Zoekfilters
Resultaten (52)
maandag verzonden
Last Boat Out of Shanghai
The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
2024 || Paperback || Helen Zia || Random House
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution-a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today.
"A true page-turner . . . [Helen] Zia has proven once again that history is something that happens to real people."-New York Times bestselling author Lisa See
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JA...
maandag verzonden
maandag verzonden
Ride of a Lifetime
Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
2024 || Paperback || Robert Iger || Random House
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir of leadership and success: The executive chairman of Disney, Time's 2019 businessperson of the year, shares the ideas and values he embraced during his fifteen years as CEO while reinventing one of the world's most beloved companies and inspiring the people who bring the magic to life.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR
Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. Competition was mo...
maandag verzonden
New World Economy: A Beginner's Guide
2024 || Paperback || Randy Charles Epping || Random House
What is blockchain? What is Bitcoin? How can central banks be instrumental in guiding a nation's economy? What are the underlying causes of trade deficits? Do trade wars actually help the domestic economy? How has the behavior of millennials and Generation Z affected the global economy? Find out all this and more in this definitive guide to the world economy.
As the global economic landscape shifts at an increasing rate, it's more important than ever that citizens understand the buil...
maandag verzonden
Maya Angelou: A Writer's Journal
2024 || Miscellaneous print || Maya Angelou || Random House
maandag verzonden
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?
My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
2024 || Paperback || Alan Alda || Random House
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
2000 || Paperback || Bill Bryson || Random House
A compassionate, hilarious tour of the United States explores the quirky side of life in America, from airline food to tax returns, from the perspective of a world traveler who has lived abroad for two decades. By the author of A Walk in the Woods. Reprint.
maandag verzonden
Homo Deus
A Brief History of Tomorrow
2024 || Paperback || Yuval Noah Harari || Random House
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict. Famine is disappearing. You are at more risk of obesity than starvation. Death is just a technical problem. Equality is out - but immortality is in. What does our future hold? Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling phenomenon Sapiens envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the...
maandag verzonden
The World for Sale (Heruitgave)
money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
2022 || Paperback || Javier Blas e.a. || Random House
Shortlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year
Meet the billionaire traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food.
You've probably never heard of them.
They wield unimaginable political and economic power.
And, like it or not, you're one of their customers.
__
'Shows how much money and global influence is concentrated in the hands of a tiny group . . . Remarkable . . . As the authors roam from oilfield to w...
Oliver Twist
2012 || Paperback || Charles Dickens || Random House
This darkest and most colorfully grotesque of Charles Dickens’s novels swirls around one of his most beloved and unsullied heroes, the orphan Oliver Twist.
One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Dickens’s great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creation—through the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikes—of the vast nineteenth-century London underworld of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes, and abandoned children. Vict...