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Erik Kirschbaum: Rocking the wall

Erik Kirschbaum: Rocking the Wall

A concert that helped breaking down the Berlin Wall – a book with the full story of Bruce Springsteen’s show in East Berlin on 19 July 1988. In the introduction the author had doubts if it’s worth to write a…

Chris Anderson: Makers!

Chris Anderson: Makers

Chris Anderson’s previous books (Free and The long tail) were brilliant, partly because he discussed two clear and unequivocal topics. Both of them could be reduced to an analysis of the math function: 1/x – Free said that the bottom…

Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs’ biography was a great surprise: it is not prejudiced, there aren’t too many overstatements, but rather entertaining, and it revealed exactly, what a leader and what a man he was.

Stephen King: 11/22/63

Stephen King: 11/22/63

The last King-novel is based on a very interesting idea about time-traveling to the sixties and a chance changing the history with saving President Kennedy. But King brings the reader too close to the workdays of the past – so…

Madeleine Albright: Madam Secretary

Madeleine Albright: Madam secretary

A short, fat, Czech old matron – that’s what she said about herself. At the same time let’s imagine that Bill Clinton ordered a bombardment againstSerbia, acting on her advice, she named the Chinese president a wooden dog, and how…

Kertész Imre: Save as…

Kertész Imre: Save as... book cover

It is a cliché that blogging is not a genre, just a content management system. But if blog-writing would be a genre, these would be is main components: minimum two entries per week, a main subject with some subtopics, one…

Lyudmila Ulitskaya: Imago

Great and gripping saga from the Russian novelist depicting the lives of three friends and their families. We get to know their biography – even to make it more complex, the lives of their other friends – in the typical…