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John Seymour De gulheid van het land
Leven in harmonie met de natuur
De gulheid van het land is de vertaling van The Fat of the Land, het baanbrekende boek uit 1961 van de Britse auteur en ecologische pionier John Seymour (1914-2004), die opkwam voor een eenvoudig leven, wat zestig jaar later nog steeds actueel is. In De gulheid van het land vertelt John Seymour op aanstekelijke wijze hoe hij en zijn vrouw Sally, een pottenbakster met wie hij in 1954 was getrouwd, en hun drie jonge dochters zich op een boerderij in Suffolk vestigen en een leven beginnen dat volledig...
Nederlands | 280 pagina's (ePub2, 6,6 MB) | Oevers, Zaandam | 2023
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Leentje Lybaert Roger
wat het leven mij leerde
Roger Lybaert (1931), ex-militair en Vlaanderens bekendste rusthuisbewoner, schreef zich in coronatijd de eeuwigheid in. Via een open brief stelde hij de beperkte vrijheid van de rusthuisbewoners aan de kaak. Zowat elk tv-programma, krant of magazine liet hem aan het woord. Dochter Leentje maakte een documentaire over haar vader en schreef zijn verhaal neer. In dit boek vertelt Roger openhartig over zijn leven en over wat hem gevormd heeft tot de kranige man die hij is. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Non-fictie
Nederlands | ePub2, 7,3 MB | Manteau, Antwerpen | 2021
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Dorien Groot Blij
fragmentenbundel over wakker worden en andere aardse zaken
Op twintigjarige leeftijd werd Dorien Groot (1962) opgenomen vanwege anorexia. Drie maanden later verliet ze het ziekenhuis; een ervaring rijker, een illusie armer. Crisisinterventie, zo noemde ze het. Het proces van heling en eenwording leek te zijn begonnen met een valse start. Hoe heeft zij het tij in haar leven gekeerd? Hoe lukte het haar om haar verdriet om te zetten in vreugde en zich weer BLIJ te voelen? Op een inspirerende, openhartige en indringende wijze beschrijft Dorien haar levensreis...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | Paris Books, Bodegraven | 2020
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Lex Meulenbroek DNA zoekmachine
databanken en hun slagkracht bij opsporing en identificatie
DNA-Zoekmachine - Het boek over DNA Databanken, de werkwijze én toekomst van een onmisbaar opsporings- en identificatiemiddel. Wat is de rol van de DNA-databanken bij zaken zoals de moord op Anne Faber, de identificatie van de ruim vijftig jaar vermiste visser Arie van der Plas en de ontmaskering van de Amerikaanse seriemoordenaar de 'Golden State Killer'? Lex Meulenbroek, DNA-deskundige bij het NFI, neemt de lezer in zijn nieuwe boek DNA Zoekmachine mee in de mogelijkheden en ontwikkelingen van...
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Nederlands | 400 pagina's (ePub3, 5,2 MB) | Bertram+de Leeuw Uitgevers, [Haarlem] | 2021
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Flip van Doorn | Jonah Kahn Hoeveel poten heeft een octopus?
het grote boek van de nutteloze kennis
Het belang van nutteloze kennis valt nauwelijks te overschatten. Navelpluis migreert opwaarts, een bruinvis is bruin noch vis, de langste marathon ooit duurde 54 jaar, 8 maanden, 6 dagen, 5 uur, 32 minuten en 20 seconden. Het zijn wetenswaardigheden waaraan we ons kunnen laven als we even willen ontsnappen aan een wereld die ons permanent bestookt met gewichtige informatie. Nutteloze kennis komt niet alleen van pas bij een pubquiz, een potje Triviant of een televisiespelletje. Het biedt een kijkje...
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Nederlands | 336 pagina's (ePub2) | Thomas Rap, Amsterdam | 2019
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Manage projects successfully
"Juggling all the tasks and resources you need to make a project run smoothly can seem like an onerous task, but Manage Projects Successfully will help you do just that. Practical,easy to read and jargon-free, the book contains a quiz to assessstrengths and weaknesses, step-by-step guidance and action points, toptips to bear in mind for the future, common mistakes and advice on howto avoid them, summaries of key points, and lists of the best sourcesof further help."
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,4 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Harry Patch | Richard Van Emden The last fighting Tommy
"Harry Patch, the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict.Harry vividly remembers his childhood in the Somerset countryside of Edwardian England. He left school in 1913 to become an apprentice plumber but three years later was conscripted, serving as a machine gunner in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Fighting in the mud and trenches during the Battle of Passchendaele, he...
Engels | 256 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Chitrita Banerji Eating India
"In Eating India, the award-winning writer Chitrita Banerji takes us on a thrilling journey through a national food formed by generations of arrivals, assimilations and conquests. In mouth-watering prose, she explores how each wave of newcomers brought innovative new ways to combine the subcontinent's rich native spices, poppy seeds, saffron and mustard with the vegetables, fish, grains and pulses that are the staples of the Indian kitchen. Along the way, she visits traditional weddings, tiffin rooms,...
Engels | 3,2 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Philip Dwyer Citizen emperor
"Napoleon's legend is so persistent that it confounds the historical reality in the popular imagination. He himself contributed much towards the construction of his own myth, from his youth even until after he fell from power, when, while in exile, he dictated his memoirs to a group of disciples who took down his every word in the hope that his version of history would prevail. Such were Napoleon's skills as a chronicler that much of the legend is still unquestioningly accepted...'This second volume...
Engels | 816 pagina's (3,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Manage teams successfully
"Managing just one person can be difficult enough, but pulling together a team of people can be tricky even for experienced leaders. This book helps you create an effective team that can really get things done. It helps you form a good team in the first place, deal with tensions that may arise, communicate well, and motivate team members towards your overall goal.Most of us have to work with other people for some or most of our day. If you're a project manager in particular, you'll need to be able...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Get that job
CVs
"The job market has never been more competitive, and marketingyourself can be tricky. This title offers practical, step-by-stepadvice on preparing, writing, and presenting an impressive CV that willhelp you 'get your foot in the door' with prospective employers. Covering essential issues such as identifying your goals, creatingdifferent types of CV and a fantastic covering letter to go with them,this is a must-read for all job-hunters."
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,3 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Hannah Evans MOB rule
"You know you've joined the MOB when you hear... 'My, are they all yours?' 'Bless you!' (Occasionally) 'Poor you!' (Frequently) 'Lucky you!' (Once) And of course, the ultimate: 'So ... are you going for a girl?' Hannah Evans has three small boys. In her world, farting is so much more interesting than phonics, dam-building trumps damsels in distress any day and, astonishingly, she now instinctively knows the difference between a Frontloader and a JCB. It's a world of mud and just occasionally blood...
Engels | 288 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Susannah Clapp A Card from Angela Carter
"Angela Carter was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century: much studied, copied and adored. When she died at the age of fifty-one, she had published fifteen books of fiction and essays; outrage at her omission from the shortlists of any Booker Prize led to the foundation of the Orange Prize. February 2012 will be the twentieth anniversary of her death but no biographical work has yet appeared.Susannah Clapp and Angela Carter were friends for years. The postcards that Carter sent to...
Engels | 112 pagina's (1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Tom Standage Writing on the wall
"Today we are endlessly connected: constantly tweeting, texting or e-mailing. This may seem unprecedented, yet it is not. Throughout history, information has been spread through social networks, with far-reaching social and political effects. Writing on the Wall reveals how an elaborate network of letter exchanges forewarned of power shifts in Ciceros Rome, while the torrent of tracts circulating in sixteenth-century Germany triggered the Reformation. Standage traces the story of the rise, fall and...
Engels | 288 pagina's (3,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Peter Clarke Mr Churchill's profession
"In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work that occupied Churchill for a quarter century, his four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples.As an author, Churchill faced woes familiar to many others; chronically short of funds, late on deadlines,...
Engels | 368 pagina's (3,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Michael Dobbs Down with Big Brother
"The author of this volume was present during the final decade of the Soviet empire, first for Reuters, then for the "Washington Post". While Dobbs watched, playwrights and elctricians were transformed into presidents, while Communist Party leaders became jailbirds or newly-minted tycoons. He identifies the seeds of destruction, and shows how Mikhail Gorbachev, in particular, was the unwitting inspiration for the upheaval of the empire, while he thought he could save the Communist Party by reforming...
Engels | 513 pagina's (3,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Keith Jeffery MI6
"A groundbreaking book, this unprecedented study is the authoritative account of the best-known intelligence organisation in the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of espionage, the two world wars, modern British government and the conduct of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 is a uniquely important examination of the role and significance of intelligence in the modern world."
Engels | 864 pagina's (8,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Harry Eyres Horace and me
"Horace lived at a pivotal moment. Rome was facing a profound crisis: though it ruled the world, the values which had made it great were disintegrating. As efficiency and pragmatism became watchwords, Horace championed the `supremely useless endeavour of poetry, and glorified friendship and wine. Horace and Me charts Harry Eyres evolving relationship with the Latin poet to show how, in an era of affluence and excess which seems to be hurtling out of control, Horace can help us navigate our way in...
Engels | 256 pagina's (2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Suzanne Braun Levine The woman's guide to second adulthood
"Second Adulthood is a new stage of life for women over fifty. The first generation of socially emancipated women have reached an important frontier; they have fulfilled all their roles - daughter, wife, mother, career woman. Yet with longer life expectancy and better health they have no intention of retiring from the world. At the same time these women are experiencing an often bewildering array of physical readjustments: their brains experience a growth very similar to that in adolescence, they...
Engels | 272 pagina's (2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Jack Beatty The lost history of 1914
"In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty examines the First World War and its causes, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. 'Most books set in 1914 map the path leading to war,' Beatty writes, 'this one maps the multiple paths that led away from it.' Radically challenging the standard account of the war's outbreak, Beatty presents the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand not as the catalyst of a war that would have broken out in any event over some...
Engels | 400 pagina's (3,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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