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Einstein in Time and Space

A Life in 99 Particles

2023 || Paperback || Samuel Graydon || Veltman Distributie Import Books

DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.

THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN

His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even of the age. But who was Einstein really?

The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered relativity, black holes and E = mc2, dined with Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood and was the inspiration for ...

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The Russo-Ukrainian War

From the bestselling author of Chernobyl

2024 || Paperback || Serhii Plokhy || Veltman Distributie Import Books

BEST BOOKS 2023: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * TLS

Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times

On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who were now on the front lines of Europe's largest conflict since the outbreak of the Second World War, acclaimed Ukrainian-American historian Serhii Plo...

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Entangled Life

How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

2024 || Paperback || Merlin Sheldrake || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into a spectacular and neglected world, and shows that fungi provide a key to understanding both the planet on which we live, and life itself. 'One of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you.

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Happy-Go-Lucky

'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

2023 || Paperback || David Sedaris || Veltman Distributie Import Books

David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso

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The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse

110 Poets on the Divine

2022 || Hardcover || Kaveh Akbar || Veltman Distributie Import Books

oets have always looked to the skies for inspiration, and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in the cosmos. This anthology serves as a truly holistic and global survey to a lyric conversation about the divine that has been going on for millenia.

Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, the twenty-third century BC Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, and taking in a constellation of voices - ...

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The Wild Silence

The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Million-Copy Bestselling Author of The Salt Path

2021 || Paperback || Raynor Winn || Veltman Distributie Import Books

The incredible Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller from the million-copy bestselling author of the phenomenon and­ 80-week Sunday Times bestselling The Salt Path

'Beautiful, a thrill to read . . . you feel the world is a better place because Raynor and Moth are in it' The Times

'Winn's writing transforms her surroundings and her spirits, her joy coming across clearly in her shimmering prose' i

'A beautiful, luminous and magical piece of writing' Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of H...

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Pandora's Box

The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television

2023 || Hardcover || Peter Biskind || Veltman Distributie Import Books

From the bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls comes the inside story of television's heady rise and fall

The revolution has been televized. From The Sopranos to Stranger Things, the shows we watch - and the ways we watch them - have been transformed over the past fifty years. Out of the bland wasteland of 'play-it-safe' broadcasting came astonishing stories of sex, violence, and corruption shown first on cable, and then by way of streaming. Today, the power of viewers to select wha...

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The West

A New History of an Old Idea

2023 || Paperback || Naoise Mac Sweeney || Veltman Distributie Import Books

'Awe-inspiring' Dr Janina Ramirez

'A book to savour' Sir Lawrence Freedman

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A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives.

We tend to imagine Western Civilisation as a golden thread, leading through the centuries from classical antiquity to the countries of the modern West - a cultural genealogy that connects Plato to NATO. It is an idea often invoked in the speeches of politicians and the rh...

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Data Grab

The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back

2024 || Paperback || Ulises A. Mejias e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Your life online is their product.

In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from countries around the world. It promised to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It stole from native populations and made them sign contracts they didn’t understand. It took resources just because they were there.

Colonialism has not disappeared – it has taken on a new form.

In the new world order, data is the new oil. Big Tech c...

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Think Faster, Talk Smarter

How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot

2024 || Paperback || Matt Abrahams || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Think Faster, Talk Smarter is the essential guide to finding and delivering the right words when it matters the most – in the moment. From Stanford University lecturer Matt Abrahams.