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What About Men?
2023 || Paperback || Caitlin Moran || Veltman Distributie Import Books
As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what about MEN?' After eleven years of writing bestsellers about women and dismissing this question, having been very sure that the concerns of feminism and men are very different things, Caitlin Moran realised that this wasn't quite right, and that the problems of feminism are also the problems of, yes, men.
So, what about men? Why do they only go to the doctor if thei...
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Dust
The Modern World in a Trillion Particles
2023 || Paperback || Jay Owens || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Dust is a book with an extraordinary global story to tell, but - and - also with an ethical argument to advance. Robert Macfarlane
'Superb . . . Dust, an intriguing study by geographer Jay Owens, shows why particles of all kinds are both nature's salvation and its poison.' Telegraph
'Like a detective dusting for fingerprints, Jay Owens masterfully reveals the hidden traces of modernity by following some of its smallest fragments.' James Vincent, author of Beyond Measure
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Dust may s...
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The World
A Family History
2023 || Paperback || Simon Sebag Montefiore || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A thrilling, epic and original history of humanity from a dazzlingly fresh and global perspective, from the prize-winning, bestselling historian
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The Savage Storm
The Battle for Italy 1943
2023 || Paperback || James Holland || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Impeccably researched and superbly written' Observer
'Holland has something new to say.... Filled with insight and detail' Neil Oliver
'James Holland is the best of the new generation of WW2 historians' Sebastian Faulks
With the invasion of France the following year taking shape, and hot on the heels of victory in Sicily, the Allies crossed into Southern Italy in September 1943. They expected to drive the Axis forces north and be in Rome by Christmas. And although Italy surrendered, the Germ...
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The Big Con
How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
2024 || Paperback || Mariana Mazzucato e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.
Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political accountability and impedes our collective mission of halting climate breakdown.
The 'Big Con' describes the confidence trick the c...
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Monet
The Restless Vision
2022 || Hardcover || Jackie Wullschlager || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A magnificent new biography of the founder of Impressionism
In the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art. Misunderstood and mocked at the beginning of his career, he risked everything to pursue his original vision. Although close to starvation when he invented impressionism on the banks of the Seine in the 1860s-70s, in the following decades he emerged as the powerful leader of the new pain...
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Manifesto
A rallying cry to never give up from the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
2021 || Hardcover || Bernardine Evaristo || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and activist, she moved from the margins to centre stage, taking her place in the spotlight at last. Her journey was a long one, but she made it, and she made history.
MANIFESTO is Bernardine Evaristo...
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This Way to the Universe
A Journey into Physics
2023 || Paperback || Michael Dine || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Extraordinary' Leonard Susskind
'A rare event' Sean Carroll
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When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible and authoritative book that would teach you about the Big Bang, Dark Matter, the Higgs boson and the cutting edge of physics now, he had nothing he could recommend.
So he wrote it himself.
In This Way to the Universe, Dine takes us on a fascinating tour through the history of modern physics - from Newtonian mechanics to quant...
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Languishing
How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down
2024 || Paperback || Corey Keyes || Veltman Distributie Import Books
“With his pioneering research, Corey Keyes put languishing on the map. In this powerful book, he brings it to life. Get ready to rethink your understanding of mental health, update your views on happiness, and come closer to realizing your potential.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential
If you’re muddling through the day in a fog, often forgetting why you walked into a room . . .
If you feel emotionally flattened, lacking the energy to socialize or fe...
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The Powerful and the Damned
Private Diaries in Turbulent Times
2021 || Paperback || Lionel Barber || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Extraordinary' TONY BLAIR
'Riveting' - PHILIPPE SANDS
'Brutal, brilliant and scurrilously funny' - MISHA GLENNY
The real scoop isn't on the front page
'As FT editor, I was a privileged interlocutor to people in power around the world, each offering unique insights into high-level decision-making and political calculation, often in moments of crisis. These diaries offer snapshots of leadership in an age of upheaval...'
Lionel Barber was Editor of the Financial Times for the tech boom, the glo...