Best selling Reference books from Rowohlt Berlin
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1. Rowohlt Berlin Marx, Wagner, Nietzsche
Marx, Wagner, Nietzsche - these three thinkers profoundly influenced both the 19th and 20th centuries. As contemporaries who faced each other with admiration, rejection, or indifference, they shaped a time of immense scientific diversity and societal dynamism. Their antagonisms and contradictions lead to the heart of German development. Herfried Münkler follows these three fascinating figures, thereby awakening an entire era. He describes the astonishing parallels in the lives of Marx and Wagner: their involvement in the 1848 Revolution, flight, expulsion, and exile, various upheavals, and ultimately the creation of a remarkable body of work, the formation of a large following, and the difficult responsibility for what this following made of their ideas. Nietzsche, the slightly younger figure, is then a philosophical phenomenon; like Marx, he shapes generations. All three break the conventions of the bourgeois world, creating something new - which then transforms into a different, unexpected reality: the promising, rich German 19th century gives way to an age of extremes and political catastrophes. An exciting book about three great thinkers, the signature of the modern world, and, not least, the mentality of the Germans.
2. Rowohlt Berlin The reality that is not so
What is reality? Do space and time really exist when we set out to explore the most elementary foundations of our existence? How much of it can we even understand? Carlo Rovelli has been working for many years to expand the limits of our understanding. In this book, he takes us on a journey that leads from the understanding of reality in Greek classicism to loop quantum gravity. A great physicist of our time sets out to draw us a new picture of the world: with a physical universe without time, a space-time consisting of loops and grains, in which infinity does not exist. A cosmology that gets by without the big bang and parallel universes and which is explained here for the first time by one of its "inventors" in a simple and detailed way for a broad audience. A book about "the great challenges of the
3. Rowohlt Berlin Der Klang von Paris
Berlioz, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Wagner, Chopin, Offenbach, Pauline Viardot – these and many other artists live, love, and suffer in the musical capital of the 19th century, contributing to the score of a metropolis caught between revolution and electricity, railway and empire. For the first time, this book explores Paris as the center of European music in the 19th century, while relating the music to its surroundings. We experience the leap into modernity, which unfolds here at an unprecedented pace, from Napoleon's death to the Second Empire, as Rossini poses for a photograph, Berlioz struggles to pay rent, Meyerbeer anticipates Hollywood, and Chopin travels by train, while Balzac, Flaubert, and Baudelaire attend the opera and Offenbach outsmarts censorship. This panorama brings together social misery and expensive soirées, everyday life and upheaval, love and art; the search for traces in the present connects us with the morning of our era. In music, we come as close to it as nowhere else: in the sound of Paris.
4. Rowohlt Berlin Die Krebs-Industrie
Cancer will become one of our biggest challenges in the coming years - both humanly and in terms of health policy. Almost every second German will be affected in old age, and scientists predict a 40 percent increase in cancer cases by 2030. Nevertheless, there is enormous ignorance surrounding this widespread disease, from which many benefit: the gray market for obscure remedies, hospitals with their lucrative preventive practices, and the pharmaceutical industry, for which cancer medications, priced at their discretion, represent the largest growth sector. Karl Lauterbach, a physician and politician, exposes what is going wrong in the healthcare system: the unfair two-tier medicine, especially in cancer care, the wrong financial incentives for clinics and the pharmaceutical industry, and a lack of transparency regarding treatment successes and methods. At the same time, Lauterbach points out numerous cancer myths.
5. Rowohlt Berlin «Was alles in einem Menschen sein kann»
In 2013, Steffen Schroeder and Micha face each other for the first time in Berlin-Tegel prison. A conversation about their difficult youth brings them closer together, despite all their differences: Schroeder became an actor, while Micha fell into the far-right scene and committed murder. A special relationship begins: Schroeder, known as Commissioner Kowalski in "SOKO Leipzig," becomes a prison helper for the life-sentenced Micha. He learns about prison life, discovers hierarchies, drugs, and escape attempts. Over the years, he delves deep into Micha's story and continually uncovers new and surprising details. Micha becomes increasingly important to him; he accompanies him on day releases and serves as his eyes and ears to the outside world. Soon, Schroeder begins to see himself and his life in a new light: What actually distinguishes him from Micha? And what decisions and turning points led to this difference?.
6. Rowohlt Berlin Make it Make Sense
Author: Lucy Blakiston
At the age of 21, Lucy Blakiston co-founded "Shit You Should Care About" with her two best friends. In no time, the platform became a global success with millions of followers and was celebrated as a news authority for Millennials and Generation Z. As the voice and CEO of SYSCA, Lucy serves as the editorial director of the company, frequently giving talks and sharing insights on how to engage with Generation Z on an international level.
Author: Bel Hawkins
Bel Hawkins is a writer and one of the most popular voices in the Shit You Should Care About universe. She has won prestigious awards in both advertising and media, and spent most of her twenties living around the world and working on projects that directly address exhausted women, helping them feel less alone.
7. Rowohlt Berlin Das braune Netz
They had begun their careers in the service of the Nazi state and seamlessly continued them in the new Federal Republic. Just as willingly as they had served the brown ideology, they now committed themselves to democracy. Military judges once again passed their verdicts, regime-loyal professors taught, and journalists from the former propaganda companies wrote as if they had nothing to answer for. In doing so, the young state regained political freedom of action, but based its success on a moral contradiction that could not be resolved: democracy was being built up by its enemies. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Federal Republic, Willi Winkler presents a ruthless examination of its early history. He compellingly and factually describes how the West German state became a model of success despite all its divisions – and he shows the extent to which seemingly or actually reformed Nazis contributed to this. It is a parable about guilt and shame, about coping and reconciliation, and at the same time an essential read for anyone who wants to understand this country from the ground up.
8. Rowohlt Berlin Lügen lesen
The Backside of the Lie. All people lie, claim the people. But even those who sing the praises of lying do not want to be caught in a lie, and even less do they want to be deceived. Even if one wants to see life itself or at least a necessary cultural technique in lying – we simply do not get used to it. When people cannot get used to something they occasionally do themselves, it is called a moral problem. Those who talk about morality like to mean others. That is why it is no coincidence that we have been fascinated by the liar from the very beginning. Swindlers, con artists, and populists seem to manipulate us like magicians and deliberately lead us astray. The lie is just one of their tools. As if it were only a weapon when it falls into the wrong hands. But is that really all? And can we truly limit the philosophical question of the lie to morality and politics? Philosopher Bettina Stangneth, who has already invited her readers on surprising paths to great philosophical questions with her book "Evil Thinking," poses further, very simple questions in her new essay: What can we learn about our thinking from a lie? Is there knowledge in untruth? And how can we access this knowledge?.
9. Rowohlt Berlin Das kalte Herz
Does capitalism make a few rich and many poor – or increasingly fewer poor? Since the financial crisis, it has become common to blame capitalism for almost all the world's ills. In response, the renowned economic historian Werner Plumpe presents the history of capitalism, which demonstrates how many problems the capitalist market economy has solved – and only these. For capitalism is not a system but a way of economy where consumption is at the center – specifically, the consumption of those with little wealth, who have been left to their fate for centuries. This is the only way mass production can be economically successful. This has drawn early criticism, but Plumpe shows how the capitalist mode of economy has responded and continues to evolve. Capitalism is as consequential as few other ideas, and we cannot escape it, not even through refusal. It is neither based on an evil core nor is it merely the sum of undesirable side effects of our societal system. Plumpe portrays capitalism as a perpetual revolution – a movement of constant innovation and renewal, which is as good or bad as we make it. Capitalism is and has always been what we make of it.
10. Rowohlt Berlin Die einfachste Psychotherapie der Welt
A new, sound and easy-to-use method for understanding and resolving trauma.what causes trauma? The renowned psychotraumatologist Dr Maggie Schauer knows how many people are traumatised in supposedly peaceful environments: by domestic violence, sexual and emotional assault, rejection and exclusion, serious illness or other difficult events that accumulate in life. Parents who beat their children have usually experienced violence themselves. Women who have been abused find it difficult to develop trust in relationships, and this has an impact on friends and families. In many lives, stressful events mix with trauma and experiences of loss long before people become ill, before they need help or become the perpetrators of violence because they themselves experienced violence as a child - because trauma is passed down through generations. Maggie Schauer co-developed "Narrative Exposure Therapy", a pragmatic and evidence-based form of autobiographical storytelling that is in tune with human nature and has been proven to help resolve trauma. In this way, everyone can learn to recognise and break the cycle of suffering and violence.
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