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The Power of Regret
How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
2023 || Paperback || Daniel H. Pink || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the internationally bestselling author of When, Drive and To Sell is Human, a new book about the transforming power of that crucial and misunderstood emotion: regret
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The Daily Laws
366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy and Human Nature
2023 || Paperback || Robert Greene || Veltman Distributie Import Books
THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE 48 LAWS OF POWER BRINGS YOU 365 MORE
Over the last 25 years, Robert Greene has provided insights into every aspect of being human: whether that be getting what you want, understanding others' motivations, mastering your impulses, or recognising strengths and weaknesses. The Daily Laws distills that wisdom into easy-to-digest daily entries whose content spans power, seduction, war, strategy, politics, productivity, psychology, leadership, and adver...
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Otherlands
A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller
2023 || Paperback || Dr Thomas Halliday || Veltman Distributie Import Books
FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read' Tom Holland
'Epically cinematic... A book of almost unimaginable riches' Sunday Times
This is the past as we've never seen it before.
Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the wo...
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The Decisive Mind
How to Make the Right Choice Every Time
2023 || Paperback || Sheheryar Banuri || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A new model for understanding and optimising your decision making skills by a leading behavioural economist*
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Have you ever set yourself a goal but struggled to achieve it?
In a world overflowing with choices and distractions, indecision can be paralysing. It can lead to missed opportunities, stress, even damaged relationships. In The Decisive Mind, decision making expert Professor Sheheryar Banuri provides a new framework to choose the life you want, one decision at a time.
Using r...
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Different
What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender
2023 || Paperback || Frans de Waal || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and New York Times bestselling author of Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?
'Brilliant and fascinating... brings a scientific, compassionate and balanced approach to some of the hottest controversies about sex and gender' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
How different are the sexes? Is gender uniquely human? Where does gender identity originate?
Dr...
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On the Origin of Time
Stephen Hawking's final theory
2023 || Paperback || Thomas Hertog || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog.
Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life.
Pondering this mystery led Hawking to study the big bang origin of the universe, but his early work ran into a crisis when the maths predicted many big bangs producing a multiverse - countless different univ...
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Edible Economics
A Hungry Economist Explains the World
2022 || Paperback || Ha-Joon Chang || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Economic thinking - about climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form
For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of economic...
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The Friction Project
How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
2024 || Paperback || Robert I. Sutton e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
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What If?2
Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
2023 || Paperback || Randall Munroe || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, and the Sunday Times bestseller What If?, even more hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
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Grant, A: Hidden Potential
2023 || Paperback || Adam Grant || Veltman Distributie Import Books
“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would’ve helped me find a more joyful path to progress.”
—Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis champion
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights.
We live in a world that’s obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students ...