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I Love You
Romantic Dates and Meaningful Quotes for the One You Love
2024 || Hardcover || Summersdale Publishers || Octopus Publishing Group
This little book of charming date ideas gives you new ways to light a spark in your love life. Filled with inspiration and romance, it is a gorgeous gift for that special someone to show them how much you care. As well as dreamy date ideas, these pages are packed with thoughtful quotes about love to sweep your partner off their feet.
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How to Be a Good Husband
2024 || Hardcover || Bodleian Library || Bodleian Library
The art of being a good husband is not an easy one. This little guide was written in the 1930s for the middle classes - one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings, it contains delightfully arcane and timelessly true advice: Don’t think that your wife has placed waste-paper baskets in the rooms as ornaments.
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Homo Sublima
The Revelations
2023 || Hardcover || Bruno Fabre e.a. || The Bright ID
We are not on Earth merely to survive or just experience life; we are here to elevate and sublime.
Currently, we are undergoing the most significant societal transformation our species has ever faced. We’ve mastered the art of moulding our environment to suit our needs. Through advancements in technology, we’re now enhancing our own bodies to expand our abilities. It seems we can shape the world entirely to our desires, and even death could soon become nonexistent in our lives.
Yet, these...
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Buy Yourself the Damn Flowers
The self-love guide to growing, healing and learning to put yourself first
2024 || Hardcover || Tam Kaur || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
You know, the moment at the airport, the moment in the rain, the moment with a boombox outside my bedroom window.
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Regenesis
Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
2022 || Hardcover || George Monbiot || Veltman Distributie Import Books
*Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize*
A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year
'This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food' Kate Raworth
From the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity
Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughe...
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The Little Book of Mum
Little Words of Strength, Wisdom and Love
2024 || Hardcover || Orange Hippo! || Headline Publishing Group
Brimming with messages of love, practical tips, inspiring quotes, heartfelt reflections and funny anecdotes, The Little Book of Mum is an ode to the highs and lows of motherhood.
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Economic Diversity In Contemporary Timor-Leste
2023 || Hardcover || Kelly Silva e.a. || Leiden University Press
Economic Diversity in Contemporary Timor-Leste analyses various economic dynamics in past and present Timor-Leste. Comprising 14 research chapters, the volume brings to the fore: 1) local, community-based economic values and arrangements; 2) community-based entanglements with a market-driven economy; 3) the colonial and postcolonial governance praxis through which a market-driven economy has permeated the country, and 4) the creative and place-based ways through which local people have respon...
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Climate Security and the Military
Concepts, Strategies and Partnerships
2024 || Hardcover || Georg Frerks e.a. || Leiden University Press
This book, 'Climate Security and the Military: Concepts, Strategies and Partnerships', reviews the climate Security Nexus from the military angle and proposes the design of climate security strategies and how they can contribute to adaptation to and mitigation of the related challenges. Part 1 reviews the understanding of the Climate Security Nexus. Subsequently, Part 2 assesses the potential design of climate security strategies. In Part 3, adaptation to climate change by the military is rev...
The Truth Behind the System
Care and Expenses
2024 || Hardcover || Lancar Ida-Bagus || Bookmundo
Lancar explains in an accessible manner how different systems—political, economic, and cultural—are intertwined and how they exert influence on individuals and groups. He reveals the shadowy aspects of power and influence that often operate behind the scenes and invites the reader to think critically about the information we consume daily and the decisions made by those who pull the strings.
The book is rich in examples, stories, and insights, understandably presenting complex concepts. L...
Love - A History of Hate in SURINAME. Hide, Flee or Suicide
2023 || Hardcover || Ivan Patrick Liesdek || Brave New Books
Six years of research with the purpose of having the untold account of Suriname’s LGBT history at long last comprehensively divulged and documented, has resulted in this publication:
Love – A History of Hate in Suriname - Hide, Flee or Suicide
Execution Extinction Existence Expression - An Insight into a Country’s Gay History.
Until now, due to taboo, legal and social repercussions from a repressive ‘heteronormative’ biased society, this has been a forgotten, concealed disguised o...