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Brankele Frank

What does one experience during burnout? Frank starts thinking about her experiences from a scientific point of view. She is, after all, a neurobiologist, interested in the human brain and its limitations. The decision to write a book about her experiences turns out to be much more difficult than she thought. It is some time before she dares to admit to herself that writing the book has triggered a second collapse.At this point, the story becomes heart-wrenching to read. Frank is still looking for scientific answers, but her search turns into something personal. The result is a lucid study of her brain, as well as an analysis of a widespread phenomenon. Frank writes with gusto and humour, though the tone is serious when she realises she may never completely recover. Not only a book about stress and the immune system, Headstrong is an indictment of our performance-driven society.<ul><li>A neurobiologist crashes and burns, not once but twice</li><li>Deeply personal and thoroughly scientific memoir about the price of success</li><li>Physical and mental collapse due to overwork is becoming increasingly common</li></ul>Year of publication 2023Page count 340Publisher Das MagRights Sebes &amp; Bisseling Rik Kleuver <a href="mailto:kleuver@sebes.nl">kleuver@sebes.nl</a>Paul Sebes <a href="mailto:sebes@kleuver.nl">sebes@kleuver.nl</a>Sample translation available

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A thorough analysis of international scientific literature, written like a gripping whodunnit, in a drily humorous style.

Neurobiologist Brankele Frank finds out what burnout really means for body and mind.

Rens Bod

A most enthralling of encyclopaedias. Over 300 pages, Rens Bod discusses what could be the complete range of similarities and differences between people and other living beings.

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A profound journey of discovery to find the essence of humans and other animals and life forms.

Lotte de Boer

Het unieke dier. Op zoek naar het specifiek menselijke

Which underlying patters explain both the shared and unique characteristics of people and other life forms? That is the question at the heart of The Unique Animal. A question that, despite centuries of philosophical and scientific debate, has never before been researched with quite such rigour.

The Unique Animal

Annejet van der Zijl

Annejet van der Zijl is the uncrowned queen of literary non-fiction.

A high-powered and striking dual biography.

Van der Zijl has been a master storyteller for over 25 years [...] a magnificent composition.

A great and balanced book.

Van der Zijl delivers a gripping account of the period, its people and the roles they were expected to play.

Written with dramatic verve and cinematographic flair.

A captivating dual biography about the incredible lives of a European doctor and his Japanese daughter in the nineteenth century.

Elco Lenstra

De zwevende wereld. De verbonden levens van Franz von Siebold en Kusumoto Oine

Kusumoto Ine, the first female doctor in Japan to practise Western medicine, is a household name in her country. Her father, Franz von Siebold – a domineering German serving in the Dutch colony in Japan and one of the few Westerners to experience the land of the rising sun – enjoys the same status in the West.

The Floating World: A Dual Biography of Franz von Siebold and Kusumoto Oine

Ellen Neslo

In recounting this one single life, Neslo validates many more stories.

The book’s layered and ethically complex account stems from the author’s duality as a historian and descendant of slavery. Paulina is not presented as a hero, but as a woman who shifts between the possibilities and limitations of her time.

A forthright and fascinating contribution to public discourse on slavery, identity and post-colonial heritage.

De schat van de Vrijheid

The Treasure of Freedom is a true story. As historian Ellen Neslo scrutinises her own family history, she presents an in-depth and evocative description of Suriname’s colonial past under Dutch rule. * This book is a compassionate attempt at reconstructing the life of one of her ancestors, Paulina.

The Treasure of Freedom

Michel Krielaars

Press reviews of his previous book The Sound of Utopia

Through Stalin’s cold winter, the masterly Krielaars manages to find the faint echoes of something song-like, emerging from the silence, calling out for glasnost.

Krielaars gives a colourful account of modern Russia and possesses a profound knowledge of the country’s culture.

Ten cradle-to-grave pen-portraits of Stalin’s musicians, told with bantering brio… Krielaars has done an admirable job rescuing his lesser-known subjects from obscurity.

Krielaars reveals the bloody chapters of Russia’s history and how their effects extend into the present

Stella Rieck

Rivier van bloed: een cultuurgeschiedenis van de Wolga

Of late Michel Krielaar, an authority on Russia, felt the country he thought he knew was gradually slipping away from him. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he felt compelled to return to the past to find answers. Twelve years ago, Krielaars travelled to the source of the Volga, following the 3,500-kilometre course of the river to the Caspian Sea. He recently made the journey again.

River of Blood: A Cultural History of the Volga

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What happens in your body and brain during ‘burnout’ and how to recover

Over de kop

Brankele Frank thought she could do it all. Combining a career as a neurobiologist with a job as a strategic consultant for McKinsey? Writing for newspapers and magazines? No problem, there was still enough time for a triathlon. But when her life comes to a screeching halt her first concern is recovery. After a while, Frank begins to search for answers.

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