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...

K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology,the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance , he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise...

One of Financial Times' Books of the Year, 2015 The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their...

"A critical assessment of feminism today by the founding editor and creative director of Bitch magazine draws on the stories of institutions and everyday women to illuminate how feminism has been compromised by market forces, subversive...

The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration we need as our constitutional system and political tradition are being tested to the breaking point. As...

"The Medici Conspiracy" von Cecilia Todeschini ist ein aufschlussreiches Werk, das die dunkle Seite der Kunstwelt enthüllt. Es beleuchtet die illegalen Aktivitäten des organisierten Verbrechens im Zusammenhang mit geplünderten...

"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,...