Anne Karpf

Women are the answer to the climate crisis - but not because they should add to their workload by fixing it for us. Instead, we need gender equality. The highest-profile climate activists today are women and girls, but it's a very different story at the top table: the future of the planet is being decided by men. Here's a perverse truth: dominant masculinist assumptions helped produce the climate emergency, and yet it affects women particularly. Across the Pacific, domestic abuse spikes after bushfires and cyclones. In the global south, climate breakdown forces girls to drop out of school. In Northern Europe, many of those killed by heatwaves have been elderly women. And, from New Orleans to Bangladesh, the lives of poor women of colour are being profoundly re-shaped by a crisis they did nothing to create. This vital book shows that we're not all in it together - but we could be. Drawing on feminist research and innovative climate policies introduced by women, Anne Karpf interviews female activists around the world about how they're fighting back. Faced with the most urgent catastrophe of our times, Karpf offers a powerful, fresh vision: a Green New Deal for Women.

How Women Can Save The Planet

Calls for a change in society's narrative on aging, looking at why aging is so feared and how people can learn to do it mindfully.

How to Age

Anne Karpf's parents survived the Nazi Holocaust. Her mother, a concert pianist when she was eighteen, was a survivor of Plaszow and Auschwitz concentrations camps. Her father survived several Russian labour camps. When they came to Britain in 1947, their pasts came with them. In this thought-provoking and moving memoir, Anne Karpf explores the profound impact of her parents' wartime experiences on her daily life. Combining a gripping account of her parents' survival, a sharp examination of the history of British attitudes to Jews and to the Holocaust, and turning an often wryly comic eye on the parent-child struggle, The War After is a fascinating and deeply touching story. When originally published in 1996 it was widely acclaimed: 'Painful and honest.' Observer 'Fascinating and revealing.' Literary Review 'Anne Karpf is a skilled storyteller, moving naturally between her own history and that of her parents in a way that neither intrudes nor distorts.' TLS 'A vibrantly live memoir about growing up in a Holocaust home ... At times brutally sad, The War After is also a rich and funny exploration of the struggle between a child and her parents.' Independent on Sunday

The War After

THE SCHOOL OF LIFE IS DEDICATED TO EXPLORING LIFE'S BIG QUESTIONS IN HIGHLY-PORTABLE PAPERBACKS, FEATURING FRENCH FLAPS AND DECKLE EDGES, THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS "DAMNABLY CUTE." WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT WE WILL DIRECT YOU TOWARDS A VARIETY OF USEFUL IDEAS THAT ARE GUARANTEED TO STIMULATE, PROVOKE, AND CONSOLE. Society has a deep fear of ageing, and showing your age is increasingly one of our most pervasive taboos. Old age in modern life is widely viewed as either a time of inevitable decline or something to be resisted, denied or overcome. In How to Age, sociologist and award-winning journalist Anne Karpf urges us to radically change our narrative. Exploring how our outlook on ageing is historically determined and culturally defined, Karpf draws upon revealing case studies to suggest how ageing can be an actively enriching time of immense growth. She argues that if we can recognize growing older as an inevitable part of the human condition, then the great challenge of ageing turns out to be none other than the challenge of living. In How to Age, learn how ageing isn't about your wardrobe or physical fitness, but a determination to live fully at every age and stage of life.

Waarom liegen over je leeftijd? Onze maatschappij heeft een diepgewortelde angst voor ouderdom. Een hoge leeftijd wordt in toenemende mate gezien als een biomedisch probleem, waarvan de gevolgen bestreden moeten worden met medicijnen. Medisch socioloog, journalist en schrijver Anne Karpf spoort ons aan onze denkwijze te veranderen. Door de historische en culturele definities van ouderdom te onderzoeken laat ze via oude en nieuwe voorbeelden zien hoe ‘de herfst van het leven’ een rijke periode van persoonlijke groei kan zijn.

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Ouder worden

Ki ne szeretné, ha éveket letagadhatna a korából? Félünk az öregedéstől, bármit megtennénk, hogy elkerüljük. Anne Karpf szociológus arról ír könyvében, mennyire meghatározza az öregedéshez való viszonyunkat történelmünk és kultúránk. Egyúttal szemléletmódunk megváltoztatására ösztönöz, konkrét eseteken keresztül mutatja be, hogy az öregedés életünk szerves része, és akár gazdagító tapasztalat, fejlődési lehetőség is lehet. Korunkban, amikor az erkölcsi és értékrendi zűrzavar egyre nő, az önsegítő könyveknek is megújulásra van szükségük. Az élet iskolája (The School of Life) sorozat, mely olyan mindnyájunkat érintő témákkal foglalkozik, mint a pénz, a munka, a technológia, a szex, a testedzés vagy az egyedüllét, épp erre vállalkozik. Alain de Botton, a sorozat szerkesztője

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An intellectual analysis of the Israel versus Palestine debate from the perspectives of leading Jewish writers and commentators from diverse backgrounds addresses a wide range of topics, from the Holocaust and Zionism to Jewish identity and human rights. Original.

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