• Julia Sweeney If it's not one thing, it's your mother

  "Julia Sweeney was nearing forty, and quite famous, when she got on a flight to China to turn her life upside down. She had a flourishing career as a comedienne and performer, ample friends and admirers, but what she didnt have was a child and, after a string of non-committal boyfriends, she decided to adopt alone.Mulan was one-and-a-half years old when she met her new mother, and every bit as feisty as the Disney character (whom she was emphatically not named for). If It's Not One Thing, Its Your...

  Engels | 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Keith Devlin The man of numbers

  "In 1202, a 32-year old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Devised in India in the seventh and eighth centuries and brought to North Africa by Muslim traders, the Hindu-Arabic system helped transform the West into the dominant force in science, technology, and commerce, leaving behind Muslim cultures which had long known it but had failed to see its potential. The young Italian, Leonardo of Pisa (better known today...

  Engels | 192 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Dava Sobel A more perfect heaven

  "During the 1530s, rumours of a potentially revolutionary theory of how the heavens worked emanating from a small city in Poland began to spread throughout Europe. The architect of this theory was a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus. In around 1514 Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory, in which he placed the Sun, not the Earth, at the centre of our universe, with the planets, including the Earth, revolving about it. Titled his Commentariolus,...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (4,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Brian Fagan Beyond the blue horizon

  "Enduring quest to master the oceans, the planet's most mysterious terrain. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared to sail beyond the horizon, Fagan vividly explains how our mastery of the oceans changed the course of human history. What drove humans to risk their lives on open water? How did early sailors unlock the secrets of winds, tides, and the stars they steered by? What were the earliest ocean crossings like? With compelling detail, Fagan reveals how seafaring evolved so that...

  Engels | 336 pagina's (9,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Emerald Fennell Shiverton Hall

  "They slowed as they reached the gate; two stone columns, each with its own crumbling angel perched on top. The angels held up a rusty, wrought-iron arch that read, in curling, serpentine letters: SHIVERTON HALL.Arthur Bannister has been unexpectedly accepted into Shiverton Hall, which, as it turns out, is an incredibly spooky school, full of surprises. And it is just as well that Shiverton Hall has made its offer, because Arthur had a horrible time at his previous school, and was desperate to leave....

  Engels | 300 pagina's (3,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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• Howard Jacobson Whatever it is, I don't like it

  "It takes a particular kind of man to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I am tired and emotional, or consumed with self-dislike, I try to imagine myself as someone else, a wearer of Yarmouth shirts and fleecy sweats, of windbreakers and rugged Tyler shorts, of baseball caps with polo players where the section of the brain that concerns itself with aesthetics is supposed to be. But the hour passes. Good men return from fighting Satan in the wilderness the...

  Engels | 368 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Matthew Bishop | Michael Green The road from ruin

  "Bankruptcies, soaring unemployment, and millions of families losing their homes, lay the bloody corpse of a set of ideas that had underpinned the economics of the previous 30 years. Capitalism based on markets, especially"

  Engels | 336 pagina's (2,4 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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• Celia Rees Pirates!

  "When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in the eighteenth-century West Indies, they are unified in their desire to escape their oppressive lives. The first is a slave, forced to work in a plantation mansion and subjected to terrible cruelty at the hands of the plantation manager. The second is a spirited and rebellious English girl, sent to the West Indies to marry well and combine the wealth of two respectable families. But fate ensures that one night the two young women have...

  Engels | 384 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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• Alice Roberts The incredible human journey

  "Alice Roberts has been travelling the world - from Ethiopian desert to Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon basin - in order to understand the challenges that early humans faced as they tried to settle continents. On her travels she has witnessed some of the daunting and brutal challenges our ancestors had to face: mountains, deserts, oceans, changing climates, terrifying giant beasts and volcanoes. But she discovers that perhaps the most serious threat of all came from other humans....

  Engels | 384 pagina's (ePub, 6,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Judith Kelly Rock me gently

  "In the 1950s, shortly after her father's death, Judith Kelly was left in the care of nuns at a Catholic orphanage while her mother searched for a place for them to live. She was eight years old. But far from being cared for, Judith found herself in a savage and terrifying institution where physical, emotional and sexual abuse was the daily norm and the children's lives were reduced to stark survival. As the months became years and no word came from her mother, she sought comfort from the girls around...

  Engels | 304 pagina's (1,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Liz Jensen The ninth life of Louis Drax

  "Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical...

  Engels | 240 pagina's (1,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Tom Campbell Fold

  Vijf oude schoolvrienden van in de veertig spelen maandelijks een avondje poker, wat uit de hand loopt als een van de verliezers wraak neemt op een van de winnaars.

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  Engels | 224 pagina's (ePub, 0,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Maureen Freely Under the Vulcania

  De echtgenote van een Engelse specialist, die haar teveel in de watten legt na een ziekte, brengt een ochtend door in een relax-instituut waar mooie mannen op velerlei wijzen zich vervelende vrouwen verwennen.

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  Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Simon Singh The Simpsons and their mathematical secrets

  Het fascinerende en humoristische verhaal achter de wiskundige grappen in de Amerikaanse animatieserie The Simpsons.

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  Engels | ePub, 7,5 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Martin Thomas | David Brain Crowd Surfing

  "The way people buy has gone through a massive revolution in recent years: thanks to blogs, review sites and chat rooms, we no longer have to rely on what a company says about its products and services - we can read what our fellow consumers think about what they've bought, and make our own decisions bearing those views in minds. The result? Empowered customers who know exactly what they want and who can now explore many ways to get it. Many companies, however, just won't accept that things have...

  Engels | 208 pagina's (1,7 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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• Succeed as a new manager

  "It's great to have a new challenge at work. Managing others, though,can be a daunting new responsibility and can be tricky if you're nowthe boss of former colleagues or friends. Packed with practical advice,it will help you sail through issues such as getting to know your team,dealing with internal politics, motivating others, and celebratingsuccess. Whatever your new job, Succeed As a New Manager will help youfind your feet and get great results along the way. This book alsoincludes a quiz, step-by-step...

  Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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• Kate Bussmann A Twitter year

  "Where can you find first-hand accounts of the Arab Spring, Japan's nuclear disaster or the Norwegian atrocities? Thousands flouting celebrity superinjunctions? X-rated snaps of politicians? A babysitter mistaken for a cricket match? Or Darth Vader's advice to angry US voters? The answer, of course: on Twitter.The first of its kind, A Twitter Year distills a year of conversation, argument, revelation and revolution into a `review of the year' as written by the Twitter community. With profiles of...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (5,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Sultan bin Muhammad al- Qasimi My early life

  "With insight the dramatic palace coups in his own country and the neighbouring emirate of Ras al-Khaimah and the struggles for power during the formation of the United Arab Emirates. Revealing fascinating and untold parts of"

  Engels | 320 pagina's (2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• David Kynaston Austerity Britain, 1945-1951

  "For the first time, the Sunday Times bestseller Austerity Britain is available in one complete paperback volume. Coursing through Austerity Britain is an astonishing variety of voices - vivid, unselfconscious, and unaware of what the future holds. A Chingford housewife endures the tribulations of rationing; a retired schoolteacher observes during a royal visit how well-fed the Queen looks; a pernickety civil servant in Bristol is oblivious to anyone's troubles but his own. An array of working-class...

  Engels | 704 pagina's (5,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Edward Lucas Deception

  "From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a century. In Deception Edward Lucas uncovers the real story of Chapman and her colleagues in Britain and America, unveiling their clandestine missions and the spy-hunt that led to their downfall. It reveals unknown triumphs and disasters of Western intelligence...

  Engels | 368 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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