Lovingly illustrated adaptation of Andersen's classic fairy tale. Bilingual edition (English and German), accompanied by online audiobooks and videos in English (British as well as American) and German and printable coloring pages."The Wild Swans" by Hans Christian Andersen is, with good reason, one of the world's most popular fairy tales. In its timeless form it addresses the issues out of which human dramas are made: fear, bravery, love, betrayal, separation and r...

30 DAYS TO…Yes to Me will help you witness a profound shift in your mindset and a renewed connection with the most important person in your life—yourself.This 30 day journey will allow one to achieve various personal goals, from weight loss and fitness improvement to mastering new skills like playing the violin. However, the focus extends beyond external achievements to include self-love and personal growth.Embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery with "30 Days to...

Postcolonial Surveillance investigates the long history of the European border regime, focusing on the colonial forerunners of today’s border technologies. The book takes a longue durée perspective to uncover how Europe’s colonial history continues to shape the high-tech political present and has morphed into EU border migration policies, border security, and surveillance apparatuses. It exposes the racial hierarchies and power relations that form these systems and highli...

Organisations today face deep uncertainty and growing pressure to transform - from within and from the world around them.Signs of disconnection are everywhere: between people and purpose, brand and behaviour, profit and planet. The Power of impact is intended for leaders who recognise that tension and want to act. Leaders who care about doing the right thing, making meaningful impact, and bringing coherence to what their organisation thinks, does and values.This book present...

A teen working at a Parisian bakery witnesses a murder in this cozy holiday mystery with a dreamy romance at its center that’s a festive entry in the New York Times bestselling Advent Romance series, told in a perfectly paced advent calendar format with chapter-a-day reading.When Suzanne Sécretant arrives in Paris for her apprenticeship at the prestigious Rivoli bakery, nothing goes according to plan—starting with her being stuck rolling croissants instead...

Materiality, Rules and Regulation: New Trend in Management and Organization Studies concentrates on the relationship of rules and regulation to the materiality of artefacts, practices, and organizations. It combines the recent scholarly interest on sociomateriality with a focus on regulation and rules.

Patrick White (1912–1990) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 and remains one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. This book represents new work by an outstanding list of White scholars from around the globe. White’s centenary revived mainstream interest in White in Australia and included a major exhibition on his life at the National Library of Australia. So too did the discovery of a highly significant hoard of hitherto unknown papers which were released by White’s literary exe...

I always feared no alpha would choose me for his own.Hugo Pendleton sees past that fear the instant our hands meet over the dropped scroll beneath the rising eclipse. His dominance steadies the enclave, yet his hidden loneliness pulls at the submission I keep locked away.The sacred ritual keeps us close, and each brush of skin against mine stirs heat that demands his knot and the blood-bond claiming. When his monstrous form emerges, the bond turns irreversible, leaving the ...

A pretty roman. Marcus is traped in an empire. Will he make it???

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology. This is a critical area of study, as more than half of the world’s population now lives in cities and anthropological research is increasingly done in an urban context. Exploring contemporary anthropological approaches to the urban, the authors consider:How can we define urban anthropology?What are the main themes of twenty-first-century urban anthropologi...

At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving café latte and caesar salad, along with the budding gated communities in the city's desert expanses, exemplify three decades of economic liberalization. In the surrounding social landscape, the gradual abrogation of the Nasser-era structures that provided many with low-cost ...

How do people deal with diversity in deprived and mixed urban neighbourhoods? This edited collection provides a comparative international perspective on superdiversity in cities, with explicit attention given to social inequality and social exclusion on a neighbourhood level.Although public discourses on urban diversity are often negative, this book focuses on how residents actively and creatively come and live together through micro-level interactions. By deliberately taking an in...