The 1980s are indelibly marked as the Margaret Thatcher decade. Did Margaret Thatcher really care about or understand Scotland? Why did Scots apparently reject her and Thatcherism? This title examines this curious dynamic and confronts many myths about Thatcherism and Scotland, most notably Ravenscr[...]

This handbook marks the transformation of the topic of literacy from the narrower concerns with learning to read and write to an interdisciplinary enquiry into the various roles of writing and reading in the full range of social and psychological functions in both modern and developing societies. It[...]