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An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film
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Twenty year-old Melodie, a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an Islamist brigade on Facebook. In 48 hours he has fallen in love with her, calls her day and night, urges her to marry him, join him in Syria to enjoy a life of paradise - and join his jihad. Discover how ISIS entraps people such as the teenage girls from Bethnal Green. Anna Erelle is the undercover journalist behind Melodie. Created to investigate the powerful propaganda weapons of Islamic State, Melodie is soon sucked in by Bilel, right-hand man of the infamous Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. An Iraqi for whose capture the US government has promised $10 million, al-Baghdadi is described by Time magazine as the most dangerous man in the world and by himself as the caliph of Islamic State. Bilel shows off his jeep, his guns, his expensive watch. He boasts about the people he has just killed. With Bilel impatient for his future wife, Melodie embarks on her highly dangerous mission, which - at its ultimate stage - will go very wrong.... Enticed into this lethal online world like hundreds of other young people, including many young British girls and boys, Erelles harrowing and gripping investigation helps us to understand the true face of terrorism. **
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Bibi is gek op haar vader en op haar vriendje Simmie. Huppelend naast haar vader zingt ze Papperdepapperdepapa. Soms is ze boos op hem. Gelukkig gebeurt dat niet zo vaak. Met Simmie beleeft ze spannende en grappige avonturen. Ze kunnen ook goed nadenken. Af en toe hoor je hun hersens kraken. Als er geen vogels waren, zou ik ze wel missen, zegt Bibi. Ze zit met Simmie aan de oever van het kanaal. In een boom zingt een merel en in het kanaal zwemmen drie eenden. Nee, hoor, zegt Simmie. Die zou je niet missen. Wel waar, zegt Bibi. Als iets niet bestaat, mis je het ook niet, zegt Simmie. Hoe weet jij dat nou? Simmie kijkt haar strak aan. Mis jij het struispaard? vraagt hij. Het wat? Het struispaard. vanaf 4 jaar nur 281 www.antonvanderkolk.nl www.mark-janssen.nl www.van-goor.nl www.unieboekspectrum.nl Van Goor maakt deel uit van Uitgeverij Unieboek | Het Spectrum bv, Houten Antwerpen
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From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available today, Americans have used a staggering array of tools to remove hair deemed unsightly, unnatural, or excessive. This is true especially for women and girls conservative estimates indicate that 99% of American women have tried hair removal, and at least 85% regularly remove hair from their faces, armpits, legs, and bikini lines. How and when does hair become a problemwhat makes some growth excessive? Who or what separates the necessary from the superfluous? In Plucked, historian Rebecca Herzig addresses these questions about hair removal. She shows how, over time, dominant American beliefs about visible hair changed where once elective hair removal was considered a mutilation practiced primarily by savage men, by the turn of the twentieth century, hair-free faces and limbs were expected for women. Visible hair growthparticularly on young, white womencame to be perceived as a sign of political extremism, sexual deviance, or mental illness. By the turn of the twenty-first century, more and more Americans were waxing, threading, shaving, or lasering themselves smooth. Herzigs extraordinary account also reveals some of the collateral damages of the intensifying pursuit of hair-free skin. Moving beyond the experiences of particular patients or clients, Herzig describes the surprising histories of race, science, industry, and medicine behind todays hair-removing tools. Plucked is an unsettling, gripping, and original tale of the lengths to which Americans will go to remove hair.
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