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Tobias Rösmann
Today's Men
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978-3-538-07298-5
18,00 € (D)
Today's Men
Men today find themselves somewhere between Sylvester Stallone and David Beckham, according to author Tobias Rösmann: between the tough corporate shark and the cuddly daddy who reads bedtime stories. Modern men are expected to do – and be – everything: buddy and father figure, lover and bicycle repa ...
Florentine Fritzen
Today’s Women
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978-3-538-07297-8
18,00 € (D)
Today’s Women
Women today are terribly complicated, according to Florentine Fritzen. They want to have successful careers while also being perfect homemakers, stimulating partners and loving mothers. With this attitude, they are not only making things difficult for themselves, but for men as well. What kind of ma ...
Friederike Haedecke
Goddesses and Murderesses
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978-3-538-03134-0
18,00 € (D)
Goddesses and Murderesses
Powerful women: Octavia, Livia, Cleopatra, Antonia, Poppaea, Berenice … their names lend drama and intrigue to the history of the Roman Empire. They exercised real political power through their marriages, divorces and remarriages as well as their intrigues, murder plots and their influence on the em ...
Karl-Wilhelm Weeber
Daily Life in Ancient Rome
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978-3-538-03135-7
49,95 € (D)
Daily Life in Ancient Rome
What did the Romans wear in the bath?
With a wealth of references to classical literature and archaeological findings, Karl-Wilhelm Weeber reconstructs the daily life of ancient Romans down to the smallest details to produce a history of the people, not the elites. This book is an encyclopaed ...
Karl-Wilhelm Weeber
Flirting Like the Ancient Romans
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978-3-538-03129-6
16,90 € (D)
Flirting Like the Ancient Romans
Ovid has lost none of his relevance as a tutor in the art of love. Being brash or coy, using erotic flourishes, tenderness and passion – he gets right down to it, with no hang-ups or misplaced shame. Prof. Karl-Wilhelm Weeber, a recognised authority on everyday life in the ancient world, describes t ...
Klaus Lieb
Braindoping
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978-3-538-07301-2
16,90 € (D)
Braindoping
Coffee is out – Ritalin® is in. “Brain doping” is the latest trend, according to futurologists. Are we all going to be popping brain pills soon so we can be ready to achieve and be in a good mood all the time? According to a recent survey, one in four Germans would take these substances if they were ...
Berthold Block
Still Ill
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978-3-538-07302-9
16,90 € (D)
Still Ill
Leaving the cult of health – for a more relaxed attitude. We go in for check-ups, scans and screening. We eat healthily and get plenty of exercise, all in the hope of having a long life. But in doing so we are chasing a mirage, according to Dr. Berthold Block.
Effi Biedrzynski
Goethe's Weimar
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978-3-538-07300-5
24,90 € (D)
Goethe's Weimar
A reference work of Goethe and his world carefully researched and compiled by one of the leading experts on the unrivalled writer. Featuring approx. 350 entries on people and settings.
Claas Triebel
Mobile, Flexible, Always Contactable
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978-3-538-07286-2
16,90 € (D)
Mobile, Flexible, Always Contactable
Have we all gone completely mad? This is a question many people ask themselves these days. We jet across continents, taking our employers with us from place to place, ignore the line between work and leisure time – and feel like hostages of this freedom. Mobility, flexibility and staying in touch – ...
Florentine Fritzen
Plus/Minus 30
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978-3-538-07283-1
16,90 € (D)
Plus/Minus 30
Perfection = bliss? Will we eventually find true happiness, once we've ticked all the boxes in life's ultimate to-do list: having a career, finding a perfect partner, starting a family etc.? Many people around the age of 30 seem to think so - and work themselves beyond exhaustion i ...
Karl-Josef Kuschel, Frido Mann, Paulo Soethe
Motherland
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978-3-538-07293-0
19,90 € (D)
Motherland
The Brazilian roots of the Mann family. The mother of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, Julia da Silva-Bruhns was Brazilian. She spent her childhood between the sea and the jungle. These Brazilian roots of the Mann family have been largely ignored by the public. This book traces the family history in Brazil ...
Detlef Bluhm
Of Authors, Books and Pirates
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978-3-538-07285-5
18,00 € (D)
Of Authors, Books and Pirates
Homer 3.0. Booksellers and publishers are facing new challenges in this era of digitization. E-books and Open Access publications are stoking fears of internet piracy and the end of the printed book. But these worries are nothing new. Detlef Bluhm takes a look back over the nearly 3000-year history ...
Eva Rieger
Love Ever Radiant, Laughing Death
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978-3-538-07270-1
24,90 € (D)
Love Ever Radiant, Laughing Death
Women as leitmotifs in Wagner’s life Minna, Mathilde and Cosima are just a few of the names of the women who played a key role in Richard Wagner’s life. Eva Rieger uses Wagner’s romantic relationships as the background for a new portrait of the composer. She relies on numerous original manuscripts a ...
Jochen Klauß
Genius and Money: Goethe’s Finances
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978-3-538-07254-1
19,90 € (D)
Genius and Money: Goethe’s Finances
On getting by when living by the pen Goethe wrote in his autobiography Poetry and Truth that he found it quite “dreadful” to exchange his poetry for money. This statement stands in stark contrast to his actual desire for commercial success, which would later come to bear great fruit. Jochen Klauss p ...
Holger Lundt
Suleiman’s Tulips
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978-3-538-07279-4
12,00 € (D)
Suleiman’s Tulips
On incense and meadowsweet In seven prose miniatures, Holger Lundt presents a unique world history: great historical figures as reflected through their gardens. Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut outfitted an expedition to bring back incense from the legendary land of Punt; Suleiman the Magnificent enjoyed t ...
Holger Lundt
Cleopatra’s Roses
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978-3-538-07266-4
12,00 € (D)
Cleopatra’s Roses
Through seven portraits of major historical figures, Holger Lundt sheds light on world history from a unique perspective: the love of great men and women for the mainly small and apparently insignificant members of the plant kingdom. Readers will learn how Cleopatra used the seductive fragrance of r ...
Michael Schroeder
Sappho of Lesbos
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978-3-538-07257-2
19,90 € (D)
Sappho of Lesbos
Very little is known about the early Greek lyric poet Sappho of Lesbos – after all, she lived over two and a half millennia ago. Many biographers have attempted to provide an account of Sappho’s life, telling of things such as her circle of women, her journey into exile in Sicily … Michael Schroeder ...
Alois Uhl
Lucrezia Borgia
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978-3-491-35021-2
19,90 € (D)
Lucrezia Borgia
Was Lucrezia a ruthless poisoner and scandalous lover of many prominent men? Or was she a highly educated, cultured noblewoman who maintained a select circle of artists and scholars around her in Ferrara? Alois Uhl provides the definitive answer, based on his thorough knowledge of the original sourc ...
Michael Ley, Klaus Lohrmann
Project Europe
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978-3-491-35002-1
24,90 € (D)
Project Europe
50 years of a united Europe? The unvarnished history of Europe – successes, errors, perspectives on the future With portraits of prominent founding figures Fifty years ago, on 25 March 1957, the leading European heads of state signed the famed ‘Treaties of Rome’. These were the starting point toward ...
Karl-Wilhelm Weeber
Election Campaigns in Ancient Rome
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978-3-491-35008-3
14,90 € (D)
Election Campaigns in Ancient Rome
The Romans’ political life Graffiti as campaign poster Insights into political life in Ancient Rome How did election campaigns work in ancient times? The answer is startling: essentially the same way as today. Candidates tried to curry favour among voters through paeans to their services and by maki ...
Alois Uhl
The Deaths of the Popes
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978-3-491-35000-7
22,90 € (D)
The Deaths of the Popes
How did the Popes really die? A fascinating, mysterious subject On illnesses, personal physicians, murders, dying and funeral ceremony in the world of the Vatican Many thousands of mourners filed past the body of Pope John Paul II after his death on 2 April 2005. Millions more followed his last days ...
Constantin J. Vamvacas
The Birth of Philosophy from Thales to Democrit
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978-3-538-07236-7
29,90 € (D)
The Birth of Philosophy from Thales to Democrit
New horizons for thought - What is true in the early theories on the origin of the universe? - Does modern physics confirm the ideas of the ancient atomists? The emergence of the rational world view. With pre-Socratic philosophy, the old mythological worldview as the model for understanding the worl ...
Gerhard Fink, Hans Jürgen Hillen
The History of Rome
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978-3-538-07235-0
29,90 € (D)
The History of Rome
Ancient Rome comes to life - The big book of Roman history - Greek and Roman historians report - History to get absorbed in The rise and fall of Rome viewed through historical sources What lay behind the assassination of Caesar? How could a village in the middle of Italy become the world power of An ...
Holger Lundt
In The Nymphs’ Garden
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978-3-538-07225-1
18,00 € (D)
In The Nymphs’ Garden
One day Echo saw Narcissus wandering through remote fields and followed him. The longer she followed him, the more she was consumed with love for him. How she longed to be able to speak to him and touch him through tender pleas. But all she could do was to repeat his words. The story of the nymph an ...
Alois Uhl
The Popes and Their Women
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978-3-538-07213-8
19,90 € (D)
The Popes and Their Women
Did a woman once wear the tiara as pope, or is the story of “Pope Joan” just a myth? Alois Uhl has followed the influence of women on the popes in great detail and published his findings in a brilliantly documented and daring non-fiction book. He introduces us to the women who, as whores, daughters, ...
Karl-Wilhelm Weeber
Wine Culture in Ancient Rome
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978-3-491-96137-1
9,95 € (D)
Wine Culture in Ancient Rome
In vino veritas. This book gives us an idea of the importance of wine and wine consumption for the culture of the Ancient Romans, the origin of our wine culture today.
Norbert Ohler
The Medieval Traveller
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978-3-538-07184-1
29,90 € (D)
The Medieval Traveller
Travel in the middle ages required great effort and was dangerous, whether by water or land, by horse or sedan chair, or – like the simple folk – by foot. Despite all adversities every year thousands of people prepared to depart on further journeys: pilgrims, crusaders, soldiers, merchants, tradesme ...
Theodor Kissel
The Roman Forum
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978-3-7608-2307-2
19,90 € (D)
The Roman Forum
In an area of just a few square metres decisions were made which affected an empire. In the forum, in the heart of the city at the crossroads of the most important streets, pulsed life. That place was the market and meeting point of whores, the speakers corner, the house of senate and numerous templ ...
Alois Uhl
Children of the Pope
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978-3-538-07160-5
18,00 € (D)
Children of the Pope
Lukrezia and Cesare Borgia are unforgotten children of a Pope. They live with a doubtful reputation, from troublemaking to sexual depravity, between legends and history. Their father, Pope Alexander VI had eight other children and didn’t think about hiding them. The usual literature on the Popes har ...
Karl-Wilhelm Weeber
Decius Was Here ...
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978-3-7608-1131-4
16,00 € (D)
Decius Was Here ...
The highlights of Ancient Rome's graffiti scene. Highly entertaining, funny, and sometimes strictly for adults only ...

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