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View Rights Portal“There is no Planet B!” More and more young people are worried about the future of Planet Earth. Climate change is heating not only the planet but also people’s emotions. But what exactly is climate? And why are the changes threatening the lives of both polar bears and us humans. In simple language but with solid science, the authors explain the most important aspects of climate, from the greenhouse effect to the Gulf Stream. Current developments are described as well, and the scientific background is supplemented by gripping reports. The book also offers a glimpse of the future: what will happen if we go on in the same way as now? How can climate change be halted? This makes for riveting reading – and not just for young activists.
Die überwiegende Mehrzahl der hier vereinigten 56 Geschichten bilden die Zaubermärchen, die novellenartigen und die Schwankmärchen, nicht zu vergessen die in Bengalen beliebten Schwanjungfraumärchen.
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
Evolution ist unaufhaltsam. Evolution ist unausweichlich. Sie macht vor niemandem Halt. Auch nicht vor uns … Mit letzten Kräften erreichen Lucie und ihre Freunde die Stadt der Überlebenden. Während Jem vor den Toren gegen angreifende Tiere kämpft, hofft Lucie im Inneren endlich Antworten zu finden. Doch im Schatten der Türme scheint das Mittelalter wieder aufgelebt zu sein: Wissenschaft gilt als schwarze Magie, Fragenstellen ist streng verboten. Als die Jugendlichen aus verbotenen Büchern erfahren, dass sie nicht die ersten Zeitreisenden sind, entlädt sich der Zorn des Burgherrn. Den Freunden bleibt nur die Flucht. Ihr Ziel: der einzige Ort, der noch Hoffnung verspricht ? die Oase der Zeitspringer. Aber der Weg dorthin führt durch gefährliche Sümpfe, mitten ins Land der Squids. Der mehrfach prämierte Autor Thomas Thiemeyer mit der Fortsetzung seiner erschreckend aktuellen Zukunfts-Trilogie: abwechslungsreich und fesselnd! Titel von Thomas Thiemeyer im Arena Verlag:Zefira. Es hätte sie nie geben dürfen.World Runner (1-2)Countdown. Der letzte WiderstandEvolution (1-3)
Georgien ist das Land der Märchen und Legenden, die Georgier sind für ihre Erzählfreudigkeit bekannt. Die Märchen, die durch die Verbindung von europäischen und orientalischen Motiven faszinieren, erzählen von der Sehnsucht des Volkes nach einem glücklichen Leben in Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit. Wir begegnen Helden von größter Kühnheit: Sie geben Tote dem Leben zurück, bezwingen grausame Drachen, wissen die Geliebte in fernsten landen zu finden, und der Tschonspieler betört, Orpheus gleich, mit zauberischen Melodien selbst den Herrscher über Leben und Tod, den schrecklichen Wächter des Baumes der Unsterblichkeit ... Dieser Band stellt die schönsten georgischen Märchen vor.
Scotland's past and future collide in this engaging journey through climate change, fossil capitalism and the struggle for a sustainable world. Scotland's history and future are entangled with climate change and the story of the modern world. This small country on the fringes of northern Europe pioneered fossil capitalism and played a key role in its spread across the planet. It is a living museum of the crisis of the west, of deindustrialisation, stagnation and the struggle to build a better future from the ashes. Journalist and sociologist Dominic Hinde travels from the treeless Highlands to the lowland cities, struggling to balance memories with aspiration. Through this journey he finds that his own sensory turmoil, shaped by recovery from a near fatal accident, mirrors the disarray of the fossil fuel transition - an uncertain passage between what was and what must be. Part memoir, part environmental history, part travelogue, this is a compelling narrative of connections - to place, energy and the possibility of renewal. Through the lens of one country, it asks a vital question: can the lessons of the past help us build a more sustainable future?
Where do we go when Nowhere is the only destination left? Kerrybrook is Jana‘s favourite virtual escape. An idyllic fishing village with beautiful nature and, every now and then, a breeze of fresh air from the nearby sea. Jana, is this world‘s designer and person in power, she’s satisfied with her masterpiece. Best job so far. Until one day, a dead body is found, in both, ’Virtual Reality‘ and the real world. In times of climate change, VR is the only safe place for humankind. That‘s why Jana needs to solve the crime, she’s responsible for stopping the destruction. • CliFi Thriller (Climate Fiction): Climate change & virtual reality • For fans of Black Mirror (Netflix) • All age readers • Strong, female protagonist • Highly relevant topic WHITE RAVENS recommendation (2021): "In the not too distant future, the world is an inhospitable place: droughts, storms, floods. That’s why world designers construct »alternative realities«, such as landscapes populated by dinosaurs, life at court in the Middle Ages, and surfing and chilling out on a beach. People can switch between these worlds at will and, when they die there, they are not truly dead; instead, they merely return to the »real world« – same as at night when they sleep. Then they are reunited with their body, which is lying inside a capsule. In »Cryptos«, Ursula Poznanski pulls out all the stops of storytelling: She embeds numerous references to human and intellectual history in an action-packed and extremely suspenseful thriller plot. In the process, she raises central existential and ontological questions that result from the interplay between the real and the virtual worlds. This complex dystopian novel is narrated in such an enjoyable way that readers will hardly notice their brains going into overdrive as they devour it."
Is gender implicated in how art does its work in the world created by global capital? Is a global imperative exclusive to capital's planetary expansion or also witnessed in oppositional practices in art and curating? And what is new in the gendered paradigms of art after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Angela Dimitrakaki addresses these questions in an insightful and highly original analysis of travel as artistic labour, the sexualisation of migration as a relationship between Eastern and Western Europe, the rise of female collectives, masculinity and globalisation's 'bad boys', the emergence of a gendered economic subject that has dethroned postmodernism, and the need for a renewed materialist feminism. This is a theoretically astute overview of developments in art and its contexts since the 1990s and the first study to attempt a critical refocusing of feminist politics in art history in the wake of globalisation. It will be essential reading in art history, gender, feminist and globalisation studies, curatorial theory, cultural studies and beyond. ;
"Rescue” has two fundamentally different “existential” dimensions. One is aimed at “saving” individual lives that are in danger. Firefighters, for instance, rescue people from fires, while the sea rescue services rescue shipwrecked people from the Mediterranean. The second dimension of “rescue”, on the other hand, concerns systems – think of the bailing out of banks, the euro or the climate disaster – and so points to a larger context that creates the conditions for “life” to even be possible, or at least to be preserved. The complex subject of this stringent essay is just to what extent politics enable or prevent “rescue attempts”, to what extent it understands its actions as “rescue actions”, and how decisively the “narrative”, i.e. the “talk of rescue”, ultimately dominates our entire understanding of politics.
Charkiw 1993. Sowjetische Kriegsveteranen und neureiche biznesmeny lauschen im Konzertsaal einem amerikanischen Erweckungsprediger. In ehemaligen Komsomolbüros der ostukrainischen Metropole residieren Werbeleute. Das Jugendradio bringt in Kooperation mit London ein Feature über die »irische Volksmusikgruppe Depeche Mode« und die Rolle der Mundharmonika beim Kampf gegen kapitalistische Unterdrückung. Durch diese hybride Szenerie irren drei Freunde – Dog Pawlow, Wasja Kommunist und der Ich-Erzähler Zhadan, neunzehn Jahre alt und arbeitslos –, um ihren Kumpel Sascha Zündkerze zu finden. Sie müssen ihm mitteilen, daß sich sein Stiefvater erschossen hat. Ihre Suche führt sie auf ein verfallendes Fabrikgelände, wo sie eine Molotow-Büste klauen, ins Roma-Viertel zu einem befreundeten Dealer und schließlich per Nahverkehrszug ins Pionierlager »Chemiker«, wo Zündkerze als Betreuer arbeitet. Depeche Mode, Zhadans erster Roman, führt mitten hinein in die Anarchie der postsowjetischen Umbruchszeit und entfaltet ihre enorme ästhetische Produktivkraft.
How much CO₂ is emitted by one serving of spaghetti bolognese? About 1.5 kilograms! This example shows what the meat industry and food logistics mean for the eco-balance of our food. But is it enough to switch to meat-free and dairy-free alternatives or local specialities? Dr. Malte Rubach takes a closer look and reviews our food regime and its impact on our climate. We live in a society influenced by technology and the rising consumption of resources. Rubach argues for a sensible attitude to food and shows what we can still eat with a clear conscience.
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.