Social Scientists

Von den Anfängen, über "Wallenstein", bis zum Nachlass - Die Geschichte Deutschlands aus der Sicht eines aufmerksamen Beobachters. Seit Jahrzehnten bereits gilt Golo Mann als eine der wahren Größen innerhalb des Kreises deutscher Historiker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein 1971 erschienenes Werk "Wallenstein" macht heute noch Teil des Grundgesteins der modernen deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft aus. Nun veröffentlicht der Schweizer Historiker Urs Bitterli die erste umfassende Biografie dieses bedeutenden Historikers und politischen Publizisten.

Estas memorias son el registro del devenir intelectual y personal de Roger Bartra, un atisbo a la conciencia que anima su vida y pensamiento. En esta autobiografía Roger Bartra examina un nudo formado por tres hilos que se extienden a lo largo de su vida intelectual; tres flujos que se mezclan en el pozo profundo de su conciencia.

Das unglaubliche Leben des amerikanischen Psychiaters und Schriftstellers Irvin D. Yalom, Autor von "Und Nietzsche Weinte" und "Das Spinoza-Problem", erzählt von ihm selbst! "Und Nietzsche Weinte", "Das Spinoza-Problem", "Die Rote Couch", "Der Panama-Hut", "Der Schopenhauer-Kur". Bestimmt kennen Sie diese Bestseller. Aber was steht hinter diesen Werken? Wie ist Irvin Yalom auf die Ideen zu diesen Büchern gekommen? Und wie ist er überhaupt zu einem Schriftsteller geworden?

As more and more marriages are made up of two working professionals, our definition of a traditional marriage is put to the test. In Alpha Couples, the Solanos take us on a journey through an ambitious professional couple's trials, tribulations, and lessons learned.

Here is a bold new history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer.

As the title suggests, Fromm's is a wholeheartedly balanced view, inspired by great admiration for Freud's achievements but with a clear understanding of the preconceptions which blinkered his vision - notably those stemming from the bourgeois materialism of his society, his certainty of the inferiority of women and his inability to conceive of psychical phenomena for which physiological roots could not be demonstrated.

Uschi Troll was born in Vienna in the 1950s. She had her first psychic experience at the age of four; by the time she was 11, she had bewildered and frightened her parents—and herself—with the extent of her powers. Only gradually was she able to accept her unusual gift, as she moved from school to school, from relationship to relationship. When Uschi decided that it was time to tell her story, she told it to Hans Holzer, knowing that he, a world-renowned expert on psychic phenomena, would tell it with insight and truth.

すぐ「海外では～」と言い出す人に使えるインテリ悪口「鹿鳴館精神を身につけてる」、憶えた言葉をすぐ使いたがる人用のインテリ悪口「ボキャブラリーをスタックで管理してるのかよ」･･････等々

For curiosity seekers of aerospace and structural science, how did it all start? Here is the story of a forgotten stress engineer whose philosophy, calculations, and outspoken opinions saved many lives. Greatest Generation story lovers, World War II hounds, and family members caring for aging parents think of Mister B as a national treasure. When a relative inserts herself into the physicist's personal space, the old man decides to teach his new helper some life lessons of his own, specifically that his newest design is to live forever.

From his working class roots in New Jersey to the “tune in, turn on, drop out” cliffs of Big Sur and the pinnacles of the human potential movement; from launching his company Age Wave and coming to terms with his own aging process, Ken Dychtwald’s Radical Curiosity makes sense of his first 70 years of life, offering invaluable life lessons through the lens of a man constantly seeking truth and self-discovery - giving listeners a glimpse into a visionary's extraordinary world, and a guide for claiming a powerful vision of one’s own.

Clever and accessible, Generation Robot isn’t just for the serious, scientific reader―it’s for everyone interested in robotics and technology since their science-fiction origins. By looking back at the future she once imagined, analyzing the plugged-in present, and speculating on what is on the horizon, Terri Favro allows readers the chance to consider what was, what is, and what could be. This is a captivating book that looks at the pop-culture of our society to explain how the world works―now and tomorrow.

Psycholoog en bestsellerauteur Thijs Launspach probeert met zijn partner jaren kinderen te krijgen en belandt er zelfs voor in een vruchtbaarheidstraject. Terwijl zijn relatie aan een zijden draadje hangt, probeert hij te dealen met alle verdriet en frustratie. Een eerlijk boek vol wrange humor, dat troost biedt aan koppels die lijden aan verminderde vruchtbaarheid, en dan vooral de 'manvormige aanhangsels' onder hen.

Max Weber, Gründer der modernen Soziologie, nahm es 1919, kurz nach dem ersten Weltkrieg, auf sich, in Zeiten von politischem Chaos und Revolutionsphantasien nicht nur das politische Geschehen in Deutschland zu analysieren, sondern die grundsätzliche Frage zu beantworten, welche Charaktereigenschaften und Ansichten für einen Menschen, der die Politik als Berufung sieht, nötig sind. Besonders interessant und geradezu zeitlos in der Analyse ist Webers Unterscheidung zwischen "Gesinnungsethik" und "Verantwortungsethik" - Begriffe, die noch heute Politiker in wahre Zwickmühlen bringen können.

In seiner Biografie schildert Homayoon Pardis, dass es möglich ist, eine neue Heimat in Deutschland zu finden, ohne die eigene Herkunft zu vergessen. Denn Ankommen bedeutet viel mehr als das Finden einer Wohnung, eines Jobs und einer Kita für die Kinder. Es geht um Hoffnung, das Gefühl der Zugehörigkeit und den Glauben daran, einen Neustart erfolgreich meistern zu können. Homayoon Pardis macht deutlich, dass es nicht dem Zufall oder dem Glück überlassen ist, ob Integration in Deutschland gelingt.

Der Lebensrückblick eines außergewöhnlichen Mannes: Ralf Dahrendorf, den viele durch seine öffentlichen Gespräche mit Rudi Dutschke 1968 erinnern werden, lässt sein Leben Revue passieren - von seiner Kindheit im Nazi-Deutschland als Sohn eines sozialdemokratischen Widerstandskämpfers über sein Studium bis zum Beginn seiner Karriere als Wissenschaftler, Politiker und Journalist. Dieses "Patchwork", wie er das, was er dem Leser damit bot, nannte, bietet ungewöhnliche Einblicke in das Leben einer großen Persönlichkeit.

Referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis", Sigmund Freud is credited with championing the "talking cure" and charting the human unconscious. Both revered and reviled, he was a brilliant innovator but also a man of troubling contradictions, sometimes tyrannical, often misrepresenting the course and outcome of his treatments to make the "facts" match his theories.

Jim Lucey has been working for more than 25 years with patients suffering from mental health problems. When people at their most vulnerable present to his room at St Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin, they reveal their fears, traumas and very real human predicaments. Most of the assessments described in this audiobook took place in this room. While the patients’ stories are diverse, one common theme emerges - that of recovery.

In How Are You?, therapist Therese Rosenblatt shares her privileged front-row seat into the hearts and minds of her patients, to report on what is actually going on inside real peoples' heads from the dark, early days of the pandemic through its long, drawn-out progression. Dr. Rosenblatt then trains her own attuned eyes and ears onto herself, sharing some of her own experiences, challenges, and unexpected pleasures as she navigates this new world together with her patients.

Marijuana has been illegal in the United States since 1937. Yet, thanks in large part to a loosely connected underground world of breeders, dealers, and smokers, there are currently more than 2000 varieties available. And since 1996, when California first passed legislation allowing for legalized medical marijuana, the underground has slowly surfaced, pushing what was once a decentralized, lawless world closer to the corporate world of business, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals.

Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn't every day you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, award-winning author Jim Al-Khalili and his team of top-notch experts explain how today's earthshaking discoveries will shape our world tomorrow - and beyond. Pull back the curtain on genomics, robotics, AI, the Internet of Things, synthetic biology, transhumanism, interstellar travel, colonization of the solar system, teleportation, and much more.