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Eva Vriend Where the Zuiderzee once raged
a story of community spirit, entrepreneurship, and the intimate bond with the water
‘Where the Zuiderzee Once Raged’ by Eva Vriend is a story of the true heroes of the coast, represented by four fisher families from Urk, Volendam, Spakenburg, and Wieringen. Eva Vriend weaves together their family histories into an epic tale of their intimate bond with water, the resilience that has guided them forward, and the fishing tradition in their blood. The charming towns around the IJsselmeer delight visitors with their authentic facades, fishing boats, and picturesque harbors. The people...
Non-fictie
Engels | 359 pagina's (ePub2) | Atlas Contact Publishers, Amsterdam | 2022
E-book
Fiona Hack The umbrella mystery
Danni's grandfather disappeared without a trace during a visit to Japan. No one has heard from him for forty years. Until Danni receives a Japanese umbrella from her grandmother. This and a letter are the only clues grandpa left. Is it enough to find him? Together with her friend Kiko, she unravels the sinister secret of the miracle umbrella, for which she has to pay a great price. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Engels | 122 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Ambilicious, Breda | 2021
E-book
Emmanuel Falque Nothing to It
reading Freud as a philosopher
The confrontation between philosophy and psychoanalysis has had its heyday. After the major debates between Paul Ricoeur, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Henry, this dialogue now seems to have broken down. It has therefore proven necessary and gainful to revisit these debates to explore their re-usability and the degree to which they can provide new insights from a contemporary point of view. It can be said that contemporary philosophy suffers from an 'excess of...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 7,2 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2020
E-book
Transfer thinking in translation studies
playing with the black box of cultural transfer
The concept of transfer covers the most diverse phenomena of circulation, transformation and reinterpretation of cultural goods across space and time, and are among the driving forces in opening up the field of translation studies. Transfer processes cross linguistic and cultural boundaries and cannot be reduced to simple movements from a source to a target (culture or text). In a time of paradigm shifts, this book aims to explore the potential and interdisciplinary power of transfer as a concept...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 5,9 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2020
E-book
Els van Steijn The fountain, make wise choices
expand your systemic consciousness and live your life well
Using the fountain as metaphor for the family system, you learn what your own, unique place is. Once in your place, you receive the flow essential to how your life progresses. Some people are somehow able to get the almost impossible done. But what do you have an influence on, and what do you not have an influence on? The trick is to make that distinction. When you're better able to recognize the force fields in which you find yourself, when you learn to observe without judgment and surrender to...
Non-fictie
Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Het Noorderlicht, [Nederland] | 2022
E-book
Marlous de Haan How (not) to video call
75 essential rules of etiquette for successful virtual meetings
How (not) to Video Call, 75 essential rules of etiquette for successful virtual meetings. How do you make video calling more fun and professional for you and for others? The 75 essential rules of etiquette in this book will ensure you have successful virtual meetings. Video calling - certainly because of the coronavirus pandemic - has become an indispensable part of all our lives. "Hello? Can you all hear me?"; "I hear you, but I can't see you"; "The report frWOOF WOOF WOOFhere"; "I-i HEAR-hear AN-an...
Non-fictie
Engels | 160 pagina's (ePub2, 8,4 MB) | Magic at Work, Doetinchem | 2021
E-book
David Mangene How to not kill yourself
10 tips for troubled times
Men don’t have mental health problems. Well maybe they do, but they struggle to talk about them and to ask for help. David Mangene wants to help this situation by removing the taboo, and encouraging men especially to talk about mental health issues. David has struggled his entire adult life with depression, mania, and suicidal thoughts. In this book he uses humor as a vehicle to write candidly, and quite bluntly at times, about his own life and the reasons to carry on living. “And one last thing:...
Non-fictie
Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | Lev., Amsterdam | 2020
E-book
Henri Patrik The vitruvian Inspiration
Bram, Edhem, Zuma and Lazar don't know each other, until a series of mysterious events and the ghosts from their past bring them together in a ruthless struggle for life and death. ''The Vitruvian Inspiration'' is a drama in which traumatized people be heroes. The story takes place in Sarajevo 2002, a city in which corruption, deceit, manslaughter and sex flourish under supervision of the international observers. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Engels | 350 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | Schrijverspunt, Almelo | 2020
E-book