In the SEC book corner, SEC members share particularly 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: Hunting the Neutrino. Hanser-Verlag 2025, ISBN 978-3-446-28465-4.
- Roland Hensel: Set Out. 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, C. H. 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: Arguing Better about the Future, Hanser Verlag 2026, ISBN 978-3-446-28563-7.
- Götz Aly: How Could This Have Happened?, S. Fischer 2025, ISBN 978-3-10-397364-8.
- Daniel Marwecki: The World after the West: On the Reordering of Power in the 21st Century, Ch. Links Verlag, 2025, ISBN978-3-96289-239-5.
- 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 Cluttering Up of the World. edition suhrkamp, Berlin 2025, ISBN 978 -3-518-03002-8
- F.A. Cotton: My Life in the Golden Age of Chemistry. Elsevier 2014, ISBN 978-0-12-801216-1
- Heike Geißler: Working – 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. C. H. 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. Series Lives in Chemistry, Volume 15. GNTVerlag, Berlin, 2025, ISBN 978-3-86225-139-1.
- Yvonne Kollrack: Why We Should Carry Our Feet in Our Hands. Ullstein-Verlag, 22020, e-book, ISBN 9783843723039.
- Christian Larsen: Good on Your Feet for Life. Thieme, 2019, e-book, ISBN 9783432109107.
- Michael Maar, Leopards in the Temple. Rowohlt Buchverlag, 2023, ISBN 978-3-498- 00398-2
- Joachim Ullrich et al. (eds.): Findings 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? It 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, makes the children's books “BiBiBiber Has a Question” for adults and children aged 7 and over, published by Oettinger: Why do stars shine? What colours 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 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 (Lives in Chemistry), ISBN 978-3-86225-138-4.
- The New Objectivity. A Centenary Celebration. Catalogue for the exhibition at the Mannheim Kunsthalle. 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 Yourself to the World. Hanser-Literaturverlage, 2025, ISBN 978-3-446-28138-7.
- Oliver Schlaudt: Rubbish-Strewn – A Waste-Philosophical Journey through Germany. C.H. 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, Great Effect. The author is an SEC member. 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 Songs: How Crying Becomes Language. Molden Verlag 2024, hardback 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 Making 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, ISBN 978-1-83767-386-5. The individual entries in the 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 Sachbuch, 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 taking up its Chair. Publisher: S. Fischer, ISBN: 978-3-10-397548-2.
- Florence Hazrat: The Exclamation Mark. A Rebellious History. 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-Verlag 2024, 192 pages, ISBN 978-3-518-43165-8. A polemic in support of the European peace project.
- Michel Pastoureau: All Our Colours. A Dazzling Cultural History. Translated from the French by Andreas Jandel, Klaus Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 9783803137258 (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 Verlag 2023, ISBN 978-3-451-39216-0.
- Kathryn Harkup: “The Secret Life of the Elements”, Laurence King Verlag, 2022, ISBN 978-3-451-39216-0.
- 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 the Ages), S. Fischer, ISBN 978-3-10-397252-8.
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara and the Sun. Blessing-Verlag, ISBN 978 389 6677 396. Novel about artificial intelligence from an unusual perspective by a Nobel laureate.
- Robert Menasse: Enlargement. 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, Lives in Chemistry series (LiC), GNT-Verlag, ISBN 978 3 86225 130 8.
- Sidharta Mukherjee: The Song of the Cell. Ullstein, ISBN 9783550201899. Enthusiastic review in the FAZ dated 31 March 2023.
- Bonnie Garmus: >Lessons in Chemistry. Pieper Verlag, €22.00, EAN 978-3-492-07109-3.
- Peter Sloterdijk: Prometheus's Regret, Suhrkamp-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-518-02985-5.
- Horst Kessler: NMR: My Compass in Organic and Medical Chemistry….” In the series “Lives in Chemistry”, ISBN 978-3-86225-132-2.
- Wolfgang Beck: The History of Chemistry at 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; CH Beck Verlag, Munich).
- Katalin Kariko “Breaking Through – My Life in Science”, 2023 Crown/Penguin Random House, NY, ISBN: 9781847928252.
- For anyone interested in public discussions: Glossary of Public Speech by Armin Nassehi, C.H. Beck Verlag 2023, ISBN 978-3-406-80767-1.
