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Planets: Ours and Others

From Earth to Exoplanets

by Thérèse Encrenaz
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

What is a planet? The answer may seem obvious; still, the definition of a planet has continuously evolved over the centuries, and their number has changed following successive discoveries. In 2006, the decision endorsed by the International Astronomical Union to remove Pluto from the list of planets...
Book cover of Ik, J. Kessels
by P.F. Thomése
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 10, 2018

ALS JE BESTE VRIEND DOET ALSOF JE NOOIT HEBT BESTAAN P.F. Thomése overkomt het. Hij raakt niet alleen zijn beste vriend kwijt, maar ook zijn favoriete personage, J. Kessels, met wie hij vele avonturen beleefde: van Tilburg tot Hamburg, van New Orleans tot aan de San Francisco Bay. Ontgoocheld neemt...
Book cover of Schaduwkind
by P.F. Thomése
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 31, 2009

Na de dood van zijn dochtertje Isa vond P.F. Thomése zichzelf in doodstille kamers, tussen onervaren woorden die hij nog moest leren schrijven. Schaduwkind is het adembenemende relaas van dit zoeken naar woorden. Een heel leven wordt overhoop gehaald, elke betekenis moet opnieuw worden uitgevonden. ‘Als ze ergens nog is, dan is het in de taal.’
Book cover of Het bamischandaal
by P.F. Thomése
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 5, 2012

De langverwachte opvolger van J. Kessels: The Novel Niet beter, wel heter! De zelfkant van Shanghai, NAC-Willem II, een geil wijf uit Aarle-Rixtel, de Schel, Peerke Sonnemans uit de Sigaarstraat en de beauty van de afhaalchinees bij J. Kessels in Tilburg-Noord om de hoek vormen de smakelijke ingrediënten...
Book cover of Greatest Hits
by P.F. Thomése
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 31, 2009

In ‘Greatest Hits’ is J. Kessels de beste vriend en het lievelingspersonage van P.F. Thomése. Hij werd vereeuwigd in het krankzinnige reisverslag J. Kessels: ‘The Novel’ en dat werd nog eens dubbeldik overgedaan in ‘Het Bamischandaal’, maar hij dook in 2000 al op in de verhalen van ‘Greatest...
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Nergensman

autobiografieen

by P.F. Thomése
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 31, 2009

Nergensman is een volstrekt onorthodox boek over lezen en schrijven en het onbereikbare leven, dat van dromen en herinneringen is gemaakt, van angstvisioenen en begeerte, verwondering en tomeloze woede, van zand en wind en water dat stroomt.'' - P.F. Thomése
Book cover of Dibidalen
by Seán Virgo
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

A primitive story of transgression and transformation weaves its way through the centuries and cultures into the lives and conflicts and personal dramas of our own time. Seán Virgo traces its journey and the guises it takes on, reinventing itself as fable, fairy tale, ghost story, and fantasy — spellbinding...
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The Secret Physics of Coincidence

Quantum phenomena and fate – Can quantum physics explain paranormal phenomena?

by Gabi & Rolf Froböse
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013

Who isn’t familiar with the infamous "Inspector Chance", who always appears unannounced? Does the unexpected only seem like a coincidence because we are unaware of the complex order behind it? The question cannot be answered by a simple "yes" or "no". Instead, the author hopes to show that coincidence...
Book cover of Menu alsacien - À table avec les Grands Explorateurs
by Alain Wodey, Marie-Thérèse Wodey
Language: French
Release Date: October 24, 2012

Menu alsacien est tiré du beau livre Ulysse À table avec les Grands Explorateurs. Ce petit livre numérique est l’outil idéal pour découvrir des plats typiques et des coups de cœur culinaires de l'Alsace mais aussi les récits savoureux et les anecdotes d’un grand voyageur. Le chapitre Menu...
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L’embranchement de Mugby

( Edition intégrale ) illustré - annoté

by Charles Dickens, John Forster, Bentzon Thérèse
Language: French
Release Date: November 3, 2018

Un inconnu – sa malle de voyage indique «Barbox Frères» – descend sur un coup de tête du train à 3 heures du matin sur le quai de Mugby, nœud ferroviaire au sud de Birmingham. Ayant fait la connaissance de M. Lalampe, préposé à la signalisation, et de sa fille Phébé, il s’arrête...
Book cover of La Défense et illustration de la langue française

La Défense et illustration de la langue française

( Edition intégrale ) Tome I - II - annoté

by Joachim Du Bellay, Léon Séché
Language: French
Release Date: May 9, 2018

Le texte, plaidoyer en faveur de la langue française, paraît dix ans après l'ordonnance de Villers-Cotterêts qui impose le français comme langue du droit et de l'administration française. Du Bellay montre sa reconnaissance envers François Ier, « notre feu bon Roi et père », pour le rôle...
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The Evolution of Language

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference

by Erica A Cartmill, Seán Roberts, Heidi Lyn;Hannah Cornish
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014

This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts of the 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANGX), held in Vienna on 14–17th April 2014. As the leading international conference in the field, the biennial EVOLANG meeting is characterised by an invigorating, multidisciplinary...
Book cover of Kant's International Relations

Kant's International Relations

The Political Theology of Perpetual Peace

by Seán Molloy
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

Why does Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) consistently invoke God and Providence in his most prominent texts relating to international politics? In this wide-ranging study, Seán Molloy proposes that texts such as Idea for a Universal History with Cosmopolitan Intent and Toward Perpetual Peace cannot...
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The New Right in the New Europe

Czech Transformation and Right-Wing Politics, 1989–2006

by Seán Hanley
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007

This book considers the emergence of centre right parties in Eastern Europe following the fall of communism, focusing primarily on the case of the Czech Republic. Although the country with the strongest social democratic traditions in Eastern Europe, the Czech Republic also produced the region’s...
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