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Ai Weiwei
Monografie met een oeuvre-overzicht, veel informatie over het leven en de missie van de kunstenaar - het aan de kaak stellen van censuur, corruptie en onrecht in zijn geboorteland China - met commentaar van Ai Weiwei zelf.
Non-fictie
Duits | Engels | Frans | 511 pagina's | Taschen, Köln | 2020
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The history book
The History Book tackles big historical ideas with stunning visuals, key quotes, and important themes that are woven throughout world history. Discover events from the assassination of Caesar to World War I and see the people and events come to life with The History Book, perfect for students, adults, or anyone who wants to understand our fascinating past
Engels | 352 pagina's | Dorling Kindersley, London | 2016
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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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Edward Brooke-Hitching The phantom atlas
the greatest myths, lies and blunders on maps
The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms, non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases. This book is a collection of striking antique maps that display the most erroneous cartography, with each illustration accompanied by the story behind it. Exploration, map-making and mythology...
Engels | 256 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, London | 2016
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2016