In the first fully documented study of British and Irish popular reactions to the outbreak of the First World War, Catriona Pennell explores UK public opinion of the time and successfully challenges the myth of British 'war enthusiasm'.[...]

This 3rd edition of Life in the United Kingdom is the official handbook for the new Life in the UK tests to be taken on or after 25 March 2013. It contains all the official learning material for the test and is written in clear, simple language - making it easy to understand. It covers a range of to[...]

Recent changes in local government have been greater and faster than ever. The fifth edition of this leading local government text - comprehensively revised up to and including the 2010 general election - evaluates the changes under Labour and provides an accessible and informed insight into the new[...]

Even by comparison to the United States, the United Kingdom has had a brief and fractious history. Its existence as an undivided entity lasted only for a disputatious 125 years, and its future remains precarious.In The Four Nations, Frank Welsh offers a lively narrative history of the four component[...]

A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians. "An evocative account . . . Cannadine] tells his own story persuasively and exceedingly well." --The Wall Street Journal To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing and unprec[...]

A comprehensive introduction to the politics of devolution in the UK.

Each title looks at each country through a variety of themes such as location, landscape and climate, population and health, settlements, family life, religion and beliefs, education and learning, employment and economy, industry and trade, farming and food, transport and communications, leisure and[...]

First Aid, CPR, and AED Standard is the centre of an integrated teaching and learning system that offers instructor, student, and technology resources to better support instructors and prepare students. The text includes: Coverage of the 2005 UK Resuscitation Council Guidelines; current information [...]

Territory and Power in the United Kingdom is about the nature of the UK state, where it came from and where it is going. Bulpitt sought to summarise the political code and statecraft that has helped govern the territories of the United Kingdom for much of the twentieth century, though it had its ant[...]