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The ArtsMarch 2026Surrealist women artists and mental illness
by Jenny Anger
Female mental illness has been a prominent and complicated theme in surrealist cultural traditions, including the idealization of women with mental illness in works such as André Breton's Nadja (1928). Art historians have examined this tendency before, but to date there has been no comprehensive study of the lived reality of women surrealist artists with mental illness. How did women's experience and their work intersect with this romanticized vision? Was the masculine dream of feminized, "mad" genius prohibitive or productive for these women artists? After establishing the ideological field within which these women worked, the book turns to case studies of well-known and some lesser-known artists, including Ángeles Santos, Leonora Carrington, Dora Maar, Claude Cahun, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Sonja Sekula, and Unica Zürn. This collection of essays contains a wide range of responses, revealing surrealism's generative as well as restrictive force.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2009Caring for someone with a long-term illness
by John Costello
Caring for someone with a long-term illness is the first book in the Support for Friends and Family series from Manchester University Press. Caring for, or being close to someone who cares for a person with a long-term illness can be very difficult, and not knowing how to help can be frustrating. The book is designed to help friends, family and carers understand the practical and personal issues that face carers; providing useful suggestions on how to understand the carer's role and ways to make the experience easier for the carer and those around them. This is less of a how to do book and more a selection of chapters giving advice on things to say, things to do, and where to look for advice and practical help when needed. Carers and their friends and family will find this book an invaluable resource on how to act (or simply give peace and quiet) in the most welcome and appropriate way.
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October 2022From Dream to Trauma: Mental abuse in partnerships
by Caroline Wenzel
The level of domestic abuse has been increasing for years, but often only cases of physical abuse hit the headlines. Hardly anyone talks about the mental, or psychological, abuse that usually precedes a physical or sexual assault. Those affected do not usually recognise the destructive dynamic in their relationship until far too late. In this book, three case histories illustrate the typical forms of mental abuse in relationships. In addition, experts explain the topic from psychological, therapeutic, political and legal perspectives, and the head of a counselling centre for male victims of mental abuse also has his say. An important and startling book.
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October 2022My Father's Secret
The BND, my family and I
by Corinna von Bassewitz
For a long time, Corinna von Bassewitz believed her father was a soldier, later on that he was a diplomat. Then, at the age of 16, she learnt something unbelievable: he had been a secret agent for the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND, Germany's Federal Intelligence Service). Once the secret had been at least partly uncovered, she became something of a spy herself and eventually found some confidential documents in her parents' attic. Later, she realised that her father had been living as a double agent for the FRG and the GDR. So what effect does it have on a girl if her father conceals his true identity and eventually disappears without trace? Along with her family history, the author provides multi-layered and exciting insights into the historical context of the Cold War. A very personal book, intriguingly told and emotionally touching.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2024Supernatural bodies
Stigmata in modern Britain and Ireland
by Kristof Smeyers
This book is the first in-depth study of the changing perceptions and receptions of supernatural bodies in modern Britain and Ireland. It focuses on one phenomenon that became hotly contested and discussed in the public sphere between 1840 and 1940: the stigmata. In 1874, an Irish reporter asked why the wounds of the crucified Christ on mortal bodies could 'not be discussed with calmness. without indulging in angry rhetoric'. Supernatural bodies takes that question seriously. It draws on previously unexamined archival materials to place supernatural bodies at the heart of long-lasting discussions about the position of Roman Catholicism in society; the supernatural in modern Christianity and society; the authority of sciences; the relationship between Britain and Ireland, and between Britain and the Continent. Through the lens of stigmata controversies, this book shows how these discussions could converge around supernatural bodies.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2024States of enmity
The politics of hatred in the early modern Kingdom of Naples
by Stephen Cummins
State of enmity explores how relations of hatred and enmity played political and social roles in the early modern Kingdom of Naples. Exploring the pervasive notion of enmity and practices of reconciliation, the book provides new insight into the social dynamics of southern Italy in the early modern period. In particular, widespread banditry and the violent tenor of local politics are analysed through a wide variety of criminal trials and other sources.
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Business, Economics & LawNovember 2024
The Island Book of Records Volume II
1969-70
by Neil Storey
The second volume of this highly collectable series, covering the pivotal years of 1969-70. The Island Book of Records Volume II documents the years 1969-70, during which Island sought to build on its success with the Spencer Davis Group by seeking out new British rock talent. By the end of the period, Island was emerging as a major British label, one that could boast releases from Jethro Tull, Nick Drake, King Crimson, John and Beverley Martyn, Fairport Convention and Cat Stevens. Featuring material from recent interviews and from media interviews of the time, and including a comprehensive discography of 45s, The Island Book of Records Volume II is lavishly illustrated with gig adverts (very many at venues that no longer exist), concert tickets, flyers, international LP variants, labels, LP and 45 adverts and other ephemera collector's dream.
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Movies and Mental Illness
Using Films to Understand Psychopathology
by Danny Wedding, Ryan M. Niemiec
Explores flms according to the diagnostic criteria of DSM5 and ICD11 • Provides psychological ratings of nearly 1,500 flms • Includes downloadable teaching materials Films can be a powerful aid to learning about mental illness and psychopathology. Movies and Mental Illness has established a great reputation as a uniquely enjoyable and highly memorable text for learning about psychopathology. The new edition of this acclaimed book has been updated to include the latest flms and new topics. Includes downloadable material for teachers and discussion groups.
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Business, Economics & LawMay 2024Deep transformations
by Hubert Buch-Hansen, Max Koch, Iana Nesterova
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The ArtsOctober 2024
Secret Cinema and the immersive experience industry
by Sarah Atkinson, Helen W. Kennedy
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2003Step-daughters of England
British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary
by Jane Garrity
Jane Garrity shows how four British women modernists - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - used experimental literary techniques in order to situate themselves as national subjects. Reading literary texts through the lens of material culture, this book makes a major contribution to the new modernist studies by arguing that women's imaginative work is inseparable from their ambivalent and complicated relation to Britain's imperial history. Drawing on extensive archival research, Garrity takes as her point of departure the ubiquitous maternal and racial link to national identification during the interwar period. Each chapter foregrounds a different range of cultural developments that coincided with the rise of modernism, such as emerging visual techniques, the revival of British neo-medievalism, ethnographic work on primitive mysticism, and nostalgia for English ruralism. By locating both canonical and non-canonical works of female literary modernism within broader cultural discourses, Garrity demonstrates the intersections among nationalism, imperialism, gender and sexuality in the construction of English national culture.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2023The supernatural in early modern Scotland
by Julian Goodare, Martha McGill
This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural.
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Children's & YAMagic Owls in Featherland (1). Athenaria's Secret
by Ina Brandt/Irene Mohr
Flora is very excited: together with her magic owl Goldwing, she is to be part of a new team. The owl rulers of the Magical Kingdom have summoned them to Featherland, a hidden place in a mysterious monastery. There they meet the snowy owl Nordis, the spectacled owl Claro and, of course, Jona, who always tries to compete with Flora. How will they ever manage to make a team? It’s not long before they are given their first job: during the night of the next full moon they must help one another to awaken the magic of Featherland – and this proves to be more difficult than expected. Because suddenly Claro disappears from the face of the earth. And without him, no magic can ever succeed…
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Science & MathematicsFebruary 2025Assemblages of cancer
Experiences and contexts of breast cancer in the UK, France and Italy
by Cinzia Greco
Assemblages of cancer illustrates the tensions in the experiences and context of breast cancer in Western Europe. Breast cancer is presented as a success story in oncology, especially in countries with advanced, universal healthcare systems. At the same time, individual experiences are shaped by uncertainty, local variability of healthcare provisions, and the need for patients to assemble information about the treatments, knowledge on healthcare systems navigation, and different processes of meaning-making to manage the uncertainty and variability characterising individual outcomes. The book explores both how individual bodies and experiences are transformed by different local medical practices, institutions and discourses of breast cancer and how patients need to find their own way in these contexts. Assemblages of cancer is based on ten years of ethnographic work with patients and medical professionals in the UK, France and Italy.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2024White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages
by Wan-Chuan Kao
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2011Bourgeois consumption
Food, space and identity in London and Paris, 1850–1914
by Rachel Rich
Bourgeois Consumption looks at how the middle classes in late nineteenth-century London and Paris used food and dining as forms of social expression and identity. This engaging treatise about how class and gender informed people's eating habits focuses on the complex interactions between bodies, ritual and identity. Forgoing the traditional food history territory of recipes and ingredients in favor of how people ate in different circles, Bourgeois Consumption explores the role of real and imagined meals in shaping Victorian lives. The perception of the middle classes as rigid and upright, found in the extensive pages of their etiquette books, is contrasted with a more flexible and spontaneous bourgeoisie, gleaned from the pages of their own colorful memoirs, diaries and letters, leading us on a lively journey into eating spaces, mealtimes, manners, and social interactions between diners. Further, contrasting Paris with London reveals some of the ways each city shaped its inhabitants but, more surprisingly, throws up a range of similarities that suggest the middle classes were, in fact, a transnational class. Rachel Rich's work will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the history of food, consumption and leisure, as well as to a broader audience curious about how the Victorian middle classes distinguished themselves through daily life and manners. ;
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November 2025The Jewel Secrets (1). Um dieses Spiel zu gewinnen, musst du dich in deinen größten Feind verlieben
Auftakt der neuen Romance-Dilogie mit Suspense von SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin Jana Hoch mit Farbschnitt in der 1. Auflage. Mit illustriertem Vorsatz. Tropes Enemies-to-lovers, Forced Proximity, Fake Hating.
by Jana Hoch
SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin Jana Hoch kombiniert Romance und Suspense zu einem einzigartigen Lesegenuss von Enemies-to-Lovers und Fake Hating! Zwei verfeindete Familien. Ein Spiel, das nur ein Liebespaar gewinnen kann. Darcy Green ist das genaue Gegenteil von reich und berühmt. Trotzdem erhält sie eine Einladung zu einem mysteriösen Erbschaftsspiel. Bei diesem Medienereignis sollen die Nachkommen der wohlhabenden und verfeindeten Familien Seymour und Corydalis um ein Schloss auf einer abgelegenen Insel kämpfen. Unter den Anwärtern ist auch Dorian – arrogant, unverschämt attraktiv, und entschlossen, das Spiel um jeden Preis zu gewinnen. Doch: Nur ein Liebespaar aus beiden Familien kann das Erbe antreten, zu dem auch ein wertvolles Kunstwerk gehört, das auf der Insel versteckt ist. Wird es nicht rechtzeitig gefunden, zerstört es sich selbst. Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt, denn das Schloss steckt voller Rätsel und um diese zu lösen, braucht Darcy ausgerechnet Dorians Hilfe. Während sie gemeinsam den Hinweisen nachjagen, kommen sie sich näher – gefährlich nah. Dabei darf Darcy nicht vergessen, dass Dorian bereit ist, jedes Risiko einzugehen – auch, wenn es bedeutet, Darcys Herz zu brechen. Band 1 der Jewel-Secrets-Reihe: Inheritance Games meets The Selection. Für alle Romance mit Suspense-Fans ab 14 Jahren mit Farbschnitt in der 1. Auflage. Weitere Bücher von Jana Hoch: The Ruby Circle (1). All unsere Geheimnisse The Ruby Circle (2). All unsere Lügen The Ruby Circle (3). All unsere Wahrheiten Royal Horses (1). Kronenherz Royal Horses (2). Kronentraum Royal Horses (3). Kronennacht Dancing with Raven. Unser wildes Herz Weitere Infos zur SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin unter www.jana-hoch.de oder auf Instagram oder TikTok unter @janahoch.autorin
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2025Cross-border intimacies
Affect and emotions in marriage migration
by Lara Momesso
Since the early 1990s, economic exchanges between China and Taiwan have paved the way to migration across a previously closed border and to social and cultural interactions between the two populations. Despite these broader changes, the unresolved issue of Taiwan sovereignty has tainted not only the relations between the two governments but also the everyday life of those who move across the Taiwan Strait. In this politicised environment, intimate and affective practices linked to cross-border marriage and family formation are never just private. Instead, they are deeply entangled with the emotional and affective processes generated at the macro and meso level of political and social life and revolving around national interests. Tracing the intimate, emotional and affective practices linked to family creation, identity formation and integration with the local and national communities, this ethnographic study offers a subjective, dynamic, and complex picture of what it means to be a mainland spouse in Taiwan.
