‘Zeg maar Ernestine. Honderden mensen hebben mij aangestaard, meestal liepen zij na een paar seconden weer door. Ze vonden mij lelijk, niet interessant genoeg.’

Er viel een stilte.

Achter haar zag hij de mist dichterbij sluipen. Enkele kille mistflarden likten zijn benen en bleven tussen hen in zweven.

De afgelopen jaren is het besef van de invloed van de Eerste Wereldoorlog sterk toegenomen. Tegenwoordig wordt de oorlog die uitbrak in augustus 1914 meer en meer gezien als de oercatastrofe van de 20ste eeuw. Met de start van de oorlog werd een kettingreactie aan gebeurtenissen in werking gezet waarvan we de gevolgen vandaag de dag nog merken.

In dit boek wordt de lezer meegenomen naar enkele van de meest dramatische episoden van dit conflict dat terecht ‘de Grote Oorlog’ werd genoemd. ...

“Buikspieren worden gemaakt in de keuken”, is een veelgehoorde uitspraak rondom sport en voeding. Dit betekent dat voeding, naast sporten, een zeer belangrijke rol speelt bij het bereiken van je droomlichaam. Voeding is in My Shredded Lifestyle één van de succesfactoren.

Dit boek is geschikt voor iedereen die op een strategische wijze wil werken aan het bereiken van een droomlichaam of simpelweg streeft naar een gezondere levensstijl. Aan de hand van een handig voedingsstappenplan ga j...

By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases, particularly when diseases were mysterious, without known cures or preventivemeasures, as with AIDS during the la...

Combining theory, empirical data, and policy this book provides a fresh analysis of sustainable finance. It explains the sustainability challenges for corporate investment and shows how finance can steer funding to certain companies and projects without sacrificing return, speeding up the transistion to a sustainable economy.

An examination of clean technology entrepreneurship finds that "green capitalism" is more capitalist than green. Entrepreneurs and investors in the green economy have encouraged a vision of addressing climate change with new technologies. In Planetary Improvement, Jesse Goldstein examines the cleantech entrepreneurial community in order to understand the limitations of environmental transformation within a capitalist system.

Reporting on a series of investment pitches by cleantech entrepreneu...

For more than 60 years, Shackelford's Surgery of the Alimentary Tract has served as the cornerstone reference in this fast-moving field. With comprehensive coverage of all aspects of GI surgery, the 8th Edition, by Drs. Charles J.

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Using a multidisciplinary, team-oriented approach, this unique title expertly covers all the latest approaches to the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with critical cardiac illness. Led by Dr David L. Brown, a stellar team of authoritative writers guides you through cardiac pathophysiology, disease states presenting in the CICU, and state-of-the-art advanced diagnosis and therapeutic techniques.

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A practical handbook on evaluating muscular strength and function, Daniels and Worthingham's Muscle Testing: Techniques of Manual Examination and Performance Testing, 10th Edition helps you to understand and master procedures in manual muscle testing and performance testing. Clear, illustrated instructions provide a guide to patient positioning, direction of motion, and direction of resistance. In addition to muscle testing of normal individuals and others with weakness or paralysis, this edi...

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