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To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before

A Joyous Journey Through All of Science

2023 || Hardcover || Luke O'Neill || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Science is a serious business, right? Wrong.

Scientists have been participants in the best reality show of all time, with all the highs, lows, bust-ups, and strange personalities of any show on telly today. From Luke O'Neill - the science teacher you wish you'd had - this hugely accessible history of science reveals the human stories behind the biggest discoveries.

For example, we meet Charles Darwin as he weighs up the pros and cons of marrying his cousin: 'constant companion' vs 'less money...

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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...

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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.

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Super-Infinite

The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022

2023 || Paperback || Katherine Rundell || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022. A standout scholar, a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.

'Masterly.' Observer

'Wonderful, joyous.' Maggie O'Farrell

'Frankly brilliant.' Sunday Times

'Unmissable.' Simon Jenkins

'Every page sparkles.' Claire Tomalin

'A triumph.' Matt Haig

'Stylish, scholarly and gripping.' Rose Tremain

John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity p...

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When McKinsey Comes to Town

The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

2023 || Paperback || Walt Bogdanich e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST's 50 NOTABLE WORKS OF NONFICTION

An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world

McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company in the world, earning billions of dollars in fees from major corp...

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North Woods

2023 || Paperback || Daniel Mason || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A sweeping novel about the transformation of a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabited it across the centuries-a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner

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Christmas By Candlelight

2023 || Paperback || Karen Swan || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Christmas by Candlelight, is the unmissable cosy and escapist festive story from the Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Swan.

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The Feminist Killjoy Handbook

2023 || Hardcover || Sara Ahmed || Veltman Distributie Import Books

'Not only a dazzling analysis of the workings of sexism, but a balm for the soul. It will teach you how to survive and how to transform the world' Hannah Dawson

We have to keep saying it because they keep doing it.

Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism? Do you refuse to laugh at jokes that aren't funny? Have you been called divisive for pointing out a division? Then you are a feminist killjoy, and this handbook is for you.

The term killjoy has bee...

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Knowing What We Know

The History of Knowledge and the Threat to Wisdom

2023 || Paperback || Simon Winchester || Veltman Distributie Import Books

From internationally bestselling author Simon Winchester, a vibrant history of the collection and dissemination of knowledge.

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A Brief History of Intelligence

Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI

2023 || Paperback || Max Bennett || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A Brief History of Brains bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be.