Politics & Social Sciences

Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us....

Through this book, not only does Sadhguru explain what karma is and how we can use its concepts to enhance our lives, he also tells us about the sutras, a step-by-step guide to navigating our way in this challenging world....

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present....

The Greatest Secret, the long-awaited major work by Rhonda Byrne, lays out the next quantum leap in a journey that will take the listener beyond the material world and into the spiritual realm, where all possibilities exist....

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the best-selling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges....

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

Authors MichaelBar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions....

This series of talks is on one of the most esoteric treatises in the world. It will show you the way to become more than the body and the way to bloom....

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Inglorious Empire written and read by Shashi Tharoor....

From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution - a number one international best seller - that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human”....

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion....

In his classic guide to understanding the opposite sex, Dr. John Gray provides a practical and proven way for men and women to improve their communication and relationships by acknowledging the differences between them....

In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? Listen to find out more....

There is a formula for success that's been followed by the icons of history...a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities....

The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....

Using essays and the personal experiences of the widely travelled author, Prisoners of Geography offers an essential insight into one of the major factors that determines world history....

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

By applying a more selective criteria for what is essential, the pursuit of less allows us to regain control of our own choices....

From Graham Hancock, best-selling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans....

Acclaimed mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik demystifies The Bhagavad Gita for the contemporary listener....

This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business....

In this explosive book, best-selling author Shashi Tharoor reveals with acuity, impeccable research, and trademark wit, just how disastrous British rule was for India....

In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories - the jobs, desires, prayers, love affairs, and rivalries - of a diverse group of women....

We all know that change is hard. It's unsettling, it's time-consuming, and all too often we give up at the first sign of a setback....

Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinating spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe....

Laptop, Tablet und keinen festen Arbeitsvertrag – das ist es, was die digitalen Bohème ausmacht. Denn die jungen Menschen wollen ein "intelligentes Leben jenseits der Festanstellung" führen. Ebay, MySpace und andere Seiten sind ihr Büros und dadurch verändern die jungen Menschen den Charakter des Internets. Mit diesem Buch wird das Zeitalter der digitalen Nomaden eingeläutet und aufgezeigt, wie sich die Welt der Arbeit durch das Internet verändert hat. Erklärungen zu wirtschaftlichen, technischen und sozialen Entwicklungen des neuen Lifestyle geben die beiden Autoren mehr als genug.

Das Sachbuch "Kapitalismus und Freiheit" zählt zu den anerkanntesten wirtschaftspolitischen Werken unserer Zeit. Der amerikanische Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Milton Friedman setzt sich darin mit der Bedeutung von wirtschaftlicher Freiheit für die politische Unabhängigkeit des Menschen in der modernen Gesellschaft auseinander. Die hier vorliegende Auflage enthält neben einem nachträglich verfassten Vorwort von Milton Friedman auch Anmerkungen des bekannten deutschen Ökonomen Horst Siebert.

Amerika, das bedeutet für viele immer noch Sehnsuchtsland voller Zauber und Brüche. Zehn Jahre lang war von Lojewski als Auslandskorrespondent dort für die ARD vor Ort und hat unter anderem vom Vietnamkrieg und der Watergate-Affäre berichtet. Nun liegen seine gesammelten Erfahrungen aus dieser Zeit vor. Dabei reicht sein Interesse von Präsidenten und Weltpolitik bis zu kulturellen Eigenarten und Kirchengemeinden, die alle unter seine journalistische Lupe geraten während er die Weiten Amerikas bereist.

Platone ha inventato un grande rimedio per la follia: la ragione! In questo breve, denso e illuminante saggio, Umberto Galimberti muove dai Greci per giungere fino a noi e alla relazione che ci costituisce. Il Simposio, il più bel testo che mai sia stato scritto sull'amore, ci guida ancora a scoprire la mediazione che l'amore realizza tra la follia e la ragione. È attraverso l'amore che entriamo in contatto con la nostra follia: ci innamoriamo, infatti, proprio di chi è riuscito a intercettarla e a presentarla a noi stessi.

Il tema della bellezza viene qui affrontato da Umberto Galimberti, come nel suo stile, con un ritorno alle sorgenti della nostra cultura. Se quella ebraica era una cultura della parola, quella greca era invece una cultura della visione, dominata dal senso della finitudine e della misura. Così anche la bellezza per l'uomo greco antico è ciò che rispetta delle misure, e cioè ha proporzioni calcolabili. Il cristianesimo porterà poi sulla scena un Dio che si fa corpo visibile, dando in questo modo maggior spazio all'immagine e quindi all'arte figurativa.

Gewalt, Unfälle, Sucht, Diskriminierung, Hate Speech und Extremismus – Männer dominieren die Statistiken des Abgrunds: Sie verursachen doppelt so viele Verkehrsunfälle, begehen mit Abstand die meisten Straftaten und belegen deshalb auch 94 Prozent der deutschen Gefängnisse. 75 Prozent der Alkoholtoten jedes Jahr sind männlich und mehr als 80 Prozent der häuslichen Gewalt geht von Männern aus.

Il mondo è in continua evoluzione. Insieme a esso cambiano le nazioni, i popoli, e gli animi. Si può ancora parlare di Spirito di una nazione senza cadere in beceri anacronismi? Valerio Massimo Manfredi, questa volta in veste di osservatore contemporaneo, dice la sua su quel che vuol dire essere italiani. Illustrerà la simbiosi con il territorio, la storia millenaria, i pregi e i difetti delle genti che hanno abitato queste terre.

Heute gilt Leibniz als das letzte Universalgenie und als Wegbereiter der Moderne. Als Mensch und als Philosoph war er zutiefst optimistisch, aufgeben war für ihn nie eine Option. Hier lernen wir Leibniz' ganze Welt kennen. An sieben Tagen seines Lebens zwischen 1675 und 1716 sehen wir ihm über die Schulter: In Paris treffen wir ihn im Bett an, wo er morgens seine besten Gedanken entwickelt. In Hannover plaudert er am Hof mit der Kurfürstin, im Harz tüftelt er über Windmühlen. Sein größter Wurf ist die Skizze einer Maschine, die mit den Zahlen 0 und 1 rechnet – Grundlage des Digitalcodes und damit des Computers.

元・国連専門機関職員の著者が忖度なしで書く、25万部突破の大人気シリーズ 第３弾――「世界はそんなことになってたのか！」日本のメディアが報道しない驚きのニュース

What will the world look like in 2050? How will complex forces of change—demography, the environment, finance, technology and ideas about governance—affect our global society? And how, with so many unknowns, should we think about the future? One of Europe’s foremost voices on global trends in economics, business and society, Hamish McRae takes us on an exhilarating journey through the next 30 years. Drawing on decades of research, and combining economic judgement with historical perspective, Hamish weighs up the opportunities and dangers we face.

Karl Marx, coauthor of the revolutionary text The Communist Manifesto, grew up in a Christian family, and his early writings showed belief in a Christian worldview. Yet in his adulthood, Marx embraced a deep personal rebellion against God and all Christian values. In Karl Marx and the Satanic Roots of Communism, Richard Wurmbrand explores the development of Marx’s antireligious perspective that led to the philosophical foundations of communism.

Just how do you become a barrister? And why do only one per cent of those who study law succeed in joining this mysteriously opaque profession? If it’s such a great occupation, how come you work 100-hour weeks for less than minimum wage? And why might a practising barrister come to feel the need to reveal the lies, secrets, failures and crises at the heart of this world of wigs and gowns? Nothing but the Truth charts an outsider’s progress down the winding path towards practising at the Bar,

On 26th November 1922, Howard Carter first peered into the newly opened tomb of an ancient Egyptian boy-king. When asked if he could see anything, he replied: ‘Yes, yes, wonderful things.' In Tutankhamun’s Trumpet, acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes a unique approach to that tomb and its contents. Instead of concentrating on the oft-told story of the discovery, or speculating on the brief life and politically fractious reign of the boy king, Wilkinson takes the objects buried with him as the source material for a wide-ranging, detailed portrait of ancient Egypt.

We’ve learned that the way to get ahead is through strong will, grit and naked ambition. The belief that self-interest makes the world go round has served us well: it has helped make our society more affluent. But does that premise still hold? In Beyond Self-Interest, Krzysztof Pelc argues that those who prosper increasingly do so by spurning prosperity, or by convincing others that they are pursuing passion, purpose, love of craft—anything but their own self-advancement. 

Gangsters, hitmen, murderers and terrorists...Kate Kray has met them all. Using her unrivalled links to the criminal underworld, she has asked the questions many would be too terrified to utter. From seasoned hard man Roger Shaw to feared detainee Charles Bronson, Kate lifts the lid on the crimes they committed and speaks to the men themselves to find out what exactly makes them tick. Infamous criminals, now seen as legends of British crime, open up to reveal their fated paths and the instrumental moments that caused them to turn to a life outside the law.