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Jeannick Vangansbeke Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) en de reformatie
500 jaar heerlijk misverstand
Bespreking van enkele werken van de Oostenrijkse schrijver (1881-1942) waarin bekende historische personen uit de zestiende eeuw voorkomen die voorstanders zijn van toleratie of slachtoffer van onverdraagzaamheid.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 168 pagina's (PDF, 1,3 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
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Keiron Pim Eindeloze vlucht
het leven van Joseph Roth
‘Eindeloze vlucht’ van Keiron Pim is de eerste biografie van Joseph Roth in Nederlandse vertaling. De Engelse journalist en biograaf volgt de schrijver langs alle etappes van zijn leven. Roths geboortegrond en zijn jeugd in de joodse gemeenschap van Brody, in het huidige Oekraïne, vormden een onuitputtelijke, haast mythische bron voor meesterwerken als ‘Radetzkymars’ en ‘Job’. Zijn carrière als verslaggever in onder andere Wenen en Berlijn tijdens het interbellum inspireerde hem tot profetische...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 537 pagina's (ePub2, 20 MB) | Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2022
E-book
Abraham de Kock Pardidoe
chronicles of a wandering humanitarian
Is it better to spend your life moving from place to place, forever having new adventures, meeting interesting people and accepting new challenges, or would it be a curse -- to be always unrooted and adrift, like a wandering spirit far from home? Born in the Dutch colony of New Guinea and raised in the Netherlands, Abraham de Kock spent his professional life travelling the world and working for the UN, rising to the position of acting country director of the World Food Programme in North Korea. Between...
Engels | 160 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | Uitgeverij Gopher, 's-Hertogenbosch | 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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F.H. Schröder Memoires of my personal and professional life
1937 - 2017
Fritz Schröder is a retired professor of urology. He functioned as the head of the Department of Urology at Erasmus University in Rotterdam from 1977 to 2002. He was born, raised and trained in Germany and in the USA. His professional life was determined by his clinical activities, oncological research mainly concerning prostate cancer and the training of young urologists. Next to his professional life he took care of his family together with his wife Maren and continued to play cello which is his...
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Engels | 300 pagina's (PDF, 5,2 MB) | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
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2022