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Texte von Navid Kermani und Natan Sznaider
Navid Kermani / Natan Sznaider · 2018
Navid Kermanis Romane und Prosabücher bewegen sich an der Grenze zwischen Autobiografie und Fiktion, sie experimentieren mit den großen Themen und ermöglichen einen neuen Blick auf Liebe und Tod, Kunst und Politik. Als Orientalist befasst sich der deutsch-iranische Autor mit der Ästhetik des Korans und der frühislamischen Mystik, als Reporter berichtet er vom Flüchtlingstreck nach Europa und aus den Krisengebieten u.a.
Texte von Petra Kelly
Petra Kelly · 1997
Textsammlung der Grünen-Mitgründerin Petra Kelly aus der Gründungsphase. Die Schriften dokumentieren das ursprüngliche Selbstverständnis der Grünen als Avantgarde-Partei und zeigen die radikalen politischen Ansprüche dieser Zeit.
Texte/Bücher von Niall Ferguson (zum Thema westlicher Niedergang)
Niall Ferguson
Essayistische Analysen zur Frage, ob 500 Jahre westlicher Dominanz zu Ende gehen. Präsentiert eine differenzierte Position zwischen Pessimismus und naivem Optimismus und hinterfragt provokativ die Zukunft westlicher Macht und Einfluss.
Thanatopia
Tom Hillenbrand · 2025
Ein aufregender Thriller, der uns bis ins Mark trifft: Wenn Menschen dank künstlicher Intelligenz ewig leben können – werden sie es auch wollen? Wien, 2095. Eine Leiche in der Donau ist für Kommissar Landauer eigentlich nichts Ungewöhnliches. Doch diesmal sind es gleich zwei, und was schlimmer ist: Die beiden toten Frauen gleichen einander bis aufs letzte Haar.
The 2025 Project: Inside the Plan to Destroy America
David Graham · 2025
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Essential and authoritative. Sheds serious light on the dark money, dark ideas & dark souls propelling Trump’s cruelty and betrayal of the USA' - James O'Brien In the months leading up to the 2024 presidential election, news spread about Project 2025, a nearly 1,000-page document published by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation.
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Al Ries · 2009
Two world-renowned marketing consultants and bestselling authors present the definitive rules of marketing.
The 4-Hour Body
Tim Ferriss · 2010
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The game-changing author of The 4-Hour Workweek teaches you how to reach your peak physical potential with minimum effort. “A practical crash course in how to reinvent yourself.”—Kevin Kelly, Wired Is it possible to reach your genetic potential in 6 months? Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours? Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing? Indeed, and much more.
The 4-Hour Chef
Tim Ferriss · 2012
Building upon Timothy Ferriss's internationally successful "4-hour" franchise, The 4-Hour Chef transforms the way we cook, eat, and learn. Featuring recipes and cooking tricks from world-renowned chefs, and interspersed with the radically counterintuitive advice Ferriss's fans have come to expect, The 4-Hour Chef is a practical but unusual guide to mastering food and cooking, whether you are a seasoned pro or a blank-slate novice.
The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss · 2011
A new, updated and expanded edition of this New York Times bestseller on how to reconstruct your life so it's not all about work Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan - there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blue...
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers.
The 5 AM Club
Robin Sharma
Das Buch präsentiert das '5 AM Club'-Konzept: erfolgreiche Menschen starten ihren Tag zwei Stunden früher mit Sport und Meditation. Diese frühe Morgenroutine soll zu mehr Produktivität, Gesundheit und persönlichem Wohlbefinden führen.
The Act of Seeing / Logik der Bilder (Essays)
Wim Wenders
The Cinema of Wim Wenders: The Celluloid Highway is a new study of the films of this most prominent of German directors, and penetrates the seductive sounds and images for which he is best known. The book analyses the individual films in the context of a preoccupation central to all of Wenders' work and writings: why modern cinema - a recording art, solely composed of sounds and images - naturally developed into a primarily narrative medium, a domain traditionally associated with words and sente...
The Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith · 1958
A discussion by a reknown economist, Galbraith, about the "more" society and how it operates.
The Age of Access
Jeremy Rifkin · 2000
In "The End of Work, " Rifkin argued that technology is replacing humans in the workplace. Now he explores the "hyper-capitalist" trend that is de-emphasizing property ownership in favor of purchasing experiences.
The Age of Anxiety
Andrea Tone
"Our reliance on anti-anxiety medication is a creation of the last half-century. When the first tranquilizer - Miltown - went on the market in 1955, pharmaceutical executives worried that there wouldn't be interest in stress relief in the form of a pill. At mid-century, talk therapy remained the treatment of choice. But Miltown quickly became a sensation - the first psychotropic blockbuster in American history.
The Age of Innocence (Zeit der Unschuld)
Edith Wharton · 2015
Newland Archer, pengacara muda berbakat, mengidamkan kemapanan di kalangan kelas atas New York demi status sebagai pria terhormat. Karena itu dia membulatkan tekad dengan menikahi May Welland dari keluarga Welland yang berpengaruh. Tetapi semua cita-cita Archer tentang status dan kehormatan buyar ketika dia bertemu Countess Ellen Olenska, sepupu May Welland yang ingin bercerai dari suaminya. Sebuah situasi yang dianggap sebagai skandal memalukan di mata masyarakat kala itu.
The Age of Revolution / The Age of Capital (Eric Hobsbawm)
Eric Hobsbawm · 2010
A magisterial account of the rise of capitalism Eric Hobsbawm's magnificent treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 is a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism and the consolidation of bourgeois culture. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: 'capitalism'. The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848.
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
Richard Hofstadter · 2011
The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics," Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national experience.
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt · 2024
THE NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES, FT, ECONOMIST AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘Boundlessly wise . . . important and engrossing’ The New York Times ‘One of the most important books I’ve read . . . It’s absolutely brilliant’ Dr Rangan Chatterjee 'Urgent and essential' Guardian Acclaimed psychologist Jonathan Haidt reveals how the decline of free-play in childhood and the rise of smartphone use among adolescents is changing our world From 2010, as teens traded in their flip phones for s...
The Archipelago City
Oswald Mathias Ungers · 2013
In the manifesto 'The City in the City - Berlin, a Green Archipelago', Oswald Mathias Ungers and a number of his colleagues from Cornell University presented the first concepts and intellectual models for the shrinking city. This critical edition contains a previously unpublished version of the manifesto by Rem Koolhaas.
The Archival Turn in Feminism
Kate Eichhorn · 2013
In the 1990s, a generation of women born during the rise of the second wave feminist movement plotted a revolution. These young activists funneled their outrage and energy into creating music, and zines using salvaged audio equipment and stolen time on copy machines. By 2000, the cultural artifacts of this movement had started to migrate from basements and storage units to community and university archives, establishing new sites of storytelling and political activism.
The Art of the Deal
Donald Trump · 2016
______________________________ THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER FROM THE 45th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 'I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: If you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.' – Donald J. Trump Here is Trump in action – how he runs his business and how he runs his life – as he meets the people he needs to meet, chats with family and friends, clashes with enemies, and changes the face of the New York City skyline.
The Asian Century
Parag Khanna · 2019
Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks, eight of the ten largest armies, five nuclear powers, massive technological innovation, the newest crop of top-ranked universities.
The Aspern Papers (Die Aspern-Schriften)
Henry James · 2021
One of James’ most popular novellas, "The Aspern Papers" is based on the letters exchanged between the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife’s stepsister Claire Clermont. An unnamed narrator sets on a journey to discover some long-lost letters, reaches Venice, and then has to decide what to do with his mission and life at the same time. A philosophically and psychologically engaging tale, "The Aspern Papers" can be read as a detective novel, romance, and a tragedy.
The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama · 2006
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Barack Obama’s lucid vision of America’s place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his years in the Senate “In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama’s talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope.”—Michael Kazin, The Washington Post In July 2004, four years before his presidency, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Conve...
The Back Channel
William Burns · 2019
The riveting story of many of the most dramatic international crises and conflicts of recent years, including everyone from presidents, warlords and 'the noble, the brutal, the cunning and the just-plain unhinged'. The Back Channel recounts with vivid detail and incisive analysis some of the seminal moments of a legendary diplomatic career--from the bloodless end of the Cold War to relations with Putin's Russia, and from post-9/11 tumult in the Middle East and secret nuclear talks with Iran to A...
The Battle of Dorking
· 2021
The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer is a novella written by George Tomkyns Chesney in 1871 that established the invasion literature genre and served as a forerunner to science fiction. It describes an invasion of Britain by a German-speaking country referred to in ambiguous terms as The Other Power or The Enemy. It was written shortly after the Prussian victory in the Franco-Prussian War. This is a true story that you should read.
The Bell Curve
Richard Herrnstein, Charles Murray · 1994
The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty.
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker · 2011
'The most inspiring book I've ever read' Bill Gates, 2017 'A brilliant, mind-altering book ... Everyone should read this astonishing book' Guardian 'Will change the way you see the world' Daily Mail Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012 Wasn't the twentieth century the most violent in history? In his extraordinary, epic book Steven Pinker shows us that this is wrong, telling the story of humanity in a completely new and unfamiliar way.
The Big Short
Michael Lewis · 2011
THE OUTRAGEOUS NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW AN OSCAR- AND BAFTA-WINNING FILM From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, Michael Lewis's No.1 bestseller, tells the story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries who saw that the biggest credit bubble of all time was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a killing. 'In the hands of Michael Lewis, anything is possible ...
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem
Benny Morris · 2004
Benny Morris' The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem was published in 1988. Its startling revelations about how and why 700,000 Palestinians left their homes and became refugees during the Arab-Israeli war in 1948 undermined traditional interpretations as to whether they left voluntarily or were expelled as part of a systematic plan. This book represents a revised edition of the earlier work, compiled on the basis of newly-opened Israeli military archives.
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2007
The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don’t know, now with a new section called “On Robustness and Fragility.” A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was.
The Blazing World
Siri Hustvedt · 2014
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES FICTION PRIZE 'Dazzling' Sunday Times 'Truly wonderful' Daily Mail Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own.
The Blindfold
Siri Hustvedt · 2017
From the author of The Blazing World, “a work of dizzying intensity…eloquent and vivid” (Don DeLillo), about a young Midwestern woman who finds herself entangled in intense circumstances—physical, cerebral, and existential—when she moves to New York City. Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr.
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk · 2014
#1 New York Times bestseller “Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller Trauma is a fact of life.
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
Fred Kaplan · 2021
From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises—from Truman to Trump. Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold stories—b...
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Fegefeuer der Eitelkeiten)
Tom Wolfe · 2018
An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose. Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx.
The Book of Costume
Millia Davenport · 2010
These 680 detailed drawings depict the history of fur garments, from their practical use in cold climates to their display as a badge of royalty. Chronological entries include introductions for each era and range from panther skins worn by ancient Egyptian priests to high fashion designs by Dior. Glossary.
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
David Remnick · 2010
The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment for America, and one with truly global resonance. This is the book of his phenomenal journey to election. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick has put together a nuanced, unexpected and masterly portrait of the man who was determined to become the first African-American President.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz · 2008
#11 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukú - the curse that has haunted his family for generations.
The Case for the Green New Deal
· 2020
What is the Green New Deal and how can we afford it? To protect the future of life on earth, we need to do more than just reimagine the economy—we have to change everything. One of the seminal thinkers of the program that helped ignite the US Green New Deal campaign, Ann Pettifor explains how we can afford what we can do, and what we need to do, before it is too late.
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.
The Cement Garden
Ian McEwan
In this tour de force of psychological unease, now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack, McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."--Washington Post Book World.
The Child in Time
Ian McEwan · 1987
Psychologischer Roman über einen Schriftsteller, dessen Sohn entführt wird. Der Verlust verändert sein Leben und seine Beziehungen grundlegend, während der Roman Fragen über Zeit, Gedächtnis und menschliche Bindung erforscht.
The Chronicles of Prydain
Lloyd Alexander · 2018
Taran is desperate for adventure. Being a lowly Assistant Pig-Keeper just isn't exciting. That is, until the magical pig, Hen Wen disappears and Taran embarks on a death-defying quest to save her from the evil Horned King. His perilous adventures bring Taran many new friends: an irritable dwarf, an impulsive bard, a strange hairy beast and the hot-headed Princess Eilonwy. Together, they must face the deathless Cauldron-Born warriors, dragons, witches and the terrifying Horned King himself.
The Circle
Dave Eggers · 2013
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime.
The City in the City: Berlin – A Green Archipelago
Oswald Mathias Ungers · 2013
In the manifesto The City in the City - Berlin: A Green Archipelago, Oswald Mathias Ungers and a number of his colleagues from Cornell University presented the first concepts and intellectual models for the shrinking city. In contrast to the reconstruction of the European city that was popular at the time, they developed the figure of a polycentric urban landscape.
The Climate Book
Greta Thunberg · 2022
*A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year* ‘Spectacular ... this work is planetary in scale’ Independent ‘It offers real, rich hope’ Observer, Books of the Year We still have time to change the world. From the world's leading climate activist, this is the essential book for making it happen.
The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt · 2018
Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: what d...