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      • Avalia Studios GmbH

        Wir sind Verlag, Kreativagentur und Film- und Fernsehproduktion. Wir glauben, Kreativität hat keine Grenzen. Deswegen halten wir unseren Horizont weit offen - für wertvolle, spannende und ehrliche Geschichten und effiziente Mittel und Ideen, diese zu erzählen und Menschen zu bewegen. Wir leben und lieben die Möglichkeiten, durch die wir uns in vielseitigen Projekten entfalten können, die sich gegenseitig inspirieren.

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      • Trusted Partner
        January 2019

        Mein großer Arena Malblock. Pferde und Ponys

        by Be-bop

        Mit tollen Motiven einzigartige Kunstwerke schaffen! Im Stall, beim Ausritt und auf dem Springturnier - viele pferdestarke Ausmalmotive im extragroßen Format für kleine und große Pferdefans. So entstehen wunderschöne Bilder zum Aufhängen, Sammeln und Verschenken. Durch das Ausmalen wird ganz nebenbei Kreativität, Konzentration und Motorik gefördert.

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        January 2016

        Embodied Communication

        by Maja Storch, Wolfgang Tschacher

        The idea that people can understand each other is based on the assumption that there is such thing as the “correct” meaning of a message that simply needs to be found. According to the theory of embodied communication, however, a message has no fixed meaning that can be extracted or deciphered. There is merely the mutually produced feeling of agreement on a linguistic form, which arises spontaneously and anew from the interaction and which is not present in the beginning. Psychologists Maja Storch and Wolfgang Tschacher have at last supplied a new theory of communication that is in line with the latest research – and that can be applied in real-life situations. In addition to a section on the theory of embodied communication, the book contains detailed practical comments and a workshop section. The practical section describes a selection of everyday situations in which communication skills are called for. The methods can be applied to promote authentic and spontaneous behavior in real life situations. Target Group: Psychologists, communication experts, trainers, coaches, managers, teachers, marketing experts, and anyone who needs to communicate effectively at work or in their private life.

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        Medicine
        October 2024

        ‘Everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950

        by Tracey Loughran, Hannah Froom, Kate Mahoney, Daisy Payling

        What is the history of 'everyday health' in the postwar world, and where might we find it? This volume moves away from top-down histories of health and medicine that focus on states, medical professionals, and other experts. Instead, it centres the day-to-day lives of people in diverse contexts from 1950 to the present. Chapters explore how gender, class, 'race', sexuality, disability, and age mediated experiences of health and wellbeing in historical context. The volume foregrounds methodologies for writing bottom-up histories of health, subjectivity, and embodiment, offering insights applicable to scholars of times and places beyond those represented in the case studies presented here. Drawing together cutting-edge scholarship, the volume establishes and critically interrogates 'everyday health' as a crucial concept that will shape future histories of health and medicine.

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        Science & Mathematics
        October 2018

        Corporate Social Responsibility

        Win-win Propositions for Communities, Corporates and Agriculture

        by S P Wani, K V Raju, Anand K. Singh, Aviraj Datta, O.P. Chaturvedi, S.K. Dasgupta, Gajanan Sawargaonkar, Girish Chander, A.V.R. Kesava Rao, Kaushal K. Garg, Mukund D. Patil, G. Pardhasaradhi, K Srinivas, Raghavendra Sudi, Inder Dev, Kiran J. Petare, Nagaraju Budama, Rajesh Nune, Ramesh Singh, A. N. Rao, Prabhakar Pathak, D.S. Prasad Rao, C. Srinivasa Rao

        This book examines the design and implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in rural areas, based on collaboration between well-known corporates and an international research organization. Researchers used various scientific tools and methods to enhance rural livelihoods and improve sustainable natural resources management. Including three chapters covering the philosophy and practices of CSR, this book covers emerging policies and their implications in India. Eight case studies based on actual practices explore climate-resilient agriculture, water footprint, improving livelihoods, diversification of crop pattern, enhancing crop productivity, and sustainable development in low rainfall regions. Five further chapters cover soil health improvement, improving rural wastewater management and enhancing rural livelihoods, based on various case studies. The book offers macro and micro perspectives of CSR work and its critical benefits to both community and natural resources. This book covers: Philosophy and practices of corporate social responsibility. Impact studies on improving livelihoods and sustainable development of natural resources. Process steps across various CSR initiatives. Distinct features of each corporate agency. This book will be useful to corporates, individuals involved in CSR work as well as students and researchers focused on agricultural development and the sustainable development of natural resources.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        2021

        Avatar. On the Nature of Duplication and Multiplicity

        by Taras Liutyi

        Humans are very fickle. On the deep psychological level, they are constantly reborn into the new surrounding circumstances, and trying to adapt to them. Some people are not thinking about the past or future at all, while others throw themselves into the whirlpool of scenarios, creating a lot of pain for themselves and others. When we think about probable and improbable scenarios of our life events, we technically create our own endless number of avatars. We duplicate ourselves. Why are some people cautious, some aggressive and some are completely resistant to the novelties? Why do we think we are complete, yet we constantly change? Why we sometimes marvel at something that is not available and finding it hard to appreciate our own talents and the talents of others? The book tries to find some answers to the questions of human mind. The book is devoted to the formation of a human personality, which cannot do without its own transformation, the experience of the Other and the Stranger, the bifurcation and maintenance of the unity of its self and many other aspects.

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        The Arts
        February 2025

        Tattoos in crime and detective narratives

        Marking and remarking

        by Kate Watson, Katharine Cox

        Tattoos in crime and detective narratives examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, television and film, from two periods of tattoo renaissance (1851-1914, and c1955 to present). It makes an original contribution to understandings of crime and detective genre and the ways in which tattoos act as a mimetic device that marks and remarks these narratives in complex ways. With a focus on tattooing as a bodily narrative, the book incorporates the critical perspectives of posthumanism, spatiality, postcolonialism, embodiment and gender studies. The grouped essays examine the first tattoo renaissance, the rebirth of the tattoo in contemporary culture through literature, children's literature, film and television. The collection has a broad appeal, and will be of interest to all literature and media scholars, but in particular those with an interest in crime and detective narratives and skin studies.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2015

        Corporate and white-collar crime in Ireland

        A new architecture of regulatory enforcement

        by Joe McGrath, Rob Kitchin

        This book explores the emergence of a new architecture of corporate enforcement in Ireland. It is demonstrated that the State has transitioned from one contradictory model of corporate enforcement to another. Traditionally, the State invoked its most powerful weapon of state censure, the criminal law, but was remarkably lenient in practice because the law was not enforced. The contemporary model is much more reliant on cooperative measures and civil orders, but also contains remarkably punitive and instrumental measures to surmount the difficulties of proving guilt in criminal cases. Though corporate and financial regulation has become an area of significant interest for academics, researchers and those with an interest in corporate affairs, this sudden surge of interest lacks a tradition of scholarship or any deep empirical and contextual analysis in Ireland. This book provides that foundation. It is likely to stimulate an extensive conversation on corporate regulation and governance in Ireland. It is also likely to provide a platform for researchers further afield with an interest in comparative study with Ireland. ;

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        The Arts
        January 2025

        Gestures

        A body of work

        by Alice Butler, Nell Osborne, Hilary White

        Gestures: A body of work is a cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to 'gesture' that considers the term's complex registers across embodied, aesthetic and political scenes. Attending to gestural movements, languages, feelings and communications, the book argues that gestures can unsettle gendered, sexed and racialised relations, norms and affects. Contributors activate the lens of gesture to offer innovative readings of art and literary works from the 1960s onwards and in transnational contexts. Experiments in art writing and autotheory reflect on the entanglement of the body, gesture and feminist practice. The book proposes that gesture be rethought as a mode of feminist practice that includes art, writing, performance and theory. Mixing disciplines, forms, genres and voices, these contributions and the book's gestural structure offer a bold intervention into the conventions of critical writing.

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        Geography & the Environment
        June 2024

        Gendered urban violence among Brazilians

        Painful truths from Rio de Janeiro and London

        by Cathy McIlwaine, Paul Heritage, Miriam Krenzinger Azambuja, Moniza Rizzini Ansari, Eliana Sousa Silva, Yara Evans

        This book aims to examine the nature of and resistance to gendered urban violence among Brazilian women in London and in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on the conceptualisation of translocational gendered urban violence framework, it highlights the importance of examining direct forms of gender-based violence across private, public and transnational spheres as interlinked with structural, symbolic and infrastructural violence. The book also explores the embodied and spatialised nature of gendered urban violence, explored through artistic engagements and arts-based methods. In developing a translocational feminist tracing methodological and epistemological approach across the social sciences and the arts, the book argues for the importance of a collaborative approach among academic, civil society organisations, artists and creative researchers with a view to engendering empathetic transformation to address gendered urban violence in the long-term.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 2010

        Essays in later medieval French literature

        The legacy of Jane H. M. Taylor

        by Mike Thompson, Rebecca Dixon

        Over the course of a career spanning five decades, Jane Taylor has shown a commitment to the rehabilitation of the more neglected aspects of later medieval French literature. This volume brings together original contributions from scholars who have worked alongside Taylor and directly or indirectly benefitted from her example. The chapters demonstrate their authors' link to this legacy, and concomitantly underline the vibrancy and breadth of approach which is the hallmark of current later medieval studies. The essays in the collection centre on a number of key issues in the field: notions of literary self-consciousness and what it means to come after an avatar; issues of intertextuality and the appeal to past models in the creation of a new literary aesthetic (or a new literary criticism); and interdisciplinary questions of translation, reworking, and continuation. Essays in later medieval French literature seeks not only to illustrate the buoyant state of later medieval French literary studies but also, in so doing, to show how in broader terms responding to the legacy of an illustrious predecessor has not pejorative but positive consequences. ;

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        Self-help & personal development
        November 2021

        Here be Dragons

        How to win deals and influence ideas by mastering the eloquent art of storyselling

        by Richard Mulholland

        STOP TELLING STORIES. START SELLING THEM! The world is rightly obsessed with the incredible power of a good story. Unfortunately too many of us take that to mean that it is our own story that's important. It's not. The magic happens not when we tell our customers the story of our past, but when we sell them a new story of their future. One in which we play a part. As a salesperson (and make no mistake, you are a salesperson) you have two jobs. Job No. 2 of the storyseller is to help your clients and customers slay their dragon. Job No. 1 of the storyseller is to help them see their dragon. You are in the dragon hunting business, but dragon hunting ain’t easy – there’s work to be done. In this short and highly practical book, renowned speaker Richard Mulholland shares with you how to use powerful stories to change minds, drive sales, and solve problems. Here Be Dragons isn’t just a how-to book, it is far more a why-to, and mostly a what-to-do book.

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        Medicine

        Proud to be a Nurse

        The Encouragement Book

        by German Quernheim, Angelika Zegelin

        This book demonstrates the impor­tance of professional pride for carers in training, teaching and practice. The au­thors explain which mechanisms and strategies help to develop this attitude. They describe the facets of professional pride as identity, individuality, passion, courage, self­worth, meaningfulness, knowledge, and education. The contents provide a boost to profes­sional carers and give them the cour­age to be proactive against chronic pressures and ethical dilemmas and to change situations that are undignifed. Occupational profles and practice re­ports offer specifc role models and tips for implementation. The authors convey the basics of lobbying activity in the caring professions. They show carers how to represent themselves successfully and how to convey and embody self­confdence outwardly.

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        Mind, Body, Spirit

        May the Loveforce Be With You

        Kali-Ki Reiki: Healing Through Divine Mother & Yogic Wisdom

        by Rajashree Maa

        May the Loveforce Be With introduces a new lineage in energy healing, Kali-Ki ReikiTM, that was revealed to the author, Joni Dittrich, Ph.D. (Rajashree Maa), in a series of mystical encounters with the Divine Mother appearing as the goddess Kali Maa. The book brilliantly tells the stories of these encounters and presents the healing symbols that She revealed, explaining how these symbols can be used both for mind-body healing and spiritual awakening, or what Rajashree Maa calls "wisening." While traditional reiki systems also use symbols to transmit healing energy, the symbols introduced in Kali-Ki Reiki are seen as unique, three-dimensional, active, intelligent forms of light that tap into certain universal energy frequencies that are particularly attuned to the evolving conscious awareness as well as the personal and societal dilemmas of our current times. The fact that these symbols were revealed by Divine Mother to a woman in this era points to a need in today's world to re-establish our connection with the feminine forces of nature and spirit. The healing energy transmitted through these symbols is called Loveforce, which is considered to be the manifesting, creative, and healing power of the Limitless Love that is the Source of all that is.

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        December 2017

        Chronische Depression, Trauma und Embodiment

        Eine transgenerative Perspektive in psychoanalytischen Behandlungen

        by Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2024

        How to be multiple

        The philosophy of twins

        by Helena de Bres, Julia de Bres

        In How to be multiple, Helena de Bres - a twin herself - argues that twinhood is a unique lens for examining our place in the world and how we relate to other people. The way we think about twins offers remarkable insights into some of the deepest questions of our existence, from what is a person? to how should we treat one another? Deftly weaving together literary and cultural history, philosophical enquiry and personal experience, de Bres examines such thorny issues as binary thinking, objectification, romantic love and friendship, revealing the limits of our individualistic perspectives. In this illuminating, entertaining book, wittily illustrated by her twin sister, de Bres ultimately suggests that to consider twinhood is to imagine the possibility of a more interconnected, capacious human future.

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        Children's & YA

        I Want to Be a Green Onion

        by Chang Xin’gang

        I Want to Be a Green Onion is a novel shedding light on realistic problems during the growth of children. From kindergarten to the fifth grade, the protagonist of the novel Pan Chunchun has been burdened with expectations from his grandpa, dad and mum. But in Chunchun's heart, he has always wanted to become an ordinary but extremely tenacious "green onion". What kind of unusual story will he have?   Through Pan Chunchun's stories of growth, the author calls for children's voices to be heard and respected. The book is closely associated with the contemporary lives of children and can be regarded as a milestone work in the growth-themed fictions of Chang Xin'gang.

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        Children's & YA

        WHO THE PANDA WANTED TO BE LIKE?

        by Svitlana Miroshnychenko (Author), Natalia Oliinyk (Illustrator)

        Who the Panda wanted to be like? Oh, she wanted to be bright and yellow with some fancy spots, like giraffes. Or maybe to have a nice shell, as turtles do. Or… maybe the peacock feathers will make her beautiful? But no matter how hard she tried and how many times she ran into a beauty salon with new ideas, she always was disappointed with the result. She didn’t like herself. Until she found out the greatest secret of true beauty that lives in the heart. How did that happen? Open the book and you will find out!   From 3 to 6 years, 1 300 words Rightsholders: n.miroshnyk@vivat.factor.ua

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