Best selling Non-fiction
Here's a ranking of the best products in this category. To give you a quick overview, we've also added some key information about the products.
1. Power - The 48 Laws of Power
With over 200,000 copies sold, "Power - The 48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene dominated the bestseller lists for months. Now the classic is available in a compact edition: concise, entertaining. Anyone who wants to have power must not dwell too long on moral scruples. Anyone who believes that the mechanisms of power need not interest him can be its victim tomorrow. Those who claim that power can also be attained by gentle means misjudge reality. This book is the Machiavelli of the 21st century, but also a historical and literary treasure trove full of surprises.
2. Nexus
Over the last 100,000 years, mankind has achieved enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we are now facing an existential crisis. The world is on the brink of ecological collapse. Misinformation is being spread on a massive scale. And we are plunging headlong into the age of artificial intelligence - a new information network that threatens to wipe us out. If we are so smart, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus shows how the flow of information has shaped us and our world. Yuval Noah Harari takes us from the Stone Age and biblical times through the early modern witch hunts, Stalinism and National Socialism to the resurgence of populism today. In doing so, he draws our attention to the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems have used information to achieve their goals - for better or for worse. And he looks at the pressing choices we face today as non-human intelligence threatens our existence. Information is not the raw material of truth, but neither is it simply a weapon. Nexus explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes and shows how our common humanity can be rediscovered.
3. Centre of life
At some point in life, many things are decided: who we love, where we work, how we live. Some are happy to have arrived - others fear being stuck in a life full of routines and wonder if that's it. How do we find new goals in life when much has been achieved? How do we deal with the fact that time horizons are slowly narrowing and some trains have now left the station? Barbara Bleisch reflects on life experience, lightness and serenity in a philosophically sound way and full of references from everyday life. She counters the cliché of the "midlife crisis" with a philosophy of midlife that leads us into the existential questions of our decades as adults - and into the best time of our lives.
4. Freedom
Angela Merkel was responsible for governing German for 16 years, leading the country through numerous crises and shaping German and international politics and society with her actions and attitude. But of course Angela Merkel was not born to be chancellor. In her memoirs, written together with her long-time political advisor Beate Baumann, she looks back on her life in two German states - 35 years in the GDR and 35 years in reunified Germany. She tells us more personally than ever before about her childhood, youth and studies in the GDR and the dramatic year 1989, when the Wall fell and her political life began. She shares with us her meetings and conversations with the most powerful people in the world and uses significant national, European and international turning points to shed light on how decisions were made that characterise our time. Her book offers a unique insight into the inner workings of power - and is a resolute plea for freedom.
5. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Good money management doesn't necessarily depend on what you know. It's about how you behave. And behaviour is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money - investments, personal finance and business decisions - is usually taught as a mathematical subject where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world, people don't make their financial decisions based on spreadsheets. They make them at the dinner table or in a meeting room, where personal history, their own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing and strange incentives all come together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel reveals in 19 short stories the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to better understand one of life's most important topics.
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The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
English, Morgan Housel, 2020
6. The Watch Book Rolex
Languages: German, English, French
- For the anniversary: now including new models of the Submariner (70 years) and the Daytona (60 years)
- The standard work in a revised and expanded edition, NEW: additional digital content
- Curated by bestselling author and watch expert Gisbert L. Brunner.
Watch enthusiasts take note. The ultimate standard work on the Rolex brand is going into a new edition. "The Watch Book Rolex" has long been indisputably one of the best coffee-table books when it comes to the luxury watch brand.
In this superlative coffee-table book, Gisbert L. Brunner, known among experts as the "watch pope", illuminates the history of the chronometric legend Rolex. In his usual artistic style, he explains what makes this brand unique and to what extent it has contributed to the technical development of the wristwatch. From the first officially certified wristwatch, to the waterproof "Oyster" case, to the technically sophisticated models of modern times, Gisbert covers everything the reader needs to know about the Rolex brand in impressive pictures and highly informative yet entertaining texts.
In the third revised edition, the successful author has now also included the latest models of the legendary Submariner and Daytona series, the brand's traditional lines, which are already celebrating their 70th and 60th anniversaries.
But in this edition, Gisbert also addresses the particular challenges facing the watchmaking trade in the advancing 21st century. The business is confronted with the increasing shortage of skilled workers. The author highlights the innovative projects and programmes with which the luxury brand is countering this trend in order to be able to maintain its own standards of guarantee and service in the future.
Brand new and a special goodie for real watch fans is the additional digital content, which only owners of the illustrated book "The Watch Book.
7. Money
More than 10 years have passed since his last release in Germany, now Anthony Robbins is back. As a personal trainer, he advised personalities such as Bill Clinton and Serena Williams and a global audience of millions, now devoting his attention to finance. Based on extensive research and interviews with more than 50 star investors, such as Warren Buffett or star hedge fund manager Carl Icahn, Robbins has developed the best strategies for private financial protection. His work combines the expertise of successful financial market players and his consulting experience. Even complex investment strategies are explained in an understandable manner without sacrificing precision. In 7 steps to financial independence - practical and feasible for everyone.
8. Piper Give me some time
Hape Kerkeling in top form: in his new book, he not only continues the decisive stages of his life, but also delves deep into the eventful history of his ancestors. Touching and with an incomparable sense of humour, he tells of his childhood in the seventies and the heyday of TV entertainment, of love, providence and the golden age of the Netherlands. He takes us back to the beginnings of his television career and to the early days of the Kerckrings, to the flourishing Amsterdam of the 17th century. In doing so, he interweaves memories with research, his own experiences with history and genealogy. And finally discovers an incredible secret that surrounded his beloved grandmother Bertha throughout her life.
9. Piper Die Not-To-Do-Liste
Just as others collect vinyl records, video game consoles or vintage clothes, Rolf Dobelli has been collecting stories of failure for years - failures in life, careers, marriages and families. Here he presents a collection of behaviour and thought patterns that should not be imitated - a kind of compendium of idiocy. And he shows: If we keep an eye on the biggest killers of happiness and success and avoid them, the right path will automatically open up in front of us. A book that you would like to put in the hands of every young adult.
10. Elon Musk
By Walter Isaacson, author of the multi-million bestseller about Steve Jobs: the ultimate, cutting-edge biography of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our timeToday, Elon Musk is considered a visionary who defies all rules and who has led our world into the age of electric mobility, private space travel and artificial intelligence. Yet his beginnings were far more humble. Regularly beaten up by teenage bullies in the playgrounds of South Africa as a child, Musk also had to stand up to his violent father at home and thus learned early on to rely solely on himself. A lesson that, in the course of his life, made him one of the most daring entrepreneurs of our time, equipped with extremely high risk tolerance and an almost manic intensity. But all the successes could not hide the shadows of his childhood: In early 2022 - after a year in which SpaceX had conducted thirty-one satellite launches, Tesla had sold a million cars and he had become the richest man in the world - Musk set about a deal that would lead to one of the most sensational acquisitions of our time: Twitter. In his darkest hours, Musk would remember being tormented by his father in the playground and at home for years to come. Now, however, he was presented with the opportunity to own the world's ultimate playground.For two years, author Walter Isaacson was able to observe Elon Musk up close, attending his meetings, walking with him through his factories and spending hours interviewing himself, his family, friends, colleagues and adversaries. The result is a revealing insider's account, filled to the brim with amazing stories of triumph and turmoil, that asks: in the end, are the demons that drive Musk what it takes to innovate and progress?
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