"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...

A Harvard professor and former Dean of Harvard Colleges offers his provocative analysis of how Americas great universities are failing students and the nation. von Lewis, Harry

Das Buch "Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands" von Robert Satloff enthüllt die wenig bekannten Geschichten der Holocaust-Überlebenden in arabischen Ländern. Satloff, ein renommierter...

In "OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder", untersucht Lucas Conley die moderne Geschäftswelt und ihre Besessenheit von Markenbildung. Conley argumentiert, dass Unternehmen zunehmend auf das Image ihrer Marke fokussieren, anstatt auf die...

"The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune" ist eine Biographie von Conor O'Clery, die das bemerkenswerte Leben des Unternehmers und Philanthropen Chuck Feeney erzählt. Das Buch enthüllt, wie...

"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 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...

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...