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Impedimenta S. L.
Impedimenta is a publishing house founded in 2007. It has been awarded with the National Prize to Best Publishing Labour in 2008. Nowadays publishes between 24 and 34 titles per year (fiction, graphic novels, comics and children’s illustrated books).
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Humanities & Social Sciences2014History of Ukraine from KGB Secret Files
by Volodymyr Viatrovych
The unknown and classified KGB history of the largest country in Europe - Ukraine is the history of people, events, documents and files. The files have answers to many questions. The most important of which - why did a war begin again in Europe? Why is it so important for Russia to conquer Ukraine? Why are Ukrainians putting up such a powerful resistance? Historian Volodymyr Viatrovych, who declassified the secret archives of the Soviet special services from the Cheka to the KGB, talks about the history of Ukraine, the USSR and Eastern Europe from 1918 to 1991. The reader, is offered, along with various heroes and traitors, those who thought they were in control of events, and those who thought they had no power over them, to recreate the nearly century-old chess game between the Ukrainian liberation movement and the creators of the "prison of nations." Described in reports and recreated by a historian, this work looks at the cunning “special operations”, deadly moves, information wars and complex games among several players that are all an attempt to find an answer to the question: what creates our destiny - human will or circumstances?
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September 1979Wissenschaft, Technik und Wirtschaftswachstum im 18. Jahrhundert
by A. E. Musson, Hermann Vetter, Wolfgang Krohn, A. E. Musson
Die in diesem Band vereinigten Aufsätze spiegeln den gegenwärtigen Stand der Diskussion über die Rolle der Wissenschaft für den technischen Wandel während der industriellen Revolution wider – einer Diskussion, die, von Wirtschaftshistorikern begonnen, inzwischen eine weit über das Gebiet der Wirtschaftsgeschichte hinausreichende Bedeutung gewonnen hat.
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Business, Economics & LawDecember 2017Tour Operators and Operations
Development, Management and Responsibility
by Jacqueline Holland, David Leslie
With a focus on the creation and distribution of packaged holidays, this text covers the fundamentals of business and the relationship between tour operators and destinations. With particular reference to the sustainability of both parties, it reviews the impacts and influences of tour operations and practices on destinations within the overriding context of tour operator responsibility. It addresses the entirety of this key component of the tourism sector, and reflects the shift in recent years from traditional 'sun, sea and sand' holiday to more bespoke packages. Taking into account tour operators as a growing factor among the major emergent economies of the world, this book is: - The first textbook to provide such in-depth content of tour operators and operations. - Written by authors with industry, research and teaching experience. - A wealth of information regarding popular eco, nature and adventure trips, as well as myriad niche and special interest products. Full of international and highly topical case studies, exercises and discussion questions, Tour Operators and Operations: Development, Management and Responsibility is a fundamental text for students of tourism.
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Nature, the natural world (Children's/YA)March 2020Earth Takes a Break
by House, Emily
From children's book author Emily House comes a wonderful story that re-connects us with our planet. A modern fable inspired by recent events, Earth Takes a Break is a touching picture book jam-packed with fun illustrations and woven together with a message of hope. When Earth feels unwell, she goes to the doctor to ask for help. What the doctor prescribes seems impossible to Earth, until she wakes the next day to find a surprising change!
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018Order and conflict
Anthony Ascham and English political thought (1648–50)
by Peter Lake, Marco Barducci, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
This book provides a careful and systematic analysis of Anthony Ascham's career and writings for the first time in English. During the crucial period between the Second Civil War and the establishment of the English Republic, when he served as official pamphleteer of the Parliament and the republican government, Ascham put forward a complex argument in support of Parliament's claims for obedience which drew on the political thought of Grotius, Hobbes, Selden, Filmer and Machiavelli. He combined ideas taken from these authors and turned them into a powerful instrument of propaganda to be deployed in the service of the political agenda of his Independent patrons in Parliament. This investigation of Ascham's works brings together an intellectual analysis of his political thought and an exploration of the interaction between politics, propaganda and political ideas.
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February 1985Lucinde
Ein Roman
by Friedrich Schlegel, M. E. Philipp, Wolfgang Paulsen
Eine »Theorie des Romans würde selbst ein Roman sein müssen«, heißt es in den »Athenäums-Fragmenten«. So ist die Lucinde im Blick auf Form und Gehalt ein gänzlich modernes Buch, ein Roman des Romans, aber eben auch ein wichtiges Zeugnis für die ethische und moralische Erschütterung, die dieses Werk gegen Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts hervorrief.
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Business, Economics & LawApril 1905The Acquisitive Society
by R.H. Tawney
This 1926 survey, written by a distinguished social and economic historian, examines the role of religion in the rise of capitalism. Arguing that material acquisitiveness is morally wrong and a corrupting social influence, the author draws upon his profound knowledge of labor and politics to show how concentrated wealth distorts economic policies. Colorful but credible, this study offers a timeless vision of alternative means toward a just economic, social, and intellectual order.
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December 2006Tom Jones
Die Geschichte eines Findelkindes. Roman
by Henry Fielding, Horst Höckendorf
Gutsherr Allworthy findet einen Säugling und zieht den Jungen an Sohnes Statt auf. Der Findling – Tom Jones – wächst und gedeiht prächtig, in den Augen seines Ziehvaters mitunter sogar etwas zu prächtig. Als sich Tom in die Nachbarstochter verliebt, die Allworthys Neffen versprochen ist, verweist der Gutsherr Tom des Hauses. Der junge Mann macht sich auf nach London, wobei ihn seine Reise quer durchs Land und auch durch sämtliche Schichten der vorviktorianischen Gesellschaft führt. Auf Toms Suche nach sich selbst, seiner Herkunft und vor allem nach der großen Liebe erschließt sich ein wahres Panoptikum des 18. Jahrhunderts.
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Science & MathematicsMarch 2022Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests
by Takumasa Kondo, Gillian Watson
Scale insects feed on plant juices and can easily be transported to new countries on live plants. They sometimes become invasive pests, costing billions of dollars in damage to crops worldwide annually, and farmers try to control them with toxic pesticides, risking environmental damage. Fortunately, scale insects are highly susceptible to control by natural enemies so biological control is possible. They have unique genetic systems, unusual metamorphosis, a broad spectrum of essential symbionts, and some are sources of commercial products like red dyes, shellac and wax. There is, therefore, wide interest in these unusual, destructive, beneficial, and abundant insects. The Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests is the most comprehensive work on worldwide scale insect pests, providing detailed coverage of the most important species (230 species in 26 families, 36% of the species known). Advice is provided on collection, preservation, slide-mounting, vouchering, and labelling of specimens, fully illustrated with colour photographs, diagrams and drawings. Pest species are presented in two informal groups of families, the 'primitive' Archaeococcids followed by the more 'advanced' Neococcids, covered in phylogenetic order. Each family is illustrated and diagnosed based on features of live and slide-mounted specimens, with information on numbers of genera and species, main hosts, distribution, and biology. For the important pest species, coverage includes information on the morphology of live and slide-mounted specimens, common names, principal synonyms, geographical distribution, plant hosts, plant damage and economic impact, reproductive biology, dispersal, and management strategies including biological, cultural and chemical control, sterile insect techniques, regulatory control, early warning systems and field monitoring. An additional complete list of scale insect pests worldwide is provided, comprising 642 species in 28 scale insect families (about 8% of the 8396 species of living scales known), with information on plant hosts, geographical distribution and validation sources. Beneficial uses of scale insects as sources of red dyes, natural resins and waxes, as agents for invasive weed control. The importance of their honeydew to bees for making honey, and as a food source to other animals, are included. Academic researchers, students, entomologists, pest management officials in agribusiness or government including plant quarantine identifiers, extensionists, farmers, field scientists and ecologists will all benefit from this book.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2020Anarchism, 1914–18
Internationalism, anti-militarism and war
by Ruth Kinna, Matthew S. Adams
Anarchism 1914-18 is the first systematic analysis of anarchist responses to the First World War. It examines the interventionist debate between Peter Kropotkin and Errico Malatesta which split the anarchist movement in 1914 and provides a historical and conceptual analysis of debates conducted in European and American movements about class, nationalism, internationalism, militarism, pacifism and cultural resistance. Contributions discuss the justness of war, non-violence and pacifism, anti-colonialism, pro-feminist perspectives on war and the potency of myths about the war and revolution for the reframing of radical politics in the 1920s and beyond. Divisions about the war and the experience of being caught on the wrong side of the Bolshevik Revolution encouraged anarchists to reaffirm their deeply-held rejection of vanguard socialism and develop new strategies that drew on a plethora of anti-war activities.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2018Selected Poetry
by Vasyl Stus
Vasyl Stus was not only a poet of rare talent, publicist, translator and literary critic, but he is also a personification of "the voice of conscience in the world of shaky and blurred concepts of honour, truth, decency." He spent nearly half of his life in Soviet detention centres, solitary confinement cells, Mordovian and Kolyma camps and toiling at mines. The Soviet penal system deprived him of family visits, seized his poems, letters and manuscripts, physically abused him and tried to destroy him morally but it never managed to break his spirit.The poems in this collection are the best examples of Vasyl Stus's lyrics. In these lines, civic motives and the artist's pain for the fate of Ukraine are intertwined with a delicate lace of love lyrics and philosophical reflections on life and the purpose of man. Poems are full of hope and unyielding resolve.
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April 1986Der vierte Lebenslauf Josef Knechts
Zwei Fassungen
by Hermann Hesse, Ninon Hesse, Ursula Michels-Wenz, Theodore Ziolkowski
Diese 1934 entstandene Erzählung, die ursprünglich in Hesses Alterswerk »Das Glasperlenspiel« aufgenommen werden sollte, ist Fragment geblieben und wurde erst drei Jahre nach seinem Tod veröffentlicht. Sie spielt im 18. Jahrhundert in der Blütezeit der europäischen Musik und des Pietismus und zeigt den Umweg, den der eigentlich für die Musik begabte Josef Knecht auf sich nehmen muß, um der Erwartung seiner frommen Mutter zu entsprechen, die ihren Sohn am liebsten als geistlichen Würdenträger gesehen hätte.
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2019History of the Throw-Away Society
The drawback of consumption
by Wolfgang König
Sooner or later everything is thrown away. In the consumer society, however, usable and serviceable products that may be as good as new are also thrown away. Such behaviour is the result of a long-term process that has developed over a period of one-and-a-half centuries. The change was led by the USA, and the Federal Republic of Germany followed. It started at the turn of the last century with personal hygiene: articles such as toilet paper, sanitary towels, nappies and paper handkerchiefs. After the Second World War, a large number of other disposable articles were soon added, such as paper cups and plastic dishes, nylon stockings and pens, razor blades, beverage cans and much more besides. Wolfgang König shows how business and consumers have together made throwing things away perfectly normal – and discusses how the throwaway society may be overcome.
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FictionNovember 2022WAY WAY OUT THERE
by Cat S.
Are you going somewhere, Big Bear? Way Way Out There is where big things reside. They're so big - they cast shadows impossible to ignore. It's a long way away, but sometime big things come to shore on White Cliff to watch fascinating little things. Jules is an aspiring Big Bear born in White Cliff. He's been dreaming big from an early age, but has yet to figure it out. How does one grow Big? Where does one find directions? Who do you listen to? Can one so small really get There? To take one giant's advice--you'd have to see it for yourself. Way Way Out There.A wonderful fable told from the point of view of a small mind mapping out a path that would lead to something beautiful, good and true.
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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2024Welcome to the club
The life and lessons of a Black woman DJ
by DJ Paulette
In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends. One of the Haçienda's first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the heights of the music industry, playing to crowds of thousands all around the world, and descended to the lows of being unceremoniously benched by COVID-19, with no chance of furlough and little support from the government. Here she tells her story, offering a remarkable view of the music industry from a Black woman's perspective. Behind the core values of peace, love, unity and respect, dance music is a world of exclusion, misogyny, racism and classism. But, as Paulette reveals, it is also a space bursting at the seams with powerful women. Part personal account, part call to arms, Welcome to the club exposes the exclusivity of the music industry while seeking to do justice to the often invisible women who keep the beat going.
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December 1987Auswege aus der Abhängigkeit
Die entwicklungspolitische Aktualität Europas
by Ulrich Menzel
Die Problematik von Abhängigkeit, Peripherisierung und Unterentwicklung wurde bislang in erster Linie mit Blick auf die Dritte Welt oder Süd- und Osteuropa diskutiert. Kaum berücksichtigt wurde dabei, daß es im letzten Viertel des 18. Jahrhunderts auch eine Reihe von Ländern in Nord- und Westeuropa, in Nordamerika und im pazifischen Raum gab, die seit der von England ausgehenden Industriellen Revolution einer ähnlichen Abhängigkeit ausgesetzt waren. Wie verstanden es die kleinen europäischen und außereuropäischen Länder ohne großes Machtpotential, diese Problematik zu meistern, wie wurden sie zu entwickelten Ländern? Anhand der exemplarischen Fälle Schweiz, Dänemark, Schweden und Kanada werden die politischen Bedingungen und wirtschaftlichen Strategien erfolgreicher Fälle nachholender Entwicklung aus einer aktuellen entwicklungspolitischen Perspektive analysiert. Dieser vergleichende Rückblick auf europäische Geschichte eröffnet Einsichten und Schlußfolgerungen für die heutige entwicklungstheoretische Debatte.
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February 1997Das kulturelle Imaginäre
Eine Funktionsgeschichte des amerikanischen Romans 1790–1900
by Winfried Fluck
Mit dieser Geschichte des amerikanischen Romans wird eine Darstellung vorgelegt, die im Kontext der Debatte um den Beitrag des Romans zum neuzeitlichen Modernisierungsprozeß steht. Für diese Darstellung sind die vom Modernismus herausgearbeiteten Innovationsschübe wie auch die vom poststrukturalistischen und postmodernen Denken analysierten Disziplinierungsleistungen beide gleichermaßen Teil eines historischen Prozesses kultureller Enthierarchisierung. Dabei wird von zentralen Thesen der literarischen Anthropologie Wolfgang Isers ausgegangen. In der literarischen Gestaltgebung eines diffusen Imaginären ohne Objektreferenz stellt die Fiktion ein besonders effektives Medium zur Artikulation von noch nicht kulturfähigen Vorstellungen und Phantasiebeständen dar, durch die eine Art imaginäres »Doppelgängertum«, ein ständiges Sich-selbst-Überschreiten des Menschen, ermöglicht wird. Es ist dieser »Artikulationseffekt« des Romans, der kulturgeschichtlich gesehen ungeahnte neue Spielräume des imaginären Selbstentwurfs, des imaginären Rollenspiels und der individuellen Selbstermächtigung eröffnet. Durch die Optimierung literarischer Illusionsbildung, die der Roman in Prozessen ständiger Diskursverschmelzung vorantreibt, wird eine Form der Gleichzeitigkeit des Wirklichen und des Möglichen geschaffen, die den Roman im 19. Jahrhundert zum priviligierten Ort der Arbeit an einem kulturellen Imaginären macht, das dem Individuum als Antrieb und Fundus immer neuer Akte der Selbstinszenierung zu dienen vermag. Flucks Arbeit verfolgt die spannungsvolle Komplementarität von imaginärer Selbstüberschreitung und diskursiver Zurichtung des kulturellen Imaginären in detaillierten Einzelinterpretationen aller wichtigen Stationen und Genres des amerikanischen Romans im 18. Und 19. Jahrhundert.
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February 2016Von einem, der auszog, leben zu lernen
Goethes Reisen in die Schweiz
by Adolf Muschg
Wenn einer eine Reise tut, dann will er sich versuchen. Daß riskante Reisen so etwas wie Initiationsriten sind und daß Landschaften die Seele spiegeln, beschreibt Adolf Muschg anhandvon Goethes drei Reisen in die Schweiz. Im 18. Jahrhunderts galt die Schweiz als die ideale europäische Kulisse für ein in den Alpen wiedererstandenes Arkadien und diente als Projektionsfläche für extreme Selbstversuche und Lebensträume. Goethes erste Reise galt der Frage »Wer bin ich?«. Der junge Reisende suchte alle Fesseln zu sprengen auf der Suche nach einer tragfähigen Identität. Seine zweite Reise diente seiner Emanzipation als Fürstendiener:»Wem gehöre ich?«, »Was soll ich in Weimar?«, und »Was habe ich in der Welt verloren?« Die dritte Reise unternahm der »Mann von funfzig Jahren«.Sie diente einer reifen Selbstvergewisserung,der Erfahrung von Dauer im ständigen Wandel. Der Staatsmann und selbstbewußte Künstler war auf politischer und ökonomischer Recherche. »Hier, in der Schweizer Werkstatt, begegnet er, in ihre dämonischen Spielregeln immer tiefer eingeweiht, dem Rätsel der eigenen Existenz.«
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2021National perspectives on a multipolar order
by Benjamin Zala
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April 2021Among Fellow Primates
Views of a monkey researcher
by Volker Sommer
Man brings apocalyptic plagues to the world and his fellow primates – from global warming to the destruction of forests. While millions of monkeys and apes lived on Earth only a few decades ago, today many species are strongly endangered. In this book the anthropologist and monkey researcher Volker Sommer calls on us to finally protect the fundamental rights such as the right to life, freedom and physical integrity of the great apes. For all his seriousness, Sommer is also a great storyteller who deals with his own profession with humour, sympathy and in a highly instructive way.
