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A Vertical Art gathers the expansive and spirited public lectures delivered by Simon Armitage during his acclaimed four-year tenure as Oxford University Professor of Poetry.

A board book for the littlest campers about those curious, hungry bears. Black bears just want to eat! Juicy berries, crunchy nuts, tender grubs, and sticky honey-that's good bear food. But if park visitors don't watch out, their food will be bear food, too! Bouncy rhyming text and vibrant pictures share how families can do their part to keep bears safe and thriving.

South Sudanese analyst Akech Thiong reveals how the politics of fear lies at the heart of Sudan's civil war, and explores how the country's rulers have exploited fear and ethnic hatred to secure power.

Die Eurocodes bringen verlässliche Standards ins europäische Baugewerbe, seit 2012 sind sie gültiges Recht auch auf deutschem Boden. Im Eurocode 3 ist alles rund um den Stahlbau festgelegt: von allgemeinen Regeln bis zu spezifischen Anforderungen finden sich in dieser 30 Einzelnormen umfassenden Reihe alles, was für die Bemessung und Konstruktion von Stahlbauten relevant ist. Zu den europäischen Festlegungen existieren Dokumente mit zulässigen...

Seit 2012 sorgen die Eurocodes nun auch schon in Deutschland für eine Harmonisierung von Bauvorhaben und Bauausschreibungen. Sie festigen die hohen Sicherheitsstandards der Branche und erleichtern die Kommunikation und Abläufe auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene. Mit dem Eurocode 3 liegt eine verbindliche Normenreihe zu Bemessung und Konstruktion im Stahlbau vor. In insgesamt 20 Teilnormen sind hier sämtliche Anforderungen und Regeln fest...

Die Eurocodes sind der bislang bedeutendste Beitrag zur Vereinheitlichung des Baugewerbes im gesamteuropäischen Raum. Sie setzen verbindliche Maßstäbe für ganz Europa und ermöglichen dadurch einfachere Ausschreibungen und Kooperationen. Anforderungen werden standardisiert und sorgen als gemeinsame Normen für mehr Sicherheit im Bauwesen. Doch es existieren auch nationale Besonderheiten, denen Rechnung getragen werden muss. Diese möglichen Abwei...

A tongue-in-cheek "textbook" that offers a complete education in the history and practice of mixology, in five "seminars" covering thirty drinks each

Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish leaders from the late Ottoman sultans to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Here the leading authority Soner Cagaptay, author of The New Sultan -- the first biography of President Erdogan -- provides a masterful overview of the power politics in the Middle East and Turkey's place in it. Erdogan...

There are very few figures in history that have exerted as much and as varied an influence as Karl Marx. His work represents an unrivalled intervention into fields as various as philosophy, journalism, economics, history, politics and cultural criticism. His name is invoked across the political spectrum in connection to revolution and insurrection, social justice and economic transformation. The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx is the definitive...

Leonardo da Vinci's fame is based not solely on his innovative artistic oeuvre, but also on an unusually wide-ranging corpus of drawings, notes, reflections and treatises pertaining to almost every discipline of the day. In conjunction with other contemporary documents, this legacy allows a precise reconstruction of Leonardo's thinking and work, as well as his intellectual development. The large number of possible areas of focus (proportion th...

An urgent demand for a People's Green New Deal, foregrounding global agricultural transformation and climate justice for the Global South

The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. It has become a watchword in the current era of global climate crisis. But what - and for whom - is the Green New Deal? In this concise and urgent book, Max Ajl provides an overview of the various mainstream Green New Deals. Critically engaging with their proponents, ideological underpinnings and limitations, he goes on t...

A watershed moment in transgender theory

The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory. Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve into the experience of surviving as transgender under capitalism. They explore the pressures, oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, their tenuous positions in the workplace and the home, and give a powerf...

Presents a collection of essays that critically engage with the proliferation of literature on postcapitalism, which is rapidly becoming an urgent area of inquiry, both in academic scholarship and in public life. It collects the insights from scholars working across the field of Critical International Political Economy to interrogate how we might begin to envisage a political economy of postcapitalism. The authors foreground the agency of work...

This book critically engages with the proliferation of literature on postcapitalism, which is rapidly becoming an urgent area of inquiry, both in academic scholarship and in public life. It collects the insights from scholars working across the field of Critical International Political Economy to interrogate how we might begin to envisage a political economy of postcapitalism. The authors foreground the agency of workers and other capitalist s...

This book evaluates the transformational process of left populism across grassroots, national and European levels and asks what we can do to harness the power of broad-based, popular left politics. While the right is using populist rhetoric to great effect, the left's attempts have been much less successful. Syriza in Greece and Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party in Britain have both failed to introduce socialism in their countries, while Podemos ha...

Where does the left go from here?

Set in a world of dark gods and dangerous magic, The Broken God is a gripping, darkly inventive fantasy tale in the series that began with Gareth Hanrahan's acclaimed The Gutter Prayer