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A poetic project of preservation and sense of place. Rich imagery and language dives deep into the lives of coastal communities in the far north of Norway, from debut poet, Melissa Davies

A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political–economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices. The dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic represented an exceptional interruption in the routines of work, financial markets, movement across borders and education. The policies introduced in response were said to be unprecedented—but the distribution of risks and rewards was anything but. While asset-owners, outsourcers, platforms and those in spacious homes prospered, others faced new hardships and dangers. Unprecedented? explores the events of 2020-21, as they afflicted the UK economy, as a means to grasp the underlying dynamics of contemporary capitalism, which are too often obscured from view. It traces the political and cultural contours of a "rentier nationalism," that was lurking prior to the pandemic, but was accelerated and illuminated by COVID-19. But it also pinpoints the contradictions and weaknesses of this capitalist model, and the new sources of opposition that it meets. An empirical, accessible and critical analysis of the COVID economy, Unprecedented? is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the political and economic turbulence of the pandemic’s first eighteen months.

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What just happened and how did we get into this mess? Since the 2016 referendum, the UK has been in a crisis of its own making. But there are more reasons for this than Brexit alone. A wave of disruption has hit political parties, the mainstream media, public experts and all kinds of officials. Along the way, there have been dramatic and sometimes shocking events: the burning of Grenfell Tower and the Windrush scandal, the rise and fall of the Brexit Party, Boris Johnson’s Conservative purge and his resounding election victory. The state’s response to the pandemic was a further sign of how abnormal things had become. As the ‘mainstream’ of politics and media has come under attack, the basic norms of public life have been thrown into question. Authoritarian and nationalist forces advance as liberalism recedes. This Is Not Normal takes stock of a nation that no longer recognises itself. Davies finds the narrative sense behind apparently chaotic and irrational events, extracting their underlying logic and long-term causes. We are witnessing the combined effects of the 2008 financial crash, the failure of the British neoliberal project, the dying of Empire, and the impact of the changes that technology and communications have had on the public sphere. How the nation revives from the economic and political shocks of the lockdown remains uncertain. This is an essential book for anyone who wants to make sense of the current moment.

Wir befinden uns in einer neuen politischen Ära, die viele ratlos zurücklässt: Wo bisher Zahlen, Daten und Expertisen Grundlage politischer Entscheidungen waren, sind nun Emotionen Trumpf. Ob Donald Trump in den USA, der Front National in Frankreich oder die AfD in Deutschland – überall greifen Populisten die Ängste der Menschen auf und sind mit ihren gefährlichen Ideologien auf Erfolgskurs. Doch wie konnte es dazu kommen, dass statt objektiver Größen wie Arbeitslosenzahlen oder Wirtschaftswachstum plötzlich Wut und Angst über unsere Zukunft entscheiden? William Davies erklärt unter Einbeziehung ökonomischer, philosophischer und politischer Theorien, wie es zum »Niedergang der Vernunft« und dem »Siegeszug der Gefühle« kommen konnte.

When Jeremy Bentham proposed that government should run “for the greatest benefit of the greatest number,” he posed two problems: what is happiness and how can we measure it? With the rise of positive psychology, freakonimics, behavioural economics, endless TED talks, the happiness manifesto, the Happiness Index, the tyranny of customer service, the emergence of the quantified self movement, we have become a culture obsessed with measuring our supposed satisfaction. In anecdotes that include the Buddhist monk who lectured the business leaders of the world at Davos, why the Nike Fuel band makes us more worried about our fitness, how parts of our city are being rebuilt in response to scientific studies of oxytocin levels in our brain, and what a survey from Radisson hotels—that proves that 62% of us believe that well-being is a luxury worth more than work or a good relationship—really tells us about the way we measure ourselves, and continually find ourselves wanting. The pursuit of happiness only makes us sad—and the rise in depression and anxiety proves it.

Proč mě rozčilují věci, které jiné nechávají chladnými? Proč jsem někdy podrážděnější než jindy? Proč všechny neiritují tytéž situace? Je vztek sám o sobě vždy špatný? Položili jste si někdy podobnou otázku? Pokud máte pocit, že nezvládáte své negativní emoce a často říkáte nebo děláte věci, kterých později litujete, je tato kniha určena právě vám! Uznávaný psycholog v ní na mnoha příkladech z praxe srozumitelně a čtivě vysvětluje, proč se takto chováte a jak takovému chování můžete předejít. Dozvíte se, jak je to s podrážděností a vztekem, jak fungují vaše přesvědčení a zábrany a jak s nimi můžete pracovat. Naučíte se rozpoznávat vaše osobní spouštěče hněvu a používat prospěšnější metody při posuzování situací, v nichž často „ztrácíte hlavu“. Naleznete rady, jak si dlouhodobě udržet lepší náladu a zpříjemnit tak život nejen sobě, ale i svému okolí. Nenechte se už dál ovládat svým vztekem a převezměte plnou kontrolu nad svými reakcemi i v těch nejnáročnějších situacích!