Jan Prokeš Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Rusland, oktober 1917. De bolsjewieken grijpen de macht. Rusland en de wereld zullen nooit meer hetzelfde zijn. Vijf maanden na de revolutie benoemen de nieuwe machthebbers nu wereldberoemde kunstenaars als Kazimir Malevitsj, Vasili Kandinsky, Vladimir Tatlin en Marc Chagall op hoge ambtelijke posten in het zojuist gevormde ‘Volkscommissariaat van Verlichting’. Deze ‘avant-gardisten’ willen de straten en de pleinen, het onderwijs en uiteindelijk de mens zelf opnieuw vormgeven. De verbeelding aan de macht! Maar de bolsjewieken hebben eigenlijk geen idee wie die door hen aangestelde hemelbestormers en dromers zijn, en de kunstenaars zelf zijn politiek volkomen naïef. Al snel valt de coalitie tussen bolsjewieken en avant-gardisten uit elkaar. Terwijl de reputatie van deze radicale kunstenaars in Europa groeit, worden zij in de nieuwe Sovjetstaat gemarginaliseerd en onderdrukt. Sommigen emigreren naar Europa, anderen blijven en zinken langzaam weg in het moeras van Stalins terreurstaat. De avant-gardisten is het eerste boek waarin deze verbijsterende geschiedenis in zijn geheel is beschreven. Gebruikmakend van een ongehoorde hoeveelheid dagboekfragmenten, brieven, memoires en belangrijke nieuwe archiefvondsten, brengt Sjeng Scheijen de dramatische, soms hartverscheurende verhalen van deze kunstenaars weergaloos tot leven.

Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age of great-power rivalry: Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Greece, Turkey, the Sahel, Ethiopia, Spain and Space

_______________ 'A fascinating exploration that challenges our basic assumptions of what work means' - Yuval Noah Harari 'There is eminently underlinable stuff on most pages ... Fascinating' - The Times 'One of those few books that will turn your customary ways of thinking upside down' - Susan Cain 'Illuminating' - New Statesman _______________ A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work, from the origins of life on Earth to our ever more automated present The work we do brings us meaning, moulds our values, determines our social status and dictates how we spend most of our time. But this wasn't always the case: for 95% of our species' history, work held a radically different importance. How, then, did work become the central organisational principle of our societies? How did it transform our bodies, our environments, our views on equality and our sense of time? And why, in a time of material abundance, are we working more than ever before?

Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains 'what's next', mapping out the advances and quandaries that will emerge in the next ten years.

"For more than forty years, the United States has reached out to China, helping it develop a booming economy and take its place on the world stage, in the belief that there is little to fear--and everything to gain--from China's rise. But what if the Chinese have had a different plan all along? The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals China's secret strategy to supplant the United States as the world's dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. Michael Pillsbury, who has served in senior national security positions in the U.S. government since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, draws on Chinese documents, speeches, and books (many of them never translated into English) to reveal the roots of this strategy in traditional Chinese statecraft and track how the Chinese are putting it into practice today. Pillsbury shows how American policymakers have been willfully blind to these developments for decades--and he includes himself in that critique, as he was once a leading voice in favor of aiding China. He also calls for the United States to design a new, more competitive strategy toward China as it really is, and not as we might wish it to be. The Hundred-Year Marathon is a wakeup call for all Americans concerned about how we have misread the greatest national security challenge of the twenty-first century"--

In the bestselling tradition of influential geopolitical works, an award-winning journalist utilizes ten maps to elucidate the geo-political strategies of world powers. Geography constrains leaders, limiting their choices based on mountains, rivers, seas, and urban landscapes. To grasp world events, it’s essential to consider geography alongside people, ideas, and political movements, as it provides a fuller understanding. The author examines key regions, including Russia, China, the USA, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Japan and Korea, and Greenland and the Arctic. By analyzing their weather, seas, mountains, rivers, deserts, and borders, he reveals how these physical characteristics influence each country's strengths, vulnerabilities, and decision-making processes. Through ten up-to-date maps, he presents the complex geo-political strategies of these regions in engaging prose. For instance, the implications of Russia's need for a navy amid frozen ports, China’s geographical constraints on its future, Europe’s perpetual disunity, and America’s security from invasion are explored. This work highlights the critical, yet often overlooked, role of geography in shaping global aspirations and historical events, serving as an essential guide to understanding the world’s political landscape.

Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015

During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the US into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. In this book, the story of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles is the story of America. It illuminates and helps explain the modern history of the US and the world.