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Liefde, erotiek en seksualiteit zijn universele thema’s. Toch zijn er grote culturele verschillen in de manier waarop mensen deze thema’s vormgeven in hun dagelijks leven, hun gebruiken, hun kunst en hun wetgeving. En in veel gebieden lijkt de vorm en de ervaring van erotiek te veranderen, wat soms tot grote spanningen leidt. In deze serie van tien hoorcolleges wordt de luisteraar meegenomen op een fascinerende reis door verschillende culturen en filosofieën: van de vroege Griekse en Babylonische naar die van Azië, Afrika en Europa tot het moderne Westen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated.

Calliope Adham—young, strong-willed, and recently widowed—is schoolmistress in the village of Molyvos when Hitler's army invades Greece in 1941. Well-read and linguistically gifted, she is recruited by the Germans to act as their liaison officer. It is the beginning of a personal and national saga that will last for several decades. Calliope's wartime duties bring her into close contact with Lieutenant Lorenz Umbreit, the Wehrmacht commander. The schoolmistress is an active member of the Greek Resistance, yet her friendship with the German blossoms against all odds.

Three tribal leaders have been murdered - murdered in a fashion that suggests the deeds were carried out by the COYOTE, a legendary evil trickster feared by many Native Americans. The tribal president contacts his old friend in the FBI for assistance in solving the crimes and preventing more murders. The FBI selects its star agent, Jack Del Rio, and dispatches him to New Mexico. Del Rio finds a situation tangled in political intrigue, and must work through those issues on his way to solving the mystery. Assisting him in his quest is Officer Lucy Chee. A romantic interest develops.

'Le Guin's storytelling is sharp, magisterial, funny, thought-provoking and exciting, exhibiting all that science fiction can be' EMPIRE 'Told with shimmering lyricism, this coming-of-age saga will leave readers transformed' BOOKLIST 'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER 'A tour de...

Un blizzard, un minuscule chalet, et un homme à la fois arrogant et irrésistible. Bref, la combinaison parfaite pour la catastrophe. Maddox Whitley est l’homme le plus arrogant que je connaisse. Il pense que l’univers tourne autour de lui et que tout le monde doit être à sa botte. Il est...

Aventure à couper le souffle, secrets millénaires et héros inoubliables: une fantasy extraordinaire, par la conteuse anglaise la plus talentueuse de sa génération. Les aventures palpitantes de Mal et Christopher prennent toute leur ampleur grâce au talent et à l'énergie de Théo Frilet, qui nous emporte dans un univers particulièrement intriguant... Un régal !

He can out shoot, out think, out fight, and out love any other secret agent on the planet - get out of the way James Bond before your tux gets rumpled! McHugh lands a Caribbean island assignment: Stir up a revolution, topple the world's most brutal dictator, smash the secret police whose methods start with torture and get a lot worse from there, help the revolutionaries, and stop the revolution before it goes too far in the other direction. It's just another days' work for McHugh.

Si Romy s’est laissé convaincre par sa meilleure amie de la suivre pendant trois mois aux États-Unis, c’est pour recoller les morceaux de son cœur. Si Thomas s’est permis de mettre sa carrière de jeune quaterback professionnel en pause, c’est pour prendre du recul sur les évènements passés. Mais quand la tentation et l’amour se lient à la célébrité, les choses se compliquent. Et quand le coeur et l’esprit oublient leur objectif premier, personne ne peut en sortir indemne. Entre espoir, désir et mensonges, l’été promet d’être éternel.

Quand mon père, le coach de l'équipe bordelaise de hockey sur glace, a recruté deux Américains, frères et talentueux de surcroît, et les a invités à séjourner chez nous durant leur période d'essai, j'ai tout misé sur eux. En tout cas, jusqu'à ce que les frères Winters débarquent chez nous et que l'un d'eux me rappelle quelqu'un… Et pas n'importe qui : le call boy auquel j'ai fait appel un an plus tôt pour venir à bout de ce problème de virginité.

Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth—or Minitrue as it is called in Newspeak—where he alters newspapers and reports to follow the arbitrary dictates of Big Brother’s propaganda. Beneath his outward conformity, however, Winston dreams of sharing his treasonable thoughts and breaking through the loneliness in which he lives. Thus he takes his first dangerous steps, writing a diary of his doubts and then falling in love with a woman of the Party, the beautiful and brave Julia.

Matthew Williams and his friends set out to make Crop Circles. They figured out how to create amazing, wonderful shapes so incredible that they would fool thousands of people who interpreted them as signs of alien visitors. Cleverly they would make these fantastic geometric patterns appear on the ground and the world was in awe. Photographs of their circles were taken and circulated around the globe throughout the media and newspapers. But then something happened that changed everything for them

When Dr. Jane Lee, a recent graduate, takes her first position as a psychiatrist at Southern States Mental Institute in Memphis, she gets more than she had bargained for. The idyllic images she had created in her mind while in school of treating the mentally ill clash immediately and drastically with the reality of the practice in real life. From the filthy, creepy, neglected facility in which she now works and the attitude of those in the mental health industry itself to the haunting madness of her first-ever patient, Matilda Rose, nothing is as she had imagined it would be.

Plus d'un an après leur dernière rencontre, Romy poursuit ses études de journalisme en France, tandis que Thomas a repris sa carrière de quarterback. Réunis malgré eux par leur meilleure amie Alba, Romy et Thomas redoutent de se revoir. Ils ne peuvent pas se retrouver. Ne doivent pas se désirer. Pourtant, entre souvenirs, émotions et révélations, leur histoire ne fait que commencer.

Taking into account their history, this book explores the Black gangs of London. It addresses the important but often overlooked questions, on how, why and when they emerged—all while touching on cultural and societal influences on Black Gangs. From the Windrush generation to the ongoing stabbing epidemic, the book examines the social issues that have contributed to the rise of violence across the streets of London.

Following hot on the heels of his rescue of Carmel's mayor from the ship Wicked Joe in Monterey Noir, Barker once again finds himself in a hot mess of danger and intrigue. From an encounter with the disturbing Easter Bunny Man at Pacific Grove's famous Lover's Point to a diabolical plot by the homeless denizens of Deadrent Kingdom, trouble is never very far from Barker and his collection of loyal canines. And mystery has a way of following this strange man who deliberately chooses to live in the margins of society.

Childhood playmates in Mississippi, in the 1950s, grew up to find themselves on opposite sides of the racial conflagration, during the early days of integration. Years later, one of them, now a civil rights lawyer, returns to his boyhood home to confront unresolved issues from his complicated past. A poignant, heartrending story of loss, brokenness, guilt, and possible redemption - this listen invites comparison with the political divisiveness of the present day.

M. R. Carey's Rampart Trilogy is "an epic post-apocalyptic fable" (Kirkus), set in a future where nature has turned against us. Now, in the breathtaking final chapter, the world that was lost comes back to haunt those who survived - as Koli's journey comes to its astonishing close.

Corporal David McAllister was a good old boy from the mountains of Kentucky. He did his time in Afghanistan with the Marine Corps Reserve. But one day a report came on the news about a virus spreading through China, turning the locals into cannibals. The virus hit Singapore. Tokyo. Mexico City. El Paso. Then Louisville. David was called up for active duty again, and the virus was all around him. Collecting the first three Thin Line of Life books, this omnibus, The Thin Line of Life: Volume 1, tells the linear story of the Zombie War in a non-linear manner.

Suffocating from boredom and bureaucracy in a low-level corporate job, he was starved for adventure. By fate or happenstance, a hidden door led him into a secret underground room the likes of which he had never imagined possible. Surrounded by cascading waterfalls of reflected light and oddly sentient plant beings, he knew he'd found his new obsession. There was just one problem: it was all against the law.