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Ambrose Bierce Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War
In "Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War: Bits of Autobiography," Bierce recounts some of his experiences as a soldier. At the outset of the American Civil War, Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment. In February 1862 he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and served on the staff of General William Babcock Hazen as a topographical engineer, making maps of likely battlefields. Bierce fought at the Battle of Shiloh (April 1862), a terrifying experience that became a source...
Engels | 1 uur 39 minuten (73 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Ambrose Bierce The Parenticide Club
"The Parenticide Club" features four short-stories about a family murder, as seen from the eye of its most innocent member, who just might be the murderer himself. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was an American writer, journalist, critic, poet, and Civil War veteran, best known for The Devil's Dictionary (1911). He dominated the horror genre as the preeminent innovator of supernatural storytelling in the period between the death of Edgar Allan Poe and the rise of H.P. Lovecraft. Bierce’s death was...
Engels | 48 minuten (35 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Jan Bijker Ten influencing skills
A challenging book to improve your influencing skills. Manager, consultant, member of the Works Council: in any of these functions you want to exert maximum influence to reach your goals. There are quite some ways to do this. You can reason and give logical arguments, you can paint a picture about an attractive future perspective or give compliments. This book describes ten different influencing skills that you can learn to use and to apply yourself. Influencing is not about using communication tricks....
Non-fictie
Engels | 53 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | Thema, Zaltbommel | 2012
E-book
Anita Bijsterbosch Who will dance with Little Mouse?
Little Mouse is op zoek naar iemand om mee te dansen. Maar alle dieren willen iets anders: de luiaard wil hangen, de kikker zwemmen en de slak wil kruipen. Oblong prentenboek met paginagrote illustraties in heldere, frisse kleuren. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 26 pagina's | Clavis, New York | 2016
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Andries Bik Grand Hotel Prison
Dutch prisonlife; Drugs, Steaks & Playstations, true story by Andries Bik
When a heavily armed SWAT team storms into his home, Andries Bik is accused of large-scale fraud and money laundering. In Grand Hotel Prison he reveals the surprising luxury inside Dutch prisons. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 9 uur 37 minuten (830 MB) | Bookora, Zeist | 2024
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Parker Bilal The golden scales
"Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a dangerous and glittering world. Hanafi is the owner of a star-studded football team and their most valuable player has vanished. His disappearance threatens to bring down not only the businessman's private empire but also the entire country. Makana encounters...
Engels | 416 pagina's (1,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
E-book
Mark Billingham Lazybones - Tom Thorne Series
The first corpse was found hooded, bound, and naked, kneeling ona bare mattress in a seedy hotel room. This was no ordinary murder but rather the work of a killer driven by something special, somethingspectacular. The fact that the dead man was a convicted rapist recently released from prison only increases the bizarre nature of the gruesome crime ... and the police's reluctance to apprehend the perpetrator. It's the body count that troubles Detective Inspector Tom Thorne, as brutal slaying follows...
Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009
E-book
Mark Billingham The Burning Girl - Tom Thorne Series
Some fires never go out ...X marks the spot -- and when that spot is a corpse's naked back and the X is carved in blood, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is in no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a particularly vicious contract killer. It's morbid and messy -- but it's a mystery with plenty of clues. This is turf warfare between North London gangs. Organized crime boss Billy Ryan is moving into someone else's territory, and that someone is ready to stand up for what he believes is his.Thorne's...
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009
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Mark Billingham Lifeless - Tom Thorne Series
Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Having seriously crossed the line on his last case and depressed over the recent suspicious death of his father, the once ambitious police detective has been reduced to pushing papers . . . and is being encouraged to take a prolonged leave of duty.But someone is stalking the city's most destitute citizens. Three homeless men have recently been kicked to death, each brutalized corpse discovered with a banknote pinned to its chest. With nothing to lose, Thorne volunteers...
Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009
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Maeve Binchy Minding Frankie
Een terminaal zieke moeder draagt de zorg voor haar babyzoontje over aan diens biologische vader, waarvoor zijn leven drastisch moet veranderen.
Fictie
Engels | 425 pagina's | Orion Books, London | 2011
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Cathy Birchall Touching the World
"Touching the World" is the extraordinary story of Cathy Birchall, a blind woman, who set off with her companion Bernard Smith, to become the first blind person ever to circle the world on a motorbike, an 18-year-old BMW R100. What transpired has become an inspirational, worldwide story that challenges people to question their own self-imposed boundaries. From desolate and dangerous mountain roads, difficult border crossings and numerous mechanical breakdowns, to climbing Wayna Picchu (first ever...
Engels | 19 uur 7 minuten (835 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Pip Bird The naughtiest unicorn on holiday
Mira gaat met school kamperen in Wild Woods. Haar eenhoorn Dave gaat mee. Zal het ze lukken om de tent op te zetten? En wie maakt er zoveel lawaai 's nachts? Met veel grappige tekeningen in zwart-wit. Vanaf ca. 7 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 145 pagina's | Farshore, London | 2021
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Tim Birkhead Bird sense
"What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the...
Engels | 288 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
E-book
Sven Biscop This Is Not a New World Order
Europe Rediscovers Geopolitics, from Ukraine to Taiwan
If every event in international politics is a turning point, one can only go and lie down, out of sheer dizziness. In reality, we have been living in the same multipolar world for more than three decades. Europeans are only now again getting used to how such a world of great powers works. In the process, the European Union has rediscovered the importance of geopolitics. Without geopolitical awareness, crafting good strategy is impossible. But not every problem is geopolitical, and strategy covers...
Engels | 101 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Owl press, Edegem | 2024
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Matthew Bishop | Michael Green The road from ruin
"Bankruptcies, soaring unemployment, and millions of families losing their homes, lay the bloody corpse of a set of ideas that had underpinned the economics of the previous 30 years. Capitalism based on markets, especially"
Engels | 336 pagina's (2,4 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
E-book
Mark Bjaer Break Through Phobias
A phobia is a strong irrational fear that induces high levels of panic or anxiety, and often results in complete avoidance of particular situations or circumstances. What is being experienced is the natural self-defense mechanism the fight-or-flight response, responding to psychological fear and worry instead of real physical danger. The rewind technique in this programme is designed to correct these faulty templates so that the fight-or-flight response is only triggered in the event of real danger....
Engels | 30 minuten (22 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Mark Bjaer Leave Trauma Behind
Traumatic incidents can result in people suffering from a range of anxiety disorders, which are linked to our natural survival system, the flight-or-fight response. Problems occur when the fight-or-flight response is triggered when we are not in real physical danger, when we are simply reacting to a faulty template stored in the limbic system of the brain. The rewind technique that you will learn and use in this download will correct these faulty templates so that the fight-or-flight response is...
Engels | 41 minuten (30 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Holly Black Doll bones
Zach, Poppy en Alice beleven met hun actiefiguren en poppen allerlei avonturen. Maar als Zach's vader de poppen weggooid, verschijnt er een spookachtige pop in hun dromen. Deze pop stuurt hen op een laatste avontuur. Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 244 pagina's | Doubleday, London | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Holly Black The wicked king
Jude heeft de nieuwe koning Cardan aan haar gebonden. Maar iemand aan het hof probeert haar te verraden. Hierdoor loopt niet alleen zij gevaar, maar ook haar naasten. Zal Jude erachter komen wie de verrader is? Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 326 pagina's | Hot Key Books, London | 2019
Gedrukt boek
Holly Black The cruel prince
Drie mensenkinderen moeten zich staande zien te houden in Faerie, een feeënwereld. Aangezien ze geen magie hebben, worden ze niet voor vol aangezien. Jude laat dit niet zomaar gebeuren en neemt het heft in eigen handen. Zo wordt ze een belangrijke spil in de op handen zijnde troonsverwisseling. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 370 pagina's | Hot Key Books, London | 2018
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