Hans Joachim Schädlich, 1935 im Vogtland geboren, arbeitete nach seiner Promotion in Germanistik als Sprachwissenschaftler für die Akademie der Wissenschaften in Ostberlin. Dort verfasste er seit dem Ende der 1960er Jahre seine ersten literarischen Arbeiten. Doch diese regimekritischen Werke wurden in der DDR nicht veröffentlicht, vielmehr ließ ihn das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit bespitzeln. 1976 wurde Schädlich für die Regierenden zum Staatsfeind, nachdem er gegen die Ausbürgerung Wo...

Im November 2020 jährt sich Paul Celans Geburt in Czernowitz zum hundertsten Mal, im April diesen Jahres vor fünfzig Jahren hatte er seinem Leben in Paris ein Ende gesetzt. Diese Koinzidenz ist Anlass genug, Leben und Schaffen des Dichters Revue passieren zu lassen. Zwar gibt es bereits mehrere biographische Darstellungen und etliche Bücher über seine Beziehungen zu Freunden, Freundinnen und Geliebten sowie eine Fülle von Interpretationen seiner Gedichte. Was aber bislang fehlt ist eine di...

They seemed like ordinary housewives. Until the killing started.When a woman from an affluent LA neighborhood is brutally murdered, Detective Marcy Kendrick and her partner Angel Reyes are sent to investigate.And soon discover that the victim is no ordinary housewife. She is one of several wealthy women who are connected to organized shoplifting rings—they receive stolen goods from the gangs, then sell the merchandise through online "discount" stores.

Every journey back to yourself begins with a single quiet recognition: that you have been living in parts, fragments, or adaptations that were never meant to define your entire being. The Journey Back to Yourself is a compassionate guide for anyone who is ready to pause, listen, and gently reclaim the self that has been waiting beneath years of survival, expectation, and external demands. This book meets you where you are, offering tools, reflections, and practice...

The follow-up to Clark Howard's #1 New York Times bestseller, Living Large in Lean Times, offers no-nonsense financial tips for achieving lifelong prosperityAmericans from all walks of life are still feeling the roller-coaster effects of the Great Recession. For many, home values are still too low and unemployment is still too high. Others have prospered despite the ups and downs. In Clark Howard’s Living Large for the Long Haul, the reno...

How Can I Turn a Mountain Back into a Molehill? Rational Effectiveness Training for Advanced Students The enormous success of The Stumbling Blocks of the Mind makes one thing eminently clear: there is a great need for a method to improve the way that we deal with certain work situations that cause stress, frustration and non-productive behaviour. Rational Effectiveness Training (RET) is exactly that kind of method. With 'How Can I Turn a Mountain Back into a Molehill?' IJzermans and Bender...

Huge levels of aid are spent on reconstructing housing after disasters. Have these houses withstood the test of time and hazard? Just as important from the point of view of their owners, has the reconstruction process played a part in restoring their livelihoods and social networks? Unfortunately, aid agencies rarely go back to assess the impact of reconstruction in the longer term. The research upon which Still Standing? is based has done just that. Agencies that undertook projects 3–35 y...

Netflix’s meteoric rise as an online content provider has been well documented and much debated in the popular press and in academic circles as an industry disrupter, while also blamed for ending TV’s "Golden Age." For academic researchers, Netflix exists at the nexus of multiple fields: internet research, information studies, media studies, and television and has an impact on the creation of culture and how individuals relate to the media they consume. Netflix at the Nexus examin...