For nearly a century and a half Whitaker’s Almanack has been the comprehensive reference resource for anyone interested in current events and general knowledge. The Almanack also contains a comprehensive overview of every aspect of UK infrastructure and is an excellent introduction to world politics. The new 2011 edition features new color maps, comparative charts and diagrams and will feature complete coverage of the 2010 UK general election. This comprehensive compendium of information is the most authoritative research reference book on Great Britain on the market.
A pre-intermediate text which uses naturalistic languge and includes plenty of redundancy and repetition to help students learn to listen to longer texts. There is a strong focus on listening for pleasure and on the media in general. Tasks develop listening for gist and specific details.
A look at the operational art of war as practised in the Gulf conflict, as seen through the eyes of General Frederick M. Francks, Jr. General Francks commanded the armour and infantry of VII Corps, the main coalition force that broke the back of Iraq's Republican Guard. He is also the first amputee active-duty general since the American Civil War. This book tells the story of the transformation of an army traumatized by the legacy of Vietnam, and the metamorphosis of a man devastated by the loss of a leg in that war.
Although there is a plethora of studies on crime and punishment, law enforcement is a relatively new field of serious research. When courts, sentencing, prisons, jails, and other areas of the criminal justice system are studied, often the first point of entry into the system is through police and law enforcement agencies. Unfortunately, understanding of the important issues in law enforcement has little general literature to draw on. Currently available reference works on policing are narrowly focused and sorely out-of-date.
The day Joe Remington brought his new bride to Fell Rise, he had already sensed she might not settle easily into his home just outside the Tyneside town of Fellburn. Making plain her disapproval of Joe's familiarity with the servants, questioning the donation of food to striking miners' families - these objections and more soon rubbed Joe and the local people up the wrong way, a problem he could easily have done without. For this was 1926, the year of the General Strike, the effects of which would nowhere be felt more acutely than in this heartland of the North-East.
