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The Fund
Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates and The Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
2023 || Paperback || Rob Copeland || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The inside story of the worlds most successful hedge fund
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What About Men?
2023 || Paperback || Caitlin Moran || Veltman Distributie Import Books
As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what about MEN?' After eleven years of writing bestsellers about women and dismissing this question, having been very sure that the concerns of feminism and men are very different things, Caitlin Moran realised that this wasn't quite right, and that the problems of feminism are also the problems of, yes, men.
So, what about men? Why do they only go to the doctor if thei...
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The Big Con
How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
2024 || Paperback || Mariana Mazzucato e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.
Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political accountability and impedes our collective mission of halting climate breakdown.
The 'Big Con' describes the confidence trick the c...
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Urban Jungle
2023 || Paperback || Ben Wilson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Our modern-day cities might seem to represent our separation from the natural world. In fact, as Ben Wilson reveals in this captivating re-examination of urban landscapes around the world, nature has always been at the heart of the city.
Wilson explores the wild side of cities, past, present and future: the middens, abandoned sites and strips of land alongside railway lines. For much of history, wild patches in cities provided essential food, fuel, medicine and places of recreation and escape...
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The Savage Storm
The Battle for Italy 1943
2023 || Paperback || James Holland || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Impeccably researched and superbly written' Observer
'Holland has something new to say.... Filled with insight and detail' Neil Oliver
'James Holland is the best of the new generation of WW2 historians' Sebastian Faulks
With the invasion of France the following year taking shape, and hot on the heels of victory in Sicily, the Allies crossed into Southern Italy in September 1943. They expected to drive the Axis forces north and be in Rome by Christmas. And although Italy surrendered, the Germ...
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This Way to the Universe
A Journey into Physics
2023 || Paperback || Michael Dine || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Extraordinary' Leonard Susskind
'A rare event' Sean Carroll
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When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible and authoritative book that would teach you about the Big Bang, Dark Matter, the Higgs boson and the cutting edge of physics now, he had nothing he could recommend.
So he wrote it himself.
In This Way to the Universe, Dine takes us on a fascinating tour through the history of modern physics - from Newtonian mechanics to quant...
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Doppelganger
A Trip Into the Mirror World
2023 || Paperback || Naomi Klein || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A gripping ride into the uncanny mirror world of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine
What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all?
When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn't. She started to find he...
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The Powerful and the Damned
Private Diaries in Turbulent Times
2021 || Paperback || Lionel Barber || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Extraordinary' TONY BLAIR
'Riveting' - PHILIPPE SANDS
'Brutal, brilliant and scurrilously funny' - MISHA GLENNY
The real scoop isn't on the front page
'As FT editor, I was a privileged interlocutor to people in power around the world, each offering unique insights into high-level decision-making and political calculation, often in moments of crisis. These diaries offer snapshots of leadership in an age of upheaval...'
Lionel Barber was Editor of the Financial Times for the tech boom, the glo...
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Languishing
How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down
2024 || Paperback || Corey Keyes || Veltman Distributie Import Books
“With his pioneering research, Corey Keyes put languishing on the map. In this powerful book, he brings it to life. Get ready to rethink your understanding of mental health, update your views on happiness, and come closer to realizing your potential.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential
If you’re muddling through the day in a fog, often forgetting why you walked into a room . . .
If you feel emotionally flattened, lacking the energy to socialize or fe...
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Witchcraft
A History in Thirteen Trials
2023 || Paperback || Marion Gibson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A lively and immersive global history of witchcraft which shows its evolution from the Middle Ages to the present day and shines a light on the stories of the victims, told in thirteen trials.