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Veltman Distributie Import Books (41)
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
Buccaneers, Women Traders and Mock Kingdoms in Eighteenth Century Madagascar
2023 || Hardcover || David Graeber || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav Ghosh
The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccanee...
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The New Leviathans
Thoughts After Liberalism
2023 || Hardcover || John Gray || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'One of the most important thinkers alive' The Times
Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, Hobbes' cold political vision continues to see through any number of political and ethical vanities.
In his wonderfully stimulating book The New Leviathans, John Gray allows us to understand the world of the 2020s with all its contradictions, moral horrors and disappointments t...
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Bibliotherapy
The Healing Power of Reading
2023 || Hardcover || Bijal Shah || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In Bibliotherapy, bibliotherapist and counsellor Bijal Shah draws on her personal experience, work with clients and research to explore the healing power of reading.
From the history of how therapeutic reading evolved - and the important role played by great writers such as the Stoics, Montaigne, Eliot and Wordsworth in its popularisation - to first-hand stories from clients who have struggled with grief, relationships and illness, this book explores just how comforting and life-changing read...
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To Infinity and Beyond
A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
2023 || Hardcover || Neil deGrasse Tyson e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Linked to a special mini season of the award-winning StarTalk podcast, this enlightening illustrated narrative by the world’s most celebrated astrophysicist explains the universe from the solar system to the farthest reaches of space with authority and humor.
No one can make the mysteries of the universe more comprehensible and fun than Neil deGrasse Tyson. Drawing on mythology, history, and literature—alongside his trademark wit and charm—Tyson and StarTalk senior producer Lindsey Nyx ...
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The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don't)
Sane and sage advice to help you navigate all of your most important relationships
2023 || Hardcover || Philippa Perry || Veltman Distributie Import Books
** Get closer the people who matter the most with the help of the nation's favourite therapist, PHILIPPA PERRY **
'I LOVE Philippa Perry and think she’s wise and brilliant'
BELLA MACKIE
'Philippa Perry is one of the wisest, most sane and secure people I’ve ever met'
Decca Aitkenhead, SUNDAY TIMES
'Philippa Perry is a superwoman'
CHRIS EVANS
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Life is all about relationships and the quality of those connec...
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Blood on the Snow
The Russian Revolution 1914-1924
2023 || Hardcover || Robert Service || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The great historian of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russia returns with an enthralling revisionist history of the Russian Revolution.
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Lou
A New York Life
2023 || Hardcover || Will Hermes || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's stature and living presence have only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured.
In Lou: A New York Life, the critic Will Hermes offers the definitive narrative of Reed's life and legacy, dramatizing his long, brilliant, and contentious dialogue with fellow artists from David Bowie to Andy Warhol. Will explore his craft as a singer and songwriter wit...
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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
2023 || Hardcover || Martin Wolf || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone
We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being strained and rejected, even in democracy'...
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Tupac Shakur
The Authorized Biography
2023 || Hardcover || Staci Robinson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The first and only estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving exploration of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more
Artist, poet, actor, revolutionary, legend
Tupac Shakur is one of the greatest and most controversial artists of all time. More than a quarter of a century after his tragic death in 1996 at the age of just twenty-five, he continues to be one of the most misunderstood, complicat...
Encyclopaedia Eorzea the World of Final Fantasy XIV Volume III
2023 || Hardcover || Square Enix || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The third volume of the official Final Fantasy XIV lore books, written and compiled by the Final Fantasy XIV development team! This deluxe hardcover tome comprises records of adventures that transcend the bounds of space and time, from the ancient world to the very stars above.
Offering an astonishing amount of information covering the Shadowbringers and Endwalker expansions, this third volume of Encyclopaedia Eorzea brings readers further into the realms of the global hit video game. Hundred...