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January 2024
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October 2022Villa Fauna - Dinella und die geheime Sprache der Tiere
Eine fantasievolle Vorlesegeschichte über die Freundschaft zwischen Kindern und Tieren
by Mara Andeck
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2024Critical theory and Independent Living
by Teodor Mladenov
Critical theory and Independent Living explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and disabled people's struggle for self-determination. The book highlights the affinities between the Independent Living movement and studies of epistemic injustice, biopower, and psychopower. It discusses in depth the activists' critical engagement with welfare-state paternalism, neoliberal marketisation, and familialism. This helps develop a pioneering comparison between various welfare regimes grounded in Independent Living advocacy. The book draws on the activism of disabled people from the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) by developing case studies of the ENIL's campaigning for deinstitutionalisation and personal assistance. It is argued that this work helps rethink independence as a form of interdependence, and that this reframing is pivotal for critical theorising in the twenty-first century.
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2020How Animals Hammer, Drill and Strike
Tool Use in the Animal Kingdom
by Peter-René Becker
From insects to fish as well as birds and primates: the use of tools is amazingly widespread in the animal kingdom. It’s a misnomer to presume that humans are distinguished by tool use and conscious capacity. So where is culture initiated? The biologist Peter-René Becker has evaluated numerous studies and cites plenty of evidence for the use of the hammer and anvil, lances, bait or sponges. Animals also use “tools as social implements”. Ultimately, the depth of man’s conscience singles him out from other animals.
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June 2014Das Artenschutzregime der Flora-Fauna-Habitat-Richtlinie im deutschen Recht.
Umsetzung der europäischen Vorgaben in Gesetzgebung, Auslegung und Vollzug.
by Tholen, Hanna
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November 2016Coming to Terms with Life
by Matthias Wengenroth
Do you struggle with thoughts and feelings that make life difficult? Have you tried all sorts of ways of dealing with this without getting anywhere? Do you feel that life is passing you by? Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), which this book describes in a clear and entertaining way, provides new and very enlightening insights into the causes of human suffering. At the same time, ACT shows how we can improve the way we handle the difficult aspects of being human, while also developing our abilities and strengths. This title shows how using the described simple but effective methods can lead you to a happier, better life. Target Group: people who want to utilize their potential more fully, people interested in acceptance and commitment therapy, people practicing or interested in psychotherapy (psychologists, doctors, coaches, social workers)
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2024Dog politics
Species stories and the animal sciences
by Mariam Motamedi Fraser
Do dogs belong with humans? Scientific accounts of dogs' 'species story,' in which contemporary dog-human relations are naturalised with reference to dogs' evolutionary becoming, suggest that they do. Dog politics dissects this story. This book offers a rich empirical analysis and critique of the development and consolidation of dogs' species story in science, asking what evidence exists to support it, and what practical consequences, for dogs, follow from it. It explores how this story is woven into broader scientific shifts in understandings of species, animals, and animal behaviours, and how such shifts were informed by and informed transformative political events, including slavery and colonialism, the Second World War and its aftermath, and the emergence of anti-racist movements in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book pays particular attention to how species-thinking bears on 'race,' racism, and individuals.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2025Living with water
Everyday encounters and liquid connections
by Charlotte Bates, Kate Moles
Living with water brings together sociologists, geographers, artists, writers and poets to explore the ways in which water binds, immerses and supports us. Drawing from international research on river crossings, boat dwelling, wild swimming, sea fishing, and drought impacts, and navigating urban waters, glacial lagoons, barrier reefs and disappearing tarns, the collection illuminates the ways that we live with and without water, and explores how we can think and write with water on land. Water offers a way of attending to emerging and enduring social and ecological concerns and making sense of them in lively and creative ways. By approaching Living with water from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives, and drawing on research from around the world, this collection opens up discussions that reinvigorate and renew previously landlocked debates. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6, Clean water and sanitation
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Man steht sehr bequem zwischen allen Fronten
Briefe 1952-2011
by Christa Wolf
»Post, Post, Post«. Dieser Stoßseufzer, notiert im Kalender unter dem Datum vom Sonntag, dem 4. März 1990, kommt nicht von ungefähr: Christa Wolf war eine ungeheuer produktive Korrespondentin. Ihre Briefe an Verwandte und Freunde, Kollegen, Lektoren, Politiker, Journalisten geben faszinierende Einblicke in ihre Gedankenwelt, ihre Schreibwerkstatt, ihr gesellschaftliches Engagement. Ob sie an Günter Grass oder Max Frisch schreibt, von Joachim Gauck Einsicht in ihre Stasi-Akte fordert oder sich mit Freundinnen wie Sarah Kirsch und Maxie Wander austauscht, wir sind Zeuge von Freundschaften und Zerwürfnissen, Auseinandersetzungen und Bestätigung, von der Selbstfindung einer der wichtigsten Autorinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Nicht zuletzt beeindruckt ihr Umgang mit der Flut von Leserbriefen, die sie mit zunehmendem schriftstellerischen Erfolg erreicht und auf die sie geduldig und kundig – und manchmal auch mit der gebotenen Direktheit – eingeht.
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May 2023Homoeopathy for Cats and Dogs
by Dr. Daniela Birkelbach
Alternatives or supplements to conventional medicine for cats and dogs? Yes, homoeopathy provides holistic therapeutic approaches for our four-legged friends too! Whether they are suffering from anxiety, conjunctivitis, or a tick bite, this book describes the appropriate homoeopathic remedies. The author draws on her many years of experience as an animal healer and presents the most important symptoms and their treatment using homoeopathy.This handy paperback fits into a lab coat pocket and provides:- Basic information on homoeopathy for dogs and cats- Symptoms from A to Z- Characteristics of the most important single-remedy homoeopathic preparations
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2023Rural quality of life
by Pia Heike Johansen, Anne Tietjen, Evald Bundgård Iversen, Henrik Lauridsen Lolle, Jens Kaae Fisker
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2024The second half of your life - a manual
Tips and strategies for successful ageing
by Dr. Petra Kiedaisch
In the middle of our lives, the cards are reshuffled: marriages are divorced, careers are questioned, friendships are ended, questions of meaning are asked, bodies change - and not just hormonally. At the same time, children leave home and parents become carers. From the age of 45, the majority of our population is at the centre of a second upheaval that affects all facets of our lives and leaves us at a loss in many ways. Not only in our daily lives, but also when it comes to planning for our own old age. This guide is designed to help us find our way. It presents the most important information from all areas relevant to a good life after 45. Leading experts from the fields of medicine, nutrition, philosophy, theology, psychology, care, law and finance give recommendations on what to look out for and what tools are needed to get through these challenging years unscathed. Useful checklists round off the articles. The book shows us the unique opportunity to see these challenges not as a crisis but as a source of strength. Not only can we come through this period of our lives healthy and happy, but we can also shape it so that the next age threshold is no longer frightening. During the second phase of adolescence, we lay the foundations for whether and how we will grow older. Be it in terms of health or living together with family and friends. With contributions from: Prof. Dr. Martin Gessmann (philosophy), Dipl. Psych. Claudia Kühner (psychology), Dr Suso Lederle (medicine), Dr Petra Forster (nutrition), Christian Hald, Anja Heine (law), Prof Dr Philipp Schreiber (finance), Prof Dr Thomas Klie (nursing care insurance), Georg Eberhardt (religion).
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May 1995Der Unbesiegbare
Utopischer Roman
by Stanisław Lem, Roswitha Dietrich, Franz Rottensteiner
Der Astrogar Horpach und sein Stellvertreter Rohan stehen vor einem Rätsel, als man die unversehrte »Kondor« und die überreste ihrer Besatzung findet. Es gibt keinen überlebenden, aber Lebensmittelvorräte, Wasser- und Sauerstoffreserven wären für viele Monate ausreichend gewesen. Allerdings sind die Innenräume des Raumschiffs in einem unbeschreiblichen Zustand, als habe eine Horde Wilder darin gehaust. Wie die Wissenschaftler des »Unbesiegbaren« feststellen, gibt es auf Regis III keine feindliche Fauna oder Flora und doch wird der Planet von einer Macht beherrscht, die auch der Rettungsexpedition fast zum Verhängnis wird.
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March 2015Goethes Venedig
by Mathias Mayer
Die Lagunenstadt hat Goethe begleitet, seit er als Kind eine Gondel geschenkt bekam: Venedig wird zum Sehnsuchtsort schlechthin. Goethes Interesse gilt den Menschen wie dem Theater, dem Labyrinth der Gassen wie der Fauna auf dem Lido und immer wieder der Kulissenhaftigkeit dieser Stadt, die ihn von seiner »venetianischen Existenz« sprechen lässt, als hätte er dort viele Jahre gelebt. Goethes Venedig entfaltet ein Panorama von Eindrücken, Erinnerungen und Gedichten, Bildern und Karten, Goethes eigenhändigen Zeichnungen und zeitgenössischen Gemälden.
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August 2021Neue Gartengeschichten
by Eva Demski
Fünfzig Jahre ist Eva Demski nun mit ihrem Garten zusammen. Zeit zu überlegen, wie es weitergehen sollte. In den Neuen Gartengeschichten erzählt sie von Herausforderungen, die sie sich nicht hätte träumen lassen. Nicht nur der Klimawandel und der Umgang mit Virusängsten, sondern auch das eigene Alter und rausgerissene Buchsbaumhecken machen ihr zu schaffen. Da hilft nur Erzählen, und wenn man sich an fernen Gärten nicht mehr ergötzen darf, muss man eben in der Nähe suchen. Es gibt auch gleich um die Ecke unbekannte grüne Welten. Davon und von vielem anderen in Fauna und Flora berichtet Eva Demski in ihrem Buch. »Freu dich über alles, was du kriegen kannst«, ist der Schluss, den Gärtnerinnen und Gärtner zusammen mit ihr aus großen, kleinen und ganz kleinen Katastrophen ziehen können.
