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Jules Verne Around the world in 80 days
Phileas Fogg is English exactitude personified. He eats breakfast at 8:23, shaves at 9:37, and leaves for the Reform club at 11:30. He reads, eats, and doesn't travel. But one day, after getting into an argument over an article in the Daily Telegraph, he is prompted to make the £20.000 wager with his club friends that he can travel all the way around the world in eighty days. And so he leaves, accompanied only by his new French valet Passepartout: it is 8:45 P.M. on Wednesday the 2nd of October 1872...
Engels | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Priya Kuriyan | Nayan Chanda Around the World With a Chilli
Behind the humble chilli is a fascinating story that takes one around the world. This story is not just about the spicy chilli, but also about the adventures of brave warriors and traders, about stormy seas and new lands. Enjoy this fascinating account written by a renowned expert on globalization. 'Around the World With a Chilli' is written by Nayan Chanda. © Pratham Books, 2015. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. 'Around the World With a Chilli' has been published on StoryWeaver...
Engels | 37 minuten (27 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Maurice Leblanc Arsene Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series Lupin with Omar Sy. After Arsene Lupin is suspected of yet another grand theft with a mysterious blonde accomplice, the Parisienne police are at their wits' end. Time to call in Sherlock Holmes. Will France's greatest thief be able to outwit England's most famous detective or has he finally met his match? Two fast-paced adventures full of twists and turns, "The Blonde Lady" and "The Jewish Lamp" will keep readers thrilled as two of literature's...
Engels | 7 uur 2 minuten (306 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Joes Segal Art and politics
between purity and propaganda
At first glance, art and politics seem like they couldn't be more separate, with politics focused on the grubbiness of everyday reality and art busily creating a fantasy world of creative expression. Yet the two realms frequently come together, and the collision can be fiery. This book explores the position of art and artists under a number of different political regimes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, traveling around the world to consider how art and politics have interacted and influenced...
Non-fictie
Engels | 126 pagina's (ePub2, 8,9 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Victoria and Albert Museum Art Deco, 1910-1939
Standaardwerk over de kunstrichting, voorzien van veel afbeeldingen in kleur.
Non-fictie
Engels | 464 pagina's | V&A Publications, London | 2003
Gedrukt boek
Art history after Deleuze and Guattari
At the crossroads of philosophy, artistic practice, and art history Though Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were not strictly art historians, they reinvigorated ontological and formal approaches to art, and simultaneously borrowed art historical concepts for their own philosophical work. They were dedicated modernists, inspired by the German school of expressionist art historians such as Riegl, Wölfflin, and Worringer and the great modernist art critics such as Rosenberg, Steinberg, Greenberg,...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 2,1 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
E-book
Tove Jansson Art in Nature
Immerse yourself in this riveting short story collection where art takes center stage - but not always for the better. Journey with an elderly caretaker who resolves a couple's spat over a painting, revealing the art market's complexities. Follow a draughtsman whose obsession with locomotives derails his love life, and a cartoonist who risks his sanity to fill in for a troubled colleague. Through tales that are witty yet unsettling, Jansson confronts obsession, ambition, and the pitfalls of artistic...
Engels | 3 uur 55 minuten (170 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
Luisterboek (digitaal)
University of Edinburgh The art of being dangerous
exploring women and danger through creative expression
The idea that women are dangerous - individually or collectively - runs throughout history and across cultures. Behind this label lies a significant set of questions about the dynamics, conflicts, identities and power relations with which women live today. The Art of Being Dangerous offers many different images of women, some humorous, some challenging, some well-known, some forgotten, but all unique. In a dazzling variety of creative forms, artists and writers of diverse identities explore what...
Non-fictie
Engels | 253 pagina's (PDF) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
E-book
Peter de Ruiter The art of bodypainting
bonus e-book English
Kennismaking via dit bonus e-book met de gedrukte versie: een luxe koffietafelboek met daarin een overzicht van het werk van 45 hedendaagse bodypainters.
Engels | 75 pagina's | PixelPerfect Publications, Den Haag | 2012
E-book
John Booth The art of Fabergé
Geschiedenis van het Russische juweliershuis, waarvan Peter Carl (1846-1920), zoon van de oprichter, zorgde voor een ommekeer in de traditionele juwelencultuur.
Non-fictie
Engels | 191 pagina's | Grange Books, London | 1996
Gedrukt boek
Luc Smekens The art pope
The Art Pope is a critique on contemporary art and the way the Belgian state treats its visual artists. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Non-fictie
Engels | 26 pagina's (ePub2, 0,1 MB) | Schrijverspunt, Almelo | 2018
E-book
Paul Read Art teacher
This is a superb debut... gritty, disturbing and pacy. It opens with thrilling intensity and never lets up. ' -- Alex Lake, author of After AnnaPatrick Owen managed seven years at Highfields Secondary School without punching a pupil in the face. Unknowingly drawn into a war against his own pupils, Patrick's patience finally snaps as he finds himself the number one target with the boy the school just can't seem to expel. When one of his Art students needs his help, she unwittingly pulls Patrick further...
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Orpheus Institute Artistic experimentation in music
an anthology
Essential reading for anyone interested in artistic research applied to music. This book is the first anthology of writings about the emerging subject of artistic experimentation in music. This subject, as part of the cross-disciplinary field of artistic research, cuts across boundaries of the conventional categories of performance practice, music analysis, aesthetics, and music pedagogy. The texts, most of them specially written for this volume, have a common genesis in the explorations of the Orpheus...
Non-fictie
Engels | 416 pagina's (PDF, 5 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
E-book
Orpheus Institute Artistic research in music: discipline and resistance
artists and researchers at the Orpheus Institute
The Orpheus Institute celebrates 20 years of artistic research in music. Artistic research in music is now at a generational stage of development. How should it deal with its own maturing? From a kaleidoscope of individual pursuits, ethos and methodologies have emerged to encompass more distributed approaches. This transformation has taken place in parallel with changes in the dynamics and structures of culture, its institutions and constituencies. Artistic research maintains a productive dialectic...
Non-fictie
Engels | 316 pagina's (PDF, 5 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
E-book
Reinold Widemann Artists' conceptions of money
money art and artificial money
In this book eighty money-artists are presented. In the past some old masters and modern ones used to make money the subject of their works of art. Beside using money as a source of inspiration, they expressed their views on the meaning of money in their artworks as well. Nowadays a growing number of contemporary artists are producing art in which they critically comment on the meaning of money in our present financialized society. Their artistic comments are useful eye-openers to reconsider the...
Non-fictie
Engels | 185 pagina's (PDF, 7,3 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2018
E-book
Matthew Crow Ashes
A lawless land of violence and deprivation, The Meadow Well Estate is a no-go area for police and non-residents alike and a hotbed of ritual violence. No-one dares enter of their own accord, and few make it out alive. But Jack was one of the good ones. Recently released from prison, he is determined to turn his life completely around: by getting out. When, however, rumours spark of the police's involvement in the death of two young joy riders, the anxieties of the estate flare into a week-long riot,...
Engels | ePub, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Carissa Broadbent The ashes & the star-cursed king
Na afloop van de Kejari is alles wat Oraya voor waar hield vernietigd. Ze heeft maar één zekerheid: ze kan niemand vertrouwen. Als Raihn haar een geheime alliantie aanbiedt, wordt ze gedwongen om te kiezen tussen een bloedige machtsstrijd en een liefde die haar ondergang kan worden.
Fictie
Engels | 590 pagina's | Tor, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Chris Bradford Assassin
Connor wordt ingehuurd als Buddyguard om Feliks, de zoon van de Russische politicus Viktor Malkov, te beschermen. Maar Viktor is doelwit van de Russische maffia. Connor moet samenwerken met zijn rivaal Jason om Feliks te behoeden voor ontvoering of liquidatie. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 373 pagina's | Puffin, UK | 2017
Gedrukt boek
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
E-book
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
E-book
Engels