Tag archieven: Princeton University Press

Dieren, Dierenboeken, Dinosaurus

Bryce Jones – Ornithischians

Bryce Jones Ornithischians review, recensie en informatie nieuw boek in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Op 10 februari 2026 verschijnt een deel in de The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, deze keer staan de Ornithischia centraal. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Bryce Jones Ornithischians review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, Ornithischians, geschreven door wetenschapsschrijver Bryce Jones, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Bryce Jones Ornithischians The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs

Ornithischians

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs

  • Auteur: Bryce Jones
  • Illustraties: Egidio Viola
  • Soort boek: dinosaurus boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press\
  • Verschijnt: 10 februari 2026
  • Omvang: 424 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 49.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de Ornithischia dinosaurussen

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: Ornithischians brings together every species of armored and horn-faced dinosaur known to have roamed the prehistoric world, with a dedicated entry for each species describing its key characteristics, taxonomic classification, location, and known remains along with a concise history of its discovery. Each species is beautifully brought to life with vivid illustrations and is supported by meticulously detailed diagrams of all known fossils. These visual aids enable readers to explore how scientists reconstruct these incredible creatures from fossilized remains. Whether you’re curious about Stegosaurus, Triceratops, or the multitude of less familiar ornithischian species, this encyclopedia covers them all.

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs is a comprehensive three-volume resource for anyone who is fascinated by dinosaurs. Packed with engaging dino facts and original, full-color reconstructions, drawings, and graphics, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia strikes a perfect balance between depth and accessibility—detailed enough to captivate professionals yet clear and exciting enough for beginners eager to dive into the amazing lost world of the dinosaurs. The three volumes, which are available individually or as a set, are Theropods, Sauropods, and Ornithischians. Organized for easy reference, these books are perfect for casual browsing or in-depth study. Together, this encyclopedia invites dinosaur lovers of all ages to walk among the wondrous beasts of the Mesozoic era.

Bryce Jones is a science writer and educator with a lifelong passion for paleontology.

Egidio Viola is a graphic artist and chemistry researcher who specializes in digital illustrations of prehistoric creatures.

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Paarden, Paardenboek, Wetenschap

Ludovic Orlando – Horses

Ludovic Orlando Horses review, recensie en informatie boek over en de 4000 jaar durende genetische reis door de wereld van het paarden. Op 9 september 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press de Engelse vertaling van La Conquête du cheval: Une histoire génétique, het boek van Ludovic Orlando  de uit Frankrijk afkomstige moleculair bioloog. Er is heen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Ludovic Orlando Horses review en recensie

  • “This is a breathtaking book from the geneticist who decoded the horse’s ancient secrets. It is a modern tale of serendipity, power, and relentless spirit.” (Christina Warinner, Harvard University)
  • “Ludovic Orlando is among the most brilliant scientists I have ever worked with. In Horses, he reveals how cutting-edge DNA research is rewriting the story of the four-thousand-year history of human-equine relationships. I warmly recommend his book, a fascinating blend of history, science, and personal narrative.” (Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen and University of Cambridge)
  • “The origins and subsequent biological and cultural history of most domestic animals remain patchy. With this titanic book, Ludovic Orlando has ensured that what we now know about horses matches the outsized effect they have had on human history over the past four thousand years.” (Greger Larson, University of Oxford)

Ludovic Orlando Horses

Horses

A 4,000-Year Genetic Journey Across the World

  • Auteur: Ludovic Orlando (Frankrijk)
  • Soort boek: populair wetenschappelijk paardenboek
  • Origineel: La Conquête du cheval: Une histoire génétique (2023)
  • Engelse vertaling: Teresa Lavender Fagan
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 9 september 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Ludovic Orlando over de genetische geschiedenis van het paard

Ludovic Orlando garnered world acclaim for helping to rewrite the genomic history of horse domestication. Horses takes you behind the scenes of this ambitious genealogical investigation, revealing how he and an international team of scientists discovered the elusive origins of modern horses. Along the way, he shows how the domestication of the horse changed the trajectory of civilization—with benefits and unforeseen consequences for the animals themselves.

Orlando brought together world-class experts in genomics, archaeology, and the history of peoples, languages, and migrations. Comparing the DNA of ancient horses to the genomes of dozens of modern horse breeds, these researchers reconstructed millennia of equine evolutionary history. They now believe that horses were first domesticated some 4,200 years ago on the steppes of the North Caucasus. Orlando discusses how selective breeding has significantly intensified over the past two centuries, giving rise to faster, stronger horses but also creating a severe decline in genetic diversity that has made horses more prone to genetic diseases. He looks at breeds throughout history and around the world, explaining how they have been bred for particular purposes or environments, from Botai and Przewalski’s horses to the warhorses of the Vikings and Genghis Khan, Arabian horses, thoroughbreds, Himalayan steeds, and mules.

Blending panoramic storytelling with cutting-edge genetic science, Horses chronicles an unbreakable bond that was forged thousands of years ago on the windswept Eurasian Steppe, one that heralded a bold new era in the human drama—that of speed.

Ludovic Orlando holds a doctorate in paleogenetics, is a CNRS silver medal-winning research director, and heads the Toulouse Center for Anthropobiology and Genomics at Paul-Sabatier University. He participated in the sequencing of the first ancient human genome and pushed the limits of DNA analysis beyond half a million years. His work is internationally recognized for having rewritten the genomic history of horse domestication.

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Populair Wetenschappelijke Boeken, Rivier

Ellen Wohl – Following the Bend

Ellen Wohl Following the Bend review, recensie en informatie boek over hoe je een rivier kunt lezen en de aard ervan kunt begrijpen. Op 9 september 2024 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het nieuwe boek van Ellen Bend, de Amerikaanse professor geowetenschappen. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Ellen Wohl Following the Bend review en recensie

  • “Wonderfully engaging. Wohl’s storytelling is rich with the deep insights about rivers that she has cultivated over decades of research, fieldwork, and experiences.” (Joann Mossa, University of Florida)
  • “A thoroughly appealing book about rivers and how they flow and change. Wohl seamlessly blends her personal experiences with the science of rivers in an accessible way, drawing broad connections between the multifaceted aspects of rivers across space and time. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, as will other readers who enjoy rivers recreationally, appreciate nature, or are just interested in natural phenomena.” (Stephanie L. Shepherd, Auburn University)
  • “In Following the Bend, Wohl delivers a highly readable and personal account of the form and functioning of rivers. Exploring the intricate interactions of rivers with time, space, climate, landscape, the sea, and life-forms—including humanity—this is a must-read for all fluviophiles, professional and otherwise.” (Eric B. Taylor, author of Rivers Run Through Us)

Ellen Wohl Following the Bend

Following the Bend

How to Read a River and Understand Its Nature

  • Auteur: Ellen Wohl (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: populair wetenschappelijk rivierenboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 9 september 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek van Ellen Wohl over het begrijpen van rivieren

When we look at a river, either up close or while flying over a river valley, what are we really seeing? Following the Bend takes readers on a majestic journey by water to find answers, along the way shedding light on the key concepts of modern river science, from hydrology and water chemistry to stream and wetland ecology.

In this accessible and uniquely personal book, Ellen Wohl explains how to “read” a river, blending the latest science with her own personal experiences as a geologist and naturalist who has worked on rivers for more than three decades. She charts how water travels through the hydrologic cycle around the globe and downstream to distribute energy, move sediment, and shape river channels, and how living organisms adapt to life in flowing water to create vibrant river ecosystems. Wohl looks at the role of disturbances such as floods and droughts and discusses how geologists interpret the sedimentary records of past river processes. She illustrates how river networks interact with Earth’s surface and considers issues for rivers in the future, such as progressive drying, river restoration, and advocating for the legal personhood of a river to maintain its distinctive spirit, identity, and integrity.

Sharing a new understanding of how rivers function as both physical systems and ecosystems, Following the Bend enables us to observe rivers with fresh eyes and more fully appreciate the beauty, vibrancy, and complexity of our planet’s vital waterways.

Ellen Wohl is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Colorado State University. Her many books include Dead Wood: The Afterlife of Trees, Something Hidden in the Ranges: The Secret Life of Mountain Ecosystems, and Of Rock and Rivers: Seeking a Sense of Place in the American West.

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Dieren, Dierenboeken, Sri Lankaanse schrijfsters, Walvis, Zee

Asha de Vos – Whale

Asha de Vos Whale review, recensie en informatie van de geïllustreerde biografie van de walvis. Op 6 januari 2026 verschijnt bij Princeton Univerty Press het boek over de walvis van Asha de Vos de marine bioloog uit Sri Lanka. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Asha de Vos Whale review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Whales, The Illustrated Biography, geschreven door Asha de Vos, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Asha de Vos Whale

Whale

The Illustrated Biography

  • Auteur: Asha de Vos (Sri Lanka)
  • Soort boek: walvis encyclopedie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 6 januari 2026
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de encyclopedie over de walvis van Asha de Vos

Whales are the majestic giants of the ocean, yet much of their world remains a mystery to us. The routes of their vast oceanic migrations are largely elusive, as are the intricacies of their behavior and social dynamics. This narrative biography takes you out beyond our shorelines and into the depths, providing an up-close exploration of the life of the whale. It covers everything from conception and childhood to family history, relationships, communication, and life challenges, and explains why studying whales helps us to monitor the health of our planet’s oceans and marine ecosystems.

Written by internationally acclaimed expert Asha de Vos, Whale: The Illustrated Biography blends engaging profiles of the best-known species with stunning illustrations to tell the story of these magnificent creatures in all their diversity and complexity.

  • Features a wealth of specially commissioned illustrations
  • Discusses familiar species such as the humpback whale, blue whale, killer whale, and sperm whale, as well as smaller and more elusive cousins
  • Covers anatomy, hunting and feeding, migration, habitats, whale song, conservation, human interactions with whales, and much more
  • Explains how whales play key roles in nutrient cycling, regulating prey populations, and influencing carbon sequestration
  • A must-have reference for whale watchers everywhere

Asha de Vos was born in 1979 in Sri Lanka. She is a marine biologist, ocean educator, and pioneer of blue whale research in the northern Indian Ocean. An adjunct research fellow at the Oceans Institute of the University of Western Australia, she is also the founder of Oceanswell, Sri Lanka’s first marine conservation research and education organization. Her work has been featured in National Geographic and The New York Times and by the BBC and TED, and in 2024 she was invited to join the UN Secretary General’s Scientific Advisory Board.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse politiek, Verenigde Staten

Laura K. Field – Furious Minds

Laura K. Field Furious Minds review, recensie en informatie boek over MAGA nieuw rechts en Donald Trump in Amerika. Op 6 november 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press boek van Laura K. Field, de Amerikaanse politieke theoreticus en schrijfster over de Make America Great Again. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Laura K. Field Furious Minds review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review en recensie verschijnt van Furious Minds, The Making of the MAGA New Right, geschreven door Laura K. Field, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Laura K. Field Furious Minds

Furious Minds

The Making of the MAGA New Right

  • Auteur: Laura K. Field (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse politiek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 4 november 2025
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over MAGA nieuw rechts in Amerika

The story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump’s agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, and democracy.

Donald Trump is not a big thinker, but his 2016 presidential victory presented a grand opportunity for people who are, and it set off a radicalization and reconfiguration of the American conservative intellectual world. In Furious Minds, Laura Field, who spent close to a decade in conservative academic circles, chronicles the rise of the New Right—the network of academics, public intellectuals, and influencers who provide ideological fuel to Trumpism. This movement includes figures such as Patrick Deneen, Christopher Rufo, Peter Thiel, and JD Vance. Their agenda is built to last, and it has dire long-term implications for liberal democracy.

The New Right has precedents in American history, but it is distinct for its youthfulness, misogyny, and extraordinary successes—most notably the elevation of Vance to the vice presidency. The movement—which draws together associates of the right-wing Claremont Institute, National Conservatives, Postliberals, and the Hard Right—advocates nationalist economics, tight borders, isolationism, and reactionary social values. It helped to strategize January 6th and created Project 2025. But above all, the New Right is engaged in a vast culture war against modern liberal pluralism. It is determined to harness state power and use it in new, illiberal ways, from college campuses to the international scene—all driven by the fantasy of restoring a pure America.

Incisive and urgent, Furious Minds tells the story of the thinkers of the New Right—and their powerful assault on American freedoms, values, and ideals.

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Amerikaanse historicus, Geschiedenisboeken, Romeinen

Kim Bowes – Surviving Rome

Kim Bowes Surviving Rome review, recensie en informatie boek over het economische leven van negentig procent van de Romeinen. Op 4 november 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Kim Bowes, hoogleraar archeologie en oude geschiedenis aan de Universiteit van Pennsylvania, over de gewone Romein. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Kim Bowes Surviving Rome review en recensie

  • “Finally, someone has written an economic history of Rome for the twenty-first century! In Surviving Rome, Kim Bowes does no less than challenge the whole field of ancient economic history, presenting us with a summons to think more empathetically about how ordinary Romans hustled, borrowed, and scraped to get by. She answers her own call with a radically new but highly current account of the Roman economy. This is a firecracker of a book, deeply researched and marvelously written, and I could not recommend it more.” (Seth Bernard, author of Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy)
  • “Surviving Rome explores the stress and strains, precarities and strategies of the people—the ordinary men, women, and children, enslaved and free—who shaped the world’s first ‘global’ economy. This is a brilliantly insightful microeconomic history that brings working people and their practices back into the Roman economy. Everyone interested in premodern economies should read this deeply perceptive and engagingly written book.” (Claire Taylor, author of Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being)

Kim Bowes Surviving Rome

Surviving Rome

The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent

  • Auteur: Kim Bowes (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 4 november 2025
  • Omvang: 512 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 39,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Kim Bowes over de gewone Romein

A radical revision—and worker’s-eye view—of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economy.

The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived through a combination of grit and grinding labor.

Focusing on the working majority, Kim Bowes tells the stories of people like the tenant farmer Epimachus, Faustilla the moneylender, and the pimp Philokles. She reveals how the economic changes of the period created a set of bitter challenges and opportunistic hustles for everyone from farmers and craftspeople to day laborers and slaves. She finds working people producing a consumer revolution, making and buying all manner of goods from fine pottery to children’s toys. Many of the poorest working people probably pieced together a living from multiple sources of income, including wages. And she suggests that Romans’ most daunting challenge was the struggle to save. Like many modern people, saving enough to buy land or start a business was a slow, precarious slog. Bowes shows how these economies of survival were shared by a wide swath of the populace, blurring the lines between genders, ages, and legal status.

Drawing on new archaeological and textual evidence, Surviving Rome presents a radical new perspective on the economy of ancient Rome while speaking to the challenges of today’s laborers and gig workers surviving in an unforgiving global world.

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Dieren, Dierenboeken, Olifant

Asier Larramendi & Marco P. Ferretti – Elephants

Asier Larramendi & Marco P. Ferretti Elephants and Their Fossil Relatives review, recensie en informatie boek over de olifant en de mammoet. Op 3 maart 2026 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek over de olifant en fossiele soortgenoten. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Asier Larramendi and Marco P. Ferretti Elephants and Fossil Remains review

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Elephants and Their Fossil Relatives, A Sxity Million Year Journey, geschreven door Asier Larramendi en Marco P. Ferretti, met illustraties van Shu-yu Hsu, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Asier Larramendi and Marco P. Ferretti Elephants

Elephants and Their Fossil Relatives

A 60 Million Year Journey

  • Auteurs: Asier Larramendi, Marco P. Ferretti
  • Soort boek: olifantenboek, dierenboek
  • Taal; Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 3 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 39.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over olifanten en hun fossiele soortgenoten

Today, only three species of elephants survive—the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). However, these modern giants represent just a fraction of the vast and diverse order Proboscidea, which includes not only living elephants but also their many extinct relatives. Over the past 60 million years, proboscideans have evolved and adapted across five continents, giving rise to an astonishing variety of forms, from the massive, woolly-coated mammoths of the Ice Age to the diminutive, island-dwelling dwarf elephants.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of proboscidean biology and evolutionary history, shedding light on the remarkable diversity of these extraordinary mammals. It delves into the anatomical characteristics of every known species, from the towering steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii) and the shovel-tusked Amebelodon to the semi-aquatic Moeritherium and the enigmatic Deinotherium. Readers will discover how these creatures developed an array of specialized adaptations, including variations in tusk shape and function, highly flexible trunks suited for different feeding strategies, and unique dental structures that allowed them to process a wide range of vegetation.

Accompanied by stunning illustrations by Shu-yu Hsu, Elephants and Their Fossil Relatives brings these ancient giants back to life, offering a visually captivating and scientifically rigorous journey through their evolutionary past. Whether you are a paleontology enthusiast, a student of evolutionary biology, or a researcher in the field, this book serves as an indispensable reference for understanding one of the most extraordinary groups of animals ever to walk the earth.

  • Brings together all known elephant species and their fossil relatives in a single volume for the first time
  • Covers more than 230 extinct species ranging in size from creatures no larger than a chihuahua to colossal giants weighing up to three times the mass of modern elephants
  • Features hundreds of stunning full-color illustrations and cutting-edge 3D reconstructions—many restored for the first time
  • Delves into the biology and behavior of modern elephants, answering key questions about their anatomy, behavior, and profound impact on human culture
  • Draws on groundbreaking studies of ancient proteins, isotopes, and DNA
  • A must-have for elephant lovers everywhere

Asier Larramendi is a distinguished researcher on extinct elephants and the General Director of Eofauna Scientific Research. His work, published in leading journals, has made significant contributions to proboscidean morphometrics and vertebrate comparative anatomy. He has also consulted for TV productions. 

Marco P. Ferretti is associate professor of paleontology at the University of Camerino in Italy. Specializing in the systematics and evolution of fossil proboscideans, he has authored numerous scientific publications and participated in fieldwork across Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.

Shu-yu Hsu was born in 1967 in Taipei, Taiwan. He studied art in college and worked as an illustrator, storyboard artist, and film art director. Also he creates paleoart, illustrating and designing figurines of extinct animals, with his work featured in museums worldwide.

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China, Chinese geschiedenis, Chinese politiek

Minxin Pei – The Broken China Dream

Minxin Pei The Broken China Dream review, recensie en informatie boek over hoe hervorming het totalitarisme nieuw leven inblies. Op 2 december 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek over de Chinees-Amerikaanse politicoloog Minxin Pei over het opkomend totalitarisme in China onder Xi Jinping. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verschenen.

Minxin Pei The Broken China Dream review en recensie

  • “Minxin Pei has authored yet another major statement about China’s post-Mao trajectory. His provocative and lucid analysis of China’s political evolution after Tiananmen concludes with a fascinating account of the rise of Xi Jinping. It will focus discussions of China’s recent past and likely futures for some years to come.” (Andrew G. Walder, Stanford University)
  • “In this outstanding book, today’s leading analyst of modern China reveals why it has been so easy for Xi Jinping to reinstate a totalitarian system. Minxin Pei shows how an unreformed party-state stood behind the economic miracle and how, in the absence of constraining legal or political institutions, Xi Jinping has found it easy to reimpose rule by fear. Anybody interested in modern China should read this book.” (Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times)

Minxin Pei The Broken China Dream

The Broken China Dream

How Reform Revived Totalitarianism

  • Auteur: Minxin Pei (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Chinese politiek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 2 december 2025
  • Omvang: 324 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van boek over opkomend totalitarisme in China

A provocative book that demystifies China’s great democratic leap backward under Xi Jinping, revealing why the country’s embrace of capitalism has given rise to hard authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and one-man rule instead of democracy as many in the West had hoped.

When China embarked on its transformative journey of modernization in 1979, many believed the country’s turn toward capitalism would put its totalitarian past to rest and mark the birth of a democratic, open society. Instead, China reverted to a neo-totalitarian state, one backed by one of the fastest-growing, most formidable economies on earth. The Broken China Dream pulls back the curtain on the regime of strongman Xi Jinping, revealing why the reforms of the post-Mao era have been reversed on nearly every front—and why the world failed to see it coming.

Exposing the truth behind China’s economic ascendency after the Cultural Revolution, Minxin Pei shows how, following Mao’s death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping strategically deployed the tools of capitalism to preserve the Chinese Communist Party. Deng kept intact the institutional foundations of totalitarianism even as he unleashed private entrepreneurship and courted foreign investment, giving China’s one-party state control of a vast repressive apparatus and the most critical sectors of the economy. Only a fragile balance of power among dueling factions prevented the rise of a totalitarian leader in the two decades after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989—but this temporary equilibrium collapsed.

Essential to understanding today’s China, this meticulously researched book is a sobering account of why the country’s reformers and institutions could not stop a shrewd and ruthless politician like Xi from resurrecting dormant totalitarian practices that, for the foreseeable future, have spelled the end of the dream of a free and prosperous China.

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Biografie, Engeland, Engelse geschiedenis, Engelse historicus, Middeleeuwen

David Woodman – The First King of England

David Woodman The First King of England review, recensie en informatie boek over koning Æthelstan en de geboorte van een koninkrijk. Op 2 september 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van de Engelse historicus David Woodman over Æthelstan, de eerste Engelse koning. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

David Woodman The First King of England review en recensie

  • “A fascinating, meticulously researched, and vital new study of the man who has the best claim to be the first true king of England. David Woodman takes us as close as we can ever hope to get to the personality of Æthelstan, and in doing so shines a light on an intriguing and formative period in British history.” (Dan Jones)
  • “England’s founding father deserves this book: at once scholarly and accessible, attentive to every last morsel of detail yet possessed of a thrillingly epic sweep. David Woodman has done Æthelstan proud.” (Tom Holland)
  • “A magisterial account not only of England’s first king, but of the kingdom itself. Beautifully written and filled with insights, it sheds new light on Æthelstan, his life, and his times.” (Peter Frankopan)

David Woodman The First King of England

The First King of England

Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom

  • Auteur: David Woodman (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse geschiedenis, historische biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 2 september 2025
  • Omvang: 344 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over Æthelstan de eerste koning van Engeland

From one of today’s leading historians of the early medieval period, an enthralling chronicle of Æthelstan, England’s founder king whose achievements of 927 rival the Norman Conquest of 1066 in shaping Britain as we know it.

The First King of England is a foundational biography of Æthelstan (d. 939), the early medieval king whose territorial conquests and shrewd statesmanship united the peoples, languages, and cultures that would come to be known as the “kingdom of the English.” In this panoramic work, David Woodman blends masterful storytelling with the latest scholarship to paint a multifaceted portrait of this immensely important but neglected figure, a man celebrated in his day as much for his benevolence, piety, and love of learning as he was for his ambitious reign.

Set against the backdrop of warring powers in early medieval Europe, the book sheds new light on Æthelstan’s early life, his spectacular military victories and the innovative way he governed his kingdom, his fostering of the church, the deft political alliances he forged with Europe’s royal houses, and his death and enduring legacy. It begins with the reigns of Alfred the Great and Edward the Elder, Æthelstan’s grandfather and father, describing how they consolidated and expanded the “kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons.” But it was Æthelstan who would declare himself the first king of all England when, in 927, he conquered the viking kingdom at York, required the submission of a Scottish king, and secured an annual tribute from the Welsh kings.

Beautifully illustrated and breathtaking in scope, The First King of England is the most comprehensive, up-to-date biography of Æthelstan available, bringing a magisterial richness of detail to the life of a consequential British monarch whose strategic and political sophistication was unprecedented for his time.

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Biografie, Kunst, Kunstboeken

Amy Newman – Barnett Newman biografie

Amy Newman Barnett Newman biografie review, recensie en informatie van het boek over de Amerikaanse schilder. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek Here van Amy Newman over de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Barnett Newman. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Amy Newman Barnett Newman biografie review en recensie

  • “Barnett Newman told tales, poked authorities, shifted shapes, pronounced truths—and became, to the surprise of many, the oracle of modern American art. How he divined his legendary ‘zip’ is the great story of Amy Newman’s biography, but the artist’s avuncular charm—he was always a Barney not just a Barnett—adds earthy seasoning to his spirited quest.” (Mark Stevens)
  • “Amy Newman delivers an authoritative and compelling account of Barnett Newman as an artist, critic, citizen, and person. Comprehensive in coverage, insightful in analysis, and sensitive in interpretation, the result is a riveting biographical portrait of one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century.” (Michael Schreyach, author of Pollock’s Modernism)
  • “Skillfully charts the artist’s improbable path to success. Especially welcome are [Amy Newman’s] efforts to distinguish the true chronology of Newman’s career from his retrospective tendencies toward self-mythologizing. Thoroughly explored too are the ways the painter’s Judaism informed his self-understanding as an artist and influenced his choices of titles and themes…. essential reading for those interested in understanding both the man and his work.” (Library Journal)

Amy Newman Barnett Newman Biography

Barnett Newman

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  • Auteur: Amy Newman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie, kunstboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 728 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 39.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon 

Flaptekst van de biografie van de Amerikaanse schilder Barnett Newman

Barnett Newman (1905–1970), a founding member of the abstract expressionist movement, was a contemporary of such figures as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. He left behind only 118 finished paintings, six sculptures, and 83 acknowledged drawings, yet is often regarded as the greatest painter to have emerged after the Second World War. Barnett Newman is the definitive biography of a charismatic New Yorker who defied the rules and created an art of the sublime.

This landmark book features original research conducted over decades, using scores of interviews, oral histories, and previously unseen correspondence to paint a richly textured portrait of a creative sage who became an exemplar of the artist-citizen. Born in New York to Polish Jewish immigrant parents, he grandly aspired to involve himself in every detail of the city’s life. He was a crusader for the civil service, ran against La Guardia for mayor, worked as a teacher, wrote poetry, criticism, and manifestos, produced political plays, and promoted other artists—all before painting a mature work of his own in his early forties. Newman began with none of the qualities once considered indispensable for a master artist, such as training, apprenticeship, or natural facility. But he possessed a galvanizing intellect and a conviction that aesthetic expression is an ecstatic declaration of existence and an assertion of human dignity.

Drawing on previously unpublished sources gleaned from full access to Newman’s archives, Amy Newman presents a portrait of a maverick whose works are among the most enduring of the twentieth century and whose influence continues to this day.

Amy Newman is an art historian and journalist. She is the author of Challenging Art: “Artforum” 1962–1974 and the editor (with Irving Sandler) of Defining Modern Art: Selected Writings of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. She is not related to Barnett Newman.

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