History and Culture

Slave trade of the West Indian Company

The West Indian Company (1621-1791) was the counterpart of the united East Indian Company (VOC). Whereas the VOC aimed at the trade with Asia, the WIC got the exclusive right for the trade between Africa and America.
Slave trade of the West Indian Company

Titanic Disaster

Just before midnight, on April 14, 1912, the British luxury passenger liner Titanic sank en route to New York City from Southampton after a collision with a huge iceberg. About 1500 passengers including ship personnel were killed in the disaster.
Titanic Disaster

Voltaire

The French writer and philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778) was born in Paris as François Marie Arouet and is regarded as the most important philosopher of the Enlightenment. Voltaire did not write only philosophical books and essays but also dramas, novels, historical books, theater reviews and essays on criminal laws and politics.
Voltaire

Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was a German National Socialist official and head of the Nazi police forces. He was the son of a Catholic schoolmaster and received a diploma in agriculture. After the First World War Heinrich Himmler joined militant rightist organizations.
Heinrich Himmler

Manifesta

Young women today live by feminism's goals. Yet feminism itself is undeniably at a crossroads. Girl power feminists appear to be obsessed with personal empowerment at the expense of politics, while political institutions such as Ms. and now are so battle weary they've lost their ability to speak to a new generation.
Manifesta

Victorian Houses

Victorian Houses presents the architectural detailing of the time in the context of the era - providing a comprehensive understanding of its architecture and design.
Victorian Houses

Diana's Last Word

During the last five years of her life, Princess Diana had one friend and confidante who was special to her. Simone Simmons was not part of Diana's social circle.
Princess Diana : The Last Word

African feminism

African feminism, this landmark volume demonstrates, differs radically from the Western forms of feminism with which we have become familiar since the 1960s. African feminists are not, by and large, concerned with issues such as female control over reproduction or variation and choice within human sexuality, nor with debates about essentialism, the female body, or the discourse of patriarchy. The feminism that is slowly emerging in Africa is distinctly heterosexual, pronatal, and concerned with "bread, butter, and power" issues.
African Feminism

Oppression in black life

Killing rage speaks to this imbalance. These twenty-three essays, most of them new works, are written from a black and feminist perspective, and they tackle the bitter difficulties of racism by envisioning a world without it. Bell Hooks defiantly creates positive plans for the future rather than dwell in theories of a crisis beyond repair.
Killing rage

Henri Matisse

The paintings and sculpture of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) are among the most recognized and widely diffused of all art works. Matisse trained as a lawyer before switching to painting in 1891.
After studying under Bouguereau and Moreau, he began to develop his own distinctive style and enjoyed an international reputation from 1920 onwards. One of the foremost artists of the twentieth century, his bold use of color and shape was instrumental in the development of the Fauvist movement, of which Pablo Picasso and André Derain were also an important part.
Henri Matisse

Automotive History

Rolls-Royce

After the First World War, Rolls-Royce resumed car production, introducing the new Phantom I and II. By 1921 Rolls-Royce had also made a move into the United States, building a factory in Springfield Massachusetts. It was in 1931 that Rolls-Royce acquired Bentley Motors.
Rolls-Royce

Porsche: The Road from Zuffenhausen

Porsche: The Road from Zuffenhausen is the first book in more than twenty-five years to chronicle in such meticulous detail the early years of the renowned automobile company.
Perfect for the more than 500,000 Porsche owners and the millions of Porsche enthusiasts, Porsche is a lively narrative of the cars and the people who created them.
Porsche: The Road from Zuffenhausen

Tristan Egolf

Tristan Egolf (1971-2005), the author of the cult classic novels "Lord of the Barnyard" and "Skirt and the Fiddle" was found dead in an apartment Saturday in Lancaster, Pa. Egolf's death by shotgun has been ruled a suicide by the Lancaster police. He was 33.
Tristan Egolf (1971-2005)

In the Hand of Dante

Deep inside the Vatican library, a priest discovers the rarest and most valuable art object ever found: the manuscript of "The Divine Comedy," written in Dante's own hand. Via Sicily, the manuscript makes its way from the priest to a mob boss in New York City, where a writer named Nick Tosches is called to authenticate the prize. For this writer, the temptation is too great: he steals the manuscript in a last-chance bid to have it all.
Nick Tosches

American Master Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is unquestionably America's most celebrated architect. In fact, his career was so long and his accomplishments so varied it can be difficult still to grasp the full range of Wright's achievement. In this new study, Wright scholar Kathryn Smith does just that, exploring the grace and beauty found in all facets of Wright's work
Frank Lloyd Wright

Enduring design

A text for architectural design studio courses, geared to inspire design ideas and to help students understand the energy consequence of design decisions. Concentrates on the analysis of sun, wind, and light resources of a particular site and climate.
Enduring Design

American Dream

American Dream documents the Houses at Sagaponac, a groundbreaking architecture project initiated by real estate developer Harry J. Brown. The project features homes designed by internationally recognized architects on a 10-acre site near the tip of Long Island.
American Dream: The Houses at Sagaponac

Paul Cézanne

Paul Cezanne was for the most part self-taught. Denied official recognition in Paris, he returned again and again to Provence to create his own style, largely independent of other artists' influence.
Paul Cezanne in Provence

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp's stature in history of art has grown steadily since the 1930's, largely because several artistic movements have embraced him as their founding father.
Marcel Duchamp