Germaine Greer 38804

The Change. Women, Aging and the Menopause

Knopf, 1992. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 422. In this singularly authoritative, intelligent and audacious study, Germaine Greer challenges all of our accepted notions about the physical and emotional effects of menopause and aging - and thereby lays the foundation for a drastic reassessment by women of the ways in which they contemplate and experience the stages of their lives that society has conditioned them to fear and, ultimately, to regret. Quoting extensively from medical, historical, anthropological, literary and other cultural sources, Greer examines the diverse ideas and theories about menopause and aging during the last two hundred years, revealing how they have and have not evolved, concluding that "the sum of our ignorance still far outweighs our knowledge", and that the sum of a woman's self-knowledge is potentially more enlightening than anything she can learn from "objective" observers of her condition. Greer exhorts women to take responsibility for their own health and to question the accepted "truths" and those who determine them. To that end, she makes a detailed study of the various current treatments for menopause - particularly of estrogen replacement therapy, puncturing the overblown promises made on its behalf by the medical profession and drug manufacturers - and explores myriad less well publicized, traditional and alternative non-medical treatments. She delves into the full range of emotional and physical changes in the menopausal woman and proposes a new "art" of aging based on each woman's acceptance of her own experience and her transformed needs and desires. The deeply impassioned ideas Germaine Greer puts forth sound a rallying cry against the cultural and sexual stereotypes that have long hamperedthe lives of menopausal and aging women. With a profound fierceness of purpose, she encourages women to embrace the freedoms inherent in the change and to forge the serenity and power that can be its most permanent consequences. Powerful and provocative, The Change demands alienation and reaction. It is a landmark book. ISBN: 9780394582696. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Germaine Greer 38804

The Change

Penguin, 1992. Paperback. Pp: 472. In this study of the real and fundamental change which women experience during the menopause and which, like other fundamental changes, needs mental preparation and acceptance if it is not to be found unbearable, Dr Greer examines medical theories and treatment over the ages, and finds them often contradictory, excessive and, at times, dangerous. She responds to the traditional attitude of men and society which has been responsible for the creation of an image of the older woman as fake damsel or old crone. Dr Greer has weighed up the facts, the theories and the outright fabrications. ISBN: 9780140126693. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Changemakers

CPNB Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek. Hardback. ISBN: 9789059652736. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Laurence Senelick 277849

The Changing Room - Sex, Drag and Theatre

Routledge, 2000. Paperback. Pp: 540. The answers to these questions - and much, much more - are to be found in The Changing Room , which traces the origins and variations of theatrical cross-dressing through the ages and across cultures. It examines: * tribal rituals and shamanic practices in the Balkans and Chinese-Tibet * the gender-bending elements of Greek and early Christian religion * the homosexual appeal of the boy actor on the traditional stage of China, Japan and England * the origins of the dame comedian, the principal boy, the glamour drag artiste and the male impersonator * artists such as David Bowie, Boy George, Charles Ludlam, Dame Edna Everage, Lily Savage, Candy Darling, Julian Clary and the New York Dolls. Lavishly illustrated with unusual and rare pictures, this is the first ever cross-cultural study of theatrical transvestism. It is a must for anyone interested in cross-dressing, theatre, and gender. ISBN: 9780415159869. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Jos Verlaan 112077

Chaos aan de Amstel. Fraude en corruptie in Amsterdam

Boom, 1999. Paperback. Pp: 240. ISBN: 9789061686811. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Max Weber 14722

Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures

New York Review Books, 2020. Paperback. Pp: 176. A new translation of two celebrated lectures on politics, academia, and the disenchantment of the world. The German sociologist Max Weber is one of the most venturesome, stimulating, and influential theorists of the modern condition. Among his most significant works are the so-called vocation lectures, published shortly after the end of World War I and delivered at the invitation of a group of student activists. The question the students asked Weber to address was simple and haunting: In a modern world characterized by the division of labor, economic expansion, and unrelenting change, was it still possible to consider an academic or political career as a genuine calling? In response Weber offered his famous diagnosis of �"œthe disenchantment of the world,�"� along with a challenging account of the place of morality in the classroom and in research. In his second lecture he introduced the notion of political charisma, assigning it a central role in the modern state, even as he recognized that politics is more than anything �"œa slow and difficult drilling of holes into hard boards.�"�  Damion Searls`s new translation brings out the power and nuance of these celebrated lectures. Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon`s introduction describes their historical and biographical background, reception, and influence. Weber`s effort to rethink the idea of a public calling at the start of the tumultuous twentieth century is revealed to be as timely and stirring as ever. ISBN: 9781681373898. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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G. van Pinxteren 241241

China. Centrum van de wereld - Olympische spelen editie

Paperback. Pp: 280. Hoe wil China zich tijdens de Olympische Spelen aan de wereld presenteren? Als een modern land, dat zich aan internationale normen houdt? Of als een land dat met trots en zelfvertrouwen een nieuw, eigen en afwijkend ontwikkelingsmodel introduceert? Is China werkelijk uit op meer openheid of worden de minder mooie kanten van het land hardhandig weggemoffeld achter een gelikte façade? En hoe worden gewone Chinezen voorbereid op de Spelen? Wat weten en begrijpen die eigenlijk van de kritiek op China in het buitenland? Deze en vele andere vragen en kwesties komen aan bod in deze herziene uitgave van China, dat voor deze gelegenheid is uitgebreid met een speciale sectie over de Olympische Spelen. Van Pinxteren, die voor de Spelen als NOS-correspondent in China zit, put daarbij uit haar meest recente ervaringen. Zij actualiseerde ook de rest van het boek, dat de lezer inzicht geeft in de dilemma s van het moderne China. Zij verkende China jarenlang van binnenuit, en zonder een persoonlijk oordeel te vellen, maakt zij duidelijk hoe Chinezen tegen hun leven, tegen China en tegen de rest van de wereld aankijken. ISBN: 9789050189491. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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D. van Duppen 240873

De cholesteroloorlog. Waarom geneesmiddelen zo duur zijn

Epo, Uitgeverij, 2004. Paperback. Pp: 263. ISBN: 9789064453380. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Urbain Lawrence 166372

De chrono-crisis. Waarom u armer wordt en de economische crisis zal blijven duren

Polemos, 2017. Paperback. Pp: 110. ISBN: 9789082677911. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Chuck Klosterman 42444

Chuck Klosterman IV. A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

Paperback. Pp: 416. A new collection by the pop culture commentator includes some of his most noteworthy profiles and trend stories from the past decade, a selection of favorite opinion pieces, and a semi-autobiographical short story, in a volume complemented by twenty of the. ISBN: 9780743284899. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Luc Neirynck 284015

Van cipier tot 'vakbondslijder'. Een eigenzinnige visie na 35 jaar ervaring in de Belgische gevangenissen

Nevelland VZW. Paperback. Pp: 112. ISBN: 9789492944085. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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D. Cohen 12210

De cirkel van het leven. Menselijke rituelen uit de hele wereld

Kosmos, 1992. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 240. Met een inleiding van Gabriel Garcia Marquez en een nawoord van Peter Matthiessen. ISBN: 9789021519586. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Peter Hall 130735

Cities of Tomorrow. An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century

2002. Paperback. Pp: 572. A critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. ISBN: 9780631232520. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Pierre Manent 35424

The City of Man

Princeton University Press, 1998. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 225. The City of God or the City of Man? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago-and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this subtle and wide-ranging book on the Western intellectual and political condition, Manent argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human autonomy. But in declaring ourselves free and autonomous, he contends, we have, paradoxically, lost a sense of what it means to be human. In the first part of the book, Manent explores the development of the social sciences since the seventeenth century, portraying their growth as a sign of increasing human self-consciousness. But as social scientists have sought to free us from the intellectual confines of the ancient world, he writes, they have embraced modes of analysis-economic, sociological, and historical-that treat only narrow aspects of the human condition and portray individuals as helpless victims of impersonal forces. As a result, we have lost all sense of human agency and of the unified human subject at the center of intellectual study. Politics and culture have come to be seen as mere foam on the tides of historical and social necessity. In the second half of the book, titled Self-Affirmation, Manent examines how the West, having discovered freedom, then discovered arbitrary will and its dangers. With no shared touchstones or conceptions of virtue, for example, we have found it increasingly hard to communicate with each other. This is a striking contrast to the past, he writes, when even traditions as different as the Classical and the Christian held many of these conceptions in common. The result of these discoveries, according to Manent, is the disturbing rootlessness that characterizes our time. By gaining autonomy from external authority, we have lost a sense of what we are. In giving birth to ourselves, we have abandoned that which alone can nurture and sustain us. With penetrating insight and remarkable erudition, Manent offers a profound analysis of the confusions and contradictions at the heart of the modern condition.- "The Review of Politics". ISBN: 9780691011448. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Régis Debray 14886

Civilisation. Comment nous sommes devenus américains

Gallimard, 2018. Pocket. Pp: 243. La 4e de couv. indique : "C'est quoi, une civilisation ? Comment ça naît, comment ça meurt ? L'effacement de la nôtre nous aide à répondre à ces questions vieilles comme le monde. De la CIA au rap, de House of Cards à Baron noir, des primaries à nos primaires, c'est cette imprégnation de notre culture nationale par la civilisation américaine que Régis Debray dévoile avec une gaieté frondeuse, en reliant les menus faits de notre quotidien à l'histoire longue de l'humanité. Illustrée par l'exemple de la Grèce antique face à l'Empire romain, l'invariable grammaire des transferts d'hégémonie éclaire notre présent d'une façon insolite et pénétrante. ". ISBN: 9782072770791. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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