Kategorie: Books in English

There’s a small thing about eBooks and Audiobooks from the big platforms that has always bothered me: you pay, and in the end you still own nothing. A license, chained to an account, tied to an app, revocable at any moment. I wanted it to be different for my own books. So now you can…

From the Big Bang to the Digital Primordial Soup. Why, of all things, should a cow tell you the story of the world? Because Audhumbla is a very special cow. She has been alive since the Big Bang — perhaps even before that; who knows for sure? Sometimes she lives on a farm, in a…

A man Germany does not know — and who, on April 1, 1789, opened the House of Representatives of the United States and First Speaker. On July 4, 2026, the American Declaration of Independence turns 250 years old. The Declaration of 1776 was a manifesto — a text, not a state. What happened between 1776…

A man almost unknown in Germany today — and one who wielded real influence in colonial North America. In the summer of 1709, a woman in a Württemberg village died during her fifteenth pregnancy. Her eldest son was thirteen years old. Three years later, he was living among the Mohawk. That is the beginning of…

How well does AI translate a nonfiction book containing historical facts, Norse mythology, and poetic passages? A behind-the-scenes report on translating „Audhumbla erinnert sich“ into 48 languages — with surprising results. And how AI translation became an indispensable research tool for writing bilingual books about America. When you write a book about the Norse primordial…

Ever wondered why Germans have such strong opinions about America? While Germans discuss the U.S. daily, they rely on Google, Facebook, and Amazon as if these were German inventions. In 25 essays, Andreas Paul John examines why Germany has had a complex relationship with America for centuries, from its beginning until September 2025: Let’s talking…

Why did the United States become the world’s most powerful nation? The answer lies in its religious DNA. „Faith and Power“ tells how faith shaped America over four centuries, viewed through the analytical lens of a German observer.