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Op de avond van het eindexamenfeestje van zijn lievelingsdochter Tirza verliest de wat saaie Jorgen Hofmeester definitief de controle over zijn leven.

Schetsen over het leven van een jonge vrouw in een sociale huurwoning, een gehorige flat.

Bundel met 12 verhalen.

When Meredith bumps into her old school friend Rachel Hunter at the Chelsea Flower Show, she is shocked to discover that she was the first wife of her companion, Chief Inspector Markby. But the meeting is not the only surprise - before the afternoon is out, Markby has a death on his hands.

Columns waarin een aantal misstanden in de maatschappij op humoristische wijze aan de kaak worden gesteld

De stijlontwikkeling in het edelsmeedwerk van de Nederlandse kunstenares (1942).

Een vrouw heeft genoeg van haar door mannelijke lust gestuurd seksleven en besluit tot seksuele onthouding.

Dagboekaantekeningen uit 2006 van de dichter en letterkundige, afgewisseld met eerder verschenen artikelen uit verscheidene jaren daaraan voorafgaand.

Weer is Dobby weggelopen uit het kindertehuis en hij heeft maar een wens en dat is blijven bij Timmer en hem helpen met het verzorgen van de gewonde roofvogels. Maar juist door die vogels leert Dobby dat ook een mens z'n vrijheid aan moet kunnen.

Als een van twee balletdansende zussen een zenuwinzinking krijgt, voelt de ander zich schuldig. Fascinerend kijkje in de ambitieuze wereld van het topballet. 

We schrijven 1980, de tijd van de kruisraketten en de krakersrellen. Terwijl zijn leeftijdgenoten achter het bier broeden op konkrete linkse aksie, stelt de achttienjarige Koen Donkersloot zich ten doel de wereld te veroveren met zijn pen. Op de School voor Journalistiek sluit hij vriendschap met Sybrand, een excentrieke student die zich laaft aan Nietzsche en de oude Grieken. Met de publicatie van een reeks schotschriften maakt het duo zich op school onmogelijk. Ze ontsnappen door op reis te gaan naar Zuid-Libanon, waar ze een reportage willen maken over een doofpotaffaire binnen het internationale Unifil-detachement. De leerling-journalisten belanden in een burgeroorlog, en wat als vriendenreis begon, loopt uit op een confrontatie tussen morele opvattingen, levensfilosofieën en fysieke kracht. In een meesterlijke stijl vervlecht de schrijver de gebeurtenissen tot een afloop die de lezer ontredderd achterlaat.

Als een Deense verpleegkundige een groep zieke, illegale zigeuners in een oude garage in Kopenhagen probeert te helpen, blijkt er veel mis te zijn.

In 1924 vertrekt de Britse bergbeklimer George Mallory op zijn derde, fatale, expeditie naar de top van de Mount Everest... Verhaallijnen van hem en zijn vrouw Ruth, die achterbleef in Engeland. 

Het leven van een getrouwde Engelse moeder van drie volwassen kinderen wordt overhoop gehaald als ze verliefd wordt op een nieuwe dorpsbewoner.

Na de diagnose A.L.S.  besluit een jonge vrouw en moeder niet bij de pakken neer te zitten en samen met familie en vrienden enkele reizen te maken.Ze maakte zeven reizen met zeven dierbaren, en dit is haar aangrijpende verhaal.

In Chakra Therapy by Keith Sherwood you will learn that the chakras are more than colored areas in your aura. They function as distribution centers for the energy that flows through your body. If theyre blocked, the energy doesnt flow and mental, physical, emotional, or spiritual problems can result. But you can clear the blockages and overcome the problems quickly and easily with the powerful yet simple techniques in this book.
You will learn how each chakra functions. Yes, the book explains this for your mind, but for your deepest, inner self - what Sherwood calls your I AM - you have to learn through intuition and true understanding. In order to accomplish this, Chakra Therapy includes meditations for each of the chakras. Even if you have studied the chakras for years, practicing these meditations will help you understand them on a deeper level than ever before.
Once you understand them you can clear them of blockages. This is the real Chakra Therapy. It begins with three simple exercises called locks, which can be performed lying down or sitting in a chair. When the energy starts to flow, you will need to know how to open and balance the chakras. The book covers this, too.
Then there is nothing to stop you. You''ll discover the techniques for cleansing the chakras and working with energy through simple yoga methods and breathwork that will bring you to a healthier, more energetic, and more balanced state than ever before.
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Poging tot verheldering van de verhouding tussen ethiek en psychologie en behandeling van de normen en waarden die leiden tot de verwerkelijkheid van de menselijke persoon en haar mogelijkheden

Een man, geboren in erbarmelijke omstandigheden in Parijs in 1738, heeft een uiterst gevoelig reukorgaan waarmee hij als parfumeur grote faam en macht verwerft.

Seven Doors to Islam reveals the religious worldview and spiritual tradition of the world's one billion Muslims. Spanning the breadth of Islamic civilization from Morocco to Indonesia, this book demonstrates how Muslims have used the literary and visual arts in all their richness and diversity to communicate religious values. Each of the seven chapters opens a "door" that leads progressively closer to the very heart of Islam, from the foundational revelation in the Qur'an to the transcendent experience of the Sufi mystics. However, unlike most studies of Islam, which see spirituality as the concern of a minority of mystical seekers, Seven Doors demonstrates its central role in every aspect of the Islamic tradition.

This extraordinary magnum opus seems at first to be a confessional autobiographical novel in the grand manner, claiming and extending the legacy of Proust and Mann. But it is more: Peter Nadas has given us a superb contemporary psychological novel that comes to terms with the ghosts, corpses, and repressed nightmares of Europe's recent past. A Book of Memories is made up of three first-person narratives. the first that of a young Hungarian writer and his fated love for a German poet; we also learn of the narrator's adolescence in Budapest, when he experiences the downfall of his once-upper-class but now pro-Communist family and of his beloved but repudiated father, a state prosecutor who commits suicide after the 1956 uprising. A second memoir, alternating with the first, is a novel the narrator is composing about a refined Belle Epoque aesthete, whose anti-bourgeois transgressions seem like emotionally overcharged versions of the narrator's own experiences. A third voice is that of a childhood friend who, after the narrator's return to his homeland, offers an apparently more objective account of their friendship. Together these brilliantly colored lives are integrated in a powerful work of tragic intensity.

This book is the first completely new biography of James Joyce for a generation. It will prove both controversial and essential. James Joyce left Dublin in 1904, when he was twenty-two, and for the next decade taught and worked in Pola, Trieste and Rome. He visited his native Dublin for the last time in 1912, leaving after an acrimonious dispute with a publisher and spending the rest of his life on the Continent. By the time he was thirty he had already had the vast majority of experiences on which his intensely autobiographical literary output was based. Peter Costello, Joycean scholar and native Dubliner, draws on recently discovered or previously overlooked sources to show how Joyce's early life -- his education, his relationship with his brothers and sisters, his youthful loss of faith, his first sexual experiences, his meeting with Nora Barnacle -- shaped so much he was to write in later years. With the publication of his first writing in 1915 came immediate literary respect and fame in Europe and America. From then on he was always the center of attention. But, as Peter Costello argues with conviction and passion, it was the earlier period of obscurity which provided Joyce with the material for Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and even the much later Finnegans Wake and was therefore the most significant and interesting period of his life. The theme of James Joyce: the Years of Growth is the theme of all Joyce's work -- the transformation of raw life into art. The network of friendships surrounding Joyce's family, of which he was to make so much use in Ulysses, receives special attention. Ulysses is very much a book about a city and a community, a community which was largely that of Joyce's father. Joyce as a writer owed a tremendous debt to his story-telling father. The majority of the characters in Ulysses were friends of John Joyce, who contributed more than has been realized to the make-up of Leopold Bloom. By taking an historical rather than purely biographical approach, Peter Costello places Joyce firmly in the context of the Dublin of his youth, frequently refutes accepted fact and discovers a new portrait of James Joyce.

Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story Sweat was first published in Firell, a legendary literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, whose sole issue appeared in November 1926. Among contributions by Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Thurman, Sweat stood out both for its artistic accomplishment and its exploration of rural Southern black life. In Sweat Hurston claimed the voice that animates her mature fiction, notably the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God; the themes of marital conflict and the development of spiritual consciousness were introduced as well. Sweat exemplifies Hurston's lifelong concern with women's relation to language and the literary possibilities of black vernacular.

This casebook for the story includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of the author's life, the authoritative text of Sweat, and a second story, The Gilded Six-Bits. Published in 1932, this second story was written after Hurston had spent years conducting fieldwork in the Southern United States. The volume also includes Hurston's groundbreaking 1934 essay, Characteristics of Negro Expression, and excerpts from her autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road. An article by folklorist Roger Abrahams provides additional cultural contexts for the story, as do selected blues and spirituals. Critical commentary comes from Alice Walker, who led the recovery of Hurston's work in the 1970s, Robert Hemenway, Henry Louis Gates, Gayl Jones, John Lowe, Kathryn Seidel, and Mary Helen Washington.