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      • Berlinica Publishing

        BERLINICA is a publishing house that brings Berlin to America. Berlinica is run by Eva Claudia Schweitzer, a book author, and a journalist for twenty-five years. Berlinica  Publishing LLC is located in New York City. It publishes everything devoted to Berlin in English and in German, from fiction to history, photo books, guide books, biographies, books about culture and architecture, cookbooks, and also movies, and music. Berlinica books are available everywhere where books are sold, in stores in the U.S. and Canada, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as online in a number of additional countries, from Brazil to England, Japan, and Australia to India.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2023

        Globalized urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan

        Young men and the digital economy

        by Hannah Schilling

        Digital technologies promise efficiency and comfort, but the smoothness of platform services relies on the hidden social labour of those who keep the gig economy running. This book presents a comparative ethnography of young men making a living through digital technologies: selling mobile airtime in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and app-based delivery riders in Berlin, Germany. These case studies explore the significance of symbolic capital in urban youth's social existence and organisation of livelihood in the digital economy, and the technological mechanisms producing a new form of urban precarity. Globalized urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan puts forward an original comparative approach to develop a global urban sociology for the digital era. It provides an innovative analytical toolbox that decentres discussions of precarity from the standard of a normal employment contract. With its focus on symbolic capital, the ethnography shows the consequences of the proliferating gig economy for status struggles among urban youth, and carefully embeds the densification of software and services into the socio-material relations on which these new urban infrastructures are built.

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        July 2016

        Israelis in Berlin

        by Fania Oz-Salzberger, Ruth Achlama

        Die israelische Historikerin Fania Oz-Salzberger hat ein Jahr in Berlin gelebt und sich mit ihren gemischten Gefühlen wie mit denen anderer Israelis zu diesem gleichermaßen realen und imaginären Ort auseinandergesetzt. Wie Erich Kästner Emil, einer der Helden ihrer Kindheitsbücher, entdeckt sie bei ihrem Aufenthalt vieles, was ihr die eigene Welt neu erschließt. Das Berlin der Kaiserzeit und der Weimarer Republik wie die Hauptstadt des »Dritten Reichs« haben ihre Spuren in der israelischen Welt hinterlassen. Lebendig und erhellend erzählt Fania Oz-Salzberger von Begegnungen in und mit Berlin – viele individuelle Geschichten, die einen hineinführen in die vielfältig verflochtene und gebrochene jüdische, israelische und deutsche Geschichte – ein Erbe, das Israelis und Deutsche heute verbindet und trennt.

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        Horticulture
        November 2010

        Temperate and Subtropical Fruit Production

        by David Penman, R Bruce Chapman, Peter Lyford, William Atkinson, Roy Edwards, John Palmer, David L. McNeil. Edited by David I Jackson, Graham Thiele, Norman E Looney, Michael Morley-Bunker.

        Effective fruit production requires general knowledge of fruit husbandry such as nutrition, propagation, pruning and training, effects of climate and crop protection as well as specific cultivation techniques for each fruit. Fully revised and expanded to include organic fruit production, this new edition provides a thorough introduction to the cultivation of fruit found throughout the temperate and subtropical regions of the world.

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