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Veltman Distributie Import Books (43)
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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The Big Con
How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
2024 || Paperback || Mariana Mazzucato e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.
Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political accountability and impedes our collective mission of halting climate breakdown.
The 'Big Con' describes the confidence trick the c...
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The Memory Library
2024 || Paperback || Kate Storey || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Pre-order this gorgeous novel from a debut voice, that pairs the perennial love for books about books with themes of family, loneliness and hope.
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Languishing
How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down
2024 || Paperback || Corey Keyes || Veltman Distributie Import Books
“With his pioneering research, Corey Keyes put languishing on the map. In this powerful book, he brings it to life. Get ready to rethink your understanding of mental health, update your views on happiness, and come closer to realizing your potential.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential
If you’re muddling through the day in a fog, often forgetting why you walked into a room . . .
If you feel emotionally flattened, lacking the energy to socialize or fe...
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The Holy Grail of Investing
The World's Greatest Investors Reveal Their Ultimate Strategies for Financial Freedom
2024 || Paperback || Tony Robbins e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Master your relationship with money and unleash the power of alternative investments with this practical guide to smart money strategies from Tony Robbins, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Money: Master the Game, and renowned investor Christopher Zook.
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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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If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
2024 || Paperback || Justin Gregg || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A MYTH-BUSTING EXPOSE OF HOW HUMAN INTELLIGENCE MAY BE MORE A LIABILITY THAN A GIFT AND A REFRESHING NEW WAY TO UNDERSTAND THE ANIMAL KINGDOM AND OUR PLACE ON EARTH.
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Saving Time
Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER)
2024 || Paperback || Jenny Odell || Veltman Distributie Import Books
**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
'The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing' Esquire
We're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us.
Our life is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside. It wasn't devised for people, but for profit. We need to embrace a whole new concept of time: one that gives us and our planet a brighter fu...
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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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Not the End of the World
How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
2024 || Paperback || Hannah Ritchie || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems -- and how we can solve them
'Truly essential' MARGARET ATWOOD * 'Invigorating, inspiring, often surprising' DAVID WALLACE-WELLS * 'Eye-opening and essential' BILL GATES
We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children.
But in this bo...