De biografie van Joop van den Ende, voor het eerst openhartig verteld door hemzelf en vele anderen en geschreven door Henk van Gelder. Over hoe hij opgroeide in Amsterdam-Oost, met een poppenkast op straat stond, in kindervoorstellingen de rol van Batman speelde, deerlijk mislukte als deelnemer aan een cabaretconcours, een feestartikelenwinkeltje runde, met De Fabeltjeskrant op tournee ging en de André van Duin Revue opzette, waarna De Soundmixshow, Wedden dat en Dagboek van een herdershond zijn eerste tv-successen waren. Over zijn mislukte tv-zender, zijn hoog oplopende conflicten met RTL4, zijn grootste Broadway-flop, zijn miljoenenverliezen en miljoenenwinsten, zijn afkeer van Big Brother en het fortuin dat hij er desondanks aan overhield, waarom hij géén Karel Appel-museum bouwde maar wel het gloednieuwe DeLaMar, en hoe hij kon uitgroeien tot Europa s grootste musicalmagnaat.

"Students and teachers of Victorian women’s careers will be grateful for [Mermin’s] intelligent and equable guidance as they negotiate the paradoxes of Godiva’s Ride." —Modern Philology "This brief study should be enormously helpful to students seeking an introduction to feminist approaches to Victorian writers." —Choice "Mermin’s fine book is a work of synthesis that moves across many genres of women’s writing... and touches on neglected writers of the period... as well as on the canonized few." —American Historical Review "Godiva’s Ride is a stimulating and enjoyable study of an exceptionally rich subject... " —Victorian Periodicals Review "Accessible, original, and gracefully written, Godiva’s Ride is likely to be as engrossing for the general reader as for the expert." —Victorian Studies Describes the first great age of women’s writing in England. Mermin discusses how women were encouraged to become writers, how they were discouraged and hindered, and what they wrote. The many women entering the mainstream of English literature in this era included the Brontës, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Harriet Martineau.

This is volume four of ten volumes. Our mission is to gather in one place, for the English-speaking public, all relevant information needed to make the Qur'an more understandable and easier to study. This book tries to do this by providing the following: 1. The Arabic Text for those who are able to read Arabic 2. Transliteration of the Arabic text for those who are unable to read the Arabic script. This will give them a sample of the sound of the Qur'an, which they could not otherwise comprehend from reading the English meaning. 3. The meaning of the qur'an (translated by Dr. Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali, Ph.D. and Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan) 4. Background introductions by two famous Islamic scholars, Maududi and Ibn Kathir 5. Explanation (abridged Tafsir) by Ibn Kathir (translated by Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri) We hope that by doing this an ordinary English-speaker will be able to pick up a copy of this book and study and comprehend The Glorious Qur'an in a way that is acceptable to the understanding of the Rightly-guided Muslim Ummah (Community).

This is volume five of ten volumes. Our mission is to gather in one place, for the English-speaking public, all relevant information needed to make the Qur'an more understandable and easier to study. This book tries to do this by providing the following: 1. The Arabic Text for those who are able to read Arabic 2. Transliteration of the Arabic text for those who are unable to read the Arabic script. This will give them a sample of the sound of the Qur'an, which they could not otherwise comprehend from reading the English meaning. 3. The meaning of the qur'an (translated by Dr. Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali, Ph.D. and Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan) 4. Background introductions by two famous Islamic scholars, Maududi and Ibn Kathir 5. Explanation (abridged Tafsir) by Ibn Kathir (translated by Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri) We hope that by doing this an ordinary English-speaker will be able to pick up a copy of this book and study and comprehend The Glorious Qur'an in a way that is acceptable to the understanding of the Rightly-guided Muslim Ummah (Community).

This study proposes interpretive strategies for nineteenth-century American women's novels. Harris contends that women in the nineteenth century read subversively, 'processing texts according to gender based imperatives'. Beginning with Susannah Rowson's best-selling seduction novel Charlotte Temple (1791), and ending with Willa Cather's O Pioneers! (1913), Harris scans white, middle-class women's writing throughout the nineteenth century. In the process she both explores reading behaviour and formulates a literary history for mainstream nineteenth-century American women's fiction. Through most of the twentieth century, women's novels of the earlier period have been denigrated as conventional, sentimental, and overwritten. Harris shows that these conditions are actually narrative strategies, rooted in cultural imperatives and, paradoxically, integral to the later development of women's texts that call for women's independence. Working with actual women's diaries and letters, Harris first shows what contemporary women sought from the books they read. She then applies these reading strategies to the most popular novels of the period, proving that even the most apparently retrograde demonstrate their heroines' abilities to create and control areas culturally defined as male.

"In this compelling study, Marian Morton traces the development of public and private health-care policies for single mothers and identifies the ways in which attitudes about religion, race, and cultural definitions of womanhood affected their treatment." "Focusing on the history of the public hospital and four private maternity homes in Cleveland, Morton considers the care of unwed mothers in the context of developing American social policy from the mid-nineteenth century to today. While social policy has taken on a growing responsibility for health care of dependent people, the perception of unwed mothers as "sinful" by the Christian church and "undeserving" because their situation was brought about by moral failure has differentiated them from other dependent populations. Government provides unmarried mothers with the least support, and private maternity homes, run mostly by churches, have remained committed to the nineteenth-century notion of spiritual reclamation. As Morton shows, regardless of the time period, women pregnant out-of-wedlock have been the dependent population most easily disciplined by private agencies and the most resented and politically vulnerable recipients of public assistance." "This vital work sheds new light on the current controversies over public assistance and legalized abortion and offers a powerful appraisal of the uncertainties and inequities of American social policy as it applies to women who fail to conform to social definitions of womanhood."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Covers the themes such as rebellion, persecution and injustice in Restoration England. This book talks about a disturbing period of British history through the characters of Lady Alice Lisle and Judge Jeffreys, a period when fairness, justice and truth were cast aside in the interests of political power and conformity.