Is the dignity of man no longer inviolable?

"The gloves came off" - this is how the Director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center described what happened in the wake of 9/11....

From ghetto to death camp - a memoir of privilege and luck

Anatol Chari was a member of the Jewish Special Police Force and his memoirs are one of the few...

Art as a million dollar project

In our capitalist society, works of art represent the ultimate status symbol. The art market is booming, prices are rocketing....

In the summer of 1983, a group of people attempted to flee from East Germany: siblings Michael and Dorothea, both musicians from Dresden, as well as Dorothea's husband...

Against the backdrop of the precarious work situation and life circumstances of many young people today, the authors devised the following experiment: a contest to see which ...

The definitive work about the inner workings of the rise of the Third Reich, in an updated and extended edition. An overall history of German society during National Socialism....

The year 1968 stands for an entire decade of rebellion. All around the globe young people took to the streets in their hundreds of thousands. Norbert Frei traces the roots of...

In 2006, a Congolese Hutu rebel chief was arrested in Germany. He had been able to direct a war of extermination in his own country from the comfort of his Mannheim living room....

Bertha Krupp (1887-1957) spent her entire life in the public eye. Following her father's untimely and scandal-ridden death, she inherited the Krupp industrial empire at...

It is 1902, and Friedrich Alfred Krupp - head of the global industrial giant of the same name - dies suddenly at the height of a scandal concerning his alleged homosexuality....

Hermann's analysis examines the recent history of New Arabia, which he defines as the Arab states along the Persian Gulf as opposed to the conflict-ridden...

The rise of a brilliant politician caught between resistance to reform and activism   Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and this led to the end of the...

How can we succeed in structuring the economic globalization of the future world on the basis of transculturally accepted legal and ethical rules? This Manifesto for a Global...

What are the elements of success? Only 10% percent, at most, is down to effort, the major part relies on psychology, sociology, strategy, diplomacy, imagination and publicity....

One day. Loads of problems. All the answers! 

Offices are more than just common human habitats - they are also conflict zones that exert a massive...

Under the slogan "bigger, higher, more modern, more glamorous", the world's 21 ^st-century capital was to be erected in the middle of the desert....

Can any of us really claim to be free of superstitious beliefs, for example the 'seven years' bad luck' that are supposed to follow when you break a mirror?...

A new right-wing group is thriving in the USA: the Tea Party - a white, ultraconservative, nationalist movement. While many Tea Party members are simply dyed-in-the-wool...

The compassion business

Africa is not simply a continent of war, disease and catastrophe - it is also a continent rich in both resources and culture. We...

A spiritual approach to management culture

Leadership is an essential part of corporate culture, and as such should ideally be aligned with the western value...

That wasn't what the Romans expected - at that time, 9 AD.

"Varus, Varus, give me back my legions", Emperor August is supposed to have lamented,...

Debts oil the gears of market economy  

The spiralling national debt in countries all over the world has not only generated a spirit of doom and gloom but...

A dead baby in the rubbish bin and dismembered body parts in plastic bags: when your daily business consists of dealing with murder and manslaughter, suffering and fear,...

Featuring more than 40 real-life cases  

Following his bestselling book Homicide Squad, Detective Chief Superintendent Richard Thiess gives us an intimate...

No sooner had German-speaking women writers begun to make their mark on the literary scene at the start of the 20th century than their way was already being barred by the...