Describes the author's teenage marriage to a South American aristocrat twenty years her senior, her disillusionment, and her struggle to find the strength to build a new life in the heart of the Andean wilderness

Persoonlijk verslag van de Colombiaanse politica (1961- ) van de betrokkenheid van haar ouders en haarzelf bij de strijd tegen de corruptie in Colombia.

De Rotterdamse voetbaljournalist kijkt terug op zijn onbezorgde voetbaljaren bij het Kralingse WIA, waarin teamgenoot Heintje een belangrijke rol speelde; na dertig jaar ontmoet hij Hein weer.

The author recalls the stories of three generations of African American women in her family--her grandmother's move from Alabama to Chicago, her mother's relocation to Boston after her father's death, and her own journey to Africa and back

The author, a citizen of South Carolina during the Civil War, shares her experiences and opinions about the war, slavery, and the people around her

Memoires van een vrouw van Zwitsers-Iraanse komaf, die een aantal jaren gehuwd was met een van de broers van Osama bin Laden.

Columns over recente veranderingen in de Nederlandse samenleving.

Throughout her explosive and tempestuous career, Edith Piaf cast a spell over all who came in contact with her. The little sparrow, as she was called, stood only four foot 10 and always performed in simple black. After her, popular singing would never be the same. This classic biography documents her meteoric rise from street urchin to a living legend whose power and influence were so great that she marked an entire generation of actors and singers, including Yves Montand and Charles Aznavour.

A chance encounter with a German taxidermist determined her lifework, and Maxwell soon devoted her boundless energy to hunting and mounting all forms of Rocky Mountain wildlife, which she displayed in unusual habitat settings in her museum in Boulder and later in Denver. Her spreading fame led to an invitation to exhibit her collection at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, where she achieved international renown.

Like that of other accomplished women of her era, Maxwell?s fame did not keep pace with the significant influence she had on her profession. Thanks to Maxine Benson, Martha Maxwell now takes her rightful place in the history of the West and of the nation.

Kirsten Jacobsen interviewde Henning Mankell en reisde met hem mee tijdens een aantal van zijn reizen. Naast Mankell zelf hebben ook anderen een bijdrage geleverd aan deze biografie, zoals zijn vrouw en kinderen, Desmond Tutu en Kenneth Branagh, de acteur die Wallander speelde in de gelijknamige Engelse televisieserie. Henning Mankell is een zeer persoonlijk portret van de idealist, de socialist, de workaholic en de schrijver, die met zijn ene been in de Zweedse sneeuw staat en met het andere in het Afrikaanse zand.

Katherine Mansfield was not only an extraordinary writer, devoted to her work, she was also a woman of great vivacity and strength, who led a brief but interesting life, from her birth in New Zealand to the literary circles of England and Europe. The leading writers of her age, people like Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence were a constant part of her life. Gillian Boddy has drawn on her years of research to introduce us to a new Katherine Mansfield, not ethereal as has been the myth, but substantial, alive. She has incorporated rarely seen photographs and some unpublished material to present this readable account. -- From publisher's description.

This first, and some would say greatest, poet of the English language stands before the gateway of the early modern age. He lived at a time when the elite languages of former conquerors, French and Latin, were both giving way to English - no longer just the vernacular of the common people, but increasingly the language of the court, the law, and of literature. Richard West weaves a fascinating picture of this extraordinary man, whose character has puzzled lovers of his comic masterpiece, "The Canterbury Tales". How did he remain so apparently cheerful and serene, through one of the cruellest eras of history? As a child he survived the Black Death, later he fought in France during the Hundred Years War, served as a diplomat in Italy, and became an MP at the angry beginnings of the Protestant Reformation, the Peasants' Revolt and the overthrow of Richard II.