Klaus: 1761 books

Geopolitics is a way of looking at the world: one that considers the links between political power, geography, and cultural diversity. In certain places such as Iraq, Lebanon, or Israel, moving a few feet either side of a territorial boundary can be a matter of life or death, dramatically highlighting...

World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab offers a practical companion and field guide to his previous book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Today, technology is changing everything--how we relate to one another, the way we work, how our economies and goverments function,...

In the past decade people all over the world have become fascinated with orbs—the opaque circular features that appear unexpectedly in photographs. In fact, the popularity of this phenomenon has risen so much that serious research has been done on them. Books have been written about what they could...

The Antarctic is one the most hostile natural environments in the world. It is an extraordinary physical space, which changes significantly in shape and size with the passing of the seasons. Politically, it is unique as it contains one of the few areas of continental space not claimed by any nation-state....

In August 2007 a Russian flag was planted under the North Pole during a scientific expedition triggering speculation about a new scramble for resources beneath the thawing ice. But is there really a global grab for Polar territory and resources? Or are these activities vastly exaggerated? In...

Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America’s most innovative and consequential 20th century novelists. In 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis’s collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen’s lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker,...

Un libro non ancora scritto, una biblioteca magica e una strampalata bibliotecaria: una storia di peripezie, pedinamenti e colpi di scena che dalla Norvegia arriva fino a Roma. Perché mai la bizzarra bibliotecaria Lilli è così interessata al quaderno dei due cugini norvegesi, Nils e Berit? Può...

never has there been a book which details the collapse of communism during the gorbachev and yeltsin era.a historical fiction which combines facts and fictional people who experience the total destruction in the eastern block.we see through their eyes how the berlin wall and east germany fell apart.the...

Alexander is a stunning work of historical reimagining from a troubled and unjestly neglected writer. Written in 1929 by the son of Thomas Mann, Alexander shows why Klaus Mann is regarded in Germany as one of the foremost writers of the twentieth century.

Maitreya's Ratnagotravibhaga, also known as the Uttaratantra, is the main Indian treatise on buddha nature, a concept that is heavily debated in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. In A Direct Path to the Buddha Within, Klaus-Dieter Mathes looks at a pivotal Tibetan commentary on this text by Go Lotsawa...

Mareike bekommt zu ihrer Freude einen Zwanzig-Mark-Schein geschenkt, doch dann stellt sich heraus, dass er gefälscht ist. Da noch andere 'Blüten' in der Stadt auftauchen, vermutet Florian eine Fälscherbande am Werk. Zunächst verdächtigen die Kinder einen Zahnarzt, dann die Bewohner einer ehemaligen...

Der Erfinder des Buchdrucks gilt als Jahrtausendfigur. Mit seinen bahnbrechenden Neuerungen läutete Johannes Gutenberg das Zeitalter der Moderne ein. Ohne ihn keine Reformation, keine Renaissance, keine Kirchenkritik, keine Bildung im modernen Sinn. Zu Recht vergleicht man die von ihm eingeleitete...

Der dreizehnte Band der Ostfriesenkrimi-Serie von Nummer 1-Bestseller-Autor Klaus-Peter Wolf und ein ganz spezieller Fall für Ann Kathrin KlaasenEr ist lichtscheu, und er ist böse. Er hat sich Ostfriesland als neues Jagdrevier auserkoren. "Das war sein erster Fehler!", sagt Ann Kathrin...

Der gefährlichste Mann der Republik heißt Dr.Bernhard Sommerfeldt. Er ist aus Ostfriesland geflohen.Aber Ostfriesland hat auch sie: Ann Kathrin Klaasen, die beste Zielfahnderin in ganz Deutschland. Sie heftet sich an seine Fersen.Lesen Sie jetzt nach "Totenstille im Watt" den zweiten Band...