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Why is Shakespeare as highly regarded now as he ever has been? This book's answer to this question counters claims that Shakespeare's iconic status is no more than an accident of history. The plays, Belsey argues, entice us into a world we recognize by retelling traditional fairy tales with a difference, each chapter providing a detailed reading.

The world of work is changing dramatically and jobs for life have become a thing of the past. Even people moving up the corporate ladder are questioning their choices and considering new possibilities, such as work/life balance or portfolio working. If you want to take charge of your career but don't know where to start, change can feel unobtainable - a pipe dream.This action-oriented and pragmatic book will help you overcome the barriers to deciding on a career and changing career, giving you a proven roadmap to achieve your goals. Taking Charge of Your Career will lead you step-by-step through the process of building your career strategy and making it happen. Full of exercises and self-assessment tools to help you make the right choices, it also includes real-life stories of successful career changers.

In de sterfkamer van haar broer vindt een vrouw een koffer vol nazistische propaganda uit zijn tienerjaren, die haar herinnert aan zijn fascinatie voor het nazisme, de Jeugdstorm en het Duitse oostfront die het gezin in tweeën spleet.

Een jongen groeit op in een gezin dat wordt overheerst door een excentrieke moeder van Indiase afkomst.

Women on the Renaissance stage provides a unique reassessment of women's relationship to performance in early modern England. A study of women's participation in the Jacobean court masque, it gives detailed historicised and interdisciplinary readings of the performances of Anna of Denmark (wife of James VI and I) in the Scottish and English Jacobean courts.

Clare McManus investigates the staging conditions, practices and gendering of Anna's performances, from the ceremonies and festivities of the Scottish court to the English court masques of Jonson, Daniel, Campion and others. Current critical theorisations of race, class, gender, space and performance are brought to bear on the courtly woman's body in dance, staging, scenery, costume and make-up within what might be thought of as female court. In doing this, McManus establishes a tradition of seventeenth-century female performance which provides a trajectory for the emergence of the professional female actors of the Restoration.

This innovative study of a hitherto neglected performance tradition will expand the understanding of gender and performance for scholars and students of early modern culture.

Influential popular philosopher Roman Krznaric argues our brains are wired for social connection: empathy is at the heart of who we are. It's an essential, transforming quality we must develop for the 21st Century.

Through encounters with actors, activists, groundbreaking designers, undercover journalists, nurses, bankers and neuroscientists, Krznaric defines a new breed of adventurer. He sets out the six life-enhancing habits of highly empathetic people, whose skills enable them to connect with others in extraordinary ways.

Empathy has the power to transform relationships, from the personal to the political. Krznaric contends that, as we move on from an age of introspection, empathy will be key to fundamental social change - making this book a manifesto for revolution.

Why did Shakespeare write drama? Did he have specific reasons for his choice of this art form? Did he have clearly defined aesthetic aims in what he wanted drama to do - and why? Pauline Kiernan opens up a new area of debate for Shakespearean criticism in showing that a radical, complex defence of drama which challenged the Renaissance orthodox view of poetry, history and art can be traced in Shakespeare's plays and poems. This study, first published in 1996, examines different stages in the canon to show that far from being restricted by the 'limitations' of drama, Shakespeare consciously exploits its capacity to accommodate temporality and change, and its reliance on the physical presence of the actor. This lively, readable book offers an original and scholarly insight into what Shakespeare wanted his drama to do and why.

De opvallendste misdrijven en de meest spraakmakende rechtszaken van 2009

Een roman die je in een paar honderd paginas over de gehele wereld vertelt

Verhalen over Marokko en Marokkaanse migranten in Europa.

De ontmoeting van een vrouw met een vroegere jeugdvriend, inmiddels monnik in dienst van het vrouwelijk gezicht van God, heeft grote gevolgen.

Alphonse is met zijn geliefde Kat verhuisd naar de Vlaamse Westhoek. Ver weg van het drukke Brussel en het wisselvallige muzikantenbestaan is hij gelukkig met zijn eenmansklusjesbedrijf. Zijn klanten zijn lovend over zijn0werk, en nog meer onder de indruk van hemzelf. Alphonse verspreidt rust, mensen stellen zich open voor hem, hebben zo sterk de behoefte aan zijn adviezen dat ze hem gaan opeisen. Alphonse is zich bewust van zijn charisma, maar wil goeroe noch Jezus zijn. 0'Dertig dagen' is een Annelies Verbeke zoals we haar niet eerder lazen. In omvang en stijl, en in de manier waarop de ruimere wereld wordt toegelaten.

It is summer in Istanbul and the body of a young man is discovered in a local lake. The air is oppressive as Behiye prepares to enter one of Turkey's most prestigious universities. Angry, overweight, embarrassed by her parents and contemptuous of her Nazi older brother - Behiye longs for some salvation from her teenage despair. In the week before she starts university she is introduced to Handan - a beautiful, gentle girl who will change Behiye's life forever. Immediately drawn to one another, the two girls embark upon an intense, exclusive relationship even though they are from completely different backgrounds, with different dreams and ambitions. As their friendship spirals out of control, Behiye realises the impossibility of their being able to cross the cultural divide. - Now a Kutlug Ataman film. 

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. In that same year, to add to his troubles, Frank's wife Nellie caught the train back home to England, without explanation.

How is a reasonable man like Frank to cope? How should he keep his house running? Should he consult the Anglican chaplain's wife? Should he listen to the Tolstoyan advice of his chief book-keeper? How do people live together, and what happens when, sometimes, they don't?

"For the life of me I can't decide how properly to respond to this book. Whether it contains a latent moral or allegorical message, or whether it is simply a tour de force of craft and imagination I have not the faintest idea. I only know that it is one of the most skilful and utterly fascinating novels I have read for years. I cannot imagine any kind of reader who would not get a thrill from this gloriously peculiar book."JAN MORRIS, 'Independent'

"Penelope Fitzgerald has produced a real Russian comedy, at once crafty and scatty. She has mastered a city, a landscape and a vanished time. She has written something remarkable, part novel, part evocation, and done so in prose that never puts a foot wrong. She is so unostentatious a writer that she needs to be read several times. What is impressive is the calm confidence behind the apparent simplicity of utterance. 'The Beginning of Spring' is her best novel to date."ANITA BROOKNER, 'Spectator'

Beschouwing over spiritualiteit, geestelijke groei en de zin van lijden en tegenspoed.

Twee vriendinnen trekken door Frankrijk op zoek naar alcohol, dope en seks, en hebben daarbij weinig last van scrupules.

De Gids voor het herkennen van meer dan 500 soorten zeeschelpen uit de hele wereld

Verbeterde versie met nieuwe mind maps

Humoristische beschouwingen over gedragsverschillen tussen mannen en vrouwen.