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        All the works we publish reflect our subject matter and our undertaking: to publish books for a better life. All of them radiate beauty, simplicity, gratitude and a positive attitude. They awaken feelings and invite us to look beyond the superficial.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        January 2023

        What a waste

        Outsourcing and how it goes wrong

        by Andrew Bowman, Ismail Ertürk, Peter Folkman, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran, Nick Tsitsianis, Karel Williams

        This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing - contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos in the delivery of public services. What links the brutal treatment of asylum-seeking detainees, the disciplining of welfare benefit claimants, the profits effortlessly earned by the privatised rail companies, and the fiasco of the management of security at the 2012 Olympics? In a word: outsourcing. This book, by the renowned research team at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change in Manchester, is the first to combine 'follow the money' research with accessibility for the engaged citizen, and the first to balance critique with practical suggestions for policy reform.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2024

        ‘Survival Capitalism’ and the Big Bang

        Culture, contingency and capital in the making of the 1980s financial revolution

        by Emma Barrett

        This book about the Thatcher government and the City of London tells the compelling human story of the people and processes that made Britain's 1980s financial revolution. Fusing insider testimony with new archival discoveries, it examines high stakes and networked solutions, and uncovers new objectives that drove reforms. In so doing it demystifies a major shift in capitalism. This has implications for our understandings of government and capitalism, from the way we think about the origins of subsequent financial crises to today's growing inequalities. Survival Capitalism offers new insights into the last major restructuring of the City, disrupts myths surrounding the logics of the market, and pays attention to people and processes at a time when the City of London again faces major change as Britain seeks to find its place outside the European Union in the wake of Brexit.

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        July 2018

        Vertraute Dinge, fremde Dinge

        Essays

        by Teju Cole, Uda Strätling

        Teju Cole betrachtet Kunst, wie er die Welt betrachtet: mit dem Blick eines unsystematischen Historikers, der zunächst beobachtet, beschreibt, das Offensichtliche in den Blick nimmt, um zu dem weniger Sichtbaren vorzudringen, das darunterliegt. Seine Essays handeln von der Erfahrung des Unterwegsseins und von politischer Moral, von Rassismus und davon, warum auch ein Präsident, der die »richtigen« Bücher liest, in seinem Amt Menschen tötet. Und er schreibt über das, was ihn geistig nährt: über Baldwin, Sebald und Tranströmer; über Brasilien, Italien, Palästina; über die Ästhetik westafrikanischer Auftragsfotografie und über Instagram. In bereichernden, betörenden und originellen Essays offenbart Teju Cole den Reichtum seiner Interessen. Immer wieder zieht er erhellende Verbindungen, von der konkreten Gegenwart zur Dichtung, von der Geschichte zur Kunst. Vertraute Dinge, fremde Dinge wird zu einer Schule des Sehens.

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        September 2006

        Buch der Dinge

        Gedichte

        by Aleš Šteger, Urška P. Cerne, Matthias Göritz, Matthias Göritz

        »Nicht für jedes Ding gibt es ein Wort«, vermeldet das Große Wörterbuch der slowenischen Sprache. Aleš Šteger, als Reisender in vielen Sprachen und Ländern zu Hause, Autor mehrerer Gedichtbände und einer Reiseprosa über Peru und César Vallejo, stellt diese Einsicht seinem neuen Lyrikband als Motto voran. Doch es fehlt nicht nur an Worten. Wie seine streng gebauten, leichtfüßigen Texte, 50 Gedichte, zeigen, haben wir schon das Selbstverständliche nie richtig kennengelernt: Büroklammer, Seife, Zahnstocher (»dieser kleine Robespierre im Maul des Polyphem «), Regenschirm, Hut und Fußmatte. In Štegers Gedichten werden sie aufgerufen und treten uns, dem Allgemeinbegriff entschlüpft, entgegen; sie stellen Fragen, die zu groß sind für so kleine Dinge. Unklare, sich verwandelnde Seinsformen wie Ei, Wurst und Schokolade machen stutzig. Das Brot offenbart seinen sadomasochistischen Charakter: »Ja, ja, es liebt dich, deshalb nimmt es jetzt dein Messer in sich auf. / Es weiß, daß sich all seine Wunden in deiner Hand verkrümeln. « – Nicht zur Benennung der Dinge fehlen uns die Worte, sondern für die Antworten, die wir ihnen schuldig sind.

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        October 2006

        Experimentalsysteme und epistemische Dinge

        Eine Geschichte der Proteinsynthese im Reagenzglas

        by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

        Dieses Buch ist binnen weniger Jahre zum Klassiker der modernen Wissenschaftsgeschichte geworden. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht eine Beschreibung der materiellen Anordnungen, die Laborwissenschaftler im 20. Jahrhundert als 'Experimentalsysteme ' bezeichneten. Rheinberger entwirft eine umfassende, materialreiche wie pointierte Epistemologie des modernen Experimentierens. Die Dynamik der Forschung erweist sich dabei als Prozeß der Herausbildung 'epistemischer Dinge': Die empirischen Wissenschaften entwickeln sich in der Auseinandersetzung mit ihren Gegenständen. Dies bedeutet eine radikale Verschiebung der Perspektive weg von den Ideen und Absichten der Handelnden und hin zu den Objekten, auf die sich Handeln und Begehren richten. Es sind die Dinge, an denen die Handlungen entzifferbar werden. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger ist Direktor am Max- Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin.

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        February 1991

        Theorien und Dinge

        by Willard Van Orman Quine, Joachim Schulte, Willard Van Orman Quine

        W. V. O. Quine war einer der wichtigsten amerikanischen Philosophen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Es gelang ihm, die vielfach trocken wirkenden Probleme der Sprachphilosophie und Logik mit anschaulichen Formulierungen, treffenden Beispielen und verblüffenden Bildern lebendig zu machen. Darüber hinaus war er imstande, längst gesichert geglaubten Themen unvorhergesehene Aspekte abzugewinnen. Theorien und Dinge gibt einen überblick über sein Denken zu Fragen der Logik, der Mathematik, der Ethik, des Empirismus und dokumentiert seine Auseinandersetzung mit Russell, Austin, Goodman, Gödel, Smart und Lewis Carroll.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2025

        Pink-pilled

        Women and the far right

        by Lois Shearing

        A daring investigation that explores how women are targeted and recruited by the far right. As the far right has gained popularity and acceptance around the world, its ranks have swelled with an unlikely category of members: women. Women play significant roles in far-right movements, acting as propagandists, prizes to be won and mother-warriors of the nation. But up to now their activities have been largely overlooked. In Pink-pilled, Lois Shearing provides a cutting-edge account of how the far right has used the internet to recruit women, while shedding light on what life is like for women within these movements, including their experiences of misogyny and violence. Understanding how and why women join movements that explicitly aim to restrict their autonomy is essential if we want to fight back. Pink-pilled offers key insights for countering women's radicalisation and building communities resistant to far-right thought.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2021

        Counter-terror by proxy

        The Spanish State's illicit war with ETA

        by Emmanuel Pierre Guittet

        Between 1983 and 1987, mercenaries adopting the pseudonym GAL (Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación, Antiterrorist Liberation Group) paid by the Spanish treasury and relying upon national intelligence support were at war with the Basque militant group ETA (Euskadi (e)Ta Askatasuna, Basque Country and Freedom). Over four years, their campaign of extrajudicial assassinations spanned the French-Spanish border. Nearly thirty people were killed in a campaign comprised of torture, kidnapping, bombing and the assassination of suspected ETA activists and Basque refugees. This establishment of unofficial counterterrorist squads by a Spanish Government was a blatant detour from legality. It was also a rare case in Europe where no less than fourteen high-ranking Spanish police officers and senior government officials, including the Minister of Interior himself, were eventually arrested and condemned for counter-terrorism wrongdoings and illiberal practices. Thirty years later, this campaign of intimidation, coercion and targeted killings continues to grip Spain. The GAL affair was not only a serious example of a major departure from accepted liberal democratic constitutional principles of law and order, but also a brutal campaign that postponed by decades the possibility of a political solution for the Basque conflict. Counter-terror by proxy uncovers why and how a democratic government in a liberal society turned to a 'dirty war' and went down the route of illegal and extrajudicial killing actions. It offers a fuller examination of the long-term implications of the use of unorthodox counter-terrorist strategies in a liberal democracy.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences

        Stuff the Rules!

        by Julia Weißflog, Christiane Dahm, Markus Mews, Tabea Warczok

        Kimi is often angry, can rarely control this anger and flips out of control. Kimi keeps getting into situations that are actually completely different in Kimi’s mind. But Kimi just wants to have fun. The fact that the baby cuckoo ends up sitting in the nest alone and there are no other baby birds to play with makes Kimi think. So Kimi tries to stick to a few rules, even though it’s really hard. Fortunately, Kimi’s parents and siblings help. Even though it doesn’t work every day, it feels good. This book aims to make it easier for children with an anti-social behavior disorder to understand their current situation. It helps them keep their inner volcano in check. The book provides important information about this issue as well as practical tasks and exercises for affected children, their parents, siblings and therapists. For:• children of elementary school age(between 6 and 12) with ananti-socialbehavior disorder• parents• relatives• therapists

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        The Arts
        February 2015

        Networks of sound, style and subversion

        The punk and post–punk worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975–80

        by Nick Crossley, Peter Martin

        This book examines the birth of punk in the UK and its transformation, within a short period of time, into post-punk. Deploying innovative concepts of 'critical mass', 'social networks' and 'music worlds', and using sophisticated techniques of 'social network analysis', it teases out the events and mechanisms involved in punk's 'micro-mobilisation', its diffusion across the UK and its transformation in certain city-based strongholds into a variety of interlocking post-punk forms. Nick Crossley offers a detailed review of prior work in this area, a rich exploration of new empirical data and a highly innovative and robust approach to the study of 'music worlds'. Written in an accessible style, this book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in either UK punk and post-punk or the impact of social networks on cultural life and the potential of social network analysis to explore this impact. ;

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