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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      January 2026

      Migration and social policy in a changing world

      Histories, challenges and dilemmas

      by Bryan Fanning

      Migration and social policy in a changing world bridges the generally separate fields of social policy and migration studies. This book traces social policy responses to migration from the Industrial Revolution to today's era of globalisation and large-scale migration. Through case studies from across the globe, the book explores key themes including rural-urban migration, social citizenship, welfare internationalism and diasporic care systems. It examines how migrants are included in or excluded from social citizenship in host societies, and how they become providers of welfare services such as health and social care. Moving beyond a methodological nationalist focus, the book investigates migrant incorporation into welfare states through family networks, faith communities, and other informal welfare structures. It combines migrants' experiences with host societies' immigration politics, institutional perspectives and policies to present a comprehensive analysis of the migration-welfare relationship. This volume fills a gap in academic literature and offers policymakers, practitioners and scholars a framework for understanding the interplay between migration and social policy in our changing world.

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      Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
      June 2024

      Round our way

      Sam Hanna's visual legacy

      by Heather Nicholson

      Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the 'Lowry of filmmaking' by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 1980s. The well-meant label stuck, even though it misses the variety of Hanna's remarkable output. Hanna's intimate glimpses into the lives of strangers enable us to imagine the possible stories that lie behind the images. Away from mid-century exponents of documentary filmmaking and photography, Hanna shows us humanity and a microcosm of a world in change, where his subjects are caught up in issues far beyond their grasp that we, as onlookers years later, encounter and see afresh. Written and curated by historian Heather Norris Nicholson, Round our way combines stills, essays and archive photography to document Hanna's unique visual record on film, particularly in northern England, but also further afield, during decades of profound change.

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      March 2011

      Informal Modes of Governance in Customer Producer Relations

      The Electronic Industry in the Greater Pearl River Delta (China)

      by Meyer, Susanne

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      January 2022

      Das Meckertier

      by Mareike Postel / Ann Cathrin Raab

      The Grumbly‘The Grumbly’ is in a bad mood! It doesn't like to play or laugh and can't be happy about anything - instead it grumbles on and on. But lastly, it looks for a cozy place and falls asleep. Lo and behold, the next morning ‘The Grumbly” has turned into a real happy-go-lucky animal!The board book series on classic everyday topics, in this case: bad moods that have no particular reason. The topic ‘Being grumbly’ is implemented with a lot of humor and without a ‘raised forefinger’, not intentionally pedagogical. Also told in rhyme and focusing on a goat, a familiar animal. The message becomes clear: Everyone has a bad day and is tired sometimes - but you can be sure: it passes!

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      Children's & YA
      2016

      Bison Looks for a Nest

      by Oksana Bula (Author), Oksana Bula (Illustrator)

      Once upon a time a bison met a bear. Winter was coming and he asked the bear where he could get food since everything was covered with snow. The bear answered that he didn’t eat in the winter. Instead he usually went into a deep sleep. Every year at the same time the Tukonis, the magical forest inhabitants, would put him to sleep in a den and wake him up at springtime. The bison was amazed. He had never slept all though the winter and couldn’t even imagine that other animals did. How wonderful it would be to sleep in a cozy nest rather than roam around in the snow searching for food! The bison decided that the Tukonis should put him to bed as well. From 3 to 6 years, 407 words Rightsholders: ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua

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      Food & Drink

      Tea Book

      by Studio of Fashion and Life

      This book is a tea encyclopedia for those who are new to tea. It includes detailed explanations of 67 kinds of famous teas, 37 practical tea brewing exercises, and 33 tea therapeutic methods and prescriptions. Adopting a large number of exquisite pictures and easy-to-understand words, Tea Book allows readers to receive a complete and clear knowledge of tea from the growing environment, quality characteristics to purchasing criteria, and obtain a profound understanding and appreciation of Chinese tea culture.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      September 2019

      Chinese Tea Culture in Guzhang

      by Xie Hui

      Guzhang County, in western Hunan, is one of the birthplace of Chinese tea culture where several kinds of famous Chinese tea are produced and national industries and technology systems developing tea are set up. The book focuses on tea culture, and describes how people in Guzhang County realized poverty alleviation as well as lived a better life in the process of planting tea, making tea, and promoting tea. The book is about 120,000 words divided into four chapters: the first chapter introduces the spirit of tea makers through the story of Guzhang "Tea King", history of tea in Guzhang, wishes of tea planters, and the development of tea industry; the second chapter tells the stories of tea makers who manage the tea industry and promote Guzhang tea; the third chapter talks about the innovation and brand of Guzhang tea; the fourth chapter relates how outsiders contributed to the growth of Guzhang.

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      Fiction
      September 2009

      Library of Chinese Classics :The Classic of Tea

      by Jiang Xin, Jiang Yi

      The Book of Tea is written by Lu Yu, who is hailed as the "Tea Saint." It was written in the first year of Jianzhong in the Tang Dynasty (AD 780). As the first tea in China and even in the world, "The Book of Tea" pioneered the Chinese tea ceremony and the precedent for the tea "writing study and learning", and its historical and cultural value has so far been unmanned. "The Book of Tea," a comprehensive account of planting tea, picking tea, tea, tea, tea, recorded tea, Yong tea and other rich content. "Continued Tea" Written in the "Book of Songs" was born about a thousand years later, the author is Qing Dynasty scholar Lu Tingcan. "Continued Tea" followed the "tea by" way, the word number is "tea" ten times. This tea monograph collects Luo Hongfu on the historical materials of tea after the Tang Dynasty, which has fine examination, clear definition and high academic and historical value. "The Book of Songs" and "Continuation of the Tea" is a pair of tea culture books in natural sciences and social sciences, material and spiritual clever combination of the shiny treasure. The translation of this translation and English translation by the Dalian University of Technology College of Foreign Languages Jiang Yi, Professor Jiang Xin completed.

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      September 2023

      Talking to the Moon

      by Sherin Nagib, Moon Notes

      Mit schönem Farbschnitt in der Erstauflage – Lieferung je nach Verfügbarkeit Meine Stimme: Female Empowerment voller Musik. »Mit jeder Zeile meines Songs verliere ich mein Herz mehr an dich ...« Judy ist Feuer und Flamme, als an ihrer Uni ein Wettbewerb um einen Vertrag bei einer Plattenfirma ausgeschrieben wird. Eine Karriere als Songwriterin ist schon lange ihr Traum. Noch bevor sie überhaupt zum Wettbewerb zugelassen werden kann, schafft ein rassistischer Dozent es, in ihr Zweifel an ihrem Talent zu wecken. Doch dann trifft sie auf Jaad, der selbst Musiker ist und dem sie sich anvertraut. Auch er steht aufgrund seiner Herkunft vor großen Herausforderungen. Bei Kaffee-Dates unter der kalifornischen Sonne und bei abendlichen Musikproben entsteht zwischen Jaad & Judy mehr als nur berührende Liebeslieder. Doch ist Jaad wirklich da, wenn Judy ihn am meisten braucht? Talking to the Moon: Own-Voice Lovestory zwischen College, Songwriting und Coffee. Die zugleich empowernde wie romantische Own-Voice-Story einer Hidschabi. Freu dich auf den modernen Contemporary College-Roman unter der Sonne Kaliforniens. Autorin und Sensitivity Readerin Sherin Nagib, geboren 1991 als Tochter einer Deutschen und eines Ägypters, bloggt auf Instagram für und über rassismuskritisches Lesen. Behandelt wichtige Themen wie Antirassismus und Identität. Eine cozy New Adult Lovestory voller Bauchkribbeln und Musik.

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      September 2020

      Lotte, are you daydreaming again?

      A book for dreamy children and their parents

      by Stefanie Rietzler, Fabian Grolimund

      Rabbit girl Lotte, 10 years old, has a hard time: "Don't dawdle around!", "Stop dreaming!" - Her parents and the strict teacher, Mrs. Luchs, constantly have something to criticize about her. Fortunately, Lotte’s best friends stand by her side: the hard-working and somewhat anxious duck Merle and the cozy bear Frieda, who would love to be a ballerina. Lotte is close to despairing over endless homework, exams, bad grades, and her forgetfulness when she meets a strange woman who dwells in the deserted forest. She knows the value of dreaming and lets Lotte in on an ancient secret … This book is for dreamy primary school children and their parents who would like to learn how to concentrate better when studying at home and at school why dreaming is important, too how to identify your strengths how to get better organized and forget less. A story about school, friendship, and the parent-child relationship, which makes you think and inspires discussions. For: dreamy children and their parents parents of children diagnosed with ADHD teachers psychologists and psychotherapists psychiatrists

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      June 2022

      Cheap street

      by Victoria Kelley

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      November 2447

      Cosi fan tutte ossia La scuola degli amanti

      So machen's alle oder Die Schule der Liebenden. Dramma giocoso in zwei Akten

      by Wolfgang A Mozart, Lorenzo DaPonte,

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