Julia Mayer

Der Ukraine-Krieg wurde auf Twitter ausgiebig diskutiert - auch von Journalist: innen. Diese nutzen die Plattform, die mittlerweile in X umbenannt wurde, nicht nur zur Verbreitung und Recherche von Informationen, sondern auch zur Ausserung ihrer subjektiven Meinung. Angesichts der wichtigen Rolle der Journalist: innen in der Meinungsbildung ist es entscheidend, das Ausmass dieser Meinungsausserungen zu untersuchen. Die Studie zielt darauf ab, mittels einer quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse zu ergrunden, wie Politikjournalist: innen deutscher Leitmedien ihre Ansichten zum Ukraine-Krieg auf Twitter darlegen und an wen sich ihre wertenden Aussagen richten. Die Ergebnisse zeigen unter anderem, dass die Leitmedien-Journalist: innen zunehmend Meinungen und Bewertungen aussern, die in der Stichprobe uberwiegend negativ sind.

"Painting Resilience" is Julia Mayer's vivid personal exploration of the role Fred Terna's art played in surviving four concentration camps; his post-WWII marriage to his emotionally scarred childhood sweetheart - a fellow survivor; their escape to France, Canada, and the United States; their divorce; and his subsequent happy marriage to a daughter of survivors and the family they created. Included are reproductions of more than two dozen of Fred's works, along with personal photos captured by Fred's son, photographer Daniel Terna.​ Fred's art is held by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Vienna's Albertina Collection, and Israel's Yad Vashem, among others. Fred says that living through the Holocaust was luck but living with it takes skill. Julia wanted to discover what those skills are, record how Fred acquired them, and illuminate the manner in which his art gave rise to Fred's "example that painful and destructive memories do not exclude a happy and productive life," as he puts it. "I have known Fred as a family friend since I was a young girl," recalls Julia. "But it wasn't until six years ago during a tour of his studio and art archive - I was in my mid-20s; Fred was 91 - that I realized I needed to be a conduit for Fred's life and art inspiring future generations.""In the camps we promised each other that the one who survives would tell the story," Fred told Julia. Today, Fred is 97 and still telling the story and still painting; Julia is 31, and "Painting Resilience" is her effort at ensuring that Fred's story is available to future generations. Upon reading the finished book, Fred told Julia, "By telling my story you have lifted a tremendous burden off my shoulders."

AARP Love and Meaning After 50 addresses the 10 most common challenges of sustaining loving relationships and emotional wellness in our 50s, 60s, and beyond. Authors Barry Jacobs and Julia Mayer, a husband-wife team of psychologists with more than 50 years of combined clinical experience helping individuals and couples, help readers decide -- and gracefully walk through -- those next steps. Jacobs and Mayer provide professional expertise paired with tried-and-true advice from those who've walked this walk before you. The challenges and advice in the book includes:The Empty Nest: How can you shift from an intense focus on children and turn more toward your partner? Diminished wealth and cutbacks in spending: How can you agree to live more modestly to stretch limited income and joint savings over longer expected lifespans? Need for care-giving: If caring for your partner, how can you still feel well cared for and loved -- even when you feel you're giving more than you're getting? Slow drift and detachment: Spouses who have long-held resentments, difficulties resolving disagreements, and little tolerance of each other's bad habits often drift over the years into emotionally distant arrangements of parallel co-existence rather than living the life of fully engaged partners. How can this be avoided?

Family caregiving has its challenges: emotional overload, time constraints, anxiety, burnout, missed work, adult sibling conflicts, and marital issues. AARP Meditations for Caregivers blends emotional and spiritual motivation to minimize the strains while helping caregivers view their work as a mission from the heart. Chapters are organized by theme, including topics such as accepting your feelings, knowing your limits, seeking support, and managing stress. Each reading offers a poignant meditation, an anecdote drawn from the author's personal or clinical experience, and hands-on or psychological advice to foster coping skills and a sense of fulfillment. The meditations in this dispensable book will provide you with solutions to typical caregiving challenges, offer relief and renewal through mindfulness, and inspire you to find meaning and value in the work you do.

"Ich grub und grub ein Loch in mir und senkte dich hinab, dann pflanzte ich ein Veilchen drauf, beweinte unser Grab." Unter den Katakomben von Dresden - zu F en der Menschen - erstreckt sich eine Stadt, in der die Magie regiert. Hier leben die Magos, die ihre Kraft aus der Dunkelheit sch pfen. DresdenX war das Zuhause von Alexej, dem er vor langer Zeit den R cken gekehrt hat. Doch nun muss er in die Unterstadt zur ckkehren, um das Verm chtnis seiner Gro mutter zu erf llen. Weshalb hat sie ausgerechnet ihn - einen Mann - zum Nachfolger f r das hohe Amt des Gamma bestimmt, das seit Jahrhunderten nur Frauen vorbehalten war? Und was hat es mit der Verbannung seines besten Freundes auf sich? Alexej steht die gr te Aufgabe seines Lebens bevor: Er muss das Dunkel besiegen und den Hexen, die ihn in ihre F nge locken wollen, widerstehen.

This anthology collects nine exceptional novels that were written by high school students from New York City during the summer of 2005 in 826NYC's Young Adult Writers' Colony. Ranging from comedic, to fiercly political, to deeply personal, these novels are immensely entertaining and forecast a bright future for this brand new generation of novelists. As novelist Richard Powers says in his foreword, "There comes a time when we must decide whether we love the world enough to hand it over to its next lover . . . [This is a book of] nine worlds that nine people could not find and so had to make themselves. Here it is before you: how the story ends this time. And how it starts again."