Jan: 4507 books
The Warsaw Underground
A Memoir of Resistance, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The German invasion of Poland in September 1939 abruptly ended author Jan Rosinski’s student life, and propelled him into an activist role in the Polish resistance organization Armia Krajowa. In short order he became a talented forger of Nazi documents, especially travel papers that allowed many...
by Jan Owen
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2017
“…loss is like a rock tossed into the middle of a placid pond: the waves go on and on, reaching far beyond the initial impact, touching places within my life I never foresaw or imagined. And it has left me forever altered.” Jan Owen was widowed at the age of forty-eight. In this book of...
by Jan Drost
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Wat als je geliefde jou van het ene op het andere moment verlaat -, terwijl hij of zij wat jou betreft had mogen blijven? Het overkomt velen - zo ook Jan Drost. Na een relatie van tien jaar bleef hij achter met zichzelf, zijn herinneringen en de vraag: wat nu? Bloedeerlijk en rauw neemt Jan Drost...
De BV Bruinsma
opkomst en ondergang van een misdaad syndicaat
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Onderzoeksjournalist Hendrik Jan Korterink maakte een nieuwe, geactualiseerde editie van het meest succesvolle misdaadboek uit 2011. Met een nauwkeurige reconstructie van de laatste uren van Bruinsma en zijn laatste afspraken. Wat was de misdaadbaas nog van plan? In de vroege ochtend van 27 juni 1991...
Leadership for the Age of Change
How to lead successfully in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
'Leadership for the Age of Change' by Dr Jan Lourens
Discover how to Lead in the Age of Change
Dr Jan Lourens presents an integrated leadership guide for leaders in an age of hyper-change. 'Leadership for the Age of Change' is based on practical, principle-centred fundamentals and...
by Jan-Jan Joubert
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
THE ANC RECEIVED a bloody nose in the 2016 local elections, when it lost three major metros to the opposition. Will the fractured ruling party be able to reunite under Cyril Ramaphosa and gain a majority at the polls in 2019? Or could the DA and the EFF overcome their vast ideological divide to oust...
Living Politics, Making Music
The Writings of Jan Fairley
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The late Jan Fairley (1949-2012) was a key figure in making world music a significant topic for popular music studies and an influential contributor to such world music magazines as fRoots and Songlines. This book celebrates her contribution to popular music scholarship by gathering her most important...
De wil en de weg
over het schrijven van romans en verhalen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Goede verhalen zijn spannend, boeiend, fascinerend. Maar hoe bereik je dat? Jan Brokken geeft les aan jonge schrijvers. Getuige De wil en de weg doet hij dat op een meeslepende manier. Brokken put uit eigen ervaring, als schrijver en als journalist. Hij interviewde tientallen schrijvers in binnen-en...
by Jan Brokken
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Een uitzonderlijke levensgeschiedenis tegen het decor van de Caribische smeltkroes, dat is het verhaal van Riki Marchena, de Nietzsche lezende en crack rokende tienvoudig tafeltenniskampioen van Curaçao en Zuid-Amerika. De jonge Riki zat achter in de auto bij zijn vader toen die zelfmoord pleegde....
by Jan Masaryk
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Speaking to My Country by Jan Masaryk; Foreword by Madeleine Albright; Biographical Note by Helen Epstein (69,000 words)
First published in 1944, these speeches deserve study by contemporary students of leadership, media, and international relations.
Written and delivered by the then...
Happy Hour with My Dad
A Journey into the Cocktail Hour of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Happy Hour with My Dad, written by bestselling humor author Jan King, is the poignant memoir of her 94-year-old Dad’s transition from living independently in Florida to an assisted living facility in Virginia. The story is full of Jan’s signature humor as she tells you that as a Baby Boomer with...
Confessions of a Homegrown Alien
An Australian Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Jan Smith's Confessions... is finally out! Self-acknowledged victim of too many books and too much liveliness, this is an almost intergalactic memoir where small town life at Eumundi, Queensland meets the political changes of war-time Australia, Catholics and Protestants hold an uneasy truce, and...
OnZen
over moderne spiritualiteit
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Waarom een boekje over moderne spiritualiteit? Omdat de haren van filosoof Jan Bor rechtovereind gaan staan bij de honderden nieuwe sektes die ons land inmiddels rijk is en die hun inspiratie uit het Oosten putten. Bieden zij een eigentijdse spiritualiteit? Zelf heeft Bor jarenlang ervaring opgedaan...
The Many Parts of You
Understanding the Puzzle of Your Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Clarity; Jans book and her unique skills can be summed in that single word; Clarity. Jans ability to help her clients, her friends and now with this book her readers, comes from her innate understanding of how to help us identify and remove blocks, both emotional and intellectual, to clear thinking,...