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      • Regio Ltd.

        Regio has nearly 30 years of experience in the publication of maps and atlases of all kinds, which have been internationally recognised and awarded on numerous occasions. Regio has two main fields of activity: mapping and geospatial data. We design accurate, up-to-date maps at all scales and for all purposes. In addition to printed maps we provide maps for internet applications, GPS and mobile devices. We are flexible and will assist you in the planning, consultation anddevelopment of all cartographic products. In geospatial data area Regio owns and maintains the most detailed geospatial database of Estonia and the Baltic States, including buildings, address data, points of interest, land cover, road network and navigation datasets.

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      • University of Regina Press

        University of Regina Press is located on Treaty 4 Territory, the traditional lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, and Assiniboine, and the homelands of the Métis. A little house on the prairie with big ambitions, University of Regina Press (URP) publishes books that matter--in both academic and trade formats. Our non-fiction trade books tend towards the hard-hitting, while most of our scholarly titles are accessible to non-specialists. We endeavour to develop writers into public intellectuals, encourage debate, and inspire young people to study the humanities by publishing books that are both seen and relevant.  Since our launch in 2013, University of Regina Press has published seven national bestsellers:  After the War: Surviving PTSD and Changing Mental Health Culture by Stéphane Grenier, with Adam Montgomery (2018) Speaking in Cod Tongues: A Culinary Journey by Lenore Newman (2017) Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (And Yours) by Harold Johnson (2016) Otto & Daria: A Wartime Journey into No Man's Land by Eric Koch (2016) The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir by Joseph Auguste Merasty, with David Carpenter (2015) Children of the Broken Treaty by Charlie Angus (2015) Clearing the Plains by James Daschuk (2014)

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2024

        The machinic city

        Media, performance and participation

        by Marcos P. Dias

        As human and machine agency become increasingly intermingled and digital media is overlaid onto the urban landscape, The machinic city argues that performance art can help us to understand contemporary urban living. Dias analyses interventions from performance artists such as Blast Theory, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Rimini Protokoll, which draw from a rich history of avant-garde art movements to create spaces for deliberation and reflection on urban life, and speculation on its future. While cities are increasingly controlled by autonomous processes mediated by technical machines, Dias analyses the performative potential of the aesthetic machine, as it assembles with media, capitalist, human and urban machines. The aesthetic machine of performance art in urban space is examined through its different components - design, city and technology actants. This unveils the unpredictable nature and emerging potential of performance art as it unfolds in the machinic city.

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        December 2003

        Die Wunder der Welt

        Il Milione

        by Marco Polo, Elise Guignard, Elise Guignard

        Die Begegnung zwischen Orient und Okzident bedeutet nicht zwangsläufig einen »Kampf der Kulturen«, sondern war und ist auch oft eine friedliche Begegnung mit wechselseitiger Faszination. Anläßlich des 750jährigen Geburtstages von Marco Polo kann man sich davon erneut durch seinen Reisebericht Die Wunder der Welt überzeugen – einem der ältesten und einflußreichsten seiner Art. Auch die jüngsten wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzungen über das Ob und Wann von Marco Polos Chinareise haben dem Zauber des Textes nichts anhaben können, nichts seinem Geist von Offenheit, Neugier und Toleranz dem Fremden gegenüber. Kein Mensch des Mittelalters hatte wohl so viel von der Welt gesehen wie der Kaufmann Marco Polo. Seine Reisen führten ihn quer durch Asien, sei es gemeinsam mit seinem Vater oder im Auftrag des Großkhans Kublai, mit dem Polo eine kulturübergreifende Freundschaft verband und an dessen Hof in der Nähe des heutigen Peking Polo mehrere Jahre verbrachte. Er besuchte u. a. Persien, Pamir, die Turkvölker entlang der Seidenstraße, China, Südostasien, Ceylon, Indien und Kleinasien. Darüber hinaus sammelte Polo soviel Informationen wie möglich, auch über Länder, die er nicht bereisen konnte. So entstand kein reines Sachbuch, sondern eine Mischung aus Reisebericht, Reiseführer, Unterhaltungsroman und Abenteuergeschichte, in der Märchenhaftes und gewissenhafte Dokumentation sich durchdringen. Es waren jedoch nicht, wie man meinen könnte, die kolportierten Berichte über Fabelwesen, böse Geister und Monster, die Polos Zeitgenossen am unglaubwürdigsten erschienen, sondern diejenigen über Papiergeld, über Porzellan, Kohle, Nudeln und Eiscreme. Gleichwohl diente das Buch über Jahrhunderte hinweg vielen immer wieder als Inspiration, u. a. Christoph Kolumbus, der Die Wunder der Welt auf seiner »Indien«-Reise bei sich hatte.

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        June 2016

        Unter dem blauen Himmel Roms

        Neue Streifzüge durch die Ewige Stadt

        by Marco Lodoli, Gundl Hradil

        Marco Lodoli führt Sie in ein Rom jenseits der Touristenführer, eine Stadt in der Stadt, die unzählige magische Momente bereithält. In zartem Morgenlicht und tiefster Nacht, in strömendem Regen und Sonnenschein flaniert Lodoli durch seine Geburtsstadt und entdeckt bisher Unentdecktes. Er erklärt, was es mit Berninis kleinem Elefanten auf sich hat, erzählt von »sprechenden Statuen« und einem Olivenbaum, auf dem drei weitere Bäume wachsen, und stößt auf allerlei Kostbarkeiten bei einem Streifzug durch die quirligen Marktstände von Val Melaina. In stimmungsvollen Texten, »lang genug, um für einen Moment in der Ewigkeit zu verweilen«, erweist Marco Lodoli seiner Heimatstadt eine Hommage und bezaubert den Leser mit seiner Begeisterung. Denn auch wenn er Rom wie kein Zweiter kennt: Lodoli gerät stets aufs Neue ins Staunen über die Bewohner und die einzigartige Atmosphäre der Ewigen Stadt.

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        June 2016

        Unter dem blauen Himmel Roms

        Neue Streifzüge durch die Ewige Stadt

        by Marco Lodoli, Gundl Nagl

        Marco Lodoli führt Sie in ein Rom jenseits der Touristenführer, eine Stadt in der Stadt, die unzählige magische Momente bereithält. In zartem Morgenlicht und tiefster Nacht, in strömendem Regen und Sonnenschein flaniert Lodoli durch seine Geburtsstadt und entdeckt bisher Unentdecktes. Er erklärt, was es mit Berninis kleinem Elefanten auf sich hat, erzählt von »sprechenden Statuen« und einem Olivenbaum, auf dem drei weitere Bäume wachsen, und stößt auf allerlei Kostbarkeiten bei einem Streifzug durch die quirligen Marktstände von Val Melaina. In stimmungsvollen Texten, »lang genug, um für einen Moment in der Ewigkeit zu verweilen«, erweist Marco Lodoli seiner Heimatstadt eine Hommage und bezaubert den Leser mit seiner Begeisterung. Denn auch wenn er Rom wie kein Zweiter kennt: Lodoli gerät stets aufs Neue ins Staunen über die Bewohner und die einzigartige Atmosphäre der Ewigen Stadt.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2021

        Disciplined agency

        Neoliberal precarity, generational dispossession and call centre labour in Portugal

        by Patrícia Alves de Matos

        Since the mid-2000s, the harsh reality of call centre employment for a generation of young workers in Portugal has been impossible to ignore. With its endless rows of small cubicles, where human agents endure repetitive telephone conversations with abusive clients under invasive modes of technological surveillance, discipline and control, call centre work remains a striking symbol of labour precarity, a condition particularly associated with the neoliberal generational disenchantment that 'each generation does better than its predecessor'. This book describes the emergence of a regime of disciplined agency in the Portuguese call centre sector. Examining the ascendancy of call centres as icons of precarity in contemporary Portugal, this book argues that call centre labour constitutes a new form of commodification of the labouring subject. De Matos argues that call centres represent an advanced system of non-manual labour power exploitation, due to the underestimation of human creativity that lies at the centre of the regimented structures of call centre labour. Call centres can only guarantee profit maintenance, de Matos argues, through the commodification of the human agency arising from the operators' moral, relational and social embedded agentive linguistic interventions of creative improvisation, decision-making, problem-solving and ethical evaluation.

      • Trusted Partner
        July 2025

        Baby-Universität - Blockchain für Babys

        Informatik kinderleicht erklärt! - Über Bitcoin, NFTs und Kryptowährungen - Wissen zum Verschenken für kleine und große Forschende

        by Chris Ferrie, Marco Tomamichel, Chris Ferrie, Christoph Gondrom

        Einfache Erklärungen großer Erkenntnisse für kleine und große Genies! Baby-Universität: Man braucht nur einen Funken, um die Vorstellungskraft eines Kindes zu entfachen. Chris Ferrie ist preisgekrönter Physiker und Vater von vier angehenden jungen Wissenschaftlern. Er ist der Meinung, dass man Kinder gar nicht früh genug mit den Wundern der Wissenschaft vertraut machen kann. Marco Tomamichel ist Informatiker und Physiker. Er ist fasziniert davon, wie die Quantenmechanik unsere Informationsverarbeitung verändern kann. Seine Begeisterung für die Blockchain möchte Marco mit seinem Sohn und allen anderen Babys da draußen teilen! Es ist niemals zu früh, ein Genie zu werden! Blockchain für Babys ist eine heitere und verständliche Einführung in die Technologie hinter Bitcoin , NFTs & Co. Kleinkinder (und Erwachsene!) erfahren, wie die Blockchain funktioniert und warum sie geeignet ist, digitale Transaktionen sicher und zuverlässig abzuwickeln. Auf unnachahmlich leichte Weise und stets mit einem Augenzwinkern schaffen es der Physiker Chris Ferrie und der Informatiker Marco Tomamichel , Kinder und Erwachsene gleichermaßen zu inspirieren. Die Bücher der Baby-Universität sind der einfachste Weg, um schon die Jüngsten für die Wunder der Wissenschaft zu begeistern.

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        May 2026

        Zart ist das Fleisch

        Roman

        by Agustina Bazterrica, Matthias Strobel

        Alles ging so schnell. Zuerst infizierten sich Tiere mit dem Virus und plötzlich war ihr Fleisch giftig. Dann leiteten die Regierungen den „Übergang“ ein. Jetzt ist „Spezialfleisch“ – Menschenfleisch – legal. Marcos ist in der Schlachtung von Menschen tätig – nur nennt das niemand so. Er kümmert sich um die Zahlen, Lieferungen, die Verarbeitung. Eines Tages erhält er ein Geschenk, um einen Deal zu besiegeln: ein Exemplar von höchster Qualität. Er lässt sie gefesselt in seinem Schuppen zurück, ein Problem, das später beseitigt werden muss. Aber sie geht ihm nicht mehr aus dem Kopf. Ihr zitternder Körper, ihr wachsamer Blick scheinen zu verstehen. Und bald quält ihn das, was verloren gegangen ist – und was noch gerettet werden könnte.

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        October 2011

        Im Bureau

        Aus dem Leben der Angestellten

        by Robert Walser, Reto Sorg, Lucas Marco Gisi

        Das Gesetz des Büros prägt unser Leben von A bis Z. Als der junge Robert Walser um 1900 zu schreiben anfing, war das noch ganz anders gewesen. Als Auszubildender in einer Bank hatte er das ›Bureau‹ als etwas irritierend Neues erfahren. Es erscheint als Inbegriff eines fremdbestimmten und sinnentleerten Lebens und bildet zugleich den Ort, an dem die Fantasien und Träume ansetzen, mit denen sich der Dichter die Wirklichkeit aneignet. Wie die Bürokratie-Satiren von Melville, Gogol oder Kafka werfen auch Robert Walsers hier erstmals versammelten Erzählungen über Angestellte ein ebenso erhellendes wie erheiterndes Licht auf das, was uns im Innersten zusammenhält: die Rationalisierung der Arbeitswelt.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2025

        Un-welcome to Denmark

        The paradigm shift and refugee integration

        by Michelle Pace

        Un-welcome to Denmark critically assesses Denmark's migration regime by directly engaging the voices of multiple stakeholders impacted by its harshness. It puts forward the theory of the unwelcome migrant by undertaking an extensive analysis of the programmatic and legal foundations for the undeserving migrant as well as of the lived experiences of Syrian refugees, and welfare professionals and private businesses tasked with supporting them. It thereby documents the ways in which the Danish migration gaze produces and perpetuates the hyper precarity of the everyday lives of Syrians and the anxiety that overshadows the manner in which Syrians and those who support them navigate its maze. By so doing, it traces how a once admired, liberal, tolerant and open society with a strong reverence for human rights has turned into one of the harshest migration regimes in Europe, if not internationally.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2026

        Unruly subjects

        Migration, solidarity and resistance in Greece

        by Ludek Stavinoha

        Unruly Subjects takes readers to the epicentre of Europe's intensifying border struggles-the Aegean islands in Greece, where thousands of 'undesirable' migrants have been warehoused and violently abandoned in EU-funded refugee camps. Drawing on nearly a decade of research, Ludek Stavinoha reveals the subterranean corners in which resistance brews and solidarity takes hold, tracing migrants' everyday struggles for dignity and their rights, alongside grassroots volunteers who have built vital infrastructures of support. At the heart of the book are the creative, if precarious and ambivalent, solidarities forged between volunteers and refugees, citizens and non-citizens, as they unsettle racialised boundaries and logics of control, in defiance of state-sanctioned violence, criminalisation, and neglect. Urgent and compelling, Unruly Subjects illuminates how people navigate and subvert Europe's increasingly hostile border regime, and the alternative imaginaries of more just futures their struggles embody.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2025

        Local government and democracy in Britain

        by Neil Barnett, J. Chandler

        Local government in the UK is in crisis. It is now neither local in terms of the geography and populations of its principle units, nor does it truly govern in these areas. As this book reveals, over the previous 200 years local government has moved from a system in which local interests held governance over localities to one in which central government and national and multi-national agencies such as corporate businesses hold governance over local and community decision-making. These changes seriously undermine the important role that local government can play in liberal democracy in the UK. The book explains the nature of local government today and asks if there is any possibility of change.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2009

        Local government today

        by J. Chandler, Bill Jones

        Local government today provides a comprehensive analysis of the structure, finance, management and democratic framework for local government in Britain. This new edition has been substantially rewritten to encompass the many changes to the structure and function of the system since 2000, including developments flowing from the 2007 Local Government Act. The study discusses how, during the Blair years, local governments came to be seen once again as centrally important institutions within Britain's political system. However, they are not seen as organisations that can function as separate agencies, undertaking all their duties 'in-house'. They are now required to work in partnership with the private, public and voluntary sectors to deliver local services and represent local interests. It is further argued that, for the first time in over a century, the barriers between civil servants and senior local government officers are being eroded as central government begins to incorporate leading local government officials into its decision-making processes. This established textbook also offers a comparative focus by showing how the British system differs from the structures for local governance in Western Europe and the United States. ;

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Spanish cinema 1973–2010

        Auteurism, politics, landscape and memory

        by Maria M. Delgado, Robin Fiddian

        This collection offers a new lens through which to examine Spain's cinema production following the isolation imposed by the Franco regime. The seventeen key films analysed in the volume span a period of 35 years that have been crucial in the development of Spain, Spanish democracy and Spanish cinema. They encompass different genres (horror, thriller, melodrama, social realism, documentary), both popular (Los abrazos rotos/Broken Embraces, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and more select art house fare (En la ciudad de Sylvia/In the City of Sylvia, El espíritu de la colmena/Spirit of the Beehive) and are made in English (as both first and second language), Basque, Castilian, Catalan and French. Offering an expanded understanding of 'national' cinemas, the volume explores key works by Guillermo del Toro and Lucrecia Martel alongside an examination of the ways in which established auteurs (Almodóvar, José Garci, Carlos Saura) and younger generations of filmmakers (Cesc Gay, Amenábar, Bollaín) have harnessed cinematic language towards a commentary on the nation-state. The result is a bold new study of the ways in which film has created new prisms that have determined how Spain is positioned in the global marketplace.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2018

        Order and conflict

        Anthony Ascham and English political thought (1648–50)

        by Peter Lake, Marco Barducci, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda

        This book provides a careful and systematic analysis of Anthony Ascham's career and writings for the first time in English. During the crucial period between the Second Civil War and the establishment of the English Republic, when he served as official pamphleteer of the Parliament and the republican government, Ascham put forward a complex argument in support of Parliament's claims for obedience which drew on the political thought of Grotius, Hobbes, Selden, Filmer and Machiavelli. He combined ideas taken from these authors and turned them into a powerful instrument of propaganda to be deployed in the service of the political agenda of his Independent patrons in Parliament. This investigation of Ascham's works brings together an intellectual analysis of his political thought and an exploration of the interaction between politics, propaganda and political ideas.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        May 2024

        Governance, democracy and ethics in crisis-decision-making

        The pandemic and beyond

        by Caroline Redhead, Melanie Smallman

        This book is a powerful addition to a developing literature informed by arts and humanities research carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic. Investigating the impacts of crisis governance and decision-making on people and populations, the book brings together microbial organisms and humans, children and data, decision-making and infection prevention, publics and process, global vaccine distribution and citizens' juries. Through its eight chapters, the book stimulates broadly-drawn discussions about exceptional executive powers in an emergency, the role of trust, and the importance of the principles of good governance - such as selflessness, ethics, integrity, accountability and honesty in leadership. The lessons drawn out in this book will support future decision-makers in both ordinary times and extra-ordinary emergencies.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2021

        The machinic city

        by Marcos P. Dias, Hannah Knox

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2026

        United States and Chinese foreign assistance and diplomacy

        Aid for dominance

        by Salvador Santino Regilme, Obert Hodzi

        Aid for Dominance addresses the analytic weaknesses of mainstream analysis of foreign aid, which often focuses on its material dimensions. The book underscores the constitutive relationship between foreign aid as a material resource and the diplomatic discourses and practices that constitute complex bilateral relations between donor and recipient states. Written by two leading scholars of contemporary United States and Chinese foreign policies in the Global South, Aid for Dominance offers a pioneering, theoretically conscious, and empirically rich account of the two great powers' grand strategies in the global development sector. By deploying a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis, this book draws from a wide range of evidentiary materials from primary sources, including data from fieldwork interviews, government documents, local and international newspapers, speeches by high-ranking government officials and diplomats, and secondary data from scholarly publications and policy papers.

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        July 2025

        Containing decolonisation

        British imperialism and the politics of race in late colonial Burma

        by Matthew Bowser

        This book examines British imperialism in late colonial Burma to study how imperialists attempted to protect their strategic and economic interests after decolonisation: they did so by supporting ethnonationalism. This process resembles the Cold War tactic of "containment," and the book makes a crucial contribution to the study of modern imperialism by demonstrating the continuity between "containment's" late- and "neo"-colonial manifestations. For Burma/Myanmar, it also explores the origin of the present-day military junta's racial regime: it emphasizes the protection of the ethnoreligious majority from ethnic minority insurgency. The Rohingya people are currently suffering a genocide because of this racial regime. As the country endures civil war against the junta, this book highlights how ethnonationalists in the late colonial period first promoted this racial regime to seize power and prevent revolution, a process supported by British imperialists for their own ends.

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