Die soziale Marktwirtschaft ist grundlegend für Deutschlands Gesellschaftsordnung – freier Wettbewerb, Preisstabilität und sozialer Ausgleich haben dieses Modell so erfolgreich gemacht. Jedoch wurde spätestens mit der Finanzmarktkrise 2008 deutlich, dass dieses Modell im 21. Jahrhundert weiterentwickelt werden muss. Digitalisierung, Dekarbonisierung und geopolitische Machtkämpfe erhöhen den Druck. Michael Hüther bietet einen Überblick zum Zustand und zu den Perspektiven der sozialen Marktw...

Was den jüdischen, christlichen und islamischen Glauben verbindet: Gott sprichtDer Glaube von Juden, Christen und Muslimen setzt voraus, dass Gott spricht und sich offenbart. Doch wie stellen sich die drei monotheistischen Religionen ein Sprechen Gottes und die göttliche Offenbarung vor? Und welche Sprache sprechen wir, wenn wir über und mit Gott sprechen - sei es im Gebet, im Gottesdienst oder in Diskussionen?Der Judaist Alfred Bodenheimer, der katholische...

HUMANITY AMONG THE STARS What happens when we reach out into the vastness of space? What hope for us amongst the stars? Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us fourteen new tales of the future, from some of the finest science fiction writers in the field. The fourteen startling stories in this anthology feature the work of Greg Egan, Aliette de Bodard, Ian McDonald, Karl Schroeder, Pat Cadigan, Karen Lord, Ellen Klages, Adam Roberts, Linda Nagata, Hannu Rajaniemi, Kathleen An...

Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre's best known anthologies is back with his 11th volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy. With established names and new talent this diverse and ground-breaking collection will take the reader to the outer-reaches of space and the inner realms of humanity with stories of fantastical worlds and worlds that may still come to pass. FEATURING // CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE // PAOLO BAC...

The brand new anthology from multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan, featuring stories set in futures wracked by the deluge, from some the best writers in SF, including Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Charlie Jane Anders, Lavie Tidhar, Jeffrey Ford, and James Morrow. We stand at the beginning of one of the greatest ecological disasters in the time of Man. The world is warming and seas are rising. We may deny it, but we can't hide when the water comes....

An amazing array of the most popular and exciting names in Fantasy are set to appear in the first in a brand new series of Fantasy anthologies featuring original fiction, from the master editor Jonathan Strahan. The authors appearing in the launch volume include Trudi Canavan, Elizabeth Bear, Daniel Abraham, Kate Elliott, Saladin Ahmed, Glen Cook, Scott Lynch, Ellen Klages, Ellen Kushner & Ysabeau Wilce, Jeffrey Ford, Robert Redick and KJ Parker.

The latest volume in the Hugo award-winning Infinity Project series, showcasing all-original hard science fiction stories from the leading voices in genre fiction. Sense of wonder is the lifeblood of science fiction. When we encounter something on a truly staggering scale - metal spheres wrapped around stars, planets rebuilt and repurposed, landscapes transformed, starships bigger than worlds - we react viscerally. Fear, reverence, admiration - how else are we to react to something so gran...

The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity. Whether it's coming up hard against the speed of light - and, with it, the enormity of the universe - realizing that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you'd ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen...

Das Mädchen aus dem Song zeigt, wie Bob Dylan in seinem bewegenden Liebes- und Abschiedslied Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (1963) seinen Frust über die Trennung von Suze Rotolo verarbeitete, in die er sich unsterblich verliebt hatte. Stings Zeilen 'Every breath you take / Every move you make / I’ll be watching you' (1983) werden gern als Liebesbekenntnis bei Hochzeiten gespielt, doch damit besang er nicht etwa seine Zuneigung gegenüber seiner baldigen Exfrau, sondern seine brennende Ei...

This specially curated collection features five reviews of current and key research on crops as livestock feed.The first chapter reviews the impact of feeding ruminants cereal grains on animal physiology and health. The chapter explores the use of starch-containing cereal grains as a feedstuff to improve animal efficiency and performance, as well as to reduce the environmental footprint of ruminant animal production.The second chapter discusses key environm...

Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes for cinematic narratives of morality, race, gender, and nation, as well as serving as historical education for a century of Americans.In The American Civil War on Film and TV: Blue and Gray ...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State-it's clear that our journey t...