Product Description: This volume explores some of the major transitions, opportunities and false dawns of modern British political history. It engages with the scholarly legacy of Professor Duncan Tanner (19582010), whose work was focused on the political process and on politics in government...read more

Product Description: Andrew Edwards chronicles the uncertainty of the 2008-2012 recession through his own adventures in temp work. Through a haze of mindless jobs in droning mail rooms, handling deaf senior citizens on the phone, parading about in costume, and bizarre encounters in places most people would not visit, Andrew takes stock of our collective lot in recounting employment for only the bravest, or most desperate among us...read more

Product Description: Devolution—the process by which a central government transfers powers to smaller local levels—has become a source of increasing debate in political science circles around the world. The critical essays in Identity and Politics in Britain take on the crucial issue of devolution in the United Kingdom, enhancing academic and popular understanding of this process, highlighting its significance on the evolving British identity, and generating new debates over the history and future of devolved governance...read more

Product Description: While the rise and success of the Labour party in Wales during the twentieth century has received a significant amount of attention from historians, this is the first book to provide an in-depth analysis of its fragility and decline during the post-war period...read more

Product Description: This text reviews the current scene in careers education and examines a range of different approaches in practice. It seeks to show how staff can use and adapt these ideas to implement change and improve careers education.