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Anna Bridgwater Sister on Borrowed Time
In November 2005 a young woman, Margaret, dies of leukemia. In this moving and personal book Margaret’s sister, the journalist and writer Anna Bridgwater, tells about the years leading up to her death – about life as a young woman in Copenhagen, about family, love, heartache and calamities, and about the diagnosis that changed everything. Sister on Borrowed Time is a story about hope and about loving someone with cancer. It is a story about searching for a bone marrow donor in the attempt to cure...
Engels | 4 uur 44 minuten (222 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Brahma Khumaris Learn How to Meditate
"Learn How to Meditate" by Brahma Khumaris is a musical, guided meditation. It offers a simple introduction to meditation, with clear instruction to help you unwind and calm your mind. The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University is an international organisation working at all levels of society for positive change. Established in 1937 it now carries out a wide range of educational programmes for the development of human and spiritual values throughout its 4000 branches in over 86 countries....
Engels | 41 minuten (30 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Rachel Stone Mindfulness
How many times have we been encouraged to see the cup half-full instead of half-empty? Oftentimes in western society, the push to be optimistic and to think positive is drilled into us from a young age. However, if one is beginning to become more mindful, the transition to mindfulness may feel a little jarring. Instead of focusing just on the positive aspect of life, mindfulness encourages a realistic outlook on life that embraces the good and the bad, the positive, the negative, and the neutral....
Engels | 2 uur 26 minuten (108 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Albert A. Anderson Fading of the Light
A Love Story
"The Fading of the Light: A Love Story" is Albert A. Anderson’s touching account of the loss of his wife to Alzheimer’s disease. The poems contained in this collection were a way for him to deal with the effects this incurable illness had not only on his wife, but on him and their nearest and dearest. In publishing this incredibly personal journey, he hopes he can bring some solace to readers in a similar situation, who have to deal with a slow yet inevitable loss. Albert A. Anderson, Ph.D.,...
Engels | 56 minuten (41 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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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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Rasmus Broe Ambience - Fireside
Wind-down to the sounds of nature. The logs in the fireplace are kindling away, and warmth is spreading in the room around you. The grandfather´s clock is ticking away, and the cat is stretching and purring on the floor. You are sitting in a soft armchair, peacefully contemplating the flames´ dance in front of you. Research has shown that natural sounds can have both a relaxing and a stimulating effect on the brain. Saga Sounds is a series of pleasant, varied soundscapes, which you can listen...
Engels | 4 uur 30 minuten (196 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2019
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Rasmus Broe Ambience - In the Forest
Wind-down to the sounds of nature. The sunshine twirls in the green treetops, which rustle gently in the breeze. Birds twitter and chirp, and in the distance, you hear a peaceful babbling brook. You are in a lush, serene forest; alone with nature´s music. Research has shown that natural sounds can have both a relaxing and stimulating effect on the brain. Saga Sounds is a series of pleasant, varied soundscapes, which you can listen to when winding down, going to sleep or focusing at work. A specially...
Engels | 4 uur 20 minuten (190 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2019
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Anna Katharine Green The House in the Mist
"Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive..." When young traveller Hugh Austen, hungry and weather-beaten, seeks refuge in a lonely mansion, he finds himself entwined in the gruesome business of an appalling family. Mistaken for a relative himself, he soon learns that the will of a dead man is about the be read, an inheritance about to be divided. But only between the family members who are present at the appointed hour. With `The House in the Mist‘ (1905), detective writer Anna Katharine Green departs...
Engels | 1 uur 50 minuten (83 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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F. Scott. Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned
Anthony does not want to work. Why should he? He gets by comfortably on his allowance and once his grandfather dies he will inherit so much that he never needs to think about money again. When he falls in love with the beautiful Gloria and they become part of the wild party scene of New York, it seems that Anthony has made it. But his grandfather’s will is just around the corner and it is about to blow up their lives in a way they could never have foreseen. One of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most accomplished...
Engels | 12 uur 53 minuten (592 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
One night at Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and greedy man, gets a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner. The ghost warns him about the awful punishment that awaits if he continues to live his life selfishly. The next three nights, Scrooge is visited by three separate spirits who confront him with Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. Will the horrors and the joy Scrooge sees make him change his ways? Adapted for film and television more times than any other...
Engels | 3 uur 11 minuten (145 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Arnold Bennett How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
With the advent of the modern corporate workplace in the twenty-first century, more and more people are toiling away behind desks, wearily clocking the standard forty-hour week. By 1910, writer Arnold Bennett had observed a worrying trend of exhausted wage earners whose waking hours revolved around their jobs and who had little time to spend on the business of actually living. Self-improvement was Bennett’s prescription for a speedy escape from the woes of the rat race. In his popular work How to...
Engels | 1 uur 19 minuten (60 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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Brahma Khumaris Practical Guidelines For Meditation
Half lecture, half commentary: explore the concept of the self and the Supreme Being. In a simple form, understand the beauty of Raja Yoga meditation and how spiritual awareness is needed to link the self and God. The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University is an international organisation working at all levels of society for positive change.nnEstablished in 1937 it now carries out a wide range of educational programmes for the development of human and spiritual values throughout its 4000 branches...
Engels | 55 minuten (43 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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Francien Regelink Dope
My (un)settled life with ADHD
Why can't I seem to concentrate? Why am I so easily distracted? Why can I only get something done when the deadline is approaching? Why do some seemingly easy tasks take so much effort? And why do emotions seem to hit me so incredibly hard? Whether you have ADHD or know someone who does, you won't want to miss 'Dope'-a smart, funny, and remarkably candid account of life with ADHD. In 'Dope', Francien offers an unfiltered glimpse into her life, drawing on her own experiences and the latest research...
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub3, 0,9 MB) | Blossom Books BOLD, Zeist | 2025
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Rachel Elisabeth Sir, I’m obsessed
18+. Since she became a mother, Elara's life - and the relationship with her husband - has altered drastically. A new colleague starts working at her firm, a handsome, mysterious man who makes every effort to keep his past tightly under wraps. Her days become ruled by the excitement he brings into her life, and she finds herself increasingly addicted and obsessed. His darkness slowly corrupts her... will she ever see the light again? Rachel Elisabeth lives with her family in Brabant. She is known...
Engels | 174 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Sextories, Prinsenbeek | 2025
E-book
Medisch zakboek op reis
1.001 medische termen, vragen & uitleg van Nederlands in het Engels
Handig digitaal zakboekje bij bezoek aan arts, apotheek, tandarts of ziekenhuis samengesteld voor de Bibliotheken onder de naam MediBieb om te voorzien in compacte, betrouwbare medische informatie voor bibliotheekleden. In dit e-book staan de meest gebruikte vaktermen in begrijpelijke taal toegelicht en uitgelegd. Voor een eerste antwoord op een vraag, of een start voor een nader onderzoek. De samenstellers hiervan zijn medische specialisten die al vele handboeken en encyclopedieën hebben verzorgd...
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 152 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Xsebra/Medica press, Stuifzand | 2015
E-book
Garmt van Soest ALS dan toch
Persoonlijk relaas van een man met de ongeneeslijke spierziekte ALS, die ondanks de sombere prognose probeert een normaal leven te leiden.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 355 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | Lucht, Amsterdam | 2015
E-book
Anja van den Broeck | Hermina van Coillie | Jacques Forest | Marcus B. Muller The ABC of Work Motivation
How to Energize Any Organization
What are the innate and universal ingredients to stimulate employee well-being and performance? This book will help you learn more about these, based on the latest research in motivational science. Motivation is the key to our lives. Whether at work, at home, at school or on the sports field, we constantly need to find ways to motivate ourselves and those we support. What if, instead of motivational tricks, we could rely on a positive, universal, and surprisingly simple point of view: that of Self-Determination...
Engels | 208 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2024
E-book
Els van Steijn The fountain, celebrate your life
Understand the art of fully embracing your life
Every human being has something individual and unique to offer themselves and the rest of the world. The moment you stand in your rightful place in the fountain, you feel a surge of energy in your body in the form of fulfillment, enthusiasm, and joy. You perceive that you are embedded in something greater than yourself and feel supported by it. This force directs and guides you in a way that can hardly be articulated, but which can be perceived when you listen to the signals your body receives. This...
Engels | 316 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Het Noorderlicht, Nijmegen | 2024
E-book
Sidney Raven Bruises
Legal advisor Zilla Jongzeel grapples with submissive desires while navigating the pressures of her feminist mother and her marriage to actor Paul Arend. A secret lover fulfills her fantasies, until scandal strikes: photos of her bruises implicate Paul, leading to media backlash. Forced to defend themselves on a talk show, Zilla's world unravels, confronting betrayal and harsh consequences. In a gripping tale of love and self-acceptance, Zilla fights to salvage her fractured relationships amidst...
Engels | 232 pagina's (ePub2, 1,1 MB) | Ellessy, Prinsenbeek | 2024
E-book
Gezin & Gezondheid