Thekla Verlag
We are a publisher from Germany with a selected list of children's and young adult books.
View Rights PortalWe are a publisher from Germany with a selected list of children's and young adult books.
View Rights PortalTheart Press is a South African publisher specialisingin inspirational books - including poetry, children's books and biography.
View Rights PortalThis remarkably unique book takes the conceit of the loneliness room to show how everyday artistic practice opens up loneliness to new definitions and new understandings. Refusing to pathologise loneliness, the book draws on the creative submissions supplied by its participants to demonstrate that being lonely can mean different things to different people in differing contexts. Filled with the photographs, paintings, videos, songs, and writings of its participants, The loneliness room is a deeply moving account of loneliness today.
In this study, Kathryn Walls challenges the standard identification of Una with the post-Reformation English Church, arguing that she is, rather, Augustine's City of God - the invisible Church, whose membership is known only to God. Una's story (its Tudor resonances notwithstanding) therefore embraces that of the Synagogue before the Incarnation as well as that of the Church in the time of Christ and thereafter. It also allegorises the redemptive process that sustains the true Church. Una is fallible in canto I. Subsequently, however, she comes to embody divine perfection. Her transformation depends upon the intervention of the lion as Christ. Convinced of the consistency and coherence of Spenser's allegory, Walls offers fresh interpretations of Abessa (as Synagoga), of the fauns and satyrs (the Gentiles), and of Una's dwarf (adiaphoric forms of worship). She also reinterprets Spenser's marriage metaphor, clarifying the significance of Red Cross as Una's spouse in the final canto.
»Die Menschheit«, so Kant in seiner Vorlesung über Physische Geographie, »ist in ihrer größten Vollkommenheit in der Race der Weißen. Die gelben Indianer haben schon ein geringeres Talent. Die Neger sind weit tiefer, und am tiefsten steht ein Theil der amerikanischen Völkerschaften.« Die Vorstellung, der Entwicklungsstand der Menschen sei bedingt durch ihre ethnische Abstammung, ist tief verwurzelt im westlichen Denken. Thomas McCarthy zeigt, dass Rassismus und Imperialismus von Anfang an wesentliche Elemente der modernen Weltordnung waren. Ausgehend vom philosophischen Erbe der Aufklärung entwirft er eine kritische Theorie humaner Entwicklung, die für einen universalistischen Multikulturalismus eintritt.
Wie entsteht eine wissenschaftliche Tatsache? Wie stellt sich naturwissenschaftliche Kreativität dar, wenn man sie im Labor des Naturwissenschaftlers beobachtet? Wie verhält sich die handwerkliche Arbeit der Forscherin zu dem, was im veröffentlichten wissenschaftlichen Text steht? Karin Knorr Cetina geht durch das Labor mit den Augen einer Anthropologin, die die Sitten und Gebräuche einer fremden Ethnie mit der Distanz, aber auch der Sympathie des Mitglieds einer anderen Kultur studiert. Dabei zeigt sich, dass man das Unternehmen Wissenschaft mit idealisierten epistemologischen Begriffen nicht besonders gut zu fassen bekommt. Es muss vielmehr aus der Alltagswelt wissenschaftlicher Handarbeit rekonstruiert werden. Ein Klassiker der Wissenschaftssoziologie.
Ten-year-old Emma has cancer and is undergoing her first days in hospital. There are many feelings connected with this: she is worried about the treatment and misses home. Because she can’t go to a friend’s birthday party, she feels increasingly lonely. A conflict occurs with her roommate, but this resolves into a friendship. The two of them talk about their problems and are able to help each other. They start to make life on the children’s cancer ward as pleasant as possible. This book aims to help children affected by cancer to cope with their worries and feelings. It shows the children that they are not alone and that others are having a similar experience to theirs. For:• children of elementary school age(between 6 and 12 years) who havecancer• parents and relatives• therapists
“Do you think there are any good friendslike us anywhere in the world?” asksthe duck. Hare and Bear are certain:“Friends like us only exist once in theworld!”What would life be without friends?They accompany us through life, offersupport and make our best sides shine.Hare, duck and bear show children howto be a real friend in loving and impressivepictures.A picture book about how friendshipcan grow when we play together, laugh,share, comfort and encourage eachother, keep secrets and stick together.
While transient and situational feelings of loneliness are usually attributed anadaptive function, persistent feelings of loneliness are associated with high levelsof distress and a variety of psychological and somatic complaints. Persistentfeelings of loneliness play a central role in the development and/or maintenanceof various mental disorders. This book sensitizes professionals to the topic of loneliness, summarizes the current state of the phenomenology and prevalence of loneliness, and identifies various risk factors for the development and maintenance of loneliness. In addition, empirical associations of loneliness with psychological and somaticdisorders and clinical phenomena such as suicidality are reported. The bookpresents various explanatory models and describes specific intervention optionsbased on them. These are intended to support professionals in dealingwith loneliness in therapy and to enable a therapy tailored to the individual circumstances of a person. Target group: For:• medical and psychologicalpsychotherapists• specialists working in psychiatry,psychotherapy, or psychosomaticmedicine• clinical psychologists• general practitioners• students and teachers in psychotherapeutictraining, furthertraining, and continuing education
This source book offers a comprehensive treatment of solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages. It covers both enclosed recluses (anchorites) and free-wandering hermits, and explores the relationship between them. Although there has been a recent surge of interest in the solitary vocations, especially anchorites, this has focused almost exclusively on a small number of examples. The field is in need of reinvigoration, and this book provides it. Featuring translated extracts from a wide range of Latin, Middle English and Old French sources, as well as a scholarly introduction and commentary from one of the foremost experts in the field, Hermits and anchorites in England is an invaluable resource for students and lecturers alike.