Arendo Joustra 64174

Het fenomeen Fortuyn

Meulenhoff, 2002. Paperback. Pp: 182. Redactionele bijdragen, interviews en columns die in de periode 1988-2002 over en van Pim Fortuyn in de Volkskrant verschenen. ISBN: 9789029072106. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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Book number: 1185675

Catalogue: Sociologie

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George Monbiot 65367

Feral

Paperback. The lyrical story of George Monbiot's efforts to re-engage with nature and discover a new way of living, showing how, by restoring and rewilding our damaged ecosystems on land and sea, we can bring wonder back into our lives. ISBN: 9780141975580. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Book number: 600411

Catalogue: Sociologie

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Jamie Hunter 119467

Fighting Force. The 90th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force

Groothandel / BESTEL. Gekartonneerd. Author and photographer Jamie Hunter, in association with the RAF, presents this exciting and adrenalin-fuelled look at the force to celebrate its 90th anniversary. Provides a fascinating insight into the men and machines of this extraordinary organisation, with over 200 colour photos. ISBN: 9780955102059. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Eli Pariser 278432

The Filter Bubble

Penguin Press, 2011. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 294. An eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling-and limiting-the information we consume. In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on. According to MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, Google's change in policy is symptomatic of the most significant shift to take place on the Web in recent years-the rise of personalization. In this groundbreaking investigation of the new hidden Web, Pariser uncovers how this growing trend threatens to control how we consume and share information as a society-and reveals what we can do about it. Though the phenomenon has gone largely undetected until now, personalized filters are sweeping the Web, creating individual universes of information for each of us. Facebook-the primary news source for an increasing number of Americans-prioritizes the links it believes will appeal to you so that if you are a liberal, you can expect to see only progressive links. Even an old-media bastion like The Washington Post devotes the top of its home page to a news feed with the links your Facebook friends are sharing. Behind the scenes a burgeoning industry of data companies is tracking your personal information to sell to advertisers, from your political leanings to the color you painted your living room to the hiking boots you just browsed on Zappos. In a personalized world, we will increasingly be typed and fed only news that is pleasant, familiar, and confirms our beliefs-and because these filters are invisible, we won't know what is being hidden from us. Our past interests will determine what we are exposed to in the future, leaving less room for the unexpected encounters that spark creativity, innovation, and the democratic exchange of ideas. While we all worry that the Internet is eroding privacy or shrinking our attention spans, Pariser uncovers a more pernicious and far- reaching trend on the Internet and shows how we can- and must-change course. With vivid detail and remarkable scope, The Filter Bubble reveals how personalization undermines the Internet's original purpose as an open platform for the spread of ideas and could leave us all in an isolated, echoing world. ISBN: 9781594203008. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Jean Vanempten 83835

De flair van een miljardair. Albert Frère, de man en de mythes

Van Halewyck, 2015. Paperback. Albert Frères intrede in de financiële wereld was een ongezien huzarenstukje: de Waalse zakenman kaapte in 1982 de buitenlandse activa van de Franse bank Paribas weg voor de neus van de toenmalige Franse president Mitterrand. Du jamais vu. In één beweging door greep hij de macht in de Belgische holding GBL. Vanaf dan volgde de ene transactie op de andere deal. In april 2015, na ruim dertig jaar schaven aan zijn beursimperium, trad Albert Frère terug als CEO van de Groep Brussel Lambert (GBL). Dit boek legt de technieken van de Waalse financier bloot, brengt zijn grootste financiële deals tot leven en gaat na wat hem dreef. Geen enkele onderneming was veilig voor Frères gegoochel met participaties: het oliebedrijf Petrofina, de bank BBL, de verzekeraar Royale Belge of de nutsholding Tractebel. Hij verkocht en ruilde participaties tot hij was uitgegroeid tot een sleutelfiguur in de Franse beurswereld. De hamvraag blijft: heeft Frère nu echt de uitverkoop van de Belgische kroonjuwelen georganiseerd? Of heeft hij gewoon handig ingespeeld op een trend die al leefde in Europa? De flair van een miljardair gaat op zoek naar Frères drijfveren. De flair van een miljardair licht de nalatenschap van deze negentachtigjarige beurstycoon door en belicht de evolutie van het Belgische (en Franse) kapitalisme. Een saga van een man die vaak vriend én vijand wist te verbazen. ISBN: 9789056178895. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Judith Mackrell 160264

Flappers

Pan Macmillan, 2013. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 488. A gripping biography of six extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s Glamorized, mythologized and demonized - the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War, and continuing through to the end of the decade when the Wall Street crash signal led another cataclysmic world change. It focuses on six women who between them exemplified the range and daring of that generation`s spirit. Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka were far from typical flappers. Although they danced the Charleston, wore fashionable clothes and partied with the rest of their peers, they made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of their age. Talented, reckless and willful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and tragic ways. And between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world. ISBN: 9780230752337. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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