Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. (82.320)

Boek The Great Gatsby - Scribner Classics, geschreven door F. Scott Fitzgerald, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Classics

The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a gian

A Black writer describes his childhood in South Africa under apartheid and recounts how Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith helped him leave for America on a tennis scholarshi

Boek The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows Of Josephine B., geschreven door Gulland, Sandra, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General

Re-issued with a striking new cover to tie-in with the paperback publication of the hilarious and original }The Best Awful{. This story is a brilliantly funny account of what happens when Hollywood and motherhood meet head on

Boek She's Come Undone, geschreven door Wally Lamb, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike.Margaret Mead accomp

The mountain near Ming's home is causing him many problems, so he travels to the wise man's house to find a solution

Boek Storms, geschreven door Seymour Simon, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / General (see also headings under Animals or Technology)

White illustrations against a black background depict such objects as a horse, baby bottle, and sailboat.

Introduces various mountain ranges, how they are formed and shaped, and how they affect vegetation and animals, including human

Here areLittle Guy,Little Pumpkin, and Little Bird. Their grownupslove them. So will you.

Explores how comets, meteors, and asteroids move through our solar system, and explains the ingredients that make a comet's tail and other topics

Because all the other animals' noises keep him from sleeping, Owl watches for a chance to take his revenge

A toddler's antics keep her mother busy as she tries to feed her, watch her on the playground, give her a bath, and put her to bed

The horrors of teen violence are explored in this eye-opening novel through the lens

Boek We're Going On A Bear Hunt, geschreven door Michael Rosen, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General

Boek Rainbow High, geschreven door Alex Sanchez, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., JUVENILE FICTION / General

Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other

A sinister, chilling fantasy about ancient power struggles, menacing villains and beautiful dark heroes from the author of The Spiderwick Chronicles.

At last .... everyone's favourite little pig is now in PAPERBACK!

When her first boyfriend dies, Jen thinks she's just unlucky. But when her second boyfriend dies, she "is" Jinx--a curse, a promise of bad luck, and girl who is angry and alone, and can't get close to people anymore. Original.

Shows how William Blake arrived at a theory of knowledge that was also, for him, a theory of religion, of human life and of art, and how this rigorously defined system of ideas found expression in the complicated but consistent symbolism of his poetr

Provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the "Paradiso". This work provides a profound analysis of the poem's basic allegory, and the illustrations, diagrams, and map clarify points that have confused reade

The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe. This work provides a comprehensive inquiry into the Famine from Ireland to western Poland, from Scandinavia to central France and western Ge

Offers an analysis, which contrasts the myths with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and ninth centuries - the period of grand migrations that nationalists hold dear.

Boek Haunted Museum, geschreven door Jonah Siegel, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Is Russian history one big inevitable failure? The Soviet Union's demise and Russia's ensuing troubles have led many to wonder. But this is to look through a skewed prism indeed. This history of Russia takes us beyond the Soviet haze deep into the na

A biography of Soren Kierkegaard, it potrays him as a man whose writings came to control him. It explores the events and relationships that formed Kierkegaard including his guilt-ridden relationship with his father, his rivalry with his brother, and

Voters today often desert a preferred candidate for a more viable second choice to avoid wasting their vote. Likewise, parties to a dispute often find themselves unable to agree on a fair division of contested goods. In Mathematics and Democracy, Ste

Boek Secret Reports On Nazi Germany, geschreven door Franz Neumann, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers. This book argues that the focus on headscarves came from a century-old sensitivity to the public presence of religi

Madame de Pompadour's comment, 'Apres moi, le deluge' (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a d

Boek Beautiful Game Theory, geschreven door Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., Algemene economie

Tells the story of how the study of languages and texts led to the modern humanities and the modern university. This title traces the development of humanistic learning from its beginning among ancient Greek scholars and rhetoricians, through the Mid

K. E. Fleming's Greece--a Jewish History is the first comprehensive English-language history of Greek Jews, and the only history that includes material on their diaspora in Israel and the United States. The book tells the story of a people who for th