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Sam Bettens All I am
After the release of their hit song 'Not an addict' in 1996, the Belgian band K' Choice started a wild ride along some of the world's biggest festivals. Being an unconventional band right from the start, they forged their own path in the music industry with Sam Bettens as their rebellious leader. But how much space for your true identity is there when you're standing in front of thousands of people? Sam Bettens has spent his entire life searching for who he is and how he was shaped that way. Is he...
Engels | 83 pagina's (ePub2, 2,9 MB) | Das Mag Publishers, Amsterdam | 2023
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Abraham de Kock Pardidoe
Is it better to spend your life moving from place to place, forever having new adventures, meeting interesting people and accepting new challenges, or would it be a curse -- to be always unrooted and adrift, like a wandering spirit far from home? Born in the Dutch colony of New Guinea and raised in the Netherlands, Abraham de Kock spent his professional life travelling the world and working for the UN, rising to the position of acting country director of the World Food Programme in North Korea. Between...
Engels | 160 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | Gopher, 's-Hertogenbosch | 2023
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Stijn Bronzwaer | Joris Kooiman | Merijn Rengers The machine
the inside story of Booking.com
Booking.com, one of the richest and most successful internet companies in Europe, has been a mystery for twenty-five years. Everyone knows the website, but no one knows the people and the stories behind this deeply Dutch company in U.S. hands. Until now. Three journalists from the major Dutch NRC newspaper present a detailed reconstruction of the dark internet fairy tale of Booking.com, from an idea built by a group of engineering students in Twente in the late 1990s to its development into the largest...
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Engels | 232 pagina's (ePub2, 11 MB) | Lebowski Publishers, Amsterdam | 2022
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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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L.J. Giebels Sukarno
a biography
Sukarno – a biography is the first English language biography on Sukarno (1901-1970) – the founding father and first president of Indonesia. The book is both a biography of Sukarno and an account of the birth and ascent of the state of Indonesia. The author reveals many little-known facts and events. He makes the reader realize that to understand the character of its first president is to understand today’s Indonesia.. Sukarno was born in 1901 as the son of a schoolteacher in a country that had been...
Non-fictie
Engels | 572 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Fosfor, Amsterdam | 2015
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William Shakespeare Shakespeares sonnetten
Nieuwe Nederlandse vertaling van alle sonnetten van William Shakespeare, plus een langer vers, door Bas Belleman, met een instructieve inleiding en notities bij de Engelse originelen.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 561 pagina's (ePub2, 2,3 MB) | Athenaeum, Amsterdam | 2020
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Emily Dickinson Verzamelde gedichten
Ruim negenhonderd chronologisch geordende gedichten van de Amerikaanse dichteres (1830-1886) met vertaling en commentaar.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | ePub2, 3,3 MB | Uitgeverij G.A. Van Oorschot, Amsterdam | 2021
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Leo Vroman 114 gedichten
114 gedichten bevat de gedichten uit de bundels Manke vliegen (1963), Almanak (1965) en God en Godin (1967). Daarnaast zijn hierin opgenomen Poems in English (1953) en een afdeling `verspreide gedichten . Deze bundeling is een vervolg op de verzameluitgave 126 gedichten. Beide uitgaven presenteerden aan het eind van de jaren zestig het grootste deel van Vromans poëzie.
Fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 203 pagina's (ePub, 2,5 MB) | Em. Querido's, Amsterdam | 2013
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John O'Mill Light verse in Dutch and double Dutch
Bloemlezing uit de light verse van de Nederlandse dichter (1915-2005).
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 174 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Amsterdam | 2012
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ʿUmar Ḵayyām Kwatrijnen
Engelse bewerking van kwatrijnen van de Perzische dichter (1048-1123) met vertaling.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | [De Bezige Bij], Antwerpen | 2010
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Leo Vroman Die vleugels II
gedichten
Toen Leo Vroman op 22 februari 2014 stierf, lagen op zijn werkkamer drie mappen met het opschrift ‘Die vleugels II’. In 2013 is Die vleugels verschenen , zijn gedichten tot de zomer van 2012, maar alles wat hij daarna schreef hoorde daar zijns inziens nog bij. Die gedichten verschijnen nu: het finale werk. Stap voor stap treedt de dood erin naderbij, totdat hij aanklopt en Vroman zijn allerlaatste gedicht schrijft, op 10 februari: ‘Einde’. De bundel verschijnt op 10 april 2015, de dag waarop Vroman...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 236 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Querido, Amsterdam | 2015
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William Shakespeare De sonnetten
Liefdessonnetten van de Engelse dichter (1564-1616) met vertaling.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 322 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2013
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Roald Dahl Boy
tales of childhood
Mede aan de hand van foto's en brieffragmenten vertelt de auteur Roald Dahl (1916-1991) over zijn jeugd.
Fictie | Biografie
Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2008
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Geert Mak The angel of Amsterdam
seven city stories
Many people star in this Amsterdam chronicle but the one and only protagonist is the city itself. The Angel of Amsterdam combines the dissection of the Dutch capital with a series of personal portraits. It brilliantly reveals the magic, the feel, the rituals and the forgotten world behind and beneath present-day Amsterdam. This special edition of The Angel of Amsterdam offers the international audience not only stellar writing by one of the finest of Dutch authors, but also a unique glimpse into...
Non-fictie
Engels | 177 pagina's (ePub2, 2,2 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2014
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Marry de Gaay Fortman Don't drown a dead duck
the art of gentle effectiveness
Adviezen aan vrouwen die streven naar een topfunctie in het bedrijfsleven.
Non-fictie
Engels | 151 pagina's (ePub2, 2,2 MB) | Business Contact, Amsterdam | 2019
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Laurence Bollen | Mugisha Maisha Safari
The nature of humankind emits light
Mukisa was an inquisitive Muslim boy who was gradually brainwashed from when he was 8 years old to help recruit other children from the Kampala ghettos to become child soldiers. Mukisa has a close relationship with his mother Ayana and his true faith and refuses to accept the situation. When it becomes unbearable, escaping to Europe is his only option. This means leaving everything behind, including his mother and sisters. In Europe, he falls into the hands of human traffickers and is forced to sell...
Engels | 196 pagina's (ePub3, 0,9 MB) | Droomvallei Uitgeverij, Breda | 2022
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Geert Mak The many lives of Jan Six
a portrait of an Amsterdam dynasty
Geschiedenis van de Amsterdamse patriciërsfamilie vanaf de zestiende eeuw tot en met de periode vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 4,2 MB | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
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Justus Lipsius Monita et exempla politica
In 17th-century intellectual life, the ideas of the Renaissance humanist Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) were omnipresent. The publication of his Politica in 1589 had made Lipsius' name as an original and controversial political thinker. The sequel, the Monita et exempla politica (Political admonitions and examples), published in 1605, was meant as an illustration of Lipsius political thought as expounded in the Politica. Its aim was to offer concrete models of behavior for rulers against the background...
Non-fictie
Engels | Latijn | PDF, 11 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Jan C. van der Heide Anna
dancing in my mind
ANNA - dancing in my mind For those who knew her, Anna van der Heide had become a household word. Her name stood for love, warmth, humanity and kindness. She was for one and all a large loving mothers heart. Anna, the wife of psychic and hypnotherapist Jan C. van der Heide, has passed away. Jan wrote this book about his dearly beloved Anna. `The flower of his heart, the woman he owes so unprecedented much to. While reading, we can bask in her unlimited love, and in her deep warmth and spirituality....
Non-fictie
Engels | 150 pagina's (PDF, 14 MB) | Citadel, Oegstgeest | 2013
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Philippa Gregory The Boleyn inheritance
Drie vrouwen aan het hof van Hendrik VIII vertellen ieder hun eigen verhaal en zoeken uiteindelijk toenadering tot elkaar.
Fictie | Biografie | Historische roman
Engels | 528 pagina's (ePub, 2,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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