'Wonderful...Carlin's book never shies from the details of this most enduring of American heroes. The divorces, cruelties, years in therapy and his antidepressant fuelled comeback of 2003 are all here' Sunday Times This sweeping biography of one of America's greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the cooperation of Springsteen himself. With unfettered access to the artist, his family and band members, acclaimed music writer Peter Ames Carlin presents an intimate and vivid portrait. 'A readable, expansive portrait of the New Jersey rocker that delves into his family background and personal life more than previous biographies' Sunday Telegraph 'The first serious Bruce Springsteen biography for 25 years. Carlin was granted unprecedented access to family, friends, management, even the Boss himself, enabling him to paint a vivid picture of the man, warts and all' Sunday Express 'A revealing portrait of a rock colossus… Peter Ames Carlin's new book is the first in 25 years to have been written with the co-operation of Springsteen. Previous biographies have tended towards closely argued adulation but Carlin has not been blinded by his access to Springsteen' Daily Telegraph 'One for the regular fan on the street...well written and jaw-dropping in its research...Weighty, fact focused, readable' Metro 'Painstakingly researched and based on - for the first time - interviews with Springsteen's family and friends as well as the Boss himself. To that extent it is the first authorised account for a decade...This is a warts-and-all account that includes Springsteen's flashes of temper when things didn't go his way…' Sunday Times

When Rupert Murdoch made a fateful decision about who should inherit his media colossus, he believed that pitting his children against each other would produce the most capable heir. Twenty-five years later, that gamble would tear apart one of the world's most powerful families and trigger a multi-billion dollar reckoning in a succession battle featuring betrayals, lawsuits, and revenge plots. In Bonfire of the Murdochs, bestselling author Gabriel Sherman tells the inside story of this epic family war, one whose seeds were planted a half-century ago in Australia when the complicated patriarch left his homeland to conquer the world and please the ghost of his judgmental father. That quest culminated in a media empire that controlled Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and tabloids on three continents, which wielded more political and cultural power than any single company in modern times. But Rupert's plan to rip up the secret trust controlling his empire and anoint his conservative firstborn son Lachlan as successor set him on a collision course with his three more liberal children. What price would Rupert pay to secure his legacy? For the aging patriarch, this would be his final and most personal deal. Based on interviews with more than 150 sources, Bonfire of the Murdochs is a richly textured narrative where each child plays their predestined role in a blood feud that explodes in a courtroom showdown. There, Murdoch's children weaponize his own secrets against him. It is a tragedy Shakespeare would have appreciated, where getting everything you want costs everything you love.

""Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities . . . there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. . . . Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand . . . to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet." Conan is one of the greatest fictional heroes ever created-a swordsman who cuts a swath across the lands of the Hyborian Age, facing powerful sorcerers, deadly creatures, and ruthless armies of thieves and reavers. In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years before his tragic suicide, Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. Collected in this volume, profusely illustrated by artist Mark Schultz, are Howard's first thirteen Conan stories, appearing in their original versions-in some cases for the first time in more than seventy years-and in the order Howard wrote them. Along with classics of dark fantasy like "The Tower of the Elephant" and swashbuckling adventure like "Queen of the Black Coast," "The Coming of Conan "the Cimmerian contains a wealth of material never before published in the United States, including the first submitted draft of Conan's debut, "Phoenix on the Sword," Howard's synopses for "The Scarlet Citadel" and "Black Colossus," and a map of Conan's world drawn by the author himself. Here are timeless tales featuring Conan the raw and dangerous youth, Conan the daring thief, Conan the swashbuckling pirate, and Conan the commander of armies. Here, too, is an unparalleled glimpse into the mind of a genius whose bold storytelling style has beenimitated by many, yet equaled by none.

"All disasters are in some sense man-made." Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises. and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted, or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet in 2020 the responses of many developed countries, including the United States, to a new virus from China were badly bungled. Why? Why did only a few Asian countries learn the right lessons from SARS and MERS? While populist leaders certainly performed poorly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Niall Ferguson argues that more profound pathologies were at work--pathologies already visible in our responses to earlier disasters. In books going back nearly twenty years, including Colossus, The Great Degeneration, and The Square and the Tower, Ferguson has studied the foibles of modern America, from imperial hubris to bureaucratic sclerosis and online fragmentation. Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics, cliodynamics, and network science, Doom offers not just a history but a general theory of disasters, showing why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are getting worse at handling them. Doom is the lesson of history that this country--indeed the West as a whole--urgently needs to learn, if we want to handle the next crisis better, and to avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline.

""Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities . . . there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. . . . Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand . . . to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet." Conan is one of the greatest fictional heroes ever created-a swordsman who cuts a swath across the lands of the Hyborian Age, facing powerful sorcerers, deadly creatures, and ruthless armies of thieves and reavers. In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years before his tragic suicide, Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. Collected in this volume, profusely illustrated by artist Mark Schultz, are Howard's first thirteen Conan stories, appearing in their original versions-in some cases for the first time in more than seventy years-and in the order Howard wrote them. Along with classics of dark fantasy like "The Tower of the Elephant" and swashbuckling adventure like "Queen of the Black Coast," "The Coming of Conan "the Cimmerian contains a wealth of material never before published in the United States, including the first submitted draft of Conan's debut, "Phoenix on the Sword," Howard's synopses for "The Scarlet Citadel" and "Black Colossus," and a map of Conan's world drawn by the author himself. Here are timeless tales featuring Conan the raw and dangerous youth, Conan the daring thief, Conan the swashbuckling pirate, and Conan the commander of armies. Here, too, is an unparalleled glimpse into the mind of a genius whose bold storytelling style has beenimitated by many, yet equaled by none.

"All disasters are in some sense man-made." Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises. and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted, or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet in 2020 the responses of many developed countries, including the United States, to a new virus from China were badly bungled. Why? Why did only a few Asian countries learn the right lessons from SARS and MERS? While populist leaders certainly performed poorly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Niall Ferguson argues that more profound pathologies were at work--pathologies already visible in our responses to earlier disasters. In books going back nearly twenty years, including Colossus, The Great Degeneration, and The Square and the Tower, Ferguson has studied the foibles of modern America, from imperial hubris to bureaucratic sclerosis and online fragmentation. Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics, cliodynamics, and network science, Doom offers not just a history but a general theory of disasters, showing why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are getting worse at handling them. Doom is the lesson of history that this country--indeed the West as a whole--urgently needs to learn, if we want to handle the next crisis better, and to avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline.

2014: Russia prepares to host the Winter Olympics. Russia invades Crimea. Putin is re-elected president. Several political prisoners are amnestied and released early from prison. Maria Alyokhina is among them. She had spent two years in a penal colony after performing the punk prayer 'Virgin Mary, Banish Putin' with her friends in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. They had warned the rest of the world of the dangers of authoritarianism but the Russia she finds when she gets out of prison is even more oppressive. What can you do, she asks, when your country has been seized by all-powerful men who are waging war against another country and their own citizens?As Masha recounts her brave and colourful protests, we are drawn straight into the world of grassroots opposition and witness the absurd measures the Russian state takes to contain protest. Over and over, Masha and her fellow members of Pussy Riot are tracked and attacked but find ways to subvert the authorities: they throw hundreds of paper planes at the gloomy stone colossus of the intelligence services, they dress up as police officers to disrupt a football match, or they spend the night in a huge Christmas bauble papered over with photos of political prisoners. When the full-scale war against Ukraine starts and the Russian opposition is repeatedly silenced, Masha and her activist friends continue to protest despite the high stakes. They fight increasingly absurd cycles of detention and house arrest: sometimes with the smallest acts such as going for a walk or having a rainbow ice cream. Faced with a new prison sentence, she escapes Russia in May 2022 dressed as a delivery food courier. Her story, like her life, is fiercely courageous, darkly funny and highly inspiring to anyone who wants to stand up for the truth.

Grip this: the Persian Empire wasn't some dusty footnote in Alexander's fanfic, but a colossus that swallowed nations like appetizers, built on Cyrus's slick PR and Darius's spreadsheet savvy, only to crumble under its own gilded weight. "History of The Persian Empire" doesn't spoon-feed the schoolbook slop; it claws through the clay tablets, exposing how Zoroastrian fire rituals masked tax hikes on conquered Jews and Greeks, and how Persepolis's palaces were less wonders than warehouses for tribute hauled by chained backs. Forget the noble savage spin—this was realpolitik on steroids, where satraps skimmed like mob bosses and royal roads doubled as invasion highways, turning a tribal patch into the blueprint for every bureaucracy since. Stuffed between the lines are the gut-checks they skip in symposia: the Susa harem intrigues that toppled heirs faster than hemlock, the Ionian Revolt's spark that lit the fuse for Thermopylae's 300-man PR stunt, and the Behistun cliffside brag that screamed "we're legit" while bodies piled in the bazaars. No airbrushed immortals here—just the messy math of an empire that tolerated gods and gays until the Greeks crashed the party, leaving Xerxes to sulk in his tent after Salamis. Bashers call it "Persian-bashing," but the inscriptions don't mince: this juggernaut's genius was tolerance as tactic, not gospel, fueling a multicultural mashup that outshone Rome's till the mace fell. As 2025's empires eye their exits amid trade wars and tariffs, why gulp the gloss when the original blueprint's a cautionary banger? This tome tosses you the unlaundered lore—no chaser, just the hangover of hubris that makes today's headlines read like reruns. Crack it if you're chasing the conqueror's high; dodge if dynasty drama's too close to home. The satraps schemed; the scroll's yours to unroll.

"X-Men 1" Sie sind das nächst Glied in der Evolutionskette. Die X-Men, geboren mit einer einzigartigen genetischen Mutation, die ihnen außerordentliche Superkräfte verleiht. Die Augen von Cyclops können einen Energiestrahl aussenden, Jean Grey besitzt Fähigkeiten in Telepathie und Storm kann das Wetter manipulieren. In einer mit Hass und Vorurteilen erfüllten Welt sind sie Ausgestoßene. Doch unter der Führung von Professor Charles Xavier haben sie gelernt, ihre Fähigkeiten zum Wohl der Menschheit einzusetzen. Gemeinsam kämpfen sie darum, eine Welt zu beschützen, die sie fürchtet. Sie stellen sich der gefährlichsten Bedrohung der menschlichen Zivilisation: Magneto, ein skrupelloser Mutant, der die Zukunft in seine Gewalt bringen will - auch wenn es das Ende bedeutet... der Menschheit... oder der Mutanten. Laufzeit: 104 Minuten Produktionsjahr: 2000 Regie: David Hayter, Bryan Singer; Darsteller: Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart; "X-Men 2" X-Treme Power - die X-Men sind zurück! Im zweiten Teil der X-Men Saga stehen die Helden ihrem gefährlichsten Feind gegenüber. Wenn sie gegen ihn versagen, wäre damit auch das Schicksal der Menschheit besiegelt. Nachdem der US-Präsident nur knapp einem Mutanten-Attentat entgeht, erhält Ex-General William Stryker grünes Licht für einen lange geplanten Mutanten-Feldzug. Er kennt ihre Schwächen, er jagd sie, er weiß, wie man sie vernichtet! Professor Xavier, Wolverine, Storm und die anderen X-Men haben nur eine Chance: sie müssen sich mit ihrem Rivalen Magneto verbünden um so einen Krieg zu verhindern, der alles Leben auf der Erde auslöschen könnte.... Laufzeit: 134 Minuten Produktionsjahr: 2003 Regie: Bryan Singer Darsteller: Brian Cox, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos; "X-Men 3 - Der letzte Widerstand" Widerstand ist zwecklos! Stellen Sie sich den altbekannten Mutanten-Helden, ihren Widersachern, aber auch neuen Kämpfern wie Angel, Beast, Juggernaut und Colossus. Der furiose Showdown der X-Men Saga ist ein überwältigendes Spektakel, das Ihnen die Sinne rauben wird! Ein neuartiges Serum kann Mutanten von ihrer Andersartigkeit "heilen" und in "normale" Menschen verwandeln. Hoffnung oder Gefahr? Während Professor Xavier und seine X-Men auch weiterhin an eine friedliche Co-Existenz mit den Menschen glauben, wittert Widersacher Magneto eine Verschwörung und rüstet zum Kampf. Die X-Men glauben ihren Gegner zu kennen, doch diesmal verfügt Magneto über eine Waffe, deren Einsatz den Untergang der Welt bedeuten könnte: Jean Gray, die sich einst für die X-Men opferte, um als Dark Phoenix aufzuerstehen. Der Krieg, der alle anderen Kriege beenden könnte, hat begonnen. Laufzeit: 104 Minuten Produktionsjahr: 2006 Regie: Brett Ratner Darsteller: Daniel Cudmore, Kelsey Grammer, Vinnie Jones, Rebecca Romjin-Stamos;

Grip this: the Persian Empire wasn't some dusty footnote in Alexander's fanfic, but a colossus that swallowed nations like appetizers, built on Cyrus's slick PR and Darius's spreadsheet savvy, only to crumble under its own gilded weight. "History of The Persian Empire" doesn't spoon-feed the schoolbook slop; it claws through the clay tablets, exposing how Zoroastrian fire rituals masked tax hikes on conquered Jews and Greeks, and how Persepolis's palaces were less wonders than warehouses for tribute hauled by chained backs. Forget the noble savage spin—this was realpolitik on steroids, where satraps skimmed like mob bosses and royal roads doubled as invasion highways, turning a tribal patch into the blueprint for every bureaucracy since. Stuffed between the lines are the gut-checks they skip in symposia: the Susa harem intrigues that toppled heirs faster than hemlock, the Ionian Revolt's spark that lit the fuse for Thermopylae's 300-man PR stunt, and the Behistun cliffside brag that screamed "we're legit" while bodies piled in the bazaars. No airbrushed immortals here—just the messy math of an empire that tolerated gods and gays until the Greeks crashed the party, leaving Xerxes to sulk in his tent after Salamis. Bashers call it "Persian-bashing," but the inscriptions don't mince: this juggernaut's genius was tolerance as tactic, not gospel, fueling a multicultural mashup that outshone Rome's till the mace fell. As 2025's empires eye their exits amid trade wars and tariffs, why gulp the gloss when the original blueprint's a cautionary banger? This tome tosses you the unlaundered lore—no chaser, just the hangover of hubris that makes today's headlines read like reruns. Crack it if you're chasing the conqueror's high; dodge if dynasty drama's too close to home. The satraps schemed; the scroll's yours to unroll.

"X-Men 1" Sie sind das nächst Glied in der Evolutionskette. Die X-Men, geboren mit einer einzigartigen genetischen Mutation, die ihnen außerordentliche Superkräfte verleiht. Die Augen von Cyclops können einen Energiestrahl aussenden, Jean Grey besitzt Fähigkeiten in Telepathie und Storm kann das Wetter manipulieren. In einer mit Hass und Vorurteilen erfüllten Welt sind sie Ausgestoßene. Doch unter der Führung von Professor Charles Xavier haben sie gelernt, ihre Fähigkeiten zum Wohl der Menschheit einzusetzen. Gemeinsam kämpfen sie darum, eine Welt zu beschützen, die sie fürchtet. Sie stellen sich der gefährlichsten Bedrohung der menschlichen Zivilisation: Magneto, ein skrupelloser Mutant, der die Zukunft in seine Gewalt bringen will - auch wenn es das Ende bedeutet... der Menschheit... oder der Mutanten. Laufzeit: 104 Minuten Produktionsjahr: 2000 Regie: David Hayter, Bryan Singer; Darsteller: Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart; "X-Men 2" X-Treme Power - die X-Men sind zurück! Im zweiten Teil der X-Men Saga stehen die Helden ihrem gefährlichsten Feind gegenüber. Wenn sie gegen ihn versagen, wäre damit auch das Schicksal der Menschheit besiegelt. Nachdem der US-Präsident nur knapp einem Mutanten-Attentat entgeht, erhält Ex-General William Stryker grünes Licht für einen lange geplanten Mutanten-Feldzug. Er kennt ihre Schwächen, er jagd sie, er weiß, wie man sie vernichtet! Professor Xavier, Wolverine, Storm und die anderen X-Men haben nur eine Chance: sie müssen sich mit ihrem Rivalen Magneto verbünden um so einen Krieg zu verhindern, der alles Leben auf der Erde auslöschen könnte.... Laufzeit: 134 Minuten Produktionsjahr: 2003 Regie: Bryan Singer Darsteller: Brian Cox, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos; "X-Men 3 - Der letzte Widerstand" Widerstand ist zwecklos! Stellen Sie sich den altbekannten Mutanten-Helden, ihren Widersachern, aber auch neuen Kämpfern wie Angel, Beast, Juggernaut und Colossus. Der furiose Showdown der X-Men Saga ist ein überwältigendes Spektakel, das Ihnen die Sinne rauben wird! Ein neuartiges Serum kann Mutanten von ihrer Andersartigkeit "heilen" und in "normale" Menschen verwandeln. Hoffnung oder Gefahr? Während Professor Xavier und seine X-Men auch weiterhin an eine friedliche Co-Existenz mit den Menschen glauben, wittert Widersacher Magneto eine Verschwörung und rüstet zum Kampf. Die X-Men glauben ihren Gegner zu kennen, doch diesmal verfügt Magneto über eine Waffe, deren Einsatz den Untergang der Welt bedeuten könnte: Jean Gray, die sich einst für die X-Men opferte, um als Dark Phoenix aufzuerstehen. Der Krieg, der alle anderen Kriege beenden könnte, hat begonnen. Laufzeit: 104 Minuten Produktionsjahr: 2006 Regie: Brett Ratner Darsteller: Daniel Cudmore, Kelsey Grammer, Vinnie Jones, Rebecca Romjin-Stamos;

'An excellent look at what Palantir does, as well as a fascinating insight into the mind of its eccentric chief executive' Telegraph Palantir Technologies is the most interesting company in the world – and the most controversial. Palantir builds data integration software: its technology ingests vast quantities of information and quickly identifies patterns, trends and connections that might elude the human eye. Founded in 2003 to help the U.S. government in the war on terrorism – an early investor was the CIA – Palantir is now a $400 billion global colossus whose software is used by major intelligence services (including the Mossad), the U.S. military, the National Health Service in England, and corporate giants like Airbus and BP. From AI to counterterrorism to climate change to immigration to financial fraud to healthcare to the future of warfare, the company is at the nexus of the most critical issues of the twenty-first century. Its billionaire CEO, Alex Karp, is a distinctive figure on the global business scene. A biracial Jew who is also severely dyslexic, Karp has built Palantir into a tech giant despite having no background in either business or computer science. Instead, he's a trained philosopher who has become known for his strongly held views on a range of issues and for his willingness to grapple with the moral and ethical implications of Palantir's work. Those questions have taken on added urgency during the Trump era, which has also brought attention to the political activism of Karp's close friend and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel. In The Philosopher in the Valley, journalist Michael Steinberger is the first to tell the story of Alex Karp and Palantir from the beginning. Steinberger offers new biographical details and a rich psychological portrait of the man leading one of the world's most secretive companies. Full of revelations, this is an urgent and insightful book about technological power, the surveillance state and the future we all face.

2014: Russia prepares to host the Winter Olympics. Russia invades Crimea. Putin is re-elected president. Several political prisoners are amnestied and released early from prison. Maria Alyokhina is among them. She had spent two years in a penal colony after performing the punk prayer 'Virgin Mary, Banish Putin' with her friends in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. They had warned the rest of the world of the dangers of authoritarianism but the Russia she finds when she gets out of prison is even more oppressive. What can you do, she asks, when your country has been seized by all-powerful men who are waging war against another country and their own citizens?As Masha recounts her brave and colourful protests, we are drawn straight into the world of grassroots opposition and witness the absurd measures the Russian state takes to contain protest. Over and over, Masha and her fellow members of Pussy Riot are tracked and attacked but find ways to subvert the authorities: they throw hundreds of paper planes at the gloomy stone colossus of the intelligence services, they dress up as police officers to disrupt a football match, or they spend the night in a huge Christmas bauble papered over with photos of political prisoners. When the full-scale war against Ukraine starts and the Russian opposition is repeatedly silenced, Masha and her activist friends continue to protest despite the high stakes. They fight increasingly absurd cycles of detention and house arrest: sometimes with the smallest acts such as going for a walk or having a rainbow ice cream. Faced with a new prison sentence, she escapes Russia in May 2022 dressed as a delivery food courier. Her story, like her life, is fiercely courageous, darkly funny and highly inspiring to anyone who wants to stand up for the truth.

'An excellent look at what Palantir does, as well as a fascinating insight into the mind of its eccentric chief executive' Telegraph Palantir Technologies is the most interesting company in the world - and the most controversial. Palantir builds data integration software: its technology ingests vast quantities of information and quickly identifies patterns, trends and connections that might elude the human eye. Founded in 2003 to help the U.S. government in the war on terrorism - an early investor was the CIA - Palantir is now a $400 billion global colossus whose software is used by major intelligence services (including the Mossad), the U.S. military, the National Health Service in England, and corporate giants like Airbus and BP. From AI to counterterrorism to climate change to immigration to financial fraud to healthcare to the future of warfare, the company is at the nexus of the most critical issues of the twenty-first century. Its billionaire CEO, Alex Karp, is a distinctive figure on the global business scene. A biracial Jew who is also severely dyslexic, Karp has built Palantir into a tech giant despite having no background in either business or computer science. Instead, he's a trained philosopher who has become known for his strongly held views on a range of issues and for his willingness to grapple with the moral and ethical implications of Palantir's work. Those questions have taken on added urgency during the Trump era, which has also brought attention to the political activism of Karp's close friend and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel. In The Philosopher in the Valley, journalist Michael Steinberger is the first to tell the story of Alex Karp and Palantir from the beginning. Steinberger offers new biographical details and a rich psychological portrait of the man leading one of the world's most secretive companies. Full of revelations, this is an urgent and insightful book about technological power, the surveillance state and the future we all face.

'An excellent look at what Palantir does, as well as a fascinating insight into the mind of its eccentric chief executive' Telegraph Palantir Technologies is the most interesting company in the world - and the most controversial. Palantir builds data integration software: its technology ingests vast quantities of information and quickly identifies patterns, trends and connections that might elude the human eye. Founded in 2003 to help the U.S. government in the war on terrorism - an early investor was the CIA - Palantir is now a $400 billion global colossus whose software is used by major intelligence services (including the Mossad), the U.S. military, the National Health Service in England, and corporate giants like Airbus and BP. From AI to counterterrorism to climate change to immigration to financial fraud to healthcare to the future of warfare, the company is at the nexus of the most critical issues of the twenty-first century. Its billionaire CEO, Alex Karp, is a distinctive figure on the global business scene. A biracial Jew who is also severely dyslexic, Karp has built Palantir into a tech giant despite having no background in either business or computer science. Instead, he's a trained philosopher who has become known for his strongly held views on a range of issues and for his willingness to grapple with the moral and ethical implications of Palantir's work. Those questions have taken on added urgency during the Trump era, which has also brought attention to the political activism of Karp's close friend and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel. In The Philosopher in the Valley, journalist Michael Steinberger is the first to tell the story of Alex Karp and Palantir from the beginning. Steinberger offers new biographical details and a rich psychological portrait of the man leading one of the world's most secretive companies. Full of revelations, this is an urgent and insightful book about technological power, the surveillance state and the future we all face.

"X-Men 1" Sie sind das nächst Glied in der Evolutionskette. Die X-Men, geboren mit einer einzigartigen genetischen Mutation, die ihnen außerordentliche Superkräfte verleiht. Die Augen von Cyclops können einen Energiestrahl aussenden, Jean Grey besitzt Fähigkeiten in Telepathie und Storm kann das Wetter manipulieren. In einer mit Hass und Vorurteilen erfüllten Welt sind sie Ausgestoßene. Doch unter der Führung von Professor Charles Xavier haben sie gelernt, ihre Fähigkeiten zum Wohl der Menschheit einzusetzen. Gemeinsam kämpfen sie darum, eine Welt zu beschützen, die sie fürchtet. Sie stellen sich der gefährlichsten Bedrohung der menschlichen Zivilisation: Magneto, ein skrupelloser Mutant, der die Zukunft in seine Gewalt bringen will - auch wenn es das Ende bedeutet... der Menschheit... oder der Mutanten. Laufzeit: 104 Minuten Produktionsjahr: 2000 Regie: David Hayter, Bryan Singer; Darsteller: Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart; "X-Men 2" X-Treme Power - die X-Men sind zurück! Im zweiten Teil der X-Men Saga stehen die Helden ihrem gefährlichsten Feind gegenüber. Wenn sie gegen ihn versagen, wäre damit auch das Schicksal der Menschheit besiegelt. Nachdem der US-Präsident nur knapp einem Mutanten-Attentat entgeht, erhält Ex-General William Stryker grünes Licht für einen lange geplanten Mutanten-Feldzug. Er kennt ihre Schwächen, er jagd sie, er weiß, wie man sie vernichtet! Professor Xavier, Wolverine, Storm und die anderen X-Men haben nur eine Chance: sie müssen sich mit ihrem Rivalen Magneto verbünden um so einen Krieg zu verhindern, der alles Leben auf der Erde auslöschen könnte.... Laufzeit: 134 Minuten Produktionsjahr: 2003 Regie: Bryan Singer Darsteller: Brian Cox, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos; "X-Men 3 - Der letzte Widerstand" Widerstand ist zwecklos! Stellen Sie sich den altbekannten Mutanten-Helden, ihren Widersachern, aber auch neuen Kämpfern wie Angel, Beast, Juggernaut und Colossus. Der furiose Showdown der X-Men Saga ist ein überwältigendes Spektakel, das Ihnen die Sinne rauben wird! Ein neuartiges Serum kann Mutanten von ihrer Andersartigkeit "heilen" und in "normale" Menschen verwandeln. Hoffnung oder Gefahr? Während Professor Xavier und seine X-Men auch weiterhin an eine friedliche Co-Existenz mit den Menschen glauben, wittert Widersacher Magneto eine Verschwörung und rüstet zum Kampf. Die X-Men glauben ihren Gegner zu kennen, doch diesmal verfügt Magneto über eine Waffe, deren Einsatz den Untergang der Welt bedeuten könnte: Jean Gray, die sich einst für die X-Men opferte, um als Dark Phoenix aufzuerstehen. Der Krieg, der alle anderen Kriege beenden könnte, hat begonnen. Laufzeit: 104 Minuten Produktionsjahr: 2006 Regie: Brett Ratner Darsteller: Daniel Cudmore, Kelsey Grammer, Vinnie Jones, Rebecca Romjin-Stamos;

#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times finance editor David Enrich's explosive exposé of the most scandalous bank in the world, revealing its shadowy ties to Donald Trump, Putin's Russia, and Nazi Germany “A jaw-dropping financial thriller” —Philadelphia Inquirer UPDATED WITH NEW REVELATIONS FOLLOWING THE SUPREME COURT’S LANDMARK RULING ON TRUMP V. DEUTSCHE BANK On a rainy Sunday in 2014, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found hanging in his London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the 150-year-old financial institution into a global colossus, and his sudden death was a mystery, made more so by the bank’s efforts to deter investigation. Broeksmit, it turned out, was a man who knew too much. In Dark Towers, award-winning journalist David Enrich reveals the truth about Deutsche Bank and its epic path of devastation. Tracing the bank’s history back to its propping up of a default-prone American developer in the 1880s, helping the Nazis build Auschwitz, and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians, he shows how in the 1990s, via a succession of hard-charging executives, Deutsche made a fateful decision to pursue Wall Street riches, often at the expense of ethics and the law. Soon, the bank was manipulating markets, violating international sanctions to aid terrorist regimes, scamming investors, defrauding regulators, and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an American foothold, Deutsche also started doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next twenty years, Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump, the Kushner family, and an array of scandal-tarred clients, including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Dark Towers is the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality—the corporate equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction. It is also the story of a man who was consumed by fear of what he’d seen at the bank—and his son’s obsessive search for the secrets he kept.

#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times finance editor David Enrich's explosive exposé of the most scandalous bank in the world, revealing its shadowy ties to Donald Trump, Putin's Russia, and Nazi Germany “A jaw-dropping financial thriller” —Philadelphia Inquirer UPDATED WITH NEW REVELATIONS FOLLOWING THE SUPREME COURT’S LANDMARK RULING ON TRUMP V. DEUTSCHE BANK On a rainy Sunday in 2014, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found hanging in his London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the 150-year-old financial institution into a global colossus, and his sudden death was a mystery, made more so by the bank’s efforts to deter investigation. Broeksmit, it turned out, was a man who knew too much. In Dark Towers, award-winning journalist David Enrich reveals the truth about Deutsche Bank and its epic path of devastation. Tracing the bank’s history back to its propping up of a default-prone American developer in the 1880s, helping the Nazis build Auschwitz, and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians, he shows how in the 1990s, via a succession of hard-charging executives, Deutsche made a fateful decision to pursue Wall Street riches, often at the expense of ethics and the law. Soon, the bank was manipulating markets, violating international sanctions to aid terrorist regimes, scamming investors, defrauding regulators, and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an American foothold, Deutsche also started doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next twenty years, Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump, the Kushner family, and an array of scandal-tarred clients, including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Dark Towers is the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality—the corporate equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction. It is also the story of a man who was consumed by fear of what he’d seen at the bank—and his son’s obsessive search for the secrets he kept.

Discover the astounding ancient architecture, the history of civilization, and the beauty of our planet in these Wonders of the World. Become an eyewitness to the fascinating architectural feats and natural treasures of the world in this picture-led reference guide that will take you on a visual tour of more than 50 wonders of the world. Children will be mesmerised by human-made landscapes such as the Statue of Liberty to record-breaking natural marvels like the River Nile. This unique, beautifully illustrated guide takes kids on an incredible journey around the world's most spectacular sights. Using striking full-colour photographs and illustrations, discover the Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria and much more! Throughout the pages of this newly-revised book on Wonders of the World, you can expect to find: - A fresh new look, new photographs, updated information, and a new "eyewitness" feature - Amazing facts, diagrams, statistics, and timelines - Brand new eyewitness accounts from experts in the field Eyewitness Wonders of the World introduces the ultimate guide to remarkable architecture and natural wonders. Children can learn about the most incredible natural and human-made wonders, through amazing facts, diagrams, and statistics to see them as never before. This all-emcompassing wonders of the world guide is a must-have for curious children aged 9+ with a thirst for learning, as well as teachers, parents and librarians. So, what's new? Part of DK's best-selling Eyewitness series, this popular title has been reinvigorated for the next generation of information-seekers and stay-at-home explorers, with a fresh new look, up to 20 percent new images, including photography and updated diagrams, updated information, and a new "eyewitness" feature with fascinating first-hand accounts from experts in the field. Explore the series! Globally, the Eyewitness series has sold more than 50 million copies over 30 years. Journey down the River Amazon and explore the rainforest with Eyewitness Amazon, learn how to combat climate change with Eyewitness Climate Change or take a trip aboard the most famous ship in history with Eyewitness Titanic.

*A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN MEMOIR OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR * 'Chronicles, in enthralling detail, Madonna Louise Ciccone's path from terrifyingly ambitious trainee dancer to pop colossus, all the while placing her in a wider social and cultural context.' GUARDIAN MAGAZINE 'Gabriel charts her extraordinary life, right through to pop icon. She deserves a biographer as meticulous, intelligent and insightful as Gabriel.' DAILY MAIL 'Madonna built the house in which nearly all female artists now live . . . A Rebel Life brings home not just her obvious willpower and strength, but her fearlessness and sheer intelligence' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A fascinating take on one of music's greatest icons' BELFAST TELEGRAPH 'It's a mark of Gabriel's skill that she has managed to wrestle this complex, sprawling, eventful life into a book that rarely flags and conveys its subject's wider significance without tipping into hagiography. We come to understand Madonna the person as well as Madonna the concept: a woman who, for a generation, embodied female artistic, sexual and financial liberation.' GUARDIAN In this exceptional biography, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna. With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion - as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles - taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent. But Madonna was more than just a pop star. Everywhere, fans gravitated to her as an emblem of a new age, one in which feminism could shed the buttoned-down demeanour of the 1970s and feel relevant to a new generation. Amid the scourge of AIDS, she brought queer identities into the mainstream, fiercely defending a person's right to love whomever - and be whoever - they wanted. Despite fierce criticism, she never separated her music from her political activism. And as an artist, she never stopped experimenting. Madonna existed to push past boundaries by creating provocative, visionary music, videos, films and live performances that changed culture globally. Deftly tracing Madonna's story from her Michigan roots to her rise to super-stardom, master biographer Mary Gabriel captures the dramatic life and achievements of one of the greatest artists of our time.