Literaire non-fictie algemeen (5)
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The Inside Story of Germany's Descent into Crisis
2025 || Paperback || Chris Reiter e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
A compelling and comprehensive account on how Germany, so long the powerhouse of Europe, is crumbling from the inside out
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Directions to Myself
A memoir
2024 || Paperback || Heidi Julavits || Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
'An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly surprising ... One of the most insightful representations I've read of what it feels like to be alive these days' GEORGE SAUNDERS
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A memoir of finding where you are - so you know where you're going
One day Heidi Julavits sees her son silhouetted by the sun and notices he is at the threshold of what she calls 'the end times of childhood.' Who is my son becoming, she asks herself - and what qualifies me to be his...
Moral Ambition
Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference
2025 || Paperback || Rutger Bregman || Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
The inspiring, life-changing new book from global sensation Rutger Bregman, Moral Ambition shows how our world has been shaped by a small group of committed individuals who changed the course of history - and how you can, too.
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To Obama
With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair
2024 || Paperback || Laskas Jeanne Marie Laskas || Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
With a foreword by Barack Obama, this is the unfiltered story of a nation, told through the letters written to him during his presidency and the lives of those who wrote them
'The narrative was sloppy and urgent, America talking all at once. No filter'
The last thing Barack Obama did every night while he was resident in the White House was to read ten letters selected for him by the Office of Presidential Correspondence. This intimate correspondence with the most powerful ma...
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How to Think Like an Economist
Great Economists Who Shaped the World and What They Can Teach Us
2024 || Paperback || Robbie Mochrie || Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
An entertaining collection of biographical portraits of history's most influential and inspiring economists - from Aristotle to Keynes, and Karl Marx to Friedrich Hayek - and what they can teach us about the world today.
We all live in the economy, whether we know it or not. The current cost-of-living crisis is an economic problem. Brexit might be a political project, but it has already changed how much money we have to spend and which products we can buy. Climate change may seem to be an eco...