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July 2023One Health for Dog-mediated Rabies Elimination in Asia
A Collection of Local Experiences
by Vanessa Slack, Deborah Nadal, Sandul Yasobant, Florence Cliquet, Waqas Ahmad, Nihal Pushpakumara, Sumon Ghosh
Although an effective rabies vaccine has existed since 1885, rabies continues to kill an estimated 59,000 people, and uncalculated animals, every year. Sixty per cent of these human deaths occur in Asia. To work towards the global target of eliminating dog-mediated rabies by 2030, the rabies community is applying the One Health approach. Written by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and rabies control programme specialists, this book is a collection of experiences and observations on the challenges and successes along the path to rabies control and prevention in Asia. It: - Grounds chapters in solid scientific theory, but retains a direct, practice-focused and inspirational approach; - Provides numerous examples of lessons learned and experience-based knowledge gained across countries at different levels of rabies control and elimination; - Brings together and highlights the practices of a strong, international rabies network that works according to the One Health concept. Covering perspectives from almost a dozen Asian countries and a wide range of sectors and disciplines, such as healthcare facilities, veterinary services, laboratories, academia, public health institutes and wildlife research centres, this book is an invaluable resource for rabies scholars and practitioners, but also those working in the wider fields of disease control and cross-sectoral One Health.
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Children's & YAChangeling
by Kotryna Zylė
Changeling is a rebellious novel about creativity, youth and the raging intensity of teenage emotional life. The gripping story plunges the reader into the depths of a mystical town, a haunting and haunted place, where boundaries between the real and the otherworldly become dangerously blurred. A strange and electrifying tale of teenage disenchantment, Changeling is a work of stunning emotional force that captures the twisted complexities of family relationships and friendships, first love, and the quest for self-definition. Guided by short introductions to Baltic mythology, readers will find themselves in an urban landscape steeped in pagan and post-Soviet history.
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Work-Life Balance
Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers
by Wayne Reé, Benjamin Chee
When a malevolent multinational arrives on our shores, familiar creatures like pontianaks, manananggals, rākṣasīs and ba jiao guis are forced out of their jobs. Some give in and sign up for mundane corporate life – but others would rather fight than join the broken-spirited hordes of the (desk)bound. Benjamin Chee’s comics and Wayne Rée’s prose intertwine in this collection to bring you familiar Asian mythology in an even more familiar setting: the realm of dead-end work, glass ceilings and truly hellish bosses.
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Children's & YASeawalkers (3). Wild Waves
by Katja Brandis/Claudia Carls
The students and teachers at Blue Reef High are worried sick. It’s not just because recently there’s been an influx of reptile and python shapeshifters who are causing chaos. Now there’s a powerful hurricane building up off the coast of Florida. Tiago, the shark shapeshifter, the dolphin girl Shari and all their friends decide to escape by swimming out to the open sea. But will they really be safe there? And will Blue Reef High still be standing when they return? Quite apart from the hurricane, Tiago has heard some unpleasant rumours – that some unscrupulous business people are going to organize fights between divers and sharks. Is this true, and if so, will the Seawalker friends be able to defend themselves?
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September 2022Gluttony
Blow-out
by Jürgen Dollase
One of Germany's best-known restaurant critics, Jürgen Dollase knowledgeably traces the ups and downs of our love of food. Following the historical-theological classification of the 'mortal sin' that is gluttony, he illuminates not only the physical and medical but also the so important psychological aspects of food. We learn just why his weight loss self-experiment was not successful in the long term as well as various enlightening facts regarding the fateful role of the discounters. This book is not an appeal for moderation, but a plea for moderate indulgence.
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Children's & YAWild Claws (3). A Target for the Sharks
by Max Held/ Timo Grubing
While diving offshore, Logan, Charlotte and Jack discover a shipwreck. Very interesting – but extremely dangerous. Because while the friends are examining it, they are attacked by a shark! Then more and more sharks approach and circle the wreck, as if they are watching over it. What lies inside the sunken ship, and what secret is being concealed by the underwater explorer Thornton, who is staying as a guest at the Wild Claws sanctuary? When Logan dives again, the sharks attack and Logan is trapped in the wreck. His air supply is running short, and time is racing by. Can Jack and Charlotte rescue him in time?
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2021Insanity, identity and empire
Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910
by Catharine Coleborne
Insanity, identity and empire examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, it pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and class as categories of analysis, reminding us of the varied journeys of immigrants to the colonies and of how and where they stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of the period. It is about their stories of mobility, how these were told and produced inside institutions for the insane, and how, in the telling, colonial identities were asserted and formed. Having engaged with the structural imperatives of empire and with the varied imperial meanings of gender, sexuality and medicine, historians have considered the movements of travellers, migrants, military bodies and medical personnel, and 'transnational lives'. This book examines an empire-wide discourse of 'madness' as part of this inquiry.
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Children's & YA2017Dance of the Wild
by Richa Jha and Ruchi Mhasane
Little Shilu loves to dance around naked. She wants to be like the animals; like Pirate, her cat. When her grandmother Nannu says she can’t because she is now a big girl, Shilu gets down to understanding why she can’t. Peppered with Nannu’s loving chiding, intimate grandma-granddaughter bonding over conversations, and a heart-to-heart between the mother and this little inquisitive daughter, this book is a reflection of the wild and free nature of childhood. Rhuchi Mhasane’s soft evocative illustrations rendered in pencil with watercolour, and put together digitally, create a dreamlike charm. Richa Jha’s gentle, affectionate and lyrical text takes the reader into the mind of the little girl who can’t wait to get the answers to her ‘Why can’t I?’
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FictionApril 2017Dream and Madness
by Zhou Meisen
Dream and Madness is a classical work that perfectly combines critical realism and idealism. The fight between desire and morality is unfolded in reality scenes for readers. The novel pictures the time of capital that changes people’s life.
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March 2007Was ich mir wünsche
Gedichte aus Liebe
by Thomas Brasch, Thomas Wild, Thomas Wild
Liebe ist für Thomas Brasch (1945–2001) eine Haltung, die sich jeder Festlegung verweigert. Eine Haltung, die ihre Träume fürchtend und sehnend der Wirklichkeit aussetzt und das Mögliche stets in den Horizont des Unmöglichen stellt. Braschs dichterische Leidenschaft hofft und verzweifelt, vertraut und betrügt, preist und vernichtet. Und sie belehrt: Wann, wem und wie schreibt man ein erotisches Gedicht? In dem Band stehen Gedichte, die Brasch eigenständig und zu Lebzeiten publiziert hat, neben literarischen Hinterlassenschaften. Texte aus den frühen Jahren(»Anna, komm …«) sind ebenso vertreten wie Arbeiten aus jüngerer Zeit, etwa eine Gruppe mit Brunke-Gedichten, die in den 1990er Jahren entstanden sind.
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August 2008Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod - Folge 1-3
Ein Wegweiser durch den Irrgarten der deutschen Sprache. Die Zwiebelfisch-Kolumnen Folge 1-3.
by Sick, Bastian
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November 2016Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod Folge 4-6
Ein Wegweiser durch den Irrgarten der deutschen Sprache Folge 4-6 in einem Band
by Sick, Bastian
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June 2017"Schlagen Sie dem Teufel ein Schnäppchen"
Ein Bilderbuch aus dem Irrgarten der deutschen Sprache
by Sick, Bastian
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February 2008Zu wahr, um schön zu sein
Eine Sammlung verdrehter Sprichwörter Postkarten
by Sick, Bastian
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November 2013Wir braten Sie gern!
Ein Bilderbuch aus dem Irrgarten der deutschen Sprache
by Sick, Bastian
