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John Boyne A Ladder to the Sky
From the bestselling author of The Heart s Invisible Furies
A deliciously dark tale of ambition'' Observer''Gripping ... chilling and darkly comic tale of unrelenting ambition'' Daily ExpressYou''ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it''s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall.If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don''t even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career.A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich...
Engels | ePub3, 1,4 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
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Jojo Moyes Still Me
Discover the love story that captured 21 million hearts
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING LOVE STORY THAT CAPTURED 21 MILLION HEARTS''Immensely readable and enjoyable'' Sunday Times''Jojo Moyes is a phenomenal storyteller . . . beautiful'' 5***** Reader Review________Fall in love with the perfect heartwarming read . . .Lou Clark knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend Sam in London.She knows her employer is a good man and she knows his wife is keeping a secret from him.But what Lou doesn''t know is she''s about...
Engels | ePub3, 2,4 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2018
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Line Kyed Knudsen K for Kara 14
Am I Fat, Mom?
Julie invites the class to her birthday party. They are going to the pool. Afterwards, they are having pizza. Rose asks if there is anything other than pizza, because she does not want to eat unhealthy food. Kara does not understand. Rose loves pizza. And she is so skinny. And if skinny Rose thinks she is fat, is Kara fat too?"This is a book for 8-10 year-old girls. The girls will love reading about Kara and her friends. It is a friendship triangle of sorts, where three girls have to navigate the...
Engels | ePub2, 13 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2018
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Line Kyed Knudsen K for Kara 17 - Just a Joke!
Kara and her class play a new game on their iPads. It is funny and exciting to see everyone yell and curse, if something bad happens in the game. But it is just a joke. Or is it? Kara does not know, and it makes her feel weird.This is the seventeenth book in the series about Kara and her friends. The books can be read separately.Line Kyed Knudsen was born in Gentofte in 1971. She debuted in 2003 and since then, she has written over 50 books for children and young adults. She often writes stories...
Engels | ePub2, 20 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2018
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Line Kyed Knudsen K for Kara 15 - Forbidden Photo
Kara is looking forward to having her class photos taken. Some of the boys take photos with their phones. They share the photos with each other. But suddenly, some of the photos are not so innocent. And some of the girls get really sad.This is the fifteenth book in the series about Kara and her friends. The books can be read separately.Line Kyed Knudsen was born in Gentofte in 1971. She debuted in 2003 and since then, ahe has written over 50 books for children and young adults. She often writes stories...
Engels | ePub2, 11 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2018
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Line Kyed Knudsen K for Kara 16 - Totally Perfect
Kara thinks she is doing well in school. But one day, her teacher says something that makes Kara think she may not be doing that well. How can she get better? Or how can she get totally perfect?This is the sixteenth book in the series about Kara and her friends. The books can be read separately.Line Kyed Knudsen was born in Gentofte in 1971. She debuted in 2003 and since then, ahe has written over 50 books for children and young adults. She often writes stories about friendships between girls. She...
Engels | ePub2, 5,7 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2018
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Doing double Dutch
the international circulation of literature from the Low Countries
The importance of a minor language in the field of world literature. Dutch literature is increasingly understood as a network of texts and poetics connected to other languages and literatures through translations and adaptations. In this book, a team of international researchers explores how Dutch literary texts cross linguistic, historical, geophysical, political, religious, and disciplinary borders, and reflects on a wide range of methods for studying these myriad border crossings. As a result,...
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Engels | 336 pagina's (PDF, 6,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Cultural mediation in Europe, 1800-1950
International exchange in European cultural life in the 19th and 20th centuries From the early nineteenth century till the middle of the twentieth century, cultures in Europe were primarily national. They were organized and conceived of as attributes of the nation states. Nonetheless, these national cultures crossed borders with an unprecedented intensity even before globalization transformed the very concept of culture. During that long period, European cultures have imported and exported products,...
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Engels | PDF, 1,2 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Art history after Deleuze and Guattari
At the crossroads of philosophy, artistic practice, and art history Though Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were not strictly art historians, they reinvigorated ontological and formal approaches to art, and simultaneously borrowed art historical concepts for their own philosophical work. They were dedicated modernists, inspired by the German school of expressionist art historians such as Riegl, Wölfflin, and Worringer and the great modernist art critics such as Rosenberg, Steinberg, Greenberg,...
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Engels | PDF, 2,1 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Dora, hysteria, gender
reconsidering Freud’s case study; a Sigmund Freud Museum's symposium
Freud's Dora case and contemporary debates on gender, sexuality and queer theory. 'Dora' is one the most important and interesting case studies Sigmund Freud conducted and later described. It constitutes a key text in his oeuvre and finds itself at the crossroads of his studies in hysteria, the theory of sexuality and dream interpretation. The Dora case is both a literary and theoretically ground-breaking text and an account of a 'failed' treatment. In Dora, Hysteria and Gender renowned Freud scholars...
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Engels | PDF, 0,9 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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The astrological autobiography of a medieval philosopher
Henry Bate's Nativitas (1280-81)
Critical edition of the earliest known astrological autobiography The present book reveals the riches of the earliest known astrological autobiography, authored by Henry Bate of Mechelen (1246-after 1310). Exploiting all resources of contemporary astrological science, Bate conducts in his Nativitas a profound self-analysis, revealing the peculiarities of his character and personality at a crucial moment of his life (1280). The result is an extraordinarily detailed and penetrating attempt to decode...
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Latijn | Engels | 290 pagina's (PDF, 4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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J.E. Korteweg Breaking new ground
Dutch dredging pioneers
The world-famous Palm Islands in Dubai, the new Afsluitdijk, the Zuiderzee Works, the Delta Works: dredging and offshore company Van Oord is the key player in all these gigantic projects. A hundred and fifty years ago, this extraordinary company was founded by a man called Govert van Oord, an independent trader in osier and other wood products from the Biesbosch region of the Netherlands. In this period, contractors constructed the Nieuwe Waterweg and the North Sea Canal, deepened the rivers and...
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Engels | ePub2, 24 MB | Balans, Amsterdam | 2018
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Tom van de Ven | Rik Marselis | Humayun Shaukat Testing in the digital age
Ai makes the difference
Testing in the digital age brings a new vision on test engineering, using new quality attributes that tackle intelligent machines and a roadmap split up in fi ve hops. With everything digital there are more possibilities for test automation and piles of (test) data growing out of control. Working together with robots (cobotics), using artifi cial intelligence in testing and eventually predict the occurrence of defects brings your testing to the digital age. We have interviewed companies on their...
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Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub3, 1,6 MB) | Sogetibooks, Vianen | 2018
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Orpheus Institute Artistic research in music: discipline and resistance
artists and researchers at the Orpheus Institute
The Orpheus Institute celebrates 20 years of artistic research in music. Artistic research in music is now at a generational stage of development. How should it deal with its own maturing? From a kaleidoscope of individual pursuits, ethos and methodologies have emerged to encompass more distributed approaches. This transformation has taken place in parallel with changes in the dynamics and structures of culture, its institutions and constituencies. Artistic research maintains a productive dialectic...
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Engels | 316 pagina's (PDF, 5 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Centrum voor Migratie en Interculturele Studies Gender and migration
a gender-sensitive approach to migration dynamics
The impact of gender on migration processes Considering the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between gender relations and migration, the contributions in this book approach migration dynamics from a gender-sensitive perspective. Bringing together insights from various fields of study, it is demonstrated how processes of social change occur differently in distinct life domains, over time, and across countries and/or regions, influencing the relationship between gender and migration. Detailed analysis...
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Engels | PDF, 1,9 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Centrum voor Migratie en Interculturele Studies Migration and integration in Flanders
multidisciplinary perspectives
Thought-provoking insights on the nexus of migration and integration beyond the national context Across the world, and due to ongoing globalisation, migration is increasingly becoming a part of daily life. But more than ever, migration can no longer be viewed as a simple linear trajectory from A to B. The emergence of transnational communities and intense interactions between regions of origin and of destination have led to new forms of social-cultural praxis and (sub)cultures which exert an important...
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Engels | PDF, 3,5 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Centrum voor Migratie en Interculturele Studies Moroccan migration in Belgium
more than 50 years of settlement
First volume in the new series CeMIS Migration and Intercultural Studies Moroccans are one of the largest and most debated migrant groups in Belgium. Moroccan Migration in Belgium analyses diverse facets of this community from a multidisciplinary perspective and addresses the most relevant and some underexposed topics in the rapidly developing field of migration studies. Combining various academic disciplines and different research methods, the book offers a panoramic introspection into the dynamic...
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Engels | 388 pagina's (PDF, 5,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Aad van der Klaauw Taste my words
poems from the Netherlands
Aad van der Klaauw, librarian in the Netherlands, lives in Staphorst. A small village in the province Overijssel. Taste me Words Poems published on the world’s largest poetry site Allpoetry. Poems about the seasons, strong people like Nadia Murad, religion, countries and other themes. Read my lines, taste my words. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Engels | 80 pagina's (ePub2, 3 MB) | Boekenbent, Barneveld | 2018
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Peter Kapitein How has it ever come to this?
a fresh look at healtcare
Healthcare is a sector changing at breakneck speed due to new technologies, fresh policies, years of cutbacks, and market forces. But is healthcare heading the right way, and are the developments ones which are happening in the interests of the patient, for whom the whole healthcare system was supposedly set up? Are we all being given optimum treatment? How heavily do commercial interests weigh against patient interests? In healthcare, is government largely concerned with the patient or with the...
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Engels | 161 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Water, Amsterdam | 2018
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Thomas Coomans Life Inside the cloister
understanding monastic architecture: tradition, reformation, adaptive reuse
Sacred architecture as reality and metaphor in secularised Western society. Christian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best part of 1,500 years, are now at a crossroads. This study attempts to understand the sacred architecture of monasteries as a process of the tangible and symbolic organisation of space and time for religious communities. Despite the weight of seemingly immutable monastic tradition, architecture has contributed to developing specific religious identities...
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Engels | PDF, 17 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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