Die Aussagen über die Ostdeutschen und darüber, wie weit beide Teile Deutschlands zusammengewachsen sind, könnten nicht widersprüchlicher sein: Während Vertreter der etablierten Parteien und der Leitmedien am Tag der Deutschen Einheit so gut wie alles schön-reden und sich dabei auf die Schulter klopfen, hört man nach jeder Bundestags- und Landtagswahl aus der gleichen Ecke ganz andere Töne: Die Ostdeut-schen werden scharf zurechtgewiesen, weil sie nicht so gewählt haben, wie jene es sich vorgestellt hatten.
Für einen utopischen Realismus: Wie Zukunft gedacht und gemacht wirdWir genießen heute einen zivilisatorischen Standard in Sachen Freiheit, Sicherheit, Gesundheit und Wohlstand, der historisch unvergleichlich ist.
Krise: Wie Nationen an Herausforderungen wachsen und Hoffnung für die Zukunft schaffenIn seinem bisher persönlichsten Buch zeigt der Pulitzer-Preisträger Jared Diamond, wie Nationen erfolgreich mit den gegenwärtigen Krisen wie Klimawandel, sozialer Ungleichheit und gesellschaftlicher Polarisierung umgehen können.
Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson's richly detailed narrative takes us from New York, London, and Paris to the colonial districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai'i to tell a richly detailed story of the emergence of trans misogyny.
Good manners are simply codified kindness, and being in possession of them enhances the quality of your everyday life and that of the people around you.
Taking the fall of the Berlin Wall as a key marker in recent history - a period in which increasingly we find ourselves watching 'instant history' unfold live on air - the book presents a new critical concept of image critique: a double procedure of both a critique of images and the use of images as a means to engage with our contemporary mediated culture for new critical purposes.
This inaugural edited collection for the Communicating Responsible Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion series presents new critical discourse alongside cutting-edge practical work at the crossroads of PR, CSR, and DEI.
This inaugural edited collection for the Communicating Responsible Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion series presents new critical discourse alongside cutting-edge practical work at the crossroads of PR, CSR, and DEI.
Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is both a process and also a consequence which is sought out an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings, and leftovers.
This book is a rich exploration of the baby boomers - those coming of age in the sixties and now entering old age - the influences that have shaped how they perceive ageing appearance, how they define ageing and beauty, and the meaning of appearance, beauty, and identity.
This book is a rich exploration of the baby boomers - those coming of age in the sixties and now entering old age - the influences that have shaped how they perceive ageing appearance, how they define ageing and beauty, and the meaning of appearance, beauty, and identity.
'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' - TelegraphIn this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a vivid and politically-engaged case for the importance of art - especially in the turbulent weather of the twenty-first century.
This study of parliamentary control of finance in Canada will special emphasis on the period after 1867 is an outgrowth of an interest in the House of Commons on the part of its author which earlier produced The Canadian House of Commons: Representation.
Costume design is a crucial, but frequently overlooked, aspect of film that fosters an appreciation of the diverse ways in which film and fashion enrich each other.