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Veltman Distributie Import Books (63)
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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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A Pipeline Runs Through It
The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War
2022 || Hardcover || Keith Fisher || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Petroleum has always been used by humans: as an adhesive by Neanderthals, as a waterproofing agent in Noah's Ark and as a weapon during the Crusades. Its eventual extraction from the earth in vast quantities transformed light, heat and power. A Pipeline Runs Through It is a fresh, comprehensive in-depth look at the social, economic, political and geopolitical forces involved in our transition to the modern oil age. It tells an extraordinary origin story, from the pre-industrial history of pet...
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Empireworld
How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
2024 || Hardcover || Sathnam Sanghera || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Beautifully written, and not just a welcome corrective but a book for our times. This is essential reading' Peter Frankopan
From the award-winning author of Empireland – the book that started a national conversation about how we talk about race and imperial history in Britain – a ground-breaking exploration of how British empire has shaped the world we live in today.
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Empireland examined imperialism's lasting impact on Britain. Empirew...
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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 Earth Transformed
An Untold History
2023 || Paperback || Frankopan Peter Frankopan || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts.
In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan shows that engagement with the natural world and with climatic change and their effects on us are not new: exploring, for instance, the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; tracing how growing demands for harvests r...
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Pathogenesis
How infectious diseases shaped human history
2023 || Paperback || Jonathan Kennedy || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Thrilling and eye-opening' Lewis Dartnell
'Unpicks everything we thought we knew... Mind blowing' Cal Flyn
Humans did not make history - we played host.
According to the accepted narrative of progress, a few great humans have bent the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, Dr Jonathan Kennedy argues that germs have done more to shape humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo sapiens over the equally intelligent Neanderthals to the fall of Rome and the rise of Islam.
How d...
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The World
2022 || Hardcover || Simon Sebag Montefiore || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A thrilling, epic and original history of humanity from a dazzlingly fresh and global perspective, from the prizewinning, bestselling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore.
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Normal Women
2023 || Paperback || Philippa Gregory || Veltman Distributie Import Books
One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history.
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Donald Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year
Paperback || Anonymous || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer-Prize winning reporters and authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Very Stable Genius
The true story of what took place in Donald Trump’s White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What was really going on around the president, as the government failed to contain the coronavirus and over half a million Americans perished? Who was infl...
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Femina
The instant Sunday Times bestseller - A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
2023 || Paperback || Janina Ramirez || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Janina Ramirez is a born storyteller, and in Femina she is at the peak of her powers. This is bravura narrative history underpinned by passionate advocacy for the women whom medieval history has too often ignored or overlooked. Femina is essential reading' - Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantagenets and Powers and Thrones
'I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in sun, moon and stars' - Hildegard of Bingen (1098 ...