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Zestien artikelen over de grenzen tussen de jeugdliteratuur en de literatuur voor volwassenen, aangevuld met beschouwingen over andere onderwerpen. Kritische beschouwing. 

Het verhaal van een man die wanhopig probeert zijn daden gescheiden te houden van zijn gedachten

Binnen een artistiek milieu vormen de relaties een patroon dat lijkt op dat van de opera "Don Giovanni" van Mozart.

ABC-boek van satirische stroming in de literatuur en cultuur

Tijdens de Duitse bezetting stonden de drukpersen niet stil. Integendeel: aan beide kanten waren artistiek en ideologisch gezien zeer goede en zeer foute ontwerpers uiterst productief. Sommige vormgevers, uitgevers en drukkers vochten voor het behoud van intellectuele en artistieke vrijheid, anderen voedden juist de op volle toeren draaiende Duitse propagandamachine. Ondanks de erbarmelijke omstandigheden was de vormgevingssector in deze periode springlevend. Tussen 1940 en 1945 werden zo'n 1000 clandestiene uitgaven geproduceerd, onder vele anderen door De Bezige Bij, H.N. Werkman en Helmut Salden. Tegelijkertijd verschenen talloze bruine boeken, brochures en posters. Voor het eerst brengt Alton W. Purvis in Goed fout de grafische vormgeving gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog, met beeldbepalende vormgevers als Fré Cohen, Frans Duwaer, A.A. Balkema, Willem Sandberg en Lou Manche, in haar volle omvang in beeld. Exhibition: Bijzondere Collecties, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (April - September 2015).

"This book is the first to describe the growing convergence during the last decade towards a new classical style - a return to painting and building within the western classical tradition. Often misread as Neo-Conservatism, this style cuts across the socio-political spectrum as a radical departure from Modernism. Like the revolutionary classicism of the 1790s and the Free-Style Classicism of the 1900s, it has social and moral roots and is variable in genre. With his customary style and originality, Jencks places this international movement in a historical context and defines the intentions which inform it, the rules which govern it, and the salient characteristics of its various manifestations. In art, five major trends are distinguished: Metaphysical Classicism, which includes Carlo Maria Mariani, Gerard Garouste and Malcolm Morley; Narrative Classicism, which embraces the work of Hockney and Kitaj; Allegorical Classical as exemplified by the work of, among others, Stone Roberts, Bruno Civitico and Lincoln Perry; Realist Classicism, including artists as diverse as John De Andrea and Ben Johnson; and Classical Sensibility, which covers, among others, Avigdor Arikha, Michael Andrews and Milet Andrejevic. Architecture is split into four major groups - the Fundamentalists, Revivalists, Urbanists and Eclectics - and the work of architects as diverse as Takefumi Aida, Leon Krier, Robert Venturi, James Stirling and Michael Graves is discussed."--BOOK JACKET.

Behandelt en toont werk van 13 architecten uit diverse landen. Waaronder Norman Foster en Rem Koolhaas

Uncle Oswald, the great rogue and fornicator, has discovered the world's most powerful aphrodisiac and a method of quick-freezing sperm. So with the help of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, he sets out to preserve 51 living geniuses and crowned heads, from James Joyce to King Albert and Henry Ford.

Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ...Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.

Two children, Dan and Una, acting out their version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, miraculously conjure up Puck himself. Small and as old as time itself, he brings back the past for them to witness. He re-creates a Roman centurion, a Renaissance craftsman and the villages of time gone by.

When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century America but to the bewildering sights and sounds of sixth-century Camelot. Although confused at first and quickly imprisoned, he soon realises that his knowledge of the future can transform his fate. Correctly predicting a solar eclipse from inside his prison cell, Morgan terrifies the people of England into releasing him and swiftly establishes himself as the most powerful magician in the land, stronger than Merlin and greatly admired by Arthur himself. But the Connecticut Yankee wishes for more than simply a place at the Round Table. Soon, he begins a far greater struggle: to bring American democratic ideals to Old England. Complex and fascinating, A Connecticut Yankee is a darkly comic consideration of the nature of human nature and society.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, "Lord of the Flies" is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Centenary edition.

Mindfulness is veel meer dan geroutineerd een paar oefeningen afdraaien, het is een manier van bewust en opmerkzaam leven in het moment, waardoor je leven totaal kan veranderen. In Mindfulness voor wandelaars vind je een reeks eenvoudige meditaties waarmee je al wandelend je lichamelijke en geestelijke bewustzijn kunt verruimen.

Analytische annotatie: Verzameling oefeningen om tijdens en door middel van fietsen het bewustzijn te verdiepen. Met kleurenillustraties.

I have read the book twice in my life and find it a fascinating character study of the fallible priest who still feels called to minister the Eucharist to the poor who need him. The setting in Mexico is powerful as the priest ministers illegally in the season of Mexico's history where he could be arrested and killed at any time. Greene's character study is methodical and intense, not a light read. Still the "power and the glory" of the book is obvious in self-sacrifice of a man who seems unsure of redemption for himself, yet still offers it humbly through the Eucharist to the people.