Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates her story from her childhood in Kuwait, her early teenage years in Egypt, to her family's last flight to Texas.

Mom, I went to the store. See inside the fridge. I watered the plants.

I cleaned out Peter's cage. I tidied the sitting room. And the kitchen.

And I did the washing up. I'm going to bed. Your live-in servant, Claire Life on the Refrigerator Door is told exclusively through notes exchanged by Claire and her mother, Elizabeth, during the course of a life-altering year.

Their story builds to an emotional crescendo when Elizabeth is diagnosed with breast cancer. Stunningly sad but ultimately upli...

Kaas en de evolutietheorie vertelt hoe de evolutietheorie van Charles Darwin een licht werpt op alledaagse vragen als: Waarom sterven wij? Wat is goed en kwaad? Hoe is kaas uitgevonden? Deel één gaat over de evolutietheorie zelf: niet over fossielen, dinosaurussen en Neanderthalers, maar over de mechanismen van de evolutie. Hoe werkt de evolutie? En hoe kunnen we de evolutie waarnemen door goed om ons heen te kijken? De evolutietheorie blijkt eigenlijk heel simpel en logisch in elkaar te zi...

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice.