"An interesting, well-documented overview of Cold War espionage in Berlin" including photographs ( Studies in Intelligence).For almost half a century, the hottest front in the Cold War ran through Berlin. From summer 1945 until 1990, the secret services of NATO and the Warsaw Pact fought an ongoing duel in the dark. Throughout the Cold War, espionage was part of everyday life in both East and West Berlin, with German spies playing a crucial part of operatio...

A suicide attempt, staged to attract as much attention as possible, from the top of St. Peter’s Church, quickly evolves into an outlandish and absurd, televised spectacle...When a PA is invited into her boss’s office one day to observe a protest unfold, just as he predicts, in the streets below, she begins to suspect his powers of foresight might extend beyond mere business matters...Finally moving into the house of her dreams, on the island of Kīpsala, a single mother disc...

**A New York Times Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Book of the Year*"*A learned, formidable and vivid story… Readers around the world will study and ponder this monumental work of history, agreeing and arguing with it, all the while affirming its generational importance, for decades to come." — Marcus Rediker, The New York Times“Epic… Read this book and you will learn innumerable things you did not previously know culled from places you have...

The end of the world is so over...It's been three centuries since the bombs went off. Mankind has long since forgiven, forgotten and moved on. Over the years, one mighty city-state has risen from the ashes to become the undisputed center of the civilized world – Selegna. Built from ancient concrete, scrap metal and mangled home appliances, Selegna is a wonder to behold – the world's mightiest empire, King Canoga its mightiest ruler. Feared and loved, Canog...

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel Prize'A striking first novel . . . unusual and surprisingly witty' Sunday Times Culture'Inspired by a real man, this modern-day Call of the Wild is funny, moving and ceaselessly compelling' People MagazineIn 1916, Sven Ormson leaves Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of th...

Daughters of Isais: Maria Orsic and the VrilerinnenBy Sven PetricStep into a hidden chapter of history with "Daughters of Isais: Maria Orsic and the Vrilerinnen" Set in 1919 Munich, this riveting tale follows Maria Orsic and Traute Amon, founders of the "Alldeutsche Gesellschaft für Metaphysik," also known as Vri-IL. Guided by telepathic messages from the enigmatic entity ISAIS from a planet orbiting Aldebaran, they embark on a quest to usher in a New Age o...

In ten terrifying, intriguing and thrilling dreams, Natsume Soseki (1867 - 1916) treats leitmotifs and antipodes such as: loyalty and treatise, love and death, fame and immortality, social outsiders, honor and loss of face, desperation and hope. Natsume Soseki carries us off into his dreams and the old Japan comes to life once again. The Japanese original text "Yume yuja" was completely set up with furigana in this two-language edition, so that every student of the Japanese language can re...

On a freezing November night in Antwerp, Tom Andiers is waiting for one last chance to clear his name. Once a respected journalist, his career and family now lie in ruins following a devastating scandal.A mysterious email from ‘The Phantom’, an elusive contract killer who has evaded Belgian and international justice for twenty years, promises an exclusive interview. It is a story that could either save Tom’s life or destroy it forever.Inside a luxury suite at the Radisson B...

During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world’s most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage.This was no mere coincidence. Slavery’s Capitalism argues for slavery’s centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to editors Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, the issue is not wheth...

Sven Lindqvist is one of our most original writers on race, colonialism, and genocide, and his signature approach—uniting travelogues with powerful acts of historical excavation—renders his books devastating and unforgettable.Now, for the first time, Lindqvist's most beloved works are available in one beautiful and affordable volume with a new introduction by Adam Hochschild. The Dead Do Not Die includes the full unabridged text of "Exterminate All the Brutes", ca...

Oslo Syndrome (in research still known as H63D Syndrome) is a worldwide health problem in the field of iron metabolism disorders. After scientists from all over the world joined together in 2019 to form the H63D Syndrome Consortium, the consensus paper "H63D Syndrome" was adopted at a meeting in Oslo in December 2019. On the occasion of the 2022 conference the syndrome was renamed Oslo Syndrome for clinical settings. It is available in bookshops for a symbolic price. Also free of charge di...

We hear the crawlers closing in. A T-34. They must have seen us, Tiny whispers. - Stay low until it is right here, then we run! The horrible clattering of the crawler comes closer and closer. I know this fear, creeping up the spine. It will mean certain death if they run just one second too soon. How we get up, I don't know, the legs move automatically. The tank wiggles over the hole and crushes everything in it. Then it rumbles on...