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Aufstiege mit eigenen Schwingen oder per verzaubertem Fahrstuhl, aus machtbesessenem Übermut oder reiner Freude. Abgestürzt von felsigen Klippen oder aus rosa Wolken, um dann liegenzubleiben, ein neues Leben zu wagen oder gar am tiefsten Meeresboden weiter zu existieren?Die 13 Autor:innen des ForumWort Berlin loten in dieser Anthologie die Extreme zwischen Aufstieg und Fall aus. In ihren Kurzgeschichten, die sich zwischen Mystik, Fantasy, magi...

In a post-Trumpian world where COVID rates soar and Americans wage near-civil war about election results, Deborah Stone's Counting promises to transform how we think about numbers. Contrary to what you learned in kindergarten, counting is more art than arithmetic. In fact, numbers are just as much creatures of the human imagination as poetry and painting, the simplest tally starts with judgments about what counts. In a nation whose Constitutio...

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Early in her extraordinary career, Deborah Stone wrote Policy Paradox, a landmark work on politics. Now, in Counting, she revolutionizes how we approach numbers and shows how counting shapes the way we see the world. Most of us think of counting as a skill so basic that we see numbers as objective, indisputable facts. Not so, says Stone. In this playful-yet-probing work, Stone reveals the inescapable link between quantifying and classifying, a...

The need-to-know information for carers looking to support their parents, friends and relatives, drawing on the author's experience in the elder care field.

Sasha is just about managing to hold her life together, dealing with family struggles as well as holding down her job. But when her son begins to suspect that he has a secret sibling, Sasha realises that she must relive the events of a devastating night which she has done her best to forget for the past nineteen years.

A leading political scientist's response to a generation of political orthodoxy, arguing for compassion as a political movement

A book about the defining assumptions and assumed definition of the welfare state. It is a work that pulls apart social categories like "disability" or "need" and shows how they function politically and where they come from historically.