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GCE - Gabriele Capelli Editore
The Gabriele Capelli Editore (GCE) is a small Swiss publishing house, primarily focused on fiction but occasionally expanding into essays and poetry.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2023Globalized urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan
Young men and the digital economy
by Hannah Schilling
Digital technologies promise efficiency and comfort, but the smoothness of platform services relies on the hidden social labour of those who keep the gig economy running. This book presents a comparative ethnography of young men making a living through digital technologies: selling mobile airtime in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and app-based delivery riders in Berlin, Germany. These case studies explore the significance of symbolic capital in urban youth's social existence and organisation of livelihood in the digital economy, and the technological mechanisms producing a new form of urban precarity. Globalized urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan puts forward an original comparative approach to develop a global urban sociology for the digital era. It provides an innovative analytical toolbox that decentres discussions of precarity from the standard of a normal employment contract. With its focus on symbolic capital, the ethnography shows the consequences of the proliferating gig economy for status struggles among urban youth, and carefully embeds the densification of software and services into the socio-material relations on which these new urban infrastructures are built.
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Business, Economics & LawJuly 2024False profits of ethical capital
Finance, labour and the politics of risk
by Claire Parfitt
False profits of ethical capital is a thought-provoking approach to understanding stakeholder capitalism. Rather than focusing on the inadequacies of corporate responsibility, sustainable investment and consumer politics, this book grapples with the technical and rhetorical functions of ethical capital for profit and accumulation. It provides a unique and eclectic analysis of the political dynamics between finance, capital and labour, offering a refreshing perspective on struggles interlocking social, ecological and economic crises, and suggesting new ways of thinking about sustainability politics.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2021Twenty-first-century capital
by Aleksander Buzgalin, Andrey Kolganov, Renfrey Clarke
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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2024Capitalism in contemporary Iran
Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics
by Kayhan Valadbaygi
By situating Iran within the neoliberal global capitalism and resulting geopolitics, this book traces the patterns of capital accumulation and transformations in class and state formation emanating from it. It shows that Iranian neoliberalisation has brought about two capital fractions, namely the internationally-oriented capital fraction and the military-bonyad complex. It substantiates that the co-existence of these competing class fractions with different accumulation strategies has generated hybrid neoliberalism. The book further demonstrates how this new class formation has reorganised the function and operation of state institutions and transformed state ideology. By documenting the ways in which Iranian neoliberalisation has reshaped the subaltern classes and formed Iran's volatile foreign policy, it also provides a novel account of major events and processes in contemporary Iran, such as the post-2017 wave of uprisings, the nuclear programme and international sanctions.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2022Nordic Gothic
by Maria Holmgren Troy, Johan Hõglund, Yvonne Leffler, Sofia Wijkmark
Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic Gothic fiction in relation to transnational developments and provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It creates an understanding of this under-researched cultural phenomenon by showing how the narratives make visible cultural anxieties haunting the Nordic countries, their welfare systems, identities and ideologies. Nordic Gothic examines how figures from Nordic folklore function as metaphorical expressions of Gothic themes and Nordic settings are explored from perspectives such as ecocriticism and postcolonialism. The book will be of interest to researchers and post- and- undergraduate students in various fields within the Humanities.
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Movable Type·Destruction of Character - Character Destructed
by Cao Fang
This series is a collection of art works about character designing of The Global Exhibition of Characters held by Nanjing University of the Arts and student works. These three books are in different size and color, very well classified and designed. It contains art works about character design of diverse languages by several designers, such as Reza Abedini(Iran), Michael Bierut（USA）,Robert Appleton（USA）,Stephan Bundi（Swiss）, Kit Hinrichs（USA）, Lech Majewski（Poland）Leonardo Sonnoli（Italy）, Clotilde Olyff（Belgium）, Paula Scher（USA）, Philippe Apeloig（France）, Ahn Sang—soo（Korea）, Shiraki Akira（Japan）, Bi Xuefeng（China）, Kan Tai—keung（Hongkong）, Cao Fang(China), etc.. Also it collects high quality assigned project student works of font designing course. The world of typeface will totally amaze you. Won "The Beauty of Books in China " Prize in 2013.
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Movable Type·Collage of Character - Character Collaged
by Cao Fang
This series is a collection of art works about character designing of The Global Exhibition of Characters held by Nanjing University of the Arts and student works. These three books are in different size and color, very well classified and designed. It contains art works about character design of diverse languages by several designers, such as Reza Abedini(Iran), Michael Bierut（USA）,Robert Appleton（USA）,Stephan Bundi（Swiss）, Kit Hinrichs（USA）, Lech Majewski（Poland）Leonardo Sonnoli（Italy）, Clotilde Olyff（Belgium）, Paula Scher（USA）, Philippe Apeloig（France）, Ahn Sang—soo（Korea）, Shiraki Akira（Japan）, Bi Xuefeng（China）, Kan Tai—keung（Hongkong）, Cao Fang(China), etc.. Also it collects high quality assigned project student works of font designing course. The world of typeface will totally amaze you. Won "The Beauty of Books in China " Prize in 2013.
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Movable Type·World of Character-Character of the World
by Cao Fang
This series is a collection of art works about character designing of The Global Exhibition of Characters held by Nanjing University of the Arts and student works. These three books are in different size and color, very well classified and designed. It contains art works about character design of diverse languages by several designers, such as Reza Abedini(Iran), Michael Bierut（USA）,Robert Appleton（USA）,Stephan Bundi（Swiss）, Kit Hinrichs（USA）, Lech Majewski（Poland）Leonardo Sonnoli（Italy）, Clotilde Olyff（Belgium）, Paula Scher（USA）, Philippe Apeloig（France）, Ahn Sang—soo（Korea）, Shiraki Akira（Japan）, Bi Xuefeng（China）, Kan Tai—keung（Hongkong）, Cao Fang(China), etc.. Also it collects high quality assigned project student works of font designing course. The world of typeface will totally amaze you. Won "The Beauty of Books in China " Prize in 2013.
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PsychiatryCharacter Strength Interventions
A Field Guide for Practitioners
by Ryan M. Niemiec
This unique guide brings together the vast experience of the author with the science and the practice of positive psychology in such a way that both new and experienced practitioners will benefit. New practitioners will learn about the core concepts of character and signature strengths and how to fine-tune their approach and troubleshoot. Experienced practitioners will deepen their knowledge about advanced topics such as strengths overuse and collisions, hot button issues, morality, and integrating strengths with savoring, flow, and mindfulness. Hands-on practitioner tips throughout the book provide valuable hints on how to take a truly strengths-based approach. The 24 summary sheets spotlighting each of the universal character strengths are an indispensable resource for client sessions, succinctly summarizing the core features of and research on each strength. 70 evidence-based step-by-step activity handouts can be given to clients to help them develop character strengths awareness and use, increase resilience, set and meet goals, develop positive relationships, and find meaning and engagement in their daily lives. Working with client’s (and our own) character strengths boosts well-being, fosters resilience, improves relationships, and creates strong, supportive cultures in our practices, classrooms, and organizations. Target Group: psychotherapists / clinical psychologists / counselors/ teachers
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2023Creating character
Theories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction
by Helena Ifill
This book explores the ways in which the two leading sensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, engaged with nineteenth-century ideas about personality formation and the extent to which it can be influenced either by the subject or by others. Innovative readings of seven sensation novels explore how they employ and challenge Victorian theories of heredity, degeneration, inherent constitution, education, upbringing and social circumstance. Far from presenting a reductive depiction of 'nature' versus 'nurture', Braddon and Collins show the creation of character to be a complex interplay of internal and external factors. Drawing on material ranging from medical textbooks, to sociological treatises, to popular periodicals, Creating character shows how sensation authors situated themselves at the intersections of established and developing, conservative and radical, learned and sensationalist thought about how identity could be made and modified.
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May 2025Building Human Capital in Tourism and Hospitality
Perspectives from theory and practice
by Jorge Marques, Joana A Quintela, Marília Durão, Medéia Veríssimo
Career development in the tourism and hospitality industry has attracted greater attention, leading to a higher recognition of the relevance of formal and industry-specific education and training. New career opportunities emerge as new challenges arise, urging for ongoing and renewed debates surrounding higher-level skills and the development and optimization of human capital. Building bridges between higher education institutions, the industry, and other relevant stakeholders - primarily via needs assessment, curriculum design, and monitoring of on-the-job training practices and processes - is critical to promoting the employability of a graduate-level skilled workforce. This book takes steps towards contributing to higher valuation of tourism and hospitality jobs by: combining theoretical and practical viewpoints from scholars, researchers, and practitioners, showcasing challenges and opportunities associated with managing human capital in tourism and hospitality, offering critical and reflective perspectives on competencies development, graduate employability, and improvement of human resource management practices. It will be of interest to researchers, students, teachers, and professionals who want to further explore the area of human capital in tourism and hospitality.
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August 2021Berlin
Psychogramme of a City
by Karl Scheffler, Florian Illies, Michael Hofmann, Florian Illies
“Berlin is damned forever to become, and never to be.” Scheffler could not have anticipated that his dictum would prove prophetic. No other author has captured the city’s fascinating and unique character as perfectly. From the golden twenties to the anarchic nineties and its status of world capital of hipsterdom at the beginning of the new millennium – the formerly divided city has become the symbol of a new urbanity, blessed with the privilege of never having to be, but forever to become. Unlike London or Paris, the metropolis on the Spree lacked an organic principle of development. Berlin was nothing more than a colonial city, its sole purpose to conquer the East, its inhabitants a hodgepodge of materialistic individualists. No art or culture with which it might compete with the great cities of the world. Nothing but provincialism and culinary aberrations far and wide. Berlin: “City of preserves, tinned vegetables and all-purpose dipping sauce.”
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January 2017The School of Chinese Painting
by Wan Xinhua
The series include 12 kinds of cultural resources of Jiangsu which are most representative and symbolic. With pictures and accompanying texts in fresh and multiple forms, the series analyze the historical and realistic connotation of Jiangsu culture and intensively show the cultural influence of Jiangsu.
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January 2017King Xiang’s Hometown
by Wang Qingping
The series include 15 kinds of cultural resources of Jiangsu which are most representative and symbolic. With pictures and accompanying texts in fresh and multiple forms, the series analyze the historical and realistic connotation of Jiangsu culture and intensively show the cultural influence of Jiangsu.
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January 2017Changzhou Free-Stitch Embroidery
by Hong Xixu
The series include 16 kinds of cultural resources of Jiangsu which are most representative and symbolic. With pictures and accompanying texts in fresh and multiple forms, the series analyze the historical and realistic connotation of Jiangsu culture and intensively show the cultural influence of Jiangsu.
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January 2017Jinling Sutra Press
by Xue Bing
The series include 17 kinds of cultural resources of Jiangsu which are most representative and symbolic. With pictures and accompanying texts in fresh and multiple forms, the series analyze the historical and realistic connotation of Jiangsu culture and intensively show the cultural influence of Jiangsu.
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January 2017The Red-crowned Cranes of Yancheng
by Lv Shicheng
The series include 18 kinds of cultural resources of Jiangsu which are most representative and symbolic. With pictures and accompanying texts in fresh and multiple forms, the series analyze the historical and realistic connotation of Jiangsu culture and intensively show the cultural influence of Jiangsu.
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2020Nordic Gothic
by Maria Holmgren Troy, Johan Hõglund, Yvonne Leffler, Sofia Wijkmark, Jerrold Hogle
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