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Das im Schweizer Kanton Genf angesiedelte World Economic Forum hat es seit seiner Gründung 1971 geschafft, zu einer Schaltzentrale globaler Macht zu werden. Seit über 50 Jahren versammelt es die Spitzen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Medien, Gewerkschaften, NGOs, Kultur und Kirchen, vernetzt sie untereinander und bringt sie mit den reichsten Menschen der Welt zusammen. Zudem bildet es seit mehr als 30 Jahren die korporative und politische Elite der Welt aus. Ob Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma aus der Wirtschaft oder Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, Viktor Orban oder Wladimir Putin aus der Politik - sie alle sind als ?Global Leaders for Tomorrow? oder als ?Young Global Leaders? durch die Schule des WEF gegangen. Kein Wunder also, dass der Gründer des Forums, der deutsche Professor Klaus Schwab, als eine der einflussreichsten Persönlichkeiten der Gegenwart gilt. Aber wie weit geht sein Einfluss? Kann es sein, dass das WEF inzwischen so mächtig ist, dass Schwab mit seinem im Juli 2020 erschienenen Buch ?Covid 19 - The Great Reset? sogar das Drehbuch zur aktuellen Weltkrise geschrieben hat? Dieser und vielen weiteren Fragen um die Entstehung und die Geschichte einer der schillerndsten Organisationen der Zeitgeschichte geht der Journalist Ernst Wolff in seinem neuen Buch auf den Grund. (Verlagstext)

"Using real-world examples and vivid illustrations drawn from other disciplines, An Introduction to Moral Philosophy challenges preconceived notions about morality and demonstrates why ethics matters. From respected philosopher and writer Jonathan Wolff, this edition features a thoughtful and contemporary treatment of the ethics of gender, race, and non-Western moral philosophy, engaging narrative introductions to moral theories and the thinkers behind them"--

Secular Power Europe and Islam argues that secularism is not the central principle of international relations but should be considered as one belief system that influences international politics. Through an exploration of Europe's secular identity, an identity that is seen erroneously as normative, author Sarah Wolff shows how Islam confronts the EU's existential anxieties about its security and its secular identity. Islam disrupts Eurocentric assumptions about democracy and revolution and human rights. Through three case studies, Wolff encourages the reader to unpack secularism as a bedrock principle of IR and diplomacy. This book argues that the EU's interest and diplomacy activities in relation to religion, and to Islam specifically, is shaped by the insistence on a European secular identity, which should be reconsidered in areas of religion and foreign policy.

"A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the twentieth century's most discriminating publisher" by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America. Kurt Wolff was born in Bonn into a highly cultured German-Jewish family, whose ancestors included converts to Christianity, among them Baron Moritz von Haber, who became famous for participating in a duel that led to bloody antisemitic riots. Always bookish, Kurt became a publisher at twenty-three, setting up his own firm and publishing Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Karl Kraus, and many other authors whose books would soon be burned by the Nazis. Fleeing Germany in 1933, a day after the Reichstag fire, Kurt and his second wife, Helen, sought refuge in France, Italy, and ultimately New York, where in a small Greenwich Village apartment they founded Pantheon Books. Pantheon would soon take its own place in literary history with the publication of Nobel laureate Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago, and as the conduit that brought major European works to the States. But Kurt's taciturn son Niko, offspring of his first marriage to Elisabeth Merck, was left behind in Germany, where despite his Jewish heritage he served the Nazis on two fronts. As Alexander Wolff visits dusty archives and meets distant relatives, he discovers secrets that never made it to the land of fresh starts, including the connection between Hitler and the family pharmaceutical firm E. Merck, and the story of a half-brother Niko never knew. With surprising revelations from never-before-published family letters, diaries, and photographs, Endpapers is a moving and intimate family story, weaving a literary tapestry of the perils, triumphs, and secrets of history and exile"--

Der bekannte Journalist und Buchautor Ernst Wolff hat es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, das Finanzsystem für Laien zu entschlüsseln und ihm den Schleier des Unverständlichen zu nehmen. Um auch ein junges und multimedial affines Publikum anzusprechen, sind alle Erläuterungen mit einem QR-Code versehen, mit dem sie in Form von YouTube-Clips aus der Reihe "Wolff of Wall Street" auf dem Sender KenFM abgerufen werden können.