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Karel Čapek War with the newts
Satirische utopie over kwaadaardige salamanders, waarin de auteur de wereld op de drempel van de Tweede Wereldoorlog op de hak neemt.
Engels | 348 pagina's | Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Il | 1985
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Colin McEvedy Cities of the classical world
an atlas and gazetteer of 120 centres of ancient civilization
From Alexandria to York, this unique guide shows us the great centres of classical civilization afresh. The book's key feature is 120 specially-drawn maps tracing each city's thoroughfares and defences, monuments and places of worship. Every map is to the same scale, allowing readers for the first time to appreciate visually the relative sizes of Babylon and Paris, London and Constantinople. There are also clear, incisive commentaries on each city's development, strategic importance, rulers and ordinary...
Engels | 432 pagina's | Penguin Books, [London] | 2019
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Camille Perri When Katie met Cassidy
Fictie
Engels | 277 pagina's | G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York | 2019
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Justin E. H. Smith Irrationality
a history of the dark side of reason
It's a story we can't stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks invented reason. Later, the Enlightenment enshrined rationality as the supreme value. Discovering that reason is the defining feature of our species, we named ourselves the "rational animal." But is this flattering story itself rational? In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to today--from the fifth-century BC murder of Hippasus for revealing the existence...
Engels | 330 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey | 2019
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Nevertheless, we persisted
48 voices of defiance, strength, and courage
Fictie
Engels | 312 pagina's | Ember, New York | 2019
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Levison Wood Arabia
a journey through the heart of the Middle East
Non-fictie
Engels | 354 pagina's | Hodder & Stoughton, London | 2019
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Karen Jennings An Island
A Novel
Een vuurtorenwachter leeft meer dan twintig jaar geïsoleerd op een eiland. Tot er op een dag een vluchteling aanspoelt – en met hem herinneringen aan het verleden.
Fictie
Engels | 210 pagina's | Hogarth, London, New York | 2022
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Jeremy Wade How to think like a fish
Far from being a conventional 'how to' guide, this book is about the simple fundamental principles of fishing a mindset for success. In other words, how to think like a fish. After starting to fish in rural England more than fifty years ago, and going on to become a captor of large, wily carp in his teens, Jeremy Wade started combining angling with far-flung exploration in 1982 - a trip to northern India via Afghanistan in a plane that just weeks later was hit by a ground-to-air missile. Since then...
Engels | 258 pagina's | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London | 2020
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Clarice Lispector The besieged city
Fictie
Engels | 213 pagina's | Penguin Classics, London | 2019
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Daniel Immerwahr How to hide an empire
a short history of the greater United States
Geschiedenis van de imperialistische politiek van de Verenigde Staten sedert het eind van de negentiende eeuw, met name in de Filipijnen, andere overzeese territoria en legerbases over de gehele werreld
Engels | 516 pagina's | The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage, London | 2019
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Well-read black girl
Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Fictie
Engels | 249 pagina's | Trapeze, London | 2019
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2019