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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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P.S. Burn This Letter Please
The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own words
2023 || Paperback || Craig Olsen || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Their greatest act of resistance was simply existing
Drags, fags and trans-women were attracted to the Big Apple because they were able to find work as impersonators in a small number of Lower East Side clubs.
Decades before Stonewall, they occupied the margins of society, determined to live as they pleased, despite of the attentions of the police. Sometimes reduced to stealing to get their costumes, these girls were unstoppable, fearless and fabulous.
When a cac...
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Breakdown
The humane Irish Bestseller about the dark side of modern motherhood
2029 || Paperback || Cathy Sweeney || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From one of Ireland's most provocative and admired writers comes a story of rage and reckoning, joy and transformation, and one woman's decision to leave everything behind.
'Thrillingly relatable' HARPER'S BAZAAR
'A striking debut from a highly original writer' IRISH TIMES
'A vivid portrait of a woman adrift' OBSERVER
One winter morning on an ordinary day in contemporary Dublin, an ordinary middle-class woman wakes up in her ordinary suburban home. Her husband is next to her in bed, her teena...
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Saving Time
2023 || Paperback || Jenny Odell || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A radical argument that we are living on the wrong clock, one that tells us time is money, and that embracing a new concept of time can open us up to bold, hopeful possibilities from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing.
Our daily experience, dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside, is destroying us. It wasn't built for people, it was built for profit. This is a book that tears open the seams of reality as we know it-the way we...
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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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King
The Life of Martin Luther King
2023 || Paperback || Jonathan Eig || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A major new biography of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life