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Homo Sublima
The Revelations
2023 || Hardcover || Bruno Fabre e.a. || The Bright ID
We are not on Earth merely to survive or just experience life; we are here to elevate and sublime.
Currently, we are undergoing the most significant societal transformation our species has ever faced. We’ve mastered the art of moulding our environment to suit our needs. Through advancements in technology, we’re now enhancing our own bodies to expand our abilities. It seems we can shape the world entirely to our desires, and even death could soon become nonexistent in our lives.
Yet, these...
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Regenesis
Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
2022 || Hardcover || George Monbiot || Veltman Distributie Import Books
*Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize*
A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year
'This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food' Kate Raworth
From the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity
Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughe...
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Economic Diversity In Contemporary Timor-Leste
2023 || Hardcover || Kelly Silva e.a. || Leiden University Press
Economic Diversity in Contemporary Timor-Leste analyses various economic dynamics in past and present Timor-Leste. Comprising 14 research chapters, the volume brings to the fore: 1) local, community-based economic values and arrangements; 2) community-based entanglements with a market-driven economy; 3) the colonial and postcolonial governance praxis through which a market-driven economy has permeated the country, and 4) the creative and place-based ways through which local people have respon...
Climate Security and the Military
Concepts, Strategies and Partnerships
2024 || Hardcover || Georg Frerks e.a. || Leiden University Press
This book, 'Climate Security and the Military: Concepts, Strategies and Partnerships', reviews the climate Security Nexus from the military angle and proposes the design of climate security strategies and how they can contribute to adaptation to and mitigation of the related challenges. Part 1 reviews the understanding of the Climate Security Nexus. Subsequently, Part 2 assesses the potential design of climate security strategies. In Part 3, adaptation to climate change by the military is rev...
Gorky in the Netherlands, 2nd edition
The gods reward the bold, Aeneas
2024 || Hardcover || Frank Libertas || Brave New Books
In recent years, Kiev and Russia have been in the news negatively almost every day. In the West, we know very little about Europe's largest border country and they view us there through rose-tinted glasses. Through a number of social issues, the author takes the reader on a quest through thisformer impressive country with a very fascinating history and culture, strongly intertwined with that of Russia. We in the West are far too complacent and have a lot to learn from Eastern Europe. The aim...
Love - A History of Hate in SURINAME. Hide, Flee or Suicide
2023 || Hardcover || Ivan Patrick Liesdek || Brave New Books
Six years of research with the purpose of having the untold account of Suriname’s LGBT history at long last comprehensively divulged and documented, has resulted in this publication:
Love – A History of Hate in Suriname - Hide, Flee or Suicide
Execution Extinction Existence Expression - An Insight into a Country’s Gay History.
Until now, due to taboo, legal and social repercussions from a repressive ‘heteronormative’ biased society, this has been a forgotten, concealed disguised o...
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The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
Hardcover || Charlie Mackesy || Ebury Press
Charlie's first book includes his most-loved illustrations and new ones too.The conversations of the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared thousands of times online, recreated in school art classes, hung on hospital walls and turned into tattoos. 'A wonderful work of art and a wonderful window into the human heart' Richard Curtis
Gorky in the Netherlands, 2nd edition
The gods reward the bold, Aeneas
2024 || Hardcover || Frank Libertas || Brave New Books
In recent years, Kiev and Russia have been in the news negatively almost every day. In the West, we know very little about Europe's largest border country and they view us there through rose-tinted glasses. Through a number of social issues, the author takes the reader on a quest through thisformer impressive country with a very fascinating history and culture, strongly intertwined with that of Russia. We in the West are far too complacent and have a lot to learn from Eastern Europe. The aim...
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The T in LGBT
everything you need to know about being trans
2023 || Hardcover || Jamie Raines || Vermillion
Hey, I'm Jamie, a 29-year-old trans guy from the UK. I've been transitioning for 12 years now after realising I was trans (by accident!) at sixteen years old. I knew I was a boy since the age of four, but realised whilst growing up that I was different. It was only in my teens that I found the words to express who I was and what I needed to do. Since then, I've been on testosterone for more than a decade - I know, I can't believe it either - I've also had top and bottom surgery and legally ch...
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Humanity is not a plague
How 10 Billion People can Exist Together
Hardcover || Cees Buisman || Bornmeer, Uitgeverij
In Humanity is Not a Plague, Cees Buisman argues that it is possible for 10 billion people to exist together on this Earth – as predicted for the year 2100 – provided that the richer part of the world no longer merely focuses on its own health, prosperity and happiness, and instead starts working seriously on developing a higher consciousness.
In this essay, Buisman sharply analyzes some of the problems facing mankind, such as fresh water shortages, whilst overturning several clichés and...