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Photo Travel Editions
Photo Travel Editions is an italian independent Publishing House founded in 2018 and directed by Giovanni Marino. Books and reading are necessary tools to communicate beauty and to transmit memory and identity. In this context, Photo Travel Editions, develops as a natural evolution of a complex reality with the aim of giving voice to the need to spread and share the cultural tool par excellence, the book. Photo Travel Editions combines aspects of traditional publishing with the new modern publishing of E-books and audiobooks. The publishing project offers nonfiction books, contemporary fiction, poetry, photographic books and the re-edition of rare books. Great attention is paid to emerging authors who will be offered the means to reach an increasingly important number of readers, giving them the opportunity to express themselves, communicate and excite through writing.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2025Slave trading in the Early Middle Ages
Long-distance connections in northern and east central Europe
by Janel M. Fontaine
This book examines slave trading in northern and eastern central Europe from the seventh century through the eleventh century, tracing its growth, climax, and decline. Demand from the Islamic world in the ninth and tenth centuries prompted changes in warfare, trade logistics, and administrative responses to slavery in the slaving zones centred on the British Isles and the Czech lands. This study establishes slave trading as a core driver of connectivity and presents a model for this practice in politically fragmented areas of Europe.
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MedicineNotes for Dementia Support Workers
The Quick Reference Book on Working with People with Dementia
by Sylke Werner
The practical quick reference book for dementia support workers, who inspire, support, and care for people with dementia in their daily lives in their own homes and in residential care. With a clear, specific, and professional approach, Sylke Werner explains the responsibilities that dementia support work entails and the forms and symptoms of dementia. She provides detailed descriptions of activities and ways of life for people with dementia, as well as work on the patient’s life story, care, and activities in the patient’s own home, care homes, and palliative care environments. Challenging behavior, the importance of care workers’ being attentive to their own needs, and legal principles are also covered in this practical handbook for dementia support workers. Target Group: Dementia support workers, geriatric nurses, activity and enrichment specialists, nursing assistants/direct care workers
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MedicineNotes for Personal Care Workers
The Quick Reference Book on Caring for the Elderly
by Sylke Werner
This quick reference book explains what personal care is, why it is necessary, which competencies personal care workers require, and how to safely and professionally care for, engage, and support people in need of care and their relatives in their daily lives. Target Group: Personal care workers, geriatric nurses
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2025Beyond the antislavery haven
Slavery in early Canadian print culture, 1789–1889
by Ellie Bird
This book challenges the idealised narrative of Canada as an antislavery haven for self-liberated people to explore Canada's complicated relationship with slavery. Examining advertisements, abolitionist texts and narratives about slavery in Canadian newspapers and the texts that were printed alongside them, it shows how Canadian readers and enslavers developed an image of themselves as belonging to an antislavery community even while recognising their own complicity in slavery. The book explores narratives that depict the lives of Black settlers in Canada and how slave narratives circulated in Canada. Canada's relationship with slavery is far more complicated than seeing it as either an antislavery haven or a slaveholding space. Canada was connected to Britain, France, the Caribbean and the United States and this was central to how Canadians and Canadian readers fashioned their self-image in relation to slavery.
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August 2012Im Labor der Utopie
Theodor Herzl und das "Altneuland"-Projekt
by Clemens Peck
Theodor Herzl, geboren 1860 in Budapest, schrieb mit »Der Judenstaat« (1896) die entscheidende Abhandlung für die Gründung eines autonomen jüdischen Staatswesens. Das Buch war eine Abwehrreaktion gegen den in Europa sich verschärfenden Antisemitismus, den Herzl besonders als Paris-Korrespondent während der Dreyfus-Affäre erleben musste. Sechs Jahre später erschien sein Roman »Altneuland«, in dem er seine Ideen eines jüdischen Staates in Palästina literarisierte, reflektierte und modifizierte. Herzl schrieb die Utopie, »um zu zeigen, dass es keine ist«. In seinem Buch geht es nicht um Literatur oder Politik – es geht um beides gleichermaßen. Es changiert zwischen Roman und Leben, Imagination und Realisierung. Clemens Peck folgt Herzls Bewegung zwischen diesen beiden Polen – den Experimenten im Labor der Utopie. Er lotet die Leistungen des Romans vor dem Hintergrund des Utopie-Diskurses um 1900 erstmals ausführlich aus und gewinnt neue Einsichten nicht nur über den Roman, sondern auch über die schillernde Person des jüdischen Schriftstellers und Journalisten.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentMay 2016How to Deal with Anxiety and Panic
by Michael Rufer, Heike Alsleben, Angela Weiss
Are you or a loved one suffering from anxiety and panic and you are wondering what you can do? To whom you can turn? What the options for treatment are? And how relatives can help? This self-help book gives affected people and their relatives: • clear and comprehensive information based on up-to-date research findings • concrete self-help strategies and exercises with worksheets • descriptions of recognized treatment methods • instructions on coping with stress and using relaxation techniques • detailed answers to frequently asked questions • a helpful list of useful contacts and websites • an idea of how mindfulness can be incorporated. The authors have first-hand knowledge of these problems from their extensive experience of counseling and treating people with anxiety disorders and their relatives. This book summarizes their knowledge in clear and comprehensible form. It is ideal both for self-help and to complement ongoing treatment. Target Group: affected people and their relatives and friends; psychologists, therapists, doctors, counseling centers.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Silk and empire
by Brenda King
In this book, Brenda M. King challenges the notion that Britain always exploited its empire. Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship were all part of the Anglo-Indian silk trade and were nurtured in the era of empire through mutually beneficial collaboration. The trade operated within and without the empire, according to its own dictates and prospered in the face of increasing competition from China and Japan. King presents a new picture of the trade, where the strong links between Indian designs, the English silk industry and prominent members of the English the arts and crafts movement led to the production of beautiful and luxurious textiles. Lavishly illustrated, this book will be of interest to those interested in the relationship between the British Empire and the Indian subcontinent, as well as by historians of textiles and fashion.
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October 2024Nomos und Narrativ
Studien zur Theorie des Rechts
by Robert Cover, Benedict Vischer
Um den Sinn und die Kraft des Rechts zu erschließen, müssen wir weit über die formalen Bausteine staatlicher Rechtsordnungen hinausblicken. Ausgehend von der amerikanischen Bürgerrechtsbewegung und der jüdischen Rechtstradition erkunden Robert Covers bahnbrechende Essays die existenzielle Dichte rechtlicher Weltformung. Nachgezeichnet wird das Wechselspiel von Visionen, Narrativen, tätiger Hingabe und Gewalt, in dem eine unaufhebbare Vielfalt gesellschaftlicher Perspektiven um den Sinn des Rechts ringt. Kaum ein juristischer Autor hat in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten eine so breite interdisziplinäre Rezeption erfahren wie Cover. Mit diesem Band wird sein Werk nun erstmals in deutscher Sprache zugänglich gemacht.
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October 2024Nomos und Narrativ
Studien zur Theorie des Rechts
by Robert M. Cover, Benedict Vischer
Um den Sinn und die Kraft des Rechts zu erschließen, müssen wir weit über die formalen Bausteine staatlicher Rechtsordnungen hinausblicken. Ausgehend von der amerikanischen Bürgerrechtsbewegung und der jüdischen Rechtstradition erkunden Robert Covers bahnbrechende Essays die existenzielle Dichte rechtlicher Weltformung. Nachgezeichnet wird das Wechselspiel von Visionen, Narrativen, tätiger Hingabe und Gewalt, in dem eine unaufhebbare Vielfalt gesellschaftlicher Perspektiven um den Sinn des Rechts ringt. Kaum ein juristischer Autor hat in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten eine so breite interdisziplinäre Rezeption erfahren wie Cover. Mit diesem Band wird sein Werk nun erstmals in deutscher Sprache zugänglich gemacht.
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September 2023Being Able to Stop
Against the delusion of permanent growth
by Edited by Jean-Pierre Wils
We moderns were the inhabitants of an age of impetuous forward movement and voracious discontent. Our main virtue was to increase our reach. Increasing our having and accelerating our being were the signposts towards the future. We just could not get enough. Using the blinkers of ignorance and self-anaesthesia, however, we managed to forget the tremendous costs incurred by this intoxication. Now disillusionment has set in. We look to the future with anxiety. We know that we have long since crossed a line and that a revision of our lifestyle is imminent. We have a bad feeling, and doubts about progress often give way to anger and rebellion. Which stocks of the modern narrative should we defend; which would we do better to let go? How will we even "be able to stop"? The path to a different society needs an attractive goal, because without the prospect of a different, better life, we will not move forward. We should start practising immediately. There is no time to lose.
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January 2026Mortimers Geheimnis. Ein Kater, zwei Detektive und die Magie des Lesens
Zu Herzen gehender Krimi und New-York-Times-Bestseller über beste Freunde, kluge Katzen, Familiengeheimnisse und Lieblingsbücher ab 9 Jahren
by Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass, Ulrike Köbele
Cosy Krimi trifft Buchzauber: Auf den Spuren eines geheimnisvollen Katers, einer Geisterbibliothekarin und eines wendungsreichen Rätsels Eines Morgens taucht ein Schränkchen mit gebrauchten Büchern vor Evans Schule auf – eine kleine Freiluftbibliothek! Bewacht wird sie von einem freundlichen, rot getigerten Kater namens Mortimer. Evan nimmt zwei Bücher mit nach Hause und findet alte Ausleihscheine darin. Gab es früher etwa eine richtige Bibliothek in der Stadt? Warum ist sie nicht mehr da? Evans Vater weicht seinen Fragen aus und auch die anderen Erwachsenen scheinen etwas zu verbergen. Zusammen mit seinem besten Freund Rafi begibt sich Evan auf die Spur der verschwundenen Bibliothek. Dabei kreuzt der geheimnisvolle Kater immer wieder den Weg der beiden. Mortimer scheint auf ganz besondere Weise mit der Geschichte der Bibliothek verbunden zu sein. Was Evan schließlich herausfindet, stellt nicht nur sein eigenes Leben auf den Kopf, es bringt auch eine Wahrheit ans Licht, die ihre Stadt für immer verändern wird. Der New-York-Times-Bestseller und #1 Indie Bestseller erzählt von Büchern und Freundschaften, die uns ein Leben lang begleiten. Eine herzerwärmende Geschichte ab 9 Jahren zum Gemeinsam- und Selberlesen. Kurze Kapitel lassen die Seiten vorbeifliegen und mit jeder neuen Entdeckung steigt die Spannung. Wer vor dem Lesen noch kein Bücherwurm ist, wird es danach garantiert sein. Auszeichnungen für die englische Ausgabe von Mortimers Geheimnis:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 INDIE BESTSELLER!Amazon #1 Best Kids' Book of 2023Amazon Best Book of the Month
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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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December 2000Das Experiment und die Metaphysik
Zur Auflösung der kosmologischen Antinomien
by Edgar Wind, Bernhard Buschendorf, Bernhard Buschendorf, Brigitte Falkenburg
Edgar Winds Habilitationsschrift von 1934 ist eine originelle Deutung der modernen Physik aus dem Umkreis des Neukantianismus und des amerikanischen Pragmatismus. Wind formuliert darin seine Theorie der „symbolischen Repräsentation“
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Business, Economics & LawSeptember 2004Trade unions and democracy
Strategies and perspectives
by Mark Harcourt, Geoffrey Wood
This book explores the changing role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. Despite conventionally being portrayed as politically marginalised and in terminal decline, trade unions continue to represent a significant component of society within most industrialised countries and have demonstrated a capacity for revival and renewal in the face of difficult corcumstances. It brings together a distinguished panel of leading and emerging scholars in the field, and provides a critical assessment of the current role of trade 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 industrial relations, critical management studies, political studies and sociology. ;
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PsychologyApril 2018What is “Good” Dementia Care?
by Christoph Held
People with dementia experience their condition as a big change in which, for example, new events are not linked to existing experiences and wishes, thoughts, and actions can no longer be connected to each other. This kind of experience of the self, due to the intergative function of the brainbeing temporarily or permanently lost, is called dissociative self-experience. Based on this understanding of dementia, the author develops an approach to effectively understand and support people with dementia in everyday activities. Typical everyday situations and behaviours are presented and reflected on in a practical context.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureNovember 2025Dirtbag dreams
A history of mountain, ultra and trail running
by Carl Morris
The first book to share the untold story of this unique sport, from its origins in the Victorian era to the present day. Over the past two decades, mountain, ultra and trail running has experienced a massive boom in participation, media attention and corporate consumerism. Once little more than an oddball recreation for mountain athletics romantics, the sport has become a mass activity in ways that were previously unimaginable. In Dirtbag dreams, Carl Morris offers the first complete account of mountain, ultra and trail running in North America and Britain. Revealing the sport's eccentric Victorian origins, he traces its development through 200 years of history, travelling from the Sierra Nevada and the English Lake District to the streets of London and New York. Packed with gripping races and colourful characters, Dirtbag dreams is the essential companion for anyone who wants to understand this unique endurance sport.
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August 2021Die Erben der Animox 1. Die Beute des Fuchses
by Aimée Carter, Peter Kaempfe, Die Erben der Animox, Animox
Der Kampf um die Welt der Animox geht weiter! Aimée Carter hat mit ihrem Fantasy-Abenteuer rund um die Animox einen Bestseller gelandet. Jetzt wird das super erfolgreiche Fantasy-Abenteuer in einer neuen Buch-Reihe fortgesetzt. Ein Jahr nach der finalen Schlacht der ersten Animox-Bände ist Simon Thorn 13 Jahre alt und leidet noch immer unter den Erinnerungen an den Kampf. Aus Angst, jemanden zu verletzen, schreckt er davor zurück, seine Fähigkeiten einzusetzen. Doch dann braucht ein Mädchen aus Europa dringend seine Hilfe: Ihre Schwester wurde von einer Rebellengruppe entführt. Und sie bleibt nicht die einzige … Hochspannung und packende Wendungen garantiert! Ein Kinderbuch für alle Mädchen und Jungen ab 10 Jahren.
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February 2020Die wilden Waldhelden. Helfer gegen Heimweh
by Andrea Schütze, Cathlen Gawlich, Die wilden Waldhelden
Der kleine Diego ist gar nicht gerne im Waldkindergarten. Er möchte einfach nur nach Hause. Aber die 4 WWH haben eine fantastische Idee, wie sie ihm die Zeit im Wald schmackhaft machen können. Sie befüllen für Diego einen "Waldkalender" - für jede halbe Stunde, die er durchhält, bekommt er ein kleines waldiges Geschenk. Wie schnell da die Zeit vergeht!
