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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2024

How to be multiple

The philosophy of twins

by Helena de Bres, Julia de Bres

In How to be multiple, Helena de Bres - a twin herself - argues that twinhood is a unique lens for examining our place in the world and how we relate to other people. The way we think about twins offers remarkable insights into some of the deepest questions of our existence, from what is a person? to how should we treat one another? Deftly weaving together literary and cultural history, philosophical enquiry and personal experience, de Bres examines such thorny issues as binary thinking, objectification, romantic love and friendship, revealing the limits of our individualistic perspectives. In this illuminating, entertaining book, wittily illustrated by her twin sister, de Bres ultimately suggests that to consider twinhood is to imagine the possibility of a more interconnected, capacious human future.

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Literature & Literary Studies

April 2026

The poetry of suicide

Lessons in grief from the lives and deaths of poets

by J. T. Welsch

A profound exploration of the connection between poetry and suicide. 'Suicides have a special language,' Anne Sexton wrote in her 1964 poem 'Wanting to Die'. But is it a language we can learn to read? In The poetry of suicide, J. T. Welsch interweaves stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, searching for a new way of understanding these difficult deaths. Beginning with Hamlet's 'To be or not to be?', he delves into the work of Dante, Sylvia Plath, Vladimir Mayakovsky and others, asking what it can teach us about suicide's messy reality. Suicide is more like poetry than we realise, Welsch argues. Both are filled with ambiguities, contradictions and unknowable intentions. Both demand and resist interpretation. Recovering the personal dimension often lost in our medicalised public discourse, Welsch finds practical ways of confronting suicide's poem-like difficulties.

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September 2023

Being Able to Stop

Against the delusion of permanent growth

by Edited by Jean-Pierre Wils

We moderns were the inhabitants of an age of impetuous forward movement and voracious discontent. Our main virtue was to increase our reach. Increasing our having and accelerating our being were the signposts towards the future. We just could not get enough. Using the blinkers of ignorance and self-anaesthesia, however, we managed to forget the tremendous costs incurred by this intoxication. Now disillusionment has set in. We look to the future with anxiety. We know that we have long since crossed a line and that a revision of our lifestyle is imminent. We have a bad feeling, and doubts about progress often give way to anger and rebellion. Which stocks of the modern narrative should we defend; which would we do better to let go? How will we even "be able to stop"? The path to a different society needs an attractive goal, because without the prospect of a different, better life, we will not move forward. We should start practising immediately. There is no time to lose.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2026

Make cheese not war

Transnational resistance and the Larzac in modern France

by Andrew W. M. Smith

In 1971, the French government announced a massive extension of its military base on the Larzac plateau in southern France. Land was to be expropriated from 107 farms around the small town of La Cavalerie. Limited resistance was expected, but what happened next exceeded all expectations. Local sheep farmers set up protest camps and occupied the land. They soon attracted an astonishing level of support, pioneering a form of regional radicalism with global implications. Drawing out the international dimensions of the protest, Make cheese not war explores a transnational resistance movement in the 1970s that challenged dominant visions of modernity and became a wellspring of radical alternatives. Exploring previously unconsulted archives in France and elsewhere, the book offers an in-depth analysis of the decade-long peasant movement and its aftermath. Repositioning the Larzac struggle within a wider network of French and international solidarities, from the US to the UK, Germany, Burkina Faso, New Caledonia and Japan, the book retraces political networks of pacifist activism, as well as environmental movements and anti-nuclear protest. It shows how this French peasant campaign became both a platform and a model for popular engagement.

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Medicine

Proud to be a Nurse

The Encouragement Book

by German Quernheim, Angelika Zegelin

This book demonstrates the importance of professional pride for carers in training, teaching and practice. The authors explain which mechanisms and strategies help to develop this attitude. They describe the facets of professional pride as identity, individuality, passion, courage, selfworth, meaningfulness, knowledge, and education. The contents provide a boost to professional carers and give them the courage to be proactive against chronic pressures and ethical dilemmas and to change situations that are undignifed. Occupational profles and practice reports offer specifc role models and tips for implementation. The authors convey the basics of lobbying activity in the caring professions. They show carers how to represent themselves successfully and how to convey and embody selfconfdence outwardly.

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The Arts

January 2019

The secret life of romantic comedy

by Celestino Deleyto

The secret life of romantic comedy offers a new approach to one of the most popular and resilient genres in the history of Hollywood. Steering away from the rigidity and ideological determinism of traditional accounts of the genre, this book advocates a more flexible theory, which allows the student to explore the presence of the genre in unexpected places, extending the concept to encompass films that are not usually considered romantic comedies. Combining theory with detailed analyses of a selection of films, including To Be or Not to Be (1942), Rear Window (1954), Kiss Me Stupid (1964), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Before Sunset (2004), the book aims to provide a practical framework for the exploration of a key area of contemporary experience - intimate matters - through one of its most powerful filmic representations: the genre of romantic comedy. Original and entertaining, The secret life of romantic comedy is perfect for students and academics of film and film genre.

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Biography & True Stories

November 2024

Walking in the dark

James Baldwin, my father and I

by Douglas Field

A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism. Since James Baldwin's death in 1987, his writing - including The Fire Next Time, one of the manifestoes of the Civil Rights Movement, and Giovanni's Room, a pioneering work of gay fiction - has only grown in relevance. Douglas Field was introduced to Baldwin's essays and novels by his father, who witnessed the writer's debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge University in 1965. In Walking in the dark, he embarks on a journey to unravel his life-long fascination and to understand why Baldwin continues to enthral us decades after his death. Tracing Baldwin's footsteps in France, the US and Switzerland, and digging into archives, Field paints an intimate portrait of the writer's life and influence. At the same time, he offers a poignant account of coming to terms with his father's Alzheimer's disease. Interweaving Baldwin's writings on family, illness, memory and place, Walking in the dark is an eloquent testament to the enduring power of great literature to illuminate our paths.

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August 2001

How to be Good

Roman

by Hornby, Nick / Übersetzer Drechsler, Clara; Übersetzer Hellmann, Harald

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Health & Personal Development

May 2016

How to Deal with Anxiety and Panic

by Michael Rufer, Heike Alsleben, Angela Weiss

Are you or a loved one suffering from anxiety and panic and you are wondering what you can do? To whom you can turn? What the options for treatment are? And how relatives can help? This self-help book gives affected people and their relatives: • clear and comprehensive information based on up-to-date research findings • concrete self-help strategies and exercises with worksheets • descriptions of recognized treatment methods • instructions on coping with stress and using relaxation techniques • detailed answers to frequently asked questions • a helpful list of useful contacts and websites • an idea of how mindfulness can be incorporated. The authors have first-hand knowledge of these problems from their extensive experience of counseling and treating people with anxiety disorders and their relatives. This book summarizes their knowledge in clear and comprehensible form. It is ideal both for self-help and to complement ongoing treatment. Target Group: affected people and their relatives and friends; psychologists, therapists, doctors, counseling centers.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2026

Rodrigo 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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September 2022

Identity or Not?

by Jean-Pierre Wils (ed.)

Questions of identity trigger controversial and highly emotional discussions in the political and social debate. The positions range from radically emancipatory perspectives to authoritarian and restorative efforts on the far right wing of politics. Liberal democracies are now opening up – slowly – as identity- and gender-sensitive forums. Opposite them are the 'new ethics' of illiberal democracies and totalitarian states that are aimed at ethnic homogeneity and gender uniformity. But that's not to say that there is unity in the liberal settings on the necessary degree of identity politics. Both language and gender politics are deeply controversial. Do we need an 'identity' and, if so, which one or how many? Can the identity debate be extended by means of other concepts?

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June 2008

Be happy, be fifty

50 gute Gründe, mit Freude 50 zu werden

by Schönberger, Margit

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2018

We shall not be moved

by Brian Marren

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Literature & Literary Studies

September 2025

James Baldwin Review

by Douglas Field, Justin Joyce, Dwight McBride

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February 2010

Don't worry, be sixty

Plötzlich bist du 60 - und entdeckst die Welt ganz neu

by Schönberger, Margit

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March 2013

Don't worry, be Oldie

Endlich nichts mehr müssen müssen

by Schönberger, Margit

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February 2006

Don't worry, be fifty

Plötzlich bist du 50 - und die Welt ist voller Möglichkeiten

by Schönberger, Margit

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April 2010

Don't worry, be German

Ein Ami wird deutsch

by Doyle, John

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Till Stress Do Us Part

Resilience in Relationships

by Guy Bodenmann

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The Arts

March 2026

Acting and performance in Hitchcock

by Adrian Garvey, Victoria Lowe

Hitchcock's professed disdain for actors is belied by the extraordinary range and depth of performances featured in his films. It might even be argued that many stars gave their richest and most complex performances in his work. Hitchcock's films are also imbued with the theme of performance, as when his fugitive men and errant women assume fragile new identities and move between roles. Actors and other performers also often feature as characters. However, the exhaustive academic literature on Hitchcock has to date produced surprisingly little work about acting and performance in his films. The collection includes contributions from a range of leading scholars on Hitchcock, performance, stardom, and British Cinema, including Charles Barr, David Greven, Mark Glancy, Lucy Bolton, Lawrence Napper and Michael Williams, and an interview with leading composers/accompanists Neil Brand and Stephen Horne on scoring performance in Silent Hitchcock.

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The philosophy of twins

by Helena de Bres, Julia de Bres

Lessons in grief from the lives and deaths of poets

by J. T. Welsch

Against the delusion of permanent growth

by Edited by Jean-Pierre Wils

Transnational resistance and the Larzac in modern France

by Andrew W. M. Smith

The Encouragement Book

by German Quernheim, Angelika Zegelin

by Celestino Deleyto

James Baldwin, my father and I

by Douglas Field

Roman

by Hornby, Nick / Übersetzer Drechsler, Clara; Übersetzer Hellmann, Harald

by Michael Rufer, Heike Alsleben, Angela Weiss

by Aymenn Al-Tamimi

by Jean-Pierre Wils (ed.)

50 gute Gründe, mit Freude 50 zu werden

by Schönberger, Margit

by Brian Marren

by Douglas Field, Justin Joyce, Dwight McBride

Plötzlich bist du 60 - und entdeckst die Welt ganz neu

by Schönberger, Margit

Endlich nichts mehr müssen müssen

by Schönberger, Margit

Plötzlich bist du 50 - und die Welt ist voller Möglichkeiten

by Schönberger, Margit

Ein Ami wird deutsch

by Doyle, John

Resilience in Relationships

by Guy Bodenmann

by Adrian Garvey, Victoria Lowe

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