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Veltman Distributie Import Books (20)

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The Song of the Cell

An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

2023 || Paperback || Siddhartha Mukherjee || Veltman Distributie Import Books

**A NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST, MAIL ON SUNDAY and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR**

'Will leave you in awe' Guardian

From the dawn of life itself, every being that has ever lived owes its existence to the cell.

The discovery of this vital form led to a transformation in medicine but also in our understanding of ourselves - not as bodies or machines but as ecosystems. It has also given us the power to treat a vast array of mortal maladies...and even to create new kinds of human alto...

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How the World Really Works

A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

2022 || Paperback || Vaclav Smil || Veltman Distributie Import Books

'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life, this is the book to read. It's a tour de force' BILL GATES

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We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, ...

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Fevered Planet

How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature

2023 || Paperback || John Vidal || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Covid-19, monkeypox, bird flu, SARS, HIV, AIDS, Ebola; we are living in the Age of Pandemics - one that we have created. As the climate crisis reaches a fever pitch and ecological destruction continues unabated, we are just beginning to reckon with the effects of environmental collapse on our global health.

Fevered Planet exposes how the way we farm, what we eat, the places we travel to and the scientific experiments we conduct create the perfect conditions for deadly new diseases to emerge a...

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A Brief History of Black Holes

And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong

2023 || Paperback || Becky Dr Smethurst || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Black holes are the universe's strangest and most fascinating objects. In A Brief History of Black Holes, Dr Becky explores the mysteries and realities of this misunderstood phenomenon - and that nearly everything you know about them is wrong.

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To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before

A Joyous Journey Through All of Science

2023 || Hardcover || Luke O'Neill || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Science is a serious business, right? Wrong.

Scientists have been participants in the best reality show of all time, with all the highs, lows, bust-ups, and strange personalities of any show on telly today. From Luke O'Neill - the science teacher you wish you'd had - this hugely accessible history of science reveals the human stories behind the biggest discoveries.

For example, we meet Charles Darwin as he weighs up the pros and cons of marrying his cousin: 'constant companion' vs 'less money...

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A Brief History of Intelligence

Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI

2023 || Paperback || Max Bennett || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A Brief History of Brains bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be.

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Planet Earth III

Accompanies the Landmark Series Narrated by David Attenborough

2023 || Hardcover || Matt Brandon 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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Determined

A Science of Life without Free Will

2023 || Paperback || Robert M. Sapolsky || Veltman Distributie Import Books

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences

Robert Sapolsky’s Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: We may not grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the physics and chemistry at the base of human behavior, but ...

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The Nightsilver Promise

2021 || Paperback || Annaliese Avery || Veltman Distributie Import Books

An epic, fate-fighting adventure like no other. A stunningly imagined new series. The Nightsilver Promise is a future classic, stunningly imagined. A Game of Thrones for middle-grade that is perfect for fans of Nevermoor, Philip Pullman, and Neil Gaiman.