Theo: 457 books
Unwinnable
Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
Afghanistan was an unwinnable war. This definitive account explains why.
It could have been a very different story. British forces could have successfully withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2002, having done the job they set out to do: to defeat al-Qaeda. Instead,...
NATO No Longer Fits The Bill
We Need a More European Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
NATO is not particularly good when it comes to countering new threats. The most successful alliance in military history has not as yet managed to develop a strategy designed to deal with the battle for resources, asymmetrical conflicts, cyber warfare and the security policy consequences of climate change....
The floor is yours!
public speaking
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Having to speak in public ranks as number four in the top ten list of most frightening things in life - according to reliable research carried out in the Netherlands. Not being in control is a frequent cause of anxiety. This makes the fear of speaking in public the odd one out in this top ten, because...
Secret Beaches of Greater Victoria
View Royal to Sidney
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Secret Beaches of Greater Victoria is a comprehensive review of nearly 100 beaches on the Saanich Peninsula and in the Greater Victoria area. While some of these are well used by people living nearby, many are virtually impossible to find without combing through official maps and back-road guides....
Ontketen je brein
hoe hyperconnectiviteit en multitasken je hersenen gijzelen en hoe je eraan kunt ontsnappen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Een absolute mustread voor iedereen die meer uit zijn brein wil halen! Altijd online en bereikbaar zijn, multitasken, negatieve stress, slaapgebrek, open kantoren waar iedereen elkaar kan horen... Ons denkende brein staat meer dan ooit onder druk, met nefaste gevolgen voor onze productiviteit, creativiteit...
by Theo Willem
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
A memoir: While growing-up in Holland, with the constant rain and wind, Magnum, P.I. was my only view to a world of palm trees, white beaches, beautiful women and a red Ferrari. In 1983, at the age of eighteen, I moved to America where I found my first job as a busboy in a restaurant on the highest...
by Dr. Theo.
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This book is a tribute to our friend the bat. Filled with stories and poems about bats.
Racial Subjects
Writing on Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Racial Subjects heralds the next wave of writing about race and moves discussions about race forward as few other books recently have. Arguing that racism is best understood as exclusionary relations of power rather than simply as hateful expressions, David Theo Goldberg analyzes contemporary expressions...
Ornamental Aesthetics
The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Ornamental Aesthetics offers a theory of ornamentation as a manner of marking out objects for notice, attention, praise, and a means of exploring qualities of mental engagement other than interpretation and representation. Although Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman were hostile to the overdecorated...
by Theo Marais
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2016
A TV programme is started, called ‘Life on Mars’, which generates the funding to send the first humans to settle on Mars. Mariada de Villiers, a South African physicist, is chosen for the first group to leave on this one-way trip.While the settlement on Mars is developed, a break-through is made...
Secret Beaches of Southern Vancouver Island
Qualicum to the Malahat
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
This is your guide to dozens of spectacular and often hidden beaches on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island between Qualicum and the Malahat. While some of them are well used by people living nearby, many are virtually impossible to find without combing through official maps and back-road guides....
Time on the Ocean
A Voyage from Cape Horn to Cape Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
"Dorgan’s spirit soars – and with it the reader’s...Time on the Ocean will be relished by all sailors, to be sure. But it will also give hours of pleasure to anyone who appreciates superb writing and for whom a tale of the human spirit pitted against raw nature is irresistible." -The...
Foundation Stone
Notes Toward a Constitution for a 21st-Century Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
A critical evaluation of the changes the Irish constitution needs to bring radical reform to Ireland. "In 1949, almost offhandedly, we declared our State a Republic. Remarkably nobody seems to have thought that this should have prompted a long, cold hard look at the Constitution. I say remarkably,...
by Theo Thijssen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Weet u wat het is," zei Kees, "het is eigenlijk niks, maar ik vergis me telkens met m'n gedachten, hoe zal ik het zeggen ..." En verder kon Kees maar niet komen met z'n denken. Hij wou er een eind aan maken; hij wou zich duidelijk voorstellen hoe het afliep tenslotte - maar dat mislukte...