Translation of Peter Katz's memoir originally published in Mexico in 1997.Peter Katz, my father, was born in Vienna in 1930. Was sent to Belgium in a Kindertransport in 1938. He survives the war in multiple ways and in 1946 arrives in Mexico. He slowly rebuilds his life. This is Peter Katz's first published book.

This outstanding new book shows why communitarian thought has had such a profound influence on contemporary American public policy, from strengthening our neighborhoods to fighting AIDS and educating our children. Edited by Amitai Etzioni, founder of the Communitarian Network and author of the best-selling books The Spirit of Community and The New Golden Rule, this comprehensive collection contains essays written by the nation's most respected thinkers. See why politician...

Every city has its ghosts. Ravn just hunts the ones that still breathe.Former investigator, Thomas Ravnsholdt—known as Ravn—drifts like wreckage along Copenhagen's harbour, numbed by cheap liquor and old wounds. But his peace is shattered when a desperate young woman shows up, pleading for help: her brother has vanished after stealing millions.The trail leads Ravn from the windy docks of Copenhagen to Berlin, where ghosts of the Cold War still linger: Stasi files, double ag...

Katzen haben sieben Leben – und die brauchen sie auch, wenn Rotraut Schöberl sie in die spannendsten Kriminalfälle verwickelt. Katzenliebhaber*innen wissen nur zu gut, welche finsteren Pläne sich hinter dem harmlosen Schnurren ihres Kuschelkätzchens verbergen können – und dass sich vor den schlauen Fellnasen nichts verbergen lässt. Ob als clevere Schnüffler oder als rabenschwarze Übeltäter, als samtpfötige Jägerinnen oder als schlaue Detektivinnen – wo gemordet wird, sind Katzen nicht weit...

A missing son. A powerful father. And a shocking act of mass murder on a remote Danish island.From bestselling author Michael Katz Krefeld—master of Nordic noir suspense—comes a dark and atmospheric crime thriller.Former detective Ravn has turned his back on the police to work as a private investigator. Hired by wealthy businessman Ferdinand Mesmer to find his estranged son, Jacob, Ravn thinks it's a straightforward missing-person case. But Jacob isn't just missing. He's th...

Under en olidlig värmebölja går en seriemördare lös i en liten ort utanför Köpenhamn. Två pojkar har förts bort från sina hem och mördats på deras nionde födelsedag. När kropparna hittas har de båda ett Peter Pan-bokmärke i handen, och när en tredje pojke blir mördad utbryter panik hos allmänheten. Och polisen står handfallna utan några ledtrådar.Maja Holm är gravid och har precis flyttat hem till sitt barndomskvarter för att påbörja en praktiserande läkartjänst och för att ge sitt...

A transformational approach to conflict argues that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns and social and discursive structures. Central to this book is the idea that the origins of transformation can be momentary, situational, and small-scale or large-scale and systemic. The momentary involves shifts and meaningful changes in communication and related patterns that are created in communication between people. Momentary transformative changes can radiate ou...

Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) includes scholars and practitioners throughout the world working in peace studies, conflict analysis and resolution, conflict management, appropriate dispute resolution, and peace and justice studies. They come to the PCS field with a diversity of ideas, approaches, disciplinary roots, and topic areas, which speaks to the complexity, breadth, and depth needed to apply and take account of conflict dynamics and the goal of peace. Yet, a number of key concerns...

Matías Néspolos mutiger und brillanter Debütroman nimmt den Leser mit auf eine Achterbahnfahrt. Durch eine Gegend voller Kriminalität und Entbehrungen. Angesiedelt im Buenos Aires zur Zeit des argentinischen Finanzcrashs und aus der Sicht des zwanzigjährigen Gringo erzählt der Roman die Geschichte zweier Jungen an der Schwelle zum Erwachsensein, die keine andere Wahl haben, als sich dem Bandenkrieg anzuschließen, der ihre Gemeinde beherrscht. Zumindest Gringos Freund Chueco glaubt, dass si...

Ein ungewöhnlicher Thriller in der Tradition eines Cormac McCarthy oder Quentin Tarantino und das faszinierende Panorama einer bizarren japanischen Unterwelt, die noch immer die Traditionen der Samurai-Zeit beschwört, auch wenn ihre goldene Zeit längst der Vergangenheit angehört.Früher verstand sie sich als eine ehrenwerte Gesellschaft. Heute ist japanische Yakuza zunehmend eine Organisation gewöhnlicher Krimineller, verwickelt in Drogenhandel und schmutzige Immobiliendeals. Staat ...

This volume retraces Carl Lutz’s diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the director of the Palestine Office in Budapest, Moshe Krausz, fellow Swiss citizens Harald Feller, Ernst Vonrufs, Peter Zürcher, and the underground Zionist Youth Movement, Carl Lutz led an extensive rescue operation between March 1944 and February 1945. It is estimated that Lutz and his team of rescue...

A grieving detective on the edge. A missing woman. And a serial killer hunting in the shadows of Stockholm's cobbled alleys.Criminal investigator Thomas Ravnsholdt – known as Ravn – is adrift after the brutal murder of his wife. Once a relentless detective in Copenhagen's special crime unit, he is now forced on leave, living in self-imposed exile on his neglected boat, with his grumpy Old English Bulldog.But when a friend pleads for help finding a missing young woman, Ravn ...