There was a girl named Leda who was Queen of the campus. There was a girl called Mitch who desperately wanted to be loved. Suddenly, they belonged to each other. Not since The Well of Loneliness has there been such an honest, provocative novel on a theme too important to keep from the light.This classic lesbian pulp novel about the forbidden love between two college girls is often considered by many to have launched the lesbian pulp genre. Although Tereska Torres’s Women’s Barr...

National Book Award-winnaar Packer analyseert aftakeling Amerika'Een bevlogen, leerzaam, maar ook alarmerend boek.' ••••• NRCHoe konden de Verenigde Staten in een paar decennia tijd van een welvarend en gerespecteerd land transformeren tot een verdeelde natie met uitgeholde instituties, grote ongelijkheid en leiderschap dat wordt bespot?In De laatste redding combineert Packer journalistieke reportage met historische context, auto...

**As featured on The Oprah Podcast, NPR's Hidden Brain, and in The New York Times**A “fascinating” (Charles Duhigg) and “must-read” (Annie Duke) book about WHAT we believe and HOW we experience the world is shaped by WHO we're around – and how to use that insight to rebuild the trust our institutions, workplaces, and communities depend on.Why has it become so hard to disagree without contempt? Why do smart, well-intentioned people ...

Richard HolbrookeBriljant maar zelfingenomen, geliefd maar ook gehaat. De Amerikaanse diplomaat Richard Holbrooke (1941-2010) was een man vol tegenstrijdigheden, die uitgroeide tot een van de meest bepalende figuren in de recente Amerikaanse geschiedenis. En toch vervulde hij nooit zijn ambitie om toe te treden tot de hoogste regionen van de Amerikaanse overheid.Van zijn beginjaren als jonge adviseur in Vietnam in de jaren ’60 tot zijn laatste pogingen de oorlog in Afghan...

Uma nova compreensão revolucionária da identidade, que mostra como nossos grupos têm uma influência poderosa em nossos sentimentos, crenças e comportamento, e como essas identidades compartilhadas podem inspirar mudanças pessoais e movimentos sociais. Se você for como a maioria das pessoas, provavelmente acredita que sua identidade é estável. Mas, na verdade, sua identidade está constantemente mudando — muitas vezes, inconscientemente e, às vezes, até contra sua vontade — para refletir os ...

**As featured on The Oprah Podcast, NPR's Hidden Brain, and in The New York Times**A “fascinating” (Charles Duhigg) and “must-read” (Annie Duke) book about WHAT we believe and HOW we experience the world is shaped by WHO we're around – and how to use that insight to rebuild the trust our institutions, workplaces, and communities depend on.Why has it become so hard to disagree without contempt? Why do smart, well-intentioned people ...

The book of Judges describes a time in the life of the nation of Israel between the prophetic leadership of Moses and Joshua and the establishment of the monarchy. During that time, "everyone did what was right in his own eyes" (Judges 17:6).The most shocking feature in the book of Judges, however, is not the horror of Israel's sin, but the glory of salvation from that sin. The darkness of Israel's sin is overcome only by the wonder of God's salvation worked through a series of mem...