Amsterdam
Amsterdam

Author: Geert Mak

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-09-30

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1409000850

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A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank. In this fascinating examination of the city's soul, part history, part travel guide, Geert Mak imaginatively recreates the lives of the early Amsterdammers, and traces Amsterdam's progress from waterlogged settlement to a major financial centre and thriving modern metropolis

Amsterdam Scene
Amsterdam Scene

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Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780854492640

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A pocket-size Scene guide to Europe's gay mecca.At last GMP's popular Scene Guides series offer a jeans-pocket introduction to Europe's gay capital. Cosmopolitan Amsterdam is an idyllic historical city with a population that doubles in size during the tourist season, but the gay scene welcomes visitors of every age and persuasion throughout the year. The city's reputation as a centre of European liberalism is well-deserved -- the choice is yours. As well as the obvious gay attractions Amsterdam is a city of culture -- from the world-famous Van Gogh and Rijksmuseums through an abundance of world-class orchestras to the hippest international pop events. As well as comprehensive listings, Amsterdam Scene extends its coverage to The Netherlands' other popular tourist destinations.

De Wallen
De Wallen

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Publisher:

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9780991291977

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De Wallen: Amsterdam's Red Light District A limited edition hand-printed artists' book by social documentary photographer Daniel D. Teoli Jr.De Wallen: Amsterdam's Red Light District is 8 1/2 inch square format, spiral bound and hand printed with Epson inkjet printers using archival pigment ink sets on acid free DUO paper. The book contains 91 photographs in color and black and white. Archival plastic interleaf separates the photographs and is incorporated in the spiral binding.The books have artisan made marbled end sheets and hand rounded corners. Pebbled plastic covers finish the book. A CD with image files of all photographs contained in De Wallen: Amsterdam's Red Light District accompany each book.Edition size is 50 books and 2 proof books. Price of book is $2800.00 USD

Galileo's Mistake
Galileo's Mistake

Author: Wade Rowland

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2012-05

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1611451566

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In a revisionist look at the seventeenth-century battle between ecclesiastical authorities and Galileo Galilei, Rowland provocatively challenges the prevailing view of the episode. The central issue for the inquisitors investigating Galileo's orthodoxy, insists Rowland, was never the sun-centered astronomy of Copernicus. No, much broader philosophical issues were at stake. And on these issues, Rowland argues, the church stood closer to the truth than did Galileo. The astronomer erred--in Rowland's judgment--not in his advocacy of Copernican theory but rather in his endorsement of a thoroughgoing mathematical empiricism. And while everyone now agrees with Galileo in accepting Copernicus, the doctrinaire empiricism Galileo deployed to advance Copernicanism looks as shallow and misleading to today's quantum physicists as it once did to the Renaissance theologians who forced Galileo to recant.

Merchants, Missionaries & Migrants
Merchants, Missionaries & Migrants

Author: Ineke van Kessel

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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In November 1701, David van Nyendael, an envoy of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) was the first European to visit the royal court in Kumasi, capital of the emerging Ashanti empire in the hinterland of the Gold Coast. Three hundred years of Dutch-Ghanaian relations have passed since then. Merchants, missionaries and migrants focuses on various aspects of this long-standing and intricate economic, political and cultural relationship between the Ghanaians and the Dutch.

Vermeer and the Delft School
Vermeer and the Delft School

Author: Walter A. Liedtke

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 0870999737

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Walter Liedtke, curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has assembled a splendid catalog of Vermeer and his artistic milieu. Seven lengthy, well-illustrated chapters (Liedtke wrote five, Dutch art historians Michiel Plomp and Marten Jan Bok wrote the others) describe life in the city of Delft; the painters Carel Fabritius, Leonart Bramer, and others who preceded Vermeer; the careers of Vermeer and De Hooch; the making of drawings and prints in 17th-century Delft; and the collecting of art in the same period. The catalog follows: each painting, print, and drawing accompanied by a lengthy catalog essay. Oversize: 12.25x9.75". c. Book News Inc.

The Wheels of Commerce
The Wheels of Commerce

Author: Fernand Braudel

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 9781842122884

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Braudel focuses on the markets and exchanges that have been the real motors of change in this volume. Peddlers, merchants, fairs, market stalls, the first stock exchanges, means of travel and communication, styles of life and social mores.