Literaire non-fictie algemeen (94)
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They Can't Kill Us All
The Story of Black Lives Matter
2024 || Paperback || Wesley Lowery || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Wesley Lowery is a national reporter for the Washington Post who covers law enforcement and justice. He was the paper's lead reporter in Ferguson, Missouri and covering the Black Lives Matter protest movement, and was a member of the team awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for the paper's coverage of police shootings. His reporting has previously appeared in The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
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Bittersweet
How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
2024 || Paperback || Susan Cain || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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The Waste Land
A Biography of a Poem
2024 || Paperback || Matthew Hollis || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year **A riveting account of the making of T.
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Going Infinite
The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
2024 || Paperback || Michael Lewis || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side?
In Going Infinite Lewis sets out to answer this question, taking readers into the mind...
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Undertones of War
2024 || Paperback || Edmund Blunden || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
An autobiography of the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden. It records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. It tells of the heroism and despair found among the officers. It shows how he found hope in the natural landscape.
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The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)
2024 || Paperback || Philippa Perry || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
(And Your Children will be Glad That You Did). With straight-talking advice from renowned Psychotherapist Philippa Perry, this book is the definitive guide for any parent looking to navigate their past, avoid repeating their own parents' mistakes, and ensure they don't land their own kids in therapy. Through the combination of case studies, her own experiences as a parent, and therapeutic insight gained from a career spanning over 20 years, Perry tackles the wider issues of what it actually m...
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Daring Greatly
How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
2024 || Paperback || Brene Brown || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Every time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk. We feel exposed. Most of us try to fight those feelings, we strive to appear perfect. In this book, the author challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability, and dispels the accepted myth that it's a weakness.
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Feline Philosophy
Cats and the Meaning of Life
2024 || Paperback || John Gray || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Like A Thief In Broad Daylight
Power in the Era of Post-Humanity
2024 || Paperback || Slavoj Zizek || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Slavoj ¿i¿ek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and Eminent Scholar at Kyung-Hee University, Seoul. His previous books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Trouble in Paradise and, most recently, The Courage of Hopelessness.