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January 2025Legends of Askja 1. A Kiss of Ice and Blood
by Amy Erin Thyndal, Moon Notes
Mit schönem Farbschnitt in der Erstauflage – Lieferung je nach Verfügbarkeit Heiße Leidenschaft im ewigen Eis Im Inselkönigreich Askja herrschen ewiges Eis und ein fragiler Frieden zwischen den machthungrigen Menschen und den skrupellosen Magiewesen. Als die Eisdämonin Frin dem Prinzen Leif mit ihrem Kuss den Kältetod bringen will, zögert sie einen Atemzug zu lang und gerät stattdessen in seine Gefangenschaft. Leifs Vater sandte ihn aus, um ihm die magischen Wesen des Reiches zu bringen. Ein dunkles Ritual soll die Magie endgültig von Askja vertreiben und die ungeteilte Herrschaft der Menschen sichern. In den düsteren Kerkergewölben kommen sich Frin und Leif näher und merken, dass die Eisdämonin mehr mit dem Königssohn verbindet, als die beiden für möglich gehalten hätten … Legends of Askja 1. A Kiss of Ice and Blood: Eine epische Fantasy Romance um Liebe, Macht und Magie Heiße Leidenschaft und eisige Kälte: Spicy Romantasy über Liebe, Machtspiele und Selbstfindung für Leser*innen ab 16 Jahren. Vielschichtige Charaktere: Eisdämonin Frin und Königssohn Leif verstricken sich in ein Netz aus Anziehung, Feindschaft und dunkler Vergangenheit. Spannend und mitreißend: New Adult-Buch mit den beliebten Tropes „forbidden love" und „morally grey characters“. Verbotene Liebe im ewigen Eis: Die mitreißende Romantasy begeistert alle, die Fantasy Romance-Bücher mit vielschichtigen Figuren, dramatischen Wendungen und einem Hauch Magie lieben.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2025Understanding baby loss
by Kate Reed, Julie Ellis, Elspeth Whitby
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2024Peace and the politics of memory
by Annika Björkdahl, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Stefanie Kappler, Johanna Mannergren Selimovic, Timothy Williams
This important book provides new understandings of how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. It does so by developing a theoretical approach focusing on the intersection of sites, agency, narratives, and events in memory-making. Drawing on rich empirical studies of mnemonic formations in Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, South Africa and Cambodia, the book speaks to a broad audience. The in-depth, cross-case analysis shows that inclusivity, pluralism, and dignity in memory politics are key to the construction of a just peace. The book contributes crucial and timely knowledge about societies that grapple with the painful legacies of the past and advances the study of memory and peace.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2025Industrial memory in North East England
Negotiating northernness
by Victoria Allen
Industrial memory in North East England examines how the region's industrial myth and memory have been articulated in the renegotiation of northernness. The book offers a critical contextualisation of the concept of northernness and the English North, and an introduction to the concept of the PopCultural Portfolio, a mixed-methods approach to conjunctural analysis in cultural and memory studies. The book provides six richly illustrated case studies to demonstrate the practical application of cultural studies' expansive and inclusive understanding of texts, bringing together materials from North East football, folk, indie and exhibition culture to establish how the North East's industrial past continues to be remembered and functionalised as industrial memory. In turn, the conjunctural analysis demonstrates how industrial memory is articulated and mythologised as north(east)ernes in contemporary popular culture.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2021Passing into the present
Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing
by Sinead Moynihan
This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of passing in fiction by Phillip Roth, Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, Jeffrey Eugenides and Paul Beatty, by arguing meta-critical and meta-fictional tool. These writers are attracted to the trope of passing because passing narratives have always foregrounded the notion of textuality in relation to the (il)legibility of "black" subjects passing as white. The central argument of this book, then, is that contemporary narratives of passing are concerned with articulating and unpacking an analogy between passing and authorship. The title promises to inaugurate dialogue on the relationships between passing, postmodernism and authorship in contemporary American fiction.
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MedicineOctober 2024
Eradicating deafness?
Genetics, pathology, and diversity in twentieth-century America
by Marion Andrea Schmidt
Is deafness a disability to be prevented or the uniting trait of a cultural community to be preserved? Combining the history of eugenics and genetics with deaf and disability history, this book traces how American heredity researchers moved from trying to eradicate deafness to embracing it as a valuable cultural diversity. It looks at how deafness came to be seen as a hereditary phenomenon at all, how eugenics became part of progressive reform at schools for the deaf, and how, from the 1950s on, more sociocultural approaches to disability and minority led to new cooperative projects between professionals and local signing deaf communities. Analysing the transformative effects of exchange between researchers and objects of research, this book offers new insight to changing ideas about medical ethics, reproductive rights, the meaning of scientific progress and cultural diversity.
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May 2016Blackout
Die Nächte, an die ich mich nicht erinnern kann, sind die Nächte, die ich nie vergessen werde
by Hepola, Sarah
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August 2018Blackout Island
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by Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir, Tina Flecken
Was passiert, wenn ein ganzes Land plötzlich von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten ist? Die Ressourcen knapp werden? Nicht alle überleben können? Die Menschen zu Selbstversorgern werden, Eltern ihre Kinder suchen, die in Banden hungernd durchs Land irren. Milizen marodieren. Bürgerkriegsähnliche Verhältnisse herrschen. In einem abgelegenen isländischen Fjord lebt der ehemalige Journalist Hjalti aus Reykjavik unter primitiven Bedingungen auf dem alten Hof seines Großvaters. Er versorgt die Schafe, bewirtschaftet das karge Land und lebt von dem, was er dem Boden und dem Meer abtrotzt. Gesellschaft leistet ihm neben den Schafen nur noch sein Hund. Hjalti führt einen harten Kampf ums Überleben, denn Island ist seit geraumer Zeit von der Außenwelt abgeschottet, seine Lebensgefährtin Maria und deren Kinder von ihm getrennt, ihr Schicksal ungewiss. An den langen, einsamen Abenden protokolliert er die Ereignisse, die zu dieser Situation geführt und die ehrgeizige Innenministerin Elín Olafsdottir dazu gezwungen haben, den Ausnahmezustand auszurufen.
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January 2019Blackout - Hideout - Timeout / Hide*Out
Black*Out-Trilogie
by Eschbach, Andreas
Hunderttausende Menschen, die im Gleichtakt denken, handeln, fühlen: Das ist die Kohärenz, die größte Bedrohung der Menschheit. Nur der 17-jährige Christopher, einst der berühmteste Hacker der Welt, wagt es, den Kampf mit dieser gigantischen Macht aufzunehmen. Als die Gruppe um den Visionär Jeremiah Jones auffliegt, bei der Christopher Zuflucht gesucht hat, können er und Jones’ Tochter Serenity in letzter Sekunde fliehen. Doch dann stellt Christopher zu seinem Entsetzen fest, dass er es mit einem ganz besonderen Gegner zu tun hat - einem Feind in seinem eigenen Kopf …
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2026
Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature
by Nicholas Taylor-Collins
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2021Loyalty, memory and public opinion in England, 1658–1727
by Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda, Edward Vallance
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2025Bordering social reproduction
Migrant mothers and children making lives in the shadows
by Rachel Rosen, Eve Dickson
Bordering social reproduction explores what happens when migrants subject to policies that seek to deny them the means of life nonetheless endeavour to make and sustain meaningful lives. Developing innovative theorisations of welfare bordering, the volume provides rich ethnographic insights into the everyday lives of destitute mothers and children who are denied mainstream welfare support in the United Kingdom due to their immigration status. This book shows how enforced destitution and debt work alongside detention and deportation as part of a tripartite of exclusionary technologies of the racial state. It advances the novel concept of weathering to comprehend mother's and children's life-making practices under duress - arguing that these are neither acts of heroic resilience nor solely symptomatic of lives rendered disposable, but indications of the fragilities of repressive migration regimes and, on occasion, refusals to accept their terms of existence.
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