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Kingdom by the Sea. A Celebration of Dutch cultural heritage
MarkMedia & Art. Hardback. Pp: 448. From the 17th century onwards, Dutch merchants and traders have traveled the seven seas in search of new opportunities. In the Golden Age, Amsterdam became the warehouse of the world and the gateway to Europe. At the same time, Dutch scientists unravelled the mysteries of daily life, while painters presented a new vision of reality and changed the world of art. The inspiring stories of courageous pioneers, innovative entrepreneurs, talented artists and other notable characters have captured our imagination for centuries. Their spirit of innovation, multiculturalism and creativity have been essential to transform the Netherlands into a cosmopolitan melting pot. Since the 1950s, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines presents every World Business Class passenger with a Delft Blue miniature house. Each replica depicts a real monument or national landmark. Over the years, the iconic Delft Blue collection has become an unrivaled phenomenon in the world of travel. The beautiful canal houses and sumptuous mansions were mainly built during the Dutch Golden Age. Prominent inhabitants like the Dutch Marco Polo, members of the royal family, Rembrandt, Anne Frank and Mata Hari made their mark on Dutch history, and added color and luster to the country. This coffee table book 'Kingdom by the Sea' offers an exclusive peak into the lives of people who pushed the boundaries of a country limited in size but great in hopes and dreams. Have a great flight through 500 years of Dutch cultural heritage, and a safe landing at a Delft blue destination. ISBN: 9789081905640. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.
-- Boeknummer: 775416
€ 36.50
Catalogus: Geschiedenis
Trefwoorden: 9789081905640
Madame Jazz. Contemporary women instrumentalists
Oxford University Press, 1995. Paperback. Pp: 273. Nadine Jansen, a flugelhornist and pianist, remembers a night in the 1940s when a man came out of the audience as she was playing both instruments. "I hate to see a woman do that," he explained as he hit the end of her horn, nearly chipping her tooth. Half a century later, a big band named Diva made its debut in New York on March 30, 1993, with Melissa Slocum on bass, Sue Terry on alto sax, Lolly Bienenfeld on trombone, Sherrie Maricle on drums, and a host of other first rate instrumentalists. The band made such a good impression that it was immediately booked to play at Carnegie Hall the following year. For those who had yet to notice, Diva signaled the emergence of women musicians as a significant force in jazz. Madame Jazz is a fascinating invitation to the inside world of women in jazz. Ranging primarily from the late 1970s to today's vanguard of performance jazz in New York City and on the West Coast, it chronicles a crucial time of transition as women make the leap from novelty acts regarded as second class citizens to sought-out professionals admired and hired for their consummate musicianship. Author Leslie Gourse surveys the scene in the jazz clubs, the concert halls, the festivals, and the recording studios from the musicians' point of view. She finds exciting progress on all fronts, but also lingering discrimination. The growing success of women instrumentalists has been a long time in coming, she writes. Long after women became accepted as writers and, to a lesser extent, as visual artists, women in music-classical, pop, or jazz-faced the nearly insuperable barrier of chauvinism and the still insidious force of tradition and habit that keeps most men performing with the musicians they have always worked with, other men. Gourse provides dozens of captivating no-holds-barred interviews with both rising stars and seasoned veterans. Here are up-and-coming pianists Renee Rosnes and Rachel Z. trumpeter Rebecca Coupe Frank, saxophonist Virginia Mayhew, bassist Tracy Wormworth, and drummer Terri Lynne Carrington, and enduring legends Dorothy Donegan, Marian McParland and Shirley Horne. Here, as well, are conversations with three pioneering business women: agent and producer Helen Keane, manager Linda Goldstein, and festival and concert producer Cobi Narita. All of the women speak insightfully about their inspiration and their commitment to pursuing the music they love. They are also frank about the realities of life on the road, and the extra dues women musicians pay in a tough and competitive field where everybody pays dues. A separate chapter offers a closer look at women musicians and the continual stress confronting those who would combine love, marriage, and/or motherhood with a life in music. Madame Jazz is about the history that women jazz instrumentalists are making now, as well as an inspiring preview of the even brighter days ahead. It concludes with Frankie Nemko's lively evaluation of the West Coast jazz scene, and appends the most comprehensive list ever assembled of women currently playing instruments professionally. ISBN: 9780195106473. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Boeknummer: 3559554
€ 8.00
Catalogus: Muziek
Trefwoorden: 9780195106473
The Man Without a Face. The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
Granta Books, 2012. Paperback. Pp: 314. Handpicked in 1999 by the 'Family' surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, with very little governmental or administrative experience beyond having served as deputy mayor of St Petersburg, seemed like the perfect choice in the eyes of an oligarchy bent on moulding the president's successor to its own designs. Suddenly the boy who had scrapped his way through post-war Leningrad schoolyards, dreaming of ruling the world, was a public figure, and his popularity soared. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see the progressive leader of their dreams, even as with ruthless efficiency Putin dismantled the country's media, wrested control and wealth from the country's burgeoning business class, and decimated the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Within a few brief years, virtually every obstacle to his unbridled control was removed and every opposing voice silenced, with political rivals and critics driven into exile or to the grave. As a journalist living in Moscow, Masha Gessen experienced this history firsthand - her horrifying and spellbinding account of how this 'faceless' man manoeuvred his way into absolute - and absolutely corrupt - power will stand as a classic of narrative non-fiction. ISBN: 9781847086310. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Boeknummer: 338004
€ 15.00
Catalogus: Geschiedenis
Trefwoorden: 9781847086310
Market Leader Upper Intermediate Coursebook (with DVD-ROM incl. Class Audio)
2011. Paperback. Pp: 175. The 3rd edition Course Book includes: " All new reading texts from the Financial Times " All new case studies with opinions from successful consultants who work in the real world of business " All new listening texts reflecting the global nature of business " New 'Business Across Cultures' spreads " New Vocabulary Trainer www.marketleader.vocabtrainer.net. ISBN: 9781408237090. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Boeknummer: 780657
€ 20.00
Catalogus: Onderwijs
Trefwoorden: 9781408237090
One Step Too Far
Penguin Books UK. Paperback. Pp: 400. YOUR NEXT OBSESSION. * SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL * * MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR * * TV SERIES OPTIONED! HILARY SWANK TO STAR AND CO-PRODUCE * 'Propulsive, adrenaline-fuelled, terrifyingly real!' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'Will have you flipping pages at breakneck speed.' LINWOOD BARCLAY 'This book exceeds even Gardner's high standards.' DAILY MAIL _________________ Five men head into the woods for a bachelor party weekend. Only four return. If he never left the woods, where did he go? A young man disappears during a stag weekend in the woods. Years later, he's still missing. But his friends who were with him that day are still searching for him. Still hunting for answers. They hike deep into the wilderness. With them is missing person specialist Frankie Elkin. What they don't know is that they are putting their own lives in terrifying danger, and may not come back alive. _________________ 'Terrifying, primal, and very, very tense' KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW 'One of crime-fiction's most intriguing new sleuths' BOOKLIST 'Beyond brilliant. ingenious, intense, edgy dialogue' LIBRARY JOURNAL 'Everything you want in a crime thriller' FROST MAGAZINE 'Sinister. [a] tense, crackling read' PEOPLE _________________ READERS LOVE ONE STEP TOO FAR. ***** 'WOW! What a thoroughly taut, tense, and engaging mystery.' ***** 'This is a riveting crime read, with oodles of tension and suspense.' ***** 'I honestly couldn't believe how much I came to love the characters in this story.' ***** ''The story really tugged at my heartstrings and now I can't wait to join Frankie on her next search.' ***** 'This is first-class entertainment for thriller lovers, and I highly recommend reading this book.' _________________ PRAISE FOR LISA GARDNER. 'No one writes a more page-turning, gut-wrenching, edgy thriller than Lisa Gardner' Tess Gerritsen 'Lisa Gardner's fast-paced and exciting novels twist when you expect a turn and turn when you expect a twist. I cannot recommend her more.' Karin Slaughter 'For years Lisa Gardner has been one of the best in the business.' Harlan Coben 'No one owns this corner of the crime genre the way Lisa Gardner does' Lee Child 'Lisa Gardner is at the top of her game' Kathy Reichs. ISBN: 9781529157895. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Boeknummer: 3016679
€ 8.50
Catalogus: Literatuur
Trefwoorden: 9781529157895
Ottawa
Whitecap Books, 1997. Hardcover. Pp: 96. Picture skaters gliding down a frozen canal, business people lunching at a sunny outdoor caf, and thousands of visitors on the lawns of Parliament Buildings. This is Ottawa, a growing city full of action-packed festivals, outdoor activities, and world-class performances.About the Canada series: As expansive as Canada itself, this outstanding series captures outstanding views of panoramic landscapes, brilliant city skylines, and picturesque communities. Each volume focuses on a city or province and features 96 pages and 70 stunning images by internationally renowned photographers, plus descriptive captions. ISBN: 9781551105277. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Boeknummer: 3050085
€ 10.00
Catalogus: Reizen
Trefwoorden: 9781551105277
The Personal MBA. A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume
Portfolio. Hardcover. Pp: 402. ISBN: 9781591843528. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Boeknummer: 3434482
€ 20.00
Catalogus: Management & Economie
Trefwoorden: 9781591843528
Postwar. Waging Peace in Chicago
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 288. When World War II ended, Americans celebrated a military victory abroad, but the meaning of peace at home was yet to be defined. From roughly 1943 onward, building a postwar society became the new national project, and every interest group involved in the war effort"from business leaders to working-class renters"held different visions for the war's aftermath. In Postwar, Laura McEnaney plumbs the depths of this period to explore exactly what peace meant to a broad swath of civilians, including apartment dwellers, single women and housewives, newly freed Japanese American internees, African American migrants, and returning veterans. In her fine-grained social history of postwar Chicago, McEnaney puts ordinary working-class people at the center of her investigation. What she finds is a working-class war liberalism"a conviction that the wartime state had taken things from people, and that the postwar era was about reclaiming those things with the state's help. McEnaney examines vernacular understandings of the state, exploring how people perceived and experienced government in their lives. For Chicago's working-class residents, the state was not clearly delineated. The local offices of federal agencies, along with organizations such as the Travelers Aid Society and other neighborhood welfare groups, all became what she calls the state in the neighborhood, an extension of government to serve an urban working class recovering from war. Just as they had made war, the urban working class had to make peace, and their requests for help, large and small, constituted early dialogues about the role of the state during peacetime.Postwar examines peace as its own complex historical process, a passage from conflict to postconflict that contained human struggles and policy dilemmas that would shape later decades as fatefully as had the war. ISBN: 9780812250558. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Boeknummer: 3011180
€ 12.00
Catalogus: Geschiedenis
Trefwoorden: 9780812250558
Power Systems. Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
Penguin, 2014. Paperback. Pp: 216. Explores the immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the 'class war' fought by US business interests against working people and the poor, the breakdown of mainstream political institutions and the rise of the far right. ISBN: 9781405962681. Cond./Kwaliteit: Ramsj.
Boeknummer: 3486383
€ 8.95
Catalogus: Sociologie
Trefwoorden: 9781405962681
Principles
Simon and Schuster, 2017. Linnen band. Pp: 567. #1 New York Times Bestseller"Significant.The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving." "The New York TimesRay Dalio, one of the world`s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he`s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business"and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history and grown into the fifth most important private company in the United States, according to Fortune magazine. Dalio himself has been named to Time magazine`s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Along the way, Dalio discovered a set of unique principles that have led to Bridgewater`s exceptionally effective culture, which he describes as "an idea meritocracy that strives to achieve meaningful work and meaningful relationships through radical transparency." It is these principles, and not anything special about Dalio"who grew up an ordinary kid in a middle-class Long Island neighborhood"that he believes are the reason behind his success. In Principles, Dalio shares what he`s learned over the course of his remarkable career. He argues that life, management, economics, and investing can all be systemized into rules and understood like machines. The book`s hundreds of practical lessons, which are built around his cornerstones of "radical truth" and "radical transparency," include Dalio laying out the most effective ways for individuals and organizations to make decisions, approach challenges, and build strong teams. He also describes the innovative tools the firm uses to bring an idea meritocracy to life, such as creating "baseball cards" for all employees that distill their strengths and weaknesses, and employing computerized decision-making systems to make believability-weighted decisions. While the book brims with novel ideas for organizations and institutions, Principles also offers a clear, straightforward approach to decision-making that Dalio believes anyone can apply, no matter what they`re seeking to achieve.Here, from a man who has been called both "the Steve Jobs of investing" and "the philosopher king of the financial universe" (CIO magazine), is a rare opportunity to gain proven advice unlike anything you`ll find in the conventional business press. ISBN: 9781501124020. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Boeknummer: 2197701
€ 17.50
Catalogus: Management & Economie
Trefwoorden: 9781501124020
Red Roulette. An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China
Simon & Schuster, Limited, 2021. Hardcover. Pp: 320. "After the Communist Revolution, Desmond Shum's grandfather was marked as belonging to a "black category" that included former landlords and rich peasants-meaning the Shums would be stigmatized and impoverished. As Desmond was growing up, he vowed his life would be different. Through hard work and sheer tenacity Shum earned an American college degree and returned to China to establish himself in business. There, he met his future wife, the highly intelligent and equally ambitious Whitney Duan who was determined to make her mark within China's male-dominated society. Whitney and Desmond formed an effective team and, aided by relationships they formed with top members of the red aristocracy, vaulted into China's billionaire class. Soon they were developing the massive air cargo facility at Beijing International Airport, and they followed that feat with the creation of one of Beijing's premier hotels. They were dazzlingly successful, traveling in private jets, funding multi-million-dollar buildings and endowments, and purchasing expensive homes, vehicles, and art. But in 2017, their fates diverged irrevocably when Desmond, while residing overseas with his son, learned that his now ex-wife Whitney had vanished along with three coworkers. This is both Desmond's story and Whitney's, because she cannot tell it herself"-Publisher's description. ISBN: 9781398509900. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Boeknummer: 2986178
€ 18.50
Catalogus: Geschiedenis
Trefwoorden: 9781398509900
Rise of the Robots. Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Perseus Distribution, 2015. Hardcover. Pp: 334. Winner of the 2015 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A New York Times Bestseller Top Business Book of 2015 at Forbes One of NBCNews.com 12 Notable Science and Technology Books of 2015 What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine-and hope-that today's industrial revolution will unfold like the last: even as some jobs are eliminated, more will be created to deal with the new innovations of a new era. In Rise of the Robots, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Martin Ford argues that this is absolutely not the case. As technology continues to accelerate and machines begin taking care of themselves, fewer people will be necessary. Artificial intelligence is already well on its way to making good jobs obsolete: many paralegals, journalists, office workers, and even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by robots and smart software. As progress continues, blue and white collar jobs alike will evaporate, squeezing working- and middle-class families ever further. At the same time, households are under assault from exploding costs, especially from the two major industries-education and health care-that, so far, have not been transformed by information technology. The result could well be massive unemployment and inequality as well as the implosion of the consumer economy itself. In Rise of the Robots, Ford details what machine intelligence and robotics can accomplish, and implores employers, scholars, and policy makers alike to face the implications. The past solutions to technological disruption, especially more training and education, aren't going to work, and we must decide, now, whether the future will see broad-based prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic insecurity. Rise of the Robots is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what accelerating technology means for their own economic prospects-not to mention those of their children-as well as for society as a whole. ISBN: 9780465059997. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Boeknummer: 1530801
€ 15.00
Catalogus: Management & Economie
Trefwoorden: 9780465059997
She Come by It Natural. Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
Scribner. Paperback. Pp: 188. Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the particular vulnerabilities"and strengths"of women in working poverty. Meanwhile, country songs by female artists played in the background, telling powerful stories about life, men, hard times, and surviving. In her family, she writes, "country music was foremost a language among women. It`s how we talked to each other in a place where feelings aren`t discussed." And no one provided that language better than Dolly Parton. In this "tribute to the woman who continues to demonstrate that feminism comes in coats of many colors," Smarsh tells readers how Parton`s songs have validated women who go unheard: the poor woman, the pregnant teenager, the struggling mother disparaged as "trailer trash." Parton`s broader career"from singing on the front porch of her family`s cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains to achieving stardom in Nashville and Hollywood, from "girl singer" managed by powerful men to self-made mogul of business and philanthropy"offers a springboard to examining the intersections of gender, class, and culture. ISBN: 9781982157296. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Boeknummer: 3486482
€ 9.00
Catalogus: Muziek
Trefwoorden: 9781982157296
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Penguin Random House Children's UK. Paperback. Pp: 368. Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn't play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone's business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he's been emailing, will be compromised. ISBN: 9780141356099. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Boeknummer: 749315
€ 7.50
Catalogus: Kinderboeken algemeen
Trefwoorden: 9780141356099
A Theory of Employment Systems: Micro-Foundations Of Societal Diversity
Oxford University Press. 1999-11-25. (ISBN: 0198294220) paperback, 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Good.
-- Boeknummer: 244183
GBP 9.24 [Appr.: EURO 11]
Catalogus: Business and Industry
Trefwoorden: 0198294220
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