Product Description: Now in a second edition, Theatre Studies: The Basics is a fully updated guide to the wonderful world of theatre. The practical and theoretical dimensions of theatre – from acting to audience – are woven together throughout to provide an integrated introduction to the study of drama, theatre and performance...read more

The Printing Ink Manual was first published in 1961 under the auspices of the Society of British Printing Ink Manufacturers with the object of providing an authoritative work on printing ink technology. This, the fourth edition, continues that purpose and presents a comprehensive study of the current 'state of the art' in the ink industry. For those starting in the printing ink industry it is a textbook dealing with all aspects of the formulation and manufacture of printing ink. For the ink technician it is a practical manual and useful source of reference. For printers and users of printed material the manual supplies helpful information on the nature and behaviour of ink both on the printing press and as the finished print. Readers with a little scientific knowledge will have no difficulty in using the manual, but as in previous editions, sufficient chemistry and physics have been introduced to assist the advanced technician and research scientist.

Systematically revised and updated, British Politics is an accessible and definitive guide to the shape of Britain's political institutions and processes. The new edition covers significant developments and events in British politics, such as the financial crisis and the 2010 general election, and provides full analysis of the first year of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government. Incorporating useful learning aids throughout, the book examines the state of British politics set against the background of devolution within the UK and an ever-changing European and global environment. Key features• 'Comparative politics' boxes highlight differences and similarities with other political systems• 'Academic controversy' boxes summarize debates on key issues• On-page glossary explains key words and concepts • Chapter summaries, questions for discussion and further reading to stimulate and reinforce learning• Illustrated 'key thinker' profiles• A companion website – www.palgrave.com/foundations/leach – containing valuable additional material for students and lecturers

Product Description: The fifth edition of this leading book has been comprehensively updated, and provides a concise but definitive introduction to British politics and government. With a well-presented text including a number of illustrations, charts, and comparative boxes,

As well as introducing the 'mainstream' ideologies of Liberalism, Conservatism and Socialism, this text also examines challenges from nationalists, feminists and Green thinkers, and the ideological controversy surrounding multiculturalism. It concludes by reviewing the prospects for ideology in an increasingly depoliticised Britain.

A practical guide for those involved in helping people out of debt - and keeping them out of it. It offers a comprehensive manual for various aspects of debt counselling, including: establishing the scale of the problem, facing reality/emergency action, sorting minor and serious debt problems, prioritising debts/types of debt, budgeting, and more.

Product Description: Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain’s most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company’s aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the elements which made its success so important...read more

Product Description: Comprehensively rewritten and updated to provide a concise but definitive introduction to British politics and government after more than five years of new Labour government. As well as according greater attention to the growing role of the European Union

The fifth edition of 'Running your own Business' explains how to evaluate and gain the general management skills needed for entrepreneurial success as well as understanding the accounting, legal, taxation, pension, insurance and banking skills required.

Product Description: Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien. This book traces the parallel careers of the two greatest twentieth-century theatre practitioners, the Russian masters Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold. It is particularly concerned with the simultaneous development of their two contradictory - but perhaps also complementary - acting methods, methods which dominate the best acting practice today...read more

Contemporary local governance in Britain comprises a complex network of organisations working in partnership to formulate policies to address local needs and issues. Within this, local government continues to play an important part in policy and practice and in the structures and processes of local democracy. This book provides a systematic assessment of the key development issues and debates that are shaping local governance now situating these in their historical context.

This text, in its second edition, reflects the changing nature of the teaching and study of political ideologies in the UK. It updates the chapters on ideologies from Far Left to Far Right, and includes three new chapters on nationalism and the politics of ethnicity, feminism, and the Greens. This edition also includes more figures and diagrams, and a summary and guide to further reading, in addition to a full bibliography.

Product Description: This book presents a study of changes in party allegiance by British politicians over the last century. It involves a comprehensive survey of defections from major parties by Members of Parliament since 1886. The strength of party loyalties and the relative stability of the British party system is analyzed as a prelude to an examination of the various factors which have, over time, led individual politicians and groups to change their party...read more

Product Description: Revolutionary Theatre is the first full-length study of the dynamic theatre created in Russia in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution. Fired by social and political as well as artistic zeal, a group of directors, playwrights, actors and organisers collected around the charismatic Vsevolod Meyerhold...read more