Ronald J.H. Jonkers Książki

Original publication and copyright date: 2011.

The protagonist, a young man naive enough to be blind to all clues about his own hidden history (and to the fact that his very existence is troubling to all manner of evildoers) narrates a story of uncommon beauty which not only brings readers face-to-face with dozens of piquantly drawn characters at all levels of 19th-century English society but re-creates with precision the tempestuous weather and gnarly landscape that has been a motif of the English novel since Wuthering Heights. The suspension of disbelief happens easily, as the reader is led through twisted family trees and plot lines. The quincunx of the title is a heraldic figure of five parts that appears at crucial points within the text (the number five recurs throughout the novel, which itself is divided into five parts, one for each of the family galaxies whose orbits the narrator is pulled into). Quintuple the length of the ordinary novel, this extraordinary tour de force also has five times the ordinary allotment of adventure, action and aplomb.

Explores the mystery and complexity of human thought processes from an interdisciplinary point of view

In this brilliant sequel to the phenomenally successful A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME Stephen Hawking unravels the amazing theoretical breakthroughs that have happened during the decade that followed the publication of that bestseller. In an erudite yet accessible style Hawkins guides us through the evolution of Einstein's relativity, the uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics, five string theories, M-theory and the mysterious p-branes that seem to pave the way for that grail of theoretical physics - the big TOE - the Theory of Everything. He conveys the excitement felt at present within the scientific community as he travels with us through an Alice in Wonderland universe of ten dimensions; which might be just one of the many alternative histories, where black holes evaporate, superstrings curl up on themselves and parallel universes contract to nothing. Beautifully illustrated throughout, with original artwork commissioned for this project, THE UNIVERSE IN A NUTSHELL is guaranteed to be the biggest science book of 2001.

Een groep neurobiologen analyseert de wereldgeschiedenis in al haar facetten tijdens een 14-daagse woeste tocht met rubberboten over de rivier de Colorado. Naast de biologische evolutie van de mens en de werking van de hersenen, wordt veel aandacht besteed aan de culturele ontwikkeling. De overbevolking en de roofbouw op de aarde worden in al hun bedreigende consequenties besproken.

Autor przedstawia idee prezentujące najnowsze odkrycia w dziedzinie badania wszechświata; wykracza poza teorię względności, mechanikę kwantową i wielki wybuch, aby sięgnąć do tańca geometrii, który doprowadził do powstania wszechświata, krainy zjawiskowych zdarzeń fizyki cząstek elementarnych, w której materia zderza się z antymaterią.

"XVIII-wieczny Paryż, światowe centrum mody i elegancji, jest miejscem, gdzie żyje bohater tej niezwykłej opowieści - karzeł obdarzony wrażliwym zmysłem powonienia. Jan Baptysta Grenouille tworzy eliksiry do produkcji perfum, które są powszechnie uznawane za niedoścignione w swej wyszukanej wytworności. Jednak żadne go nie satysfakcjonują, geniusz zapachów marzy bowiem o wydestylowaniu wonności z dziewiczego ciała kobiecego. Ta myśl każe mu szukać dziewczyny o idealnym zapachu."--Ksiegarniainternetowa.co.uk. English translation of the Polish summary: Eighteenth-century Paris, the world center of fashion and elegance, is the place where the protagonist of this extraordinary story lives - a dwarf gifted with a sensitive sense of smell. Jan Baptysta Grenouille creates elixirs for the production of perfumes, which are widely regarded as unsurpassed in their sophisticated refinement. However, they do not satisfy him, the genius of fragrances dreams of distilling the fragrance from the virginal female body. This thought commends him to look for a girl with a perfect fragrance.

In het achttiende-eeuwse Londen raakt een jonge, arme portretschilder verstrikt in intriges, affaires en misdaad.

„Bez tego dziecka wszyscy zginiemy”.W „Zorzy Polarnej” poznajemy Lyrę Belacquę, sierotę z równoległego świata, w którym nauka, teologia i magia splatają się ze sobą. Lyra i jej dajmon w zwierzęcej postaci mieszkają – na wpół dzicy i beztroscy – wśród akademików oksfordzkiego Kolegium Jordana. Kiedy Lyra wyruszy na poszukiwanie uprowadzonego przyjaciela, odkryje złowieszczą intrygę, w której główną rolę odkrywają porwane dzieci, a jej wyprawa przeobrazi się w pogoń za zrozumieniem tajemniczego zjawiska zwanego „Prochem”. Los zawiedzie ją na skute lodem ziemie Arktyki, gdzie władzę sprawują klany wiedźm, a niedźwiedzie polarne toczą wojny. Niezwykła podróż Lyry będzie miała poważne konsekwencje wykraczające daleko poza granice świata, który zamieszkuje.

A boy's village childhood with all the traditional attributes - father, mother, brother, sister, a house on a lake, tree-climbing, going to the races, music lessons, a bicycle, a crush on a girl in the class - is bedevilled by the mystifying appearances of the eccentric Mr. Sommer. Moving through the landscape in silent haste, like a man possessed, with his empty rucksack and his long, odd-looking walking stick, Mr Sommer runs like a black thread through the boy's days.

Venezianische Garten legen Phosphorbrände an die Fluchtwege der Katakomben, eine Stimme am Telefon spricht vom Zorn des Imperators, und Ovid, der unglücklichste Dichter der Antike, tritt zur Eröffnung eines Stadions vor einen Strauß Mikrophone und sagt: Bürger von Rom... Die letzte Welt hat ihren Ursprung im Feuer. Es ist eigentlich nur ein Zimmerbrand, der die Schreibstube einer römischen Villa verwüstet. Was dieses Feuer unvergeßlich macht, ist der Umstand, dass es von Ovid entfacht wurde: was da brennt, ist sein Hauptwerk, die Metamorphosen, eine grausame Enzyklopädie der antiken Verwandlungsmythen. Die letzte Welt ist ein utopischer Roman, in dem die Antike auf bedrohliche Weise mit einer unbekannten Zukunft zusammenschießt.

The story unfolds during a bon voyage party for Laura and her husband, Desmond, where family tensions rise to the surface in a confined New York City hotel room. Amidst the celebration, Laura grapples with the secret of her mother’s recent death, intensifying the emotional conflict and resentment among family members. This setting serves as a backdrop for exploring themes of grief, familial obligation, and the complexities of relationships under pressure.

In this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life.In Lila Robert M. Pirsig has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.

The novel, published in 1974, uses a long motorcycle trip to frame a prolonged exploration of the world of ideas, about life and how best to live it. It references perspectives from Western and Eastern Civilizations as it explores the central question of the how to pursue technology so that human life is enriched rather than degraded. Narrated in the first person, it incorporates a parallel presentation of trip details and an ongoing retrospective concerning dramatic events from the Narrator's past, creating rich symbolism and including numerous analogies reinforcing the overall theme of coming to terms with the mysteries of why we exist and how best to live.

Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick Süskind's tense, disturbing follow-up to the bestselling Perfume. The novella tells the story of a day in the meticulously ordered life of bank security guard Jonathan Noel, who has been hiding from life since his wife left him for her Tunisian lover. When Jonathan opens his front door on a day he believes will be just like any other, he encounters not the desired empty hallway but an unwelcome, diabolical intruder . . .

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she haas been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange

A Great American Novel -- from the author of 'Borrowed Finery'. Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked outside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a half-starved neighbourhood cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague their lives, revealing the faultlines and fractures in a marriage -- and a society -- wrenching itself apart. Includes an introduction by Jonathan Franzen.

Lyra is opgegroeid zonder haar ware identiteit te kennen. Ze leeft in een wereld die op die van ons lijkt, maar er zijn huiveringwekkende verschillen. Zo raakt ze betrokken bij de ontvoering van kinderen die gebruikt worden voor experimenten in de poolstreek. Achtervolgd, verraden en meer dan eens aan zichzelf overgeleverd, leert Lyra intussen hoe ze met het gouden kompas om moet gaan. Alleen met dit mysterieuze instrument kan ze de waarheid achterhalen...

Een vrouw wordt, samen met de zestien andere vriendinnen van haar minnaar, in de steek gelaten; vervolgens richt zij haar aandacht op anderen om op haar beurt weer nieuwe relaties en ongeluk te veroorzaken.

Wanneer een vrouw stervende is, probeert haar familie zo goed mogelijk om te gaan met heel verschillende emoties.

Voorzien van drie tovervoorwerpen, een steen die angst wegneemt, een fluit die macht over mensen geeft en een stok met geheimzinnige eigenschappen, is Spitsoor op zoek naar zichzelf.