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Paranoia
2023 || Paperback || Daniel Freeman || Veltman Distributie Import Books
What is paranoia? What makes us mistrustful? How can this be overcome?
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Bibliotherapy
The Healing Power of Reading
2023 || Hardcover || Bijal Shah || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In Bibliotherapy, bibliotherapist and counsellor Bijal Shah draws on her personal experience, work with clients and research to explore the healing power of reading.
From the history of how therapeutic reading evolved - and the important role played by great writers such as the Stoics, Montaigne, Eliot and Wordsworth in its popularisation - to first-hand stories from clients who have struggled with grief, relationships and illness, this book explores just how comforting and life-changing read...
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Beyond Order
12 More Rules for Life
2022 || Paperback || Jordan B. Peterson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The companion volume to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life.
In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. Now, in this bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelve more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes.
In a time when the human w...
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Four Thousand Weeks
Time Management for Mortals
2022 || Paperback || Oliver Burkeman || Veltman Distributie Import Books
**A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR**
Battling an overfilled inbox?
Your ever-lengthening to-do lists?
Struggling against distraction?
What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?
If you live to 80, you'll have barely more than four thousand weeks on earth. How will you decide how to spend them?
Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for construc...
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Rationality
What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
2022 || Paperback || Steven Pinker || Veltman Distributie Import Books
“In our uncertain age, which can so often feel so dark and disturbing, Steven Pinker has distinguished himself as a voice of positivity.” – New York Times
Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates’s "new favorite book of all time”) answers all the questions here
Today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding--and also appears to be lo...
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Power of Regret
How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
2022 || Paperback || Daniel H. Pink || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Goodreads Members Most Anticipated Books of 2022
Forbes’s 10 Must-Read Career and Leadership Books for 2022
Inc’s 22 Books to Read in 2022
“I love that Daniel Pink is taking on one of the best (and toughest) teachers in my life—regret. …The world needs this book.” —Brené Brown, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming power of our most misunderstood yet potential...
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The Comfort Book
2022 || Paperback || Matt Haig || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The instant number one bestseller. Reflections on hope, survival and the messy miracle of being alive from the bestselling author of The Midnight Library
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Feel-Good Productivity
How to Achieve More of What Matters to You
2023 || Paperback || Ali Abdaal || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'The master of productivity.' Steven Bartlett, creator of Diary of a CEO
'The book we've all been waiting for.' Dr Julie Smith, author of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
The secret to productivity isn't discipline. It's joy.
We think that productivity is all about hard work. That the road to success is lined with endless frustration and toil. But what if there's another way?
Dr Ali Abdaal - the world's most-followed productivity expert - has uncovered an easier, happier path to success. D...
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Languishing
How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down
2024 || Paperback || Corey Keyes || Veltman Distributie Import Books
“With his pioneering research, Corey Keyes put languishing on the map. In this powerful book, he brings it to life. Get ready to rethink your understanding of mental health, update your views on happiness, and come closer to realizing your potential.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential
If you’re muddling through the day in a fog, often forgetting why you walked into a room . . .
If you feel emotionally flattened, lacking the energy to socialize or fe...
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The Power of Fun
How to Feel Alive Again
2023 || Paperback || Catherine Price || Veltman Distributie Import Books
If you’re not having fun, you’re not fully living. The author of How to Break Up with Your Phone makes the case that, far from being frivolous, fun is actually critical to our well-being—and shows us how to have more of it.
“This delightful book might just be what we need to start flourishing.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Grant
Journalist and screen/life balance expert Catherine Price argues persuasively that our always-on, tech-addicted lifestyles have led us to obs...