Providing an exploration of the key issues, this book offers practical advice on how to improve the safeguarding and welfare of black children and young people in need.With contributions from academics, researchers and practitioners, it promotes an understanding of the particular cultural and social issues that affect black children in relation to child protection. It highlights how race and racism, as well as culture, faith and gender, can influence the ways need and risk are inte...

'Russell has long woven satisfying, suspenseful thrillers around the profound moral conflicts of political consent in dangerous days. With The City in Year Zero he does so as well as ever' - The Irish Times'Agonising and compelling . . . captivating from the first page to the end' - reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐----------Nothing thrived here, but something grew...Germany, 1945. Year...

Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find themselves in limbo while Europe gazes into an abyss of fascism and war. Among them is Stefan Zweig, a man in crisis: his German publisher has shunned him, his marriage is collapsing, his house in Austria no longer feels like home. Along with his lover Lotte, he seeks refuge in this paradise of promenades and parasols, where he reunites with his estranged friend Joseph Roth. F...

"Extraordinary stuff wonderfully executed... another top-class novel, a brilliant addition to this series, an outstanding read." - Amazon reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐----------In this dead city, the vultures are circling...Berlin 1944. The beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. And the beginning of a dark journey for Garda detective Stefan Gillespie as he makes his way through war-ravaged Europe to the German capital. H...

A chilling reenactment of the federal government’s anti-Communist investigationsThe testimony that Eric Bentley has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC’s treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly dramatic and compelling collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a “digni...

Tibet's enduring myth, animated by the tales of Himalayan adventurers, British military expeditions, and the novel, Lost Horizon, remains an inspirational fantasy, a modern morality play about the failure of brutality to subdue the human spirit. Tibet also exercises immense "soft power" as one of the lenses through which the world views China. This book traces the origins and manifestations of the Tibetan myth, as propagated by Younghusband, Madam Blavatsky, Himmler, Acheson and R...

Mathematik als ungewohnte Inspirationsquelle für Theologie: Das Buch entwickelt aus der Unterscheidungslogik der "Gesetze der Form" (George Spencer-Brown) und soziologischen Diagnosen zur "nächsten Gesellschaft" (u. a. Dirk Baecker) ein präzises Denk- und Arbeitsmodell für die Pastoral. Es macht komplexe Situationen sichtbar, ordnet Spannungen und eröffnet praktikable Entscheidungswege - ohne Widersprüche vorschnell zu glätten. "Logik trifft Logos" und führt mit klaren Strukturen vom Begri...

It's a fantastical adventure story for children. Kitto is a curious little bottlenose dolphin from Cornwall, UK. A pod of dolphins rides waves in the Atlantic when the hurricane strikes the coast. All of them should plunge into the deep waters to hide from the disaster. Will the playful child follow Mummy Bottlenose? Facing the excitement and dangers of his out-of-the-blue adventure, Kitto makes new friends in Lake Ontario. Yet, every child needs to come back home. How? Will he remember Mu...

An evocative, literary crime thriller set in Dublin and Spain just before the outbreak of WWII.Christmas 1939. In Europe the Phoney War hides carnage to come. In Ireland Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie keeps tabs on Irishmen joining the British Forces. It's unpleasant work, but when an IRA raid on a military arsenal sends Garda Special Branch in search of guns and explosives, Stefan is soon convinced his boss, Superintendent Terry Gregory, is working for the I...

Italy, 1943. Irish detective Stefan Gillespie leaves the chaos of Nazi-occupied Rome for neutral Switzerland on a mission his government knows nothing about. Waiting for a late-night connection in Zurich he sees a train that shouldn't be there. The train's SS guards, who shouldn't be there either, beat him to within an inch of his life. But Stefan's perilous journey begins in Rome with the barbaric murder of an idealistic young Irish priest. The Eternal City is a place of ...

Ireland 1941. A German spy escapes from Mountjoy Prison, clearly with inside help. Yet no one wants to catch him. When the head of Garda Special Branch sends Inspector Stefan Gillespie to find out why, it must be in secret. But he meets a web of deceit in which the past's dark shadows loom over the lies of the present. Alone, except for an alcoholic private detective and a woman who could betray him to the IRA, Stefan embarks on a journey that drags him into a plot to atta...

Ein deutscher Krimiautor reist mit der Bahn an die Ostsee, um dort endlich die Geschichte zu schreiben, die er immer schon schreiben wollte – einen Thriller über das perfekte Verbrechen. Während der Zugfahrt lernt der Schriftsteller einen Mann kennen, der ihm zu verstehen gibt, dass es ein vollkommenes Verbrechen nicht geben kann.