Traditional Japanese folktales come to life alongside contemporary illustration in this luxurious edition.

*A New York Times Notable Book*

*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice*

*A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year*

Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colorful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlor, black mamba bicycle bells, mechanics in Nairobi, the music of Michael Jackson-all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother and sister, Jim...

This award-winning and bestselling business handbook for digital transformation is now fully updated and expanded with the latest research and new case studies!"[The DevOps Handbook] remains a must-read for any organization seeking to scale up its IT capability and expand DevOps practices across multiple departments or lines of business." -Mike Perrow, TechBeaconFor years, The DevOps Handbook has been the definitive guide for taking the successes laid out in the bestselling The Phoenix Projec...

From cozy cabins and cottages to seaside shacks-within or with direct views onto the stunning natural landscapes of North America's national parks, forests, and coastlines-we look at a variety of inspirational 'parkitecture' to appeal to dreams of a life off-grid.

From the daily dance of the herons at Albert Cuyp Market to the sisterly myth behind the iconic Skinny Bridge, how well do you know the Dutch capital?

Welcome Home Amsterdam is a unique collection of short stories celebrating the city – its past, its present and its people. Through interwoven fictional lives, the book offers a genuine feel of the real Amsterdam. Some of her most famous features are brought to life alongside everyday scenes of family and friendship, of cycling, fishing and s...

Eén boek, twaalf verhalen.

Stap binnen in een boek vol verrassingen, geschreven door de leerlingen van het MAX-project Storylab van Campus Max Middenschool, Tessenderlo.

Van huiveringwekkende scènes en meeslepende romantiek tot een dystopische wereld en geheimzinnige monsters die op school ronddwalen.

Tussen de verhalen door fluisteren Engelse gedichten je toe hoe je jezelf kan ontdekken.

En dat is niet alles: ontdek ook de bezorgdheid over de bedreiging en het uitsterven van wilde dieren,...

Serhii Plokhy is Professor of History at Harvard University and a leading authority on Eastern Europe whose previous books include Lost Kingdom, The Gates of Europe and The Last Empire. At the time of the Chernobyl explosion he lived behind the Iron Curtain less than 500 kilometres downstream of the damaged reactor.