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Tijn Touber Time bender
the man who came to save the earth
Time Bender beschrijft de ontdekkingstocht van een jongeman die wordt meegesleept in een Galactische strijd die zijn weerga niet kent. De mensheid - zo ontdekt hij - bevindt zich in een sleutelpositie om de Kosmische conflicten voor eens en voor altijd op te lossen. De vraag is alleen: worden wij op tijd wakker? 'Ik heb je boek met open mond gelezen. Dit is echt next level.' Karen van Holst-Pellekaan 'Geen woorden die mijn geluksgevoel kunnen beschrijven. Mijn hart bubbelt. Eindelijk antwoorden!'...
Fictie
Engels | 250 pagina's (ePub2) | London Books, Bodegraven | 2019
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Janice Atkinson What woman want, versus The gender, transgender and cultural wars of the West
Written by UK MEP Janice Atkinson, she gives an excoriating analysis of the politicians who pass damaging legislation that ordinary people have not sanctioned, were never in party manifestos or even discussed, the latter mainly because they have made discussions on certain subjects a hate crime. Western governments, the European Union, the United Nations, the World Health Organisation and those that gather at DAVOS - the liberal left elite - are making decisions over the voters' heads, that no one...
Non-fictie
Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub2, 3,2 MB) | Aspect Publishers, Soesterberg | 2019
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Sven Gatz Molenbeek/Maalbeek
A Brussels Tale
22 March 2016, Brussels. It was a day that reverberated across the capital and the country. Bomb attacks shattered the airport and a metro station. In an instant the city was left with a gaping wound. How did the people of Brussels live through this day? Narrating from the perspectives of seven characters, Sven Gatz relives this dark day. Wandering from Molenbeek to Maalbeek, he uncovers the soul of Brussels. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | ASP - Academic and Scientific Publishers, Brussel | 2019
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Joanne Carlton Dust
Here we are then, at the end of it all ... Simon James is just a regular guy living a normal life. Until August 4th, when the dust poisons the world. Three weeks and millions of deaths later, the end is near and there are no miracles left, except for one. A miracle that needs Simon James. On the final day, the former husband and father faces the ultimate dilemma. Should he attempt to survive in a dead world to prevent mankind's extinction? Or should his life end today, like everyone else's? Simon...
Fictie
Engels | 248 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Hamley Books, Sint-Amands | 2019
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Leo Goeyens Good and Bad Food Science
Separating the wheat from the chaff
Imagine biting into a burger that was produced without having to slaughter the animal. Why not say "yes" to genetically edited (gene-edited) food crops? Does corn turn hamster mothers into cannibals? Should we fear unrestrained use of glyphosate in years to come? Will Cupid's arrows assume the form of a nasal oxytocin spray? Vertical farming: eco-friend or foe? These are just some of the challenging and often awkward questions Leo Goeyens confronts his readers with. Human activity has brought many...
Engels | 366 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | ASP - Academic and Scientific Publishers, Brussel | 2019
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Fred Feddes Bike City Amsterdam
how Amsterdam became the cycling capital of the world
The book Bike City Amsterdam, How Amsterdam became the cycling Capital of the World , by Fred Feddes and Marjolein de Lange, is the first comprehensive inside history of sixty years of successful bicycle activism, policy and culture in Amsterdam. As any visitor knows, the bicycle is omnipresent in the streets of Amsterdam, in the rhythm of its people's lives, and in the city's image. To many outsiders, Amsterdam comes close to being a cyclist's paradise. It wasn't always that way. As in many other...
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 66 MB | Bas Lubberhuizen, Amsterdam | 2019
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Edy Korthals Altes Space technology and human security
This paper discusses the use of space technology, focussing on its military applications. The emphasis is on the political and ethical aspects. Space technology is exercising a revolutionary impact not only on our way of life but also in the military field. It does not only comprise a variety of satellites and sensors - serving both civilian and military goals. Countless are the peaceful applications but it cannot be denied that it could also become a nightmare, creating hell on earth. Whether that...
Non-fictie
Engels | 16 pagina's (ePub2, 2,9 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2019
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Edy Korthals Altes Some reflections on ethical challenges
towards a war-free world
'The spectacular developments in science, technology and the econ'omy confront us with new challenges making it imperative to develop 'global ethics' for an increasingly interdependent world. Serious obstacles are the dynamics of the worldwide market economy, our fascination with endless ‘growth’ on a limited planet and our prevailing attitudes. For many, life has become horizontal, one dimensional, often resulting in a depressing loss of perspective and lack of vision. Fortunately there is a rapidly...
Non-fictie
Engels | 16 pagina's (ePub2, 2,8 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2019
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Coppens Pascal China's New Normal
How China sets the standard for innovation
The words 'technology' and 'innovation' are almost automatically linked withAmerican companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Tesla or Amazon in most people's minds. But this association has created a huge blind spot in the West. While the world focuses on what is happening in Silicon Valley, the Chinese innovation train has left the station and is moving forward at high speed. Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are the well-known standard-bearers of this fast and furious innovation surge, but they are just...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 20 MB) | Pelckmans, Kalmthout | 2019
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Memphis Depay | Simon Zwartkruis Heart of a lion
Everyone has an opinion on Memphis Depay, but few are familiar with his intense and difficult life story. Now the time has come for him to tell that story in his own words. About a childhood full of aggression and fear, with the ball as a lifebuoy. About a turbulent journey through different schools and host families and football clubs. His breakthrough at PSV, the fiasco in Manchester, his revival in Lyon and on the Dutch national team, the unending commotion about his appearance and image, his...
Non-fictie
Engels | 194 pagina's (ePub2, 85 MB) | VIP, Amsterdam | 2019
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Endre B. Gastony Hungary and geopolitics
the Second World War and the Holocaust 1938-1945
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 31 MB | Aspekt, [Soesterberg] | 2019
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J.B. te Boekhorst A fairy tale to read out about Little Jill, the girl who saved her country with her gold coloured voice
Once upon a time long long ago, there was a very small country. A country with thousands of little inhabitants, where once everybody lived a happy life. Yes, lived, because for the last eight long years, everybody was very sad. For all that time there had been a large dark cloud hovering above the enormous palace of the king, Big King. This was because the evil Big Witch had cast a spell on the yearly singing contest, so her daughter Little Twitch had won eight years in a row. Until then, Little...
Fictie
Engels | 39 pagina's (ePub3) | CD publishers, Zutphen | 2019
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Mikkel Hofstee Primal human 2.0
how your ancestral genes affect your behavior today
Even though we've never been better off, obesity, depression, stress, and addictions to screen time and unhealthy food are rampant. Why is this happening? Primal Human 2.0 shows that we weren't made for our modern way of life. Our amazing ancient genes are struggling with all these everyday temptations and this is making us feel miserable. Stress, our age-old reaction to danger, is now one of the biggest killers on Earth because we're always 'on'. Our longing for rewards in the shape of 'likes' on...
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub3, 0,9 MB | Water, Amsterdam | 2019
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Lisa Halliday Asymmetry
A scorchingly intelligent first novel' New York Times'Spellbinding' New Yorker'Thrilling' GuardianIn New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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Jane Fallon Tell me a secret
Als Holly (43), alleenstaande moeder van Ashley (22) promotie krijgt op de scriptafdeling van een populaire soapserie, merkt ze als snel dat ze in haar werk gesaboteerd wordt. Ze roept de hulp in van goede vrienden.
Fictie
Engels | ePub3, 7,3 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Salman Rushdie Quichotte
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***In a tour-de-force that is a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with the TV star Salman R. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho,...
Engels | ePub3, 2,3 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward. This finest of all Christmas stories is beautifully illustrated with Arthur Rackham’s superb line drawings. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 2,5 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021
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Marion Zimmer Bradley The Planet Savers and Three More Stories
Four Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age" by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Featured stories: The Planet Savers, Year Of The Big Thaw, Year Of The Big Thaw and The Wind People. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Otbebookpublishing, [Nederland] | 2019
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Marion Zimmer Bradley The Door Through Space
Excerpt: "Across half a Galaxy, the Terran Empire maintains its sovereignty with the consent of the governed. It is a peaceful reign, held by compact and not by conquest. Again and again, when rebellion threatens the Terran Peace, the natives of the rebellious world have turned against their own people and sided with the men of Terra; not from fear, but from a sense of dedication. There has never been open war. The battle for these worlds is fought in the minds of a few men who stand between worlds;...
Engels | ePub2, 1,2 MB | Otbebookpublishing, [Nederland] | 2019
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Jenny Colgan The Bookshop on the Shore
A Novel
A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan. Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life for herself and her four year old son Hari. She can barely afford the crammed studio apartment on a busy street where shouting football fans keep them awake all night. Haris dad, Jaz, a charismatic but perpetually...
Engels | ePub3, 1 MB | William Morrow Paperbacks, [Nederland] | 2019
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2019