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Tim Burford Georgia
Non-fictie
Engels | 360 pagina's | Bradt Travel Guides Ltd, Chalfont St. Peter | 2018
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Hannah Elisa Walsh Terror-organisation
the dawn of the True Islam and the real IRA
Samir and Siobhan, a young Dutch radical Muslim and a young Northern-Irish woman, are radicalising. Samir, from within the fundamentalist Islam, Siobhan from within the real IRA who co-operates with the terror-organisation: The Dawn of the True Islam. This international Islamic terror-organisation has developed a secret weapon: a tiny poisonous ball that is capable of destroying all life within a few minutes in a certain room or building. Siobhan is going to test the secret weapon after her training...
Fictie
Engels | 196 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2021
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James Hynes Sparrow
De herinneringen van een oude man die als klein jongetje rond het jaar 400 in een bordeel terecht komt in de Spaanse stad Nova Carthago.
Fictie
Engels | 449 pagina's | Picador, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Luc Vanacker On that War
Reflections on a Century of Historiography on the Origins of the Great War
Engels | 92 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2021
E-book
Rob de Wijk Power politics
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 a force on the international scene. Offering analyses of such actions as Putin's annexation of the Crimea and China's attempts to claim large parts of the South China Sea, de Wijk explains why power politics...
Non-fictie
Engels | 216 pagina's (ePub2, 5,7 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2015
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Who owns Africa?
neocolonialism, investment, and the new scramble
The independence of African countries from their European colonizers in the late 1950s and 1960s marked a shift in the continent's political leadership. Nevertheless, the economies of African nations remained tied to those of their former colonies, raising questions of resource control and the sovereignty of these nation-states. Who Owns Africa? addresses the role of foreign actors in Africa and their competing interests in exploiting the resources of Africa and its people. An interdisciplinary team...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 2,7 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Titus Dekker Oosterdok
verhalen van een Amsterdamse haven
De geschiedenis vanaf de 17e eeuw van het Oosterdok, het huidige gebied tussen het Centraal Station en het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 144 pagina's (ePub2, 83 MB) | Uitgeverij Walburg Pers, Zutphen | 2021
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CIVITAS, Forum of Archives and Research on Christian Democracy Christian democracy and the fall of communism
The role of Christian Democracy in the collapse of the Communist Bloc. Debates on the role of Christian Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe too often remain strongly tied to national historiographies. With the edited collection the contributing authors aim to reconstruct Christian Democracy's role in the fall of Communism from a bird's-eye perspective by covering the entire region and by taking "third-way" options in the broader political imaginary of late-Cold War Europe into account. The book's...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 3,5 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2019
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Edy Korthals Altes Some reflections on ethical challenges
towards a war-free world
'The spectacular developments in science, technology and the econ'omy confront us with new challenges making it imperative to develop 'global ethics' for an increasingly interdependent world. Serious obstacles are the dynamics of the worldwide market economy, our fascination with endless ‘growth’ on a limited planet and our prevailing attitudes. For many, life has become horizontal, one dimensional, often resulting in a depressing loss of perspective and lack of vision. Fortunately there is a rapidly...
Non-fictie
Engels | 16 pagina's (ePub2, 2,8 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2019
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Edy Korthals Altes Space technology and human security
This paper discusses the use of space technology, focussing on its military applications. The emphasis is on the political and ethical aspects. Space technology is exercising a revolutionary impact not only on our way of life but also in the military field. It does not only comprise a variety of satellites and sensors - serving both civilian and military goals. Countless are the peaceful applications but it cannot be denied that it could also become a nightmare, creating hell on earth. Whether that...
Non-fictie
Engels | 16 pagina's (ePub2, 2,9 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2019
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Daniel Silva A death in Cornwall
Gabriel Allon onderzoekt de verdwijning van een schilderij van Picasso dat in de oorlog is gestolen van een kunstverzamelaar.
Fictie
Engels | 416 pagina's | HarperCollinsPublishers, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
James Baldwin I am not your negro
Non-fictie
Engels | 118 pagina's | Penguin Books, New York | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Koert Debeuf Tribalization
Why war is coming
War is coming. In 'Tribalization' Koert Debeuf depicts war as an inevitable outcome should the current decreasing of democracy and globalization continue. To describe this worldwide process towards more authoritarian nationalism and fundamentalism The author coins the term tribalization to describe this worldwide process, towards a more authoritarian nationalism and fundamentalism, and reminds his readership of the highly similar 1930s. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States,...
Engels | 142 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Academic & Scientific publishers, Brussel | 2018
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The Dutch Sherlock
Forty Years of Detective Work by the Famous Dutch Forensic Pioneer Co van Ledden Hulsebosch
In the beginning of the 20th century, inspired by the Sherlock Holmes novels of Arthur Conan Doyle, scientists began to make their appearance at the crime scene. It was quickly discovered that studying the ‘silent witnesses’, crime-related physical evidence and traces, could provide a wealth of information. In many countries pioneers started to shape this new science area by formulating key principles and introducing novel methods and instrumentation. In the Netherlands, Co van Ledden Hulsebosch...
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub2) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2024
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Laura Manzano Baena Conflicting words
the Peace Treaty of Münster (1648) and the political culture of the Dutch Republic and the Spanish monarchy
The Peace of Münster, signed between the Catholic Monarchy and the United Provinces in 1648, went against the political culture of both polities. The fact that the Spanish Monarchy definitively accepted the independence of its former subjects clearly negated the policy put forward by the Monarchy during the 'eighty' years that the war lasted and to the Monarchy's declared main goals. For the United Provinces, signing a peace with the archenemy without having brought liberty and religious freedom...
Non-fictie
Engels | 284 pagina's (PDF, 2,4 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Peter Van Kemseke Towards an era of development
the globalization of socialism and Christian democracy, 1945-1965
A world of difference separates global politics in 1945 from 1965. In the twenty years after the second world war, a 'Third World' was added to the Cold War concepts of the 'First' and 'Second' worlds, and post-war decolonization had ushered in an 'era of development'. For the first time ever, theories and policies to eradicate underdevelopment became prominent on the global agenda and advanced to the top priority on the United Nations' agenda. This international evolution inevitably had a dramatic...
Non-fictie
Engels | 324 pagina's (PDF, 3,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Benjamin Roberts Sex, Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll in Rembrandt’s Time
Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in Rembrandt's Time focuses on the generation of rich young men that grew up in the seventeenth century in the Dutch Republic. These men had more money to spend on clothes, music, and recreation than the generation before them. This fascinating account of male adolescence in the Dutch Republic reveals how young men including Rembrandt van Rijn disregarded conservative values and rebelled against the older generation, and consequently created a new youth culture that was...
Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 5,4 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2024
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Chris Spriet We werden honderd jaar ouder
dichters over de Eerste Wereldoorlog
Non-fictie
Duits | Engels | Frans | Nederlands | 355 pagina's | Davidsfonds, Leuven | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Jaapjan Zeeberg Five journeys
through the Arctic and a new Russia in search of Willem Barents
This is a book about the amazing journey of people discovering the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya, looking for traces of a small historical event against the backdrop of the ending of the Soviet Union. At the start of the age of exploration, the North Pole was believed to be hiding a continent, a land mass warmed by the midnight sun still inspiring today's 'Lost World' fantasies. In the summer of 1596, two ships departed from Amsterdam to sail by its shores. The nine-month struggle for survival of...
Engels | PDF, 24 MB | Aspect Publishers, Soesterberg | 2023
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Bert Thurlings Mysterious gods, the creators of megalithic structures and Inca fortresses
ancient engineers, rulers of the world
Bert Thurlings goes in search of the truth behind human history. He starts his quest very simply by investigating what we actually know about the many remarkable megalithic stone constructions that can be seen all over the world. He soon discovers that something is not right: dates are unproven and what technology was used remains a mystery. Thurlings searches further and ends up in the literature on Sumer and other countries. Everywhere the same story emerges: world catastrophes and 'gods' who may...
Engels | ePub2 | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2023
E-book
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