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An Immense World
How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER)
2023 || Paperback || Ed Yong || Veltman Distributie Import Books
**Winner of the 2023 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize**
Discover the world as you've never seen it before - through the eyes of animals.
'Immersive and mind-blowing' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving only a tiny sliver of this world.
In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond...
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Agatha Christie
Radio 4 Book of the Week
2023 || Paperback || Lucy Worsley || Veltman Distributie Import Books
** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **
'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'
- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR
'A riveting portrait'
- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR
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'Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times
'A model of how to combine biographical information, analysis and literary criticism into a propulsive narrative' - Daily Telegraph
'Worsley's book excels in bringing a broader historical...
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Smoke And Ashes
Opium's Hidden Histories
2024 || Paperback || Amitav Ghosh || Veltman Distributie Import Books
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising at all, however, was the discovery that his own identity and family history was swept up in the story.
Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, memo...
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How to Be You
Stop trying to be someone else and start living your life
2022 || Paperback || Jeffrey Marsh || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A warm-hearted guide to accepting and celebrating yourself as you are - from Jeffrey Marsh, the kindest person on the internet.
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Influence is Your Superpower
How to Get What You Want Without Compromising Who You Are
2023 || Paperback || Zoe Chance || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Get what you want without compromising who you are: the new rules of persuasion to influence others for good
We're all nice. In fact, we're told we're too nice and we have to change to succeed: 'Play the game!'; 'Beat them down!'; 'Toughen up!'. Do we have to choose between betraying our own values and being left behind without a voice? Absolutely not. We can naturally be persuasive and successful every day without making enemies of ourselves or other people.
Influence is a science and renown...
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Surrounded by Bad Bosses and Lazy Employees
or, How to Deal with Idiots at Work
2021 || Paperback || Thomas Erikson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Surrounded by idiots at work? Fed up with a bad boss or lazy colleagues? Thomas Erikson, author of the runaway international bestseller Surrounded by Idiots, will help you handle them and get things done, the right way
Why is good leadership so rare? Everyone has to manage up to some extent but frankly some bosses are worse than others. If you're being driven crazy by a micro-manager, frequently drown under your boss's unreasonable expectations or struggle with being handed out responsibiliti...
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Surrounded by Vampires
Or, How to Slay the Time, Energy and Soul Suckers in Your Life
2023 || Paperback || Thomas Erikson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the Sunday Times and international bestselling author of Surrounded by Idiots
-- Do conversations with certain people leave you feeling depleted or exhausted?
-- Do you have colleagues who take a lot of your time but don't actually do - or contribute - much?
-- Are there people in your life who diminish you through their words, actions or inactions?
You could be surrounded by Vampires! International bestselling author Thomas Erikson will help you recognize and deal with the three most co...
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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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Edible Economics
A Hungry Economist Explains the World
2023 || Paperback || Ha-Joon Chang || Veltman Distributie Import Books
For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a more interesting and balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of economic perspectives.
In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alon...
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The Fight Is Here
Volodymyr Zelensky and the War in Ukraine
2023 || Paperback || Simon Shuster || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the unmissable account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside the presidential compound in Kyiv, based on Shuster's unparalleled access to President Zelensky and his top aides.