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Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her...
Engels | ePub2, 0,9 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021
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Rembrandt Koppelaar | Willem Middelkoop The Tesla revolution
why big oil has lost the energy war
Informatie in de vorm van vraag en antwoord over de ingrijpende veranderingen in de energievoorziening en de gevolgen daarvan voor het dagelijks leven.
Non-fictie
Engels | 334 pagina's (ePub2, 4,3 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2017
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Hannah Elisa Walsh Terror-organisation
the dawn of the True Islam and the real IRA
Samir and Siobhan, a young Dutch radical Muslim and a young Northern-Irish woman, are radicalising. Samir, from within the fundamentalist Islam, Siobhan from within the real IRA who co-operates with the terror-organisation: The Dawn of the True Islam. This international Islamic terror-organisation has developed a secret weapon: a tiny poisonous ball that is capable of destroying all life within a few minutes in a certain room or building. Siobhan is going to test the secret weapon after her training...
Fictie
Engels | 196 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2021
E-book
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...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 6,3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Hannah Hendy A Terrible Village Poisoning
The local mayor has a dinner date with death… With school out for the summer, dinner ladies Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker are off on holiday to the picturesque village of St-Martins-on-the-Water. But on their first night, their meal at the hotel ends in disaster, when the local mayor is found dead on the restaurant floor, supposedly poisoned by his dinner. The village has a history of poisoning, and the locals are convinced the Poisoner is back. Immediately suspicion turns on Margery and...
Engels | 8 uur 3 minuten (352 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
John Boyne The terrible thing that happened to Barnaby Brocket
Barnaby Brocket zweeft. Dat vinden zijn ouders niet normaal, dus ze sturen hem weg. Barnaby reist de wereld over en ontmoet allerlei mensen die anders zijn. Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 277 pagina's | Doubleday, London | 2012
Gedrukt boek
Claire G. Coleman Terra Nullius
Australië in de toekomst wordt gekoloniseerd door een buitenaards ras, op een manier die erg doet denken aan de kolonisatiepraktijken door de Engelsen in de 20e eeuw.
Fictie
Engels | 310 pagina's | Small Beer Press, Easthampton, MA | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Lauren Asher Terms and conditions
Schijnhuwelijk tussen een chagrijnige erfgenaam van het pretpark Dreamland en zijn zonnige assistente.
Fictie
Engels | 353 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Love Books, Amsterdam | 2022
E-book
Amanda Prowse The Ten Pound Ticket
A Short Story - No Greater Love
Australia, 1962: Susie has just arrived on the boat from England. She is clutching a newborn baby, but she has no wedding ring on her left hand. The land is dusty and hot, and the work is hard and tiring. All Susie wants is to go home. But with no money, and no hope, how can she turn her life around? Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 64 pagina's (ePub2, 3,2 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2014
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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
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Santa Montefiore The temptation of Gracie
Een 68-jarige Engelse weduwe gaat terug naar Italië waar ze vroeger heeft gewoond en haar grote liefde heeft gevonden.
Fictie
Engels | 402 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, a CBS Company, London | 2019
Gedrukt boek
Sarah Adams The temporary roomie
a novel
Jessie is zeven maanden zwanger. Als haar waterleiding springt heeft ze nieuwe woonruimte nodig.
Fictie
Engels | 320 pagina's | Dell, New York | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Temple of Zong? Never heard of.
novel
Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated by the Vietminh. In the south, the French are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in Saigon in power. We meet him in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarked from a French ocean liner in search of a monastery that a dream said had to be somewhere in the mountains of Annam. It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents a small skeleton. Accompanying the chest was a manuscript...
Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023
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Koert ter Veen The templars
laying a legend to rest
There is scarcely an historical subject which arouses the fantasy as much as the history of the secretive Order of the Temple. Although it has been disbanded for nearly 700 years, books continue to appear about these religious knights. In these books it is claimed that the Templars uncovered the grave of Jesus, that they were the discoverers of America and the guardians of the Turin Shroud or that they found the Holy Grail. There are also critical writings about the Templars. They were supposed to...
Non-fictie
Engels | 328 pagina's (PDF, 3,6 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2021
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Phoebe Walker Temper
"There’s a gap where my sense of place should be. It’s quite a useful one sometimes. It allows me to sit on the cusp of an opinion." Following a move to the Netherlands, a young woman dissects the developments of her new life: awkward exchanges with the people she meets, days spent alone freelancing in her apartment, her confrontation with boredom and unease. In her newfound isolation, she develops an unusual friendship with Colette, a woman she neither likes nor can keep away from. As her feelings...
Engels | 4 uur 25 minuten (192 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Jane Fallon Tell me a secret
Als Holly (43), alleenstaande moeder van Ashley (22) promotie krijgt op de scriptafdeling van een populaire soapserie, merkt ze als snel dat ze in haar werk gesaboteerd wordt. Ze roept de hulp in van goede vrienden.
Fictie
Engels | ePub3, 7,3 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
E-book
Jamie Thomson The teenage years
De Dark Lord, de heerser van de Dark Lands, wordt verbannen in het lichaam van een 13-jarige Engelse jongen. Het valt niet mee om zijn weg te vinden in deze voor hem krankzinnige wereld. En hoe komt hij terug in zijn eigen wereld? Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 342 pagina's | Orchard, London | 2011
Gedrukt boek
Amy le Feuvre Teddy's Button
Teddy loves to tell the story of how his father heroically died on the battlefield. He wants to become a soldier just like him. But this brings contention and strife when a new girl comes to town. Nancy is just as selfishly proud as he is and from the beginning, they are enemies. Yet as time passes, they learn to put their prejudices to the side, allowing a new friendship to bloom. Amelia Sophia Le Feuvre (1861-1929) war born in Lee, Kent, the daughter of an H. M. Customs surveyor and granddaughter...
Engels | 2 uur 28 minuten (109 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Auguste van der Molenschot Tears from Brabant
a novel
This is a novel with many themes. It is about Brabant, a land that is presently half in the Netherlands and the other half in Belgium. It is also the story of a little Brabanter boy, born the year Adolf Hitler came to power. The boy wants a good life and that is not so easy because the Catholic Brabanters are kept down by the Calvinist Hollanders. Many other modern themes come by, such as the Second World War, the emancipation (of women but also of the Catholics), the pill and its effects, secularization,...
Fictie
Engels | 286 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2018
E-book
Frans Bouman | Marieta Koopmans Team leadership
People enjoy working in teams. An ideal team will work together efficiently, effectively and above all with pleasure. They set about achieving their personal and organisational goals together with enthusiasm. But experience teaches us that working in teams does not always match the ideal image we may have of it. A smooth running team demands a lot of patience on your part, insight into the psychological aspects of people and familiarity with team dynamics. Thats why you need a number of different...
Non-fictie
Engels | 141 pagina's (ePub2, 1,9 MB) | Thema, Zaltbommel | 2010
E-book
Engels