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      • Königshausen + Neumann GmbH

        The publishing house Königshausen & Neumann was founded in 1979 by the students Johannes Königshausen and Thomas Neumann and has quickly developed into a well-known publishing house for the Humanities in a national and international context. Today we have a backlist of more than 7,000 available (!) titles, with a focus on philosophy, literature and cultural studies, history, psychology, music and art. Our aim is to accompany developments in science with publications and to make developments in science visible and accessible as such in the first place. We want to be an echo chamber not of one thought, but of a plurality of thoughts. Wittgenstein's followers, for example, are represented in our programme, as are his critics. Our authors include philosophers such as Gernot Böhme, Otto Friedrich Bollnow, Karen Gloy, Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, Vittorio Hösle and Peter Sloterdijk, and literary and linguistic scholars such as Dieter Borchmeyer, Karl Corino, Ulrich Gaier, Walter Hinderer and Volker Klotz, Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Wolfgang Riedel or Hans Rudolf Vaget, psychologists like Johannes Cremerius, Roland Kuhn or Josef Rattner, musicologists like Hermann Danuser, Frieder Reininghaus, Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen, Arnold Jacobshagen, Barbara Meier, Anno Mungen or Arne Stollberg. Many scientists have taken their first steps at K&N. Robert Habeck has published his master's and doctoral theses at K&N. Artists are represented in our programme, such as Diana Damrau, Anja Harteros or Jonas Kaufmann, Marco Goecke or Robert Tewsley. Artists are brought into conversation in a unique way: Richard Wagner or Francisco de Goya, for example. Elazar Benyoëtz entrusts us with his work, but also the young generation of writers, such as Manfred Kern, Markus Orths or Sophie Reyer, published by K&N.

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      • Die kleine Königsstube

        Wir sind ein junger Verlag, der sich klingenden Geschichten für Klein und Gross verschrieben hat. Geschichten, wo aus Worten Musik wird. Weitere Informationen siehe Website. Als erstes Opus des Verlags erschien «Der Klang einer kleinen Melodie». Dieses Buch ist für die ganze Familie geeignet, ebenso als Lesebuch für Schulklassen, Arbeitsmaterial für Therapeuten, aber auch als Lektüre für viele Anlässe. Zwanzig Gute-Nacht-Geschichten, laden ein «zum Träumen und machen Mut, dem Klang des eigenen Herzens zu folgen». Denn, träumen wir nicht alle von jenen Gute-Nacht-Geschichten, die uns das Träumen lehrten und uns ins wunderbare Land der Träume begleiteten? Eine kleine Umarmung am Abend;wer hat das nicht gern? Somit möchten diese Geschichten kleine Umarmungen verschenken, die Mut machen zu vertrauen, um Neues zu wagen; ja und das nicht nur im Traum.

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        November 2021

        The Forest of the Future – A New Reality

        Understanding the ecosystem

        by Hans Jürgen Böhmer

        What happened with forest dieback? The predictions of the 1980s that forests would be in decline across Europe have not come true. Currently, attention again focuses on the doom scenarios of the loss of entire forests and cultural landscapes in an emotional and sometimes hysterical debate. Biogeographer Hans Jürgen Böhmer refers to updated case studies and his 30 years of research experience on global ecosystems to demonstrate extremely complex interrelations of the natural world that various actors monitor in contrasting ways and characterized by different times and ideologies. Böhmer advocates to embed the sustainability debate more strongly in the living environment, rather than relying exclusively on model calculations.

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        August 2018

        Hazel Wood

        Wo alles beginnt

        by Melissa Albert, Fabienne Pfeiffer, Frauke Schneider

        Alice hat schon immer das Gefühl gehabt, vom Unheil verfolgt zu sein. Ihr Leben nimmt eine dramatische Wendung, als ihre Großmutter, die geheimnisumwobene Märchenerzählerin Althea Proserpine, stirbt und kurz darauf ihre Mutter spurlos verschwindet. Zurück bleibt nur eine kryptische Nachricht: „Halt dich fern von Hazel Wood“. Getrieben von dem Bedürfnis, ihre Mutter zu finden und das Rätsel ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit zu lösen, begibt sich Alice auf eine Reise, die sie tief in das Herz der Dunkelheit und zu den Wurzeln ihrer Familiengeschichte führt. Hazel Wood, der Ort, an dem alles begann und der eng mit den düsteren Märchen ihrer Großmutter verwoben ist, scheint der Schlüssel zu sein, um das Geheimnis zu lüften und ihre Mutter zu retten. Je näher Alice Hazel Wood kommt, desto mehr offenbart sich eine Welt, die weit über ihre kühnsten Träume und schlimmsten Albträume hinausgeht. Sie entdeckt eine unheimliche Wahrheit, die alles, was sie über sich selbst und ihre Familie zu wissen glaubte, in Frage stellt. Die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Märchen verschwimmen, und Alice muss sich den dunklen Kräften stellen, die Hazel Wood beherrschen. Um ihre Mutter zu finden und sich selbst zu befreien, muss sie tiefer in die magische und gefährliche Welt eintauchen, als sie je für möglich gehalten hätte. "Hazel Wood" ist nicht nur ein Ort, sondern auch ein Prüfstein für Alice, der sie zwingt, über Mut, Identität und die Macht der Geschichten, die wir erzählen, neu nachzudenken. Die düstere und fesselnde Welt von "Hazel Wood" entführt in das Erbe dunkler Märchen und ungelöster Familiengeheimnisse, die auf die Protagonistin Alice warten. Eine einzigartige Geschichte, die sich in den urbanen Schatten New Yorks entfaltet, führt auf eine unvergessliche Reise an den Ursprung eines alten Fluchs. Innovatives Fantasy-Debüt, das mit seiner Sogwirkung und den logisch verwobenen düsteren Märchenelementen Leser weltweit begeistert hat. Meisterhaft erzählte Handlung, die die unheimliche und düstere Seite von Märchen aufzeigt und spannende Unterhaltung garantiert. International gefeierter All-Age-Roman, der mit seiner brillanten Verbindung von fantastischer Literatur, Märchen, Horror und Thriller zu einem echten Pageturner wird.

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        Little Unicorn Finya Brightstar. Read-Aloud Stories from the Wishing Wood

        by Mila Berg/Marina Krämer

        In the secret Wishing Wood, a wonderful world of unicorns is just waiting to be discovered! Enjoy magical adventures in the company of the little unicorn Finya Brightstar and her friends, Trixie the goblin girl and Kalle the bat. When they leave their tent one night, the three brave friends find out the cause of some strange noises. They come up with a clever plan to help the big unicorn Elara, who has been feeling horribly sad for several days. And when Finya and Trixie have a nasty quarrel, Kalle succeeds in getting them to make up. Because after all, best friends are always there for one another! Twelve stories to read aloud, on a wide range of subjects, all sheer delight! With beautifully designed four-colour illustrations by Marina Krämer on every page, and fine foil embossing on the cover. Ideal for bedtime reading.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2022

        The wood engravers' self portrait

        by Bethan Stevens

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        Children's & YA

        Tilda Appleseed. Christmas in the Winter Forest

        by Andreas H. Schmachtl

        There are 24 days to go until Christmas. In the mouse house there is a delicious smell of punch, and Tilda busily hunts through her pantry: she wants to do some baking. The best of all flavours is still Aunt Emily’s frost-hip jelly. Christmas can’t come without that. But what a shock! There are no frost hips left! And it’s so difficult to get fresh ones, because they only grow in the north. Without further ado, Tilda sets off on an exciting journey through the winter forest, and she has the most weird and wonderful Christmas adventures on the way…

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        Children's & YA

        Benny Beaver. The Great Forest Adventure

        by Inga Maria Ramcke/Christine Kugler

        Benny Beaver is involved in every adventure. Among other things, he’s a master builder. He’s always eager to learn something new – in the forest and anywhere else. There’s a lot to learn about our environment and Nature. This eventful tale about Benny Beaver and his friends Daisy Duck, Sally Squirrel and Manny Mole is great fun, as is the CD with its sounds of Nature. What happens in the forest? Who creeps, crawls and flies here? And what trees, bushes and fungi grow here? A lively tale about the environment and Nature for nursery school and first year primary school. A picture-book tale, exciting and entertaining – as is the CD with its sounds from Nature. Welcome to the world of Benny Beaver and his friends! Share their adventures in the forest and elsewhere!

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2020

        The European Union and its eastern neighbourhood

        Europeanisation and its twenty-first-century contradictions

        by Mike Mannin, Paul Flenley

        This volume is timely in that it explores key issues which are currently at the forefront of the EU's relations with its eastern neighbours. It considers the impact of a more assertive Russia, the significance of Turkey, the limitations of the Eastern Partnership with Belarus and Moldova, the position of a Ukraine in crisis and pulled between Russia and the EU, security and democracy in the South Caucasus. It looks at the contested nature of European identity in areas such as the Balkans. In addition it looks at ways in which the EU's interests and values can be tested in sectors such as trade and migration. The interplay between values, identity and interests and their effect on the interpretation of europeanisation between the EU and its neighbours is a core theme of the volume.

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        Geography & the Environment
        May 2020

        Into the woods

        An epistemography of climate change

        by Meritxell Ramírez-i-Ollé

        This book is a detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists exposed in public, and of the making of scientific knowledge about climate change in Scotland. For four years, the author joined these scientists in their sampling expeditions into the Caledonian forests, observed their efforts in the laboratory to produce data from wood samples and followed their discussions of a graph showing the evolution of the Scottish temperature over the past millennium in conferences, workshops and peer-review journals. This epistemography of climate change is of broad social and academic relevance - both for its contextualised treatment of a key contemporary science, and for its original formulation of a methodology for investigating expertise.

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        March 2022

        Gone to the Forest!

        Through the Undergrowth with a Forestry Expert

        by Bastian Kaiser

        Germans and their forest! Everyone feels it’s their mission to have their say. Few best-selling authors manage the general sentiment about the forest. Do the facts perhaps sometimes fall by the wayside? Forestry expert Bastian Kaiser clears up myths and misunderstandings and shows the fundamental importance of our forests culturally, economically and for the climate and sustainability debate. On his ramble through the undergrowth, the author gives us an amusing glimpse of his ‘forest-inspired’ life story.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Imperialism and the natural world

        by John M. MacKenzie

        Imperial power, both formal and informal, and research in the natural sciences were closely dependent in the nineteenth century. This book examines a portion of the mass-produced juvenile literature, focusing on the cluster of ideas connected with Britain's role in the maintenance of order and the spread of civilization. It discusses the political economy of Western ecological systems, and the consequences of their extension to the colonial periphery, particularly in forms of forest conservation. Progress and consumerism were major constituents of the consensus that helped stabilise the late Victorian society, but consumerism only works if it can deliver the goods. From 1842 onwards, almost all major episodes of coordinated popular resistance to colonial rule in India were preceded by phases of vigorous resistance to colonial forest control. By the late 1840s, a limited number of professional positions were available for geologists in British imperial service, but imperial geology had a longer pedigree. Modern imperialism or 'municipal imperialism' offers a broader framework for understanding the origins, long duration and persistent support for overseas expansion which transcended the rise and fall of cabinets or international realignments in the 1800s. Although medical scientists began to discern and control the microbiological causes of tropical ills after the mid-nineteenth century, the claims for climatic causation did not undergo a corresponding decline. Arthur Pearson's Pearson's Magazine was patriotic, militaristic and devoted to royalty. The book explores how science emerged as an important feature of the development policies of the Colonial Office (CO) of the colonial empire.

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        Psychology

        Dark Colors in the Mirage Forest

        A Book for Children Whose Parents are Mentally Ill

        by Azimeh Maleki, Franziska Beham, Maike Böning, Ann-Kathrin Korfmacher, Markus Stracke, Sabine Wangenheim

        This story is about a bird called Avi and his best friend, the troll Muri. The two live in the Mirage Forest and walk together to the forest school. But one day, Muri is acting differently for some reason. Avi does not understand what’s wrong with his friend and a  big argument breaks out between the two of them. Their teacher, Ms. Bolle, manages to get Muri to open up. Muri explains that he is worried about his father. The man is in very bad shape and Muri does not understand what exactly is going on with him. With the help of Ms. Bolle and the owl as an emotional expert, the two learn what a mental illness is and that it is affecting Muri’s father’s feelings, thoughts, and behavior. The aim of this book is to make it easier for affected children to understand their current situation. It teaches them that they are not alone and shows them how to cope with whatever is worrying them.   For: • children of elementary school age (between 6 and 12 years) who are suffering   because of the mental illness of a parent• parents, relatives• therapists

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        Politics & government
        January 2015

        Governing Europe's neighbourhood

        Partners or periphery?

        by Edited by Katja Weber, Michael E. Smith and Michael Baun

        This volume, newly available in paperback, examines the role of the European Union in creating a system of governance involving the countries and regions of its new 'neighbourhood'. Enlargement has functioned as one of the EU's most effective foreign policy tools, yet the EU is rapidly approaching the limits of its capacity to accept new member states. It therefore must develop ways of extending and preserving the European zone of peace and stability that do not rely on the prospect of membership as a means of influencing the behaviour of non-member countries. A major step in this direction is the EU's new European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). The ENP aims to create a ring of 'well-governed and friendly' countries along the EU's eastern, southeastern, and southern peripheries. This volume situates this policy in a broad, analytically-coherent framework, supported by a full range of ENP case studies, to explain whether the ENP represents a truly new approach to regional governance.

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        August 2021

        Escape School 4. Achtung, Zombies!

        by Jule Ambach, Timo Müller-Wegner, Stefanie Wegner

        Die Zombies sind los! Halloween in der Escape School: Die Schülerinnen und Schüler feiern in gruseligen Kostümen und mit dabei sind natürlich auch die Leser:innen. Doch was ist das? Plötzlich stürmen echte Zombies die Party auf der Suche nach etwas Essbarem. Jetzt gilt es, die gruseligen Kreaturen wieder loszuwerden, bevor sie noch Appetit auf Menschen entwickeln. Wer hilft mit? Spannendes Escape-Rätsel für Kinder ab 7 Jahren. Packende Storyline und viele Rätsel, inklusive Rätsel-Postkarte. Perfekt geeignet, um Leseanfänger für das Lesen zu begeistern. In der Escape-School-Reihe sind bisher fünf Bände erschienen. Gelistet bei Antolin.

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