Ghost Colonies

Part of Pier 9's Lost and Found in History series, Ghost Colonies brings to light the fascinating but rarely told stories of history's lost colonies. Unlike many of the colonial 'success stories' from...

Misunderstood

Over 200 million people currently live abroad; more than 50 million are temporary residents, intending to return to their country of origin. Misunderstood explores the impact international life can ha...

Not Forgetting the Whale

When a young man washes up, naked, on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, he is quickly rescued by the villagers. From the retired village doctor and the schoolteacher, to the beachcomber and the owner...

Pick Up the Pieces

Charmaine Richardson's highly personal and revealing account describes how she was abused as a child within her comfortable, middle-class London home. It describes the time bomb' for her and her famil...

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Die nächste Zeit gehört nicht den Menschen, sondern den Computern. Was wir kaufen, wohin wir reisen, mit wem wir sprechen, was wir mögen, wen wir lieben - all das ist in den Netzwerken längst gespeich...

How to Predict Everything

How do you predict something that has never happened before? There's a useful calculation being employed by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths professors all over the world, and it predicts...

The Future

How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers. The future is like an unwritten book. It is not something we see in a crystal ball, or can on...

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

Basisboek ondersteuning aan mensen met een verstandelijke beperking

In Basisboek ondersteuning aan mensen met een verstandelijke beperking wordt de hedendaagse visie beschreven op het ondersteunen van mensen met een verstandelijke beperking. Het boek staat vol praktis...

Sexual Victimization

This text is contributed by well-known researchers in the field and serves as an important resource to provide scholars with up-to-date research on sexual victimization. The book approaches the...

Slavernij

Hoe kan het dat de Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden, die zo hartstochtelijk vecht tegen de Spaanse overheersing en voor de vrijheid, mee gaat doen aan de internationale slavenhandel? Hoe suss...

Child Maltreatment

Child Maltreatment, Third Edition, by Cindy Miller-Perrin and Robin Perrin, is a thoroughly updated new edition of the first textbook for undergraduate students and beginning graduate students in this...