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      • Residenz Verlag GmbH

        Residenz Verlag, founded in 1956 and located in Salzburg and Vienna, is one of the most renowned publishers in Austria. Residenz Verlag stands for an ambitious literature program and dedicated non-fiction books. In the area of non-fiction, Residenz Verlag publishes on the topics of politics, sustainability, contemporary history, and arts as well as biographies.In fiction, the focus is on new discoveries from the German-speaking world, the continuous support of renowned Austrian writers’ oeuvre, and selected translations from (South-)Eastern and Northern European languages as well as from English. The authors’ list includes Thomas Bernhard, Peter Henisch, Walter Kappacher, Christine Nöstlinger, Alek Popov, Clemens Setz, Tanja Maljartschuk.

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      • Major Street Publishing

        Major Street Publishing is an independent book publisher based in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 2009 by Lesley Williams, Major Street specialises in publishing high quality business, leadership, personal finance and motivational books.

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        Health & Personal Development

        More Peace, Less Stress

        A Step-by-Step Guide for Adults with ASD

        by Marja Boxhoorn

        When you have autism, you probably have to cope with stress on a daily basis. Often, people with autism do not know how to recognize stress, what causes stress, and what they can do to reduce it. More peace, less stress offers a useful step-by-step plan. In seven steps, the reader learns what causes stress, how to recognise stress signals, and what they can do to feel more at ease. The book includes practical exercises so new knowledge can be applied right away. Being more at ease means to be able to: have better relationships with a partner, family, friends and colleagues, focus attention to get things done more easily, have a grip on life, instead of experiencing chaos, restlessness and insecurity and feel more powerful and have more self-esteem.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2021

        Feeling the strain

        A cultural history of stress in twentieth-century Britain

        by Jill Kirby

        Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.

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        May 2002

        Das dicke Kind und andere Erzählungen

        by Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Uwe Schweikert, Asta-Maria Bachmann

        Text und Kommentar in einem Band. In der Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek erscheinen literarische Hauptwerke aller Epochen und Gattungen als Arbeitstexte für Schule und Studium. Der vollständige Text wird ergänzt durch anschaulich geschriebene Kommentare.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2013

        Popular protest in late-medieval Europe

        Italy, France and Flanders

        by Samuel Kline Cohn

        The documents in this stimulating volume span from 1245 to 1424 but focus on the 'contagion of rebellion' from 1355 to 1382 that followed in the wake of the plague. They comprise a diversity of sources and cover a variety of forms of popular protest in different social, political and economic settings. Their authors range across a wide political and intellectual horizon and include revolutionaries, the artistocracy, merchants and representatives from the church. They tell gripping and often gruesome stories of personal and collective violence, anguish, anger, terror, bravery, and foolishness. Of over 200 documents presented here, most have been translated into English for the first time, providing students and scholars with a new opportunity to compare social movements across Europe over two centuries, allowing a re-evaluation of pre-industrial revolts, the Black Death and its consequences for political culture and action. This book will be essential reading for those seeking to better understand popular attitudes and protest in medieval Europe.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2025

        Conquest and resistance in West Africa

        The Jeandet Affair and the illusion of colonial justice

        by Ruth Ginio

        This book is an enthralling account of a legal scandal, which erupted in colonial Senegal in 1890 and reached the French metropolitan press and the parliament. The murder of a colonial administrator, Abel Jeandet, by one of his soldiers led to the brutal and illegal executions without trial of the killer and two local dignitaries. The volume follows the fascinating story of Ndiereby Ba, the widow of one of the dignitaries, who with the help of powerful métis men in the capital Saint Louis sued the French administrators who had supervised the executions for the murder of her husband. Through this captivating tale the book articulates the French expansion into West Africa, the resistance to colonial rule both violent and non-violent, and the lack of interest on the part of French politicians in the brutal conquest of a territory they know nothing about.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2024

        A savage song

        Racist violence and armed resistance in the early twentieth-century U.S.–Mexico Borderlands

        by Margarita Aragon

        This book examines key moments in which collective and state violence invigorated racialized social boundaries around Mexican and African Americans in the United States, and in which they violently contested them. Bringing anti-Mexican violence into a common analytical framework with anti-black violence, A savage song examines several focal points in this oft-ignored history, including the 1915 rebellion of ethnic Mexicans in South Texas, and its brutal repression by the Texas Rangers and the 1917 mutiny of black soldiers of the 24th Infantry Regiment in Houston, Texas, in response to police brutality. Aragon considers both the continuities and stark contrasts across these different moments: how were racialized constructions of masculinity differently employed? How did African and Mexican American men, including those in uniform, respond to the violence of racism? And how was their resistance, including their claims to manhood and nation, understood by law enforcement, politicians, and the press? Building on extensive archival research, the book examines how African and Mexican American men have been constructed as 'racial problems', investigating, in particular, their relationship with law enforcement and ideas about black and Mexican criminality.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Air power and colonial control

        by David Omissi

        Air policing was used in many colonial possessions, but its most effective incidence occurred in the crescent of territory from north-eastern Africa, through South-West Arabia, to North West Frontier of India. This book talks about air policing and its role in offering a cheaper means of 'pacification' in the inter-war years. It illuminates the potentialities and limitations of the new aerial technology, and makes important contributions to the history of colonial resistance and its suppression. Air policing was employed in the campaign against Mohammed bin Abdulla Hassan and his Dervish following in Somaliland in early 1920. The book discusses the relationships between air control and the survival of Royal Air Force in Iraq and between air power and indirect imperialism in the Hashemite kingdoms. It discusses Hugh Trenchard's plans to substitute air for naval or coastal forces, and assesses the extent to which barriers of climate and geography continued to limit the exercise of air power. Indigenous responses include being terrified at the mere sight of aircraft to the successful adaptation to air power, which was hardly foreseen by either the opponents or the supporters of air policing. The book examines the ethical debates which were a continuous undercurrent to the stream of argument about repressive air power methods from a political and operational perspective. It compares air policing as practised by other European powers by highlighting the Rif war in Morocco, the Druze revolt in Syria, and Italy's war of reconquest in Libya.

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        February 2022

        Das alte Kind

        Thriller

        by Zoë Beck

        Es sind nur wenige Tage, die Carla von ihrem Kind getrennt im Krankenhaus verbringt – Tage, die alles verändern. Als die Schwester ihr das Baby in die Arme legt, ist Carla überzeugt, dass es gar nicht ihr Kind sein kann. Doch niemand glaubt ihr … Fiona wacht in ihrer Badewanne auf. Kerzen stehen am Wannenrand, Blütenblätter schwimmen auf dem Wasser, das sich allmählich rot färbt – von ihrem Blut. Mit letzter Kraft schleppt sie sich zum Telefon. Im Krankenhaus behauptet sie, jemand hätte versucht, sie zu töten. Doch niemand glaubt ihr …

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2026

        AIDS in Soviet Russia

        A story of deception, despair and hope

        by Rustam Alexander

        The first book to tell the shocking story of the AIDS crisis in Soviet Russia. Throughout the 1980s, as the world was grappling with the escalating crisis of AIDS, Soviet Russia continued to deny there was a problem. Arguing that the disease was limited to foreigners and 'immoral' groups, the government failed to take meaningful action, long past the point other countries had begun to recognise the full scale of the threat. In this ground-breaking book, Rustam Alexander tells the story of AIDS in Soviet Russia. Fixated on disinformation, censorship and the persecution of marginalised communities, the Soviet authorities wasted precious time, allowing the epidemic to strike at the very heart of the nation: its children. Yet, despite the government's failure, a number of brave journalists, doctors and nascent gay groups decided to take matters into their own hands and engage in full-fledged AIDS activism. Tracing the political and social response to AIDS in the final years of the Soviet era, Alexander sheds light on the devastating consequences of government inaction. He draws on personal stories, media reports and archival materials to provide a riveting account of the Russian people's fight against AIDS amid the tumultuous transformations of Gorbachev's perestroika.

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        Health & Personal Development

        How About Giving It a Try?

        by Fabian Grolimund, Stefanie Rietzler

        “Yuck!” says the little dung beetle, turning away. With playfulrhymes and colorful animal antics, this picture booktackles picky eating with humor and heart. Perfect for easingmealtime stress, it also includes a science-based guidefor caregivers with practical tips to foster curiosity – withoutpressure. • Fun rhyming story about picky eaters• Lighthearted support for family mealtimes• Expert-backed advice for caregivers included

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        1973

        Die Posaune wird erschallen.

        "Cargo"-Kulte in Melanesien.

        by Peter Worsley, Monika Kind

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        June 2004

        Als Kind habe ich Stalin gesehen

        Essais und Reden

        by Christoph Hein

        Eine respektvolle Schweigeminute angesichts der desolaten Lage des ostdeutschen Theaters schlug Christoph Hein auf dem X. Schriftstellerkongreß der DDR 1987 vor; in seiner kompromißlosen Rede gegen die in seinem Land herrschende Zensur formulierte er: »Die Zensur der Verlage und Bücher, der Verleger und Autoren ist überlebt, nutzlos, paradox, menschenfeindlich, volksfeindlich, ungesetzlich und strafbar.« Offen und präzise, engagiert und leidenschaftlich, ironisch und sarkastisch meldet sich Hein in Essais und Reden aus den Jahren 1987 bis 1990 zu Wort – zur Literatur, Politik und Zeitgeschichte, zu Max Frisch und Arno Schmidt ebenso wie zum Historikerstreit und den Ereignissen des Oktober und November 1989.

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        June 1983

        Das verlorene Kind

        Roman

        by Peter Engel, Rahel Sanzara

        In ihrem Sensationserfolg von 1926, der in elf Sprachen übersetzt wurde, erzählt Rahel Sanzara einen wirklichen Kriminalfall des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der junge Fritz ist das Kind einer Vergewaltigung. Scheinbar unbelastet, wächst er mit seiner Mutter auf einem norddeutschen Gutshof auf, bis die Begegnung mit der arglosen Anna, der vierjährigen Tochter des Gutsbesitzers, eine tief vergrabene Störung offenbart und ihm zum Verhängnis wird …

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        September 2018

        Das fremde Kind

        by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Lisbeth Zwerger

        Die Geschwister Christlieb und Felix von Brakel leben mit ihren Eltern auf dem Land. Eines Tages kommt ihr reicher, weltläufiger Onkel Cyprianus zu Besuch und bringt ihnen »modernes« mechanisches Spielzeug aus der Stadt mit. Er verspricht, ihnen einen »zeitgemäßen« Hauslehrer zu besorgen, damit sie nicht »zurück blieben«. Doch der angekündigte Erzieher, der pechschwarz gekleidete Magister Tinte, entpuppt sich als Kinderfeind und Sadist. So bitten sie das magische »fremde Kind«, das sie auf ihren Waldspaziergängen kennengelernt haben, um Hilfe. Ein Märchen – auch für Erwachsene: E. T. A. Hoffmans Meistererzählung, in der Sammlung Die Serapionsbrüder 1819 veröffentlicht, erscheint erstmals als vollständige Einzelausgabe in der Insel-Bücherei, illustriert von der unvergleichlichen Lisbeth Zwerger.

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        August 1993

        Kalkül der Form

        Herausgegeben von Dirk Baecker

        by Dirk Baecker, Dirk Baecker

        Der oder das Kalkül? Der Titel dieses Buches läßt die Frage bewußt offen. Der Kalkül stellt auf das von der Logik bereitgestellte Instrument zur Durchführung von Berechnungen ab. Das Kalkül meint die Berechnung selbst im Hinblick auf ein anderes, im Kalkül selbst nicht Erfaßtes. In den Beiträgen dieses Bandes geht es um G. Spencer Browns »Gesetze der Form« im doppelten Sinne der Form eines Kalküls, der eingesetzt wird und Berechnungen ermöglicht, in denen er selbst noch einmal vorkommt als das, was er nicht erfaßt. Der Band enthält die allererste Besprechung der »Gesetze der Form«, die Heinz von Foerster für die kalifornische Ökofibel »Whole Earth Catalog« geschrieben hat, sowie Beiträge, die Spencer Brown im Kontext des optionalen Konstruktivismus, der modernen sowohl zwei- wie mehrwertigen Logik und einer Theorie des Paradoxen lesen.

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