In 'Het leukste gat in je cv'laat Nick Martin alles achter zich om het grootste avontuur van zijn leven aan te gaan.Nick is niet happy met zijn baan in de IT. Na een vakantie in Nieuw-Zeeland besluit hij dat het tijd is voor verandering: hij zegt zijn baan op en laat alles en iedereen achter om een jaar de wereld rond te reizen. Eén jaar worden er uiteindelijk zes. Hij reist door meer dan zeventig landen, wordt gearresteerd, neergeschoten en beroofd, vaart door een orkaan, werkt al...

Why stupid? • Stupid means our intellect is being overruled by our ego in the way we live our lives. • Stupid means having ego-driven, reality-disconnected thoughts, often leading us into unnecessary and painful beliefs, feelings, behaviors, and physical symptoms. • Stupid means spending more of our life focused on daily and mortal survival and less of it on truly living. • Stupid means blocking ourselves from spiritual awakening and being the love, life, and energy that God is. • Stupid m...

Did you know that foreigners who want to live in Britain have to pass a government test to get in? It's true, and some of the questions are harder than "Why does everyone hate Manchester United?"So the Have I Got News For You team have, in a moving and totally out of character display of public-spiritedness, compiled this Guide to Modern Britain to help guide you around, er, modern Britain. With reassuringly jaundiced reflections on everything from the global recession, re...

Ein Jahrzehnt des Weltreisens hat aus Nick einen neuen Menschen gemacht: aufgeschlossen, abenteuerhungrig, aber auch nachdenklich. Und wer von ihm wissen will, ob seine Reisen wirklich immer geil waren, bekommt die ehrliche Antwort: "Nope." Ob auf selbst gebastelten Krücken, während einer nächtlichen Schießerei oder ausgeraubt bis aufs letzte Hemd – Nick hat mehr als einmal erlebt, dass Fehltritte und Grenzerfahrungen zum Reisealltag dazugehören. Mit Witz, Charme und Sarkasmus richtet er s...

Ein spektakuläres Abenteurerleben Warum heißt es: "Wo sehen Sie sich in zehn Jahren?" Warum heißt es nicht: "Wo sehen Sie sich genau jetzt?" In seinem kaufmännischen Bürojob läuft Nick sein Leben davon. Nach einem Winterurlaub in Neuseeland beschließt er einen Cut: Er lässt Job und Sicherheiten, Freunde und Alltag zurück und geht auf Weltreise. Aus einem Jahr werden bald sechs Jahre, und aus dem jungen Mann aus der fränkischen Provinz wird ein anderer Mensch. Auf seinen Reisen durch über 7...

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” ~John 8:32 There have been millions of quotations written and spoken by brilliant minds. Many capturing wisdom about life and how we can best go about living it. For me, these words from Jesus would be at the very top of the list. He is offering in thirteen words a profound insight into ourselves and the great life available to us, but seldom lived by most. His words capture the design woven into our being from millions of y...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WILLIAM C. MORRIS AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIMEAfter a traffic stop turns violent at the hands of the police, a young Black teen grapples with racism—and what it means for his future. Critically acclaimed author Nic Stone boldly tackles America’s troubled history with race relations in her gripping debut novel."Raw and gripping." –JASON REYNOLDS...

«Absolut unglaublich, ehrlich und herzzerreißend!»Angie Thomas, Autorin von «The Hate U Give»Justyce McAllister ist einer der Besten seiner Klasse, Captain des Debattierclubs und Anwärter auf einen Studienplatz in Yale – doch all das interessiert den Polizisten, der Justyce die Handschellen umlegt, nur wenig. Der Grund für seine Verhaftung: Justyce ist schwarz. Und er lebt in den USA im Jahr 2017.Mit Briefen an sein großes Vorbild Martin Luther King jr. versucht Justyc...

“The most important book on cooking over live fire in decades. Life of Fire illuminates it all, from coal beds, to home-built pits (in minutes!) to simple, delicious, recipes and enough whole hog know-how to impress the weekend warriors without intimidating newcomers.”—Andrew ZimmernONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: SaveurOne of the few pitmasters still carrying the torch of West Tennessee whole-hog barbecue, Nashvill...

IL CAVALIERE OSCURO ASSOLUTO! Una grottesca banda di assassini mascherati terrorizza le strade di Gotham. Un vigilante combatte per la sua città, ma non è il Batman che conosciamo. L'Universo Absolute, nato dall’apocalittica battaglia della Justice League contro Darkseid, inaugura una serie di realtà completamente nuove che reinventano i più grandi eroi della DC in modo mai visto prima. In Absolute Batman il protagonista è un giovane Bruce Wayne al quale mancano Villa Wayne e un fidato mag...

Being a teen is never easy...Zombies, demons, vampires, shapeshifters-another day in the life of sixteen-year-old Nick Gautier-and those are just his friends. But now that he's accepted the demon that lives inside him, he must learn to control it and temper the very emotions that threaten the lives of everyone he cares for. Something that's hard to do while trying to stay off the menus of those who want his head on a platter. And no one wants him more than the dark gods wh...

This is the first full-length study of the material and visual culture of the British labour movement in almost half a century. It draws together the fruits of recent research into a comprehensive material and visual analysis of the nineteenth-century labour movement’s development. It analyses the meaning of ‘labour things’, the role they played in the lives of working people and the ways they have influenced the writing of labour history. Over ninety beautifully illustrated, expertly cont...