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Veltman Distributie Import Books (267)
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Supercommunicators
How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
2024 || Paperback || Charles Duhigg || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the people who can steer a conversation to a successful conclusion. They are able to talk about difficult topics without giving offence. They know how to make others feel at ease and share what they think. They're brilliant facilitators and decision-guiders. How do they do it?
In this groundbreaking new book, Charles Duhigg unravels the secrets of the supercommunicators to reveal the art - and the science - of successful communication. He unpicks t...
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The Holocaust
An Unfinished History
2024 || Paperback || Dan Stone || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide . . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . fizzes with ideas. Even if you think you know the subject, you'll probably find something here to make you think' Sunday Times
'Erudite...remarkable' The Observer
'Outstanding' The Telegraph
An authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust, from one of the leading scholars of his generation
The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But there are majo...
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To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before
A Joyous Journey Through All of Science
2023 || Hardcover || Luke O'Neill || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Science is a serious business, right? Wrong.
Scientists have been participants in the best reality show of all time, with all the highs, lows, bust-ups, and strange personalities of any show on telly today. From Luke O'Neill - the science teacher you wish you'd had - this hugely accessible history of science reveals the human stories behind the biggest discoveries.
For example, we meet Charles Darwin as he weighs up the pros and cons of marrying his cousin: 'constant companion' vs 'less money...
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Antwerp
The Glory Years
2022 || Paperback || Michael Pye || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Even before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp.
Antwerp was sensational like nineteenth-century Paris or twentieth-century New York, somewhere anything could happen or at least be believed: killer bankers, easy kisses, a market in secrets and every kind of heresy. For half the sixteenth century, it was the place for breaking rules - religious, sexual, intellectual.
In Antwerp, things changed. One man cornered all the money in the c...
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Is It Ever Just Sex?
2023 || Hardcover || Darian Leader || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader
'It was just sex.'
It's a familiar claim. But is it really possible?
The old idea that sexuality is a smouldering, animalistic force within us, desperate for release yet restrained by social forces, has little to support it. Bodies aren't just sticks that make fire when you rub them together, and the pain, heartache, and regret that can accompany the highs of sexual excitement show us tha...
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The Patriarchs
How Men Came to Rule
2023 || Paperback || Angela Saini || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of what we call patriarchy, uncovering a complex history of how it first became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present.
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Super-Infinite
The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022
2023 || Paperback || Katherine Rundell || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022. A standout scholar, a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.
'Masterly.' Observer
'Wonderful, joyous.' Maggie O'Farrell
'Frankly brilliant.' Sunday Times
'Unmissable.' Simon Jenkins
'Every page sparkles.' Claire Tomalin
'A triumph.' Matt Haig
'Stylish, scholarly and gripping.' Rose Tremain
John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity p...
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When McKinsey Comes to Town
The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
2023 || Paperback || Walt Bogdanich e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ā¢ ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST's 50 NOTABLE WORKS OF NONFICTION
An explosive, deeply reported exposƩ of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world
McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company in the world, earning billions of dollars in fees from major corp...
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North Woods
2023 || Paperback || Daniel Mason || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A sweeping novel about the transformation of a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabited it across the centuries-a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner
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Christmas By Candlelight
2023 || Paperback || Karen Swan || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Christmas by Candlelight, is the unmissable cosy and escapist festive story from the Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Swan.