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Film, filmboek, Filmgeschiedenis

Ethan Warren – I’m Glad I’m Not Me

Ethan Warren I’m Glad I’m Not Me review and information book about Bob Dylan on film. Columbia University Press will publish this book on September 15, 2026 written by Ethan Warren, that explores Bob Dylan on film. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Ethan Warren I’m Glad I’m Not Me reviews and information

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  • “Ethan Warren provides an exceptionally well researched and accessible guide to Dylan on film, from Murray Lerner’s Newport Folk Festival footage to James Mangold’s recreation of that era in A Complete Unknown, with sixty years of feature films, documentaries, TV shows and music videos in between. Warren’s carefully structured chapters offer impressive detail about the films along with original insights into their roles in creating multiple, mythical Bob Dylans.” (Scott Peeples, author of How Many Roads: A Life of Bob Dylan)

Ethan Warren I'm Glad I'm Not Me

I’m Glad I’m Not Me

Bob Dylan on Film

  • Author: Ethan Warren (United States)
  • Book type: book about Bob Dylan
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • To be released: September 15, 2026
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 27.00
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Blurb of the book about Bob Dylan on Film

Bob Dylan’s art and image are at once rivetingly iconic and eternally elusive. Yet one aspect of his career remains underexplored: his appearances and depictions on screen. Since the mid-1960s, Dylan has been the subject of documentaries, an actor in feature films, and the auteur of his own film projects, as well as the inspiration for both traditional and unconventional biopics.

I’m Glad I’m Not Me explores Dylan on film, from D. A. Pennebaker’s direct cinema classic Dont Look Back to Martin Scorsese’s epic documentaries No Direction Home and Rolling Thunder Revue, and from his confounding feature Masked and Anonymous to the fractured mythology of Todd Haynes’s I’m Not There. Ethan Warren places these and other films, including a variety of overlooked, derided, and unmade projects, into conversation. He also considers Dylan’s music videos, from the MTV era to the streaming age, and paintings, which adapt stills from both classic and forgotten films. Tracing the evolution of Dylan’s on-screen persona, Warren casts the performer’s cinematic appearances as extensions of his lifelong project of creating an endlessly shapeshifting identity. Through this lens, I’m Glad I’m Not Me offers a new view of the life and work of one of the most influential yet least knowable celebrities in American history.

Ethan Warren is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics. He lives on the south shore of Bostonis and is the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha (Wallflower, 2023).

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Joshua K. Leon – New York, 1860

Joshua K. Leon New York, 1860 review en information of the history book about the city a year before the American Revolution. Columbia University Press will publish the book about New York in 1860, written by Joshua K. Leon, professor of political science at Iona University, on December 8, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “This extraordinary book makes urban social history and Civil War history remarkably accessible, tangible, and personal. The life of an impressive range of historical characters—journalists, athletes, actors, activists, artists, politicians, scoundrels, and astute observers—comes into focus through the author’s unique storytelling style.” (David N. Gellman, author)

Joshua K. Leon New York 1860

New York, 1860

  • Author: Joshua K. Leon (United States)
  • Book type: New York history
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • To be released: December 8, 2026
  • Length: 464 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 29.95 / $ 28,99
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Blurb of the book by Joshua K. Leon on the city of New York in 1860

“Year of meteors! brooding year!” wrote Walt Whitman about the year 1860. New York City was a tinderbox. As the country’s trading capital, the city was caught in an unholy alliance with slave-owning cotton planters. Southern sympathizers—the mayor among them—shared the streets with abolitionists like Henry Ward Beecher. Abraham Lincoln began his unlikely march to the presidency in a speech at Cooper Union, and torch-bearing militiamen marched for him while merchants and secessionists organized against him. The city was a place of parades, séances, human trafficking and slavecatching, quack cures, dire poverty, and political fervor, hopelessly riven by the looming presidential election.

This book is a biography of New York City in the year before the Civil War, from the moment the telegraph brought news of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry in October 1859 to the first shots on Fort Sumter in the spring of 1861. Joshua K. Leon tells this story month by month through the eyes of those who lived it, weaving together the intersecting lives of the giants of the age, forgotten celebrities, and the everyday people in the city’s swelling crowds: the obsessive diarist George Templeton Strong, the “Queen of Bohemia” Ada Clare, the journalist Thomas Butler Gunn as he goes undercover in the secessionist South, the showman P. T. Barnum and his American Museum in downtown Manhattan, the frustrated actor John Wilkes Booth, and many more. New York, 1860 recovers lives led in the shadow of catastrophe, capturing the dreams, romances, laughter, and fears of New Yorkers as history bore down on them. In vivid detail, this book brings their city to life in all its filth and glory.

Joshua K. Leon is professor of political science at Iona University. From 2022 to 2023 he was a Robert David Lion Gardiner Fellow at the New York Historical. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Progressive, and Dissent, among others. His most recent book is World Cities in History: Urban Networks from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Dutch Empire (2024).

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Julia M. Zichello – Bird on the Street

Julia M. Zichello Bird on the Street review and information book about the Unnatural History of Starlings. Columbia University Press will publish the book about starlings in the city, written by Julia M. Zichello, evolutionary biologist and science writer, on November 3, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “While not universally embraced, starlings are adaptive, clever, and remarkably successful. Bird on the Street highlights what starlings have taught us about evolution and ecology. Readers will leave with a new appreciation of starlings, invasive species, and even ourselves.” (Lauren Riters, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Julia M. Zichello Bird on the Street

Bird on the Street

The Unnatural History of Starlings

  • Author: Julia M. Zichello (United States)
  • Book type: bird book
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • To be released: November 3, 2026
  • Length: 216 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 24.00
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Blurb of the book on starlings written by Julia M. Zichello

Starlings cause a lot of trouble. Labeled one of the world’s worst invasive bird species, they devastate farms, drive out native birds, and interfere with aircraft. Many birdwatchers openly despise starlings, or more politely, look down on them. Yet all the things that lead us to see starlings as pests are also signs of their extraordinary adaptability. Among the most successful birds on the planet, they are easy to overlook—and too easy to blame.

Blending natural history with science memoir, Bird on the Street traces how starlings illuminate the mechanisms of evolution and the relationship between humans and wildlife. Following starlings from the streets and skies into museums and laboratories, Julia M. Zichello invites readers into the daily practice of science: the small discoveries and frequent setbacks, moments of doubt as well as wonder. If we set aside our hostility and see starlings for what they are, Zichello argues, we gain new insight into not only evolution and ecology but also ourselves. Humans introduced starlings to new continents and then relentlessly transformed landscapes into ones perfectly suited to their success. Ultimately, this invasive species offers a mirror reflecting the human tendency to reshape the natural world.

At once scientifically rigorous and deeply personal, this book shows how the story of a familiar bird leads to a richer understanding of our ecological and emotional entanglements with nature.

Julia M. Zichello is an evolutionary biologist and science writer. She teaches at Hunter College, City University of New York, and is a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, and Connecticut Audubon.

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James O’Hanlon – Liars, Cheats, and Copycats

James O’Hanlon Liars, Cheats, and Copycats review and information book on Trickery and Deception in Nature. Columbia University Press will publish the book  on world’s most dastardly animals, who lie, cheat, and deceive for a living, written by James O’Hanlon, the science writer, on October 13, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

James O’Hanlon Liars, Cheats, and Copycats reviews and information

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  • “O’Hanlon provides an accessible introduction to how camouflage and signal adaptations in animals and plants can deceive receivers. Liars, Cheats, and Copycats enables a wide audience to engage with several of the coolest and most bizarre natural phenomena that have been investigated by sensory biologists and ecologists.” (William Allen, Swansea University)

James O'Hanlon Liars, Cheats, and Copycats

Liars, Cheats, and Copycats

Trickery and Deception in Nature

  • Author: James O’Hanlon
  • Book type: animal behaviour book, nature book
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • To be released: October 1, 2026
  • Length: 240 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 26.00
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Blurb of the James O’Hanlon book on trickery and deception in nature

Meet some of the world’s most dastardly creatures, who lie, cheat, and deceive for a living.

There’s the deadly praying mantis that looks like an innocent pink flower. The assassin bug that strums spider webs to lure in a tasty snack. The cuttlefish that changes color to hide its romantic intentions.

To understand how these creatures swindle their way to survival, Liars, Cheats, and Copycats reveals the science behind camouflage, mimicry, and masquerade. Taking readers on a journey from tropical rainforests to the darkness of deep ocean trenches, James O’Hanlon explores how animals and plants use deception to avoid predators, lure in prey, and even reproduce.

From creatures that disappear in front of your eyes to ones that misdirect their foes like masterful magicians, this book exposes the endless ways that animals can survive through breathtaking trickery—and illuminates the evolution of these widespread strategies.

James O’Hanlon is an award-winning science communicator. He has published more than thirty academic papers, and his popular science writing has appeared in ABC News (Australia), Australian Geographic, The Conversation, and Biosphere Magazine. He is the author of Eight-Legged Wonders: The Surprising Lives of Spiders (2024).

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Linda Robinson – Women in Power

Linda Robinson Women in Power review and information book about Fighting for Democracy in an Age of Authoritarianism. Columbia University Press will publish the book about Women in Power, written by Linda Robinscon, senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, on June 23, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “A must-read for all who are concerned about the rise of authoritarianism and the vicious attacks on women’s leadership. By showcasing the experiences of women political leaders, Robinson debunks the stereotype that only men can lead in challenging times. Women political leaders, she demonstrates, have the winning formula for defending democracy—governing for all and advancing gender equality.” (Geeta Rao Rupta, former US ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues)
  • “Linda Robinson, an intrepid journalist and a trailblazer in her own right, profiles women from Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe who have demonstrated courage and dedication to democratic values. She highlights the factors that led to their success and leaves the reader convinced that it is women who can save democracy worldwide. This is a book for all men and women who want to better understand how female leaders make history.”  (Evelyn N. Farkas, executive director of the McCain Institute at Arizona State University)

Linda Robinson Women in Power

Women in Power

Fighting for Democracy in an Age of Authoritarianism

  • Author: Linda Robinson (United States)
  • Book type: women in politics
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • To be released: June 23, 2026
  • Length: 296 pages
  • Format: hard back / ebook
  • Prize: $ 26.95 / $ 25,99
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Blurb of the book by Linda Robinson on Women in Power

Around the world, antidemocratic forces are taking aim at women leaders. Misogynistic authoritarianism has entered the mainstream, seeking to reverse decades of progress. Weaponized digital technologies have unleashed sexualized smears and violent threats. There is a deep connection between attacks on women and attacks on democracy—and female leaders can show us how to fight back.

Linda Robinson—an award-winning journalist and foreign policy expert—tells the powerful stories of the women on the frontlines of the battle between democracy and authoritarianism. Despite age-old obstacles and virulent new dangers, these remarkable leaders have strengthened their countries, expanded gender equality, and promoted policies that benefit all. Tsai Ing-wen crafted a strategy to defend Taiwan from Chinese aggression while advancing social reforms. Estonia’s Kaja Kallas and Moldova’s Maia Sandu fought Russian hybrid warfare by pursuing European integration. Balkan leaders Vjosa Osmani and Nataša Pirc Musar bolstered their democracies against Serbian and Russian destabilization. Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados became a global champion for climate justice, rising above sexist attacks to achieve international financial reforms. Robinson distills the hard-won lessons of these and other recent leaders—including New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern, Finland’s Sanna Marin, and Sigrid Kaag of the Netherlands—providing a roadmap for countries facing existential threats. Timely and vivid, this book spotlights women’s leadership amid the global crisis of democracy.

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Bomen, Geschiedenisboeken

Russell Fielding – Breadfruit

Russell Fielding Breadfruit review, recensie en informatie boek over de drie wereldwijde reizen van een overvloedige broodboom en broodvrucht. Op 11 november 2025 verschijnt bij Columbia University Press het boek van Russell Fielding, de associate professor van het HTC Honors College bij de Coastal Carolina University. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Russell Fielding Breadfruit review en recensie

  • “Russell Fielding is prophetic in identifying breadfruit’s potential for improving food security for our world. Here on the small Pacific Island of Guam, we have embraced these strategies on breadfruit in our struggle for greater self-sufficiency.” (Robert Bevacqua, University of Guam)
  • “A fascinating exploration of the intersections among natural and cultural history. Breadfruit’s nourishing, troubled, and inspiring histories and futures are brought to vivid life in these pages. Through engaging and deeply researched stories and site visits, Fielding reveals the life-giving relationships among people and plants.” (David George Haskell, biologist and author of Sounds Wild and Broken, The Songs of Trees, and The Forest Unseen)

Russell Fielding Breadfruit

Breadfruit

Three Global Journeys of a Bountiful Tree

  • Auteur: Russell Fielding (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van de broodvrucht
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Columbia University Press
  • Omvang: 305 pagina’s
  • Verschijnt: 11 november 2025
  • Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00 / $ 115,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van het wereldwijde succes van broodvrucht

Breadfruit trees are staples of the tropics, bearing cantaloupe-sized green-skinned fruits whose taste and texture resemble potatoes. More than three thousand years ago, breadfruit fueled the Pacific voyages of discovery that settled islands throughout Oceania. In the late eighteenth century, the British expedition that ended with the mutiny on the Bounty aimed, but failed, to introduce breadfruit to the West Indies as food for enslaved African laborers on sugar plantations. A later voyage resulted in the fruit’s widespread distribution and complicated role within modern Caribbean food cultures. In recent years, breadfruit has been touted as a tool for sustainable development and as a “superfood” with both health benefits and culinary versatility.

Russell Fielding tells these stories and many others, exploring breadfruit’s fascinating global history and varied present-day uses. Bringing together extensive research and vivid travelogues, including learning directly from local agriculturists, chefs, scientists, and holders of traditional knowledge, he provides an immersive narrative of breadfruit’s contributions. Fielding argues that breadfruit’s history comprises two journeys: first, from its origins in Southeast Asia across the Pacific; and second, its transplantation to the Caribbean. Today, a third journey is taking place, one that is spreading breadfruit throughout the world.

Engagingly written and compellingly argued, this book draws timely lessons from breadfruit’s past to forecast its future potential.

Russell Fielding is an associate professor in the HTC Honors College at Coastal Carolina University. He is a geographer who studies sustainable food systems in the world’s coastal and island settings. Fielding is the author of The Wake of the Whale: Hunter Societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic (2018).

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Paleontologie, Dieren, Prehistorie

Jodi Summers – We Dig Ammonites

Jodi Summers We Dig Ammonites review, recensie en informatie boek over de feiten, folklore en geschiedenis van ammonieten. Op 11 november 2025 verschijnt bij Columbia University Press het boek van Jodi Summers de medewerker en veldonderzoeker in paleontologie van het American Museum of Natural History. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Jodi Summers We Dig Ammonites review en recensie

  • “There is so much information in Jodi Summers’s amazingly comprehensive look at ammonites—from their history and biology to the specifics of collecting in fossil localities all over the globe. Just the photos alone are enough to make an ammonite-ophile out of any reader!” (Karol McQueary, Southern Californian Paleontologist Society)

Jodi Summers We Dig Ammonites

We Dig Ammonites

Fact, Folklore, and History

  • Auteur: Jodi Summers (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: paleontologie boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Columbia University Press
  • Verschijnt: 11 november 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 59.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon

Flaptekst van het boek over ammonieten van Jodi Summers

Ammonites swam in Earth’s ancient seas for nearly 400 million years. These prolific cephalopods diversified into more than 10,000 species before meeting their demise during the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Today, these spiral-shelled invertebrates are among the most abundant fossils in the geologic record, found from snowcapped Himalayan peaks to parched South American arroyos. People around the world have long been drawn to the mystery and beauty of ammonite fossils. These preternaturally preserved creatures have inspired age-old myths and legends, and studying their secrets has spurred crucial scientific discoveries.

Jodi Summers—an accomplished journalist and passionate fossil collector—guides readers through the entire arc of ammonite history. She explores the evolution, proliferation, extinction, and fossilization of these captivating cephalopods, situating the story in the progression of deep time. Summers also prospects prime fossil-hunting locations, sharing tips, export legalities, and inside scoops for enthusiasts and collectors in search of notable specimens. She takes us along on her globe-spanning journeys: from the desert to the seashore, up mountains and down canyons, to the backrooms of natural history institutions and the floors of fossil shows.

We Dig Ammonites features hundreds of lavish color photographs of rare specimens that showcase the splendor of these magnificent molluscs. This book is an ode to one of the world’s most compelling fossils and an invitation to catch a glimpse of vanished epochs.

Jodi Summers is a field associate in paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. She was an editor for several rock music magazines and has written three books on the music industry as well as several blogs on historic landmarks and other properties. Her ammonite collection includes more than a thousand specimens.

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Slavernij, Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Psychiatrie

Diana Martha Louis – Colored Insane

Diana Martha Louis Colored Insane review, recensie en informatie boek over Slavernij, opvang en psychische aandoeningen in de negentiende eeuw. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Columbia University Press het boek van Diana Martha Louis, de assistent hoogleraar vrouwen- en genderstudies aan de Universiteit van Michigan. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Diana Martha Louis Colored Insane review en recensie

  • “Bringing together an impressive array of primary sources ranging from medical case studies and asylum records to literary fiction and nonfiction, Colored Insane offers a unique narrative that centers the perspectives of marginalized patients that have largely been absent from the established discourse on asylums.” (Michael Ra-shon Hall, author of Freedom Beyond Confinement)
  • “I couldn’t stop reading this book. Writing in a thrilling voice and centering Black knowledge-makers, Diana Louis uncovers countless surprises as she explores histories of Black mental disability. Her archival research and astute analysis respond to critical questions about “mental illness” and “disability” in the context of enslavement, freedom, and human experience itself. Colored Insane is necessary reading for anyone teaching, writing, and thinking about disability and Black histories.” (Margaret Price, author of Crip Spacetime)

Diana Martha Louis Colored Insane

Colored Insane

Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century

  • Auteur: Diana Martha Louis (Verenigde Staten0
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Columbia University Press
  • Verschijnt:28 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00 / € 140,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over slavernij, opvang en psychische aandoeningen in de 19de eeuw

The nineteenth century in the United States witnessed the end of slavery and the expansion of another form of confinement: the asylum. How did enslaved and free Black people encounter psychiatric institutions? How were notions of mental disability used to reinforce slavery and Jim Crow? And how did Black people express alternative ideas about individual and communal mental health?

Diana Martha Louis explores Black experiences and views of mental disability in the nineteenth century, shedding light on the lives and struggles of the “colored insane.” She demonstrates how psychiatric discourses made Blacks “mad” both by inflicting real psychological harm within asylums, plantations, jails, and society writ large and by constructing mental disorders according to prevailing notions of race, class, gender, and sanity. Yet even as white medical professionals pathologized the enslaved as suffering from “drapetomania” (runaway slave syndrome), portrayed slavery as beneficial to Black mental health, or cast African-derived spiritual beliefs and practices as signs of madness, Black people developed their own complex perspectives on mental disability.

Louis considers the lives and writings of Black intellectuals and cultural figures including James McCune Smith, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Tubman, and Charles Chesnutt, as well as a group of Black women who were incarcerated in Georgia Lunatic Asylum, showing how mental disability was entangled with questions of freedom, spirituality, and self-determination. Combining literary and historical analysis, Colored Insane is a rich account of nineteenth-century Black Americans’ experiences of mental illness and wellness.

Diana Martha Louis is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies and American culture at the University of Michigan.

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Biografie, India, Indiase geschiedenis

Manu Bhagavan – The Remarkable Madame Pandit

Manu Bhagavan The Remarkable Madame Pandit review, recensie en informatie biografie van  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, de politica en diplomate uit India. Op 30 september 2025 verschijnt bij Columbia University Press de biografie van Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, geschreven door Manu Bhagavan. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Manu Bhagavan The Remarkable Madame Pandit review en recensie

  • “With this illuminating biography, Manu Bhagavan restores Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit to the pantheon of extraordinary individuals who created a modern India according to their noble vision of international human rights. Written in lucid prose with a scholar’s unflinching eye, this is a deeply affectionate portrait of a complex woman, and a masterful recreation of a thrilling period in history.” (Kiran Desai)
  • “Sidelined by the “great men” school of history writing, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit is brought to life in this vividly written and painstakingly researched biography. You’ll find yourself eagerly turning the pages to learn what happens next in a story you thought you already knew.” (Daisy Rockwell)

Manu Bhagavan The Remarkable Madame Pandit

The Remarkable Madame Pandit

Champion of India, Citizen of the World

  • Auteur: Manu Bhagavan (India, Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie, Indiase geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Columbia University Press
  • Verschijnt: 30 september 2025
  • Omvang: 584 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 40,00 / $ 160,00 / $ 40,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit de politica uit India

A pioneering politician and diplomat, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900–1990) was an Indian icon, admired worldwide for her brilliance and glamour. Eleanor Roosevelt called her “the most remarkable woman” she had ever met. Madame Pandit, as she was widely known, moved in elite global circles even as she worked to improve the lives of millions. She traded quips with Winston Churchill, worked alongside Albert Einstein, and was detained for the attempted assassination of Benito Mussolini. She even came out of retirement to campaign against her own niece, Indira Gandhi, to stop an authoritarian takeover and save Indian democracy.

The Remarkable Madame Pandit is the definitive biography of India’s greatest modern diplomat. Manu Bhagavan chronicles Pandit’s life and times, from her upbringing in an illustrious family to her role in her country’s fight for independence and through her globe-trotting career bridging East and West. Pandit was India’s first woman cabinet minister, an ambassador to the United States and the Soviet Union, and the first woman elected president of the UN General Assembly. Her influence extended well beyond these formal roles: she became one of the most prominent international voices for peace while paving the way for women in many fields. Based on eight years of research using material in five languages from seven countries, this book tells Madame Pandit’s gripping story in full—and in so doing, retells the history of India and the world in the twentieth century.

Manu Bhagavan was born in 1970. He is an Indian-American professor of history, human rights, and public policy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is also a senior fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. Bhagavan is the author or editor of several books, including The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World (2012) and India and the Cold War (2019).

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Dinosaurus, Dieren, Paleontologie

Dean R. Lomax – The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs

Dean R. Lomax The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs review, recensie en informatie boek over het ontdekken van het echte gedrag van prehistorische dieren. Op 23 september 2025 verschijnt bij Columbia University Press het boek van de Britse paleontoloog Dean R. Lomax over het gedrag van dinosaurussen. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Dean R. Lomax The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs review en recensie

  • “Lomax uses scientific research and personal experiences to
    guide readers through the process of discovering details of longextinct animals’ lives. The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs takes complex paleontological ideas and explains them in an approachable and easyto-understand way.” (Kallie Moore, cohost of PBS Eons)
  • “Dean R. Lomax has written a fantastic book that is as educational as it is entertaining. Technically engrossing, scientifically accurate, but not intimidating. It’s loaded with information, with some great paleo anecdotes and scientific humor peppered throughout. It’s one of the most fun nonfiction dinosaur books I’ve read. The artwork by Bob Nicholls and photos and diagrams are all really well done and informative.” (Slash, Guns N’ Roses)
  • “Lomax describes some remarkable fossils that record the intimate lives of ancient organisms, from reproduction and birth to feeding, locomotion, and illnesses. There are dinosaurs here, but also fossil reptiles, mammals, fishes, ammonites, and others. Lomax shows you the fossils, uncovering the discoveries and the discoverers, while Bob Nicholls provides stunning artwork to reveal some of the amazing lives of our ancestors.” (Michael Benton, professor of vertebrate paleontology, University of Bristol)

Dean R. Lomax The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs

The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs

Unearthing the Real Behaviors of Prehistoric Animals

  • Auteur: Dean R. Lomax (Engeland)
  • Illustraties: Bob Nicholls
  • Soort boek: dinosaurus boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Columbia University Press
  • Verschijnt: 23 september 2025
  • Omvang: 312 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 38.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over het geheime leven van dinosaurussen

Buried within a lost world, astonishing evidence reveals the behavior of extinct animals, giving us a glimpse at both everyday and epic events. If we look at these discoveries carefully, the untold stories of these magnificent creatures come into view, breathing new life into the prehistoric past.

The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs tells the remarkable tales of ancient animals through some of the most distinctive and unusual fossils ever found, offering an intimate, behind-the-scenes look into the story of life in deep time. Venturing hundreds of millions of years into the past, Dean R. Lomax takes us on a journey through the grand cycle of life, infused with anecdotes from his own adventures and sprinkled with a touch of dinosaur humor.

These fossils tell real-world stories of prehistoric parenting, the quest for survival, and the endless struggle between predator and prey. Unbelievable moments are captured: saber-toothed cats clashing, mega-millipedes mating, dinosaurs swimming. From ammonite eggs to mosasaur mealtimes, and from a pregnant ichthyosaur that chowed down on a bird to the mammal that took down a dinosaur, these behaviors challenge what we thought we knew about the prehistoric world.

This book looks into the private moments of long-extinct creatures as never before, letting us see them not just as fossils in a museum but as living, breathing animals with personalities and emotions. Vivid illustrations by Bob Nicholls bring these incredible stories to life in full color.

Dean R. Lomax is an internationally recognized paleontologist, author, television presenter, and science communicator. A leading authority on ichthyosaurs, he is an honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester and an 1851 Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. He is the author of more than ten books.

Bob Nicholls is a world-renowned natural history artist who specializes in the reconstruction of prehistoric animals, plants, and environments. His illustrations and models have been published in more than forty books and exhibited in museums, universities, and visitor attractions around the world.

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