"Yellow Dog" ist ein satirischer Roman des britischen Autors Martin Amis. Die Geschichte konzentriert sich auf mehrere Charaktere, darunter den Schauspieler Xan Meo, der nach einer brutalen Prügelattacke seine Persönlichkeit verändert...

Forty years after his Hitler: A Study in Tyranny set a standard for scholarship of the Nazi era, Lord Alan Bullock gives readers a breathtakingly accomplished dual biography that places Adolf Hitler's origins, personality, career, and...

"John James Audubon: The Making of an American" von Richard Rhodes ist eine Biografie, die das Leben und Werk des berühmten Naturforschers und Malers John James Audubon beleuchtet. Das Buch beschreibt Audubons Reise von seiner Geburt in...

'Dazzling... Profound and urgent' Observer 'A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read Saturday' Financial Times Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne,...

"Written by Herself: Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology," herausgegeben von Jill Ker Conway, ist eine Sammlung von autobiografischen Schriften amerikanischer Frauen. Die Anthologie bietet einen vielfältigen...

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood...

"Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits" von John D. Barrow untersucht die Grenzen des menschlichen Wissens und der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnis. Barrow diskutiert verschiedene Konzepte und Theorien, die...

'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack Obama What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval...

What happened to the great dictators of contemporary history, responsible for some of its most gruesome chapters? And do they still seem as terrifying as when they held power? An unrepentant Idi Amin lives in exile in Saudi Arabia and...

Robert A. Caro is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation, whose landmark biographies are widely hailed as masterpieces. This is the captivating account of his life as a writer, describing the sometimes staggering lengths to...

Charles Highway is every mother’s worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed overtures of his distant...

"Red Meat Cures Cancer" von Starbuck O'Dwyer ist ein satirischer Roman, der die Geschichte von Leo, einem erfolgreichen und skrupellosen Marketing-Manager in der Fleischindustrie, erzählt. Leo hat sein Leben dem Verkauf von rotem Fleisch...