Jan: 4507 books
by Jan-Werner Muller
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
This book is the first major account of political thought in twentieth-century Europe, both West and East, to appear since the end of the Cold War. Skillfully blending intellectual, political, and cultural history, Jan-Werner Müller elucidates the ideas that shaped the period of ideological extremes...
Port Alberni
More Than Just a Mill Town
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Any community that has ever been labelled a “mill town” carries both the promise of prosperity and the constant threat of collapse, its fortune hinging on a single industry whose performance is as much related to the whims of a global economy as it is to the abundance of a key natural resource....
Trams or Tailfins?
Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of a supposed “Americanization” of European consumer societies—in Germany and elsewhere. Arguing against these...
Kilts on the Coast: The Scots Who Built BC
The Scots Who Built BC
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
When the Hudson's Bay Company decided to establish its new Pacific coast headquarters at Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island in 1843, the Island was a pristine paradise—or an isolated wilderness, depending on one's point of view—that had sustained its First Nations inhabitants for millennia. It...
Rock n Roll Junkie
over Herman Brood
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 24, 2013
`Het Verschijnsel Brood, zo noemde Herman Brood, Nederlands enige rock-`n-rollster, zichzelf. Jan Eilander belicht `het verschijnsel - en daarmee ruim dertig jaar vaderlandse rock-`n-rollgeschiedenis - aan de hand van talloze interviews met mensen uit Broods naaste omgeving: met vriend en vijand,...
by Jan Siebelink
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Het vervolg op Knielen op een bed violen. Een verhaal over een heel leven, dat van Margje en haar twee zoons. De jongste is haar lieveling, de oudste voert strijd om die plek in te nemen.
Tien jaar geleden verscheen Jan Siebelinks ongekende bestseller Knielen op een bed violen, het imposante...
Chen
Living Taijiquan in the Classical Style
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Chen style Taijiquan is the oldest of the five main Taijiquan styles. In this book, Master Jan Silberstorff, a leading Chen practitioner, shares his expertise and insights.
He explains the background to Taijiquan, and its key principles, and gives the reader a true insight into the Chen system....
Fantastic Stories Presents The Vampire Super Pack
Over 225,000 words of startling Vampire fiction by writers such as Bram Stoker, F. Marion Crawford, Steve Rasnic Tem, Robert E. Howard, Jay O'Connell, John William Polidori, and many, many more!
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Vampires have fascinated mankind for centuries. These creatures of the night enthrall us, terrify us, and seduce us. The Vampire Super Pack brings together 42 vampires stories spanning almost 200 years. With over 225,000 words of fascinating fiction this is the Vampire anthology you’ve been waiting...
Hidden in the Enemy's Sight
Resisting the Third Reich from Within
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
For 16-year-old Jan Kamienski, life as he knows it ends when Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939. After a great deal of hardship, he joins the Polish Resistance and eventually, in 1941, is sent to Dresden, Germany, to take up Underground activities there. Armed with false papers, he works...
Harmony from the Inside Out
Creating and Living your Performance Potential
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Create the life you want and turn your world from ho hum to Woo Hoo! HARMONY FROM THE INSIDE OUT champions the taking of an “appreciative approach” and by identification of what is working in your life and building on strengths, you can create and implement infinite new possibilities. The book...
by Jan Wong
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Many people have predicted that she'll never eat lunch in this town again. But as "Lunch With" proves each week, there's always another unsuspecting celebrity ready to break bread with columnist Jan Wong.
Now's your chance to dine with her while she dishes, disses and dissects the...
by Jan Harold Brunvand
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
"If you enjoy these too-good-to-be-true tales, Brunvand's new book will give you hours of pleasure."—Chicago Tribune
A fabulously entertaining book from the ultimate authority on those almost believable tales that always happen to a "friend of a friend." Alligators in...
by Jan Harold Brunvand
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1994
America's premier folk detective is back on the case, sniffing out those zany but dubious stories that "really happened" to a friend of your sister's boyfriend's accountant's mechanic.
Jan Harold Brunvand—''Mr. Urban Legend" [Smithsonian]—tracks the most fabulous tales making...
by Jan J.B. Kuipers
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
De Romeinen hebben de Lage Landen bezet. Het meisje Suana en de jongen Uffio, een slaaf, zoeken de legendarische, gouden Hoorn van de vrijheid. Ze doen het in opdracht van Suana’s oma, die stervende is…
Een piratenaanval op hun dorp gooit roet in het eten. Uffio krijgt uiteindelijk zijn vrijheid,...