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Title This preview of the new best-selling non-fiction book 'Dutch Sense - the uncommon sense' (ISBN 9080245763 & 9789080245761), shows that the book is full of insight. The first publication and three reprints of this exciting 280-page book (ISBN 9080245739) were sold out two years ago. That prompted this 420-page second edition, with surprising new revelations about Dutch roots, their ways, their lost tribes, Dutch origins of the English language and of American culture, and much more, as the following extract indicates.
"Right in the vomit of the sea they live, like the otters, badgers and rabbits that gave one of their ancestral tribes its name 'Cananefaten', meaning 'Rabbit-catchers', as the Romans called the indigenous people of today's Dutch province of Holland. Overly excited and deluded by the colour of orange which they cannot grow, ruled by an essentially German monarch with a French title that has long been lost, they now wrongly call themselves Germanic because their tongue is, having lost all sense of who their ancestors really were and where they came from; victims of massive Roman-inflicted genocide. ....... These indigenes won not only the fight in mud and silt, they also won the heart of the world with flowers, fruits, drinks and food they took from others as if their own. They squeeze rivers of milk out of a cow, and money out of even shit and the wind, with schemes no genius can decipher. They'll sell God or smuggle Him into your mind, even while you are fully awake, just to indulge your buying spirit. Yet you won't even suspect they did. Such are the Dutch and their slickness at home, at work, in trade, in religious faith, in love, and in their leisure which, though it sounds 'gezellig', bears no relation to gazelles. .......Though few are their numbers, few other folks match their impact on your life and on the modern world as a whole. World language, world religion, world commerce and finance, world politics, but also your life as consumer, as worker, as parent or child, as patient, as fun-seeker, cannot escape their influence. Unknown to you, and often unknown to them too, you are fully in the grip of their commercial spirit. Their true story is mysterious like a fairy tale, except that every bit of it was and still is very real. Here is that story, with astounding facts about these elusive people, and most important how to understand and cope with them. .......This book provides vivid details of their lost ancestors, how they vanished, why their borrowed language blurs their present view of their past, and why family tradition disintegrated in their community, yielding apathy, which makes them collective easy preys of political manipulation by an elite artful in medieval tactics. This book also gives very useful account of the origins of the names of Dutch provinces and many cities, and unfolds the longer-term view of their social changes which they so badly often miss."
Apart from its good appeal to wide circles of general readers, and its useful course-book academic potential, this book has revelations that interest libraries, musea, tourist and travel advising bodies, embassies and universities, and certainly the makers of TV-documentaries on European and western heritage. More than any other book, this one shows the Dutch origin of Old English and the very word English, and the Christian source of the confusion about the Angles in Anglo-Saxon history. Most of all, it relates much of the uniqueness of Dutch social attitudes, achievements and culture to their peculiar history from pre-Roman to modern times. For foreigners, it provides ample guide to the origins of specific Dutch taboos to avoid, for more satisfactory living amidst the Dutch. For Dutch natives, it provides a rich reassessment of the roots of many of their practices, for more effective social and political awareness. Part-1 shows Dutch Sense, part-2 presents Dutch culture, social and family attitudes, Dutch corporate wheeling and dealing, 'Pillar' politics and Polder-Model. Part-3 gives the origins of Germanic languages, medieval processes behind West-European identities, pagan ways and barbarian roots of Christian traditions, Christmas, Easter, and of the names of the days of the week. Part-4 shows the international impacts of Dutch trade, foreign policy, colonial prowess and commercial zeal.
Depending on the terms we are able to arrange between you and the Factual Reality Library where the book was prepared, this second edition can be a profitable pride of your organisation. The lingual presentation is set to effectively reach the wider general reading public. The academic level is set to be consistent with university studies in the sociology and history of western culture (Anglo-Saxon and Dutch), using a Social Institutions approach, and bordering on ethics. Exciting additional material from new research on the Germanic folks and the Celtic tribes who laid the foundations for Dutch culture and mentality, have now been incorporated into the book.
You may also want to be involved in bringing out our other totally new book 'Civic Encyclopaedia of Surprising Origins of Words & Names of Places, Peoples, and Practices around the World with vivid insight into their meanings' (ISBN 9080245747). Yet another wholly new exciting non-fiction book 'Jolly Folly - modern wisdom or fashionable idiocy! Who's fooling who in our sapient world?' (ISBN 90-802457-5-5) is now being researched and developed. To buy or be involved in the sale, printing, translation or promotion of any of these books, do click . To top