• Hannah Evans MOB rule

  "You know you've joined the MOB when you hear... 'My, are they all yours?' 'Bless you!' (Occasionally) 'Poor you!' (Frequently) 'Lucky you!' (Once) And of course, the ultimate: 'So ... are you going for a girl?' Hannah Evans has three small boys. In her world, farting is so much more interesting than phonics, dam-building trumps damsels in distress any day and, astonishingly, she now instinctively knows the difference between a Frontloader and a JCB. It's a world of mud and just occasionally blood...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Benjamin Lorr Hell-bent

  "Championship. But this is Bikram Yoga, distinguished from more `conventional forms by extreme heat, an overt, almost masochistic focus on pain, and the rabid materialism of its founder, the enigmatic Bikram Choudhury."

  Engels | 320 pagina's (2,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Richard Van Emden Boy soldiers of the Great War

  "The youngest soldier who fought in the Great War is believed to have been just twelve years old. Many thousands of other boys are known to have faked eye tests, inflated their small chests and stood on tiptoes to bluff their way into a war of unforeseen horror. How and why so many under-aged boys were able to get to the battlefields is a complex mystery of World War I, and until Richard van Emden's classic account, largely unexplored.Boy Soldiers of the Great War tells for the first time the incredible...

  Engels | 416 pagina's (5,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Andrew G. Marshall I love you but I'm not in love with you

  "How do you fall back in love? This was the underlying problem of one in four couples seeking help from relationship therapist Andrew G. Marshall. They described their problem as: `I love you but I'm not in love with you'. Noticing how widespread the phenomenon had become, he decided to look more closely. Why were these relationships becoming defined more by companionship than by passion, and why was companionship no longer enough? From his research Andrew has devised his own unique programme. By...

  Engels | 304 pagina's (2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Assert Yourself

  "Do you find it hard to say 'no'? Are you tongue-tied in important meetings? Assert Yourself will help you find your voice and stand up for yourself without appearing aggressive.Full of practical advice on how to change the way you work and livefor the better, the book contains a self-assessment quiz, step-by-stepguidance, top tips, common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them,summaries of key points, and lists of handy books and websites."

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

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• Paul Gilding The great disruption

  "It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. Instead we need to brace for impact, because global crisis is no longer avoidable. The `Great Disruption' started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological change like the melting polar icecap. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our planet's...

  Engels | 304 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Harry Patch | Richard Van Emden The last fighting Tommy

  "Harry Patch, the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict.Harry vividly remembers his childhood in the Somerset countryside of Edwardian England. He left school in 1913 to become an apprentice plumber but three years later was conscripted, serving as a machine gunner in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Fighting in the mud and trenches during the Battle of Passchendaele, he...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Get yourself promoted

  Being good at what you do isn't enough to help you climb the careerladder; these days you need to make yourself promotable, which isn'tquite the same thing. Being promotable means having that magic mix ofgreat skills and personal qualities that will enable you to meet yourtargets, build good relationships, and get to know the people who canhelp during your campaign.Packed with useful advice, Get Yourself Promoted will helpyou with challenges such as planning your career, making yourselfindispensable,...

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

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• Roger Boyes Meltdown Iceland

  "It is a truism that when America sneezes, Europe catches a cold. The subprime mortgage crisis, which began in America in 2007, unleashed a veritable epidemic of financial ill health all over the world. All European countries were affected, and the developing world also felt a chill. However it was Iceland, a tiny volcanic outcrop in the North Atlantic whose population of 300,000 had the highest GDP and counted itself the happiest in the world, which caught the worst cold. It has nearly killed them....

  Engels | 256 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Manage projects successfully

  "Juggling all the tasks and resources you need to make a project run smoothly can seem like an onerous task, but Manage Projects Successfully will help you do just that. Practical,easy to read and jargon-free, the book contains a quiz to assessstrengths and weaknesses, step-by-step guidance and action points, toptips to bear in mind for the future, common mistakes and advice on howto avoid them, summaries of key points, and lists of the best sourcesof further help."

  Engels | 96 pagina's (0,4 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [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.

  Non-fictie

  Engels | ePub, 7,5 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [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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• Susannah Clapp A Card from Angela Carter

  "Angela Carter was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century: much studied, copied and adored. When she died at the age of fifty-one, she had published fifteen books of fiction and essays; outrage at her omission from the shortlists of any Booker Prize led to the foundation of the Orange Prize. February 2012 will be the twentieth anniversary of her death but no biographical work has yet appeared.Susannah Clapp and Angela Carter were friends for years. The postcards that Carter sent to...

  Engels | 112 pagina's (1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Tom Standage Writing on the wall

  "Today we are endlessly connected: constantly tweeting, texting or e-mailing. This may seem unprecedented, yet it is not. Throughout history, information has been spread through social networks, with far-reaching social and political effects. Writing on the Wall reveals how an elaborate network of letter exchanges forewarned of power shifts in Ciceros Rome, while the torrent of tracts circulating in sixteenth-century Germany triggered the Reformation. Standage traces the story of the rise, fall and...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (3,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Nick Rennison Bloomsbury good reading guide

  "Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, with navigation features to lead you on a rich journey through some the best literature to grace our shelves. This greatly expanded edition includes the latest contemporary authors and landmark novels, an expanded non-fiction section, a timeline setting historical events against literary milestones, prize-winner...

  Engels | 544 pagina's (0,9 MB) | A&C Black Academic and Professional, [London] | 2014

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• Ioan Grillo El narco

  "Beggar the imagination of journalistic witnesses. Cartel gunmen have shot up schools and rehabilitation centers, and murdered the entire families of those who defy them. Reformers and law enforcement officials have been gunned down within hours of taking office. Headless corpses are dumped on streets to intimidate rivals, and severed heads are rolled onto dancefloors as messages to would-be opponents. And the war is creeping northward.El Narco is the story of the ultraviolent criminal organizations...

  Engels | 336 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• A.C. Grayling The good book

  "Drawing on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing on all that it means to be human - from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life - A. C. Grayling, Britain's most popular and widely read philosopher, has created a secular bible.Designed to be read as narrative and also to be dipped into for inspiration, encouragement and consolation, The Good Book offers a thoughtful, non-religious alternative to the many people who do not...

  Engels | 608 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Alicia Drake The beautiful fall

  "In 1950s Paris, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld were friends, the rising stars of the fashion world. But by the late sixties the city was invaded by a new mood of liberation and hedonism, and dominated by intrigue, infidelities, addiction and parties. Each designer created his own mesmerising world, so vivid and seductive that people were drawn to the power, charisma and fame, and it was to make them bitter rivals. The Beautiful Fall is a dazzling exposé of an era and the story of the two...

  Engels | 448 pagina's (6,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Charlotte Breese Hutch

  "Born in Grenada in 1900, Leslie Hutchinson went to America in 1916 to study medicine, but soon escaped to Harlem where he witnessed the birth of "stride" jazz piano. Moving to France in 1923, he became the protege and lover of Cole Porter before coming to London in 1926 where he was soon topping the bills in variety and on radio. Immaculate in white tie and tails, Hutch had enormous sex appeal, his velvet voice and superb piano improvisation attracting legions of fans among both the rich and the...

  Engels | 384 pagina's (3,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Felipe Fernández-Armesto 1492

  "The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that began to bind the planet: from the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe to the way major religions and civilizations divide the world. Events that began in 1492 even transformed...

  Engels | 6,6 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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