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The city, a concept nearly as old as history itself, is a paradox of human innovation and intervention, order and conflict. From ancient civilizations to modern-day metropolises, maps have played a crucial role in urban progress. This book explores the development of cities through more than 70 captivating maps.Each map in this beautifully designed volume gives a unique visual representation of and historical context to the city it surveys. Spanning more than 9,000 years, this book expertly curates more than 70 historical maps which tell the fascinating story of human civilization: from cities founded on sacred places, ideas and power, to early examples of town planning and later innovations such as skyscrapers and urban transport.Featuring maps of renowned capital cities as well as lesser-known urban areas, including:Mohenjo-Daro, c. 2500 BCBabylon, c. 600 BCRome, c. 210 ADBaghdad, 762 ADConstantinople, 1422Tenochtitlan, 1524Dublin, 1610Kyoto, 1626New Amsterdam, 1660Edinburgh, 1780Ade

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The Images That Matter Independent photojournalism and documentary photography are indispensable tools of political education for a democratic society and an essential part of shaping public opinionespecially in our so-called post-factual' times. In recognition of this, the independent non-profit organization World Press Photo Foundation, based in Amsterdam, has been presenting the World Press Photo Award for the best photo, the best story, the best longterm project of the year for more than six decades. The winning images in the various categories tell bold stories and provide invaluable insights into the state of our world. A photograph by Mohammed Salem for Reuters from the Gaza war is the press photo of the year and also the cover illustration - it shows a Palestinian woman holding her five-year-old niece, who was killed when a missile hit her home in Khan Younis, Gaza, tightly on her lap.

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Kisses Sweeter Than Wine is an honest and absorbing memoir from a man who has emerged as one of Wales’s major cultural figures. Boyd Clack is a man of many talents: a writer, actor, singer, musician, enthusiast, and with this first book picks apart a challenging upbringing in Tonyrefail, his wanderings to Australia, Amsterdam and London, and his experimentation as a young man with drink and drugs and love. This is Boyd’s story, told with candour and perception and skill that will absorb anyone interested in what it was to be young and Welsh – and are now older and maybe a little wiser. ‘Boyd is a brilliant actor and writer, truly unique, a genius by any definition of the word.’ – Rhys Ifans ‘I love Boyd’s unique take on life.’ – Rob Brydon “Awesome and hilarious... I cannot recommend this moving, truthful, funny and endearing roller coaster of a ride enough.” – Eve Myles

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January, 1721. London is reeling from the effects of the greatest financial scandal of the age - the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. William Spandrel, a penniless mapmaker, is offered a discharge of his debts by Sir Theodore Janssen, a director of the South Sea Company, on one condition: he must secretly convey an important package to Amsterdam.The package safely delivered, Spandrel barely survives an attempt on his life, only to discover the recipient has been murdered, and Spandrel is the prime suspect. Spandrel quickly realises that he has become a pawn in several people's games - British Government agents, and others, are on his trail, believing that the mysterious package contains secrets that could spark a revolution in England.Spandrel's only chance of survival is to recover the package and place its contents in the right hands. But what are the contents and whose exactly are the right hands?

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Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death his works were first banned by the Christian authorities as atheistic, then hailed by humanists as the gospel of Pantheism. His Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order shows us the reality behind this enigmatic figure. First published by his friends after his premature death at the age of forty-four, the Ethics uses the methods of Euclid to describe a single entity, properly called both 'God' and 'Nature', of which mind and matter are two manifestations. From this follow, in ways that are strikingly modern, the identity of mind and body, the necessary causation of events and actions, and the illusory nature of free will.

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Published for the first time in English, the sweeping debut novel set in bohemian Paris, by the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life. In 1953, a teenage girl, Jeanne Saré, jumps in front of a train at the Gare du Nord station. She leaves behind writings that to some are unreadable, but to others tell universal, unspoken truths about the lives and struggles of women. When published in the 1970s, her work triggers a rash of copycat suicides. It is hastily withdrawn from sale and eventually forgotten about. Then, in 2004, two women from opposite corners of the globe — Amsterdam and Sydney — rediscover Jeanne Saré’s book and set out to discover who the author was and what happened to her. Women across the ages have attached their own stories to Saré’s, often with devastating results, but the truth about her may be even stranger than the fictions they have invented.

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Tres siglos de exploración y comercio de Cipango con Occidente. 1542-1868: 300 años de contactos culturales y comerciales de Cipango con occidente: Desde el shogunato y la reunificación de Japón por Nobunaga, Toyotomi y Tokugawa hasta la restauración del poder imperial. Historias, aventuras, exploraciones y conflictos bélicos. La apasionante historia de la modernización del fascinante Japón.Conozca la narración apasionante de las historias, aventuras y desventuras protagonizadas por aquellos hombres que, zarpando desde puertos andaluces y lisboetas, desde Ámsterdam, Londres y otros tantos lugares, quisieron llegar hasta la mítica Cipango que Marco Polo describió en el s. XIII; unas islas pobladas por los hombres del Oriente dotados de un nivel culturals superior y rodeados de riquezas tales que solo el sol podría haber creado.Una obra que recoge de forma exhaustiva más de tres siglos de contactos culturales y mercantiles, con sus sombras y sus luces, con abrazos fraternales y odios

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This delightful book will be enjoyed and cherished by GAA fans old and young. - Dermot EarleyGaelic Games have a unique capacity to lift the spirits but they also have created many extraordinary moments. In the GAA world the truth is stranger than fiction and often funnier. This book celebrates the extraordinary moments in the GAA's long and distinguished history. Representing all counties, it features Gaelic football, hurling, ladies' football and camogie.Read about the star player who grabbed Ger Cunningham's balls; Seán Boylan's experience in the maternity ward; what happened when Pat Spillane took the DART; Ger Loughnane and the night life in Amsterdam; Paidí Ó'Sé and the tractor; the Galway icon who did not wear his socks; the Meath legend's love affair; Clare's sex scandal; the tender affection to a top pundit; the man who silenced Joe Brolly; the Dublin star who runs like a chicken; Garret Fitzgerald's

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Bonnie Rough was a new mother grappling with many typical concerns of raising a daughter: how to inspire her to push past stereotypes, how to teach her to have a healthy attitude towards her body and her sexuality. Then her husband's job relocated the family to Amsterdam, where Rough quickly witnessed the free, uninhibited, and egalitarian sexual attitudes of the Dutch--where nudity isn't frowned upon and parents hope their children have favorable sexual experiences more than fearing their activity. In Better Than Birds and Bees, Rough describes how to implement the easygoing, surprisingly low-risk European attitude, reflecting on her experiences with her daughters. With careful research and anecdotal discoveries, Rough outlines ways for American parents to navigate a culture with dismally little formal sexual education, showing how creating healthy sexual attitudes reverberates with every aspect of society, shaping not only childhood experiences but gender misconceptions and inequality through adulthood.

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Una fría mirada a la manera en que la gente hacefrente a la falta de sentido del Tiempo... Rituales,en su economía y lucidez, es una pequeña y excéntricaobra de arte.The Sunday TimesTres historias similares pero que son tres formasrituales diferentes de actuar para afrontar laangustia de la existencia.Inni Wintrop, marido fracasado, suicida fracasado,diletante declarado y poco dotado para lasupervivencia, se contenta con vagabundear por lascalles de Amsterdam, seguir las fluctuaciones de Bolsa,rondar los negocios del arte y del sexo o escribir en lasección de horóscopos de un periódico... Frente a sudiletantismo, están esas otras formas de encarar elhorror a la existencia y a la muerte que tienen Arnoldy Philip Taads. El primero vive sujeto a una rutina yun orden inviolables donde nada queda abierto al azar.Su hijo Philip en cambio recurre a la filosofía zeny a sus rituales, no menos estrictos.Rituales (1984)

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" Max Havelaar o las subastas de café de la Compañía Neerlandesa de Comercio " , la primera obra de Multatuli, seudónimo de Eduard Douwes Dekker, se publicó por primera vez en mayo de 1860, en Ámsterdam, y se reimprimió cinco veces en vida del autor. Fue escrita en pleno apogeo del dominio colonial neerlandés en el siglo XIX. Douwes Dekker, antiguo oficial colonial en las Indias Orientales Neerlandesas, escribió " Max Havelaar " como crítica a la explotación de la población de Java mediante un sistema colonial corrupto y tolerada en los Países Bajos por la hipocresía burguesa." Max Havelaar " fue la primera obra que supo despertar la conciencia de la población neerlandesa sobre la situación en la colonia. La obra ejerció una gran influencia sobre el concepto colonial, que alrededor de 1900 llevó a la conocida como " Política Ética " ( " Ethische Politiek " ), y contribuyó más tarde al movimiento de liberación de Indonesia. La novela no es sólo la más conocida de las obras de Multat

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Una novela de Alice Kellen, la gran revelación de la novela romántica.Una chica.Un adiós y un comienzo.Dos historias de amor.Cuando Sophie se enamoró de Simon, supo que juntos tejerían una inolvidable historia llena de vivencias y canciones, pero todo acabó una noche de enero y sus sueños se quedaron congelados en aquel invierno eterno, el más largo y frío que nunca pudo imaginar. Hasta que el hielo empieza a derretirse para que Ámsterdam se vista de primavera. Y vuelve a encontrar el amor. Entonces, Sophie descubre que su familia y amigos son su brújula, que ganar requiere de ingenio y que el corazón sigue sus propias reglas. Qué hacer cuando el destino nos pone a prueba?La pluma de Alice Kellen es más que maravillosa, consigue traspasarte y arrastrarte a su mundo, consigue hacerte sentir las emociones en tu propia piel y que la historia se ancle en tu interior? Bibiana In BooklandCada vez que leo una nueva novela de Alice

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Between science and art, revisiting photography’s role in discovery and experimentation. This edition of Aperture focuses on "Curiosity." Taking its name from the Mars Rover, which has reminded us that a fundamental purpose of photography is to show us something new, the articles and portfolios ask: what can we learn by revisiting photography's role in discovery, experimentation and exploration? The issue toggles between past and present, and between science and art, and features Jennifer Tucker on Victorian science photography, spectacle and rational amusement; Kelley Wilder on what it means for photography to make visible the invisible; Brian Dillon on the cosmic and the mundane; a conversation between artist Trevor Paglen and the eminent science historian Peter Galison; a selection from Harold "Doc" Edgerton's lab books; David Campany on photographic abstraction and perception; curator Joel Smith's guide to "photographic nothing"; and portfolios by British photographer Stephen Gill, Amsterdam-based artist Eva-Fiore Kovakovsky, curator Lynne Cooke on Horst Ademeit's mysterious annotated Polaroids and much more.

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Microsoft’s associate general counsel shares a story that is “as nuanced as it is hopeful” (Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader) about his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology and music industries in this stirring true story of grit and perseverance. For fans of Indra Nooyi’s My Life in Full and Viola Davis’s Finding Me.As an accomplished Microsoft executive, Bruce Jackson handles billions of dollars of commerce as its associate general counsel while he plays a crucial role in the company’s corporate diversity efforts. But few of his colleagues can understand the weight he carries with him to the office each day. He kept his past hidden from sight as he ascended the corporate ladder but shares it in full for the first time here. Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Jackson moved to Manhattan’s Amsterdam housing projects as a child, where

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This book offers a critical perspective on the issue of organising waste in cities, which has often been positioned in terms of relatively narrow engineering, economic and physical science approaches. It emphasises the ways in which the notion of waste, and the narratives and discourses associated with it, have been socially constructed with corresponding implications for waste governance and local waste handling practices. Organising waste in the city takes a broad and international approach to the ways in which the issue of waste is framed, and brings together narratives from cities as diverse as Amsterdam, Bristol, Cairo, Gothenburg, Helsingborg and Managua. Organised into four main sections and with an integrative introduction and conclusion, the book not only provides new insights into the hidden stories of urban and municipal household solid waste and waste landscapes, but also connects concerns regarding urban waste to such issues as globalisation, governance, urban ecology, and social, economic and environmental justice.

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This book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is present, when studying religions. Priya Swamy argues that absent religious spaces are in themselves abstract locations that painfully memorialize feelings of shame, oppression and marginalization. She shows that these traumas of absence' the complex, entwined and emotional responses to absent spaces can be articulated through mob violence and destruction, but also anticolonial struggles or human rights issues.This study focusses on the absence of temples across the global Hindu diaspora, taking the tumultuous narrative of the Devi Dhaam community in Amsterdam Southeast as a central location to detail the over thirty-year struggle to build a Hindu temple in a neighbourhood of vibrant mosques and churches. In 2010, their makeshift space was pulled away from them, provoking tears among elderly devotees, rage among board members and devastation in the wider community. Leaving their goddess with no place to live,

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In 1664, when the English conquered New Amsterdam, the present State of New Jersey had been for some years a part of New Netherland. Dr. Pomfret describes meticulously the founding of the colony, the circumstances of the division between East and West New Jersey, and the various problems which faced the settlers and the proprietors of East New Jersey first under the family of Sir George Carteret and later under the Twenty Four Proprietors. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (1948–1951). Although the name stood for the organizers’ home cities, the Cobra artists hailed from countries in Europe, Africa, and the United States.This book investigates how a group of struggling young artists attempted to reinvent the international avant-garde after the devastation of the Second World War, to create artistic experiments capable of facing the challenges of postwar society. It explores how Cobra’s experimental, often collective art works and publications relate to broader debates in Europe about the use of images to commemorate violent events, the possibility of free expression in an art world constrained by Cold War politics, the breakdown of primitivism in an era of colonial independence movements, and the importance of spontaneity in a society increasingly dominated by the mass media.This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, 20th-century modern art, avant-garde arts, and European history.

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“A joyous, mysterious portrait of rural American boyhood.” - THE NEW YORKER ON RANDY Robin de Puy (b. 1986) has lived for several years in Wormer, a small village just to the north of Amsterdam. She is fascinated by the American countryside, and during the recent lockdown discovered that her new environment proves to be very universal, with the same sort of local small-town icons that she has often encountered during her travels through the rural landscapes of America. For example, she meets an eleven-year-old shaman who shows her around barefoot in forbidden territory, she drives around with four giggling brothers in the back seat, and she meets a palm reader who immediately gives her the keys to his house. Dozens of encounters follow and, slowly, not only a photo book is created but also a world in which she starts to feel at home. Text in English and Dutch.

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A photographic meditation on the empty spaces between time, inspired by Japanese aesthetics The Dutch-born photographer Martien Mulder’s (born 1971) new book of images springs from the Japanese concept of ma, which can be described as a pause in time, an interval, or emptiness in space. Teaming up with Amsterdam-based creatives Stef Bakker and Carsten Klein, Mulder embarked on an extensive quest to reveal the ma in her own images, editing from an archive of 25 years of photography. The images in this book are studies of the in-between; some center on details photographed at such close quarters that they lose their context, while others show only the negative space, inactivity or quiet nothingness. The viewing direction of the book is not dictated, nor is the beginning or the end, nor the pace: it can be opened to any page at any time, functioning as an object of contemplation.

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An engaging and visually stunning look at some of Europe's major cities.This series offers readers of 9 and up an engaging and visually stunning look at some of the world's major cities. Cityscapes draw in the reader with facts about the iconic buildings that help to shape each city's unique identity. Data-packed pages give the essential details about each featured city, including where to go, what to do and things to eat on a visit, as well as information about the city's history. The cities of Europe covered in the book are Moscow, Russia; Paris, France; London, England; Berlin, Germany; Barcelona, Spain; Rome, Italy; Athens, Greece; Istanbul, Turkey; Amsterdam, Netherlands and Stockholm, Sweden as well as Prague, Czech Republic, Reykjavik, Iceland; Vienna, Austria; Zurich, Switzerland; Warsaw, Poland; Lisbon, Portugal, Copenhagen, Denmark and Edinburgh, Scotland.Titles in the 6-book series feature the cities of Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America.

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''The rainbow reaches right across the sky, for miles and miles, and has landed right in the middle of our field. My mother, Alison, is standing at the beginning. I''m sure it''s a beginning, rather than the end, as there''s no pot of gold in sight. The point where everything forms or, perhaps, is not quite formed as yet. That''s my favourite place. A place alive with possibility.''Strange Things Are Happening begins with the wonder of that rainbow, and continues with many escapades down the rabbit hole. From punk and the beginnings of the DIY scene, through Acid House, psychedelia, the rise of electronic dance music and much more, Richard Norris has been involved in countless countercultural revolutions. From misadventures in Amsterdam with Timothy Leary, with Sun Ra at customs, and Shaun Ryder in Joe Strummer''s beaten up Cadillac in Tijuana, to his extraordinarily influential output in The Grid and Beyond The Wizards Sleeve, Richard Norris'' story is one of

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A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening when classical knowledge was rediscovered, leading to an efflorescence in philosophy, art, and literature. The period fostered an emerging sense of individualism across European cultures. This sense was expressed through a fascination with materiality and the natural world, and a growing attachment to things. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. James Symonds is Professor at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. V

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The Art & Times of Daniel Jocz presents the entrancing and challenging work of American jewellery artist and sculptor Daniel Jocz. There is a spontaneous quality to the work, yet it is always rich with meaning. His open spirit is fully embodied in the 2007 neckpiece series An American’s Riff on the Millstone Ruff. Inspired by the extravagant scale of 17th-century Dutch ruffs at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, he decided to update them with automobile paint. Jeannine Falino takes an in-depth look at the twists and turns of Jocz’s long career, from his early geometric sculptures to the fashion-forward flocked Candy Wear collection, and from his ruminations on Marlene Dietrich in the form of necklaces featuring enamel smoked cigarettes to the wall reliefs he explores today. Wendy Steiner considers Jocz’s place in the avant-garde through the lens of fashion and culture, while Patricia Harris and David Lyon explore his involvement in the rollicking Boston jewellery scene of the late 20th century.

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The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century’s greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though scientists of his era often collected natural specimens for research purposes, Amsterdam-based pharmacist Albertus Seba (1665–1736) was unrivalled in his passion. His amazing collection of animals, plants and insects from all around the world gained international fame during his lifetime. In 1731, after decades of collecting, Seba commissioned careful and often scenic illustrations of every specimen. With these meticulous drawings, he arranged for the publication of a four-volume catalog, covering the entire collection from strange and exotic plants to snakes, frogs, crocodiles, shellfish, corals, birds, and butterflies, as well as now extinct creatures. This reproduction is taken from a rare, hand-colored original. The introduction supplies background information about the fascinating tradition of natural collections to which Seba’s curiosities belonged.

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARWinner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2023Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS''A modern classic' OBSERVERAn unforgettable epic of a book' DAILY MAILFrom longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father's devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War.Daniel's mother Mirjam Wiener was the youngest of three daughters born in Germany to Alfred and Margarete Wiener. Alfred, a decorated hero from the Great War, is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began, in 1933, to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes. After moving his family to Amsterdam, he relocated his library to London and was preparing to bring over his wife and children when Germany invaded the Netherlands. Before long, the family was rounded up, rob

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The tourism industry provides a vital lifeline in helping to develop and enhance the economic growth of cities, states, and nations, but there is growing concern internationally about how overtourism in certain regions is having an adverse impact on a number of tourist destinations. Overtourism as Destination Risk: Impacts and Solutions presents a range of researcher perspectives discussing current issues in the overtourism debate, including unplanned expansion and construction, environmental imbalance and damage, pollution and deforestation, as well as measures and possible solutions to tackle the problem of overtourism and its spread. This book specifically focuses on Coimbra in Portugal, Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Shimla in India. This book foregrounds the tourist's responsibility to respect destinations and provides an in-depth assessment of possible risk factors and the conflicted role of the media and marketing organizations as image-makers of tourist destinations. This book is essential reading for academics and researchers from the fields of tourism studies, social sciences, environmental sciences, humanities and relevant disciplines.

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A lost masterpiece. A fortune beyond belief. A race to survive.For archaeologist Finn Ryan luck comes in the form of an unlikely legacy from a man she never knew. Along with her co-heir, Billy Pilgrim, she inherits a house in Amsterdam, a cargo ship off Borneo and what appears to be a fake Rembrandt.But behind its canvas lies a real Rembrandt portrait, which in turn conceals a clue to a centuries-old mystery at the bottom of the South Pacific. Pursued by ruthless adversaries, Finn and Billy are thrown into the hunt for a forgotten treasure that could change their lives forever… or end them in an instant.It doesn't take them long to realise that they've found one piece of a much larger puzzle – and a trail of clues that could get them killed.Rembrandt’s Ghost is perfect for fans of Scott Mariani, Clive Cussler and Chris Kuzneski.

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'An enthralling, perfectly paced romp that breathes new life into the picaresque genre' Observer'Rich in period detail and with requisite glittering trappings' Daily Mail'A Continental Downton Abbey plus sex, with a dash of Dangerous Liaisons tossed in' Seattle Times1907, Amsterdam. The belle époque is in full swing and Piet Barol has secured a job as tutor to the troubled son of Europe's leading hotelier - a child who refuses to leave his family's mansion on one of the city's grandest canals. As Piet is swept into the glittering society, he begins to uncover its secrets and finds his life transformed.With nothing but his looks, charm and youth to rely on, he is determined to make a fortune of his own. But in the heady exhilaration of this opulent new world, amid romance, delights and temptations he has only dreamed of, Piet discovers that some of the liaisons he has cultivated are dangerous indeed . . .

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Esta es la edición definitiva del célebre Diario de Anne Frank. Su texto amplía en una cuarta parte las ediciones anteriores y ofrece una visión completa y fidedigna de la terrible odisea vivida durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial por la familia FrankUn testimonio único sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias que vivió una niña judía recluida con su familia para huir del HolocaustoTras la invasión de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judíos alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Anne tenía sus oficinas. Eran ocho personas y permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidas y enviadas a campos de concentración. En ese lugar y en las más precarias condiciones, Anne, a la sazón una niña de trece años, escribió su estremecedor Diario: un testimonio único en su género sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y

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Sumisiones voluntarias es la transcripción literal de un curso de cuatro meses impartido por Gabriel Albiac en la Universidad Complutense y dedicado a ver surgir el concepto moderno de sujeto político durante el lapso histórico de dos siglos, que lleva de la Florencia Medici al Ámsterdam de Johan de Witt.Sumisiones voluntarias es, así, palabra hablada. Y muestra de una cierta concepción de la docencia que prima, de modo absoluto, la lectura y el análisis minuciosos de los clásicos. Maquiavelo, Guicciardini, Montaigne, Étienne de La Boétie, Pascal y, finalmente, Spinoza son desmenuzados, en un acto de infinito amor y respeto al texto. El comentarista busca en él borrarse, para mejor dejar que suene la voz de aquellos en quienes se forjaron las categorías básicas de las cuales somos hijos los modernos.Todo se juega en torno a un punto de gravedad, al cual el título de la obra remite mediante un préstamo del joven Étienne de La Boétie: en qué medida la sumisión moderna, sin la cua

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Atlas Obscura meets 1001 Facts to Scare the Sh*t Out of You in this serious survey of the most bizarre, creepy, and sometimes hilarious customs from cultures around the world. Every culture handles life differently. From the “blackening of the bride” in Scotland and the custom of not looking babies in the eyes in Kenya, to enlisting geese as part of the police squad in China and the tradition of children eating bread with chocolate sprinkles for breakfast in Amsterdam, there are so many unique behaviors all across the world. In Bizarre World, journey across the globe to understand how various cultures approach everything from grief, beauty standards, food, parenting, death, stress management, happiness, and more. Many customs may seem perfectly sane, while others, not so much. Some are just downright strange, funny, or weird. There’s so much to discover about the people around us and the beliefs they hold. Le

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This book highlights the expansion of the influential Pentecostal Hillsong Church global megachurch network from Australia across global cities. Ethnographic research in Amsterdam and New York City shows that global cities harbor nodes in transnational religious networks in which media play a crucial role. By taking a lived religion approach, media is regarded as integral part of everyday practices of interaction, expression and consumption of religion. Key question raised is how processes of mediatization shape, alter and challenge this thriving cosmopolitan expression of Pentecostalism. Current debates in the study of religion are addressed: religious belonging and community in global cities; the interrelation between media technology, religious practices and beliefs; religion, media and social engagement in global cities; media and emerging modes of religious leadership and authority. In this empirical study, pressing societal issues like institutional responses to sexual abuse of children, views on gender roles, misogyny and mediated constructions of femininity are discussed.

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One of Europe's foremost experts on early guitar music explores this little known but richly rewarding repertoire. In the seventeenth century, like today, the guitar was often used for chord strumming ("battuto" in Italian) in songs and popular dance genres, such as the ciaccona or sarabanda. In the golden age of the baroque guitar, Italy gave rise to a unique solo repertoire, in which chord strumming and lute-like plucked ("pizzicato") styles were mixed. Italian Guitar Music of the Seventeenth Century: Battuto and Pizzicato explores this little-known repertoire, providing a historical background and examining particular performance issues. The book is accompanied by audio examples on a companion website. Lex Eisenhardt is one of Europe's foremost experts on early guitar. He teaches both classical guitar and historical plucked instruments at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. He has produced a number of highly acclaimed CD recordings, and has given concerts and masterclasses in Europe, the United States, and Australia.

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Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In Worldly Consumers, Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to private consumers during the Italian Renaissance and shows how map acquisition and display became central tools for constructing personal identity and impressing one's peers. Drawing on a variety of sixteenth-century sources, including household inventories, epigrams, dedications, catalogs, travel books, and advice manuals, Worldly Consumers studies how individuals displayed different maps in their homes as deliberate acts of self-fashioning. One citizen decorated with maps of Bruges, Holland, Flanders, and Amsterdam to remind visitors of his military prowess, for example, while another hung maps of cities where his ancestors fought or governed, in homage to his auspicious family history. Renaissance Italians turned domestic spaces into a microcosm of larger geographical places to craft cosmopolitan, erudite identities for themselves, creating a new class of consumers who drew cultural capital from maps of the time.

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Dirck Nab''s drawn landscapes touch us because they evoke a desire to be there: alone with our thoughts in the wild dunes or in the vast fields. - Taco Dibbets , director of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.Dirck Nab draws in nature, his true source of inspiration. He works in the dunes of North Holland, near his studio in Bakkum. His drawings, in vigorous charcoal or chalk strokes, are characterised by a powerful clair-obscur.In the book Dirck Nab - Paysage Dessiné, the hand becomes visible. The hand that notes, is carried away, bows, plays or gets carried away with the wind. Dirck Nab''s drawings are accompanied by writings by Dirck Nab himself, as well as texts by Huigen Leeflang (curator at the Prints and Drawings Department of the Rijksmuseum), Sjoerd Kuyper (writer), Ineke Holzhaus (poet), Theo Olthuis (poet), Harry ter Balkt (poet), Fernando Pessoa (poet) and Taco Dibbits (director of the Rijksmuseum).The book Dirck

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PERFECT FOR FANS OF KATE QUINN''S THE ROSE CODE, THIS GRIPPING NOVEL OF COURAGE AND LOYALTY BRINGS THE UNSUNG TRUE STORY OF WW2''S GREATEST HEROINE HANNIE SCHAFT TO LIFEA tale of formidable defiance told through the eyes of a young heroine so notorious that Hitler himself personally ordered for her capture. ''Inspiring, empowering, and timely. An immersive story with the sort of hero we all need right now: relatable and resolute and absolutely right'' Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is ---- 1940, Amsterdam. You''re nineteen years old. The war has stolen your future and your country is under siege. The people you love are no longer safe. Will you stand aside as the menace of Nazi evil tightens its grip on your homeland? Or do you unleash your fury, joining forces with your enemies'' enemies, plotting to strike? Because if not yo

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Amsterdam, 1943 Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black-market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the front line when the Germans invaded. She likes to think of her illegal work as a small act of rebellion. But one day Hanneke gets a very unusual request. One of her regular customers asks her to find a girl. A girl who has disappeared from the secret room in her house. A Jewish girl . . .As she searches for clues Hanneke is drawn into a dangerous web of lies, secrets and mysteries. Can she find the runaway before the Nazis do?Meticulously researched, intricately plotted and beautifully written, The Girl in the Blue Coat is the extraordinarily gripping novel from Monica Hesse.'A gripping historical mystery' Publishers Weekly, starred review

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Este volumen monográfico aborda por primera vez de manera sistemática el análisis del diálogo literario durante la segunda mitad del siglo XVII. A partir de la floración de la escritura dialógica producida durante la época renacentista, se estudian las principales tendencias que caracterizan la trayectoria de los diálogos barrocos. La variedad temática de los mismos justifica el interés de su interpretación global para acercarse a la mentalidad de aquella época. Las obras y autores analizados incluyen modelos de comportamiento (B. Gracián), itinerarios místicos (A. Cruz, J. Batlle), libelos políticos a favor o en contra del hermanastro de Carlos II, Juan José de Austria, y críticas de los falsos cronicones (J. Moret, P. Fernández Pulgar), si bien destaca por su singularidad el diálogo sobre la bolsa de Ámsterdam compuesto por el sefardí Joseph de la Vega. En conjunto, el género dialogado se diferencia frente al tratado y otras formas discursivas por su capacidad para desarrollar temas

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La guía más actual y útil para viajeros independientes que quieran adentrarse en los Países Bajos y su capital.Al comienzo de esta guía se encuentra toda la información necesaria para preparar el viaje a los Países Bajos y para moverse por el país. Se completa con un vocabulario de términos gastronómicos y otros de términos generales en neerlandés. El apartado Amsterdam barrio a barrio, se ha dividido la capital neerlandesa en diferentes zonas, y para cada una se ha trazado un itinerario para pasear, viendo los monumentos de interés, visitando los museos y todo lo que no hay que perderse.A continuación, en Resto de los Países Bajos, se describen otras ciudades turísticas de los Países Bajos que pueden visitarse fácilmente desde la capital. La descripción de cada lugar se completa con varias secciones fijas: Transportes, Comer, Dormir, La Noche, Compras... Además, en cada caso, se añaden otras secciones específicas en función de las características concretas de cada lugar: histori

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Cornelis es peluquero en Ámsterdam. En 1977, cuando su mujer le dice que está embarazada, se marcha de casa y desaparece sin dejar rastro, después de que el vuelo que había cogido hacia Tenerife se estrellara.Años después, Simon, su hijo, hereda la peluquería que fue de su abuelo. Sin embargo, no disfruta de su oficio y el cartel de cerrado a menudo decora la puerta de su local. Su relación con la peluquería cambiará cuando empiece a indagar sobre la desaparición de su padre.Gerbrand Bakker, ganador de los premios Llibreter, IMPAC e Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (Booker International), nos ofrece lo mejor de su escritura con esta impactante obra.Una historia escrita con gran sensibilidad, silencios elocuentes y diálogos singulares para hablarnos de los vínculos familiares, el duelo y el sentimiento de pertenencia.El mejor libro de Bakker hasta ahora! J. M. CoetzeeHa escrito una novela irresistible, en la que demuestra su atrevimiento literario y la mano firme que tie

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La mejor manera de disfrutar de los Países Bajos es aventurarse por sus hermosas costas, campiñas y ciudades más pequeñas, que rivalizan en atractivo con la interesante y multicultural capital. Aunque los molinos de viento y los campos de tulipanes son imágenes estereotípicas de Holanda, nada te prepara para las calles antiguas y las nuevas formas de arte colaborativo de Ámsterdam, los históricos canales de Utrecht y Amersfoort, y el ambiente ecológico que se respira en cada rincón gracias a la promoción de los carriles-bici. Los Países Bajos ofrecen una experiencia única y diferente que no te puedes perder.Las guías clásicas de Lonely Planet se han renovado para satisfacer las necesidades de los viajeros de hoy, con más contenido local, nuevas formas de experimentar los puntos de interés más populares, con más rutas e itinerarios y con más recomendaciones fuera de ruta. Desde julio del 2023, nuestras guías cuentan con nuevo diseño más claro y visual

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Updated for 2024, and (hopefully) to coincide with the club's return to the Premier League, Ipswich Town On This Day is an appointment with those magical days and memorable moments from the club's illustrious past with an entry for every day of the year.From Town''s Victorian formation through to the Premier League era, the Portman Road faithful have witnessed promotions and relegations, league and cup triumphs, hard-fought derbies and unforgettable European nights and they all feature here along with all-time greats such as John Wark, Ray Crawford, Billy Baxter, Arnold Muhren and Mick Mills.Revisit 18th January 1969 for Bobby Robson''s first game in charge, a 2-2 draw away at Everton. 30th October 1926, when Barclays Bank beat Town 3-1 at Portman Road, but not before the game had been held up to clear an invasion of rats. Or 20th May 1981, that wonderful night that Town won the UEFA Cup in Amsterdam!

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From the peaks of the Himalayas to the beaches of New Zealand and the bustling streets of Cuba, take an action-packed adventure around the world with a family of globetrotting pandas.Where's the Panda? is a new search and find book in the bestselling series, which has sold over 2.2 million copies. Spot the pandas as they party at a medieval festival in France and hide among tulips in Amsterdam, search for them in downtown Shanghai and find them among the crowds stargazing in the Atacama Desert. There are 17 intricately illustrated scenes to search and seven fluffy pandas to spot in every location.Also available in the Where's the... ? series:9781782439073 Where’s the Unicorn? – over 700,000 copies sold9781782439950 Where’s the Unicorn, Now? – over 200,000 copies sold9781780555904 Where’s the Elf? – over 150,000 copies sold9781789290677 Where’s the Sloth? – over 115,000 copies soldPublishing in 2024:9781789295054 Where's the Baby Unicorn?

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A unique picture of Rembrandt's mastery of light and visual storytelling. Rembrandt’s Light brings together 35 carefully selected paintings, concentrating on his greatest years from 1639-1658, when he lived in his ideal house at Breestraat in the heart of Amsterdam (today the Museum Het Rembrandthuis). Its striking, light-infused studio was the site for the creation of Rembrandt’s most exceptional paintings, prints and drawings including ‘The Denial of St Peter’ and ‘The Artist’s Studio’. Arranged thematically, the book traces Rembrandt’s innovation: from evoking a meditative mood, to lighting people, to creating impact and drama. Highlights will include three of Rembrandt’s most famous images of women: ‘A Woman Bathing in a Stream’, ‘A Woman in Bed’ and the inimitable ‘Girl at a Window’. Published to coincide with an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2019, with celebrations taking place throughout Europe to mark 350 years since the artist’s death (1669), this publication aims to refresh the way we look at works by this incomparable Dutch Master.

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From the winner of the National Jewish Book AwardTheodore Teddy Hartigan is the scion of a wealthy Washington, D.C. family who place him into a comfortable job at the State Department and a placid diplomat's career. In 1938, as Hitler's inexorable rise continues, Teddy is re-assigned to the US Consulate in Amsterdam to replace fleeing staff.Teddy's job is to process visa applications, and by 1939, refugees from Nazi-conquered Poland, Austria, and other countries are desperate to secure safe passage to America. As Hitler sweeps through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, and Holland, the screws tighten and law after virulent law is passed to threaten the lives, indeed the very existence of the Jewish people. When Teddy and his girlfriend Sara are introduced to an orphaned young girl named Katy, who has been abandoned on the grounds of a nursery school, they agree to adopt her. Teddy comes to realize that he holds the key to saving lives, whether five, fifty,

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Traditionally Dutch art is seen and presented as a coherent phenomenon—the product of state formation in the late 16th century. Elisabeth de Bièvre challenges this view and its assumptions in a radical new account. Arguing that the Dutch Golden Age was far from unified, de Bièvre exposes how distinct geographical circumstances and histories shaped each urban development and, in turn, fundamentally informed the art and visual culture of individual cities. In seven chapters, each devoted to a single city, the book follows the growth of Amsterdam, Delft, Dordrecht, Haarlem, Leiden, The Hague, and Utrecht over the course of five centuries. By embracing the full gamut of art and architecture and by drawing on the records of town histories and the writings of contemporary travelers, de Bièvre traces the process by which the visual culture of the Netherlands emerged to become the richest, most complex material expression in Europe, capturing the values of individuals, corporate entities, and whole cities.

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Despite increased economic opportunities for women, sexual commerce has not only thrived in the Western world, it has diversified along technological, spatial, and social lines. For example, contemporary sex workers often meet their clinets through the Internet, offering new kinds of encounters that are a far cry from the quick and impersonal contacts that we normally associate with prostitution. For "Temporarily Yours", sociologist Elizabeth Bernstein walked the streets and went behind closed doors, interviewing sex workers, their clients, and the government officials who regulate the business. Along the way, she discovered a significant transformation that is occurring in the urban sex trade. Many middle-class johns are now seeking to fulfill fantasies of intimacy and affection - to purchase an authentic interaction that is gratifying emotionally, not just physically. Drawing on innovative research in San Francisco, Stockholm, and Amsterdam, Bernstein paints a provocative picture of the current state of global sexual commerce and its relationship to a burgeoning consumer culture.

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