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Made in Japanthese three simple words conjure playful wit, a delight in detail, formal elegance, and graphic energy. Author of Made in China, Reed Darmon has collected hundreds of images of everyday Japanese design and pop culture ephemera from the past century. Including perfume ads, art deco matchboxes, robot toys, action movie posters, Noh masks, kimono patters, sumo cards, children's books, household product packages, and much more, the fascinating objects assembled here reveal traditional Japanese artistry and techniques as applied to playfully modern design. A stylish object and graphic essay in one, Made in Japan is an extraordinary glimpse into the heart of Japanese popular culture.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work. This novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears in Ulysses, and who comes to realize that before he can become a true artist, he must rid himself of the stultifying effects of the religion, politics and essential bigotry of his background in late 19th century Ireland. Written with a light touch, this is perhaps the most accessible of Joyce's works.

Volgens de Duitse denker Carl Schmitt is zonder vijandbeeld geen politiek mogelijk, schreven Coen Simon en Frank Meester aan Arnon Grunberg. Zij vroegen hem Het begrip politiek van Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) te lezen om na te gaan wat hij ons nu nog te zeggen heeft. Hoeveel natiestaat hebben wij nodig? Hoeveel vijanden? Waartoe dient politiek? En is een samenleving zonder oorlog en geweld mogelijk? Aan de hand van Schmitt en denkers als Walter Benjamin en Jacques Derrida probeert Grunberg antwoord te geven op die vragen. Onze cultuur heeft de vegetarische slager voortgebracht en zal uiteindelijk ook de geweldloze oorlog produceren. Hoe die er precies uit zal zien is onduidelijk, maar Schmitts vermoeden dat die oorlog om de oorlog eens en voor altijd uit te roeien gruwelijk zal zijn lijkt me gerechtvaardigd, aldus Grunberg. Maar ook stelt hij dat er geen rechtvaardigheid kan bestaan als het geweld wordt afgezworen. In Vriend & vijand legt Grunberg de vinger op zowel de zere plekken van de parlementaire democratie als de kritiek erop. Vrienden en vijanden van deze democratie mogen dit essay niet aan zich voorbij laten gaan

Reisgids met beschrijvingen van drie routes door IJsland. Met culturele en historische informatie over het land en tips voor verblijf, activiteiten en bezienswaardigheden. Met kaarten en kleurenfoto's.

Bundel essays over verschillende onderwerpen, geschreven in de periode 1978-1982

Een zestal merendeels onheilspellende verhalen, waarin surrealistische stemmingsbeelden worden opgeroepen.

Een wetenschappelijk hoofdmedewerker en zijn vrouw trachten te leven met hun vergeefse ambities.

Ruisend Gruis gaat over een professor die een gaatje in de muur van zijn zojuist gekocht huis boort. Gruis komt er in een straal uit en bedelft de arme wetenschapper. Zijn dochter wordt overwoekerd door een hangplant die in het ziekenhuis de vorm van het woord HELP aanneemt. Tussendoor maakt de schrijver allerlei toespelingen op de maatschappelijke actualiteit. Minister Pronk heeft een half afgetrokken stofzuigersgezicht en iemand die Kok heet had, volgens Hermans, beter een loopbaan als cuisinier kunnen kiezen.

Paranoia is een novelle over Arnold Cleever, een jonge man die na de 2e Wereldoorlog psychisch getraumatiseerd is. Hij lijdt aan paranoïde waanbeelden, waarbij hij gelooft een voortvluchtige SS'er te zijn op wie iedereen jacht maakt. Hij verzet zich tegen zijn huisbaas, wat leidt tot zijn ondergang...

Het staat bekend als een surrealistische, absurdistische roman die destijds negatief werd ontvangen, maar nu als een uniek werk in de Nederlandse literatuur wordt beschouwd. 

De studiereis van een jonge geoloog naar Noorwegen wordt wetenschappelijk gezien een fiasco, maar leidt wel tot meer zelfinzicht.

Toneelstuk over de Nederlander, die al dan niet het plan van de luchtlanding bij Arnhem aan de Duitsers verried, gevolgd door de geschiedenis rond de weigering van de autoriteiten om het stuk vrij te geven

Analytische annotatie: Biografie van de theoretisch natuurkundige Albert Einstein (1879-1955).

Geschiedenis van de Britse Special Air Service tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. In de zomer van 1941, op het hoogtepunt van de oorlog in de westelijke Sahara, bedenkt de jonge, excentrieke officier David Stirling een radicaal plan: een kleine undercovereenheid moet chaos veroorzaken achter de vijandelijke linies. Ondanks heftige tegenstand geeft Winston Churchill persoonlijk toestemming aan Stirling om de stoerste, slimste en meest meedogenloze soldaten die hij maar kan vinden te rekruteren – het startpunt voor de legendarische en meest gevierde militaire organisatie ter wereld: de SAS.

Nu, 75 jaar later, heeft de SAS eindelijk besloten haar ongelooflijke verhaal te delen, en zijn de geheime archieven voor het eerst opengesteld. Historicus Ben Macintyre heeft volledige toegang gekregen tot de schat aan rapporten, memo’s, dagboeken, brieven, plattegronden en foto’s. Daarnaast interviewde hij voor dit boek zowel nabestaanden als de nog levende SAS-leden van toen.

Het leven van een middenklasse-familie in Irak voor, tijdens en na het bewind van Saddam Hoessein.

Onderzoek naar de hersenen als basis van menselijk gedrag.

Overzicht van het laatste grote Duitse offensief tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in december 1944.

Geschiedenis van het heelal en van de mensheid vanaf de oerknal tot nu.

Kees van Putten's doctoral thesis, "Thinking with Images about the Natural Order between 1750 and 1900: Four Case Studies," defended at Radboud University Nijmegen in November 2022, explores how naturalists utilized visual representations to conceptualize and construct ideas about the order of nature. The work, a compilation of articles published in Early Science and Medicine and the Journal of History of Biology, focuses on the role of imagery in the thought processes of thinkers such as Linnaeus and Darwin

The object of this thesis will be to study the policy. More adopted when he found himself confronted with conflicting demands on his loyalty. It is a theme which hitherto has not been studied in detail on a theological level (Introduction). (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, Vol. IV)

Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? History's great civilisations have always lasted much longer, and for all its colossal power, the US was overshadowed by Europe until recently. What if this isn't the end?Bruno Maçães offers a compelling vision of America's future, both fascinating and unnerving. From the early American Republic, Maçães takes us to the turbulent present, when, he argues, America is finally forging its own path. We can see the birth pangs of this new civilisation in today's debates on guns, religion, foreign policy and the significance of Trump. What will its values be, and what will this new America look like?

Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-87) was one of the most distinguished twentieth-century scholars of the classics and of ancient and modern history. Throughout his career, but especially in the final twenty years of his life, he wrote essays on a variety of Jewish themes and individuals. This volume collects twenty-six of these essays, most of which appear in English for the first time.

Momigliano acknowledged that his Judaism was the most fundamental inspiration for his scholarship, and the writings in this collection demonstrate how the ethical experience of the Hebraic tradition informed his other works. Part 1 is devoted entirely to writings on ancient and medieval Judaism. In these essays, Momigliano ranges over such subjects as the stages of rapport between Hellenism and Judaism, the figure of Flavius Josephus, and the salient moments of Maccabean history. Part 2 comprises Momigliano's writings on modern subjects. Here are profiles of Jewish scholars of the classical world (Bernays, Bickerman, and Finley) together with those of eminent representatives of contemporary Jewish thought (Strauss, Scholem, and Benjamin). These essays gain special significance alongside Momigliano's reflections on Italian Jewry and the Weberian interpretation of Judaism.

Silvia Berti's Introduction discusses Momigliano's religious and intellectual formation, the key events of his life, and the influence of Judaism on his mature scholarship. In his Preface, Momigliano offers a personal meditation on his own Judaism and that of his family.

By the time of his death, Momigliano had acquired an international following. This volume will at last give his admirers in the English-speaking world easy access to an important body of his work.

How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat.

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, The Rise and Fall of American Growth challenges the view that economic growth will continue unabated, and demonstrates that the life-altering scale of innovations between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated. Gordon contends that the nation's productivity growth will be further held back by the headwinds of rising inequality, stagnating education, an aging population, and the rising debt of college students and the federal government, and that we must find new solutions. A critical voice in the most pressing debates of our time, The Rise and Fall of American Growth is at once a tribute to a century of radical change and a harbinger of tougher times to come.

One of the greatest historians of the twentieth century, Arnaldo Momigliano (19081987) is known for his path-breaking studies of ancient Greek and Roman history. The encyclopedic knowledge of the ancient world that Momigliano brought to his work, however, enabled him to make connections between ancient history and the subsequent study of that history. His sweeping vision stretched from antiquity to the present day.

In Momigliano and Antiquarianism, Peter N. Miller brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to provide the first serious study of Momigliano's history of historical scholarship. At its core, this collection is devoted to one of Momigliano's most celebrated subjects, the history of antiquarianism, and one of his most audacious claims, that the decay of early modern antiquarianism actually gave birth to the modern cultural sciences history, sociology, anthropology, art history, archaeology, and history of religion. Filling a gap in the scholarship, this erudite collection will prove fascinating to teachers and students of classics, history, and the human sciences.

Since the beginning of the New Deal, American liberals have insisted that the government must do more--much more--to help the poor, to increase economic security, to promote social justice and solidarity, to reduce inequality, and to mitigate the harshness of capitalism. Nonetheless, liberals have never answered, or even acknowledged, the corresponding question: What would be the size and nature of a welfare state that was not contemptibly austere, that did not urgently need new programs, bigger budgets, and a broader mandate? Even though the federal government's outlays have doubled every eighteen years since 1940, liberal rhetoric is always addressed to a nation trapped in Groundhog Day, where every year is 1932, and none of the existing welfare state programs that spend tens of billions of dollars matter, or even exist.

Never Enough explores the roots and consequences of liberals' aphasia about the welfare state's ultimate size. It assesses what liberalism's lack of a limiting principle says about the long-running argument between liberals and conservatives, and about the policy choices confronting America in a new century. Never Enough argues that the failure to speak clearly and candidly about the welfare state's limits has grave policy consequences. The worst result, however, is the way it has jeopardized the experiment in self-government by encouraging Americans to regard their government as a vehicle for exploiting their fellow-citizens, rather than as a compact for respecting one another's rights and safeguarding the opportunities of future generations.

The Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The FALN. The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, when not forgotten altogether. But there was a time in America, during the 1970s, when bombings by domestic underground groups were a daily occurrence. The FBI combated these and other groups as nodes in a single revolutionary underground, dedicated to the violent overthrow of the American government.

In Days of Rage, Bryan Burrough re-creates an atmosphere that seems almost unbelievable just forty years later, conjuring a time of native-born radicals, most of them “nice middle-class kids,” smuggling bombs into skyscrapers and detonating them inside the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, at a Boston courthouse and a Wall Street restaurant packed with lunchtime diners. The FBI’s fevered response included the formation of a secret task force called Squad 47, dedicated to hunting the groups down and rolling them up. But Squad 47 itself broke many laws in its attempts to bring the revolutionaries to justice, and its efforts ultimately ended in fiasco.

Drawing on revelatory interviews with members of the underground and the FBI who speak about their experiences for the first time, Days of Rage is a mesmerizing book that takes us into the hearts and minds of homegrown terrorists and federal agents alike and weaves their stories into a spellbinding secret history of the 1970s.

The 'history of ideas', better known these days as intellectual history, is a flourishing field of study which has been the object of much controversy but hardly any historical exploration. This major new work from Donald R. Kelley is the first comprehensive history of intellectual history, tracing the study of the history of thought from ancient, medieval and early modern times, its emergence as the 'history of ideas' in the 18th century, and its subsequent expansion. The point of departure for this study is the perspective opened up by Victor Cousin in the early 19th-century on 'Eclecticism' and its association with the history of philosophy established by Renaissance scholars. Kelley considers a broad range of topics, including the rivalry between 'ideas' and language, the rise of cultural history, the contributions of certain 19th- and 20th-century practitioners of the history of ideas in interdisciplinary areas of philosophy, literature and the sciences, and finally the current state of intellectual history. The central theme of the book is the interplay between the canon of philosophical thought and the tradition of language and textual study, the divergence of the latter marking the 'descent of ideas' into the realm of cultural history.