Beloved

Toni Morrison

The story about the trauma of former slave Sethe who lost her baby shows how the experiences of slavery continue to traumatize generations, long after it has been believed to have been overcome. A classic of American literature, heartbreaking and masterly written.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has written a masterpiece: The colorful and epic saga about the Columbian Buendía family and the city they built, Macondo.

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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Sheryl Sandberg

Lean in is not only the title of Sheryl Sandberg's bestseller on women and leadership, but has also become a slogan of empowerment for women who seek the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

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Beyond

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!

Meredith Schuman

Behave- The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worse

It's not only in classic films that good fights evil - positive and negative qualities are already represented within one person. Sapolsky examines the biological causes for this and shows what role the brain plays.

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Johannes Vogel

Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present)

With the Dialectic of Enlightenment, Adorno and Horkheimer wrote a classic of critical theory. Written during the Second World War and only circulating underhand, this work is one of the absolute standard works of modern philosophy.

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Johann-Mattis List

The Discovery of Heaven

Two men who couldn't be more different meet, become best friends and then fall in love with the same woman. A masterpiece rich in philosophical and historical anecdotes.

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Ludger Pries

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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Beloved

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead