European Car 2018

It's about the concepts and stories we invent to understand our experienced reality and feel like we matter somehow, and about the fluid and sometimes contradictory nature of these stories. Like the concept of romantic love, for example. Is this actually a thing? Sometimes it seems so tangible it becomes my whole world, other times I'm convinced it's just a scam I keep falling for. Both of these sentiments feel equally true at different times. The same with politics and identity. When I'm in the Netherlands I don't really pay much attention to being "Dutch" or "European", and I think politicians who focus on a shared Dutch culture are lame at best and dangerous at worst.

This book examines the role of cars and the space connected with their production and presentation in tourism development. It describes the role played by experiences and experience societies formed in the 20th c. in the development of contemporary tourism, including tourism related to cars.

Bugatti - a name that's synonymous with records, speed and aesthetic shapes. We tell the story of a family of passionates. Father Carlo Bugatti was a painter, designer and architect who designed extravagant furniture for European dynasties at the end of the 19th century. He initially had different plans for his sons: Ettore was to become an artist and Rembrandt an engineer. But things didn't quite turn out that way: Ettore built technical masterpieces, his brother Rembrandt, who took his own life in World War One, produced sculptures, especially animal sculptures cast in bronze, that were no less spectacular.

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. Jazz is seen by many as "America's classical music". Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage with a performance orientation.

Simon Reeve embarks on an extraordinary four-part journey around the Mediterranean, uncovering the wild extremes that lie behind the tourist veneer.