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Geen land ter wereld dat zo als voorbeeld dient als Amerika. We volgen de politiek, media en gadgets daar op de voet. We kennen New York en Hollywood uit de films, en staan in de rij voor Starbucks en de nieuwste iPhone. Maar toen Arjen van Veelen naar St. Louis, Missouri verhuisde, trof hij een heel...

Annie Roe Carr - Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays 02. Alice Duer Miller - The Burglar And The Wizard 03. Berthold Auerbach - Christian Gellert's Last Christmas 04. Bret Harte - How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar 05. Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol 06. L. Frank Baum - A Kidnapped Santa Claus 07....

Hendrik Willem van Loon (January 14, 1882 – March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian and journalist. Most widely known among these is The Story of Mankind, a history of the world especially for children, which won the first Newbery Medal in 1922. The book was later updated by Van Loon and...

For 17 years (and counting), Romana Van Lissum has been a cocktail waitress in a popular Vancouver strip club. In between slinging brews and burgers, Romana decided to get some answers to the questions we all want to know about exotic dancers. As a fixture in the industry, Van Lissum has the unique...

In ‘Het goede leven’ pakt Annegreet van Bergen de draad op van haar bestseller ‘Gouden jaren’. Nederland is in korte tijd rijker geworden dan we ooit voor mogelijk hadden gehouden. Nieuwe wetenschappelijke inzichten en technische mogelijkheden zorgden ervoor dat de wereld letterlijk en figuurlijk...

Het is nog donker, een stoptrein rijdt van Nijmegen naar Roermond. Bij een overgang in het bos bij Malden gaan een moeder en haar dochter met vijf honden op de rails staan. Het ochtendlicht onthult een gruwelijke ravage, één hond heeft zich losgerukt, agenten treffen het dier zachtjes jankend aan. Joris...

Few issues defined the period between American independence and the Mexican War more sharply than westward settlement and the role of the federal government in that expansion. In Securing the West, John R. Van Atta examines the visions of the founding generation and the increasing influence of ideological...

How reading the Bible as a work of cultural and scientific evolution can reveal new truths about how our species conquered the Earth The Bible is the bestselling book of all time. It has been venerated--;or excoriated--as God's word, but so far no one has read the Bible for what it is: humanity's...

The life of Savonarola and its place in the history of Italy and the Church has been subject to many interpretations. In this book Pierre van Paassen gives it the most balanced, entertaining, and factual treatment yet. Savonarola and Firenze (Florence) however are so inextricably bound together that...

An American reporter's chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man's-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan Jere Van Dyk was on the wrong side of the border. He and three Afghan guides had crossed into the tribal areas of Pakistan, where no Westerner had...

Jeff Van Duzer grew up thinking business was the source of much damage and evil in the world, the work of greedy capitalists polluting the environment. Thirty years later he was dean of a business school. In the course of that remarkable transformation, Van Duzer found cause for both hope and concern....

*Il “Dr. Jekyll e Mr. Hyde” è un doppio trionfo. Vi sono in esso l’interesse esteriore del Conan Doyle e l’interesse interiore di Henry James. * Gilbert Keith Chesterton Durante le brumose notti londinesi, il torbido Mr. Hyde si insinua nelle strade deserte e tortura giovani ragazze...

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CONTENTS: A.A. MILNE 1. A Hint for Next Christmas ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER 2. The Ghost in the Picture Room ALGERNON BLACKWOOD 3. The Kit-Bag ALICE HALE BURNETT 4. Christmas Holidays at Merryvale ANDY ADAMS 5. A Winter Round-Up ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 6. The Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle CECIL FRANCES...