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Ronan Bennett Zugzwang
Na de moord op een gerespecteerd journalist in St. Petersburg raakt een psychoanalyticus verstrikt in diverse plots en intriges.
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Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 3 MB) | Bloomsbury, London | 2014
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Piers Paul Read The Dreyfus affair
"Intelligent, ambitious and a rising star in the French artillery, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family, money, and the prospect of a post on the General Staff. But his rapid rise had also made him enemies - many of them aristocratic officers in the army's High Command who resented him because he was middle-class, meritocratic and a Jew.In October 1894, the torn fragments of an unsigned memo containing military secrets were retrieved by a cleaning lady from the waste paper basket...
Engels | 416 pagina's (2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Ed Smith Luck
"For aspiring cricketer Ed Smith, luck was for other people. Like his childhood hero, Geoff Boycott, the tough, flinty Yorkshireman, the young Ed knew that the successful cricketer made his own luck by an application of will power, elimination of error, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. But when a freak accident at the crease at Lords prematurely ended Ed Smith's international cricketing career, it changed everything - and prompted him to look anew at his own life through the prism of luck....
Engels | 256 pagina's (0,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Elena Ferrante Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by 'one of the great novelists of our time' (The New York Times). In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college...
Engels | ePub2, 3,1 MB | Europa Editions, [Nederland] | 2014
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Malcolm Pryce The day Aberystwyth stood still
"It is May in Aberystwyth, and the mayoral election campaign - culminating in the traditional boxing match between candidates - is underway. Sospan the ice-cream seller waits in his hut for souls brave enough to try his latest mind-expanding new flavour, and Louie Knight, Aberystwyth's only Private Detective, receives a visit from a mysterious stranger called Raspiwtin asking him to track down a dead man.Twenty-five years ago Iestyn Probert was hanged for his part in the notorious raid on the Coliseum...
Engels | 256 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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John Burningham The time of your life
"Ageing is that part of the future that we try to keep in the future. And `nobody likes to get old ... that doesn't mean to say you have to be an old fart sitting in the pub talking about what happened in the 1960s' Mick Jagger. John Burningham has collected fine examples of the wisdom and wit that comes with age from those in the know, woven with a rich selection of quotes and fifty poignant drawings by Burningham himself."
Engels | 6,3 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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David Winner Brilliant Orange
"The Netherlands has been one of the world's most distinctive and sophisticated football cultures. From the birth of Total Football in the sixties, through two decades of World Cup near misses to the exiles who remade clubs like AC Milan, Barcelona, Arsenal and Chelsea in their own image, the Dutch have often been dazzlingly original and influential. The elements of their style (exquisite skills, adventurous attacking tactics, a unique blend of individual creativity and teamwork, weird patterns of...
Engels | 288 pagina's (3,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Simon Scarrow Gladiator
Vengeance
The fourth thrilling title in Simon Scarrow's epic, bestselling Gladiator seriesMarcus may be free from the brutal training regime of the gladiators but he will not rest until he finds his mother. With his old friends Festus and Lupus at his side, and a letter from Caesar instructing all who cross his path to help him, he begins his journey. He is going back to the lands where he lived as a slave boy: the remote farming estate of the savage Decimus. Yet Ancient Greece is ruled by deceit and corruption....
Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub3, 2 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2014
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Ruth Brooks A slow passion
"Posed this question: Do snails have a homing instinct? The nation was gripped by the unexpected thesis and by Ruth's online diaries, which catalogued her trials and tribulations as she got to grips with these slimy little gastropods.A Slow Passion is Ruth's story, with anecdotes and misadventures galore. What starts out as a ruthless vendetta against the snails that are decimating her hostas becomes a journey of discovery into the whys and wherefores of snail life. When Ruth dumps a group of the...
Engels | 320 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [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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Natasha Joffe | Justine Roberts Why did nobody tell me?
"Do `milestones' feel like millstones? Does the thought ofwaiting at the school gate make you more nervous than yourfive-year-old? Do you find yourself sometimes tempted to just let your childrenfight to the death? And does flicking through childcare books leave you feelingmostly bewildered and blamed? Then TheMumsnet Rules are what you have been waiting for...Drawn from the message boards of mumsnet.com and based onthe assumption that if thousands of parents have found a piece of advice to behelpful...
Engels | 416 pagina's (1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Mo Hayder Wolf - Jack Caffery 7
The sensational new Jack Caffery thriller from Mo Hayder, bestselling author of Gone and Poppet. Who's afraid?I believe, from what I can hear, that either my daughter or my wife has just been attacked. I don't know the outcome. The house is silent. Fourteen years ago two teenage lovers were brutally murdered in a patch of remote woodland. The prime suspect confessed to the crimes and was imprisoned.Now, one family is still trying to put the memory of the killings behind them. But at their isolated...
Engels | 544 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2014
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Gene Brewer K-Pax omnibus
"When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into the Manhattan Institute, the mental ward seems to be just the place for him. However, this patient is unlike anyone psychiatrist Dr. Gene Brewer has met before. Clever, inscrutable and utterly charismatic, Robert Porter calls himself `prot' and has no traceable background - but he claims that he is an inhabitant of the planet K-PAX, a perfect world without wars, government or religion, and where every being co-exists in harmony. It's not...
Engels | 800 pagina's (2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Negotiate successfully
"You negotiate every day in all types of situations and in many ways.This book will help build confidence and get better results withpractical advice on the basic principles of negotiation, how toprepare, how to keep cool under pressure and how to understand and usebody language to your advantage.The book contains a quiz to assess strengths and weaknesses,step-by-step guidance and action points, top tips to bear in mind forthe future, common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them, summariesof key...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Deal with stress
"While it's said that a little stress is good for you, too much can damage your health, your performance at work, and your relationships.With a self-assessment quiz, step-by-step action points, top tips, common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them, summaries of key points, and lists of handy resources, the now fully revised and updated Deal with stress will help you understand the causes, recognise the symptoms, and find the right answers to put you back in control. You will find practical solutions...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Mohamed ElBaradei The age of deception
"Playing fast and loose with the facts. The Age of Deception is a story of human imperfection, of modern society struggling to come to grips with the multiple dimensions of human insecurity."
Engels | 352 pagina's (18 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Mark Buchanan$aut$331344246 Forecast
"In this thoroughly researched and piercingly intelligent book, physicist Mark Buchanan shows how a simple feedback loop can lead to major consequences, the kind predictable by mathematical models but hard for most people to anticipate. From his unique perspective, Buchanan argues that our basic assumptions about economic markets - that they are for the most part stable, with occasional interruptions - are simply wrong. Markets really act more like weather: a brief heat wave can become a massive...
Engels | 2,5 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Rebecca Stott Darwin's ghosts
"Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like swarms, some expressing praise, most outrage and accusations of heresy. But the letter from the Reverend Powell was different. It accused Darwin of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of having taken credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others, Baden Powell himself and Darwin's...
Engels | 400 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Andrew Wilson Harold Robbins
the man who invented sex
"Drugs, corruption, greed and, just sometimes, redemption. The world's first playboy writer, Robbins reportedly frittered away $50 million on fast cars, loose women and high living. But, obsessed with fame and fortune, Robbins was a deeply complex and often controversial man, and even his closest friends and lovers could only guess at the past of the man behind the perma-tanned mask and gigantic mirrored sunglasses. This is the fascinating story of his extraordinary life."
Engels | 320 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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