In januari 2024 voer Alma Mathijsen mee met de Ide Min, een vrachtzeilschip dat de concurrentie aan wil gaan met de immens vervuilende containerindustrie. Twaalf mensen staken samen de Atlantische Oceaan over. Een idyllische reis die drie weken zou beslaan, veranderde in een barre expeditie die bijna zeven weken duurde.

In dit logboek zien we de veranderde oceaan van dichtbij. De zee is koortsig, haar koraal verbleekt, de zuurgraad stijgt met ieder jaar. Over haar wateren drijven enorme conta...

The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day

Exposes the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. This book aims to creates public awareness of the environment.

"Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly." --New Yorker

The famous bestseller with "concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement" (Wall St. Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman.

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer--the first and most famous of his books--was mad...

Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any field

Laws and rules are in place to protect us. They are what keeps our societies from descending into madness and chaos. Without them, how we would know our right from wrong, how would we improve our communities and how could we be better neighbours to one another without rules telling us what to do?

Cindy Skach feels differently. After years spent in some of the most complex corners of the world, reading and writing constitutions, trying to create order where it did not exist, she has come to re...