Veltman Distributie Import Books (226)

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The Coming Wave

Technology, Power and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

2023 || Paperback || Mustafa Suleyman e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books

'Fascinating, well-written, and important' Yuval Noah Harari

'Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing' Stephen Fry

'An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times' Bill Gates

'Essential reading' Daniel Kahneman

We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change.

Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and q...

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The Way Back

2019 || Paperback || Erich Maria Remarque || Veltman Distributie Import Books

The sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a twentieth-century classic.

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Ravenous

How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

2024 || Paperback || Henry Dimbleby e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A Waterstones Best Book of 2023

'Brilliant - a must read' Tim Spector

'Ravenous is a truly important book ... we need a food revolution to ensure children don't go hungry, eat right, and reach their potential' Tom Kerridge

The food system is no longer simply a means of sustenance. It is one of the most successful, most innovative and most destructive industries on earth. It sustains us, but it is also killing us. Diet-related disease is now the biggest cause of preventable illness and death i...

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Uncertain

How to Turn Your Biggest Fear into Your Greatest Power

2023 || Paperback || Arie Kruglanski || Veltman Distributie Import Books

TO ACHIEVE THE EXTRAORDINARY, FIRST EMBRACE THE UNKNOWN . . .

Discover the definitive guide to our fear of uncertainty, and how we can stop it from holding us back

'Groundbreaking' MARTIN SELIGMAN

'One of my very favorite psychologists in the world' ANGELA DUCKWORTH

'This is the book we've been waiting for' CAROL DWECK, bestselling author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

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Do you fear uncertainty?

Why is the unknown so paralysing?

And how can we use doubt to our advantage?

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The Secret Lives of Numbers

A History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers

2023 || Paperback || Kate Kitagawa e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths

Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell introduce readers to the mathematical boundary-smashers who have been erased by history because of their race, gender or nationality.

From the brilliant Arabic scholars of the ...

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The Nightsilver Promise

2021 || Paperback || Annaliese Avery || Veltman Distributie Import Books

An epic, fate-fighting adventure like no other. A stunningly imagined new series. The Nightsilver Promise is a future classic, stunningly imagined. A Game of Thrones for middle-grade that is perfect for fans of Nevermoor, Philip Pullman, and Neil Gaiman.

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Shame Machine

Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

2022 || Paperback || Cathy O'Neil || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial complex” in the age of social media and hyperpartisan politics—from the New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math Destruction

“O’Neil reminds us that we must resist the urge to judge, belittle, and oversimplify, and instead allow always for complexity and lead always with empathy.”—Dave Eggers, author of The Every

Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool: When we pu...

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Determined

A Science of Life without Free Will

2023 || Paperback || Robert M. Sapolsky || Veltman Distributie Import Books

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences

Robert Sapolsky’s Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: We may not grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the physics and chemistry at the base of human behavior, but ...

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Behind The Shoulder Pads

Tales I Tell My Friends

2023 || Paperback || Joan Collins || Veltman Distributie Import Books

'I've had many amazing adventures in my life. Some stories, though, I have only ever shared with my friends... Until now!'

Dame Joan Collins has always believed one should retain some mystery in life, and hide a knowing smile behind one's shoulder pads. In her new book, she returns in dazzling form to share her most memorable moments from her eclectic and vibrant life, in and out of the limelight. Taking us on an incredible journey from her early years as a young star in the golden era of Hol...

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Be My Baby

2022 || Paperback || Ronnie Spector || Veltman Distributie Import Books

In this incredibly entertaining autobiography, Ronnie Spector takes the reader on a journey through the dazzling highs and devastating lows that have shaped her life.