Something’s up down below …Urinary tract infections result in 8.1 million visits to a doctor every year, and between 50% and 60% of adult women will have at least one UTI in their lifetime. Meanwhile, overactive bladder affects nearly one in five of the over-40, yet many people wait years before seeking treatment.Maybe it’s time we started taking pee a bit more seriously … Home and Dry is the ultimate guide to the bladder; not only will it help you...

Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia consistent with the introduction of agriculture, and a later influx from the Pontic-Caspian steppes which without any...

How would you feel if, at eight years old, you lost your parents, a war began, and you were declared an enemy of the state? This is the reality for a young boy named Victor on the brink of WWII. Even Without Blood is a profoundly moving debut novel based on a true story of familial displacement spanning Indonesia, Austria, Holland, and Canada. This novel was first published in Dutch as Schuilen tussen bamboe by HarperCollins Holland and praised by Dutch readers as...

The modern German classic that has shaped an entire generation.A mother and her two teenage children sit at the dinner table. In the middle stands a large pot of cooked mussels. Why has the father not returned home? As the evening wears on, we glimpse the issues that are tearing this family apart.'I wrote this book in August 1989, just before the Fall of the Berlin Wall. I wanted to understand how revolutions start. It seemed logical to use the figure of a tyrannical father...

In easily accessible language, this book analyses the impact of Economic and Monetary Union on Small and Medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe. This overarching and widely researched study explains in a jargon-free manner the mechanisms of EMU and it's likely effect on SMEs. The book then goes on to explain and examine the results of seven case

Birgitta Anderson, or Birgit, as she is known has three problems in her life: a lousy sense of direction, a broken-down car, and a strange mechanic named Reno. The first problem she was born with; the second a good junkyard could take care of, but the last might be a little more difficult to deal with—especially when it comes with three matchmaking brothers.Reno Brewerigeron has his hands full dealing with his three younger brothers, who have decided it is his responsibility to con...

Entangled in shifting alliances, a young English warrior fights for love, honour and survival in blood-soaked Northumbria.England, 1066. In a remote Northumbrian village, young Oswulf is to become an elite warrior for the English king.But as English, Norse and Norman forces wage war against each other to secure control over Northumbria, Oswulf is caught in a perilous web of fickle loyalities and relentless ambition that drive friend and foe alike.Sh...

Olivia Evezi's childhood is a happy one; her days are spent listening to highlife records and poring over the colourful postcards from Germany. When she leaves her hometown of Warri behind to live out her Enid Blyton fantasies in a boarding school in Lagos, instead of adventure and lacrosse, she is met with punishments, endless chores and hazing rituals. Olivia's restlessness takes her to Germany, her mothe's homeland, where she is thrown into a hidden world of workers and migrants; a worl...

Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil. This book captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination and tracks the interlacing of the medium’s technological, economic, social, cultural, and religious aspects. Stepping into the void left by the defunct state film industry, vide...

That Hitler’s Gestapo harshly suppressed any signs of opposition inside the Third Reich is a common misconception. This book presents studies of public dissent that prove this was not always the case. It examines circumstances under which “racial” Germans were motivated to protest, as well as the conditions determining the regime’s response. Workers, women, and religious groups all convinced the Nazis to appease rather than repress “racial” Germans. Expressions of discontent actually incre...

The Moonlight Resilience Compass is a guide of light, hope, and strength for children with Long Covid, ME/CFS, and other chronic illnesses – in a world where much remains invisible. A compass does not show how fast one should move, but where one stands and which direction is possible. This is exactly what children with fluctuating strength and uncertain daily lives need. Why the moon and why a compass? Because these illnesses do not follow a linear course; they unfold in cycles: exhaustion...

Dissecting the radical impact of Walter Benjamin on contemporary cultural, postcolonial and translation theory, this book investigates the translation and reception of Benjamin's most famous text about translation, “The Task of the Translator,” in English language debates around 'cultural translation'.For years now, there has been a pronounced interest in translation throughout the Humanities, which has come with an increasing detachment of translation from linguis...