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Beyond

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!

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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Georg Weizsäcker

The Siege of Krishnapur
An epic trilogy about the British Empire in India, the Western illusion of military and moral superiority, and the bloody rebellion for freedom.
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Eckhard Janeba

Fall of Giants
Ken Follet's first volume in the acclaimed Centry trilogy tells the gripping stories of five families in 20th-century Europe. Follet describes the struggle of the suffragettes, the Russian revolution and the First World War in an intense and captivating manner.
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