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Op een druilerige zomerdag in 1984 ontmoet de van huis weggelopen tiener Holly Sykes een vreemde vrouw die haar in ruil voor een slok thee om 'asiel' vraagt. Pas jaren later zal Holly erachter komen wat voor asiel de vrouw precies bedoelde. Tijdmeters volgt Holly's leven. Van haar jeugd in het café in Gravesend tot haar oude dag in Ierland. Van het moment dat ze van huis wegloopt tot het moment dat ze moet overleven in een bijna failliete samenleving. De vroege verdwijning van haar jongere broertje is daarbij een belangrijk raadsel dat haar hele leven blijft doorwerken. David Mitchell weet in zijn grootse nieuwe roman de thema's en ideeën uit zijn eerdere boeken fenomenaal bijeen te brengen. Aan de hand van de ogenschijnlijk gewone Holly Sykes voert hij de lezer een bovennatuurlijke oorlog van goed en kwaad binnen, die hij tot de laatste pagina spannend weet te houden. Ontroerend, krankzinnig, bloedstollend, hilarisch, episch en mitchelliaans: meer dan ooit is dit boek niet onder één noemer te vangen. Gelimiteerde oplage, halflinnen gebonden, met goudstempel, ingelegd lenticulair, leeslint, kleur op snee.

The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the “high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island” that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancée back in Holland. But Jacob’s original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city’s powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken. The consequences will extend beyond Jacob’s worst imaginings. As one cynical colleague asks, “Who ain’t a gambler in the glorious Orient, with his very life?” A magnificent mix of luminous writing, prodigious research, and heedless imagination, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the most impressive achievement of its eminent author.

With over 70 strategies, this book equips educators to address the challenges posed by a diverse student population. It presents a comprehensive blueprint for an education system centered on children, emphasizing the influence of school, community, bureaucracy, and society on learning opportunities and student success. The focus is on creating inclusive environments that enhance educational outcomes for all students.

Explores the craft curriculum for Years 1 to 8 and through High School, considering the benefits of particular activities for children's cognition and developing will.

A rare and important insight into the mind of an autistic child, in his own words. Translated by and with a moving introduction from the award-winning author of CLOUD ATLAS, David Mitchell

This guide makes visible the time-tested sources for teaching in Grades 1-8 in a Waldorf school. Care has been taken to seek out the most accurate translations. References are made to background reading of Rudolf Steiner and other authors to help the teacher understand the relevance of a particular subject. This book will prove to be a real time saver for teachers.

Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.

This guide is designed to help the reader get more out of karate. It covers core skills, drills and tactics of the sport.

A fascinating and authoritative source of information on all of the major martial arts.Explanation of the principal characteristics and key techniques of the different disciplines.Over 300 action-packed photographs including step-by-step sequences.

Impressions of four centuries of foreign travellers in Spain. Outrageous, adoring, insulting, libellous, passionate, hilarious, thoughtful, bigoted eloquent remarks.