The 'European project' is in a state of perpetual crisis in which the root cause is a lack of identification by ordinary citizens with Europe and European institutions. The Evolution of European Identities employs state of the art analysis of in-depth interviews by renowned practitioners to give a unique 'bottoms up' perspective on the development (or its lack) of a sense of 'European mental space'. Linking conceptual findings with case studies, the book provides unique insights into groups that have been especially sensitized by their life experiences to question what it means to be European...

Newspaper reporter Kathryn Murphy's picture-perfect existence is ceremoniously wadded up and tossed under the steamroller of life when her notorious predecessor, Fallon Foxe-former lover of the late Nelson Rockefeller-returns to work for the newspaper. As a result, Kathryn is drop-kicked into the Obituary Department-the journalism career equivalent of an elder care hospice. In an equally brutal twist of fate, Kathryn discovers the love of her life is really a closet pill-head with a rehab history that rivals Lindsay Lohan's. In an effort to save her career and her sanity, Kathryn enlists the...