Archives de catégorie : Nonfiction

BÖSE TIERE de Markus Bennemann

Adultery, blackmail, murder – the animal kingdom is bursting with transgressive energy…

BÖSE TIERE
[Nasty Beasts]
by Markus Bennemann
Goldmann/PRH Germany, November 2026

Markus Bennemann loves our fellow creatures. But he also knows they can be anything but loveable.

Following his bestselling « Böse Bäume » (‘Nasty trees’), the nature and science writer sheds light on the nastiest criminals in the animal kingdom, from five-limbed burglars and safe-crackers with jug ears to scaly sharpshooters, feathered serial killers and sexually motivated killer women lurking in the grass.

Blackmailers and adulterers, mass murderers and accomplices – animals are no strangers to true crime. And they’re more sneaky, inventive and bonkers than any crime writer could come up with.

Markus Bennemann couldn’t decide whether to major in literature or biology. In the end, he chose literature, and now writes books about… well, biology. His most recent book is the bestselling Böse Bäume (‘Bad trees’).

MAHJONG MURDER de Jared Goudsmit

For fans of cozy mysteries and logic puzzles, this interactive whodunnit challenges you to solve a murder at the world’s largest mahjong tournament using clues, deduction, and detective work.

MAHJONG MURDER: A 40,000-Suspect Puzzle Book
by Jared Goudsmit
Andrews McMeel, October 2026

You arrive at the world’s largest mahjong tournament ready for relaxation and fun. But when the returning champion drops dead from a poison-coated tile, enigmatic Detective Victoria Sharpe gives you a number of crucial tasks to help her catch the killer:

• Decipher a collection of cryptic clues
• Scour attendance sheets listing over 40,000 potential suspects
• Eliminate innocent players and zero in on a group of conspirators
• Identify the murderer before the clock runs out and the tournament ends

Put your powers of deduction to the test, enjoy hours of immersive screen-free entertainment, and see if you can unmask the killer before the final tile is played!

Jared Goudsmit is a Chicago-based puzzle maker and playwright. He is the lead editor of the Universal Sunday crossword, and has created puzzles for The New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Crosswords With Friends app. He has also constructed for the Apple News+ Emoji Game, Netflix’s Keysmash game, and the Celebrity Cipher. As a playwright, his horror comedy “Dead Air” and film-noir parody “Blacktop Jungle” are published by YouthPLAYS, and his Wild West satire, “Derailed,” is published by Samuel French. When he’s not writing clues, you can find Jared playing cutthroat board games with his friends or eating toasted ravioli in his hometown, St. Louis.

AI NATIVE de Kai-Fu Lee

A sweeping roadmap for business leaders in the AI age, when every organization must rethink how it operates, competes, and creates value—from AI legend and New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers and AI 2041 Kai-Fu Lee.

AI NATIVE:
The Mandate to Transform Your Company
by Kai-Fu Lee
Crown Currency, November 2026

Two years ago, the best AI agents could autonomously complete tasks that took a human expert roughly six minutes to complete. Today, top AI agents across nearly all white-collar industries can complete the workday of the smartest humans in less time than a coffee break—at a fraction of the cost. 

What happens when the most expensive thing that companies buy—human thinking—becomes practically free?

This is the single most consequential question facing business leaders for a generation, and many are struggling with how to answer it. AI is not simply another technology cycle but a fundamental transformation in the economics of business. The answer is not to dabble. It is to become AI NATIVE.

Kai-Fu Lee has spent the past four decades pioneering AI in business from nearly every vantage point: as a researcher, senior executive at Apple, Microsoft, and Google, and now a CEO himself. Few thinkers can match his combination of technical expertise and business acumen. 

In AI NATIVE, he draws from this deep well of experience to offer a radical new roadmap for company leaders to become AI Native. With punchy, insightful guidance, Lee dispels the lies CEOs are being told about AI, offers a clear roadmap for how to re-structure teams with powerful agentic AI at the center of the enterprise, and reveals the power and potential of using AI to tap into the hidden trove of knowledge inside companies. Those that get it right will flourish in the AI age.

AI NATIVE is the only book leaders need to navigate the defining challenge of our time.

Kai-Fu Lee is a pioneering expert in AI whose insights are recognized around the world. A former senior executive at Google, Microsoft and Apple, he is currently the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and the founder of 01.AI, a global company focused on AI transformation with agentic AI. A New York Times bestselling author, his most recent book AI 2041 was named a best book of the year by The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Financial Times and has been translated into more than fifteen languages. Lee has a bachelor’s degree from Columbia and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon. His numerous honors include being named to the Time 100 and Wired 25 Icons lists.

THE JERUSALEM EFFECT d’Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman

An exciting and timely new book by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, the team who wrote the international bestseller The Bible Unearthed.

THE JERUSALEM EFFECT:
How a Remote Highland Stronghold Became the Most Contested City in the World
by Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman
St. Martin’s Press, Spring 2028
(via the Carol Mann Agency)

Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman’s The Bible Unearthed has sold over 500,000 copies worldwide. Finkelstein is Israel’s most senior and distinguished archaeologist. Their upcoming book The Jerusalem Effect: How a Remote Highland Stronghold Became the Most Contested City in the World offers a new look at one of the most venerated–and disputed–cities in the world.  It asks why this small, highland city on the edge of the desert has mattered so much to so many for so long. Through cutting-edge technology and study of ancient to modern texts, The Jerusalem Effect shows us how the archaeology and history of Jerusalem teaches us about some of today’s most urgent and geopolitical religious conflicts.

Finkelstein and Silberman critically depart from most other books concerned with Jerusalem and the Middle East through their innovative framework dubbed « The Jerusalem Effect »: an enduring belief that physical control of Jerusalem is proof of divine favor. Jerusalem, they argue, has become the flashpoint for the clash of two opposing ideologies: a desire to make the city pure and untouchable, and an outward-facing ambition to tie the city’s future to alliances with powerful empires around the world. At a moment when sacred geography and political identity are again colliding—from Jerusalem and Kyiv to Washington and Tehran—The Jerusalem Effect offers a unifying perspective on the history that lies behind today’s headlines. 

In an era of disinformation, populism, and religious polarization, this book offers not just history but perspective—a diagnosis of why the myth of sacred possession continues to enthrall the modern world, and a warning that the drama first staged in Jerusalem over three thousand years ago is still being replayed on today’s political and spiritual stage. Writing for a wide general audience, The Jerusalem Effect is for anyone who wants to understand why this one city continues to ignite such faith and discord across the globe.

Israel Finkelstein is among the most influential archaeologists of his generation. A member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Finkelstein has also been featured on CNN and on news and opinion stories on European broadcast and streaming networks.

Neil Asher Silberman is an American archaeologist, historian, and heritage theorist whose writings and leadership in public archaeology have shaped international practice. A former Guggenheim Fellow and editor of the 3-volume Oxford Companion to Archaeology, he has been a frequent commentator and national lecturer for heritage-policy bodies and museum projects.

Together, Finkelstein and Silberman form a team uniquely positioned to contribute to the public media conversation at a time of renewed global interest in the politics of faith and identity. The Bible Unearthed continues to appear on academic and commercial reading lists two decades after publication, ensuring a substantial built-in audience for The Jerusalem Effect.

LOST IN SPACE de Neil deGrasse Tyson et Lindsey Nyx Walker

Prepare for liftoff with a sweeping new book on the universe from the world’s most celebrated astrophysicist, brimming with wit, authority, and laugh-out-loud humor.

LOST IN SPACE:
5,000 Facts for Navigating the Universe
by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Lindsey Nyx Walker
National Geographic, September 2026
(via Kaplan/DeFiore Rights)

Filled with 5,000 tantalizing facts and more than 300 charts, maps, and photographs, this book offers a dazzling look at the cosmos from our home planet to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Strap in for a thrilling journey through our solar system to the edge of the cosmos. This alluring treasury of 5,000 facts will take you there and back again, learning and laughing all the way.

With an eye-popping design and bold illustrations, Lost in Space takes on humanity’s exploration of the universe—telescopes, space missions, planets, moons, exoplanets, stars, galaxies, and more—backed by signature scientific know-how and a large dose of hilarity. In these pages, you’ll discover that:

• 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body every second.
• If you weigh 150 pounds on Earth, you’d weigh 380 pounds on Jupiter.
• In 500 billion years, our sun will become a red giant star and expand to 100 times its original size.
• In 1999, astronomers discovered five exoplanets orbiting the same sun.
• Astronomers estimate there are two trillion galaxies in the observable universe.

Bursting with cool space photos, breathtaking archival images, infographics, moon maps, and a plethora of pop culture icons, Lost in Space is not just a journey—it’s a trip!

« Bursting with insights—often quite funny—that will spark the imaginations of readers young and old; one can eat it up in a long sitting or sporadically thumb through it and be dazzled by its revelations and colorful images. » —Starred review, Kirkus Reviews

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. He is the author of more than a dozen books, many of them international bestsellers, and numerous articles. He is the host of StarTalk, a podcast, and of two seasons of Cosmos, televised by Fox and National Geographic. He has received 27 honorary doctorates as well as NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal. He lives in New York City.

Lindsey Nyx Walker is the senior producer and head writer at StarTalk, a popular science podcast and a four-time Emmy nominated television show on the National Geographic Channel. She collaborated on both Cosmic Queries and the New York Times bestseller To Infinity and Beyond, the second and third books, respectively, in the publishing collaboration between StarTalk and National Geographic Books. She lives in New York City. Visit her on TikTok @spacetok.