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Mexico, 1917. Paco Guerrero groeit op zonder vader in het dorp van het communistische schilderspaar Frida Kahlo en Diego Rivera. Terwijl hij hen vol bewondering observeert, bedenkt hij een plan: om zijn vader te vinden zal hij zich opwerken tot de grootste Mexicaan die ooit leefde. Hij zal de meest geroemde dokter worden van het land, een kunstenaar die zich met de grote Mexicaanse meester Siqueiros kan meten, de vroomste priester van heel Latijns-Amerika. Paco is tot alles in staat, zelfs tot deelname aan een aanslag op de gevluchte Russische revolutionair Leon Trotski. Tegen de achtergrond van een land in omwenteling ontvouwt zich een meeslepend en klassiek verhaal over een jongen op zoek naar zijn vader.

"Als Merijn de Boer in 2011 een advertentie leest waarin een reis naar Suriname wordt aangeboden, reageert hij meteen. De reis is bedoeld om meer bekendheid te creëren voor leven en werk van de Surinaamse schrijver Albert Helman. De meeste andere deelnemers hebben nog nooit van Helman gehoord en zijn ook niet van plan daar iets aan te veranderen, maar ze willen wel graag gratis op vakantie naar Suriname. De reis gaat van Paramaribo over de rivier tot diep in de binnenlanden. Sommige groepsgenoten zijn enigszins apart, zoals de professor en operaliefhebber André, de overspannen vader Julius en het echtpaar Tonnie en Sjors, dat zichzelf als avonturiers ziet. 'Het Surinamedagboek' beschrijft een wekenlange expeditie in het kielzog van een vergeten schrijver. Het is een boeiend en uitermate vermakelijk verslag van een groepsreis met alle ongemakken die daarbij horen. Tegelijk is het een onvergetelijk liefdesverhaal en een ode aan de schoonheid van het Surinaamse binnenland.

Een oude Chinese tekst over oorlogvoeren wordt gebruikt om de weg van de spirituele krijger te bewandelen.

Soren Sorensen believes that the vast majority of the suffering in our world is entirely unnecessary. He believes that, to varying degrees, many (if not most) people on Earth are brainwashed, hypnotized, and deeply confused. He believes that, as a result, our world is fatally threatened by people and organizations that act in stupid, cruel, and destructive ways. He also believes that global enlightenment is part of the solution. To this end, he has dedicated most of his life's work. Spiritual Atheism is no oxymoron. It is the key to a better world. It is also the key to your own personal health and happiness! This radically enlightening and empowering book will challenge you to reconsider your foundational philosophical assumptions about the nature of existence, identity, motivation, happiness, healing, forgiveness, free will, consciousness, creation, intention, and manifestation from a shockingly direct and powerful point of view. 

The discovery of fundamental laws of nature has influenced the fate of Homo sapiens more than anything else. Has modern physics already understood these laws? Many puzzles formulated by Albert Einstein or Paul Dirac are still unsolved today, in particular the meaning of fundamental constants. In this book, it is argued that a rational description of nature must do without any constants. A thorough analysis of the history of physics leads to the conclusion that there is a serious problem with what have been considered the basis of reality for centuries: Space and time. These may be the most accessible concepts for human perception, but are probably unsuitable for a basic understanding of nature. A methodological and historical analysis shows, however, that the underlying problem of physics is deep, unexpected and fatal: the concepts of space and time themselves, the basis of science since Newton, could be fundamentally inappropriate for the description of reality, although-or precisely because-they are so easily accessible to human perception. A new understanding of reality can only arise from mathematics. By exploring the three-dimensional unit sphere, which could replace the concepts of space and time, the author presents a mathematical vision that points the way to a new understanding of reality.

Fernando Pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in Lisbon in 1888. Most of Pessoa`s writing was not published during his lifetime: The Book of Disquiet was first published in Portugal in 1982.

For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself are the results of both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes. In this compelling and fascinating book, Ehrman shows where and why changes were made in our earliest surviving manuscripts, explaining for the first time how the many variations of our cherished biblical stories came to be, and why only certain versions of the stories qualify for publication in the Bibles we read today. Ehrman frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultraconservative views of the Bible.

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In God, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankind's relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on the history of faith and the birth of religion.

From the origins of spiritual thought to the concept of an active, engaged, divine presence that underlies all creation, Aslan examines how the idea of god arose in human evolution, was gradually personalized, endowed with human traits and emotions, and eventually transformed into a single Divine Personality- the God known today by such names as Yahweh, Father, and Allah.

Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, God challenges everything we thought we knew about the origins of religious belief, and with it our relationship with life and death, with the natural and spiritual worlds, and our understanding of the very essence of human existence.

When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an Àqua Detox' footbath, releasing her toxins into the water and turning it brown, he thought he'd try the same at home. L̀ike some kind of Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General', using his girlfriend's Barbie doll, he gently passed an electrical current through the warm salt water. It turned brown. In his words: b̀efore my very eyes, the world's first Detox Barbie was sat, with her feet in a pool of brown sludge, purged of a weekend's immorality.' Dr Ben Goldacre is the author of the BAD SCIENCE column in the Guardian and his book is about all the b̀ad science' we are constantly bombarded with in the media and in advertising. At a time when science is used to prove everything and nothing, everyone has their own b̀ad science' moments from the useless pie-chart on the back of cereal packets to the use of the word v̀isibly' in cosmetics ads. This book will help people to quantify their instincts that a lot of the so-called s̀cience' which appears in the media and in advertising is just wrong or misleading. Satirical and amusing and unafraid to expose the ridiculous it provides the reader with the facts they need to differentiate the good from the bad.

Stappenplannen voor het opzetten van een coachpraktijk, met persoonlijke verhalen en tips.

Het avatar master handboek is een handleiding die stapsgewijs is opgebouwd. Het bevat onbetaalbare informatie voor het opzetten van Avatar cursussen.

Beschrijving van een psychoterapeutische methode waarbij men zijn denken moet losmaken van zijn bewuste en onderbewuste overtuigingen en verwachtingen om nieuwe ervaringen te sturen.

The archaeology of early Rome has progressed rapidly and dramatically over the last century. The excavation of the shrine of Aeneas at Lavinium and the report of walls of the Romulean city discovered on the slopes of the Palatine Hill are two of the widely reported major developments of the last quarter century. Less well-known are the richly furnished tombs of the seventh century BC, once known solely from the tombs at Praeneste, and now documented by finds throughout Latium. The largest necropolis of the early Latian Iron Age, some 600 tombs, has been explored at Osteria dell'Osa. In Rome, patrician houses of the sixth century BC have been excavated beside the Sacra Via. New archaic inscriptions, notably that of Publius Valerius from Satricum, have been found, and the authenticity of the inscription once thought to be the earliest example of Latin writing (the graffito of the "Praeneste Fibula") has been challenged.
The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latinum fills the need for an English guide to these discoveries and the many controversies resulting from them. In preparation, the author interviewed most of the leading figures in current research on the early periods of Rome and has illustrated the book with over 130 photographs, maps and line drawings

Een naar ongrijpbaar geluk hunkerende vrouw stort zich, teleurgesteld door de nuchterheid en middelmatigheid van haar man, een dorpsdokter, in roekeloze liefdesverhoudingen, hetgeen tot haar ondergang leidt.

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Now, for the first time, Kissinger gives us in a single volume an in-depth, inside view of the Vietnam War, personally collected, annotated, revised, and updated from his bestselling memoirs and his book Diplomacy.

Many other authors have written about what they thought happened—or thought should have happened—in Vietnam, but it was Henry Kissinger who was there at the epicenter, involved in every decision from the long, frustrating negotiations with the North Vietnamese delegation to America's eventual extrication from the war.

Here, Kissinger writes with firm, precise knowledge, supported by meticulous documentation that includes his own memoranda to and replies from President Nixon. He tells about the tragedy of Cambodia, the collateral negotiations with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, the disagreements within the Nixon and Ford administrations, the details of all negotiations in which he was involved, the domestic unrest and protest in the States, and the day-to-day military to diplomatic realities of the war as it reached the White House.

As compelling and exciting as Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, Ending the Vietnam War also reveals insights about the bigger-than-life personalities—Johnson, Nixon, de Gaulle, Ho Chi Minh, Brezhnev—who were caught up in a war that forever changed international relations. This is history on a grand scale, and a book of overwhelming importance to the public record.

Weergave van de emoties die de schrijfster tijdens en na haar scheiding heeft moeten verwerken.

Reportages over het leven in de westelijke staten van de Verenigde Staten.

Gedichten van de Romeinse satiricus uit de 1e eeuw na Chr

Korte overpeinzingen van de Nederlandse schaakgrootmeester met name over de gevolgen van zijn hersenbloeding.

The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy.

• Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson
• Rejects the ideology of the 'linguistic turn', the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy
• Explains the method of philosophy as a development from non-philosophical ways of thinking
• Suggests new ways of understanding what contemporary and past philosophers are doing

Nagelaten proza van de Nederlandse schrijver (1963-2008): columns, poëzierecensies, verhalen en fragmenten van een onvoltooide roman.