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If you want to get to know the scientists behind the work even better, this is just the right place for you. In this section of Beyond, the researchers present books which have impacted their lives and their ways of thinking in meaningful ways. The books presented range from novels, to memoirs, to science books of all sorts. You can filter the books by genre or just scroll through the list. This is also a great way to get inspiration for your own reading!

Effrosyni Adamopoulou

A Treaty on the Family
Becker in his landmark work on the family. Becker shows that social welfare programs have significant effects on the allocation of resources within families.
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Jan Peter Schmidt

Living to Tell the Tale
Some people's lives seem to spring from a fairy tale, as colorful, dramatic and full of excitement as they are. Gabriel García Márquez tells the story of his life, from his birth in 1927 to his marriage proposal in the 1950s. A story that is in no way inferior to his great novels.
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Carien Niessen

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Based on the lives of three women, Jung Chang tells the eventful history of China: From the grandmother who served as a concubine, through the communist mother to the daughter in today's China, it is a story full of suffering, violence and courage.
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Markus Reichstein

Measuring the World
Why do we perceive the world the way we do it? Two men have strongly shaped our geographical and physical worldview: Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauß. Measuring the World humorously tells the great story of these very different men.
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