Zindzi Mandela | Pelle Hvenegaard Dear Zoe Ukhona

a Journey through Infertility and Adoption

In English for the first time, with a foreword written by Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, this is a heartbreaking memoir of infertility, adoption, and fatherhood from one of Denmark’s most beloved tv personalities. One summer evening, on a blind date that is almost cancelled, Pelle Hvenegaard meets Caroline. He knows right away that this woman is the love of his life and the mother of his children. Their path to a family is not smooth. But after six years of infertility and the trials...

Engels | 11 uur 14 minuten (495 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024

Luisterboek (digitaal)

L.J. Giebels Sukarno

a biography

Sukarno – a biography is the first English language biography on Sukarno (1901-1970) – the founding father and first president of Indonesia. The book is both a biography of Sukarno and an account of the birth and ascent of the state of Indonesia. The author reveals many little-known facts and events. He makes the reader realize that to understand the character of its first president is to understand today’s Indonesia.. Sukarno was born in 1901 as the son of a schoolteacher in a country that had been...

Non-fictie

Engels | 572 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Fosfor, Amsterdam | 2015

E-book

Ineke Bosman Chuck was in Den Haag

Levensbeschrijving van de Haagse straatmuzikant (1954-2017)

Non-fictie

Engels | Nederlands | 225 pagina's | Uitgeverij U2pi, Den Haag | 2017

Gedrukt boek

Marguerite J.N. Brouwer Van Polen naar Nederland, en terug...

verhaal over een Poolse combattant (1921-2003) gebaseerd op het feitenrelaas van de hoofdpersoon Wladyslaw Kaduk; portrait of a Polish combatant (1921-2003) based on the factual account of the protagonist Wladyslaw Kaduk; opowieść o polskim kombatancie (1921-2003) oparta na wspomnieniach głównego bohatera Władysława Kaduka

Non-fictie

Engels | Nederlands | Pools | 160 pagina's | Stichting Pools-Nederlands Centrum voor Educatie en Integratie (Pools schooltje Utrecht), [Utrecht] | 2010

Gedrukt boek

Rudolph Agricola

six lives and Erasmus's testimonies

Non-fictie

Engels | Latijn | 264 pagina's | Royal van Gorcum, Assen | 2012

Gedrukt boek

Roman Polanski

wanted and desired

Documentaire over de Pools-Amerikaanse cineast (1933-), met de nadruk op de verkrachtingszaak uit 1977

Non-fictie

Film

Petrus Camper in context

science, the arts, and society in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic

Opstellen over de hoogleraar theoretische geneeskunde, anatomie, chirurgie en botanie aan de RUG, gezien in het licht van de Republiek in de 18de eeuw.

Non-fictie

Engels | 316 pagina's | Verloren, Hilversum | 2015

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Robert Joost Willink The fateful journey

the expedition of Alexine Tinne and Theodor von Heuglin in Sudan (1863-1864); a study of their travel accounts and ethnographic collections

Bold, headstrong, and fabulously wealthy, Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne (1834–1869) made several excursions into the African interior, often accompanied by her mother, at a time when very few European women traveled. This book follows her trip with German zoologist Theodor von Heuglin, which took them through Egypt and Sudan in search of adventure and unknown regions in Central Africa.. Drawing upon four years of research in the Tinne archives, and including never before published correspondence,...

Non-fictie

Engels | 455 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, [Amsterdam] | 2011

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Alexander J.P. Raat The life of governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789)

a personal history of a Dutch virtuoso

Non-fictie

Engels | 829 pagina's | Verloren, Hilversum | 2010

Gedrukt boek

Marcel van den Broecke Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598

life, works, sources and friends

Non-fictie

Engels | 379 pagina's | Cartographica Neerlandica, Bilthoven | 2015

Gedrukt boek

Walter Isaacson The Code Breaker

Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Publicatie over dna-onderzoek, in het bijzonder over het werk van biochemicus Jennifer Doudna (1964) en haar bijdrage aan de ontwikkeling van de CRISPR-Cas methode voor het knippen en plakken in dna-sequenties, waarvoor zij in 2020 de Nobelprijs voor de Scheikunde ontving.

Non-fictie

Engels | 536 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, London | 2022

Gedrukt boek

Marianka Spanjaard Family and fabric

the Spanjaards: a Jewish manufacturing family in the Netherlands (1800-2000)

Non-fictie

Engels | 253 pagina's | Walburg Pers, Zutphen | 2012

Gedrukt boek

Barry Strauss Ten Caesars

Roman emperors from Augustus to Constantine

Non-fictie

Engels | 410 pagina's | Simon & Schuster paperbacks, New York | 2020

Gedrukt boek