Veltman Distributie Import Books (7)
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Size
How It Explains the World
2023 || Paperback || Vaclav Smil || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' Bill Gates
The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.
Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology, Smil busts myths around proportions - from bodies to paintings and the so-called golden ratio - tells us what Jonathan Swift got wrong in Gulliver's Travels - the giant Brobdingnagian's legs would buckle under their enormous weight - and di...
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This Way to the Universe
A Journey into Physics
2023 || Paperback || Michael Dine || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Extraordinary' Leonard Susskind
'A rare event' Sean Carroll
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When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible and authoritative book that would teach you about the Big Bang, Dark Matter, the Higgs boson and the cutting edge of physics now, he had nothing he could recommend.
So he wrote it himself.
In This Way to the Universe, Dine takes us on a fascinating tour through the history of modern physics - from Newtonian mechanics to quant...
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Size
The Measure of All Things
2023 || Paperback || Vaclav Smil || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' Bill Gates
100 words: The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.
Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology, Smil busts myths around proportions - from bodies to paintings and the so-called golden ratio - tells us what Jonathan Swift got wrong in Gulliver's Travels - the giant Brobdingnagian's legs would buckle under their enormous weig...
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Mountains of Fire
The Secret Lives of Volcanoes
2023 || Paperback || Clive Oppenheimer || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'What the French adventurer Jacques Cousteau was to the hidden world under our seas, Oppenheimer is to the hidden, molten world bubbling under our feet.'
SUNDAY TIMES
'A book that will make all readers want to become volcanologists.'
PETER FRANKOPAN
'Gripping ... like a thriller ... Oppenheimer is better than good. This is terrific.'
SPECTATOR
'Beautiful. Mountains of Fireis bursting with poetry, with storytelling. '
WERNER HERZOG
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Volcanoes mean so much more than threat and calamit...
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Planet Earth III
2023 || Hardcover || Michael Gunton e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The iconic series that started it all returns- accompanying an 8-part programme narrated by David Attenborough, Planet Earth III takes you closer than ever to the world's most fascinating animals and landscapes - and humanity's irrevocable impact upon them. There are over 100 billion planets in our galaxy. Only one is home to life. Ranging across seven dramatic habitats, from the depths of the ocean, to the scorching desert and into the to the darkest jungle, Planet Earth III showcases places...
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The Secret Lives of Numbers
A History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers
2023 || Paperback || Kate Kitagawa e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths
Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell introduce readers to the mathematical boundary-smashers who have been erased by history because of their race, gender or nationality.
From the brilliant Arabic scholars of the ...
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
THE WORD-OF-MOUTH SENSATION
2023 || Paperback || Gabrielle Zevin || Veltman Distributie Import Books
* RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * JIMMY FALLON BOOK CLUB PICK * GRAZIA SUMMER READING PICK *
'I just love this book and I hope you love it too' JOHN GREEN, TikTok
'I recently read this book and loved it ' CELESTE NG, Washington Post
This is not a romance, but it is about love
Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared wo...