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The Holy Grail of Investing
The World's Greatest Investors Reveal Their Ultimate Strategies for Financial Freedom
2024 || Paperback || Tony Robbins e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Master your relationship with money and unleash the power of alternative investments with this practical guide to smart money strategies from Tony Robbins, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Money: Master the Game, and renowned investor Christopher Zook.
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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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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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Broken Code
Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets
2023 || Paperback || Jeff Horwitz || Veltman Distributie Import Books
By an award-winning technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal, a behind-the-scenes look at the manipulative tactics Facebook used to grow its business, how it distorted the way we connect online, and the company insiders who found the courage to speak out
"A page-turning narrative of immense importance.” —James B. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author
Once the unrivaled titan of social media, Facebook held a singular place in ...
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Virtual Society
The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
2022 || Hardcover || Herman Narula || Veltman Distributie Import Books
“A fascinating, provocative case that the metaverse will not merely transform our virtual experience—it may actually enrich the quality of our lives” (Adam Grant)—from the visionary co-founder of one of today’s most innovative technology companies
“Mind-expanding . . . This important book offers a highly persuasive argument that a new kind of virtual world, the metaverse, marks a profound new stage in this long human quest for fulfillment through creation.”—Chris Anderson, Hea...
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The Decisive Mind
How to Make the Right Choice Every Time
2023 || Paperback || Sheheryar Banuri || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A new model for understanding and optimising your decision making skills by a leading behavioural economist*
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Have you ever set yourself a goal but struggled to achieve it?
In a world overflowing with choices and distractions, indecision can be paralysing. It can lead to missed opportunities, stress, even damaged relationships. In The Decisive Mind, decision making expert Professor Sheheryar Banuri provides a new framework to choose the life you want, one decision at a time.
Using r...
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On the Origin of Time
Stephen Hawking's final theory
2023 || Paperback || Thomas Hertog || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog.
Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life.
Pondering this mystery led Hawking to study the big bang origin of the universe, but his early work ran into a crisis when the maths predicted many big bangs producing a multiverse - countless different univ...
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Edible Economics
A Hungry Economist Explains the World
2022 || Paperback || Ha-Joon Chang || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Economic thinking - about climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form
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 Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of economic...
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Number Go Up
Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
2023 || Paperback || Zeke Faux || Veltman Distributie Import Books
he “endlessly entertaining” (Matt Levine) and “ludicrously compelling” (Evan Osnos) account of the crypto delusion, and how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless virtual coins into trillions of dollars
“One of the greatest business stories of all time.”—A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Puzzler
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the ...
Food for Life
Your Guide to the New Science of Eating Well
2024 || Paperback || Tim Spector || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Life-changing' DAVINA McCALL
'A must-read' DR RUPY AUJLA
'Fascinating' NIGELLA LAWSON
'Empowering' LIZ EARLE
**AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST**
Empowering and practical, Food for Life is nothing less than a new approach to how to eat - for our health and the health of the planet.
Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat in the age of ultra-processed food has never seemed so complicated.
Drawing on cutting-edge research and personal insights, Professo...