Humanities & Social Sciences
November 2022
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2023Worrier state
Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa
by Nicky Falkof
Risk, anxiety and moral panic are endemic to contemporary societies and media forms. How do these phenomena manifest in a place like South Africa, which features heightened insecurity, deep inequality and accelerated social change? What happens when cultures of fear intersect with pervasive systems of gender, race and class? Worrier state investigates four case studies in which fear and anxiety appear in radically different ways: the far right myth of 'white genocide'; so-called 'Satanist' murders of young women; an urban legend about township crime; and social theories about safety and goodness in the suburbs. Falkof foregrounds the significance of emotion as a socio-political force, emphasising South Africa's imbrication within globalised conditions of anxiety and thus its fundamental and often-ignored hypermodernity. The book offers a bold and creative perspective on the social roles of fear and emotion in South Africa and thus on everyday life in this complex place.
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Humanities & Social SciencesHow to Overcome Embitterment with Wisdom
by Christopher Patrick Arnold, Michael Linden
Expert help on overcoming feelings of embitterment• Understand how these difficultfeelings come about• Learn problem-solving skills toreorientate to the future• Also ideal reading for anyone living orworking with an embittered person Embitterment is an emotional reaction anyone can have to injustices, humiliation, and breaches of trust. Like other feelings, feelings of embitterment normally subside, but they can persist and cause a great deal of suffering. This book helps you understand what embitterment is and how it can come about. Learn how to detach from these negative feelings and find ways to better deal with the hurtful situations, including learning to look to the future. You will learn about problem-solving strategies that focus on the psychology of wisdom, which include identifying facts and problem solutions, changing perspectives, self-relativizing, and emotional empathy. For:• clients, relatives and friends ofclients• clinical psychologists• psychotherapists• psychiatrists• counselors
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Science & MathematicsApril 2021Medicalising borders
Selection, containment and quarantine since 1800
by Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer, Paul Weindling, Hastings Donnan
The research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like COVID-19 reaches far beyond the scope of biomedicine. It is not only an objective for the health, political and social sciences, but epidemics and pandemics are a matter of geography: foci and vectors of communicable diseases continue to test the efficacy of medical control at state borders. This volume illuminates these issues from various disciplinary viewpoints. It starts by exploring historical models of quarantine, spatial isolation and detention as precautionary means against the dissemination of disease and contagion by border crossers, migrants and refugees. Besides the patterns of prejudice with which these groups are confronted, the book also deals with various kinds of fear of contamination from outside of the nation state. The contributors address the implementation of medical techniques at state borders in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as the presently practiced measures of medical and biometric screening of migrants and refugees. Uniquely, this volume shows that the current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of medicalised techniques of power, which originate both in European modernity and in the medical and biological disciplines developed during the last quarter of the millennium. Drawing on the collective expertise of a network of international researchers, this interdisciplinary volume is essential reading for those wishing to understand the medicalisation of borders across the globe, from the early eighteenth century up to the present day.
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2023Drug Products in Nursing and Care Practice
Safe handling of medication
by Dr. Ulrich Räth and Friedhelm Kamann
The assessment of nursing and care needs and the organisation and quality assurance of nursing care are key tasks performed by nursing staff. This also includes administering medication, something which requires sound organisation, control, implementation and documentation. Nurses observe whether medication is taken consistently, has the desired effect, and whether undesirable side effects occur. The drug product as a „special commodity“ – whether in inpatient long-term care, in outpatient care, or in hospital – requires special knowledge concerning - correct storage, - the pharmacological effect, and - appropriate application. This book is geared towards the diseases and symptoms of people requiring nursing or care. All the important facts concerning the use of medicines are presented here in an understandable manner, focusing on the essentials. Numerous illustrations and practical tips provide the link to everyday nursing care. It is the ideal textbook and reference work for nursing and care assistants as well as nursing professionals.
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PsychologyLuna, the Little Owl
And How She Learned to Overcome Her Seperation Anxiety
by Winona Michel, Hannah Buschkamp, Carlotta Drerup, Finnja Schramm
Luna, the little owl, is all alone at home, because her mother is out. She is completelyovercome by fear. Sole, the firefly, flies into her room, and they talk to each other about their fears. Sole explains to Luna why we are afraid, and that fear need not just be something bad, but can also be something helpful. Sole convinces Luna that fear is a completely natural feeling and gives her tips what she can do to feel better. The aim of this book is to make it easier for affected children to understandtheir fears. They are taught that they are not alone and how to overcome theirfears. The book provides parents, siblings, and therapists of children whohave separation anxiety with important information about the emotional disorderalong with practical tasks and exercises. For: • children of primary school age (between 6 and 12 years) who suffer from separation anxiety• parents, siblings• therapists
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Children's & YASherlock Holmes, the Master Detective (3). The Invisble Seventh Man
by Oliver Pautsch/ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle/ Dominik Rupp
What's going on in London? A mass breakout of prisoners, an attack on a hotel and a bank robbery - all that happens within a short while. Sherlock Holmes draws a rapid deduction: This cannot be an accident. He already has a theory what and most of all who is behind it. Remains to find out how his arch enemy managed to do that. But Sherlock is on his tracks because the thieves and their leader have left their fingerprints ...
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2024Politicising and gendering care for older people
Multidisciplinary perspectives from Europe
by Anca Dohotariu, Ana Paula Gil, Lubica Volanská
This book offers a new critical framework for understanding the processes of politicising and gendering care for older people and their manifestations in several European contexts. It interrogates how care for older adults varies across time and place while searching for an in-depth comprehension of how it becomes an arena of political struggle and the object of public policy in different countries and at various societal and political levels. It brings together multidisciplinary contributions that examine the issue of care for older people as a political concern from many angles, such as problematising care needs, long-term care policies, home care services, institutional services and family care. The contributions reveal the diversity of situations in which the processes of politicising and gendering care for older adults overlap, contradict or reinforce each other while leading to increased gender (in)equalities on different levels.
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July 2020Arlo Finch (3). Im Königreich der Schatten
by August, John
Das große Finale des einzigartigen Fantasy-Abenteuers von Starautor John August Nach einem alles verändernden Sommer kehrt Arlo Finch zu seiner Familie nach Pine Mountain zurück. Doch statt auf den anstehenden Schulwechsel kann Arlo sich nur auf eins konzentrieren: Mithilfe seiner magischen Fähigkeiten endlich seinen Vater aus China zurückzuholen. Doch damit das gelingt, muss er den mysteriösen Eldtrich entgegentreten und die stellen Arlo vor eine unlösbare Aufgabe: Entweder er rettet seine Familie und Freunde oder die Long Woods. Egal wie er sich entscheidet, am Ende werden beide Welten nie mehr dieselben sein. Das Finale der einzigartig fesselnden, mysteriös-spannenden Abenteuer-Trilogie ab 10 Jahren enthüllt die Geheimnisse der magischen Long Woods und führt die Leser ins mysteriöse Königreich der Schatten. Ein großartiges Abenteuer für Mädchen und Jungen, das seinen Protagonisten erleben lässt, wovon Kinder träumen. „Mysteriös wie „Stranger Things“, magisch wie „Charlie und die Schokoladenfabrik“, fesselnd wie „Percy Jackson“. Vom Drehbuchautor von „Big Fish“, „Corpse Bride und „Frankenweenie“ John August. Mit stimmungsvollen Gänsehautillustrationen des Fantasy-Experten Helge Vogt. Weitere Informationen zu Arlo Finch und John August: johnaugust.com In der Reihe sind erschienen: Arlo Finch. Im Tal des Feuers (Band 1) Arlo Finch. Im Bann des Mondsees (Band 2) Arlo Finch. Im Königreich der Schatten (Band 3)
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June 2019Arlo Finch (2). Im Bann des Mondsees
by August, John
Fantastisch, fesselnd, filmreif: Die Kinderbuchtrilogie von Publikumsliebling Arlo Finch geht weiter! Arlo freut sich auf einen Sommer voller Abenteuer mit Indra und Wu im Camp Rote Feder. Doch schon vor den Ferien geraten die Freunde in Gefahr: Mächte von außerhalb der Long Woods lauern auf einen mysteriösen Gegenstand, den nur Arlo finden kann. Ein lang gehütetes Geheimnis führt ihn schließlich auf die andere Seite des Mondsees. Und dort ist nichts mehr wie es war ... Endlich ist das erste Schuljahr in Pine Mountain zu Ende und vor Arlo, Indra und Henry Wu liegen lange Sommerferien. Doch wer wie Arlo in der Nähe der Long Woods lebt, für den bedeutet Sommer nicht nur Kanufahren, Wandern und Zelten. In den Bergen zu Füßen des Mondsees lernen die Kinder auch die Spuren der Wälder lesen und den Umgang mit Elementargeistern und Schutzzaubern. Denn so magisch und voller Wunder die Natur rund um Pine Mountain auch ist, so unberechenbar und geheimnisvoll sind auch die Mächte, die dort schlummern. Und die haben es ganz besonders auf Arlo Finch abgesehen. Ob er dem Geheimnis des Mondsees und seiner eigenen Familie auf die Schliche kommt, ehe es zu spät ist? Geheimnisvolle Schauplätze und faszinierende Landschaften halten große Abenteuer bereit: Sowohl im mysteriösen Gänsehautort Pine Mountain als auch in den magischen „Long Woods“ scheint alles möglich! Und das weiß Arlo auch! Irgendetwas wird kommen. Da ist Arlo sich sicher. Band 2 der einzigartig fesselnden, mysteriös-spannenden Abenteuer-Trilogie ab 10 Jahren führt die Leser noch tiefer in die magischen Long Woods. Ein großartiges Abenteuer für Mädchen und Jungen, das seinen Protagonisten erleben lässt, wovon Kinder träumen. „Mysteriös wie „Stranger Things“, magisch wie „Charlie und die Schokoladenfabrik“, fesselnd wie „Percy Jackson“. Vom Drehbuchautor von „Big Fish“, „Corpse Bride und „Frankenweenie“ John August. Mit stimmungsvollen Gänsehautillustrationen von Fantasy-Experten Helge Vogt. Weitere Informationen zu Arlo Finch und John August: johnaugust.com Weitere Titel der Reihe: Arlo Finch. Im Tal des Feuers
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PsychologyApril 2018What is “Good” Dementia Care?
by Christoph Held
People with dementia experience their condition as a big change in which, for example, new events are not linked to existing experiences and wishes, thoughts, and actions can no longer be connected to each other. This kind of experience of the self, due to the intergative function of the brainbeing temporarily or permanently lost, is called dissociative self-experience. Based on this understanding of dementia, the author develops an approach to effectively understand and support people with dementia in everyday activities. Typical everyday situations and behaviours are presented and reflected on in a practical context.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2024
Out of his mind
Masculinity and mental illness in Victorian Britain
by Amy Milne-Smith
Out of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of nineteenth-century psychiatry, to be certified as a lunatic meant a loss of one's freedom and in many ways one's identify. Because men had the most power and authority in Victorian Britain, this also meant they had the most to lose. The madman was often a marginal figure, confined in private homes, hospitals, and asylums. Yet as a cultural phenomenon he loomed large, tapping into broader social anxieties about respectability, masculine self-control, and fears of degeneration. Using a wealth of case notes, press accounts, literature, medical and government reports, this text provides a rich window into public understandings and personal experiences of men's insanity.
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September 2023My Bank Washes Greener
Eco lies told by the finance sector
by Bernd Villhauer
— By the expert in ethical business — Once you have finished this, you will never fall for green financial lies again — Global Ethic Institute (Weltethos- Institut) network And suddenly every bank is sustainable. This truly necessary "debate book" explains in a wellfounded way what green-washing means in the financial sector, and why banks, insurance companies, asset managers, stockbrokers and other financial players clothe themselves in their allegedly so green-and-friendly cloak. It provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the various forms of greenwashing, how we can recognise the different "varieties" and – above all – how we can avoid them. This is also important because the entire financial and capital system is an important part of a sustainable future – and this can only succeed if it is honest, transparent and impact-orientated.
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PsychologyA Fox in Your Mind
A Book for Children with Social Anxiety
by Joan Schaaf, Wiebke Andersen, Meera Roth, Marie-Luise Salzmann
Lea sometimes is afraid to talk to other children and adults or speak in front of the class. She prefers to run to her toy kangaroo Pocci rather than face frightening situations. If Lea avoids her fears, she turns into a fox, which makes everything worse. She is not the courageous and cheerful girl she would like to be. But luckily Pocci can help her, and together they thoroughly straighten up Lea’s thoughts and free her from her fears. The aim of this book is to make it easier for affected children to understand their fears. They are taught that they are not alone and how to overcome their fears. The book provides parents, siblings, and therapists with important information about emotional isorders as well as practical tasks and exercises. For: • children of primary school age (between 6 and 12 years) who suffer from social anxiety • parents, relatives• therapists
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2020Samuel Beckett and trauma
by Mariko Hori Tanaka, Yoshiki Tajiri, Michiko Tsushima
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MedicineAugust 2016Evidence-based Nursing and Caring
by Johann Behrens, Gero Langer
Evidence-based-nursing and caring, a method that relies on scientifically verifiable data from an outside perspective (“external evidence”) as well as the individual needs of those cared for as well as the caretakers (“internal evidence”). This title offers a detailed insight into external and internal evidence in nursing care and shows in a 6-step-approach how to • make shared decision • analyse and describe problems • find literature and relevant studies • critically evaluate nursing studies and their quality • change nursing practice and • evaluate nursing care. Target Group: Nursing Students, Nurse Educators.
