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Pandora's Box
The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television
2023 || Hardcover || Peter Biskind || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls comes the inside story of television's heady rise and fall
The revolution has been televized. From The Sopranos to Stranger Things, the shows we watch - and the ways we watch them - have been transformed over the past fifty years. Out of the bland wasteland of 'play-it-safe' broadcasting came astonishing stories of sex, violence, and corruption shown first on cable, and then by way of streaming. Today, the power of viewers to select wha...
Age of the City
Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together
2023 || Paperback || Goldin Ian Goldin e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.
From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or Shanghai, cities throughout history have been the engines of human progress and the epicentres of our greatest achievements. Now, for the first time, more than half of humanity lives in cities, a share that continues to ris...
Doppelganger
A Trip Into the Mirror World
2023 || Paperback || Naomi Klein || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A gripping ride into the uncanny mirror world of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine
What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all?
When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn't. She started to find he...
Nomad Century
How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
2023 || Paperback || Gaia Vince || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award
'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' Observer
An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we live
We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of year...
Decolonising My Body
A radical exploration of rituals and beauty
2023 || Hardcover || Afua Hirsch || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'A ground-breaking book that speaks to all women' Bernardine Evaristo
What can ancestral practices teach us about how to live fuller lives today?
Upon turning forty, Afua Hirsch had an encounter that forever altered her preconceived notions of ancestry and body image, making her question everything from body-modification rituals such as tattoos and piercings to the foundations of sexuality, as well as attitudes towards puberty, ageing and death. This book charts her year-long journey of radic...
What If?2
Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
2023 || Paperback || Randall Munroe || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, and the Sunday Times bestseller What If?, even more hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Your Brain on Art
How the Arts Transform Us
2023 || Hardcover || Susan Magsamen e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts - and how this knowledge can improve our health, enable us to flourish and build stronger communities
Infectious Generosity
The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
2023 || Paperback || Chris Anderson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of humankind’s defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future
“I flew through these pages with an increasing sense of joy. I hope that millions read this book.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
Let’s face it: Recent years have been tough on optimists. Hopes that the Internet might bring people together have been crushed by the...
Is It Ever Just Sex?
2023 || Hardcover || Darian Leader || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader
'It was just sex.'
It's a familiar claim. But is it really possible?
The old idea that sexuality is a smouldering, animalistic force within us, desperate for release yet restrained by social forces, has little to support it. Bodies aren't just sticks that make fire when you rub them together, and the pain, heartache, and regret that can accompany the highs of sexual excitement show us tha...
The Patriarchs
How Men Came to Rule
2023 || Paperback || Angela Saini || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of what we call patriarchy, uncovering a complex history of how it first became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present.