Geert Wilders (PVV) zegt tijdens de Algemene Beschouwingen tegen fractievoorzitter Tunahan Kuzu van de partij Denk: ‘Rot zelf lekker op.’ En in de Vlaamse krant Het Nieuwsblad schrijven Chris Snick en Wim Dehandschutter: ‘Natuurlijk is het zeer gezond om af en toe vuile kuthollander te roepen. Hang maar weer eens achter zo’n caravan.’

'Rot zelf lekker op' is een verzameling van politiek-incorrecte en explosieve woorden die lang niet altijd in naslagwerken zijn beschreven. Toch zijn ...

Als er iets is wat de Nederlandse identiteit bepaalt, is het onze taal. Maar wat betekent het

voor het Nederlands als steeds meer jongeren straattaal gebruiken, als we steeds meer

Engels gebruiken en als Nederlands steeds meertaliger wordt?

Om dat te onderzoeken gaat antropoloog en taalwetenschapper Khalid Mourigh het

veld in, of liever: de straat op en de scholen langs. Hij beschrijft de omkeertaal die in de

Surinaams-Nederlandse gemeenschap is ontstaan, hij bestudeert het accent van Go...

In dit boek neemt Chris Beuker zijn lezers mee in zijn

boeiende en inspirerende zoektocht naar wat zoal vooraf

is gegaan aan de Black Lives Matter-beweging in de

Verenigde Staten. Door wie, wanneer, waarom en hoe zijn de zaden geplant van deze beweging.

Daarvan worden enkele voorbeelden gegeven van vooral de menselijke dimensie en verbindingen gezocht met bewegingen, ook in ons land, in het bijzonder de

communistische.

Zo wordt aandacht besteed aan wat Martin Luther

King Jr. één van de ...

Perhaps no book in this generation has had a more profound impact on our intellectual and spiritual lives than The Road Less Traveled. With sales of more than 7 million copies in the United States and Canada, and translation into more than 23 languages, it has made publishing history, with more than 10 years on The New York Times bestseller list.

Told in a voice that is timeless in its measure of understanding, The Road Less Traveled continues to enable us to explore the nature of lovi...

Colloquial Serbian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Serbian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Serbian in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Colloquial Serb...

An introduction to Early Modern English, this book helps students of English and linguistics to place the language of the period 1500-1700 in its historical context as a language with a common core but also as one which varies across time, regionally and socially, and according to register. The volume focuses on the structure of what contemporaries called the General Dialect - its spelling, vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation - and on its dialectal origins. The book also discusses the langu...

After a stormy night, a farmer, searching for his lost calf, finds a baby eagle that has been blown out of its nest. He takes it home and raises it with his chickens. When a friend comes to visit one day, he tells the farmer that an eagle should be flying high in the sky, not staying on the ground. "But this eagle walks like a chicken, eats like a chicken, even thinks like a chicken," the farmer replies.
Twice, the farmer's friend tries to get the eagle to fly, but it sees the chickens o...

Complete Indonesian is a comprehensive book and audio language course that takes you from beginner to intermediate level. The new edition of this successful course has been fully revised and is packed with new learning features to give you the language, practice and skills to communicate with confidence. -17 learning units plus vocabulary section-Teaches the key skills - reading, writing, listening and speaking-Learn to learn - tips and skills on how to be a better language learner-Culture no...

Develops skills in standard Arabic while providing additional material in both colloquial and classical Arabic. Providing approximately 150 contact hours of college-level instruction, this edition includes audio tracks for vocabulary sections, and, a DVD containing substantially more material that exposes the learner to Egyptian Arabic.