Volume Two : South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland

Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa

&ldquo;A&#160;blazingly important memoir about the possibility of change.&rdquo;&nbsp; &mdash;People Magazine, Best New Books&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;Forget the cult of the bad boy, Maureen Stanton&#39;s&#160;Body Leaping Backward makes my skin shiver and my heart pound out a hell yes. Set in the 70s and the coming wave of drugs, a family falls to pieces. The mother descends into delinquency and soon Maureen follows&mdash;but this story reminds us how mothers and daughters clawing their way back to life is an epic journey of courage and guts and heart. A triumph.&rdquo;&#160;&#160;&nbsp; &mdash;Lidia Yuknavitch, author of&#160;The Misfit&rsquo;s Manifesto&#160;and&#160;The Chronology of Water&nbsp; &#160;&nbsp;&ldquo;Body Leaping Backward,&#160;bursting with radiant storytelling,&#160;seamlessly sets Maureen Stanton&#39;s childhood struggles against the unraveling social tapestry that was America in the 1970s. This is&#160;a&#160;page-turning narrative that illuminates so much about&#160;her&#160;personal and&#160;our&#160;cultural darkest moments.&rdquo; &#160;&nbsp; &mdash;Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of&#160;All Souls: A Family Story from Southie&nbsp; &#160;&nbsp; "The miracle isn&#39;t how Maureen Stanton survived her harrowing adolescence, but how she can write about it with such beauty and clarity. I read this in one heart-in-my-throat sitting." &#160;&nbsp; &mdash;Monica Wood, author of When We Were the Kennedys and The One-in-a- Million Boy&nbsp; &#160;&nbsp; &ldquo;Written with sensual, poetic, and evocative prose, this remarkable memoir is an honest exploration of what it means to come of age in the quiet wreckage of a broken home, when social norms were shifting and it was so very easy to fall perilously between the cracks. A deeply moving, timely, and important memoir.&rdquo;&nbsp; &mdash;Andre Dubus III, author of&#160;Townie&#160;and&#160;Gone So Long&#160;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;I read Maureen Stanton&rsquo;s memoir with respect and appreciation. I am proud and heartbroken at the story she&#160;tells&mdash;proud that she&#160;reached a point where she could write it all down, and&#160;heartbroken at how much&#160;courage and resilience is necessary to survive.&rdquo;&nbsp; &mdash;Dorothy Allison, author of Two or Three Things I Know for Sure and Bastard out of Carolina&nbsp; &#160;&nbsp; &ldquo;A masterful storyteller, Maureen Stanton has written a timeless and timely memoir of an all-American girlhood derailed by drugs and loss, which is both heartbreaking and hilarious.&#160;Body Leaping Backward&#160;is a luminous portrait of a family and a country at a crucial moment of change. Important and riveting, this is a wonder of a book.&rdquo;&#160;&nbsp; &mdash;E.J. Levy, author of Love, in Theory and The Cape Doctor&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;An unsparing look at a girlhood that veers off the rails into young adulthood. Sharp, candid, and deeply felt, her story shows the way our upbringings live on in our blood.&rdquo;&#160;&nbsp; &mdash;The Boston Globe&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;Powerful and probing, Stanton&#39;s book offers a sharp portrait of a wayward girl "leaping backward" into disaster. Along the way, she reveals the way individuals are as much a product of time and place as they are of the families to which they belong.&#160; A compellingly honest coming-of-age memoir.&rdquo;&nbsp; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;Engaging . . . this is a great choice for memoir readers and anyone interested in the &rsquo;70s.&rdquo;&nbsp; &mdash;Booklist&nbsp;&nbsp; "Memorable and beautiful."&nbsp; &mdash;Shelf Awareness&nbsp;&nbsp; "An informative, intelligent read for anyone, young or old, trying to make sense of teenage rebel

Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood

Body Leaping Backward

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Inside Abandoned Institutions for the Crazy, Criminal & Quarantined

Haunted Asylums, Prisons, and Sanatoriums

Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics: Volume 28

Professor Sabat's international renown as an expert in the field stems from his advocacy of a humane approach to people with different types of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. In this new book his views are presented with typical clarity. What he says can only be helpful both to people living with dementia and to their friends, families and professional carers. It's vintage Sabat: always look to the social environment; what's going on in the brain is never
the end of the story! And he tells the story with remarkable sympathy and expertise.

What Everyone Needs to Know®

Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

»Ein wichtiges Thema interessant aufbereitet – absolut lesenswert!« tinto bloggt, Eva Schumann


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»Ein sehr anregendes Buch, das Lust auf eigenen Anbau macht – und sei es auf der Bürofensterbank.« Kunst-&Gartenreisen, Hannah Neugebauer

»Welche Wege gefunden werden, um die Sorgenvielfalt zu erhalten, schildert dieses liebevoll gestaltete Buch.« Natur und Landschaft



»Die Publikation ist ein Muss-have für alle, die sich intensiv mit dem Thema Ernährungssouveränität beschäftigen wollen« Magazin Verband der Ernährungswissenschafter Österreichs, Julia Geißler-Katzmann

»SEHR wichtig für alle, denen das Thema Selbstversorgung und Ernährungssouveränität am Herzen liegt.« bio-saatgut.de, Gaby Krautkrämer

»Ziemlich akkurat und akribisch skizziert (die Autorin) die Geschichte des Saatguts, das Jahrtausende im freien Tausch zirkulierte und in bäuerlichen Gesellschaften bewahrt und verbessert wurde.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan Grossarth

»In dem Buch zu lesen ist das reinste Vergnügen.« gen-ethisches-netzwerk.de, Christof Potthof

Wer die Saat hat, hat das Sagen

Saatgut

&#8220;At times hilarious and at times deeply moving,&#160;Will&#8217;s Surreal Period&#160;is a richly satisfying novel, featuring a rollickingly dysfunctional family, a seemingly endless array of succulent foodstuffs, and a brain tumor that transforms a mediocre painter into a virtuoso. The book&#8217;s characters are alluring, its ideas are seductive, and its plot is irresistible&#8212;this is a story that will hook you fast and captivate you till the end.&#8221;&#8212;Ken Jakobs, librettist, director, and producer of opera in the San Francisco Bay Area&#8220;Families&#8212;can&#8217;t live with them, can&#8217;t live without them.&#160;Will&#8217;s Surreal Period&#160;delves into the personal agendas that undermine, glue, and motivate families.&#160;Robert Steven Goldstein deftly explores the subtle yet combustible mix.&#160;Which will prevail: manipulation, serendipity, self-preservation, or a modicum of love?&#8221;&#8212;Michael Miller, retired professor and author of the forthcoming&#160;High Bridge&#8220;What a wonderful read! It&#8217;s a fascinating premise that proves a beautiful canvas for musings on creativity, sexual politics, and food. It makes you want to drop what you&#8217;re doing and listen more closely to what the universe is trying to tell you. And even if you took everything out of the novel other than the descriptions of food and drink, you&#8217;d still have a tremendous read&#8212;in fact, after finishing&#160;Will&#8217;s Surreal Period, all I wanted to do was cook!&#8221;&#8212;Glenn German, screenwriter and producer of films including&#160;At Middleton&#160;and&#160;Racing for Time&#8220;A Jiu-Jitsu master of literary plotting, Robert Steven Goldstein flips the script on a dysfunctional family comprised of two emasculated adult sons and their cantankerous wealthy father, who, with petulant vagary, reallocates their respective inheritances at the fulcrum of his paternal control. Marvel and chuckle as these fraught men each succumb to the grace of separate lovers, the serendipity of which amalgamates into a late-in-life chance to rebind the strands of their frayed familial relationships.&#8221;&#8212;Michael&#160;Rose, author of&#160;The Sorting Room&#8220;Will&#8217;s Surreal Period&#160;proves why works of fiction are high art, hitching us to a wild ride with an ensemble of engaging and eccentric characters brought together by a maladjusted family&#8212;some we may love and others we may scorn&#8212;but all seductively propel us into their psyches. Robert Steven Goldstein deftly converts our raw human foibles into emotive entertainment and, as he does, reminds us, sometimes painfully, sometimes hilariously, who we are.&#8221;&#8212;Michael&#160;J. Coffino, award winning author of&#160;Truth Is in the House&#8220;The ups and downs of dysfunctional family life are on full, fascinating display in Robert Steven Goldstein's well-imagined novel,&#160;Will's Surreal Period.&#160;Full of twists, turns, and the familiar boorish behavior that&#160;we seem to reserve specially for family, follow protagonist Will Wozniak as he grapples with a brain tumor, infidelity, and an unexpected career shift, a journey that is at times both hilarious and deeply poignant. Strap in for a ripping good ride with this entertaining read.&#8221;&#8212;Madeleine Jones, author of the forthcoming novel&#160;The Witchhammer&#8220;Will's Surreal Period&#160;is a witty, engaging romp. Cantankerous Arthur Wozniak wants to control his adult sons who are each struggling to find their place in the world. Hidden passions ignite, suppressed talents emerge, and the Wozniaks reluctantly evolve into the family they were meant to be.&#8221;&#8212;Carla Damron,&#160;author of the forthcoming novel&#160;The Orchid Tattoo,&#160;The Stone Necklace&#160;(winner of the WFWA Star award)&#160;and the Caleb Knowles mystery series&#8220;In a sly take on Ovid&#8217;s&#160;Metamorphosis, Will, a mediocre painter, suffers a brain tumour that transmogrifies him into an uninhibited creative genius. His quarrelsome family members are deftly portrayed with considerable literary merit. There is an unerring eye for multi-ethnic mores (especially involving food) and American material culture, as well as a strong sense of time and locality. A well-crafted and provocative read.&#8221;&#8212;David Jenkins, Formerly Professor of Arts Education, University of Warwick, UK, and author of the satirical chess-themed novel&#160;Spurious GamesPast Praise for the author:For&#160;Enemy Queen:&#160;&#160;&#8220;Each paragraph of the story is as unpredictably peculiar as the next&#8212;the plot is a tantalizingly original puzzle, dramatically gripping, erotically electric, and satisfyingly weird. A hilarious dark comedy that explores the nature of friendship through the lens of sexual licentiousness.&#8221;&#160;&#8212;Kirkus Reviews&#10;

A Novel

 Will's Surreal Period

“It is a perfect marriage of art and words, with Faasen’s simple palette and combination of extreme close-ups and wide angles reflecting the specificity of the fly’s life, and the big, existential themes that Robben’s words convey. So winning and so full of heart.” —Riveting Reviews
“Full of wonderful sentences and witty dialogue.” —Trouw
“Irresistible.”  —Het Parool
“This small book is great fun. All human life, I mean dipteran life, is here; birth, sex, death, shit and a buzzard. It’s quirky but also very informative. It will make you laugh but it will also make you think. It’s a fly’s life—all 23 days of it.” —MARK AVERY, blogger
“A little gem.”  —Volkskrant Boekenraad
“A special book—lively, visual, humorous, and also confrontational.” —De Limburger
“Sometimes it’s the small fruits that give the connoisseur a true taste explosion. Biography of a Fly is such a morsel. A gem to cherish. Writer Jaap Robben and illustrator Paul Faassen manage to conjure up a fairy tale about the special friendship of a fly with a buzzard with impressive brevity. Born from the poo of a dachshund, we follow the brief 23-day-life of our fly in its entirety. Witty, moving and beautifully illustrated.”  —Jury, Jan Wolkers Prize 2021

Praise for Summer Brother

“It’s an impressive novel: a deceptively simple story of lives at the margin, with a child’s viewpoint perfectly pitched and sustained, it is cleanly written and powerfully imagined. It reminded me of Claire Keegan’s novella Foster, which has a girl narrator of a similar age, and is an outstanding book. But the challenges are greater here, as Robben deals with all kinds of inflammable material, and does it with such tact and understanding.”  —HILARY MANTEL
“A wild and touching read.” —DORTHE NORS, Man Booker International–nominated author 
“Dutch author Jaap Robben’s second novel shows us the shedding of innocence. Summer Brother, translated by David Doherty, shakes out over a hot summer, during that potent lull when characters so splendidly boil, burst and bloom. Summer Brother grapples with the consequences of carelessness and the abuse of power and trust, even if the violation is unintentional. Robben is wonderful at drawing characters with just a few deliberate strokes. Like a photographer shooting a portrait, he captures his subjects in Summer Brother in a focused close-up.” —New York Times
“A deeply humane novel centered on a disabled man, his heroic younger brother and an unreliable, partly criminal father living on an all but derelict site. The book is generous to all its flawed characters, is beautifully written, and humanizes lives of abject poverty on the edge of squalor and disaster.” —International Booker Prize, jury report
“The central premise of Summer Brother, Jaap Robben’s evocative coming-of-age novel, longlisted for the International Booker Prize, is that love can thrive in the unlikeliest of places. It is easy to forget this is a work in translation, so deft is David Doherty’s rendition. Robben depicts the limitations of a dysfunctional family but also celebrates empathy as a force for good.” —The Observer
“A sensitive yet unsentimental depiction of poverty and disability from the perspective of an abled character.” —Kirkus Reviews
“The book’s language is precise and forthright, as Brian observes, and portrays in stark terms, the intense, awkward, and lovely actions of those around him. Sharp exchanges reveal characters who are witty and earnest in equal measure. Summer Brother is a harrowing novel about dysfunctional family dynamics and the universal awkwardness of being a teenager.” —Foreword Reviews
“A tragic tale of generational dysfunction."  —Publishers Weekly
“Summer Brother is a work of rare intricacy that warrants to be read with all the seriousness one can muster.”  —World Literature Today
“A warm, complex and luminous novel on these profound moments of ambiguity, and on the small, crucial acts of love.”  —RUTH MCKEE, Irish Times
“The short chapters and strong dialogue—masterfully recreated in David Doherty’s pitch-perfect translation, which carefully captures and conveys the rough-and-ready characters and their volatile emotions—make Summer Brother a fast-paced read as it explores the tensions in a family living with a child with disabilities.”  —European Literature Network
“Refined and subtle, and at the same time one of the most striking voices in contemporary Dutch literature.”  —LIZE SPIT, author of The Melting
“A writer who crosses the ball with such elegance that there’s no need to hammer it home.” —De Volkskrant
“Subtle and refined.” —NRC Handelsblad
“Robben’s style is deceptively simple. You don’t have to be an adult to read Summer Brother, yet Robben’s imagery, subtle humor, and surprising plot will connect with the most literate of readers. The novel offers a moving insight into a boyhood that gives pause for reflection.” —De Standaard
“Like no other writer, Robben can empathize with the mind of a child and he imbues the reader with this open and uninhibited outlook as the story unfolds.” —Hebban
“Summer Brother is a wry and funny book about a damaged family.” —Algemeen Dagblad
“Lovingly, Robben shows Brian’s hapless attempts to deal with pills and full diapers, yet all the while he is working mercilessly towards the inevitable climax.” —VPRO Gids
“A poignant story about loyalty, disloyalty, solidarity, and puberty.” —De Limburger
“A truly gutsy novel.” —Tzum
“Summer Brother is a beautiful, modest novel. As he did with You Have Me to Love, Robben will once again win over a young generation of readers with this book. That in itself is praiseworthy.” —Elsevier
“Jaap Robben has once again written an overwhelming book.” —HMC Dagbladen
“His first novel, You Have Me to Love, was well-received, won prizes, and became a sales success. Summer Brother is a worthy successor and has all the ingredients to follow the same path. Robben knows how to write simply and magnificently―I kept underlining beautiful sentences in the first chapters.” —Trouw

Praise for You Have Me to Love

“You Have Me to Love is an intense and dramatic novel filled with meticulous use of detail and a forensic psychological accuracy. Its power comes from the fierce energy of the narrative structure, the way of handling silence and pain, and the ability to confront the darkest areas of experience with clear-eyed sympathy and care. Jaap Robben handles delicate, dangerous material with subtlety and sympathy, but also with a visionary sense of truth that is masterly and unforgettable.” 
 —COLM TÓIBÍN
“I was completely seduced by this novel―it’s raw and harrowing and very moving. Robben is a very powerful writer who reminds me very much of Per Petterson.” —AIFRIC CAMPBELL
“Beautiful, just beautiful.” —GERBRAND BAKKER
“This is a bold, tender and ambivalent narrative, raw and disturbing, with moments of painful beauty; a taut narrative heavy with a convincing sense of dread.” —Irish Times
“You Have Me to Love explores raw and unsettling psychological territory. It is a story that once read will stick with the reader for a long time.”—Literary Review
“Moving between child-like speculation and shocking realism, Robben’s novel transports the reader into lives almost beyond imagining in the contemporary world. With echoes of Ian McEwan and Peter Carey, Robben’s tale, already a huge success in the Netherlands, is one to savor and discuss.”—ALA Booklist
“A small masterpiece.” —Harpers Bazaar
“You Have Me to Love left me gasping, literally, for air. And groping for understanding. A blindingly good novel about the vulnerability of children and the hard truth of the world they inhabit.” —The King’s English Bookshop
“A promising novelist has risen. Robben lifts you from your life and sweeps you away, with no chance of escaping.”—De Morgen
“An overwhelming debut about lost childhood innocence, You Have Me to Love can be favorably compared to Niccolò Ammaniti’s I’m Not Scared and Ian McEwan’s The Cement Garden.”—Het Parool
“A gripping novel that steadily tightens its hold.”—De Volkskrant
“Like a record stuck in its groove, it won’t let me go.” —European Literature Network
“From the very first sentence it is clear how well debut novelist Jaap Robben writes. His childishly simple yet highly suggestive sentences make You Have Me to Love as stark and foreboding as the island on which it is set.”—NRC NEXT
“Unbelievable―a beautiful story, light for all its heaviness, written in a clear and powerful style. A coming-of-age tale in which Robben merges grief, simplicity, and isolation in a phenomenal way.” —De Telegraaf
“Robben’s clear sentences and empathic use of language read like poetry: rhythmic, probing, and sonorous.”—Dagblad van het Noorden

Biography of a Fly

Praise for Beyond the Pale&#8220;[Urquhart] isn&#8217;t afraid to make the personal political, to delve into her particular experience while also acknowledging its limits and investigating what lies beyond them. Urquhart&#8217;s as interested in championing individuality as she is in embracing our shared humanity. But she never shies away from the fact that cherishing both can be a knotty, contradictory affair.&#8221;&#8212;Globe & Mail&#8220;A courageous and ambitious book. Beyond the Pale offers an intimate account about raising a daughter with albinism, a lucid portrait of related genetic, medical and social issues, and a disturbing reminder of the brutal violence that many people with albinism continue to face today.&#8221;&#8212;Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes and Blood: The Stuff of Life&#8220;A brave, thoughtful, clear, and always graceful journey through the terrifying randomness of genetics and the unexpected ways genetic anomalies can mark not just children, but all the lives around them.&#8221;&#8212;Ian Brown, author of The Boy in the Moon: A Father&#8217;s Search for his Disabled Son&#8220;A graceful, perceptive rendering of a misunderstood condition.&#8221;&#8212;Kirkus Reviews&#8220;Folklorist Urquhart writes poetically and movingly about her daughter &#8230; readers will weep and smile.&#8221;&#8212;Booklist

Ordinary Wonder Tales

What Does Mrs. Freeman Want?

House of Many Ways

St. Francis Dam Disaster

Praise for BUMPED: “Bumped has it all: a fascinating yet frighteningly believable world, seamless world-building, great humor, and sophisticated word play. The book will start many a discussion and, alas, raise more than a few eyebrows. I suspect the mothers will like it just as much as the daughters. Bumped is the ‘breediest’ novel of the year.”

Thumped

Sizzling, addictive, and deeply romantic: Miranda Neville’s novels are a joy to read.

The Dangerous Viscount

An Appeal To Its Paramount Authority Against Certain Passages In Dr. Hancock's Defense And In The Writings Of Barclay And Penn (1835)

Holy Scripture The Test Of Truth

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The Foster Girls

According to Böhler, "self-determination" was an unsuitable recipe for structuring a multi-ethnic region. This becomes particularly clear in his fourth chapter "Violence and Crimes Beyond the Battlefields", in which Böhler draws a panorama where anti-Semitic pogroms, skirmishes, violent oppression of the rural population and death blend into each other. Hunger, disease and other hardships plagued the country. [...] Böhler has presented a differentiated
description of these violence scenarios, largely reconstructed on the base of a variety of sources.

The Reconstruction of Poland

Civil War in Central Europe, 1918-1921

Pocket Wedding Planner 2nd Edition

A Step-by-Step Learning Guide

Basic Otorhinolaryngology

Lectures (1910)

The New Haven Mathematical Colloquium

The Mystery at the Heart of the Modern

Detective Fiction on the Case of Community

The Best Nonsense Verses

". . . Phillips makes a very credible case, and his long and winding search for the truth makes for a gripping narative. Definitely a cut above many other books relating to the Templar mysteries. Quite fascinating."

The Discovery of the Treasure of Solomon

The Templars and the Ark of the Covenant

Report on the War in Vietnam

O Ensino do Português como Língua de Herança, Língua de Contato e Língua Estrangeira

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