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Ghosts
For her college course on novel writing, Melanie is writing a ghost story about a young widow haunted by supernatural forces. But her thoughts are occupied by her attraction to her professor. Soon, the eerie events in her novel are mirrored in her own life, when strange things happen in the house where she is living for the school year. Disembodied footsteps and the intense feeling that she is being watched are only the beginning.
Hipster
HIPSTER: een sociologisch onderzoek naar rebellerende consumenten, modefreaks, trendsetters en iedereen die zich verzet tegen luiheid en cynisme is een hoogst intelligent pamflet waarin de anatomie centraal staat van trends die in de periferie geboren worden en opeens mainstream zijn - mode die opeens het straatbeeld kleurt en domineert, muziekgroepen die unaniem doorbreken, ideeën die overnight salonfähig worden. Het is behelst een poging te zijn serieus na te denken over mode, over mensen die er raar uitzien (met name qua beharing), over het 'hipsterdom'. De term hipster is niet van vandaag de dag: Jack Kerouac beschrijft de hipsters van de jaren veertig als 'rising and roaming America, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere [as] characters of a special spirituality'. Ook Norman Mailer liet zich niet onbetuigd in het baanbrekende boek The White Negro: hij beschreef hipsters als het Amerikaanse antwoord op de Europese existentialisten, een leven leidend waarin de (angst voor de) atoomoorlog centraal stond, net als verzet tegen conformisme: 'to divorce oneself from society, to exist without roots, to set out on that uncharted journey into the rebellious imperatives of the self.'
Pionniers Portugais de la Linguistique Vietnamienne
The development and adoption of a Romanized script had an enormous impact on Vietnam's intellectual development and has been attributed to the work of Alexandre de Rhodes. This study contends that Rhodes' achievement was due to the efforts of earlier Portuguese linguists upon whose work he built. The development and eventual official adoption of a Romanized script has had an enormous impact on Vietnam's cultural and intellectual development and has been a major contributor to its high literacy rate and its modernization. Among linguists, the development of the Roman
Giuliana’S Way
A girl. A dream. A new beginning. At its core, Giulianas Way is the story of a precocious Italian girl who, at 11 years of age in 1941, leaves hearth, home and war-torn Europe and comes to the United States to get an education, become an architect, and realize the American dream. But an outsize talent for cooking intrudes on her well-laid plans, forcing our heroine to make a conflicted, gut-wrenching decision: barely out of high school, she abandons the classroom for a restaurant kitchen. In making this life-altering choice, she gets to live even bigger and better dreams. The way Giuliana uses her ingenuity to achieve culinary celebrity is replete with surprising twists and unexpected turns. By the time shes 29, she has become by turns an iconic chef, cooking instructor, televisions first culinary star and the creative force behind the premier household products company catering to the total lifestyle needs of the American homemaker. The colorful characters, places and eventsmany drawn from real lifethat populate the pages of the book make Giulianas Way a timely and uplifting story.
