Product Description: Welfare states have spread across the globe, transforming modern civilization. But the take-over is often going badly. In Marseilles, armed drug gangs dominate the social housing estates. In America, an outstandingly wealthy country, 45 million people are dependent on food stamps...read more

The founding of the welfare state in the 1940s was one of the crowning achievements of modern British history, or was it? This book advances the argument that however well-meaning its founders, the welfare state has in reality done more harm than good. The thesis of this book is that Britain would have been better off without the welfare state.

Product Description: The author treats garden snobbery with robust good humour. He includes the top ten best and worst British gardens, and questionnaires for the reader to determine just how "yew" his or her own garden is.

Product Description: Book by JAMES BARTHOLOMEW

Product Description: The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, rich in architectural and horticultural treasures, are among the most beloved of the world's gardens. Each year more than a million visitors explore the grounds and the greenhouses, seeking the beauty, the peace, the knowledge that this living laboratory and pleasure garden can give...read more