Literaire non-fictie algemeen (41)
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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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A Memoir of My Former Self
A Life in Writing
2023 || Paperback || Hilary Mantel || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.'
'Mantel's idiosyncratic and magisterial voice comes through on every page, carrying readers across an astonishing array of subject matter with ease. This is a treasure' Publishers Weekly
As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it...
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This is Europe
The Way We Live Now
2023 || Paperback || Ben Judah || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A portrait of Europe as youve never before seen it, told through twenty extraordinary stories of the people who live and breathe it.
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Fevered Planet
How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature
2023 || Paperback || John Vidal || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Covid-19, monkeypox, bird flu, SARS, HIV, AIDS, Ebola; we are living in the Age of Pandemics - one that we have created. As the climate crisis reaches a fever pitch and ecological destruction continues unabated, we are just beginning to reckon with the effects of environmental collapse on our global health.
Fevered Planet exposes how the way we farm, what we eat, the places we travel to and the scientific experiments we conduct create the perfect conditions for deadly new diseases to emerge a...
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Untitled
How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World – THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
2023 || Paperback || Tim Marshall || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century - new from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography
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The Wim Hof Method
Activate Your Potential, Transcend Your Limits
2022 || Paperback || Wim Hof || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'I've never felt so alive' JOE WICKS
'The book will change your life' BEN FOGLE
My hope is to inspire you to retake control of your body and life by unleashing the immense power of the mind.
'The Iceman' Wim Hof shares his remarkable life story and powerful method for supercharging your strength, health and happiness. Refined over forty years and championed by scientists across the globe, you'll learn how to harness three key elements of Cold, Breathing and Mindset to master mind over matter ...
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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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Noise
A Flaw in Human Jugdment
2022 || Paperback || Daniel Kahneman e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The Sunday Times bestseller'A monumental, gripping book ... Outstanding' Sunday TimesWherever there is human judgement, there is noise.
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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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Be My Baby
2022 || Paperback || Ronnie Spector || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In this incredibly entertaining autobiography, Ronnie Spector takes the reader on a journey through the dazzling highs and devastating lows that have shaped her life.