Non-Fiction Spring 2023

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Daniel Schulz

I Can’t Hear the Sirens Any More

Reporting on war and everyday life in Ukraine

Date of publication: April 26, 2023
Hardcover | 272 pages
War didn’t come to Ukraine in February 2022 – it has been a reality in the country since 2014. Nine years ago, Russian soldiers covertly invaded Donbas, and started a war of attrition whose goal ...
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Christoph Heusgen

Responsible Leadership

Angela Merkel’s foreign policy and Germany’s future role in international affairs

Date of publication: February 15, 2023
Hardcover | 256 pages
In "Responsible Leadership", Heusgen explains how Germany can begin to play a new and active role in global affairs. As the new chair of the Munich Security Conference, former security adviser to...
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Richard C. Schneider

The Thing with Israel

Five questions about a complex country

Date of publication: April 26, 2023
Hardcover | 192 pages
Schneider, an expert in the Middle East, former ARD Israel correspondent and current Spiegel author, has lived in Tel Aviv for almost 20 years. He is actively engaged in public debates around iss...
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Bernd Kleine-Gunk, Stefan Lorenz S...

Homo Ex Machina

Tomorrow’s human: a nuanced look at transhumanism

Date of publication: June 21, 2023
Hardcover | 448 pages
Pacemakers, running blades, stem cell research, life-prolonging medicine: these achievements might sound normal, but they are all part of what is called transhumanism. Transhumanism stipulates th...
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Martin Korte

Long Covid: When the Fog Won’t Lift

Covid’s serious neurological after-effects: causes, treatments, and your chance of recovery

Date of publication: October 26, 2022
Paperback | 256 pages
Exhaustion, breathlessness, loss of taste, brain fog, problems concentrating: about ten percent of Covid patients report these and other similar symptoms, months after first catching the virus. I...
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Jürgen Grässlin

You Won’t Get Me Down

The resolute struggle against violence and war – what one person can achieve

Date of publication: June 14, 2023
Paperback | 384 pages
How do you force politics, economics and society to become better? How do you champion an important cause? You start acting – resolutely, with conviction, and against the odds. Grässlin is a peac...
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Jonas Schaible

Democracy in Flames

Why we must save our planet if we want to safeguard our freedoms – and vice versa

Date of publication: March 29, 2023
Hardcover | 304 pages
Many people think that protecting our climate and democracy are mutually exclusive. For some, the fight against climate change is moving too slowly, while others are already feeling threatened by...
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Philipp Mattheis

The Dirty Silk Road

Date of publication: May 24, 2023
Hardcover | 288 pages
China has long been considered a kind of gentle sleeping giant. Its political system and human rights violations may be hard to reconcile with democratic values, but many have hoped that increasi...
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Martin Korte

A Clear Head

How to free ourselves from digital overload – with practical tips to help you focus and learn more effectively

Date of publication: May 17, 2023
Hardcover | 320 pages
Our days are filled with online meetings and hours working in front of a screen. At night, we chat, shop online and stream TV series. What is this digital overload we are submitting to day after ...
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Joachim Bauer

Reality Loss

How AI and virtual worlds take possession of us – and threaten humanity

Date of publication: May 17, 2023
Hardcover | 240 pages
Loneliness, deprivation, social division, housing shortages, climate change, pandemics, international conflicts and wars – who doesn’t want to escape the plagues of our time, and disappear into a...

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