Over the past decade Beyond the Welfare State? has become established as the key text on the emergence & development of welfare states. It offers a comprehensive & remarkably well-informed introduction to the ever more intense debates that surround the history & still more importantly the future of welfare in advanced industrialised states. Comprehensively revised & re-written this third edition of the book embraces all of the most important theoretical & empirical developments in welfare state studies of recent years. Working within an explicitly comparative framework the book draws on a wealth of international evidence to survey what are now the most pressing issues surrounding the future of welfare: among them globalisation demographic change declining fertility postindustrialism & immigration. It draws extensively on the explosion of work on welfare states that has emerged within the North American political science community over the past ten years as well as giving detailed attention to developments with the UK continental & northern Europe & beyond. Beyond the Welfare State? remains the most comprehensive & up-to-date guide to the complex of issues that surround welfare reform. It is required reading for anyone who wants to come to terms with what is really at stake in arguments about the future of welfare. ...

First there was BABIES then came the TODDLER TAMING phenomenon
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From the Number One Bestsellign author of UGLY Despite her mothers constant physical & psychological abuse Constance Briscoe has gained a place at Newcastle University to study law
- a long-held ambition. She finances her studies by several jobs at weekends & during the holidays including working with the terminally ill in a hospice. She also finds the money to pay for several cosmetic surgery treatments in an attempt to transform the face that her mother has convinced her is ugly ugly ugly. With the degree achieved Constance takes up Michael Mansfields invitation to become a pupil in his prestigious chambers. But she didnt find the support & encouragement she expected.
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This is the well-loved story of a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed to the land of the child-eating giants. This edition has a great new cover by Quentin Blake as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl & his world. ...

The funny exciting & warm story of a special friendship between the BIG FRIENDLY GIANT & the little girl Sophie. Luckily for Sophie who has been snatched from her bed by the BFG she discovers that the BFG is far more jumbly than his disgusting neighbours. They guzzle & swallow nice little children across the world. So together Sophie & the BFG cook up an ingenious plan to rid the world of the child-eating giants for ever! Wonderfully brought to life in the fantastic dramatization for PUFFIN AUDIOBOOKS! ...

Everybody loves the BFG". Now children can bring him to life! David Wood has created seven short plays to read & perform. With notes on simple staging props & costumes the plays can be produced with the minimum of experience & resources. David Wood is well known in childrens theatre most recently for his adaptaion of " Goodnight Mister Tom" by Michelle Magorian. Roald Dahl the best-loved of childrens writers was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers despite his death in 1990 & worldwide booksales are over 100 million! Children will have a phizzwizardly good time
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Every night when the world is sleeping big gruesome giants guzzle up whoppsy-whiffling human beans. & there's only one giant who can stop them
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I have heard the supreme mystery yoga from Krishna from the lord of yoga himself. Thus ends the Bhagavad Gita the most famous episode from the great Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata. In its eighteen short chapters Krishnas teaching leads the warrior Arjuna from perplexity to understanding & correct action in the process raising & developing many key themes from the history of Indian religions. The Bhagavad Gita is the best known & most widely read Hindu religious text in the Western world. It considers social & religious duty the nature of sacrifice the nature of action the means to liberation & the relationship of human beings to God. It culminates in an awe-inspiring vision of Krishna as God omnipotent disposer & destroyer of the universe. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Arguably Indias greatest gift to the world The Bhagavadgita (The Song of the Blessed) forms an episode in the sixth book of the Hindu epic The Mahabharata & is the supreme work of that religion. The Gita consists of the dialogue between Prince Arjuna & his mentor & friend Lord Krishna on the eve of the climactic battle of Kuruksetra. This discourse contains an exposition of the Hindu philosophy of Karma Yoga (disciplined action performed in the right spirit) as Prince Arjuna struggles with his understandable existential anguish at having to join battle against his gurus & kinsmen. The Gita although almost 2 500 years old contains profound truths of great relevance to contemporary society in India & the West. ...