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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 || 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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Warhol After Warhol
Power and Money in the Modern Art World
2023 || Paperback || Richard Dorment || Veltman Distributie Import Books
By the long-time art critic of &i>The Daily Telegraph&/i>, &i>Warhol After Warhol &/i>tells the David-and-Goliath story of collector Joe Simon and his struggles with the [Andy] Warhol Authentication Board, a tale of power, corruption and lies, a &i>Bad Blood&/i> for the art world.
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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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Life in Five Senses
How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World
2023 || Paperback || Gretchen Rubin || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Internationally bestselling author Gretchen Rubin's tour of the five senses, finding happiness through sight, sound, touch, taste and scent
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The Young Man
2023 || Paperback || Annie Ernaux || Veltman Distributie Import Books
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior.
“A sublime book.” —Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle
“Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigorous study of life and an experiment. These fragments of living, however evanescent, are precious, irreplaceable, like a skin that never fades.” —Caroline Montpetit in Le Devoir
The ...
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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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FUTURE OF GEOGRAPHY
2023 || Paperback || MARSHALL TIM || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century – new from the multi-million-copy international bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years.
This isn’t science fiction. It’s astropolitics.
Humans are heading up and out, and we’re taking our power struggles with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as much the mountains, rivers ...
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Conflict
The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
2023 || Paperback || David Petraeus e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Two leading authorities - a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time - collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945.
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Number Go Up
Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
2023 || Paperback || Zeke Faux || Veltman Distributie Import Books
he “endlessly entertaining” (Matt Levine) and “ludicrously compelling” (Evan Osnos) account of the crypto delusion, and how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless virtual coins into trillions of dollars
“One of the greatest business stories of all time.”—A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Puzzler
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the ...