mng university presses jun 2025 (13 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How gallows humor can bolster us to confront global warming We've all seen the headlines: oceans rising, historic heat waves, mass extinctions, climate refugees. It feels overwhelming, like nothing can make a difference in combating this ongoing global catastrophe. How can we mobilize to save the world when we feel this depressed Stay Cool enjoins us to laugh our way forward. Human beings have used comedy to cope with difficult realities since the beginning of recorded timethe more dismal the news, the darker the humor. Using this rich tradition of dark comedy to investigate climate change, Aaron Sachs makes the case that gallows humor, a mainstay of African Americans and Jews facing extraordinary oppression, can cultivate endurance, persistence, and solidarity in the face of calamity. Sachs surveys the macabre tradition of laughing during great suffering, from the Black Plague to the San Francisco earthquake of 1906and offers some of the earliest examples of superlative dark comedy. He also explores how a new generation of activists and comedians are deploying dark humor to great effect, by poking fun at older people's apathy about climate catastrophes, lambasting oil corporations' 'eco' rebranding, and even producing an off-Broadway dystopian comedy called 'Sea Level Rise.' Sachs offers suggestions for how environmentalists can use dark comedy first to boost their own morale, and then to reframe their activism in more energizing and relatable ways. Environmentalism is probably the least funny social movement that's ever existed. Stay Cool seeks to change that. Will comedy save the world Not by itself, no. But it can put people in a decent enough mood to get them started on a rescue mission.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -An exploration of the mythical Mary Glass - her art, her life, and her timesMary Glass (19462021) was an innovative modern dancer and choreographer, quietly instrumental to the San Francisco Bay Area art scene of the 1960s and '70s - barely known today - admired for her experimental movements based on sounds and images of the Pacific.As a child, Mary Glass took her first dance class with Anna Halprin on her famed redwood dance deck in Marin County's Kent Woodlands. Dancing with the blue sky as her ceiling - surrounded by magical madrones and redwoods - the effect on Mary Glass was seismic. Fittingly, Halprin called her classes 'dance experiences.' Mary Glass's lifestyle, her anxieties, and her dance reflect the human geography of Northern California: Happenings, Zero Population Growth (ZPG), feminism, same-sex love, civil rights, Vietnam, environmentalism. Cascading in the waves of the politics of the time was Mary Glass's anorexia, an unexpected pregnancy, and her life-long love affair with the Black painter Eliza Vesper.Today Mary Glass is remembered by an increasingly diminishing handful of devotees. Author Carol Mavor is one of them.In this daring work of fictocriticism, where 'feelings are facts,' Like the Sea asks its readersjust as Anna Halprin asked of each of her young students as they were leaving class - 'What are you taking with you from the natural world 'Halprin's words will resonate in Mary's mind her entire lifetime and beyond.In the after-time of the prescient Mary Glass - with its decline of sea kelp and warm Decembers - Mavor herself considers the Anthropocene, tasting extinction as if swallowing the long-gone abalone mollusks of her own Bay-Area childhood: salty, like the sea, but strangely sweet. And from it, Mavor delivers the reader to the far-away country of the not-so-distant past to help envision a future.There are no photographs or films of Mary Glass dancing. The life of Mary Glass is nearly forgotten, her memory on the edge of extinction. In meditative, dazzling and lyrical prose, Like the Sea tells us - like the ocean's music in our ear - we need to remember extinction to imagine our way out of it.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 182 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -For You, I'd Steal a Goat is a vibrant collection of short stories filled with memorable characters, intriguing plots, and twist endings. It explores a wide range of themes, such as corruption, racial bias, family troubles, and lovers' spats, to name a few. In his stories about queer relationships, Niq Mhlongo surfaces the complexities of a community whose narratives have been silenced. With his keen observations and insights into human nature, Mhlongo explores the things that people do for each other, but also to each other, including acts of injustice and exploitation as well as of love and desire. Mhlongo's stories are critical, erudite, and masterfully crafted using satire and careful deliberation to connect to the quotidian lived experiences of readers. With a sense of humor, Mhlongo reflects on some of the greatest transformations South Africans have faced in recent times and engages with crucial matters in the present.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An exploration of the mythical Mary Glass - her art, her life, and her timesMary Glass (19462021) was an innovative modern dancer and choreographer, quietly instrumental to the San Francisco Bay Area art scene of the 1960s and '70s - barely known today - admired for her experimental movements based on sounds and images of the Pacific.As a child, Mary Glass took her first dance class with Anna Halprin on her famed redwood dance deck in Marin County's Kent Woodlands. Dancing with the blue sky as her ceiling - surrounded by magical madrones and redwoods - the effect on Mary Glass was seismic. Fittingly, Halprin called her classes 'dance experiences.' Mary Glass's lifestyle, her anxieties, and her dance reflect the human geography of Northern California: Happenings, Zero Population Growth (ZPG), feminism, same-sex love, civil rights, Vietnam, environmentalism. Cascading in the waves of the politics of the time was Mary Glass's anorexia, an unexpected pregnancy, and her life-long love affair with the Black painter Eliza Vesper.Today Mary Glass is remembered by an increasingly diminishing handful of devotees. Author Carol Mavor is one of them.In this daring work of fictocriticism, where 'feelings are facts,' Like the Sea asks its readersjust as Anna Halprin asked of each of her young students as they were leaving class - 'What are you taking with you from the natural world 'Halprin's words will resonate in Mary's mind her entire lifetime and beyond.In the after-time of the prescient Mary Glass - with its decline of sea kelp and warm Decembers - Mavor herself considers the Anthropocene, tasting extinction as if swallowing the long-gone abalone mollusks of her own Bay-Area childhood: salty, like the sea, but strangely sweet. And from it, Mavor delivers the reader to the far-away country of the not-so-distant past to help envision a future.There are no photographs or films of Mary Glass dancing. The life of Mary Glass is nearly forgotten, her memory on the edge of extinction. In meditative, dazzling and lyrical prose, Like the Sea tells us - like the ocean's music in our ear - we need to remember extinction to imagine our way out of it.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For You, I'd Steal a Goat is a vibrant collection of short stories filled with memorable characters, intriguing plots, and twist endings. It explores a wide range of themes, such as corruption, racial bias, family troubles, and lovers' spats, to name a few. In his stories about queer relationships, Niq Mhlongo surfaces the complexities of a community whose narratives have been silenced. With his keen observations and insights into human nature, Mhlongo explores the things that people do for each other, but also to each other, including acts of injustice and exploitation as well as of love and desire. Mhlongo's stories are critical, erudite, and masterfully crafted using satire and careful deliberation to connect to the quotidian lived experiences of readers. With a sense of humor, Mhlongo reflects on some of the greatest transformations South Africans have faced in recent times and engages with crucial matters in the present.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Offers the most powerful case yet for ending our exploitation of animals for food Millions of Americans see themselves as 'conflicted omnivores,' worrying about the ethical and environmental implications of their choice to eat animals. Yet their attempts to justify their choices only obscure the truth of the matter: in John Sanbonmatsu's view, killing and eating animals is unethical, regardless of whether they are 'free range' or factory farmed. Shattering the conventional wisdom around the meat economy, he reframes the question of animal agriculture from one of 'sustainability' to one of existential and moral purpose, presenting a powerful case for the total abolition of the animal economy. In a rejoinder to Michael Pollan and other critics who have told us that we can have our meat and our consciences, too, he shows why 'humane meat' is always a contradiction in terms. The Omnivore's Deception provides a deeply observed philosophical meditation on the nature of our relationship with animals. Peeling back the myriad layers of myth, falsehoods, and bad faith that keep us eating meat, the book offers a novel perspective on our troubled relations with animals in the food economy. The problem with raising and killing animals for food isn't just that it's 'bad for the environment,' but the wrong way to live a human life. A tour de force of moral philosophy and cultural critique, The Omnivore's Deception will change the way we think about meat, animals, and human purpose.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Un/German is a powerful intervention in the ongoing debates over national identity, migration, and collective memory in Europe. Against the backdrop of the 2015 'refugee crisis,' Fatima El-Tayeb argues that Europe's internal fractures were deflected through recurring crises, casting racialized populations as the external menace against which the continent could unite. First published in German in 2016, the book critically examines how Germany's reaction to the arrival of nearly one million refugees-initially framed as a 'culture of welcome' but one that rapidly turned to hostility-was not an anomaly but part of a broader European pattern.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 257 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings offers a unique cultural history of German memorialization. The book focuses not on a single, isolated era, but rather on enduring memorial motifs--enchanted stones, magical trees, raised fists, stone circles, and similar evocative symbols derived from myth, folklore, Christianity, national iconography, and post-Holocaust imagery. It thus takes a long-duration perspective, sweeping across the centuries to explore abiding themes such as death, rebirth, and redemption; violence and reconciliation; and sacrifice, identity, and community. Along with a consideration of the historical and social circumstances of each memorial and its motifs, author Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich answers the questions of why and how these cultural markers survive the passage of time and how they endure amidst cultural, social, and political upheavals that include the rise and fall of empires, catastrophes of war and occupation, and genesis of new national identities. She uniquely focuses on lesser-known or unknown memorials found either in smaller German cities or tucked away in villages and hamlets.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Un/German is a powerful intervention in the ongoing debates over national identity, migration, and collective memory in Europe. Against the backdrop of the 2015 'refugee crisis,' Fatima El-Tayeb argues that Europe's internal fractures were deflected through recurring crises, casting racialized populations as the external menace against which the continent could unite. First published in German in 2016, the book critically examines how Germany's reaction to the arrival of nearly one million refugees-initially framed as a 'culture of welcome' but one that rapidly turned to hostility-was not an anomaly but part of a broader European pattern.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offers the most powerful case yet for ending our exploitation of animals for food Millions of Americans see themselves as 'conflicted omnivores,' worrying about the ethical and environmental implications of their choice to eat animals. Yet their attempts to justify their choices only obscure the truth of the matter: in John Sanbonmatsu's view, killing and eating animals is unethical, regardless of whether they are 'free range' or factory farmed. Shattering the conventional wisdom around the meat economy, he reframes the question of animal agriculture from one of 'sustainability' to one of existential and moral purpose, presenting a powerful case for the total abolition of the animal economy. In a rejoinder to Michael Pollan and other critics who have told us that we can have our meat and our consciences, too, he shows why 'humane meat' is always a contradiction in terms. The Omnivore's Deception provides a deeply observed philosophical meditation on the nature of our relationship with animals. Peeling back the myriad layers of myth, falsehoods, and bad faith that keep us eating meat, the book offers a novel perspective on our troubled relations with animals in the food economy. The problem with raising and killing animals for food isn't just that it's 'bad for the environment,' but the wrong way to live a human life. A tour de force of moral philosophy and cultural critique, The Omnivore's Deception will change the way we think about meat, animals, and human purpose.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings offers a unique cultural history of German memorialization. The book focuses not on a single, isolated era, but rather on enduring memorial motifs--enchanted stones, magical trees, raised fists, stone circles, and similar evocative symbols derived from myth, folklore, Christianity, national iconography, and post-Holocaust imagery. It thus takes a long-duration perspective, sweeping across the centuries to explore abiding themes such as death, rebirth, and redemption; violence and reconciliation; and sacrifice, identity, and community. Along with a consideration of the historical and social circumstances of each memorial and its motifs, author Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich answers the questions of why and how these cultural markers survive the passage of time and how they endure amidst cultural, social, and political upheavals that include the rise and fall of empires, catastrophes of war and occupation, and genesis of new national identities. She uniquely focuses on lesser-known or unknown memorials found either in smaller German cities or tucked away in villages and hamlets.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'China's leader, Xi Jinping, is one of the most powerful individuals in the world - and one of the least understood. Much can be learned, however, about both Xi Jinping and the nature of the party he leads from the memory and legacy of his father, the revolutionary Xi Zhongxun (1913-2002). The elder Xi served the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for more than seven decades. He worked at the right-hand of prominent leaders Zhou Enlai and Hu Yaobang. He helped build the Communist base area that saved Mao Zedong in 1935, and he initiated the Special Economic Zones that launched China into the reform era after Mao's death. He led the Party's United Front efforts toward Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Taiwanese. And though in 1989 he initially sought to avoid violence, he ultimately supported the Party's crackdown on the Tiananmen protesters. The Party's Interests Come First is the first biography of Xi Zhongxun written in English. This biography is at once a sweeping story of the Chinese revolution and the first several decades of the People's Republic of China, and a deeply personal story about making sense of one's own identity within a larger political context. Drawing on an array of new documents, interviews, diaries, and periodicals, Joseph Torigian vividly tells the life story of Xi Zhongxun, a man who spent his entire life struggling to balance his own feelings with the Party's demands. Through the eyes of Xi Jinping's father, Torigian reveals the extraordinary organizational, ideological, and coercive power of the CCP - and the terrible cost in human suffering that comes with it'--Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 704 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'China's leader, Xi Jinping, is one of the most powerful individuals in the world - and one of the least understood. Much can be learned, however, about both Xi Jinping and the nature of the party he leads from the memory and legacy of his father, the revolutionary Xi Zhongxun (1913-2002). The elder Xi served the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for more than seven decades. He worked at the right-hand of prominent leaders Zhou Enlai and Hu Yaobang. He helped build the Communist base area that saved Mao Zedong in 1935, and he initiated the Special Economic Zones that launched China into the reform era after Mao's death. He led the Party's United Front efforts toward Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Taiwanese. And though in 1989 he initially sought to avoid violence, he ultimately supported the Party's crackdown on the Tiananmen protesters. The Party's Interests Come First is the first biography of Xi Zhongxun written in English. This biography is at once a sweeping story of the Chinese revolution and the first several decades of the People's Republic of China, and a deeply personal story about making sense of one's own identity within a larger political context. Drawing on an array of new documents, interviews, diaries, and periodicals, Joseph Torigian vividly tells the life story of Xi Zhongxun, a man who spent his entire life struggling to balance his own feelings with the Party's demands. Through the eyes of Xi Jinping's father, Torigian reveals the extraordinary organizational, ideological, and coercive power of the CCP - and the terrible cost in human suffering that comes with it'--.