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Sultan bin Muhammad al- Qasimi My early life

"With insight the dramatic palace coups in his own country and the neighbouring emirate of Ras al-Khaimah and the struggles for power during the formation of the United Arab Emirates. Revealing fascinating and untold parts of"

Engels | 320 pagina's (2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Alice Schroeder The snowball

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Prize 2008The Snowball is the first and will be the only biography of the world's richest man, Warren Buffett, written with his full cooperation and collaboration. Combining a unique blend of "The Sage of Omaha's" business savvy, life story and philosophy, The Snowball is essential reading for anyone wishing to discover and replicate the secrets of his business and life success.Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatest...

Engels | 832 pagina's (4,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Sandy Gall War against the Taliban

"Afghanistan's strategically significant lands have long been fought over by foreign invaders. Today, as yet another generation risks life and limb in this inhospitable territory, an ever-rising death toll puts back under the spotlight the way the modern war in Afghanistan is being run, and demands answers. Drawing on interviews with Afghan politicians, businessmen and ordinary people, British, American and European diplomats and soldiers, Sandy Gall addresses the challenges - political, religious,...

Engels | 400 pagina's (1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Balance your life and work

"If you feel overwhelmed by the constant juggling of different areasof your life, this book can help. There's so much pressure on manypeople today to succeed at work that sometimes 'real life' tends totake a backseat. Your relationships with friends, family, partner, andchildren can all suffer as you try to cram everything into a normal day.Balance Your Life and Work contains a quiz, step-by-stepguidance and action points, top tips to bear in mind for the future,common mistakes and advice on how...

Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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Oliver James They f*** you up

"Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your family's expectations of you? Does your life seem overwhelmingly governed by jealousy or competitiveness or lack of confidence? In this ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Oliver James shows that it is the way we were cared for in the first six years of life that has a crucial effect on who we are and how we behave. Nurture, in effect, shapes our very nature. James combines the latest scientific...

Engels | 384 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Judith Kelly Rock me gently

"In the 1950s, shortly after her father's death, Judith Kelly was left in the care of nuns at a Catholic orphanage while her mother searched for a place for them to live. She was eight years old. But far from being cared for, Judith found herself in a savage and terrifying institution where physical, emotional and sexual abuse was the daily norm and the children's lives were reduced to stark survival. As the months became years and no word came from her mother, she sought comfort from the girls around...

Engels | 304 pagina's (1,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Alice Roberts The incredible human journey

"Alice Roberts has been travelling the world - from Ethiopian desert to Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon basin - in order to understand the challenges that early humans faced as they tried to settle continents. On her travels she has witnessed some of the daunting and brutal challenges our ancestors had to face: mountains, deserts, oceans, changing climates, terrifying giant beasts and volcanoes. But she discovers that perhaps the most serious threat of all came from other humans....

Engels | 384 pagina's (ePub, 6,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Tomas Eloy Martinez Purgatory

"Purgatorio is Martínez's most moving, most autobiographical novel and yet it is also a ghost story, the ghost story which has been Argentina's history since 1973. It begins, `Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday.' Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, had vanished during one of their trips to map an uncharted country road. Later testimonies had confirmed that he had been one of the thousands of victims...

Engels | 288 pagina's (0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Maureen Freely Under the Vulcania

De echtgenote van een Engelse specialist, die haar teveel in de watten legt na een ziekte, brengt een ochtend door in een relax-instituut waar mooie mannen op velerlei wijzen zich vervelende vrouwen verwennen.

Fictie

Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Lesley Glaister Nina Todd has gone

Een vrouw met een duister verleden leidt een onopvallend bestaan in Sheffield totdat ze een man ontmoet die zich aan haar blijft opdringen en haar confronteert met dat verleden.

Fictie

Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Gail Godwin Flora

Een vrouw beschrijft hoe zij als 10-jarige in de zomer van 1945 in het vervallen huis van haar recent overleden grootmoeder aan de zorg van een 22-jarig nichtje wordt toevertrouwd.

Fictie

Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Stephen May Life! Death! Prizes!

Na de moord op hun moeder zijn twee halfbroers van 19 en 6 jaar op elkaar aangewezen.

Fictie

Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Will Self Umbrella

Een radicale psychiater in Londen ontdekt rond 1970 dat sommige van zijn langdurige patiënten niet geestesziek zijn, maar lijden aan een in de jaren twintig van de 20e eeuw rondwarende slaapziekte.

Fictie

Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub, 1,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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William Boyd Restless

Een Russische ex-spionne, die in 1939 werd gerekruteerd door de Britse geheime dienst, schrijft in 1976 haar verhaal om zich te wreken op haar verrader.

Fictie

Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Germaine Greer Shakespeare's wife

Combinatie van literair-historisch ondezoek naar het leven van Anne Hathaway, de echtgenote van Shakespeare en de positie van de vrouw in die tijd met kennis over het leven in Stratford.

Non-fictie

Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub, 2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Jane Rusbridge The devil's music

Als een dertiger na het overlijden van zijn vader terugkeert naar het vroegere vakantieverblijf van zijn ouders, roept dit herinneringen op aan zijn destijds spoorloos verdwenen moeder en zijn problematische kindertijd.

Fictie

Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Manil Suri The death of Vishnu

In het trappenhuis van een appartementengebouw in Bombay beleeft een op sterven liggende klusjesman herinneringen en visioenen.

Fictie

Engels | ePub, 2,2 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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E.F. Benson Mrs Ames

"With captivating the men in her life, `that wonderful creature' Mrs Evans becomes not just rival to Mrs Ames' marriage, but rival to her village throne. When the whole of Riseborough is invited to Mrs Evans' masked costume party, action must be taken. As the date looms, the irrepressible Mrs Ames resolves to seize the chance to win back her position, and thus, her man."

Engels | 320 pagina's (1 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Ahdaf Soueif The map of love

Een Egyptische vrouw vindt een koffer met spullen van een Engelse vrouw die honderd jaar eerder leefde.

Fictie

Engels | 544 pagina's (ePub, 2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Jesmyn Ward Salvage the bones

Twaalf dagen uit het leven van een 15-jarige zwanger meisje, dat in 2005 met haar vader en drie broers de verschrikkingen van orkaan Katrina doorstaat.

Fictie

Engels | ePub, 0,6 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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