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Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care

Simmonds, Bethany
Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care
Current and future provision of health and social care for older people is explored in this timely study. It draws on examples from the Germany, Sweden and the UK to measure the impact of trends including neoliberalisation and marketisation and it considers new solutions to contemporary challenges in a complex care system.

CHF 142.00

The Selfless Act of Breathing

Bola, JJ
The Selfless Act of Breathing
Michael decides to flee to America and end his life once all his savings run out. JJ Bola's second novel is a story of millennial existential angst told through the eyes of a young Londoner who seems to have it all - a promising future, a solid career, strong friendships, a blossoming love story - but it's the unbearable weight of life that leads him to decide to take his own.As he grapples with issues bigger than him - political conflict, env...

CHF 27.90

Dog Park

Oksanen, Sofi
Dog Park
Helsinki, 2016. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in a dog park. A stranger sits down beside her. Olenka startles, she would recognize this other woman anywhere. After all, Olenka was the one who ruined her life. And this woman may be about to do the same to Olenka. Yet, for a fragile moment, here they are, together - looking at their own children being raised by other people.Moving seamlessly between modern-day Finland and Ukrain...

CHF 27.90

In and Out of View

Paquette, Catha / Kleinfelder, Karen / Miles, Christopher
In and Out of View
In and Out of View models an expansion in how censorship is discursively framed. Contributors from diverse backgrounds, including artists, art historians, museum specialists, and students, address controversial instances of art production and reception from the mid-20th century to the present in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Their essays, interviews, and statements invite consideration of the shifting contexts, value...

CHF 166.00

Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

Fleming, Colin
Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
This book covers Cooke's days with the Soul Stirrers, the gospel unit that was inventing a strand of soul in the 1950s, and continues on to his string of hit singles as a solo artist that reveal far more about this complex man. We'll stop and consider how, as a writer and an agent of social change, the differences between Cooke's true identity and what various factions of his audience wanted from him, this towering soul artist came to reconcil...

CHF 19.50

Settle & Carlisle

Abbott, Stan
Settle & Carlisle
Stan Abbott revisits the story behind the long, but ultimately successful, battle to save the spectacular railway from Settle to Carlisle.

CHF 22.90

Baugesetzbuch

Runkel, Peter / Heinrich, Roxana
Baugesetzbuch
Die Neuauflage berücksichtigt u.a. die Änderungen im BauGB und in der BauNVO im Rahmen der Baurechtsnovelle 2020, wie beispielsweise die Vorschläge des Wohngipfels zur Einführung eines weiteren Baulandtypus sowie zur Stärkung der Innenentwicklung. Damit enthält die 15. Auflage wieder alle wichtigen Gesetze und Verordnungen zu Städtebau und Raumordnung sowie fachplanungsrechtliche Regelungen in aktueller Fassung. Eine kompetente Einführung mit ...

CHF 31.50

ONE: One Pan, One Hob, One Meal

Silcock, Elena
ONE: One Pan, One Hob, One Meal
From the pan to the table in no time at all. Included are 85 easy, budget-friendly recipes to suit busy lifestyles and those with limited kitchen space. All the delicious dishes can be made in one of two pans - either a large saucepan or a non-stick frying pan - and require little to no skill, as directions are just for cooking over a high, medium or low heat. All the recipes can be cooked on a gas, electric or induction hob and you will get t...

CHF 30.50

Leading Disadvantaged Learners

Middlewood, David / Abbott, Ian / Pamas, Roberto
Leading Disadvantaged Learners
Where schools working in adverse conditions are achieving outstanding learning outcomes, what is it that these schools do to achieve these outcomes? Are there common factors here which could apply everywhere, or at least in the vast majority of circumstances?Drawing on a range of research, including interviews with children, parents, teachers and school leaders in rural and urban contexts in England, Greece, India, Malaysia, Seychelles, South ...

CHF 44.50

The Louvre

Gardner, James
The Louvre
Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that location and of the buildings themselves, and how they chronicle the history of Paris itself-a fascinating story that historian James Gardner elegantly tells for the first time.Before the Louvre was a museum, it was a palace, and before that a fortress. B...

CHF 22.90

Ness

Macfarlane, Robert / Donwood, Stanley
Ness
Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of Holloway'Ness goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry, beyond the word, beyond the bomb - it is an aftertime song. It is dark, ever so dark, nimble and lethal. It is a triumphant libretto of mythic modernism for our poisoned age. Ness is something else, and feels like it always has been' Max Porter, author of LannySomewhere on a salt...

CHF 18.50

The Wife of Willesden

Smith, Zadie
The Wife of Willesden
Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.She plays many roles round here. And neverScared to tell the whole of her truth, whetherOr not anyone wants to hear it. WifeOf Willesden: pissed enough to tell her lifeStory to whoever has ears and eyes . . .'Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, The Wife of Willesden is a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath's Prologue, brought to glor...

CHF 11.90

When the Lights Go Out

Bray, Carys
When the Lights Go Out
_________________________________________________________Global temperatures are rising.The climate of the Abrams' marriage is cooling.Emma is beginning to wonder whether relationships, like mortgages, should be conducted in five-year increments. She might laugh if Chris had bought a motorbike or started dyeing his hair. Instead he's buying off-label medicines and stockpiling food.Chris finds Emma's relentless optimism exasperating. A tot of d...

CHF 16.50

The Way of the Guitar

French, Stewart
The Way of the Guitar
An escapist manifesto for the life-changing benefits of playing the guitarResearch shows that guitar playing helps you live longer, be fitter, feel happier, earn more, reduce stress and stimulate creativity. So why do so many people give up the guitar, lamenting that they 'lack the talent', or just never progress?In The Way of the Guitar, virtuoso classical guitarist Stewart French argues that where most people go wrong is to mix up playing th...

CHF 26.90

Correspondence: 1919–1973

Heidegger, Martin / Lowith, Karl, (1897-1973) / Assaiante, J. Goesser, Lecturer in Language and Culture Studies, Trinity College / Ewegen, S. Montgomery, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, USA
Correspondence: 1919–1973
This volume consists of over one-hundred epistolary exchanges between Martin Heidegger and one of his earliest students, Karl Löwith, who became a renowned and accomplished philosopher in his own right. The letters span a period of just over fifty years and range from casual to philosophical in tone. The more philosophically oriented letters shed important light on the ideas and writings of both Heidegger and Löwith, while the more casual lett...

CHF 165.00