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Recent attention to hybrid cars that run on both gasoline and electric batteries has made the electric car an apparent alternative to the internal combustion engine and its attendant environmental costs and geopolitical implications. Few people realize that the electric car--neither a recent invention nor a historical curiosity--has a story as old as that of the gasoline-powered automobile, and that at one time many in the nascent automobile industry believed battery-powered engines would become the dominant technology. In both Europe and America, electric cars and trucks succeeded in...

At the time of his death in 1926, Antoni Gaudi was arguably the most famous architect in the world. He had created some of the greatest and most controversial masterpieces of modern architecture, which were as exotic as they were outrageous. But little is known about the shadowy figure behind the swirling, vivid buildings that inspired the Surrealists.

This masterful biography brings both man and architect powerfully to life against the changing backdrop of Barcelona and Catalonia. Gijs van Hensbergen leads us through the design and construction of Gaudi's most significant...

How do people justify what others see as transgression? Taking that question to the Persian-Muslim and Latin-Christian worlds over the period 1200 to 1700, this book shows that people in both these worlds invested considerable energy in worrying, debating, and writing about proscribed practices. It compares how people in the two worlds came to terms with the proscriptions of sodomy, idolatry, and usury. When historians speak of the gap between premodern practice and the legal theory of the time, they tend to ignore the myriad of justifications that filled this gap. Moreover, a focus on...

»Es gibt Bücher, an denen kommt man einfach nicht vorbei. Tiere ist so ein Debütroman. Einschüchternd gut.« PaagMag

Am Rand eines abgelegenen Dorfes im Achterhoek liegt der Bauernhof der Familie Keller, vom Dorf gleichermaßen gefürchtet wie verachtet. Landwirtschaft wird hier schon lange nicht mehr betrieben, Tiere gibt es trotzdem: die illegale Nerzzucht des Großonkels. Auch als Isa längst den Hof verlassen hat und zum Studieren in die Stadt gegangen ist, verfolgt sie das Fiepen der Tiere noch bis in den Schlaf. Dann holt sie ein...