In the tradition of Who Owns the Future, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs, improve our lives, and form “an ethereal interconnection of gadgets and human desires that...will pervade our lives...

"Churchill and De Gaulle" von Francois Kersaudy ist eine eingehende Untersuchung der komplexen Beziehung zwischen den beiden bedeutenden Staatsmännern des 20. Jahrhunderts, Winston Churchill und Charles de Gaulle. Das Buch beleuchtet die...

"In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern...

"All the Light We Cannot See" ist ein preisgekrönter Roman von Anthony Doerr, der die Geschichten zweier Jugendlicher während des Zweiten Weltkriegs erzählt. Marie-Laure, ein blindes französisches Mädchen, muss mit ihrem Vater aus Paris...

"In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic,...

"Out of the Silent Planet" begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom, who is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. von Lewis, C S

"The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began" von Valerie Hansen ist ein faszinierendes Werk, das die Geschichte der frühen Globalisierung beleuchtet. Das Buch konzentriert sich auf das Jahr 1000 n. Chr.,...

"From the time women first used rotating bobbins to twist thread and men whirled slings around their heads to throw stones, people have found spin fascinating and baffling in equal measure. Now, in The Science of Spin, Roland Ennos shows...

"The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization" von Roland Ennos ist eine umfassende Untersuchung der Rolle, die Holz in der Entwicklung und im Fortschritt der menschlichen Zivilisation gespielt hat. Das...

Former Poet Laureate Dove has chosen the best poems of the year from a wide range of literary magazines and journals, presenting works by W.S. Merwin, Lucille Clifton, Susan Mitchell, John Ashbery, and others. The poets comment about...

First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Elliott and Thompson Limited. von Marshall, Tim

When physics professor Chad Orzel went to the pound to adopt a dog, he never imagined Emmy. She wasn't just a friendly mutt who needed a home. Soon she was trying to use the strange ideas of quantum mechanics for the really important...