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Book Cultural Center
The Book Cultural Center is a publishing house established in Morocco, Casablanca, created in 2016. With over 42 years of experience in the industry, we are specialized in Arabic literature, social science and novels. We have more than 250 titles. Our books are distributed in all Arabic countries and we participate in more than 10 bookfairs a year. Our establishment is a reference and a pioneer in the Arabic world.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2026The Persian Gulf triangle
Strategic relations between Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States
by Luíza Cerioli
This book offers a nuanced snapshot of the complex geopolitical dynamics in the Persian Gulf, underlining the interaction between Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the US. Examining their interwoven relations since the 1970s, Luíza Cerioli's framework reveals how changes in US-Saudi ties have ripple effects on Iran-US and Iran-Saudi relations and vice versa. Using a historical lens, she explores how enduring US-Saudi connections hinge on order expectations, delves into the cognitive factors shaping US-Iran enmity and traces the source of oscillation in the Saudi-Iran ties. Employing Neoclassical Realism, the book investigates status-seeking, national identities and leadership preferences, offering a deeper understanding of the region's multipolar system. By combining International Relations and Middle East Studies, Cerioli's work contributes to both fields, unravelling the intricate interplay between international structures, regional nuances and agency in shaping Persian Gulf geopolitics.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2024Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States
Power, identity and strategy in the Persian Gulf triangle
by Luíza Cerioli
This book offers a nuanced snapshot of the complex geopolitical dynamics in the Persian Gulf, underlining the interaction between Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the US. Examining their interwoven relations since the 1970s, Luíza Cerioli's framework reveals how changes in US-Saudi ties have ripple effects on Iran-US and Iran-Saudi relations and vice versa. Using a historical lens, she explores how enduring US-Saudi connections hinge on order expectations, delves into the cognitive factors shaping US-Iran enmity and traces the source of oscillation in the Saudi-Iran ties. Employing Neoclassical Realism, the book investigates status-seeking, national identities and leadership preferences, offering a deeper understanding of the region's multipolar system. By combining International Relations and Middle East Studies, Cerioli's work contributes to both fields, unravelling the intricate interplay between international structures, regional nuances and agency in shaping Persian Gulf geopolitics.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2026AIDS in Soviet Russia
A story of deception, despair and hope
by Rustam Alexander
The first book to tell the shocking story of the AIDS crisis in Soviet Russia. Throughout the 1980s, as the world was grappling with the escalating crisis of AIDS, Soviet Russia continued to deny there was a problem. Arguing that the disease was limited to foreigners and 'immoral' groups, the government failed to take meaningful action, long past the point other countries had begun to recognise the full scale of the threat. In this ground-breaking book, Rustam Alexander tells the story of AIDS in Soviet Russia. Fixated on disinformation, censorship and the persecution of marginalised communities, the Soviet authorities wasted precious time, allowing the epidemic to strike at the very heart of the nation: its children. Yet, despite the government's failure, a number of brave journalists, doctors and nascent gay groups decided to take matters into their own hands and engage in full-fledged AIDS activism. Tracing the political and social response to AIDS in the final years of the Soviet era, Alexander sheds light on the devastating consequences of government inaction. He draws on personal stories, media reports and archival materials to provide a riveting account of the Russian people's fight against AIDS amid the tumultuous transformations of Gorbachev's perestroika.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017
The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914
by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Rob David
The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.
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Basic Stimulation in Nursing
by Christel Bienstein
This bestselling title is a practical handbook on the concept of basic stimulation in nursing and its application for patients suffering from perceptional deficits, developmental delays and mental handicaps. It enables nurses to develop, improve and stabilize physically and mentally handicapped people with impaired perceptional, communicative and motor skills. Target Group: Nurses
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2026The love of books
Attachment to a changing cultural object
by María Angélica Thumala Olave
The Love of Books examines the affective bond between people and books in the UK. In the context of the unprecedented abundance of media offering information, storytelling and entertainment, it investigates the attachment to print and digital books amongst readers from a range of backgrounds who read for pleasure, wish to be surrounded by print copies of books, and have trouble discarding books. Unlike existing research, which focuses on prestige, social status, and cultural capital, this study centres on meaning, materiality and emotion. Drawing on interviews and archive material, it shows how attachment emerges from the practical fusion of three elements that have so far been examined separately: the material, surface properties of books, the act of reading, and books' symbolic power.
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MedicineEthics in Nursing Training
by Marianne Rabe
Although the importance of ethics is often stressed, it remains sidelined in training. Marianne Rabe makes ethics and ethical reflection the focus of nursing practice and training. Her study - presents the theoretical principles of formative learning and explores how it can be put into practice - puts forward practical curriculum suggestions for incorporating ethics into nurse training - shows how to address the ethical principles of dignity, autonomy, care, justice, responsibility, and dialogue within the framework of a teaching concept - presents Rabe’s own model of ethical reflection based on her personal experience. Target Group: Nursing trainers, lecturers
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2010Orangism in the Dutch Republic in word and image, 1650–75
by Jill Stern, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy
This remarkable study represents a completely original presentation of the language and imagery used by the Orangists in the critical period in the mid-seventeenth century Netherlands as they sought the restoration of the stadholderate in the person of the young prince William III. Stern argues that the Orangists had no desire for the prince to become a monarch, rather that they viewed the stadholderate as an essential component of the Dutch constitution, the Union of Utrecht, and fulfilling a key role as defender of the rights and privileges of the citizenry against an overwheening urban oligarchy. Source material is drawn not only from books and political pamphlets but also from contemporary drama, poetry, portraits, prints, and medals. This enables the author to examine the imagery used by the supporters of the House of Orange, in particular the symbols of rebirth and regeneration which were deployed to propagate the restoration of the stadholderate in the person of William III. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2026Rodrigo Ximenez de Rada’s Minor Histories
by Aymenn Al-Tamimi
This work provides the first complete English translation of works by Toledan archbishop Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada (1170-1247 CE), whose 'Minor Histories' are sequels to his larger 'Gothic History' and thus round off his grand history of Spain project that he began at the request of King Ferdinand III. The 'Minor Histories' include Rodrigo's 'History of the Arabs' that can be considered the first surviving Western monograph focused on Arab and Islamic history and thus occupies a unique position in the medieval Latin corpus of writings. In addition to the translation, this book provides a thorough and accessible introduction to the life and works of Rodrigo, making sense of the context in which he wrote and his historical method. The translations are thoroughly annotated including cross-references to other Latin and Arabic sources for comparison.
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January 1990Iranian Jewry during Afghan Invasion
The Kitab-i Sar Guzasht-i Kashan of Babai b. Farhad
by Moreen, Vera B.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2025Serfdom in medieval England
Theory and practice 1200 to 1500
by Mark Bailey
Serfdom was a coercive relationship between a landowner and peasant, which was widespread across medieval and early modern Europe. Itfeatures prominently in major historical debates, such as the origins of capitalism and the divergent pathways of western and eastern Europe to modernity. Scholars have paid particular attention to English serfdom, which is usually portrayed as highly oppressive and a major cause of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381. This comprehensive survey draws on a vast scholarship and new research to show how, in reality, English serfdom was weak, casting new light on the nature of its society and economy when the Black Death struck in 1348-9. The pandemicnow assumesa central role in the rapid decline of serfdom, as illustrated in a case study of the estate of one of England's harshest landowners, St Albans abbey.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2023
Border images, border narratives
The political aesthetics of boundaries and crossings
by Johan Schimanski, Jopi Nyman
This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced scholars in the field, Border images, border narratives provides fresh insight into how borders, borderscapes, and migration are imagined and narrated in public and private spheres. Offering new ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border and its ambiguities, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the methodological renewal of border studies and presents ways of discussing cultural representations of borders and related processes. Influenced by the thinking of philosopher Jacques Rancière, this timely volume argues that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes. The contributions analyse narratives and images in literary texts, political and popular imagery, surveillance data, border art, and documentaries, as well as problems related to borderland identities, migration, and trauma. The case studies provide a highly comparative range of geographical contexts ranging from Northern Europe and Britain, via Mediterranean and Mexican-USA borderlands, to Chinese borderlands from the perspectives of critical theory, literary studies, social anthropology, media studies, and political geography.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2026
Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas
by Linda Levy Peck, Adrianna E. Bakos
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February 2018Sommerby 1. Ein Sommer in Sommerby
by Kirsten Boie, Verena Körting
In "Ein Sommer in Sommerby" von Kirsten Boie werden die zwölfjährige Martha und ihre jüngeren Brüder Mats und Mikkel unverhofft in ein ländliches Abenteuer verstrickt, als sie ihre Ferien bei der unkonventionellen Großmutter verbringen müssen. Diese lebt in einem abgeschiedenen Haus ohne moderne Annehmlichkeiten wie Telefon oder Internet, dafür aber umgeben von Hühnern, einem Motorboot und bewaffnet mit einem Gewehr für den Fall ungebetener Gäste. Was zunächst als ein langweiliger Zwangsaufenthalt erscheint, entpuppt sich schnell als eine Zeit voller Entdeckungen und Zusammenhalt, als die Idylle durch äußere Bedrohungen ins Wanken gerät. Die Kinder lernen, was im Leben wirklich zählt, und entdecken die Werte von Freundschaft, Familie und einem bewussten Umgang mit der Natur. Kirsten Boie gelingt es, mit "Ein Sommer in Sommerby" eine Geschichte zu weben, die zeitlos und warmherzig ist, dabei aber auch wichtige Themen wie Achtsamkeit in der Natur, das Miteinander über Generationen hinweg und die wahre Bedeutung von Freundschaft und Zusammenhalt behandelt. Die Erzählung erinnert in ihrer Art an die idyllischen Geschichten Astrid Lindgrens und spricht damit nicht nur junge Leserinnen und Leser an, sondern auch Erwachsene, die sich nach einem Gegenpol zur schnelllebigen und digitalen Welt sehnen. Boies Talent, komplexe Themen kindgerecht und spannend zu vermitteln, macht dieses Buch zu einem wertvollen Begleiter für die ganze Familie. Zeitlose Erzählung: Eine warmherzige Geschichte für Kinder ab 10 Jahren, die an die Klassiker von Astrid Lindgren erinnert und Generationen verbindet. Abenteuer und Naturverbundenheit: Ein lebendiges Plädoyer für den achtsamen Umgang mit der Natur und die Schönheit des einfachen Lebens auf dem Land. Starke Charaktere und emotionale Tiefe: Durch die authentischen und liebevoll gezeichneten Charaktere entsteht eine Geschichte mit Herz, die zum Nachdenken anregt. Spannung und Humor: Geschickt verwebt Kirsten Boie Abenteuer und Spaß mit ernsten Themen, ohne dabei belehrend zu wirken. Ideal für die ganze Familie: Eignet sich hervorragend zum Vorlesen und gemeinsamen Lesen, fördert das Gespräch über Werte und den Umgang miteinander. Mehr als nur Unterhaltung: Neben der spannenden Handlung bietet das Buch Anstöße, über den eigenen Lebensstil und den Wert von Gemeinschaft und Natur nachzudenken. Der Dein SPIEGEL-Bestseller, auch gelistet bei Antolin. Alle Bände der Reihe: Band 1: Ein Sommer in Sommerby Band 2: Zurück in Sommerby Band 3: Für immer Sommerby Band 4: Am schönsten ist es in Sommerby Zusätzlich erschienen ist das Koch- und Erlebnisbuch "Sehnsucht nach Sommerby" mit norddeutschen Rezepten und Ausflugstipps in der Schlei-Region - eine perfekte Ergänzung zur Kinderbuch-Bestsellerreihe.
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MedicineHumor in Psychiatric Care
by Jonathan Gutmann
How can humor be used to engage with and help people suffering from mental illness? This practical handbook explains the concept of humor in psychiatric treatment and sets out the case for employing it. The author outlines how nurses can assess who might benefit from the use of humor and for whom it would be out of place, and provides a toolkit of humorous interventions for daily nursing practice. Target Group: Practicing nurses, psychiatric nurses, care clowns
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July 2024Der kleine Fuchs in der großen Stadt
by Carla Häfner, Anja Grote
Zuhause in der pulsierenden Stadt Der kleine Fuchs lebt nicht im Wald, sondern in der Großstadt. Hier fahren Straßenbahnen und Busse, hier gibt es viele Menschen und Hunde. Der kleine Fuchs hat in der Stadt seine Heimat gefunden. Tagsüber schläft er gut versteckt in einem Gebüsch. Er spielt mit dem Ball auf dem Spielplatz, trinkt Wasser aus dem Brunnen auf dem Marktplatz und stibitzt Essen aus den Mülleimern zwischen den Hochhäusern. Ob er auch heimlich in den Bus einsteigt? Das Pappbilderbuch für Kinder ab 2 Jahren erzählt eine spannende Geschichte über Tiere in der Stadt. Sein fröhlich gereimter Text und die plakativen Illustrationen lassen den Alltag eines Fuchses lebendig werden, der in einer pulsierenden Stadt lebt. Das niedliche Tierbuch zeigt auf charmante Weise, wie Wildtiere in der Stadt leben und sich an die Menschen anpassen. Ein aktuelles Thema – warmherzig und altersgerecht verpackt! Der kleine Fuchs in der großen Stadt: So leben Tiere in der Stadt Ein tierisches Stadtabenteuer: Liebevoll gereimtes Bilderbuch für Kinder ab 2 Jahren über wilde Tiere in der Stadt. Für kleine Tierliebhaber*innen: Das kindgerechte Tierbuch erzählt vom Leben eines Fuchses in der Großstadt und weckt die Neugier auf die Natur und unsere tierischen Nachbarn in den Städten. Lehrreich und unterhaltsam: Die Vorlesegeschichte vom Fuchs in der Stadt zeigt Kindern, wie Anpassungsfähigkeit funktioniert und wie Wildtiere in urbanen Umgebungen leben. Wunderschön geschrieben: Der liebevoll gereimte Text von Carla Häfner eignet sich perfekt zum Vorlesen. In einer Stadt voller Leben mit Straßenbahnen, Bussen, Hochhäusern, Spielplätzen und Menschen meistert der kleine Fuchs sein urbanes Dasein mit Bravour. Eine hinreißende Vorlesegeschichte voller Empathie und Abenteuer, die kleinen Tierfans ab 2 Jahren zeigt, wie Füchse und andere Wildtiere als ihre Nachbarn in der Stadt leben.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan
The cult of the Two Grand Elders
by Fabian Graham
In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy drawn from the Buddhist, Taoist and vernacular pantheons. Under the watchful eye of Hell's 'enforcers', the lower echelons of demon soldiers impose post-mortal punishments on the souls of the recently deceased for moral transgressions committed during their prior incarnations. Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan offers an ethnography of contemporary Chinese Underworld traditions, where night-time cemetery rituals assist the souls of the dead, exorcised spirits are imprisoned in Guinness bottles, and malicious foetus ghosts are enlisted to strengthen a temple's spirit army. Understanding the religious divergences between Singapore and Malaysia (and their counterparts in Taiwan) through an analysis of socio-political and historical events, Fabian Graham challenges common assumptions about the nature and scope of Chinese vernacular religious beliefs and practices. Graham's innovative approach to alterity allows the reader to listen to first-person dialogues between the author and channelled Underworld deities. Through its alternative methodological and narrative stance, the book intervenes in debates on the interrelation between sociocultural and spiritual worlds, and promotes the destigmatisation of spirit possession and discarnate phenomena in the future study of mystical and religious traditions.
