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Covering the role of imperial women in the period of the Crusades, this text explores why they were able to wield immense power during the 11th centur

Het is een zonnige lentedag en Dribbel wandelt in het park. Kijk door de doorkijkraampjes en help hem tot vijf tellen in dit vrolijke telboek. Over Dr

A beautiful hardback edition of one of the scariest and most ingenious novels ever written. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend

Dealing with the densities of the poets expression, and the forces in his syntax and rhythms, this poetry aims to achieve a strength, memorability and

A thrilling investigation into the secret world of facial recognition technology from an award-winning journalist. *LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL

The single greatest guide to achieving success ever written, featuring a new foreword by Steve Harvey! Think and Grow Rich, first published in 1937,

What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? This book grapples directly with these fundament

Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford

Creative Block is a book set out to ruffle feathers, get out of ruts and start those juices flowing. Focussing on creative process and theory, it is f

‘I know dirt when I smell it,’ zei een criticus in 1921 over het pas verschenen Verliefde vrouwen, hoewel hij een gekuiste versie onder ogen had gekre

A monumental feat of translation: Islam’s founding text rendered in limpid English verse that echoes the sublimity of the Arabic original

Keita Ali is an elite runner living in Zantoroland, a poor, fictional island that is erupting in political violence. When his father, a journalist, is

'A beautiful, compelling artifice, spun from unspeakably savage facts . . . a fiction that faces the terrible truth about slavery' The TimesWINNER OF

Aminata is nog klein als ze uit de Afrikaanse binnenlanden wordt weggevoerd en in de hel van een slavenschip belandt. Op een indigoplantage in Virgini

Back Cover In 2011, Canadian writer Lawrence Hill received an email from a man in the Netherlands stating that he intended to burn The Book of Negroes

'Wie dacht dat alles nu wel over de slavernij geschreven is, vergist zich.' NRC Handelsblad 'Aangrijpende, historisch onderbouwde roman over de slaven

A portrait of Enlightenment science, religious identity and empire in the making of the modern Middle Eastern world