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FÜNF MENSCHEN, FÜNF WEGE, FÜNF JAHRE - ISABEL SCHAYANIS GROSSE REPORTAGE Safi schleppt sich im Winter zu Fuß über die Balkanroute. Ruhi fliegt von Teheran zunächst nach Italien. Omid will nach Deutschland und landet dann doch in Calais. Melika steckt in Moria fest. Und Olena hat als Ukrainerin beinahe freie Fahrt. Die preisgekrönte Journalistin Isabel Schayani berichtet von fünf verschlungenen Wegen Richtung Deutschland und gewährt uns tiefe Einblicke in das prekäre Leben im Niemandsland zwischen den Grenzen und in den Grauzonen des Asylrechts. im Vordergrund ihres Augen öffnenden Buches steht die große, drängende Frage, wie wir Flucht und Migration menschlicher organisieren können. Viele Fluchtrouten durch den Vorderen Orient und Afrika haben Deutschland zum Ziel. Hier soll es Freiheit geben, Schulunterricht und medizinische Versorgung gratis, und Frauen dürfen Sport treiben: Für Menschen, die um ihr Leben rennen oder vor Verelendung fliehen, ist das ein großes Versprechen. Sie lassen ihr vertrautes Leben meist erstaunlich uninformiert hinter sich, mit Kind und ohne Kreditkarte, im freien Fall in eine bessere Zukunft. Isabel Schayani hat fünf Geflüchtete auf ihren Wegen teils über mehrere Jahre immer wieder getroffen. Sie lässt uns die Schikanen der Schlepper, illegale Reisebüros, Grenzen, Registrierungen, Lager, Anträge und Internierungen aus der Perspektive der Heimatlosen erleben. Im Gespräch mit Verantwortlichen, Experten - und mit den fünf Geflüchteten selbst - sucht sie nach Antworten auf die große Frage: Wie können wir Flucht und Migration menschlicher organisieren? Isabel Schayani hat fünf Menschen teils jahrelang auf ihrer Flucht begleitet Schlepperbanden, Grenzen, Lager, Bürokratie: Flucht aus der Perspektive der Geflüchteten Was sich ändern muss: Lösungsansätze für eines der drängendsten Probleme der Gegenwart Die Autorin ist Moderatorin des ARD-Weltspiegels und eine vielfach ausgezeichnete Fernsehjournalistin

People hunting monkeys in the jungle once devised a simple yet effective trap: When the creature found a banana in a large jar with a narrow neck, it would plunge its paw in to retrieve it. But it couldn't let go. And unless the monkey released the banana, it was stuck.We are, of course, the stuck monkey, paralysed by our modern lifestyles and consumer habits: our constant stream of online shopping deliveries, our compulsive dependence on digital devices, our obsession with ourpets. These addictions, as small and harmless as they may seem, are quietly destroying the planet. And the eco-friendly alternatives that alleviate our guilt are often not much better.In Stuck Monkey, James Hamilton-Paterson uncovers the truth behind the everyday habits fuelling the climate crisis. Drawing on eye-opening research and shocking statistics, he mercilessly dissects a wide spectrum of modern life: pets, gardening, sports, vehicles, fashion, wellness, holidays, and more. Ferociously unflinching andintelligent, this book will make you think twice about the 'innocent' habits we often take for granted

Tehran, the capital of Iran since the late eighteenth century, is now one of the largest cities in the Middle East. Exploring Tehran's development from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi paints a vibrant picture of a city undergoing rapid and dynamic social transformation. Rezvani Naraghi demonstrates that this shift was the product of a developing discourse around spatial knowledge, in which the West became the model for the social practices of the state and sections of Iranian society. As traditional social spaces, such as coffee houses, bathhouses, and mosques, were replaced by European-style cafes, theatres, and sports clubs, Tehran and its people were irreversibly altered. Using an array of archival sources, Rezvani Naraghi stresses the agency of everyday inhabitants in shaping urban change. This enlightening history not only allows us to better understand the contours of contemporary Tehran, but to develop a new way of imagining, talking about, and building 'the city'.

"This book focuses on key challenges related to conducting research on mediatisation, presenting the most current theoretical, empirical, and methodological challenges and problems, addressing ignored and less frequently discussed topics, critical and controversial themes, and defining niches and directions of development in mediatisation. With a focus on the under-representation of certain topics and aspects, as well as methodological, technological, and ethical dilemmas, the chapters consider the main critical objections formulated against mediatisation studies and exchange critical positions. Moving beyond areas of common focus - culture, sport, and religion - to emerging areas of study such as fashion, the military, business, and the environment, the book then offers a critical assessment of the transformation of fields and the relevance of new and dynamic (meta)processes including datafication, counter-mediatisation, and platformisation. Charting new paths of development in mediatisation, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of mediatisation, media studies, media literacy, communication studies, and research methods"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsements -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- 1. Introduction: The Role of Communication in Group Scholarship -- PART I: Foundations of Group Communication -- 2. The Importance of Groups -- 3. Group Communication Theories: Guidelines for Their Application -- 4. Researching Small Discussion Groups -- 5. The Use of Technology in Groups -- PART II: Components and Processes of Group Communication -- 6. Characteristics of Successful Groups and Teams -- 7. Groups as Systems -- 8. Diversity in Groups -- 9. Leading Groups and Teams -- 10. Managing Conflict Within Groups -- 11. Relational Communication in Groups -- 12. Language and Social Influence -- 13. Participation and Information Sharing -- 14. Transactive Memory Systems and Learning -- 15. Group Decision Making -- 16. Creativity and Innovation in Groups -- 17. Social Networks and Groups -- PART III: Contexts of Group Communication -- 18. Groups in Organizations -- 19. Function of Groups Within Society -- 20. Online Communities and Big Data -- 21. Groups in Health Contexts: Online Health Communities -- 22. Groups in Medicine -- 23. Communication in Sports Teams -- 24. Communication in Human-AI Teaming -- Glossary -- Index.

Intro -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Author's note -- On learning how to see (an introduction) -- 1. The Cave Painters: Our first journey to the cold north and the Ice Age of the mind -- 2. The Revenants: Time travelling via ice -- 3. The Revellers: The Little Ice Age, sport and frost fairs -- 4. The Buccaneers: Adventure capitalism and Sir Humphrey Gilbert -- 5. The Scientists and Gourmets: The new science of cold and pagophagia -- 6. The Sheep Shifters: Manufactured ice, food preservation and the birth of the 'coldscape' -- 7. The Tourists: The Mer de Glace: men and women in the upper ice world -- 8. The Pachyderm: Palaeontology and geology -- or, ice kills Adam and Eve -- 9. Dr Sawbones: Ice, medicine and the body -- 10. The Fighters: Ice in war, war in ice -- 11. The Meddlers: Ice in the Anthropocene -- Sky glow snatched from heaven (an afterword) -- General bibliography, notes and further reading -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- Image Credits -- A Note on the Author -- Plates Section -- Copyright Page.

Mindfulness is celebrated everywhere-especially in health psychology and spiritual practices, but also in the arts, business, education, environmentalism, sports, and the use of digital devices. While the current mindfulness movement may be in part the latest fad in a narcissistic and therapeutic culture, it is also worthy of greater philosophical attention. As a study in ethics and moral psychology, Mindfulness in Good Lives remedies the neglect of this subject within philosophy. Mike W. Martin makes sense of the striking variety of concepts of mindfulness by connecting them to the core idea of value-based mindfulness: paying attention to what matters, in light of relevant values. When the values are sound, mindfulness is a virtue that helps implement the kaleidoscope of values in good lives. Health psychologists, who currently dominate the study of mindfulness, often present their research as value-neutral science. Yet they invariably presuppose moral values that should be made transparent. These values, which lie at the interface of morality and mental health, form bridges between philosophy and psychology, and between literature and spirituality

"Der schöngeistige, eigensinnige Wohltäter und das Schicksal seiner Kunstsammlung: Biographie und Film bieten eindrückliche Einsichten in Emdens Leben. Inklusive der Film-DVD »Auch Leben ist eine Kunst - Der Fall Max Emden« (2019). Immer bunter wurde in den Köpfen der Nachwelt das Leben, das Max Emden mit allerlei leicht bekleideten Mädchen auf den Brissago-Inseln geführt haben soll. Yachten, Segelboote, Skiurlaube - allen Luxus brachte man mit dem Hamburger Kaufmann in Verbindung. War das die ganze Wahrheit? Ulrich Brömmling hat sich auf Spurensuche begeben und präsentiert in seiner neuen Biographie einen ganz anderen Max Emden. Das Netz seiner Kaufhäuser, darunter das Berliner KaDeWe, das Münchner Oberpollinger, das Allas in Stockholm oder das Corvín in Budapest, überzog ganz Europa. Neben seiner Leidenschaft fürs Geschäft war Emden ein Freund der Künste, der Architektur, des Sports und ein Wohltäter Hamburgs. 1927 kaufte er die Brissago-Inseln im Lago Maggiore und zog ein Jahr später ins Tessin - weg vom »Schmutz, den die Industrialisierung gebracht hatte«. Von dort musste er bald miterleben, wie die Machthaber in Berlin ihn um sein Vermögen brachten. Ein Schicksal, dem auch seine Kunstsammlung zum Opfer fiel, die er deutlich unter Wert verkaufen musste - darunter Canalettos, die über Zwischenhändler an Adolf Hitler persönlich gingen. Wirtschaftlich ruiniert starb Max Emden 65-jährig im Juni 1940. Max Emden (1874-1940) entstammte einer der ältesten jüdischen Kaufmannsfamilien Hamburgs. Beim Eintritt ins väterliche Geschäft 1904 bestand M. J. Emden Söhne schon seit 80 Jahren. Aber erst Max Emden machte die Firma groß."

This book provides a detailed and timely analysis of key regulatory and legal issues arising in the context of HIV and AIDS. The ten chapters cover the core issues central to an understanding of law and public health as concerns AIDS. Whilst the book focuses on how Nigerian law applies to HIV and AIDS, the author draws heavily on materials from other jurisdictions. There are many parallels that exist between the application of law and governance considerations in the AIDS pandemic that resonate with other infectious diseases including Covid-19, therefore the book is widely relevant to public health law in communicable disease contexts. Topics covered: overview and origin of the HIV and AIDS epidemic; legal and institutional framework of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Nigeria; human rights and the epidemic; decriminalisation of HIV and AIDS in Nigeria; HIV and AIDS and vulnerable groups; HIV and AIDS and patents; HIV and AIDS and sports; international organisations and programmes on HIV; judicial responses to HIV and AIDS; and global pandemics and control

Analyses our modern obsession with intense experiences in terms of the metaphysics of intensityRead an extract from The Life Intense, 'What electricity has done to thought', on the Edinburgh University Press blogOur lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience with ever greater intensity. We are enticed to try exotic flavours and smells; urged to enjoy a wide range of sexual experiences; pushed to engage in extreme sports and recreational drugs – all in the pursuit of some new, unheard-of intensity.Tristan Garcia argues that such intensity rarely lives up to its promise. It always comes at a price: one that defines the ethical predicament of contemporary life.The notion of intensity was the hidden key to Garcia's landmark book Form and Object. In The Life Intense, the first part of his ambitious Letting Be trilogy, he begins to develop it in detail. This first book focuses on ethics; the forthcoming two books look at politics and metaphysics respectively."

"At no other point in human history have the definitions of "woman" and "man," "male" and "female," "masculine" and "feminine," been more contentious than now. This book advances a pragmatic approach to the act of defining that acknowledges the important ethical dimensions of our definitional practices. Increased transgender rights and visibility has been met with increased opposition, controversy, and even violence. Who should have the power to define the meanings of sex and gender? What values and interests are advanced by competing definitions? Should an all-boys' college or high school allow transgender boys to apply? Should transgender women be allowed to use the women's bathroom? How has growing recognition of intersex conditions challenged our definitions of sex/gender? In this timely intervention, Edward Schiappa examines the key sites of debate and including schools, bathrooms, the military, sports, prisons, and feminism, drawing attention to the political, practical, and ethical dimensions of the act of defining itself. This is an important text for students and scholars in gender studies, philosophy, communication, and sociology"--

In the early 1970s, the athletes of the German Democratic Republic started to achieve incredible sports results, winning medals and setting new world records with astonishing frequency. For many years, their sporting supremacy was hailed as a triumph of the socialist government's commitment to scientific research and innovative training methods. But after the Cold War ended, the Stasi archives revealed a sinister secret behind the successes: a perverse doping system imposed by the government itself. Drugs were administered to young athletes, often without their consent, and the price their bodies are now paying is very high, both physically and mentally. Through the athletes' personal stories, Synthetic Medals reveals the events that led to the discovery of the state-doping system and the subsequent trial. It also explores the state's motives for this crime against its own people - people who were sacrificed on the altar of a distorted ideology, for the simple purpose of achieving glory on the international chessboard.

Frontmatter -- Cover -- Titel -- Impressum -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Series -- Introduction -- Part One: Combatants, Ethics, and Society -- The Military Defense System and the Public Soul in Germany: A Protestant Perspective -- Inner Leadership, or The Soldier's Responsibility for Humanity and Peace -- The Complementary Path to Peace: On Peace Ethics in German Protestantism -- Part Two: Virtues: Re-Evaluating the Military Context -- Which Morals Society Should Learn from the Military, and Which Decidedly Not -- The Indispensability of Virtues in the Military: Virtue Ethical Considerations Following the Guiding Concept of the Miles Protector -- Different Missions, Different Virtues? -- From the Playing Field to the Battlefield: Does Sport in the Military Promote the Formation of a Specific Character? -- After Chivalry -- Part Three: Moral Injury and Character -- Moral Injury, Moral Character, and Military Combatants -- In the Shadow of the Operation: Moral and Spiritual Injuries as New Challenges for Pastoral Care in the German Armed Forces -- Communal Responses to the Business of War -- Backmatter -- Contributors -- Weitere Veröffentlichungen.

"This book explains the parameters of Qatar's political growth by developing an alternative theory of power - 'rented' power. The author demonstrates how Qatar's emergence as a regional power can be solely explained by its capacity as a gas-rich rentier state. By using Qatar as an empirical case study of the 'rented' power theory, readers will gain insight into Qatar's engagement with non-state actors (political Islam, tribes, media, sports, and others) to wield its power, allowing Qatar to 'rent' the well-established influence of non-state actors due to their transnational nature. The Qatari case demonstrates a state's ability to establish a patron-client relationship with non-state actors, overcoming limitations set by size or military strength to gain international influence. This book is accessible to a wide readership: it will be of interest of scholars, postgraduates, journalists, and policy experts, and a general audience whose interests include the politics of the Middle East and the GCC states particularly"--

"This book offers a timely and critical exploration of leisure and forced migration from multiple disciplinary perspectives, spanning sociology, gender studies, migration studies and anthropology. It engages with perspectives and experiences that unsettle and oppose dehumanising and infantilising binaries surrounding forced migrants in contemporary society. The book presents cutting edge research addressing three inter-related themes: spaces and temporalities; displaced bodies and intersecting inequalities; voices, praxis and (self)representation. Drawing on and expanding critical leisure studies perspectives on class, gender, sexuality and race/ethnicity, the book spotlights leisure and how it can interrogate and challenge dominant narratives, practices and assumptions on forced migration and lives lived in asylum systems. Furthermore, it contributes to current debates on the scope, relevance and aims of leisure studies within current, unfolding global scenarios. This is an important resource for students and scholars across leisure, sport, gender, sociology, anthropology and migration studies. It is also a valuable read for practitioners, advocates and community organizers addressing issues of forced migration and sanctuary"--