• Aldo Buzzi The perfect egg

  "`The writer who never talks about eating, about appetite, hunger, food, about cooks and meals, arouses my suspicion, as though some vital element were missing in him'Scholarly, playful, idiosyncratic and witty, Aldo Buzzi's The Perfect Egg is an excursion into the food that has obsessed, provoked and intrigued the author through his life. A book of genial and highly refined chat, enriched with personal anecdotes, recipes and quotations from literature and history, it is a tribute to the profound...

  Engels | 160 pagina's (3,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Wendy Plump Vow

  "There are so many ways to find out. From a mobile phone. From a bank account. From some weird supermarket encounter. One morning in early January 2005, Wendy Plump's neighbour came over to tell her that her husband was having an affair. The news hit her with an almost audible click. It was not a shock. Actually, it explained quite a lot. What she was not prepared for however was the revelation that he had an eight-month-old son living within a mile of their family home.Monogamy is one of the most...

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

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• Seb Emina The breakfast bible

  "When it comes to the most important meal of the day, this is the book to end all books, a delectable selection of recipes, advice, illustrations and miscellany.The recipes in the robust volume begin with the iconic full English - which can mean anything as long as there are eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding, bread, potatoes and beans involved - before moving confidently on to more exotic fare such as kedgeree, omelette Arnold Bennett, waffles, American muffins, porridge,...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (3,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Owen Matthews Glorious misadventures

  "The Russian Empire once extended deep into America: in 1818 Russias furthest outposts were in California and Hawaii. The dreamer behind this great Imperial vision was Nikolai Rezanov diplomat, adventurer, courtier, millionaire and gambler. His quest to plant Russian colonies from Siberia to California led him to San Francisco, where he was captivated by Conchita, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the Spanish Governor, who embodied his dreams of both love and empire. From the glittering court of Catherine...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Rosie Boycott Spotted pigs and green tomatoes

  "Small farm in Somerset proves a daunting task, but Rosie and her new husband Charlie are determined, and their immersion in rural living, hilarious and profoundly moving, reaps rewards they never expected. Pigs, ducks and geese are fattened for the butcher; vegetables and cut flowers are grown for a reluctant marketplace; and Rosie and Charlie discover much about the hard graft of running a smallholding. They learn too about weightier issues that affect the local community of Ilminster - particularly...

  Engels | 320 pagina's (3,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• David Blatner Spectrums

  "The universe is a mind-boggling place, full of things seemingly too big and too small to understand. How can we visualise the minuscule world of the atom and the vastness of our galaxy? How can we grasp a billionth of a second and a billion years? Or the freezing point of Helium and the heat generated by the blast of an atomic bomb? David Blatners solution is to put these and many other `inconceivable items on six spectrums numbers, size, light, sound, heat and time that put them into a human perspective....

  Engels | 192 pagina's (7,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Mohamed ElBaradei The age of deception

  "Playing fast and loose with the facts. The Age of Deception is a story of human imperfection, of modern society struggling to come to grips with the multiple dimensions of human insecurity."

  Engels | 352 pagina's (18 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Ioan Grillo El narco

  "Beggar the imagination of journalistic witnesses. Cartel gunmen have shot up schools and rehabilitation centers, and murdered the entire families of those who defy them. Reformers and law enforcement officials have been gunned down within hours of taking office. Headless corpses are dumped on streets to intimidate rivals, and severed heads are rolled onto dancefloors as messages to would-be opponents. And the war is creeping northward.El Narco is the story of the ultraviolent criminal organizations...

  Engels | 336 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• P.D. Smith City

  "For the first time in the history of our planet, more than half the population-3.3 billion people-is now living in cities. City is the ultimate guidebook to our urban centers-the signature unit of human civilization. With erudite prose and carefully chosen illustrations, this unique work of metatourism explores what cities are and how they work. It covers history, customs and language, districts, transport, money, work, shops and markets, and tourist sites, creating a fantastically detailed portrait...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (18 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Charlotte Breese Hutch

  "Born in Grenada in 1900, Leslie Hutchinson went to America in 1916 to study medicine, but soon escaped to Harlem where he witnessed the birth of "stride" jazz piano. Moving to France in 1923, he became the protege and lover of Cole Porter before coming to London in 1926 where he was soon topping the bills in variety and on radio. Immaculate in white tie and tails, Hutch had enormous sex appeal, his velvet voice and superb piano improvisation attracting legions of fans among both the rich and the...

  Engels | 384 pagina's (3,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Go freelance

  "Deciding to leave the security of a permanent job and go freelanceis a brave decision - and is not to be taken lightly. However, as longas you manage your time, work-flow, contacts, and money, it may turnout to be the best career move you ever made! Go freelance is packed with essential advice, including: Working out when it's time to move on. Do you have the right skills to be your own boss?Finding new workNetworking to market yourself and your skillsManaging work-flowManaging your time. Looking...

  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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• John Foot Pedalare! Pedalare!

  "Cycling was a sport so important in Italy that it marked a generation, sparked fears of civil war, changed the way Italian was spoken, led to legal reform and even prompted the Pope himself to praise a cyclist, by name, from his balcony in St Peters in Rome. It was a sport so popular that it created the geography of Italy in the minds of her citizens, and some have said that it was cycling, not political change, that united Italy. Pedalare, Pedalare! is the first complete history of Italian cycling...

  Engels | 384 pagina's (4,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Felipe Fernández-Armesto 1492

  "The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that began to bind the planet: from the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe to the way major religions and civilizations divide the world. Events that began in 1492 even transformed...

  Engels | 6,6 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Get the best from a career break

  "Whether you're hankering after the gap year you never took, you have new family responsibilities, or you want to pursue a long-held dream, taking a career break can give you the time and space you need. Get the best from a career break offers you practical advice that will make even the most tentative plans a reality.The book contains a quiz to assess strengths and weaknesses, step-by-step guidance and action points, top tips to bear in mind for the future, common mistakes and advice on how to avoid...

  Engels | 96 pagina's (0,5 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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• Claire Dederer Poser

  "First class. She fell madly in love.Over the next decade, she tackled Triangle, Wheel and the dreaded Crow, becoming fast friends with some poses and developing long-standing feuds with others. At the same time she found herself confronting the forces that shaped her generation.Daughters of women who ran away to find themselves and made a few messes along the way, Claire and her peers grew up determined to be good, good, good. Yoga seemed to fit right into this virtuous programme, but to her surprise...

  Engels | 352 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Precious Williams Precious

  "`Where are you from?' is a question I always find hard to answer. 1971: an ad in Nursery World. `Private foster parents required for a three-month-old baby' - me. The lucky applicants are a 57-year-old white woman and her daughter, who love babies, especially black babies. My mother arrives, a haughty Nigerian woman in a convertible with a moses basket on the seat beside her, setting the net curtains in this all-white council estate twitching. And though the whole place makes my privileged mother's...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (0,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• A. Alvarez Pondlife

  "Heres the paradox: your body becomes steadily more troublesome just at that point when the world, which you are soon to leave, becomes sweeter, more poignant, more beautiful, more desirableThe ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best part of his life Al Alvarez poet, critic, novelist, rock-climber and poker player has swum in them almost daily. An athlete in his youth, Alvarez, now in his eighties, chronicles what...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (0,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Tim Birkhead Bird sense

  "What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Sam Kiley Desperate glory

  "In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted access to the front line, Sam Kiley is with them to bear witness to the most intense challenges of their lives. Desperate Glory is an unflinching portrait of the reality of war - the bombs, the shooting and the daily struggles that push them to the very limit of human...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (5,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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