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De vriendschap en latere vijandschap tussen Lewi Pethrus, de oprichter van de Pinkstergemeente in Zweden, en Sven Lidman, dichter van erotische liefdesgedichten, weerspiegelen het dilemma tussen idealisme en macht.

Persoonlijk gekleurd essay over de rol van alcohol in leven en werk van zes Amerikaanse schrijvers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever en Raymond Carver.

Dagboek van de joodse auteur over de verwerking van de dood van zijn vader; over Joodse rouw; geschiedenis, filosofie en religie tegelijk

Prozaschets over een prins die krankzinnigheid voorwendt om zijn vader niet te hoeven opvolgen.

Door de inquisiteur Nikolaus van Straatsburg gedaan relaas van het proces wegens ketterij tegen de Duitse theoloog-mysticus in het begin van de 14e eeuw.

Eenvoudige recepten voor kamerbewoners. Kookboek, verlucht met prentjes door Fokke en Sukke.

Overzicht van het werk van de Nederlandse popkunstenaar (1948- ).

Increasingly, designers need to present information in ways that aid their audience's thinking process. Fortunately, results from the relatively new science of human visual perception provide valuable guidance.

In Visual Thinking for Design, Colin Ware takes what we now know about perception, cognition, and attention and transforms it into concrete advice that designers can directly apply. He demonstrates how designs can be considered as tools for cognition - extensions of the viewer's brain in much the same way that a hammer is an extension of the user's hand.

Experienced professional designers and students alike will learn how to maximize the power of the information tools they design for the people who use them.

• Presents visual thinking as a complex process that can be supported in every stage using specific design techniques.
• Provides practical, task-oriented information for designers and software developers charged with design responsibilities.
• Includes hundreds of examples, many in the form of integrated text and full-color diagrams.
• Steeped in the principles of “active vision,? which views graphic designs as cognitive tools.

Since Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide after the destruction of the European Jewry during World War II, the United Nations signed the Genocide Convention in 1948. Though the Convention aimed at preventing genocide in the future, large-scale mass murder returned on all continents, in Cambodia and Rwanda as some of the most notorious cases.

As demonstrated in this guidebook, the genocidal processes are complex and deeply rooted in society. International courts and tribunals play an important role in bringing suspected perpetrators to justice. To deal effectively with learning about the Holocaust and other genocides in a classroom situation, reliable knowledge about the courses of history is needed.

This unique guidebook offers concise information about five 20th-century cases of genocide, as well as the response of international justice. By relevant use of illustrations and references, and by using the most recent literature, this is an indispensable work offering new insight in the processes of genocide.

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies www.holocaustandgenocide.nl.

Columns en artikelen over de Verenigde Staten.

Inleiding in de kunstgeschiedenis van de prehistorie tot en met de twintigste eeuw.

Overzicht van de gebeurtenissen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Nederland en Nederlands-Indië en van de gevolgen daarvan op korte en lange termijn. Met veel tot dan toe nieuw materiaal (ook foto's), een aanvulling op de negendelige televisie serie. Een exemplaar dat er nog als nieuw uitziet. 

In 1911 Cora Wilson Stewart founded the Moonlight Schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, an innovative night program that taught illiterate adults to read. Hoping that 150 people would attend the first classes, Stewart was amazed that over 1,200 men and women enrolled. She quickly developed reading material for these men and women that appealed to them instead of the children's texts that most educators were using with adults. With the success of the Moonlight Schools, Stewart moved forward in her crusade against illiteracy; she quickly became the most prominent advocate for the cause on both the national and international scene.

Stewart took the fight against illiteracy at a time when it was an accepted part of American life. She shocked the nation when she pointed out that 25 percent of the men who signed up for the draft in 1917 could neither read nor write. From her beginnings in the mountains of Kentucky, she went on to chair the Illiteracy Section of the World Conference of Education Associations five times; she founded the National Illiteracy Crusade in 1926. She even received one vote for president at the 1920 Democratic convention. Her crusade came despite the fact she was a victim of domestic abuse who suffered through three failed marriages. Her life reflects the challenges faced by female reformers in the early part of the 20th century.