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Nathan Harris The sweetness of water
Tijdens het einde van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog huurt een boer uit het Zuiden twee net bevrijde tot slaaf gemaakten in tegen normaal loon. Als zijn oneervol uit de Burgeroorlog teruggekeerde zoon ook nog homoseksueel blijkt te zijn, wordt zijn gezin het mikpunt.
Fictie
Engels | 410 pagina's | Tinder Press, London | 2022
Gedrukt boek
Andrew Shortland | Patrick Degryse When art isn't real
the world's most controversial objects under investigation
The art world is a multi-billion-dollar industry which captures world headlines on a regular basis, for both good and bad reasons. This book deals with one of the most-discussed areas of controversy: high-profile objects that have experts arguing about their veracity. Some may have been looted, others may be fakes, some may be heavily restored or misattributed. Often, in these cases, analytical science is called on to settle a dispute. The authors of this book have decades of experience in this field,...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 2,6 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Bert Thurlings Bizarre legends, the CO2-syndrome, the mysteries of Ethiopia and the enigmatic king Salomon
weird mysteries, curious interpretations
The world is full of misunderstood mysteries. As tourists, we visit an ancient ruin, trying to imagine how it once was but not seeing the advanced technology that was used. Or we walk past some dusty pots in a museum but don't realize how they were made. We walk on and get on with the business of the day. Those stones? Surely they were just cut out of a rock, doesn't everyone know that? Those pots? You just bake them in an oven, right? Everyone knows that too, don't they? But then you scratch your...
Engels | ePub2 | Publisher Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
E-book
Bert Thurlings Giants, wandering planets and lost knowledge
mysterious high-tech of the pharaohs, the demise of the giants and the prehistoric transatlantic contacts
Science is based on facts, that is common knowledge. But what if those facts contradict each other, what is true then? Does what "most scientists" think apply then? Rocks from the moon, collected with the Apollo flights, have an age of +/- 4.6 billion years. But one of them deviates seriously: 5.5 billion years old or even more. So what is the real age? Because people don't know, that one deviation is further ignored; after all, the majority points to 4.6 billion years anyway. But science is not...
Engels | ePub2 | [Uitgeverij Aspekt], Soesterberg | 2022
E-book
Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain
Many of the most significant studies devoted to Ambrogio Spinola have focused on one particular aspect of his life: his successful military career. This volume, through its interdisciplinary and cultural approach, breaks open this all too narrow perspective and expands our understanding of Spinola and his world. As a great military strategist and Catholic knight, entrepreneur in the international finance market, courtier, and diplomat, Spinola was certainly a Genoese, but he was also a member of...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 16 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Andris J. Kursietis The emperor's aviators
a biographical dictionary of the senior Imperial Japanese Army and Navy aviator flag officers 1915-1945
Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for fifty years, using resources that span the globe. His latest book, "The Emperor's Aviators" pro-vides listings of the commanders of the main staff and field commands of the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy aviation branches from their inception in 1915 until the end of World War II in 1945. The book also includes biographical in-formation on Japan's aviator generals and admirals. For his previous work on the Hungarian...
Non-fictie
Engels | 160 pagina's (PDF) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
E-book
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
E-book
Andris J. Kursietis The Luftwaffe and its leadership 1935-1945
Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for fifty years, using resources that span the globe. His latest book, "The Luftwaffe and its Leadership, 1935 - 1945" provides listings of the commanders of the main staff and field commands of the Luftwaffe from 1935, when the heretofore cloaked Luftwaffe was formally announced, until its destruction at the end of World War II in 1945. The book also includes biographical information on the senior Luftwaffe generals. For his previous work...
Non-fictie
Engels | 226 pagina's (PDF) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
E-book
Emerson Vermaat Soviet manipulation of 'religious circles', 1975-1986
The term "religious circles" was coined by the World Peace Council (WPC), an organization that during the Cold War was linked to the propaganda apparatus of the Atheist Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). In declassified reports Western intelligence services described the WPC as a Communist Party front organization. The communists of the former Soviet Union are usually referred to as "the Soviets." The Moscow-oriented communists also availed themselves of the Christian Peace Conference (CPC),...
Non-fictie
Engels | 58 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
E-book
Hilde Langeraert | Tristan Manco | Giulia Riva Concrete playground
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 214 pagina's | Lannoo, Tielt | 2022
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States of emergency
architecture, urbanism, and the First World War
More than one hundred years after the conclusion of the First World War, the edited collection States of Emergency. Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War reassesses what that cataclysmic global conflict meant for architecture and urbanism from a human, social, economic, and cultural perspective. Chapters probe how underdevelopment and economic collapse manifested spatially, how military technologies were repurposed by civilians, and how cultures of education, care, and memory emerged from...
Non-fictie
Engels | 351 pagina's (PDF, 15 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Perry Pierik The Red Army stumbles
Russian campaign 1941
The start of operation 'Barbarossa' was the beginning of one of the most dramatic campaigns in World History. Two titans clashed. The summer of 1941 was catastrophic to the Red Army. However, they were able to keep their position. This blood drenched marvel is what this book is about, which shows that heroism and terror go hand in hand when it comes to stopping German attackers at the gates of Moscow. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Non-fictie
Engels | 136 pagina's (PDF) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
E-book
Simon Sebag Montefiore The world
a family history
Met als uitgangspunt dat families de basis vormen van het bestaan, wordt de geschiedenis van de wereld verteld, van het ontstaan van de mensheid tot het begin van de 21e eeuw.
Non-fictie
Engels | 1302 pagina's | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Orlando Figes The story of Russia
Verhandeling over de geschiedenis van Rusland, met nadruk op de grote rol van ideologieën en mythes.
Non-fictie
Engels | 348 pagina's | Bloomsbury Publishing, London | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Janina Ramirez Femina
a new history of the Middle Ages, through the women written out of it
Engels | 447 pagina's | WH Allen, an imprint of Ebury Publishing, London | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Anne Glenconner Whatever next?
lessons from an unexpected life
Persoonlijk relaas van een Britse hofdame (1932) over het leven van de sociale bovenklasse. Met zwart-witfoto’s.
Non-fictie
Engels | 274 pagina's | Hodder & Stoughton, London | 2023
Gedrukt boek
I.M. van Wijk | L.W.S.W. Amkreutz | Y.F. van Amerongen | S. Baetsen | A.L. van Gijn | J. van der Laan | C. Maule | M. Roffet-Salque | A. Verbaas Elsloo-Koolweg revisited
science-based perspectives on the burials and grave goods of the Linear Bandkeramik burial ground of Elsloo-Koolweg
"Deze Engelstalige synthese met daarin een heranalyse van de vondsten en sporen van het Bandkeramische (LBK) grafveld uit Elsloo is verschenen in het kader van het Pre-Malta programma 'Nieuwe kennis uit oude opgravingen'. Dit grafveld, oorspronkelijk opgegraven in 1959-1960, is met behulp van actuele kennis en technieken opnieuw bekeken door vele verschillende onderzoekers onder leiding van ARCHOL en het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. Tijdens het onderzoek zijn alle vondscategorieën opnieuw geanalyseerd...
Engels | 287 pagina's | Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, Amersfoort | 2022
Gedrukt boek
Mark Galeotti Putin's wars
from Chechnya to Ukraine
Politiek-historische analyse van alle conflicten waarbij Rusland betrokken is geweest onder het bewind van Vladimir Putin, van de Tsjetjeense Oorlogen tot en met de invasie van Oekraïne. Met kaarten.
Non-fictie
Engels | 400 pagina's | Osprey Publishing, Oxford | 2022
Gedrukt boek
Kit Heyam Before we were trans
a new history of gender
"Across the world today, people of all ages are doing fascinating, creative, messy things with gender. These people have a rich history - but one that is often left behind by narratives of trans lives that focus on people with stable, binary, uncomplicated gender identities. As a result, these stories tend to be recent, binary, stereotyped, medicalised and white. 'Before We Were Trans' is a new and different story of gender, that seeks not to be comprehensive or definitive, but - by blending culture,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 342 pagina's | Basic Books, London | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Keith Fisher A pipeline runs through it
the story of oil from ancient times to the First World War
Non-fictie
Engels | 751 pagina's | Penguin Books, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
2022