21. Jahrhundert
Unsere sich rasant wandelnde Welt der sozialen Medien, populistischen Politik und technologischen Umbrüche wird durch aufschlussreiche Analysen und fesselnde persönliche Erzählungen lebendig. Diese Bücher beleuchten die prägenden Themen unserer Zeit — von Demokratie und Wahrheit bis hin zu Bildung und Identität — und bieten frische Perspektiven darauf, wie wir in dieser transformativen Ära leben, denken und uns anpassen.
21. Jahrhundert Buchzusammenfassungen
Die Herren des leichten Geldes
The Fed printed trillions and gave them to Wall Street first, calling the inequality an accident.
Wirtschaft
Finanzen
Politik
Geschichte
Geld
Immersiv
Die Herren des leichten Geldes
The Fed printed trillions and gave them to Wall Street first, calling the inequality an accident.
Wirtschaft
Finanzen
Politik
Geschichte
Geld
The Big Short
Wall Street bet housing never falls. A few misfits read the fine print and won billions.
Wirtschaft
Finanzen
Business
Geschichte
Politik
Immersiv
The Big Short
Wall Street bet housing never falls. A few misfits read the fine print and won billions.
Wirtschaft
Finanzen
Business
Geschichte
Politik
Projekt Phoenix
An IT manager's sudden promotion comes with crashing payroll systems and a flagship project on fire.
Business
Technologie
Management
Programmierung
Führung
Projekt Phoenix
An IT manager's sudden promotion comes with crashing payroll systems and a flagship project on fire.
Business
Technologie
Management
Programmierung
Führung
Ground Zero
A suspended boy follows his father to work at the World Trade Center on September 11.
Historischer Roman
Kinderliteratur
Krieg
Überleben
Jugendbuch
Ground Zero
A suspended boy follows his father to work at the World Trade Center on September 11.
Historischer Roman
Kinderliteratur
Krieg
Überleben
Jugendbuch
Behold the Dreamers
A Cameroonian family's American dream rests on a Wall Street job, until the 2008 collapse.
Gegenwartsliteratur
Belletristik
Afrika
New York
Erwachsene
Behold the Dreamers
A Cameroonian family's American dream rests on a Wall Street job, until the 2008 collapse.
Gegenwartsliteratur
Belletristik
Afrika
New York
Erwachsene
Tausend strahlende Sonnen
Trapped as co-wives to a brutal man, two Afghan women forge a bond that defies their world.
Historischer Roman
Gegenwartsliteratur
Belletristik
Klassiker
Romane
Tausend strahlende Sonnen
Trapped as co-wives to a brutal man, two Afghan women forge a bond that defies their world.
Historischer Roman
Gegenwartsliteratur
Belletristik
Klassiker
Romane
Ich. Darf. Nicht. Schlafen.
A woman who forgets each day starts a journal, only to find her husband is lying about their past.
Thriller
Krimi
Spannung
Krimi
Gegenwartsliteratur
Ich. Darf. Nicht. Schlafen.
A woman who forgets each day starts a journal, only to find her husband is lying about their past.
Thriller
Krimi
Spannung
Krimi
Gegenwartsliteratur
Morgen, und morgen, und morgen
Sam and Sadie make brilliant video games together but keep breaking each other across thirty years.
Belletristik
Gegenwartsliteratur
Erwachsene
Kunst
Technologie
Immersiv
Morgen, und morgen, und morgen
Sam and Sadie make brilliant video games together but keep breaking each other across thirty years.
Belletristik
Gegenwartsliteratur
Erwachsene
Kunst
Technologie
American Icon
GM and Chrysler took government bailouts; Ford bet $23.6 billion on a Boeing executive instead.
Business
Führung
Management
Biografie
Geschichte
American Icon
GM and Chrysler took government bailouts; Ford bet $23.6 billion on a Boeing executive instead.
Business
Führung
Management
Biografie
Geschichte
In Order to Live
Frozen rivers, human traffickers, and a desert crossing: a 13-year-old's escape from North Korea.
Memoiren
Biografie
Autobiografie
Geschichte
Politik
In Order to Live
Frozen rivers, human traffickers, and a desert crossing: a 13-year-old's escape from North Korea.
Memoiren
Biografie
Autobiografie
Geschichte
Politik
Poverty, by America
Poverty in America persists by design, fueled by exploitation and welfare that flows to the top.
Soziologie
Wirtschaft
Politik
Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Ethnie
Poverty, by America
Poverty in America persists by design, fueled by exploitation and welfare that flows to the top.
Soziologie
Wirtschaft
Politik
Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Ethnie
The Greatest Trade Ever
Wall Street's most profitable trade was betting on its collapse. The man who saw it coming.
Finanzen
Business
Wirtschaft
Geschichte
Biografie
The Greatest Trade Ever
Wall Street's most profitable trade was betting on its collapse. The man who saw it coming.
Finanzen
Business
Wirtschaft
Geschichte
Biografie
Der Weg in die Unfreiheit
The 2016 election was the target of a Russian authoritarian project decades in the making.
Geschichte
Politik
Russland
Europe
America
Der Weg in die Unfreiheit
The 2016 election was the target of a Russian authoritarian project decades in the making.
Geschichte
Politik
Russland
Europe
America
The God of Carnage
Over coffee and clafoutis, two couples discuss a child's lost teeth and lose their own civility.
Theaterstücke
Drama
Belletristik
Frankreich
Gegenwartsliteratur
The God of Carnage
Over coffee and clafoutis, two couples discuss a child's lost teeth and lose their own civility.
Theaterstücke
Drama
Belletristik
Frankreich
Gegenwartsliteratur
One Night at the Call Center
God calls a Gurgaon call center one night, challenging six workers to change their lives.
Gegenwartsliteratur
Indian
Indien
Liebesroman
Romane
One Night at the Call Center
God calls a Gurgaon call center one night, challenging six workers to change their lives.
Gegenwartsliteratur
Indian
Indien
Liebesroman
Romane
Die Korrekturen
Her husband fading, her children scattered, a mother stakes everything on one last family Christmas.
Belletristik
Gegenwartsliteratur
Romane
Literatur
Amerikanisch
Die Korrekturen
Her husband fading, her children scattered, a mother stakes everything on one last family Christmas.
Belletristik
Gegenwartsliteratur
Romane
Literatur
Amerikanisch
Target Tehran
Inside the Mossad heist that stole Iran's nuclear archive and exposed its secret weapons program.
Geschichte
Naher Osten
Israel
Iran
Politik
Target Tehran
Inside the Mossad heist that stole Iran's nuclear archive and exposed its secret weapons program.
Geschichte
Naher Osten
Israel
Iran
Politik
Fight
Inside the Democratic implosion: a debate disaster, a party revolt, and the scramble that failed.
Politik
Geschichte
Journalismus
Regierung
Democracy
Fight
Inside the Democratic implosion: a debate disaster, a party revolt, and the scramble that failed.
Politik
Geschichte
Journalismus
Regierung
Democracy
The Post-American World
American power isn't eroding. A dozen new powers are simply rising alongside it.
Politik
Geschichte
Wirtschaft
Globalization
International
The Post-American World
American power isn't eroding. A dozen new powers are simply rising alongside it.
Politik
Geschichte
Wirtschaft
Globalization
International
Serpent of Light
A 13,000-year cycle shifts Earth’s kundalini to the Andes, closing the male era, opening feminine.
Spiritualität
New Age
Okkult
Philosophie
Indigen
Serpent of Light
A 13,000-year cycle shifts Earth’s kundalini to the Andes, closing the male era, opening feminine.
Spiritualität
New Age
Okkult
Philosophie
Indigen
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ
Iran's paradoxes are a platform, not a bug, built from Shia ritual and Persian pride.
Iran
Naher Osten
Politik
Geschichte
Islam
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ
Iran's paradoxes are a platform, not a bug, built from Shia ritual and Persian pride.
Iran
Naher Osten
Politik
Geschichte
Islam
The Situation Room
Twelve presidents. One basement room. The crises that revealed who they really were.
Geschichte
Politik
Vereinigte Staaten
Führung
Krieg
The Situation Room
Twelve presidents. One basement room. The crises that revealed who they really were.
Geschichte
Politik
Vereinigte Staaten
Führung
Krieg
College Girl, Missing
She vanished after a night of partying, barefoot on the security footage. The witnesses went silent.
True Crime
Krimi
Krimi
Journalismus
Recht
College Girl, Missing
She vanished after a night of partying, barefoot on the security footage. The witnesses went silent.
True Crime
Krimi
Krimi
Journalismus
Recht
War on Peace
Before Trump, before forever war, Washington gutted the one tool that could prevent them: diplomacy.
Politik
Geschichte
International
Krieg
Journalismus
War on Peace
Before Trump, before forever war, Washington gutted the one tool that could prevent them: diplomacy.
Politik
Geschichte
International
Krieg
Journalismus
Proof of Conspiracy
While America voted, Trump's circle negotiated a new Middle East with Saudi Arabia and Russia.
Politik
True Crime
Geschichte
International
Russland
Proof of Conspiracy
While America voted, Trump's circle negotiated a new Middle East with Saudi Arabia and Russia.
Politik
True Crime
Geschichte
International
Russland
Original Sin
A tight inner circle hid the president's decline until one debate shattered the illusion.
Politik
Journalismus
Biografie
Regierung
Geschichte
Original Sin
A tight inner circle hid the president's decline until one debate shattered the illusion.
Politik
Journalismus
Biografie
Regierung
Geschichte
Winners Take All
Elites promise to fix society. Their real project is keeping power exactly where it is.
Politik
Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Wirtschaft
Soziologie
Business
Winners Take All
Elites promise to fix society. Their real project is keeping power exactly where it is.
Politik
Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Wirtschaft
Soziologie
Business
The Undocumented Americans
After 9/11, undocumented workers cleaned the rubble. Then they were forgotten and the poison stayed.
Memoiren
Politik
Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Ethnie
Soziologie
The Undocumented Americans
After 9/11, undocumented workers cleaned the rubble. Then they were forgotten and the poison stayed.
Memoiren
Politik
Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Ethnie
Soziologie
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms
James Bond and Jack Ryan are America's spy professors, and the curriculum is dangerously wrong.
Geschichte
Politik
Krieg
Technologie
Military
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms
James Bond and Jack Ryan are America's spy professors, and the curriculum is dangerously wrong.
Geschichte
Politik
Krieg
Technologie
Military
Fire and Fury
Bannon versus the family. Cable news versus the briefings. The West Wing as it actually ran.
Politik
Geschichte
Biografie
21. Jahrhundert
Regierung
Fire and Fury
Bannon versus the family. Cable news versus the briefings. The West Wing as it actually ran.
Politik
Geschichte
Biografie
21. Jahrhundert
Regierung
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
The system that delivered freedom and prosperity is devouring itself from the inside.
Politik
Wirtschaft
Soziologie
Globalization
Regierung
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
The system that delivered freedom and prosperity is devouring itself from the inside.
Politik
Wirtschaft
Soziologie
Globalization
Regierung
Dark Territory
Reagan asked if 'WarGames' was real. The answer launched a covert digital war still raging today.
Geschichte
Technologie
Krieg
Politik
Military
Dark Territory
Reagan asked if 'WarGames' was real. The answer launched a covert digital war still raging today.
Geschichte
Technologie
Krieg
Politik
Military
The Geopolitics of Emotion
Oil and armies are not what drive nations. The real forces: fear, hope, and humiliation.
Politik
Psychologie
Soziologie
Globalization
Culture
The Geopolitics of Emotion
Oil and armies are not what drive nations. The real forces: fear, hope, and humiliation.
Politik
Psychologie
Soziologie
Globalization
Culture
A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict
Not two equal claims to one land, but one population replacing another, the removal never stopped.
Geschichte
Politik
Naher Osten
Krieg
Soziale Gerechtigkeit
A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict
Not two equal claims to one land, but one population replacing another, the removal never stopped.
Geschichte
Politik
Naher Osten
Krieg
Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Tyranny of the Minority
Electoral College, Senate bias, filibuster: three 18th-century relics now delivering minority rule.
Political
Geschichte
Democracy
Regierung
Vereinigte Staaten
Tyranny of the Minority
Electoral College, Senate bias, filibuster: three 18th-century relics now delivering minority rule.
Political
Geschichte
Democracy
Regierung
Vereinigte Staaten
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Obama's election didn't end racism; it adapted it to look like respect.
Ethnie
Politik
Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Afroamerikanisch
Essays
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Obama's election didn't end racism; it adapted it to look like respect.
Ethnie
Politik
Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Afroamerikanisch
Essays
The Divider
Trump's presidency was built on division. The Capitol attack was where that architecture led.
Politik
Geschichte
Biografie
Vereinigte Staaten
Political
The Divider
Trump's presidency was built on division. The Capitol attack was where that architecture led.
Politik
Geschichte
Biografie
Vereinigte Staaten
Political
The Diversity Illusion
Three million newcomers, zero economic gain. The real cost: a society that stopped trusting.
Politik
Soziologie
Ethnie
Wirtschaft
Religion
The Diversity Illusion
Three million newcomers, zero economic gain. The real cost: a society that stopped trusting.
Politik
Soziologie
Ethnie
Wirtschaft
Religion
Die nächsten zehn Jahre
America stumbled into empire. Holding it requires a playbook its founders would have despised.
Politik
Geschichte
Krieg
Wirtschaft
Führung
Die nächsten zehn Jahre
America stumbled into empire. Holding it requires a playbook its founders would have despised.
Politik
Geschichte
Krieg
Wirtschaft
Führung
The Twilight Struggle
How America's Cold War playbook for long-haul rivalry can be updated for China and Russia.
Geschichte
Politik
Military
Krieg
Russland
The Twilight Struggle
How America's Cold War playbook for long-haul rivalry can be updated for China and Russia.
Geschichte
Politik
Military
Krieg
Russland
Unmasked
The black-clad rioters aren't random. They have a century-old playbook, and democracy is the target.
Politik
Geschichte
Journalismus
True Crime
Soziologie
Unmasked
The black-clad rioters aren't random. They have a century-old playbook, and democracy is the target.
Politik
Geschichte
Journalismus
True Crime
Soziologie
The Price of Civilization
What broke the American economy wasn't policy. It was a moral collapse at the top.
Wirtschaft
Politik
Soziologie
Geschichte
Business
The Price of Civilization
What broke the American economy wasn't policy. It was a moral collapse at the top.
Wirtschaft
Politik
Soziologie
Geschichte
Business
Wild Faith
A parallel America of home schools and prophets: the Christian Right wants dominion, not votes.
Politik
Religion
Christentum
Soziologie
Geschichte
Wild Faith
A parallel America of home schools and prophets: the Christian Right wants dominion, not votes.
Politik
Religion
Christentum
Soziologie
Geschichte
Pillars of Creation
A ten-billion-dollar telescope with 344 ways to fail, and the universe it found in one morning.
Wissenschaft
Geschichte
Technologie
Physik
Exploration
Pillars of Creation
A ten-billion-dollar telescope with 344 ways to fail, and the universe it found in one morning.
Wissenschaft
Geschichte
Technologie
Physik
Exploration
Enemy of the People
Trump's war on the press follows a 1950s script. The democracy-saving ending is not guaranteed.
Politik
Geschichte
Journalismus
Political
Democracy
Enemy of the People
Trump's war on the press follows a 1950s script. The democracy-saving ending is not guaranteed.
Politik
Geschichte
Journalismus
Political
Democracy
