„Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives“ von Shelley Frisch ist eine Doppelbiografie, die das Leben und die Karrieren von zwei der bekanntesten deutschen Frauen des 20. Jahrhunderts beleuchtet: Marlene...

Written by a renowned composer whose works have been performed by major orchestras around the world, The Study of Orchestration is the only text that explores the characteristics of orchestral instruments and shows students how a master...

Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education,...

“Backgrounds and Contexts” is also significantly expanded and contains twenty-four works organized thematically into these groupings: “Legacies of English Radicalism,” “Education,” “Wollstonecraft’s Revolutionary Moment,” and “The...

One night in the early 1990s, a young Swedish music producer put a demo tape into the cassette deck of his Nissan Micra to listen to on his drive home. Before he got there, Denniz PoP knew he wasn't interested in producing the band, a...

Through four books published over the last dozen years - Does IT Matter?, The Big Switch, The Shallows and The Glass Cage - Nicholas Carr has made his name as an incisive writer on our complicated relationship with technology. Utopia Is...

Traces a five-decade convergence of four distinct disciplines including behaviorist psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology; describing how it enabled the development of a new science in the field of memory...

Washington PostThe PoleThe power struggle between them intensifies, eventually escalating into a full-fledged battle of the sexes. But is it Beatriz who limits their passion by paralyzing her emotions? Or is it Wittold, the old man at...

„Hester Among the Ruins“ von Binnie Kirshenbaum ist ein Roman, der die Geschichte von Hester Rosenfeld erzählt, einer amerikanischen Historikerin mit jüdischen Wurzeln. Auf einer Forschungsreise nach Deutschland gerät sie in einen...

"Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China" von Hal Brands untersucht die zunehmenden Spannungen und potenziellen Konflikte zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und China. Brands analysiert die geopolitischen, wirtschaftlichen und...

"Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World" von Bruce Schneier ist ein Buch, das sich mit den Herausforderungen und Risiken der zunehmenden Vernetzung unserer Welt befasst. Schneier, ein Experte für...

"Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present" von Michael B. Oren bietet eine umfassende historische Analyse der Beziehungen zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und dem Nahen Osten. Das Buch untersucht die...