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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!

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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Joachim Funke

The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations

In this truly indispensable book, Dietrich Derner identifies what he calls the "logic of failure" -- certain tendencies in our patterns of thought that, while appropriate to an older, simpler world, prove disastrous for the complex world we live in now.

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Volker Eichener

The Civilizing Process

To put it simply, the formation of states in Europe goes back to processes of power bundling and civilisation. These processes, beginning in the late middle ages, are traced by sociologist Norbert Elias in this fundamental work.

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Monika Schnitzer

How We Got to Now

The battery, photography, refrigerators - ideas bring mankind further and become constant companions of our everyday life. Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From, shows in an entertaining way how these are interwoven with social change.

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Beloved

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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