A New York Times Notable Book

A Time Magazine "Best Comix of the Year"

A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-seller

Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islami...

Mentor and guide to the Lost Generation of expatriate American writers, including Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein (1874&;1946) is perhaps better known for her Parisian salon than her literary works. Yet her innovative approach to writing and her originality of thought make the impact of her books on contemporary literature enormous.

Tender Buttons, published in 1914, is vintage Stein. She pushes abstraction to its farthest limits by experimenting with words purely as words in a style...

An intimate and original memoir of grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents. 'With a dazzling and inventive use of language .

'Extraordinary' TONY BLAIR

'Riveting' - PHILIPPE SANDS

'Brutal, brilliant and scurrilously funny' - MISHA GLENNY

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'As FT editor, I was a privileged interlocutor to people in power around the world, each offering unique insights into high-level decision-making and political calculation, often in moments of crisis. These diaries offer snapshots of leadership in an age of upheaval...'

Lionel Barber was Editor of the Financial Times for the tech boom, the glo...

This new edition reflects notable advances and important developments in the field over the last several years, and includes evidence-based practices for improving the overall well-being of African American communities.

Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter: spoilt, venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately strong and loyal.

She was her father's confidante during the 20 years of Fascist rule, acting as envoy to both Germany and Britain, and playing a part in steering Italy to join forces with Hitler. From her early twenties she was effectively first lady of Italy. She married Galeazzo Ciano, who would become the youngest Foreign Secr...

Alexander was the hero of the Greeks. He was King of Macedon, a country lying north of Greece proper. He headed an army of his countrymen, and made an excursion for conquest and glory into Asia. He made himself master of all that quarter of the globe, and reigned over it in Babylon, till he brought himself to an early grave by the excesses into which his boundless prosperity allured him.

His fame rests on his triumphant success in building up for himself so vast an empire, and the admiration ...

Het oeuvre van de Franse antropoloog heeft in de tweede helft van de twintigste eeuw een stempel gedrukt op de sociale wetenschappen, die vergelijkbaar is met de invloed van Marx en Freud. Door de toepassing van de structurele methode heeft hij een omwenteling teweeggebracht in de bestudering van sociale organisaties, verwantschapsverhoudingen, classificatiesystemen, mythologie en tribale kunst. Maar ook buiten de culturele antropologie is zijn invloed te bespeuren, zoals in de literatuurwete...

Door haar verregaande bescheidenheid is groothertogin Sophie van Saksen Weimar Eisenach – dochter van koning Willem II – in onze vaderlandse geschiedenis totaal over het hoofd gezien. En toch is deze kleine Oranjeprinses een vrouw van wereldformaat, die voor de cultuur meer betekenis heeft gehad dan welke Oranjevorst ook.

Op achttienjarige leeftijd werd zij uitgehuwelijkt aan erfgroothertog Carl Alexander. Zo houdt ze haar intocht in Weimar, dat sinds de dood van Goethe teert op de r...

In 2024 is het 150 jaar geleden dat de Tweede Kamer het ‘kinderwetje’ aannam, de eerste sociale wet van Nederland. Het bezorgde indiener Samuel van Houten (1837-1930) een plek in de geschiedenisboeken. Maar Van Houten was meer dan zijn kinderwet.

Als jong Kamerlid in Groningen maakte hij naam als de grote vernieuwer van het liberalisme. Hij gold als ‘politiek moordenaar’ van staatsman Thorbecke. Twintig jaar lang was hij de belangrijkste voorvechter van kiesrechtuitbreiding en rechtvaa...