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In 1895, nine American heiresses travelled across the Atlantic to bag themselves husbands and titles. For the English gentlemen the girls married it was a way to secure their estates. For the girls who came from new money, marriage was a means to obtaining social prestige. The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau tells the stories of these nine heiresses and the remarkable women who made it happen - the unofficial marriage brokers Lady Minnie-Paget and Consuelo Yzanga, Duchess of Manchester.

La troisième révolution industrielle, qui commence avec l'invention du web en 1990, inclut en elle huit innovations révolutionnaires : les nanotechnologies, les biotechnologies, l'informatique (Big data et objets connectés), le cognitivisme (l'intelligence artificielle), les imprimantes 3D, la robotique, l'hybridation homme/machine et la recherche sur les cellules souches.

A Voice from Harpers Ferry is a powerful abolitionist testimony by Osborne Perry Anderson, the last surviving black participant in the historic 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry led by John Brown. This compelling narrative explores the motivations and meticulous preparations for the raid, recounts the dramatic events that transpired over those pivotal days in October 1859, and follows Andersons daring escape. The book concludes with a poignant selection of poems celebrating Brown and the broader movement for abolition. (summary by JR Martin)

Drie pgb-experts spreken openhartig over de waarde en de uitdagingen van het persoonsgebonden budget (pgb) én over hun wensen voor de toekomst van het pgb. Aan het woord zijn: Aline Molenaar, oprichter en directeur van Per Saldo; Otwin van Dijk, voormalig Tweede Kamerlid en huidig voorzitter van de Raad van Bestuur van het Slingeland Ziekenhuis en Boy Royackers, actief binnen het netwerk Nederland Toegankelijker, mede-auteur van het boek Rondes van Geluk. Het gesprek wordt geleid door Ferry Molenaar. Wil je meer weten over Per Saldo of het pgb? Kijk dan op https://pgb.nlDeze podcast werd ...

Free-ranging discussion of books from the past that cast a sideways light on today's world.

When John Brown decided to raid the federal armory in Harper's Ferry as the starting point of his intended liberation effort in the South, some closest to him thought it was unnecessary and dangerous. Frederick Douglass, a pioneering abolitionist, refused Brown's invitation to join him in Virginia, believing that the raid on the armory was a suicide mission. Yet in front of Douglass, "Emperor" Shields Green, a fugitive from South Carolina, accepted John Brown's invitation. When the raid failed, Emperor was captured with the rest of Brown's surviving men and hanged on December 16, 1859.

An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water ‘Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.’ Roddy Doyle ‘Remarkable. Lively … Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is profoundly popular.’ Times Literary Supplement The Turning Tide is a hymn to a sea passage of...

From our country's most important war historian, a gripping account of the turbulent relationship between Canada and the US during the Second World War. The two nations entered the war amidst rivalry and mutual suspicion, but learned to fight together before emerging triumphant and bound by an...