Amsterdam: 304 books
by Hans Luiten, Sven de Graaf
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Bijna vier jaar na het begin van de Arabische lente is het Midden-Oosten grotendeels veranderd in een conflictzone waar landen elkaar bestrijden, burgeroorlogen uitgevochten worden en de Islamitische Staat (IS) de chaos heeft aangegrepen om een moorddadig bewind in te stellen. Er gaat vrijwel geen...
The big reset revised edition
war on gold and the financial endgame
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
A system reset seems imminent. The world's financial system will need to find a new anchor before the year 2020. Since the beginning of the credit crisis, the US realized the dollar will lose its role as the world's reserve currency, and has been planning for a monetary reset. According to Willem...
by Leo Samama
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
For virtually all of our lives, we are surrounded by music. From lullabies to radio to the praises sung in houses of worship, we encounter music at home and in the street, during work and in our leisure time, and not infrequently at birth and death. But what is music, and what does it mean to humans?...
Three months in Mao's China
between the great leap forward and the cultural revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher traveled for the first time to China, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar,...
Le Fils naturel ou Les Epreuves de la vertu
Comédie en 5 actes et en prose - Avec l’Histoire véritable de la Piece ( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: November 3, 2018
Clairville prie son ami Dorval, un jeune homme d’origine inconnue mais riche, beau, estimé et vertueux, de plaider sa cause auprès de Rosalie qu’il adore. Lorsque celui-ci le fait, Rosalie dit à Dorval que c’est lui qu’elle aime. Bien accueilli dans la famille de Clairville où vit également...
Le père de famille
Comedie, en cinq actes, et en prose ( Edition intégrale )
Language: French
Release Date: November 3, 2018
Saint Albin est amoureux de Sophie, une modeste ouvrière d’origine inconnue, et veut l’épouser. Ses projets sont contrariés par son père et celle du beau-frère de celui-ci, le vieux Commandeur d’Auvillé, ancien militaire, très conservateur, qui essaie de faire enfermer Sophie au couvent....
Power Politics
how China and Russia reshape the world
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
We tend to think of ourselves as living in a time when nations, for the most part, obey the rule of law - and where they certainly don't engage in the violent grabs for territory that have characterised so much of human history. But as Rob de Wijk shows in this book, power politics very much remains...
Turbulence
a corporate perspective on collaborating for resilience
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The ever tighter coupling of our food, water and energy systems, in the context of a changing climate is leading to increasing turbulence in the world. As a consequence, it becomes ever more crucial to develop cities, regions, and economies with resilience in mind. Because of their global reach, substantial...
The TESLA revolution
why big oil is losing the energy war
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
We burnt our oil supplies up so fast that the era of cheap oil is over. Finally there is a widespread recognition for the need to move to a post-fossil fuel age. Yet promises of too cheap to meter nuclear, household power stations, the hydrogen economy, or abundant bio-based fuels, all remain dreams....
Les Épaves
( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Les Épaves est un recueil de poèmes de Charles Baudelaire publié en 1866. Ce recueil est composé de tous les poèmes ayant été retirés des Fleurs du mal après le procès de 1861 pour « outrage à la morale publique et aux bonnes mœurs »
LES EPAVES
I LE COUCHER DU SOLEIL ROMANTIQUE
PIECES...
Art and politics
between purity and propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
At first glance, art and politics seem like they couldn't be more separate, with politics focused on the grubbiness of everyday reality and art busily creating a fantasy world of creative expression. Yet the two realms frequently come together, and the collision can be fiery. This book explores the...
Higher Education in 2040
a global approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This book explores the future of modern higher education by looking at it on a global scale. Bert van der Zwaan compares European developments with those taking place in North America and Asia to argue that the phoenix of an entirely new type of university will rise from the ashes of the classical...
Vreemdelingen in hun eigen land
een reis door rechts Amerika
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 29, 2017
In 'Vreemdelingen in hun eigen land' verlaat de beroemde socioloog Arlie Hochschild Californië, haar progressief linkse, kosmopolitische enclave vol gelijkgestemden, en trekt vijf jaar op met haar rechtse landgenoten in Louisiana, een van de armste en meest conservatieve staten van Amerika. Daar...
Kapitalisme zonder remmen
opkomst en ondergang van het marktfundamentalisme
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Opkomst en ondergang van het marktfundalisme De drie decennia na de Tweede Wereldoorlog worden wel de Gouden Jaren genoemd. Er was sprake van een aanhoudende, sterke economische groei en er werd gewerkt aan de opbouw van de moderne verzorgingsstaat. Met de Grote Crisis van de vorige eeuw in het collectieve...