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Break Through Banking / Druk 2

A thrilling how-to-manual for successfully challenging the status quo

2022 || Paperback || Siebe Huizinga || Ronde Tafel, SU De

In a derelict, abandoned office in the outskirts of Amsterdam, a small group of visionaries gathers to charge an antiquated but powerful finance industry. Their dream: a fully mobile, truly independent bank focused on people, not money.

Firing off one game-changing innovation after the other, bunq quickly becomes a technological and ideological trailblazer that takes the world by storm.

How did bunq do it?

Defiance, courage, endurance and profound euphoria color the epic journey that gave us...

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How to avoid a climate disaster

2022 || Paperback || bill gates || Veltman Distributie Import Books

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.

Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes ...

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Lost & Found

A Memoir

2022 || Paperback || Kathryn Schulz || Veltman Distributie Import Books

An extraordinary gift of a book, a tender, searching meditation on love and loss and what it means to be human. I wept at it, laughed with it, was entirely fascinated by it. I emerged feeling a little as if the world around me had been made anew.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk and Vesper Flights

An enduring account of joy and sorrow from one of the great writers of our time, The New Yorker’s Kathryn Schulz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

“Our lives do indeed deserve and rewar...

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Remi

In search of the most famous Dutch foundling of WW II

2022 || Paperback || Frank van Kolfschooten || Uitgeverij De Kring

Two brothers, two tragedies, one heartbreaking story ***** On 16 October 1942, a family in German-occupied Bloemendaal in Holland finds a baby on their doorstep. They call him Remi, after Nobody’s Boy. They cannot save the baby. The Nazis take the foundling to the Jewish nursery in Amsterdam, opposite the Hollandsche Schouwburg (The Dutch Theater), from where the deportations to transit camp Westerbork are carried out. Remi stays there for six months and becomes the darling of both the nurs...

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Shame Machine

Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

2022 || Paperback || Cathy O'Neil || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial complex” in the age of social media and hyperpartisan politics—from the New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math Destruction

“O’Neil reminds us that we must resist the urge to judge, belittle, and oversimplify, and instead allow always for complexity and lead always with empathy.”—Dave Eggers, author of The Every

Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool: When we pu...

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Please Miss

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis

2022 || Paperback || Grace Lavery || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A memoir of gender transition and recovery from addiction, a dance across genres, a ripping-up of the rulebook, Please Miss is unlike anything you’ve ever read before.

Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and a 100 per cent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. How could her story be straightforward when she is anything but? The telling of her tale is kaleidoscopic, wild and audacious: Grace performs in a David Lynch remake of Sunset Boulevard...

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Confidence Man

The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

2022 || Paperback || Maggie Haberman || De Arbeiderspers

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump’s presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that chronicles his life and its impact, from his rise in New York City to his tortured postpresidency.

All of Trump’s behavior as president had echoes in what came before. In this revelatory and news-making book, Haberman brings together the events of his life into a single mesmerizing work. It is the definitive account of ...