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Weight: 300 grams Dimensions: 290 x 157 x 17 mm

I was sitting in a plane over the Atlantic, and had for some reason a travel book it. Perhaps because travel books to read on the road very well. Anyway, I just had Goethe's "Faust" behind me and needed something current. From this book, I came up in one word, not going back.

Wolfgang books is a man with sad eyes and clear eyes - so it looks like when you look at the photo on the cover. He has reported for some popular magazines, newspapers and magazines from around the world. He has been saving the best stories well. For describing a book, traveling in Asia.

But "Asian absences" is no ordinary travel book. It is not comparable to the classics by Bruce Chatwin , a zugebenermaßen quite known travel writer. Please ask never been to Australia in the near Back O 'Bourke under this man, he has not only good memories there leave. It is also Schmöker ham, such as "The Happy Isles of Oceania" one of my favorite authors Paul Theroux, who was once a professor in Singapore and then took a paddle boat through the South Seas. He has a family of cannibal descendants made. He was told a beautiful story. The ancestors were shoes for a particular body part. Unfortunately, they were hardly edible. They were passed from tribe to tribe, boiled over and finally buried under a tree. Incredible: Theroux the shoe was on his journey.

But with such crude things to keep books on not. His stories are Literature in the strict sense. Fine observations, microscopy changes of the moment. He tells about how he had to spend a night in the U.S. with a Japanese together in a hotel room. This gave him an article every day - in Japan was just the month of gifts. Thus, a seemingly senseless series of things came into being: an apple, a cigarette, and a booklet about Zen in English Sprache.Erst later much to the author that this showed a lot of sense: Apple / smoke / Zen.

The stories are the best will not travel accounts in the usual sense, the recount when it was where and how they got away again. The greatly reduced language books, his observation and his unsparing honesty with which he writes about his subjective internal states, make the book the best travel book I ever read (and I have many, very many read ...).

Very nice is the last of which unfortunately only six stories: the author travels to a place called Shangri-La because of the name just can not resist. It reminded me of many of my own travels, I've only done because I wanted to know whether a place I've found on the map, actually exists. Shangri-La is one of the legendary places in the world. A fiction, a longing. Once there, it books , Notice that it is a simple village, which was renamed simply for PR reasons. Gone with the myth. In a bar called "Sexy Yeti" the traveler learns of the bartenders who were actually the truth: "A crazy idea that you have to admit or". However, it creates books somehow fall in love with a shaman . The elementary rules of life are well under any conditions and also in Tibet.

The other stories are equally worth reading. As reported by the author as he is on sick in India in an abandoned hospital, a tropical disease and for days staring at the ceiling, or as a giant tanker over the Persian Gulf goes and meets a sailor who never leaves the ship more. Anyone who thinks that this can be a thrilling stories, understands nothing of good literature. This book is literature, as it occurs only very, very rare.

contribution to the future of humanity: In one word: hope. If there are people who can write clearly and in such a view, there is also a tomorrow.

Wolfgang Books: Asian absences. 2008th Rowohlt: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-87134-616-3

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Dimensions: 170 x 150 x 20 mm Weight: 260 grams

Who wants to be remembered, has left the tracks. It is in the trend of the times that many people make considerable effort for it themselves, leave enough traces. Leader in this discipline is narcissistic Oliver W. Schwarzmann, whose book consists entirely of quotations.

was in Indian temple art is the motto: "Leave everything superfluous and enhances the rest away." In science, a voluminous book - much to the chagrin of the author, who has often been difficult for years - not much more than a quote. What is could be more like the black man have thought when the book leave out everything but the quotes, of which one wants to remain in the memory of the other tracks.

Incredible as it sounds, the book simply consists of quotations. Anyone who suspects for such a thing? The author, according to self-report (together with oversized photo) is a former banker who has been focusing on economic issues of the future. From this he has the same a 'business' done, formed a company and a publishing house that brings out his books. Another publisher would probably hardly print such a book. It reminds me of a book titled "All men understand what women" to me my former roommates from France once gave: it had only blank pages. Also a good business idea.

black man described themselves as "thought leaders" and so also is its series of books. It can be about speakers agencies for "living" book talks and has written to all possible and impossible topics studies and expert opinions. In an interview, he says the question of what are for thought leaders, media or a mastermind, "thought leaders, media publications in which the mastermind - in this case, I - his visions, theories, trends, insights brings onto sheet of paper" . The interview is also available as it Videocast .

Rarely has someone so openly denied the other's own ability to think and to put over them. The Greeks called it hubris - arrogance and hubris. Where did this person actually takes the impertinence to move with his ridiculous "issues expeditions" to globalization, demographics, mobility and new media such in the center? If it is true that the first information generated attention that it attempts to more than narcissistic "future writer" back themselves into the focus of attention.

What appears then, are thrown together nice quotes. With black man not even shy away from classical quotations "free" to give back to deface ie. The book is not the promised "exciting and ground breaking excited about the future of the world 'but an insight into the psyche of an actor. there is nothing to save. There are no explanations, no context. Since no residue was left out because none exist. Pure superficiality is issued as a perspective.

Although some of the quotes are quite nice. But a book that consists entirely of quotations, belongs to a different publishing format: the aphorisms . In fact, the few lines on white background will not be much more interested than aphorisms of thinking that everything revolves around themselves than on real solutions. Every Indian architects would be in this style just bad.

contribution to the future of humanity: None. The only track that should leave the book is waste paper.

Oliver Black Man: The future of the world. A Perspective Expedition, 2008. Bley and Schwarzmann, Waiblingen. ISDN 978-3-933452-70-2

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Sometimes silence more

Weight: 170 grams Dimensions: 150 x 105 x 10 mm

'Bullshit' is not a nice word, but that keeps many people do not depend on produce precisely that verbal garbage that is in American literature loosely referred to as 'bullshit'. A tiny gem of philosophy enlightens, and comforts all those who strive for a clear language.

Let's start with the person. The author of the tiny ribbon that carries the more beautiful in the original title "On Bullshit" is, in fact as it is announced on the cover. Frankfurt is a reasonably well-known American philosopher, quite old and therefore perhaps as well, and taught at Princeton University.

I one day in TIME about a conversation of this book have stumbled, or I would have simply overlooked in any bookstore. As I try in my course "Academic Writing and Writing" to convey a sense of what is clear, fair and understandable language, this book came to me just right. It is my right when I say "Bullshit Qualifications talk - such characteristics that it is better than authors of scientific texts are not (or surrendered).

Actually, the book is not very easy to digest, because It assumes some familiarity with philosophical approaches. It starts with a bang and a provocation: "One of the most striking features of our culture is the fact that there is so much bullshit." The rest of the book attempts to clarify Frankfurt (s), which is bullshit. How to avoid him, he does not say - that you should then come to me in the event. I just want to have to do something else.

A etymological clarify the origin of the word Bullshit shows the proximity to the wash, to humbug, to rhetoric, etc., attaches great importance to Frankfurt to work out the difference to lie. Despite its small size The book is a treasure trove of anecdotes that illustrate how easy it has become equally self-evident in all social areas, "bullshit" (to bullshit). Frankfurt particularly mentioned the sectors of public relations and politics.

remains to clarify the question of why there is so much bullshit in this world. First, the Frankfurt, because the amount of communication as a whole is increased - and hence the portion that is just not much more than hollow rhetoric. But, secondly, because we have lost an ideal, the ideal of sincerity. More and more people are almost forced to use force to produce Bullshit . - Including scientists, "Bullshit is always necessary when circumstances force people to talk about things they know nothing The production of bullshit is so then suggested that if a man gets into the situation or is even obliged to to speak on a subject that is beyond his level of knowledge regarding the facts relevant to the topic. " Few people manage to remain silent in this sitaution.

contribution to the future of humanity: Frankfurt shows that everything can be bullshit, even sincerity. Silence can develop healing powers.

Harry G. Frankfurt: Bullshit. 2006th Frankfurt am Main ISBN 3-518-58450-2

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weight. 450 grams, dimensions 220 x 170 x 30 mm

Despite the bitter truth, which proclaims the title of this book, read it! Bitter pills to swallow it, not chew. In a figurative sense, this means that reading to clarify though, change your life but you must not.

The author keeps us readers to the mirror and "disenchanted" (like the famous sociologist Max Weber has once called), vice-like some areas of reality for us. Too much will I can not tell just so much, it's also about sex, which is probably unavoidable in an American popular science book.

As so often turns out to be a book only as a representative of an entire genre of similar books. In this case it is the "Intuition is more important than rationality" books. The theme Intuiton has replaced the issue of "Emotional Intelligence". Perhaps because in an age of sentimentality nobody really knows what emotions. More and more scientists and journalists, have partly underpinned empirically, partly speculative and esoteric, indicate that not the will "free".

On the one hand, the extensive discussion following the so-called Libetschen experiment is meant by the Benjamin Libe t proved that the conscious action decision precedes the first impulse to act in the brain by a few fractions of a second (if you are about to learn more visit, then You my event "personality development").

Thus, on the other hand it also meant the many books that address the long term, neglected intuition. It starts with quite indefinable formats such as "How the abdomen to the head helps in thinking" (Bas Kast) or a semi-classics like "Intution: The Wisdom of Feelings" (Gerald Traufetter). These books are based more or less on the bestseller "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" by Malcolm Gladwell. The basic insight: We know more than we can express, and we perceive more than we realize. Treatment decisions are often the guardians of rationality - by smuggling, whether we are aware or not - the brain. A very serious book that the award for best science book 2007 has received is, by Gerd Gigerenzer, a psychology professor who explains it very clearly from his own experiments ("Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious and the power of intuition").

Why it may take a book on your stomach? Because it refers to themes that we all can understand themselves. Because we, that is the way how people "normally" (that is, empirically speaking: most often) decide to be screened without mercy. To illustrate this, I would like to briefly mention my two favorite chapters: "From the eternal postponement" and "A back door to keep open" - both processes that many of us, even if they do not admit it.

start with the postponement. Where should we do, we do without it. Ariely shows on the credit card-driven consumption of his countrymen. He shows very nicely that Since the 1970s, the wall cabinets in American homes get bigger and eventually were passable. Were less able to resist the temptations of consumerism - see financial crisis. That annoys the author clearly: Why are so many people unable to put part of their salary for a rainy day, even though they know they should do it? Why are they not able to resist their purchasing needs? Why can not they practice a bit old-fashioned self-control? "

Altmodisch also appear deadlines for the submission of work during the semester. It is, therefore, both professors and students from Interest to learn more about how to avoid botched appointments. In typical American fashion, therefore, down-to the author undertook an experiment on himself and told a semester into three groups. They differed in the type of agreement to submit their semester projects.

The first group was allowed to hand in your duties at any time. However, they had to rename itself dates. For every day that she was then an object later charges them a percentage of the total points deducted amount. Conversely, it brought no benefit to the tasks ahead of schedule leave. The second group had no fixed deadlines. The students were only asked to deliver the tasks at the end of the semester. The third group finally made "indicators" deadlines. Now the million dollar question: Which group does the best delivery date?

contribution to the future of humanity: It would help even if we could decide - no matter whether reasonable or unreasonable. The book shows how difficult it can be easy.

Dan Ariely: help thinking though, is useless, 2008. Droemer: Munich. ISBN 978-3-426-27429-3