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Spanish literary fiction. House founded in 2015 in Valparaíso (Chile). We want to provide a haven for readers in times of storm. Now that the arrival of new titles is overwhelming, at Kindberg we are committed to a detailed rhythm, to slow-publishing instead of disposable titles. The books we choose are the ones we like and that is why we believe in them and we want other readers to like them. And yes, we only publish fiction, because "poetry, beauty, art, love are the things that keep us alive".
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April 2022Corona Chaos. Confessions from a pharmacist
by Simon Krivec
More than two years of pandemic is more than two years of corona clutter. Only a staggering level of helpfulness, improvisation and flexibility prevented the healthcare system from collapsing completely. In this highly topical book, pharmacist Simon Krivec tells of his incredible experiences and the stormy ups and downs of pandemic madness, missing masks and disinfectants, and the feeling of having been totally abandoned by a helpless state. We learn, for instance, of the short-term procurement of large quantities of ethanol and the transportation of the highly flammable substance, and just what lured the author – and 71,400 euros in cash – to visit the port of Neuss at night.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2015The ascent of globalisation
by Harry Blutstein
The ascent of globalisation tells the sweeping historical drama of the development of globalisation, from the Second World War to the present day. The story is told through the richly detailed accounts of eighteen remarkable men and women, describing how these architects reshaped the modern world, for better or worse. Profiling their lives, ideas and struggles reveals fresh insights into the nature of globalisation. The book also examines their legacies, shedding new light on many of the problems the world faces today: the global financial crisis, the political and economic malaise afflicting Europe, the numerous failures of the United Nations, the unchecked power of corporations and the inability of governments to cooperate on critical issues such as climate change. ;
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October 1989Finnegans Wake
Gesammelte Annäherungen
by James Joyce, Fritz Senn, Klaus Reichert, Reinhard Markner, Harald Beck, Kurt Jauslin, Friedhelm Rathjen, Helmut Stoltefuß, Ingeborg Horn, Robert Weninger, Klaus Hofmann, Birgit König, Peter Otto, Klaus Reichert, Georg Goyert, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Hans Wollschläger, Dieter H. Stündel, Ulrich Blumenbach, Wolfgang Schrödter, Robert Motherwell
Das Werk gilt als unübersetzbar, und dennoch, oder gerade deshalb, hat es immer wieder Übersetzer und Schriftsteller, Außenseiter und Fachleute gereizt, Übersetzungen zu probieren. Gerade die Unterschiedlichkeit der übersetzerischen Ansätze - vom genauen Zusammentragen der einzelnen Sinnschichten bis hin zu einem eleganten Darüberhinhuschen - vermag einen Eindruck dieses rätselhaften Buches zu vermitteln.
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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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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2018Water and fire
The myth of the flood in Anglo-Saxon England
by Anke Bernau, Daniel Anlezark
Noah's Flood is one of the Bible's most popular stories, and flood myths survive in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the Anglo-Saxon imagination. Focusing on literary representations, it contributes to our understanding of how Christian Anglo-Saxons perceived their place in the cosmos. For them, history unfolded between the primeval Deluge and a future - perhaps imminent - flood of fire, which would destroy the world. This study reveals both an imaginative diversity and shared interpretations of the Flood myth. Anglo-Saxons saw the Flood as a climactic event in God's ongoing war with his more rebellious creatures, but they also perceived the mystery of redemption through baptism. Anlezark studies a range of texts against their historical background, and discusses shifting emphases in the way the Flood was interpreted for diverse audiences. The book concludes with a discussion of Beowulf, relating the epic poem's presentation of the Flood myth to that of other Anglo-Saxon texts.
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MedicineJanuary 2025Nursing the English from plague to Peterloo, 1665-1820
by Alannah Tomkins
This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience of both domestic and institutional nursing staff. Furthermore, it integrates nursing by men into the broader history of care as a constant if little-recognised presence. It finds that women and men undertook caring work to the best of their ability, and often performed well, despite multiple threats to nurse reputations on the grounds of gender norms and social status. Chapters consider nursing in the home, in general hospitals, in specialist institutions like the Royal Chelsea Hospital and asylums, plus during wartime, illuminated by multiple accounts of individual nurses. In these settings, it employs the sociological concept of 'dirty work' to contextualise the challenges to nurses and nursing identities.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2024
Belfast punk and the Troubles: An oral history
by Fearghus Roulston
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Biography & True StoriesNovember 2024Walking 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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April 2021Das europäische Pandämonium
Was die Pandemie über den Zustand der EU enthüllt
by Andreas Ecke, Luuk van Middelaar
Keine Solidarität, geschlossene Schlagbäume statt offener Grenzen. Als die Corona-Pandemie Europa erreichte, waren sich die Beobachter bald einig: Brüssel hat versagt, im Angesicht der Gefahr ist die EU »zu Roststaub zerfallen« (Der Spiegel). Die Rhetorik des bevorstehenden Untergangs begleitet die Union freilich seit mindestens einem Jahrzehnt – und erwies sich doch stets als stark übertrieben. Der Eindruck der Dauerkrise, so Luuk van Middelaar, verdankt sich einer Metamorphose von der Regel- zur Ereignispolitik: Statt stiller Technokratie ist Improvisationsfähigkeit gefragt. Da Corona die Körper alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger bedroht, wird Europa zu einer öffentlichen Angelegenheit. Und die EU realisiert, dass sie sich zwischen China und den USA selbstbewusst positionieren muss.
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March 2021Systemically Relevant
Behind the scenes of nursing
by Maximiliane Schaffrath
In 2008, the banks that had been bailed out with billions by the government were considered “systemically relevant”, in the corona pandemic of 2020 it was members of poorly paid professions such as healthcare workers. Reading Maximiliane Schaffrath‘s book on the situation regarding healthcare and nursing staff, it seems almost miraculous that Germany had managed to escape a corona disaster for so long. She gives a very personal and gripping account of the stages in her own training – and the unsustainable conditions that are suffered not only by the people who are supposed to care for and look after us, but also by everyone who depends on them.
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September 2021Tolerating Democracy!
About arguing in a society of indignation
by Karoline M. Preisler
Are we all still only moving around in our bubbles, unwilling and unprepared to engage in the positions of "the others"? Will only someone be heard who polarises and defames loudly enough, who ignores facts, denies them, twists them, who even calls for violence? The debate over the corona measures has given a new urgency as we address the question of how democracy can be lived and protected in times of an erosion of the centre and social cohesion. Karoline M. Preisler asks herself these questions and, as a passionate democrat, advocates creating new tools and meeting places for the necessary dialogue on controversial topics such as the limits of freedom, religion, climate crisis, immigration and the family.
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FictionSeptember 2017A Vision of Battlements
by Anthony Burgess
by Andrew Biswell, Paul Wake
A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.
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FictionSeptember 2018Puma
By Anthony Burgess
by Paul Wake, Andrew Biswell
Puma - disentangled from the three-part structure of The End of the World News and published here for the first time in its intended format - is Anthony Burgess's lost science fiction novel. Set some way into the future, the story details the crushing of the planet Earth by a heavyweight intruder from a distant galaxy - the dreaded Puma. It is a visceral book about the end of history as man has known it. Despite its apocalyptic theme, its earthquakes and tidal waves, murder and madness, Puma is a gloriously-comic novel, steeped in the rich literary heritage of a world soon to be extinguished and celebrating humanity in all its squalid glory. In Burgess's hands this meditation on destruction, mitigated by the hope of salvation for a select few, becomes powerful exploration of friendship, violence, literature and science at the end of the world.
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October 2007»Kunst ist doch das Allerschönste«
Briefe einer jungen Künstlerin
by Paula Modersohn-Becker, Corona Unger
»Eine Russin fragte mich, ob ich denn das auch wirklich so sähe, wie ich das mach, und wer mir das beigebracht hätte. Da log ich und sagte stolz: ›Mon mari‹. Darauf ging ihr ein Talglicht auf und sie sagte erleuchtet: ›Ach so, Sie malen wie Ihr Mann malt.‹ Daß man so malt wie man selber, das vermuten sie nicht.« Paula Modersohn-Becker malte wie sie selber, und als sie am 20. November 1907 mit 31 Jahren starb, hinterließ sie ein Werk, das Epoche machte. In den Briefen an ihre Eltern, später vor allem an Otto Modersohn, spricht sie von ihrer Arbeit, beschreibt mit großer Treffsicherheit die Bilder, die sie in den Museen beeindruckten. Paula Becker ist eine hinreißende Briefschreiberin, und in ihren Schilderungen zeichnet sich über die wenigen Jahre ihres Schaffens hin ihre künstlerische Reifung ab, als hätte sie gewußt, daß sie nicht viel Zeit haben würde.
