In 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians" and described women as "femmes damnées," with "disordered souls" suffering in a hypocritical world. Then twenty years later, lesbians in Paris dared to flaunt themselves in that extraordinarily creative period at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries which became known as the ...

In 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians" and described women as "femmes damnées," with "disordered souls" suffering in a hypocritical world. Then twenty years later, lesbians in Paris dared to flaunt themselves in that extraordinarily creative period at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries which became known as the ...

Das Handbuch zum ESG-ControllingDie Bewältigung des Klimawandels ist eine globale Schlüsselherausforderung in Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik. Unternehmen müssen Strategien entwickeln, um Umweltziele zu erreichen und soziale Standards in ihrer Wertschöpfungskette zu gewährleisten. Seit 2025 unterliegt eine Vielzahl von Unternehmen Berichtspflichten nach ESRS und EU-Taxonomie, die auch für Controlling und Reporting neue Herausforderungen mit sich bringen.Dieses Handbuch...

Das Studienbuch bietet eine systematische Anleitung für Studierende, die eine quantitativ vorgehende empirische Untersuchung im Bereich Linguistik/Sprachlehr- und -lernforschung planen. Jeder einzelne Schritt wird ausführlich erklärt: das Finden einer genau definierten Untersuchungsfrage, das Beachten wissenschaftlicher Gütekriterien, die Auswahl einer geeigneten Stichprobe, häufige Ansätze (Beobachtung, Befragung, Testen, Interventionen und Nutzung von Textkorpora), häufig eingesetzte Erh...

Families left grieving; small businesses shuttered; communities in lockdown; precarious workers set adrift; health care workers stressed beyond endurance. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core. But the cracks already ran deep.Featuring essays on poverty, health care, incarceration, basic income, policing, Indigenous communities, and more, this anthology delivers a stinging rebuke of the pre-pandemic status quo and a stark exposé of the buried weaknesses in our soci...

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative futures, and in so doing reimagines relationships betwee...

Technofuturos offers a critical and innovative exploration of the forms of representation found in Latina/o studies. The editors, Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin La-Montes, challenge conventional notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by historicizing and differentiating the multiple discourses of Latinidad. The essays examine the temporality and spatiality of socio-historical processes, the multiple and varied constellations of power, and the complicated geographies of d...

De hoeders van de aarde, de medicijnmannen en vrouwen van Amerika, beschikken over kennis die ze altijd hebben afgeschermd voor de wereld. Volgens deze kennis bestaat alles op aarde, zoals mensen, walvissen en zelfs sterren, uit licht dat zichzelf laat zien door de kracht van intentie. De hoeders van de aarde gebruikten deze inzichten onder andere om ziekten te helen en emotionele problemen op te lossen.In Alberto Villoldo's De hoeders van de aarde worden ze gepresenteerd ...

This book explores the communication challenges faced by parents as they raise children who are bi-cultural, multi-cultural, or are adopted from a heritage other than the parents. Each contributor views the family as a site of intercultural dialogue and mediation, and uses compelling studies throughout to examine the parents who creatively balance cultural influences within their families. Using television depictions of parents on Modern Family and All-American Muslim to the everyday activ...

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher.Stories and screenplays by Alastair Reynolds, Alberto Mielgo, Claudine Griggs, David W. Amendola, Joe Lansdale, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Kirsten Cross, Marko Kloos, Michael Swanwick, Peter F. Hamilton, Steven Lew...

Les pédiatres et les médecins généralistes s'interrogent et sont eux-mêmes interrogés dans leur pratique quotidienne par les familles à propos d'un diagnostic, d'un traitement, ou d'une orientation spécialisée concernant leurs enfants. Cet ouvrage, s'appuyant sur l'expérience conjointe de médecins de l'enfant, de généralistes et de spécialistes, a été pensé pour répondre à ces questionnements. Réalisé par un collectif d'auteurs de toutes disciplines issues de la spécialité pédiatrique, ce ...

The work of Tunisian Jewish intellectual Albert Memmi, like that of many francophone Maghrebian writers, is often read as thinly veiled autobiography. Questioning the prevailing body of criticism, which continues this interpretation of most fiction produced by francophone North African writers, Lia Nicole Brozgal shows how such interpretations of Memmi’s texts obscure their not inconsiderable theoretical possibilities.Calling attention to the ambiguous status of autobiographical di...