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Veltman Distributie Import Books (226)
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Birds and Us
A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
2023 || Paperback || Tim Birkhead || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to Renaissance experiments on woodpecker anatomy, from Victorian obsessions with egg collecting to the present fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats.
Weaving in stories from his own life as a scientist, including far-flung expeditions to wondrous Neolithic caves in ...
Nice Racism
How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
2022 || Paperback || Robin DiAngelo || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Racism is not a simple matter of good people versus bad. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized. She also made a provocative claim: that white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of colour. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over twenty-five years working as an antiracist educator, she moves the conversation forward.
Writing directly...
Leadership
Six Studies in World Strategy
2024 || Paperback || Henry Kissinger || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world
'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they know, which is necessarily drawn from the past, with what they intuit about the future, which is inherently conjectural and uncertain....
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The Song of Significance
2023 || Paperback || Seth Godin || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Humans aren't a resource to be bought, used and discarded - they are the point of the workplace, the life essence of innovation, growth and success."
From the bestselling author of Purple Cow and This Is Marketing comes an urgent manifesto for leaders facing unprecedented challenges in a rapidly-changing workplace.
The workplace has undergone a massive shift. Remote work and economic instability have depressed innovation and left us disconnected and disengaged. Paychecks no longer buy loyalty...
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Paranoia
2023 || Paperback || Daniel Freeman || Veltman Distributie Import Books
What is paranoia? What makes us mistrustful? How can this be overcome?
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Around the World in 80 Games
A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games
2023 || Paperback || Marcus du Sautoy || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Why do some games seem to be universal while others have a particular connection to the culture of the people playing them?
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All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
2023 || Paperback || Douglas Wolk || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics’ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the “epic of epics”—and to the past sixty years of American culture—from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale
“Brilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly wonderful. . . . Wolk proves to be the perfect guide for this type of adventure: nimble, l...
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Beyond Order
2022 || Paperback || Jordan B. Peterson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The companion volume to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life.
In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. Now, in this bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelve more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes.
In a time when the human w...
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Chip War
The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
2023 || Paperback || Chris Miller || Veltman Distributie Import Books
n epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resource—microchip technology
Power in the modern world - military, economic, geopolitical - is built on a foundation of computer chips. America has maintained its lead as a superpower because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the technology that chips have enabled. (Virtually everything runs on chips: cars, phones, the stock market, even the electric grid.) Now that edge is in danger of slippin...
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The Bezos Blueprint
Communication Secrets that Power Amazon's Success
2023 || Paperback || Carmine Gallo || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The communication and leadership secrets of Jeff Bezos and how to master them, from the bestselling author of Talk Like TED.