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J. E. Copus, Zane Grey, Ring Lardner, William Frederick Kirk, Christy Mathewson, Burt L. Standish, Albertus T. Dudley, Hugh S. Fullerton, W. Crispin Sheppard, Lester Chadwick, Morgan Scott, H. Irving Hancock, Frank A. Warner, J. W. Duffield, Alan Captain Douglas, Mark Overton, Ralph Henry Barbour, Donald Ferguson, Raymond Stone, Grantland Rice

Baseball Chronicles: A Collection of 32 Classic Storybooks gathers fiction, anecdote, sporting romance, and reflective prose from the formative literary culture of American baseball. Its varied pieces move between youthful aspiration, clubhouse humor, competitive suspense, moral instruction, and the mythmaking of the diamond. Stories of decisive games and emerging players stand beside comic sketches and more sentimental narratives, revealing baseball as both spectacle and social language. ...

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J. E. Copus

J. E. Copus'Äôs "As Gold in the Furnace" is a compelling exploration of transformation and resilience, narrated through the struggles of individuals facing intense personal trials. The title itself evokes a metaphorical crucible, signifying how extreme adversity can refine the human spirit. Copus employs a poetic and lyrical style, rich in imagery and emotional depth, allowing readers to engage with the characters'Äô inner turmoil and triumphs. Set against a backdrop of socio-cultural uphe...

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Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)

This book provides a comprehensive insight into contemporary management challenges shaped by digital transformation, operational excellence, and data-driven human resource strategies. It presents innovative frameworks for decision-making, workforce optimization, and financial innovation by integrating theoretical perspectives with real-world applications. With contributions from international scholars, it offers fresh perspectives on emerging technologies, sustainability, and business inte...

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Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)

Digital transformation is reshaping how organizations create value, manage resources, and respond to an increasingly complex global environment. Data-Centric Business and Applications: Data-Driven Management – How Digital Transformation Shapes New Organizational Paradigms and Brings Challenges and Opportunities for the Modern Era brings together peer-reviewed research presented at the Poprad Economic and Management Forum (PEMF2025), offering a comprehensive view of how data-driven technolo...

100 poems to reach for on dark nights, selected by Julia Copus.These are poems to wander about in and commit to memory so they can be stored away in the deep heart's core; places to visit and return to at will.Poems that reawaken the senses and offer new ways of looking; that unsettle us and reconnect us to the world that surrounds us; that bring us to a place of greater clarity.Life Support includes a star-studded cast of authors including William Wordswort...

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Regions and Cities

This book reflects on how the economies, social characteristics, ways of life and global relationships of rural areas of Europe have changed in recent years. This reveals a need to refresh the concepts we use to understand, measure and describe rural communities and their development potential. This book argues that Europe has 'outgrown' many of the stereotypes usually associated with it, with substantial implications for European Rural Policy.Rural structural change and its evolvi...

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Marta Derek, Jarosław Neneman, Jerzy Bartkowski, Gro Sandkjær Hanssen, Wirginia Aksztejn, Robin Hambleton, Kristof Steyvers, Ulrik Kjaer, Jurga Bučaitė-Vilkė, Gábor Dobos, Esther Pano, Jan Erling Klausen, Kurt Houlberg, Lawrance E. Rose, Harald Baldersheim, Rachel Wall, Alistair Jones, António F Tavares, Julita Łukomska, Hubert Heinelt, Adam Gendzwill, Colin Copus

Drawing on classical and emerging research perspectives, this comprehensive book provides an up-to-date review of local government in Europe.Featuring an impressive range of contributors from both eastern and western Europe, the book addresses three main topics: territorial reforms, democratic empowerment of citizens and the role of local leadership, as well as new trends in local finances.Acknowledging their inherent diversity, the book examines the ways that local governm...

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Steve Leach, Colin Copus

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Political Science and International Studies (R0)

This book challenges the notion that bigger local government is always better. Whilst the central government in Britain has often supported increases in local government size, the book argues that this has been detrimental, and has caused the erosion of distinctive community identities that were previously represented by local authorities empowered to make significant local choices about services and future strategy. Drawing from national and international evidence, it offers an alternativ...

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Alasdair Blair, Paweł Swianiewicz, Christine Cheyne, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska, Colin Copus, Petr Jüptner, Adam Gendzwill, Paul Burton, James Svara, Nasrul Ismail, Paul Hepburn, Nicola Headlam, Howard Elcock, Thom Oliver, Robin Hambleton

Directly elected mayors are political leaders who are selected directly by citizens and head multi-functional local government authorities. This book examines the contexts, features and debates around this model of leadership, and how in practice political leadership is exercised through it.The book draws on examples from Europe, the US, and Australasia to examine the impacts, practices, and debates of mayoral leadership in different cities and countries. Themes that recur througho...

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Victoria Copus

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A Wraeththu Mythos Novel

A Wraeththu Mythos NovelTerzah, a wilful and fiery second generation har from the tribe of Kheops, has accompanied his Gelaming consort, Zen, to a remote area of Megalithica, where the Gelaming have set up a rough settlement for human refugees. Terzah has recently had a harling, and is far from happy with Zen's posting. Terzah despises humans and has nothing but contempt for those around him.However, when tragedy strikes the small community, and a human who...

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Julia Copus

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Andrew Stevenson, Julia Copus

WINNER OF THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYJulia Copus's new collection, Girlhood, is a book of transgressed boundaries and seductive veneers. Restlessly inquisitive, it exposes the shifting power balance between things on the verge of becoming and the forces that threaten to destroy them.Reading these poems, we have the sense of encountering a series of filmic installations arranged by episode in a gallery. Lost, censored or disparaged voices speak out from seclude...

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Mark Roberts, Rachel Wall, Colin Copus

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Political Science and International Studies (R0)

The book explores the claim that English local government exists in one of the most centralised relationships with national government. Such a position fundamentally undermines any notion of local self-government and makes the term ‘government’ in local government a misnomer. The book will examine how the erosion of the autonomy, powers, roles, functions and responsibilities of English local government came about, the arguments of centralisers and localisers to support their view of the co...