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Veltman Distributie Import Books (77)
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Cold Crematorium
Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
2024 || Hardcover || Jozsef Debreczeni || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A rediscovered classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni
'A timely reminder of man's inhumanity to man'
JUNG CHANG, author of Wild Swans
'Immensely powerful and deeply humane'
KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, author of My Struggle
'It should be required reading'
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, author Everything Is Illuminated
When József Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would ...
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How to Stop Fascism
History, Ideology, Resistance
2021 || Hardcover || Paul Mason || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again - and we need to find a better way to fight it.
In The Truth Is Not Enough, Paul Mason offers a radical, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right. The book is both a chilling portrait of contemporary fascism, and a compelling history of the fascist phenomeno...
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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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Regenesis
Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
2022 || Hardcover || George Monbiot || Veltman Distributie Import Books
*Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize*
A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year
'This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food' Kate Raworth
From the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity
Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughe...
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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...
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The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse
110 Poets on the Divine
2022 || Hardcover || Kaveh Akbar || Veltman Distributie Import Books
oets have always looked to the skies for inspiration, and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in the cosmos. This anthology serves as a truly holistic and global survey to a lyric conversation about the divine that has been going on for millenia.
Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, the twenty-third century BC Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, and taking in a constellation of voices - ...
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Pandora's Box
The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television
2023 || Hardcover || Peter Biskind || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls comes the inside story of television's heady rise and fall
The revolution has been televized. From The Sopranos to Stranger Things, the shows we watch - and the ways we watch them - have been transformed over the past fifty years. Out of the bland wasteland of 'play-it-safe' broadcasting came astonishing stories of sex, violence, and corruption shown first on cable, and then by way of streaming. Today, the power of viewers to select wha...
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Dickens and Prince
A Particular Kind of Genius
2022 || Hardcover || Nick Hornby || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In Nick Hornby's completely joyous and original new book two great figures share the stage. Charles Dickens and Prince. Two wildly different artists who caught fire and lit up the world in ways no others could. Where did their magic come from? How did they work so hard and produce so much? How did they manage or give in to the restlessness and intensity of their creativity? How did they use it, and did it kill them?
With wit, curiosity and deep admiration Nick Hornby traces their extraordinar...