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A wink in the darkness

my life behind invisible bars

2016 || Paperback || Manja Croiset || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar

Manja Croiset. Amsterdam, July 5,1946.The youngest of three daughters SHOAH survivors. Her father, was in concentration camps because of underground printing, including HET PAROOL started as a resistance newspaper. Her mother lost her entire family-(grand)parents, brother and sister-during this tragic period of history. Paula Kool March 11, 1918 - May 11, 2012.Her father,Odo Croiset April 24,1915- November 18,2011 As a girl, she felt invisible, with no right to fear or sorrow because of the t...

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Plato Meno

dramatic-historical dating 401 BC

2021 || Paperback || Ron Jonkvorst || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar

The dramatic date of Plato’s dialogue Meno cannot be meaningfully determined until this character has been identified as one of the generals from Xenophon’s Anabasis. Researchers have attempted to date Plato’s dialogue immediately prior to this Voyage of the Ten Thousand that began in 401 BC, but have been pushed back to the winter of 403/402 based on conservative estimates. Renewed reading and factual research have filled the gaps so that Meno can finally be pushed forward to the year ...

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Road to Libya Boat to Italy

stories of ghanaian emigrants

2014 || Paperback || Ineke Bosman || Brave New Books

Truely amazing stories told by Ghanaian men who ventured over land or sea in search for a better future. They cross the Sahara desert to Libya where jobs are available if you accept the insults that go with them. Then on into shaky boats for Europe...

Stories by Ghanaian emigrants that you can feel in all their raw resiliance and beautiful sense of humor.

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Profiles in Leadership

The Last Seven Presidents of the United States

2024 || Paperback || Lucian W. Stryker || Brave New Books

Profiles in Leadership: The Last Seven Presidents of the United States biedt een diepgaand overzicht van de laatste zeven presidenten van de VS, waarbij hun persoonlijke achtergronden, politieke uitdagingen en leiderschapsstijlen worden onderzocht. Van Ronald Reagan tot Joe Biden onthult elk hoofdstuk de unieke context waarin deze leiders opereerden en de beslissingen die hun tijd in functie hebben gekenmerkt.

Het boek onderzoekt hoe elk van deze presidenten omging met cruciale kwesties zoals...

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Memories of my Father

His Life Story Against All Odds

|| Paperback || Therry Van Vreden || Brave New Books

In his thirty-five-year career he worked in Turkey, former Dutch Nieuw-Guinea and Indonesia. These were during the controversial cold war years in countries going through massive changes themselves coming out of colonialism. For Motorsports, this was deemed the Golden Era where sex was safe and racing dangerous. He was part of the generation that laid the foundation for Indonesian Motorsports to what it is today. In this remarkable autobiography, his son takes you on a rough-and-tumble ride t...

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TILTED LIFE

Report of my time in Asia 1938 - 1946

|| Hardcover || Lieske De Jongh Phil and Matty den Ouden || Brave New Books

Report on the period of 1938 - 1946 of a young women who married in India and lived with her husband in the Dutch East Indies. After the capitulation she became interned in Japanese prisoncamps on Sumatra. Her husband worked on the Burma-Siam railway and died there. Her uncle fought in Bandoeng (Java) and was captured and also worked on the Burma-Siam railway and was transported to Japan in the hull of one of the Hell ships. He died in the bay of Manilla. Both have been awarded the War Mobil...

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Puzzled

E-mail correspondence between a Dutchman and a Swede 2012 - 2021

2023 || Hardcover || Han Hak || Brave New Books

The correspondence of two men for a decade, when youngsters met each other in the sixties, remained friends up to the age of founding families and now at old age, create an image of them in getting-older-times.

Here are letters for one decade from 2012 to somewhere 2021. It starts with their meeting in 1969, recorded by memory and diary, and then jumps to a continuation of email-stream as presented here, which starts in 2012. It was a time of books, music, politic instabilities, loves, famil...