• Izzeldin Abuelaish I shall not hate

  "Heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is a Palestinian doctor's inspiring account of his extraordinary life, growing up in poverty but determined to treat his patients in Gaza and Israel regardless of their ethnic origin. A London University- and Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and `who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians' (New York Times), Abuelaish is an...

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

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• Change careers successfully

  "Have you reached a dead end in your current career? Do you want tobuild a wider variety of skills? Or do you simply feel like finding anew challenge? Whatever your reasons, Change careers successfully will help you do just that.To help you look before you leap, this book includes advice on: Working out whether you're in the right job Understanding the portfolio career Researching the job market Looking for a new challenge Working with professional search organisations Making a lateral move (such...

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

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• Susan Osborne Bloomsbury essential guide for reading groups

  ""A book club gives the opportunity to meet up with friends and wake the brain up a bit with lively and often quite aggressivediscussion" Dawn FrenchHow do you keep your reading groups discussions lively andfocussed? If you want to gain new insight into literature and shareyour passion with friends this book offers readers guides for 75 of thevery best reads - guaranteed to provoke spirited debate!Each of the readers guides includes a summary of the book, a briefauthor biography, discussion points...

  Engels | 272 pagina's (2,4 MB) | A&C Black Academic and Professional, [London] | 2014

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• Survive office politics

  "All workplaces are affected by the intrigues of office politics, and in many businesses who you know can be more important than what you know. Survive Office Politics is full of advice on how to cope with difficult situations and people and get on with your job.This book offers practical help on how to keep cool under pressure,watch out for danger signs, deal with a difficult situation, and workout who is doing what and why. It features a quiz, step-by-stepguidance, top tips, common mistakes and...

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

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• Rye Schwartz-Barcott It happened on the way to war

  "Nongovernmental organization with two Kenyans in the Kibera slum of Nairobi. Their organization-Carolina for Kibera-grew to become a model of a global movement called participatory development, and Barcott continued volunteering with CFK while leading Marines in dangerous places. It Happened on the Way to War is a true story of heartbreak, courage, and the impact that small groups of committed citizens can make in the world."

  Engels | 368 pagina's (6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Natasha Joffe | Justine Roberts Why did nobody tell me?

  "Do `milestones' feel like millstones? Does the thought ofwaiting at the school gate make you more nervous than yourfive-year-old? Do you find yourself sometimes tempted to just let your childrenfight to the death? And does flicking through childcare books leave you feelingmostly bewildered and blamed? Then TheMumsnet Rules are what you have been waiting for...Drawn from the message boards of mumsnet.com and based onthe assumption that if thousands of parents have found a piece of advice to behelpful...

  Engels | 416 pagina's (1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Aldo Buzzi The perfect egg

  "`The writer who never talks about eating, about appetite, hunger, food, about cooks and meals, arouses my suspicion, as though some vital element were missing in him'Scholarly, playful, idiosyncratic and witty, Aldo Buzzi's The Perfect Egg is an excursion into the food that has obsessed, provoked and intrigued the author through his life. A book of genial and highly refined chat, enriched with personal anecdotes, recipes and quotations from literature and history, it is a tribute to the profound...

  Engels | 160 pagina's (3,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Wendy Plump Vow

  "There are so many ways to find out. From a mobile phone. From a bank account. From some weird supermarket encounter. One morning in early January 2005, Wendy Plump's neighbour came over to tell her that her husband was having an affair. The news hit her with an almost audible click. It was not a shock. Actually, it explained quite a lot. What she was not prepared for however was the revelation that he had an eight-month-old son living within a mile of their family home.Monogamy is one of the most...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Seb Emina The breakfast bible

  "When it comes to the most important meal of the day, this is the book to end all books, a delectable selection of recipes, advice, illustrations and miscellany.The recipes in the robust volume begin with the iconic full English - which can mean anything as long as there are eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding, bread, potatoes and beans involved - before moving confidently on to more exotic fare such as kedgeree, omelette Arnold Bennett, waffles, American muffins, porridge,...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (3,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Owen Matthews Glorious misadventures

  "The Russian Empire once extended deep into America: in 1818 Russias furthest outposts were in California and Hawaii. The dreamer behind this great Imperial vision was Nikolai Rezanov diplomat, adventurer, courtier, millionaire and gambler. His quest to plant Russian colonies from Siberia to California led him to San Francisco, where he was captivated by Conchita, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the Spanish Governor, who embodied his dreams of both love and empire. From the glittering court of Catherine...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Rosie Boycott Spotted pigs and green tomatoes

  "Small farm in Somerset proves a daunting task, but Rosie and her new husband Charlie are determined, and their immersion in rural living, hilarious and profoundly moving, reaps rewards they never expected. Pigs, ducks and geese are fattened for the butcher; vegetables and cut flowers are grown for a reluctant marketplace; and Rosie and Charlie discover much about the hard graft of running a smallholding. They learn too about weightier issues that affect the local community of Ilminster - particularly...

  Engels | 320 pagina's (3,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• David Blatner Spectrums

  "The universe is a mind-boggling place, full of things seemingly too big and too small to understand. How can we visualise the minuscule world of the atom and the vastness of our galaxy? How can we grasp a billionth of a second and a billion years? Or the freezing point of Helium and the heat generated by the blast of an atomic bomb? David Blatners solution is to put these and many other `inconceivable items on six spectrums numbers, size, light, sound, heat and time that put them into a human perspective....

  Engels | 192 pagina's (7,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Mohamed ElBaradei The age of deception

  "Playing fast and loose with the facts. The Age of Deception is a story of human imperfection, of modern society struggling to come to grips with the multiple dimensions of human insecurity."

  Engels | 352 pagina's (18 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [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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• P.D. Smith City

  "For the first time in the history of our planet, more than half the population-3.3 billion people-is now living in cities. City is the ultimate guidebook to our urban centers-the signature unit of human civilization. With erudite prose and carefully chosen illustrations, this unique work of metatourism explores what cities are and how they work. It covers history, customs and language, districts, transport, money, work, shops and markets, and tourist sites, creating a fantastically detailed portrait...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (18 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [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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• Go freelance

  "Deciding to leave the security of a permanent job and go freelanceis a brave decision - and is not to be taken lightly. However, as longas you manage your time, work-flow, contacts, and money, it may turnout to be the best career move you ever made! Go freelance is packed with essential advice, including: Working out when it's time to move on. Do you have the right skills to be your own boss?Finding new workNetworking to market yourself and your skillsManaging work-flowManaging your time. Looking...

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

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• Oliver James They f*** you up

  "Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your family's expectations of you? Does your life seem overwhelmingly governed by jealousy or competitiveness or lack of confidence? In this ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Oliver James shows that it is the way we were cared for in the first six years of life that has a crucial effect on who we are and how we behave. Nurture, in effect, shapes our very nature. James combines the latest scientific...

  Engels | 384 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• John Foot Pedalare! Pedalare!

  "Cycling was a sport so important in Italy that it marked a generation, sparked fears of civil war, changed the way Italian was spoken, led to legal reform and even prompted the Pope himself to praise a cyclist, by name, from his balcony in St Peters in Rome. It was a sport so popular that it created the geography of Italy in the minds of her citizens, and some have said that it was cycling, not political change, that united Italy. Pedalare, Pedalare! is the first complete history of Italian cycling...

  Engels | 384 pagina's (4,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [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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