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    The Chronicle of the...

    The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944

    Paperback, als nieuw

    A devastating, day-by-day record of life in the second-largest Jewish ghetto in Nazi Europe--a community that was reduced from 163,177 people in 1941 to 877 by 1944. Compiled by inhabitants of the ghetto and illustrated with more than seventy haunting photographs, the Chronicle is a document unparalleled among writings on the Holocaust.
    "A remarkable piece of testimony. To read it is to pay the dead the small tribute of remembrance, and to be devastated by a picture of a particular and terrible hell."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
    "The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto tears at the mind and heart and leaves a dark and numbing rage in the center of the soul."--Chaim Potok, The Philadelphia Inquirer
    "Fascinating, disturbing."--Elie Wiesel, The New York Times Book Review
    " Dobroszycki] has done a major service not only to historians and students of the Holocaust, but to all those, both Jews and non-Jews, who are interested in how a tyrannical regime can exploit, starve, and deceive tens of thousands of intelligent, articulate people in time of war."--Martin Gilbert, The New York Review of Books
    "Sober yet unforgettably vivid."--S.S. Prawer, Times Literary Supplement
    "A milestone in Holocaust studies. Its wealth of information and accuracy, and the systematic manner in which it was compiled, makes in an unequalled source on the history of the destruction of European Jewry."--Alexander Zvielli, The Jerusalem Post Magazine
    "Well worth reading as a record of extremes of human experience."--Majorie Meehan, M.D., American Journal of Psychiatry
    "Dr. Dobroszycki is a survivor of the ghetto. He is also a trained historian with a sophisticated, finely honed mind. No one knows as much about these records as he does. No one understands them better."--Raul Hilberg
    Lucjan Dobroszycki is a historian at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Yeshiva University.

    Lucjan Dobroszycki ;

    € 25,00

    Savage Continent....

    Savage Continent. Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

    Engels. Gebonden met stofomslag, als nieuw

    From Keith Lowe, author of the criticall acclaimed Inferno comes an 'extraordinary, disturbing and powerful' (Daily Mail) new history, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II.The Second World War left Europe in chaos. Landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than 35 million people killed. Across most of the continent, the institutions that we now take for granted - such as the police, the media, transport,local and national government - were either entirely absent or hopelessly compromised. Crime rates soared, economies collapsed, and the European population hovered on the brink of starvation.In this groundbreaking study of the years that followed the war, Keith Lowe describes a continent still racked by violence, where large sections of the population had yet to accept that the war was over. He outlines the warped morality and the insatiable urge for vengeance that were the legacy of the conflict. Based on original documents, interviews and scholarly literature in eight different languages, Savage Continent is a window on the brief, chaotic period between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. 'Deeply harrowing, distinctly troubling. Moving, measured and provocative. A compelling and plausible picture of a continent physically and morally brutalized by slaughter' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'Excellent', Independent 'Unbearable but essential. A serious account of things we never knew and our fathers would rather forget. Lowe's transparent prose makes it difficult to look away from a whole catalogue of horrors...you won't sleep afterwards. Such good history it keeps all the questions boiling in your mind', ScotsmanKeith Lowe is widely recognized as an authority on the Second World War, and has often spoken on TV and radio, both in Britain and the United States. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 (Penguin). He lives in north London with his wife and two children.

    Keith Lowe ;

    € 20,00

    The Gene

    The Gene

    In het Engels. Paperback, gebruikssporen, in redelijk tot best wel goede staat. 

    The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
    The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History

    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (Elle).

    “Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself.” —Ken Burns

    “Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost” (The New York Times). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.

    “Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” (The Washington Post). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome.

    “A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. “The Gene is a book we all should read” (USA TODAY).

    Siddhartha Mukherjee ;

    € 7,50

    Ai Weiwei's Blog

    Ai Weiwei's Blog

    Engels. Paperback, in zeer goede staat

    Manifestos and immodest proposals from China's most famous artist and activist, culled from his popular blog, shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009.

    In 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, and autobiographical writings. He wrote about the Sichuan earthquake (and posted a list of the schoolchildren who died because of the government's “tofu-dregs engineering”), reminisced about Andy Warhol and the East Village art scene, described the irony of being investigated for “fraud” by the Ministry of Public Security, made a modest proposal for tax collection. Then, on June 1, 2009, Chinese authorities shut down the blog. This book offers a collection of Ai's notorious online writings translated into English—the most complete, public documentation of the original Chinese blog available in any language.

    The New York Times called Ai “a figure of Warholian celebrity.” He is a leading figure on the international art scene, a regular in museums and biennials, but in China he is a manifold and controversial presence: artist, architect, curator, social critic, justice-seeker. He was a consultant on the design of the famous “Bird's Nest” stadium but called for an Olympic boycott; he received a Chinese Contemporary Art “lifetime achievement award” in 2008 but was beaten by the police in connection with his “citizen investigation” of earthquake casualties in 2009. Ai Weiwei's Blog documents Ai's passion, his genius, his hubris, his righteous anger, and his vision for China.

    Ai Weiwei ;

    € 18,50

    Adolf Hitler. De...

    Adolf Hitler. De beeldbiografie

    Hardcover 30 x 25 cm, al nieuw

    Adolf Hitler. De beeldbiografie' geeft een fascinerend en indringend beeld van de opkomst en ondergang van de dictator en de prominente rol van foto's bij het creëren van de Führermythe. Het naziregime maakte op geraffineerde wijze gebruik van beeldmateriaal om Hitlers populariteit te vergroten. Een stortvloed aan propagandafoto's versterkte zijn zorgvuldig opgebouwde imago. Niet alleen professionele fotografen zetten de toon, maar ook amateurfotografen legden de charismatische Führer vast.0De foto's in dit boek laten zien hoe Hitler van een onbeholpen, maar fanatieke nationaalsocialist transformeerde in een nietsontziende en oorlogszuchtige alleenheerser en uiteindelijk uitgebluste oorlogsleider aan het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Van het zorgvuldig gecreëerde Führerbeeld bleef ten slotte niets over.0Historici Erik Somers en René Kok deden uitvoerig onderzoek in Duitse en internationale fotoarchieven en -collecties. Niet eerder verscheen een zo veelomvattend fotoboek over Hitlers leven en werk gebaseerd op diepgaand foto-historisch onderzoek. Ruim 450 foto's voorzien van uitvoerige bijschriften, plaatsen het fenomeen Hitler in historische context. Op elke afbeelding staat hij centraal of is er een direct verband met zijn persoon. Pers- en propagandafoto's worden afgewisseld door privé- en niet voor publicatie bestemde opnames die - al dan niet bewust - de mens achter de Führer in beeld brengen.

    Erik Somers René Kok ;

    € 15,00
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