Dit boek biedt een linguistische rondreis over de wereld en legt de oorsprong, de karakteristieken en de onderlinge verbanden van de vele talen bloot die over de wereld gesproken worden. Het boek is opgebouwd per regio en is geillustreerd met een overvloed aan kaarten en foto´s.Fontaine, 2008; 288 pp.; NL; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 29,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,90Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 67 %
Admiral John Benbow was an English naval hero, a fighting sailor of ruthless methods and indomitable courage. Benbow was a man to be reckoned with. Sam Willis tells the extraordinary story of Admiral Benbow through an age of dramatic change, from his birth under Cromwell's Commonwealth, to service under the restored Stuart monarchy, to the French wars of Louis XIV, to the bitter betrayal of 1702. It covers all aspects of 17th-century naval life.Quercus, 2010; 410 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 34,95 Voor/Our Price € 14,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 57 %
Countless scholars have laboured to uncover the facts behind Whittaker Chambers' shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1948 that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist en engaged in espionage. Here Susan Jacoby focuses on the case, including Hiss's trial and imprisonment for perjury, not as a set of historical facts but as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions.Yale, 2009; 256 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 24,00 Voor/Our Price € 9,90Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 59 %
Harvey dissects the long, complicated, and fascinating relationship between America and Japan through a dual biography of the shogun Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito and the rival systems they represented. Overlook, 2006; 480 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 35,00 Voor/Our Price € 10,98Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 69 %
A beautiful society wife from St. Petersburg, determined to live life on her own terms, sacrifices everything to follow her conviction that love is stronger than duty. A socially inept but warm-hearted landowner pursues his own visions instead of conforming to conventional views. The adultress and the philosopher head the vibrant cast of characters in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's tumultuous tale of passion and self-discovery.Dover, 2004; 740 pp.; EN; pbpb € 5,99
Waar zijn roem in zijn eigen tijd aanzienlijk was, is Antoon van Welie tegenwoordig nauwelijks meer bekend. Na furore te hebben gemaakt met zijn symbolistische werk, ontwikkelde de flamboyante schilder zich tot internationaal vermaard society-portrettist. Diva´s en dandy´s, adel en staatslieden poserden voor hem. Deze publicatie vertelt het verrassende verhaal van het intrigerende leven van Antoon van Welie en van zijn opvallende oeuvre.Waanders, 2007; 295 pp.; NL; index; ills. b/w & col; pbVan/List Price € 32,50 Voor/Our Price € 12,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 62 %
Deel 15 uit deze serie geeft een gevarieerd beeld van de architectonische en stedebouwkundige ontwikkelingen in Zuid-Holland tussen 1850 en 1945 -aan Den Haag en Rotterdam zijn afzonderlijke delen gewijd-. In deze zeer verstedelijkte provincie werd tijdens de Industriele Revolutie zowel binnen historische stadskernen als daarbuiten voor het eerst op grote schaal industrie en woningbouw gerealiseerd. Ook de waterstaatkundige traditie wordt belicht en meer.Waanders, 2004; 176 pp.; NL; index; ills. b/w; pbVan/List Price € 17,95 Voor/Our Price € 7,90Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 56 %
Illustrated with photographic reproductions of manuscript pages and notebook entries, this book traces Kerouac's achievement as both a literary and cultural figure including his innovations in narrative techniques and in character development. The book also explores his relationships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and other Beats, as well as the Beat movement in general.Scala. 2007; 207 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 39,95 Voor/Our Price € 16,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 58 %
Completed only months before his death, Dostoyevsky's final masterpiece is on the surface a tale of a patricide and its aftermath, the senior Karamazov is murdered and two of his three sons come under suspicion. The larger themes in The Brothers Karamazov call into question the nature of freedom, guilt, and man's relationship with his creator, a search for faith.Dover, 2005; 718 pp.; EN; pbpb € 5,99
Classicist Lorna Robinson introduces readers to the wonderful, chimeric world of the Latin language -and what better forum for this than life in ancient Rome, where Latin flowered and expanded with the Roman Empire to become Europe's dominant language. Each chapter of Cave Canem explores the richness of Latin words and concepts through a different aspect of Roman life.Walker, 2008; 127 pp.; EN; index; ills. col; hbVan/List Price € 18,95 Voor/Our Price € 7,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 58 %
The Coptic Monastery of St. Paul by the Red Sea grew up around the cave where Paul, the first Christian hermit, lived in solitude. It became a shrine in late antiquity and a church in the Middle Ages. This intriguing and beautifully presented book chronicles the history of a series of devotional paintings in the Cave Church.Yale, 2008; 395 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 75,00 Voor/Our Price € 36,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 51 %
A rich tradition of religious painting flourished in New Mexico during the years prior to statehood in 1912. Retablos -painted panels depicting the various saints worshipped in the churches and private homes- were an important part of that tradition. This catalogue presents an exceptional and rare collection that fully surveys the range of retablos painting, seen in 82 full-page colour reproductions and close-up views with the iconography and social history of each painting.Hudson Hills, 2007; 239 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 60,00 Voor/Our Price € 27,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 53 %
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