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Mes
2024 || Paperback || Salman Rushdie || Uitgeverij Pluim
In augustus 2022 werd Salman Rushdie aangevallen op een podium in New York, waardoor hij bijna het leven liet. Sinds 1989 leefde Rushdie met de dreiging van de over hem uitgesproken fatwa naar aanleiding van het verschijnen van De duivelsverzen.
Mes is het verslag vanaf het moment dat de traumahelikopter arriveerde tot de onzekere dagen in het ziekenhuis en het begin van een lange revalidatie. Rushdie is een schrijver en kan bijgevolg niet anders dan schrijven, ook niet op het dieptepunt. Of ...
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Feline Philosophy
Cats and the Meaning of Life
2024 || Paperback || John Gray || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The Tempest
The New Oxford Shakespeare
2024 || Paperback || William Shakespeare || Oxford University Press
The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Tempest provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's famous play.
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The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)
2024 || Paperback || Philippa Perry || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
(And Your Children will be Glad That You Did). With straight-talking advice from renowned Psychotherapist Philippa Perry, this book is the definitive guide for any parent looking to navigate their past, avoid repeating their own parents' mistakes, and ensure they don't land their own kids in therapy. Through the combination of case studies, her own experiences as a parent, and therapeutic insight gained from a career spanning over 20 years, Perry tackles the wider issues of what it actually m...
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Daring Greatly
How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
2024 || Paperback || Brene Brown || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Every time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk. We feel exposed. Most of us try to fight those feelings, we strive to appear perfect. In this book, the author challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability, and dispels the accepted myth that it's a weakness.
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Undertones of War
2024 || Paperback || Edmund Blunden || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
An autobiography of the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden. It records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. It tells of the heroism and despair found among the officers. It shows how he found hope in the natural landscape.
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The Feminine Mystique
2024 || Paperback || Betty Friedan || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Victims of a false belief system, women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. This title deals with these women and aims to set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality.
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Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
2024 || Paperback || Julie Smith || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
2024 || Hardcover || David Graeber || Allen Lane
Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews. "The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently," wrote David Graeber. A renowned anthropologist, activist, and author of such classic books as Debt and the breakout New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything (with David Wengrow), Graeber was as well-known for his sharp, lively e...
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The Perennial Philosophy
An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
2024 || Paperback || Aldous Huxley || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley
"The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions."
With great wit and stunning intellect--drawing on a diverse array of faiths, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam-...