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Published monthly, Financial Statistics contains data on public sector finance, including central government revenue and expenditure, money supply and credit, banks and building societies, interest and exchange rates, financial accounts…
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This publication (in English and Welsh) is the first report from the 2001 Census of Population in Wales. The Mid-2001 Population Estimates will be based on the results of the…
The 2001 Census report Key Statistics for Local Authorities in England and Wales provides the first opportunity to see a summary of the complete results of the Census.
The 2001 Census report ‘Key Statistics for Local Authorities in Wales’ provides the first opportunity to see a summary of the complete results of the Census. This report provides resident…
Travel Trends presents the main annual results of the 2003 International Passenger Survey (IPS) which collects information on travel to and from the UK. It is the key guide to…
This text was introduced to provide one occupational classification for use by the government. This revised edition includes sections on managerial and computing and related occupations, as well as specific…
This review presents a brief account of more than 450 diverse medical research projects and programmes that have been assisted by the Office for National Statistics and its predecessors up…
This publication paints a broad picture of the cancer burden in the UK, and illustrates the baselines against which progress in implementing the NHS Cancer Plan will be measured. It…
Regional Trends is a comprehensive source of official statistics about the regions of the United Kingdom. It includes a wide range of demographic, social, industrial and economic statistics, covering most…
Draws together statistics from a wide range of government departments and other organisations to paint a broad picture of our society, and how it has been changing. This edition features…
The Census of Population conducted every ten years is a vital source of information about the number, distribution and condition of the population of England and Wales. This publication is…
This report provides definitions and other explanatory information for published results from the censuses held in 2001 in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The report will be invaluable…
This volume charts the changing popularity of first names over fifty years. It contains information taken from the National Health Service Register for England and Wales, at ten-yearly intervals since…
An attempt to locate cinema alongside philosophy, painting, geography and travel in terms of a history of modernism. The book focuses on a collection of geographical and ethnographic films and…
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Teen TV is the first anthology dedicated to a broad range of television programs produced for and watched by teenagers. What position does teen TV hold within wider practices of…
This issue of Feminist Review focuses on the experience of women asylum-seekers and refugees seeking, denied entry to, or living in exile in what has become ‘Fortress Europe’.
The Dancing of the title was in Shakespeare’s mind as he wrote: a physical and active imagination. This book explores the operation of the playwright’s creative mind in his most…
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The author finds hope in the work of a large body of educated Bangladesh men and women in eradicating not only poverty but also illiteracy and religious fanaticism as a…
The first full-length study of Wong Kar-wai.Teo has produced a robust, well-researched book, ably exploring Wong’s thematic strands
Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the ‘dream factory’ that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business.
Examining the changes in male roles, and how these changes are explored in cinema, this book includes frameworks for teaching the topic, and accessible explanations of the cultural and critical…
What is ‘black cinema’? Is it a valid category? What can films from as far afield, economically and geographically, as Nigeria and Hollywood possibly have in common? Focusing on films…
The Singing Detective has been described by novelist Steven King as ‘the Citizen Kane of the mini-series’. This study dissects the serial’s array of themes and techniques, and explains the…
In Activists Speak Out, a group of fifteen American activists speak candidly about how and why they struggle for change. And, whatever the initial motivation to become engaged in the…
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Community Policing: Comparative Perspectives and Prospects compares community policing initiatives in Canada, Great Britain, Israel, and the United States and discusses similar efforts in other countries that have experimented with…
Philosophy of Religion A-Z provides an overview of the main themes, key figures, and issues in the subject. This reference guide will be useful for anyone interested in the philosophy…
Political culture is one of the central, but most difficult, concepts in political science. Culture and Politics: A Reader explores this concept by compiling previously-published works that focus on the…
At the peak of his career, after having established himself as an accomplished writer, astute moraliste, and the foremost spokesperson of his generation for personal freedom and self-realization, Gide became…
What happens to detective fiction when the detective is post-colonial, a marginalized native or settler in a country recovering from colonialism?
The ‘Affect and Creolisation’ Feminist Review Special Issue addresses questions concerning the legacy of plantation culture, focusing on its shaping of a gendered creolisation and affect.
This Special Issue of Feminist Review addresses questions concerning the legacy of plantation culture, focusing on its shaping of a gendered creolisation and affect.
Using unpublished documents, this book explores Billy Graham’s beliefs about racial reconciliation, economic justice, and peace. Michael Long provides readers with the first detailed analysis of Billy Graham’s social thought…
In this thematically organized collection of primary sources, Stoll traces the development of the environmental movement and identifies its central issues and ideologies, including the politics of preservation, population growth…
Though it is nearly seventy years since the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, it still remains a compelling subject surrounded by fierce controversy. Romero Salvado offers an absorbing and…
Brodie’s Notes are invaluable study guides for English Literature GCSE and A-Level students, both for course work projects and at revision time.
This is the second edition of a 2 volume reference work on international accounting. It is intended as a working tool to enable practitioners to compare world accounting regimes in…
Also available in paperback as Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam During the second half of the nineteenth century, a group of prominent Muslim theologians began to critically examine classical…
Dennis Potter was a most remarkable, idiosyncratic, and influential screen playwright, writing such shows as The Singing Detective and Pennies From Heaven for British TV during the last half of…
From nuclear power to food safety, scientific experts and members of the lay public differ on the assessment of risk. Is there any way to bridge the divide between these…
Young Homeless People takes a broad approach to the distressing phenomenon of youth homelessness. It places young people’s experiences of homelessness in the context of their biographies as a whole…
