Studieboeken (14)

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Four Thousand Weeks

Time Management for Mortals

2022 || Paperback || Oliver Burkeman || Veltman Distributie Import Books

**A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR**

Battling an overfilled inbox?

Your ever-lengthening to-do lists?

Struggling against distraction?

What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?

If you live to 80, you'll have barely more than four thousand weeks on earth. How will you decide how to spend them?

Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for construc...

18,95

Think Faster, Talk Smarter

How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot

2024 || Paperback || Matt Abrahams || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Think Faster, Talk Smarter is the essential guide to finding and delivering the right words when it matters the most – in the moment. From Stanford University lecturer Matt Abrahams.

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My Gothic Heart

2023 || Hardcover || Charlie Castelletti || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A beautiful gift anthology that celebrates gothic prose and poetry in all its wild and captivating glory.

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Ultra-Processed People

Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?

2024 || Paperback || Chris van Tulleken || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Chosen by the SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, FT and DAILY MAIL as one of their BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023

'If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one' Bee Wilson

'A devastating, witty and scholarly destruction of the shit food we eat and why' Adam Rutherford

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An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food.

It's not you, it's the food.

We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come from ...

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How the World Really Works

A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

2022 || Paperback || Vaclav Smil || Veltman Distributie Import Books

'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life, this is the book to read. It's a tour de force' BILL GATES

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We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, ...

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The Factory

2023 || Hardcover || Hiroko Oyamada || Veltman Distributie Import Books

From the author of Weasels in the Attic, here is a modern fable about the all-consuming world of work.

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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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Nice Racism

How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

2022 || Paperback || Robin DiAngelo || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Racism is not a simple matter of good people versus bad. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized. She also made a provocative claim: that white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of colour. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over twenty-five years working as an antiracist educator, she moves the conversation forward.

Writing directly...

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The Ethnobotanical

A world tour of indigenous plant knowledge

2023 || Hardcover || Dr Sarah Edwards || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A stunning history of indigenous plant knowledge, from origin myths to medical applications

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The Dawn of Everything

A New History of Humanity

2022 || Paperback || David Graeber e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022

'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times

'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternat...

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