12 Moments from Their Lives. Bittersweet, deeply nostalgic, and sometimes laced with humor, Puchka in the Polder is a collection of real-life narratives, about life, love, and the quiet ache of memories. More than just a reflection on identity, belonging, and the passage of time, it is about embraci...

In this survey of the Dutch political culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Piet de Rooy reveals that the 'polder model' often used to describe economic and social policymaking based on consensus is a myth. Instead, modern political culture in the Dutch Low Countries began with a revolu...

Casimir effects serve as primary examples of directly observable manifestations of the nontrivial properties of quantum fields, and as such are attracting increasing interest from quantum field theorists, particle physicists, and cosmologists. Furthermore, though very weak except at short distances,...

[About the Book] — A Japanese Man Falls in Love with the “King of Instruments” — Often referred to as the largest musical instrument in the world, the pipe organ boasts a vast range and a volume that rivals even a full orchestra. Once stationed in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as the principal...

According to his contract, the old man has five months to sit on his bench and reminisce about his childhood, but all that comes out are curious stories--about leprous dominos, amorous concrete towers, chaste call girls, and more. In other words: the old man twaddles on and on. A virtuoso novel that...

Bringing together a rich and diverse collection of 100 historical maps from the Paleolithic to the present, The Oxford Map Companion: One Hundred Sources in World History illustrates how peoples and cultures throughout the human past have imagined their worlds. The collection--which includes many ...

From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Srebrenica in search of evidence and witnesses of the last hundred years o...

Please Note The individual books included in this listing will be dispatched as per the original UK ISBN and UK edition cover image shown—are included in the Felicity Cloake Collection 3 Books Set (Peach Street to Lobster Lane, One More Croissant for the Road & Red Sauce Brown Sauce): Peach Stree...

The only world atlas updated annually, guaranteeing that users will find the most current geographic information, Oxford's Atlas of the World is the most authoritative atlas on the market. Full of crisp, clear cartography of urban areas and virtually uninhabited landscapes around the globe, the At...