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Einstein in Time and Space
A Life in 99 Particles
2023 || Paperback || Samuel Graydon || Veltman Distributie Import Books
DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.
THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN
His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even of the age. But who was Einstein really?
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered relativity, black holes and E = mc2, dined with Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood and was the inspiration for ...
Entangled Life
How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
2024 || Paperback || Merlin Sheldrake || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into a spectacular and neglected world, and shows that fungi provide a key to understanding both the planet on which we live, and life itself. 'One of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you.
Data Grab
The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back
2024 || Paperback || Ulises A. Mejias e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Your life online is their product.
In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from countries around the world. It promised to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It stole from native populations and made them sign contracts they didn’t understand. It took resources just because they were there.
Colonialism has not disappeared – it has taken on a new form.
In the new world order, data is the new oil. Big Tech c...
Dust
The Modern World in a Trillion Particles
2023 || Paperback || Jay Owens || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Dust is a book with an extraordinary global story to tell, but - and - also with an ethical argument to advance. Robert Macfarlane
'Superb . . . Dust, an intriguing study by geographer Jay Owens, shows why particles of all kinds are both nature's salvation and its poison.' Telegraph
'Like a detective dusting for fingerprints, Jay Owens masterfully reveals the hidden traces of modernity by following some of its smallest fragments.' James Vincent, author of Beyond Measure
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Dust may s...
This Way to the Universe
A Journey into Physics
2023 || Paperback || Michael Dine || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Extraordinary' Leonard Susskind
'A rare event' Sean Carroll
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When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible and authoritative book that would teach you about the Big Bang, Dark Matter, the Higgs boson and the cutting edge of physics now, he had nothing he could recommend.
So he wrote it himself.
In This Way to the Universe, Dine takes us on a fascinating tour through the history of modern physics - from Newtonian mechanics to quant...
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
2024 || Paperback || Justin Gregg || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A MYTH-BUSTING EXPOSE OF HOW HUMAN INTELLIGENCE MAY BE MORE A LIABILITY THAN A GIFT AND A REFRESHING NEW WAY TO UNDERSTAND THE ANIMAL KINGDOM AND OUR PLACE ON EARTH.
Otherlands
A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller
2023 || Paperback || Thomas Halliday || Veltman Distributie Import Books
FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read' Tom Holland
'Epically cinematic... A book of almost unimaginable riches' Sunday Times
This is the past as we've never seen it before.
Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the wo...
This Is Your Mind On Plants
Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline
2022 || Paperback || Michael Pollan || Veltman Distributie Import Books
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND
'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman
'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious, careful, open minded' The Guardian
Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very...
How the World Really Works
A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
2022 || Paperback || Vaclav Smil || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life, this is the book to read. It's a tour de force' BILL GATES
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We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, ...
Fevered Planet
How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature
2023 || Paperback || John Vidal || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Covid-19, monkeypox, bird flu, SARS, HIV, AIDS, Ebola; we are living in the Age of Pandemics - one that we have created. As the climate crisis reaches a fever pitch and ecological destruction continues unabated, we are just beginning to reckon with the effects of environmental collapse on our global health.
Fevered Planet exposes how the way we farm, what we eat, the places we travel to and the scientific experiments we conduct create the perfect conditions for deadly new diseases to emerge a...