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Empireworld
How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
2024 || Hardcover || Sathnam Sanghera || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Beautifully written, and not just a welcome corrective but a book for our times. This is essential reading' Peter Frankopan
From the award-winning author of Empireland – the book that started a national conversation about how we talk about race and imperial history in Britain – a ground-breaking exploration of how British empire has shaped the world we live in today.
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Empireland examined imperialism's lasting impact on Britain. Empirew...
The Book of Secrets
A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
2024 || Hardcover || Xinran Xue || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today.
Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his wife Moon, The Book of Secrets weaves recently found material into a narrative that not only illuminates the shadowy world of intelligence in China, but also the emotional tragedies that political extremism inflicted on those working within.
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Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 3
2024 || Hardcover || Yuval Noah Harari || Fern Press
Age of Revolutions
Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
2024 || Hardcover || Fareed Zakaria || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The international best-selling author explores the revolutions―past and present―that define the chaotic, polarized and unstable age in which we live
Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, geopolitical dangers and an international system studded with catastrophic risk ― the early decades of the 21st century may be one of the most revolutionary periods in modern history. But they are not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one grea...
The Most Interesting Book in the World
2024 || Hardcover || Edward Brooke-Hitching || Simon & Schuster UK
A miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are. Â
The Forever War
america’s Unending Conflict with Itself
2024 || Hardcover || Nick Bryant || Bloomsbury
From the author of When America Stopped Being Great, an insightful and urgent reassessment of America's past, present and future - as a country which is forever at war with itself.
The Forever War tells the story of how America's extreme polarisation is 250 years in the making, and argues that the roots of its modern-day malaise are to be found in its troubled and unresolved past.
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Divi...
Impossible City
Paris in the Twenty-First Century
2024 || Hardcover || Simon Kuper || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.
Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city's notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on his family's neighbourhood. Over two decades of bec...