Gewinner des WRT-Preises Hagener Bilanz- und Steuergespräche 2019Gewinner des Preises für hervorragende interdisziplinäre Doktorarbeiten der Gesellschaft der Freunde der Ruhr-Universität Bochum e.V. 2019Gewinner des 14. Aulinger-Preises 2018Die Verzinsung im Steuerschuldverhältnis erfolgt seit jeher mit einem Zinssatz von 6 %. Die Herkunft des Zinssatzes wurde praktisch nie hinterfragt. Seit sich das Zinsniveau an den Kapitalmärkten auf ei...

When Arthur Bold returned from his wife's funeral he celebrated his new found freedom exorcising the demons of his marriage by making best use (in his own eyes) of what remained. Only thing was, all that remained didn't want to go. It didn't want to go at all.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking the passage of time. In itself, it is also a gathering place, a random community of what has been and what is yet to be, a catalog of traces and a set of promises: dead skin cells and plant pollen, hair and paper fibers, not to mention dus...

Smart Dust (Intelligenter Staub), Quantencomputer, humanoide Androiden, Xenobots, die Entstehung einer Serveranlage auf dem Mond ... alles ist aktuell in der Pipeline und fließt in die fiktive Handlung des Buches ein. Im Spannungsfeld der politischen Gegebenheiten versucht jedes Land einen Vorsprung mit diesen zukunftsorientierten Technologien zu erreichen. Wie erwartet auch ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste. Hat wirklich niemand damit gerechnet, dass eine künstliche Intelligenz ein unkontrollie...

Diamond Dust is the memoir of how a young person’s talent ran away with itself, careening off into one unexpected adventure after another. With humor and introspection, it is a story of hubris and redemption, of talent and conscience, of art and absolution—and how life can lead us to second chances—at finding our better selves.

The prominent constitutional law scholar's fascinating (and yes, mind-boggling) argument that we don't need the Constitution after allFor some, to oppose the Constitution is to oppose the American experiment itself. But leading constitutional scholar Louis Michael Seidman argues that our founding document has long passed its "sell-by" date. It might sound crazy, but Seidman's arguments are both powerful and, well, convincing.As Seidman shows, constitutional...

Archaeology is a dirty business.But out in the deep, it can be lethal.After almost losing his ship and licenses, Captain Ethan Walker takes on three new crew members and the first job that will get him back into space. What should be a routine run to deliver supplies to an archaeological site, takes a dangerous twist after a scientist they’re supposed to pick up goes missing.Planetary security is looking for answers… Answers he does...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Dust of Dreams: The Malazan Book of the Fallen 9 by Steven Erikson, read by Michael Page.On the Letherii continent the exiled Malazan army commanded by Adjunct Tavore begins its march into the eastern Wastelands, to fight for an unknown cause against an enemy it has never seen.The fate awaiting the Bonehunters is one no soldier can prepare for, and one no mortal soul can withstand - the foe is uncertai...

In 1880s San Antonio, Nathaniel Whitlock arrives with nothing but regret and the clothes on his back. A former city gentleman turned drifter, Nate finds himself out of place and out of options—until a quiet, God-fearing cowboy named Boone Caldwell offers him a second chance. Through sweat, hardship, and the patient kindness of strangers, Nate learns the rhythm of ranch life—and the slow, steady pull of faith. But it isn't until he meets Aimee, a spirited woman with a heart rooted in God, t...

Oliver Nugent is a young Armoured Corps officer in the year 1945. Taking on a near derelict pharmaceutical firm, he determines to rebuild it and make it a success. He encounters some ruthless opposition, and counteracts with some fairly unscrupulous methods of his own. It seems no one is above blackmail and all is deemed fair in big business battles. Then a threat: apparently from German sources it alludes to a time when Oliver was in charge of an SS camp, jeopardizing his company and all ...

**Brought to you by Penguin.The long-awaited and highly anticipated conclusion to Philip Pullman’s bestselling The Book of Dust sequence . . .**This audiobook includes an exclusive hour-long bonus conversation between Philip Pullman and narrator Michael Sheen, discussing themes of the novel, the legacy of the series, and the importance of storytelling in all its forms.‘Lyra: what will you do when you find this place in the desert, the opening to the world of the ros...

This Appalachian cosmic horror novel tells the story of a gay man who must return to his ancestral home in the mountains of Western North Carolina after his mother’s death to clean it out and sell it off. Navigating feelings of grief and anger, he finds her house is haunted and her nosy neighbors always watching him—and one of those neighbors happens to be his favorite adult performer. While he develops a new romance and oversees his mother’s funeral, tension builds as the characters’ circ...