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Nein, ein Schicksal ist unsere Persönlichkeit nicht. Im Gegenteil ist das Leben eine permanente Reise zu uns selbst. Doch wie entlarven wir dunkle Seiten an uns und anderen? Wie prägen uns die Menschen um uns herum? Und reifen wir tatsächlich an Krisen und Krankheiten? Narzissmus, Psychopathie, Machiavellismus, Sadismus: Die psychologische Forschung hat die Quelle der vier finsteren Persönlichkeitseigenschaften entdeckt – den D-Faktor.

Tel Aviv, 1970. Mati Netaim's life is turned upside down when she loses her parents in a terrible car crash. Reeling from the loss, she arrives at their home in the moshav, prepared to pack up a life full of happy memories. But when she looks inside her mother's drawer, she finds more than happy memories—she finds something that will change her life forever. Inside an innocent-looking envelope, yellowed with age, Mati finds a photograph of a man she does not recognize, holding a baby girl who has Mati's own blue eyes.

It has been 20 years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs, once thought of almost as gods, were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability known as the Gift, avoided the Augurs' fate only by submitting themselves to the rebellion's Four Tenets.

Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high school seniors in the small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. When they disappear from a beach party one warm summer night, police launch a massive search. No clues are found, and hope is almost lost until Megan miraculously surfaces after escaping from a bunker deep in the woods. A year later the best-selling account of her ordeal has turned Megan from local hero to national celebrity.

In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one’s life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London’s most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton. After a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to become engaged, he took one look at Francesca Bridgerton and fell so fast and hard into love it was a wonder he managed to remain standing. 

Deutschland steht an einem Wendepunkt: Sind wir bereit, für Frieden, Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung Verantwortung zu übernehmen und Konsequenzen zu ziehen – politisch, diplomatisch und militärisch? Er analysiert Versäumnisse, benennt bequeme Narrative und zeigt, warum und welche Reformen jetzt notwendig sind. Zwischen technologischem Wandel, globalen Krisen und einer kaum verteidigungsbereiten Bundeswehr entwirft Kiesewetter zwei gegenläufige Zukunftsbilder: Werden wir zum handlungsfähigen Akteur – oder überlassen wir unsere Zukunft fremden Mächten?

In this well-known classic, a school inspector travelling to the village of Pit End wonders whether the things he’s seeing are products of his imagination or something supernatural. There’s a rational answer, but is it the right one? Was It an Illusion is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known. With music by Benedict Edwards.

Menschen fliegen ins Weltall – das scheint uns inzwischen normal. In dieser Ausgabe von „Erzähl mir alles: Physik" beleuchten wir die Raumfahrt von Vergangenheit bis Zukunft, und von der kosmischen Nachbarschaft bis in die Ferne. Touristische Flüge an die Grenze des Weltalls, Langzeit-Aufenthalte auf Raumstationen, neue Flüge zum Mond oder Ende sogar eine Reise zu den Sternen: Egal, wohin es gehen soll, ohne Physik geht nichts!

Posey Osterhagen tiene mucho que agradecerle a la vida. Es la propietaria de una exitosa empresa de rehabilitación de edificios, su familia la arropa y tiene un novio, o una especie de novio. Aun así, le parece que le falta algo. Algo como Liam Murphy, un tipo alto y peligrosamente atractivo. Cuando Posey tenía dieciséis años, ese chico malo de Bellsford le rompió el corazón. Ahora que ha vuelto, su corazón traidor está de nuevo en peligro. Lo que tendría que hacer ella es darle calabazas pero, en cambio, el destino parece tenerle reservado algo distinto.

Wir sind in einem Thriller. Sie und ich. Nicht als Hörer und Autor. Als Akteure. Besagter Thriller schreibt sich seit Menschengedenken fort und wechselt dabei immer wieder den Titel. Aktuell heißt er Klimakrise. Pandemie. Digitalisierung. Terror. In der Vergangenheit hieß er Kalter Krieg, Wettrüsten, davor Zweiter Weltkrieg, Erster Weltkrieg. Doch nie waren wir so vielen potenziellen Schrecknissen gleichzeitig ausgesetzt wie heute. Falls Sie also dem Klimaschutz vorübergehend Ihre Aufmerksamkeit entzogen haben, um mit einer Pandemie zurechtzukommen, ist das schlichtweg menschlich.

After barely surviving a brutal attack, Brienne Dougray rarely leaves her house. Suffering from debilitating headaches and memory loss, she can rely only on her compassionate new tenant, Dr. Niall Emberlin, a welcome distraction from the discomfiting bubble that has become her existence. But Brienne’s growing confidence in her new routine is shaken when she stumbles across unsettling evidence that someone else is living as...her. Same name. Same car. Same hair. Same clothes. She’s even friended her family on social media.

Ist das Lachen nicht bloßer Reflex, gedankenloses Schafsblöken, das der komplexen Tragikomik des Lebens nicht gerecht wird? Ein sinnentleerter Epilog, der auf eine gute Geschichte folgt? Aira eröffnet in dieser überraschend intimen Erzählung, die mal Autofiktion, mal wilde Fabel ist, einen Raum zwischen Witz und Gelächter, jenen Spalt, der oft zwischen dem eigenen Bewusstsein und der Gegenwart des Moments klafft: Darin finden wir Träume, Erinnerungen, einen Ozean der Wehmut - und schließlich auch das Lachen.

Sarah is in a loving relationship with Paul, a man she hopes to one day marry and start a family with, until his untimely death turns her world upside down. Trying to come to terms with her loss, Sarah finds comfort in looking through Paul's old things, including his laptop and his emails. But after finding something troubling, Sarah begins to discover things about her late partner that she never knew before, and it seems he wasn't as perfect as she thought. 

Historian John Ferling delves into baseball in the fascinating dozen years following World War II, when baseball ruled as the national pastime, and the names of the game's principal stars were known even by those who weren't fans of the sport. Major league baseball integration in 1947 also...

En un mundo donde nada es lo que parece, con bandas rivales enfrentadas, dos personalidades opuestas se verán condenadas a entenderse. Donde hubo fuego, siempre habrá pecado, prepárate para arder en él.

Nicht nur unsere Mitmenschen verändern unser Denken, Fühlen und Handeln. Seit einiger Zeit steht ein neuer Player auf der Matte: die Künstliche Intelligenz. Seither reden wir mit Maschinen, als wären es Menschen. Doch welchen Einfluss hat die KI auf unsere Seele, unser Herz und unser Hirn? Bei Sorgen und Seelenkummer lassen sich längst Millionen Menschen von Künstlicher Intelligenz unterstützen. Die KI ist verdammt gut darin, Nähe zu simulieren. Mittlerweile aber nimmt uns die KI mehr und mehr Denkarbeit ab.

Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones look back on the creative magic that powered Led Zeppelin, the bond that held them together, and the legacy of John Bonham. They revisit legendary shows at Madison Square Garden and Royal Albert Hall, reveal how classics like Stairway to Heaven and Kashmir evolved on stage, and share the stories behind iconic albums including Led Zeppelin IV and Physical Graffiti. A rare, fascinating look inside one of rock's greatest bands.

How did the shift from matriarchy to patriarchy come about? In fascinating detail, Merlin Stone tells us the story of the Goddess who reigned supreme in the Near and Middle East. Under her reign, societal roles differed markedly from those in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures: women bought and sold property, traded in the marketplace, and inherited title and land from their mothers.

In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking 10 of the most common objections to Marxism - that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on - he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are.

Poet Gabriel Syme believes in the beauty of order and, as such, is recruited by Scotland Yard to an anti-anarchist police corp. While undercover, Syme meets fellow poet Lucian Gregory, a verse writer devoted to disorder, who introduces him to London’s anarchist underworld. Just as Gregory is to be elected to the central council, Syme’s cover is revealed and he is forced to make a decision that sends the cabal into chaos. Is anyone in this underground faction who or what they seem? Syme suddenly realizes he doesn’t have all the answers.