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Essays

Grote geesten delen hun scherpste observaties en meest overtuigende argumenten via de intieme kunst van het essay, en verkennen alles van creativiteit en cultuur tot filosofie en de eigenaardigheden van het moderne leven. Of ze nu worstelen met de grootste levensvragen of diepgaande betekenis vinden in alledaagse momenten, deze zorgvuldig geschreven stukken nodigen lezers uit om de wereld met frisse ogen te bekijken.

Essays Boeksamenvattingen

We're Going to Need More Wine

door Gabrielle Union 2017 272 pagina's

4.19

37.000+ beoordelingen

Memoires

Biografie

Biografie Memoir

Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

door Stephen W. Hawking 1993 182 pagina's

4.18

18.000+ beoordelingen

Wetenschap

Natuurkunde

Astronomie

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

door Scaachi Koul 2017 241 pagina's

3.72

13.000+ beoordelingen

Essays

Memoires

Humor

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

door Greta Thunberg 2019 112 pagina's

3.85

27.000+ beoordelingen

Politiek

Milieu

Wetenschap

It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

door Robert Fulghum 1989 218 pagina's

Finding Humor in the Oddest Places

door Mary Roach 2013 191 pagina's

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away

door Bill Bryson 1998 304 pagina's

3.90

69.000+ beoordelingen

Reizen

Humor

Memoires

Two Cheers for Anarchism

Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play

door James C. Scott 2012 198 pagina's

door Barbara Kingsolver 2002 300 pagina's

4.03

11.000+ beoordelingen

and Other Reflections

door Nora Ephron 2010 137 pagina's

3.80

37.000+ beoordelingen

When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

door Elizabeth Lesser 2020 304 pagina's

The Creative Writing Coursebook

Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry

door Julia Bell 2001 449 pagina's

The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

door J.K. Rowling 2015 80 pagina's

4.08

28.000+ beoordelingen

Zelfhulp

Essays

Inspirerend

I've Tried Being Nice

Essays

door Ann Leary 2024 240 pagina's

Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape

door Jaclyn Friedman 2008 361 pagina's

Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

door Katherine May 2023 212 pagina's

3.59

12.000+ beoordelingen

Memoires

Zelfhulp

Natuur

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps

Crafting a Winning Personal Statement

door Alan Gelb 2013 226 pagina's

Big Questions from Little People

And Simple Answers from Great Minds

door Gemma Elwin Harris 2012 336 pagina's

A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

door John Allen Paulos 1997 224 pagina's

Personality, Character, and Intelligence

Part Three from What the Dog Saw

door Malcolm Gladwell 2009 100 pagina's

This Explains Everything

Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

door John Brockman 2013 411 pagina's

The Elephant, The Tiger, And the Cell Phone

Reflections on India - the Emerging 21st-Century Power

door Shashi Tharoor 2007 498 pagina's

door Charles Baxter 2007 182 pagina's

door Stacey D'Erasmo 2013 144 pagina's

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

door Joan Didion 1968 238 pagina's

4.18

84.000+ beoordelingen

door Harold Bloom 2000 288 pagina's

Reflections on Self-Delusion

door Jia Tolentino 2019 303 pagina's

4.02

78.000+ beoordelingen

The Toxic Cult Of Sentimentality

door dalrymple-theodore 2010 256 pagina's

The Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School

door Alexander Steele 2003 304 pagina's

The Unabomber Manifesto

Industrial Society & Its Future

door Theodore John Kaczynski 1995 90 pagina's

3.85

12.000+ beoordelingen

10 Old Ideas In a New World

door Svend Brinkmann 2018 160 pagina's

door Rebecca Solnit 2013 271 pagina's

The Meaning of Things

Applying Philosophy to Life

door A.C. Grayling 2001 208 pagina's

Self-Reliance and Other Essays

door Ralph Waldo Emerson 1844 117 pagina's

4.12

20.000+ beoordelingen

Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future

door Paul Krugman 2020 464 pagina's

door John Waters 2010 304 pagina's

Everything in Its Place

First Loves and Last Tales

door Oliver Sacks 2019 288 pagina's

The Best Strangers in the World

Stories from a Life Spent Listening―A Poignant Journey Through Journalism, Global Connections, and Human Resilience in Today's World

door Ari Shapiro 2023 256 pagina's

I Don't Want to Die Poor

Essays

door Michael Arceneaux 2020 240 pagina's

The Mummy at the Dining Room Table

Eminent Therapists Reveal Their Most Unusual Cases and What They Teach Us About Human Behavior

door Jeffrey A. Kottler 2003 325 pagina's

3.88

500+ beoordelingen

Psychologie

Geestelijke gezondheid

Leesclub

The Dark Enlightenment

door Nick Land 2012 112 pagina's

An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism

door Diogenes of Sinope 2022 248 pagina's

Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It

Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir

door Elizabeth Gilbert 2016 240 pagina's

What to Think About Machines That Think

Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence – Essays on Artificial Intelligence and Human Destiny

door John Brockman 2015 576 pagina's

3.37

500+ beoordelingen

Wetenschap

Kunstmatige Intelligentie

Technologie

For the New Intellectual

The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

door Ayn Rand 1961 224 pagina's

"You Just Need to Lose Weight"

And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

door Aubrey Gordon 2023 228 pagina's

4.32

11.000+ beoordelingen

Gezondheid

Sociale Rechtvaardigheid

Feminisme

The Empathy Exams

door Leslie Jamison 2014 230 pagina's

3.67

15.000+ beoordelingen

On God, Marriage, Macho Men and Other Disastrous Inventions

door Joumana Haddad 2012 199 pagina's

Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy

And Other Rules to Live By

door David Mitchell 2019 264 pagina's

A Beginner's Guide to Japan

Observations and Provocations

door Pico Iyer 2019 240 pagina's

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