DE AVONTUREN VAN EEN START-UP

DE AVONTUREN VAN EEN START-UP
Author: R.J. van Hooghoudt-Schimmelpenninck
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2013-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1481787845

Het verhaal neemt ons mee naar het hart van een fictief bedrijf van Robert-Jan (of "RJ" zoals hij bekend staat) waarin hij zijn droom om iets groots neer te zetten, moet afwegen tegen letterlijk overleven wanneer de door hemzelf gekozen compagnon en investeerders hem steeds verder afbrengen van wat hij wil. De droom van elke ondernemer om het te maken, de tegengestelde belangen van de aandeelhouders, en de worsteling met morele kwesties komen elke dag keihard terug. Totdat hij besluit dat het anders moet, anders kan. Nog nooit kon je zo diep in de ziel van een ondernemer kijken, en begrijpen wat er met je gebeurt als iemand je droom probeert af te pakken.

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: Seven Books
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2024-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 3988655856

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book.It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knewscholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.

The Great Chain on Urantia

The Great Chain on Urantia
Author: Nicholas P. Snoek
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2011-09-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1465365532

Nicholas P. Snoek was born in Holland in 1940; grew up in BC, Canada; took a BA with honours in English at UBC in 1963; a high school teaching certificate in 1968, then turned to public accounting in 1973; went to Ontario in 1976 to work at management accounting in the Tri-City area till 1997, and currently lives in Elliot Lake, ON with his wife Barbara trying to be retired, but he keeps on writing.

Pinocchio, the Tale of a Puppet

Pinocchio, the Tale of a Puppet
Author: Carlo Collodi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2011-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781603033930

Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet follows the adventures of a talking wooden puppet whose nose grew longer whenever he told a lie and who wanted more than anything else to become a real boy.As carpenter Master Antonio begins to carve a block of pinewood into a leg for his table the log shouts out, "Don't strike me too hard!" Frightened by the talking log, Master Cherry does not know what to do until his neighbor Geppetto drops by looking for a piece of wood to build a marionette. Antonio gives the block to Geppetto. And thus begins the life of Pinocchio, the puppet that turns into a boy.Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet is a novel for children by Carlo Collodi is about the mischievous adventures of Pinocchio, an animated marionette, and his poor father and woodcarver Geppetto. It is considered a classic of children's literature and has spawned many derivative works of art. But this is not the story we've seen in film but the original version full of harrowing adventures faced by Pinnocchio. It includes 40 illustrations.

River God

River God
Author: Wilbur Smith
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 836
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146686821X

Tanus is the fair-haired young lion of a warrior whom the gods have decreed will lead Egypt's army in a bold attempt to reunite the Kingdom's shattered halves. But Tanus will have to defy the same gods to attain the reward they have forbidden him, an object more prized than battle's glory: possession of the Lady Lostris, a rare beauty with skin the color of oiled cedar--destined for the adoration of a nation, and the love of one extraordinary man. International bestselling author Wilbur Smith, creator of over two dozen highly acclaimed novels, draws readers into a magnificent, richly imagined Egyptian saga. Exploding with all the drama, mystery, and rage of ancient Egypt, River God is a masterpiece from a storyteller at the height of his powers.

Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow

Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow
Author: James Rollins
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2009-04-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 006185817X

When a mysterious envelope arrives for Jake Ransom, he and his older sister, Kady, are plunged into a gripping chain of events. An artifact found by their parents—on the expedition from which they never returned—leads Jake and Kady to a strange world inhabited by a peculiar mix of long-lost civilizations, a world that may hold the key to their parents' disappearance. But even as they enter the gate to this extraordinary place, savage grackyls soar across the sky, diving to attack. Jake's new friends, the pretty Mayan girl Marika and the Roman Pindor, say the grackyls were created by an evil alchemist—the Skull King. And as Jake struggles to find a way home, it becomes obvious that what the Skull King wants most is Jake and Kady—dead or alive.

The Philosopher Kings

The Philosopher Kings
Author: Jo Walton
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2015-06-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466800836

From acclaimed, award-winning author Jo Walton: Philosopher Kings, a tale of gods and humans, and the surprising things they have to learn from one another. Twenty years have elapsed since the events of The Just City. The City, founded by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, organized on the principles espoused in Plato's Republic and populated by people from all eras of human history, has now split into five cities, and low-level armed conflict between them is not unheard-of. The god Apollo, living (by his own choice) a human life as "Pythias" in the City, his true identity known only to a few, is now married and the father of several children. But a tragic loss causes him to become consumed with the desire for revenge. Being Apollo, he goes handling it in a seemingly rational and systematic way, but it's evident, particularly to his precocious daughter Arete, that he is unhinged with grief. Along with Arete and several of his sons, plus a boatload of other volunteers--including the now fantastically aged Marsilio Ficino, the great humanist of Renaissance Florence--Pythias/Apollo goes sailing into the mysterious Eastern Mediterranean of pre-antiquity to see what they can find—possibly the man who may have caused his great grief, possibly communities of the earliest people to call themselves "Greek." What Apollo, his daughter, and the rest of the expedition will discover...will change everything. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content)

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content)
Author: Michael Chabon
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 705
Release: 2012-06-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0812993675

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author “It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post Book World One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Decade • Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939. A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. From the shared fears, dreams, and desires of two teenage boys, they spin comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-fighting Escapist and the beautiful, mysterious Luna Moth, otherworldly mistress of the night. Climbing from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire State Building, Joe and Sammy carve out lives, and careers, as vivid as cyan and magenta ink. Spanning continents and eras, this superb book by one of America’s finest writers remains one of the defining novels of our modern American age. Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the New York Society Library Book Award

The Goldsmith and the Master Thief

The Goldsmith and the Master Thief
Author: Tonke Dragt
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1782692487

The first English translation of a classic adventure involving two very different twins by the celebrated author of The Letter for the King Laurenzo and Jiacomo are identical twins, as alike as two drops of water. No one can tell them apart (which comes in very handy for playing tricks on their teachers). And no one can split them up. But when tragedy strikes their carefree young lives, they must make their own way in the world. As each brother chooses his own path - hardworking Laurenzo to make beautiful objects from gold and silver, and fearless Jiacomo to travel, explore and become an unlikely thief - it is the start of a series of incredible escapades that will test them to their limits. Along the way they will face terrible danger, solve cunning riddles, become prisoners in a castle, sail across the ocean, fall in and out of love, stay at an enchanted inn, help save a priceless pearl, even become kings by mistake. They must use all their talents, wiles and wisdom to survive. Are you ready to join them?

Nonfiction from the Teens

Nonfiction from the Teens
Author: Daan Hertogs
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1994
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Each Amsterdam workshop is intended to create an informal gathering of people from the world of cinema to discuss films and the problems of archival work on the basis of screenings of films from the museum's collection. This workshop focused on early nonfiction from the teens because the archive has a large selection, much of which is anonymous.