervaringen en overpeinzingen van een beheerder van een Amsterdamse begraafplaats.

Een genadeloze analyse van de collectieve sector en aanbevelingen voor een krachtig herstelprogramma

Beschrijving van de activiteiten van de Engelse East India Company in het Verre Oosten, met veel aandacht voor haar factorij op het Japanse eiland Hirado waar de hulp van de in Japan wonende Engelsman William Adams buitengewoon nuttig was.

Harry Pendel is the exclusive tailor to Panama's most powerful men. He is also an informant to British Intelligence. Deceiving his friends, his wife, and practically himself, he'll weave a plot so fabulous it exceeds his own vivid imagination. Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Het is een wonderlijke wereld waarin Alice terecht komt als ze het haastige, witte, sprekende konijn achterna holt. Alles is heel anders dan in de gewone wereld en er lijkt geen eind te komen aan het aantal vreemde wezens dat ze tegenkomt. Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.

Het levensverhaal van Alice Liddell (1852-1936) voor wie Lewis Carroll 'Alice in Wonderland' schreef.

"Herinneringen. Hoe ouder je wordt, hoe meer je er hebt. En al die flarden probeer je in een zinvol verband te plaatsen om een kloppend verhaal van je leven te maken. Het schrijven van memoires is daardoor misschien wel de meest leugenachtige literatuursoort. Als gewaarschuwd man kies ik daarom in 'Met een scheef oog' niet voor memoires, maar voor het schetsen van tijdsbeelden aan de hand van mijzelf. Vanaf mijn geboorte in de oorlog tot aan het begin van de jaren zeventig. Van "Eet je bord leeg, weet je wel hoe het in de oorlog was?" tot aan de ontketende revoluties van de jaren zestig en zeventig door die verwende oorlogskinderen en babyboomers. Van de wederopbouw, het opgroeien in een sterk verzuilde samenleving, de woningnood, de rangen en standen in het Gooi tot de overstap naar het studentenleven in Amsterdam, het leven met jazz, tabak, seks en de revolutie aan de universiteit. En de schrijver was er in elk geval bij."--

Speelse behandeling in vaste versvormen van zaken en personen uit de wereld van de exacte wetenschappen.

Pleidooi tegen de jacht op de eeuwige jeugd en het zogenaamd leeftijdloos ouder worden.

Naslagwerk voor beginners en gevorderden die een gezondere leefwijze proberen te krijgen door de combinatie van ayurveda en yoga.

Verhalenbundel waarin de ongewenste lotsbestemmingen van enkele vergeten figuren uit de vaderlandse geschiedenis worden geschetst. Het verhaal Boven aarde speelt zich af in het (17e-eeuwse?) Tunis waar de hertog van Ripperda als gevangene van de bey zijn laatste uren doorbrengt terwijl zijn lijfarts, de homoseksueel-van-late-roeping Foucart, in een jongensbordeel belandt.

De geschiedenis van een Amsterdams grachtenhuis vanaf de 17e euw tot het midden van de 20e eeuw, in romanvorm

Het erfgoed van Shannara deel 3

Het erfgoed van Shannara, deel 4

** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **

A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain âe" translucent, luminous, white.

Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain. Along the way, he meets the witnesses to its creation; those who were inspired, made rich or heartsick by it, and the many whose livelihoods, minds and bodies were broken by this obsession. It spans a thousand years and reaches into some of the most tragic moments of recent times.

In these intimate and compelling encounters with the people and landscapes who made porcelain, Edmund de Waal enriches his understanding of this rare material, the âe~white goldâe(tm) he has worked with for decades.

** Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 **

Verslag van een reis door het Himalaya-gebied, met aandacht voor de natuur en de politieke en religieuze geschiedenis.

Tijdschrift voor wereldliteratuur. Achtste jaargang nr. 28 september 2002 ;  Gevaarlijke, gekke, geile en wijze apen in de wereldliteratuur

Een postbode zoekt toenadering tot de Chileense dichter Pablo Neruda, met wiens gedichten hij het hart won van een meisje.

From the dawn of civilization to the modern-day music scene, this breathtaking global history reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions.
Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, diluted their impact, and disguised their sources. In Music: A Subversive History, historian Ted Gioia reclaims the story of music for the riffraff, insurgents, and provocateurs.
Gioia tells a four-thousand-year history of music as a global source of power, change, and upheaval. He shows how social outcasts have repeatedly become trailblazers of musical expression: slaves and their descendants, for instance, have repeatedly reinvented music, from ancient times all the way to the jazz, reggae, and hip-hop sounds of the current day.
Music: A Subversive History is essential reading for anyone interested in the meaning of music, from Sappho to the Sex Pistols to Spotify.

A science book for the general reader that is informative enough to be a popular textbook and yet well-written enough to appeal to general readers. “Hazen and Trefil [are] unpretentious—good, down-to-earth, we-can-explain-anything science teachers, the kind you wish you had but never did.”—The New York Times Book Review

Knowledge of the basic ideas and principles of science is fundamental to cultural literacy. But most books on science are often too obscure or too specialized to do the general reader much good.

Science Matters is a rare exception—a science book that is informative enough for introductory courses in high school and college, and yet lucid enough for readers uncomfortable with scientific jargon and complicated mathematics. And now, revised and expanded, it is up-to-date, so that readers can enjoy Hazen and Trefil's refreshingly accessible explanations of the most recent developments in science, from particle physics to biotechnology.

'The most important book of the Trump era' The Economist

How does a democracy die?
What can we do to save our own?
What lessons does history teach us?

In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before.

Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey - Levitsky and Ziblatt explain why democracies fail, how leaders like Trump subvert them today and what each of us can do to protect our democratic rights.

'This book looks to history to provide a guide for defending democratic norms when they are under threat, and finds that it is possible to fight back.' David Runciman

'A useful primer on the importance of norms, institutional restraints and civic participation in maintaining a democracy - and how quickly those things can erode when we're not paying attention' President Barack Obama

'A must-read' Andrew Marr, Sunday Times

'The greatest of the many merits of Levitsky and Ziblatt's How Democracies Die is their rejection of western exceptionalism. They tell inspiring stories I had not heard before' Nick Cohen, Observer

'Provocative, timely. One of my favourite reads this year' Elif Shafak

'Anyone who is concerned about the future of democracy should read this brisk, accessible book. Anyone who is not concerned should definitely read it' Daron Acemoglu, co-author of Why Nations Fail

By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the music industry and in the minds of fans.

Rooted in rhythm-and-blues pioneered by black musicians, 1950s rock and roll was racially inclusive and attracted listeners and performers across the color line. In the 1960s, however, rock and roll gave way to rock: a new musical ideal regarded as more serious, more artistic—and the province of white musicians. Decoding the racial discourses that have distorted standard histories of rock music, Jack Hamilton underscores how ideas of “authenticity” have blinded us to rock’s inextricably interracial artistic enterprise.

According to the standard storyline, the authentic white musician was guided by an individual creative vision, whereas black musicians were deemed authentic only when they stayed true to black tradition. Serious rock became white because only white musicians could be original without being accused of betraying their race. Juxtaposing Sam Cooke and Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, and many others, Hamilton challenges the racial categories that oversimplified the sixties revolution and provides a deeper appreciation of the twists and turns that kept the music alive.

Twenty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini called for the assassination of Salman Rushdie--and writers around the world instinctively rallied to Rushdie's defense. Today, according to writer Paul Berman, "Rushdie has metastasized into an entire social class"--an ever-growing group of sharp-tongued critics of Islamist extremism, especially critics from Muslim backgrounds, who survive only because of pseudonyms and police protection. And yet, instead of being applauded, the Rushdies of today (people like Ayan Hirsi Ali and Ibn Warraq) often find themselves dismissed as "strident" or as no better than fundamentalist themselves, and contrasted unfavorably with representatives of the Islamist movement who falsely claim to be "moderates."

How did this happen? In THE FLIGHT OF THE INTELLECTUALS, Berman--"one of America's leading public intellectuals" (Foreign Affairs)--conducts a searing examination into the intellectual atmosphere of the moment and shows how some of the West's best thinkers and journalists have fumbled badly in their efforts to grapple with Islamist ideas and violence.

Berman's investigation of the history and nature of the Islamist movement includes some surprising revelations. In examining Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, he shows the rise of an immense and often violent worldview, elements of which survives today in the brigades of al-Qaeda and Hamas. Berman also unearths the shocking story of al-Banna's associate, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who collaborated personally with Adolf Hitler to incite Arab support of the Nazis' North African campaign. Echoes of the Grand Mufti's Nazified Islam can be heard among the followers of al-Banna even today.

In a gripping and stylish narrative Berman also shows the legacy of these political traditions, most importantly by focusing on a single philosopher, who happens to be Hassan al-Banna's grandson, Oxford professor Tariq Ramadan--a figure widely celebrated in the West as a "moderate" despite his troubling ties to the Islamist movement. Looking closely into what Ramadan has actually written and said, Berman contrasts the reality of Ramadan with his image in the press.

In doing so, THE FLIGHT OF THE INTELLECTUALS sheds light on a number of modern issues--on the massively reinvigorated anti-Semitism of our own time, on a newly fashionable turn against women's rights, and on the difficulties we have in discussing terrorism--and presents a stunning commentary about the modern media's peculiar inability to detect and analyze some of the most dangerous ideas in contemporary society.