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Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

J. Maarten Troost

Follow in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson with J. Maarten Troost, the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals. Readers and critics alike adore J. Maarten Troost for his signature wry and witty take on the adventure memoir.
I Was Told There'd Be Sexbots: Travels through the Future

I Was Told There'd Be Sexbots: Travels through the Future

J. Maarten Troost

One day, J. Maarten Troost looked up from the book he was reading, a novel about civilization’s collapse.
The Sex Lives Of Cannibals

The Sex Lives Of Cannibals

J Maarten Troost

Maarten Troost does just that, setting up as a devil-may-care islander while his girlfriend, Sylvia, gets to work on saving the planet, or at least a little part of it on an end-of-the-world atoll, Tarawa.
Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of ...

Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of ...

J. Maarten Troost

Getting Stoned with Savages tells the hilarious story of Troost’s time on Vanuatu—a rugged cluster of islands where the natives gorge themselves on kava and are still known to “eat the man.” Falling into one amusing misadventure ...
La vie sexuelle des cannibales: à la dérive dans le ...

La vie sexuelle des cannibales: à la dérive dans le ...

J. Maarten Troost

Comme quoi, tout le monde peut se tromper. La vie sexuelle des cannibales retrace l'épopée désopilante qui commence dès que Troost découvre que Tarawa n'est pas le paradis tropical dont il rêvait.
Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One ...

Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One ...

J. Maarten Troost

But in addition to his trademark gonzo adventures, the book also delivers a telling look at a vast and complex country on the brink of transformation that will soon shape the way we all work, live, and think.
The Afterlife Imagery in Luke's Story of the Rich Man and ...

The Afterlife Imagery in Luke's Story of the Rich Man and ...

Outi Lehtipuu

Bremer, Jan Maarten. “Death and Immortality in Some Greek Poems.” Pp. 109– 24 in Jan Maarten Bremer, Theo P.J. van den Hout & Rudolph Peters (eds.), Hidden Futures: Death and Immortality in Ancient Egypt, Anatolia, the Classical, ...
Troost-bazuyne, geblaesen ter aenmoediginge van alle ...

Troost-bazuyne, geblaesen ter aenmoediginge van alle ...

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T R O o ST - B A z U Y N van den Hoogh-geleerden Heer S I M O N O O M I U S, Uytgeblaesen voor de gekromde, en in 't swertgaende Dochter Zions. W At treurt mijn Nederlandt om dat drie Leeden, Van haer zijn afgescheurt, en plat ...
Sophocles And the Greek Language: Aspects on Diction, Syntax ...

Sophocles And the Greek Language: Aspects on Diction, Syntax ...

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THE MAN BEHIND THE BOOKS Jan Maarten Bremer It is not my intention to present a retrospective assessment of Kamerbeek's performance as a scholar. That has been done respectfully, though not uncritically, by Stefan Radt in Gnomon 72 ...
Class Studies 27

Class Studies 27

Jan Maarten Bremer

This detailed investigation of manuscripts of Phoinissai demonstrates the openness of the medieval tradition, the value of the recentiores, the extent of scribal conjectures, the nature of the Moschopoulean "recension," and the importance ...
Annals of Scholarship

Annals of Scholarship

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MAARTEN VAN DELDEN THE FASCINATION WHICH certain Latin American writers have felt for the civilization of ancient Greece exemplifies the pull exercised by an idea of universality. It may well be that notions of universality, or centrality, ...
Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus in Context: Ancient ...

Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus in Context: Ancient ...

Robbert Maarten van den Berg

38 I owe this observation to Riccardo Chiaradonna. 39 The way in which the original etymology has been modiÀed (, soul, has been replaced by , intellect) betrays Neoplatonic inÁuences. For a Neoplatonist, real μ is the knowledge of the ...
Constellation Caliban: Figurations of a Character

Constellation Caliban: Figurations of a Character

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Transmutations of Darwin in Jose Enrique Rodo's Ariel Maarten van Delden Two Versions of Darwinism Darwin's theory of the origin of species opens up two very different perspectives on the relationship between human beings and the other ...
Caribbean Interfaces

Caribbean Interfaces

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The Museum and the Opera-House: Modernity and Identity in Alejo Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos Maarten van Delden Rice University The relationship between Latin America and Europe is a constant theme in the Latin American ( and ...
Dispositio

Dispositio

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Maarten Van Delden. Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity. Nashville, Tennessee: vanderbilt University Press, 1998. 262 pp. In this overview of Carlos Fuentes's fiction, literary essays, and political writings from the 1950s to the present, ...
Implementation and Application of Functional Languages: 17th ...

Implementation and Application of Functional Languages: 17th ...

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... Papers Andrew Butterfield, Clemens Grelck, Frank Huch. Proof Tool Support for Explicit Strictness Marko van Eekelen and Maarten de Mol Institute for Computing and Information Sciences Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands ...
Mycoheterotrophy: The Biology of Plants Living on Fungi

Mycoheterotrophy: The Biology of Plants Living on Fungi

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Taxonomy and Classification Vincent S.F.T. Merckx, John V. Freudenstein, Jonathan Kissling, Maarten J.M. Christenhusz, Raymond E. Stotler, Barbara Crandall-Stotler, Norman Wickett, Paula J. Rudall, Hiltje Maas-van de Kamer, and Paul ...
De Kampioen

De Kampioen

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... Ria Peerde- man, Willem Westerveld, ANWB- afdeling Waren- en Dienstenonderzoek, Roswitha Wiedijk FOTOGRAFIE Jurjen Drenth, Siebold Freeke, Emile Luider, Inge Mink, Wouter de Nes, Maarten Stolp, Thijs Tuurenhout , ANWB Archief, ...
Implementation of Functional Languages: 14th International ...

Implementation of Functional Languages: 14th International ...

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Make-a program for maintaining computer programs. Software - Practice and Experience, 9(4):255–65, 1979. 7. Maarten de Mol, Marko van Eekelen, and Rinus Plasmeijer. Sparkle: A functional theorem prover. In Markus Mohnen Thomas Arts ...
Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity

Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity

Maarten Van Delden

Drawing from the fiction, literary essays, and political journalism, van Delden places these tensions in Fuentes's work in relation to the larger debates about modernity and postmodernity in Latin America.
Artificial Intelligence Techniques: A Comprehensive Catalogue

Artificial Intelligence Techniques: A Comprehensive Catalogue

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... John Hallam, Mike Harris, Luis Jenkins, Helen Lowe, Seán Matthews, Santiago Negrete, Nicolas Nicolov, Mary-Angela Papalaskaris, Dave Plummer, Maarten van Someren, Andrew Stevens, Millie Tupman and Toby Walsh, – John Taylor, ...
The Global M&A Tango: How to Reconcile Cultural Differences ...

The Global M&A Tango: How to Reconcile Cultural Differences ...

Fons Trompenaars

In The Global M&A Tango, international management experts Fons Trompenaars and Maarten Nijhoff Asser explain how to detect and manage these issues before they become major problems.
Communications and Multimedia Security: 11th IFIP TC 6/TC 11 ...

Communications and Multimedia Security: 11th IFIP TC 6/TC 11 ...

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Christoph Fritsch Oliver Gmelch Hans Hedbom Marvin Hegen Stephan Heim Maarten Jacobs Tibor Jager Burt Kaliski Pablo Najera Michael Netter Anna Perschl Christian Rathgeb Andreas Reisser Ruben Rios Sven Schäge Koen Simoens ...
The Art of Religion: Sforza Pallavicino and Art Theory in ...

The Art of Religion: Sforza Pallavicino and Art Theory in ...

Professor Maarten Delbeke

IognaPrat, Dominique, LaMaison Dieu. Une histoire monumentale de l'Eglise auMoyen Age (Paris: Seuil, 2006). Jacobs, FredrikaH., The Living Image in Renaissance Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Janson, HorstW., “The ...
Some Recently Found Greek Poems: Text and Commentary

Some Recently Found Greek Poems: Text and Commentary

Simon Roelof Slings

Text and Commentary Simon Roelof Slings Jan Maarten Bremer. The publication of this book was made possible through a grant from the Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research (Z.W.O.). Library of Congress ...
1995 American Control Conference

1995 American Control Conference

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... Steinbuch, Maarten Stelson, Kim A Stengel Robert F. Stenger,H.G Stepanenko, Yury Sternby, Jan Stemby,Jan Stewart, M. Stiharu-Alexe, Carmen Stiharu-Alexe, Ilk Stirling, WynnC Stoddard, KD Stoorvogel, Anton .. Stoorvogel, Anton .

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