Whitaker's Almanack 2008 is the perfect book for anyone interested in current affairs and general knowledge. An indispensable, meticulously researched and authoritative information guide for more than 130 years, Whitaker's Almanack brings together a wider range of facts, figures and directory information than any other annual reference work. It's the essential what's what and who's who of Great Britain and the world today, providing everything a reader might conceivably wish to know in a world driven by information -- no year is complete without it. New to this edition is a special supplement on the Scottish and Welsh elections.
# Extensive data on every world country
# Comprehensive coverage of the UK’s social, political and economic infrastructure
# UK university fees
# An up-to-date guide to taxation and legal affairs
# Reviews of the last year in archaeology, architecture, art, broadcasting, business, dance, film, literature, classical and pop music, opera, science, theatre and politics
# Directory listings of UK education bodies, societies and institutions, trade unions, clubs, media and sports organisations

Basic Skills for Homeschooling is a complete overview of the issues surrounding homeschooling through the formative years. This book is designed to provide parents with the information, suggestions, and supplementary lessons they need to be a more effective teacher to their home-middle-schooler.
Offering an overview of the academic goals for middle school, the book presents a breakdown of reading, writing, listening, and speaking for socialization, information and understanding, critical analysis and evaluation, literary response, and expression.
The book also tutors mathematics, including all the basics, operations and number concepts, fractions and decimals, exponents and roots, algebra (covered in six lessons), and much more.
A guide to essential resources completes the book, including the best magazines, books, CD-ROMs and websites for parents and their home learner.

Finding information is one thing: working out what information is required in the first place, knowing where to look for it, how to recognize it when it is discovered, how to get hold of it, and then what to do with it are equally necessary.
This book works through the skills and tools required by the researcher to achieve these ends. It deals mainly with electronic services and resources, although other formats are included.

The content is built on the following framework:
• deciding what information is required
• finding details of what is available
• obtaining the required information
• managing and using that information

The building blocks for information seeking are explained and a controlled, logical approach to information gathering is expounded.