Akkerman: 9 books

In Experiencing Led Zeppelin: A Listener’s Companion, musician and writer Gregg Akkerman looks behind the curtain of “rock gods” sensationalism at this performing acts musical legacy through their studio and live recordings. Drawing on his many years as a rock musician and music scholar, Akkerman...

It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by Susan Hyde, sister of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon,...

Just after recording with John Coltrane in 1963, baritone singer Johnny Hartman (1923–1983) told a family member that “something special” occurred in the studio that day. He was right – the album, containing definitive readings of “Lush Life” and “My One and Only Love,” resides firmly...

This book explores how the weather and city-form impact the mind, and how city-form and mind interact. It builds on Merleau-Ponty’s contention that mind, the human body and the environment are intertwined in a singular composite, and on Walter Benjamin’s suggestion that mind and city-form, in...

Where does discipleship end and evangelism begin? How does one fit with the other? Joining the two together properly is a challenge. Both are important, and both are necessary. Missional Discipleship offers a holistic vision that effectively incorporates discipleship with evangelism. Thoroughly Wesleyan...

A study of clinical assessment, computerized methods and instrumentation in psychology, containing 18 contributions from the workshop, "Computers in Psychology", held in September 1999 at the University of Utrecht.;The first section of the work contains contributions concerning clinical...

Confronterend verhaal over het verlies van een kind en de rol van het geloof `In de boekenkast ligt een wit fotomapje dat begint met de foto van een gesloten wieg en eindigt met de foto van een gesloten graf. Cirkelend rond de dood van de pasgeboren Evy Elise, is Donderdagmiddagdochter het verhaal...

Provides a multidisciplinary approach to the study of energetics of secretion responses by combining the knowledge and expertise of leading authorities from various fields.

Als Therese in het ziekenhuis ligt om te bevallen van haar eerste kind, is het erop of eronder. Niet alleen voor haar en haar kind, maar ook voor de mensen die wachten op de gang: haar man, haar vader en haar zus, het zwarte schaap van de familie. Want Agnes, Thereses moeder, is onvindbaar. Maandenlang...