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      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2021

        Everything must change

        by Vittorio Bufacchi

      • Trusted Partner
        November 2021

        Femicide

        Violence against women

        by Julia Cruschwitz, Carolin Haentjes

        In Germany, 132 women were murdered by their (ex-)partners over the past year, according to police statistics. An attempted murder happened every other day – the real figure is in all probability much higher. Julia Cruschwitz and Carolin Haentjes unveil their book on femicides in Germany with research from interviews with academics, criminologists, police officers, social workers, lawyers, survivors, witnesses and relatives and their analysis of scientific reports. Their work highlights how the issue of femicides affects the whole of society, but there are sensible ways to protect women more effectively from male violence. All we must do is take steps to follow these.

      • Trusted Partner
        April 2022

        Tillys Kinderkram. Tilly trickst Corona aus

        by Jasmin Schaudinn, Angela Gstalter

        In "Tillys Kinderkram. Tilly trickst Corona aus" taucht Jasmin Schaudinn tief in die Welt der fünfjährigen Tilly Appelboom ein, die zusammen mit ihrer Familie den Alltag während des Corona-Lockdowns und die Zeit danach meistert. Trotz der Herausforderungen, die die Pandemie für Kinder mit sich bringt, verliert Tilly nie ihren Optimismus und ihre Lebensfreude. Mit einer gehörigen Portion Witz und einer unerschöpflichen Fantasie findet sie kreative Wege, die neuen Alltagsbeschränkungen zu umspielen. Von Übungen, „aus der Flasche zu trinken“ mit Mundschutz bis hin zum Bau von Hängematten für Spielzeugfiguren aus demselben, zeigt Tilly, wie man die Welt auch unter schwierigen Umständen bunt und lebenswert gestalten kann. Ihre Geschichten bieten nicht nur Unterhaltung, sondern auch einen frischen Blick darauf, wie Kinder aktuelle Themen wie Gesundheit und Sicherheit wahrnehmen und verarbeiten. Dieses Buch verbindet auf liebenswerte Weise Humor mit der Realität des Lebens in der Pandemie und ist ein leuchtendes Beispiel dafür, wie Resilienz und Kreativität Kindern helfen können, herausfordernde Zeiten zu überstehen. Kindgerechter Zugang zu aktuellen Themen: Veranschaulicht, wie Kinder ab 4 Jahren die Pandemie erleben und bewältigen, auf eine Weise, die gleichzeitig bildend und unterhaltsam ist. Kreativität und Optimismus: Zeigt, wie mit Fantasie und Erfindungsgeist Einschränkungen überwunden werden können, und stärkt damit die Resilienz junger Leser*innen. Humorvolles und lebensnahes Erzählen: Die Geschichten von Tilly bieten Spaß und Abwechslung im Alltag und sind sowohl für Kinder als auch für Vorlesende ansprechend. Interaktive Elemente: Mit einer Tipps- und Tricks-Seite von Tilly am Ende jeder Geschichte sowie einem begleitenden Podcast, der die Inhalte lebendig werden lässt. Ein sympathischer Charakter: Tilly Appelboom ist eine Figur, mit der sich Kinder leicht identifizieren können, und deren Abenteuer ihnen Mut und Freude schenken.

      • October 2020

        River Willows: Senyū from Lockdown

        by Tony Ulyatt

        These poems began as a literary project adopted during the lockdown that followed the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020: to write a senryū a day. After 83 days of lockdown, 111 were complete. Made all the more poignant by the untimely death of the poet’s wife during this time, these poems are haunting in their significance and insight.

      • May 2021

        THE STRANGE POWER OF DISASTERS

        A topical novel about the fertile social mutations triggered by a pandemic. How a highly lethal disease will allow a mother and a son to find their way back to each other...

        by Hélène Le Bris

        France, summer 2029. A strange disease with an unspeakable name, called “Plague” for convenience, is sweeping the country. Deadly and highly contagious, it strikes in successive waves, upsetting the economy and social relations and overturning democracy. It eventually withdraws to Paris, placed under lockdown.On either side of the medical barricade, a mother and her grown son witness contrasting events, she in her village, repopulated by townspeople spared from the virus, and he imprisoned in a devastated Paris. Their past opposes them, their present also keeps them apart: she struggles with paperwork in the filthy workshop next to her house, and he enjoys his job as a guide for the Louvre Museum. As the plague takes its toll, an unexpected reconciliation gradually takes place.Their relationships with their loved ones also change. A couple of overworked caregivers, a distraught garage owner, and an emotional fortune teller experience with them the shock that the plague imposes on human relationships.

      • Voices Out of Lockdown

        by Jan Sutch Pickard

        During the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, many people turned to writing. Human words, sent out across the void of our isolation. Here are the voices of just a few – with poems, psalms, songs, affirmations of faith and prayers written during a full and fraught ten weeks.

      • 2020

        Das leere Venedig

        Ein Sehnsuchtsort in der Zeitenwende

        by Reato, Danilo

        Shortly before and immediately after the Lockdown, venetian author Danilo Reato took his camera and photographed the "empty Venice", Lockdown-Venice, which granted free sight to important historical buildings, the canals. This Venice reminded the author of his childhood (as he wrote in his foreword), when the "Serenissima" was much more peaceful and even knew periods during the year without any tourists. An actual historical document. The book can also be seen as contribution to the future of the town in the Lagoon, which cannot sopport "overtourism" any more.

      • October 2018

        Monsters

        Book 2 (The Reckoner Trilogy)

        by Robertson, David A.

        The mystery at Wounded Sky First Nation continues in the heart-stopping sequel to Strangers, by Governor General’s award-winning author David A. Robertson. The ending...is so unexpected that readers will eagerly anticipate [the] third volume.—Kirkus Reviews Cole Harper is struggling to settle into life in Wounded Sky First Nation. He may have stopped a serial killer but the trouble is far from over. A creature lurks in the shadows of Blackwood Forest, the health clinic is on lockdown by a mysterious organization, and long-held secrets threaten to bubble to the surface. Can Cole learn the truth about his father's death? Why won't Choch give him a straight answer? Where the heck is Jayne? Oh, and high school sucks.

      • Medicine
        March 2021

        Cabin Fever

        Surviving Lockdown in the Coronavirus Pandemic

        by Paul Crawford, Jamie Orion Crawford

        Cabin fever occurs at sea, on land, in the air, in space. Principally, it occurs in our minds. This fascinating book examines ‘cabin fever’ in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the greatest confinement of people to their homes in history. The book outlines the origins and history of cabin fever, in particular, how this psychological folk syndrome emerged out of the affliction of physical infection,notably in the case of typhus, which spread from the overcrowded, rural cabins of Ireland in the Great Famine to the pioneering frontiers of North America. It was here that the notion of a psychological ‘fever’ or restlessness began to replace the actual physical fever of typhus, as pioneers took to cabins for long periods, especially during winter months. Similar syndromes, with different names, emerged in other challenging or remote regions. The book explores the evidence of mental decline caused by prolonged or extreme social isolation, in particular what we learn from penal history and solitary confinement as well as the importance of social connectivity in maintaining good mental health. Accounts from literature, memoir, and reportage reveal the fascinating and sometimes frightening aspects of the phenomenon. We are all learning how to live with lockdown and may have to do so long into the future. This book provides an account of the chief antidotes for cabin fever.

      • December 2023

        Von Menschen und Masken

        Hg. Reimer Boy-Eilers, Esther Kaufmann, Sven J.Olsson, Vera Rosenbusch, Margret Silvester

        by Anthologie des VS Hamburg zur Pandemie

        Sie kam über Nacht und blieb: die Corona Pandemie. In wenigen Jahren werden wir die Texte zu Corona zum Lockdown lesen und nur noch staunen: War das wirklich so? Schriftsteller:innen waren stets Seismografen für die Zustände in der Gesellschaft, was sich in dieser Anthologie wieder sehr eindringlich bestätigt. Die hier vorliegenden Geschichten und Gedichte zeigen zu welcher Kreativität Menschen in Krisensituationen fähig sind, aber auch zu welchen Absurditäten.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2020

        The Summer We Didn't Die

        by Christine Coates

        Christine Coates casts her eye over the arc of her life, sweeping from childhood memories to life under Covid-19 lockdown. In richly crafted poems, she recalls the sights and sounds of childhood from party lines to fêtes, to a beloved grandparent and early loss. Life as a young woman in Johannesburg comes with its own pleasures and early love. There are poems of her travel; of the quiet intimacies of a long marriage and meditations on aging. Politics is echoed in the resounding roar of Marikana and a woman’s performance art.   And then there is life under Covid-19 lockdown and the small pleasures of baking bread and growing quinces.   The poems are shot through with detail and texture: blue veins, dry bones, a hill baking in the sun, a full moon wrapped in meaning. This is a poet at the height of her powers who has mastered the poetic form. Her elegant vision illuminates every word.

      • Fiction

        Sea Fret

        by Dilys Rose

        Two travelling musicians attempt to come to terms with a nightmare scenario at home; restless teenagers run riot during lockdown, with drastic consequences; Albert Einstein’s reputation grows, as does his absence as a father; a cantankerous ninety-nine year old contributes to the chaos of a night ward....

      • 2022

        El hilo (Crónica de los días en los que se paró el mundo)

        by Eva Santana López

        After a week of lockdown due to the pandemic, a teenager trapped alone in her flat in Barcelona glances at the empty street and spies through the window on her neighbour across the street, Samuel. He soon notices her and, although at first he labels her as a snoop, they end up becoming friends. Together they try to discover who is the mysterious stranger dressed in yellow who wanders around the neighbourhood, raising the alarm bells of the two youngsters: Could he be the criminal the media call “the Eixample killer”?

      • Ethical & social aspects of computing

        SLOW COMPUTING

        Why We Need Balanced Digital Lives

        by Rob Kitchin, Alistair Fraser

        Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication, travel and play. But they are also accelerating and fragmenting our lives affecting our well-being and exposing us to extensive data extraction and profiling that helps determine our life chances. Initially, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown seemed to create new opportunities for people to practice ‘slow computing’, but it quickly became clear that it was as difficult, if not more so, than during normal times. Is it then possible to experience the joy and benefits of computing, but to do so in a way that asserts individual and collective autonomy over our time and data? Drawing on the ideas of the ‘slow movement’, Slow Computing sets out numerous practical and political means to take back control and counter the more pernicious effects of living digital lives.

      • Fiction

        Watch Dogs Legion - Underground Resistance

        by SYLVAIN RUNBERG & GABRIEL GERMAIN

        2024, London is under lockdown following the crash of British economy after the Brexit. A new surveillance state is in place to restore order through violence and control over the citizen's lives. But here and there, crews of Hacktivists rise and rally behind DedSec banner. Follow the adventures of a cell going head-on against baddies to expose the abuse of this new order. Discover the fight of DJ Adam Logan's cell against clan Kelley, the new Irish Mafia controlling the black market, within this stamina-packed dystopian thriller immersed in London electronic music underground scene.

      • Children's & YA

        Adrift

        by Heidi E.Y. Stemple

        Finding himself alone and scared in the middle of a storm, a small mouse finds comfort and strength when he sees another boat and is joined by others. They ride out the storm together―close enough to see each other, but not close enough to crash. In a gentle metaphor for the global pandemic, Adrift is a way to start conversations with young readers about fear, hope and being together even from afar. It was written by award-winning children’s author Heidi E. Y. Stemple while she was in lockdown missing her friends and family. Her beautiful words are brought to life by Anastasia Suvorova, who has won high acclaim for illustrating stories about nature, children, dreams, traveling, magic, hope, and kindness.

      • Children's & YA
        November 2018

        Ruja

        Your friend, solitude

        by Marie Franz, Daniela Spoto

        Most people are afraid of Ruja. They slam the door in her face, stare at their mobiles or hide in the most ridiculous places. But that is often when they feel truly lonely. Which is a shame because Ruja would have loved to keep them company and share her treasures with them. Inviting her to your life once in a while gives you a great opportunity to get to know yourself better. She is the one who knows the way to your real desires and to your wise and cheerful heart.

      • Fiction
        May 2023

        Tears of the Weavear

        Short stories

        by Zaheera Jina Asvat

        In these superbly crafted stories, the author takes us into the private worlds of a rich variety of characters, revealing the complex weave of emotions often hidden behind the veneer of everyday lives. The stories take a fresh look at conventions and roles governed by religion and culture, providing earthy portraits of people struggling with ongoing oppressions, especially concerning gender, in post-apartheid South Africa. Bhajee’s concern is a stolen electricity meter, which cannot be replaced because a fictional Mr Ka Ching Ching is the registered owner; and Suhail Mangel, a victim of xenophobia, fears that his family has cursed him. Shaazia cannot conceive, and is offered the option of a surrogate in the form of a second wife. Then there is the woman in Covid-19 lockdown trying to fathom her broken marriage; a family fighting for inheritance in the face of religious law; and a cat who brings gifts to her depressed owner.

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