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Rutger Bregman Utopia for realists
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Engels | 316 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London | 2018
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Larry Loftis The watchmaker's daughter
the true story of World War II heroine Corrie ten Boom
Verhalende biografie van de Haarlemse horlogemaker en verzetsstrijder Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), die samen met haar familie onderdak bood aan Joodse onderduikers tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en concentratiekamp Ravensbrück overleefde.
Non-fictie
Engels | 370 pagina's | William Morrow, New York | 2023
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Colin McEvedy Cities of the classical world
an atlas and gazetteer of 120 centres of ancient civilization
From Alexandria to York, this unique guide shows us the great centres of classical civilization afresh. The book's key feature is 120 specially-drawn maps tracing each city's thoroughfares and defences, monuments and places of worship. Every map is to the same scale, allowing readers for the first time to appreciate visually the relative sizes of Babylon and Paris, London and Constantinople. There are also clear, incisive commentaries on each city's development, strategic importance, rulers and ordinary...
Engels | 432 pagina's | Penguin Books, [London] | 2019
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Revolutionary worlds
local perspectives and dynamics during the Indonesian Independence War, 1945-1949
'Revolutionary Worlds' looks at the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) from a local and regional perspective. In several contributions, Indonesian and Dutch researchers bring to life the revolutionary world from widely differing perspectives. The authors explain how Indonesian, Chinese, Indian and Eurasian civilians, fighters, farmers and officials experienced and shaped the chaotic period between 1945 and 1950. The book focuses on survival strategies, mobilization, and the use of force against the...
Non-fictie
Engels | 527 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2023
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Abigail Williams The social life of books
reading together in the eighteenth-century home
Non-fictie
Engels | 351 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven | 2019
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Dan Saladino Eating to extinction
the world's rarest foods and why we need to save them
Non-fictie
Engels | 450 pagina's | Vintage, London | 2023
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Venu Rajamony India and the Netherlands
past, present & future
Non-fictie
Engels | 251 pagina's | Bombay Ink, [Groningen] | 2019
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Jason Stanley How fascism works
the politics of us and them
portret
Engels | 218 pagina's | Random House, New York | 2020
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Dipo Faloyin Africa is not a country
breaking stereotypes of modern Africa
Engels | 380 pagina's | Harvill Secker, London | 2022
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Guy Arnold Africa
a modern history: 1945-2015
Engels | 1077 pagina's | Atlantic Books, London | 2017
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Rebecca Solnit Hope in the Dark
Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. Hope in the Dark traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - from the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq. Following in the footsteps of the last century's thinkers - including Woolf, Gandhi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel - Solnit conjures a timeless vision of cause and effect...
Engels | Canongate Books, Edinburgh | 2016
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Noam Chomsky Global discontents
conversations on the rising threats to democracy
In de loop van tien gesprekken met David Barsamian uit de jaren 2013-2016, bepleit Chomsky radicale veranderingen in een systeem dat onmogelijk kan omgaan met wat er morgen te wachten staat.
Engels | 227 pagina's | Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, London | 2017
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Nicholas Spencer Magisteria
the entangled histories of science and religion
Engels | 467 pagina's | Oneworld, London | 2024
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Alev Scott Ottoman odyssey
travels through a lost empire
Engels | 292 pagina's | Riverrun, London | 2018
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John Lewis Gaddis On grand strategy
Engels | 368 pagina's | Penguin Books, [United States of America] | 2019
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Robert Stopforth Arnhem after Arnhem
The Arnhem and Oosterbeek Civilians Fight for Survival
Engels | 203 pagina's | Leo Feijten, Arnhem | 2022
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Peter Frankopan The earth transformed
an untold history
De geschiedenis van de aarde, het klimaat in relatie tot de geschiedenis van de mens.
Non-fictie
Engels | 696 pagina's | Bloomsbury Publishing, London | 2024
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Andreas Marks Japan journeys
famous woodblock prints of cultural sights in Japan
Engels | 168 pagina's | Tuttle Publishing, Tokyo | 2015
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J. Bradford DeLong Slouching towards utopia
an economic history of the twentieth century
Non-fictie
Engels | 605 pagina's | Basic Books, London | 2023
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