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In the SEC book corner, SEC members exchange highly recommended books they have read. If you would like to recommend books for our book corner, please contact Wolfgang Gerhartz.

     

  • Christian Spiering: The Strangest Particle in the World, on the Hunt for the Neutrino. Hanser-Verlag 2025, ISBN 978-3-446-28465-4.
  • Roland Hensel: Breaking Open. Traces of the East: German Portraits with Impact, GNT-Publishing 2025, ISBN 978-3-86225-148-3
  • C. Nimtz, N. Kompa, T. Henning: The Dark Side of Language, CH Beck 2025, ISBN 978-3-406-83097-6.
  • Tim Henning: Academic Freedom and Morality, Suhrkamp 2024, ISBN 978-3-518-58810-9.
  • Dimitré Dinev: The Time of the Brave, novel, Kein&Aber 2025, ISBN 978-3-0369-5079-2.
  • B. Bleisch, K. Meyer, S. Riedener, D. Roser, C. Seidel: Better Arguing About the Future, Hanser Verlag 2026, ISBN 978-3-446-28563-7.
  • Götz Aly: How could this happen?, S. Fischer 2025, ISBN 978-3-10-397364-8.
  • Daniel Marwecki: The World After the West: On the Reorganization of Power in the 21st Century, Ch. Links Verlag, 2025, ISBN 978-3-96289-239-5.
  • Ullrich Fichtner: The Power of Music. DVA 2025, ISBN 978-3-4521-07048-7.
  • David McWilliams: Money. Goldmann 2025, ISBN 978-3-442-30230-7
  • Harald Jähner: Wonderland. Rowohlt Berlin Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7371-0190-5.
  • Annette Kehnel: The Seven Deadly Sins. Rowohlt, Hamburg 2024, ISBN 9783498006969.
  • Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus: The Christmas Journey, a children's book. Isensee, Florian GmbH, Oldenburg 2025, ISBN 978-3-7308-2198-5.
  • Gabriel Yoran: The Turning-Upside-Down of the World. edition suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2025, ISBN 978-3-518-03002-8
  • FA Cotton: My Life in the Golden Age of Chemistry. Elsevier 2014, ISBN 978-0-12-801216-1
  • Heike Geißler: Work – What is a person worth?, Hanser Literaturverlage 2025, ISBN 978-3-446-27977-3
  • Ian McEwan: What We Can Know, Diogenes 2025, 978-3-257-07357-7
  • Ulrich Raulff, As You Like It. CH Beck 2025, 978-3-406-83730-2
  • Hans-Joachim Hübschmann: Handbook of GC-MS, 4th edition. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, March 2025, ISBN 978-3-527-35403-0.
  • Klaus Müllen: The chemistry has to be right. Lives in Chemistry series, Volume 15. GNTVerlag, Berlin, 2025, ISBN 978-3-86225-139-1.
  • Yvonne Kollrack: Why we should treat our feet with care. Ullstein-Verlag, 2020, E-book, ISBN 9783843723039.
  • Christian Larsen: Good on your feet for a lifetime. Thieme, 2019, E-book, ISBN 9783432109107.
  • Michael Maar, Leopards in the Temple. Rowohlt Publishing House, 2023, ISBN 978-3-498-00398-2
  • Joachim Ullrich et al. (eds.): Insights and Perspectives. DPG 2025, ISBN 978-3-9826935-1-4
  • Ryoji Noyori:(Nobel Prize 2001): Research Should be Fresh Simple and Clear. Lives in Chemistry, 2025, ISBN 978-3-86255-135-3
  • Peter Lau, Clara Vuillemin; Too Young? Too Old? Doesn't Matter. Brand eins books 2025; ISBN 978-3-98928-023-3.
  • Anne Preger: Global Overdose: Nitrogen. Publisher: Quadriga, Cologne 2022, ISBN 9783869951225.
  • Albert Eschenmoser. Autobiography, LIC series
  • Laura Spinney: The Big Bang of Our Language; translated by Stephanie Singh; Hanser 2025; ISBN 978 3 446 28245 2
  • BiBiBiber. Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, together with Marie Meimberg, is writing the children's books "BiBiBiber hat da mal ne Frage" (BiBiBiber Has a Question) for adults and children aged 7 and up, published by Oettinger: Why do stars shine? What colors does the rainbow have? Why can't babies do anything? Why do I have to sleep?
  • Heinz Klaus Strick: Mathematical Puzzles, Brain Teasers and Games; 101 Challenges from Arithmetic, Geometry and Stochastics; Springer Berlin 2025; ISBN: 7 978 3 662 70087 7
  • Vincenzo Levizzani: The Secret of the Clouds: A Handbook for Reading the Sky; translated by Andrea Kunstmann; HarperCollins 2025; ISBN 978 3 749 90710 6
  • Sigrid Peyerimhoff: Ab Initio - a life for quantum chemistry (Life's Works in Chemistry), ISBN 978-3-86225-138-4.
  • New Objectivity. A Centenary. Catalogue for the exhibition at the Mannheim Art Gallery. Johan Holten, Inge Herold (eds.), Deutscher Kunstverlag 2024. ISBN-13, 978-3422802506.
  • Maja Göpel, Hannes Androsch: Values. A Compass for the Future. Brandstätter Verlag, 2025. ISBN 978-3-7106-0831-5.
  • Bernhard Pörksen: Listening - The Art of Opening Oneself to the World. Hanser-Literaturverlage, 2025, ISBN 978-3-446-28138-7.
  • Oliver Schlaudt: Littered - A Philosophical Journey Through Germany. CH Beck Verlag 2024. ISBN 978-3-406-81464-8.
  • Frank Petersen: The Mystery in the Rye - Ergot and LSD, a historical investigation. Springer 2024, ISBN 978-3-662-69507-4.
  • Jörg Senn-Bilfinger: A Happy Stomach - Pantoprazole: Small Molecule, Big Effect. The author is a member of the SEC. Novum-Verlag 2024, ISBN 978-3-948379-89-6.
  • Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus: Burning for Science. Series 'Lives in Chemistry'. January 2025, ISBN 978-3-86225-137-7.
  • Martin Wikelski: The Internet of Animals: What We Can Learn from the Swarm Intelligence of Life. Greystone Books 2024, ISBN 978-1-77164-959-9.
  • Katharina Wermke: Baby Sings: How Crying Becomes Language. Molden Verlag 2024, hardcover with audio examples. ISBN 978-3-222-15122-4.
  • Jens Bott: What We Should Know About the World. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2024, ISBN 978-3-527-35361-3
  • Günther Klar, Armin Reller: The Development of Chemistry: Phenomena and Concepts. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2023, ISBN 978-3-527-84402-9.
  • Peter Atkins: Concepts in Physical Chemistry. Royal Society of Chemistry, London 2024, ISBN978-1-83767-386-5. The individual entries of this well-known textbook can be downloaded free of charge: Peter Atkins: Concepts.
  • Bernhard Sabel: Fake Mafia in Science - AI, Greed and Fraud in Research. Kohlhammer Non-Fiction, 2024, ISBN 978-3-17-045557-3
  • Patrick Cramer: Future Worlds — My Journey to the Science of Tomorrow. Patrick Cramer visited the 84 institutes of the Max Planck Society before assuming its Chair . Publisher: S. Fischer, ISBN: 978-3-10-397548-2.
  • Florence Hazrat: The Exclamation Mark: A Rebellious Story. HarperCollins Publishing Group, Hamburg 2024 ISBN 9783365004883.
  • Hubert Schmidbaur: From Chemical Craft-smanship to the Art of Gilding Atoms. GNT-Verlag, Diepholz, 2024. ISBN 978-3-86225-134-6.
  • Philipp Lepenies: Prohibition and Renunciation - Politics in the Spirit of Omission. Suhrkamp-Verlag, 2022. ISBN 978-3-518-12787-2.
  • Robert Menasse: The World of Tomorrow – A Sovereign Democratic Europe and Its Enemies. Suhrkamp Publishing House 2024, 192 pages, ISBN 978-3-518-43165-8. A polemic for the European peace project.
  • Michel Pastoureau: All Our Colors. A Dazzling Cultural History. Translated from the French by Andreas Jandel, Klaus Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978380313725 8 (Review in the FAZ of 6 September 2023).
  • Voices of the Century 1945-2000 - German History in over 400 Original Recordings. Edited by Hans Sarkowicz, Ulrich Herbert, Michael Krüger, Ines Geipel and Christiane Collorio. Der Hörverlag, Munich 2023, ISBN 978-3-8445-4902-7.
  • Ulrich Chaussy: “Arthur Eichengrün - The man who could invent everything except himself”, Herder Publishing House 2023, ISBN 978-3-451-39216-0.
  • Kathryn Harkup: “The Secret Life of the Elements”, Laurence King Publishing, 2022, ISBN978-3-451-39216-0.
  • Larry E Overmans: “Designing Synthetic Methods and Natural Products.” Lives in Chemistry, 2024, ISBN 978-3-86225-133-9.
  • Florian Illies: The Magic of Silence (Caspar David Friedrich's Journey Through Time), S. Fischer, ISBN 978-3-10-397252-8.
  • Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara and the Sun. Blessing-Verlag, ISBN 978 389 6677 396. A novel about artificial intelligence from an unusual perspective by a Nobel laureate.
  • Robert Menasse: The Extension. Suhrkamp Verlag, ISBN 978-3-518-43080-4. Easter reading: the sequel to "The Capital."
  • Franz Effenberger: From Aromatics and Heterocycles to Bio- and Nanotechnology, Series Life Stories in Chemistry (LiC), GNT-Verlag, ISBN 978 3 86225 130 8.
  • Sidharta Mukherjee: The Song of the Cell. Ullstein, ISBN 9783550201899. Euphoric review in FAZ from March 31, 2023.
  • Bonnie Garmus: A Question of Chemistry. Pieper Verlag, €22.00,EAN 978-3-492-07109-3.
  • Peter Sloterdijk: The Repentance of Prometheus, Suhrkamp-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-518-02985-5.
  • Horst Kessler: NMR: My Compass in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry….“ In the series “Lives in Chemistry/ Lives in Chemistry” ISBN 978-3-86225-132-2.
  • Wolfgang Beck: The history of chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, GNT-Verlag, Diepholz, ISBN 978-3-86225-141-4.
  • Ewald Frie “A Farm and Eleven Siblings” (ISBN 978-3-406-79717-0; Verlag CH Beck, Munich).
  • Katalin Kariko “Breaking Through - My Life in Science”, 2023 Crown/Penguin Random House, NY, ISBN: 9781847928252.
  • For all those interested in public discussions: Glossary of Public Speech by Armin Nassehi, published by CH Beck 2023, ISBN 978-3-406-80767-1.

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