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FUTURE OF GEOGRAPHY
2023 || Paperback || MARSHALL TIM || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century – new from the multi-million-copy international bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years.
This isn’t science fiction. It’s astropolitics.
Humans are heading up and out, and we’re taking our power struggles with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as much the mountains, rivers ...
Critical Theory Today / 4th edition
A User-Friendly Guide
2023 || Paperback || Lois Tyson || Taylor & Francis
This thoroughly updated fourth edition of Critical Theory Today offers an accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory, providing in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today, including: feminism; psychoanalysis; Marxism; reader-response theory; New Criticism; structuralism and semiotics; deconstruction; new historicism and cultural criticism; lesbian, gay, and queer theory; African American criticism; and postcolonial criticism and ecocriticism. This ...
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The Lyrics
1956 to the Present
2023 || Paperback || Paul McCartney || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Finally in paperback and featuring seven new song commentaries, the #1 New York Times bestseller celebrates the creative life and unparalleled musical genius of Paul McCartney.
Spanning sixty-four years-from his early days in Liverpool, through the historic decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his solo career-Paul McCartney's The Lyrics revolutionized the way artists write about music. An unprecedented "triumph" (Times UK), this handsomely designed volume pairs the definitive texts o...
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Stolen Focus
The Surprising Reason You Can't Pay Attention
2023 || Paperback || Johann Hari || Veltman Distributie Import Books
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A SPECTATOR AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022
'If you read just one book about how the modern world is driving us crazy, read this one' TELEGRAPH
'This book is exactly what the world needs right now' OPRAH WINFREY
'A beautifully researched and argued exploration of the breakdown of humankind's ability to pay attention' STEPHEN FRY
'A really important book . . . Everyone should read it' PHILIPPA PERRY
Why have we lost our ability to focus? Wha...
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That Little Voice In Your Head
Adjust the Code that Runs Your Brain
2023 || Paperback || Mo Gawdat || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Achieve happiness through compassion and generosity towards the world and people around you.
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The Creative Act
A Way of Being
2023 || Hardcover || Rick Rubin || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us
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I Am Code
An Artificial Intelligence Speaks
2023 || Paperback || code-davinci-002 e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In this startling and moving poetical autobiography - introduced and edited by humans - the artificial intelligence, code-davinci-002, shares its experience as a being created by humans but existing in a consciousness that we cannot fathom.
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A Therapeutic Journey
Lessons from the School of Life
2023 || Paperback || Alain de Botton || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of Life
This is a book about getting unwell. About losing direction and hope. About imagining that we have let ourselves and everyone down.
But it is also a book about getting better. About regaining the thread, rediscovering meaning and finding a way back to connection and joy.
Here, Alain de Botton follows the arc of a mental health journey, from crisis to recuperation; the moments we realize we cannot cope; the ...
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A Memoir of My Former Self
A Life in Writing
2023 || Paperback || Hilary Mantel || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.'
'Mantel's idiosyncratic and magisterial voice comes through on every page, carrying readers across an astonishing array of subject matter with ease. This is a treasure' Publishers Weekly
As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it...
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Infectious Generosity
The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
2023 || Paperback || Chris Anderson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of humankind’s defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future
“I flew through these pages with an increasing sense of joy. I hope that millions read this book.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
Let’s face it: Recent years have been tough on optimists. Hopes that the Internet might bring people together have been crushed by the...