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Books on Covid-19

The German book market has long been struggling to find an answer to the question of what the pandemic is doing to the world and how the world is changing because of it. The expectation and hope that a new world is being created is a shared theme among many authors.

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Just share it!

Just share it!

Der Guide zum Teilen, Tauschen, Leihen (The guide to sharing, swapping, borrowing)

It is now more popular than ever to share, exchange, borrow or recycle things, instead of owning too much and...

It is now more popular than ever to share, exchange, borrow or recycle things, instead of owning too much and buying even more. If you want to learn about some exciting sharing initiatives and get active yourself, you’ll find what you are looking for in this book.

Veronica Frenzel is part of the sharing scene in Berlin. Here, she presents the newest, most important and most innovative online and local initiatives for sharing, swapping or borrowing. She covers almost all aspects of life, from food and clothing, daily life and neighbourhood projects, to mobility, house-and-home, co-living, kids and family, culture and beauty. On a wide range of platforms and portals, people share clothes, cars, tickets and food, exchange books and art, and borrow games and tools.

Publisher:
ISBN:
978-3-95728-269-9
Author:
Veronica Frenzel, Nunu Kaller
Pages:
220
Price:
€ 25.00
Pest und Corona

Pest und Corona (Plague and Coronavirus)

Pandemien in Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft (Pandemics in history, in the present and in the future)

The coronavirus crisis has shaken up our way of life. This is by no means the first time this has...

The coronavirus crisis has shaken up our way of life. This is by no means the first time this has happened – and it will certainly won’t be the last. As doctors and medical historians, Fangerau and Labisch discuss pandemics, including Covid-19, in their historical, current and future manifestations, and debate questions such as, whether or not the world has experienced anything like the current pandemic before? How have epidemics changed public and private life? What are the natural, social, historical and cultural contexts of pandemics? What must we prepare for in the future as individuals, and what must society and the health system prepare for, if we want to preserve our way of life?

Publisher:
ISBN:
978-3-451-38879-8
Author:
Heiner Fangerau, Alfons Labisch
Pages:
192
Price:
€ 18.00
Solidarität

Solidarität (Solidarity)

Die Zukunft einer großen Idee (The future of a big idea)

Solidarity used to be a strong word. It fell into disrepute when everyone was made answerable for their own happiness...

Solidarity used to be a strong word. It fell into disrepute when everyone was made answerable for their own happiness and hardship. Today, society is more deeply divided than ever between rich and poor. Of course, there is a welfare system that balances things out. But we still need to find a new understanding of solidarity. We shouldn’t rest at merely alleviating material needs, but should recognise ourselves in others, and as human beings. Only through such a free decision for common humanity can a society find its way back together. Heinz Bude's reflections on an existence in solidarity provide the answers to the social question of our time.

Publisher:
ISBN:
978-3-446-26184-6
Author:
Heinz Bude
Pages:
176
Price:
€ 19.00
Weil es ohne uns nicht geht

Weil es ohne uns nicht geht (Because it isn’t Possible Without Us)

Akutes aus der Notaufnahme. Ein Krankenpfleger erzählt (Urgent news from the casualty department: a nurse’s account)

A hospital emergency room is a place where you experience your limits. This is just as true of those working...

A hospital emergency room is a place where you experience your limits. This is just as true of those working there with the high pressure of responsibility, as it is of the patients, who are torn from their everyday lives when they are admitted to the hospital. Michael Steidl, deputy nursing director of an emergency department, with twenty years of professional experience, opens the door onto this border zone to give us a unique insight. The reason? To give us a portrait of the people fighting the chaos every day. To show the sacrifices this fight demands of them, but also why they take up the fight time after time – especially at a time when a virus is spreading at breakneck speed, stretching healthcare systems to breaking point all around the world.

Publisher:
ISBN:
978-3-95910-297-1
Author:
Michael Steidl, Fabian Marcher
Pages:
288
Price:
€ 17.95
Die Zukunft nach Corona

Die Zukunft nach Corona (The Future after the Coronavirus)

Wie eine Krise die Gesellschaft, unser Denken und unser Handeln verändert (How a crisis is changing society, the way we think and the way we act)

If nothing else, the coronavirus crisis is holding up a large mirror in which we can recognise ourselves. Futurologist Matthias...

If nothing else, the coronavirus crisis is holding up a large mirror in which we can recognise ourselves. Futurologist Matthias Horx analyses the effects of the crisis: How is society changing? How are individuals, states, families and businesses responding to the challenge? What role is played by our fear of the future? And how can we change this into confidence? Will we go back to business as usual after a few months? Or are we experiencing a cultural shift, with everything changing direction and a whole new future emerging? Instead of a prognosis, Horx practices re-gnosis, self-change through retrospective foresight – and in so doing, he arrives at some surprising results.

Publisher:
ISBN:
978-3-430-21042-3
Author:
Matthias Horx
Pages:
144
Price:
€ 15.00
Shutdown

Shutdown

Von der Corona-Krise zur Jahrhundert-Pandemie (From the coronavirus crisis to the pandemic of the century)

A look at history shows how regularly there have been virus outbreaks that medicine has been unable to counter. And...

A look at history shows how regularly there have been virus outbreaks that medicine has been unable to counter. And never have the conditions for worldwide pandemics been as good as in our globalised, overpopulated world, heated up by climate change. The question is therefore not if another pandemic-of-the-century is coming, but when. Biologist Dr Ina Knobloch provides a fascinating and informed description of how easily a viral outbreak even more deadly than coronavirus could occur, and what the consequences would be for society, the economy and politics.

Publisher:
ISBN:
978-3-426-27844-4
Author:
Ina Knobloch
Pages:
256
Price:
€ 18.00
Die semi-glückliche Gesellschaft

Die semiglückliche Gesellschaft (The Half–contented Society)

Das neue Leben der Deutschen auf dem Weg in die Post-Corona-Zeit (A new life for Germans as they enter the post-coronavirus era )

How do Germans look to the future, faced with the coronavirus pandemic? This first representative study of the new life...

How do Germans look to the future, faced with the coronavirus pandemic? This first representative study of the new life of Germans before and during the coronavirus crisis shows: many people have become poorer, but not unhappier. Their thinking about wealth has changed, with health becoming as valuable as money. New life qualities that they now appreciate include the feeling of having time and a wealth of relationships; the state too has been radiating social warmth. Confidence is therefore growing again – even in phases of uncertainty. The representative study of Germany covers a period beginning prior the coronavirus, in January 2020, through the crisis in March, up to the easing of restrictions from July 2020.

Publisher:
ISBN:
978-3-8474-2466-6
Author:
Horst Opaschowski
Pages:
166
Price:
€ 19.90
Wie wir unsere Wirtschaft retten

Wie wir unsere Wirtschaft retten (How to Save our Economy)

Der Weg aus der Corona-Krise (The route out of the coronavirus crisis)

The coronavirus crisis is having serious economic consequences. How can the welfare state confront new inequalities? What danger do the...

The coronavirus crisis is having serious economic consequences. How can the welfare state confront new inequalities? What danger do the huge debts pose? Will the euro-zone remain stable? What will become of climate protection? And how can we use the opportunities that this crisis also brings? In his seminal book, the first consistently address economic and health policies in unison, Germany's leading economist Clemens Fuest shows us the way out of the crisis.

Publisher:
ISBN:
978-3-351-03866-3
Author:
Clemens Fuest
Pages:
277
Price:
€ 18.00
Nachhaltige Nicht-Nachhaltigkeit

Nachhaltige Nicht-Nachhaltigkeit (Sustainable Non-sustainability)

Warum die ökologische Transformation der Gesellschaft nicht stattfindet (Why the ecological transformation of society is not working)

Although the urgent need for a socio-ecological transformation towards sustainability has long been acknowledged by practically everyone, modern societies are...

Although the urgent need for a socio-ecological transformation towards sustainability has long been acknowledged by practically everyone, modern societies are defending their prosperity and lifestyles more resolutely than ever before. We are stubbornly pursuing a socially and ecologically destructive policy of non-sustainability. The boom in right-wing populism has demonstrated how fragile the ecological-democratic project of recent decades has become. And the coronavirus pandemic is shifting priorities again toward policies of growth and incentives to consumption. This book outlines the latest research in the social sciences, in order to shed light on the peculiar persistence of non-sustainability.

Publisher:
ISBN:
978-3-8376-5442-4
Author:
Ingolfur Blühdorn et al.
Pages:
350
Price:
€ 20.00
Make World Wonder

Make. World. Wonder.

Für die Welt, die wir uns wünschen (For the world as we want it)

Species extinction, climate crisis, poverty, mass migration and right-wing populism: we are facing countless global challenges. It is easy to...

Species extinction, climate crisis, poverty, mass migration and right-wing populism: we are facing countless global challenges. It is easy to fall into a state of shock. But despite the numerous paralysing developments, a variety of initiatives have set out to demand solutions to these problems, or to develop their own model approaches. The "Fridays for Future" movement is just the tip of the iceberg. "MAKE. WORLD. WONDER." tells stories of yesterday, today and tomorrow, about what we can do better.

Publisher:
ISBN:
978-3-96238-259-9
Author:
Stefanie Ristig-Bresser
Pages:
320
Price:
€ 26.00
Krisendemokratie

Krisendemokratie (Crisis Democracy)

Sieben Lektionen aus der Coronakrise (Seven lessons from the coronavirus crisis)

The acute phase of the Corona crisis placed the strengths and weaknesses of Austrian democracy under the microscope. Areas that...

The acute phase of the Corona crisis placed the strengths and weaknesses of Austrian democracy under the microscope. Areas that were already bumpy for the political system in normal times became stumbling blocks during the crisis. If, on top of this, parties and politicians that are open to authoritarian temptations come to dominate events, the danger to democratic coexistence will exceed the actual cause. But the next crisis is bound to come. Political scientist Tamara Ehs shows us how important it is to establish a crisis-proof democracy, and that safeguarding its social foundations should be seen more than ever before as an essential public service.

Publisher:
ISBN:
978-3-85476-893-7
Author:
Tamara Ehs
Pages:
108
Price:
€ 12.00
Zurück zum Leben

Zurück zum Leben – mit Corona (Back to Life - with the Coronavirus)

Sechs Kapitel Hoffnung (Six chapters of hope)

Pandemics are nothing new. The literature of medical history is filled with them. So the latest pandemic was only a...

Pandemics are nothing new. The literature of medical history is filled with them. So the latest pandemic was only a matter of time. But when the SARS-CoV-2 virus began to spread, the world seemed completely unprepared. Germany has so far escaped quite lightly. The danger of the virus, at first so unfamiliar, has now become merely one among many other risks we face. So it is time to take stock of the situation and find ways in which we can return to a new normal.

Publisher:
ISBN:
978-3-451-03314-8
Author:
Michael Rutz
Pages:
128
Price:
€ 15.00
Warum-Klimaschutz

Warum Klimaschutz bisher verpufft und wie er gelingt (Why Climate Protection has Fizzled out so far and How it can Succeed)

We have been talking for decades about preventing climate change, but greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing. Many people are...

We have been talking for decades about preventing climate change, but greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing. Many people are trying to protect the environment, but there are few successes. Since 2004, a staggering 3.5 trillion dollars has been invested in renewable energy, yet wind and solar systems still provide less than two per cent of the world's primary energy needs. How can this be possible? Klaus Simon provides the answer. He shows the extent to which we have a climate problem, and what options there are for generating energy. Finally, he spans the arc from the climate and the options people have to take action, to society where he examines the crucial context that is so often overlooked in the climate debate.

Publisher:
ISBN:
978-3-96317-217-5
Author:
Klaus Simon
Pages:
240
Price:
€ 22.01
Plausibility

The Plausibility of Future Scenarios

Conceptualising an Unexplored Criterion in Scenario Planning

What does plausibility mean in relation to scenario planning and how do users of scenarios assess it? Despite the concept's...

What does plausibility mean in relation to scenario planning and how do users of scenarios assess it? Despite the concept's ubiquity, its epistemological and empirical foundations remain unexplored in previous research.

Ricarda Schmidt-Scheele offers an interdisciplinary perspective: she presents approaches from philosophy of sciences, cognitive psychology, narrative theory and linguistics, and tests key hypotheses in an experimental study. A conceptual map lays out indicators for scenario plausibility and explains how assessments vary across scenario methods. This helps researchers and practitioners to better understand the implications of their methodological choices in scenario development.

Publisher:
ISBN:
978-3-8376-5319-9
Author:
Ricarda Schmidt-Scheele
Pages:
264
Price:
€ 47.00
Date:
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