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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!

Eckhard Janeba

Fall of Giants
Ken Follet's first volume in the acclaimed Centry trilogy tells the gripping stories of five families in 20th-century Europe. Follet describes the struggle of the suffragettes, the Russian revolution and the First World War in an intense and captivating manner.
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Martin Peitz

The theory of industrial organization
In his basic work on the organization of institutions, Jean Tirole provides elementary models, research results and a game theory user's manual, based on the special features of modern industrial companies and their embedding in the market.
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Astrid Eichhorn

A Room of One's Own
Although written in the 1920s, Virginia Woolf is still considered a luminary of feminism. With "A Room of One's Own" she has written a work that captures women's desire for freedom and independence like no other.
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Marina Mikhaylova

The Great Influenza
One could almost believe that the corona pandemic is a unique historical event. But 100 years ago, the spanish flu had the world firmly in its grip. John M. Berry traces the course of this deadliest of pandemics.
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