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Quantum Supremacy
How Quantum Computers will Unlock the Mysteries of Science – and Address Humanity’s Biggest Challenges
2024 || Paperback || Michio Kaku || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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We Need to Talk About Inflation
14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years
2024 || Paperback || Stephen D. King || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A myth-busting explanation of inflation, the desperate gullibility of central bankers and finance ministers—and our abject failure to learn from history
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Breathing Lessons
A Doctor's Guide to Lung Health
2024 || Hardcover || MeiLan K. Han || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
An authoritative, accessible guide to how our lungs work and how to protect them
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Blink
The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
2024 || Paperback || Malcolm Gladwell || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
An art expert sees a ten-million-dollar sculpture and instantly spots it's a fake. A marriage analyst knows within minutes whether a couple will stay together. A fire-fighter suddenly senses he has to get out of a blazing building. This book is all about those moments when we 'know' something without knowing why.
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In Defence of Food
The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating
2024 || Paperback || Michael Pollan || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A celebration of food. It offers a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of eating well.
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Who Rules the World?
2024 || Paperback || Noam Chomsky || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
'If I were a voter in Britain, I would vote for [Jeremy Corbyn]' - Noam Chomsky, 2017
Who Rules the World is the essential account of geopolitics right now - including an afterword on President Donald Trump
Noam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist. No one has done more to question the hidden actors who govern our lives, calling the powers that be to account. Here he presents Who Rules the World?, his definitive account of those powers, how they work, an...
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Connectography
Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
2024 || Paperback || Parag Khanna || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
From the visionary bestselling author of The Second World and How to Run the World comes a bracing and authoritative guide to a future shaped less by national borders than by global supply chains, a world in which the most connected powers-and people-will win.
Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the twenty-first century. Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking t...
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Other Minds
The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
2024 || Paperback || Peter Godfrey-Smith || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
BBC R4 Book of the Week ‘Brilliant’ Guardian ‘Fascinating and often delightful’ The Times What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter?
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The Trials of Life
A Natural History of Animal Behaviour
2024 || Paperback || David Attenborough || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave.
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Upshift
Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity
2024 || Paperback || Ben Ramalingam || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
‘[A] creative and original book on resilience through crises’ DAVID MILIBAND ‘[A] fascinating book is full of insights … I highly recommend it’ KATE RAWORTH, AUTHOR OF DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS