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Nice Racism
How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
2022 || Paperback || Robin DiAngelo || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Racism is not a simple matter of good people versus bad. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized. She also made a provocative claim: that white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of colour. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over twenty-five years working as an antiracist educator, she moves the conversation forward.
Writing directly...
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Look Again
The Power of Noticing What was Always There
2024 || Paperback || Tali Sharot e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days and reset our brains to allow us to live happier and more fulfilling lives.
Have you ever noticed that what is thrilling on Monday tends to become boring on Friday? Even exciting relationships, stimulating jobs, and breathtaking works of art lose their sparkle after a while. People stop noticing what is most wonderful in th...
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Age of the City
Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together
2023 || Paperback || Goldin Ian Goldin e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.
From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or Shanghai, cities throughout history have been the engines of human progress and the epicentres of our greatest achievements. Now, for the first time, more than half of humanity lives in cities, a share that continues to ris...
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Doppelganger
A Trip Into the Mirror World
2023 || Paperback || Naomi Klein || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A gripping ride into the uncanny mirror world of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine
What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all?
When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn't. She started to find he...
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Saving Time
Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER)
2024 || Paperback || Jenny Odell || Veltman Distributie Import Books
**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
'The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing' Esquire
We're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us.
Our life is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside. It wasn't devised for people, but for profit. We need to embrace a whole new concept of time: one that gives us and our planet a brighter fu...
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Nomad Century
How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
2023 || Paperback || Gaia Vince || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award
'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' Observer
An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we live
We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of year...
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What If?2
Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
2023 || Paperback || Randall Munroe || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, and the Sunday Times bestseller What If?, even more hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
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Infectious Generosity
The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
2023 || Paperback || Chris Anderson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of humankind’s defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future
“I flew through these pages with an increasing sense of joy. I hope that millions read this book.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
Let’s face it: Recent years have been tough on optimists. Hopes that the Internet might bring people together have been crushed by the...
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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.