Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog deporteerden de nazi’s bijna 5000 Joden vanuit Nederland naar het doorgangsgetto Theresienstadt in Tsjecho-Slowakije. De meeste transporten vertrokken vanuit kamp Westerbork, waar veel gevangenen dachten dat Theresienstadt een ‘bevoorrecht’ kamp was. Philip Mechanicus geloofde deze propaganda niet: Theresienstadt zou ‘het neusje van de zalm’ zijn’, maar ‘de zalm stinkt’.

Hoezeer de zalm destijds stonk, wordt duidelijk in dit boek, gebaseerd op in...

‘Ik ga mee op reizen naar de nazivernietigingskampen die de Stichting Sobibor organiseert en ben gaan lezen over Aktion Reinhardt. Het zijn indrukwekkende reizen die niemand van de reisgenoten onberoerd laat. Het is de beleving van massamoord aan de lopende band.

Ik wil iets van mijn emoties en ervaringen in woorden vangen. Ik heb mijn vriend en beeldend kunstenaar Jeroen Hermkens gevraagd mee te gaan en zijn beeldend verhaal in tekening en litho vast te leggen. Het blijven eigen woorden en...

In brutally repressive sixteenth-century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners were suspect; popular entertainment largely consisted of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. Into this crude world came an ambitious cobbler's son with an uncanny ear for Latin poetry-a torment for most schoolboys, yet for a few, a secret portal to beauty, visionary imagination, transgressive desire, and dangerous skepticism. What Christopher Marlowe found on the oth...

A guide to Egyptian mythology that explores how the ancient Nile-dwellers explained the world around them. It delves into the origins of life, the creation and evolution of the world, and the reigns of the gods on earth, before introducing us to the manifestations of Egypts deities in the natural environment.

As well as vividly exploring the tales, the author brings her expertise in the archaeology of the Iron Age and particularly shamanism to bear on the mythical worlds she describes, with evidence as diverse as the Gundestrup Cauldron and the famous bog bodies. She also asks how the myths survived the Christianization of Europe.

A unique approach to Egyptian mythology that takes the reader on a tour up the Nile, stopping at the most famous monuments and vividly retelling the myths connected to each site.

A definitive reference that showcases the groundbreaking work of William Smith, the unsung ‘father of English geology’.

1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later. In a sequence of vividly written sketches, Nick Rennison conjures up all the drama and diversity of an extraordinary year....