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Veltman Distributie Import Books (38)
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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.
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Putin and the Return of History
How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
2024 || Paperback || Martin Sixsmith || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance. An outburst of Western triumphalism proclaimed a US-led unipolar world entitled to 'impose democracy' on countries that failed to recognise the new order. Politicians foretold the universalisation of Western values as the final, enduring form of human society...
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Smoke And Ashes
Opium's Hidden Histories
2024 || Paperback || Amitav Ghosh || Veltman Distributie Import Books
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising at all, however, was the discovery that his own identity and family history was swept up in the story.
Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, memo...
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The Battle for Arnhem 1944-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
2022 || Paperback || Anthony Tucker-Jones || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Photographic history of one of the most famous airborne assaults of the Second World War .
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The Wager
2023 || Paperback || David Grann || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.
On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s ship The Wager, a British vessel that had le...
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Conflict
The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
2023 || Paperback || David Petraeus e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Two leading authorities - a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time - collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945.
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300,000 Kisses
Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World
2023 || Hardcover || Luke Edward Hall e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Steeped in honey, Juventius,
your golden eyes, and as sweet too
when I press my lips to them -
three hundred thousand kisses
is not close to enough
For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few, famous narratives are widely known - yet there's a rich literary tradition of Greek and Roman love that extends far beyond this handful of stories. Here, the poet Seán Hewitt and painter Luke Edward Hall collect together, for the first ti...
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Papyrus
The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
2022 || Paperback || Irene Vallejo || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An enthralling journey through the history of books and libraries in the ancient world and those who have helped preserve their rich literary traditions
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Entanglement
The Secret Lives of Hair
2017 || Paperback || Emma Tarlo || Veltman Distributie Import Books
See the world in a strand of hair...
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The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
2022 || Hardcover || Christopher de Hamel || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history
The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. But we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centu...