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How Civil Wars Start
And How to Stop Them
2022 || Paperback || Barbara F. Walter || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Sunday Times Smart Thinking Book of the Year 2022 • New York Times Bestseller
• WINNER OF THE GLOBAL POLICY INSTITUTE AWARD • BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Financial Times, The Times, Esquire, Prospect
'When one of the world's leading scholars of civil war tells us that a country is on the brink of violent conflict, we should pay attention. This is an important book' Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of How Democracies Die
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this boo...
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The Storyteller
Tales of Life and Music
2022 || Paperback || Dave Grohl || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The long-awaited autobiography of the legendary Nirvana and Foo Fighters rock star, Dave Grohl
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The Dream of Europe (Heruitgave)
travels in the Twenty-First Century
2022 || Paperback || Geert Mak || Vintage Publishing
'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial Times
How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here?
From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium.
The great European project was built out of a common desire for peace, prosperity and freedom; a wish for a united Europe striving towards a common goal. The EU was to set an ex...
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Creativity
A Short and Cheerful Guide
2022 || Paperback || John Cleese || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Creativity is usually regarded as a mysterious, rare gift that only a few possess. John Cleese begs to differ, and in this short, immensely practical and often very amusing guide he shows it's a skill that anyone can acquire. Drawing on his lifelong experience as a writer, he shares his insights into the nature of the creative process, and offers advice on how to get your own inventive juices flowing.
'Humorous and practical ... Whether you're hoping to write a novel or paint a masterpiece, y...
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Break Through Banking / Druk 2
A thrilling how-to-manual for successfully challenging the status quo
2022 || Paperback || Siebe Huizinga || Ronde Tafel, SU De
In a derelict, abandoned office in the outskirts of Amsterdam, a small group of visionaries gathers to charge an antiquated but powerful finance industry. Their dream: a fully mobile, truly independent bank focused on people, not money.
Firing off one game-changing innovation after the other, bunq quickly becomes a technological and ideological trailblazer that takes the world by storm.
How did bunq do it?
Defiance, courage, endurance and profound euphoria color the epic journey that gave us...
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
2022 || Paperback || Erving Goffman || Penguin
One of the defining works of twentieth-century sociology: a revelatory analysis of how we present ourselves to others'The self, then, as a performed character, is not an organic thing ... it is a dramatic effect'How do we communicate who we are to other people? This landmark work by one of the twentieth century's most influential sociologists argues that our behaviour in social situations is defined by how we wish to be perceived - resulting in displays startlingly similar to those of actors ...
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Remi
In search of the most famous Dutch foundling of WW II
2022 || Paperback || Frank van Kolfschooten || Uitgeverij De Kring
Two brothers, two tragedies, one heartbreaking story ***** On 16 October 1942, a family in German-occupied Bloemendaal in Holland finds a baby on their doorstep. They call him Remi, after Nobody’s Boy. They cannot save the baby. The Nazis take the foundling to the Jewish nursery in Amsterdam, opposite the Hollandsche Schouwburg (The Dutch Theater), from where the deportations to transit camp Westerbork are carried out. Remi stays there for six months and becomes the darling of both the nurs...
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The Wim Hof Method
Activate Your Potential, Transcend Your Limits
2022 || Paperback || Wim Hof || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'I've never felt so alive' JOE WICKS
'The book will change your life' BEN FOGLE
My hope is to inspire you to retake control of your body and life by unleashing the immense power of the mind.
'The Iceman' Wim Hof shares his remarkable life story and powerful method for supercharging your strength, health and happiness. Refined over forty years and championed by scientists across the globe, you'll learn how to harness three key elements of Cold, Breathing and Mindset to master mind over matter ...
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Noise
A Flaw in Human Jugdment
2022 || Paperback || Daniel Kahneman e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The Sunday Times bestseller'A monumental, gripping book ... Outstanding' Sunday TimesWherever there is human judgement, there is noise.
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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...