Technology & Environment

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Klimakapseln

Friedrich von Borries

Climate Capsules

Until now, we have chosen to ignore the consequences of global warming in the blind hope that our politicians and engineers will come up with solutions once the problems have become sufficiently pressing. A more realistic response would be to pose, as Friedrich von Borries does, the following question: How will we adapt when climate change has become an irreversible reality?

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Arabic world rights (NCT)

Werden wir ewig leben?

Roman Brinzanik, Tobias Hülswitt

Will we live forever?

This is an interdisciplinary non-fiction book containing 14 interviews with leading scientists, philosophers and artists about the radical extension of healthy human lifespan and the merging of man and technology. It is not science fiction! The interviewees are international experts from 8 different countries, including the French Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Jean-Marie Lehn, the stem cell researcher Hans R. Schöler and the brain researcher Wolf Singer.

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Arabic world rights (NCT), Czech Republic (Kniha Zlin), Turkey (Iletisim), Israel (Hakibbutz Hameuchad)

Wandern – ein stiller Rausch

Sigrid Damm

Hiking – A Quiet Rush

A sixty-year-old woman and a thirty-year-old man are hiking in the solitude of the far north for seven days, in the archaic landscape of Swedish Lapland, the home of the Sami people, the last indigenous people in Europe.

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Maschinenwinter

Dietmar Dath

Winter of Machines

As we all know, it is not machines which employ machines but humans who build and use machines. Therefore it can no longer be accepted that machines increasingly worsen our living conditions although they were originally intended to improve them.

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Turkey (Yazilama Yayinevi)

Wasserpolitik

Petra Dobner

Water Politics

Clean water is a basic requirement for earthly existence. This book makes visible the complex dimensions of the global water crisis, and against the background of theoretical conceptions of securing the common good and possibilities of political control traces the development of basic public infrastructure towards structures of global governance.

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Chinese simplex rights (Social Science Academic Press), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UFMG), Arabic world rights (NCT)

Design

Daniel Martin Feige

Design

Whether furniture, hoardings, websites, clothing, pictograms, cars, or urban spaces: design is omnipresent. Only in philosophy has it up until now not received (almost) any consideration.

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Klimaethik

Bernward Gesang

Climate Ethics

Although climate change is a pressing theme of our times, convincing climate ethics have yet to emerge. This book looks for an answer to the question of how political action has to be evaluated regarding the responsibility towards future generations.

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Nach der Natur

Ursula K. Heise

After Nature

The extinction of species from the perspective of cultural science.

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Das Prinzip Verantwortung

Hans Jonas

The Imperative of Responsibility

Hans Jonas here rethinks the foundations of ethics in light of the awesome transformations wrought by modern technology: the threat of nuclear war, ecological ravage, genetic engineering, and the like.

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English world rights (Chicago UP), Spanish world rights (Herder), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), France (Du Cerf), Italy (Einaudi), Turkey (Ketebe), Greece (Armos), Israel (Shalem Press); previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Chinese complex rights (Century Publisher), Russia (Airis), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Contraponto), Denmark (Reitzels), Sweden (Daidalos), Japan (Toshindo), Czech Republic (Oikoymenh), Croatia (Naklada Breza), Ukraine (Libra)

102 grüne Karten zur Rettung der Welt

Hg.: KATAPULT

Green Maps to Save the World

How many trees are there per person? And how much of the earth’s surface is covered in concrete? To fly or not to fly? SUV or e-scooter? Paper or plastic? eBook or print edition? Does the individual even determine the future of the planet at all, or is it on politicians to act? Answers to these and many more questions can be found in the alarming, illuminating and inspiring maps created by Germany’s most innovative magazine.

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English world rights (Bodley Head), Chinese complex rights (Business Weekly), Italy (Vallardi Editore)

Roboterethik

Janina Loh

Robot Ethics

In her essential book, philosopher Janina Loh addresses the moral challenges that play a role in the construction of robots as well as in dealing with them: Are robots autonomous? Can they act morally? Do they have a moral value? Should they have rights? Who is responsible when a robot harms a human being?

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Freiheit und Kontrolle

Markus Metz, Georg Seeßlen

Freedom and Control

One of the defining experiences of the present is that the eternal dichotomy of freedom and control continues to unfold with new sharpness: the individual and society are confronted with an unprecedented variety of ways of being free. On the other hand, technical possibilities and the widely felt need for ever-increasing control are escalating - whether over one's own body, the borders or the whole world.

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Heilen mit der Kraft der Natur

Prof. Dr. Andreas Michalsen

The Nature Cure

A passionate plea for a new medicine Though conventional medicine continues to marginalise naturopathy, our society has long made up its mind: two thirds of all patients want to be treated with natural medicine. Many physicians still believe that natural medicines are just home remedies without any scientific basis. »False,« says Andreas Michalsen, Professor at the Charité Hospital of Berlin: »Modern naturopathy does indeed have a scientific basis, and it is the only answer to the rising number of cases of chronic pain.« Ambitions to return to natural medicine and methods of healing can be observed in many areas of the world, and Andreas Michalsen is one of the pioneers combining traditional healing and modern research in an innovative way.

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English world rights (Viking Books; UK sublicense: Yellow Kite/Hodder; US large print sublicense: Thorndike), Spanish world rights (Planeta), Chinese complex rights (Eurasian/Fine Press), Russia (Komsomolskaja Pravda), France (Albin Michel; digital audio book sublicense: Audible), Portuguese rights (Luna de Papel), Italy (Sonzogno), Netherlands (Ambo|Anthos), Denmark (People's Press), Korea (The Open Books), Japan (Sunmark), Poland (Muza), Czech Republic (Kazda), Hungary (Central Media), Bulgaria (Bard), Estonia (Tänapäev), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Serbia (Laguna), Turkey (Epsilon), Greece (Patakis), Israel (Or Am - Sefer Lakol)

Domestic Rights Sale: German Audiobook (Argon)

Fernblick: Wie wir uns die Zukunft erzählen

Dirk Peitz

Looking Ahead: How We Are Narrating the Future

We can’t foresee the future. If you believe that you’re already living it, as some people in the Silicon Valley do, you need to adjust yourself because the future global power China is preparing to take over interpretational sovereignty. What, then, can we say about what is to come? Do we have reason to rejoice? Do we need to be scared?

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Die Kunst der Zukunft

Hanno Rauterberg

Future Art

Computers paint like Rembrandt, compose like Bach, write novels and poems. If it were up to digital corporations, this would be just the beginning. Artificial creativity is the new key objective: Machines are destined to become artists, as autonomous and gifted as people.

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Stabile Ungleichgewichte

Josef H. Reichholf

Stable Imbalances

Maintaining the biodiversity of the earth is one of the main goals of the United Nations' mission for the future. It hopes to achieve this by preserving a static world view. Modern conservation also places emphasis on the »balance of the natural environment« and thereby on a static concept of ecology.

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Sweden (Daidalos)

Bot

Clemens J. Setz

Bot

Imagine you’re a famous writer and are asked to give an extensive interview. You’re expected to disclose information about your interests and intellectual preferences, about the premises and backgrounds, the motifs and topics of your large body of work. Imagine not being able to think of anything to say, nothing whatsoever, try as you might. Well, someone else has to talk about you then. But who is the right person for the job? Who possesses enough information about you and your books? In the case of writer Clemens J. Setz, there was an alternative.

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Digitaler Kapitalismus

Philipp Staab

Digital Capitalism

Where conglomerates, energy companies and banks dominated the rankings of the highest-valued businesses only 20 years ago they have long since been superseded by internet giants like Google, Apple, Amazon and Tencent. Digital technologies are ubiquitous: We carry around supercomputers in our pockets, washing machines can connect to the internet. But is that all the innovation digital capitalism has to offer?

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Wir Untoten des Kapitals

Raul Zelik

Us, The Undead of Capital

The undead seem to be taking possession of our society – »soulless cities«, an economic model that destroys the possibility of a good life more than it fosters it, the return of the fascist monster. Raul Zelik asks how these developments are connected and how they can be stopped. In his search, he turns his attention to another undead that just won’t die: the idea of socialism.

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Turkey (Iletisim)