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Een provocerende satire op de kunsthandel en de bonte wereld van schilders, kopers, handelaars en journalisten die er op de een of andere manier bij betrokken zijn. Centraal staat een bekende Amsterdamse kunsthandel waar twee homoseksuele vrienden, Gene en Bertus, heer en meester zijn. De verteller, een jonge homoseksuele kunstcriticus met turbulente relatieproblemen, vat het plan op om zelf een kunsthandel te beginnen en komt zo op de naïve gedachte bij bevriende kunsthandelaren om raad te vragen. Uiteraard vangt hij bot, maar hij mag wel een boek schrijven ter gelegenheid van het tienjarig bestaan van de stal van Gene en Bertus.

Verslag van een reis van vier maanden over de Orinoco naar het hart van het Amazonegebied.

Prive Domein nr. 150

Biografische schets van de Nederlandse auteur (1946- ).

Gebundelde hoorspelen, uitgezonden door het BRT-radioprogramma "Het Genootschap", waarin vrije, humoristische interpretaties van historische feiten worden gegeven.

Biografie met veel foto's van kroonprins Rudolf van Habsburg (1859-1889) van Oostenrijk, die zich samen met zijn minnares (waarschijnlijk) het leven benam in slot Mayerling.

Verhaal over het uiteenvallen van een oude vriendenkring

Twee bejaarde tweelingzusters die in hun kindertijd gescheiden werden, vertellen elkaar hun levensverhaal.

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020 in Nonfiction

A resonant biography of America’s most celebrated novelist of the Great Depression.

The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy. Pulitzer Prize finalist William Souder explores Steinbeck’s long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath. Angered by the plight of the Dust Bowl migrants who were starving even as they toiled to harvest California’s limitless bounty, fascinated by the guileless decency of the downtrodden denizens of Cannery Row, and appalled by the country’s refusal to recognize the humanity common to all of its citizens, Steinbeck took a stand against social injustice—paradoxically given his inherent misanthropy—setting him apart from the writers of the so-called "lost generation."

A man by turns quick-tempered, compassionate, and ultimately brilliant, Steinbeck could be a difficult person to like. Obsessed with privacy, he was mistrustful of people. Next to writing, his favorite things were drinking and womanizing and getting married, which he did three times. And while he claimed indifference about success, his mid-career books and movie deals made him a lot of money—which passed through his hands as quickly as it came in. And yet Steinbeck also took aim at the corrosiveness of power, the perils of income inequality, and the urgency of ecological collapse, all of which drive public debate to this day.

Steinbeck remains our great social realist novelist, the writer who gave the dispossessed and the disenfranchised a voice in American life and letters. Eloquent, nuanced, and deeply researched, Mad at the World captures the full measure of the man and his work.

Born in a small town in northern California in 1902, Steinbeck refused from the outset to fit himself to any mold, digging ditches and washing dishes while intermittently attending Stanford University. Failing to take a degree, he struggled for more than a decade to establish himself as a writer, always putting his work first. Eventually he enjoyed an extraordinary period of creativity during which he summoned a powerful vision of the Depression. Books such as Of Mice and Men, The Long Valley, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath became battle cries that aroused international indignation and brought Steinbeck a world audience. Jay Parini explores Steinbeck's love-hate relationship with Hollywood and Broadway, his career as a war correspondent, his difficult first and second marriages, and his often tempestuous associations with numerous celebrities, among them Joseph Campbell, Charlie Chaplin, Lyndon Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner. Drawing on interviews with dozens of people who knew Steinbeck intimately - including his beloved third wife, Elaine - and on published and unpublished letters, diaries, and manuscripts, John Steinbeck is both an important reassessment and a masterful portrait of one of the greatest American novelists.

Het leven van een Vlaamse jongen in de jaren 1939-1947, waarin tevens een beeld wordt gegeven van het leven in Vlaanderen in een periode van oorlog, collaboratie en strijd om het overleven.

Operatie Market Garden (slag om Arnhem) kritisch bekeken

A step-by-step practical guide: Tae Kwondo - Karate - Aikido - Ju Jitsu - Judo - Kung Fu - Tai Chi - Kendo - Iaido - Shinto Ryu

This acclaimed history illuminates the horrifying episode of Salem with visceral clarity, from those who fanned the crisis to satisfy personal vendettas to the four-year-old "witch" chained to a dank prison wall in darkness till she went mad. Antonia Fraser called it "a grisly read and an engrossing one."

Circa twintig jaar geleden werd EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) ontwikkeld als behandelvorm voor Post Traumatische Stress Stoornissen (PTSS ). Na aanvankelijke scepsis is EMDR inmiddels opgenomen in (inter)nationale richtlijnen voor de behandeling van PTSS en wordt het ook bij veel andere klachtengebieden toegepast.Uit de praktijk: In Casusboek EMDR beschrijven 25 Nederlandse therapeuten aansprekende voorbeelden uit hun praktijk waarbij zij EMDR succesvol gebruikten. Daarmee gunnen zij de lezer een kijkje in de keuken van hun praktijk en nemen zij iets van het mysterie rond deze behandelmethode weg. De ervaringen van de beschreven cliënten tonen niet alleen de effectiviteit van EMDR aan, maar ook de efficiëntie van deze therapievorm.Op de dvd bij dit boek is tevens te zien hoe een therapiesessie verloopt en geven EMDR-therapeuten informatie over deze therapievorm.Wat is EMDR?EMDR is een effectieve en efficiënte methode die snel resultaten boekt, weinig dropouts kent en relatief mild is voor de patiënt. De praktijkvoorbeelden illustreren wat EMDR is: een protocollaire methode die volstrekt afwijkt van andere behandelvormen. De auteurs leggen daarom eerst uit wat EMDR is en volgen de ontwikkeling van deze therapie vanaf het begin.

Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision of the Kingdom of God. While previous accounts of his life have been distorted by hagiography or polemical expose, John Turner provides a fully realized portrait of a colossal figure in American religion, politics, and westward expansion.

After the 1844 murder of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Young gathered those Latter-day Saints who would follow him and led them over the Rocky Mountains. In Utah, he styled himself after the patriarchs, judges, and prophets of ancient Israel. As charismatic as he was autocratic, he was viewed by his followers as an indispensable protector and by his opponents as a theocratic, treasonous heretic.

Under his fiery tutelage, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints defended plural marriage, restricted the place of African Americans within the church, fought the U.S. Army in 1857, and obstructed federal efforts to prosecute perpetrators of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. At the same time, Young's tenacity and faith brought tens of thousands of Mormons to the American West, imbued their everyday lives with sacred purpose, and sustained his church against adversity. Turner reveals the complexity of this spiritual prophet, whose commitment made a deep imprint on his church and the American Mountain West."