Wie muss ein Krankenhaus gestaltet sein, um den Bedürfnissen von Menschen mit Demenz gerecht zu werden? In diesem Handbuch erfahren Sie gebündelt, was ein demenzsensibles Krankenhaus auszeichnet. Die hochkarätigen Autoren verbindet dabei das gemeinsame Ziel, die Situation von kognitiv beeinträchtigten Patienten zu verbessern. Aus der Praxis für die Praxis entstanden, bietet das Werk einen umfassenden Überblick anhand der Abläufe im Krankenhaus - von der Aufnahme über die Diagnostik und Beh...

Rito e modernità si propone di cambiare radicalmente la nostra concezione del rito. Con l'aiuto di prospettive psicoanalitiche e antropologiche, illustra il processo di creazione di mondi"come se", fondati nella capacità della mente di immaginare universi condivisi, di passare da un mondo immaginario all'altro, comune al rito e al gioco. I riti tracciano i confini dei mondi immaginari, tra cui l'empatia e altri ambiti di creatività, come la musica, l'architettura e la letteratura. I riti c...

A groundbreaking and “captivating” (The New York Times) biography of three of America’s most important musical artists—Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon—charts their lives as women at a magical moment in time.Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct. Carole King is the product of outer-borough, middle-class New York City; Joni Mitchell is a granddaughte...

This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the imaginative capacity of the human mind to create a subjunctive universe. The ability to cross between imagined worlds is central to the human capacity for empathy. Ritual, they claim, defines the bound...

Captain, wir stehen unter Beschuss! Ein nuklearer Sprengkopf rast auf uns zu! Der geniale Wissenschaftler Professor Marble hat einen Antrieb erfunden, mit dem es der Menschheit erstmals möglich sein wird, schneller als das Licht zu reisen und die Tiefen des Universums zu erkunden. Während des Testflugs des Prototypraumschiffs kommt es jedoch zu einer lebensgefährlichen Fehlfunktion. Für die Besatzung, darunter auch der Regierungschef Utopias, beginnt ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Währenddes...

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement AwardIncludes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, MaineThe masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each one.For mo...

Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct: King is the product of outer-borough, middle-class New York City; Mitchell is a granddaughter of Canadian farmers; and Simon is a child of the Manhattan intellectual upper crust. They collectively represent, in their lives and their songs, a great swath of American girls who came of age in the late 1960s. Their stories trace the arc of the now-mythic gene...

From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice, a novel about an Iraq war vet seeking redemption and revenge when a fellow Marine is brutally murdered.John Houck became a Marine to become a hero. But his life changed when he failed to notice an explosive device that ended up maiming his captain, a respected military man who nearly sacrificed himself to save John’s life. Home from Iraq, John pays a visit to his former captain, only to discover the ...

While best known for his twenty-four novels, Jeffery Deaver is also a short story master—he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader’s Award for Best Short Story, and he won the Short Story Dagger from the Crime Writers Association for a piece that appeared in his first short story collection, Twisted. The New York Times said of that book: “A mystery hit for those who like their intrigue short and sweet…[The stories] feature tight, bare-bones plotting and the ...

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver delivers an electrifying collection of sixteen award-winning stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your imagination.Diverse, provocative, and eerie, Twisted showcases Deaver's amazing range and signature plot twists: a beautiful woman goes to extremes to rid herself of her stalker; a contemporary of William Shakespeare vows to avenge his family's ruin; and Deaver's most beloved character, br...

"Aber ich will nicht zum Hellweg. Man sagt, es sei ein schlechter Ort. Es bringt Unglück, dorthin zu gehen. Böse Geister lauern dort." Kira hat eine besondere Gabe: Sie kann die Toten sehen, die sich über den Hellweg auf ihre Reise ins Jenseits begeben. Alle Geister – Die Guten, aber auch die Dämonen, die die Lebenden in Gefahr bringen. Als auch andere von Kiras Fähigkeiten erfahren, gerät sie in Bedrängnis. Wem soll sie mehr vertrauen – den Lebenden oder den Toten? Als Bonus ist zusätzlic...

From the author of the Oprah Book Club Pick Some Bright Nowhere, a “tour de force family drama” (Elle) that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one family, over the course of five decades.Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of his future family, Bill bu...