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Ranging from the amusing to the profound, this collection offers more than 250 freshly translated stories, extracts, and aphorisms from the golden age of Chinese philosophy. It includes selections from such classic texts as Confucius's Analects and Laozi's Tao Te Ching as well as more recently excavated manuscripts that reflect an idea at the root of Chinese culture -we are all born with the potential to grow, but most of us will learn only little by little as we mature and interact with others.

Duncan Baird, 2010; 176 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hb

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Richard Bertinet takes us on a journey through 50 recipes, starting with a selection of little dishes to serve for a casual lunch, through to soups and all its seasonal variations, to salads, fish dishes, meat dishes and some delicious desserts. You wil learn all sorts of tips as well as essential techniques.

Kyle Books, 2010; 208 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; hb + DVD

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Jennet Conant here brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Child's experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services -OSS- in the Far East during WWII. Here too are the tumultuous years when they, with their cohort Jane Foster, were caught up in Joseph McCarthy's spy hunt in the 1950s and behaved with bravery and honour. This is a fascinating portrait of idealistic men and women who were recruited by the citizen spy service and dispatched to wage political warfare in remote outposts.

Simon and Schuster, 2011; 395 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Creatieve ideeen voor kleine tuinen laat zien dat je van een kleine of middelgrote tuin een bijzondere omgeving kunt maken waarin je thuisvoelt. Vier trendy tuinstijlen zijn helemaal uitgewerkt -de woonkamerbuiten, de natuurlijke tuin, de moderne tuin en de buitenlandse tuin.

Kosmos, 2008; 160 pp.; NL; index; ills. col; pb

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This brief but thorough narrative on the Cuban missile crisis examines the causes, events, consequences, and significance of the 1962 clash between superpowers, illustrated with news and intelligence photos.

Oxford, 2007; 119 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; pb

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Her canvases were the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the Great Terror, America at the the time of Washington and Jefferson, Paris under the Directoire and then under Napoleon, Regency London, and for the last years of her life, the Italian ducal courts. She witnessed firsthand the demise of the French monarchy, the Revolution, the Reign of Terror, and the rise and fall of Napoleon. Lucie Dillon -de la Tour du Pin-, a daughter of French and British nobility, was the chronicler of her age.

Harper, 2009; 480 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Robert Irwin offers both a brilliant defense of Orientalism and a masterful intellectual history of the Orientalists and their work, which has provided the West with glimpses of the social and religious practices of Asian cultures. Irwin surveys the history of Orientalism from the Greeks through the Middle Ages to its height in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Overlook, 2006; 410 pp.; EN; index; hb

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The British Navy's failed attempt to capture Constantinople and secure a sea route to Russia in 1915 marked a turning point of WWI. Acclaimed naval military historian Van der Vat argues that the disaster at the Dardanelles not only prolonged the war for 2 years and brought Britain to the brink of starvation, but also led to the Russian Revolution and contributed to the rapid destabilization of the Middle East.

Overlook, 2009; 226 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; pb

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In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of WWII, who had only just begun having normal lives. President Truman was recalling them to active duty to try to save the desperate people of West Berlin, blockaded by Stalin's Red Army.

Simon and Schuster, 2010; 316 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Here Wayne Biddle investigates a question that has long haunted the US effort in the space race -how active was the German rocket engineer Wernher von Braun in the Nazi Party and in the use of slave labour, and how much did the Truman administration cover up to make von Braun clean enough for the postwar US missile programme. Biddle finds in von Braun a blinkered opportunist who could only apply tunnel vision to his meteoric career.

Norton, 2009; 220 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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