Why does time pass and space does not? Are there just three dimensions? What is a quantum particle? Nick Huggett shows that philosophy -- armed with a power to analyze fundamental concepts and their relationship to the human experience -- has much to say about these profound questions about the universe. In Everywhere and Everywhen, Huggett charts a journey that peers into some of the oldest questions about the world, through some of the newest, such as: What shape is space? Does it have an edge? What is the difference between past and future? What is time in relativity? Is time travel possible? Are there other universes?Huggett shows that answers to these profound questions are not just reserved for physics, and that philosophy can not only address but help advance our view of our deepest questions about the universe, space, and time, and their implications for humanity. His lively, accessible introduction to these topics is suitable for a general reader with no previous exposure to these profound and exciting questions.

Vraag het een willekeurige voetbalsupporter en hij heeft altijd een voorkeur voor Ajax of Feyenoord. Feyenoord-Ajax, Ajax-Feyenoord: ook in 2013 zijn het nog de meest beladen wedstrijden in Nederland, of de clubs nou bovenaan staan of niet, of er publiek bij aanwezig mag zijn of niet. Altijd heftig, soms te heftig, zowel binnen als buiten het veld. Al bijna honderd jaar. Dit boek beschrijft en duidt de ontwikkeling van de rivaliteit tussen 010 en 020 op basis van cruciale gebeurtenissen en ervaringen van hoofdrolspelers.

Bundeling van de elf afzonderlijk gepubliceerde bundels uit de periode 1966-1999 van de Nederlandse dichter (1934-2012).

Relaas over de Spaanse Burgeroorlog waarin de schrijver meevocht aan de zijde van de Republikeinen.

Dostojevski werd in 1845 meteen beroemd met zijn eerste boek, Arme mensen. Zijn literaire vrienden herkenden in hem, zo wil de anekdote, vrijwel onmiddellijk de grote schrijver die hij later zou worden. Al in zijn eerste romans en novellen tonen zich de voor Dostojevski typerende, vaak beklemmende sfeer en zijn diep psychologische inzicht. Het zijn die kwaliteiten die sindsdien van grote invloed zijn geweest op andere literatoren en andere kunsten, en tot op de dag van vandaag doorwerken. In 1849 werd Dostojevski wegens revolutionaire opvattingen gearresteerd en voor het vuurpeloton gebracht, maar op het laatste moment kreeg hij gratie. Hij werd naar een strafkamp in Siberië gezonden. Dit eerste deel van de Verzamelde werken bevat de romans en novellen die hij vóór zijn arrestatie schreef: Arme mensen, De dubbelganger, Roman in negen brieven, Mijnheer Prochartsjin, De hospita, Polzoenkov, Een zwakke ziel, De eerlijke dief, Een kerstfeest en een huwelijk en Iemand anders z'n vrouw en de man onder het bed. Deze tien geweldige romans van Dostojevski verschijnen nu in een compleet nieuwe en flitsende vertaling van Arthur Langeveld, Madeleine Mes en Gerard Cruys.

'Aan boeken en jongens kon hij geen weerstand bieden' is het thema van deze gefictionaliseerde autobiografie.

Dagboeknotities van de Britse admiralteitsambtenaar.

Summary: Hugo van Loon is geboren voor het geluk. Het is hem alleen altijd te snel af. Wanneer hij zich samen met Lucia, zijn licht in de duisternis, vestigt in een lommerrijke kustplaats lijkt de beste helft van zijn leven aangebroken. Tot Lucia de biologische klok hoort luiden. Opeens doemt er een andere bestemming op. Vaderland. Het land waar niemand van terugkeert. Want als een man eenmaal vader wordt, maakt hij zichzelf overbodig. Zijn werk is gedaan, zijn plaats is vergaan. "Vaderland" is een ontroerende, rijkgeschakeerde roman over de liefde. Liefde voor vrouwen, voor wijn, voor de stad en voor de eenzaamheid.

Twee broers, op trektocht in de Alpen, trotseren niet alleen het landschap, maar vooral elkaar.

Deels hilarische verhalen over een gereformeerde domineeszoon die aan het verstikkend ouderlijk milieu zoekt te ontsnappen.

Verhalen over een jongen die gefantaseerde en daadwerkelijke homoseksuele relaties onderhoudt met vriendjes en een oudere buurman.

In Going Solo, the world's favourite storyteller, Roald Dahl, tells of life as a fighter pilot in Africa.'They did not think for one moment that they would find anything but a burnt-out fuselage and a charred skeleton, and they were astounded when they came upon my still-breathing body lying in the sand nearby.' In 1938 Roald Dahl was fresh out of school and bound for his first job in Africa, hoping to find adventure far from home. However, he got far more excitement than he bargained for when the outbreak of the Second World War led him to join the RAF. His account of his experiences in Africa, crashing a plane in the Western Desert, rescue and recovery from his horrific injuries in Alexandria, flying a Hurricane as Greece fell to the Germans, and many other daring deeds, recreates a world as bizarre and unnerving as any he wrote about in his fiction. 'Very nearly as grotesque as his fiction. The same compulsive blend of wide-eyed innocence and fascination with danger and horror' Evening Standard 'A non-stop demonstration of expert raconteurship' The New York Times Book Review. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

Theologisch essay vanuit een rooms-katholieke visie over de betekenis van religieus leven in de tegenwoordige tijd.

These writings, new translated from Greek, are the earliest and most venerable examples of the mass of ecclesiastical literature produced in the first centuries A.D. They are the work of a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, who faithfully preserved the Apostolic teaching and tradition between the time of the Apostles and the late second century. Most of their writings take the form of epistles: those of Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch and Polycarp, for example, are warmly human and affectionate, while the anonymous "Epistle to Diognetus" and the "Epistle of Barnabas" are more impersonal. All, however, have a genuine pastoral concern -- they are interested more in people than ideas, in practice more than dogma.

One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour. This volume contains the first half of the History, and includes biographies of every emperor from Hadrian to Heliogabalus - among them the godlike Marcus Antonius and his grotesquely corrupt son Commodus. The History contains many fictitious (but highly entertaining) anecdotes about the depravity of the emperors, as the author blends historical fact and faked documents to present our most complete - albeit unreliable - account of the later Roman Caesars

An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius was also an exceptional Greek scholar, and it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned when he fell from favor and was imprisoned in Pavia. Written in the period leading up to his brutal execution, The Consolation of Philosophy is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his "nurse", Philosophy, whose instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment.

The clarity of Boethius's thought and his breadth of vision made this work hugely popular throughout medieval Europe, and his ideas suffused the thought of Chaucer and Dante. This translation makes it accessible to the modern reader while losing nothing of Boethius's poetic artistry and philosophical brilliance.

With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Michael Irwin, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Kent, Canterbury.

The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a 'sensation novel' in the mode of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and storm, flight and pursuit.

Anyone who enjoys The Woman in White is likely to enjoy Desperate Remedies. But that is only half the story. Hardy contrived also, in this unlikely context, to give a first airing to various of the ideas and technical experiments which were to characterise his later fiction. The result is an exhilaratingly uneven work: at any point in the narrative some brilliant passage of description or metaphor may burst out like a firework. Desperate Remedies can be relished both for what it is and for what it promises.

One of the most moving accounts of being a boy ever written, My Childhood is a both wonderful and harrowing memoir - and one of the great works of Russian literature. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

On a sunny day in June, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is getting ready for a party and exulting in the vibrant swell of London. As Clarissa's preparations take her from the golden morning to the glittering evening, she muses on the choices she made as a young woman, the romances that have enriched her life, and the passage of time. In another part of London, war hero Septimus Smith is suffering from shell shock - what we would now term PTSD - and is haunted by the death of his friend. He finds himself teetering on the brink of madness, unable to leave his wounds behind. Over the course of a single day, the lives of Clarissa and Septimus will interweave and finally converge as the party reaches its climax.