Hoe kan het dat de huizenprijzen sinds 1995 met 200 procent zijn gestegen? Waarom is land een financieel product, terwijl lucht van iedereen is? Hoeveel is een huis nog waard als het land waar het op staat door klimaatverandering langzaam verdrinkt?

Maaike Schoon gaat op zoek naar de wortels van de huidige wooncrisis. Een wooncrisis die veel minder met huizen te maken blijkt te hebben en veel meer met de grond waarop huizen staan. Van het water dat land wordt in de drooggepompte meren in Holl...

Een meeslepende inkijk in het literaire leven achter de coulissen én een praktische gids voor wie zelf wil schrijven.

Roel Richelieu Van Londersele is dichter, schrijver en docent. Er valt veel te leren uit boeken, maar Van Londersele beleefde het ook vanop de eerste rij: de wilde, intense jaren in het gezelschap van literaire reuzen als Louis Paul Boon, Hugo Claus, Herman de Coninck, Marcel van Maele, Jeroen Brouwers, Jef Geeraerts, Menno Wigman en Paul Snoek. Van cafégesprekken tot juryru...

The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts ?'A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived straight into this clever, joyous, celebration of nature, history, and – of course – the countryside.' Charles Spencer, author of The White Ship

A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZEWITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD'This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack. Written by a poet, it is also a work of literature, published after the author lost her life doing her research. It is an icon of a young woman's heroism' Philippa Gregory

In this unique book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his 75-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people.

James Baldwin (Author)

Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, play¿wright, poet, social critic, and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay col¿lection The Fire Next Time was a bestseller that made him an influential figure in the civil rights movement. Baldwin spent many years in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He di...

A guide to the British Way of Life. It includes insights on important topics including the weather, how to be rude and how to panic quietly. It contains author's three major works - How to be an Alien, How to be Inimitable and How to be Decadent.

An updated edition of the classic book on digital storytelling, with a new introduction and expansive chapter commentaries. I want to say to all the hacker-bards from every field—gamers, researchers, journalists, artists, programmers, scriptwriters, creators of authoring systems... please know that I wrote this book for you."— Hamlet on the Holodeck, from the author's introduction to the updated edition Janet Murray's Hamlet on the Holodeck was instantly influential and controversial when...

Jonathan Holslag teaches international politics at the Free University Brussels. He is the author of several books including China's Coming War with Asia and Trapped Giant. He is a special advisor to the Vice-President of the European Commission, a Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission, a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, and a Nobel Fellow at the Nobel Institute in Oslo. He has appeared on CNN, the BBC, Bloomberg, CCTV and Al Jazeera, and written f...