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Love - A History of Hate in SURINAME. Hide, Flee or Suicide
2023 || Hardcover || Ivan Patrick Liesdek || Brave New Books
Six years of research with the purpose of having the untold account of Suriname’s LGBT history at long last comprehensively divulged and documented, has resulted in this publication:
Love – A History of Hate in Suriname - Hide, Flee or Suicide
Execution Extinction Existence Expression - An Insight into a Country’s Gay History.
Until now, due to taboo, legal and social repercussions from a repressive ‘heteronormative’ biased society, this has been a forgotten, concealed disguised o...
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The legacy of Leigh Bowery
King of Queer
2023 || Hardcover || Bamber Delver || Brave New Books
In 1988 Dutch journalist Bamber Delver interviewed Leigh Bowery. By then, Leigh wasn’t world-famous yet but a well-known clubber in the underground-scene of London. Leigh’s fashion career was just as wild as it was short-lived: he died in 1994, 33 years old. Decades after his death, Leigh Bowery’s influence is omnipresent. From Alexander McQueen to Cirque du Soleil, from Lady Gaga to the drag queens of RuPaul. In this book 15 artists around the globe admire his guts, his looks and fashi...
Plumb Bob
The western efforts in building and supporting the Iraqi State
2023 || Hardcover || Mohsin Shawkat || Brave New Books
This book
The subtitle of the book summarizes its content (Western efforts in building and supporting the Iraqi state).
The book is surveying the time period (1914-1958) in Iraq, highlighting the first steps in building the institutions of the Iraqi state, including education, health, transportation, agriculture, irrigation, survey, internal security, and others. The book follows the process of transferring administration from the hands of the British to the Iraqis, and from the military to ...
Christian Dior: 1966 Meets Modern- Dior meets Art
Dior Boek - Dior Meets Modern + Art - Coffee tables books
2023 || Hardcover || Fanny Beset-Winter || Brave New Books
A must-have for anyone who calls themselves a fashion fan.' LOVE Magazine This book gathers together, for the first time, Dior hat couture collection, including the wedding collections from the 1947. Big book for as a coffee table book. Large hardcover Dior book, a must-have to make your home feel luxuries. Most beautiful photographs – Dior meets modern and art.
Through iconic archive photographs of 1947 weddings, hats and a stunning portfolio of Dior creations, readers get a feel for 200 i...
The World is Enough
a pantheism without god
2023 || Hardcover || Yves Decock || Brave New Books
In this book, the author argues that atheism should deepen its roots. Atheism should not only present itself as a cognitive matter, the denial of the existence of god(s), and as a moral matter, the confirmation of freedom from religious rules, but should develop a sentimental-emotional dimension. Atheism should cultivate a cluster of basic human emotions: the experience of reality as both a creative and destructive process that remains fascinating, miraculous, and mysterious, notwithstanding ...
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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...