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Geography & the EnvironmentJanuary 2024Researching animal research
by Gail Davies, Beth Greenhough, Pru Hobson-West, Robert G. W. Kirk, Alexandra Palmer, Emma Roe
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2024Dog politics
Species stories and the animal sciences
by Mariam Motamedi Fraser
Do dogs belong with humans? Scientific accounts of dogs' 'species story,' in which contemporary dog-human relations are naturalised with reference to dogs' evolutionary becoming, suggest that they do. Dog politics dissects this story. This book offers a rich empirical analysis and critique of the development and consolidation of dogs' species story in science, asking what evidence exists to support it, and what practical consequences, for dogs, follow from it. It explores how this story is woven into broader scientific shifts in understandings of species, animals, and animal behaviours, and how such shifts were informed by and informed transformative political events, including slavery and colonialism, the Second World War and its aftermath, and the emergence of anti-racist movements in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book pays particular attention to how species-thinking bears on 'race,' racism, and individuals.
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June 2013Animal irrationale
Eine kurze (Natur-)Geschichte der Unvernunft
by Franz M. Wuketits
Der Mensch ist das mit Vernunft begabte Lebewesen, das animal rationale. So will es die philosophische Überlieferung. Geschichte und Gegenwart des Menschen legen jedoch die Vermutung nahe, dass in seinem Denken und Handeln mehr Unvernunft steckt, als ihm selbst lieb sein kann. Zwei Weltkriege und unzählige andere (menschliche) Katastrophen sowie die massive Zerstörung seines Lebensraums lassen den Menschen als »animal irrationale« erscheinen. Der Evolutionstheoretiker Franz M. Wuketits spürt die (natur-)historischen Wurzeln der Unvernunft auf und kommt zu dem Schluss, dass jene Portion Irrationalität, die sich der Steinzeitmensch leisten durfte, seinen Nachfahren in unserer komplexen Welt immer wieder zum Verhängnis wird.
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May 2023Homoeopathy for Cats and Dogs
by Dr. Daniela Birkelbach
Alternatives or supplements to conventional medicine for cats and dogs? Yes, homoeopathy provides holistic therapeutic approaches for our four-legged friends too! Whether they are suffering from anxiety, conjunctivitis, or a tick bite, this book describes the appropriate homoeopathic remedies. The author draws on her many years of experience as an animal healer and presents the most important symptoms and their treatment using homoeopathy.This handy paperback fits into a lab coat pocket and provides:- Basic information on homoeopathy for dogs and cats- Symptoms from A to Z- Characteristics of the most important single-remedy homoeopathic preparations
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2023In the company of wolves
Werewolves, wolves and wild children
by Sam George, Bill Hughes
In the company of wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, wild children and werewolves as portrayed in different media and genres. We begin with the wolf itself as it has been interpreted as a cultural symbol and how it figures in contemporary debates about wilderness and nature. Alongside this, we consider eighteenth-century debates about wild children - often thought to have been raised by wolves and other animals - and their role in key questions about the origins of language and society. The collection continues with essays on werewolves and other shapeshifters as depicted in folk tales, literature, film and TV, concluding with the transition from animal to human in contemporary art, poetry and fashion.
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2020How Animals Hammer, Drill and Strike
Tool Use in the Animal Kingdom
by Peter-René Becker
From insects to fish as well as birds and primates: the use of tools is amazingly widespread in the animal kingdom. It’s a misnomer to presume that humans are distinguished by tool use and conscious capacity. So where is culture initiated? The biologist Peter-René Becker has evaluated numerous studies and cites plenty of evidence for the use of the hammer and anvil, lances, bait or sponges. Animals also use “tools as social implements”. Ultimately, the depth of man’s conscience singles him out from other animals.
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February 2022On Narrative
Poetry of Everyday
by Hermann Bausinger
Narrative art Narrating is an art that is gifted to everyone. Narrative, for Hermann Bausinger, begins from the moment we wait together for the bus. When we complain of it being late again and the stories that emerge about travel by bus. The well-known cultural academic is also luckily a gifted narrator. His book is an extremely vivid and descriptive account of the multiple varieties of narrative. He takes us into the rich world of storytelling of fairy tales and fables, invoking the wit of language, focusing on narrative theory and the special significance of narrative in the online age. Full of variety and wonderful examples, Bausinger lets the narrative, and the stories shine. Because for him storytelling, our relationship with language, is what defines us as human beings.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2024Critical theory and Independent Living
by Teodor Mladenov
Critical theory and Independent Living explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and disabled people's struggle for self-determination. The book highlights the affinities between the Independent Living movement and studies of epistemic injustice, biopower, and psychopower. It discusses in depth the activists' critical engagement with welfare-state paternalism, neoliberal marketisation, and familialism. This helps develop a pioneering comparison between various welfare regimes grounded in Independent Living advocacy. The book draws on the activism of disabled people from the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) by developing case studies of the ENIL's campaigning for deinstitutionalisation and personal assistance. It is argued that this work helps rethink independence as a form of interdependence, and that this reframing is pivotal for critical theorising in the twenty-first century.
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November 2016Coming to Terms with Life
by Matthias Wengenroth
Do you struggle with thoughts and feelings that make life difficult? Have you tried all sorts of ways of dealing with this without getting anywhere? Do you feel that life is passing you by? Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), which this book describes in a clear and entertaining way, provides new and very enlightening insights into the causes of human suffering. At the same time, ACT shows how we can improve the way we handle the difficult aspects of being human, while also developing our abilities and strengths. This title shows how using the described simple but effective methods can lead you to a happier, better life. Target Group: people who want to utilize their potential more fully, people interested in acceptance and commitment therapy, people practicing or interested in psychotherapy (psychologists, doctors, coaches, social workers)
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2024Why headless males are better lovers
Sex and reproduction in the animal kingdom
by Monika Niehaus / Michael Wink
"Sex sells" also applies to evolution. Without sex, there is no genetic variation, and without genetic variation, there is no natural selection and evolution. When it comes to sex and reproduction, all animals have things in common, but there are also many variations. In this game of the sexes, everything revolves around the conflicts of interest between females and males, the diversity of mating systems, matriarchal and patriarchal communities and the securing of paternity, whether through beauty, song and dance or violence.
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November 2016Man steht sehr bequem zwischen allen Fronten
Briefe 1952-2011
by Christa Wolf, Sabine Wolf
»Post, Post, Post«. Dieser Stoßseufzer, notiert im Kalender unter dem Datum vom Sonntag, dem 4. März 1990, kommt nicht von ungefähr: Christa Wolf war eine ungeheuer produktive Korrespondentin. Ihre Briefe an Verwandte und Freunde, Kollegen, Lektoren, Politiker, Journalisten geben faszinierende Einblicke in ihre Gedankenwelt, ihre Schreibwerkstatt, ihr gesellschaftliches Engagement. Ob sie an Günter Grass oder Max Frisch schreibt, von Joachim Gauck Einsicht in ihre Stasi-Akte fordert oder sich mit Freundinnen wie Sarah Kirsch und Maxie Wander austauscht, wir sind Zeuge von Freundschaften und Zerwürfnissen, Auseinandersetzungen und von Bestätigung, von der Selbstfindung einer der wichtigsten Autorinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Nicht zuletzt beeindruckt ihr Umgang mit der Flut von Leserbriefen, die sie mit zunehmendem schriftstellerischen Erfolg erreicht und auf die sie geduldig und kundig – und manchmal auch mit der gebotenen Direktheit – eingeht.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2012Narration in nineteenth-century French short fiction
Prosper Mérimée to Marcel Schwob
by Peter Cogman
The short fiction that flourished in nineteenth-century France has attracted relatively little critical attention compared with the novel. This study focuses on some key stories by major authors of contes and nouvelles from the late 1820s to the 1890s, taking as a starting-point, aspects of narrative technique as a way of exploring not just characteristic strategies of short fiction, but also the ends to which they were put: recurrent themes, and the vision of mankind. Each chapter looks in some detail at three or four stories, referring briefly to other tales for illustration. The underlying point that emerges from this study is that the interest of a tale lies in the telling, not the events. ;
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Biography & True StoriesJune 2010Alison Uttley: Spinner of Tales
The authorised biography of the creator of Little Grey Rabbit
by Denis Judd
Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig are just two of the inspired characters created by Alison Uttley, loved by millions and still very popular today. But who was the real woman spinning enchanting tales of country life and lore, magic and friendship? Alison Uttley gathered much of the inspiration for her stories from the fond memories of her Derbyshire childhood and her love of the countryside. A talented and prolific writer, she was still producing stories in her late eighties. Yet she was often plagued by self-doubt, and extremely possessive over her close friends, family and work. Tragically, Alison's husband committed suicide before her writing successes. She soon developed a smothering relationship with her only child John, even convincing him to jilt his first fiancée and escape to Scotland - the honeymoon destination. With exclusive and unrestricted access to her personal diaries and private letters, Denis Judd paints an intriguing portrait of one of the most successful, creative and troubled children's authors of modern times. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2025Living with water
Everyday encounters and liquid connections
by Charlotte Bates, Kate Moles
Living with water brings together sociologists, geographers, artists, writers and poets to explore the ways in which water binds, immerses and supports us. Drawing from international research on river crossings, boat dwelling, wild swimming, sea fishing, and drought impacts, and navigating urban waters, glacial lagoons, barrier reefs and disappearing tarns, the collection illuminates the ways that we live with and without water, and explores how we can think and write with water on land. Water offers a way of attending to emerging and enduring social and ecological concerns and making sense of them in lively and creative ways. By approaching Living with water from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives, and drawing on research from around the world, this collection opens up discussions that reinvigorate and renew previously landlocked debates. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6, Clean water and sanitation
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Children's & YAOwl Magic (13). The Mystery of the White Horse
by Ina Brandt/Irene Mohr
It’s just like a fairy tale. In the forest Flora stumbles on a little house with a garden that’s overgrown with roses. But the house is about to be sold. Not only that, but Flora learns from the owner’s daughter that a white horse has been living for a long time in the stable…but now he’s disappeared! Together with her magic owl Goldwing, Flora tries to find the terrified animal. Will the two of them manage to make their way through the jungle of roses and win the confidence of the white stallion?
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2023Rural quality of life
by Pia Heike Johansen, Anne Tietjen, Evald Bundgård Iversen, Henrik Lauridsen Lolle, Jens Kaae Fisker
