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Through her fiction, Alice Adams has shown herself to be a perceptive and humane social portraitist. Here, she applies these talents in describing her 30-year love affair with Mexico. An astute and entertaining travel companion, Adams reveals Mexico as a country of infinite delights and endless sorrows. 1 map.

"This is the second, greatly expanded edition (previously available only in Century editions) of one of the world's most successful books on negotiation. Published in more than 20 languages, it has helped millions of people turn adversarial haggling into constructive joint problem solving. We all negotiate something every day, whether in business, government or the family. Most decisions are reached through negotiation, and everyone wants to participate in the decisions which affect them. GETTING TO YES provides a few powerful memorable principles which will guide you to success no matter what the other side does or whatever tricks they get up to."

When a Brazilian man's face is disfigured, he attempts a grisly self-surgery in this novel of survival.

Vergeet alles wat je denkt te weten over vakantie vieren. Reizen door een moeilijk land is niet ontspannen, en vaak heel erg lastig. Maar dat maakt het natuurlijk ook leuk. Reisveteraan Jelle Brandt Corstius bereidt je voor op je reis, en helpt je onderweg. De "Universele reisgids voor moeilijke landen" maakt alle andere reisgidsen overbodig. Je leest onder meer hoe je een politieagent moet omkopen, in welke rij je het beste kunt gaan staan, hoe je een weg oversteekt en wat je aan moet met de taximaffia die je opwacht op het vliegveld. Maar ook lees je welk restaurant je het beste kunt kiezen en hoe je diarree voorkomt (er is een verband tussen die twee). En hoe je, als je ergens te gast bent, vieze hapjes pijnloos doorslikt. Een gids voor de avontuurlijke reiziger en de ondernemende expat.

De aasgieren zweven boven de republiek Nederland. Na een verpletterend warme zomer wordt het land voor het eerst in zijn geschiedenis getroffen door een orkaan. De gepensioneerde bibliothecaris Jákob Hemmelbahn is getuige van een lokale ramp waarbij tientallen mensen omkomen. Wegkijken en ontkennen is van hogerhand tot kunst verheven. Als zoon van Hongaarse vluchtelingen herinnert het meebuigen en in de pas lopen met de nieuwe orde hem aan zijn jeugd onder een communistisch regime. Hij wil de verhalen van de overlevenden optekenen maar wordt daarbij gehinderd door een dreigende censor. Jákob sjoemelt, komt in opstand en droomt van grootse daden.0'KLIFI' is een allegorie over een veranderend Nederland, hoe nuance ondergronds is gegaan en redelijkheid schiftte tot haat. Maar bovenal is het een roman over luisteren, de kracht van verhalen, lastige vriendschappen en liefde.

An explosive first novel-Madame Bovary set in modern Germany-about a wife and mother whose failed love affairs have driven her to the edge of sanity, and to a startling attempt at vindication.
After being jilted by a rich boyfriend, Margaret Sartoris, eighteen and heartbroken, throws herself into a comfortable but stifling marriage to Ernst, a war veteran with a penchant for routine and order, who still lives with his mother in a small German village.
It's not a bad life, considering Margaret's psychological scars, but neither Ernst's adoration nor the birth of a daughter can reawaken her frozen emotions. It's not until she slides into an affair with a married man with whom she plans to run away that her passions are stirred, but these plans are a fantasy that cannot possibly come true. The repercussions nevertheless will explode with unimaginable force in these astonished lives.
A remarkable psychological portrait, an oustanding debut novel.

'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a monumental achievement, gleaned from the efforts of hundreds of ordinary and extraordinary people who made it their mission to catalogue the English language in its entirety.In The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester celebrates this remarkable feat, and the fascinating characters who played such a vital part in its execution, from the colourful Frederick Furnivall, cheerful promoter of an all-female sculling crew, to James Murray, self-educated son of a draper, who spent half a century guiding the project towards fruition. Along the way we learn which dictionary editor became the inspiration for Kenneth Grahame's Ratty in The Wind in the Willows, and why Tolkien found it so hard to define 'walrus'. Written by the bestselling author of The Surgeon of Crowthorne and The Map That Changed the World, The Meaning of Everything is an enthralling account of the creation of the world's greatest dictionary.

Life changes forever for Joe during the summer of 1960 in Great Falls, Montana, when Joe Brinson's father loses his job and goes off to fight the wildfires, and his mother begins an affair with another man.

Set against the splendor of Venice, Stitch is the moving story of the meeting between a group of Americans and a world-famous sculptor. Stitch, a character whom certain critics have recognized as one of the most remarkable portraits of Ezra Pound, is a man who has shaped and been shaped by the most profound intellectual and political experiences of the 20th century. What the Americans learn from him comprises the brilliant center of this novel.

Mr. Mani is a deeply affecting six-generation family saga, extending from nineteenth century Greece and Poland to British-occupied Palestine to German-occupied Crete and ultimately to modern Israel. The narrative moves through time and is told in five conversations about the Mani family. It ends in Athens in 1848 with Avraham Mani's powerful tale about the death of his young son in Jerusalem.　

A profoundly human novel, rich in drama, irony, and wit.

Clara Velde is a successful fashion writer in New York City and the star of the story. The book's title refers to the disappearance of Clara's prized emerald ring. Clara associates the ring with her love for the Washington, D.C. politico Ithiel and with her own professional and personal power. The ring's apparent theft leads Clara into a series of psychological crises and forces her to confront a long-buried complex of interpersonal issues.

This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure's nightmarish decent into the underside of American life and his resurrection to the wisdom that emerges from despair.

When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the name "Bone".

He finds dangerous refuge with a group of biker-thieves, and then hides in the boarded-up summer house of a professor and his wife. He finally settles in an abandoned schoolbus with Rose, a child he rescues from a fast-talking pedophile. There Bone meets I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian, and together they begin a second adventure that takes the reader from Middle America to the ganja-growing mountains of Jamaica. It is an amazing journey of self-discovery through a world of magic, violence, betrayal and redemption.

Winter, January 1945. It is cold and dark, and the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family tries to seal itself off from the world. Peter von Globig is twelve, and feigns a cough to get out of his Hitler Youth duties, preferring to sledge behind the house and look at snowflakes through his microscope. His father Eberhard is stationed in Italy - a desk job safe from the front - and his bookish and musical mother Katharina has withdrawn into herself. Instead the house is run by a conservative, frugal aunt, helped by two Ukrainian maids and an energetic Pole. Protected by their privileged lifestyle from the deprivation and chaos around them, and caught in the grip of indecision, they make no preparations to leave, until Katharina's decision to harbour a stranger for the night begins their undoing.

In 1993 Linda Grant's mother, Rose, was diagnosed with multi-infarct dementia. With Roses's memory deteriorating, a whole world was in the process of being lost. In this work she looks at the question of identity, memory and autonomy that dementia raises.

Autobiografie van een afstandsmoeder, van wie de dochter komt te overlijden door verwaarlozing en mishandeling door de adoptie-ouders.

Het leven van de 29-jarige actrice Anna lijkt een aaneenschakeling van succes en plezier, maar toch is ze niet gelukkig. Dan ontmoet ze de Tsjetsjeense klusjesman Vladimir en begint met hem een stormachtige relatie.

Roots of Empathy — an evidence-based program developed in 1996 by longtime educator and social entrepreneur Mary Gordon — has already reached more than 270,000 children in Canada, the U.S., Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere.

Now, as The New York Times reports that "empathy lessons are spreading everywhere amid concerns over the pressure on students from high-stakes tests and a race to college that starts in kindergarten", Mary Gordon explains the value of and how best to nurture empathy and social and emotional literacy in all children — and thereby reduce aggression, antisocial behavior, and bullying.

This comprehensive volume of writings and lectures spans thirty-two years of this popular teacher's career, from 1964 to 1996. Topics include Zen training and practice; Buddhist ethics; illness, death, and dying; and Zen in America. Roshi Philip Kapleau underwent thirteen years of formal training in Japan with two of Japan's most noted Zen masters, Harada Roshi and Yasutani Roshi. Roshi Kapleau returned to the United States in 1966 and has made it his life's work to translate Zen Buddhism into an American idiom.

Tussen het feminisme en de biologische wetenschappen heeft het nooit geboterd. Er zit volgens feministen nogal wat vrouwenhaat verborgen in evolutionaire verklaringen van menselijk sociaal gedrag. Evolutionaire wetenschappers verwijten feministen dat zij, door aan te nemen dat gender-identiteit geheel sociaal geconstrueerd is, antiwetenschappelijk te werk gaan. Vandermassen behandelt de geschiedenis van feministische kritiek op het darwinistische denkkader en ook de geschiedenis van de 'biofobie' onder feministen. Zij komt tot de conclusie dat een goed begrepen darwinistisch perspectief op de menselijke natuur en op de seksen noodzakelijk is om de grote vraagstukken binnen het feminisme op te lossen. Verkorte en licht bewerkte versie van: Who's afraid of Charles Darwin? : Debating feminism and evolutionary theory. - Oxford, 2005.

Hoksbergen schetst in dit boek de geschiedenis van zestig jaar adoptie in Nederland. Adoptie was immer een maatschappelijk kwestie waarover de visies in de loop der tijd veranderden. Zo laat het boek zien dat de adoptie binnen Nederland in de loop der tijd praktisch verdween en dat inter-landelijke adoptie vanaf de jaren zeventig sterk in opkomst kwam. Daarnaast staat het boek ook stil bij andere facetten, zoals het wel en wee van de adoptiegezinnen en de kinderen en komen de procedures, wetgeving en organisaties aan bod die een rol speelden bij het adoptieproces in ons land. Dit alles werd door Hoksbergen geïllustreerd met toepasselijke persoonlijke verhalen.

Psychologische studie naar de redenen, waardoor kinderen binnen één gezin vaak zulke grote karakterverschillen tonen.

Uitleg van de mechanismen in het menselijk brein aan de hand van de zeven hoofdzonden.

It has long been known that the body may respond positively when an individual believes that he or she has been given medication. For years the placebo effect remained an isolated and unexplained phenomenon. Recent research has shown, however, that psychological states and life traumas, including divorce and loss of employment, can adversely affect immune system responses. This volume, composed of contributions by noted researchers in psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience, explain the fascinating investigations of brain-mind-body relationships that are changing the way we think about health and illness.

The book's first three chapters demonstrate how the brain operates as a health maintenance organization and describe the brain's growth in response to experience. Psychosocial factors in healing are explored in chapters that examine the social environment's effect on susceptibility to illness, the mechanisms and implications of the placebo effect, and the ways in which social support and health are related. Included is a chapter entitled ``The Broken Heart,'' an exceptional explication of the psychobiology of human contact.

Because healing does not merely return the mind or the body to its presymptomatic condition, but more usually brings about lasting change, chapters on psychoneuroimmunology examine the neuropeptide and emotions interactions that promote healing. Possible psychoneuroimmunological mechanisms are considered, and the emerging field as a whole is discussed with a special note on the timely question of AIDS.

The section on coping and stress investigates why demanding situations affect some people's health adversely whereas others thrive under the same duress. Topics include stress resistant personality and coronary-prone behaviors, and examinations of environmental factors that influence health. Other chapters on diet and nutrition, examine how food affects the brain and how the brain regulates body weight.

Together, the articles in this volume describe a world of scientific research that offers potent possibilities for the future of mental and physical health care. It will prove invaluable reading for all mental health clinicians and researchers, physicians, and serious readers interested in the health and well being of the human organism.

Beschrijving van bouw en functie van de menselijke hersenen, waarbij het geheugen, het bewustzijn, het zien, de taal, veroudering, psychiatrische aandoeningen en verslaving aan de orde komen.