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Most of us have to work. But is work just a means to an end? In trying to make a living, have we lost touch with the idea of making things well? This

Mensen zijn sociale wezens en elke maatschappij is op samenwerking gebaseerd. Maar in onze neoliberale samenleving komen we nauwelijks in aanraking me

The co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is a probing, exuberant and complex examination of the ways in which we make stories of our lives and of o

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pac

De internationale bestseller over Rudolf Vrba, nu als midprice April 1944. In het diepste geheim bereidt de 19-jarige Rudolf Vrba voor wat nog nieman

Happiness comes from within. Can these 'truths' hold the key to a happier, more fulfilled life?In The Happiness Hypothesis, social psychologist Jonath

The first novel by Jonathan Lethem (author of the award-winning Motherless Brooklyn) is a science-fiction mystery, a dark and funny post-modern romp s

How to find dignity and a meaningful life in the modern city

In this intrepid, groundbreaking book, Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb uncover and define a new form of class conflict in America-an internal confli

Gesigneerde editie, vanaf 18 juniDe 24-jarige zorgvernieuwer Teun Toebes heeft een missie: de levenskwaliteit van mensen met dementie verbeteren. Hij

A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."-Studs Terkel, author of Working

You'd think you would be allowed to relax over Christmas, but not in the world of the Thursday Murder Club. On Boxing Day, a dangerous package is s

A RENOWNED BRAIN EXPERT SHARES THE SIMPLE TRICKS THAT WILL FUTURE-PROOF YOUR MEMORYMemory gets worse with age - right? A fact of life. But what if we

Focusing on forensic serology and forensic DNA analysis, this book introduces students to the methods and techniques utilized by forensic biology labo

A collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts. It includes discussions of asceticism, religious organization, ritual, martyrdom,

This is a revised and updated version of the survey on Homer which the author originally published in 1996. It provides a wide variety of readers with

‘His best novel yet … A Middlemarch-like triumph’ Telegraph