Naast het Oude Raadhuis in Kampen liggen stenen met daarop de namen van lokale, maar ook (inter)nationaal bekende grootheden. Zo prijken er de namen van voetballer Jaap Stam, acteur Henk van Ulsen, dichteres Ida Gerhardt, dr. Willem Kollf, de uitvinder van de kunstnier en schrijver/dichter Willem G. van Maanen.In het boek 'Levens in steen, de gevlijden van het Koeplein', staan negentien levensverhalen van deze markante personen. Journalisten Hans Wiersma en Hendrik van Heerde (Havanha), Prof....

Victor Westhoff was een Nederlands bioloog en natuurbeschermer. Als geen ander bracht hij na de oorlog een doorbraak teweeg in het denken over natuurbescherming en natuurbeheer. Hij was pionier en koploper in uiteenlopende vakgebieden als plantensociologie, vegetatiekunde en natuurbehoud en schreef invloedrijke boeken over planten in het Nederlandse landschap.Als autoriteit op het terrein van de natuurbescherming zijn de denkbeelden van Westhoff over het ingrijpen van de mens in zijn omgeving...

Dit is het verhaal van Anneke van Loggem-Kouwenhoven. Zij haalt herinneringen op aan haar jeugd in toenmalig Nederlands-Indië, haar verblijven in jappenkampen aldaar, en aan de jaren daarna tot aan haar

terugkeer in 1948 in een Nederland dat haar vrijwel onbekend is. Anneke put daarbij uit haar geheime kampdagboek dat ze pas aan het eind van haar leven voor het eerst in durft te zien. Nooit eerder gepubliceerde kamptekeningen van haar moeder neemt ze op in haar verhaal evenals foto’s en fr...

Harriet Jacobs's slave narrative is remarkable for its candid exposure of the sexual abuse suffered by slaves at the hands of their owners. Her sufferings, and eventual escape to the North, are described in vivid detail. This edition also includes her brother's short memoir, 'A True Tale of Slavery'.

The sweeping biography of the enigmatic racer and sports car mogul who built the Ferrari brand—the inspiration for the major motion picture Ferrari directed by Michael Mann—featuring a new foreword, epilogue, and photo insert

Genius? Tyrant? Power broker? Enzo Ferrari is the impressively researched, fully detailed biography of one of the most powerful men of the twentieth century. Brock Yates penetrated Ferrari’s inner circle and reveals everything, from his early days in the town of Mo...

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As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it...

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An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.

In 2010, Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the United States Army in Iraq, disclosed classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of her digital camera. The army sentenced Manning to thirty-five years in military prison, charging her with twenty-two counts relating to the unauthorized possession and distribution of class...

"I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . . . The thing is good, bad or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug."

This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who co...

We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding our discontent - even from ourselves.For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own discontent.