Selected Proceedings of the International Conference Groningen 20-23 November 1996

The relationship between those in power and those are not occupies not only the people concerned, but also scholars interested in the study and…

Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government

Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in…

The most comprehensive collection of photographs and images of Wilde compiled by his only grandson.

Oscar Wilde was one of the first and unquestionably one of the greatest self-publicists who ever lived. With that exceptional…

The Rietveld Academy An Academy-building as a model

25e uitgave in de reeks: 'Rietveld projecten'.
Oplage 2500 exemplaren/copies

Met een voorwoord van/preface of: Simon den Hartog.

Verdere bijdragen van/contributions of: Willem…

One winter's morning, Lorimer goes to keep a perfectly routine business appointment and finds a hanged man. A bad start to the day, by any standards, and an ominous portent of things to come.

Lorimer Black - young, good-looking,…

Tip van Stip

Das Familienalbum des Planeten Erde / The Family Album of Planet Earth / L'album de familie de la planète Terre

Language: German, English and FrenchPhotographer Uwe Ommer shares with us his newly completed…

Jams, Chutneys, Pickles and JelliesWith its variety of jams, jellies, chutneys, mustards, and syrups to choose from, The Book of Preserves provides a wealth of traditional country recipes. Illustrated in color with step-by-step…

The World's Banker
1849-1999In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, exclusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic…

Hardcover

First edition

212 of artist Henry Moore's unpublished drawings. Many of the sketches, taken from comprehensive notebooks and sketchbooks date from 1921 to 1970. Moore experimented with ink, pencil, crayon, chalk, wash…

An Introduction and Survey

Philosopher Roger Scruton offers a wide-ranging perspective on philosophy, from logic to aesthetics, written in a lively and engaging way that is sure to stimulate debate. Rather than producing a survey…

On and off the rails from Milan tot Palermo

"All Italy is here". (Sunday Times).

From the bestselling author of 'Italian Neighbours', 'An Italian Education' and 'A Season with Verona'.

In Italian Ways, bestselling writer Tim…

The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations is an authoritative, one-volume treatment of sixty years of history of the United Nations written by distinguished scholars, analysts, and practitioners. Citations and suggested readings…

A History from Troy to Augustine

We still live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of reference…

How to Archieve Stress-free Productivity

Is your workload overwhelming? Does it just keep mounting up while your stress levels reach fever pitch? In Getting Things Done David Allen teaches you how to keep a clear head, relax and…

How Urban Spaces make us Human

Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life’s work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world’s most exciting urban…

This reader provides information on population and development issues for those seeking the middle ground between technical and non-specialist material. It contains contributions to all the various aspects of the debate from the…

From Medieval to Global Assemblages

Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In Territory, Authority, Rights , one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's…

In this book noted sociologist Michael Mann argues that the "new American imperialism" is actually a new militarism. Dissecting the military, economic, and political resources of the US, Mann concludes they are so lacking in…

Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect

Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of…

"Relying on a broad range of printed and secondary sources, Wage Labor and Guilds charts the history of guilds from their antecedents in the Roman Empire to their 'crisis' in the fourteenth century.... As a much-needed synthesis,…

This “glorious and frightening read” (MT Magazine) examines capitalism’s place as the universal social and economic order of our time. Now truly global, twenty-first-century capitalism—aided by extraordinary advances in…

Essay for E.P. Thompson

Few historians in the twentieth century hve had a lasting and marked an impact as E.P. Thompson. His rewriting of English history, beginning with: 'The Making of the English Working Class', has affected a…

Hip Hotels: City was the very first book to address a whole new travel phenomenon: hotels of such sheer style and individuality that they have redefined the travel experience. Through innovative architecture, outstanding design,…

The World of Sumo

With the knowledge and insight that can come only through the experience of the athlete, Takamiyama and his friend John Wheeler explain why both Japanese an d foreigners fall under the spell of this absorving…

Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with 'making things good again', they spin the quiet terrors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that…

On the day that A. M. Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years later, out of the blue,…

A Novel of the Last Tsar

Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov as seen through the…

ENGELSTALIG BOEK / ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BOOK

Een grote ideeënroman over huwelijk, vrijheid, censuur en taal, gesitueerd in het Engeland van de jaren zestig. Het derde deel van A.S. Byatts Frederica-reeks, geschreven na haar Booker…

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation's heart…

A guide to understanding and thriving in today's new economic environment

Now that the housing and credit bubbles have burst, toppling banks and sending shockwaves through the stock market and around the world, it may seem like…

Ah, think of the serene gardens, tatami mats, Zen-inspired decor, sliding doors, and shoji screens of the typical Japanese home. Think again.Tokyo: A Certain Style, the mini-sized decor book with a difference, shows how, for those…

Why you have too many friends on Facebook

Why your memory is mostly fiction

And 46 other ways you're deluding yourself
You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of self-delusion. It's like a psychology class, with all the boring…

Focusing on color names published in the West, this book is a small dictionary of color themes, names and images, containing 658 colors under 56 themes. You can search through this book as you please reading about the images,…

a novel

'To begin with I’d like to talk about my wife. To love means, in addition to many other things, to delight in gazing upon and observing the beloved.'
From Conjugal Love

When Silvio, a rich Italian dilettante, and his…

The international bestseller

On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop; or rather a 'literary apothecary', for this bookseller possesses a rare gift for sensing which books will soothe the troubled…

A guide to the best-performing investment strategies of all time

WHAT WORKS ON WALLSTREET, James P. O'Shaughnessy, good copy
McGraw-Hill, hardcover with dust jacket, 366 pages
ISBN 0070482462

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For twenty years Doro and Marcus lived in a commune, convinced lentils and free love would change the world. They didn't. What they did do was give their children a terror of radicalism, dirt, cooking rotas and poverty. Their…

Rijk geïllustreerde catalogus verschenen bij de grote retroperspectief-tentoonstellingen (2005-2007) van het werk van de Luxemburgse Kunstenaar Michel Majerus (1967-2002) in het Kunsthaus te Graz, het Stedelijk Museum te…

In a world where forecasting seems futile, where predictions are unreliable, and where even the most absurd scenarios are plausible, many planning decisions seem to be governed not by vision-Fear of disaster, fear of change, fear…

A Picture of the Victorian Age

André Maurios knowledge of English and the English mentality is amazing. It was certainly a fortunate chance that made him liaison officer between the French and the English armies during the…

First published title of Penguin!
Sixt impression 1937
Collectors item

André Maurios knowledge of English and the English mentality is amazing. It was certainly a fortunate chance that made him liaison officer between the French…

On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the slice. To her horror, she finds…

Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England - but now, in his early seventies, his reputation is fading, his book sales have dried up and his new wife has expensive tastes. Harry, a young writer, is…

Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in…

Three Years in Holland

In Sean & David's Long Drive he careered around Australia with his laconic pal David in a retro Ford Falcon. In Drive Thru America he and David cruised the States in a very uncool Chrysler Neon.

Now…

Foam International photography magazine # 26 Happy, spring 2011, like new

Yeondoo Jung / Thomas Mailaender / Henze Boekhout / Olivia Bee / Ruth van Beek / Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky / Jaimie Warren / Inge Morath

Language: English

Featuring more than fifty major projects designed, commenced or completed in the last four years, 21st Century House looks at diverse visions of the modern house and sets them in the context of the technologial and aesthetic…

At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting…

Bestselling author of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time' and 'A Spot of Bother'

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mother's death,…

A Retrospective Look at Twenty-five Years of Muppet Magic

Behind the scenes:
Twenty-five years of Muppet Magic
Early in the summer of 1979, a modest exhibit opened in Lincoln Center`s Library and Museum of the Perfoming Arts in…

They say every cat has nine lives, and Jim the dysfunctional cat is no exception. Steven Appleby`s new book tells the story of one very challenged cat and of the trials and tribulations of living with him. Based on many years…

25 families, 21 countries and 525 meals

Informatief en aantrekkelijk boek waarin door middel van foto’s en lijstjes wordt getoond wat mensen, in 25 verschillende landen, in één week eten en drinken. Zo zien we een foto van…

Film in SwedenEen scherpzinnige sociaal-politieke analyse van het oeuvre van Ingmar Bergman, geïllustreerd en uitgegeven in hardcover met stofomslag.

A discerning socio-political analysis of the oeuvre of Ingmar Bergman,…

The landscape has been, for many centuries, one of the most important genres in painting. This book examines the landscape from the late Middle Ages to modern times, comprising a synopsis of the genre and covering a selection of…

More than two thousand illustrations, many in color highlight an intriguing overview of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas's work, including his building designs, sketches, and shrewd commentary on modern art, architecture, and social…

This work offers a portrait of a photographer extraordinaire. Piet Mondrian behind his easel, Igor Stravinsky at his piano, Max Ernst sitting smoking on his throne-like chair: Arnold Newman`s photographs are classics of…

Exhibition catalogue MoMa 2000Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977, Robert Storr, zo goed als nieuw exemplaar (like new).
The Museum of Modern Art, 2000, hardcover, 151 pagina’s (151 pages).
ISBN 0870700235Language: English

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With 128 plates, including 8 in colour.

Translated by Alastair & Heide Grieve

The art of Albrecht Dürer, Heinrich Wölfflin, good condition
Phaidon, 1971, hardcover with dustjacket, 311 pages
ISBN 0714814679
Language:…

An anthology

This outstanding volume provides an unparalleled collection of the essential readings of modernism and postmodernism.

Motivated by the assumption that students cannot appreciate postmodernism without first…

The Yum Yum Book – Robert Crumb’s first major work, a cult classic filled with surreal illustrations. First edition (1975), hardcover with dust jacket, very good condition.

Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
Houghton Mifflin Company, paperback, 276 pages
ISBN 0965430448

Taal: Engels, Language: English

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…and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!

Stupid white men tells you everything you need to know about how the great and the good screw us over. It reveals - among other things - how ‘President’ Bush stole an…

`Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamourous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water,…

Catalogus naar aanleiding tentoonstelling Ger van Elk in het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1974 (catalogue exhibition Ger van Elk)

Vormgeving catalogus/ Design catalogue: Wim Crouwel, Daphne Duijvelshoff (Total Design,…

This is a book about shock. About how countries are shocked - by wars, terror attacks, coup d`etats, economic crisis, natural disasters. And about how these countries are then shocked again - by those who exploit that shock to…

De stationsomgeving van Arnhem, het winnend wedstrijdontwerp voor de Ponte Parodi in Genua, het museum voor Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart, het laboratorium op de universiteitscampus in Utrecht en het elektriciteitsstation in…

Julia Cameron beschrijft in haar werkboek The Artist`s Way een praktische methode om in twaalf weken de verschillende blokkades die onze creatieve vermogens in de weg staan, op te heffen. Gevoelens van bijvoorbeeld angst,…

Met schitterende illustraties van Alan Aldridge.

Ann in the Moon, Frances D. Francis en Alan Aldridge, eerste druk, net exemplaar.
Bancroft, 1970, hardcover, 62 pagina’s.
SBN: 430004915

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A Psychological Biography of Elvis Aaron Presley

A clinical psychologist offers a detailed psychological probe into Elvis` life, examining the agony and pain of his inner psyche and providing insights into his personal…

Kurt Cobain and his band Nirvana are simply the hottest phenomenon to spring forth in the early `90s and are setting the tone for what`s sure to be a raucous and riveting end to the century. Here a personal friend of the band…