Lex: 192 books

Al sinds 2002 is De kale berg hét boek voor iedereen die de Mont Ventoux wil beklimmen, met of zonder fiets, op skeelers, alleen of met een groep. Aan de 1912 meter hoge berg in de Provence worden mythische kwalificaties toegedicht. De kale berg bevat verhalen over de ontstaansgeschiedenis van de...

'Spreken in het openbaar' scoort altijd hoog als mensen gevraagd wordt `de tien ergste dingen' in hun leven te noemen. Bovendien zijn maar heel weinig mensen tevreden over hun spreekprestaties: het gaat niet vlot genoeg, ze kunnen niet soepel op vragen reageren en niet improviseren, vinden ze. Het...

Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive occupational group over the past two centuries. As trade expanded so the numbers of dock labourers increased and became concentrated in the major ports of the world. This ambitious two-volume project goes beyond existing individual studies...

Este no es un libro sobre el desamor, el enamoramiento o la sexualidad. Es un manual práctico para impulsar la energía más poderosa que tenemos, la que nos une a los demás, la que multiplica nuestras fuerzas para lograr objetivos y disfrutar de la vida con relaciones nutritivas. Para ello,...

Deze WOII- bundel bevat zes onthutsende en ontroerende boeken met persoonlijke verhalen van overlevenden van de Jodenvervolging. Dit jaar vieren we in Nederland zeventig jaar bevrijding, maar elk jaar wordt ook benadrukt dat we de verschrikkingen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog niet mogen vergeten....

Joe Camber is a retired middleweight United Kingdom champion and a former WBC champion. After his divorce, Joe purchases a modern red-brick semi-detached house on Willet Close on the outskirts of the town centre. He likes where he lives, regardless of it being modest for a rich and famous person.But...

En un ejercicio de evaluación razonada sobre los últimos seis años de administración panista en el estado de Sonora y su posible desarrollo luego de la contienda electoral, aquí confluyen diez ensayos de expertos que abordan temas relevantes de la agenda pública local. Estos trabajos son producto...

This is a new edition of the accessible and student-friendly 'how to' for anyone using R for the first time, for use in spatial statistical analysis, geocomputation and digital mapping. The authors, once again, take readers from ‘zero to hero’, updating the now standard text to further enable...

The Meta-Analytic Organization: Introducing Statistico-Organizational Theory develops new organizational theory based upon ideas from statistics and methodology. There have been previous organizational theories based on academic disciplines such as biology, economics, and sociology. Statistico-organizational...

The crew of the colony ship Soraya swim between the stars in frozen stasis. When they are awoken years before their destination, they learn that the inhospitable void of space outside the hulls is second only to the danger trapped inside with them. The scientists of Salacia Station live, work, and...

The glowing white of its bulbous eyes were shinier than any moon, brighter than any sun, pure in its evilness. Every normal, close-knit town has its own distressing secrets and tales - but none as dreadful as a small town in South Wales. This small town, with a canal running through it alongside the...

The quiet sleepy village of Rhos Meadow has been earmarked for a much-disputed wind farm and hydraulic fracturing drilling operation. Soon after work begins, inexplicable and unnatural deaths befall the residents, with those who survive infected by a malignant disease.A girl goes missing when she is...

Swedish-born law student, Sofie Lackberg's life is sent into perilous turmoil when she spots a flyer advertising a care assistant job for one night in a palatial Victorian house of gothic architecture and a marble demon out front standing sentry. But the money is too good to turn down for Sofie to keep...

When Kate and Tom hear Charles’s story about a mythical Frozen Man, they believe it to be just that, and nothing.So when they stumble across a body encased in a block of ice in a forest, while snowbound in North Wales they become afraid for their safety.Against Tom’s pleas, he and Kate cart the corpse...