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Rebecca Raisin The Little Venice Bookshop
‘Ahhh I absolutely loved this book!… Made me laugh, warmed my heart… Fabulous.’ NetGalley reviewer âââââA bundle of mysterious letters. A trip to Venice. A journey she’ll never forget.When Luna loses her beloved mother, she’s bereft: her mother was her only family, and without her Luna feels rootless. Then the chance discovery of a collection of letters in her mother’s belongings sends her on an unexpected journey.Following a clue in the letters, Luna packs her bags...
Engels | ePub3, 1,8 MB | HQ Digital, [Nederland] | 2023
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Caroline Corcoran What Happened on Floor 34?
‘Caroline Corcoran’s workplace thriller has more twists than a forkful of spaghetti!’ – FabulousHer dream job just became her worst nightmare…My name is Rose, and I work for one of the country’s biggest newspapers. I was the Day Editor. Will Frost was the Night Editor.When I got to the office, Will had already left. When I left, Will arrived. We were two sides of the same coin.Last week, Will disappeared from floor 34 without a trace. Now I am the Night Editor.And I have a feeling...
Engels | ePub3, 1,5 MB | Avon, [Nederland] | 2023
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Carin Vijfhuizen How persistent, that tropical blue sky
poetic verses
'Images that touch us make words redundant.' -- Anne Wil Petterson This collection of poetic verses provides a fascinating insight into everyday life in an African village. By establishing a homestead, we not only enjoy the view from the veranda, but live with the people in the village as they creatively secure a livelihood, consult their spirits, healers and prophets and fear the power of the witches. We experience the remnants of the colonial period and the governance of the village, chieftaincy...
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Engels | 173 pagina's (ePub3, 11 MB) | Elikser Uitgeverij, Leeuwarden | 2022
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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...
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Engels | Latijn | PDF, 11 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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David Pinho Barros The clear line in comics and cinema
a transmedial approach
The "clear line", a term coined in 1977 by Dutch essayist and artist Joost Swarte, has become shorthand in the field of comics studies for the style originally developed by Hergé and the École de Bruxelles. It refers to certain storytelling strategies that generate a deceptively simple, lucid and hygienic narration: in Philippe Marion's words, it is a style "made out of light, fluidity and limpid clarity". By cataloguing and critically analysing clear line comics from historical and theoretical...
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Engels | PDF, 18 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Rosa Swann Making a family collection
an omegaverse mates world romance
When your idea of asking a cute Omega to be your pretend-husband for a weekend takes an unexpected turn... Clay I have my pride as an Alpha, and I don't want to be the only unmated sibling at my youngest sister's wedding. What's a successful, but bachelor, Alpha to do? Well, maybe ask the cute Omega frequenting my cafe to be my fake husband for the weekend. Only, I didn't expect a weekend of fun to go so very differently... Aiden The day after my sister leaves her three-month-old to look after,...
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Engels | 462 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Easily Distracted Media, [Groningen] | 2022
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Rosa Swann Making a family collection
an omegaverse mates world romance
When your fated mate becomes your husband and you gain a whole lot of new family... Clay If I thought that planning a wedding party in two days, after my spontaneous proposal, would be difficult, we now have the added difficulty of needing to take care of Wes and his kids too. But I'm not giving up, not on either of those things. I will protect Wes and I will also give Aiden the life that he deserves... Aiden Taking care of Wes' kids isn't the hardest task in the world, it's Wes himself who...
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Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Easily Distracted Media, [Groningen] | 2022
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Rosa Swann Omegas' destined alpha collection
an omegaverse mates world romance
Two Omegas. One kiss. And an Alpha who wasn't supposed to see it happen... Nathan I'm supposed to be an author, but I haven't finished a book in years. Not since things got out of control. So, to hopefully get back on my feet, I move to a new city, start teaching at college and suddenly find myself intrigued by two Omegas that pass me by every morning. One day, on a whim, I follow them and see something I shouldn't have seen. A kiss. A beautiful kiss. And it's the start of a journey I never expected...
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Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Easily Distracted Media, [Groningen] | 2022
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Rosa Swann Omegas' destined alpha collection
an omegaverse mates world romance
Three mates. One set of parents set on breaking them apart. And one long journey nobody is going to forget any time soon... Nathan The day started off so well, I went to see a house I was interested in and even put an offer on it. I just want a place where we can be together as a family, somewhere we can be safe. So I didn't expect it to end sitting in a chair, on a stage, about to be interviewed on live TV and with no idea about what's going to happen next... Zeke After a couple of days of...
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Engels | 406 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Easily Distracted Media, [Groningen] | 2022
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Linda Udo A royal conspiracy
the mystery behind the death of Princess Diana revealed
London 1991: "What I am about to tell you is not intended for anyone else's ears. Remember that well, warns the man. Because the terrain we are going to enter is that of high treason. This plot must never be discovered!" John Major, Prime Minister of Great Britain, walks out through the long palace corridor. So he's just the first informed of an unimaginable, chilling and incomprehensible plan under the codename 'Mission Escape'. London 1996: Diana Spencer's fairytale wedding to British Crown Prince...
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Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2) | NAU Publisher, Blaricum | 2022
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Kadoc Territories of faith
religion, urban planning and demographic change in post-war Europe
In the 1950s and 1960s, thousands of churches were built across Europe in an attempt to keep up with the continent's rapid urbanisation. This book addresses the immense effort related to the planning, financing, and construction of this new religious infrastructure. Going beyond aspects of style and liturgy, and transcending a focus on particular architects or regions, this volume considers church building at the crossroads of pastoral theology, religious sociology, and urban planning. Presenting...
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Engels | PDF, 6,3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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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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Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain
Many of the most significant studies devoted to Ambrogio Spinola have focused on one particular aspect of his life: his successful military career. This volume, through its interdisciplinary and cultural approach, breaks open this all too narrow perspective and expands our understanding of Spinola and his world. As a great military strategist and Catholic knight, entrepreneur in the international finance market, courtier, and diplomat, Spinola was certainly a Genoese, but he was also a member of...
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Engels | PDF, 16 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Anna Chojnacka Kilimanjaro as medicine
Anna Chojnacka is thirty, married with two young children, and running a thriving company. She's living life to the fullest - until she's diagnosed with MS. While searching for a way to live her life without strong medication, she meets "The Iceman" Wim Hof. To gain strength, she takes his courses, exposing herself to extreme cold. Ultimately, she takes part in a climbing expedition he leads up Mount Kilimanjaro, which not only succeeds, but does so in record time. While she's completing this difficult...
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Engels | 99 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | [Uitgever Onmisbaar], [Amsterdam] | 2022
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States of emergency
architecture, urbanism, and the First World War
More than one hundred years after the conclusion of the First World War, the edited collection States of Emergency. Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War reassesses what that cataclysmic global conflict meant for architecture and urbanism from a human, social, economic, and cultural perspective. Chapters probe how underdevelopment and economic collapse manifested spatially, how military technologies were repurposed by civilians, and how cultures of education, care, and memory emerged from...
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Engels | 351 pagina's (PDF, 15 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Pedro Moura Visualising small traumas
contemporary Portuguese comics at the intersection of everyday trauma
Portugal's vibrant comics scene originated as early as the 19th century, bringing forth brilliant individual artists, but has remained mostly unknown beyond Portugal's borders to this day. Now a new generation employs this medium to put into question hegemonic views on the economy, politics, and society. Following the experience of the financial crisis of the past decades and its impact on social policies, access to and rules of public discourse, and civil strife, comics have questioned what constitutes...
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Engels | 237 pagina's (PDF, 2,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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The truths of psychoanalysis
Truth has always been a central philosophical category, occupying different fields of knowledge and practice. In the current moment of fake news and alternative facts, it is mandatory to revisit the various meanings of truth. Departing from various approaches to psychoanalytic theory and practice, the authors gathered in this book offer critical reflections and insights about truth and its effects. In articulations of psychoanalysis with (for instance) philosophy, ethics, and politics, the reader...
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Engels | PDF, 3,4 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Sarah Hegenbart From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso
Christoph Schlingensief’s Opera Village Africa as postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk?
Opera Village Africa, a participatory art experiment by the late German multimedia artist Christoph Schlingensief, serves as a testing ground for a critical interrogation of Richard Wagner's notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner's introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Bayreuth to Schlingensief's attempt to charge the idea of the total artwork with new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso. Schlingensief developed Opera Village in...
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Engels | PDF, 16 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Maarten A. Oversier The right to be
exposing the surpressed history we still carry within us
Echoes of unresolved trauma from our past, even past lives, can cause physical, psychological, or emotional ailments that present-day humans suffer. But what is the real genesis of these traumas? In the more than 25 years that Maarten Oversier has been a practicing reincarnation and regression therapist, he has discovered that the source can always be found within three specific historical domains. The shocking, and therefore often repressed experiences of our ancestors, the hell of two recent world...
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Engels | 383 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | LondonBooks, [Bodegraven] | 2022
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Who owns Africa?
neocolonialism, investment, and the new scramble
The independence of African countries from their European colonizers in the late 1950s and 1960s marked a shift in the continent's political leadership. Nevertheless, the economies of African nations remained tied to those of their former colonies, raising questions of resource control and the sovereignty of these nation-states. Who Owns Africa? addresses the role of foreign actors in Africa and their competing interests in exploiting the resources of Africa and its people. An interdisciplinary team...
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Engels | PDF, 2,7 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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