All golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth; yet no two are the same. Their beliefs, societies and place in the wider world all vary. Despite this, all previous golden ages have ended, whether it be because of external pressures or internal fracturing; too much hubris or too little wariness. Looking at seven of humanity's greatest civilizations - ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid ...

«Bedtime Stories Book For Kids», by Johan, Ariyan. This digital edition brings together the text and its chapter structure for continuous reading. Contents include: The Sad Little Prince ; The Wolf, The Fox, And The Toad ; Around The Moon ; The Moon's Embrace ; Mother's Longing.

A memoir, a set of psychospiritual maps, and a year-long practice for anyone whose faith has outgrown its old container.Johan Tredoux grew up in apartheid-era South Africa, formed by Dutch Reformed and then Nazarene Christianity and by a theology that made God's love something to be earned. He became a senior pastor. He also began to lose the certainties that made the work possible. What followed was deconstruction, vocational loss, grief, and a slow reconstruction...

An essential reference for all game designers, this 1938 classic is “a fascinating account of ‘man the player’ and the contribution of play to civilization” (Harper’s).In this classic evaluation of play that has become a “must-read” for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits. Starting wit...

A passionate defense of free markets in an era of global uncertainty.Marx and Engels recognized capitalism's power to create prosperity. Today, global capitalism faces accusations of fueling inequality and climate change. Populists call for trade barriers and nationalization, but Johan Norberg argues that these measures would harm the vulnerable.In this incisive investigation, Norberg makes the case for capitalism and the free market. He explains the vital ...

About a century ago the most famous Dutchman of his day passed away. Apart from Queen Wilhelmina, he was the only Netherlander to make the front page of the New York Times. Abraham Kuyper (1837−1920), a child prodigy, was once called a man with “ten heads and a hundred arms,” and in 1906 was chosen as the most popular man next to the most stalwart woman, the young queen.This book traces seven of Kuyper’s colorful lives. First comes the adventurer: a mountaineer and world t...

In this “haunting and lyrical” (The Guardian) Nordic noir thriller, a runaway bestseller in Sweden, a woman haunted by her son’s disappearance is plunged into a mystery that reaches well beyond her own haunting tragedy—into the shadows cast by a killer.“A splashy debut . . . with some mind-bending twists near the end.”—Houston ChronicleWINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION’S JOHN CREASEY MEMORIAL AWARD

"Here is the first full translation into English of one of the twentieth century's few undoubted classics of history." — The Washington Post Book WorldThe Autumn of the Middle Ages is Johan Huizinga's classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the only previous transl...

Steppenwolf Press presents Johan Huizinga’s The Waning of the Middle Ages, a seminal exploration of the cultural and intellectual life of late medieval Europe. With unparalleled insight and eloquence, Huizinga transports readers to the twilight of the Middle Ages, where the vivid pageantry of chivalry and courtly life begins to give way to the complexities of modernity.Drawing on art, literature, and historical records, Huizinga examines the vibrant yet often contradictory ...

The economic operating system keeps crashing. It’s time to upgrade to a new one.Five decades ago, The Limits to Growth shocked the world by showing that population and industrial growth were pushing humanity towards a cliff. Today the world recognizes that we are now at the cliff edge: Earth has crossed multiple planetary boundaries while widespread inequality is causing deep instabilities in societies. There seems to be no way out.Earth For Al...

In 2012 retired South African general Johan Jooste was parachuted into the seemingly unwinnable war against rhino poaching in the Kruger National Park.With poaching spiralling out of control, Jooste was given the mandate to ‘go military’, to convert Kruger’s ranger corps into a para-military force capable of taking the fight to the poachers.Aged 60, white, and a veteran of 35 years' military service, Jooste’s controversial appointment was immediately met with resentment and o...

Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas or people - has led to stunning achievements in science, technology and culture. As a result, we live at a time of unprecedented wealth and opportunity. So why are we so intent on ruining it? From Stone Age hunter-gatherers to contemporary Chinese-American relations, Open explores how across time and cultures, we have struggled with a constant tension between our yearni...