Richard Holmes 13522

40-45. Van Blitzkrieg tot Hiroshima

Terra - Lannoo, Uitgeverij, 2015. Gekartonneerd. Pp: 176. Hét ultieme referentiewerk over de Tweede Wereldoorlog 'Op een dag zal deze vreselijke oorlog voorbij zijn. Dan kunnen we opnieuw mensen zijn, en niet alleen Joden.' - Anne Frank, 11 april 1941 Ontdek hoe diepgewortelde angst en haat escaleerden in een nieuwe wereldoorlog, en hoe dat gruwelijke conflict onze moderne wereld gevormd heeft. Leg via tijdslijnen en wereldkaarten verbanden tussen de verschillende gebeurtenissen wereldwijd, en leer meer over de belangrijkste veldslagen en de technologische innovaties die het verloop van de oorlog hebben beïnvloed. Aan de hand van meer dan 1000 illustraties uit toparchieven wereldwijd brengt dit visueel verbluffende boek niet alleen een volledig overzicht van alle politieke en militaire aspecten van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, maar geeft het ook een stem aan de mensen die de oorlog aan den lijve meemaakten. Een uniek referentiewerk dat in geen enkele bibliotheek mag ontbreken. ISBN: 9789401423724. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Tony Holmes 44244

P-47 Thunderbolt Aces of the Eighth Air Force

Osprey. Paperback. Pp: 62. ISBN: 8483724960. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Andrew Holmes 42224

64 Clarke

Hodder & Stoughton, 2006. Pp: 359. Lost: one chance at redemption. Answers to the name of Ben. Six-year-old Ben Snape went missing on a busy London tube platform. It was a Saturday afternoon, and there were people everywhere. But nobody saw what happened to Ben and he hasn't been seen since. In the flats at 64 Clarke Street live two men, neighbours but strangers: Max, vulnerable and haunted by his past, and Dash, whose job is about to get him into a whole lot of trouble. Max and Dash have no idea that their lives are destined to collide, or that Ben's ultimate safety rests on the decisions they will make. When doing the wrong thing has become a way of life for them, can they possibly re-write the script?. ISBN: 9780340832998. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Richard Holmes 13522

The Age of Wonder. How the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science

HarperPress, 2008. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 554. Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Royal Society Prize for Science Books Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of 18th century in this ground-breaking new biography. 'The Age of Wonder' is Richard Holmes's first major work of biography in over a decade. It has been inspired by the scientific ferment that swept through Britain at the end of the eighteenth century, 'The Age of Wonder' and which Holmes now radically redefines as 'the revolution of Romantic Science'. The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, stepping onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, hoping to discover Paradise. Many other voyages of discovery swiftly follow, while Banks, now President of the Royal Society in London, becomes our narrative guide to what truly emerges as an Age of Wonder. Banks introduces us to the two scientific figures that dominate the book: astronomer William Herschel and chemist Humphry Davy. Herschel's tireless dedication to the stars, assisted (and perhaps rivalled) by his comet-finding sister Caroline, changed forever the public conception of the solar system, the Milky Way galaxy and the meaning of the universe itself. Davy first shocked the scientific community with his near-suicidal gas experiments in Bristol, then went on to save thousands of lives with his Safety Lamp and established British chemistry as the leading professional science in Europe. But at the cost, perhaps, of his own heart. Holmes proposes a radical vision of science before Darwin, exploring the earliest ideas of deep time and deep space, the creative rivalry with the French scientific establishment, and the startling impact of discovery on great writers and poets such as Mary Shelley, Coleridge, Byron and Keats. With his trademark sense of the human drama, he shows how great ideas and experiments are born out of lonely passion, how scientific discoveries (and errors) are made, how intense relationships are forged and broken by research, and how religious faith and scientific truth collide. The result is breathtaking in its originality, its story-telling energy, and not least, in its intellectual significance. ISBN: 9780007149520. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Richard Holmes 13522

Battlefields of the Second World War

BBC, 2001. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 224. Skillfully clarifies the complexities of four major World War II military campaigns: El Alamein, Italy, Arnhem, and the Battle of Britain. In this study of war Holmes recreates what it was really like to be in the midst of bloody conflict from the eye-witness accounts of servicemen and women. ISBN: 9780563537823. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Burton Holmes 76685

Burton Holmes Travelogues. The Greatest Traveller of His Time, 1892-1952

Taschen, 2006. Linnen band. Pp: 366. In a time before air travel or radio, on the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, Burton Holmes (1870-1958) set upon a lifelong journey to bring the world home. From the grand boulevards of Paris to China's Great Wall, from the first modern. ISBN: 9783822848159. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Richard Holmes 13522

Coleridge: darker reflections

HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 1998. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 622. The text traces the development of Coleridge from a legend amongst the younger generation of Romantic writers such as Byron, Shelly and Keats amongst others, to his power as a conversationalist and a ceaseless generator of ideas. Coleridge's later life is concerned with his hopeless heartache, disappointments, addictions to Asra and opium, his elated highs and catastropic lows, his electrifying creativity and boundless energy, and never-failing ability to rescue himself from the darkest abyss. ISBN: 9780002555777. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Richard Holmes 13522

Coleridge

Harper Perennial, 2005. Paperback. Pp: 622. "By the age of thirty, Samuel Taylor Coleridge had written much of the poetry for which he is now remembered - but the consequence of reaching such artistic heights so early in his career was to cast a shadow over the last three decades of his life. In this portrait of a troubled genius falling to earth, we feel Coleridge's hopeless heartache, his disappointments, his addiction to opium, his elated highs and catastrophic lows, and experience his visits to the darkest depths of the abyss. But we also witness an act of extraordinary biographical reclamation, as Richard Holmes convinces us of the astonishing breadth of the vision and poetic power which remained with Coleridge to the end."-BOOK JACKET. ISBN: 9780007204564. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Richard Holmes 13522

Coleridge: early visions

HarperCollins, 1998. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 409. The first volume of Richard Holmes's two-volume biography of Coleridge, which won the 1989 Whitbread Prize for book of the year and which transforms our view of this greatest of Romantic poets. Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of a major new biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge which will transform our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Movement. Dismissed by much recent scholarship as an opium addict, plagiarist, political apostate and mystic charlatan, Richard Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of the page as a brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking figure who invades the imagination. This is an act of biographical recreation which brings back to life the poetry, Coleridge's encyclopaedic thought, his creative energy and physical presence. He is vivid and unexpected. Holmes draws the reader into the labyrinthine complications of his subject's personality and literary power, and faces us with profound questions about the nature of creativity, the relations between sexuality and friendship, the shifting grounds of political and religious belief. ISBN: 9780002555760. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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Richard Holmes 13522

Complete War Walks

BBC, 2003. Paperback. Pp: 447. This one-volume edition comprises both Richard Holmes' well-loved War Walks and War Walks 2. Dates such as 1066 and names such as Dunkirk often strike a chord of nostalgia, but the details of the historic events associated with them are forgotten. In The Complete War Walks Richard Holmes takes us on fascinating journey through time to visit twelve battlefields throughout Britain, Northern France and Belgium that mark crucial moments in Britain's bloody and turbulent history. From Hastings to Dunkirk, Agincourt to The Somme, Richard vividly recreates the atmosphere of these key battles in our history. With his expert knowledge of weapons and warfare and using specially commissioned maps, Richard Holmes provides a brilliantly clear picture of the events which led up to each battle, the conflicts themselves, and the people who fought them. Using practical 'views of the field', he travels the battlefields as they exist today, pointing out their places of interest, paying tribute to the men who fought there, and bringing history to life. This book focuses on a selection of battles, six fought in Britain - or, in one case, on a struggle that straddled the Channel. A further six are set in a few hundred square miles of northern France and southern Belgium, a space so confined that a single day's drive could take us across all our battlefields. Choosing the battles from a long list of potential candidates was far from easy, but a certain logic prevails. Battles that had far-reaching consequences, historically and politically, were brought to the forefront of the possible choices. In some cases, because of a battle's importance, it entered part of an enduring mythology that demands attention. There were other obvious considerations that favoured certain battles over others: battles that were particularly decisive, or ones that were well documented, or have battlefields that remain striking today. I shied away from some battles that had already been described so well in print or on film, that I felt there was nothing new to add. In the twentieth-century France: Hastings, Agincourt, Bosworth, Naseby, The Boyne, Waterloo, Mons and Le Cateau, the Somme, Arras, Dunkirk, the Blitz and Operation Goodwood. ISBN: 9780563487173. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Richard Holmes 13522

Epic Land Battles

Bounty Books, 2004. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 256. ISBN: 9780753709535. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Linda Holmes 194489

Evvie Drake Starts Over

Hodder & Stoughton, 2020. Paperback. Pp: 304. It's been a year since Evvie Drake's husband died, but she still can't leave the house. Her best friend Andy thinks it's because she's grieving, and she does nothing to make him think otherwise. Dean Tenney was once a sports star. Now he's a former sports star who has lost his ability to throw a ball better than anyone else, and he can't even explain why. When Dean moves into the apartment at the back of Evvie's house, the two make a deal: Dean won't ask about Evvie's dead husband, and Evvie won't ask about Dean's failed career. But as Dean and Evvie grow closer, could it be that these rules are the one thing in the way of them starting over?. ISBN: 9781473679276. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Richard Holmes 13522

Fatal avenue. A traveller's history of the battlefields of northern France and Flanders, 1346-1945

Jonathan Cape, 1992. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 376. ISBN: 9780224036009. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Richard Holmes 13522

De feministe en de filosoof. Een liefdesgeschiedenis

1988. Paperback. Pp: 109. Op historische gegevens gebaseerd relaas van de relatie van de Britse feministische schrijfster Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) met de Britse filosoof William Godwin (1756-1836). ISBN: 9789025466893. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Hannah Holmes 46632

Een goedgeklede aap. De plaats van de mens in het dierenrijk

Bert Bakker, 2009. Paperback. Pp: 383. Wetenschapsjournalist Hannah Holmes beschrijft op een vermakelijke en verrassende wijze haar kijk op de plek van de mens op aarde. Wij beginnen langzaam onze eenzame status als overontwikkelde diersoort te verliezen. Er ontstaat twijfel over de vraag of de mens wel zo uniek is als we zelf denken. Het is dan ook hoog tijd om onze plaats in het dierenrijk opnieuw te evalueren. De mens vindt zichzelf een complex, intelligent en superieur wezen _ maar is hij dat eigenlijk wel? Met scherpzinnig inzicht en op scherpe en nederige toon werpt Holmes het getrainde oog van een onderzoeker op. zichzelf. Aan de hand van haar eigen lichaam en gedrag doet Holmes in Een goed geklede aap uitgebreid onderzoek naar de overeenkomsten en verschillen tussen mens en dier.Hannah Holmes schreef eerder Suburban Safari en The Secret Life of Dust. Artikelen van haar hand verschenen in onder meer The New York Times Magazine en The Los Angeles Times Magazine, en ze werkte mee aan Discovery Channel Online. - Zeer geestig, maar niet zo komisch dat we vergeten te waarderen hoeveel we leren.`the boston globe - Fascinerend.`the los angeles times - Een heldere, opwindende reis langs de contouren van het menselijk brein en de plooien van het menselijk lichaam.` kirkus reviews - Holmes maakt wetenschap persoonlijk in spannend en humoristisch proza.` publishers weekly. ISBN: 9789035133952. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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