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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Guy is 64, 1.70m tall, weighs a confident 100kg, and has had enough of Belgian women who keep checking his LinkedIn. So he does what any rational man would do: he flies to Kinshasa looking for true love. He finds Espérance - a stunning Tall Ebony Queen who calls him 'mon roi' and looks at him like he's special. (She's actually looking at his monthly pension.) What follows is a glorious, excruciating 14-day masterclass in self-deception. From synchronized family birthdays and the legendary Sandal Uncle's 'diamond mine that closes this Thursday,' to Koffi Olomide concerts where someone always forgets their wallet, dry rumba sessions with underwear firmly on, miracle pregnancies, and a very busy dead colonel with eight million dollars in Switzerland. Written by the victim himself - with zero self-awareness and maximum Belgian optimism - this book is savage black humor at its finest. A painfully funny portrait of a man who refuses to see what's happening while cheerfully funding it all.>Warning: May cause uncontrollable laughter, second-hand embarrassment, and a sudden urge to warn your divorced uncle.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Carried out of Rwanda at six years old, her shoes still in her uncle's coat pocket, Jeannette has spent thirty years in Brussels becoming someone composed, expensive, and impossible to reach. She is engaged to Émile-a good man who wants to marry her on the ground where her family died, and turn her grief into something that means. In the weeks before the wedding, she does the one thing that takes it all apart. What follows is not a story of healing. It is a quieter, harder thing. A woman goes back to a country she cannot remember and raises a daughter on the hill where her mother is a name read aloud once a year. She learns to dig the same ditch every April beside the people who survived it and the people who did it. And she is handed an inheritance she can never verify: a father who was either a hero or only a man who happened to fall the right way, and an old man's confession that he invented the kinder version because he could not carry the other. The Other Mornings is a spare, unflinching novella about memory, reconciliation, and the oldest temptation there is: to hand the people we love a meaning, and call it a fact. Cornelis van Houte.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - They have a leased truck, a financed engagement ring, a five-week-old son with his own affiliate code, and a credit score they lie about to each other. They have everything - except the money to pay for any of it. Everything they own is borrowed. Brayden and Ashleigh Mott live at 1184 Montalcino Court, in a subdivision named after a region of Italy its developers never visited. He sells a get-rich 'blueprint' to teenage boys from a Mercedes he rents by the hour. She performs a radiant 'lifestyle' for nine hundred followers from the one angle of the kitchen where the crack in the wall doesn't show. They are not solvent. They have not been solvent in years. But they are liquid - they can make today come out - and the machine they live inside has made being liquid feel so much like being rich that a person can spend an entire life never learning the difference. Three floors above them, in a sealed and silent house, a man named Carter Vandermeer owns a sliver of every payment they will ever miss. He has never heard their names. He never will. LIQUIDITY is a short, savage, blackly funny novella about debt, status, and the American hunger to be seen - a fable for the influencer age, built in two columns that rhyme: the couple drowning at the bottom of the ladder, and the billionaire who climbed all the way to the top and found the same beige nothing waiting for him there. For readers of Tom Wolfe, Gary Shteyngart, and Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.One evening to read. It will permanently ruin your relationship with the words passive income.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - >Stripping away decades of myth, memoir distortion, and political accounting, Stalingrad: In 100 Facts re-examines the turning point of the Eastern Front through hard evidence, archival returns, and operational mechanics. Written by independent military analyst Cornelis van Houte, this structured analysis challenges conventional narratives: - The August 23 Raid: Why a thousand tons of explosives destroyed the water mains rather than the defenders, turning the city into a multi-kilometre labyrinth where rubble beat tanks.- The Death Toll Dispute: Why the standard 40,000 daily casualty figure collapses under historical scrutiny-and why no one has a better replacement.- Order 227 & The NKVD Returns: The gap between popular estimates of 13,500 executions and the internal NKVD return recording 278 shot versus nearly 15,000 soldiers returned to the line.- The Tractor Factory: How Albert Kahn's Detroit-designed plant kept churning out T-34s under 900+ sorties and fell while workers crewed their own unpainted hulls.- Operation Uranus & The Airlift: How a naming convention for bomb racks starved a quarter-million men while Göring shopped in Paris.- The Sniper Legend: Displacing the unverified Zaytsev-König duel with the tactical triad system that actually worked.- The Last Field Marshal: Why Hitler promoted Paulus on his tenth anniversary to enforce an unwritten suicide note read at 07:00-and why Paulus declined the favor before breakfast.Concise, analytical, and grounded in primary source documentation, Stalingrad: In 100 Facts is essential reading for military history enthusiasts, tabletop strategists, and anyone seeking the mechanical reality behind the legend. Cornelis van Houte is an independent military analyst.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Telegram Said Berlin Had Lost Its Strategic Importance. The Same Day, Stalin Ordered the Largest Concentration of the War Against It. Why did Eisenhower write directly to Stalin before telling his own chief of staff-furiousing Churchill and setting off a transatlantic rift over a nonexistent Alpine redoubt Why did Stalin stop the front boundary 60 kilometres short of Berlin, setting Zhukov and Konev into a high-cost race across flooded floodplains and 9,000 blind searchlights And why did three quarters of the conquered city get handed over to Western allies who lost zero men taking it Berlin: In 100 Facts dismantles the operational fiction: - The April 1st Telegram: Eisenhower's direct bypass, Bradley's 100,000-casualty price tag for a prestige objective, and Stalin's diplomatic insurance clause.- The Boundary Stop at Lübben: Recreating Warsaw 1920 to force frontal attrition.- Seelow Heights: Heinrici emptying the front lines while 9,000 guns blasted mud and 143 Moscow searchlights silhouetted Red Army infantry from behind.- Paper Armies & Ghost Corps: Steiner's 12 French 1940 tanks, Wenck turning the wrong way to rescue 100,000 refugees across the Elbe, and Hitler's 07:00/working-afternoon collapses.- The Flak Tower & Nefertiti: 3.5-metre concrete walls, depressed 128mm tank killers, a garrison commander who wasn't commander, and staged Khaldei flag photos edited to remove double wristwatches.- The Cellar Accounting: 125,000 civilian deaths, mass suicides in Pomerania, and the 1992 medical-record extrapolation method behind the rape figures laid bare with source and methodology attached.- The Final Bill: 81,000 Soviet dead, 100,000 German soldiers, Bradley's estimate vindicated, and pre-signed occupation zones executed to the kilometre.Berlin: In 100 Facts. Zero diplomatic fog. Pure operational arithmetic. Cornelis van Houte is an independent military analyst.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When human nature is reduced to a variable, who decides which version survives In the cold, carpeted boardrooms of private equity and the windowless labs of Boston biotechs, a silent war is being waged over the levers of human behavior. Julian Vance is a corporate fixer who reads people the way actuaries read spreadsheets. His gift-or his curse-is an ability to see the gap between what people fear and what they claim to want. Hired by a ruthless private equity firm to determine the fate of two manufacturing plants, Julian coldly calculates which one lives and which one dies. But that is just a warm-up. His next assignment takes him to Aethelgard Biotherapeutics, a secretive neuro-pharma startup on the verge of a landmark FDA submission for an aggression-reduction drug. Behind the corporate PR and pristine labs lies a terrifying discovery: a nine percent clinical anomaly. A small fraction of patients aren't just getting calmer-they are losing the biological machinery of fear and guilt entirely. To corporate executives and mysterious offshore buyers, it isn't a dangerous side effect. It is a multi-million-dollar upgrade.>Part corporate thriller, part philosophical excavation of modern power, The Calculus of Concrete and Blood is a razor-sharp, chillingly plausible novel about a world where human emotion has been monetized, optimized, and prepared for deletion. For fans of Michael Clayton, Succession, and high-stakes techno-thrillers where the greatest danger isn't a weapon-it's the arithmetic.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some books shout at you. This one sits down beside you. Above the Kola Bay, in the far north of Russia, an old man is dying - and for the first time in his life he is unhurried. Pyotr Ilyich Garin spent forty years measuring the temperature of a cold sea, loved one woman for thirty-one years, buried more than he speaks of, and learned a few true things the slow way. Across one long autumn and winter, he gives them to a young man who arrives at his door with no direction and no idea what to do about it. The Long Light is the record of those evenings and the letters that came between them.There is no system here. No ten rules to make you hard and feared and rich. No shouting. Pyotr has nothing to sell, because the dying have nothing left to prove. What he offers instead are quiet, hard-won truths about the things every young man actually faces: - Why the feeling of being behind is not failure but a beginning- What is yours to control, and what will only exhaust you- How to choose work you can get better at for ten years- Why a man who must prove his strength has none- How to love a real person - and why you must want her free- What to do with pain you cannot avoid, and what to refuse- And, at the last, how to say yes to a whole life, losses and allDrawing honestly on Viktor Frankl, the Stoics, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky - used as they were meant to be, not as slogans - this is a book of counsel for a young man finding his feet. It is warm where the others are cold, and honest where the others are loud.>'You are not behind. You never were. You were only at the beginning, which is where we all start - and the beginning is the best part. It is the part with everything still in it.' Cornelis van Houte.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why is an outline the loudest thing about any object Why did dazzle ships actually use high-contrast patterns that made them stand out rather than hide And how did a stage magician, a group of modernist painters, and a series of broken enemy ciphers change the course of military history Camouflage in 100 Facts takes you on a fascinating, fast-paced journey through the science, history, and art of visual deception. Written for the general reader, this book strips away the myths to examine how human eyes-and modern sensors-actually process the world around us. Inside, explore 100 short, punchy, and thoroughly revealing facts covering: - The Perceptual Science: Why the retina detects edges before the brain ever sees an object, and why colour matching is the least important part of concealment.- The Animal Kingdom: How Abbott Handerson Thayer proved countershading with sweet potatoes on wires, why zebras are actually about biting flies instead of predators, and the truth behind disruptive patterns.- The Artists in Uniform: How World War I brought academic painters, cubists, and theatrical scene-makers to the frontlines to build hollow steel observation trees and dazzle warships.- Masterclasses in Deception: The brilliant double substitutions of Operation Bertram at El Alamein, the real mechanics of the American Ghost Army, and how Soviet maskirovka scaled deception into full operational doctrine.- The Feedback Loop: Why Operation Fortitude succeeded because Allied cryptographers could read German high-level radio traffic within hours, turning deception from a hopeful guess into a measurable science.- The Modern Era: The challenges of thermal imaging, near-infrared reflectance, digital pixel patterns, and a multi-billion dollar uniform procurement misadventure.Packed with historical detail, technical insight, and sharp wit, Camouflage in 100 Facts proves that concealment isn't about blending into a landscape-it's an ongoing argument with a visual system. Cornelis van Houte, military consultant.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - JUSTINIAN AND BYZANTIUM IN 100 FACTS The Emperor, the Empress, and the Empire That Outlasted Rome Itself Our single richest source for Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora wrote three completely different accounts of the same reign - and all three came from the same pen. Procopius of Caesarea praised Justinian's generals in his official History of the Wars. He praised Justinian's architecture in near-worshipful terms in his Buildings. And in a third book - hidden for over a thousand years until its 1623 rediscovery deep in the Vatican Library - he called Justinian a literal demon in human form, capable of removing his own head at will. This book exists to walk through exactly that contradiction, fact by fact, rather than picking whichever portrait makes the better story. Justinian rose from a peasant family in the Balkans to rule the entire Eastern Roman world. He married Theodora, a former actress and courtesan whose path to the throne required Roman law itself to be rewritten. Together they survived a week-long riot that killed tens of thousands and nearly cost them everything - then rebuilt Constantinople's skyline, commissioned the greatest legal code in history, and raised Hagia Sophia in under six years.>The story continues far beyond Justinian's own reign - through an empress who restored a controversial religious practice by blinding her own son, through the catastrophe of 1204, when a crusade meant for Jerusalem sacked the greatest Christian city on earth instead, and finally to a single devastating morning in 1453, when the last Roman emperor tore off his imperial regalia and died fighting in the street like an ordinary soldier. Organized across eight parts - Justinian's rise, his reconquest of the lost West, his legal revolution, Hagia Sophia, the plague and Procopius himself, theological schism, the later empire, and the long road to 1453 - this book gives you Byzantium the way the evidence actually demands it: sourced, corrected where correction is overdue, and honest about what remains genuinely uncertain. A companion to this author's volumes on Roman law, the twelve Caesars, the Roman army, the fall of Rome, and Latin's afterlife - same rigor, same method, following Rome's other half for another thousand years.>Dr. Cornelis van Houte.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The weapon that ended the Cold War was never fired. Its entire effect took place inside the enemy's head.>The Cold War: In 100 Facts by Cornelis van Houte is a rigorous, eye-opening examination of the mechanics of deterrence. Stripping away political moralizing and hindsight bias, this book explores the cold logic of a world held together by mutual terror, proxy wars, and near-miss accidents that came closer to catastrophe than the public ever knew.Inside, discover the unvarnished history behind the headlines: - The Psychology of Deterrence: Why a weapon that cannot be used must be believed, and why survivability mattered far more than raw destructive power.- The Intelligence Gaps: How false alarms, phantom 'bomber and missile gaps,' and misread data consistently drove the arms race.- The Hidden Crises: The secret half of the Cuban Missile Crisis deal regarding Turkey, and the Soviet submarine officer who prevented a nuclear strike by refusing to follow protocol.- The True Cost of Stability: How a 'cold' war in Europe was paid for by millions of dead in proxy conflicts across Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.- The Unplanned Collapse: How an economic crisis, an oil price shock, and a shifting belief system dismantled an empire without a shot being fired.Sharply analytical and rich with historical detail, this book reframes how we look at strategy, technology, and the fragile architecture of global peace. Perfect for history buffs, political science readers, and anyone fascinated by the hidden machinery of the twentieth century. Cornelis van Houte.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - >The Reach rewrites our understanding of the Second World War by anchoring every campaign-from Barbarossa and the Atlantic U-boat wolf packs to the strategic air offensive and the final push into Germany-in the unglamorous, inescapable arithmetic of tonnage, fuel consumption, railway gauges, and port capacity. German 'Blitzkrieg' was an improvised gambler's throw; the mighty German army walked and pulled its artillery with 600,000 horses; Soviet railways required physical conversion gauge by gauge; and American industrial might crossed oceans not just with tanks, but with hundreds of thousands of lorries and portable coral-lagoon fleet bases. Stripping away nationalist myth, post-war apologism, and technological fetishism, Cornelis van Houte demonstrates a single governing rule of the twentieth century: Production only counts where it arrives.- 100 concise, evidence-driven facts cutting through conventional historical narratives.- Redefines strategy: Why logistics is the numerator and denominator of military power.- Reevaluates turning points: From the real cause of the freeze outside Moscow to the bookkeeping reality of the 'Speer miracle,' the U-boat air gap, and the true cost of strategic bombing.Cornelis van Houte is an independent military analyst.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Forget the marble statues, imperial marble arches, and Hollywood mythmaking. Real life in ancient Rome meant waking up without a minute-hand, living in a four-storey timber apartment block that could catch fire or collapse at any moment, and getting your hot water, warmth, and cooking done outside because your home had no kitchen, chimney, or tap above ground level. Written by doctor of laws Cornelis van Houte, Ancient Roman Daily Life: In 100 Facts strips away classical romanticism to examine how a city of a million people actually functioned. Based strictly on archaeology, graffiti, law codes, and administrative tallies rather than polite literary fantasies, this book uncovers: - Time as a proportion: Why an hour in June was two-thirds longer than an hour in December, why minutes didn't exist, and why Rome ran for 99 years on a public sundial cut for the wrong latitude.- The architecture of survival: Why forty thousand apartment blocks (insulae) overshadowed elite townhouses, why rent hit the poor harder per square foot, and why fire was a permanent background condition.- Public luxury as private necessity: Why the famous Roman baths were actually your only chance at winter heat and hot water, and why public latrines seated twenty people side-by-side with zero partitions.- The diet of an empire: Bread as the meal, garum as fermented fish-gut chemistry, watered wine as a moral baseline, and zero tomatoes, potatoes, citrus, or sugar .- Bodies and households: Life expectancy stats that mean nobody died at twenty-five, slave-run economies where a freedman could become a citizen, and the daily-fed household gods (Lares and Penates).A grounded, sharp, and eye-opening corrective for history readers who want to know how the ancient world actually felt on the skin, down the stairs, and at the ninth-hour table Cornelis van Houte.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Isaac Newton did not invent calculus in a single miraculous year while hiding from the plague, and serious historians of science now openly call that popular story a myth. Calculus in 100 Facts dismantles comforting historical fiction to reveal the messy, human, and genuinely awe-inspiring reality behind the mathematics of change. Across eight structured parts, this book traces the journey from Archimedes' scraped-clean palimpsest and medieval Oxford physics pioneers to Gottfried Leibniz's superior notation, the Royal Society's compromised 1712 tribunal, Bishop Berkeley's devastating 'ghosts of departed quantities,' and the epsilon-delta revolution of Cauchy and Weierstrass. Discover why: - The Merton College Oxford Calculators proved uniform acceleration kinematics three centuries before Galileo.- Newton's famous gravity-inducing apple took twenty-one years to become a published theory.- Leibniz wrote the first integral sign on 29 October 1775 (and why his symbols won the notation war).- Calculus worked reliably for 150 years despite logical foundations that made no sense.- The same math predicting planetary orbits helped model COVID-19 and keeps smartphone GPS accurate to the meter.Backed by primary sources, rigorous historical scholarship, and clear mathematical narrative, this book honors the real persistence required to build the tools quietly running beneath modern engineering, physics, and digital technology. Cornelis van Houte. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Three wars. One century. Zero survivors. Rome wanted hegemony. Carthage wanted trade. What followed was a brutal, asymmetric crash of naval industrialization, mercenary mutinies, Alps-defying strategy, and total annihilation. The Punic Wars in 100 Facts cuts through Livy's drama and Roman spin to map the cold mechanics of how a republic learns to commit total war: - The Bootleg Navy: How Rome copied a stranded enemy hull and learned to rule the waves the hard way.- The Hannibal Trap: Why Cannae was a masterpiece of tactical physics, and why sitting outside the Servian Wall broke a general's math.- The Counter-Punch: Scipio, Numidian pivot points, and the reality of Zama.- The Receipt: Debunking the salt myth, analyzing Cato's obsession, and watching a superpower get unmade.Fast, lethal, zero fluff. Cornelis van Houte is an independent military analyst.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How did a governing body with zero legislative power, zero command authority, and zero means of enforcement run the largest state in the western world for four centuries The Roman Senate in 100 Facts takes you inside the curia, the temples, and the civil wars to examine the machinery of an empire built on custom (mos maiorum) and weight of reputation (auctoritas). From the math of a legionary's pay and Caesar's re-oriented Senate house to the day a Roman drew a circle in the sand around a king, this book traces how three hundred men held an empire together-and how loyalty shifted from the state to the general when armies needed land. Drawing directly on internal witnesses like Cicero, Tacitus, and bronze-inscribed decrees, Cornelis van Houte strips away modern constitutional assumptions to show how a state without a written constitution actually worked, broke, and lingered for six hundred years under emperors, Goths, and popes before becoming a church. Cornelis van Houte, doctor of laws.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Invasion of Russia: In 100 FactsWhy the Most Admired Data Graphic Ever Made Was Drawn Fifty-Seven Years Later by an Engineer of Eighty-Eight Explore the true story behind Charles Joseph Minard's legendary statistical graphic of Napoleon's 1812 campaign. While Edward Tufte famously hailed Minard's map as one of the best data graphics ever drawn, the popular narrative surrounding it hides a surprising reality. The Invasion of Russia: In 100 Facts by Cornelis van Houte breaks down the campaign through bite-sized, meticulously researched facts. Discover why the army actually died in the summer heat rather than the winter snow, how logistics and transport failures doomed the invasion before it reached Moscow, what the rations and transport wagons reveal about Napoleon's original plan, and how modern DNA science is rewriting what we know about the mass graves discovered in Vilnius. Uncovering the historical myths, the hidden caveats in Minard's original caption, and the stark contrast between battlefield deaths and systemic attrition, this book offers a fresh look at one of history's greatest military disasters. Cornelis van Houte.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stop Performing. Start Existing. The modern man is a walking billboard for things he doesn't own and a life he isn't actually living. He drives a $64,000 SUV with a 2.0 litre engine to a job that produces nothing but 'marketing synergies,' all while worrying about the hair on his shoulders and the filter on his latest post. He is The Depilated Ghost: a polished, hairless shell of a human, terrified of the very silence he works so hard to buy. In 'THE DEPILATED GHOST,' Cornelis van Houte strips away the 'Suburban Soy-Boy' aesthetic to reveal the 'Frostian' alternative: The Man from Murmansk. This isn't just another self-help book-it is a cold, rhythmic, and devastatingly witty autopsy of the Western middle class. Van Houte contrasts our obsession with cosmetic appearance against a 'Frostian' doctrine of operational substance. Through ten sharp, cynical chapters, you will learn why: - Your gear is lying to you: Why a 20-year-old Hilux is more honest than a luxury German 'monument'.- Your gym routine is vanity: The difference between 'Instagram biceps' and the attrition-hardened body of a man who can actually survive a crisis.- Your career is fluff: Why a $50-million problem is solved on a napkin with 'legal algebra,' not a 47-slide PowerPoint.- True presence is invisibility: Why the most dangerous man in the room is the one no one remembers.'The Grey Man is what is left when you stop adding'. If you are tired of living for the 'Starbucks-Lobby' audience and ready to rediscover a masculinity built on competence, silence, and real-world utility, it's time to meet Frost. Trade the performance for the person. Buy 'THE DEPILATED GHOST' today.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Are you tired of being targeted because of your greatest strengths Real manipulation rarely wears an obvious costume of malice; instead, it borrows the faces of charm, empathy, and vulnerability. In The Vor Code: Psychological Sovereignty in a World of Manipulation, Dr. Cornelis van Houte delivers a groundbreaking, evidence-based manual for anyone who has ever found themselves trapped by a high-conflict relationship, toxic workplace, or subtle coercive control. Drawing on clinical psychology, the hard science of psychopathy, and a striking structural translation of the historical vory v zakone (the ultimate closed-trust economy), this book moves far beyond generic self-help.Discover how to: - Recognize the Manipulation Sequence: Map out the hidden stages from early 'love bombing' to DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) before you lose your footing.- Protect Your Empathy: Learn why empathetic, fair-minded people make prime targets, and how to establish graduated, evidence-based access instead of closing your heart.- Master the Iron Boundary: Use communication disciplines like the broken-record technique and strategic silence to stop entering the manipulator's frame.- Build an Information Fortress: Stop trading your private details for unearned intimacy and construct an asymmetric life where no single point of failure can compromise your peace.Stop waiting for closure, understanding, or fairness from those incapable of giving it. Reclaim your sovereignty, trust your patterns over promises, and become expensive to manipulate. The Vor Code: Absolute defense against psychological predators.…