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Blomlêzing út 'e Spaanse poëzij
"Mar in hantsjefol oersettings besteane der yn it Frysk fan Spaanstalige poëzij. Dizze bondel foeget dêr gâns in tal fersen oan ta. Klaas Bruinsma lit de lêzer yn ús eigen memmetaal genietsje fan al it prachtige dat Spaanse dichters troch de ieuwen hinne skreaun hawwe, yn krêftige, linige fersrigels. De earste gedichten binne al út it iere begjin fan de sechstjinde ieu, en geande troch de tiid hinne einet de oersetter mei in noch libbene dichter út Nicaragua, dyt yn syn eigen lân sjoen wurdt...
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Westerlauwers Fries | 135 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Elikser, Leeuwarden | 2014
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Hilda Talsma Brekber
Een jonge vrouw heeft veel meer met paarden dan met mensen. Dan ontmoet ze een man die een heel andere kijk op paarden heeft.
Fictie | Humoristische roman | Romantische verhalen
Westerlauwers Fries | 278 pagina's (ePub2, 1,1 MB) | Elikser, Leeuwarden | 2014
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Alexandra Michalewski La puissance de l'intelligible
la théorie plotinienne des formes au miroir de l'héritage médioplatonicien
La nature des Formes intelligibles d'Antiochus à Plotin. L'ouvrage propose une histoire de l'interprétation de la nature des Formes intelligibles d'Antiochus à Plotin. Il met en lumière l'importance du refus plotinien de l'artificialisme médioplatonicien qui considère les Formes comme des pensées du dieu et subordonne leur causalité à celle du démiurge, fabricant du monde. En considérant les Formes comme des réalités vivantes et intellectives, Plotin bouleverse le sens de la causalité...
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Frans | 280 pagina's (PDF, 2,8 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2014
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Lorenza Clifford Interview others
"Interviewing prospective job candidates can be a real challenge, and sometimes the interviewers are just as nervous as the interviewee! If you are new to interviewing and need to learn some essential skills, Interview Others is the book for you. Full of advice on how to get the best from others and from yourself, it covers everything from preparing for an interview, to dealing with different types of interview situations, to the right (and wrong) questions to ask, to making a job offer. This book...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Louise Aronson A history of the present illness
Zestien min-of-meer met elkaar verbonden verhalen over medische zorg aan kwetsbare mensen.
Fictie | Verhalenbundel
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Richard Van Emden Boy soldiers of the Great War
"The youngest soldier who fought in the Great War is believed to have been just twelve years old. Many thousands of other boys are known to have faked eye tests, inflated their small chests and stood on tiptoes to bluff their way into a war of unforeseen horror. How and why so many under-aged boys were able to get to the battlefields is a complex mystery of World War I, and until Richard van Emden's classic account, largely unexplored.Boy Soldiers of the Great War tells for the first time the incredible...
Engels | 416 pagina's (5,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Thomas Mogford Shadow of the rock
Een advocaat uit Gibraltar helpt een joodse vriend, die in Marokko wordt beschuldigd van de moord op een jong meisje.
Fictie | Detectiveroman
Engels | 272 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Hugh Barker Hedge Britannia
"Creations. Fromformal garden features to emphatically rustic barriers, Hugh exploresour hedges in all their diversity. Hedge Britannia offers a wittyinsight into the history of hedges and the way they relate to ourculture as well as our landscape. Hugh travels the breadth of Britainmeeting fellow enthusiasts who range from horticultural experts to theBrixton man who lovingly cultivated a whale-shaped hedge and ran intotrouble with the local council."
Engels | 336 pagina's (13 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Michael Mansfield Memoirs of a radical lawyer
"A radical lawyer with an unparalleled commitment to his clients, driven by anger at injustice and hypocrisy, intelligent, handsome and dynamic, Michael Mansfield has been tearing down the citadels of arcane legal conventions for more than forty years. Unafraid of rejection or failure, Michael has taken on the most difficult and challenging cases of our times and despite the odds, won plenty. In Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer Michael dissects many of them, revealing his motivations, meticulous approach...
Engels | 512 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [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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Emma Smith Maidens' trip
"In 1943 Emma Smith joined the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company under their wartime scheme of employing women to replace the boaters. She set out with two friends on a big adventure: three eighteen-year-olds, freed from a middle-class background, precipitated into the boating fraternity. They learn how to handle a pair of seventy-two foot-long canal boats, how to carry a cargo of steel north from London to Birmingham and coal from Coventry; how to splice ropes, bail out bilge water, keep the engine...
Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Niki Segnit The flavour thesaurus
"Ever wondered why one flavour works with another? Or lacked inspirationfor what to do with a bundle of beetroot? The Flavour Thesaurus is thefirst book to examine what goes with what, pair by pair.The book follows the form of Roget's Thesaurus. The back section lists,alphabetically, 99 popular ingredients, and suggests classic and lesswell known flavour matches for each. The front section contains anentry for every flavour match listed in the back section and isorganised into 16 flavour themes such...
Engels | 400 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Hilary Mantel The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.Including a new story The School of English.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday facades. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014
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Carolyn Burke No regrets
"Edith Piaf was one of the most greatly loved singers of the twentieth century. From the start of her exceptional career in the 1930s, her waif-like form and heart-wrenching voice endeared her first to the French, then to audiences around the globe. As she moved from her youth singing in the streets to the glamour of the Paris music-halls, Piaf formed lasting friendships with such figures as Maurice Chevalier, Jean Cocteau and Marlene Dietrich; she wrote many of her own songs, aided the Resistance...
Engels | 304 pagina's (5,2 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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Daniyal Mueenuddin In other rooms, other wonders
"In Other Rooms, Other Wonders illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the advantages and constraints of their station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. These richly textured stories reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday...
Engels | 256 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Jimmy Burns Barça
"Founded in 1898, FC Barcelona or Barça, is the world's biggest and best-loved football club. Barça has more than 500 local fan clubs spread across the world, while its championship matches attract a global TV audience. Former players include such legendary figures as Kubala, Maradona, Cruyff, Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Lineker, and Barça has been managed by greats such as Helenio Herrera, Cesar Menotti and Bobby Robson. The club's honorary members include Pope John Paul II and opera star José Carreras....
Engels | 384 pagina's (4,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Patricia Duncker The strange case of the composer and his judge
"On a frozen New Year's Day a half-circle of dead bodies lies on freshly fallen snow in the French Jura. A nearby chalet contains the debris of a seemingly ordinary Christmas: champagne, presents for the dead children, and a strange leather-bound book, written in mysterious code, containing maps of the stars. When Dominique Carpentier, the Judge tasked with solving the mystery behind this suicide sect, discovers the book, she is lead to the Composer, Friedrich Groz, who is connected to every one...
Engels | 272 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Maureen Freely Under the Vulcania
De echtgenote van een Engelse specialist, die haar teveel in de watten legt na een ziekte, brengt een ochtend door in een relax-instituut waar mooie mannen op velerlei wijzen zich vervelende vrouwen verwennen.
Fictie | Erotische verhalen
Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Joyce Dennys Henrietta sees it through
"The war is now in its third year and although nothing can dent the unwavering patriotism of Henrietta and her friends, everyone in the Devonshire village has their anxious moments. Henrietta takes up weeding and plays the triangle in the local orchestra to take her mind off things; the indomitable Lady B, now in her late seventies, partakes in endless fund-raising events to distract herself from thoughts of life without elastic; and Faith, the village flirt, finds herself amongst the charming company...
Engels | 208 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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