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    The Prince (Complete...

    The Prince (Complete and unabridged)

    Engelstalige hardcover met stofomslag, mooi exemplaar, nog helemaal als nieuw. Like New.

    Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics. As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolo Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince, his tough-minded, pragmatic handbook on how power really works, made his name notorious and has remained controversial ever since. How can a leader be strong and decisive, yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? When is it necessary to break the rules? Is it better to be feared than loved? Examining regimes and their rulers the world over and throughout history, from Roman Emperors to renaissance Popes, from Hannibal to Cesare di Borgia, Machievalli answers all these questions in a work of realpolitik that still has shrewd political lessons for today. Tim Parks's acclaimed contemporary translation renders Machiavelli's no-nonsense original as alarming and enlightening as when it was first written. His introduction discusses Machiavelli's life and reputation, and explores the historical background to the work. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was born in Florence, and served the Florentine republic as a secretary and second chancellor, as ambassador and foreign policy-maker. When the Medici family returned to power in 1512 he was suspected of conspiracy, imprisoned and tortured and forced to retire from public life. His most famous work, The Prince, was written in an attempt to gain favour with the Medicis and return to politics.

    Niccolo Machiavelli;

    € 9,50

    Schorem

    Schorem

    Mooi ex. Ppb, als nieuw.

    Toen lsaac Bashevis Singer in 1991, op 87 jarige leeftijd overleed, had hij nog heel wat onuitgegeven werk in portefeuille. Verbazingwekkend genoeg blijkt veel van het nagelaten werk tot het beste te behoren wat Singer heeft geschreven. Met de roman Schorem keren we weer helemaal terug naar de Joods-Poolse wereld van Singers jeugd, die hij zo schitterend heeft beschreven in Het hof van mijn vader. Max Barabander, die zich van doodgewone dief in de straten van Warschau heeft opgewerkt tot succesvol zakenman in Zuid-Amerika, wordt geconfronteerd met de dood van zijn 17 jarige zoon. Zijn vrouw toont zich vanaf dat moment afkerig van elke liefdesdaad, waardoor Max zich bedreigd ziet door impotentie. Op medisch advies keert hij terug naar de wereld van zijn jeugd, de Krochmalna-straat in Warschau, de bakermat van zijn vroeger zo schilderachtige onderwereldleven. Met zijn angst voor impotentie is Max een gemakkelijke prooi voor vrouwen, hij valt voor maar liefst 5 vrouwen tegelijk. Tegenover Tsireie, de mooie dochter van een heilig gewaande rabbi, doet hij zich voor als weduwnaar en hij probeert haar te bedwelmen met het vooruitzicht van een zuiver, romantisch huwelijk. Maar hij raakt tegelijkertijd ook verstrikt in de wurggreep van Reyzi Kork, de maîtresse van een lokale gangster. De 3 andere vrouwen, Esther, Basha, en Theresa klampen zich aan hem vast in wanhopige pogingen te ontsnappen aan een uitzichtloos bestaan. Max acht zich in staat een geheel nieuw leven te beginnen, hij geneest van zijn impotentie, maar de geestelijke verwarring waarin hij verzeild raakt, dwingt hem uiteindelijk tot een noodlottige manoeuvre...

    Isaac Bashevis Singer; Bartho Kriek (vertaling);

    € 6,50

    The Killing of History

    The Killing of History

    Mooi ex. Engelstalige hardcover met stofomslag, als nieuw, like new.

    "For 2,500 years, since the time of Herodotus and Thucydides, historians have sought to record the truth about the past. Today, however, the discipline is suffering a potentially lethal attach from the rise to prominence of an array of French-inspired literary and social theories, each of which denies that truth and knowledge about the past are possible. These theories claim the central point on which history was founded no longer holds: there is no fundamental distinction between history and myth or between history and fiction." "Historians in classrooms from Berkeley to Paris have embraced these views, and an increasing number of literary critics and social theorists now feel free to define their own work as history and to call themselves historians. The result is revolutionary: historians have not only changed how history is taught, they are also increasingly obscuring the very facts on which the truth must be built. In The Killing of History, Keith Windschuttle offers both a devastating expose of the absurdity of these developments and a defense of the integrity of Western intellectual traditions which are now so widely attacked." "Windschuttle examines exactly what is being taught about Columbus' discovery of the New World, the history of asylums and prisons in Europe; the fall of Communism in 1989, and the Battle of Quebec in 1759. He offers a much needed defense of traditional history as a properly scientific endeavor and argues that the great works of history should still be regarded as among the finest forms of Western literature."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

    Keith Windschuttle ;

    € 10,00

    Shallow Seas

    Shallow Seas

    Mooi ex. Engelstalige paperback, iets dikker formaat, nog helemaal in nieuwstaat. LIKE NEW. Geillustreerd in kleur.

    Shallow Seas are the most biologically rich and productive areas of the world ocean. This latest New Naturalist volume provides a natural history of this environment and its biological communities.

    The margins of the continents, especially broad in the North Atlantic region, are drowned by shallow seas, creating a sea floor environment which is part of the wider and deepening benthic realm – the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean or a lake, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. These ‘shelf seas’ are the most biologically rich and productive areas of the world ocean. In his latest New Naturalist volume, Peter Hayward addresses some aspects of the natural history of the benthic environment of the shelf seas of northwest Europe and its biological communities.

    Away from rocky coastlines the seafloor is rather flat, often muddy, beneath turbid water with low or no visibility. Benthic faunas mostly live within the sediment of the seafloor, or are sparsely and patchily distributed upon it, and if at all motile are likely to withdraw into burrows or move quickly away on disturbance. Yet, dredges and grabs reveal an often extraordinary diversity and density of animals, suggestive of complex interacting communities. This is not a textbook of marine benthic ecology, nor is it a comprehensive review of the benthic communities of the northwest European shelf seas. Rather, it describes the natural history of some benthic habitats and associations characteristic of our region.

    Peter Hayward;

    € 32,99
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