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If you want to get to know the scientists behind the work even better, this is just the right place for you. In this section of Beyond, the researchers present books which have impacted their lives and their ways of thinking in meaningful ways. The books presented range from novels, to memoirs, to science books of all sorts. You can filter the books by genre or just scroll through the list. This is also a great way to get inspiration for your own reading!

Nadjma Yassari

My Sweet Orange Tree
Zezé grows up in a favela, has crazy ideas, is very lovable and wants to be a poet when he grows up. This mixture makes him one of the most popular characters in Brazilian children's books – and far beyond South America.
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Rüdiger Klein

The Cider House Rules
Dr Wilbur Larch runs an orphanage in rural Maine. His favorite orphan, Homer Wells, is never adopted and runs a cider factory as an adult. The strange story by John Irving is one of his best novels and was made into an Oscar-winning screenplay.
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Ulf Liszkowski

The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
With his systematic research on the cognitive capacity of human children and non-human primates, Michael Tomasello shows which factors contributed to the fact that the human brain is disproportionately larger than that of animals.
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Harald Baum

In Search Of Lost Time
Does life have a meaning? What are the dimensions of time? In Marcel Proust's acclaimed novel, the narrator reminisces about his childhood and reflects on growing up in the french nobility on the threshold of the 20th century. An overwhelming work (not only in terms of length).
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