Iedereen heeft zorg nodig. Zonder zorg worden kinderen niet groot, zieken niet beter en ouderen niet oud. Zorg is waar de menselijke beschaving mee begon. En wat de maatschappij iedere dag draaiende houdt. Zorg is wat mensen mensen maakt.

Maar als zorg zo belangrijk is, waarom zorgen we er dan zo slecht voor?

In een fascinerende zoektocht naar de betekenis van zorg ontdekt Lynn Berger hoe allesomvattend zorg is, maar ook hoe onzichtbaar. Daardoor denderen we ongemerkt af op de grootste zorgc...

Never before have our cities been as important as they are now. The drivers of innovation and growth, they are essential to the prosperity of nations. But they are also destructive, plunging us into housing crises and deepening inequality.

How can we keep the good and break free of the bad?In this bracingly original work of research and analysis, leading urbanist Richard Florida explores the roots of this new crisis and puts forward a plan to make this the century of the fairer, thriving metr...

Het nieuwe, langverwachte en uiterst actuele boek van Sinan Çankaya

Van de auteur van Mijn ontelbare identiteiten (25.000 verkocht)

Zijn familie is telkens een maandinkomen verwijderd van de armoede. De jonge Sinan hunkert naar een ander leven, naar vrijheid. Hoe hoger hij klimt, hoe groter de afstand tot waar hij vandaan komt: jeugdvrienden en familie vervagen. Toch ontsnapt hij niet aan zijn verleden.In de literaire en universitaire wereld blijft hij een buitenstaander. Wanneer hij verba...

Millions of people around the world have improved their lives based on the teachings of Dale Carnegie. In How to Win Friends and Influence People, he offers practical advice and techniques, in his exuberant and conversational style, for how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding.

His advice has stood the test of time and will teach you how to:

- make friends quickly and easily

- increase your popularity

- persuade people to follow your way of thinking

- enable you to win new...

'Uitzonderlijk en verbazingwekkend.' - ROBBERT DIJKGRAAF

Het waterboek laat je kennismaken met de meest fascinerende en mysterieuze vloeistof van ons universum. Water is overal: in de cellen van ons lichaam, in de lucht om ons heen, en in de oceanen, meren en rivieren. Water leeft in onze verhalen, inspireert onze kunstwerken en beïnvloedt onze economie. Water vormt de rode draad in ons bestaan en toch denken we er zelden bewust over na.

Water, voor ons zo gewoon en alledaags, blijkt eigenaa...

The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon. Since F. N.

Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic increase in Chaucer scholarship. This has not only enriched our understanding of Chaucer's art, but has also enabled scholars, working for the first time with all the source-material, to recreate Chaucer's authentic texts. For the third edition,...

This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of World Literature. Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism to postmodernism, Theo Dhaen examines: the return of the term "world literature" and its changing meaning Goethes concept of Weltliteratur and how this relates to current debatestheories and theorists who have had an impact on world literaturenon-canonical and less-known litera...

A History of World Literature is a fully revised and expanded edition of The Routledge Concise History of World Literature (2012). This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to “World Literature.”

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at The Beginning and concluding with The End, chapters range from the familiar, such as Character, Narrative and The Author, to the more unusual, such as Secrets, Pleasure and Ghosts. Now in its sixth edition, Bennett and Royles classic textbook successfully illuminates complex ideas by engaging directly with literary works, so that a reading of Jane E...