Voorstellingen van moeders en kinderen zijn niet weg te denken uit de beeldende kunsten van het Afrikaanse continent, van de prehistorische rotskunst in Egypte en de Sahara tot de hedendaagse kunst van Zuid-Afrika. Afbeeldingen van het moederschap - gemaakt in materialen gaande van steen, ivoor en metaal tot kralen, hout en zelfs schilderijen - worden door iedereen gebruikt, van hoog tot laag, en versieren zowat elk soort voorwerp dat in de regio wordt voortgebracht. Na een bespreking van het...

This is the first single-volume social history of eighteenth-century Dutch Cape Town. Not only does it consider the elite inhabitants such as the 'expat' officials of the Dutch East India Company and the free burghers but it also includes members of Cape Town's underclasses: soldiers and sailors, artisans, convicts, exiles and freed slaves. At the same time the book positions the town in the wider context of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and stresses its complex connections with Europe, Asia...

The extraordinary story of scientists in East and West combatting HIV

A small group of scientists were doggedly working in the field of antiviral treatments when the AIDS epidemic struck. Faced with one of the grand challenges of modern biology of the twentieth century, scientists worked across the political divide of the Cold War to produce a new class of antivirals. Their molecules were developed by a Californian start-up together with teams of scientists at the Rega Institute of KU Leuven ...

Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in the Dutch Golden Age focuses on the generation of rich young men that grew up in the seventeenth century in the Dutch Republic. These men had more money to spend on clothes, music, and recreation than the generation before them. This fascinating account of male adolescence in the Dutch Golden Age reveals how young men including Rembrandt van Rijn disregarded conservative values and rebelled against the older generation, and consequently created a new youth cult...