How large should local governments be? Scholars and public sector reformers alike have asked this question for many years. Size and Local Democracy investigates this subject in four countries where local governments play an important role but are different in size and structure - Switzerland, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands.Based on unique comparative data, the authors explore whether the size of municipalities has consequences for its citizens’ democratic perceptions,...

Autumn approaches, and with it comes a time of dark magic. In this issue we celebrate the fantastical, the foreign and the fatalistic. We have kallikantzaroi on a mission, banana Popsicle munching bombs, alien friends happy to lend more than a hand, a band that really puts themselves into their music and part one of Flashlight, Knife and Flowered Crown, an electrifying, modern fairy tale.Poetry, flash fiction and keen illustration add variety to the mix. An Spanish interview of Jac...

An improbable romance blazing across Western Europe and the West Coast. Marisol, the French wine heiress, has more needs than one might imagine. Does she "have it all"? Only with the American musician, crazy romantic and "second tier handsome" Steven in her life. Their wonderful, lyric romance is not all Michelin Stars, and love in many forms. It is a suspense-filled trial for them both and for their eccentric cadre of friends and enemies centered on the history of her family. Nazis! Colla...

"THE SPY FROM LYON", a world in CHAOS.A European Chasestyle SPY THRILLER... and a breathtaking love story.WORLD CONSPIRACY! Do YOU LIKE PAGE TURNING GEOPOLITICAL THRILLERS??? ANCIENT MYSTERIES? Fatal TWISTS? Female Protagonists...BAD women and NOT SO GOOD women too...Assassins at every turn!Terror across the capitals of Europe, Warfare in the deserts of Africa!IN THE NEWS!! "China co...

They're leaving their cabanas and turning smugglers, traffilers, traficantes! . Blue haired and bald smugglers! The folks from Boynton Beach! Meanwhile, in a different story, Crazy Heinrich is driving away from his lab in the wreck of Auschwitz Drei, on a mission to destroy the world. Who is sent to stop him? Marisol de Froissart , wine heiress,of the CIA and her lame consort Steven, the music teacher from Berkeley.Packed with humor, some of it racy, romance, tragedy, the occult, t...

FRANCE! Spycraft, seduction, power centered in France... Marisol's primary attributes. The CIA required these in an agent to stop or blunt the wars on three continents now brewing. The Great Powers slowly find out what was discovered in Africa from space. It was common Lithium but in such amounts and concentrations that the owners or the deposits would control all global technology for at least a century. And who did they say she needed to help her out? No one as far as she was concerned, ...

The world is blindfolded by two systems known as the lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar, and both are giving inaccurate timelines for archaeological discoveries, radiocarbon dating and your actual age. You Are Younger than Your Age seeks to clarify any doubts about your actual age and the age of the other worlds. It offers comprehensive information about creationism and spirituality, as well as the functioning of the other distinctive worlds. For example, Jerusalem is situated in th...

Shattering the glass ceiling in revealing new things, new innovations, and recreating a world globe, calendars, and the most accurate magnetic compass ever.Most people are unaware of whats going on around them, but a few will envision or maybe discern what lies ahead.Mankind should eliminate all the negatives and replace them with positive things, in order to save humanity from self-destruction.Mankind has to build a narrow pathway to friendship, love, cooperation arou...

The Jewish mystical tradition is still speaking to us.[Spirituality] is, first and foremost, a yearning to connect to the deep essence of things, a sense that there is a layer of existence that lies concealed beneath the surface of perception. It is this same quality that is reflected in the mystical sensibility…. It is, however, important to emphasize that the mystical dimensions of Judaism do not separate easily, if at all, from the traditional structures of the religion.from th...

Finding Hester explores the untold story of Hester Leggatt, a woman who helped trick the Nazis, and is a fascinating read for fans of West End musical Operation Mincemeat and anyone with an interest in women’s war storiesOperation Mincemeat is one of the stranger tales to come out of the Second World War. A corpse dressed as a British pilot was dropped in the ocean near Spain, with the forged documents he carried landing in the hands of the Germans to convince them to move their tr...

Raven meets Ben once a year. She doesn’t have his details. Just meets this sexy, hot farmer when he’s down for the Royal Show in Adelaide. That’s how it’s been for the last two years. Will he show up this year at their rendezvous place? Or has he found love with someone else in the last year?Ben is an alpaca farmer who comes to the Royal Show each year. His isolated and busy life means he hasn’t found love. But then there’s the financial pressures of the farm that keep him occupied...

City girl, Raven, took a chance, the biggest in her life, and moved to Ben’s alpaca farm after the Royal Show. Nearly three months later, she’s trying to adjust to life on a farm and living with Ben when they hardly know each other. To make the arrangement even more tricky, his mom also lives in the same house with them. Above all, she wasn’t prepared for the feeling of isolation that comes with living on the farm.Ben is enjoying finally being in a relationship, and better still, R...