Foreign Rights Catalogue

14 Self Help
Mind, Body and Spirit 15
Werner Bartens
Prescription for Happiness:
What Really Works
320 pages, 3-426-27517-1
September 2011
Petra Bock
Mindfuck
272 pages, 3-426-65507-1
October 2011
Bernhard Moestl
The thirteen Seals of Power
The Art of Good Leadership
272 pages, 978-426-65498-9
March 2011
Werner Bartens’ best-known books are The Encyclopedia of Medical Errors and How Doctors
and Patients Keep Inventing New Illnesses, as well as The I-Hate-Doctors Book and The Happy
Body, which were also published by Droemer Knaur. Bartens is the medical editor of the newspaper
Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Many diets, therapies, and drugs don’t work: here’s what does
»You’ve got to change your life!« scream several hundred books each year. A gigantic industry
is based on making us feel bad, and it often succeeds in doing so. We try to change, but a
period of big plans is usually followed by a phase of big disappointments. After all, who really
manages to change his or her life? Bestselling author, doctor, and medical journalist
Werner Bartens knows how hard it is to flip that switch. And more importantly, he knows that
it usually isn’t necessary. Often very small changes in one’s behavior or even in the way you
look at yourself are enough to bring you happiness, satisfaction, and health. Bartens, using
100 wellresearched, everyday examples, shows what really works.
Petra Bock is one of the most important life-coaches in Germany. She has already written
several successful books. The last one was published by Knaur: 100 Questions Concerning
your Life. She captivates a huge audience as coach in TV and radio.
The first book dealing with self-sabotage, its causes,
backgrounds and effects
The successful coach Petra Bock deals with the phenomenon of intellectual self-sabotage.
The discovery of the existence and meaning of »mindfuck« follows directly from the long lasting
work of the author with persons searching for more success, meaning and fulfillment in
their lives. Petra Bock gives examples from real life, activates the self-awareness of the reader
and shows how one can deal with one’s mental activity efficiently.
With »mindfuck« we cause ourselves a lot of trouble. Moreover, we also bother others, because
we become passive, when we should be active, because we shut ourselves off, when we
should open up to a new situation.
In this unique book the reader learns how to break his own »mindfuck« and to replace it with
efficient thinking patterns.
Bernhard Moestl lives in Vienna and works as a guide for tours in Asia. He has got to know
the Shaolin monastery, where he spent many months studying the life of the monks. This
experience determined his life and led him to write his bestselling work: Shaolin – How to Win
without a Fight.
Bulgarian rights sold to Ciela Norma AD
Power and responsibility – 13 strategies for a responsible
consciousness of power
Lack of responsibility, gross negligence, disloyalty and narcissism are the outstanding characteristics
that usually come to mind when people think of executives. This leads to an increasingly
negative image of the so-called »powerful«. In order to rise to the top and to remain
there, those who want to be leaders or to take on responsibility, are obliged to abandon
the usual strategies of power and be prepared to follow new paths.
The reader will learn to understand how this new consciousness of power can function when
he decodes the 13 Seals of Power. Understanding them is rooted in the ancient Asiatic thought
pattern according to the motto: »Those who conquer others have power; those who overcome
themselves are strong.«
Hartwig Hausdorf is among the most well-known authors in the field of mysterious facts and
phenomena. So far his books have been translated into English, Japanese, Italian and Chinese.
His work, The Chinese Roswell made him a household name in the USA, where he is
listed in the reference book Who’s who in the World?
A gripping read for all those who are fascinated by the inexplicable.
Mysterious voices from the hereafter, ghost ships, weird prophecies: throughout history enigmatic
discoveries, unaccountable phenomema and numerous events and puzzles still remain
to be explained – the story of the man who rose from his grave, of a sea battle with a
monster octopus and of a werewolf wreaking havoc in a village.
One of the most well-known researchers into the unknown, the bestselling author Hartwig
Hausdorf, has searched out and compiled the most amazing stories, amog them »Lost in the
Bermuda Triangle«, »A Child sees its Grave« and »A 60-million-year-old Nail«.
Hartwig Hausdorf relates the stories of more than 111 spectacular
happenings and cases that boggle our powers of imagination
What happened to flight 19? What do the voices from the realm of the dead report? And what
about the prehistoric spark plug? Most people simply believe what they see – but what if the
things we see cannot be explained by our knowledge of the world?
Throughout history, mysterious discoveries und inexplicable occurrences have taken place,
and even in the enlightened twentieth century an abundance of riddles and phenomena still
remain to be solved. Hartwig Hausdorf, one of the best-known researchers into the unknown,
produces convincing evidence and casts light on the details of the 111 most spectacular
cases and secrets in the years between 1900 and 2010.
Ulli Olvedi is a graduated Qi-Gong teacher. She is also trained in breathing techniques, buddhistic
psychology and buddhistictantric energy work. She developed the »integral energy
work«, which she teaches in courses and workshops.
Buddhism wrapped up in a fascinating novel
Young Maili lives in a village close to the border between Nepal and Tibet. After her parents
had been murdered by robbers, she decided to become a nun. The family sends her to a convent
for exiled Tibetans on a mountain near Kathmandu.
In the beginning Maili is unhappy and frustrated, as she has to share a room with a nun that
is not popular in the nunnery. She begins to think more and more often about Sönam, a
young monk and is strongly tempted to indulge in daydreams.
A turning point in Maili’s life comes about when she is put into the care of Ani Nyima, a hermit
living in a cave on the mountain top. Ani leads her talented pupil to the Buddhist Tantra Path.
This training makes it possible for Maili to transform her feelings for Sönam into a spiritual
experience. She understands what her teacher tried to explain to her: that life is like a dream
from which the spirit can wake up. That is the »release«, the »enlightenment«, leading to the
Path of Buddha.
Hartwig Hausdorf
The Century of Mysteries
and Wonders
304 pages, 3-426-78470-X
November 2011
Hartwig Hausdorf
The Century of Riddles
and Phenomena
304 pages, 3-426-78505-6
November 2011
Ulli Olvedi
Like a Dream
320 pages, 3-426-50902-9
August 2011