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The Racial Code
Tales of Resistance and Survival
2022 || Hardcover || Nicola Rollock || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'A powerful, salient and gracefully written study of the corrosive dynamics of race in Britain from a trusted voice on the subject. We can all benefit from reading it' Diana Evans
In this transformative book, Nicola Rollock, one of our pre-eminent experts on racial justice, offers a vital exploration of the lived experience of racism
Miles, a successful lawyer, is mistaken for the waiter at a networking event. Femi is on the verge of breakdown having been consistently overlooked for promotion...
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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...
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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...
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
Who's Afraid of Gender?
2024 || Hardcover || Judith Butler || Veltman Distributie Import Books
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024 ACCORDING TO THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, AND TIME
Shouldn't we know what we're arguing about?
From one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how gender is understood today
Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to ri...
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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...
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...