Zoekresultaten
Resultaat 481 - 500 (van 4875)
Ellery Lloyd The Club
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and Instant New York Times Bestseller''Marple meets Succession'' – Sunday Times''If rich terrible people behaving appallingly is your jam then The Club is the book for you!'' – Marian KeyesThere’s no place like Home . . .The Home Group is a collection of ultra-exclusive private members'' clubs and a global phenomenon, and the opening of its most ambitious project yet – Island Home, a forgotten island transformed into the height of luxury – is billed...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | Mantle, [Nederland] | 2022
E-book
Karen Witemeyer A Texas Christmas Carol
2022 Carol Award WinnerFrom the talented pen of bestselling author Karen Witemeyer comes a charming Christmas novella inspired by the holiday classic The Christmas Carol.After the Panic of 1873 ruined his father and impoverished his family, Evan Beazer set a single life goal for himself--security. He would never allow joviality and dreams to send him to the poorhouse. Now a successful businessman, Evan runs a dozen inns throughout Texas from the privacy of his home, keeping locals away with the perpetual...
Engels | ePub3, 5,2 MB | Bethany House Publishers, [Nederland] | 2022
E-book
Sue Teddern The Pre-Loved Club
The uplifting rom-com we all need!
A gentle reminder love never gives up on anyone. A funny, charming, warm-hearted story to restore your faith in humanity'' - Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The AppealNed is in IKEA with his wife, Tanya, when she breaks the news that their marriage is over.For Gemma, it''s when she opens the glove compartment of her husband’s car to find a pair of women’s sunglasses that aren’t hers.When Ned and Gemma meet at a support group for single parents, they don''t exactly hit it off. Ned thinks...
Engels | ePub3, 2,5 MB | Mantle, [Nederland] | 2022
E-book
Philip Pullman The Subtle Knife
The Graphic Novel; His Dark Materials
Enter the remarkable world of His Dark Materials like never before with this stunning, full-colour graphic novel.Lyra has stepped into a brand-new world. Will has just killed a man.Their paths cross in Città gazze. In a city haunted by soul-eating Spectres, troops of angels and vengeful witches, they find in each other a welcome ally.Both are hoping to find something in this strange world: Lyra must discover the meaning of Dark Matter, while Will is desperately searching for his missing father.What...
Engels | ePub3, 127 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2022
E-book
Burton Jessie Burton The House of Fortune
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensational New York Times bestseller The Miniaturist, which has sold more than two million copies. In 1705 Amsterdam, Thea Brandt is coming of age, trying to grapple with her family''s secrets and her own identity as a young Dutch-African woman. She''s drawn to the theater and an artistic life, but with her family in serious financial decline, pressure is on Thea to marry up in society. As her father and...
Engels | ePub3, 2,9 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2022
E-book
Lev Tolstoj War and Peace I
War & Peace
"I'm not looking for 'War and Peace'” is a modern way of saying "keep it short". However, "I am looking for 'War and Peace'" should be on our lips. Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece is a complete semester of Russian and French history, using the zoom button to focus on its impact on families from the aristocracy to the peasants. 'War and Peace I' introduces the five aristocratic families at the heart of the plot. It paints a picture of petty jealousy, pride and forbidden love in the Russian stately homes...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022
E-book
Bert Koene The world of our grandchildren
The future looks brighter than most people think! That is the conclusion of this book after a thorough investigation of present facts, trends and promises of science and technology. The world population will soon stop growing. The consequences of climate change will be far-reaching, but surmountable. Science and technology will, in the 21st century, make enormous progress. They are the shaping forces of the future. This book clearly explains the potential benefits and dangers of innovations from...
Engels | 220 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2015
E-book
Han Peeters The last prophet
In this exciting novel Emile van Straten, a historic scientist, is sailing around the world with his girlfriend Jenny on their sailing yacht the Davy Jones. During their journey UNESCO assigns him to investigate a document that was found on the island Terceira. Then Emile discovers the magical diamond, a tour de force in geometry. A mysterious symbol that turns out to be the key to the unravelling of world mysteries, such as the pyramids of Giza, the Nazca-plain in Peru and the mysterious Moai-statues...
Fictie
Engels | 230 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | ClusterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2016
E-book
States of emergency
architecture, urbanism, and the First World War
More than one hundred years after the conclusion of the First World War, the edited collection States of Emergency. Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War reassesses what that cataclysmic global conflict meant for architecture and urbanism from a human, social, economic, and cultural perspective. Chapters probe how underdevelopment and economic collapse manifested spatially, how military technologies were repurposed by civilians, and how cultures of education, care, and memory emerged from...
Non-fictie
Engels | 351 pagina's (PDF, 15 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Olga Smith Contemporary photography in France
between theory and practice
This compelling publication traces the broad arc of photography's development in France from the 1970s to the present day. A decade-by-decade account reveals unexpected points of convergence between practices that are not usually considered in a comparative perspective. These include photographic practices in contemporary art, documentary, photojournalism, and fashion. Author Olga Smith sets these practices in dialogue with French philosophy - the writings of Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 13 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Laurence Bollen | Mugisha Maisha Safari
The nature of humankind emits light
Mukisa was an inquisitive Muslim boy who was gradually brainwashed from when he was 8 years old to help recruit other children from the Kampala ghettos to become child soldiers. Mukisa has a close relationship with his mother Ayana and his true faith and refuses to accept the situation. When it becomes unbearable, escaping to Europe is his only option. This means leaving everything behind, including his mother and sisters. In Europe, he falls into the hands of human traffickers and is forced to sell...
Engels | 196 pagina's (ePub3, 0,9 MB) | Droomvallei Uitgeverij, Breda | 2022
E-book
The truths of psychoanalysis
Truth has always been a central philosophical category, occupying different fields of knowledge and practice. In the current moment of fake news and alternative facts, it is mandatory to revisit the various meanings of truth. Departing from various approaches to psychoanalytic theory and practice, the authors gathered in this book offer critical reflections and insights about truth and its effects. In articulations of psychoanalysis with (for instance) philosophy, ethics, and politics, the reader...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 3,4 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Kadoc Territories of faith
religion, urban planning and demographic change in post-war Europe
In the 1950s and 1960s, thousands of churches were built across Europe in an attempt to keep up with the continent's rapid urbanisation. This book addresses the immense effort related to the planning, financing, and construction of this new religious infrastructure. Going beyond aspects of style and liturgy, and transcending a focus on particular architects or regions, this volume considers church building at the crossroads of pastoral theology, religious sociology, and urban planning. Presenting...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 6,3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Who owns Africa?
neocolonialism, investment, and the new scramble
The independence of African countries from their European colonizers in the late 1950s and 1960s marked a shift in the continent's political leadership. Nevertheless, the economies of African nations remained tied to those of their former colonies, raising questions of resource control and the sovereignty of these nation-states. Who Owns Africa? addresses the role of foreign actors in Africa and their competing interests in exploiting the resources of Africa and its people. An interdisciplinary team...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 2,7 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
David Pinho Barros The clear line in comics and cinema
a transmedial approach
The "clear line", a term coined in 1977 by Dutch essayist and artist Joost Swarte, has become shorthand in the field of comics studies for the style originally developed by Hergé and the École de Bruxelles. It refers to certain storytelling strategies that generate a deceptively simple, lucid and hygienic narration: in Philippe Marion's words, it is a style "made out of light, fluidity and limpid clarity". By cataloguing and critically analysing clear line comics from historical and theoretical...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 18 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Recharting territories
intradisciplinarity in translation studies
Since the inception of Translation Studies in the 1970s, its researchers have held regular metareflections. Largely based on the assessment of translation and interpreting as two distinct but related modes of language mediation, each with its own research culture, these intradisciplinary debates have sought to take stock of the state of research within an ever-expanding discipline in search of (institutional) identity and autonomy. Recharting Territories proposes a more widespread and systematic...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 3,6 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain
Many of the most significant studies devoted to Ambrogio Spinola have focused on one particular aspect of his life: his successful military career. This volume, through its interdisciplinary and cultural approach, breaks open this all too narrow perspective and expands our understanding of Spinola and his world. As a great military strategist and Catholic knight, entrepreneur in the international finance market, courtier, and diplomat, Spinola was certainly a Genoese, but he was also a member of...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 16 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Emma Leads Claire
historical roman
Claire Hodiamont, just seventeen years old as an unmarried woman, gets on the carriage to Cette, on her way to a new life. She has been offered a job at Maison Hanon. Justine, her employer, makes a design that Freule Coultier wears to the mayor's ball. The design hits like a bomb! Maison Hanon gets more customers and more fame. Claire is knocked over roughly one day as she is walking home. She looks into the most terrifying eyes she's ever seen. When she scrambles to her feet, she finds a package...
Fictie
Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Ambilicious, Breda | 2022
E-book
The book of requiems
from the earliest ages to the present period
Few western musical repertories speak more to the imagination than the Requiem mass for the dead. The Book of Requiems presents in-depth essays on the most important works in this tradition, from the origins of the genre up to the present day. Each chapter is devoted to a specific Requiem, and offers both historical information and a detailed work-discussion. Conceived as a multi-volume essay collection by leading experts, The Book of Requiems is an authoritative reference publication intended as...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 5,1 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Victor M. Salas Immanent transcendence
Francisco Suárez’s doctrine of being
Long considered one of late scholasticism's most important thinkers, Francisco Suárez has, paradoxically enough, often been treated only in relation to other medieval authors or as a transitional figure in the shift from medieval to early modern philosophy. As such, his thought has often been obscured and framed in terms of an alien paradigm. This book seeks to correct such approaches and examines Suárez's metaphysical thinking as it stands on its own. Suárez is shown to be much more in line with...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 4,1 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Volwassenen