Bezahlbare Energieversorgung sichern Wie – insbesondere mit welchen Strategien – können die Städte, Gemeinden und Landkreise eine klimafreundliche und bezahlbare Energieversorgung für die Zukunft sicherstellen? Der Leitfaden enthält zuverlässige Antworten auf diese Frage. Er bietet • einen detaillierten Überblick über die vielfältigen Gestaltungs- und Umsetzungsinstrumente, • passgenaue Daten und Fakten, • zielführende Handlungskonzepte sowie • Tipps und Best-Practice-Beispiele. Tipps für ...

Continuing a three-decade tradition, The State of the Parties 7th edition brings together leading experts to evaluate change and continuity in American electoral politics. Political parties in America have never been more contentious and divided than they are right now. Even splits within the parties themselves have the power to elevate relatively unknown candidates to power and topple established incumbents. With sections devoted to polarization and the electorate, polarization and politi...

This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with children. It is designed for professionals who work with infants, children, and adolescents, and who are seeking modes of working that respects emotions, that embrace context, and that privilege imagination and possibility. For professionals who already practice in ways that are sympathetic to these modes of working, the scholarly underpinning of this...

Cities play a major role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic as many measures are adopted at the scale of cities and involve adjustments to the way urban areas operate.Drawing from case studies across the globe, this book explores how the pandemic and the policies it has prompted have caused changes in the ways cities function. The contributors examine the advancing social inequality brought on by the pandemic and suggest policies intended to contain contagion whilst managing the eco...

Exploring how we make, distribute, and consume today’s media systemsMedia backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the sociotechnical relations, economies, and operations of media. Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder assemble essays that delve into the evolving politics of the media infrastructural landscape. Throughout, the contributors draw on feminist, queer, and intersectional ...

Just when the world needs it most, a new style of social engagement is emerging: Active Citizenship.A key member of one of New York’s most civic-minded families—one that has supported many of America’s notable institutions and deserving programs—Jonathan Tisch has devoted a lifetime to “active citizenship.” It’s an idea that uses the power of practical creativity and grassroots participation to solve seemingly intractable problems. In Citizen You, Tisch challenges readers ...

They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone.Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone), shortlisted for the 2019 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America, is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells—in their own words—the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States.Fifteen narrators describe why they fled their homes, what ha...

Across the four realms of Arzadel, the Vevin live in peace after the decimation of a group of assassins who had endeavoured to end the lives of those who were not pure.But the Line of Clawed Wings was never fully destroyed.Cazorra, a Vevin struck by a tragic event, strives to put a final stop to the Line. Livai, whose parents belonged to the group, realises that her purpose aligns with Cazorra's. Together, they discover that there are battles to be fought, relationships to ...

"Vevin Song is an utterly captivating dystopian novel full of violent action packed sequences, an untrusting found family that has to learn to work together and some complex, yet mesmerising worldbuilding." - Kris Marchesi, A Fictional Escapist"This is an incredibly exciting and promising debut novel that completely absorbed me from page one. Highly recommend this one if you are looking for a fast-paced sci-fantasy with compelling characters, alien invasion...

Underhill has been killed and the only thing standing between all realms and utter destruction by Unbalance and his minions….Is me.Named as the new Mistress of Underhill, I must gather those I trust to untangle the deadly riddles or I will be left to face the darkness alone.The politics of the earth and fae realms, the survival of all, and the remains of my tattered heart will all be decided in a final battle.But as more and more players enter this war of re...

Rich Fritzky poses five questions to forty-five individuals who have devoted much, if not all of their lives, to Abraham Lincoln. The individuals reveal what led them to him in the first place, the attribute or ‘fixed mark’ that sealed their belonging to him, the conversations that they would most have liked to have had with him, the words of his that they were most moved by, and the why and how of his, maybe just maybe, helping save the soul of the Republic yet again in our own time. Amon...

The bestselling author of A Tale Dark and Grimm takes on medieval times in an exciting and hilarious new adventure about history, religion . . . and farting dragons.On a dark night, travelers from across France cross paths at an inn and begin to tell stories of three children: William, an oblate on a mission from his monastery; Jacob, a Jewish boy who has fled his burning village; and Jeanne, a peasant girl who hides her prophetic vision...