Politik, Geschichte

Freihandel für eine gerechtere Welt

Frank Schäffler, Martin Hartjen, Clemens Schneider, Björn Urbansky (FinanzBuch Verlag, 2017)

TTIP, CETA, JEFTA: So komplex und angsteinflößend wie die kryptischen Kürzel der Globalisierung klingen, ist Freihandel gar nicht. (Vorschau verfügbar)

Deutsche Geschichte in 100 Objekten

Hermann Schäfer (Piper, 2015)

Von der Römermaske bis zu Merkels Handy: 2000 Jahre deutsche Geschichte Was haben eine Ritterrüstung, die Tabakdose Friedrichs des Großen und der WM-Fußball von 1954 gemeinsam?

Das Hohe Haus

Roger Willemsen (Fischer Taschenbuch, 2017)

Ein Jahr lang saß Roger Willemsen im Deutschen Bundestag - nicht als Abgeordneter, sondern als ganz normaler Zuhörer auf der Besuchertribüne im Berliner Reichstag.

Fire and Fury

Michael Wolff (Little, Brown Book Group, 2018)

With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordinary access to ...

The Symposion: Drinking Greek Style

Oswyn Murray (Oxford University Press, 2018)

As a social institution the Greek symposion exerted a powerful influence on archaic, classical, and later Greek culture, from perceptions of politics and philosophy, to attitudes towards sexuality, death, and religion.

Delusions of Gender

Cordelia Fine (Icon Books, 2011)

Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. This title dispels the pseudo-scientific claims about the differences between the sexes. It shows how old myths, dressed up in the scientific finery, help perpetuate the status quo.

India's Foreign Policy and Regional Multilateralism

Arndt Michael (Springer Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

The book provides a novel analytical perspective on regional multilateralism in South Asia and its neighbouring regions and covers the genesis, evolution and status quo of the four major regional organizations.

Case Studies and Causal Inference

I. Rohlfing (Springer Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

A discussion of the case study method which develops an integrative framework for causal inference in small-n research. This framework is applied to research design tasks such as case selection and process tracing.

Property Rights

Bruce L. Benson (Springer Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

In an effort to understand the reasons for and consequences of the political backlash to the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Kelo v.

Women in the Stalin Era

Melanie Ilic (Springer Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)

This book brings together for the first time a collection of essays by western scholars about women in the Stalin era (1928-53).

Medium Companies of Europe 1992/93

R. Whiteside (Springer Netherlands, 2014)

Guide to the Volumes 1 & 2 MEDIUM COMPANIES OF EUROPE 1992/93, Volume 1, arrangement of the book contains useful information on nearly 4500 of the most important medium-sized companies in the European This book has been arranged in order to allow ...

Emergence of African Capitalism

John Iliffe (Springer Palgrave Macmillan, 1983)

Die Pyramide

Ismail Kadare (Fischer Taschenbuch, 2018)

Ein ewiges steinernes Rätsel, so liegen die Pyramiden in der Wüste. Ismail Kadares "ägyptischer Roman" nimmt die Errichtung der sagenumwobenen Cheops-Pyramide zum Gegenstand einer vielsagenden politischen Parabel, aus der die Erfahrung totalitärer ...

Skylarks and Rebels

Rita Laima (ibidem, 2017)

Skylarks and Rebels is a story about Latvia's fate in the 20th century as told by Rita Laima, a Latvian American who chose to leave behind the comforts of life in America to explore the land of her ancestors, Latvia, which in the 1980s languished ...

Legenden des Grauens

Mike Vogler (Edition Lempertz, 2018)

Wer war die geheimnisvolle Dunkelgräfin? Hat Till Eulenspiegel wirklich gelebt und gab es einen deutschen Robin Hood? Diesen und weiteren Fragen rund um die unbekannteren Aspekte bekannter Sagen geht Mike Vogler in diesem Buch nach. (Vorschau verfügbar)

El espía que engañó a Hitler

José M. Beneyto (Espasa Calpe, 2016)

Germany

Greg Nees (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2000)

Nees explores major German cultural themes: the need for order and obedience to rules and regulations, the insistence on clarity of thought, compartmentalization, the penchant for rational thinking and the love of abstract debate, the sharp ...

Balibar Wallerstein's "Race, Nation, Class"

Manuela Bojadzijev, Katrin Klingan (Argument Verlag, 2018)

"'Race, Nation, Class' - Rereading a Dialogue for Our Times" betrachtet die vor 30 Jahren erschienene bahnbrechende Publikation "Rasse, Klasse, Nation" von Étienne Balibar und Immanuel Wallerstein neu.

The Fix

Jonathan Tepperman (Random House US, 2016)

We all know the bad news. Our economies are stagnant. Wages are flat and income inequality keeps rising. The Middle East is burning and extremism is spreading. Frightened voters are embracing populist outsiders and angry nationalists.

The World Until Yesterday

Jared Diamond (Penguin UK, 2013)

The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas ...

The Macedonians

E. Damianopoulos (Springer Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

Overturning the 20th century\'s prevalent view of the Macedonians, Damianopoulos uses three domains of evidence - historical documentation, cognitive self-descriptor reports, and sociocultural features - to demonstrate that the Macedonians are a ...

Burning Country

Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami (Pluto Press, 2016)

Burning Country explores the horrific and complicated reality of life in present-day Syria with unprecedented detail and sophistication.

A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC

Marc Van De Mieroop (Wiley & Sons, 2015)

Incorporating the latest scholarly research, the third edition of A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC presents a comprehensive overview of the multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East.

The Book Thieves

Anders Rydell (Penguin US, 2018)

By turns fascinating, harrowing, yet ultimately uplifting, this is the story of the Nazis' systematic pillaging of Europe's libraries, and the heroic efforts of the few librarians now working to return the stolen books to their owners.

The Science of Roman History

Walter Scheidel (Princeton University Press, 2018)

This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive look at how the latest advances in the sciences are transforming our understanding of ancient Roman history.

Gegen den Hass

Carolin Emcke (Fischer Taschenbuch, 2018)

"Es gilt zu mobilisieren, was dem Hassenden abgeht: die Fähigkeit zur Ironie, zu Zweifeln und die Vision einer offenen Gesellschaft.

Über das Kommunistische Manifest

Slavoj Zizek (Fischer Taschenbuch, 2018)

"Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!" Der Originaltext des "Kommunistischen Manifests" von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels, sowie ein Originaltext von Slavoj Zizek zur "verspäteten Aktualität des 'Kommunistischen Manifests'" Um die ...

Las cien mejores anécdotas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

Jesús Hernández (Rocabolsillo, 2016)

Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism

Mark S. Hamm, Ramon Spaaij (Columbia University Press, 2017)

In The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism, the terrorism experts Mark S. Hamm and Ramón Spaaij combine criminological theory with empirical and ethnographic research to map the pathways of lone-wolf radicalization, helping with the identification of ...

Southeast Asian Muslims in the Era of Globalization

K. Miichi, O. Farouk (Springer Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

This volume investigates the appropriate position of Islam and opposing perceptions of Muslims in Southeast Asia.