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Jeffrey Archer Willy and the Killer Kipper
Willy series
The world’s largest submarine The Neptune is missing, lost somewhere at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. When Willy hears about it, he sets out right away with rambunctious Randolph, his fuzzy teddy, to rescue the crew of The Neptune. Along the way he’ll meet Sybil Seagull, The Rightaway Bird and Boris the Blue Whale, who will help him take on Konrad the Killer Kipper who has taken the crew of the Neptune hostage. Can Willy and his new found friends save the crew before they become Konrad’s lunch?...
Engels | ePub3, 10 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022
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Lev Tolstoj War and Peace I
War & Peace
"I'm not looking for 'War and Peace'” is a modern way of saying "keep it short". However, "I am looking for 'War and Peace'" should be on our lips. Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece is a complete semester of Russian and French history, using the zoom button to focus on its impact on families from the aristocracy to the peasants. 'War and Peace I' introduces the five aristocratic families at the heart of the plot. It paints a picture of petty jealousy, pride and forbidden love in the Russian stately homes...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022
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Bert Koene The world of our grandchildren
The future looks brighter than most people think! That is the conclusion of this book after a thorough investigation of present facts, trends and promises of science and technology. The world population will soon stop growing. The consequences of climate change will be far-reaching, but surmountable. Science and technology will, in the 21st century, make enormous progress. They are the shaping forces of the future. This book clearly explains the potential benefits and dangers of innovations from...
Engels | 220 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2015
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Han Peeters The last prophet
In this exciting novel Emile van Straten, a historic scientist, is sailing around the world with his girlfriend Jenny on their sailing yacht the Davy Jones. During their journey UNESCO assigns him to investigate a document that was found on the island Terceira. Then Emile discovers the magical diamond, a tour de force in geometry. A mysterious symbol that turns out to be the key to the unravelling of world mysteries, such as the pyramids of Giza, the Nazca-plain in Peru and the mysterious Moai-statues...
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Engels | 230 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | ClusterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2016
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States of emergency
architecture, urbanism, and the First World War
More than one hundred years after the conclusion of the First World War, the edited collection States of Emergency. Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War reassesses what that cataclysmic global conflict meant for architecture and urbanism from a human, social, economic, and cultural perspective. Chapters probe how underdevelopment and economic collapse manifested spatially, how military technologies were repurposed by civilians, and how cultures of education, care, and memory emerged from...
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Engels | 351 pagina's (PDF, 15 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Olga Smith Contemporary photography in France
between theory and practice
This compelling publication traces the broad arc of photography's development in France from the 1970s to the present day. A decade-by-decade account reveals unexpected points of convergence between practices that are not usually considered in a comparative perspective. These include photographic practices in contemporary art, documentary, photojournalism, and fashion. Author Olga Smith sets these practices in dialogue with French philosophy - the writings of Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and...
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Engels | PDF, 13 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Laurence Bollen | Mugisha Maisha Safari
The nature of humankind emits light
Mukisa was an inquisitive Muslim boy who was gradually brainwashed from when he was 8 years old to help recruit other children from the Kampala ghettos to become child soldiers. Mukisa has a close relationship with his mother Ayana and his true faith and refuses to accept the situation. When it becomes unbearable, escaping to Europe is his only option. This means leaving everything behind, including his mother and sisters. In Europe, he falls into the hands of human traffickers and is forced to sell...
Engels | 196 pagina's (ePub3, 0,9 MB) | Droomvallei Uitgeverij, Breda | 2022
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The truths of psychoanalysis
Truth has always been a central philosophical category, occupying different fields of knowledge and practice. In the current moment of fake news and alternative facts, it is mandatory to revisit the various meanings of truth. Departing from various approaches to psychoanalytic theory and practice, the authors gathered in this book offer critical reflections and insights about truth and its effects. In articulations of psychoanalysis with (for instance) philosophy, ethics, and politics, the reader...
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Engels | PDF, 3,4 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Yvonne Gillissen Building a house
In this series we meet a cheerful, playful little woodsy who gradually discovers itself in a world full of small adventures and wonders. Fiction. Woodsy Dapplefluff is a fantasy figure with distinctive characteristics and human features recognizable to children (from 4-6 years). Each part can be read on its own, but they are all connected. All together they form "THE WORLD OF WOODSY DAPPLEFLUFF" Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Engels | 3 pagina's (ePub3, 1,2 MB) | Xpath Design multimedia producties, Amsterdam | 2022
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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...
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Engels | PDF, 6,3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Who owns Africa?
neocolonialism, investment, and the new scramble
The independence of African countries from their European colonizers in the late 1950s and 1960s marked a shift in the continent's political leadership. Nevertheless, the economies of African nations remained tied to those of their former colonies, raising questions of resource control and the sovereignty of these nation-states. Who Owns Africa? addresses the role of foreign actors in Africa and their competing interests in exploiting the resources of Africa and its people. An interdisciplinary team...
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Engels | PDF, 2,7 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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David Pinho Barros The clear line in comics and cinema
a transmedial approach
The "clear line", a term coined in 1977 by Dutch essayist and artist Joost Swarte, has become shorthand in the field of comics studies for the style originally developed by Hergé and the École de Bruxelles. It refers to certain storytelling strategies that generate a deceptively simple, lucid and hygienic narration: in Philippe Marion's words, it is a style "made out of light, fluidity and limpid clarity". By cataloguing and critically analysing clear line comics from historical and theoretical...
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Engels | PDF, 18 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Recharting territories
intradisciplinarity in translation studies
Since the inception of Translation Studies in the 1970s, its researchers have held regular metareflections. Largely based on the assessment of translation and interpreting as two distinct but related modes of language mediation, each with its own research culture, these intradisciplinary debates have sought to take stock of the state of research within an ever-expanding discipline in search of (institutional) identity and autonomy. Recharting Territories proposes a more widespread and systematic...
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Engels | PDF, 3,6 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain
Many of the most significant studies devoted to Ambrogio Spinola have focused on one particular aspect of his life: his successful military career. This volume, through its interdisciplinary and cultural approach, breaks open this all too narrow perspective and expands our understanding of Spinola and his world. As a great military strategist and Catholic knight, entrepreneur in the international finance market, courtier, and diplomat, Spinola was certainly a Genoese, but he was also a member of...
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Engels | PDF, 16 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Emma Leads Claire
historical roman
Claire Hodiamont, just seventeen years old as an unmarried woman, gets on the carriage to Cette, on her way to a new life. She has been offered a job at Maison Hanon. Justine, her employer, makes a design that Freule Coultier wears to the mayor's ball. The design hits like a bomb! Maison Hanon gets more customers and more fame. Claire is knocked over roughly one day as she is walking home. She looks into the most terrifying eyes she's ever seen. When she scrambles to her feet, she finds a package...
Fictie
Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Ambilicious, Breda | 2022
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The book of requiems
from the earliest ages to the present period
Few western musical repertories speak more to the imagination than the Requiem mass for the dead. The Book of Requiems presents in-depth essays on the most important works in this tradition, from the origins of the genre up to the present day. Each chapter is devoted to a specific Requiem, and offers both historical information and a detailed work-discussion. Conceived as a multi-volume essay collection by leading experts, The Book of Requiems is an authoritative reference publication intended as...
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Engels | PDF, 5,1 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Andrew Shortland | Patrick Degryse When art isn't real
the world's most controversial objects under investigation
The art world is a multi-billion-dollar industry which captures world headlines on a regular basis, for both good and bad reasons. This book deals with one of the most-discussed areas of controversy: high-profile objects that have experts arguing about their veracity. Some may have been looted, others may be fakes, some may be heavily restored or misattributed. Often, in these cases, analytical science is called on to settle a dispute. The authors of this book have decades of experience in this field,...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 2,6 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Victor M. Salas Immanent transcendence
Francisco Suárez’s doctrine of being
Long considered one of late scholasticism's most important thinkers, Francisco Suárez has, paradoxically enough, often been treated only in relation to other medieval authors or as a transitional figure in the shift from medieval to early modern philosophy. As such, his thought has often been obscured and framed in terms of an alien paradigm. This book seeks to correct such approaches and examines Suárez's metaphysical thinking as it stands on its own. Suárez is shown to be much more in line with...
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Engels | PDF, 4,1 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Emerson Vermaat Soviet manipulation of 'religious circles', 1975-1986
The term "religious circles" was coined by the World Peace Council (WPC), an organization that during the Cold War was linked to the propaganda apparatus of the Atheist Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). In declassified reports Western intelligence services described the WPC as a Communist Party front organization. The communists of the former Soviet Union are usually referred to as "the Soviets." The Moscow-oriented communists also availed themselves of the Christian Peace Conference (CPC),...
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Engels | 58 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
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Justus Lipsius Monita et exempla politica
In 17th-century intellectual life, the ideas of the Renaissance humanist Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) were omnipresent. The publication of his Politica in 1589 had made Lipsius' name as an original and controversial political thinker. The sequel, the Monita et exempla politica (Political admonitions and examples), published in 1605, was meant as an illustration of Lipsius political thought as expounded in the Politica. Its aim was to offer concrete models of behavior for rulers against the background...
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Engels | Latijn | PDF, 11 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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2022