Literaire non-fictie algemeen (16)
Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
2025 || Paperback || Angela Y. Davis || Penguin
The Invisible Doctrine
The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life)
2025 || Paperback || George Monbiot e.a. || Penguin
Rural Hours
The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
2025 || Paperback || Harriet Baker || Penguin
Becoming
The No. 1 International Bestseller
2022 || Paperback || Michelle Obama || Penguin
THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER
BRITISH BOOK AWARDS, NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
THE SUNDAY TIMES, MEMOIR OF THE YEAR
BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, EVENING STANDARD
Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and me...
How To Know a Person
The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
2025 || Paperback || David Brooks || Penguin
And yet we humans don't do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us to do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us. If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have?
Tyranny of the Minority
How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All
2024 || Paperback || Steven Levitsky e.a. || Penguin
THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE – essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election‘Tyranny of the Minority is an exceptional book, one of the best guides out there to the crisis of American democracy’ Zack Beauchamp, Vox–-------------------------------------How has democracy become so threatened – and what can we do to save it?With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, leading Ha...
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
2022 || Paperback || Erving Goffman || Penguin
One of the defining works of twentieth-century sociology: a revelatory analysis of how we present ourselves to others'The self, then, as a performed character, is not an organic thing ... it is a dramatic effect'How do we communicate who we are to other people? This landmark work by one of the twentieth century's most influential sociologists argues that our behaviour in social situations is defined by how we wish to be perceived - resulting in displays startlingly similar to those of actors ...
The Road to Freedom
Economics and the Good Society
2025 || Paperback || Joseph E. Stiglitz || Penguin
Reading Lessons
An English Teacher’s Love Letter to the Books that Shape Us
2025 || Paperback || Carol Atherton || Penguin
Landlines (Heruitgave)
The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller about a thousand-mile journey across Britain from the author of The Salt Path
2023 || Paperback || Raynor Winn || Penguin
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SALT PATH AND THE WILD SILENCE
Pre-order the latest memoir from global bestselling author Raynor Winn
Unflinching... There is a luminous conviction to the prose - Observer
Heartening and comforting... The nature writing is beautiful and it is a thrill to read. You feel the world is a better place because Raynor and Moth are in it - The Times
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . .
Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth's he...