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WiSa - this abbreviation stands for science and non-fiction (Wissenschaft und Sachbuch). Our name is our program: We publish academic books as well as science-based self-help literature.
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Sounds True
Sounds True was founded in 1985 by Tami Simon with a clear mission: to disseminate spiritual wisdom. Since starting out as a project with one woman and her tape recorder, we have grown into a multimedia publishing company with more than 110 employees, a library of more than 3000 titles featuring some of the leading teachers and visionaries of our time, and an ever-expanding family of customers from across the world. From bestselling authors to new voices in spiritual wisdom, our products represent a variety of popular topics, including meditation, mindfulness, yoga, shamanism, psychology, health and healing, along with a line of children’s books.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2018How to save politics in a post-truth era
by Ilan Zvi Baron
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2025Straight nation
Heteronormativity and other exigencies of postcolonial nationalism
by Pavan Mano
In Straight Nation, Pavan Mano reveals the logic of straightness that sits at the heart of postcolonial nationalism in Singapore. Mano rejects the romantic notion of the nation as a haven of belonging, showing it to be a relentless force that is allied with heteronormativity to create a host of minoritized and xenologized figures. Through meticulous exploration and close reading of a swathe of texts, Mano unveils the instrumental role of sexuality in structuring the national imaginary. The book adroitly demonstrates how queerness is rendered foreign in postcolonial Singapore and functions alongside technologies of "race", gender, and class. A provocative critique of narrow contemporary identity politics and its concomitant stymying of a more ambitious political critique, Straight Nation sets out an argument that moves beyond the negativity of traditional critique into a space of (re)thinking, (re)building and (re)imagining.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2023Transitional justice in process
Plans and politics in Tunisia
by Mariam Salehi
After the fall of the Ben Ali regime in 2011, Tunisia swiftly began dealing with its authoritarian past and initiated a comprehensive transitional justice process, with the Truth and Dignity Commission as its central institution. However, instead of bringing about peace and justice, transitional justice soon became an arena of contention. Through a process lens, the book explores why and how the process evolved, and explains how it relates to the country's political transition. Based on extensive field research in Tunisia and the US, and interviews with a broad range of international stakeholders and decision-makers, this is the first book to comprehensively study the Tunisian transitional justice process. It provides an in-depth analysis of a crucial period, examining the role of justice professionals in different stages, as well as the alliances and frictions between different actor groups that cut across the often-assumed local-international divide.
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Does Movement Really Make Us Smart?
by Petra Jansen, Stefanie Richter
Media reports often praise movement as a cure-all. But apart from its undisputed positive effect on health, does movement really make us smarter? Consider a national football team, for example – are these excessively sports-driven players automatically the smartest people? Should we simply replace all school subjects with sports? The authors provide a detailed summary of the latest scientific findings on the influence of movement on cognitive ability. They describe the effects of movement, on old age, embodiment, emotion, school as well as other factors that influence cognition. Target Group: teachers, lecturers, psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, psychotherapists, movement therapists.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2021Post-everything
An intellectual history of post-concepts
by Herman Paul, Adriaan van Veldhuizen
Postmodern, postcolonial and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from? When and why did the habit of interpreting the world in post-terms emerge? And who exactly were the 'post boys' responsible for this? Post-everything examines why post-Christian, post-industrial and post-bourgeois were terms that resonated, not only among academics, but also in the popular press. It delves into the historical roots of postmodern and poststructuralist, while also subjecting more recent post-constructions (posthumanist, postfeminist) to critical scrutiny. This study is the first to offer a comprehensive history of post-concepts. In tracing how these concepts found their way into a broad range of genres and disciplines, Post-everything contributes to a rapprochement between the history of the humanities and the history of the social sciences.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025England’s military heartland
Preparing for war on Salisbury Plain
by Vron Ware, Antonia Dawes, Mitra Pariyar, Alice Cree
A considered investigation of a long-standing army base's impact on the British countryside. What is it like to live next door to a British Army base? Beyond the barracks provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, drawing on a wide range of voices from both sides of the divide. Targeted for expansion under government plans to reorganise the UK's global defence estate, the Salisbury 'super garrison' offers a unique opportunity to explore the impact of the military footprint in a particular place. But this is no ordinary environment: as well as being the world-famous site of Stonehenge, the grasslands of Salisbury Plain are home to rare plants and wildlife. How does the army take responsibility for conserving this unique landscape as it trains young men and women to use lethal weapons? Are its claims that its presence is a positive for the environment anything more than propaganda? Beyond the barracks investigates these questions against the backdrop of a historic landscape inscribed with the legacy of perpetual war.
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Biography & True StoriesMay 2025Mrs Dalloway
Biography of a novel
by Mark Hussey
A compelling biography of one of the most celebrated novels in the English language. The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf's novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist masterpiece that has remained popular since its publication in 1925. Its dual narratives follow a day in the life of wealthy housewife Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Warren Smith, capturing their inner worlds with a vividness that has rarely been equalled. Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers new readers a lively introduction to this enduring classic, while providing Woolf lovers with a wealth of information about the novel's writing, publication and reception. It follows Woolf's process from the first stirrings in her diary through her struggles to create what was quickly recognised as a major advance in prose fiction. It then traces the novel's remarkable legacy to the present day. Woolf wrote in her diary that she wanted her novel 'to give life & death, sanity & insanity. to criticise the social system, & to show it at work, at its most intense.' Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel reveals how she achieved this ambition, creating a book that will be read by generations to come.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025The four dimensions of power
Understanding domination, empowerment and democracy
by Mark Haugaard
In this accessible and sophisticated exploration of the nature and workings of social and political power, Haugaard examines the interrelation between domination and empowerment. Building upon the perspectives of Steven Lukes, Michel Foucault, Amy Allen, Hannah Arendt, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu and others, he offers a clear theoretical framework, delineating power in four interrelated dimensions. The first and second dimensions of power entail two different types of social conflict. The third dimension concerns tacit knowledge, uses of truth and reification. Drawing upon genealogical theory and accounts of slavery as social death, the fourth dimension of power concerns the power to create social subjects. The book concludes with an original normative pragmatist power-based account of democracy. Offering lucid and entertaining illustrations of complex theoretical perspectives, this book is essential reading for scholars and activists.
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May 2024The Truth in your Lies
by Julia Pauss, Moon Notes
Mit schönem Farbschnitt in der Erstauflage – Lieferung je nach Verfügbarkeit Fake Dating vom Feinsten! Sie ist die Erbin einer der größten Hoteldynastien Amerikas, er ist ein Kleinkrimineller. Noelle will ihrem Vater ihren neuen Freund vorstellen, Memphis will die Reichen um ihren Schmuck erleichtern. In einer schicksalhaften Nacht auf einer Wohltätigkeitsveranstaltung prallen ihre Welten aufeinander. Alles, was schiefgehen kann, geht schief – und auf der Tanzfläche landet Noelle in den Armen von Memphis. Schon wenige Stunden später kursieren Fotos der beiden in der Boulevardpresse. Unter dem Druck ihres strengen Vaters behauptet Noelle, Memphis sei ihr neuer Partner. Wie soll sie ihrem Vater erklären, dass sie ihren echten Freund auf der Gala beim Fremdgehen erwischt hat, nur um kurz darauf mit einem Gangster zu tanzen? Doch ihre Notlüge schlägt höhere Wellen als gedacht: Ihr Vater besteht darauf, dass ihr vermeintlicher Freund mit auf den Familiensitz nach Colorado kommt, um ihn auf Herz und Nieren zu prüfen. Noelle bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als Memphis einen Deal vorzuschlagen … The Truth In Your Lies: Gegensätze ziehen sich an New Adult at it's best: Die aufregende Liebesgeschichte zwischen der reichen Hotelerbin Noelle und dem charmanten Gauner Memphis. Große Emotionen: Ein mitreißender Roman über Liebe, Selbstfindung und die Kraft, den eigenen Weg zu gehen – für Mädchen ab 16 Jahren. Voll im Trend: Mit den angesagten Tropes Fake Dating und Opposites attract. New Adult mit feministischem Twist: Eine starke Protagonistin auf der Reise zu sich selbst. Genial ausgestattet: Softcover mit Klappen, einem trendig illustrierten Farbschnitt in der Erstauflage und einem abtrennbaren Lesezeichen. The Truth In Your Lies entführt seine Leser*innen ab 16 Jahren in eine Welt der ganz großen Gefühle. Neben den beliebten Tropes „Fake Dating“ und „Opposites attract“ sorgt ein feministischer Twist für Tiefgang: Die Hotelerbin Noelle entwickelt sich von einer Frau, die ihre eigenen Bedürfnisse zurückstellt, zu einer selbstbewussten Persönlichkeit. Das perfekte Buch für Fans von New-Adult-Romanen!
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025England’s military heartland
Preparing for war on Salisbury Plain
by Vron Ware, Antonia Lucia Dawes, Mitra Pariyar, Alice Cree
What is it like to live next door to a British Army base? England's military heartland provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, drawing on a wide range of voices from both sides of the divide. Targeted for expansion under government plans to reorganise the UK's global defence estate, the Salisbury 'super garrison' offers a unique opportunity to explore the impact of the military footprint in a particular place. But this is no ordinary environment: as well as being the world-famous site of Stonehenge, the grasslands of Salisbury Plain are home to rare plants and wildlife. How does the army take responsibility for conserving this unique landscape as it trains young men and women to use lethal weapons? Are its claims that its presence is a positive for the environment anything more than propaganda? This book investigates these questions against the backdrop of a historic landscape inscribed with the legacy of perpetual war.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2022Transitional justice in process
by Mariam Salehi, Simon Mabon
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 1998Irish Home Rule
by Alan O'Day, Mark Greengrass
Irish Home Rule considers the pre-eminent issue in British politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries. It is the first account to explain the various self-government plans, to place these in context and examine the motives for putting the schemes forward. The book distinguishes between moral and material home rulers, making the point that the first appealed especially to outsiders, some Protestants and the intelligentsia, who saw in self-government a means to reconcile Ireland's antagonistic traditions. In contrast, material home rulers viewed a Dublin Parliament as a forum of Catholic interests. This account appraises the home rule movement from a fresh angle, distinguishing it from the usual division drawn between physical force and constitutional nationalists It maintains that an ideological continuity runs from Young Ireland, the Fenians, the early home rulers including Isaac Butt and Charles Stewart Parnell, to the Gaelic Revivalists to the Men of 1916. These nationalists are distinguishable from material home rulers not on the basis of methods or strategy but by a fundamental ideological cleavage. ;
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November 2011The Honest Man's Fortune
by Grace Ioppolo
This edition of The Honest Man's Fortune, a play co-written by John Fletcher, Nathan Field, and Philip Massinger for the Lady Elizabeth's Men in 1613 and revived for the King's Men in 1625, is the first diplomatic edition of one of the most remarkable dramatic manuscripts of the early modern period. Almost uniquely, the fair-copy manuscript records the entire process of the circular transmission of the text from authors to censor to bookkeeper to actors to playhouse, as well as the types of revision each required. In the hand of Edward Knight, the King's Men's book-keeper, this manuscript's title-page notes that it was '/Plaide In the yeare 1613/' and contains one of the few surviving complete licences by Master of the Revels Sir Henry Herbert who states, 'This Play. Being an olde One and the Originall Lost was reallowd by mee. This: 8 febru. 1624 [i.e., 1625]'. In fact, Herbert accepted as payment for the new licence a printed edition of Sir Philip Sidney's /Arcadia/. More excitingly, the many cuts, deletions, and marginal and interlinear additions and revisions as well as the names of three actors in its stage directions show us two transmissions of this text: the first in 1613, when it was composed and licensed and then adjusted by the authors, and the second in 1625, when it went through almost the same process for revival. With a full discussion of the manuscript's material properties, provenance, transcription history, and the play's composition and performance history, this new edition of /The Honest Man's Fortune/ puts the play where it belongs: at the centre of the canon of Jacobean drama. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesEmbitterment, Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder, and Wisdom Therapy
by Michael Linden
Practical expert guidance on embitterment disorders• Learn about the evidence-base of PTED and wisdom therapy• Teach clients skills to overcome embitterment• Tips on social, legal, and medical aspects• Includes printable handouts• A companion book for clients is available Feelings of embitterment and posttraumatic embitterment disorder are common in our society. Teach your clients how to process their internalized feelings of hurt and humiliation so that they learn to reconcile themselves with the events that triggered these difficult and enduring states. The book is full of practice-oriented tips to help clients actively gain a new orientation towards the future. Wisdom therapy provides various tools for this, and these techniques are brought to life with numerouscase vignettes. Tips on the social, medical, and legal aspects are also given, for example, questions of work incapacity and criminal responsibility. For:• clinical psychologists• psychiatrists• psychotherapists• counselors• coaches• students
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Political ideologiesMay 2017Neoliberal power and public management reforms
by Professor Peter Triantafillou. Series edited by Mark Haugaard
This book examines the links between major contemporary public sector reforms and neoliberal thinking. The key contribution of the book is to enhance our understanding of contemporary neoliberalism as it plays out in the public administration and to provide a critical analysis of generally overlooked aspects of administrative power. The book examines the quest for accountability, credibility and evidence in the public sector. It asks whether this quest may be understood in terms of neoliberal thinking and, if so, how? The book makes the argument that while current administrative reforms are informed by several distinct political rationalities, they evolve above all around a particular form of neoliberalism: constructivist neoliberalism. The book analyses the dangers of the kinds of administrative power seeking to invoke the self-steering capacities of society and administration itself.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2020The British political elite and Europe, 1959-1984
A higher loyalty
by Bob Nicholls
This book offers an original interpretation of Britain's relationship with Europe over a 25 year period: 1959-84 and advances the argument that the current problems over EU membership resulted from much earlier political machinations. This evidence based account of the seminal period analyses the applications for EEC membership, the 1975 referendum, and the role of the press. Was the British public misled over the true aims of the European project? How significant was the role of the press in changing public opinion from anti, to pro Common Market membership? Why, after over 40 years since Britain became a member of the European community, does the issue continue to deeply divide not only the political elite, but also the British public? These, and other pertinent questions are answered in this timely book on a subject that remains topical and highly controversial.
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Trade unionsApril 2009Trade unions and democracy
Strategies and perspectives
by Edited by Mark Harcourt and Geoffrey Wood
Available for the first time in paperback, this book explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. The crisis facing established democratic institutions in the advanced societies has been widely noted. In response, there has been increasing interest in the role of civil society actors, ranging from established socio-political collectives to new grassroots organisations. On the one hand, conventional wisdom holds that organised labour in the advanced societies has remained locked in a cycle of political marginalisation and decline. On the other hand, unions continue to represent a significant component of society within most industrialised countries. Indeed, in many cases, they have demonstrated a capacity for effective renewal and for co-ordinating their efforts with other civil society actors as part and parcel of the current groudswell of public opinion against the neo-liberal orthodoxy. The book brings together a distinguished panel of leading and emerging scholars in the field, and provides a critical assessment of the current role of unions in society, their capacity to impact on state policies in such a manner as to ensure greater accountability and fairness, and the nature and extent of internal representative democracy within the labour movement. This volume will be of interest to students and academics in the fields of industrial relations, critical management studies, political studies and sociology, as well as trade union and community activists.
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May 2022Truth or Dare. Triff deine Wahl
by Maja Köllinger, Moon Notes
In "Truth or Dare" von Maja Köllinger finden sich vier langjährige Freunde - Brianna, Yves, Xenia, und Kian - am Ende ihrer Schulzeit entfremdet wieder. In einem letzten Versuch, die Bande ihrer Freundschaft zu erneuern, planen sie einen gemeinsamen Ausflug, der in einer verhängnisvollen Nacht voller Alkohol und dem riskanten Spiel "Wahrheit oder Pflicht" mündet. Die folgenschwere Nacht endet mit dem Tod Kians, einem tragischen Ereignis, an das sich keiner der drei überlebenden Freunde erinnern kann. Während die Ermittlungen laufen, beginnen sie, anonyme Nachrichten zu erhalten, die andeuten, dass jemand außerhalb ihrer Gruppe die Wahrheit über die Geschehnisse jener Nacht kennt. Getrieben von dem Bedürfnis, ihre Unschuld zu beweisen und den wahren Täter zu entlarven, sehen sich Brianna, Yves, und Xenia gezwungen, ihre Differenzen beiseite zu legen und zusammenzuarbeiten. Die Situation eskaliert, als die Ermittlungen tiefer gehen und dunkle Geheimnisse der Freunde ans Licht kommen, was ihre gegenseitigen Verdächtigungen und Paranoia nur noch verstärkt. Die Frage nach dem, was in jener verhängnisvollen Nacht wirklich geschehen ist, hängt wie ein Damoklesschwert über ihnen, während sie sich durch ein Netz aus Lügen, Verrat und Schuldgefühlen kämpfen. Die Spannung steigt, als die Freunde erkennen, dass der wahre Täter möglicherweise viel näher ist, als sie es je für möglich gehalten hätten. "Truth or Dare" ist ein packender Jugendthriller, der nicht nur die Grenzen der Freundschaft auslotet, sondern auch die tiefgründige Frage stellt, wie weit jemand gehen würde, um seine Geheimnisse zu bewahren. Packender Jugendthriller, der Freundschaft, Geheimnisse und die Folgen einer verhängnisvollen Nacht erforscht. Eine Geschichte über das Auseinanderdriften von Freunden und den verzweifelten Versuch, ihre Beziehung durch ein letztes Abenteuer zu retten, das tragisch endet. Spannende Ermittlungen und anonyme Drohungen sorgen für einen hohen Spannungsbogen und fesseln die Leser*innen von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite. Tiefgründige Charakterentwicklung und komplexe Beziehungen zwischen den Protagonisten, die die Geschichte emotional und realitätsnah machen. Das geheimnisvolle Setting einer Waldhütte und die Dynamik eines "Wahrheit oder Pflicht"-Spiels, das außer Kontrolle gerät, schaffen eine düstere und fesselnde Atmosphäre. Ein Thriller, der wichtige Jugendthemen wie Identitätssuche, die Bewältigung von Schuld und die Auswirkungen von Mobbing behandelt. Der unvorhersehbare Verlauf der Geschichte mit zahlreichen Wendungen hält die Leser*innen bis zum überraschenden Ende in Atem. Ideal für Fans von Jugendthrillern, die gerne miträtseln und sich von einer Geschichte voller Geheimnisse und unerwarteter Entwicklungen mitreißen lassen möchten. Eine emotionale Erzählstimme, die sehr nah an den Leser*innen ist, macht die Erfahrungen der Charaktere intensiv nachvollziehbar. Empfohlen für Leser*innen, die nach einer Kombination aus Freundschaftsdrama und packendem Thriller suchen, der sowohl unterhält als auch zum Nachdenken anregt.
