Presents the author's original theories on how the brain functions, processes information and organises it. This book explains why the brain, the 'mechanism', can only work in certain ways and introduces the four basic types of thinking, namely 'natural thinking', 'logical thinking', 'mathematical t[...]

A work based on 50 interviews with men and women - Chris Bonington, Mark McCormack, Terence Conran and Malcolm Forbes - who have been outstandingly successful in a variety of fields. It analyzes their different paths to success.[...]

Traditionally confined to the sphere of the State and of auctoritas, the phrase the Common Good is set to conquer the cities in the late Middle Ages and at the beginning of the Early Modern period. But can we compare a kingdom like France where the cities defend their Common Good by making reference[...]

Thomas Ruff is one of the most internationally well known contemporary German photographers. Over the course of two dozen photography series, he has explored and defined the medium's limits like no other contemporary artist.Since 1989, Ruff stopped taking and printing his own photographs in order to[...]

Den irske sanger Bono (f. 1960 som Paul Hewson) har ud over sin musikalske karriere i U2 samarbejdet med flere af verdens ledere for at hjælpe fattige lande ud af deres gældsproblemer, løse aids-problemet og andre kritiske verdensproblemer. Hanfortæller o[...]