When Jack fell into a canal when he was four years old and unable to swim, he tried to move towards the sun, and when that didn’t work, he thought, “Never mind, Jack, let it go. Life is a bitch.” But then he’s rescued, and when he gets home his stepfather beats him up. As usual.

Swallowing a jar of red ink before you go to sleep is not the most successful way to commit suicide, Jack finds out, but when it comes down to it, Jack doesn’t want to die. He just wants to stop living.

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THE INSPIRING STORY OF CHARLOTTE JACOBS, A DUTCH STUDENT WHO TAKES A STAND AGAINST THE NAZI REGIME.

Leiden in the 1940s. A small group of students have secretly gathered to write illegal pamphlets. The air in the room is thick with cigarette smoke. The windows are covered with heavy blackout curtains. The typewriter is clattering steadily. Each time the type hammer swings up and prints a letter, the students slide a little further into the dark underworld of illegality. Among them is a woman ...

This is who we are and how we live!

Many Vietnamese LGBT persons lead invisible lives. Their stories are seldom told and those who dare to come out of the closet are often alone and have a low self-esteem. At the same time it’s hard for those who want to come out without any examples of how good and normal life can be as a Vietnamese lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Our goal is to give the LGBT community a face and a voice. This book is filled with interviews and photographs, packed ...

Manja Croiset. Amsterdam, July 5,1946.The youngest of three daughters SHOAH survivors. Her father, was in concentration camps because of underground printing, including HET PAROOL started as a resistance newspaper. Her mother lost her entire family-(grand)parents, brother and sister-during this tragic period of history. Paula Kool March 11, 1918 - May 11, 2012.Her father,Odo Croiset April 24,1915- November 18,2011 As a girl, she felt invisible, with no right to fear or sorrow because of the t...

It started as they always start, one new Facebook friend messaging another. But things got pretty deep pretty soon, since the lady seemed to have all the answers to questions I had, and yet posed other questions I hadn't even dared ask myself! And then of course it came out that those around me had varying degrees of understanding or paranoia about it: most people say that if it is too good to be true it usually is, yet my experience until now has proven to me that reality is stranger than fi...

Chicken leukemia virus, bovine leukemia virus in our food chain and chlamydia pneumonia in common bird flu infections were found to be related to common cancers. Growth-promoting hormones which are used in intensive livestock breeding strengthen this connection. The time without symptoms is 50% - 70% of the total growth time of a tumor. The human body refreshes itself constantly by food and in a few years all the cells and tissues are completely renewed. With age, the choice of animal or vege...

GOOD SENSE will help us through most of the day, but there are moments when we need to purge our soul with pointless fun. In such emergencies we turn to nonsense literature. This pea-green book is a celebration of nonsense literature from all over the world, written both for children and adults. It is a reader’s guide with a simple premise: if you like the works of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, you may also like these hundred or so other books. This guide may read like a parody on a litera...

Sam Collins is sent to a small bookshop in the heart of London for a college project, where he meets the young and beautiful Amy. She's willing to help him with his choice of book, but what else will she bring to him? Meanwhile, Sam's father keeps popping up in his life--something he is not excited about.

Follow Sam through one of the most exciting but also hardest years of his life as he tries to find his place in the world.

Since the late nineties of the last century, the business started to use the term “Business Model” and authors began to analyze the phenomenon and created Business Model concepts. Anyhow, regardless of the fact that this buzzword emerges everywhere, still dissension exists concerning the definition. Multiple Business Model concepts exists, but are not actively used in daily business life and the bridge to controlling is never made.

In this book, I want to answer three questions: What is i...

What is it like to attend a museum today?

In fifteen emblems, each made of one photograph and one lyrical text, Limonard looks closely at what we may experience at the Rijks Museum and Rembrandt House in Amsterdam.

The emblems evoke Old Masters, Lost Companions, Recovery Rooms, a live Performance, the Sense of Touch, The Hunt for Satisfaction, Etiquette, and more.