Engelstalige boeken / English language books

Writer Charles Nicholl undertakes a nervy quest into the dangerous underworld of Colombia's billion-dollar cocaine smuggling enterprise where he encounters the toughest backstreet bars in Bogota, hidden valleys in the Sierra…

As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a space where the blurring of the…

Arranged in sixteen stories in three sections, this volume includes a group of wide-ranging tales set in Canada, stories under the heading "Canadians Abroad," in which Canadians confront the subtleties and sophistication of…

"The Spectator" has called Denis Hills "a hero of our times". Yet for most he is simply the man Idi Amin condemned to death in 1975. This brush with Uganda's "village tyrant" was entirely in character: from an undergraduate trip…

An English-Dutch reference book.

Het boek telt 7 appendixen:

Appendix 1: Griekse- en Latijnse woordelementen

Appendix 2; Alfabetische lijst van termen uit de civiele /en bouwkundige / techniek

Appendix 3: alfabetische lijst…

A comprehensive biography of General George Patton draws on hitherto unavailable letters, diaries, and memoirs, uncovering many new facts to create an insightful and definitive portrait of an American military hero.

Het boek…

Provides new insights into the life and times of the great military leader and takes a look at MacArthur's military career, personal relationships, and flirtation with politics.

Het boek bevat 37 zwart/wit foto's.

Auteur :…

The life and art of Vladimir Nabokov.

Inclusief zwart/wit foto's.

Voor de samenvatting: zie foto's 2 en 3.

Auteur : Andrew Field
Artikelnummer : BF7191
Categorie : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN :…

A behind-the-scenes look at the intelligence operations of both sides during World War II offers a definitive chronicle of espionage and counterespionage, from the codebreakers and minor spies to German Admiral Wilhelm Canaris,…

An account of the personalities and official practices of the two wartime leaders, of the relationship between them, and of the early events of World War II with which they contended and which shaped their partnership.

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Het boekje heeft een stempeltje: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam en is genummerd: 70 / 153 (zie foto 2.

Voor de inhoud: zie foto 2.

Auteur : P. Zhilin
Artikelnummer : BF7186
Categorie : Oorlog / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN :…

Remembering the 30's.

Of America's early depression years, Malcolm Cowley has written: "There has never been a period when literary events followed so closely on the flying cocktails of social events."

Achterin het boek bevindt…

Of all the famous individuals in modern history, William Shakespeare is by far the most puzzling and enigmatic; every avenue of research into his life as a writer ends in mystery of one sort or another.Since the mid-nineteenth…

Een bloemlezing.

With autographed photographs and biographic sketches of the authors.

Voor de inhoud: zie de foto's 2 en 3.

Auteur : Peter Neagoe
Artikelnummer : BF7182
Categorie : Reizen, landen en volken / Engelstalige…

Naast de titel van de titielregel, bevat dit boek nog 2 titels:

1. The Principles of Human Knowledge, G. Berkeley

2. An Enquiery Concerning Human Understanding, D. Hume.

Auteurs : John Locke / George Berkeley / David…

This book brings together all of Rosabeth Moss Kanter's Harvard Business Review articles and many of the editorial columns that she wrote when she was editor of HBR. The pieces span a variety of topics: strategy, innovation,…

An introduction to forensic science demonstrates how ballistics, blood typing, fingerprinting, toxicology and psychological profiling are used to catch dangerous and violet criminals.

Het boek telt 20 zwart/wit foto's.

Auteur :…

An indispensable glossary of words and phrases from the renowned Bartlett Lexicon.

Auteur : John Russell Bartlett
Artikelnummer : BF7176
Categorie : Puzzel- en woordenboeken / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 051769686X /…

Agenda met 52 (kleuren)foto's van optredens uit de Metrolpolitan Opera, 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York 10023, Verenigde Staten. Op de naastliggende pagina staan 7 genummerde dagen zonder dagvermelding met ruimte om te…

Lists place names, mostly in former British colonies, derived from place names in Great Britain or from personal English names. The entries indentify the source, and recount what is known of who chose the name, when, and why.…

In this anthology of military history the author uses extracts from the diaries of soldiers from the time of the American War of Independence up to the Falklands War to reveal their thoughts and attitudes to facing up to the…