We zijn geweldig in taal, allemaal! *****

Het is ronduit indrukwekkend wat we weten van onze moedertaal, wat we ermee kunnen, en hoe we dingen tot in de kleinste haarvaatjes aanvoelen. Ruim dertig jaar was het de missie van Liesbeth Koenen om de wereld dat te laten zien. Want met taal is het zo: je weet niet wat je weet, en dat je dat niet weet, weet je óók niet. Tot iemand het je vertelt.

De 67 taalverhalen uit WAT JE ZEGT, GAAT VANZELF bevatten voorbeelden die Koenen zelf prachtig, intrig...

Named one of the best cookbooks of the season by The New York Times, Chowhound, Eater, Food & Wine, Forbes, and more.

Acclaimed pastry chef Dominique Ansel shares his simple, foolproof recipes for tarts, cakes, jams, buttercreams, and more “building blocks” of desserts for home cooks to master and mix as they please.

Dominique Ansel is the creator of beautiful, innovative, and delicious desserts, from the Frozen S’More to the Cronut®, the croissant-doug...

Christina Lauren, the instant New York Times bestselling and “reigning romance queens” (PopSugar) of modern classics such as The Unhoneymooners and Love and Other Words, returns with a swoonworthy novel following the buttoned-up heir of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex as they fake their relationship in order to receive a massive inheritance.

Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UC...

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...

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...

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...