Cellen zijn ware krachtpatsers. In de 3,5 miljard jaar dat ze op aarde zijn, hebben ze het leven verspreid door de zee, over land en in de lucht. Zond

This children's book harnesses the wonders of AR to explore the workings of the human brain.

Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source. 'The definitive, eye-

John Snow was a Victorian physician who helped to establish that cholera was spread by contaminated water (not bad air, as theory had it). He traced t

Learn about the incredible world beneath your feet - igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, precious metals and beautiful crystals. Fascinating f

In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigne

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandb

Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United

Gives the learner an understanding of how kanji are used in contemporary Japanese by providing instant access to a wealth of information on the meanin

De beatschrijver Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) is vooral bekend van de roman 'On the Road' (1957), een optimistisch road-verhaal over twee vrienden die doo

Tells the story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of "On the Road", told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and

A tale of teenage romance in New England. It features the story of Jack and Maggie who are in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to ma

"No other popular writer of his time did any better writing than you will find in The Call of the Wild." --H. L. Mencken One of the greatest America

With an Introduction by Ann Charters'A paean to what Kerouac described as "the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being"' SUNDAY TIMESOn the Road sw

Zoals er in de jaren twintig van de twintigste eeuw de lost generation is geweest, zo was er in de jaren vijftig de beat generation. De bijbel van die

In 1945 meldde Hermann Göring, Hitlers rechterhand en een van de grootste oorlogsmisdadigers, zich als gevangene bij de Amerikanen, vergezeld door zes