Tag: nonfiction
Non-fiction books as graphic novels: knowledge in speech bubbles – culture
How do you bring knowledge to the child? The scientifically based, sometimes complex knowledge, especially in times of dwindling reading skills among young people, who are said to have ever…
stern bestsellers in November 2023: non-fiction and fiction
The new one appears every week star with current bestsellers: We also present the books reviewed in the print edition online to you once a month. It is somewhat surprising…
Non-fiction book for children “Cherries for the Camel”: How does living together work? – Culture
“Patience”, “Curiosity”, “Dignity”: If a book can save families the Christmas holidays, it is this magnificent social dictionary. Christmas is the festival of peace, getting along well with each other…
Non-fiction book “Being Human – Learning from Evolution for the Future” – Culture
Hear, hear: “Today we are fortunate to be able to explain, on a scientific basis, for the first time in human history, what is going wrong with humans. We live…
Non-fiction book for children: When I grow up, I’ll be a urine washer
The children’s non-fiction book “Light Cleaners and Powder Monkeys” is an illustrated homage to extinct professions – strange, wonderful and terrible. source site
Non-fiction book for children: “When will there finally be peace” – culture
When the psychologist Elisabeth Raffauf started working on the children’s non-fiction book “When Will Peace Finally Be?” began, it did so against the background of the Russian attack on Ukraine,…
stern bestsellers in October 2023: non-fiction and fiction
October 2023 These are the current stern bestsellers of the month We provide you with this once a month star-Bestseller of the print editions © star / Getty Images The…
Nonfiction for Children: If These Walls Could Talk – Culture
In the beginning there was wet marsh, there were cows, herons and seagulls, it was an idyll. Today the piece of land we are talking about is in the middle…
Great bookmakers: Detlef Felken, chief editor of non-fiction at CH Beck – Kultur
Detlef Felken, the legendary chief editor at CH Beck Verlag, is retiring. A farewell tribute. One of my early editors greeted me with, “I’m delighted. You are my only living…
Mitja Back: "I! The power of narcissism": It’s all about me
Should narcissists be avoided or are they particularly interesting people? Questions to the psychologist Mitja Back, who wrote the book “Me! The Power of Narcissism”. source site