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Look Again

The Power of Noticing What was Always There

2024 || Paperback || Tali Sharot e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books

For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days and reset our brains to allow us to live happier and more fulfilling lives.

Have you ever noticed that what is thrilling on Monday tends to become boring on Friday? Even exciting relationships, stimulating jobs, and breathtaking works of art lose their sparkle after a while. People stop noticing what is most wonderful in th...

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The Handmaid's Tale

Vintage Quarterbound Classics

2024 || Hardcover || Margaret Atwood || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A beautiful hardback edition of Atwood's iconic dystopian novel.

Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and ...

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May Contain Lies

How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It

2024 || Hardcover || Alex Edmans || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases effect the way we receive and interpret information

Our lives are minefields of misinformation. Stories, statistics and studies lie to us on a daily basis. Not only this but, as Professor Alex Edmans reveals, our brains lie to us too. He argues that we need to acknowledge and understand the role that our own human biases play in interpreting and digesting the information that we consume. It's only when we do, that we can actively resist...

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The Trading Game

A Confession

2024 || Hardcover || Gary Stevenson || Veltman Distributie Import Books

'Compelling, intensely readable, unsettling. An unforgettable story of greed, financial madness and moral decay' Rory Stewart

'An incredibly important and timely book, very much of its era. The Wolf of Wall Street with a moral compass' Irvine Welsh

'Astonishing, enraging, extremely funny and exquisitely sad - a magnificent exposé of the 'masters of the universe' whose greed imperils us all. I cannot recommend this book highly enough' The Secret Barrister

*An outrageous, white-knuckle journey...

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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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Who's Afraid of Gender?

2024 || Hardcover || Judith Butler || Veltman Distributie Import Books

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024 ACCORDING TO THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, AND TIME

Shouldn't we know what we're arguing about?

From one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how gender is understood today

Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to ri...