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Over schoonheid - Zadie SmithDe Engelsman Howard Belsey is hoogleraar aan een Amerikaanse universiteit. Hij werkt al jaren aan een boek over Rembrandt, dat hij waarschijnlijk nooit zal voltooien. Nadat Howard een desastreuze affaire heeft gehad met een collega, vertrekt zijn oudste zoon Jerome naar Engeland. Jerome verloochent zijn vader door te gaan werken voor diens aartsrivaal, de conservatieve academicus Monty Kipps, die bovendien aanzienlijk succesvoller is dan Howard. De

De Engelsman Howard Belsey is hoogleraar aan een Amerikaanse universiteit. Hij werkt al jaren aan een boek over Rembrandt, dat hij waarschijnlijk nooit zal voltooien. Nadat Howard een desastreuze affaire heeft gehad met een collega, vertrekt zijn oudste zoon Jerome naar Engeland. Jerome verloochent zijn vader door te gaan werken voor diens aartsrivaal, de conservatieve academicus Monty Kipps, die bovendien aanzienlijk succesvoller is dan Howard. De situatie wordt ondraaglijk wanneer zijn vrouw achter zijn overspel komt en Jerome verliefd wordt op Kipps’ mooie, maar wispelturige dochter. In Over schoonheid portretteert Zadie Smith op overrompelende wijze het moderne familieleven, de botsing tussen het persoonlijke en het politieke, de problematiek van een multiculturele maatschappij en de misvattingen die mensen over zichzelf en elkaar hebben.

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A quick but thoughtful read. This book is great to share with friends and an excellent conversation starter without being exactly political, in the negative sense of the word. Inspires constructive conversation regardless of your background.
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Short yet concise argument for ending wars.
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John Matlock
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It's How Wars End That Become Important Afterward
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The twentiety century taught us a lot about wars and how they end. World War I showed us that making strong demands on the defeated (who didn't admit defeat to their own people) set the stage for the next big war. World War II was fought until the Unconditional Surrender of the Germans and Japanese. Something that thinkers still debate as having made them fight all that harder. VietNam was fought with no clear end in sight, and "another VietNam" entered our language. The first Gulf War was ended when Colin Powell and Bush II debated how to end the war. They stopped before they had to go in and see what the Sunni's, Shiite's and Kurds made of the power vacuum left by the removal of Saddam would have created. Bush II is learning about this now. This is the second revised edition of this book, originally published in 1971 and then updated in 1991 and now 2005 to reflect happenings in new wars. Still some of the old wars had interesting insights that I didn't know before, such as how Finland, originally on Germany's side against Russia, made a peace with Russia and kicked the Germans out before they became a Russian province. Great Book.
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César González Rouco
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Complementary readings
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There are already three good reviews so I will only suggest reading the following books instead of, or in addition to, this peculiar work: a) "War in human civilization" by Azar Gat; b) "War before Civilization. The Myth of the Peaceful Savage", by Lawrence Keeley; c) "How War Began" by Keith F. Otterbein; d) "War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires" by Peter Turchin; and e) "War and the Law of Nations: A General History" by Stephen Neff.
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