Germany 1938: Otto Silbermann realises he must flee. A respected Jewish businessman, he has managed to evade the brutality of the Nazi regime. But as he and his wife plan to leave, all avenues are shut down and he is forced to abandon his home amid the violence of Kristallnacht. With all the money he can gather in a suitcase, he desperately tries to cross the border. A rediscovered classic.
Alexander von Humboldt aimed »to grasp the whole world«. He searched the unknown in order to explain that which was close but incomprehensible as a result of being seen in isolation from the network to which it belongs. All natural, cultural and social phenomena are interrelated and should be studied as a whole. Contrary to a hierarchical scientific methodology based on a first principle that supports the whole, Humboldt conceives a complex network in which every individual element is equally important, despite each having its own unique dimensions and logic. Humboldt's natural studies, classifications, and measurements, as well as his social, artistic, cultural, political and economic research, make up a theory of the cosmos that connects all of these different spheres.