London 2023: Non-Fiction List

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The Atlas of the Brain

A visual journey

Lara Wierenga & Dirma Janse

The most recent fascinating insights about the brain, accessibly written and beautifully illustrated

Unique collaboration between a neuroscientist (University of Leiden) and an information designer (TU Delft)

Lara Wierenga has been nominated for the prestigious 2023 Young Investigator Award in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Neuroscientist Lara Wierenga and graphic designer Dirma Janse join forces for this unique book project. Their goal: acquaint the public with the wondrous machine that is our brain.

Through 30 interesting questions (e.g. "How does the brain learn things?") and hundreds of fascinating illustrations and infographics they take you along for a visual exploration of the human brain. Thanks to the original layout and countless interesting facts, they provide insight into complex brain science.

7,000 copies sold

Lara Wierenga is a neuroscientist and lecturer at the University of Leiden. She specializes in the brain development of children. Among other things, she researches why boys have ADHD more often than girls, what music classes teach us about the growth of the brain and what our first love tells us about the workings of the teenage brain. Dirma Janse is a graphic designer and specializes in infographics and scientific visualisations. She looks for visual solutions to display complex information more clearly to the wider public. She’s a lecturer of Science Vision at TU Delft and also worked for Dutch newspaper NRC.

250 x 320 mm | 256 pages | 118,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover Simplified Chinese rights sold

Delve into the texts, absorb the beautiful visualizations, and fill your brain with a lot of new knowledge and wonder

– Leading Dutch newspaper NRC

There are many books on the brain, but The Atlas of the Brain is both exceptionnally claryfying and beautiful.

– Leading Belgian newspaper De Morgen

Flora Batava 1800-1934

The Wild Plants of the Netherlands

Esther van Gelder, Norbert Peeters

Unique masterpiece that displays 134 years of Western European natural history

With 100 fascinating new stories by contemporary scientists and plant lovers alike

When publisher Jan Christiaan Sepp started an illustrated overview of all Dutch plants in 1800, he could never have suspected that the last part would only be published in 1934. Eventually the Flora Batava consisted of 28 books: a giant’s labour to which an extensive circle of amateur botanists, senior lecturers and artists contributed. This resulted in the up to then most complete inventory of indigenous flora of the country. An anthology that on top of that beautifully illustrates the large changes to the Dutch landscape, the science and the appreciation for national nature.

This one-volume republication contains a collection of all 2240 engravings which encompass more than 2630 plants, mushrooms, lichens, and algae painted from life. One hundred iconic species are shown with their original text and feature a new story written by a network of plant connoisseurs and admirers. Along with the extensive introduction and the index of species this new Flora Batava offers a colorful image of the Dutch plant world and the wonders it contains.

250 x 300 mm | 912 pages | 55,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Esther van Gelder is a cultural historian and curator of old prints at the Dutch National Library (KB Nationale bibliotheek). She specializes in the history of natural history and scientific book culture. Norbert Peeters is a botanical philosopher and author of, among others, Botanical Revolution: the Botany of Charles Darwin and Wilderness-Varnish: a Philosopher in the Vondelpark.

Maps that Made History

1000 years of world history in 100 old maps

Martijn Storms

100 exceptional maps that put their mark on world history

The most beautiful and intriguing old maps from the world-renowned collections of Leiden University

From the worldview of Isidorus of Seville (7th century) to a Chinese propaganda map from 2013

This book takes you on a thousand-year world tour through a hundred exceptional old maps. From the early medieval worldview of the cleric Isidore of Seville through to a Chinese propaganda map from 2013, via a Nazi map of Warsaw planning the outlines of the Jewish ghetto. From Leiden to Ceylon, Jamaica, Philadelphia and the Sahara, and from exuberant charts of the world to local maps. Each of these maps has helped 'create' world history: they not only reflect the past but have also left their mark on it.

280 x 340 mm | 432 pages | 110,000 words full colour images | hardcover

Korean rights sold, English rights unavailable

English manuscript available

In this book, an international team of historians tells a hundred fascinating stories about remarkable maps from the renowned collections of Leiden University Libraries. These include gems of exceptional aesthetic value and curiosities that are now being shown to the general public for the first time. Together, they make this book a visual feast: a unique look at the past, and one that you will come back to time and again in the future.

Martijn Storms is Curator of Maps and Atlases of Leiden University Libraries. He is assisted by some fourty international experts and authors.

Solace

Ordinary Words by Dirk De Wachter

His most personal book so far, with already more than 50,000 copies sold

The best-selling author of The Art of Being Unhappy and Borderline Times

Offers a unique perspective of a universal subject

As a psychiatrist you’re trained to stand by people during hardship, guide them and give them a helping hand.

But what do you do when you yourself are struck by fate? How do you find comfort during hardship? And who can you turn to?

In this personal book, Dirk De Wachter researches how we can find comfort during moments of hardship. It can be found in art, nature, beauty, in thoughts and rituals, but most of all: in others.

The Art of Being Unhappy French, Complex Chinese and Czech rigths sold

Bestselling title for 10 years

Borderline Times Czech rights sold

140 x 210 mm | 240 pages | 31,000 words paperback | all rights available

Dirk De Wachter is psychiatrist-psychotherapist and head of systemic and family therapy at the University Psychiatric Centre KU Leuven. Earlier publications of his are: Borderline Times, Love. An Impossible Desire?, The World of De Wachter and The Art of Being Unhappy.

Love. An impossible desire?

all rights available

Younger Every Year

The science of rejuvenation or how you can cheat time

What would happen if you were able to hack your biological system and slow down aging by means of smart adjustments?

Recent developments in the science of aging explained for the broad public

This book helps you to differentiate between effective, promising interventions and charlatanism

Humankind is the product of more than three million years of evolution. That evolution is, in the first place, aimed at the best possible distribution of our genes. Sadly, age-related diseases are an unfortunate side effect of that. To nature, it isn’t really that interesting to have us grow very old. But what would happen if we could hack our biological system and in this way slow down aging?

Science Fiction? Not quite. In the past twenty years the science of aging has been developing rapidly. We know what the most important causes are and how we can slow them down, stop them and in some cases even revert them.

About a dozen of studies are happening at the moment and the first results are often astounding. A fast growing group of people that call themselves biohackers already apply these techniques to themselves, but this is not without risk. Luckily there are also proven and safe techniques that you can apply immediately to become younger every year. This book helps you to differentiate between promising interventions and outright charlatanism, so you can pick what is possible and desirable for you, now and in the near future.

170 x 240 mm | 240 pages | 70,000 words paperback | all rights available

Prof. dr. em. Reginald Deschepper is a medical anthropologist and one of the driving forces behind LifeMe. The organization wants to influence lifestyle in a scientifically sound way, to prevent, treat and – if possible – revert chronic illness.

Exercising after Cancer

8 steps to more energy and self-confidence

A handbook inducing the right incentive and motivation to dare to start, exercise, enjoy after disease

A positive guideline with concrete, practical tips and inspiring anecdotes

In Exercising after Cancer Ulla Lust doesn’t just address cancer survivors –people whose treatment has ended – but rather everyone, who after a long period of disease wants to lead an active life again, to be able to manage their work assignments again, to experience social life to the fullest again, wants to search for opportunities and solutions…

After an extensive introduction about the importance of exercising, Ulla presents an eight-step plan, a handbook that helps (cancer) patients to look for the right incentives and motivation to dare to start (over).

170 x 240 mm | 144 pages | 29,000 words duotone illustrations | paperback all rights available

In 2005, Ulla Lust was diagnosed with breast cancer. She now works as a mobility coach in oncology. It is her mission to help mainly cancer survivors to regain their health by motivating them to exercise, in their own way, at their own speed.

Everything Starts with Self-Care

The new bestseller by a renowned psychotherapist: over 30,000 copies sold

Appealing illustrations by Eva

Self-knowledge is the key to true self-care

Everything Starts with Self-Care. Listening more closely to the signals your body sends you. Taking a second to think about how you feel and what you need. Bringing more resilience and peace into your life.

In this book, Nina Mouton takes you on the road towards more and better selfcare. She shows how you can spot bruises from the past, can disrupt fixed patterns and watch over your limits. She explains why self-care isn’t an egotistical choice. On the contrary, by taking better care of yourself, you will also be able to take better care of others around you.

Are you ready to radically choose for yourself? Then this inspiring book is the first step!

150 x 220 mm | 208 pages | 46,000 words hardcover with dust jacket | Russian rights sold

Nina Mouton is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and much sought after expert in media. In 2020 she started some very successful online training programs about, among other things, self-care.

Breathing Differently

Increase your resilience and arm yourself against stress, burnout and chronic hyperventilation

Dirk Heylen

Without realising it, many people deal with chronic hyperventilation

This book offers insight and helps you on the way to a better a more healthy breathing pattern

With many concrete exercises and practical tips

Stress can make you unconsciously start breathing too rapidly and too deeply. This launches you into a vicious circle: the CO2 balance in your body is upset, because of which your start breathing even more rapidly and deeply. The result? Even more stress.

But there’s good news too: your breathing is the only part of the natural stress response of your body that you can control. This means you can direct your breathing towards lowering your stress and increasing your resilience.

This book explains why breathing is so important and offers insight into your own breathing pattern. Through accessible exercises, you learn to adopt a healthier breathing pattern, which will lead to a more energetic, healthier and stress free life.

150 x 240 mm | 240 pages | 57,000 words paperback | all rights available

Dirk Heylen, the founder of TODI Indoor Diving Centre, discovered the importance of good breathing through his passion for diving. As a stress and burn-out coach he uses breathing as a first step to recovery. He offers stress and burn-out prevention programs and workshops in companies. He’s the driving force behind Spiras, a trend-setting academy for breathing.

Activate Your Vagus Nerve

Broadly accessible book on the polyvagal theory, a revolutionary answer to stress, anxiety complaints and trauma

Includes a practical part with tips and exercises

Written by a renowned expert in the field of stress and burnout

For a long time we’ve been searching for the answer to stress and anxiety complaints in our brain. However, recent studies have shown that we have to look beyond that. That’s where the vagus nerve (or pneumogastric nerve) comes in. It runs through your entire body and is connected to all your organs. No wonder you feel stress and anxiety in your entire body! The good news is that you can use that very same vagus nerve to send positive messages to your body. For this connecting with other people is crucial.

This insight lies at the heart of the groundbreaking polyvagal theory by the American neuropsychiatrist Stephen W. Porges. Stress expert Luc Swinnen translates these insights into concrete tools to activate and stimulate the vagus nerve. Step by step this allows you to strengthen your resilience and put an end to stress-related complaints.

Upcoming title: Strengthen Your Vagus Nerve

20,000 copies sold

Luc Swinnen is an internationally renowned expert in the field of stress and burn-out. Like no other he knows how to translate recent scientific insights into insightful and practical books for the general reader.

155 x 240 mm | 240 pages | 61,500 words paperback | all rights available

Great Minds Think Unalike

The Benefits of ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia and OCD

A surprising look at neurodiversity with many recognizable examples

For (young)adults on the wide spectrum of ADHD, ASD, dyslexia or OCD

An answer to the growing attention for neurodiversity in education and the business world

You can’t sit still. You don’t like unannounced visitors. You always triple-check if the lights are out. But you also see details that no-one else notices. You’re always coming up with surprising solutions. You can focus intensely for hours at a stretch. Usually without realising it, many people lie somewhere on the spectrum of a neurodivergent condition.

We often tend to focus on the many downsides of neurodivergent conditions such as AD(H)D, ASD, dyslexia and OCD. This book takes a different approach by looking in depth at the special talents that go hand in hand with these conditions. Whether you already have a diagnosis or simply feel you’re somewhere on the neuroatypical spectrum, one thing is certain: once you’ve identified your unique talents, you’ll be able to make more focused choices in your life and work.

Peter Ampe is an internationally acclaimed advertising creative and columnist whose writing credits include the UK-based creativity magazine Little Black Book. He has distinct traits of ASD and ADHD. Emily Rammant is a business engineer, business coach and co-founder of the coaching firm YIN United. With her mild form of ADHD and slight traits of OCD, and a hefty dose of emotional intelligence, she supports people and businesses struggling with issues of identity, leadership and corporate culture.

Great Minds Think Unalike

150 x 200 mm | 208 pages | 38,000 words paperback | all rights available, except for English rights English manuscript available

Our economy needs creativity and innovation in order to stand out. This book shows that neurodivergent people can make all the difference. A book brimming with positivity!

Worries of the Mind

Understanding psychosis in 33 questions

Stijn Vanheule & Jim van Os

Clear answers to recognizable questions

Written by the preeminent psychosis authorities from the Low Countries

Gives an overall view on what psychosis is

What are psychotic experiences? Is psychosis a brain disease? Is the use of lifelong medication absolutely necessary? Is psychotherapy even a good idea? Can trauma cause psychosis? Are people suffering from psychotic issues dangerous to their surroundings or to themselves? And how do you recover from psychosis?

Renowned experts Stijn Vanheule and Jim van Os throw light onto the biggest misconceptions. By means of specific questions, the most recent scientific findings and practical experience, this book explains what psychotic experiences are exactly, how they develop and in what way they are treated best.

150 x 230 mm | 232 pages | 50,000 words

B&W illustrations | paperback

Spanish rights sold

Stijn Vanheule is senior lecturer of clinical psychology and psychoanalysis at Ghent University. He’s an internationally acclaimed expert on Lacan, and an expert concerning psychosis and psychiatric diagnosis, administrator of PsychoseNet in Belgium, and a much sought-after speaker in Flanders and The Netherlands. Jim van Os is a senior lecturer of psychology at Utrecht University, member of the KNAW, Fellow of King’s College London and chairman of PsychoseNet in The Netherlands.

Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy

English rights sold

Mom, Am I Too Fat?

Helping Your Teenager Grow to a Positive Body Image and Eating Habits

The survival guide for parents of children with (starting) eating disorders

An accessible and approachable aid to prevent eating disorders

Supplemented with practical tips, recognisable testimonies, and interesting facts about eating disorders

Parents play an important role in the prevention of eating disorders, but how do we do this exactly? How do you recognise whether your child or teenager has an unhealthy relationship with weight and food? When do you start discussing the subject? What do you put on the table? And how can you mildly influence your child developing a more positive relationship with their body?

In this guide, psychologist and founder of Eetexpert (Eating-expert) An Vandeputte offers well-founded answers to a parent’s most common questions and concretely tackles many frequent doubts and concerns. From the contents of the pantry to the opening sentence of conversations about health and weight.

170 x 240 mm | 176 pages | 54,000 words paperback | all rights available

An Vandeputte is a clinical psychologist and behavioural therapist. She is the founder and driving force behind Eetexpert.be, the Flemish Research Centre for Eating and Weight Disorders. For years, she has been teaching prevention and treatment of eating disorders at several Belgian universities.

My Child Has OCD

When Compulsion Governs Your Child’s Life

Else de Haan, Lidewij Wolters, Roos van Eik

Many children – often unnoticedly – suffer from obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours

The impact of OCD on the child and their family is underestimated

Written by a parent and two psychologists: extremely recognisable and at the same time thoroughly founded

Julie is 9 when she develops an obsessive disorder. Her parents help her as well as they can, but stumble upon a bunch of problems and questions. They are not alone. Many parents who have a child with OCD stumble upon the same challenges. The problems, questions and emotions of these parents are a central subject in this book.

It tells the story of Julie exactly like it happened. Two psychologists with extensive experience in counselling children with obsessive disorders give the necessary comments. When does compulsion become problematic? What treatment is possible? How can you best react as parents? And what does it mean for the rest of your family? A book that recognises and offers support to parents of children with a compulsive disorder so they feel less alone.

155 x 240 mm | 240 pages | 56,000 words paperback | all rights available

Dr. Else de Haan is an emeritus professor of cognitive behavioral therapy in children and adolescents. Dr. Lidewij Wolters is a Doctor of Psychology and researcher at Accare. They wrote this book in cooperation with Roos van Eik, mother of a daughter with OCD.

Parents are from Mars

The Book You Need to Read to Understand Your Teenager

Short, practical tips and information

With a high dosage of humour

Finding answers to better understand your teenager

The hard and difficult years are over, no more ‘Team No Sleep’, no more toddler puberty and babysitting … Lovely, an independent child that doesn’t need to be constantly entertained and with whom you can have interesting conversations and do grown-up stuff… Alas! All you get is a cup full of fresh hormones. It’s a truly unique blend: the TEENAGER.

Who are they? What do they do? What drives them? Important questions… because it seems to be entirely unclear to their parents. Starting from about 50 typical, yet entirely incomprehensible ways of behaviour/exclamations of teenagers, we go looking for answers. With the help of experts, of course. Hopefully, they will know!

Evelien Kayaert is the mother of two teenagers and Lifestyle Publisher at Lannoo. In 2015 she founded Mama Baas, an online community for and by mothers and guided by experts. Considering her children are teenagers now, she founded Tieners in Huis in 2022, a similar concept yet directed at the parents of teenagers. Anky De Frangh has a master’s degree in clinical psychology specialising in children, youths and family. She’s also trained as a behavioural therapist and the mother of two children.

The Pelvic Floor Book

Everything women need to know about their pelvic floor

Hedwig Neels

Practical handbook with clear basic exercises

Filled with ready-made information for all women

Everything you need to know about the pelvic floor, complemented with relevant testimonials

In The Pelvic Floor Book expert Hedwig Neels provides you with some fundamental basic principles and first guidelines. By writing this book she wants to take away the insecurities that many women still feel with regard to this subject.

She follows a woman’s life circle, so that both young and old women can learn something from this book. She introduces some preventive guidelines, but also tackles the already existing issues in a positive way, without trying to minimise them.

170 x 240 mm | 176 pages | 43,000 words full colour illustrations | paperback | all rights available French manuscript available

Hedwig Neels is a postdoctoral researcher and pelvic floor expert. She is the driving force behind the website www.thepelvicfloor.be, and wants to break the taboo on the pelvic floor and other related issues.

The Book of Self-Reflection

An open-hearted journal to get to know yourself better Sarah Dimani

A candid fill-in-the-blanks book for every self-conscious woman

‘Conversationalist’ and influencer Sarah Dimani perfectly knows what occupies the Instagram generation

Includes pointed questions and lists to explore your own thoughts

• What title would you give this chapter of your life?

• If you knew you wouldn’t fail, what would you do?

• What advice do you give to your friends that you also should take to heart?

• When do you really feel self-assured?

• What do you sometimes change about your appearance and why?

Sometimes intimately, sometimes brazenly, but always in a brutally honest way The Book of Self-Reflection invites you to ask yourself the questions that every self-conscious woman should think about anno 2022. Accompanied by personal fill-in-the-blank lists, confronting statements and a good dose of sisterhood.

As a fashion influencer, Sarah Dimani built up an Instagram platform with almost 110,000 followers that she suddenly removed overnight. Since then she focusses on female empowerment with ‘The Narcist’, a tightly-knit community in which women can speak freely about beauty ideals, pressure to achieve, toxic masculinity, representation and other topics that matter today.

My Diary and I

How to brighten up my daily life

Geneviève Mahin

You can start this journal whenever you want. No need to force yourself, allow yourself to start at the right moment!

Includes 50 delicious dairy-free and gluten-free recipes

Make peace with yourself and reach your full potential

These days we are bombarded by advice like ‘work out more; eat less sugar; eat more vegetables; work less; be more aware; avoid stress…’ It isn’t easy to just keep living life without feeling guilty about every little 'error' you make.

In My Diary and I, the author offers food for thought, easy and delicious recipes, advice, exercises, and little gifts to bring joy and calm into your life while helping you to make your dreams come true...

Think about your desires and intentions, not your efforts. Let the little suggestions for wellbeing guide you to turn the next twelve months into the best time of your life.

190 x 240 mm | 272 pages | 34,400 words paperback with flaps | all rights available, except for French rights French manuscript available

Geneviève Mahin is trained in nutritional therapy, psychotherapy and coaching, and accompanies women who want to regain their self-confidence.

A Life Without Limits

From: ‘Is This It?’ to #lovemylife

Steffy Roose du Maine

Powerful combination of spirituality and practical psychology

Transform your life in just five minutes a day

How great wouldn’t it be if you lead the life of the amazing person that is hidden somewhere deep inside of you, hidden under piles of grocery lists, excuses, overthinking and uncertainties? You may have some good resolutions, but often the goals are too large and you fall back into your old habits and selfsabotaging thoughts before long.

Discover the Life Without Limits Formula! Create the life you wished for in a simple way that allows you to reach your goals. The formula is a mix of spiritual tools, like thankfulness, manifesting, affirmations and insights from behavioural sciences and the psychology of change. Five minutes a day is all it takes to live A Life Without Limits.

140 x 215 mm | 304 pages | 68,000 words paperback with flaps | all rights available

Steffy Roos du Maine is an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, podcast host and dreamer. She educated herself in self-development, behavioural sciences, business and spirituality. She managed to found a multi-million dollar company and found the balance to live a life without limits.

Steffy is one of the fifty inspirational women who are a force to be reckoned with.

Anti-Social Media

How to Prevent Social Media Madness

Thijs Launspach

Thijs Launspach is lecturer at The School of Life

Clear and to the point

Limit the influence of social media, without moving to a different planet

Can we still live without social media? The smart algorithms from Silicon Valley have wrestled themselves into every part of our lives: our social relationships, our work and even our love life. Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and Facebook are (sometimes) an enrichment for our lives, but they also have a dark side: they’re addictive, make you unhappy, dissatisfied and insecure. If you’re not careful, it will drive up the wall.

In this book psychologist Thijs Launspach buckles down to find out how to keep a sane mind with social media. Critically, with wit and practical tips.

10,000 copies sold

125 x 200 mm | 160 pages | ca. 40,000 words paperback with flaps | all rights available

Thijs Launspach is a psychologist and Dutch expert on stress and burn-outs. He has already written several books, has a podcast and has a weekly column in Algemeen Dagblad, the second largest newspaper in the Netherlands. In addition, he teaches at The School of Life. He is a sought-after speaker, both nationally and internationally.

Learn to Manifest

The art of fulfilling your dreams

Willemijn Welten

Practical sobriety combined with spirituality

The guide to make dreams become reality

20,000 copies sold

Manifesting is the art of fulfilling your dreams. And what’s great about it, is that everyone can learn it. With this book, Willemijn Welten wants to make manifesting for everyone as easy and practical as possible. She removes 'floatiness' from the spiritual lessesns and translates its wisdom into realistic tools that enable you to manifest at any time of day.

In Learn to Manifest Willemijn shares her own story and others to show what you can achieve by manifesting and how you can get started. Find out what your purpose is, which obstacles there are and how you can change your energy. This way, you will learn what you want yourself and that you have the courage to go for it.

Manifesting Wonders all rights available

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The Big Affirmation Book by Frederique Bicker all rights available

Doctor Flower

The therapeutic power of flowers

How can flowers improve our (mental) wellbeing?

With 10 DIY creations by florist Lise Duchateau to compose your own bouquet of joy

Make flower bouquets that will heal and strengthen

Did you know that only just smelling a bundle of roses will lower your stress hormones? That blue flowers are more calming than red ones? Or that symmetry in sunflowers works as a real massage for our brains? Flowers make us happy, and that doesn’t just have something to do with the gesture of receiving them.

A beautiful guide to make bouquets adapted to your mood, based on scientific knowledge about therapeutic smells, colours and shapes of flowers.

170 x 210 mm | 208 pages | 47,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Sara Adriaensen is a clinical psychologist and specialized in environmental psychology. As the daughter of an apothecary and a homeopath before the word existed, she has been fascinated by the healing properties of plants and flowers since her youth. Now she researches her passion from a scientific angle. She is a much sought-after speaker, talking about the link between nature and (mental) health and regularly shares her insights in media.

Caring for You

An honest book for and by parents

Written for and by parents of children who require special care

Includes practical tips and recognisable testimonies

Full of useful information

Ellen De Meyer writes Caring for You from her own experience. She shares her story, but also a whole lot of practical information and advice. The testimonies of other parents, who are in similar situations, are also told to create recognisability for every parent with a child that requires extra care.

Whether something goes wrong during pregnancy, birth or the first few years: every type of special care a child might need is covered in the book. Caring for You isn’t just for the parents, but also for friends and family. It answers questions like ‘how do I deal with all the “good advice” and inappropriate remarks?’ or ‘What can I do as a friend or family member?’

Your First 1000 Days As a Dad

Practical tips for involved fathers: from pregnancy till toddlerhood

David Borman

A serious, up-to-date book about fatherhood by the ultimate expert

The early development of a child (the first one thousand days) is receiving more and more attention

A father’s role is changing!

How do you go about being an involved father? There’s so much information for (soon-to-be) mothers, but fathers often remain on the side-lines. And this while research shows the importance of a father – or partner – time and time again. Especially in the first crucial period, which is receiving more and more attention: the first one thousand days, starting at impregnation till the second birthday. ‘The foundations of life, are just as much built up by the father’, according to senior lecturer of Early Development and Health Tessa Roseboom.

In this book, Human Factors Specialist, trainer, author and obstetrician David Borman gives you the necessary information for you to shape fatherhood. Prepare yourself as well as you can and explore how moments during pregnancy, birth and after can be of invaluable importance.

As an obstetrician and father, David Borman offers courses to soon-to-be dads and training to obstetrician-professionals about fatherhood and more.

Why Success Is Mainly A Matter of Luck

The big part luck plays in life

New topical book by author of ‘When a Loved One Is Depressed’ and ‘When a Loved One Has Alzheimer's'

When someone is successful in life, we attribute that success to the person: he or she has worked hard, followed a dream, made use of his talents. While someone who has had much success, largely owes it to the same factors that for another have lead to huge problems or disappointment. But with this one difference: the coincidences turned out much more advantageous for one of them. Someone was exactly in the right place at the right time and had the fortune that a coincidental rare combination of advantageous factors were allocated to them. Health psychologist Huub Buijssen has been fascinated for years by this phenomenon and researched how big of a part luck and coincidence play in success in various paths of life such as business, sports, science and literature.

In this book Buijssen shows that both hard work and taking risks aren’t personal virtues but rather a type of luck. Consequently the more successful someone is, the more lucky they have been. To finish up he talks about the political and social consequences of the central idea that every bit of success is largely due to luck.

When A Loved One Is Depressed German rights sold

Huub Buijssen is psycho-gerontologist and clinical psychologist. He has written more than forty books, amongst which, When a Loved One Is Depressed. His books have been translated into English, German, Danish, Swedish, Polish, Czech and Korean.

When A Loved One Has Alzheimer's German rights sold English manuscript available

The Five Languages of Comfort all rights available

So Desired

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A warm book about a topical and sensitive subject

For people with a desire to have children and their surroundings

With a scientific background, clarified by experts and honest testimonies

It hurts if a desire to have children doesn’t come true. And while prospective parents constantly receive the well-intended advice to let it go a little, it just dominates their life. It affects them physically and mentally and also influences their social relations.

What if medical help is to no (immediate) avail? What if you need the egg or sperm of someone else? What if no brother or sister is on the way? What if no child is on the way at all? What if someone close to you is involuntarily childless…

So Desired wants to open up these sensitive subjects for discussion. Besides a background by experts, experts by experience are also given the floor. The book serves as a handle for everyone who faces a (temporarily) unfulfilled desire to have children from up close or from afar.

170 x 240 mm | 192 pages | 60,000 words paperback | all rights available

Hilde Van Goetem is a communications manager at a non-profit organization that offers their expertise to the parents and families of children that passed before the age of 12. She is the mother of Phil* (whom she lost during pregnancy) and Lucas (after 7 years of attempts). Mama Baas is an online magazine, blog and community for and by mothers and fathers.

When your desire to have children doesn’t (immediately) come

Hilde Van Goethem, Mama Baas

From the Bottom of My Heart

100 keys for a life full of love

The insights from 'The World Book of Love' translated in 100 clear-cut guidelines

Clearly formulated for everyone who wants to live a life filled with love

To give as a gift or to find an answer to your own questions

The iconic red hearts are everywhere. But what do they mean in our day-today life? Leo Bormans has been researching it for years. In The World Book of Love he compiled the most important insights of hundred professors from fifty countries who studied the mechanism behind love. In From the Bottom of my Heart he translates that knowledge and science into 100 clear-cut guidelines to live a life full of love. Guidelines that everyone can interpret in their own way.

This book is about trying and failing, about warmth and pain and about the essence of love itself. Clear and powerfully worded for everyone who’s looking for love or has found it, wants to lead a life filled with more love or wants to help others to find their own way.

The World Book of Happiness 2.0 French and German rights sold, English rights unavailable English manuscript available

The World Book of Hope French and German rights sold, English rights unavailable English manuscript available 125 x 190 mm | 112 pages | 16,000 words hardcover | all rights available

Leo Bormans is a researcher and author of international bestsellers like The World Book of Happiness and The World Book of Hope. He holds a master's degree in languages and philosophy and is also Distinguished Lecturer in Happiness Economics Research at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

Let’s Talk Money The Guide That Will Turn You Into a Financially Self-Assured

Woman

Djennah Van Nieuwenhoven

A concrete and attainable plan to tackle your daily finances better Get started straight away using accessible schedules and efficient tasks

The author hosts a successful Money Academy and podcast

With Let’s Talk Money budget coach Djennah Van Nieuwenhove (aka Budget Brunette) wants to help women to improve their relationship with money. In plain language and with the necessary dosage of humour she illuminates all aspects of your financial affairs: from day to day budget management to setting up an attainable saving plan, from your personal relationship with money to the confrontation with your spending habits.

In a world in which the subject of ‘money’ is much too often left to men, Djennah wants to empower women to get to work themselves. The necessary financial theory is alternated with questions and tasks so that you can really do things differently.

170 x 210 mm | 176 pages | 45,000 words duotone illustrations | paperback all rights available

Djennah Van Nieuwenhove is a budget coach, financial trainer, and expert by experience. After experiencing debt herself, she buried herself into financial psychology. Through Budget Brunette, she makes it her mission to make money a fun and discussable subject for everyone.

Visions of a Better World

The future in stories

Brice Le Blévennec

The first book of applied science fiction… or how science can turn a vision into reality

Compilation of articles on all exciting changes that lay ahead Visions of what our world may look like in 2051

What will society be like in 30 years’ time?

Chief Visionary Officer (CVO) Brice Le Blévennec, together with 50 consultants from full service digital agency Emakina, paints a fascinating picture of how we could live in 2051. This book is not a futuristic prophecy but a leap forward in time, illustrated by dozens of real life scenarios and imagined experiences.

140 x 210 mm | 240 pages | 80,000 words full colour illustrations | paperback all rights available, except for English and French rights English and French manuscript available

Brice Le Blévennec is the founder and CEO of Emakina Group. He was the first to claim the title of "Chief Visionary Officer" in Europe. Brimming with ideas and energy, he is known as a serial entrepreneur (Emakina, Tunz, Zingle, Kwater, Objekten...), an unconditional technology enthusiast and an inspiring speaker. Emakina is the User Agency - working with passion to understand and delight users everywhere.

Speak Up Now!

Marketing in times of climate crises

Marketing professionals make a plea for a more sustainable future

Explores the challenges and opportunities for companies that want to contribute to the sustainability of the planet

Offers practical communication models and inspiring case studies

To ensure the well-being of the planet, we need marketing heroes on the barricades for a sustainable future. Research shows that more than 80% of consumers are looking at companies to take the lead in this transition. At the same time, it appears that less than 10% of the messages about sustainability are credible to the public.

Speak up Now! helps companies seize this historic opportunity and shows how we can make the shift to a world where business success goes hand in hand with the survival of the planet.

170 x 240 mm | 200 pages | 60,000 words paperback | all rights available, except for English rights English manuscript available

Wim Vermeulen is director of strategy and sustainability at the advertising agency Bubka. He is also a lecturer at Solvay Business School and an international keynote speaker.

Why Innovation Fails

And how to succeed in seven steps

Joachim De Vos

The do’s and don’ts for sustainable innovation

A unique look behind the scenes of well-known innovation cases Insights translated into a concrete approach

To remain successful, it is important for organisations to be able to withstand the ever-faster pace of change and preferably also stay one step ahead of it. That’s why it’s crucial to look at the future in the right way: embrace uncertainty, seize opportunities and recognise threats in time.

This book not only teaches you to look into the future, it also shows the most common mistakes and pitfalls in an innovation process.

Moreover, you get a better understanding of the technological evolutions coming in the next 10 years and translate all these insights into a concrete approach to build future-proof, successfully innovating companies and organisations.

170 x 240 mm | 240 pages | 40,000 words hardcover | all rights available, except for English rights English manuscript available

Joachim De Vos is a professor in scenario planning at Ghent University. He also helped from the very beginning to build and develop ‘Living Tomorrow, the House of the Future’ to a worldwide success. Joachim also started TomorrowLab and travels across the world to give advice and presentations about innovation and foresight to company directors, innovation teams and policy makers.

The Future of Shopping

Re-set Re-made Re-tail

What can brands and retailers do to survive challenges like rising carbon emissions and the seizing of power by mega-corporations?

Insights into the new consumers and how to reach them

Based on extensive research

The award-winning retail guide The Future of Shopping: where everyone is a retailer, translated into French, English and Chinese, is back with an all-new edition The Future of Shopping: re-set re-made re-tail.

A pandemic, global digital disruption and competition for resources have drastically redrawn the shopping landscape and unexpected challenges as a result of globalisation have arisen. We are amidst a global transformation with machines becoming smarter than people, the world's population and carbon emissions rising and a handful of mega-corporations seizing power. What can brands and retailers do to survive these challenges? The question is more urgent than ever.

181 x 248 mm | 272 pages | 85,000 words hardcover | Simplified Chinese rights sold, English rights unavailable English manuscript available

Jorg Snoeck is an entrepreneur and the founder of Retail Detail. He’s the driving force behind The loop, a simulation of the future of shopping. Every year, thousands of people from all over the world visit this experience centre. Pauline Neerman is the chief editor of Retail Detail.

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Gigantism

Geert Noels

140 x 210 mm | 236 pages

Simplified Chinese & Korean rights sold, English & French rights unavailable | English and French manuscript available

10,000 copies sold

20,000 copies sold

The Limits of the Market

Paul De Grauwe

140 x 210 mm | 240 pages French, English, Italian and Bulgarian rights sold

20,000 copies sold

15,000 copies sold

Digitalis

Thierry Geerts

140 x 210 mm | 232 pages

Simplified Chinese rights sold, English and French rights unavailable

English and French manuscript available

Homo Digitalis

Thierry Geerts

140 x 210 mm | 160 pages

all rights available, except for English and French rights | English and French manuscript available

The Offer You Can't Refuse

Steven Van Belleghem

170 x 240 mm | 256 pages all rights available, English rights unavailable English manuscript available

4,000 copies sold

French in 2,500 Words

Serge Verlinde, Karen Janssens & Stéphane Ostyn

170 x 240 mm | 196 pages all rights available