Under the heading "As I please", George Orwell published columns in the 1940s that are still worth reading today. They are now available in slightly different editions in German and English.

Many people are concerned that democracy is in a deep crisis. What can be done about it remains unclear. The German historian Jörg Baberowski explores this question in "Am Volk vorbei - Zur Krise der liberalen Demokratie".

Will the power struggle between the superpowers lead to World War III? Even unintentionally? The book "The Coming Storm" by historian Odd Arne Westad attempts to prevent the unimaginable.

The West is booming. Many believe it is a dilapidated house that should finally be torn down. But what does it represent and how did it become what it is today? Two books provide the answers.

In "Das Deutsche Demokratische Reich" (The German Democratic Reich), historian Volker Weiß shows how right-wing politics is made possible today by the rewriting and reinterpreting of history

With "Vishwa Shastra - India and the World", Dhruva Jaishankar has written an introduction to Indian history for the youth of his country. It focuses on India's relations with the world and the future of the subcontinent

In his new book "Border Documents", Mexican photographer Arturo Soto unfolds a quiet, poetic topography of memory - far from clichés, close to the everyday reality of the border

In "Les Lois et les Nombres - Essai sur les ressorts de la culture politique chinoise", Romain Graziani explains where the roots of Chinese state thinking lie, what they mean and how they still shape our present day

Richard Reid, a professor of African History, describes in his book "The African Revolution" how Africa was already changing before European takeover.

In 'Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza', Didier Fassin applies the lens of anthropology’s moral turn. He examines not only what was done to Gaza, but also how Western moral allowed it to happen