Product Description: This study, first published in 1976, evaluates the important contribution of the Education Act, 1918, to the development of education in England and Wales during the twentieth century. The Act aimed to establish ‘a national system of public education available for all persons capable of profiting thereby’, and in so doing, laid the framework for the subsequent reforms in the field of education...read more

Product Description: Each year, between 1,000 and 2,000 cases of the bubonic plague are reported around the worlda modern strain of the black death that killed millions during the Middle Ages. Learn about what the plague is, where it came from, and what it might mean for humanity today.

Product Description: In a world riddled with diseases, there is only one that has been eliminated from humanity: smallpox. Learn about the compelling history of this disease, why it still exists in laboratories and research facilities around the world, and how what we learn about it now may affect humanitys future...read more