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Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) or ‘A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.’ The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though written in a...
Engels | 25 minuten (19 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Jiddu Krishnamurti Commentaries On Living 2
In this series of commentaries J. Krishnamurti, one of the great thinkers of our time, touches upon many human problems-our hopes, our fears, our illusions, our beliefs, our prejudices-and in the simplest language seems to pierce to their roots. ; The sheer simplicity is breathtaking. The reader is given, in one paragraph, often in one sentence, enough to keep him exploring, questioning, thinking for days. ; -Anne Morrow Lindbergh. ; The insight, spiritual and poetic, of these commentaries is as...
Engels | PDF, 1,3 MB | Krishnamurti Foundation America, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Jiddu Krishnamurti Commentaries On Living 1
In this series of commentaries J. Krishnamurti, one of the great thinkers of our time, touches upon many human problems-our hopes, our fears, our illusions, our beliefs, our prejudices-and in the simplest language seems to pierce to their roots. ; The sheer simplicity is breathtaking. The reader is given, in one paragraph, often in one sentence, enough to keep him exploring, questioning, thinking for days. ; -Anne Morrow Lindbergh. ; The insight, spiritual and poetic, of these commentaries is as...
Engels | PDF, 1,3 MB | Krishnamurti Foundation America, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Jiddu Krishnamurti Social Responsibility
In this incredibly penetrating talk, Krishnamurti describes the psychological pressures of life and how these pressures affect right living: We were saying that any form of pressure on the brain affects our whole way of life. We were also saying that this pressure affects our activities, our attitudes, our character, and our way of living. The pressure--economic, social, ethical, and religious--invariably distorts not only our actions but the quality of the brain ... ideals affect, oppress, and act...
Engels | PDF, 1,1 MB | Krishnamurti Foundation America, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Jiddu Krishnamurti Why Do You Live With Stress
In this incredibly penetrating talk, Krishnamurti describes the psychological pressures of life and how these pressures affect right living: ; We were saying that any form of pressure on the brain affects our whole way of life. We were also saying that this pressure affects our activities, our attitudes, our character, and our way of living. The pressure - economic, social, ethical, and religious - invariably distorts not only our actions but the quality of the brain ... ideals affect, oppress, and...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Krishnamurti Foundation America, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Alan Murray Astro-Navigation From Square One To Ocean Master
Astro-navigation from Square One to Ocean-master begins at the very beginning of this relatively complex subject and progresses logically through all the required; astro skills; . Each new concept builds on UNDERSTANDING with no; learning by rote; . A 130-word glossary, 160 diagrams and 40 worked examples, all using 2011 Sun, Moon, planet and star data, are contained in 308 pages. The parts relevant to the RYA Yachtmaster Ocean syllabus are identified. In nine sections the book begins with the basic...
Engels | ePub2, 4,3 MB | New Generation Publishing, [Nederland] | 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
Dries van den Akker | Paul Begheyn Johannes Vermeer en de jezuïeten in Delft
Johannes Vermeer en zijn relatie tot de Delftse jezuïeten.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 147 pagina's | Adveniat, Baarn | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Mark Manson The subtle art of not giving a fuck
a counterintuitive approach to living a good life
Betoog over het goede leven: je hoeft niet altijd positief te zijn, maar in plaats daarvan moet je jouw tekortkomingen en de tegenslagen in het leven onder ogen zien en daarmee leren leven.
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Engels | 206 pagina's | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, NY | 2016
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Desiderius Erasmus Collected works of Erasmus; correspondence of Erasmus
Non-fictie
Engels | 391 pagina's | University of Toronto Press, Toronto | 2016
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Paul van der Velde Sundarīkathā
het verhaal van Sundarī, schoonzus van de Boeddha
Verhaal in proza en poëzie over Boeddha en het leven van de schoonzus van Boeddha met bijpassende schilderijen en tekeningen. Volledige tekst ook in het Engels, Sanskriet en in Devanagari-script.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 192 pagina's | Damon, [Budel] | 2016
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Christine Christ-v. Wedel Erasmus of Rotterdam
advocate of a new Christianity
"This book provides the first analysis of the development of Erasmus' historical methodology and its impact on Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians. Combining a biography of Erasmus with the larger theological debates and the intellectual history of his time, Christine Christ-von Wedel reveals many of previously unexplored influences on Erasmus, as well as his influences on his contemporaries. Erasmus of Rotterdam is a revised and considerably enlarged translation of Christ-von Wedel's well-received...
Non-fictie
Engels | 374 pagina's | University of Toronto Press, Toronto | 2013
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Peter Adamson Philosophy in the Islamic world
Non-fictie
Engels | 511 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2018
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Peter Singer Ethics in the real world
90 essays on things that matter
"In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whether chimpanzees are people, smoking should be outlawed, or consensual sex between adult siblings should be decriminalized, and he reiterates his case against the idea that all human life is sacred, applying...
Non-fictie
Engels | 464 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey | 2023
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Heather Havrilesky How to be a person in the world
Ask Polly's guide through the paradoxes of modern life
Een bundeling van adviescolumns waarvan een deel eerder is gepubliceerd onder de naam ‘Ask Polly’, met onderwerpen als eenzaamheid, vreemdgaan, familieruzies, onzekerheid, rouw en relatieproblemen.
Non-fictie
Engels | 258 pagina's | Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York | 2017
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Early Greek philosophy
Engels | 257 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England | 2016
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Early Greek philosophy
Oudgrieks (tot 1453) | Engels | 559 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England | 2016
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Early Greek philosophy
Oudgrieks (tot 1453) | Engels | 365 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England | 2016
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Early Greek philosophy
Oudgrieks (tot 1453) | Engels | 435 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England | 2016
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Early Greek philosophy
Oudgrieks (tot 1453) | Engels | 337 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England | 2016
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