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Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art, and women. Published posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry—a format which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux, and freedom of his age—and one of the founding texts of literary modernism.

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An exquisitely illustrated picture book that explores our relationship with forests and looks at how climate change is changing the pictureForests are different around the world. They range from hot, damp rainforests to icy taiga forests, but all of them offer a home for animals and plants, precious natural resources and beautiful places to have fun, spot nature and find calm. But forests are under threat from climate change, habitat loss and pollution. Find out how we can all help to look after our precious forests, as well as enjoy them.Titles in the series:Our CitiesOur ForestsOur Oceans Our Skies Children's Planet is a beautifully illustrated series of picture books that encourage children to engage with and enjoy our precious natural surroundings. Perfect for children aged 5 and up.

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This charming picture book for children aged 4 plus, illustrated by Ukrainian-American artist Sofia Moore, explores times when children find it difficult to be kind and offers some great solutions. Mia and Jackson have fallen out and are not talking to each other. Meanwhile, around the world, other children are learning to be kind by sharing and by helping others and nature. What will Mia and Jackson do? The book is packed with different situations and explores ways we can be kind and build empathy, from including others in games to 'passing on' kindness. The situations range from interactions with friends and family, to teachers and people we will never meet in worse situations than us. Finding Kindness is part of the series A World Full of Feelings, which explores emotions and feelings and depicts different cultures around the world through the illustrations, promoting cultural understanding and empathy. The other titles are Finding Courage, Finding Happiness and Finding Calm.

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How to create a delicious charcuterie board tailored to any occasion and taste, and use charcuterie in simple recipes. Want to make the most of the wide variety of charcuterie products available today? From cured meats, smoked sausages and salami to pâtés and rillettes, you’ll find the perfect serving suggestion here. Travel around the world and get to know well-known charcuterie from the obviously popular countries of Italy, Spain and France, delving deeper into the regional intricacies to really understand the origins and appeal. Charcuterie Boards also invites you to travel a bit wider and sample some hidden gems from Germany, the UK, Poland and further afield to discover flavours from around the world. Learn how to match and put together visually impressive and delicious charcuterie boards. Choose from a range of themed boards, to help you create a variety of table showstoppers to wow your guests; or even just when dining solo or for two to really get to know charcuterie and all its wonderful flavours. There is endless possibility for different charcuterie combinations to suit all occasions from grouping various salamis from different countries for a taste sensation, to creating the perfect charcuterie board for an on-the-move picnic.

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Do you believe in unicorns? Of course you do! But have you ever wondered what they are actually made of? Are they filled with jelly beans? Do they have marshmallow manes? This fantastical board book has the answers. With a touch-and-feel rainbow mane on the cover and a pop-up unicorn at the end!

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Elves are Santa's special helpers - they make Christmas magical for every girl and boy. But have you ever wondered what they are made of? This festive board book explores the possibilities and reveals the answers with a fantastic pop-up elf at the end!

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Explore life on the farm in this adorable interactive board book for babies and toddlers!Perfect for Easter and beyond, My Neighborhood Farm is a fun introduction to life on the farm. From the red barn to the farmhouse porch, meet all the adorable animals who live on the farm. See animals including cows, ducks, pigs, and horses and learn what sound each animal makes. This colorful book features a fold-down farm play scene, encouraging interactive play within its pages.Collect each title to create your very own town!Celebrate all the local places you know and love with the My Neighborhood interactive board book series. Featuring adorable baby animal illustrations, each title allows little explorers to learn more about their very own neighborhood. Includes an interactive fold-down scene that encourages children to play within the book's pages.For babies and toddlers, these sturdy shaped board books are a fun introduction to all the neighborhood places you love to explore with your family.Delightful rhyming text helps build listening and memory skills.A sweet gift for children and grandchildren. Perfect for baby showers, new parents, birthdays, and Valentine's Day. Also a great Easter basket and Christmas stocking stuffer.

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The Jungle 6 x 8" Wire-O Journal from Galison is the perfect companion notebook with lined pages and a large functional spiral binding. • Size: A5 6 x 8.5”, 148 x 205 mm • Hard Cover • Wire-O Binding • 160 Ruled Pages • Foil Stamp on Cover

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Many in the field have felt the need for a research and content workbook of Feminist Studies and Susan Peterson, a well known feminist scholar, has provided a unique conceptual and paradigmatic tool that includes essays, question and concept development and a thorough bibliography. Especially useful for those running diversity and research programs or teaching in this area. Also very useful to full time administrators dealing with gender issues.

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Adele needs no introduction. From humble beginnings she has come to be a globally recognized icon. Her first album shot her to fame and the second consolidated her position as a singing/songwriting superstar with lasting, global appeal. She has already won more than 40 industry awards, including 11 Billboard Music Awards, a BRIT award, and eight Grammy awards. She has broken record after record: first artist to sell more than 3m albums in a year in the UK, first living artist to have two top five hits in both the UK singles and albums charts simultaneously since the Beatles, the first artist in history to lead the Billboard chart concurrently with three number ones, 21 is the longest running number one album by a female solo artist on the UK chart and in the US it held the top position for longer than any other album since 1993.

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Beautifully written, with sumptuous and enchanting descriptions of Indonesia, this is a haunting, menacing novel that completely transports you to a specific time and place and perfectly portrays that shared sense of guilt in all of us about mistakes or inactions of the past.

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First published in 1917 as ''Midwifery'', Obstetrics by Ten Teachers is well established as a concise, yet comprehensive, guide within its field. The 21st Edition has been thoroughly updated by its latest team of ''teachers'', integrating clinical material with the latest scientific developments that underpin patient care.Each chapter is highly structured, with learning objectives, definitions, aetiology, clinical features, investigations, treatments and key point summaries and additional reading where appropriate. A key theme for this edition is ''professionalism'' and information specific to this is threaded throughout the text.KEY FEATURES* Fully revised content is entirely refreshed and up to date for this twentieth edition, including the latest imaging and reproductive technologies and current guidelines for best practice Highly illustrated text supported and enhanced throughout by high-quality co

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Some groups participate in politics more than others. Why? And does it matter for policy outcomes? In this richly detailed and fluidly written book, Andrea Campbell argues that democratic participation and public policy powerfully reinforce each other. Through a case study of senior citizens in the United States and their political activity around Social Security, she shows how highly participatory groups get their policy preferences fulfilled, and how public policy itself helps create political inequality. Using a wealth of unique survey and historical data, Campbell shows how the development of Social Security helped transform seniors from the most beleaguered to the most politically active age group. Thus empowered, seniors actively defend their programs from proposed threats, shaping policy outcomes. The participatory effects are strongest for low-income seniors, who are most dependent on Social Security. The program thus reduces political inequality within the senior population--a laudable effect--while increasing inequality between seniors and younger citizens. A brief look across policies shows that program effects are not always positive. Welfare recipients are even less participatory than their modest socioeconomic backgrounds would imply, because of the demeaning and disenfranchising process of proving eligibility. Campbell concludes that program design profoundly shapes the nature of democratic citizenship. And proposed policies--such as Social Security privatization--must be evaluated for both their economic and political effects, because the very quality of democratic government is influenced by the kinds of policies it chooses.

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After the Berlin Wall fell, scholars flocked to eastern Europe to conduct extensive opinion research on citizens' political attitudes and values. In eastern Germany, post-communist political elites were found to differ from western German politicians, exhibiting greater distrust of both political parties and party discipline, more political intolerance, a preference for economic equality over political freedom, and support for direct rather than representative democracy. These attitudes were expected to be hurdles to democratization. Yet only limited research has been done to determine whether eastern German politicians' attitudes and values actually influenced their actions. Becoming Party Politicians fills this empirical void by comparing eastern and western German state legislators in the decade following unification. While the two groups hold contrasting attitudes, they serve in virtually identical political institutions. The book finds little evidence to suggest that the political attitudes and values of eastern parliamentarians have hindered their adaptation to united Germany's political system. Instead, Germany's parliamentary and electoral institutions—together known as the party state—have created disciplined eastern parliamentarians. Placed in these identical parliamentary institutions, both eastern and western German legislators have responded similarly. Legislative voting on issues surrounding political tolerance, direct democracy, and economic equality can now be predicted on the basis of parliamentarians' partisan affiliation rather than their eastern or western origin. Davidson-Schmich's conclusions, based on personal interviews with state legislators and analysis of parliamentary debates between 1990 and 2002, not only shed light on German politics and the sources of legislator behavior; they also contribute to broader debates involving both the ability of western European political institutions to survive societal change and the influence of political institutions on the consolidation of democracy in post-communist settings.

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Poppy loves ballet and is sure she'll be picked to play Coppelia in the Big Show. But when her best friend Honey gets the part, Poppy is so cross that she doesn't even want to be friends anymore! Will Poppy realize how important friendship is in time to be a true ballerina princess on the night of the show?

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Marie is brought up as a country girl on the West coast of France, but world events catch up with her and life has more in store for her than her family ever expected.As a teenager working in a bar, the Resistance movement makes use of her local knowledge to help Jewish youngsters to escape the Nazi threat. Moving to Paris after the War, she is caught up in the aftermath of the Vel d'Hiv atrocity, and is sent on an investigation by a local Communist newspaper into the heart of Siberia. Back in Paris in the 1950s, she finds herself involved in the French/Algerian crisis and travels to North Africa.Here is the story of a young woman who is passionately interested in justice, not easily intimidated by political rhetoric of any sort, but most of all is touched by the personal relationships she forms with the people she is sent to investigate and those she meets on her travels. She is constantly discovering herself and the complexities of the wo

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