This guide offers you an overview of the rich history of Amsterdam. Get acquainted with the Dutch capital throughout the ages and learn how Amsterdam developed from a swampy settlement into a trade center of global proportions. The glory days of the Golden Age will be discussed, as well as some black pages from Amsterdam's history, such as slavery, the persecution of Jews during World War II and the Bijlmer disaster.
It might be for a contract worth millions of dollars or just for your kid's allowance. Whether you like it or not, you negotiate every day of your life.But do you really know what you are doing? Do you know the rules of the game, or are you just winging it? After a deal has been struck, most people feel like they got the short-end of the stick, or sometimes like they have been cheated or tricked.Expert negotiator George van Houtem teaches in a step-by-step approach the tricks of the trade.
Rudolf M. Dekker, Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK 2001
The humorous side of Dutch culture of the seventeenth century is obscured by a change that took place around 1670. Religious treatises and books of manners warning against laughter contributed to a new image, that of the humourless, Calvinist Dutch. Mainly based on a manuscript with some two thousand jokes, the lost laughter of the Golden Age is reconstructed and analyzed. Most jokes are crude and obscene, and they throw new light on attitudes towards sexuality, religion and other aspects of life.
