• Rajiv Chandrasekaran Little America

  "The US Government invested millions in Helmand in the 1950s and '60s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis - known locally as 'Little America' - and then the money ran out. Four decades later, Helmand was again the focus of US efforts, as waves of Marines descended on the region. Little America tells the story of the long arc of American involvement, and of the campaign to salvage a victory in southern Afghanistan on Obama's watch. Has the war been worth the money and the bloodshed?...

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

  E-book

• David Livingston | James Livingston Blood over water

  "Watched by over seven million people, it was the first time for over a hundred years that brothers had battled against each other in this gladiatorial contest. Only one could be victorious. In Blood Over Water, David and James tell their stories for the first time, giving an intimate insight into one of our best-loved national sporting occasions, whilst also describing a brotherly relationship tested to breaking point. It is an emotional and searching joint self-portrait that looks at the darker...

  Engels | 320 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Sam Kiley Desperate glory

  "In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted access to the front line, Sam Kiley is with them to bear witness to the most intense challenges of their lives. Desperate Glory is an unflinching portrait of the reality of war - the bombs, the shooting and the daily struggles that push them to the very limit of human...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (5,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Chloë Schama Wild romance

  "In 1852, on a steamer from France to England, nineteen-year-old Theresa Longworth met William Charles Yelverton, a soldier destined to become the Viscount of Avonmore. Their flirtation soon blossomed into a clandestine, epistolary affair, and five years later they married secretly in Edinburgh. Then, that same summer, they married again in Dublin - or did they? Separated by circumstance soon after they were wed, Theresa and Charles would never live together as husband and wife. And when Yelverton...

  Engels | 272 pagina's (4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• 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

  E-book

• Vicki Mackenzie Cave in the snow

  "The story of Tenzin Palmo, an Englishwoman, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End, who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas and became a world-renowned spiritual leader and champion of the right of women to achieve spiritual enlightenment. Diane Perry grew up in London's East End. At the age of 18 however, she read a book on Buddhism and realised that this might fill a long-sensed void in her life. In 1963, at the age of 20, she went to India, where she eventually...

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

  E-book

• Tim Coates Patsy

  "This is the story of Mary Cornwallis West, who was called Patsy by her family and close friends. High class and Irish born, she married when she was sixteen and had a long affair with Edward, the Prince of Wales, son of Victoria and Albert. Patsy was beautiful and exciting: she loved to flirt and be mad. Thirty years later, in 1915, Britain is on the brink of defeat on the Western Front and a young shell-shocked soldier, Patrick Barrett, has been transferred home to North Wales to convalesce. Soon,...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Deal with difficult people

  "While we'd all like a quiet life, there are some situations that can't be ignored - a survey by Staffordshire University Business School estimated that 53% of us will be bullied at work at some point during our working life. In offices, workplace bullying is on the rise and discrimination is commonplace. Key customers are ever more demanding, won't take no for an answer and aren't afraid to tell you so. This fully revised and updated Steps to Success title offers solutions and step-by-step advice...

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

  E-book

• Margaret Overton Good in a crisis

  "My story begins with a divorce. During the four years of physician Margaret Overton's acrimonious divorce, she dated widely and sometimes indiscriminately, determined to find her soulmate and live happily ever after. But then she discovered she had a brain aneurysm. She discovered it at a particularly awkward moment on a date with one of many Mr Wrongs. Overton, an anaesthetist, realised she had been so busy looking after the needs of others that she had forgotten to look after herself. So she set...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (0,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Deborah Jackson Three in a bed

  "Parents benefit by getting virtually a full night's sleep.;The author explains the advantages of this radical form of baby care, including its benefits for breastfeeding mothers, reviews the history of babies in the bed and, through interviews with parents, explores attitudes to the idea. The book also contains a fresh perspective on the tragedy of cot death, as well as practical advice on how to sustain your sex life, hints on safety in the bed and"

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

  E-book

• Paul Danahar The new Middle East

  "For the past forty years the images flashing across our television screens from the Middle East have provoked anger, outrage and, sometimes, military action from the international community. But the stories behind them were rarely understood. In 2011 the revolutions of the Arab Spring changed everything. Now, the handful of dictators who ruled brutally over hundreds of millions of people Hosni Mubarak, Ben Ali, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar al-Assad have gone, or are fighting for their...

  Engels | 480 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• James Bailey The sky suspended

  "In 1939, at the age of nineteen, Jim Bailey was conscripted into the RAF to train as a fighter pilot. What happened over the next five years to Jim and the men he met, the men who fought, died and survived, is related with candour and quiet modesty in this book. It describes the youthful heroism of his companions, and he captures the atmosphere of everyday life on the ground in wartime Britain, as well as the air battles."

  Engels | 192 pagina's (3,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Rachel Campbell-Johnston Mysterious wisdom

  "A devotee of the great visionary William Blake, Samuel Palmer became the lynchpin of the first British art movement. Leading a band of fellow artists - the brotherhood of Ancients - out of London to the village of Shoreham in Kent, he set out to create a new rural ideal. His paintings of slumbering shepherds and tumbling blossoms, of mystical cornfields and bright sickle moons, capture a world in which landscape and politics, religion and culture all meet. They reflect the concerns of the nineteenth...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (2,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Paul Collins The trouble with Tom

  "The author of Common Sense and The Rights of Man, a radical on the run from the law in London, a founding father of the United States of America, a senator of revolutionary France, Thomas Paine alone claims a key role in the development of three modern democracies. He was a walking revolution in human form - the most dangerous man alive. But in death Paine's story turns truly bizarre - his bones were taken from New York to London and eventually disappeared. In Paris, London and New York, in bars,...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• John Carlin White angels

  "The world over, no sportsman - and maybe no other individual - provokes more fascination, argument and interest than the Londoner with the film-star looks, David Beckham. No sports team exudes more glamour, has won more competitions or possesses a more dazzling collection of superstars than Real Madrid. The fusion of the two has gripped the attention of millions and changed the face of the world's favourite sport, making a clear divide between the Old Football and the New. White Angels is the insider's...

  Engels | 384 pagina's (4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• 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

  E-book

• Manage meetings positively

  "Too many meetings, never enough decisions. Badly-managed meetings are a waste of time, and often they just don't need to happen at all. If you have to chair or arrange meetings, this book will help you to make sure that they're useful and helpful exchanges of information rather than pointless shouting matches. Manage Meetings Positively offers practical solutions for many situations, including keeping the meeting on schedule, making sure decisions are reached, and dealing with conflict if tempers...

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

  E-book

• 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

  E-book

• Ahdaf Soueif The map of love

  Een Egyptische vrouw vindt een koffer met spullen van een Engelse vrouw die honderd jaar eerder leefde.

  Fictie

  Engels | 544 pagina's (ePub, 2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Rebecca Stott Darwin's ghosts

  "Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like swarms, some expressing praise, most outrage and accusations of heresy. But the letter from the Reverend Powell was different. It accused Darwin of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of having taken credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others, Baden Powell himself and Darwin's...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

  E-book

Paginanavigatie