Based on 115 interviews with Polish mothers in the UK and Poland, as well as a specially-commissioned opinion poll, this topical book discusses recent Polish migration to the UK. In a vivid account of every stage of the migration process, the book explores why so many Poles have migrated since 2004, why more children migrate with their families and how working-class families in the West of England make decisions about whether to stay. With a fully revised introduction for the paperback edi...

No matter what you're going through, fear not. Courage is possible!If you want to live a more hopeful, joyful, and courageous life—in the midst of any and all circumstances—join Ann White through this encouraging 12-week study. Based on the life-changing book, Courage For Life, and drawing on timeless life lessons from God's Word, the Courage For Life Study Guide leads groups and individuals on a transformational journey towards spiritual growth t...

No matter what you’re going through, fear not. Courage is possible!We all experience some level of pain, heartbreak, and disappointment. Yet when we ignore our need to address our emotional injuries, we allow them to fester and infect every aspect of our lives―including our closest relationships.Take heart! Your journey toward freedom begins the moment you choose to stand up and face your life with courage. In Courage For Life, author Ann White pro...

"If you have been searching for a way out of wherever you are or whatever you are going through, Ann White provides a path and a process to take the next best step to a better life--the life God has made you for and called you to." –Steve Arterburn, Founder of New Life MinistriesNo matter what you're going through, fear not. Courage is possible!We all experience some level of pain, heartbreak, and disappointment. Yet when we ignore our need to addr...

This book examines a number of key questions about social change in contemporary Russia - issues such as how people survive when they are not paid for months on end, 'the New Poor', the falling birth rate, why so many Russian men die in middle age, whether regional identities are becoming stronger, and how people's sense of 'Russianness' has developed since the creation of the Russian Federation in 1992. It examines these issues by looking at actual experiences in three small Russian towns...

De-Stalinization and the House of Culture (1990) looks at the houses of culture – arts centres which in the Stalinist period functioned as agencies of political socialisation – and the changes in their character and functions since Stalin’s death. This book explores the diminishing control of the Communist Party over public leisure from 1953 to the present day, as one aspect of the de-Stalinization and the dismantling of the totalitarian system. It focuses on the changing nature a...

Aid worker Nikki Hunt only wanted to ask Sheik Zakir Al Arif for safe passage across his war-torn country. She never expected to be taken prisoner by the handsome, secretive sheik. Or to be attracted by the lust his dark stare set off in her—a lust as hot as the Sahara.Desperate to thwart a coup, Zakir was forced to hold the beautiful stranger captive—though what he really wanted was to take her to his bed. In close quarters, Nikki and Zakir succumbed to their explosive desire—unti...

Aussie cop Dylan Hastings believes in things that are real. Family. Integrity. Justice. And he knows from bitter experience that the wrong woman can destroy it all. So when Megan Stafford walks into his life-a gorgeous urbanite who represents everything Dylan opposes-he knows trouble's not far behind.Megan can't understand why she's so attracted to this infuriating man-even if he could double as a Greek god. She's a city girl. He's a country cop. And their attraction only reminds t...

Faith Sinclair never missed a shot-or a kill. But when the mysterious man she knew only as Santiago was in her sniper's sights, the game changed. It had to. She couldn't kill him in cold blood. Not the father of her unborn baby.Sheik Omair Al Arif's mind was on one thing: revenge. The undercover king didn't bargain on an intoxicating enemy bent on foiling his plans. And when the two would-be foes joined forces, they discovered nothing was as it seemed-their identities, their missio...

A thrilling Coltons of Wyoming mystery unfolds from award-winning author Loreth Anne White.The dark mystery of a Colton child’s disappearance has haunted Dead River Ranch for thirty years. Who will uncover the truth?Solving the crime is foreign correspondent Jagger McKnight’s last chance to put his war-ravaged past to rest. But his undercover mission leaves him the victim of an attack. He wakes up to discover that beautifu...

He should be dead. That was what Olivia Killinger thought when her former fiancé appeared at her door sixteen years after his "death."Now Jacques Sauvage was asking for her help to bring down a deadly syndicate—which was led by her own father.Olivia had never stopped loving Jacques, but how could she trust the man? She knew he needed her help…but did he also want to reignite the passion that had once burned between them?

Prince Albert was jealous of his older brother Prince Earnest and his daughter Princess Ann, using his puppet wife Queen Victoria to issue a decree that she would be titled a Lady. Princess Ann was upset and killed three of their daughters in revenge. Queen Victoria was furious and arrainged a marriage to the oldest, lowest, poorest, abusive, gambling, womanizing, drunken bastard relation available.  Lord Charles Hawthorne in this atmosphere created The Ripper. Chief Inspector Fred Ab...