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Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and, on behalf of 68 million compatriots, announced the birth of a new nation. With the …
Against Elections
Democracy is in bad health. This book offers a new diagnosis - and an ancient remedy. It shows that the original purpose of elections was to exclude the people from power by …
Congo: The Epic History of a People
From the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the …
S: Gert Jochems
*Intensive and innovative series on sexuality in Flanders*Includes an essay This is no dawn | Dit is geen dageraad by author David Van Reybrouck*Gert Jochems has been selected as …
The First World War
A century after it began, we still struggle with the terrible reality of the First World War, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the …
From Primitives to Primates
Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this fascinating in-depth study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates how input from ethnography and primatology has deeply …
Against Elections
A small book with great weight and urgency to it, this is both a history of democracy and a clarion call for change. "Without drastic adjustment, this system cannot last much …
Jihad for Love
Mohamed El-Bachiri is a Muslim. He lost his wife Loubna in the Brussels bombing of March 2016 a young woman murdered by a fanatical jihadist. Mohamed was left to bring up their …