Non-Fiction Autumn 2024

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Jo Angerer

From Global Power to Trouble Spot

The fall of the Soviet Union and its consequences

Date of publication: October 16, 2024
Hardcover | 240 pages
Between March 1990 and December 1991, a global superpower collapsed. During this time of economic and social upheaval, the Soviet republics and their sub-regions declared their independence from ...
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Philipp Mattheis

The Chinese Nightmare

How China’s rise represents a major geopolitical challenge for the West

Date of publication: November 20, 2024
Hardcover | 304 pages
Along the new Silk Road, China is extending its power into places the West has left behind. While the US has the tech advantage in many fields, China has the biggest production capacity in the wo...
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Gabriela Beck

The Homes We Want

Making our towns and cities better places to live: a design for change

Date of publication: October 23, 2024
Hardcover | 224 pages
Where we live directly affects our health and social wellbeing. But while wealthy urbanites secure luxuriously renovated, centrally located character properties, the rest of us are pushed ever fu...
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Bettina Kutschenreiter, Christian ...

How D’You Do, I’m Beaver

Our unusual friendship with a wild beaver family

Date of publication: September 25, 2024
Hardcover | 224 pages
Black button eyes, impressive incisors, a big paddle for a tail, thick fur – beavers are not only pretty, but smart, empathetic, communicative, playful and actually very shy. When the Kutschenrei...
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Peter Wohlleben

Beech Life

A tree tells its remarkable story

Date of publication: August 28, 2024
Hardcover | 352 pages | With illustrations from: Mascha Greune
What would trees tell us, if they could talk? Almost ten years after the publication of Wohlleben’s "The Secret Life of Trees", scientists have made so many new discoveries that it’s now time for...
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Michael Lüders

War Without End?

How the conflict in Gaza poses a threat to peace in the Middle East and Europe

Date of publication: September 18, 2024
Hardcover | 400 pages
Hamas’s assault on Israel on 7 October 2023 has started a new war – with devastating consequences for people on both sides, but especially those living in Gaza. At any moment, the violence could ...
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Thomas Schulz

Operation Longer Lifespan

How living 100 healthy years is now possible, thanks to high-tech research and medicine – and what we need to do to help things along

Date of publication: September 25, 2024
Hardcover | 336 pages
Elite researchers around the world agree: one day, it will be possible for us to remain fit and healthy into our mid-90s, and a lifespan of 120 years will be a reality for many of us who are aliv...
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Uli Burchardt

Human Protection Area

Why we must radically rethink nature conservation, and how to turn the cities of the future into healthy ecosystems

Date of publication: September 18, 2024
Hardcover | 336 pages
Roads blocked by protesting farmers on their tractors and climate activists gluing themselves to the tarmac, exploding energy prices and rents, anger at the Green Party’s policies, growing right-...
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Thomas Ramge

Dimming the Sun

Why We Need Geoengineering to Keep the World from Falling Apart

Date of publication: September 11, 2024
Hardcover | 208 pages
Humanity cannot move away from fossil fuels fast enough. The Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius can hardly be achieved. This means a fight for sur...
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Felix Adlon, Kerstin Kropac

Hedda Adlon

Loved, hated, admired: the hotel queen’s unconventional life

Date of publication: October 23, 2024
Hardcover | 272 pages
During the final days of the war, chaos and violence reign. One day, Soviet soldiers storm a villa near Potsdam and arrest the Berlin hotel owner Louis Adlon. For thirteen days, his wife Hedda fo...

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