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March 2023Why We Need Comfort
On the trail of a human need
by Jean-Pierre Wils
— The accompanying book to the Kassel exhibition "Trost" ("Comfort") in spring 2023 — A book to counter desolation in these challenging times — What comfort is and why people need it "Comfort" is one of those words that has a somewhat tarnished reputation: cold comfort, false comfort, consolation prize, someone is not to be comforted ... "Action instead of comfort" is the maxim; "therapy instead of resignation" the variant. There is something old-fashioned about comfort. And still we long for it; people have always looked for "sources of comfort". In the midst of the climate and global political upheavals of our time, in the middle of a Ukraine war, a play recently celebrated at the Salzburg Festival is called, "Crazy for Consolation". People seek comfort because just helping is no longer helping; they are at the end of their abilities. "Comfort" would appear to be a gift in both senses of the word. But "comfort" is a mystery. Jean-Pierre Wils attempts to solve it in this essay.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2023Border images, border narratives
The political aesthetics of boundaries and crossings
by Johan Schimanski, Jopi Nyman
This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced scholars in the field, Border images, border narratives provides fresh insight into how borders, borderscapes, and migration are imagined and narrated in public and private spheres. Offering new ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border and its ambiguities, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the methodological renewal of border studies and presents ways of discussing cultural representations of borders and related processes. Influenced by the thinking of philosopher Jacques Rancière, this timely volume argues that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes. The contributions analyse narratives and images in literary texts, political and popular imagery, surveillance data, border art, and documentaries, as well as problems related to borderland identities, migration, and trauma. The case studies provide a highly comparative range of geographical contexts ranging from Northern Europe and Britain, via Mediterranean and Mexican-USA borderlands, to Chinese borderlands from the perspectives of critical theory, literary studies, social anthropology, media studies, and political geography.
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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 SciencesMay 2026Border enclaves
Melilla and the making of Europe’s southern periphery
by Laia Soto Bermant
Border enclaves examines the Spanish enclave of Melilla as a prism for understanding Europe's contemporary dislocations. Based on over a decade of ethnographic research, it explores how borders are enforced, contested and inhabited in a city suspended between Africa and Europe, colonial legacies and modern regimes. Through a polyphonic narrative following smugglers, migrants, teachers and politicians, it reveals how everyday practices and symbolic performances shape life in the enclave. Selective visibility-who is seen or erased-structures authority and exclusion. Situating Melilla within broader processes like Spain's colonial history and Europe's border restructuring, the book argues that its fragmented sovereignties and external dependencies make it a paradigmatic site for grasping Europe's precarious margins. It calls for an ethnographic lens attuned to dislocation as both lived experience and analytic tool.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2025Queer as folklore
The hidden queer history of myths and monsters
by Sacha Coward
A celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before. Queer as folklore travels across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new. Leaving no headstone unturned, Sacha Coward takes you on a wild ride through the night from ancient Greece to the main stage of RuPaul's Drag Race, visiting cross-dressing pirates, radical fairies and the graves of the 'queerly departed' along the way. Queer communities have often sought refuge in the shadows and created safe spaces in underworlds. But these forgotten narratives tell stories of resilience that deserve to be heard. Join any Pride march and you will see a glorious display of papier-mâché unicorn heads, drag queens in mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. These are not just accessories: they are queer symbols with historic roots. To truly understand who queer people are today, we must confront the twisted tales of the past.
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March 1998Das A bis Zen für ein erfülltes Leben
Emotional Mapping - der direkte Weg zur Steigerung Ihrer emotionalen Intelligenz
by Phillips, Maya; Comfort, Max
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2021Border images, border narratives
by Johan Schimanski, Jopi Nyman, Sarah Green, Hastings Donnan
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March 2006Schauderhafte Wunderkinder
Sieben wahre Geschichten, die arglosen Eltern zur Warnung dienen können
by Quilt, Linda / Illustriert von Sowa, Michael; Übersetzt von Kaiser, Reinhard
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Science & MathematicsApril 2021Medicalising borders
Selection, containment and quarantine since 1800
by Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer, Paul Weindling, Hastings Donnan
The research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like COVID-19 reaches far beyond the scope of biomedicine. It is not only an objective for the health, political and social sciences, but epidemics and pandemics are a matter of geography: foci and vectors of communicable diseases continue to test the efficacy of medical control at state borders. This volume illuminates these issues from various disciplinary viewpoints. It starts by exploring historical models of quarantine, spatial isolation and detention as precautionary means against the dissemination of disease and contagion by border crossers, migrants and refugees. Besides the patterns of prejudice with which these groups are confronted, the book also deals with various kinds of fear of contamination from outside of the nation state. The contributors address the implementation of medical techniques at state borders in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as the presently practiced measures of medical and biometric screening of migrants and refugees. Uniquely, this volume shows that the current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of medicalised techniques of power, which originate both in European modernity and in the medical and biological disciplines developed during the last quarter of the millennium. Drawing on the collective expertise of a network of international researchers, this interdisciplinary volume is essential reading for those wishing to understand the medicalisation of borders across the globe, from the early eighteenth century up to the present day.
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April 2015Die Eroberung der Zeit
Grundzüge einer Philosophie verlängerter Lebensspannen
by Sebastian Knell
Vita brevis, ars longa – das Leben ist kurz, lang ist die Kunst. In diesem antiken Aphorismus artikuliert sich die Ahnung, dass die Befristung unserer Lebenszeit dem Potenzial der Selbstverwirklichung entgegensteht, über das wir als kulturell geformte Wesen verfügen. Was jedoch, wenn es gelänge, diese Befristung auszuhebeln? Biologen sind den Mechanismen des Alterns längst auf der Spur, und einige von ihnen behaupten, diese Forschung könne uns in Zukunft befähigen, das Altern einzudämmen und die menschliche Lebensspanne erheblich auszuweiten, eventuell sogar bis zur biologischen Unsterblichkeit. Aber wäre ein sehr viel längeres Leben überhaupt ein Gewinn? Oder würden wir trotz dauerhafter körperlicher Fitness seelisch vergreisen? Ist biologische Unsterblichkeit ein erstrebenswerter Zustand? Und wie steht es mit den moralischen Problemen, die sich stellen, wenn das Geheimnis des Alterns gelüftet ist? Ist es zum Beispiel ungerecht, wenn sich nur Wohlhabende lebensverlängernde Therapien leisten können? Sebastian Knell geht diesen elementaren Fragen in seiner großangelegten philosophischen Studie auf den Grund und kommt zu klaren Einschätzungen, die spätestens dann von hoher praktischer Relevanz sein werden, wenn »Anti-Aging« nicht mehr nur ein Zauberwort der Kosmetikindustrie ist. Das könnte in nicht allzu ferner Zukunft der Fall sein.
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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesMarch 2022T wie Tessa - Codewort Lotusblüte (Band 2)
by Frauke Scheunemann
T for Tessa - Codeword Lotus Flower (Vol. 2) From Hamburg Harbour to Rotterdam - Tessa topsecret!Shooting training, karate, heart palpitations and band rehearsals - Tessa Neumann's comfortable life has finally come to an end since she "accidentally" became an agent of the internationally operating secret service R.I.N.G. Now she's out to put a stop to the masterminds of organized crime.And it’s Tessa's first mission to be involved from the very beginning! Quite stressful but usually absolutely okay, if not now of all times Timo Erhardt, the crush of her sleepless nights, would show interest in her. How can fate throw such lousy timing at her? Actually, Tessa would really like to take a break, but evil never sleeps, as we all know. The scene of the crime in this mission is the port of Hamburg. Here, the customs investigation has uncovered 16 tons of cocaine in the container of a cargo ship. A remarkable catch! But one thing soon becomes clear to Tessa, her band mates and the Mongolian gerbil Hector: the real culprits are not in Hamburg, but in Rotterdam. There a cat-and-mouse game begins, in which the girls have to show what they are made of. With their combined forces, they manage to lure the criminals into a trap so that the Dutch police can arrest them. But mousy Hector discovers that drugs are not the only commodity being smuggled across Europe via Rotterdam: In fact, one of the smugglers is also dealing in exotic animals, animals listed as Endangered Species, so they can't be imported. But be assured, Hector wouldn't be Hector if he didn't do everything he could to save the animals!
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FictionMay 2019Mozart and the Wolf Gang
By Anthony Burgess
by Alan Shockley
Written in 1991 to commemorate the bicentennial of Mozart's death, Burgess's novella-length piece is a compendium of themes, genres and even art-forms revolving around the one central preoccupation of the entire Burgess oeuvre: the reconcilability of life and art. This is a kaleidoscope of a book, which stretches even the bounds of even Anthony Burgess's fiction in an attempt to understand Mozart through celestial dialogue, an opera libretto, and fragments of a film script. As gracefully witty as it is daringly experimental, Mozart and the Wolf Gang is one of Burgess's late, great works, often overlooked due to its experimental form, which nevertheless remains accessible, entertaining and yet refreshingly original to this day. This new critical edition with analysis from noted musicologist and a first-class literary critic Alan Shockley enables this work's significance within the fields of literary modernism, fictional biography, and fiction about music, to be assessed by a new generation of readers and scholars.
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November 2024Easy Beauty
Blicke auf meine Behinderung | Ein brillantes Memoir – philosophisch klug und schonungslos ehrlich
by Chloé Cooper Jones, Brigitte Jakobeit
Easy Beauty ist ein brillantes Memoir über das Leben mit Behinderung und die universelle Frage, wie man Schönheit und Erfüllung findet. Philosophisch klug, schonungslos ehrlich und mit großer Zärtlichkeit berichtet Chloé Cooper Jones von der Suche nach Momenten des Glücks, die allen Vorurteilen trotzen. Chloé Cooper Jones wurde mit einer unvollständigen Wirbelsäule geboren. Die sichtbare körperliche Behinderung bereitet ihr nicht nur täglich Schmerzen, sondern zieht auch Blicke auf sich, die alle dasselbe meinen: Du reimst dich nicht mit dem, was wir kennen – du bist eine Fremde. Als Cooper Jones wider Erwarten Mutter wird, fällt ihr auf, wie sehr Schutzmechanismen, Unsicherheit und Unbehagen sie daran hindern, im eigenen Leben zuhause zu sein. Überstürzt bricht sie auf, begibt sich auf eine Reise. Sie will ergründen, was Schönheit ist und welche Bedeutung sie hat. Sie betrachtet Berninis Skulpturen in Rom, besucht ein Beyoncé-Konzert, erkundet Kambodscha in einem Tuk Tuk und fährt in die Wüste, um Roger Federer spielen zu sehen. Es ist die Reise einer unermüdlich Suchenden, aber auch der Weg einer Heimkehr – zu ihrem Sohn, ihrer Familie und der vielleicht größten aller Herausforderungen: lieben und geliebt zu werden.
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Children's & YAJune 2021T wie Tessa - Plötzlich Geheimagentin (Band 1)
by Frauke Scheunemann
T for Tessa - Suddenly Secret Agent (Vol. 1) T for Tessa and top secret! The first volume of a new secret agent series combines coolness, a touch of romance, and a ton of humor as Tessa trips into her first detective case. Together with her Mongolian gerbil Hector, a talking sidekick, Tessa soon turns into a real top-notch agent. Of course, she still retains her chaotic nature, which makes for a lot of situation comedy. Extremely shy and clumsy – it’s no wonder Tessa would rather be someone else. Like a member of Gimme Four, for example, the super famous girl group at her school. Then the unimaginable happens: Tessa passes the audition and makes it into the band! But it’s not exactly what she thought it would be. The rehearsals are disrupted by sketchy fans, wild chases at night, and ruthless mafiosi. And Tessa’s new band mates seem to have other hobbies besides music. Or how else would you explain the weapons in the instrument cases?
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November 2005Gesammelte Werke in neun Bänden
Band 7: Auf Reisen 4
by Cees Nooteboom, Susanne Schaber, Helga Beuningen, Andreas Ecke, Rosemarie Still
Mit den beiden abschließenden Bänden der Werkausgabe vervollständigt sich nun das Bild dieses Autors, der zu den vielseitigsten unter den Großen unserer Tage gehört, systematisch wie chronologisch: Band 7 folgt dem jungen Nooteboom, Reporter und Kolumnist für mehrere Tageszeitungen, auf seinem Weg quer durch die Welt; Band 8 führt durch sein schier unendliches Archiv, das einen noch kaum gehobenen Schatz von Essays und Feuilletons birgt.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025Worlds of the ring
Nation and empire in the British and German circus
by Sabine Hanke
Worlds of the Ring is a groundbreaking exploration of the interwar European circus scene, focusing on the German Sarrasani and British Bertram W. Mills' circuses. This study illuminates the correlation between the circus's evolution and imperialism/nationalism, revealing how these enterprises shaped national identities for popular audiences. Examining the years 1918-45, the book takes a transnational perspective, uncovering the interplay of international and national forces that influenced the modern circus. Through case studies, it delves into the lives of individuals in the industry, using diverse sources like newspapers, legal documents, and performer archives. The book introduces the concept of Orientalism to analyse how circuses depicted foreign worlds, and provides a fresh perspective on interwar popular culture, globalising forces, and the circus's ties to European imperialism in the early 20th century.
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Children's & YAThe Soccer Gang (4). A Strong Player For The Team
by Frauke Nahrgang/ Nikolai Renger
Even the best team can’t win if the defence is weak. And that’s not surprising, because Finn the attacker now has to play as a defender. The Soccer Gang urgently needs to get a boost! Of all people, it’s Gregor – who knows nothing whatsoever about football – who knows somebody: Leo, a defender, has moved to the town. Could Leo be the answer to the Soccer Gang’s problem?
