Barack Obama – A Promised Land

A deeply personal account of history in the making - from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.

In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.

Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation's highest office.

Albert-László Barabási - The Formula - The universal laws of success

In life we often find that outstanding performance and success do not necessarily go hand in hand. In his latest book, Albert-László Barabási, a world-renowned researcher on networks, explores the collective nature of success with the ruthless logic of scientists, meaning success really depends on what others think of us and how they react to our actions. 

The Formula uses examples from everyday life to reveal the laws of success: the laws that can be used to predict with astonishing accuracy who will be truly successful under given conditions and why.

Albert-László Barabási was born in 1967 in Transylvania. He began his university studies in Bucharest and then graduated in physics from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He earned his doctorate from Boston University.

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Mihály Csíkszentmihályi – Flow 

Flow is the original, most comprehensive explanation of the psychology of perfect experience. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the leading thinker of positive psychology, influenced the lives of millions who consciously or instinctively explored the possibilities of their own fulfillment with his revolutionary work. The book served as an inspiration to renowned psychologists, business people, artists, politicians and athletes, as well as parents, educators, doctors and a multitude of creative professionals who regularly deal with the functioning and mysteries of the soul. The desire for happiness and the restoration of broken destinies stems from the depths of the human soul, the contemplation of an ideal life coincides with philosophical thinking. The rare virtue of the theory of flow is that it is based on serious research, but its description and its conclusions, which are regularly confirmed, are understandable even to those unfamiliar with psychology and often have the power of extraordinary recognition.

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Antal Szerb - The Pendragon Legend 

Something is happening. The strings are woven by the parcae. The fate of Llanvygan Castle is awake in one of the rooms, the history of the Pendragon House is once again facing a serious turning point. Antal Szerb's work, the Pendragon Legend, published in 1934, is a mixture of crime novel, essay novel and ghost story, and is at the same time a parody of them all. The writer himself called it a philological detective novel. The young scientist János Bátky, researching the mystics of the 17th century, gets involved in the mysterious story of the Earl of Gwynedd, the head of the Welsh Pendragon family. Rosicrucians, ghosts, con artists, beautiful women, ancient mysteries, erotica, and above all, an unquenchable love for cultural history swirl in the pages of this work, which has now become a cult novel.