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A poetic love story about identity, healing, and falling in love with the parts of ourselves we were taught to hide.Lena Hartley was a runway star in her youth. Now, she's a doctor. Her beautiful mind has always made sense of the world by observing, feeling, and analyzing first, participating second. She never questioned the way she was—until now, at the age of forty-two.As she sits in a psychiatrist's office, the past she tried to bury splits open like an o...

Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation. It was already clear before the pandemic that cities around the world were divided and becoming increasingly unequal. The pandemic has torn back the curtain on many of these pre-existing inequalities.Contributions to this volume engage directly with different urban communities around the world. They give voice to those who experience poverty, discrimination and marginalisatio...

In The Art of Touch: Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond, the unique voices of thirty-nine of some of the most creative thinkers of our times have been brought together to consider the profound impact of one of our five main senses: touch.Psychologists, healers, massage therapists, academics, creative writers, and others reflect on or tell personal stories about what it means to be able to touch or experience touch, or to have to go without it—as so many did and ...

A distinctive and original analysis of how the politics of the UK and the lives of British citizens have evolved in the first decades of the twenty-first century, this book provides an interdisciplinary critical examination of the roots, ideology and consequences of austerity politics, the Brexit vote and the rise of populist politics in Britain.Bringing together case studies and perspectives from an array of international researchers across the social sciences, it dissects the way...

Cannabis – von A wie Anbau bis Z wie ZulassungBereits in der Antike wurde Cannabis als Arzneimittel eingesetzt – doch erst jüngst avancierte es zu einem der spannendsten medizinisch-pharmazeutischen Themen der Gegenwart. In kaum einem Bereich der Pharmakotherapie entwickelte sich der Erkenntnisstand zuletzt mit vergleichbarer Dynamik.Fachleute aus unterschiedlichen Tätigkeitsfeldern arbeiten kontinuierlich daran, neue wissenschaftliche Evidenz für den thera...

Cannabis - A Comprehensive GuideThe use of cannabis for medicinal purposes can be traced back to antiquity, but it is only recently that it has garnered attention as one of the most exciting medical-pharmaceutical topics. In hardly any other area of pharmacotherapy has knowledge of late developed with comparable dynamism. Experts from different fields are continuously working on new scientific evidence for the therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids in order t...

Roter Alarm für die PSA! Morna Ulbrandson schleust sich als Stripperin in einen Tanzclub auf der Reeperbahn ein, um einem Professor näher zu kommen, der ein düsteres Geheimnis hütet. Dieser bringt aus Afrika eine schaurige Fracht mit: Zombie-Skelette, die die Lebenskraft der Menschen aussaugen können und dessen Aussehen annehmen! Die Reeperbahn in Hamburg wird für Morna zur tödlichen Falle!

Hasan Kalomak wird nachts, nach einer ausgelassenen Hochzeitsfeier von schrecklichen quälenden Geräuschen heimgesucht und verliert dabei seinen Verstand. Er begeht grausam Suizid! Seine Angehörigen sind der Meinung, dass ein alter Fluch eines Dschinns dafür verantwortlich ist. Der PSA-Agent Achmed Chachmah ruft seine Kollegen zur Hilfe: Larry Brent und Morna Ulbrandson!