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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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Anna Katharine Green That Affair Next Door
The dead body of a strange woman is found in an empty house next door to Amelia Butterworth, a single old lady with a formidable curiosity and lots of free time. When Detective Gryce gets on the case, he has a hard time persuading her to mind her own business, but soon Miss Butterworth’s female intuition and knack for interrogating witnesses through small talk proves invaluable to the investigation. In fact, she outsmarts all the professional men. ‘That Affair Next Door’ (1897) is Anna Katharine...
Engels | 11 uur 3 minuten (518 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
August Strindberg The Red Room
Arvid Falk is a young and idealistic government worker who always wanted to be a poet. When a journalist writes a newspaper exposé based on Arvid’s stories about his useless government department, Arvid is fired immediately. Starting afresh he sets out to explore every corner of the Swedish society, and the hypocrisy and corruption he finds shocks him. Walking the streets of Stockholm will never be the same again once this novel gets under your skin. Named the first modern Swedish novel, ‘The Red...
Engels | 10 uur (449 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Arnold Bennett Tales of the Five Towns
At turns humorous, poignant, gripping, and occasionally tragic, this collection of short stories is peopled by a rich cast of characters. No one is all good or all bad in this volume, which includes “A Letter Home”, Bennett’s first short story. “Tales of the Five Towns” delves further into the lives of the residents of the fictional "Five Towns”, based on Bennett’s native Stoke-on-Trent, that Bennett also explores in novels like “Anna of the Five Towns” (1902) and "The Clayhanger Family” (1925)....
Engels | 5 uur 38 minuten (260 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) or ‘A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.’ The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though written in a...
Engels | 25 minuten (19 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Anna Chojnacka Kilimanjaro as medicine
Anna Chojnacka is thirty, married with two young children, and running a thriving company. She's living life to the fullest - until she's diagnosed with MS. While searching for a way to live her life without strong medication, she meets "The Iceman" Wim Hof. To gain strength, she takes his courses, exposing herself to extreme cold. Ultimately, she takes part in a climbing expedition he leads up Mount Kilimanjaro, which not only succeeds, but does so in record time. While she's completing this difficult...
Non-fictie
Engels | 99 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | [Uitgever Onmisbaar], [Amsterdam] | 2022
E-book
Dimitri Verhulst Spoo Pee Doo
Europe is burning, while we casually order another drink. Do we defend our freedoms or our appetite? On the clash of religious fanaticism and freedom, from whatever. Terror isn't blind, in fact it has its sights set on what the West has built. Europe shakes and trembles, feels suddenly transported by a revival of religious fanaticism back to an age that seemed to have been put to bed forever. Did we feed those monsters ourselves? The urgent need for answers and solutions meets no response. Despite...
Fictie
Engels | 93 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Geert Mak The many lives of Jan Six
a portrait of an Amsterdam dynasty
Geschiedenis van de Amsterdamse patriciërsfamilie vanaf de zestiende eeuw tot en met de periode vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 4,2 MB | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
Re:Thinking Europe
thoughts on Europe: past, present and future
What are the characteristics of European culture and identity? In which way can culture contribute to the current crisis of meaning within the EU and Europe? And should we return to the discourse of culture and historical experience in order to find a common ground for Europe? In the run-up to the Forum we will publish an anthology on these urgent questions. A host of prominent and influential thinkers such as political scientist Ivan Krastev and historians Philipp Blom and Adam Zamoyski have been...
Non-fictie
Engels | 318 pagina's (PDF, 1,9 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Vincent Vermeulen What we can learn from the butler
Waarom zijn butlers zo'n innemende, correcte personen die altijd klaar staan en nooit een steek laten vallen? Omdat dat hun beroep is, zegt u? Fout: in de allereerste plaats is het een levenswijze, een constant het-beste van jezelf vragen. Ze gebruiken daarvoor technieken die ieder van ons kan aanleren. Want zeg nu zelf, zijn we niet allemaal toe aan verbetering? In dit boek leert Vincent Vermeulen, ervaren butler en directeur van de 'School for Butlers & Hospitality', hoe kennis over etiquette,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, Ghent | 2016
E-book
Danielle Steel Rushing waters
De bewoners van New York krijgen orkaan Orphelia te verwerken; het merendeel evacueert maar sommige weigeren dat.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Engels | ePub3, 1,4 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
E-book
Els van Steijn The fountain, find your place
control your life through insight into your family system
Do you encounter the same problems in your daily life, time and time again? Do you want to shake off a feeling that you just can't put your finger on? Do you often feel guilty or are you a people pleaser? Are you stuck in an unhealthy relationship or is contact with your parents difficult? How can you learn to deal with this, so you can experience more calmness in your life? Stubborn patterns in your life can often be traced back to your family system, the inseverable connection you have with your...
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 1,4 MB | Het Noorderlicht, Avenhorn | 2020
E-book
Berthold Gunster Omdenken
the Dutch art of flip-thinking
This practical booklet shows what flip-thinking means and how to do it. To flip through, to come up with ideas, to be put on the wrong track and especially to trigger your own creative ability. In short, look, think and - particularly - create. Berthold Gunster (1959) is the founding father of 'Omdenken', the Dutch art of flip-thinking. He has written several bestselling books about his ideas. With his team of actors and trainers he performs inspiring shows and workshops in both Dutch and English....
Non-fictie
Engels | 64 pagina's (ePub) | Lev., Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
ICY and SOT Let her be free
ICY and SOT, stencil artists from Iran 2006-2015
ICY (born 1985) and SOT (born 1991) are refuge stencil artists from Tabriz, Iran, currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. Since 2006, the two brothers have contributed to Iranian and international urban art culture through their striking stencil work that depicting human rights, ecological justice, social and political issues. Their work appears on walls and galleries throughout the Iran, USA, Germany, China, Norway, and globally.They transcend their histories of artistic and political censorship...
Non-fictie
Engels | 264 pagina's (ePub3, 66 MB) | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Andrew Blackman Virtual Love
For Jeff Brennan, juggling multiple identities is a way of life. Online he has dozens of different personalities and switches easily between them. Offline, he shows different faces to different people: the caring grandson, the angry eco-protester, the bored IT consultant. So when the beautiful Marie mistakes him for a famous blogger, he thinks nothing of adding this new identity to his repertoire. But as they fall in love and start building a life together, Jeff is gradually forced into more and...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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
Matthew Crow My Dearest Jonah
Like you I've been feeling forlorn of late. I don't know how long you have to be somewhere before it begins to feel normal, before you start to feel as though you belong... And so all I have is you. Your letters and the thought that somewhere, something good exists in my life. For now that seems enough to get by on. Introduced via a pen-pal scheme, Verity and Jonah write their lives, hopes and dreams to one another without ever having met. Verity is a fragile beauty. When a dangerous sequence of...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Caroline Roberts The Cosy Christmas Teashop
‘Cakes, castles and oodles of charm: this book is huge fun and pure escapism’ Cathy BramleyFrom sleigh bells to wedding bells . . .After a rocky start, Ellie Hall baked her way into everyone’s hearts at Claverham Castle – even the miserly Lord Henry was won over – and the run-down teashop regained its old sparkle.Now Ellie has upgraded cupcakes for fairytale masterpieces as the proud caterer for an ever-growing list of weddings at the castle. The teashop team love baking to the tune...
Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Sophie Duffy Generation Game
Very powerful writing. Sophie draws her reader in immediately and combines wit and poignancy to very powerful effect... Excellent. ' --Katie Fforde'This is a beautifully written book... The characters are quite simply brilliant. ' --Vanity Case Books'An extraordinary story... A born storyteller with a gift for characterisation, she writes with warmth, lovely earthy detail and a pathos which keeps a lump lodged in the throat... echoes of Victoria Wood. ' --The Daily Mail'a brave, bold, warm, rich,...
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book