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      • Locus Publishing Company

        Locus Publishing Company offers a wide-ranging selection of titles to suit varied tastes:1) Fiction:including literary and genre, in Adult, YA/Crossover categories;2) Business and Trends;3) True Stories:including memoirs, biographies, and travelogues;4) Self-Help:especially those about personal growth;5) Illustrated books and creative works;6) General interest:including historical, philosophical, and social topics;7) Lifestyle:including but not limited to art, design, and photography;8) Health:everything about the wellness of mind and body;9) For Her:lifestyle and day-to-day inspirations as well as light literature designed for femalereaders.

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        June 2021

        Leselöwen 1. Klasse - Die verborgene Unterwasser-Stadt (Großbuchstabenausgabe)

        Erstlesebuch für Kinder ab 6 Jahren

        by THiLO, , Patrick Fix

        Mit seinem selbst gebauten U-Boot taucht Kalle hinab in den Schatzsee. Kann er das Geheimnis des Sees aufdecken? Plötzlich wird er von einem riesigen Kraken in die Tiefe gezogen und landet in der verborgenen Stadt von König Atlan. Mit den Leselöwen für die erste Klasse können Kinder schon ganz allein ihr erstes eigenes Buch lesen. In jedem Buch wartet eine spannende Geschichte zu einem beliebten Thema mit vielen bunten Bildern, kurzen Sätzen und kleinen Texteinheiten, die jeweils in Sinnschritte unterteilt sind. Die große Fibelschrift erleichtert das Lesenlernen und mit Rätseln und Sachwissen am Ende der Geschichte können die Kinder spielend leicht überprüfen, ob sie den Text richtig verstanden haben. So macht Lesenlernen Spaß!

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        June 2000

        Staat, Nation und Demokratie in Europa

        by Stein Rokkan, Elisabeth Fix, Paul Flora

        Im Mittelpunkt des Werks steht der Versuch, ein »Makromodell der politischen Entwicklung Europas« zu entwerfen. Das Ziel ist, die Vielgestalt Europas aus den unterschiedlichen historischen Prozessen der Staaten- und Nationenbildung und der Demokratisierung zu erklären. Flora fügt veröffentlichte und unveröffentlichte Schriften Rokkans zu einem konsistenten Ganzen zusammen und präsentiert mit dieser Ausgabe einen der wichtigsten Beiträge zum Verständnis des heutigen Europa und seiner zukünftigen Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2025

        Local government and democracy in Britain

        by Neil Barnett, J. Chandler

        Local government in the UK is in crisis. It is now neither local in terms of the geography and populations of its principle units, nor does it truly govern in these areas. As this book reveals, over the previous 200 years local government has moved from a system in which local interests held governance over localities to one in which central government and national and multi-national agencies such as corporate businesses hold governance over local and community decision-making. These changes seriously undermine the important role that local government can play in liberal democracy in the UK. The book explains the nature of local government today and asks if there is any possibility of change.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2009

        Local government today

        by J. Chandler, Bill Jones

        Local government today provides a comprehensive analysis of the structure, finance, management and democratic framework for local government in Britain. This new edition has been substantially rewritten to encompass the many changes to the structure and function of the system since 2000, including developments flowing from the 2007 Local Government Act. The study discusses how, during the Blair years, local governments came to be seen once again as centrally important institutions within Britain's political system. However, they are not seen as organisations that can function as separate agencies, undertaking all their duties 'in-house'. They are now required to work in partnership with the private, public and voluntary sectors to deliver local services and represent local interests. It is further argued that, for the first time in over a century, the barriers between civil servants and senior local government officers are being eroded as central government begins to incorporate leading local government officials into its decision-making processes. This established textbook also offers a comparative focus by showing how the British system differs from the structures for local governance in Western Europe and the United States. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2010

        World stages, local audiences

        Essays on performance, place and politics

        by Peter Dickinson, Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Peter Lichtenfels

        World Stages, local audiences argues that the forms of intimacy and identification that come from being part of the public of a local performance, provide a potential model for rethinking our roles as world citizens. Using his own experience of recent theatrical practice in Vancouver as a starting point, Dickinson maps the spaces of connection and contestation, the flows of sentiment and social responsibility, produced by different communities in response to global sports spectacles. He also analyses how such topics are taken up in the work of playwrights, conceptual, installation, and performance artists like Ai Weiwei, and Rebecca Belmore. In so doing, Dickinson makes an original contribution to the emerging discourse on live art and 'livability' by examining not only the geographical and historical affiliations between different sites of performance, but also the - at times - radical new social bonds created by audiences witness to those performances. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2011

        Structural reform of British local government

        Rhetoric and reality

        by Michael Chisholm

        During the 1990s, the structure of local government in Scotland and Wales was completely reorganised by Acts of Parliament. Under other legislation, and in response to recommendations from the Local Government Commission, there was a partial reorganisation in shire England. This is the only study which examines these reforms in one volume. Running through this study is the contrast between the rhetoric used to justify replacing counties and districts by new unitary authorities and the realities of local government. The book reviews the reasons for the reforms, the processes and outcomes in the three countries, and the nature of the evidence which was available for the advantages and disadvantages of reorganisation. Two chapters compare the prior assessments with the actuality, and the final chapter discusses some important lessons for national governance. This is the only study written by someone who was directly involved in the structural review, as a member of the Local Government Commission, and it combines this special experience with a wealth of information from many sources. The book will be a key text for teachers and students of local government and also important for those studying public administration, government and politics at the second or third year undergraduate level. There should also be a wide readership in local government circles and among MPs and those concerned with public life. ;

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        August 1980

        Venus im Pelz

        by Leopold Sacher-Masoch, Gertrud Müller, Gilles Deleuze

        "Ich will alles von dir ertragen, nur dich nicht verlieren.""Dann bist du mein Sklave.""Und du?""Ich? Was fragst du noch? Ich bin eine Göttin und steige manchmal leise, ganz leise und heimlich von meinem Olymp zu dir herab." VENUS IM PELZ ist ein Klassiker der erotischen Literatur - einen feinsinnige und faszinierende Geschichte um Liebe und Macht.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2013

        Leading the localities

        Executive mayors in English local governance

        by Colin Copus, Martin Hargreaves

        This book, now available in paperback, is the result of national research conducted amongst England's directly elected mayors and the councillors that serve alongside them. It is the first such major publication to assess the impact on local politics of this new office and fills a gap in our understanding of how the Local Government Act 2000 has influenced local governance. The book also draws from a range of research that has focused on elected mayors - in England and overseas - to set out how the powers, roles and responsibilities of mayors and mayoral councils would need to change if English local politics is to fundamentally reconnect with citizens. It not only explores how English elected mayors are currently operating, but how the office could develop and, as such, is a major contribution to the debate about the governance of the English localities. ;

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        Politics & government
        January 2015

        Governing Europe's neighbourhood

        Partners or periphery?

        by Edited by Katja Weber, Michael E. Smith and Michael Baun

        This volume, newly available in paperback, examines the role of the European Union in creating a system of governance involving the countries and regions of its new 'neighbourhood'. Enlargement has functioned as one of the EU's most effective foreign policy tools, yet the EU is rapidly approaching the limits of its capacity to accept new member states. It therefore must develop ways of extending and preserving the European zone of peace and stability that do not rely on the prospect of membership as a means of influencing the behaviour of non-member countries. A major step in this direction is the EU's new European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). The ENP aims to create a ring of 'well-governed and friendly' countries along the EU's eastern, southeastern, and southern peripheries. This volume situates this policy in a broad, analytically-coherent framework, supported by a full range of ENP case studies, to explain whether the ENP represents a truly new approach to regional governance.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2020

        The European Union and its eastern neighbourhood

        Europeanisation and its twenty-first-century contradictions

        by Mike Mannin, Paul Flenley

        This volume is timely in that it explores key issues which are currently at the forefront of the EU's relations with its eastern neighbours. It considers the impact of a more assertive Russia, the significance of Turkey, the limitations of the Eastern Partnership with Belarus and Moldova, the position of a Ukraine in crisis and pulled between Russia and the EU, security and democracy in the South Caucasus. It looks at the contested nature of European identity in areas such as the Balkans. In addition it looks at ways in which the EU's interests and values can be tested in sectors such as trade and migration. The interplay between values, identity and interests and their effect on the interpretation of europeanisation between the EU and its neighbours is a core theme of the volume.

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        July 2020

        Mein Geburtstags-Set. Spannende Schatzsuche

        by Blossier, Guillaume

        Der Kindergeburtstag steht vor der Tür - Spannung und Abenteuer sind gefragt! Das Geburtstags-Set enthält nicht nur Einladungen und Diplome für 12 mutige Schatzsucher, sondern auch die komplette Schatzsuche mit abwechslungsreichen Rätseln und Knobelaufgaben. Nur schnell die Hinweise entsprechend der Anleitung platzieren und los geht’s auf die wilde Jagd nach dem Schatz der Piraten! Ausgelegt auf 45 Minuten Spielspaß, führen Meerjungfrauen, Ninjas und Prinzessinnen die Spieler durch Raum und Zeit. Am Ende lockt der Piratenschatz! Und für die Eltern bleibt etwas Zeit, auch ein Stückchen Kuchen zu genießen.

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