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  • - Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures
    von Erin Meyer
    18,00 €

    The Culture Map is a riveting book penned by Erin Meyer in 2016. This fascinating read, published by PublicAffairs, U.S., delves into the complexities of global communication in an increasingly interconnected world. Meyer, a renowned expert in her field, explores the invisible boundaries that define our thinking and perceptions. With a keen focus on how the simplest of cultural differences can impact global business, this book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the nuances of cross-cultural communication. A masterstroke in the genre of intercultural studies, The Culture Map transcends the conventional boundaries of academic literature, offering insightful, practical advice for professionals navigating the global business landscape. This publication from PublicAffairs, U.S., is a testament to Meyer's profound understanding of cultural diversity and its implications in the world of business.

  • - A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
    von Tamim Ansary
    20,00 €

    Offers knowledge and insight to those who want to understand the movements and events behind the modern-day hostilities wracking Western and Islamic societies. This title clarifies how the Muslim world, sees the history of the world, and what they therefore make of our own version of events.

  • - Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze
    von Laura Shin
    25,00 €

    The story of the idealists, technologists, and opportunists fighting to bring cryptocurrency to the masses.

  • von James Ledbetter
    21,00 €

  • - Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
    von Amy Webb
    23,00 €

    Synthetic biology will revolutionize how we define family, how we identify disease and treat aging, where we make our homes, and how we nourish ourselves. This fast-growing field-which uses computers to modify or rewrite genetic code-has created revolutionary, groundbreaking solutions such as the mRNA COVID vaccines, IVF, and lab-grown hamburger that tastes like the real thing. It gives us options to deal with existential threats: climate change, food insecurity, and access to fuel.But there are significant risks.Who should decide how to engineer living organisms? Whether engineered organisms should be planted, farmed, and released into the wild? Should there be limits to human enhancements? What cyber-biological risks are looming? Could a future biological war, using engineered organisms, cause a mass extinction event? Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel's riveting examination of synthetic biology and the bioeconomy provide the background for thinking through the upcoming risks and moral dilemmas posed by redesigning life, as well as the vast opportunities waiting for us on the horizon.

  • von Bruce de Mesquita
    23,98 €

  • - How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
    von Joseph Menn
    15,00 - 20,00 €

    The fast-paced, riveting story of the hacking collective that is using technology as a force for good, and fighting back against corporations and countries that are going after our freedom, privacy, even our democracy.

  • von Dmitri Alperovitch
    16,00 €

    A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine months before it took place, lays out the case for why China's Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan in the coming years and the dire stakes for America and the whole world if he is not deterred.

  • von Owen Ullmann
    31,00 €

    When President Biden announced Janet Yellen as his choice for secretary of the treasury, it was the peak moment of a remarkable life. Not only the first woman in the more than two-century history of the office, Yellen is the first person to hold all three top economic policy jobs in the United States: chair of both the Federal Reserve and the President's Council of Economic Advisors as well as treasury secretary.Through Owen Ullmann's intimate portrait, we glean two remarkable aspects of Yellen's approach to economics: first, her commitment to putting those on the bottom half of the economic ladder at the center of economic policy, and employing forward-looking ideas to use the power of government to create a more prosperous, productive life for everyone. And second, her ability to maintain humanity in a Washington policy world where fierce political combat casts others as either friend or enemy, never more so than in our current age of polarization.As Ullmann takes us through Yellen's life and work, we clearly see her brilliance and meticulous preparation. What stands out, though, is Yellen as an icon of progress-the "Ruth Bader Ginsburg of economics"-a superb-yet-different kind of player in a cold, male-dominated profession that all too often devises policies to benefit the already well-to-do. With humility and compassion as her trademarks, we see the influence of Yellen's father, a physician whose pay-what-you-can philosophy meant never turning anyone away. That compassion, rooted in her family life in Brooklyn, now extends across our entire country.

  • von Juliette Kayyem
    23,00 €

    An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management.The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. So why do we still fumble when disaster hits? Why are we always one step behind?In The Devil Never Sleeps, Juliette Kayyem lays the groundwork for a new approach to dealing with disasters. Presenting the basic themes of crisis management, Kayyem amends the principles we rely on far too easily. Instead, she offers us a new framework to anticipate the “devil’s” inevitable return, highlighting the leadership deficiencies we need to overcome and the forward thinking we need to harness. It’s no longer about preventing a disaster from occurring, but learning how to use the tools at our disposal to minimize the consequences when it does.Filled with personal anecdotes and real-life examples from natural disasters like the California wildfires to man-made ones like the Boeing 737 MAX crisis, The Devil Never Sleeps is a guide for governments, businesses, and individuals alike on how to alter our thinking so that we can develop effective strategies in the face of perpetual catastrophe.

  • - Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible
    von Josh Sullivan
    45,00 €

    The Mathematical Corporation is the breakthrough book leaders have been waiting for, showing how the synergistic combination of human ingenuity and machine cognition takes the guesswork out of decision-making and leads to new products, services, and solutions that reshape business and society.

  • - Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
    von Timothy Denevi
    50,00 €

    How the gonzo literary journalist became a crusader against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America--and the devastating price his work exacted on his life, his health and his career

  • - The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare
    von Clare Asquith
    37,00 €

    An utterly compelling combination of literary detection and political revelation, Shadowplay is the definitive expose of how Shakespeare lived through and understood the agonies of his time, and what he had to say about them.

  • - Finding the Trading Zone and Winning at Win-Win Negotiation
    von Lawrence Susskind
    27,00 €

    A giant in the field and professor of negotiation at MIT and Harvard Law School offers a conceptual breakthrough and practical tool for Uwinning /U negotiations-not just dividing the pie-while maintaining trust and keeping relationships intact: the "Trading Zone"

  • - Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future
    von John Kerry
    27,00 €

    The environment, and the movement that grew up to protect it, is under attack -- concerted and purposeful. Yet the need for solutions to pressing environmental problems grows more urgent each day. Teresa Heinz Kerry and Senator John Kerry describe how these issues unite people across party and ideological lines. From the San Juan Basin to the Gulf of Mexico to the South Bronx, from mothers on Cape Cod to Colorado ranchers, they found a vibrant coalition of people and communities deploying ingenuity, technology, and sheer will power to save the world they know and love. Now, in this passionate and personal book, Senator John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry shine the spotlight on an inspiring cross-section of these new environmental pioneers. The book combines intensive research with keenly observed personal experiences to present a portrait of Americans devoted to the natural diversity and spectacular uniqueness of our country. It also includes an extensive guide on where and how readers can get involved.

  • - How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
    von Amy Webb
    16,00 - 17,00 €

    A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head.

  • - Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
    von Michael Shnayerson
    24,00 €

    A behind-the-scenes look at the egomaniacs, geniuses, and canny promoters who shaped the world of modern art and created the largest unregulated financial market in the world.

  • - A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America
    von John Nichols
    35,00 €

    In the vein of Bernard Goldberg's 100 PEOPLE WHO ARE SCREWING UP AMERICA, John Nichols delivers an urgent and necessary guide to the people who will have the power to really screw up America in the next four years.

  • - America's Abdication of Global Leadership
    von Ivo H. Daalder
    28,00 €

    American diplomacy is in shambles under Trump, but beneath the daily chaos is an erosion of the postwar order that is even more dangerous.

  • - Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
    von Christian Davenport
    47,00 €

    The visionary quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, concern about the future of humanity, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier

  • - How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World
    von Paul Collins
    49,00 €

    The fascinating and sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy and a vital call for the reevaluation and reimagination of papal power by one of today's preeminent theologians

  • - A Family's Day of Reckoning in Lahore
    von Haroon Ullah
    44,00 €

    The story of one middle-class family, the Rezas, shopkeepers in Lahore's ancient Anarkali Bazaar, caught in the great struggles that have rippled through Pakistan " compellingly narrated by a young Pakistani-American scholar and diplomat who has observed the traumas of the region at first hand.

  • - A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
    von Marc Lewis
    19,88 €

    "The most original and illuminating addiction memoir since Thomas De Quincey's seminal Confessions of an Opium Eater. . . An electrifying debut." -The Fix

  • von Andy Rooney
    31,00 €

    A wonderful, diverse collection spanning the writing career of the celebrated 60 Minutes commentator and bestselling author

  • von Andy Rooney
    32,00 €

    The New York Times, USA Today, Book Sense, and Publishers Weekly bestseller, now in paperback in time for the holidays

  • - The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs
    von Muhammad Yunus
    17,00 €

    The groundbreaking model for promoting good and social equality through business from Nobel Peace Prize- winner Muhammad Yunus

  • von Andy Rooney
    33,00 €

    Celebrate the holidays with a new collection by America's favorite commentator and best-selling author

  • - Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
    von Charles Morris
    27,00 €

    A New York Times bestseller on the financial crisis--now updated to address the current economic landscape

  • - The Life of China's Peasants
    von Chen Guidi
    26,00 €

    A prize-winning investigative expose of the poverty and injustice experienced by China's 900 million peasants, told through a series of dramatic personal narratives.

  • von Andy Rooney
    32,00 €

    Andy Rooney's Sunday evening observations on 60 Minutes are an American institution, shaping the way people see everything from coffee percolators to the state of the nation.

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