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DeA Planeta Libri’s products include books for children (fairy tales, boardbooks, novelties, non fiction, ativity etc.), MG& YA fiction, non ficton and essays and it operates with the brands DeA, De Agostini, DeA Planeta, UTET, AMZ, Abracadabra. Our foreign righst catalogues are available on: https://www.deaplanetalibri.it/aiuto/foreign-rights
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The ArtsJune 2025Death in modern theatre
Stages of mortality
by Adrian Curtin
Death in modern theatre offers a unique account of modern Western theatre, focusing on the ways in which dramatists and theatre-makers have explored historically informed ideas about death and dying in their work. It investigates the opportunities theatre affords to reflect on the end of life in a compelling and socially meaningful fashion. In a series of interrelated, mostly chronological, micronarratives beginning in the late nineteenth century and ending in the early twenty-first century, this book considers how and why death and dying are represented at certain historical moments using dramaturgy and aesthetics that challenge audiences' conceptions, sensibilities, and sense-making faculties. It includes a mix of well-known and lesser-known plays from an international range of dramatists and theatre-makers, and offers original interpretations through close reading and performance analysis.
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March 2021Facing Death
Suicide as last emancipation?
by Jean-Pierre Wils
Assisted suicide has been the subject of much passionate debate in many societies. The philosopher and theologian Jean-Pierre Wils does not deny autonomy, but asks – on the basis of his profound historical and ethical knowledge – about the social consequences. Does the right to assisted suicide not in the long run lead to the obligation to decide for or against it? And does not the pressure towards a supposedly reasonable decision increase, as soon as the causation of one‘s own death is seen as a final act of self-realisation and emancipation, or even commended as such? Wils makes a strong plea for the debate to be held in a broader context, to remove our finiteness from cultural amnesia – and in doing so, lays the foundation for a contemporary discussion on assisted suicide.
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Literature: history & criticismFebruary 2017The Gothic and death
by Series edited by Elisabeth Bronfen. Edited by Carol Davison
The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries. It investigates how the multifarious strands of the Gothic and the concepts of death, dying, mourning and memorialisation ('the Death Question') - have intersected and been configured cross-culturally to diverse ends from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Drawing on recent scholarship in such fields as Gothic Studies, film theory, Women's and Gender Studies and Thanatology Studies, this interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays by international scholars combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known. This area of enquiry is considered by way of such popular and uncanny figures as corpses, ghosts, zombies and vampires, and across various cultural and literary forms such as Graveyard Poetry, Romantic poetry, Victorian literature, nineteenth-century Italian and Russian literature, Anglo-American film and television, contemporary Young Adult fiction and Bollywood film noir.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020Death and the crown
Ritual and politics in France before the Revolution
by Anne Byrne
Looking at royal ritual in pre-revolutionary France, Death and the crown examines the deathbed and funeral of Louis XV in 1774, the lit de justice of November 1774, and the coronation of Louis XVI, including the ceremony of the royal healing touch for scrofula. It reviews the state of the field in ritual studies and appraises the status of the monarchy in the 1770s, including the recall of the parlements and the many ways people engaged with royal ritual. It answers questions such as whether Louis XV died in fear of damnation, why Marie Antoinette was not crowned in 1775 and why Louis XVI's coronation was not held in Paris. This lively, accessible text is a useful tool for under- and post-graduate teaching which will also be of interest to specialists on this under-researched period.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2022Death and the crown
by Anne Byrne, Maire Cross, David Hopkin
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FRÄULEIN GOLD: SHADOW AND LIGHT (Vol. I)
Schatten und Licht
by Anne Stern
1922: Hulda Gold is a midwife and she is smart, fearless and extremely popular in the neighbourhood since the fate of her female patients is extremely close to her heart. Especially as she encounters not only new life, but also death. In the notorious Bülowbogen, one of the city's many slums, Hulda looks after a pregnant woman. The young woman is devastated because her neighbour was found dead in the Landwehrkanal; allegedly a tragic accident. But why is the opaque detective commissioner Karl North so interested in the case? And why is Hulda so attracted to him? She investigates and gets deeper and deeper into the abysses of a city where shadow and light are so close together.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2023
Picturing the Western Front
Photography, practices and experiences in First World War France
by Beatriz Pichel
Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Either classified in military archives specially created with this purpose in 1915, collected in personal albums or circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. Picturing the Western Front argues that photographic practices also shaped combatants and civilians' war experiences. Doing photography (taking pictures, posing for them, exhibiting, cataloguing and looking at them) allowed combatants and civilians to make sense of what they were living through. Photography mattered because it enabled combatants and civilians to record events, establish or reinforce bonds with one another, represent bodies, place people and events in imaginative geographies and making things visible, while making others, such as suicide, invisible. Photographic practices became, thus, frames of experience.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2020Toleration, power and the right to justification
by Rainer Forst, Bert van den Brink, Anthony Laden, Peter Niesen, David Owen
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The ArtsMarch 2025We all die at the end
Storytelling in the climate apocalypse
by Sam Haddow
We all die at the end offers a survey of contemporary end-of-the-world fiction, spanning literature, children's fiction, video games, theatre and film. It draws on eco-critical philosophy and narrative theory to show ways in which the climate crisis is reorienting storytelling in the face of foreseeable human extinction. In the process, it argues that such stories have a role to play in helping us come to terms with the severity and scale of the crisis that we face.
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September 1996Am Großen Stern
Roman
by Gerlind Reinshagen
Was geschieht, wenn ein Mann, ein noch junger, durch den Anblick eines Kindes plötzlich und vollkommen aus der Fassung gerät? Wenn es ihm als der Inbegriff eines Kindes und das »letzte Kind« überhaupt erscheint? Wenn er nichts anderes mehr denken, wünschen, wollen kann, als dieses Geschöpf in seinen Besitz und seine Gewalt zu bekommen?Was könnte geschehen, wenn sich der Wunsch realisiert und es ihm gelingt, das Waisenkind, das übrigens ein Mädchen ist – als Tochter anzunehmen, wenn die Tochter sich widerstandslos herabläßt, den Mann als Vater anzuerkennen?In einer Berliner Altbauwohnung sieht der Fotograf Falk ein etwa zehnjähriges Mädchen, das sein Freund Jörg aus dem fernen Osteuropa mitgebracht hat. Falk ist verzaubert, wie erschlagen. Er möchte das Kind haben, es aufziehen. Die Freunde treten es dem Alleinstehenden ab, Bronja erklärt sich einverstanden. Und dann beginnt das ehrgeizige Projekt einer Anti-Erziehung: Die »Tochter« soll sich selbst entwickeln; der Vater will ihr – über alle Herbarts, Lockes, Pestalozzis, ja selbst über Rousseau hinaus – unbegrenzte Freiheit lassen. Ein schwieriges Unterfangen: Wochenlang ergreift der selbsternannte Vater nicht oder kaum merklich ein, um das Mädchen im Augenblick der unvermeindlichen Gefahr nur um so heftiger zu schütteln. Angeblich um den schlechten Schulleistungen aufzuhelfen, sperrt er es in seinem Zimmer ein, in Wirklichkeit, um es vor dem übermaß an falschen Bildern, Blicken, vor jedem fremden Einfluß zu bewahren. Stattdessen beginnt er die Tochter mit Geschichten aus der Literatur zu füttern (vornehmlich der alten, in denen Menschen noch vorbildlos und unbeirrt ihren eigenen Gedanken und Schicksalen folgten). Denn Falks Hauptfrage lautet: Wie hält man Kinder hungrig und im dunkeln, damit sie Kraft sammeln, um später lange brennen zu können? Um wieder andere »anzuzünden«?
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April 2022Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
by Eifert, Georg H.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) aims to teach people to face emotional problems openly with mindfulness and compassion while pursuing what they truly care about in their lives. The book provides an introduction to the principles and methods of ACT and presents therapeutic strategies across disorders. ACT is not primarily about eliminating and controlling symptoms, but about developing greater psychological flexibility through learning mindful acceptance. Using numerous examples, the book describes how clients can learn to respond with greater kindness to their unwanted inner experience, to gently deal with their emotional and thought barriers, and to focus on committed life-goal-oriented action. Numerous experiential exercises, metaphors, mindfulness techniques, and behavioral activation methods are presented for this purpose. In addition, this new edition of the book provides information on current effectiveness evidence and developments in ACT, e.g. promoting self- compassion. For:• psychotherapists• psychiatrists• clinical psychologists• students and teachers in psychotherapeutictraining, furthertraining, and continuing education
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PsychologyACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
With ACT Questionnaires for Clinical Assessment, 100 Questions
by Paolo Moderato, Giovambattista Presti, Francesco dell’Orco
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a psychotherapeutic intervention based on experimental evidence. Its goal is to help people implement concrete behaviors in accordance with their values even in the presence of diffcult or interfering events. The authors clearly describe how ACT works and provide useful guidance for clinical practice. Soon the concepts of fusion and defusion become familiar and the Hexafex a way of thinking rather than appearing as a mere scheme. Acceptance and commitment replace refusal and renunciation: this is the innovative therapeutic challenge of ACT. This manual, enriched with metaphors and exercises that can be used in a therapeutic session, is intended for reading by specialists by tackling the themes of this approach with rigor and depth, taking the reader step by step into the heart of ACT. The appendix contains seven ACT questionnaires for clinical assessment.
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April 1994Die Sprachen der Vergangenheiten
Öffentliches Gedenken in österreichischen und deutschen Medien
by Ruth Wodak, Florian Menz, Richard Mitten, Frank Stern
Die Sprachen der Vergangenheiten analysieren das offizielle Gedenken im Jahr 1988 - fünfzig Jahre nach dem »Anschluß« Österreichs an Hitlerdeutschland und fünfzig Jahre nach der Reichspogromnacht. Als Schwerpunkte der Untersuchung wurden vier symbolische Verdichtungen ausgewählt: die Übergabe des sogenannten Historikerberichts zu Waldheims Kriegsvergangenheit, die Gedenkveranstaltungen zum »Anschlußtag«, die Errichtung eines »Mahnmals gegen den Krieg und Faschismus« sowie das Gedenken an den Novemberpogrom 1938. An diesen vier Fällen wird in einer interdisziplinären sozio- und textlinguistischen Studie der Umgang des offiziellen Österreichs mit seiner jüngsten Vergangenheit analysiert.
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December 2012Misery Bear's Leitfaden für die Liebe
Die Erlebnisse des einsamsten Bären der Welt
by Misery Bear / Deutsch Bausum, Christoph
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1992Die neun Zahlen des Lebens
Das Enneagramm - Charakterfixierung und spirituelles Wachstum
by Jaxon-Bear, Eli / Englisch Lorenz, Sabrina
