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In a letter of 1932, Karl Popper described Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie – The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge – as ‘…a child of crises, above all of …the crisis of physics.’ Finally available in English, it is a major contribution to the...

An immediate sensation when it was first published in two volumes in 1945, Popper's monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right and is credited with inspiring anticommunist dissidents during the Cold War. Arguing that the spirit of free, critical inquiry that governs scientific investigation should also apply to politics, Popper traces the roots of an opposite, authoritarian tendency to a tradition represented by Plato, Marx, and Hegel. 

Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper’s most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insights into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible...

Upon its first English publication in 1959, Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery revolutionized thinking about the scientific method. Largely an exploration of the demarcation problem, or what distinguishes science from non-science, Popper introduced and defended his concept of falsifability -- that scientific systems are ones open to empirical disconfirmation -- against the prevailing views of his day.

She wanted her dream cabin. She’s getting her worst nightmare. Creaky floorboards, crisp fallen leaves, chilly evenings by the bonfire… Thora Williamson thinks she knows what to expect when she moves into her family’s long-abandoned mountain cabin for a fresh start. Instead, she gets the...

For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What happened to bold political vision on the left, and what shrunk the very horizons of possibility? In Thinking like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman tells the story of how a distinctive way of thinking-an "economic style of reasoning" - became dominant in Washington between the 1960s and the 1980s and how it continues to dramatically narrow debates over public policy today.

Die große Welt des Tees, das bewegende Schicksal einer starken Frau und der Aufstieg einer berühmten Kaufmannsfamilie. Das Bundle zu Die Ronnefeldt-Saga. Frankfurt 1838: Als Kaufmannstochter und Ehefrau des Teehändlers Tobias Ronnefeldt genießt Friederike es sehr, ab und an hinter der Theke ihres Geschäfts zu stehen – sie liebt den blumigen, leicht erdigen Duft der dunklen Teeblätter. Frankfurt 1853: Die Teehändlerin Friederike Ronnefeldt möchte ihre zunehmend erwachsenen Kinder gut versorgt wissen.

Starting a new job at a rapidity growing technology start-up, recently divorced financial controller Josh Bonn hopes to find a pot of gold to help put his two remaining kids through college. When an unexpected opportunity for life changing wealth falls into his lap, melding his current skills with those from his past life in Naval intelligence, the opportunity is simply to good to pass up. With the help of a wayward computer genius and an attractive hotel clerk, he embarks down a path to hopefully improve his family's future.

The first time Daisy Ellery killed a man with a pie, it was an accident. Now, it’s her calling. Daisy bakes sweet vengeance into her pastries, which she and her dog, Zoe, deliver to the men who’ve done dirty deeds to the town’s women. But if she can’t solve the one crime that’s not of her own baking, she’ll be out of the pie pan and into the oven. Parking her mobile bakery van outside the local diner, Daisy is informed that someone’s been prowling around the van. She finds a letter on her door, threatening to reveal her unsavory secret sideline of pie à la murder.

While Lexi, a powerful witch-werewolf and bounty hunter, tracks criminals through Manhattan, she runs across Darius, an Immortal who has landed in her city after the failure of The Calling spell. Attracted to the sexy warrior, but struggling to deal with the raging needs of the wolf inside her, Lexi battles her own desires as she and Darius race to foil a plot to overrun the city with Death Magic. Time is running out for them to reach the other Immortals and stop the deadliest threat the world has known.

For centuries they have walked among us - vampires, shape-shifters, the Celtic Sidhe, demons, and other magical beings. Their battle to reign supreme is constant, but one force holds them in check, a race of powerful warriors known as the Immortals! Random flashes of unearthly light. Ominous messages written on steamy mirrors. Assailants lurking in shadows. Mai's hallucinations are becoming a little too real - the last one almost killed her.

Au Royaume de la Musique, les différentes familles d'instruments ne se connaissent pas et vivent séparées les unes des autres. Mais un jour, la famille des Cordes entend parler de la famille des Saxophones et l'invite à lui rendre visite. Après avoir fait connaissance, les deux familles décident de partir à la recherche d'autres familles d'instruments. C'est ainsi que, au gré des pérégrinations, viennent s'ajouter la famille des Bois, la famille des Tambours et des Marteaux et la famille des Cuivres. Un jour, après avoir croisé la guitare, toutes les familles d'instruments trouvent le piano et forment le grand orchestre.

Drug Lord, a firsthand account of drug dealing, murder, and corruption, tells of drug kingpin Pablo Acosta, who smuggled up to 20 tons of cocaine each year into the United States before treachery brought about his downfall and grisly death. 

Privatdetektiv Gerhard Selb, 68, wird von einem Chemiekonzern beauftragt, einem Hacker das Handwerk zu legen...

New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for...

Hamza Abu Howidy erzählt uns vom Aufwachsen im Gaza der 2000er-Jahre, von seiner Familie, besonders seinem Vater, der ihm beim Muschelsammeln die großen Lektionen des Lebens beigebracht hat, aber auch von den blutigen Kämpfen zwischen Fatah und Hamas, direkt vor seiner Haustür, und wie sehr das Leben in Gaza von Terror geprägt war. Jahre später protestiert er gegen die Hamas und wird festgenommen, gefoltert und muss fliehen.

1850: Dorettas Familie hat schon in Deutschland Klaviere gebaut. Jetzt wagt sie den Sprung nach New York. Trotz harter Arbeit ist der Anfang schwer in den Mietskasernen des deutschen Viertels, aber Doretta findet als Klavierlehrerin Eingang in die Prachthäuser der Reichen. Instrumente von Steinway & Sons werden zum »Must-have« der New Yorker Gesellschaft. 1925: Dorettas Urenkelin Florence begibt sich auf die Suche nach den deutschen Wurzeln ihrer Familie und stößt dabei auf Schweigen und Geheimnisse, die sie sich nicht erklären kann.

In Barefoot Biodynamics, organic grower Jeff Poppen—“The Barefoot Farmer”—combines tales from his personal history in rural Tennessee with the practical applications of biodynamic principles and the deep aspects of the biodynamic methods that continue to make his farm a success today.

Daisy bakes a little murder into every pie she creates, and she and her dog, Zoe, deliver them to the town’s worst cads. Now, Daisy’s entered a televised, elimination-style competition and has a shot at $100k in prize money—but she still has a murder pie to deliver between filming. In a completely unexpected turn of events, she discovers that her intended victim is one of the competition judges, and he turns up dead before the pie even arrives. Now, Daisy has to solve the murder before someone calls foul play and exposes her murderous secret.