Vibes as value explores the relationship between subjectivity, labour and value in the hospitality industry, and thereby how youth, gender, sexuality, race and social class are embodied and made productive in the service economy. It shows that the key product of hospitality labour is ‘vibes’, or moments of enjoyment and relationality co-produced through exploitative relationships amongst workers and consumers. In the process, the book theorises hospitality as a form of affective l...

Understanding Human Anatomy and Pathology: An Evolutionary and Developmental Guide for Medical Students provides medical students with a much easier and more comprehensive way to learn and understand human gross anatomy by combining state-of-the-art knowledge about human anatomy, evolution, development, and pathology in one book.The book adds evolutionary, pathological, and developmental information in a way that reduces the difficulty and total time spent...

Chordates comprise lampreys, hagfishes, jawed fishes, and tetrapods, plus a variety of more unfamiliar and crucially important non-vertebrate animal lineages, such as lancelets and sea squirts. This will be the first book to synthesize, summarize, and provide high-quality illustrations to show what is known of the configuration, development, homology, and evolution of the muscles of all major extant chordate groups. Muscles as different as those used to open the siphons of sea squirts and ...

Ein kraftvoller und komischer Roman über Mutterschaft.Für alle Leser:innen von Charlotte Roche, Rachel Cusk und Mareice Kaiser.»Ein bahnbrechendes, aufregendes Buch über das Muttersein.« The New York TimesAls das Baby auf die Welt kommt, änder sich alles. In »Milchbar« erzählt Szilvia Molnar die Geschichte einer jungen Frau, die Mutter wird. Sie verbringt viel Zeit allein in ihrer Wohnung. Mutterschaft ist für sie eine komplizierte ...