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ICY and SOT Let her be free
ICY and SOT, stencil artists from Iran 2006-2015
ICY (born 1985) and SOT (born 1991) are refuge stencil artists from Tabriz, Iran, currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. Since 2006, the two brothers have contributed to Iranian and international urban art culture through their striking stencil work that depicting human rights, ecological justice, social and political issues. Their work appears on walls and galleries throughout the Iran, USA, Germany, China, Norway, and globally.They transcend their histories of artistic and political censorship...
Non-fictie
Engels | 264 pagina's (ePub3, 66 MB) | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Joes Segal Art and politics
between purity and propaganda
At first glance, art and politics seem like they couldn't be more separate, with politics focused on the grubbiness of everyday reality and art busily creating a fantasy world of creative expression. Yet the two realms frequently come together, and the collision can be fiery. This book explores the position of art and artists under a number of different political regimes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, traveling around the world to consider how art and politics have interacted and influenced...
Non-fictie
Engels | 126 pagina's (ePub2, 8,9 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Berthold Gunster Omdenken
the Dutch art of flip-thinking
This practical booklet shows what flip-thinking means and how to do it. To flip through, to come up with ideas, to be put on the wrong track and especially to trigger your own creative ability. In short, look, think and - particularly - create. Berthold Gunster (1959) is the founding father of 'Omdenken', the Dutch art of flip-thinking. He has written several bestselling books about his ideas. With his team of actors and trainers he performs inspiring shows and workshops in both Dutch and English....
Non-fictie
Engels | 64 pagina's (ePub2) | Lev., Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Re:Thinking Europe
thoughts on Europe: past, present and future
What are the characteristics of European culture and identity? In which way can culture contribute to the current crisis of meaning within the EU and Europe? And should we return to the discourse of culture and historical experience in order to find a common ground for Europe? In the run-up to the Forum we will publish an anthology on these urgent questions. A host of prominent and influential thinkers such as political scientist Ivan Krastev and historians Philipp Blom and Adam Zamoyski have been...
Non-fictie
Engels | 318 pagina's (PDF, 1,9 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Hans Jansen Why shouldn't Israel exist in the Middle East?
a synopsis
This book is a synopsis of the very extensive work Why shouldn't Israel exist in the Middle East? (published in 2015). The author argues that the Middle East conflict is the easiest problem in the world to explain, but also the most difficult to solve. "Briefly stated: Israel wants to exist, and to recognise the rights of the Palestinians to have their own state. The Palestinians and many other Arabs and Muslims, however, do not acknowledge that the Jewish State of Israel has a right to exist". Prof....
Non-fictie
Engels | 52 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Aspect Publishers, Soesterberg | 2017
E-book
Erik Zürcher Three months in Mao's China
between the great leap forward and the cultural revolution
In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher traveled for the first time to China, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners. During a tumultuous time in world politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 119 pagina's (ePub2, 8 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
Geert Mak The many lives of Jan Six
a portrait of an Amsterdam dynasty
Geschiedenis van de Amsterdamse patriciërsfamilie vanaf de zestiende eeuw tot en met de periode vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 4,2 MB | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
Marga Vogel | Michelle Princenthal The marbles and the crown
Jewish wisdom in a fairy tale
Wise Tree sends Ruben and Rivka on a journey to search for a very special bottle and fill it with 10 unique marbles discovered along the way. These marbles are each collected on several small islands. The children are able to reach each of the islands by crossing a bridge, but only after they have spoken to the looking glass (their inner selves). Throughout their journey they are interrupted, misguided and challenged by Rara Rattlesnake (the evil inclination), who continuously is trying to lead them...
Fictie
Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | De Vrije Uitgevers, Amsterdam | 2018
E-book
Han Peeters Planet X
English edition
Planet X, a planet that is part of our solar system, circles in an orbit around our Sun and the star Nemesis. The Sun and its sister star are a great distance from each other. The orbital period of Planet X is 3600 years. One of the last times it passed our planet, it caused a worldwide flood as described in the Old Testament, where it is called Wormwood. Every culture in ancient times had another name for it. Regardless of what it is called, the planet is an instigator of evil as told in The Revelation...
Fictie
Engels | 158 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | ClusterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2018
E-book
Mirjam Mous No way out
the clock is ticking
Klas 2C gaat op werkweek naar de Ardennen. De busreis is net begonnen, als iedereen een mysterieus bericht op zijn telefoon krijgt. Er blijkt een bom aan boord van de bus te zijn. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 3 MB) | Van Goor, Houten | 2018
E-book
Sleepy Hollow
De uit de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog afkomstige en weer tot leven gekomen soldaat Ichabod Crane gaat samen met politieagente Abigail Mill de strijd aan tegen duistere krachten die sterker geworden zijn.
Fictie
Film
Anne Baker Liverpool gems
Als de 19-jarige Carrie zich met gemengde gevoelens voorbereid op het huwelijk van haar tweelingzusje en hun vader uit Zuid-Afrika overkomt, blijkt hij verwikkelt te zijn in een illegale zaak die de hele familie bedreigt.
Fictie
Engels | 421 pagina's | Headline, London | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Tim Kirkman Lazy eye
Dean krijgt onverwacht een mailtje van Alex, zijn geliefde die 15 jaar niets van zich liet horen. Ze spreken af in Deans vakantiehuisje.
Fictie
Film
Marie A. Rebelle Flight LU-365
The passengers of Flight LU-365 are all at different points on life's journey through love and lust when fate makes their paths cross and end in the desert of a quiet African country. The young couple, passionate and excited; the elderly pair, proving that love endures; the lesbian couple with their secret ready to share; a group of friends escaping for adventures in lust; the porn star, taking a break from her successful career; the married woman, confused and hurt from an a air; the young student...
Fictie
Engels | 232 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
E-book
Anna Chojnacka Kilimanjaro as medicine
Anna Chojnacka is thirty, married with two young children, and running a thriving company. She's living life to the fullest - until she's diagnosed with MS. While searching for a way to live her life without strong medication, she meets "The Iceman" Wim Hof. To gain strength, she takes his courses, exposing herself to extreme cold. Ultimately, she takes part in a climbing expedition he leads up Mount Kilimanjaro, which not only succeeds, but does so in record time. While she's completing this difficult...
Non-fictie
Engels | 99 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | [Uitgever Onmisbaar], [Amsterdam] | 2022
E-book
Reinold Widemann Money is a mind thing
Money was a mind thing long before certain goods were used as money and coins started circulating. As it happens money isn't a thing, but an idea, an idea of debt. What we generally take for money, are merely symbols of this idea of money. In this book a reader accompanies the author on a tour along various ideas on value man had from the beginning of time. The result is a colourful description of the historical development of ideas on money and values from ancient history to our present time. Reinold...
Non-fictie
Engels | 300 pagina's (PDF) | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
E-book
Mara Vorhees | Jade Bremner | Ashley Harrell | Brian Kluepfel Costa Rica
top sights, authentic experiences
Non-fictie
Engels | 324 pagina's | Lonely Planet, [Dublin] | 2021
Gedrukt boek
James Patterson | Michael Ledwidge Bullseye
Michael Bennett maakt, samen met de FBI en de geheime dienst, jacht op een huurmoordenaar die het heeft gemunt op de president van Amerika.
Fictie
Engels | 339 pagina's | Century, London | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Before I wake
Een jong koppel adopteert Cody, een achtjarig jongetje. Cody krijgt dromen en en nachtmerries die fysieke vormen blijken aan te nemen.
Fictie
Film
Gayle Forman Leave me
Een vrouw ontvlucht haar drukke bestaan met achterlating van man, kinderen en baan.
Fictie
Engels | 343 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, a CBS company, London | 2017
Gedrukt boek
2016