Dort, wo man die Berge ahnt, zieht großmächtig der Sturm auf. Er wirbelt als Warnung seine Staubfahnen empor. Schwarze Windschläuche, die sich nach oben öffnen in den toten grauen Himmel. Schwarze Vögel werfen sich schreiend gegen den Wind, der noch flatternd seine Richtung sucht. Dann – plötzlich – hört aller Atem auf, die Unruhe zerreißt die Stille. Wer ein Herz hat, hofft auf den nächsten Schlag. Ein weißliches Nebelglänzen umhüllt alles und macht falsche Hoffnungen. Aber die Täuschung ...

Werner Illings (1895–1979) Roman "Utopolis" erschien erstmals 1930 in der sozialdemokratischen Buchgemeinschaft »Der Bücherkreis« und zählt zu den wenigen deutschen Science-Fiction-Romanen der Zwischenkriegszeit, die keine revanchistische und antidemokratische Haltung an den Tag legen, sondern eine Zukunft oder eine Alternativwelt von einem sozialistischen Standpunkt aus beschreiben und zugleich Verhältnisse und Personen der Weimarer Republik karikieren. Dieses Alleinstellungsmerkmal und d...

Modern societies and organizations are characterized by multiple kinds of observations, systems, or rationalities, rather than singular identities and clear hierarchies. This holds true for healthcare where we find a range of different perspectives – from medicine to education, from science to law, from religion to politics – brought together in different types of arrangements. This innovative volume explores how this polycontexturality plays out in the healthcare arena.Drawing on ...

Ein »verirrter Bürger« – das Thomas-Mann-Zitat über den Möchtegern-Künstler Tonio Kröger kann mit leicht veränderter Begründung auch auf die meisten Autoren der linksdemokratischen Wochenschrift DIE WELTBÜHNE angewandt werden. Sie waren größtenteils bürgerlicher Herkunft, hatten studiert – der Kleinbürgersohn Carl von Ossietzky, der in ärmlichen Verhältnissen in Hamburg aufwuchs, war die Ausnahme, die die Regel bestätigt. Dafür brachen auch gutverdienende Schriftsteller aus wohlhabenden Ha...

Winner of the NBCC Award for General NonfictionNamed on Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years, Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the Year--Slate.com's 10 Best Books of 2015--Entertainment Weekly's 10 Bes...

"These essays are sad and uncomfortable and their own kind of gorgeous. They reveal so much about what it is to live in this world, right now." —Roxane Gay, New York Times–bestselling author of Bad FeministFrom acclaimed poet and creator of the popular twitter account @SoSadToday comes a brutally honest collection of essays "at once devastating and delightful . . . as raw as it is funny" ( Cosmopolitan).Melissa Broder always strug...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR • A powerful memoir of a dramatic year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life—from the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty yearsTom Brokaw has led a fortunate life, with a strong marriage and family, many friends, and a brilliant journalism career culminating in his twenty-two years as...

The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures."A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work." —The New YorkerFrom the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, Pl...

A host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-related illness to inhumane treatment of workers and animals. But advice on what to do about it largely begins and ends with the admonition to "eat local or "eat organic."Fair Food is an enlightening and inspiring guide to changing not only what we eat, but how food is grown, packaged, delivered, marketed, and sold. Oran B. Hesterm...

This book fills a gap for an introductory text that offers broad coverage of the sociological issues that are relevant to health students coming to the theoretical and experiential aspects of health and illness for the first time.

It has long been known that the pathway through the criminal justice system for those with mental health needs is fraught with difficulty. This interdisciplinary collection explores key issues in mental health, crime and criminal justice, including: offenders' rights; intervention designs; desistance; health-informed approaches to offending and the medical needs of offenders; psychological jurisprudence, and; collaborative and multi-agency practice.This volume draws on the knowledg...

Diet for Weight Loss: Lose Weight with Nutritious Kale Recipes, and Follow the Clean Eating Diet This Diet for Weight Loss book covers recipes for a healthy weight loss with two different diet plans to choose from with the Clean Eating Diet and the Kale Recipes diet. Both diet plans serve as a type of detox diet to help cleanse the body of impurities left behind from eating junk food. The answer to what are the best weight loss foods are found in these two diet plans in the ingredients wit...