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Veltman Distributie Import Books (152)
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Burning Questions
Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2022
2023 || Paperback || Margaret Atwood || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In this brilliant selection of essays—including three new pieces—the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola—and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as...
• Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? Including thoughts on the writing of The Handm...
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Hidden Potential
The Science of Achieving Greater Things
2023 || Paperback || Adam Grant || Veltman Distributie Import Books
"This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would've helped me find a more joyful path to progress."
-Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis champion
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights.
We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school,...
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Love, Pamela
2023 || Paperback || Pamela Anderson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
TO LIVE
AND DREAM
IS A WICKED DANCE.
MY DREAMS OFTEN COME TRUE-
A CURSE,
AND A BLESSING.
PAMELA ANDERSON's blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands during a Canadian football game, she was quickly launched into superstardom, becoming Playboy's favourite cover girl and an emblem of Hollywood glamour and sex appeal. Yet the Pamela Anderson we think we know was created through happenstance rather than careful cultivation. Love, Pamela brings forth her true stor...
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Starborn
How the Stars Made Us - and Who We Would Be Without Them
2023 || Paperback || Roberto Trotta || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped what it means to be human.
For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. One of our species' most enduring and universal relationships has been with the night sky itself, yet in the glow of today's artificial lighting, we have forgotten this intimacy with the cosmos.
Stargazing has shaped the entire course of human civilization. The rhythm of our ancestors' lives revolved around the stars, from cycles of agricultur...
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Our Final Invention
Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
2023 || Paperback || James Barrat || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An urgent study of the history, science and existential dangers of Artificial Intelligence, named by Elon Musk as one of the five books everyone should read about the future.
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Lonely Castle in the Mirror
2023 || Paperback || Mizuki Tsujimura || Veltman Distributie Import Books
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!
A Studio Ghibli-esque work of Japanese translation “that lays bare the anxieties and desperation—and the small triumphs—of adolescence” (Locus), for fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Heaven.
Seven students find unusual common ground in this warm, puzzle-like Japanese bestseller laced with gentle fantasy and compassionate insight.
Bullied to the point of dropping out of school, Kokoro’s days blur together as she hides in her bedroom, unable to face her family or f...
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Uncertain
How to Turn Your Biggest Fear into Your Greatest Power
2023 || Paperback || Arie Kruglanski || Veltman Distributie Import Books
TO ACHIEVE THE EXTRAORDINARY, FIRST EMBRACE THE UNKNOWN . . .
Discover the definitive guide to our fear of uncertainty, and how we can stop it from holding us back
'Groundbreaking' MARTIN SELIGMAN
'One of my very favorite psychologists in the world' ANGELA DUCKWORTH
'This is the book we've been waiting for' CAROL DWECK, bestselling author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
____________
Do you fear uncertainty?
Why is the unknown so paralysing?
And how can we use doubt to our advantage?
...
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The Secret Lives of Numbers
A History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers
2023 || Paperback || Kate Kitagawa e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths
Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell introduce readers to the mathematical boundary-smashers who have been erased by history because of their race, gender or nationality.
From the brilliant Arabic scholars of the ...
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Bloodbath Nation
'One of the most anticipated books of 2023.' TIME magazine
2023 || Hardcover || Paul Auster e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
BLOODBATH NATION is about the Epidemic that is tearing apart the fabric of American society. An Epidemic caused - not by Covid - but by Guns. Among its victims are men, women, teenagers, children, and even babies.
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Behind The Shoulder Pads
Tales I Tell My Friends
2023 || Paperback || Joan Collins || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'I've had many amazing adventures in my life. Some stories, though, I have only ever shared with my friends... Until now!'
Dame Joan Collins has always believed one should retain some mystery in life, and hide a knowing smile behind one's shoulder pads. In her new book, she returns in dazzling form to share her most memorable moments from her eclectic and vibrant life, in and out of the limelight. Taking us on an incredible journey from her early years as a young star in the golden era of Hol...