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.

At...

Bridget is a young Ghanaian woman born with cerebral palsy, a physical disability.

She had the fortune to survive because of her exceptional mother and grandpa in a village that thought of her as a worthless if not dangerous being.

Bridget, now 25 years old, looks back and still wonders if she is worthy of living the life of a normal human person...

MINOAN LINEAR A, VOLUME I, HURRIANS AND HURRIAN IN MINOAN CRETE, PART 1.

The author has reviewed previous attempts to decipher Minoan Linear A concluding that none can be accepted as presenting consistent phonological and morphological evidence, which is required for identification of an idiom written with an undeciphered script. Using phonological and morphological evidence, he has shown that Linear A may well be the notation of an idiom with specific phonological features and a morphology o...

Note to you:

You are the author of your own life, so make sure you write a f*cking novel!

I set of like dynamite underwater

make fires out of candle wax and cigarettes

understand only when others don’t

feel free under tight restriction

Does that make me black, white

or a spreadsheet of neons

and if so

what color is the world?

A book filled with poetry for various emotions.

Day to day dilemma's, feelings and tales of love.

For all lover of words.

“Der Vitruvianische Mensch” by Ulrike Bolenz (front cover) is a modern version of “The Vitruvian Man”, the famous drawing by Leonardo da Vinci around 1490. It depicts a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and square.

This novel refers to the expression "squaring the circle", a metaphor for trying to do the impossible. The quadrature of the circle stands here for science, fiction, progress, avangardisme, ... but refers at the same t...

Everyone is talking about 3D printing lately. Nobody knows exactly how it works, how it starts and how it ends. This book by Robert is an ideal tour around the 3D printing world. It is a useful reference book for anyone who wants to get some hands-on-experience in 3D printing. Follow Robert and discover that 3D printing is the future. 3D-printing go faster than you think.

Aquarius Agenda is a journey of self discovery through new sciences, psychology, and Buddhism. Along the way the reader is confronted with crises, the byproduct of our civilizations denial of its own humanity. Finally, when the true horror of our misperception is laid bare,technology and spirituality deliver the answers offering beautiful alternatives. The book looks back into our recent history building a psychological profile of Western man growing up under the mercantile and imperial syst...

Slowly, I put the phone to my ear. Then, Alice s voice. `Edward? she whispered, sounding cautious. `What happened?

Yes. What happened? Really, it was better not to think about it. It hurt. But she needed to know, right? So, for the first time, and for the last time because, damn, it hurt so much, I told her what happened.

`Bella.. speaking her name felt like sticking a few extra knives in my insides, and I cringed. `She s ... gone.

Five years after Bella saved her entire vampire family ...

The pictures in this book are also available as postcards, posters or stamps.

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Story and Illustrations © Artist Pepijn de Jonge