You are here: Homepage Tag non-fiction Articles [Translate to English:] Photo: John McDonnell / Getty Images Books | Inequality An invisible hierarchy Contemporary society has all but eradicated the caste system, right? Far from it, argues U.S. journalist Isabel Wilkerson By Sieglinde Geisel 06/01/2023 Flowers under UV light: Some birds and insects can see ultraviolet colours Photo: Iryna Veklich / Getty Images Books | Wildlife A bigger, stranger world Assassin flies taste with their feet, scallops have 200 eyes, fishes are “swimming tongues”. Science journalist Ed Yong explores the weird and wonderful world of animal perception By Manuela Lenzen 10/01/2022 A collage of hand paintings in the “Cave of Hands” in Patagonia, dating back to between 13,000 and 9,000 years ago. Today historians can tell the gender of the people who made them Photo: Hubert Stadler / Corbis / Getty Images Books | Prehistory The hands of women Were gender relations hierarchical among prehistoric humans? Marylene Patou-Mathis has evidence to disprove this theory By Christina von Braun 01/07/2022 The Iraqi National Library was looted and set on fire in 2003. Thousands of historical documents were destroyed Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images Books | Cultural history Burning the books Libraries, archives and manuscripts: ever since they have existed, they have also been at risk. Librarian Richard Ovenden has written a history of their destruction By Shamil Jeppie 01/07/2022 The Rótarjökull glacier in 1999 Photo: "The glacier melt series 1999/2019" by Olafur Eliasson, courtesy of the artist, neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Books | Climate change The new reality Can the climate crisis still be halted? Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, authors of the Paris Agreement, are determined to keep looking forward. By Andri Snær Magnason 10/01/2021 "The era of migration" Photo: Matt Hardy / Getty Images Books | Migration “Get ready to move” In his new book, author Parag Khanna envisages a future in which we are all migrants By Sieglinde Geisel 07/01/2021
[Translate to English:] Photo: John McDonnell / Getty Images Books | Inequality An invisible hierarchy Contemporary society has all but eradicated the caste system, right? Far from it, argues U.S. journalist Isabel Wilkerson By Sieglinde Geisel 06/01/2023
Flowers under UV light: Some birds and insects can see ultraviolet colours Photo: Iryna Veklich / Getty Images Books | Wildlife A bigger, stranger world Assassin flies taste with their feet, scallops have 200 eyes, fishes are “swimming tongues”. Science journalist Ed Yong explores the weird and wonderful world of animal perception By Manuela Lenzen 10/01/2022
A collage of hand paintings in the “Cave of Hands” in Patagonia, dating back to between 13,000 and 9,000 years ago. Today historians can tell the gender of the people who made them Photo: Hubert Stadler / Corbis / Getty Images Books | Prehistory The hands of women Were gender relations hierarchical among prehistoric humans? Marylene Patou-Mathis has evidence to disprove this theory By Christina von Braun 01/07/2022
The Iraqi National Library was looted and set on fire in 2003. Thousands of historical documents were destroyed Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images Books | Cultural history Burning the books Libraries, archives and manuscripts: ever since they have existed, they have also been at risk. Librarian Richard Ovenden has written a history of their destruction By Shamil Jeppie 01/07/2022
The Rótarjökull glacier in 1999 Photo: "The glacier melt series 1999/2019" by Olafur Eliasson, courtesy of the artist, neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Books | Climate change The new reality Can the climate crisis still be halted? Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, authors of the Paris Agreement, are determined to keep looking forward. By Andri Snær Magnason 10/01/2021
"The era of migration" Photo: Matt Hardy / Getty Images Books | Migration “Get ready to move” In his new book, author Parag Khanna envisages a future in which we are all migrants By Sieglinde Geisel 07/01/2021
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