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Bibliotherapy
The Healing Power of Reading
2023 || Hardcover || Bijal Shah || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In Bibliotherapy, bibliotherapist and counsellor Bijal Shah draws on her personal experience, work with clients and research to explore the healing power of reading.
From the history of how therapeutic reading evolved - and the important role played by great writers such as the Stoics, Montaigne, Eliot and Wordsworth in its popularisation - to first-hand stories from clients who have struggled with grief, relationships and illness, this book explores just how comforting and life-changing read...
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Birds and Us
A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
2023 || Paperback || Tim Birkhead || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to Renaissance experiments on woodpecker anatomy, from Victorian obsessions with egg collecting to the present fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats.
Weaving in stories from his own life as a scientist, including far-flung expeditions to wondrous Neolithic caves in ...
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The New Leviathans
Thoughts After Liberalism
2023 || Hardcover || John Gray || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'One of the most important thinkers alive' The Times
Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, Hobbes' cold political vision continues to see through any number of political and ethical vanities.
In his wonderfully stimulating book The New Leviathans, John Gray allows us to understand the world of the 2020s with all its contradictions, moral horrors and disappointments t...
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
Buccaneers, Women Traders and Mock Kingdoms in Eighteenth Century Madagascar
2023 || Hardcover || David Graeber || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav Ghosh
The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccanee...
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The Song of Significance
2023 || Paperback || Seth Godin || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Humans aren't a resource to be bought, used and discarded - they are the point of the workplace, the life essence of innovation, growth and success."
From the bestselling author of Purple Cow and This Is Marketing comes an urgent manifesto for leaders facing unprecedented challenges in a rapidly-changing workplace.
The workplace has undergone a massive shift. Remote work and economic instability have depressed innovation and left us disconnected and disengaged. Paychecks no longer buy loyalty...
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Paranoia
2023 || Paperback || Daniel Freeman || Veltman Distributie Import Books
What is paranoia? What makes us mistrustful? How can this be overcome?
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Around the World in 80 Games
A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games
2023 || Paperback || Marcus du Sautoy || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Why do some games seem to be universal while others have a particular connection to the culture of the people playing them?
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All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
2023 || Paperback || Douglas Wolk || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics’ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the “epic of epics”—and to the past sixty years of American culture—from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale
“Brilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly wonderful. . . . Wolk proves to be the perfect guide for this type of adventure: nimble, l...
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The Bezos Blueprint
Communication Secrets that Power Amazon's Success
2023 || Paperback || Carmine Gallo || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The communication and leadership secrets of Jeff Bezos and how to master them, from the bestselling author of Talk Like TED.
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Chip War
The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
2023 || Paperback || Chris Miller || Veltman Distributie Import Books
n epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resource—microchip technology
Power in the modern world - military, economic, geopolitical - is built on a foundation of computer chips. America has maintained its lead as a superpower because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the technology that chips have enabled. (Virtually everything runs on chips: cars, phones, the stock market, even the electric grid.) Now that edge is in danger of slippin...