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Offers an account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address - to show how American democracy is bound up with the

Dit Amerika is een vervolg op Deze waarheden, Jill Lepore’s veelgeprezen geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten. In een tijd van grote wanhoop over de t

In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise

In de zomer van 1741 braken in New York in korte tijd tien mysterieuze branden uit. Al gauw ging het gerucht dat opstandige slaafgemaakten de stad met

‘Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget.’ — Paul McCartney Taken with a 35mm camera by Paul

Deze waarheden is de briljante weerslag van de bewogen geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten. In fonkelend proza beschrijft Jill Lepore de worsteling

Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award WinnerIn New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic event

A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and enthusiasm that Hemingway himself e

The book that won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tal

The City: A World History depicts the rise of urban centers from the middle of the fourth century BCE to the early twenty-first century. It begins in

Roma non basta una vita. Voor Rome is een enkel leven niet genoeg, een mens heeft meer tijd nodig om de rijke geschiedenis van de Eeuwige Stad in al h

‘Mevrouw Andacheh laat het ene na het andere tapijt zien, steeds weer een ander land, steeds weer een andere stad: Isfahan, Heriz, Tabriz, Nain, Bijar

A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair, complex human ide

Reflective Knowledge draws together ground-breaking work in epistemology by Ernest Sosa. He argues for a reflective virtue epistemology based on virtu

Reflective Knowledge argues for a reflective virtue epistemology based on a kind of virtuous circularity that may be found explicitly or just below th

In Rear Window, Hitchcock explores the basic ingredients of cinema, from voyeurism and dreamlike fantasy to the process of narration itself. Examining

John Searle and His Critics proceeds from an analysis of the importance and influence of Searlea s seminal works to an overall assessment of Searlea s

This is a wide-ranging study through text and art that presents our current understanding of gender constructs in the ancient Near East and surroundin