EU Social Policy: Developments in the field and insights for the study of social policy. ACES Cases No. 2012.1

This paper focuses on the key features of EU social policy and the way it has been interpreted and seeks to identify new directions for study. EU social policy is considered along two main dimensions: its content and hallmark features and the main approaches to conceptualizing and theorizing it. Rather than the classic negative depiction of EU social policy, this piece suggests that it is more significant than usually allowed, not least because the empirical and theoretical lenses which have been applied to it were developed for other purposes. The implication is that developments in EU social policy are often overlooked, not least in how the EU has carved out a role for itself by constantly framing and reframing discourses relevant to social policy and social problems in an attempt to both influence how social actors at all levels of governance approach policy and secure their acceptance of its role in social policy. Therefore analyzing EU social policy outside of the traditional frames reveals interesting and significant developments especially around innovation in social policy and the attempt to legitimate the EU as a social policy actor.

Seeing the bigger picture: The refugee crisis and the link to CFSP. EPC Commentary, 16 November 2015

The EU’s current approach in dealing with the refugee crisis is not working. Closing borders is certainly not addressing the challenge. The United Nations (UN) recorded more than 218,000 arrivals to Europe in the month of October, almost as many as during the whole of 2014. There is no way of managing these flows – and the crisis itself – if we do not concentrate on the bigger picture.

Carpentry : being a comprehensive guide book for carpentry and joinery : with elementary rules for the drawing of architecture in perspective and by geometrical rule : also, treating of roofs, trussed girders, floors, domes, stair-cases and hand-rails, shop fronts, verandahs, window-frames,shutters, &c. &c., and public and domestic buildings, with plans, elevations, sections, &c. &c./

Mode of access: Internet.

East Texas lumber workers; an economic and social picture, 1870-1950.

Bibliography: p. 201-214.

A picture of the empire of Buonaparte, and his federate nations; or, The Belgian traveller: being a tour through Holland, France and Switzerland, during the years 1804-5. In a series of letters from a nobleman to a minister of state.

Mode of access: Internet.

The life and times of Thomas Turner of East Hoathly; a picture of the daily life in a small village in Sussex, England, drawn from the diary of a tradesman ffor the years 1754-1765.

Bibliography: p. [70]-73.

Picture of Edinburgh : containing a description of the city and its environs, with a particular account of every remarkable object, and public establishment, in the Scottish metropolis /

Mode of access: Internet.

Frontier humor in verse, prose and picture.

Mode of access: Internet.

James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture,

Mode of access: Internet.

A picture from life: or, The history of Emma Tankerville and Sir Henry Moreton ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner folks : a novel ; a picture of New England home life /

Mode of access: Internet.

Captain's Cuellar's adventures in Connacht & Ulster A.D. 1588 : a picture of the times, drawn from contemporary sources : To which is added an introduction and complete translation of Captain Cuellar's Narrative of the Spanish Armada and his adventures in Ireland /

Based on the author's paper published in the Ulster journal of archeology, v.1, pt.3, April 1895 under title: Spanish Armada in Ulster and Connacht.

Optic projection : principles, installation, and use of the magic lantern, projection microscope, reflection lantern moving picture machine, fully illustrated with plates and with over 400 text-figures /

Bibliography: p. 693-703.

The lumber estimator : Board and surface measure contents of fractional sizes of lumber, specially arranged for rapid estimating of contents of stock used in manufacture of doors, sash, blinds, door and window frames, interior and exterior finish, furniture, boxes, veneers, etc., etc. /

p. 113, advertising matter.