Wortlaut, der FM4 Kurzgeschichtenwettbewerb, fand 2024 zum Thema "VERSPRECHEN" statt. Der Duden eröffnet zu diesem Wort eine erstaunliche Bandbreite an Bedeutungen, die unterschiedlicher kaum sein könnten. FM4 ermutigte alle Schreibenden, sich in kurzer Form literarisch zum Thema "VERSPRECHEN" auszulassen. Die redaktionelle Vorjury wählte aus den cirka 800 Einreichungen 20 Texte aus, die anonymisiert an die hochkarätige Jury weitergegeben wurden. Diese kürte dann die Gewinner*innen, die ze...

How would first contact—on earth, in space, on another planet—transform our understandings of technology, philosophy, and what it means to be human? What kind of cognitive dissonance would society experience, if we discovered a previously unrecognized sentience on Earth?What would life be like if it originated in a frigid ocean beneath an impenetrable shell of ice? Or on a world whose haze obscures any view of the universe beyond? Or on an unfathomable scale in the...

Modern society is increasingly preoccupied with fears for the future and the idea of preventing 'the worst'. The result is a focus on attempting to calculate the probabilities of adverse events occurring – in other words, on measuring risk. Since the 1990s, the idea of risk has come to dominate policy and practice in mental health across the USA, Australasia and Europe.In this timely new text, a group of international experts examines the ways in which the narrow focus on specific ...

Historien om Nina er både gribende og grum. Sammen med baron Frederik van Pallandt bragede hun i 1957 ind på scenen med en stribe calypso-hits, og for første gang nogensinde blev en dansk popsucces verdensomspændende. Frederik blev Ninas store kærlighed, men også hendes livs mareridt. Efter 12 år på toppen stak han af med pengene og elskerinden og lod Nina alene tilbage med tre børn. Jacob Wendt Jensens biografi om Nina van Pallandt er det hidtil ufortalte livsdrama om en kvinde, der blev ...

Si vous pouviez revoir un être cher une dernière fois, que lui diriez-vous ?Un beau jour de printemps, un train à destination de Kamakura déraille et tombe d'une falaise, laissant des dizaines de familles endeuillées. Tomo ne se mariera jamais avec son fiancé, Sakamoto ne pourra pas se réconcilier avec son père, le jeune Yuta ne recroisera pas son premier amour et Kitamura ne reverra plus son mari, le conducteur du train...Alors, quand deux mois plus tard, ...

Mental Health and Social Problems is a textbook for social work students and practitioners. It explores the complicated relationship between mental conditions and societal issues as well as examining risk and protective factors for the prevalence, course, adaptation to and recovery from mental illness.The introductory chapter presents bio-psycho-social and life-modeled approaches to helping individuals and families with mental illness. The book is divided into two parts. P...