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Philippa Gander – Life in Sync

Philippa Gander Life in Sync review, recensie en informatie boek over de wetenschap van de biologische klokken en hoe we ze verstoren. Op 21 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Philippa Gander, de slaaponderzoeker uit Nieuw-Zeeland over hoe we verkeerd omgaan met onze biologische klok. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Philippa Gander Life in Sync review en recensie

  • “Recent breakthroughs in chronobiology reveal powerful strategies to recover lost rhythms—and improve sleep. Drawing on decades of her own research, Gander leads an in-depth tour of the science and leaves no doubt that respecting circadian clocks is crucial not just for individual well-being but also for the future of our planet.” Lynne Peeples, author of The Inner Clock: Living in Sync with Our Circadian Rhythms)
  • “The importance of sleep/wake cycles to our life on Earth is as inestimable as it is intriguing. Philippa Gander succeeds in communicating this complex science in her highly informative and engaging book.” (Colin A. Espie, University of Oxford)

Philippa Gander Life in Sync

Life in Sync

The Science of Internal Clocks and How We’re Disrupting Them

  • Auteur: Philippa Gander (Nieuw-Zeeland)
  • Soort boek: slaapproblemen en de biologisch klok
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 21 oktober 2026
  • Omvang: 168 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 22,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek van Philippa Gander over de verstoring van onze biologische klok

All of life is profoundly shaped by the daily, monthly, and yearly cycles of our planet, and all creatures have internal timekeeping systems that rely on cues from the surrounding environment. With modern technology, we are changing our environments—and by proxy, the ecosystems around us—to override these innate rhythms of life. But at what cost? Life in Sync reveals how Earth’s rotations shape our biology, what human sleep cycles looked like before the advent of artificial light, and why technology can’t free us from the constraints of our circadian clocks.

Philippa Gander explores the science behind the biological rhythms that animate us and our world, blending captivating storytelling with illuminating examples ranging from migratory birds and hibernating squirrels to jet-lagged pilots and astronauts in space. She shows how genetic circadian clocks are an ancient evolutionary adaptation that we share with all life on the planet, and how our rapidly expanding use of artificial light at night disrupts the time cues for entire ecosystems. Gander explains why cutting back on sleep adversely affects our well-being, safety, and longevity, and how breakthroughs in sleep science offer solutions to bring our lives more in harmony with nature’s rhythms.

An astonishing journey of scientific discovery, Life in Sync unlocks the mysteries of biological time—and offers new perspectives for anyone who has ever given up a good night’s sleep for the sake of their hectic waking hours.

Philippa Gander is a sleep researcher from New Zealand. She is an emeritus professor at Massey University in New Zealand.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse politiek, Sociologisch boek

Paul Starr – American Contradiction

Paul Starr American Contradiction review, recensie en informatie boek over revolutie en wraak van de jaren vijftig tot nu in de Verenigde Staten. Op 14 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Paul Starr de Amerikaanse hoogleraar sociologie en public affairs aan de Princeton Universiteit. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Paul Starr American Contradiction review en recensie

  • “Anything Paul Starr writes is important to read, and this book is no exception. American Contradiction is a highly sophisticated history of the United States since the 1950s emphasizing the interplay between social movements, politics, culture, law, and social policy.” (Nelson Lichtenstein)
  • “Paul Starr, one of the great chroniclers of American institutions, provides a brilliant reinterpretation of the modern political era. His book unpacks the fundamental contradictions that have haunted the body politic since the 1960s. A country born in contraction between slavery and freedom has remained at odds with itself even as the issues changed. The bold attack by the progressive project on hierarchical institutions produced an equally fierce counterattack by those who wanted to restore an imagined earlier era. American Contradiction teaches us how, far from being an anomaly, the election of Donald Trump twice to the presidency was a result of deeply-rooted political forces that had been steadily gaining strength within the Republican Party for decades. This is a must-read book for sociologists, historians, political scientists, and any reader interested in our nation’s political history.” (Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University)
  • “A thoughtful study of the push and pull from right to left and back again in the past 75 years ,,, A useful key to understanding how American politics and the American polity have become so intractably polarized.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Paul Starr American Contradiction

American Contradiction

Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now

  • Auteur: Paul Starr (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse politieke geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 14 oktober 2025
  • Omvang; 456 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon 

Flaptekst van het boek van Paul Starr over de Amerikaanse politiek

How did Americans come to elect Barack Obama—and then Donald Trump? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction.

The whole truth about America, Starr argues in this new history of the United States since the 1950s, has never been contained in one consistent set of values or interests. Our nation was born in the contradiction between freedom and slavery. Today it is beset by a contradiction between a changing people and a resisting nation, a nation with entrenched institutions that have empowered those who fear the changes and look to restore an old America of their imagining.

Starr tells this history from the dual standpoints of the progressive movements that changed the American people and of the movements that emerged in response. Black Americans, he argues, served as a model minority, setting in motion America’s twentieth-century revolutions in gender as well as race and rights. With industry’s decline and the rise of economic inequality, millions of Americans have felt dispossessed and want the old America back. Trump is their revenge. American Contradiction tells the story of how 1950s America became the almost unrecognizable America of the 2020s.

Paul Starr is born 12 May 1949. He is professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and founding coeditor of the American Prospect magazine. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and Bancroft Prize in American History for The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Over a half-century he has written essays and op‑eds for newspapers and magazines as well as books on America’s institutions, history, and politics.

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Engelse schrijfsters, Verhalen

Virginia Woolf – The Life of Violet

Virginia Woolf The Life of Violet review, recensie en informatie boek met drie vroege verhalen van de schrijfster die niet eerder gepubliceerd zijn. Op 8 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Virginia Woolf met drie niet eerder verschenen verhalen. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Virginia Woolf The Life of Violet review en recensie

  • “A whimsically serious trio of stories intended as a mock-biography of Violet Dickinson, and published here for the first time in a standalone volume … The three stories in The Life of Violet are funny. They are also, delightfully, very silly. And perhaps most of all, they are sexy, something Woolf was more than capable of being.” (Oliver Soden, Spectator World)
  • “What an extraordinary volume! Here we meet newly discovered, revised versions of Virginia Woolf’s early stories based on the life of Violet Dickinson. These tales are laugh-out-loud funny. They are also profound early experiments in the fiction/biography blend that later gave rise to Orlando and the feminist musing about women’s education, marriage, and literary history that infuse A Room of One’s Own. An illuminating preface and afterword by Urmila Seshagiri bring Dickinson’s biography and intellectual contributions into view and deftly analyze the stories and their place within Woolf’s oeuvre. Must reading for lovers of Woolf’s fiction.” (Jessica Berman, editor of A Companion to Virginia Woolf)

Virginia Woolf The Life of Violet

The Life of Violet

Three Early Stories

  • Auteur: Virginia Woolf (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: verhalen uit 1907
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 8 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 144 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst boek met drie vroege verhalen van Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s first fully realized work of fiction—published in its final, revised form for the first time.

A beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical “cottage of one’s own,” battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies governesses and gravity alike.

In 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess named Violet—a teasing tribute to Woolf’s friend Mary Violet Dickinson. But it was only in 2022 that Woolf scholar Urmila Seshagiri discovered a final, revised typescript of the stories. The typescript revealed that Woolf had finished this mock-biography, making it her first fully realized literary experiment and a work that anticipates her later masterpieces. Published here for the first time in its final form, The Life of Violet blends fantasy, fairy tale, and satire as it transports readers into a magical world where the heroine triumphs over sea-monsters as well as stifling social traditions.

In these irresistible and riotously plotted stories, Violet, who has powers “as marvelous as her height,” gleefully flouts aristocratic proprieties, finds joy in building “a cottage of one’s own,” and travels to Japan to help create a radical new social order. Amid flights of fancy such as a snowfall of sugared almonds and bathtubs made of painted ostrich eggs, The Life of Violet upends the marriage plot, rejects the Victorian belief that women must choose between virtue and ambition, and celebrates women’s friendships and laughter.

A major literary discovery that heralds Woolf’s ambitions to revolutionize fiction and sheds new light on her great themes, The Life of Violet is first and foremost a delight to read.

This volume features a preface, afterword, notes, and photographs that provide rich historical, literary, and biographical context.

Virginia Woolf (was born 25 January 1882 in South Kensington,  Londen. She was one of the twentieth century’s most important writers. In addition to writing ten novels, including Mrs. Dalloway  and To the Lighthouse, Woolf was the cofounder of the Hogarth Press and a prolific essayist and critic. Her manifesto A Room of One’s Own is a cornerstone of modern feminist thought. 

Urmila Seshagiri is Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Race and the Modernist Imagination, the editor of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room, and a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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Architectuurboek, Afrika, Afrikaanse geschiedenis, Architectuur

Itohan I. Osayimwese – Africa’s Buildings

Itohan I. Osayimwese Africa’s Buildings review and information of the content of the architecture book. Princeton University Press will publish the new book about Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage by Itohan I. Osayimwese, professor of the history of art and architecture and urban studies at Brown University, on october 7, 2025. 

Itohan I. Osayimwese Africa’s Buildings review

  • “Enlightening and relatable across cultural boundaries, Itohan Osayimwese presents an erudite rendering of African architectural history by demolishing preconceived Western definitions about the subject. The book’s carefully woven narratives demonstrate that attempts to cast Africa’s architectural production as purely traditional were and remain anthropological projects of race and class distinctions in modernity.” (Nnamdi Elleh, author of Architecture and Politics in Nigeria)
  • “In this wide-ranging study of the looting and collecting of Africa’s architecture by European powers, Itohan Osayimwese brilliantly demonstrates the effects of such violent scattering of cultures, places, lives, and knowledge systems on our understanding of African architecture. A must-read for anyone interested in architecture or the problem of cultural restitution.” (Swati Chattopadhyay, author of Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire)

Itohan I. Osayimwese Africa's Buildings

Africa’s Buildings

Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage

  • Author: Itohan I. Osayimwese
  • Book type: African Architecture
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • To be released: 7 October 2025
  • Length: 296 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize: $ 35.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb book by Itohan I. Osayimwese about architecture in Africa

A groundbreaking history of Africa’s looted architectural heritage – and a bold proposal for the repatriation of the continent’s stolen cultural artifacts.

Between the nineteenth century and today, colonial officials, collectors, and anthropologists dismembered African buildings and dispersed their parts to museums in Europe and the United States. Most of these artifacts were cataloged as ornamental art objects, which erased their intended functions, and the removal of these objects often had catastrophic consequences for the original structures. Africa’s Buildings traces the history of the collection and distribution of African architectural fragments, documenting the brutality of the colonial regimes that looted Africa’s buildings and addressing the ethical questions surrounding the display of these objects.

Itohan Osayimwese ranges across the whole of Africa, from Egypt in the north to Zimbabwe in the south, and spanning the western, central, and eastern regions of the continent. She describes how collectors employed violent means to remove elements such as columns and door panels from buildings, and how these methods differentiated architectural collecting from conventional collecting. She shows how Western collectors mischaracterized building components as ornament, erasing their architectural character and concealing the evidence of their theft. Osayimwese discusses how the very act of displacing building parts like floor tiles and woven screen walls has resulted in a loss of knowledge about their original function and argues that because of these removals, scholars have yet to fully grasp the variety and character of African architecture.

Richly illustrated, Africa’s Buildings uncovers the vast scale of cultural displacement perpetrated by the West and proposes a new role for museums in this history, one in which they champion the repatriation of Africa’s architectural heritage and restitution for African communities.

Itohan I. Osayimwese is professor of the history of art and architecture and urban studies at Brown University, where she is an affiliate faculty in Africana studies and at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is the author of Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany and the editor of German Colonialism in Africa and Its Legacies.

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Diplomatie, Politiek, Politieke Boeken, Politieke geschiedenis

A. Wess Mitchell – Great Power Diplomacy

A. Wess Mitchell Great Power Diplomacy review, recensie en informatie boek over de vaardigheid van staatsmanschap en diplomatie van Attila de Hun tot Kissinger. Op 14 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek over de rol van diplomatie, geschreven door A. Wess Mitchell, de Amerikaanse historicus en voormalig diplomaat. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

A. Wess Mitchell Great Power Diplomacy review en recensie

  • “Wess Mitchell’s book continues his fine tradition of writing perceptively and realistically about the confluence of history, diplomacy, and geopolitics.” (Robert D. Kaplan)
  • “Great Power Diplomacy is an indictment, understated but devastating, of the utopian foreign policy pursued by the United States and its allies in the post–Cold War world; an eloquent summons to the study of grand strategy and political, cultural, economic, military, and diplomatic history; and a clarion call for a return to old-fashioned diplomacy aimed at securing the survival and prosperity of one’s own political community. This book is a must-read for those in our foreign policy establishment, and it ought to be on the bedside table of the president of every American college or university that gives short shrift to political, cultural, economic, military and diplomatic history.” (Paul A. Rahe, author of The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge)
  • “As powers contend with the consequences of today’s era of geopolitical rivalry and face an increasingly dangerous world, Mitchell offers a thoughtful account of the role diplomacy has played across centuries defined by periods of sharper competition. Those seeking insights into the importance of diplomacy in our new era will find much to appreciate in this timely and well-crafted book.” (Walter Russell Mead, author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World)

A. Wess Mitchell Great Power Diplomacy

Great Power Diplomacy

The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger

  • Auteur: A. Wess Mitchell (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: over de diplomatie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 14 oktober 2025
  • Omvang; 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst boek over de rol van diplomatie van A. Wess Mitchell

A captivating history of diplomacy—and an urgent reminder of why we need to revive its lost arts to survive in a dangerous era of great power competition.

From the beginning of time, human societies have found themselves confronted by enemies too numerous or ferocious to defeat solely by force of arms. In these dramatic moments, wise leaders have turned to diplomacy to rearrange the gameboard in their favor and stymie seemingly unstoppable foes. In Great Power Diplomacy, American historian and diplomat A. Wess Mitchell recounts the forgotten story of how history’s most legendary empires have used diplomacy as a tool of grand strategy to outwit, outmaneuver, and outlast militarily superior opponents.

Through fifteen centuries of history, Great Power Diplomacy recreates the perilous junctures, colorful personalities, and intricate statecraft that led to some of history’s most stunning diplomatic achievements—and greatest disasters. The protagonists include giants like Richelieu, Metternich, Bismarck, and Kissinger, but also a lesser-known cast of scoundrels, eunuchs, drunkards, and fools. At every turn, fortune favored those great powers with the foresight and dexterity to build winning alliances, splinter enemy coalitions, and, when necessary, make peace with their bitterest foes.

Diplomacy of this kind has become a lost art in recent years as Western elites embraced the illusion that globalization and the spread of democracy would create a borderless world where nations would live in harmony and war would be abolished from the human story. But, as Great Power Diplomacy reveals, we will need to rediscover the secrets of skillful statecraft as the world enters an unstable new era in which continent-sized great powers compete for territory, resources, and prestige. By recalling diplomacy’s rich past, we can equip ourselves for a more dangerous future.

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Japan, Amerikaanse historicus, Japanse geschiedenis

Andrew W. Bernstein – Fuji

Andrew W. Bernstein Fuji review, recensie en informatie boek over de beroemdste berg en vulkaan van Japan. Op 23 september 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Andrew W. Bernstein over de berg Fuji. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Andrew W. Bernstein Fuji review en recensie

  • “Andrew Bernstein has written an unusually comprehensive history of Mount Fuji. His scholarly engagement is wide-ranging, treating the reader to a remarkable array of approaches—from earth science and economics to poetry, art, and religion. The fruit of many years’ research, Fuji offers penetrating perspectives on a sacred volcano’s convulsive life.” (Kären Wigen, author of A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600–1912)
  • “A historical tour de force, this biography of Japan’s most famous mountain begins in distant geological times, moves across centuries of change in religious, economic, military, ideological, and environmental factors, and ends its admirably transdisciplinary account at the edge of the future. Kaleidoscopic, informative, beguiling, its essay-like chapters are also a pleasure to read.” (Carol Gluck, author of Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period)

Andrew W. Bernstein Fuji

Fuji

A Mountain in the Making

  • Auteur: Andrew W. Berstein (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van de berg Fuji in Japan
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 23 september 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35.00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de berg Fuji in Japan

Mount Fuji is everywhere recognized as a wonder of nature and enduring symbol of Japan. Yet behind the picture-postcard image is a history filled with conflict and upheaval. Violent eruptions across the centuries wrought havoc and instilled fear. Long an object of worship, Fuji has been inhabited by deities that changed radically over time. It has been both a totem of national unity and a flashpoint for economic and political disputes. And while its soaring majesty has inspired countless works of literature and art, the foot of the mountain is home to military training grounds and polluting industries. Tracing the history of Fuji from its geological origins in the remote past to its recent inscription as a World Heritage Site, Andrew Bernstein explores these and other contradictions in the story of the mountain, inviting us to reflect on the relationships we share with the nonhuman world and one another.

Beautifully illustrated, Fuji presents a rich portrait of one of the world’s most celebrated sites, revealing a mountain forever in the making and offering a meditation on the ability of landscape both to challenge and inspire.

Andrew W. Bernstein is professor of history at Lewis & Clark College and the author of Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan.

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Antropologie, Antropologisch boek, Gezondheid, Populair Wetenschappelijke Boeken

Michael D. Gurven – Seven Decades

Michael D. Gurven Seven Decades review, recensie en informatie boek over hoe de mens geëvolueerd is om langer te leven. Op 16 september 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Michael D. Gurven, de Amerikaanse antropoloog. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Michael D. Gurven Seven Decades review en recensie

  • “Blending scholarly expertise and masterful storytelling, Michael Gurven makes a compelling case that physical, mental, emotional, and social decline are not the inevitable processes we believe them to be. This is a must-read for anyone invested in human longevity.” (Barbara Natterson-Horowitz)
  • “This beautifully written book shows how to get the most good years out of life. In a genre littered with Instagram scientists and antiaging charlatans, Michael Gurven has tapped into a consummately original source of longevity wisdom: an Amazonian tribe with the world’s lowest rate of cardiovascular disease. Here, he harnesses evolutionary biology and his keen anthropology skills to tease out their wisdom to understand the capacity of the human machine. Read it to live longer or just for fun. Either way, you won’t regret it.” (Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow and author)
  • “This eye-opening, wise, and entertaining book uniquely combines groundbreaking anthropological and evolutionary insights to explain how and why we age, and how those too often overlooked insights can help all of us age better. Be sure to read this gem of a book!” (Daniel E. Lieberman)

Michael D. Gurven Seven Decades

Seven Decades

How We Evolved to Live Longer

  • Auteur: Michael D. Gurven (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: antropologisch boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 16 september 2025
  • Omvang: 536 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over waarom we ouder worden van Michael D. Gurven

Our ability to live for decades may seem like a modern luxury made possible by clean water and advances in medicine. In fact, human longevity is a legacy of our unique evolutionary path as a species. Seven Decades challenges the belief that life in the past was “nasty, brutish, and short,” tracing how our capacity for long life came to be and transforming how we think about aging.

Blending vivid storytelling with cutting-edge science, anthropologist Michael Gurven weaves tales from his years of field experience among Indigenous societies whose diet and traditional lifeways are closer to how we all lived prior to industrialization, demonstrating how these communities are relatively free of the chronic diseases of aging such as heart disease, dementia, and diabetes. He provides compelling evidence that our longevity first evolved among our hunting and gathering ancestors and shows how the human body was built to last around seven decades. At a time when people are more likely to live to old age than ever before, Gurven discusses how we can harness this amazing evolutionary feat through a shift in societal values, one that balances self-reliance with interdependence, nurtures multigenerational ties, prioritizes women’s health and longevity, and enables us to rediscover the wisdom of our elders.

Sharing bold new perspectives on human aging, Seven Decades draws important lessons from our ancestral history, bridging the past with the present to reveal what healthy, happy, and productive old age could look like for all generations.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Antropologie, Antropologisch boek, Prehistorie

Kenneth L. Feder – Native America

Kenneth L. Feder Native America review, recensie en informatie boek met het verhaal over de eerste volkeren in Amerika. Op 10 september 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek over de eerste bevolking van het continent Amerika, geschreven door Kenneth L. Feder de emeritus professor antropologie van Central Connecticut State University. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Kenneth L. Feder Native America review en recensie

  • “Feder tells the story of North America’s amazing archaeology with passion, humility, and humor. Native America is not just authoritative; it’s a page-turner. I highly recommend it to anyone with even the slightest interest in the continent’s archaeology. You’ll learn a lot and have fun along the way.” (Brad Lepper, curator of archaeology, Ohio History Connection)
  • “Generations of students—including me—can count themselves lucky to have had their first introduction to archaeology through the works of Kenneth Feder. Native America, which introduces cutting-edge findings and conveys the deepest respect for Indigenous peoples and their cultures, continues his tradition of superb writing. His accessible tone and irreverent humor disguise the fact that this book is a master class in American archaeology. This is an essential book for anyone interested in understanding current scientific perspectives on the origins and histories of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. It sets a new standard to which all anthropology writers should aspire.” (Jennifer Raff, author of Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas)

Kenneth L. Feder Native America

Native America

The Story of the First Peoples

  • Auteur: Kenneth L. Feder (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: antropologisch boek over de eerste Amerikanen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 10 september 2025
  • Omvang: 440 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 39.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de eerste volkeren in van Amerika

Native America presents an infinitely surprising and fascinating deep history of the continent’s Indigenous peoples. Kenneth Feder, a leading expert on Native American history and archaeology, draws on archaeological, historical, and cultural evidence to tell the ongoing story, more than 20,000 years in the making, of an incredibly resilient and diverse mixture of peoples, revealing how they have ingeniously adapted to the many changing environments of the continent, from the Arctic to the desert Southwest.

Richly illustrated, Native America introduces close to a hundred different peoples, each with their own language, economic and social system, and religious beliefs. Here, we meet the Pequot, Tunxis, Iroquois, and Huron of the Northeast; the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, and Apache of the Southwest; the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Lakota of the Northern Plains; the Haida, Kwakiutl, Nootka, and Salish of the Northwest Coast; the Tule River and Mohave of Southern California; the Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole of the Southeast; and the Inuit and Kalaallit of the Arctic. We learn about hunters of enormous Ice Age beasts; people who raised stone toolmaking to the level of art; a Native American empire ruled by a king and queen, with a huge city at its center and colonies hundreds of miles away; a society that made the desert bloom by designing complex irrigation networks; brilliant architects who built fairy castles in sandstone cliffs; and artists who produced beautiful and moving petroglyphs and pictographs that reflect their deep thinking about history, the sacred, the land, and the sky.

Native America is not about peoples of the past, but vibrant, living ones with an epic history of genius and tenacity—a history that everyone should know.

Kenneth L. Feder is professor emeritus of anthropology at Central Connecticut State University. His books include Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology, The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory, and Native American Archaeology in the Parks: A Guide to Native Heritage Sites in Our National Parks and Monuments.

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Insecten, Architectuur, Dieren

Tom Jackson – Insect Architecture

Tom Jackson Insect Architecture review, recensie en informatie boek over hoe insecten hun wereld bouwen, ontwerpen en vormgeven. Op 9 november 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Tom Jackson, de Amerikaanse schrijver over de bouwwerken die insecten maken. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Tom Jackson Insect Architecture review en recensie

  • “This book is about as fascinating a read as you will ever have, even if you never gave a thought to the lives of insects before … You simply cannot fail to be impressed with it all and not a little gobsmacked along the way.” (David Gascoigne, writer of Travels with Birds)

Tom Jackson Insect Architecture

Insect Architecture

How Insects Build, Engineer, and Shape Their World

  • Auteur: Tom Jackson
  • Soort boek: insecten boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 9 september 2025
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s (150 afbeeldingen)
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de bouwwerken van insecten

Insect Architecture takes you inside the amazing structures that insects build, from the paper galleries of yellowjacket wasps to elaborate termite mounds complete with royal chambers and air-conditioning systems. Each chapter focuses on a group of insect architects, describing the materials and methods they use while exploring the structures themselves in detail. Blending spectacular illustrations with illuminating case studies of representative species from around the world, this is the ultimate guide to insect artistry and innovation.

  • Features a wealth of color photos, explanatory diagrams and blueprints, step-by-step sequences, and visual spreads
  • Covers all major groups of insect architects and the broad array of structures they build
  • Explains how anatomy, life cycle, and habitat are the ingredients to extraordinary creations
  • Profiles the insect world’s most accomplished builders—from beetles, bees, and cicadas to moths, wasps, ants, and termites
  • Discusses the ecological impacts of insect architecture
  • Reveals how insect builders have inspired human design innovations

Tom Jackson is an acclaimed science writer and conservationist. His books include Biology: An Illustrated History of Life Science, The Magnificent Book of Dangerous Animals, Micro Monsters, and Genetics in Minutes: 200 Key Ideas of Evolution and Biology in an Instant. He was the chief editor of Insects and Spiders of the World.

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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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