'Maximum Vitality' reveals the invisible. Vital energy is the most important resource of all. High energy intensity brings health and a joyful, successful life. Our life energy can flow freely when blockages are dissolved. Resolving the most significant root causes of these blockages and entanglements, leads to faster personal growth. High energy intensity in the surroundings helps healing us and Earth. Dr. Ralf W. Otterpohl has over 30 years experience in geomancy and psycho-kinesiology a...

The lunacy of the final months of World War II, as experienced by a young German soldierDistant, silent, often drunk, Walter Urban is a difficult man to have as a father. But his son—the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel—is curious about Walter's experiences during World War II, and so makes him a present of a blank notebook in which to write down his memories. Walter dies, however, leaving nothing but the barest skeleton of a story on those pages, leading his ...

A deep-dive into the work of Tove Jansson (1914–2001), the Finland-Swedish author and visual artist who created The Moomins, this book considers her novels, short stories, picturebooks, comics, illustrations and paintings to provide a comprehensive overview of her genre and form defying career.With work ranging from the ironic to melancholy, playful to wise and reaching from the heights and horrors of fantasy to distinctly modern themes and affects, To...

A gang that shot their way across the West, looting and robbing, comes to an end by a campfire at the edge of the Badlands. As the consipirators go their seperate ways we get a view into how they're changed by the land, the people, the money, the cost their betrayal demands... What is the price of revenge? Discover how the post Civil War West comes alive in this study of character and villany and ultimately: humanity and redemtion under the big sky of the Old West.

A devastating novel of World War II and the final months of a war that forever darkened the souls of the civilians who lived through it – from the award-winning author of To Die in Spring.‘Shattering stuff, but Rothmann is tender towards his characters and this book is as memorable as his last.’ - The Times, ‘Historical Fiction Book of the Month’As the Second World War enters its final stages, millions in Germany are force...

The Quantum ShiftExploring Alternative FuturesQuantum physics says reality isn't fixed – it's waiting for an observer. Four ancient archetypes show you how to become one. Science meets spiritual practice in a course that rewires how you see possibility.Here's what quantum physics actually tells us: particles don't commit to a single state until they're observed. Before that moment, they exist in superposition – all possibilities at once.Wh...

Over the last few decades, archaeologists and cultural scientists have come to a better understanding of the extent of Neolithic civilisation on the Balkan peninsula. This Danube Civilisation, thriving between the 6th and 4th millennia BCE, was using a writing system long before the Mesopotamians and is remarkable for its accomplishments in craftsmanship, art and urban development. In this book, Harald Haarmann provides the first comprehensive insight into this enigmatic Old European cultu...

Roy & Al is the first English-language book by Europe’s most popular gay cartoonist, Germany’s Ralf König, whose collections have sold over 250,000 copies and have been translated into five languages. Roy & Al is a hilarious, erotically charged series of gay comics starring two dogs whose owners are dating. Al, a purebred, is rather fey, and treats the unsophisticated with disdain, while Roy, a mongrel, is coarser and more down-to-earth (and a tad overweight). Any similar...

This book contains a comprehensive introduction and overview of copula approaches to competing risks models for dependent latent failure times. It establishes the fundamentals of dependent competing risks models, as well as presents a range of recently developed approaches to identifiability and estimation using copulas. Readers benefit from a blend of statistical theory with applications in different subject areas such as economics, engineering, and medicine. This is the first book that p...

What does it take to build a civilisation at the edge of the inhabitable world?Iceland's answer stretches across eleven centuries. From the Irish monks who arrived first and left their books and bells behind, to the Norse settlers who built the world's oldest parliament on a plain where two continents pull apart, to the medieval scholars who preserved Norse mythology while the rest of Scandinavia forgot it, Iceland has been producing extraordinary things from the most unlikely circ...

An optimist's book of solutions. High levels of vital energy result in health and happiness. Growing consciousness enables us to co-create our Golden Age. Let us be guided by our enthusiasm from our hearts and brains! "Blueprint" shows clear pathways towards a good life in abundance from the ground up: Revitalized soils make nutrient rich food, restore the water cycles and balance local weather conditions. People live in nature, work part-time in forest gar-dens, shared offices and in loca...

This book explores the media ecologies of literature – the ways in which a literary text is interwoven in its material, technical, performative, praxeological, affective, and discursive network and which determine how it is experienced and interpreted. Through novel approaches to the complex, contingent and interdependent environments of literature, this volume demonstrates how questions about the mediality of literature – particularly in the wake of digitization – shed a new light on our ...