Product Description: The chapters in this book address fundamental questions of the nature and purpose of geography, scrutinising its contents, philosophy and methodology. Aimed at undergraduates its purpose is to broaden the debate about what geography had become during the 1980s and what shape it might take in the future...read more

Product Description: The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain's intellectual life.The Fellows of the British Academy who are remembered in this volume are:Kenneth Andrews, Anthony Blunt, Marjorie Chibnall, Stanley Cohen, Patrick Collinson, Barrie Dobson, John Ehrman, Richard Ellmann, Christopher Evans, Philip Ford, John Hajnal, Emrys Jones, Martyn Jope, Ian Little, Alan S...read more

Safely ensconced with a master magician who is teaching her wizardry, Princess Athaya realizes she must return to Caithe, from which she has recently escaped, to teach its citizens how to control the evil magic that is controlling them

Product Description: In Money and Electoral Politics, Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie draw on the latest research—including much unpublished material—to explore the financial differences between the United Kingdom’s three main political parties in the four years leading up to the 2010 General Election...read more

Product Description: Why do people living in different areas vote in different ways? Why does this change over time? How do people talk about politics with friends and neighbours, and with what effect? Does the geography of well-being influence the geography of party support? Do parties try to talk to all voters at election time, or are they interested only in the views of a small number of voters living in a small number of seats? Is electoral participation in decline, and how does the geography of the vote affect this? How can a party win a majority of seats in Parliament without a majority of votes in the country? Putting Voters in their Place explores these questions by placing the analysis of electoral behaviour into its geographical context...read more

Product Description: These essays trace the evolution of British geography as an academic discipline during the last hundred years, and stress how the study of the world we live in is fundamental to an understanding of its problems and concerns. The principal themes covered in this volume are those of environment, place and space, and the applied geography of map-making and planning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This reference book on campanology looks at the distribution and location of rings of bells throughout Britain and its colonies which will be of particular interest to change ringers. It contains county maps of England showing all towers with rings of 12, 10, 8, 6 and 5 bells...read more