Corrie van den Berg Livres

The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's THE SECOND WORLD WAR never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers and civilians whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in this, the most terrible war in history.

* Op zoek naar de perfecte geliefde? Liefdesbetoveringen helpen je hierbij. * Heeft je rapport of je carrière een oppepper nodig? Een beetje droom-magie toont je hoe je dat kunt krijgen. * Kun je wel wat extra geld gebruiken? Kies een van de rijkdomsdranken. * Gaat je huisdier er telkens vandoor? Zorg ervoor dat hij veilig is met wat dieren-magie. * Geen idee waar de volgende vakantie heen gaat? Neem Deborah's Bezemsteel Reisbureau voor je vlucht naar het ideale vakantieparadijs. * Kun je wel wat extra glamour en aantrekkingskracht gebruiken? De lichaams- en schoonheidsbetoveringen helpen je een handje. In iedere vrouw schuilt wel ergens een stukje heks, en met wat godinnenkracht en een paar betoveringen kunnen je dromen werkelijk uitkomen. Deborah laat je zien hoe je je kunt verbinden met de wonderbaarlijke wereld van de magie. Deborah Gray, de Goede Heks uit Australië vertelt in dit boek hoe je je innerlijke kracht kunt vrijmaken en een magisch leven kunt leiden. Haar eigen verhaal, uit de tijd dat ze nog een tovenaarsleerling was, onthult de geheimen die iedere aspirant-heks moet weten. In dit boek vind je bovendien 100 verschillende betoveringen en recepten voor de hedendaagse heks in stad en land.

This amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive book synthesizes the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz with the historical legacies of statesmen, warriors, seducers, and con men throughout the ages.

In De wenteltrap vertelt Karen Armstrong hoe ze in 1969, na zeven jaar, het klooster verlaat om in Oxford te studeren. Ze voelt zich als Doornroosje die na een lange sluimer in een vreemde, beangstigende wereld terechtkomt. In Londen volgen de jaren waarin ze haar gebrek aan ervaring inhaalt. Ze heeft relaties, loopt feesten af en maakt vrienden. Uiteindelijk vertrekt ze in 1982 als journaliste naar Jeruzalem. Daar verbreedt ze haar horizon, komt ze in contact met andere culturen en gaat ze zich verdiepen in de islam. Karen Armstrong wisselt in De wenteltrap haar persoonlijke herinneringen af met beschouwende stukken over het falen van de kerk, bidden, het wezen van het geloof, eenzaamheid en spiritualiteit. Rode draad is de zoektocht naar haar eigen, persoonlijke en integere manier van geloven. De wenteltrap is daarvan het openhartige, fascinerende en verhelderende verslag.

Hit men stalk computer analyst Lina Alwen and financial investigator Sam Hoffman in pursuit of the knowledge the pair may have regarding a late Iraqi dictator s billions. From London to Switzerland, and from Baghdad to the mysterious corners of the just-budding Internet, this spy thriller covers the map to uncover a world of corruption."

A century can be understood in many ways - in terms of its inventions, its crimes or its art. In Opening Skinner's Box, Lauren Slater sets out to investigate the twentieth century through a series of ten fascinating, witty and sometimes shocking accounts of its key psychological experiments. Starting with the founder of modern scientific experimentation, B.F. Skinner, Slater traces the evolution of the last hundred years' most pressing concerns - free will, authoritarianism, violence, conformity and morality. Previously buried in academic textbooks, these often daring experiments are now seen in their full context and told as stories, rich in plot, wit and character.

Razi Nolan is growing up in New Orleans in the 1920s. She's smart, fearless, set on breaking the comfortable family mould by making a career as a doctor. But then she falls in love with Andrew O'Connell and her plans become complicated.

When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once she's born; but as a single father battling demons of his own, Noel can't do it alone. He has a caring network of friends and family, but a social worker is convinced that Frankie would be better off in a foster home.

Today, human beings tend to think of happiness as a natural right. But they haven’t always felt this way. For the ancient Greeks, happiness meant virtue. For the Romans, it implied prosperity and divine favor. For Christians, happiness was synonymous with God. Throughout history, happiness has been equated regularly with the highest human calling, the most perfect human state. Yet it’s only within the past two hundred years that human beings have begun to think of happiness as not just an earthly possibility but also as an earthly entitlement, even an obligation. In this sweeping new book, historian Darrin M. McMahon argues that our modern belief in happiness is the product of a dramatic revolution in human expectations carried out since the eighteenth century.In the tradition of works by Peter Gay and Simon Schama, Happiness draws on a multitude of sources, including art and architecture, poetry and scripture, music and theology, and literature and myth, to offer a sweeping intellectual history of man’s most elusive yet coveted goal.

Beautiful, happily married, and the owner of a successful interior design business, Casey Marshall couldn't be more content with her life. Until a car slams into her at fifty miles an hour, breaking nearly every bone in her body - and plunging her into a coma. Lying in her hospital bed, Casey realizes that, although she is unable to see or communicate, she can hear everything. As the visitor gather at her bedside, she is horrified to discover that her friends aren't necessarily the people she thought them to be - and that her accident might not have been an accident at all. As she struggles to break free from her living death, Casey determines to find out and somehow expose the truth. Whatever it takes.

A New York Times Bestseller "Love, longing, and rich scenes of daily life.... What could be sweeter than a trip to an Irish village packed with robust native characters." —The Christian Science Monitor When a new highway threatens to bypass the town of Rossmore and cut through Whitethorn Woods, everyone has a passionate opinion about whether the town will benefit or suffer. But young Father Flynn is most concerned with the fate of St. Ann’s Well, which is set at the edge of the woods and slated for destruction. People have been coming to St. Ann’s for generations to share their dreams and fears, and speak their prayers. Some believe it to be a place of true spiritual power, demanding protection; others think it’s a mere magnet for superstitions, easily sacrificed. Father Flynn listens to all those caught up in the conflict, as the men and women of Whitethorn Woods must decide between the traditions of the past and the promises of the future.

Een Amerikaanse journalist ontdekt hoe een collega zijn onafhankelijkheid verloor en balanceert vervolgens zelf op de rand van het toelaatbare.

Overzicht van allerlei zaken betreffende het dagelijks leven. Met quiz en gekleurde foto's en tekeningen. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.

Geschiedenis van de middeleeuwse kruistochten.

Wanneer de Iraakse bankier van Saddam Hussein voor zichzelf een greep in de kas doet en een moord pleegt, vindt hij een tegenstander op zijn weg.