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Step & Step Alliance is a children’s book publisher under the Beijing Huirui Times Culture Group (established in January 2008), supporting children’s comprehensive development. Step & Step Alliance is positioned in the domestic high-end children’s book market and develops and produces high-quality board books and novelty books, sound books, puzzle books and games, non-fiction books, interactive books, pop-up books, picture books meant for international coproductions through a smart, young and efficient international sales Team. Love to play, love to read and following step by step childhood and development! An open door to knowledge connecting the world!
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2023Imagining the Irish child
Discourses of childhood in Irish Anglican writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
by Jarlath Killeen
This book examines the ways in which ideas about children, childhood and Ireland changed together in Irish Protestant writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It focuses on different varieties of the child found in the work of a range of Irish Protestant writers, theologians, philosophers, educationalists, politicians and parents from the early seventeenth century up to the outbreak of the 1798 Rebellion. The book is structured around a detailed examination of six 'versions' of the child: the evil child, the vulnerable/innocent child, the political child, the believing child, the enlightened child, and the freakish child. It traces these versions across a wide range of genres (fiction, sermons, political pamphlets, letters, educational treatises, histories, catechisms and children's bibles), showing how concepts of childhood related to debates about Irish nationality, politics and history across these two centuries.
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Biography & True StoriesMarch 2026Eva Gore-Booth: Irish radical poet, rebel and reformer
Anniversary edition
by Sonja Tiernan
An acclaimed biography of poet, pacifist and political firebrand Eva Gore-Booth. The Irish poet and activist Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926) led a life defiantly at odds with her aristocratic origins. Choosing to live and work among the poor of Manchester, she campaigned on behalf of barmaids, circus performers, flower sellers and pit-brow lasses, her partner, Esther Roper, at her side. Gore-Booth was tireless in her pursuit of justice. She was a militant pacifist during the First World War, a champion of Irish independence and a pioneering thinker on gender and sexuality. She was also a prolific author, publishing nineteen volumes of poetry and prose that reflect the full force of her radical convictions. Featuring a new preface that situates Gore-Booth's life and work in the context of our current political climate, this biography reclaims her place as a significant figure of Anglo-Irish letters and an unsung hero of LGBT+ history.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2026Irish townspeople
The early modern urban experience, c.1400–c.1640
by Colm Lennon
Through a series of innovative perspectives, this book examines how early modern Irish townspeople experienced the urban world through a range of family and associational ties. Migrants inducted through town citizenship and marriage bonded more closely as sisters or brothers of confraternities and guilds, consolidating parish membership. Civic religion saw the integration of religion with town politics and councils, and monastic charity of the friars' hospitals preceded the era of modern municipal welfare. In circumstances of the alienation of the long-settled Catholic townspeople from the state's religious and political Reformation in the seventeenth century, they drew sustenance from the continuity of institutions such as colleges, fraternities and hospitals and forms of coexistence with Protestant fellow-citizens.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2017Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840
by Angela McCarthy, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
This book examines the distinctive aspects that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand. When, how, and why did Irish and Scots identify themselves and others in ethnic terms? What characteristics did the Irish and the Scots attribute to themselves and what traits did others assign to them? Did these traits change over time and if so how? Contemporary interest surrounding issues of ethnic identities is vibrant. In countries such as New Zealand, descendants of European settlers are seeking their ethnic origins, spurred on in part by factors such as an ongoing interest in indigenous genealogies, the burgeoning appeal of family history societies, and the booming financial benefits of marketing ethnicities abroad. This fascinating book will appeal to scholars and students of the history of empire and the construction of identity in settler communities, as well as those interested in the history of New Zealand.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 1998Irish Home Rule
by Alan O'Day, Mark Greengrass
Irish Home Rule considers the pre-eminent issue in British politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries. It is the first account to explain the various self-government plans, to place these in context and examine the motives for putting the schemes forward. The book distinguishes between moral and material home rulers, making the point that the first appealed especially to outsiders, some Protestants and the intelligentsia, who saw in self-government a means to reconcile Ireland's antagonistic traditions. In contrast, material home rulers viewed a Dublin Parliament as a forum of Catholic interests. This account appraises the home rule movement from a fresh angle, distinguishing it from the usual division drawn between physical force and constitutional nationalists It maintains that an ideological continuity runs from Young Ireland, the Fenians, the early home rulers including Isaac Butt and Charles Stewart Parnell, to the Gaelic Revivalists to the Men of 1916. These nationalists are distinguishable from material home rulers not on the basis of methods or strategy but by a fundamental ideological cleavage. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2009Irish Literature Since 1990
by Michael Parker, Scott Brewster
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August 2024Malte & Oßkar und das Glück, Pech zu haben
by Malte Zierden, Amia von Arenberg, Oßkar, Malte Zierden, Amia von Arenberg, Phia Quantius, Katja Brügger, Uticha Marmon, Uticha Marmon, Amia von Arenberg
In einem Haus zwischen vielen Häusern, in einer Wohnung über vielen Wohnungen lebt ein Junge. Malte. Auf den ersten Blick wirkt Malte ganz und gar gewöhnlich. Doch was keiner der Blicke verrät: Malte hat Angst. Angst vor den anderen da draußen. Nur in seiner kleinsten Badewanne der Welt fühlt er sicher. Und genau hier passiert Malte eines Tages etwas ganz und gar Außergewöhnliches: Er trifft seinen besten Freund: Oßkar, die Taube. Und wer hätte gedacht, dass dieses kleine Wesen Malte auf eine ganz besondere Reise führt, seine größte Reise: die Reise zu seiner Angst. Und zu sich selbst. Einfühlsam und authentisch gelesen von Malte Zierden, Amia von Arenberg und Weiteren.
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July 2024Malte & Oßkar und das Glück, Pech zu haben
by Malte Zierden, Amia von Arenberg, Oßkar, Amia von Arenberg
Eine Geschichte, die in keiner Schublade steckt. In einem Haus zwischen vielen Häusern, in einer Wohnung über vielen Wohnungen lebt ein Junge: Malte. Auf den ersten Blick scheint alles an ihm ganz und gar gewöhnlich. Doch was kein Blick verrät: Malte hat Angst. Angst vor der Welt da draußen. Der Welt vor seiner Tür. Nur in seiner Badewanne fühlt sich Malte sicher. Und genau dort plumpst eines Tages sein bester Freund durch das Badezimmerfenster: die Taube Oßkar. Und die nimmt Malte mit auf eine ganz besondere Reise, eine Reise zu seiner Angst – und zu sich selbst … Malte Zierden und Amia von Arenberg erzählen in ihrem Kinderbuch eine Geschichte über Freundschaft und Ängste, in die sie viele autobiografische Elemente einfließen lassen. Mit ihrem Buch möchten sie Kindern ab 5 Jahren zeigen, dass es völlig okay ist, Angst zu haben und wie wertvoll es sein kann, sie kennenzulernen und sich vielleicht sogar mit ihr anzufreunden. Ein wunderbares Bilderbuch über Freundschaft und Mut – und darüber, wie kleine Freunde große Veränderungen bewirken können! Malte & Oßkar: Eine Reise zu sich selbst Mit Humor und Tiefgang: Eine wunderbare Geschichte über Freundschaft, Mut und Angst. Wichtige Alltagsthemen: Das Bilderbuch vermittelt Kindern altersgerecht, wie wichtig Empathie, Verständnis und Selbstwertgefühl für zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen sind. Authentisch, poetisch und tiefgründig: Tierschutzaktivist Malte Zierden und Amia von Arenberg verarbeiten in ihrem ersten Kinderbuch autobiografische Elemente wie soziale Ängste und die große Freundschaft zu einer kleinen Taube. Das besondere Bilderbuch von Malte Zierden und Amia von Arenberg vermittelt eine wichtige Botschaft: Stell dich an die Seite deiner Angst und trau dich, an ihr zu wachsen. Eine humorvolle und tiefgründige Geschichte für Kinder ab 5 Jahren und alle, die sie auf der Suche nach ihren Gefühlen und Ängsten begleiten wollen.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2021Na Fianna Éireann and the Irish Revolution, 1909–23
by Marnie Hay
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2023Democracy and dissent in the Irish Free State
by Jason Knirck
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2017Charles Robert Maturin and the haunting of Irish romantic Fiction
by Christina Morin
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2016Medicine, health and Irish experiences of conflict, 1914–45
by David Durnin, Ian Miller
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2008The Irish voter
The nature of electoral competition in the Republic of Ireland
by Michael Marsh, Richard Sinnott, John Garry, Fiachra Kennedy
This pioneering analysis uses the results from the first ever Irish election study to provide a comprehensive survey of the motives, outlook and behaviour of voters in the Republic of Ireland. Building on the foundations laid down by previous work on comparative electoral behaviour, it explores long-term influences on vote choice, such as party loyalties and enduring values, as well as short-term ones, such as the economy, the party leaders and the candidates themselves. It also examines how people use their vote and why so many people do not vote at all. Many features of Irish elections make such a detailed study particularly important. The single transferable vote system allows voters an unusual degree of freedom to pick the candidates they prefer, while electoral trends observed elsewhere can be found in a more extreme form in Ireland. For example, attachment to parties is very low, differences between them are often obscure, candidate profiles are very high and turnout is falling rapidly. However, Irish elections defy international trends in other respects, most notably in the degree of personal contact parties and candidates make with their voters. Findings are presented in a manner that is highly accessible to anyone with an interest in elections, electoral systems and electoral behaviour. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in Irish politics and is an important text for students of European Politics, Parties and Elections, Comparative Politics and Political Sociology. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2019The post-crisis Irish voter
Voting behaviour in the Irish 2016 general election
by Michael Marsh, David M. Farrell, Theresa Reidy
This is the definitive study of the Irish general election of 2016 - the most dramatic election in a generation, which resulted in the worst electoral outcome for Ireland's established parties, the most fractionalized party system in the history of the state, and the emergence of new parties and groups. These outcomes follow a pattern seen across a number of Western Europe's established democracies in which the 'deep crisis' of the Great Recession has wreaked havoc on party systems. The objective of this book is to assess this most extraordinary of Irish elections both in its Irish and wider cross-national context. With contributions from leading scholars on Irish elections, and using a unique dataset - the Irish National Election Study 2016 - this volume explores voting patterns at Ireland's first post crisis election and it considers the implications for the electoral landscape and politics in Ireland.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2014Are the Irish different?
by Tom Inglis
This book examines the extent and nature of Irish social and cultural difference. It is a collection of twenty-three short essays written in a clear and accessible manner by human scientists who are international experts in their area. The essays cover topics covered include the nature of Irish nationalism and capitalism, the Irish political elite, the differences and similarities of the Irish family, the upsurge in immigration, Northern Ireland, the Irish diaspora, the Irish language, sport, music and many other topics. The book will be bought by those who have an academic and personal interest in Irish Studies. It will be attractive to those who are not familiar with the theories and methods of the human sciences and how they can shine a light on the transformations that have taken place in Ireland. Tom Inglis, the editor of the collection, is a sociologist who has written extensively on Irish culture and society. ;
