Is there a solution to the brewing conflicts between nationalities? A compelling report from London to Transylvania.

A Hungarian prime minister makes a Jewish billionaire into public enemy number one for the sake of an anti-European election campaign. In Barcelona, nationalist politicians go to jail for a vague dream of freedom, and Britain's EU opponents orchestrate Brexit as a fight against German supremacy. Europe is undergoing the greatest crisis since WW2. Konrad Kramar has visited the current hot spots of trouble. Beyond the bluster of populist campaigning and anti-European agitation, he shines a light on the rifts in nations and societies and traces them back to their origins in war, violence and displacement. Kramar explains why current politics has no answers to these crises and shows where solutions might be found.

This biography of the unconventional biochemist is an inspiration and invitation to all women to go their own way.

Renée Schroeder is a multi-faceted woman. A biochemist based in Vienna, she fought her way to the top of the international scientific community. No small undertaking for a woman in this field. Now in her 'unretirement', she has started a new career on her own farm, researching wild herbs. Renée Schroeder's life has never been conventional. Born in Brazil in 1953, her family moved to Luxembourg when she was a child and then to the Austrian town of Bruck an der Mur. After training in Munich, Paris and the US, she settled in Vienna to build her career. A staunch atheist, she has fought many battles relating to science and feminism. This is a compelling biography about an extraordinary and strong-minded woman.

A wonderful book that takes the reader on new journeys across time and place.

Peter Rosei has always been on the move, led by an unfailing curiosity for landscapes and cities, people and their stories. 'The Great Road' for the first time brings together the chronicles of his travels across five decades and three continents. We get to know Peter Rosei as an acutely observant and knowledgeable traveller, who is open to impressions and images, scents and sounds. He steadily approaches the unknown and brings it close, without diminishing its fascination. This wonderfully labyrinthine book takes us from Peking to Los Alamos, from Seoul to Moscow, from Paris to Texas via Bratislava and Istanbul, brimming with the author's appreciation for the vibrancy of the world and the diversity of human life and survival.

A clever book about the explosive power of a tiny word – about the We that excludes and the We that can include us all.

Michael Köhlmeier's contemplations on We are a plea for an inclusive community. The We can soothe, because it offers the lonely I a home and a notion of where it comes from. This We can provide integration. It is close to the I, it tells stories. But We is also a uniform that can be worn. Anyone can become the enemy of this We, it turns us into opportunists and dogmatists. This military We generates myths to sanction ideologies. But how does one We turn into the other? How does intimate family history turn into an ardent desire to kill and die for something that nobody has ever seen? And what can be done to prevent this transformation? The great raconteur Michael Köhlmeier delves deeply into the two-faced nature of We.

Interrogate yourself – with the ultimate book of questions.

Should you judge a person based on the questions they ask or the answers they give? Sven Michaelsen's reply is unambiguous. Asking ourselves and others the rights questions decides whether our life is successful or wasted. It isn't opinions and assertions that lead us to truth and understanding, it's the curvy question mark. This book shuns run-of-the-mill wisdoms proclaimed by self-professed life coaches to focus instead on the art of smart reflection – on love and happiness, money and a high-flying career or sex and beauty. Michaelsen's writing is at times entertaining and humorous, at times instructive and sombre. Reading Michaelsen's book of 800 questions will teach you more about yourself than ever before.

The most important speeches and essays by this wonderful author, brought together in a single volume.

Her voice often attracts attention for its distinctiveness, so she might as well be heard in another sense – as the voice of an author and the 'person of public interest' that Erika Pluhar has become in the course of her life. Pluhar is a prolific writer of speeches, essays and articles, declaring her personal stance on political and socio-political issues, paying tribute to contemporaries or saying farewell to people she cherished. Her opinion is both sought and provided, and she speaks out when she feels it is necessary.

Ein faszinierender Einblick in die Geschichte der Begegnungen der Menschen mit den Giganten der Meere

Der Wal gehört zu den größten und mächtigsten Tieren, die je auf dieser Erde lebten. Für Jahrhunderte war klar: Aus dem Fang dieser Kolosse lässt sich kein Profit schlagen – zu gefährlich waren die wochenlangen Schifffahrten und Jagden. Mit dem Einsatz von Motorbooten, modernen Harpunen und Geschützen änderte sich das jedoch… Andreas Tjernshaugen erzählt auf spannende Weise, wie Wale Jahr für Jahr große Reisen von den Eismeeren in wärmere Gewässer wagen. Er zeichnet detailgetreue Bilder der lebensgefährlichen Expeditionen der ersten Walfänger, die sie bis in die Polarmeere führten, und beschreibt den heutigen Kampf, die letzten Riesen der Ozeane am Leben zu erhalten.

Environmental pollution, industrial agriculture and depletion of arable soil cause chronic illnesses. What can be done?

While the world population is rapidly heading for 8 billion, and more and more people want to enjoy a slice of prosperity, chronic illnesses are gradually spreading across all age groups and social classes. Warnings about imminent threats such as environmental pollution, soil depletion and loss of biodiversity largely go unheard. Human biologist and doctor Martin Grassberger demonstrates a direct link between the ruthless destruction of nature and the creeping epidemic of chronic illnesses. The insights are sobering, but Grassberger also indicates possible ways to remedy the current global health and environmental crisis. A highly relevant book!

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000) was one of the first women to study architecture in Austria and is still considered one of the most widely known and influential architects of her generation.

Her Frankfurt kitchen design brought her world-wide fame, while her imperturbable lust for life was exemplified by the brisk waltz she enjoyed with Vienna's mayor on her 100th birthday. In these autobiographical recollections she offers up highly personal portraits of famous contemporaries such as Otto Neurath, Josef Frank and Adolf Loos, explains why the Frankfurt kitchen was truly revolutionary and tells us that she wanted to become an architect in order to improve ordinary people's quality of life

Jan und Cornelis de Heem

Zwei Stillleben zeigen luxuriöse Arrangements aus Früchten, Austern und anderen Genussmitteln in dunklen Innenräumen mit feinen Lichtspielen. Die stillen Dinge erzählen von Raum und Zeit, experimenteller Mathematik und Optik, fragilem Reichtum und Lust sowie von der atemberaubenden Meisterschaft der Künstler, die sich darin verewigt sahen: Jan de Heem, Künstler internationalen Rangs und zentrale Figur der Stilllebenmalerei Hollands und Flanderns im 17. Jahrhundert, und sein Sohn Cornelis de Heem, der das väterliche Vorbild mit eigenständigen Erfindungen und naturgetreuen Details bestechend umsetzte. Das Buch widmet sich neben biografischen, ikonografischen und ikonologischen Fragen dem Raumerlebnis dieser beiden Stillleben abseits unserer perspektivischen Sehgewohnheiten.