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Frank Westerman Alva achterna
de jacht op de hertog(in) van Alva
De hertogin van Alva, 's werelds meest blauwbloedige dame en 15e erfopvolger van onze IJzeren Alva, overleed op 20 november 2014. Als beginnend journalist maakte Frank Westerman op zijn 23e een zomer lang jacht op haar en haar zoon. Het doel: zijn journalistieke debuut in een bijlage van een van de grote kranten. In deze classic Fosfor Longread blikt de auteur in een Don Quichote-achtige vertelling terug op de making-off van de eerste Westerman-reportage. Heeft u de hertog van Alva ook gesproken?...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 26 pagina's (ePub2, 2,2 MB) | Fosfor, Amsterdam | 2014
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Rasit Elibol Camping blues
herinneringen van een thuisblijver
Als jongetje ging Rasit nooit op vakantie. Samen met zijn boezemvriend Okkie hing hij in de zomervakanties rond in de straten Wormer en verveelde zich stierlijk. Vol afgunst zag hij zijn schoolvriendjes vertrekken naar de camping in Frankrijk. Wat ze daar voor fantastische avonturen beleefden daar kon Rasit alleen maar over dromen. Ooit ga ik ook kamperen in Frankrijk, hield hij zichzelf voor. Nu is het zover. Rasit Elibol (Zaandam, 1984) is schrijvend journalist. In 2014 won hij de VPRO Bagagedrager,...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 34 pagina's (ePub2, 4,3 MB) | Fosfor, Amsterdam | 2014
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Gerrit Jan Zwier Pension Waldidylle
het noorden van Duitsland herontdekt
Duitsland mag dan dichtbij zijn, er is veel vreemds en onbekends aan dit land. Denk maar eens aan de Duitse Waddeneilanden als Juist, Baltrum, Amrum en Hooge, of aan de eilanden in de Oostzee. Maar ook het vasteland is rijk aan streken en plekjes waarop de geschiedenis een stempel heeft gedrukt. De verhalen in Pension Waldidylle zijn losjes gerangschikt rond een aantal thema s: het romantische erfgoed, het `kuurcomplex , het `besmette verleden, de Duitse keuken. Dat heeft alles te maken met de speciale...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 202 pagina's (ePub2, 2,1 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2014
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Lex Boon De diepvriesman
In Nederland, Colorado, een dorpje aan de rand van de Rocky Mountains, ligt al twintig jaar een bevroren lijk in een schuurtje. Deze frozen dead guy is de opa van Trygve Bauge, een buitenissige Noorse immigrant. Begin jaren negentig wil hij in Colorado een `cryonisme-instituut beginnen. Het idee: `patièˆnten kunnen zich laten invriezen en vervolgens de dag afwachten dat `vrienden van de toekomst ze weer tot leven wekken. Zijn overleden opa is zijn eerste klant. In 1994 wordt Trygve Bauge Amerika...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 45 pagina's (ePub, 2,4 MB) | Fosfor, Amsterdam | 2014
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Susannah Clapp A Card from Angela Carter
"Angela Carter was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century: much studied, copied and adored. When she died at the age of fifty-one, she had published fifteen books of fiction and essays; outrage at her omission from the shortlists of any Booker Prize led to the foundation of the Orange Prize. February 2012 will be the twentieth anniversary of her death but no biographical work has yet appeared.Susannah Clapp and Angela Carter were friends for years. The postcards that Carter sent to...
Engels | 112 pagina's (1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Nick Rennison Bloomsbury good reading guide
"Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, with navigation features to lead you on a rich journey through some the best literature to grace our shelves. This greatly expanded edition includes the latest contemporary authors and landmark novels, an expanded non-fiction section, a timeline setting historical events against literary milestones, prize-winner...
Engels | 544 pagina's (0,9 MB) | A&C Black Academic and Professional, [London] | 2014
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Benjamin Lorr Hell-bent
"Championship. But this is Bikram Yoga, distinguished from more `conventional forms by extreme heat, an overt, almost masochistic focus on pain, and the rabid materialism of its founder, the enigmatic Bikram Choudhury."
Engels | 320 pagina's (2,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Tom Standage Writing on the wall
"Today we are endlessly connected: constantly tweeting, texting or e-mailing. This may seem unprecedented, yet it is not. Throughout history, information has been spread through social networks, with far-reaching social and political effects. Writing on the Wall reveals how an elaborate network of letter exchanges forewarned of power shifts in Ciceros Rome, while the torrent of tracts circulating in sixteenth-century Germany triggered the Reformation. Standage traces the story of the rise, fall and...
Engels | 288 pagina's (3,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Assert Yourself
"Do you find it hard to say 'no'? Are you tongue-tied in important meetings? Assert Yourself will help you find your voice and stand up for yourself without appearing aggressive.Full of practical advice on how to change the way you work and livefor the better, the book contains a self-assessment quiz, step-by-stepguidance, top tips, common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them,summaries of key points, and lists of handy books and websites."
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Harry Patch | Richard Van Emden The last fighting Tommy
"Harry Patch, the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict.Harry vividly remembers his childhood in the Somerset countryside of Edwardian England. He left school in 1913 to become an apprentice plumber but three years later was conscripted, serving as a machine gunner in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Fighting in the mud and trenches during the Battle of Passchendaele, he...
Engels | 256 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Paul Gilding The great disruption
"It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. Instead we need to brace for impact, because global crisis is no longer avoidable. The `Great Disruption' started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological change like the melting polar icecap. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our planet's...
Engels | 304 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Michael Dobbs Down with Big Brother
"The author of this volume was present during the final decade of the Soviet empire, first for Reuters, then for the "Washington Post". While Dobbs watched, playwrights and elctricians were transformed into presidents, while Communist Party leaders became jailbirds or newly-minted tycoons. He identifies the seeds of destruction, and shows how Mikhail Gorbachev, in particular, was the unwitting inspiration for the upheaval of the empire, while he thought he could save the Communist Party by reforming...
Engels | 513 pagina's (3,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Peter Clarke Mr Churchill's profession
"In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work that occupied Churchill for a quarter century, his four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples.As an author, Churchill faced woes familiar to many others; chronically short of funds, late on deadlines,...
Engels | 368 pagina's (3,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Andrew R. Wilson Harold Robbins
the man who invented sex
"Drugs, corruption, greed and, just sometimes, redemption. The world's first playboy writer, Robbins reportedly frittered away $50 million on fast cars, loose women and high living. But, obsessed with fame and fortune, Robbins was a deeply complex and often controversial man, and even his closest friends and lovers could only guess at the past of the man behind the perma-tanned mask and gigantic mirrored sunglasses. This is the fascinating story of his extraordinary life."
Engels | 320 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Mike Carson The manager
"Whats the best way to build long-term success? How can you lead calmly under pressure? The issues are the same whether youre managing a Premier League football team or a FTSE 100 company. Here, for the first time, some 30 of the biggest names in football management reveal just what it takes. With their every decision, remark, skill, and success or failure under constant scrutiny from the media and the fans, these managers need to be"
Engels | 320 pagina's (0,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Katherine Swift The Morville hours
"In 1988 Katherine Swift arrived at the Dower House at Morville to create a garden of her own. This beautifully written, utterly absorbing book is the history of the many people who have lived in the same Shropshire house, tending the same soil, passing down stories over the generations. Spanning thousands of years, The Morville Hours takes the form of a medieval Book of Hours. It is a meditative journey through the seasons, but also a journey of self-exploration. It is a book about finding one's...
Engels | 384 pagina's (5,4 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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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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James McBride The color of water
"As a boy in Brooklyn's Red Hook projects, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked about it, she'd simply say 'I'm light-skinned.' Later he wondered if he was different too, and asked his mother if he was black or white. 'You're a human being,' she snapped. 'Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!' And when James asked what colour God was, she said 'God is the colour of water.' As an adult, McBride finally persuaded his mother to tell her story - the story of a rabbi's daughter,...
Engels | 256 pagina's (1,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Get that job
CVs
"The job market has never been more competitive, and marketingyourself can be tricky. This title offers practical, step-by-stepadvice on preparing, writing, and presenting an impressive CV that willhelp you 'get your foot in the door' with prospective employers. Covering essential issues such as identifying your goals, creatingdifferent types of CV and a fantastic covering letter to go with them,this is a must-read for all job-hunters."
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,3 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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