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Herman Beliën | Fik Meijer | Paul Knevel Van Babylon tot New York
hoorcollege over 5000 jaar stadsgeschiedenis
De stad is een intrigerend fenomeen. Al duizenden jaren wordt er door mensen in gewoond en geleefd. Het is bovendien de plek bij uitstek waar wordt gehandeld, religie en cultuur wordt aangeboden en van waaruit wordt bestuurd. In deze collegereeks wordt een levendig overzicht gegeven van bijna 5000 jaar stadsgeschiedenis aan de hand van een aantal concrete steden in verschillende fasen van hun ontwikkeling. Ideaaltypen als de klassieke stad, de middeleeuwse stad, de barokstad en de moderne stad worden...
Nederlands | 4 uur 40 minuten | NRC Handelsblad Academie | 2008
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Eddie Rickenbacker Fighting the Flying Circus
"Fighting the Flying Circus" is fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker WWI memoir. He fought in and eventually became commander of the 94th "Hat-in-the-Ring" Squadron, which ended the war with the highest number of air victories of any American squadron. The circus mentioned in the title refers to the German squadron commanded by the famous Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen. Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973) was an American World War I pilot. He was the most successful fighter ace in that war and received...
Engels | 10 uur (437 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Before its 1902 publication, Heart of Darkness appeared as a three part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the '100 best novels' and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three...
Engels | 4 uur 38 minuten (211 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Charles Rivers The Earp Brothers
"The Earp Brothers" weaves the lives of the Earp brothers into one entertaining and educational narrative. It explains the origins of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the controversial details that continue to be debated today. Of all the colorful characters that inhabited the West during the 19th century, the most famous of them all is Wyatt Earp (1848-1929), who has long been regarded as the embodiment of the Wild West. Charles Rivers (Editors) in an independant publisher, which had created...
Engels | 2 uur 46 minuten (123 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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