Frits van der Waa Books

In the many retellings of the Greek myths, the focus is generally on gods and heroes, but Natalie Haynes refocuses our gaze on the remarkable women at the centre of these ancient stories.

An account of the last months of the life of President John F. Kennedy weaves together his public and private life and addresses the tantalizing mystery of all - not who killed him but who he was when he was killed, and where he would have led his country and the world.

Norman is an enviably skilled pen-portraitist, with a consummate ability to conjure the presence of [McCartney] ... A powerful sense of McCartney the man comes across in this book's evocative high points ... A capably executed biography, brimming with detail John Harris THE GUARDIAN číst celé

Stranger than fiction, larger than life, full of shades and echoes, Titus Groan is not merely one of the most brilliantly sustained flights of the imagination in modern English fiction, it is also a sustained piece of deadly irony. The characters are weird; the setting fantastic; everything about Mervyn Peake's masterpiece seems eccentric but for the stringent sense of reality which always seeps through the farcical, frightening antics in the mad castle of Gormenghast.

We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction is fast becoming reality, as AI transforms war, crime, justice, jobs and society-and, even, our very sense of what it means to be human. More than any other technology, AI has the potential to revolutionize our collective future - and there's nobody better situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, whose work has helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial. In this deeply researched and vitally important new book, Tegmark takes us to the heart of thinking about AI and the human condition, bringing us face to face with the essential questions of our time. What sort of future do we want? Life 3.0gives us the tools to join what may be the most important conversation of our time.

Overworked? Exhausted? Powering between career, family and friends and frazzled and libido-less as a result? No wonder you're moody But as New York psychiatrist Julie Holland explains in this radical and eye-opening book, the first step to overcoming the lows is to accept that being testy is in our nature - we were made to be moody bitches.

In <i>De boekhandel van de wereld</i> vertellen Andrew Pettegree en Arthur der Weduwen het verhaal van de opkomst en het grote succes van het bloeiende zeventiende-eeuwse Nederlandse boekenbedrijf. In de zeventiende eeuw was Nederland het centrum van de boekenwereld. In het verhaal over de Gouden Eeuw wordt dit zelden verteld. Het was de tijd van de VOC, van Rembrandt en Vermeer, en alle aandacht is altijd uitgegaan naar de Hollandse schilderkunst. Maar per hoofd van de bevolking bezaten de inwoners van de Nederlandse republiek meer boeken dan in enig ander land in Europa. De mensen hier waren ongewoon goed geïnformeerd en politiek betrokken. Godsdiensttwisten, welvaart en politiek werden beïnvloed door wat er gelezen werd. Terwijl uitgevers elders in Europa failliet gingen, vernieuwden de Nederlandse uitgevers hun industrie: ze organiseerden boekveilingen en deden veel aan marketing en publiciteit. De aard van dat godvruchtige, welvarende, twistzieke en genereuze volk werd in belangrijke mate bepaald door wat het las.