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An Immense World
How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER)
2023 || Paperback || Ed Yong || Veltman Distributie Import Books
**Winner of the 2023 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize**
Discover the world as you've never seen it before - through the eyes of animals.
'Immersive and mind-blowing' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving only a tiny sliver of this world.
In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond...
The Darcy Myth
Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love
2023 || Paperback || Rachel Feder || Veltman Distributie Import Books
What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually pretty terrifying.
Influence is Your Superpower
How to Get What You Want Without Compromising Who You Are
2023 || Paperback || Zoe Chance || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Get what you want without compromising who you are: the new rules of persuasion to influence others for good
We're all nice. In fact, we're told we're too nice and we have to change to succeed: 'Play the game!'; 'Beat them down!'; 'Toughen up!'. Do we have to choose between betraying our own values and being left behind without a voice? Absolutely not. We can naturally be persuasive and successful every day without making enemies of ourselves or other people.
Influence is a science and renown...
Surrounded by Vampires
Or, How to Slay the Time, Energy and Soul Suckers in Your Life
2023 || Paperback || Thomas Erikson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the Sunday Times and international bestselling author of Surrounded by Idiots
-- Do conversations with certain people leave you feeling depleted or exhausted?
-- Do you have colleagues who take a lot of your time but don't actually do - or contribute - much?
-- Are there people in your life who diminish you through their words, actions or inactions?
You could be surrounded by Vampires! International bestselling author Thomas Erikson will help you recognize and deal with the three most co...
The Collaborators
Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II
2023 || Hardcover || Ian Buruma || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In this spellbinding account of three World War Two collaborators, prize-winning historian Ian Buruma examines questions of truth as he investigates their complex and tangled lives.
Maneki Neko
2023 || Hardcover || Nobuo Suzuki || Veltman Distributie Import Books
What does "good luck" look like and how do you achieve it? The Japanese have been doing it for centuries!
Lucky symbols, lucky numbers, lucky charms and luck-creating rituals--how is it that a disciplined and hard-working country like Japan is so invested in the idea of luck? And what, exactly, does "good luck" mean?
This insightful book by a leading expert on the subject explores the ways in which luck-encouraging and misfortune-repelling rituals--long woven into the fabric of Japanese life-...
The Fight Is Here
Volodymyr Zelensky and the War in Ukraine
2023 || Paperback || Simon Shuster || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the unmissable account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside the presidential compound in Kyiv, based on Shuster's unparalleled access to President Zelensky and his top aides.
Nomad Century
How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
2023 || Paperback || Gaia Vince || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award
'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' Observer
An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we live
We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of year...
Edible Economics
A Hungry Economist Explains the World
2023 || Paperback || Ha-Joon Chang || Veltman Distributie Import Books
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 economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a more interesting and balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of economic perspectives.
In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alon...
Broken Code
Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets
2023 || Paperback || Jeff Horwitz || Veltman Distributie Import Books
By an award-winning technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal, a behind-the-scenes look at the manipulative tactics Facebook used to grow its business, how it distorted the way we connect online, and the company insiders who found the courage to speak out
"A page-turning narrative of immense importance.” —James B. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author
Once the unrivaled titan of social media, Facebook held a singular place in ...