Finished “Frankenstein”

As time goes by and as the list of books you ever wanted to read is shortening, one starts to turn to the latest bestsellers only to get disappointed, by often meaningless or poorly researched books. In German literature, most so called “newcomers” on the hot topic lists are B-rated translations on unknown American authors, [...]

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Three Cups of Tea

Just finished reading the amazing story of Greg Mortenson and his mission in Pakistan in the book “Three Cups of Tea”. Failed ascent on K2, Greg was brought to a rural and remote village, promising one day to return and build these villagers a school. Ten Years later more than 50 schools have been built [...]

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Finished reading The Terror

Just finished reading a very interesting book called “The Terror” (Amazon) by Dan Simmons. It topiced the failed Franklin Expedition on search for the North-West-Passage in the Arctic Ocean north of Canada.
Standing out as a historical fiction book, The Terror displays a large amount of historical correctness and stars Francis Cozier as the book’s hero, [...]

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Understanding economics

A great way of that what each and every one of us can see in this world is happening due to the simple game of demand and supply. Not only stock markets and financial institutes are playing that game, but every person that has ever enacted as a consumer has somehow taken part in that [...]

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Culture’s Consequences

A book to read: “Culture’s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations” (Amazon link) by Geert Hofstede is one of the basic books regarding intercultural understanding. Based on a study in the 60s / 70s, Hofstede has layed down a principle categorization for differences in cultures.
This theory had not only been featured in [...]

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Hot, Flat, and Crowded

A new book is going to be out soon by Thomas L. Friedman, called “Hot, Flat, and Crowded”.
Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of [...]

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Straight forward words

“Mr. Bush, Lead or Leave“, is one of Mr. Thomas L. Friedman’s columns at the New York Times, in which Mr. Bush’s energy politics are discussed and critized.
Thomas L. Friedman entered my world with his critically-acclaimed book “The world is flat” in which he describes the recent globalization developments, the outcomes of the internet and [...]

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Jared Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer, lecturer, and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography and physiology at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel (1998), which also won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science. He received [...]

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Rediscovering Paul Krugman

A few days ago, I rediscovered Paul Krugman and his opinions, articles and columns. Being introduced to this journalist a few years earlier in China by my former flatmate, I followed Paul Krugman’s writings on the topics of Chinese currency, US protectionism and the real estate bubble. However sometime in 2005, The Unofficial Paul Krugman [...]

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