"Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our Minds" von Eleanor Gordon-Smith ist ein faszinierendes Buch, das die Prozesse untersucht, durch die Menschen ihre Überzeugungen und Meinungen ändern. Es stellt die traditionelle...

In "A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions", stellt der Nobelpreisträger Muhammad Yunus seine Vision für eine neue Art von Kapitalismus vor, die auf menschlichem Wohl...

In August 1972, Ryszard Kuklinski, a highly respected colonel in the Polish Army, embarked on what would become one of the most extraordinary human intelligence operations of the Cold War. Despite the extreme risk to himself and his...

"High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the SUV" von Keith Bradsher ist eine eingehende Untersuchung der steigenden Beliebtheit und des zunehmenden Verkaufs von Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) in den USA. Bradsher argumentiert, dass SUVs...

The history of modern Afghanistan is an epic drama, a thriller, a tragedy, a surreal farce. Every forty years or so, over the last two centuries, some great global power has attempted to take control of Afghanistan, only to slink away...

The Medici Conspiracy: Organized Crime, Looted Antiquities, Rogue Museums: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities from Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums

"The Politics of Truth" von Joseph Wilson ist ein politisches Memoir, das die Kontroverse um die Enttarnung seiner Frau Valerie Plame als CIA-Agentin und die Missbrauchsvorwürfe gegen das Weiße Haus während der Bush-Administration...

The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Beginning as a small city-state in central Italy, Rome gradually expanded into a wider world. But the very success of the Republic proved to...

"We in the West routinely ask: 'What does China want?' The answer is quite simple: the superpower status it always had, but briefly lost. In this colorful, informative story filled with fascinating characters, epic battles, influential...

The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The"Irish Economic miracle&rdquo was built on good old-fashioned subsidies...

This book tells the story of the clash of Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman over Herbalife, a nutritional supplement company whose business model Ackman questioned. Icahn decided to vouch for them, and the dispute became a years-long feud,...

"In 1923 Shanghai, native and foreign travelers alike are enthralled by the establishment of a new railway line to distant Peking. With this new line comes the Peking Express, a luxurious express train on the cutting edge of China's...