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Verhalen over gebeurtenissen in Nederland en zijn koloniën in de 17e eeuw van mensen uit die tijd.

In dit overzicht van de algemene geschiedenis der Middeleeuwen komt alles aan de orde wat in het tertiaire onderwijs behandeld wordt. Tegelijk is het echter voor vele andere belangstellenden aantrekkelijk, doordat het op heldere wijze de kennis samenvat die schrijvers van monografieen over speciale onderwerpen bij hun lezers bekend veronderstellen. Naast de algemene geschiedenis en de historische ontwikkeling van de grote buurlanden komt ook de geschiedenis van de Lage Landen uitvoerig ter sprake. In de nieuwe editie zijn de opzet en het bijzondere karakter van dit inmiddels klassieke boek gehandhaafd. Toegevoegd werden inleidende teksten bij ieder hoofdstuk en een vijftiental kaarten.

The astounding historic espionage operation on that propelled America into World War I. The Zimmerman telegram was a top-secret message to the President of Mexico, inviting Mexico to join Germany and Japan in a invasion on the U.S.

Guy de Maupasssant publiceerde in tien jaar meer dan twintig verhalenbundels en een handvol romans. Een leven als een meteoor, dat bepaald werd door sport, schrijven en seksueel vertier.

Bundel prozafragmenten en gedichten.

Briefwisseling tussen de Nederlandse schrijfster (1740-1805) en haar vrienden, voornamelijk de in Den Haag verblijvende Zwitserse kolonel Constant d'Hermenches (1722-1785).

Bevat naast brieven aan Constant d'Hermenches, een polemische uitval tegen Mmde de Staël in het pamflet 'Aanklacht en verdediging van Thérèse LeVasseur (= vrouw van J. J. Rousseau) en de roman 'Drie vrouwen'. 'Drie vrouwen' gaat over Emilie, van wie de ouders zijn omgekomen in de strijd van de Franse Revolutie. Zij vlucht met haar toegewijde dienstmeid, Josephine, de tweede vrouw, naar het Duitse Altendorf. Daar ontmoeten zij de bemiddelde Constance. Deze derde vrouw wordt de eerste twee in de schoot geworpen doordat zij bij hen voor de deur een ernstig ongeluk met haar koets krijgt. Constance besluit het huisje naast dat van Emilie en Josephine te betrekken. Vervolgens belanden ze in allerlei amoureuze verwikkelingen, die aanleiding zijn tot uiteenlopende gedachtes over moraal, huwelijk en plicht.

Geschiedschrijving van de oudste vrijmetselaarsloge in Nederland.

Dodenbezweerder, sterrenwichelaar, alchemist - Johannes Faust (1480-1540) was van alle markten thuis. Maar het was zijn pact met de duivel dat hem tot een van de geliefdste personages in het theater en de literatuur maakte. Een levenslange fascinatie voor de Duitse magiër zette Pieter Steinz aan tot een reis door de tijd en door Europa, op zoek naar de ziel van Faust. Wat weten we over zijn leven? In welke Nederlandse kastelen spookte hij rond? Waarom lieten schrijvers en kunstenaars als Goethe, Delacroix, Murnau, Mann, Mulisch en Nick Cave zich door hem inspireren? Hoe werd hij misbruikt door dominees, patriotten, communisten en nazi's? En wat heeft hij ons vandaag de dag nog te zeggen?

Biografie van de Frans-Nederlandse schrijfster.

Robert van Gulik was een bijzonder veelzijdig man een kenner zonder weerga van de Chinese en Japanse taal en cultuur kalligraaf schrijver en diplomaat Hij vertaalde met evenveel gemak Tibetaanse en Sanskriet teksten als javaanse wajangverhalen Wereldwijde bekendheid verkreeg hij vooral door zijn spannende Rechter Tie-detectiveromans Maar ook zijn andere, geleerde boeken blijven hun waarde behouden, zoals dat over de klassieke Chinese luit en zijn standaardwerk over het seksuele leven In het oude China Van Gulik was evenzeer thuis in China en Japan als in Europa en leefde in die zin ‘drie levens’ Zijn loopbaan als diplomaat, die hem na China en japan naar Indie, het Midden-Oosten en Maleisië bracht, eindigde in Japan en Korea, waar hij gelijktijdig als ambassadeur diende. Hij stierf In 1967, op zevenenvijftigjarige leeftijd. t Van Gulik komt in deze boeiende biografie naar voren als een geleerde met schelmse trekken en grote humor; een bekwaam diplomaat, maar die geheel zijn gang gaat, niet in hiërarchische termen denkt en zich meer interesseert voor de cultuur dan voor de politiek, meer voor de mensen, de dieren, de dingen om hem heen dan voor de glamour van zijn beroep. Zijn kleurrijke leven en zijn werk worden door de auteurs op levendige wijze getekend. Daarbij wordt onder andere gebruik gemaakt van Robert van Guliks zakagenda'’s en nagelaten autobiografische aantekeningen, waaruit ruimschoots wordt geciteerd. Zo komt in deze levensbeschrijving ook de beschrevene zelf aan het woord. DRS. C.D. BARKMAN is sinoloog en oud-diplomaat. Hij kende Van Gulik goed en is evenals hij ambassadeur geweest in Korea en Japan. MEVROUW DRS. H. DE VRIES-VAN DER HOEVEN is eveneens sinoloog, was zelf in de buitenlandse dienst en trouwde met een Nederlands diplomaat. Zij en haar man waren met Van Gulik bevriend en dienden onder hem in Tokio.

Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace.

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history.

Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.

The final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy is devoted to processes of global social change induced by interaction between networks and identity.

This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all aspects of society Includes coverage of the influence of the internet and the net-economy Describes the accelerating pace of innovation and social transformation Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe.

The Power of Identity is the second volume of Manuel Castells' trilogy, The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture. It deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy. It analyzes the importance of cultural, religious, and national identities as sources of meaning for people, and the implications of these identities for social movements. It studies grassroots mobilizations against the unfettered globalization of wealth and power, and considers the formation of alternative projects of social organization, as represented by the environmental movement and the women's movement. It also analyzes the crisis of the nation-state and its transformation into a network state, and the effects on political democracies of the difficulties of international governance and the submission of political representation to the dictates of media politics and the politics of scandal. This substantially expanded second edition updates and elaborates the analysis of these themes, adding new sections on al-Qaeda and global terrorist networks, on the anti-globalization movement, on American unilateralism and the conflicts of global governance, on the crisis of political legitimacy throughout the world, and on the theory of the network state.

An analysis of how technological, economic, and social change are steering us toward a depression provides a personal economic survival plan that includes hundreds of investment tips and forecasts and a list of troubled and sound banks.

Michael Covel reveals the "underground" network of little-known traders and hedge fund managers who've been using trend following for decades. He introduces its fundamental concepts and techniques, showing why market prices contain all the information investors need, and how to understand price movements well enough to profit from them. Using 100 pages of easy-to-understand charts from top trend followers, Covel proves the strategy works - and shows why only a technical system based on following price trends can win over the long term. Covel presents more than a decade's worth of data: information you'd otherwise pay a fortune to see presented this clearly. He also shows even more backtested trend following results, so you can gain even greater confidence in the method. Along the way, Covel thoroughly debunks misinformation and failed advice from pros who ought to know better. This timely book capitalizes on today's intense volatility and uncertainty to give investors what they're desperately searching for: a strategy that really works.

The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself.

Here is the story of a precarious childhood, with an alcoholic father (who would die when she was nine) and a devoted but overburdened mother, and of the refuge a little girl took from the turmoil at home with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother. But it was when she was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes that the precocious Sonia recognized she must ultimately depend on herself.  She would learn to give herself the insulin shots she needed to survive and soon imagined a path to a different life. With only television characters for her professional role models, and little understanding of what was involved, she determined to become a lawyer, a dream that would sustain her on an unlikely course, from valedictorian of her high school class to the highest honors at Princeton, Yale Law School, the New York County District Attorney’s office, private practice, and appointment to the Federal District Court before the age of forty. Along the way we see how she was shaped by her invaluable mentors, a failed marriage, and the modern version of extended family she has created from cherished friends and their children. Through her still-astonished eyes, America’s infinite possibilities are envisioned anew in this warm and honest book, destined to become a classic of self-invention and self-discovery.

'Nooit', schreef de Haagse Post in 1983, 'is een Nederlands politicus dieper gevallen dan Willem Aantjes; een val die alleen zo diep kon zijn omdat ook nooit zo in een politicus was geloofd'.

Op maandag 6 november 1978 kwam met een daverende klap een einde aan de carrière van een man die op dat moment gold als de machtigste en meest integere politicus van Nederland. Volgens een rapport van directeur Loe de Jong van het Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (RIOD) zou CDA-fractievoorzitter Aantjes in de oorlog lid zijn geweest van de Waffen-SS en als kampbewaker hebben gewerkt in Drenthe.

In De val van een Bergredenaar wordt aan de hand van tal van nieuwe documenten en gegevens het dramatische levensverhaal van Aantjes verteld. Zijn jeugd in de Alblasserwaard, de oorlogsjaren in het Duitse Güstrow en in kamp Port Natal in Assen en zijn opmars op het Binnenhof, waar hij zich ontpopte van een conservatieve antirevolutionaire backbencher tot een bevlogen 'Bergredenaar'. Uitgebreid wordt stilgestaan bij de cruciale rol die Aantjes speelde ten tijde van het christen-democratische eenwordingsproces en bij de rumoerige kabinetsformaties van 1973 en 1977. En natuurlijk is er ruim aandacht voor de dramatische gebeurtenissen die leidden tot zijn met complottheorieën omgeven val en de jaren in onvrijwillige ballingschap die volgden.

The Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, has explored a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more "dispassionate" notions held by most cognitive psychologists, political scientists, and economists—and Democratic campaign strategists. The idea of the mind as a cool calculator that makes decisions by weighing the evidence bears no relation to how the brain actually works. When political candidates assume voters dispassionately make decisions based on "the issues," they lose. That's why only one Democrat has been re-elected to the presidency since Franklin Roosevelt—and only one Republican has failed in that quest.

In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins. Elections are decided in the marketplace of emotions, a marketplace filled with values, images, analogies, moral sentiments, and moving oratory, in which logic plays only a supporting role. Westen shows, through a whistle-stop journey through the evolution of the passionate brain and a bravura tour through fifty years of American presidential and national elections, why campaigns succeed and fail. The evidence is overwhelming that three things determine how people vote, in this order: their feelings toward the parties and their principles, their feelings toward the candidates, and, if they haven't decided by then, their feelings toward the candidates' policy positions.

Westen turns conventional political analyses on their head, suggesting that the question for Democratic politics isn't so much about moving to the right or the left but about moving the electorate. He shows how it can be done through examples of what candidates have said—or could have said—in debates, speeches, and ads. Westen's discoveries could utterly transform electoral arithmetic, showing how a different view of the mind and brain leads to a different way of talking with voters about issues that have tied the tongues of Democrats for much of forty years—such as abortion, guns, taxes, and race. You can't change the structure of the brain. But you can change the way you appeal to it. And here's how…

In the late summer of 2007, shares of Northern Rock went into free-fall, causing a run on the bank - the first in over 150 years. Northern Rock proved to be only the first. Twelve months later, as the world was engulfed in the worst banking crisis for more than a century, one of its largest banks, RBS, came within hours of collapse. Back from the Brink tells the gripping story of Alistair Darling's one thousand days in Number 11 Downing Street. As Chancellor, he had to avert the collapse of RBS hours before the cash machines would have ceased to function; at the eleventh hour, he stopped Barclays from acquiring Lehman Brothers in order to protect UK taxpayers; he used anti-terror legislation to stop Icelandic banks from withdrawing funds from Britain. From crisis talks in Washington, to dramatic meetings with the titans of international banking, to dealing with the massive political and economic fallout in the UK, Darling places the reader in the rooms where the destinies of millions weighed heavily on the shoulders of a few. His book is also a candid account of life in the Downing Street pressure cooker and his relationship with Gordon Brown during the last years of New Labour. Back from the Brink is a vivid and immediate depiction of the British government's handling of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe. Alistair Darling's knowledge and understanding provide a unique perspective on the events that rocked international capitalism. It is also a vital historical document.

The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, Diane Coyle argues, is a reckless disregard for the future--especially in the way the economy is run. How can we achieve the financial growth we need today without sacrificing a decent future for our children, our societies, and our planet? How can we realize what Coyle calls "the Economics of Enough"?

Running the economy for tomorrow as well as today will require a wide range of policy changes. The top priority must be ensuring that we get a true picture of long-term economic prospects, with the development of official statistics on national wealth in its broadest sense, including natural and human resources. Saving and investment will need to be encouraged over current consumption. Above all, governments will need to engage citizens in a process of debate about the difficult choices that lie ahead and rebuild a shared commitment to the future of our societies.

Creating a sustainable economy--having enough to be happy without cheating the future--won't be easy. But The Economics of Enough starts a profoundly important conversation about how we can begin--and the first steps we need to take.

A jarring and compelling analysis of the inevitability of war. As the Cold War fades, leaders and theorists alike speak of a new era, when democracy and open trade will join hands to banish outright war. With insight and irreverence worthy of The Prince, John Mearsheimer exposes the truth behind this idyllic rhetoric: in a world where no international authority reigns, hegemony is the only insurance of security. Of little consequence are trade, treaties, or the bonds of international organizations; because even an ally's intentions are uncertain, states must be ready to strike first when danger lurks. Having exploded onto the scene with his sensational Atlantic article, Mearsheimer has forged his bracing analysis in the heated policy debates following the fall of the Soviet Union. Here is the culmination of a provocative careera tour de force that formally advances his theory of "offensive realism" and, as supporting evidence, unveils a comprehensive, eye-opening history of modern states and their hawkish ways. With its authority and unrelenting honesty, this book will invigorate academics, vex politicians, and excite even the casual observer of international affairs.

Dit boek gaat over een aantal ervaringen van J.A. van Kemenade gedurende een periode van dertig jaar, waarin hij verschillende functies in de politiek en het openbaar bestuur heeft vervuld. Zo was hij Minister van Onderwijs in twee kabinetten, lid van de Tweede Kamer, voorzitter van het College van Bestuur van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, burgemeester van Eindhoven en commissaris van de Koningin in Noord-Holland.

It's Wall Street's most painful paradox. Investors are more sophisticated than ever, are enabled by unprecedented technology, and protected by more government oversight and regulation than at any other time in history. Yet Wall Street is becoming a riskier and riskier place. Crashes and catastrophic losses seem commonplace. Hedge funds wreck on the financial shoals with a disturbingly familiar pattern. Worse, today's financial crises do not arise from economic instability or acts of nature, but from the very design of the financial markets themselves.

In A Demon of Our Own Design, Richard Bookstaber paints a vivid picture of a financial world that is ever edging toward disaster. As a hedge fund 'rocket scientist,' Bookstaber provides an insider's perspective to the tumultuous management decisions made by some of the world's most powerful financial figures from Warren Buffett to Sandy Weill to John Meriwether,as well as recounting his own contribution to market calamities. He designed some of the complex options and derivatives that, combined with the globalization of the world's markets and the ever-increasing speed of transactions, allow markets to slide out of control. And he explains why the best efforts of institutions on the front lines to create safeguards, manage risk, and regulate the markets may end up contributing to instability. Bookstaber argues that many of the financial innovations and regulations that are supposed to level the playing field instead make the markets more dangerous for all the players, big and small.

Drawing on his intimate knowledge of such infamous disasters as the 1987 Crash and the demise of Long-Term Capital Management, Bookstaber identifies the key areas that make markets vulnerable: liquidity that begets greater leverage; innovation that creates greater complexity; and a structure that demands a nonhuman level of rationality. The twofold solution he suggests—reducing complexity and breaking the tight coupling of transactions—goes against the prevailing winds of Wall Street, but will lead to a more robust and survivable market.

Dit boek is een poging om ernst te maken met de beschrijving van de geschiedenis en de voorgeschiedenis van de Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen Utrecht. Het is geschreven in het besef dat er sprake is van een, en niet van de geschiedenis van deze faculteit. De auteurs zijn erin geslaagd een interessant boek samen te stellen, dat een rijke historische context verschaft voor het werk, onderwijs en onderzoek, in de faculteit. Het toont aan dat alle diepgaande discussies uit het verleden niet voor niets waren en maakt duidelijk dat de Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen Utrecht vitaal, springlevend en succesvol is en een beloftevolle toekomst heeft. Deze geschiedenis leert, dat wetenschap een eigen dynamiek kent, die niet maakbaar is in de zin van bestuurlijk maakbaar. Faculteiten zijn er om succesvolle, hoogwaardige wetenschapsbeoefening te faciliteren en maximaal uit te baten.

In The Chinese, Jasper Becker, China's premier western correspondent, strips the country of its myths and captures the Chinese as they really live. For nearly two decades Becker has lived in China, and reported from areas where most visitors do not reach. Here he is at his most candid, reporting from all over the country: from tiny, crowded homes in the swollen cities of the southeast rim to a vast, secret network of thousands of defense bunkers in the northwest. He exposes Chinese society in all of its layers: from remote, illiterate peasants; to the rising classes of businessmen; to local despots; the twenty grades of Party apparatchicks; to the dominant, comparatively small caste of Party leaders who are often ignorant of the people they rule.Becker lets the Chinese speak for themselves, in voices that are rich and moving. He teaches a great deal about the magnitude--and the false face--of China's vaunted economic boom, and further shows the pervasive institutionalized crime that has risen out of economic poverty. In all, Becker reveals a China very different than our long-held assumptions depict. The Chinese is the hidden story of people of the world's largest nation--a nation so poorly understood and so vital to the future.

The Chinese and U.S. economies have been locked in an uncomfortable embrace since the late 1970s. Although the relationship initially arose out of mutual benefits, in recent years it has taken on the trappings of an unstable codependence, with the two largest economies in the world losing their sense of self, increasing the risk of their turning on one another in a destructive fashion. In Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China Stephen Roach, senior fellow at Yale University and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, lays bare the pitfalls of the current China-U.S. economic relationship. He highlights the conflicts at the center of current tensions, including disputes over trade policies and intellectual property rights, sharp contrasts in leadership styles, the role of the Internet, the recent dispute over cyberhacking, and more. A firsthand witness to the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, Roach likely knows more about the U.S.-China economic relationship than any other Westerner. Here he discusses: * Why America saving too little and China saving too much creates mounting problems for both* How China is planning to re-boot its economic growth model by moving from an external export-led model to one of internal consumerism with a new focus on service industries* How America, shows a disturbing lack of strategy, preferring a short-term reactive approach over a more coherent Chinese-style planning framework* The way out: what America could do to turn its own economic fate around and position itself for a healthy economic and political relationship with China In the wake of the 2008 crisis, both unbalanced economies face urgent and mutually beneficial rebalancings. Unbalanced concludes with a recipe for resolving the escalating tensions of codependence. Roach argues that the Next China offers much for the Next America-and vice versa.