The portable, constant companion for all law students, and the essential reference guide for laymen, business people, and all who desire a reliable guide to the law's special terminology, including that of European union law -- terms available on the instant, thanks to the e-book format. The Collins ... more »

This book addresses the global issue of poverty in ten different countries, discussing its causes, its extent and nature, socio-economic and historical contexts, and the measures that have been taken to mitigate it. more »

Boasting more than 970 alphabetically arranged entries, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture surveys British cultural practices and icons in the latter half of the twentieth century. more » more »

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Assists academic staff to develop their effectiveness as teachers and improve their students' learning by giving practical guidelines and suggestions for teaching and a series of activities. more » more »

Includes both comparative analysis of party systems, elections and governments, as well as individual case analyses of 44 European countries. Featured countries include: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus (Greek), Turkish Republic of Northern Cypress (TRNC), Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia ... more »

This volume brings together for the first time the British Conservative Political Party General Election Manifestos, dating back to 1900, and including the most recent General Election manifesto of ... more » more »

Texts, Facts and Femininity are a collection of essays, which illustrate the full range of work by this leading feminist scholar on social relations as texts. It includes Smith's famous essay K is m... more » more »

The Conceptual Roots of Mathematics is a comprehensive study of the foundation of mathematics. J.R. Lucas, one of the most distinguished Oxford scholars, covers a vast amount of ground in the philosophy of mathematics, showing us that it is actually at the heart of the study of epistemology and metaphysics ... more »

An ethnographic study of a school and community in East Africa focusing on the role school plays in the development of the children's identity and relationships to their parents and community, as well as in the development of the region. more »

A tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British ... more »

This work explores ways in which gendered and racialised identities are produced, sustained and transformed, stressing the links of contemporary identities with place and history. Using the case of Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese women, Linda Peake and Alissa Trotz reveal how divided groups conceptions ... more »