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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.
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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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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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White Holes
Inside the Horizon
2023 || Hardcover || Carlo Rovelli || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Let us journey into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we'll see geometry fold, we'll feel the equations draw tight around us. Eventually, we'll pass it: the remains of a star, deep and dense and falling further far. And then - the bottom. Where time...
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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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Lost & Found
A Memoir
2022 || Paperback || Kathryn Schulz || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An extraordinary gift of a book, a tender, searching meditation on love and loss and what it means to be human. I wept at it, laughed with it, was entirely fascinated by it. I emerged feeling a little as if the world around me had been made anew.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk and Vesper Flights
An enduring account of joy and sorrow from one of the great writers of our time, The New Yorker’s Kathryn Schulz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
“Our lives do indeed deserve and rewar...
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Rental Person Who Does Nothing
A Memoir
2023 || Paperback || Shoji Morimoto || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The true life adventures of Shoji Morimoto, who launched a business in which he rents himself out to do nothing in Japan.
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Dutch Light
Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe
2021 || Paperback || Hugh Aldersey-Williams || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age - a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europe's leading, yet unsung, thinkers.
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Decolonising My Body
A radical exploration of rituals and beauty
2023 || Hardcover || Afua Hirsch || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'A ground-breaking book that speaks to all women' Bernardine Evaristo
What can ancestral practices teach us about how to live fuller lives today?
Upon turning forty, Afua Hirsch had an encounter that forever altered her preconceived notions of ancestry and body image, making her question everything from body-modification rituals such as tattoos and piercings to the foundations of sexuality, as well as attitudes towards puberty, ageing and death. This book charts her year-long journey of radic...