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      • The Maritime Paintings of Simon Fisher
        Art treatments & subjects
        March 2012

        The Maritime Paintings of Simon Fisher

        by Simon Fisher

        Coffee table book featuring the ship paintings of Simon Fisher. Contains a short biography and sections dealing with many of the famous Ocean Liners and Warships painted by the artist. Full-page illustrations throughout in full colour and many black-and-white sketches in accompaniment. A large section on Titanic begins the book  There is a guide at the end of the book showing how the paintings are created. Each description of the ships depicted is made more interesting by many stories and anecdotes from people associated withthem.

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      • One Woman's Struggle In Iran
        December 2018

        One Woman's Struggle In Iran

        A Prison Memoir

        by Nasrin Parvaz / Christel Wegert

        This is a hard-hitting true story of a young woman who spent 8 years being tortured, starved, and threatened with execution, but who found strength in other woman and found joy in dark places. This physical book is evidence of an unbreakable spirit.  In 1979, Nasrin Parvaz returned from England, where she had been studying, and became a member of a socialist party in Iran fighting for a non-Islamic state in which women had the same rights as men. Three years later, at the age of 23, she was betrayed by a comrade and arrested by the regime's secret police. Nasrin spent the next eight years in Iran's prison system. She was systematically tortured, threatened with execution, starved and forced to live in appalling, horribly overcrowded conditions. One Woman's Struggle is both an account of what happened to her during those eight years, and evidence that her spirit was never broken. Nasrin's memoir is a story of friendship and mutual support, of how the women drew strength from one another and found endless small ways to show kindness and even find tiny specks of joy.

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      • Kraboszki
        March 2020

        Kraboszki

        by Barbara Piorkowska

        Few times she had a headache then she fell in the street. It is how her journey through hospital halls started, where the main stations where: blood intake and chemo. Now she has to acquire rules of living with ilness and find her own way to recovery. Help in weaving a new line of life will come from an unexpected direction... Kraboszki  is an intimate story of patient-physician relations and dehumanization in the healthcare. Based on real experiences, the novel allows you to see the emotional aspect of dealing with a terminal illness.

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      • Eva et Ruda
        Biography & True Stories
        September 2010

        Eva et Ruda

        Récit à deux voix de survivants de l'Holocauste

        by Eva Roden, Rudolph Roden

        The authors of this moving testimonial, Eva and Rudolph Roden, have seen their love survive the Nazis’ dehumanization process. Not only is Eva et Ruda a staggering and truthful testimonial of the rise of Nazism and life in the camps, it is the story of an exceptional love, a love so strong and intense that it helped our two lovers survive this ordeal. Reading Eva et Ruda is revisiting the fighter instinct, the hope and the humor one needs to face the most outrageous experiences. More infos: https://bit.ly/36KXQhC

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      • Human No More

        Human No More

        Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology

        by Neil L. Whitehead (Editor) , Michael Wesch (Editor)

        Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities. Online worlds have recently thrown into question the traditional anthropological conception of place-based ethnography. They break definitions, blur distinctions, and force us to rethink the notion of the "subject." Human No More asks how digital cultures can be integrated and how the ethnography of both the "unhuman" and the "digital" could lead to possible reconfiguring the notion of the "human."This provocative and groundbreaking work challenges fundamental assumptions about the entire field of anthropology. Cross-disciplinary research from well-respected contributors makes this volume vital to the understanding of contemporary human interaction. It will be of interest not only to anthropologists but also to students and scholars of media, communication, popular culture, identity, and technology.

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      • Für einen Umweltschutz der 99% (Environmentalism of the 99 Percent)
        September 2021

        Für einen Umweltschutz der 99% (Environmentalism of the 99 Percent)

        Nautilus Flugschrift

        by Milo Probst

        An exploration into history that points towards a future of climate justice. The imminent climate and environmental crisis is the result of historically grown and thus overturnable social conditions. Milo Probst takes the reader on a tour of emancipatory battles of the 19th and early 20th century, to show just what is possible – there is always an alternative. He shows connections and roots from the past from which something new can grow: Probst thus rediscovers Pierre Quiroule, an anarchist activist and author who, in the early 20th century of Buenos Aires, committed himself to a broader understanding of solidarity not only among humans, but including nature. He rediscovers a British socialist, Edward Carpenter, who tried to motivate workers to fight against air pollution in the 1890s, or again a Cuban independence fighter, anarchist and feminist Louise Michel and many others. Their stories show that real humanity is possible – in joint battles, in real solidarity and by breaking up with a system of methodical dehumanisation. Environmentalism of the 99 percent is a reinvention of anti-capitalist traditions. It definitely is anti-racist, feminist and decolonizing, internationalist and a class struggle. All of us who are exploited, discriminated against and excluded by the current system need to unite in understanding that climate justice and environmentalism are genuinely social questions.

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      • Socialization and Civil Society
        Education

        Socialization and Civil Society

        How Parents, Teachers and Others Could Foster a Democratic Way of Life

        by de Winter, M.

        There is a clear relation between the way children are raised and the way the world is heading. Famous philosophers and educationists such as Kant, Dewey, Montessori and Freire, exposed clearly the direct link between the social and political abuses of their time and the way in which children were brought up. From their analysis they each conceived the ambition of making the world a better place through educational reform. For various reasons it is not fashionable these days to make any kind of direct connection between child upbringing and ‘the state of the world’. The project of child-rearing gradually became focussed on individual development. In this book, Dutch child-psychologist Micha de Winter argues that there should be much more to child-raising, education and youth policy – for example, to learn to understand and practice democratic citizenship, humanity and freedom. What does it mean to live in a democratic society, how do you resist the seductions of ‘them-versus-us’ thinking which both offers the feelings of security and of belonging to a group and at the same time invites the risk of dehumanizing and excluding the other? Socialization from this perspective is a common responsibility that requires an educative civil society.

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      • Bodies and Barriers

        Bodies and Barriers

        Dramas of Dis-ease

        by Angela Belli (author)

        Dramatic pieces that raise issues of humanity in medicineBodies and Barriers offers a collection of dramatic pieces of our time that provide an aesthetic perspective from which we view today’s vital health issues. With each play exploring a different medical crisis, the collection covers a range of issues common to a diverse population, irrespective of gender or race. Included are works examining how individuals confront the challenges posed by physical disability, aging, and terminal illness. These plays take as their subject the human form and its pathologies while providing a humanistic perspective from which to view men and women as they come to terms with a loss of physical and emotional well-being.Of broader interest is the attention these dramas frequently pay to questions of urgent social concern, such as the dehumanizing effect of technology and the threat it poses to human values. The plays Angela Belli assembled demonstrate how the theatrical form can open discussion linking medicine to the larger society.Belli includes introductory essays to each of the works as well as a general introduction that presents an overview of the issues discussed in the anthology, their relevance to our culture, and their value in providing thematic material for the works included. This collection will be useful to students, health professionals, and the public.

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      • Bloody Crossroads 2020
        Politics & government

        Bloody Crossroads 2020

        Art, Entertainment, and Resistance to Trump

        by Danny Goldberg

        Bloody Crossroads 2020 takes a deep dive into the role that mass-appeal movies, television, videos, and music played in America’s political culture in the year of Donald Trump’s failed reelection campaign. The book also explores the impact of entertainment celebrities in communications, fundraising, and campaigning to support the election of Joe Biden. Although there existed a decades-old tradition of “liberal Hollywood,” Trump’s ascension to the presidency in 2016 triggered an unprecedented level of engagement by artists and performers. Within days of the 2016 election, a critical mass of entertainers, from teenagers to the last survivors of the World War II generation—blockbuster movie stars, art-film auteurs, Broadway dramatists, comedians, and musicians from the worlds of classical, country, pop, rock, R&B, and hip-hop—all seemed to have heard the tom-tom beat of resistance at the same moment and amplified a moral alternative to Trumpism. That level of engagement intensified with rare passion and purpose in the period of 2020 chronicled in Bloody Crossroads 2020—the Democratic primaries, the COVID-19 pandemic, the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, the conviction of sexual predator Harvey Weinstein, and the 2020 general election campaign—culminating in Trump’s failed insurrection. Exhaustively researched, Bloody Crossroads 2020 draws from brand-new interviews with Bruce Springsteen, John Legend, Rosanne Cash, David Simon, Adam McKay, Chuck D, David Corn, Mandy Patinkin, and many more. It also explores the important political activities of entertainers like Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Alyssa Milano, Mark Ruffalo, Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Bette Midler, Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Ava DuVernay, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, and Wanda Sykes. Bloody Crossroads 2020 expertly dissects and celebrates how the empowering actions of artists and entertainers helped a record turnout of everyday citizens realize a triumphant 2020 election.

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      • Memories of Terror
        November 2020

        Memories of Terror

        Essays on Recent Histories

        by Mihaela Gligor

        This volume, focusing on the recovery of some forgotten facts about a very painful period of our history, address major concerns and problems. Stories dealing with life of surviving Jews after Holocaust are as important as the stories of the Holocaust itself. These are the stories of surviving Jews after Holocaust, living memories of fear and strength, personal and interior battles, (in)tolerance and finding a place in a new world, but also acceptance of the pain of joy and hope for a better future.

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      • What Gandhi Didn't See
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2018

        What Gandhi Didn't See

        Being Indian in South Africa

        by Zainab Priya Dala

        From the vantage point of her own personal history—a fourth-generation Indian South African of mixed lineage—indentured as well as trader class, part Hindu, part Muslim—Dala explores the nuts and bolts of being Indian in South Africa today. From 1684 till the present, the Indian diaspora in South Africa has had a long history. But in the country of their origin, they remain synonymous with three points of identity: indenture, apartheid and Mahatma Gandhi. In this series of essays, Zainab Priya Dala deftly lifts the veil on some of the many other facets of South African Indians, starting with the question: How relevant is Gandhi to them today? It is a question Dala answers with searing honesty, just as she tackles the questions of the ‘new racism’—between Black Africans and Indians—and the ‘new apartheid’—money; the tussle between the ‘canefields’ where she grew up, and the ‘Casbah’, or the glittering town of Durban; and what the changing patterns in the names the Indian community chooses to adopt reflect. In writing that is fluid, incisive and sensitive, she explores the new democratic South Africa that took birth long after Gandhi returned to the subcontinent, and the fight against apartheid was fought and won. In this new ‘Rainbow Nation’, the people of Indian origin are striving to keep their ties to Indian culture whilst building a stronger South African identity. Zainab Priya Dala describes some of the scenarios that result from this dichotomy.

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      • The Last Days of Mankind
        Individual artists, art monographs
        January 2019

        The Last Days of Mankind

        A Visual Guide to Karl Kraus’ Great War Epic

        by artwork by Deborah Sengl; contributions by Marjorie Perloff, Matthias Goldmann, Anna Souchuk and Paul Reitter

        "Eye-catching": Top 10 Anticipated Art Books Publishers Weekly   Garnering critical success over the past four years, Viennese artist Deborah Sengl has exhibited taxidermied rats, drawings and paintings to restage Karl Kraus’ infamous, nearly-unperformable play The Last Days of Mankind (Die Letzten Tage der Menschheit, 1915–22). Featuring Sengl’s entire installation, this edition includes essays that examine her ambitious dramaturgy, which condenses the 10-15 hour drama into an abridged reading of its themes: human barbarism, the role of journalism in war, the sway of popular opinion and the absurdities of nationalism. The Last Days of Mankind offers an agit-prop protest envisioning human folly through animal actors, who become more than human, while confronting a violence particular to humankind, laced with selfishness and greed.   The work is a hundred years old, but for me it is still current. We may not have war in the immediate vicinity, but the war within us is as strong, if not stronger, as it was then.– Deborah Sengl

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      • Thou Shalt Forget the Fire
        Fiction

        Thou Shalt Forget the Fire

        by Gabriela Riveros

        The story of the Sephardi Jew’s exodus from Spain and Portugal —silenced across four centuries— and their struggle to survive migrations, epidemics, hurricanes, war, prejudice, torture, political intrigues, and betrayals superbly narrated by Gabriela Riveros’ expert voice. Olvidarás el Fuego is the very first novel that chronicles this poignant story, the tragedy of the Carvajal lineage and the fate of their manuscripts and memoirs, found in 2016 at an auction house in New York, after having been stolen from the National Archives.  Through vivid, flesh-and-blood characters, we will witness their heroic, underground resistance, the fight of both men and women, entire families who gave their lives for their right to freedom of thought, belief, and religion. From Europe to New Spain, from Africa to Asia, the protagonists guard an ancestral secret, all while they are besieged by a political context in which cultural diversity was not only considered a sin, but a crime against the Estate.

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