Meest populaire boeken in Nederland●Antropologie

'An indispensable resource for white people who want to challenge white supremacy but don't know where to begin' Robin DiAngelo, author of WHITE FRAGILITY 'It should be mandatory reading ... Buy the book, do the work and then push more copies into the hands of everyone you know' Emma Gannon 'Confrontational and much-needed' Stylist 'She is no-joke changing the world and, for what it's worth, the way I live my life.' Anne Hathaway ___________ Me and White Supremacy shows readers how to dismantle ...

Releasedatum: 2020-01-28 Genre:Non-fictie > Sociale wetenschappen € 5,99

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved ...

Releasedatum: 2021-11-09 € 11,99

Opmerkingen

1. Why I do not like this book - The authors of this book are convinced that all other authors are stupid and do not see what these two authors do see so clearly. Often these two authors write that is a clear “fact” that what they do see “might” be true. I find that this book is not well written; e.g., in many sentences, it is not clear what the word “it” refers to. I did not enjoy reading this book, but I felt that I had to struggle through the book till the very end— because the book discusses a very interesting topic.
2023-02-23

From the author of No.1 international bestseller Collapse , a mesmerizing portrait of the human past that offers profound lessons for how we can live today Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse . Now he returns with another epic - and groundbreaking - journey into our rapidly receding past. In The World Until Yesterday , Diamond reveals ho...

Releasedatum: 2013-01-10 € 9,49

From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt —“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” ( Slate )—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seve...

Releasedatum: 2018-05-15 € 15,99

In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia. Accessing a cultural archive built over 400 years of Dutch colonial rule, Wekker fundamentally challenges Dutch racial exceptionalism by undermining the dominant narrative of the Netherlands as a “gentle” and “ethical” nation. Wekker analyzes the Dutch media’s portrayal of black women an...

Releasedatum: 2016-04-07 € 21,99

Of we nu Whatsappen, onze GPS gebruiken of gewoon bellen: we laten allemaal een continu spoor van digitale broodkruimels achter. Bij elkaar opgeteld levert dit een ongekende hoeveelheid informatie op over menselijk gedrag. Sociale Big Data is het eerste boek dat verslag doet van hoe Big Data gebruikt wordt om ons gedrag nauwkeuriger te begrijpen en beïnvloeden. Alex Pentland, een pionier op dit gebied, laat zien hoe deze nieuwe kennis wordt toegepast op sociale netwerken, bedrijven en steden. A...

Releasedatum: 2014-09-25 € 9,99

Italië: het is geen buurland en toch voelt het vaak net zo aan. Maar hoe goed kennen wij dat land en zijn volk? In Italië. De schaduwkant van een zonovergoten land reist Ine Roox door het andere Italië en verwerpt zij niet noodzakelijk alle clichés en vooroordelen, maar belicht ze van een andere kant of schenkt ze diepgang. Aan de hand van vijftien verhalen over onder meer politiek, religie, gastronomie, emigratie en cultuur schetst Ine Roox op meeslepende wijze een genuanceerd en rijkgescha...

Releasedatum: 2014-05-13 € 9,99

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR Here is the Naked Ape at his most primal - in love, at work, at war. Meet man as he really is: relative to the apes, stripped of his veneer as we see him courting, making love, sleeping, socialising, grooming, playing. Zoologist Desmond Morris's classic takes its place alongside Darwin's Origin of the Species , presenting man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape, remarkable in his resilience, energy and imagination, yet an anim...

Releasedatum: 2010-11-16 € 9,49

Over the last decade, infectious disease outbreaks have heightened fears of a catastrophic pandemic passing from animals to humans. From Ebola and bird flu to swine flu and MERS, zoonotic viruses are killing animals and wreaking havoc on the people living near them. Given this clear correlation between animals and viral infection, why are animals largely invisible in social science accounts of pandemics, and why do they remain marginal in critiques of global public health?   In Viral Econom...

Releasedatum: 2019-09-23 Genre:Non-fictie > Sociale wetenschappen € 17,99

'Endlessly fascinating and full of surprises. Easily one of my books of the year' BILL BRYSON The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise: what our bodies really need, why it matters, and its effects on health and wellbeing. In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes. A key remedy, we are told, is exercise - voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. However, most of us struggle to...

Releasedatum: 2020-09-03 € 9,49

Louise Fresco houdt zich al haar hele leven bezig met voedsel, als denker, wetenschapper en schrijver. Ze heeft onnoemelijk veel gepubliceerd, geeft wereldwijd lezingen en praat met wetenschappers, bestuurders en beleidsmakers, en steevast over de vraag: hoe voeden wij 8 miljard mensen nu, en 10 miljard straks? In dit boek beschrijft Fresco hoe haar denken over voedsel is veranderd. Ze gaat in op actuele kwesties die ons allen bezighouden, maar geeft ook vele kleurrijke herinneringen. Reizen, ge...

Releasedatum: 2023-01-30 € 13,99

Ze werden voor een dubbeltje geboren. Geestdriftige jonge mannen en vrouwen, twintigers, afkomstig uit volkswijken in Den Haag, Delft en Amsterdam. Ze vonden elkaar in hun idealen: geheelonthouders waren ze, vegetariërs, pacifisten, strijdend voor sociale gelijkheid en op zoek naar vrijheid in de natuur. Ze noemden zichzelf ‘wereldwandelaars’, en in de zomer van 1911 vertrokken ze vanaf de Dam voor een voetreis van jaren. Onderweg deden ze voor kranten en tijdschriften verslag van hun avon...

Releasedatum: 2020-09-26 € 13,99

Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the "alt right" ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump-supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side, a culture of struggle sessions and virtue signalling lurks behind a therapeutic language of trigger warnings and safe spac...

Releasedatum: 2017-06-07 € 7,99

El libro de no ficción del año. Bestseller internacional con más de diez millones de ejemplares vendidos. Número 1 en la lista de The New York Times. Recomendado por Barack Obama, Bill Gates y Mark Zuckerberg. De la mano de uno de los historiadores más interesantes de la actualidad,he aquí la fascinante interpretación de Yuval Noah Harari sobre la historia de la humanidad. Bestseller nacional e internacional, este libro explora las formas en que la biología y la historia nos han definido...

Releasedatum: 2014-09-04 € 9,99

Maeve Brennan loopt door New York. Ze neemt een taxi, de bus of de ondergrondse en wij lopen met haar mee. We beleven het New York uit de jaren zestig en zeventig dankzij haar weergaloze beschrijvingen. Brennan is in staat ieder mens, dier, gebouw en elke straat tot in detail fijnzinnig, geestig en raak weer te geven. Het gaat over een bijna uitgedroogde mus die na een regenbui eindelijk een bad kan nemen, of over een ontmoeting van een vader en zijn dertienjarige zoon midden op Broadway, waarbi...

Releasedatum: 2020-12-22 € 11,99

'One of history's most impressive field studies; an instant animal classic' TIME Jane Goodall's classic account of primate research provides an impressively detailed and absorbing account of the early years of her field study of, and adventures with, chimpanzees in Tanzania, Africa. It is a landmark for everyone to enjoy.

Releasedatum: 2010-12-16 Genre:Non-fictie > Sociale wetenschappen € 3,99

From the New York Times bestselling author of All About Love , a brave and astonishing work that challenges patriarchal culture and encourages men to reclaim the best part of themselves. Everyone needs to love and be loved—even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change , bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express...

Releasedatum: 2004-01-06 € 14,99

'Grayson Perry for King and Queen of England' Caitlin Moran Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys are thought to be made of slugs and snails - since he was a boy. Now, in this funny and necessary book, he turns round to look at men with a clear eye and ask, what sort of men would make the world a better place, for everyone? What would happen if we rethought the old, macho, outdated version of manhood, and embraced a different idea of wha...

Releasedatum: 2016-10-20 € 8,49

Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life. The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines, Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the creation of the land and the secrets of its past. In this magical account, Chatwin recalls his travels across the length and breadth of Australia seeking to find the truth about the songs and unravel the mysteries of thei...

Releasedatum: 2012-10-31 € 9,49

The national bestseller that reveals how we are descended from seven prehistoric women. In 1994 Bryan Sykes was called in as an expert to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy for over 5000 years—the Ice Man. Sykes succeeded in extracting DNA from the Ice Man, but even more important, writes Science News, was his "ability to directly link that DNA to Europeans living today." In this groundbreaking book, Sykes reveals how the identification of a particular...

Releasedatum: 2010-12-20 € 7,99

Prangende vragen over de 21ste eeuw Hoe oud wordt de generatie die nu in de wieg ligt? Verdwijnt ons kikkerland grotendeels in de Noordzee? Kiezen toekomstige ouders hun baby uit in het lab? Wordt vlees eten het nieuwe roken? Hoe zit het met de privacy in de toekomst; kun je nog geheimen hebben? Nemen robots de wereld over? Deze en vele andere vragen – zoals: worden mijn dochters dommer, racistisch of preuts – stelt journalist, televisiepresentator en vader Art Rooijakkers in De eeuw van mij...

Releasedatum: 2020-10-21 € 11,99

What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world—and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a cru...

Releasedatum: 2015-09-29 € 16,99

A bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story. 'Warm, funny, biting and essential reading.' Adam Rutherford You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by poverty and strife. In this funny and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective. He examines each country's colonial heritage, and explores a wide range of...

Releasedatum: 2022-04-07 Genre:Non-fictie > Sociale wetenschappen € 9,49

Winner of the Jhalak Prize 'A revelation' Owen Jones 'Afropean seizes the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe's relationship with blackness and paints it into something new, confident and lyrical' Afua Hirsch A Guardian , New Statesman and BBC History Magazine Best Book of 2019 'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German Reggae and Moorish castles. Yes, all this was pa...

Releasedatum: 2019-06-06 Genre:Non-fictie > Sociale wetenschappen € 9,49

An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls , Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines ...

Releasedatum: 2008-10-07 € 9,99

Цитата По мере того, как мы становимся гражданами этого глобального мирового сообщества, каждый из нас — как и каждый бренд — не должен забывать о местечке, откуда он родом. Клотер Рапай О чем книга «Культурный код: Как мы живем, что покупаем и почему» Почему у американског...

Releasedatum: 2020-02-23 € 5,99

As mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020 Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about Britain and the British people in the '80s in The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain . Paul Theroux's round-Britain travelogue is funny, perceptive and 'best avoided by patriots with high blood pressure...' After eleven years living as an American in London, Paul Theroux ...

Releasedatum: 2011-10-27 € 9,49

In this ground-breaking book Chris Stringer sets out to answer all the big questions in the debate about our origins. How can we define modern humans, and how can we recognise our beginnings in the fossil and archaeological record? How can we accurately date fossils, including ones beyond the range of radiocarbon dating? What do the genetic data really tell us? Were our origins solely in Africa? Are modern humans a distinct species from ancient people such as the Neanderthals? And what contact d...

Releasedatum: 2011-06-30 € 9,49

A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious ways this realm harms us all. Have you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies, surviving war and peace, expansions and recessions, economic meltdowns and global pandemics. We dream of the jackpot, the big exit, the life-altering payday, in whatever form that ...

Releasedatum: 2021-04-13 € 16,99

Veel Australiërs brengen het grootste deel van hun leven door zonder ooit te praten met iemand van de Aboriginalbevolking. Wayne McLennan groeide op in een mijnstadje vlakbij de kust. Vanwege zijn liefde voor boksen (een sport die populair is bij Aboriginals), heeft hij wél mannen die tot de oorspronkelijke bewoners van het continent behoren, leren kennen en respecteren. Een nacht bij de rivier is een zoektocht naar het antwoord op de vraag of echt contact tussen een witte Australiër en een A...

Releasedatum: 2019-06-21 € 1,99

'Als je wilt weten wat antropologie is, moet je kijken naar wat antropologen doen,' zo schrijven de auteurs van dit Elementaire Deeltje. In deze boeiende introductie op dit vakgebied komen dus, naast de belangrijkste principes en methodes, veel voorbeelden aan bod van de antropoloog aan het werk. Puttend uit hun eigen ervaringen in Indonesië en Midden-Amerika bespreken de auteurs de wijze waarop sociale en culturele antropologie ons begrip over de menselijke samenleving en cultuur hebben helpen...

Releasedatum: 2015-03-25 Genre:Non-fictie > Sociale wetenschappen € 7,99

Wie aan Afrika denkt, denkt aan mogelijkheden en vernieuwing. In metropolen als Nairobi is een groeiende groep stedelingen zichtbaar die nieuwe levensstijlen omarmen en die worden gezien als de aanjagers van economische vooruitgang. Maar wie zijn deze jonge middenklassers en wat beweegt hen? Carien Westerveld zocht hen op in megakerken, bij een cursus waar je leert hoe je rijk kunt worden, op hun werk en in de kroeg. Ze sprak vele uren met de twintigers en dertigers die zij jarenlang volgde en v...

Releasedatum: 2017-08-25 € 9,99

For decades, technology encouraged us to squander our time and as passive consumers. Today, tech has finally caught up with human potential. In Cognitive Surplus , Clay Shirky examines the changes we will all enjoy as our untapped resources of talent and good will are put to use at last. Since the postwar boom, we've had a surfeit of intellect, energy, and time - a "cognitive surplus." Shirky argues persuasively that this cognitive surplus - rather than being some strange new departure from norm...

Releasedatum: 2010-07-01 € 9,49

WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2020 How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about the complexities of human behaviour and the world around us How do we understand the people around us? How do we recognise people's motivations, their behaviour, or even their facial expressions? And, when do we learn the social cues that dictate human behaviour? Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to unde...

Releasedatum: 2020-03-12 € 9,49

Opmerkingen

1. not for me, apparently … - I have come halfway through the book, and I still don’t know what the author is trying to do. She draws analogies between theories and themes in science on the one hand and her own – to me sometimes quite recognizable – problems. But then … Apparently these analogies help her to tackle those problems, but how they do so remains a mystery, at least to me. So I can only conclude that the book wasn’t written for me. I can only hope that others get more out of it.
2020-12-09

'A fascinating new analysis of human violence, filled with fresh ideas and gripping evidence from our primate cousins, historical forebears, and contemporary neighbors' Steven Pinker 'A brilliant analysis of the role of aggression in our evolutionary history' Jane Goodall It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that we are perfect, just far less violent than most animals, especially our closest relatives, t...

Releasedatum: 2019-01-17 € 5,99

‘A remarkable and deeply moving book’ Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm ‘A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction’ Times Literary Supplement On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan. It was Japan’s greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo, and spent six years reporting fro...

Releasedatum: 2017-08-31 € 9,49

Visit the author's Web site at www.ourinnerape.com It’s no secret that humans and apes share a host of traits, from the tribal communities we form to our irrepressible curiosity. We have a common ancestor, scientists tell us, so it’s natural that we act alike. But not all of these parallels are so appealing: the chimpanzee, for example, can be as vicious and manipulative as any human. Yet there’s more to our shared primate heritage than just our violent streak. In Our Inner Ape , Frans de ...

Releasedatum: 2005-10-06 € 9,99

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** We're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us. 'To read it is ... to experience how freedom might feel' Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks Our life is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside. It wasn't devised for people, but for profit. We need to embrace a whole new concept of time: one that gives us and our planet a brighter future. In Saving Time , Jenny Odell, bestselling author of How to Do ...

Releasedatum: 2023-03-23 € 14,99

Kun je je genen trotseren of is gekte erfelijk? vraagt Robin zich af na een jeugd waarin de manische episodes van haar vader steevast eindigen in een ziekenhuisbed en worden afgewisseld met maanden waarin hij de seizoenen aan zich voorbij laat gaan. Pas nu ze in haar familiegeschiedenis duikt, ontdekt ze dat er een belangrijke gebeurtenis verzwegen werd – om de psychische belasting niet nog groter te maken. Thuis is waar we beginnen is een liefdevolle en poëtische reconstructie van opgroeien ...

Releasedatum: 2022-03-31 € 11,99

An engrossing history of ancient Chinese philosophy and culture from an eminent Cambridge expert We are often told that the twenty-first century is bound to become China's century. Never before has Chinese culture been so physically, digitally, economically or aesthetically present in everyday Western life. But how much do we really know about its origins and key beliefs? How did the ancient Chinese think about the world? In this enlightening book, Roel Sterckx, one of the foremost experts in Ch...

Releasedatum: 2019-03-28 € 9,49

De Japanse ingezetenen van Nederland hebben het zwaar te stellen met de Nederlanders: ze werken niet hard, weigeren voor hun fouten uit te komen en munten uit in lompheid. Vooral op de werkvloer komen beide culturen elkaar tegen, nu er bijna vierhonderd Japanse bedrijven in Nederland zetelen. Harriet Kroon dook in de gesloten wereld van de Japanners in Nederland. Ze wist hun beleefde facade aan de kant te schuiven en tekende ontboezemingen op. '"Ik moet jou niet," zei een man bij mij in de lift,...

Releasedatum: 2014-02-16 € 6,49

The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die—in this “engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking” ( Booklist ) book. Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in di...

Releasedatum: 2019-10-01 € 15,99

A revised and updated edition of the New York Times –bestselling classic on understanding body language from the author of Subtext . Body Language helps you to understand the unconscious body movements and postures that provide intimate keys to what a person is really thinking and the secrets of their true inner selves. You will learn how to read the angle of shoulders, the tilt of a head, or the tap of a foot, in order to discern whether an individual is angry, frightened, or cheerful. You wi...

Releasedatum: 2014-04-01 € 7,99

Vraag iemand een kunstenaarsdorp te noemen en de kans is groot dat men Laren zegt, of Bergen – een enkele keer Domburg. Maar Oosterbeek? Als de plaats al associaties oproept, is dat met de oorlog; de rampzalige Slag om Arnhem in 1944, een ‘brug te ver’. Er is echter ook een ander Oosterbeek, dat van schilders en schrijvers, bankiers en renteniers, villa’s en buitenplaatsen. Een onbeduidend dorp van boeren en dagloners werd in het midden van de negentiende eeuw Nederlands eerste kunstenaa...

Releasedatum: 2014-03-17 € 6,99

'A terrific portrait of Delhi right now' SALMAN RUSHDIE 'An astonishing tour de force by a major writer at the peak of his powers' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE WINNER OF THE RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI AWARD FOR LITERARY REPORTAGE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2015 When Rana Dasgupta arrived in Delhi at the turn of the twenty-first century, he had no intention of staying for long, but the city beguiled him - he 'fell in love and in hate with it' - and fifteen years later, Delhi is still his home. Over thes...

Releasedatum: 2014-03-06 € 8,99

An anthropologist looks at the new "crack cocaine" of high-tech gambling Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry's revenue mainstay. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly...

Releasedatum: 2012-08-20 € 23,99

Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag's searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. From Goya's Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been charged with inspiring dissent, fostering violence or instilling apathy in us, the viewer. Regarding the Pain of Others will alter our thinking not only about the uses and meanings of images, but about the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations...

Releasedatum: 2013-12-05 € 8,99

An essential reference for all game designers, this 1938 classic is “a fascinating account of ‘man the player’ and the contribution of play to civilization” ( Harper’s )   In this classic evaluation of play that has become a “must-read” for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits. Starting with Plato, Huizinga...

Releasedatum: 1971-06-01 € 14,99

‘Perhaps the most readable history ever written’ Time Out Lords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling epic history; dramatic — detailed and alive — a journey, and a world all in one. The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over six hundred years the Empire swelled and declined; rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates with the richest court in Europe. But its...

Releasedatum: 2011-01-11 € 9,49

As long as we have been human, we have been mythmakers. In A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong holds up the mirror of mythology to show us the history of ourselves, and embarks on a journey that begins at a Neanderthal graveside and ends buried in the heart of the modern novel. Surprising, powerful and profound, A Short History of Myth examines the world's most ancient art form - the making and telling of stories - and why we still need it.

Releasedatum: 2008-10-30 Genre:Non-fictie > Sociale wetenschappen € 8,99