Unterschiedliche Blicke ruhen auf einer jungen, schönen Frau. Drei Blickwinkel, und keiner scheint der richtige zu sein. Die Lüge von drei Seiten betrachtet? Oder doch: das Leben? Melancholie und Verliebtheit, oder Depression und Klischee? Eine Reise nach Zandvoort, aus der mehrere Reisen werden, und auch: ein Ende. Drei Männer auf der Suche. (Drei Streifzüge durch die Ratlosigkeit.) Zwei fürchten, auf der Strecke zu bleiben. Einer zumindest hofft. Bis zuletzt.

Wer geht schon gerne zur Arbeit? Pat jedenfalls nicht. Nicht mehr. Er versucht auf seine Art, mit der um sich greifenden Verblödungs-, Meeting- und so genannten Feedback-Kultur umzugehen. Pat spielt lieber Tetris, als Excel-Listen in Potentialpipelines zu verwandeln. Er wehrt sich beharrlich gegen die Druckspitzen der Führungskräfte und spielt am Ende sogar Bullshit-Bingo, während aalglatte Karrieristen fein formulierte Luftschlösser bauen. Sein Verhalten bleibt nicht unbemerkt und erst re...

Was geschieht, wenn man einer skrupellosen Führungskraft die Möglichkeit gibt, seine Visionen von maximaler Effizienz und totaler Kontrolle in die Tat umzusetzen? Was geschieht, wenn sich zwei Arten von Traurigkeit im richtigen Moment begegnen? Und was, wenn es der falsche Moment ist? Wohin geht die Reise des Anhalters? Fährt der Alte wirklich in das Bordell an der Autobahnausfahrt? Wer wurde von der russischen Armee verschluckt und wer flüchtete in die Fremdenlegion? Keine Antworten, an d...

Vier Männer wagen den Blick zurück: polemisch, ironisch, herrlich böseTatsächlich, früher war wirklich alles besser: Kulenkampff erfüllte den Kulturauftrag. Küsse schmeckten besser als Männer noch Männer und Frauen allein für die Verhütung zuständig waren. Drogen ohne Chemie machten das Leben bunt. Und die Kindheit war auch viel schöner, weil noch geschlagen werden durfte … Es gab Buchclubs und die DDR, Wählscheibentelefone, Kriegsversehrte und Kröpfe. Vorehelicher...

In this outstanding examination of the country’s most troubling problem, a conservative Republican shows how and why America is losing the war on drugs and makes an important contribution to the debate on alternative policies.Author Dirk Eldredge demonstrates how the drug war has led only to overcrowded courts and prisons, rising crime, official corruption, eroded civil rights and race relations, and new public health crises. He makes the case for an alternative strategy: tightly c...

During the Second World War, Josef Chervatin was a German soldier in the 329th "Hammer" Infantry Division. He was a man thrown into the hell of the Eastern Front and found himself at the mercy of the bombs that were going off everywhere around him. It was horrible.THE ONLY THING THAT KEPT HIM GOING WAS HIS FAMILY.He loved them dearly and always tried to be a supportive father and loving husband. Even from afar, he did his best to fill his role by writing letters. O...

Three parallel wars were fought in the latter half of the twentieth century in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. These wars were long and brutal, dividing international opinion sharply between US support for dictatorial regimes and the USSR's sponsorship of guerrilla fighters.This fascinating study of the 'guerrilla generation' is based on in-depth interviews with both guerrilla comandantes and political and military leaders of the time. Dirk Kruijt analyses the dreams and achi...

The War at Work: Taking Care of Yourself in A Toxic WorkplaceThe War at Work is the battle cry for a new kind of workplace anxiety. One where healing, boundaries, and rest aren't optional; they're essential. This powerful book exposes how to survive in a toxic workplace and the emotional toll of a toxic work culture. It offers a radically hopeful blueprint for change from career burnout.What does workplace burnout really look like?It's not just feeling tired. It's pa...

Two phenomena have shaped American criminal law for the past thirty years: the war on crime and the victims' rights movement. As incapacitation has replaced rehabilitation as the dominant ideology of punishment, reflecting a shift from an identification with defendants to an identification with victims, the war on crime has victimized offenders and victims alike. What we need instead, Dubber argues, is a system which adequately recognizes both victims and defendants as persons.

Charting the pain, passion, fear, loneliness and even humour of the men whose lives were irrevocably changed or, tragically, taken by World War Two, this collection is both enjoyable as exquisite poetry and also as an education for current and future generations.Contributions come from all over the world reflecting the vast scale and wide-reaching impact of war. Contributors include Dirk Bogarde, Michael Thwaites from Australia, Uys Krige, the reporter poet from South Africa, Les C...

Foreign policy success or failure is often attributed to the role of leadership. This volume explores the relationship between President George W. Bush's leadership, the administration's stated belief in the power of ideas (and the ideas of power) and its approach to the war on terror. Drawing on the international expertise of ten American foreign policy and security specialists, this incisive and timely book combines theoretical perspectives on political leadership with rigorous empirical...

United City, Divided Memories? focuses on the basic question of how Berlin today deals with three specific Cold War-era legacies: the presence of the four Great Powers, the East German Stasi, and the Berlin Wall. Dirk Verheyen looks at monuments, museums, and memorial sites as illustrations of Berlin's struggle to craft an effective shared identity that ties together its western and eastern halves. Verheyen's comprehensive and critical analysis is considered against the broader ba...