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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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Love, Pamela
2023 || Paperback || Pamela Anderson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
TO LIVE
AND DREAM
IS A WICKED DANCE.
MY DREAMS OFTEN COME TRUE-
A CURSE,
AND A BLESSING.
PAMELA ANDERSON's blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands during a Canadian football game, she was quickly launched into superstardom, becoming Playboy's favourite cover girl and an emblem of Hollywood glamour and sex appeal. Yet the Pamela Anderson we think we know was created through happenstance rather than careful cultivation. Love, Pamela brings forth her true stor...
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Starborn
How the Stars Made Us - and Who We Would Be Without Them
2023 || Paperback || Roberto Trotta || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped what it means to be human.
For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. One of our species' most enduring and universal relationships has been with the night sky itself, yet in the glow of today's artificial lighting, we have forgotten this intimacy with the cosmos.
Stargazing has shaped the entire course of human civilization. The rhythm of our ancestors' lives revolved around the stars, from cycles of agricultur...
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Our Final Invention
Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
2023 || Paperback || James Barrat || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An urgent study of the history, science and existential dangers of Artificial Intelligence, named by Elon Musk as one of the five books everyone should read about the future.
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The Way Back
2019 || Paperback || Erich Maria Remarque || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a twentieth-century classic.
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Ravenous
How to get ourselves and our planet into shape
2024 || Paperback || Henry Dimbleby e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A Waterstones Best Book of 2023
'Brilliant - a must read' Tim Spector
'Ravenous is a truly important book ... we need a food revolution to ensure children don't go hungry, eat right, and reach their potential' Tom Kerridge
The food system is no longer simply a means of sustenance. It is one of the most successful, most innovative and most destructive industries on earth. It sustains us, but it is also killing us. Diet-related disease is now the biggest cause of preventable illness and death i...
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Uncertain
How to Turn Your Biggest Fear into Your Greatest Power
2023 || Paperback || Arie Kruglanski || Veltman Distributie Import Books
TO ACHIEVE THE EXTRAORDINARY, FIRST EMBRACE THE UNKNOWN . . .
Discover the definitive guide to our fear of uncertainty, and how we can stop it from holding us back
'Groundbreaking' MARTIN SELIGMAN
'One of my very favorite psychologists in the world' ANGELA DUCKWORTH
'This is the book we've been waiting for' CAROL DWECK, bestselling author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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Do you fear uncertainty?
Why is the unknown so paralysing?
And how can we use doubt to our advantage?
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The Secret Lives of Numbers
A History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers
2023 || Paperback || Kate Kitagawa e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths
Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell introduce readers to the mathematical boundary-smashers who have been erased by history because of their race, gender or nationality.
From the brilliant Arabic scholars of the ...
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The Nightsilver Promise
2021 || Paperback || Annaliese Avery || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An epic, fate-fighting adventure like no other. A stunningly imagined new series. The Nightsilver Promise is a future classic, stunningly imagined. A Game of Thrones for middle-grade that is perfect for fans of Nevermoor, Philip Pullman, and Neil Gaiman.
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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...