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Wilma van Giersbergen | René Spork The little history of Rotterdam for dummies
Beknopte geschiedenis van Rotterdam.
Non-fictie
Engels | 107 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Voor Dummies, Amersfoort | 2016
E-book
Re:Thinking Europe
thoughts on Europe: past, present and future
What are the characteristics of European culture and identity? In which way can culture contribute to the current crisis of meaning within the EU and Europe? And should we return to the discourse of culture and historical experience in order to find a common ground for Europe? In the run-up to the Forum we will publish an anthology on these urgent questions. A host of prominent and influential thinkers such as political scientist Ivan Krastev and historians Philipp Blom and Adam Zamoyski have been...
Non-fictie
Engels | 318 pagina's (PDF, 1,9 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Joes Segal Art and politics
between purity and propaganda
At first glance, art and politics seem like they couldn't be more separate, with politics focused on the grubbiness of everyday reality and art busily creating a fantasy world of creative expression. Yet the two realms frequently come together, and the collision can be fiery. This book explores the position of art and artists under a number of different political regimes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, traveling around the world to consider how art and politics have interacted and influenced...
Non-fictie
Engels | 126 pagina's (ePub2, 8,9 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
W.F. Denslagen Observations on urban aesthetics
London, Paris and New York
London, Paris and New York were each designated as 'capital of the world' in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Besides their cultural importance, they were also admired for their beauty. How travellers described these cityscapes is the theme of this book. Why is it interesting to look at these cities through the eyes of travellers from the past who visited places, which have changed over time? Well, firstly, because if you always restrict your views on architecture by only looking...
Non-fictie
Engels | 156 pagina's (ePub2, 22 MB) | U2pi, Voorburg | 2016
E-book
Vincent Vermeulen What we can learn from the butler
Waarom zijn butlers zo'n innemende, correcte personen die altijd klaar staan en nooit een steek laten vallen? Omdat dat hun beroep is, zegt u? Fout: in de allereerste plaats is het een levenswijze, een constant het-beste van jezelf vragen. Ze gebruiken daarvoor technieken die ieder van ons kan aanleren. Want zeg nu zelf, zijn we niet allemaal toe aan verbetering? In dit boek leert Vincent Vermeulen, ervaren butler en directeur van de 'School for Butlers & Hospitality', hoe kennis over etiquette,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, Ghent | 2016
E-book
Jim Morris | Sylla Pahladsingh The eight great beacons of cultural awareness
navigating the cultural landscape
The book that you are holding is the indispensable guide to cultural awareness. Are you working in an international environment, with people from different countries? Working internationally requires specific competences and relationship skills. Getting to know other cultures can be fun and enlightening. Yet, at times, you might find communication challenging and puzzling, sensing emotions and observing reactions that more often deal with the deeper level of culture. Despite our good intentions,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 144 pagina's (PDF, 4,2 MB) | Thema, Zaltbommel | 2016
E-book
Berthold Gunster Omdenken
the Dutch art of flip-thinking
This practical booklet shows what flip-thinking means and how to do it. To flip through, to come up with ideas, to be put on the wrong track and especially to trigger your own creative ability. In short, look, think and - particularly - create. Berthold Gunster (1959) is the founding father of 'Omdenken', the Dutch art of flip-thinking. He has written several bestselling books about his ideas. With his team of actors and trainers he performs inspiring shows and workshops in both Dutch and English....
Non-fictie
Engels | 64 pagina's (ePub) | Lev., Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
ICY and SOT Let her be free
ICY and SOT, stencil artists from Iran 2006-2015
ICY (born 1985) and SOT (born 1991) are refuge stencil artists from Tabriz, Iran, currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. Since 2006, the two brothers have contributed to Iranian and international urban art culture through their striking stencil work that depicting human rights, ecological justice, social and political issues. Their work appears on walls and galleries throughout the Iran, USA, Germany, China, Norway, and globally.They transcend their histories of artistic and political censorship...
Non-fictie
Engels | 264 pagina's (ePub3, 66 MB) | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Jacqueline den Breejen Midnight train
“Oh no, wait! The train! The midnight train! The midnight train from Moingona! It’s coming here. At 12 o’clock. It’s coming to Honey Creek. The midnight train will crash in Honey Creek! I must stop the midnight train!” July 6, 1881, at 11:00, by Honey Creek, Iowa (USA). A storm, a bridge, a crash. A train that is coming. And a 16-year-old girl. Can Kate Shelley stop the midnight train? Een waargebeurd verhaal. Geschikt voor 8 tot12-jarigen met een basiskennis van Engels. Voor gebruik op school of...
Fictie | Non-fictie
Engels | 10 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | De Banier Bv, Apeldoorn | 2016
E-book
Dimitri Verhulst Spoo Pee Doo
Europe is burning, while we casually order another drink. Do we defend our freedoms or our appetite? On the clash of religious fanaticism and freedom, from whatever. Terror isn't blind, in fact it has its sights set on what the West has built. Europe shakes and trembles, feels suddenly transported by a revival of religious fanaticism back to an age that seemed to have been put to bed forever. Did we feed those monsters ourselves? The urgent need for answers and solutions meets no response. Despite...
Fictie
Engels | 93 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Danielle Steel Rushing waters
De bewoners van New York krijgen orkaan Orphelia te verwerken; het merendeel evacueert maar sommige weigeren dat.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Engels | ePub3, 1,4 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
E-book
Fiona Field Civvy street
Als een legerofficier wordt ontslagen, moeten hij en zijn gezin zich handhaven buiten de veilige omgeving van de kazerne. Ook de achterblijvende collega's en hun vrouwen hebben zo hun zorgen.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 453 pagina's | Head of Zeus, London | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Carolyn Parkhurst Harmony
Een Amerikaans gezin met een 13-jarige autistische dochter gaat deelnemen aan een kamp dat uitgaat van een nieuwe benadering van autisme.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | Sceptre, London | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Kanako | Antony Johnston Scorpia
the graphic novel
Ballonstrip. Alex sluit zich, net als zijn vader vroeger, aan bij de misdaadorganisatie Scorpia en belandt in een huiveringwekkend avontuur dat zich grotendeels afspeelt in Venetië. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Stripverhaal
Engels | 176 pagina's | Walker Books, London | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Michelle Krys Dead Girls Society
Hope (ik-figuur), die door taaislijmziekte veel thuis zit, krijgt een uitnodiging om een duister spel te spelen. Ze moet uitvinden wie er achter het spel zit, voordat er doden vallen. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 292 pagina's | Delacorte Press, [New York, New York] | 2016
Gedrukt boek
BA Paris Behind closed doors
Nadat Grace getrouwd is met de charmante, elegante Jack blijkt hij een sadistische psychopaat te zijn die haar zo perfect gevangen houdt dat ontsnappen onmogelijk lijkt; Jack heeft het ook gemunt op haar zusje Millie, een meisje met het syndroom van Down.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 384 pagina's (ePub, 0,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Simone van der Vlugt Midnight Blue
Amsterdam 1654: a dangerous secret threatens to destroy a young widow's new life. Following the sudden death of her husband, twenty-five year old Catrin leaves her small village and takes a job as housekeeper to the successful Van Nulandt merchant family. Amsterdam is a city at the peak of its powers: science and art are flourishing in the Golden Age and Dutch ships bring back exotic riches from the Far East. When a figure from her past threatens her new life, Catrin flees to Delft. There, her painting...
Engels | ePub2, 1,8 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2017
E-book
P.K. Lynch Armadillos
Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'P. K. Lynch can tell a story deep as a wound... Read this one' -- Jeanette Winterson'A truly stunning debut' -- Matt Bendoris, The Scottish Sun'Just wonderful, haunting, real... ' -- Fiona Shaw'... a brilliant first novel: pacy and un-put-downable. ' -- Vicky Feaver**Featured on Radio 4's Woman's Hour**Aggie is fifteen, a 'sub' from a 'sub' family, one of Texas' downtrodden. Her father and brother enact that 'sub'-ness on her, week in, week out....
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Elizabeth Strout My Name Is Lucy Barton
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge
*A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE AND THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION*An exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge Lucy is recovering from an operation in a New York hospital when she wakes to find her estranged mother sitting by her bed. They have not seen one another in years. As they talk Lucy finds herself recalling her troubled rural childhood and how it was she eventually arrived in the big city,...
Engels | ePub3, 1 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Christopher Edge The Many Worlds of Albie Bright
When Albie's mum dies, it's natural he should wonder where she's gone. His parents are both scientists and they usually have all the answers. Dad mutters something about Albie's mum being alive and with them in a parallel universe. So Albie finds a box, his mum's computer and a rotting banana, and sends himself through time and space to find her...Quality commercial fiction, well written with real heart and adventure. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 300 pagina's (ePub2, 2,5 MB) | Nosy Crow, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book