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"Sag mir, wo du trinkst, und ich sag dir, wer du bist!" So könnte das Motto zu diesem Oktoberfest-Buch lauten. Liebevoll geschildert und gespickt mit zahlreichen Anekdoten nimmt München-Insider Christian Rupprecht-Essig seine Leser mit auf das größte Volksfest der Welt. Wer kommt ins Käfer-Zelt und wer sitzt im Bräurosl? Wo findet man Australier und wo den Geldadel?

En este brillante ensayo, Jean Tirole, uno de los economistas más influyentes del mundo, nos facilita el acceso a las teorías económicas que le valieron el Premio Nobel. Cuando Tirole ganó en 2014 el Premio Nobel de Economía, pasó a verse detenido en la calle por perfectos desconocidos que le pedían que comentara las cuestiones del día. Su paso de ser un economista académico a un intelectual público lo llevó a reflexionar sobre el papel que desempeña el economista en la sociedad.

Manufactured Fear: When Fear Becomes a Tool for ControlFear kept your ancestors alive. It made them run from predators, avoid poisonous food, and stay close to the group when the dark came. Fear is not a flaw in the human design. Fear is the design. Every person alive today is the descendant of someone who was afraid enough, at the right moment, to survive. The problem is that someone figured this out. Somewhere in the deep past, long before written language, long before cities or governments or religion, someone noticed that a frightened person does what they are told.

Sailer’s unique approach to the most controversial topics of our time, combining good old-fashioned common sense with a researcher’s eye to the data, has allowed him critical insights into American life that few others see and virtually no one else dares speak out loud.

Why have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances in America's favor, capacity-building efforts, and tactical victories, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq turned intractable. The US government's fixation on zero-sum, decisive victory in these conflicts is a key reason why these operations failed to achieve favorable and durable outcomes.

Most healthcare organizations aren't failing. They're underperforming - held back by the silent creep of indecision and governance structures that reward polished silence over early truth. Strategic Leadership When Time Is the Constraint is a practical governance framework for healthcare executives, board members, CFOs, and nonprofit leaders navigating the structural pressures now reshaping complex institutions.

The System Doesn’t Sell Health examines why the United States spends more on healthcare than any other nation yet continues to struggle with preventable chronic disease, rising costs, and widespread public frustration. Written in plain language for general readers, the book argues that the current system is designed primarily to diagnose and manage disease after it develops rather than to build health before it is lost.

In this riveting account of the pandemic and its devastating ripple effects, Gale captures the pandemic's messy realities the panic it spurred, the misinformation and political infighting that stood in the way of controlling it, and the heroic efforts by scientists and health care workers to contain it. Gale exposes what went wrong, what worked, and what continues to threaten us. From the pandemic's chaotic beginnings to the hidden toll of Long Covid, he examines how governments shaped and sometimes warped the public narrative around the pandemic.

Bloomsbury presents The Road Taken by Henry Petroski, read by Michael Butler Murray A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure. Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both...

Postwar New York City famously expired in a tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti, crushing debt, and the tabloid headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” The city reemerged from the ashes to reach new heights, whether in stock averages or the gleaming pencil towers punctuating midtown. But at ground level, the city’s basic institutions—its housing, its schools, its public safety—were cracking. The city was rebuilt on a foundation of deep inequality.

Three-time Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Mike McIntire delivers the definitive story of the forces that shape gun culture and the American way of violence. Not too long ago, you could still envision a future for America not marked by gun idolatry, blood-stained classrooms, and empty offers of...

Bloomsbury presents Tin Can Coast by Joseph Ogilvy, read by Ryan Wilson. "Powerful nature writing . . . a lively story about the consequences of rapacious capitalism." —LOS ANGELES TIMES "You'll never look at a can of tuna the same way again." —MALCOM HARRIS, nationally bestselling author of...

Most of us assume that public schools in America are unequal—that the quality of the education varies with the location of the school and that as a result, children learn more in the schools that serve mostly rich, white kids than in the schools serving mostly poor, black kids. But it turns...

Passion is the spark. Strategy is the loom. Integrity is the thread. Most people enter the world of advocacy by accident—driven by a personal crisis, a systemic injustice, or a heartbreaking diagnosis. They lead with raw passion, only to find themselves exhausted by bureaucracy, stalled by partisan gridlock, and ultimately burned out before reaching the finish line.

An expansive study shows how politics can work for, not just against, efforts to improve America's schools. The education reform project has always been about making America's schools more effective for the children who attend them. In Making Politics Work, authors Paul T. Hill and Ashley E...

An ethnographic analysis of how insecurity is at the heart of contemporary higher education. Institutions of higher education are often described as "ivory towers," places of privilege where students exist in a "campus bubble," insulated from the trials of the outside world. These metaphors...

In his latest and arguably most pathbreaking book, Parkview Institute president John Tamny asks listeners to contemplate government debt in an all-new way, and in doing so makes a powerful case that deficits and the national debt will continue to grow precisely because left, right and supply side profoundly misunderstand why there’s debt in the first place.

Basierend auf langjähriger Recherche und dem Zugang zu Saboteuren und Vermittlern, deren Vorgesetzten sowie hochrangigen Geheimdienstvertretern wie den Chefs von CIA und BND rekonstruiert der preisgekrönte Wall-Street-Journal-Autor erstmals die gesamte Geheimoperation, ihre politischen Hintergründe und ihre Auswirkungen. Für diesen geopolitischen Thriller aus dem wirklichen Leben hat der Pulitzer-Finalist über drei Jahre hinweg mit ukrainischen Attentätern, russischen Geheimdienstgenerälen, US-Masterspionen und deutschen Chefermittlern gesprochen.

Bloomsbury presents Faith and Liberty by Alejandro A. Chafuen, read by Christopher Ragland. Most people think that free-market ideas and theories were first substanially developed in the eighteenth century by figures such as Adam Smith. In this revised edition of Faith and Liberty, Alejandro A...

Sea Change is the captivating, deeply-human tale of how fishermen —along with some unlikely allies —helped carry out the biggest conservation success story you've never heard of. Exploring a victory for the world's most vital ecosystem, Sea Change tells the story of unlikely partnerships and surprising solutions that are quietly revolutionizing the fishing industry. Like in other ocean areas, the Gulf Coast fisheries were being fished out to the detriment of wildlife and the people whose livelihoods and communities hinge on sea catch.