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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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Promoted ContentMarch 2021
Werke. Berner Ausgabe
Band 15: Poetenleben
by Robert Walser, Kerstin Gräfin von Schwerin, Peter Utz
Robert Walser komponiert 1917 in diesem zentralen Band seines Gesamtwerks fünfundzwanzig Prosastücke zu einem »merkwürdigen Maskenzug«, in dem er sein eigenes »Poetenleben« zugleich zeigt und versteckt. Die häufig »geschenkten Anzüge«, in die Walser seine Figuren steckt, werden zu bunten Zeichen seiner Verwandlungskunst. Sie führt von der ausschweifenden, hellen »Wanderung« bis ins enge, düstere »Zimmerstück«, von der romantischen Begegnung mit der geheimnisvollen »Marie« bis zu den Härten des Ersten Weltkriegs, in den »Der Arbeiter« aufbricht. Ein genialer »Hölderlin« steht gegen einen Hilfsbuchhalter, der seine dichterischen Ambitionen nur auf Löschpapier ausleben kann. In all diesen vielgestaltigen Auftritten behauptet Walser seine poetische »Bewegungsfreiheit«. Jener Prinz, der mit dem schlafenden »Dornröschen« auch die Welt wachzuküssen versteht, ist Walsers Wunschfiguration eines Dichters. »Poetenleben« heißt auch das: ein Leben, das sich allein dem »Poeten« verdankt.
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Promoted ContentHumanities & Social Sciences2014
History 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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Trusted PartnerSeptember 2017
De profundis
Vom Scheitern der russischen Revolution
by Ulrich Schmid, Regula Zwahlen, Gabriele Leupold, Dorothea Trottenberg, Volker Weichsel, Olga Radetzkaja, Karl Schlögel
Sie hatten die Revolution 1905 scheitern sehen und rechneten mit der russischen Intelligenzija ab, der sie selbst angehörten. In der Niederlage sahen sie die Chance einer radikalen Selbstbesinnung. So beschrieb der Historiker Karl Schlögel das Vorhaben von Autoren wie Pjotr Struwe, einem frühen Weggefährten und späteren Gegenspieler Lenins, der 1909 zusammen mit Nikolaj Berdjajew, Semjon Frank und Sergej Bulgakow den legendären Essayband Wegzeichen zur Krise der russischen Intelligenz herausbrachte. Sie und die anderen Autoren, unter ihnen Juristen, Nationalökonomen, Sozialtheoretiker und Religionsphilosophen, setzten ihre Hoffnung auf die Liberalisierung und begrüßten die Februarrevolution 1917. Die Machtergreifung der Bolschewiki im Oktober bestätigte ihre schlimmsten Befürchtungen. Unter dem Eindruck der Ereignisse verfassten sie einen Sammelband zur geistigen Lage Russlands, der 1918 druckfertig war: De profundis, »Aus der Tiefe« – der Titel spielt auf den 130. Psalm an –, ist ein einzigartiges Dokument. In apokalyptischen Bildern interpretierten die Gelehrten die epochale Wende: revolutionäre Ereignisse, die sie hatten kommen sehen und die doch an Schrecken alles übertrafen, was sie sich hatten vorstellen können. Eine Welt zog herauf, in der sie als die »Zellen eines sterbenden Körpers« keinen Platz mehr für sich sahen. Ihr Buch konnte erst 1990 in Russland erscheinen.
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Trusted PartnerMay 1986
Briefe an Werner Kraft
by Gershom Scholem, Werner Kraft, Jörg Drews
"Die hier versammelten Briefe Gerhard Gershom Scholems sind zum allergrößten Teil Zeugnisse aus jungen Jahren; gerichtet an Werner Kraft, den heute in Jerusalem lebenden Dichter und homme de lettres. In jenen Jahren, die in diesen Briefen aufleuchten, nämlich den Jahren 1917 bis 1931, gab es für Scholem hauptsächlich eines zu tun: leidenschaftlich, unentwegt zu lernen, und zwar, so Werner Kraft, fast ausschließlich »bezogen auf das Studium der heiligen Schriften«. Wie Scholem derjenige wurde, dem man sein Botschaft glaubte, weil er sie vertrat – dies verdeutlichen diese Briefe an den Jugendfreund, der, mit weit größeren Schwierigkeiten, als Scholem sie hatte, ebenfalls zu »seinem« Judentum finden mußte."
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018
Order 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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Business, Economics & LawApril 1905
The 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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Trusted PartnerNature, the natural world (Children's/YA)March 2020
Earth 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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Trusted PartnerScience & MathematicsMarch 2022
Encyclopedia 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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Trusted Partner2019
History 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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Trusted PartnerFictionNovember 2022
WAY 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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Trusted PartnerBusiness, Economics & LawJanuary 2024
Welcome 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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Trusted PartnerBusiness, Economics & LawDecember 2017
Tour 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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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesOctober 2021
National perspectives on a multipolar order
by Benjamin Zala
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Trusted PartnerLiterature & Literary StudiesOctober 2018
Selected 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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Trusted PartnerApril 2021
Among 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.
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Trusted Partner
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Trusted PartnerMay 2001
Charlotte Salomon. 1917–1943
Bilder eines Lebens
by Astrid Schmetterling
Charlotte Salomon - 1917 in Berlin geboren, 1939 nach Südfrankreich emigriert, 1943 in Auschwitz ermordet - hat ein außergewöhnliches Werk hinterlassen: Leben? oder Theater? Kunst und Literatur, Film und Musik sind in diesem 1940 bis 1942 im französischen Exil entstandenen Zyklus spielerisch miteinander verwoben. In Bildern und Texten von eigenwilliger Kraft setzt Charlotte Salomon die Lebensgeschichte einer jungen Frau im Berlin der zwanziger und dreißiger Jahre in Szene, die nach der Pogromnacht ins Exil geht. Sie erzählt von der zunehmenden Verfolgung der Juden, von Liebes- und Familienbeziehungen, die alles andere als einfach sind, unsentimental, selbstironisch oft noch da, wo es eigentlich bodenlos wird.Astrid Schmetterling stellt Leben und Werk der Künstlerin vor. Sie zeigt, wie Charlotte Salomon in ihrer kühnen Vermischung unterschiedlicher Genres eine visuelle Sprache fand, mit der sie ihrem Leben zwischen verschiedenen Identitäten und Orten, als jüdische Frau im Exil, auf einzigartige Weise Ausdruck zu verleihen vermochte. Dem Essay sind 16 Farbabbildungen aus dem Zyklus Leben? oder Theater? vorausgestellt.
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Trusted PartnerBiography & True StoriesFebruary 2024
Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917
by David Featherstone, Christian Høgsbjerg, Alan Rice
Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic brings to light the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. The volume introduces new perspectives on the intellectual trajectories of well-known figures and critical activists including C. L. R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodney and Grace P. Campbell. This biographical approach brings a vivid and distinctive lens to bear on how racialised social and political worlds were negotiated and experienced by these revolutionary figures, and on historic black radical engagements with left political movements, in the wake of the Russian Revolution.
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Trusted PartnerJanuary 2022
Stem Cell Research and Society
by Donna M. Bozzone, Ph.D.
Scientific progress often sparks disputes about the meaning of a discovery, the research methods, the possible uses of new technology, and the effect this new technology will have on society. Stem Cell Research and Society explores many of these complex issues in cell research and technology, involving stem cell research, genetic engineering, genetic property rights, and more. Chapters include: What are Stem Cells? Why is the Use of Stem Cells Controversial? Genetic Engineering in Plants Genetic Engineering in Humans Ethical Concerns Regarding Genetic Engineering Gene and Tissue Property Rights Forensic DNA Analysis Genetic Testing in Medicine
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Trusted PartnerMarch 2021
Right to Dementia
A plea
by Thomas Klie
People are living longer, and people are developing dementia. But our consumer society, which is optimised for working silently, is helpless in the face of those who have gone mad from its midst. The burden of caring for them is borne largely by their dependants and by carers from Eastern Europe. In his extremely stirring book, Professor Thomas Klie argues that we should include people with dementia as part of our lives and recognise that it is possible to live a happy and fulfilled life even with dementia – under the right conditions. Especially in the light of societal conflicts over income distribution fuelled by the corona pandemic, Klie is convinced that the dominant culture is measured by how it treats the subject of dementia.