Much loved by generations of children, this is a classic children's history of Britain from the Romans to the death of Queen Victoria. First published in 1905, H E Marshall's beautifully written narrative fell out of print after decades of popularity. But one hundred years after it was first published, "Our Island Story", one of the most popular and inspirational books of its time, has become a modern day bestseller. Galore Park Publishing, in association with Civitas, reissued this classic children's history book over fifty years after it was last in print. The response from the public and the media was terrific and a staggering 20,000 copies were sold within the first week of publication. Such an incredible response to this book is unsurprising to H E Marshall fans the world over. Why not discover the delights of H E Marshall for yourself?

Our Island Story: A History of Britain for Boys and Girls, from the Romans to Queen Victoria

Children's Books

H.E. Marshall

History

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The authors argue that the traditional family system developed to equip children for their own eventual adult responsibilities, but they present evidence that since the 1960s there has been a weakening of these norms with damaging consequences. 
This Third Edition reproduces the now-classic 1993 text and adds an Afterword by Professor Peter Saunders, which updates the analysis and the statistics.

Families Without Fatherhood

Politics & Social Sciences

Dennis, Norman

Erdos, George

Social Sciences

The concept of civil society as a conglomeration of institutions which mediate between the individual and the state has become popular and influential. The free associations of civil society offer men and women both a moral training and an experience of democracy at grass-roots level. They play a vital part in sustaining a free and open society. Civil society has been embraced by politicians and social commentators, but it is, as Frank Prochaska says, "among the most fertile, if amorphous, concepts in history". It has come to mean different things to different people. In this book, the author traces the emergence of civil society as a clearly defined space between the government and the citizenry.

Schools of Citizenship: Charity & Civic Virtue

Prochaska, Frank

Politics & Government

Immigrations at current levels is turning Britain into a country very ill-at-ease with itself. It imports poverty, increases social tensions, crime, public health problems such as TB and HIV, and creates parallel communities. Anthony Browne argues for a zero net immigration policy and demolishes many of the myths used to justify mass immigration.

Do We Need Mass Immigration: The Economic, Demographic, Environmental, Social & Developmental Arguments Against Large-Scale Net Immigration to Britain

BROWNE, ANTHONY

The aim of this book is to encourage mutual understanding between the Islamic and Western worlds. The majority of Muslims are peaceable, law-abiding citizens. However, Muslim fundamentalists, described here as "Islamists", presents a challenge to the values of Western democracies. With many lapses, modern Western societies strive to uphold values such as tolerance, pluralism and individual freedom. Islamism is monolithic, intolerant of dissent and unsympathetic to individual liberty. "Islamic" societies and militant "Islamism" need to be distinguished since a hostile response to Islamist terrorism could quickly become hostility to all Muslims. It is the hope and intention of the authors that through this book non-Muslims may develop a better understanding of Islam and better relationships with moderate, peaceable Muslims. The fundamental conflict between modern Western societies and modern Islamism is documented here by discussing the writings of key Islamists, past and present, including Osama Bin Laden. The evidence raises many questions and challenges for both Muslims and non-Muslims.

The 'West', Islam and Islamism: Is Ideological Islam Compatible With Liberal Democracy

Cox, Caroline

Marks, John

The nation state provides us with the surest model for peace, prosperity, and the defense of human rights. Is spite of this, the idea of the nation state is under attack, derided as a cause of conflict, and destined to be replaced by more "enlightened" forms of jurisdiction. This is in spite of the fact that all recent attempts to transcend the nation state into some kind of transnational political order have ended up either as totalitarian dictatorships like the former Soviet Union or as unaccountable bureaucracies like the European Union.

Need For Nations

Scruton, Roger

Prime Minister Blair often claims that 60 percent of the UK's trade and three million job 'depend on' EU membership. In fact, 48 percent of UK exports of goods and services go to the EU. Moreover, nearly 80 percent of our economy is the result of domestic activity, involving buying from and selling to each other. The export of goods and services to the rest of the world account for another 11 percent, and only ten percent is the result of exporting to the EU. 
In any event, the jobs currently resulting from trade with the EU would not be lost if we left. A number of authoritative studies have found that leaving the EU would have little impact on employment. The balance of the costs and benefits of UK membership of the EU is unequivocally negative. The net costs are substantial. The current recurring annual direct net cost to the UK of EU membership is estimated to range between approximately three and five percent of the GDP, with a 'most likely' figure of four percent of the GDP, equivalent to £40 billion per year. 
Within the 'most likely' £40 billion, £20 billion is the direct net cost of EU regulation to the UK economy - annually. A further £15 billion is the direct net cost to the UK economy of the Common Agricultural Policy. Another £5 billion is the annual cash subsidy that the UK pays to 'Brussels' through the EU budget. The current heavy burden of direct net economic cost - four percent of GDP - will not get lighter in the future. At best it will get no worse. 
The gloomy prognosis for the future is due partly to measures already in the EU pipeline, starting with the EU Constitution and enlargement, and partly to the UK being locked into a regional bloc in marked long-term decline. On a global view, the EU model of conducting trade, via a tightly-regulated customs union, is outmoded. The world outside the EU, with a superior trading and economic performance, tends to choose interlocking networks of user-friendly free trade agreements. These deliver the same benefits that EU members derive from the single market, but with very few of the costs.

Cost Too Far: An Analysis Of The Net Economic Costs And Benefits For The Uk Of Eu Membership

Business & Money

Milne, Ian

Economics

Parallel trade in pharmaceuticals within the EU involves the legal repacking and reselling of genuine medicines and dates back to the 1970s when a number of pharmacists realized that drug prices varied significantly between member states. By 2002, the UK market for parallel-distributed pharmaceuticals represented £1,300 million. It is now the largest market in Europe. Parallel importing is controversial. On the one hand, there are the importers, who argue that they are pursuing a legitimate business in a free-trade area, making significant profits through price mark-ups. 
On the other hand, manufacturers point out that the price differentials that lead to parallel importing are not the result of market prices, but caused by price and reimbursement regulation by governments. If market pricing were permitted, the problem would be much reduced. The main concern of this study, however, is to establish whether patient safety is put at risk by parallel importing. Does repackaging endanger quality control and hygiene, and does parallel importing increase the chances of counterfeit products entering legal supply channels. 
In the first part, the authors, both from the Health and Social Care Unit at the LSE, set out in detail the facts on parallel trade from continental Europe to the UK, taking into account legislative, regulatory and economic issues. In the second part, a series of experts considers the evidence of product tampering and quality control, as well as the risk of counterfeiting, in order to tackle the sizeable question of the extent to which it is possible to protect patients without erecting barriers to legal trade.

Pharamaceutical Parallel Trade in the Uk

Medical Books

Holmes, Paul

Kanavos, Panos

Pharmacology

All developed Western European countries contain within their fiscal policies measures to redistribute income to promote equality between rich and poor, and to 'even out' the level of income experienced by individuals going through major life-cycle changes. This report integrates taxes and benefits to compare the level of redistribution among family types across a range of incomes in France, Germany and the UK. The different outcomes for the family types considered reflect the different assumptions and goals which lie behind the three countries' policies. 
France is known for its pro-natalist policies and Germany for its pro-marriage policies. However, the UK regime has striven to be explicitly neutral in terms of family policy, and to focus on reducing child poverty by means of income transfers. Lone parenthood is discouraged by the French and German regimes, but not by the British regime. The UK tax credit system favors children who live with a lone parent rather than with both parents. 
This results in the perverse situation in which a child, both of whose parents work full-time at minimum wage, experiences a higher standard of living if he or she lives with one parent rather than both. In the case of unemployed couples, British mothers would experience a substantial increase in their standard of living after breaking up. These outcomes point to fundamental differences between the welfare regimes of Germany, France and Britain. 
Taxes and social security payments are much higher in France and Germany, but benefits are distributed more evenly across the social spectrum and the link between contributing and receiving is much stronger. In contrast, redistribution in the UK is much more narrowly directed at low wage earners lone parents. Hence, many in the UK regard welfare as a form of enforced charity payable to those who have not contributed their fair share. It is questionable whether increasing the benefit levels for lone parents and low wage earners would decrease the level of stigma associated with welfare. 
FAMILIES STUDIED: One-earner couples with children. Two earner couples. Lone-parent. No earners. Low-earning. High-earning. With young children. With older children. Three or more children. Couples with a baby. Lone parents.

Fiscal Policy & the Family: How the Family Fares in France, Germany & the Uk

O'neil, Rebecca

Sociology

The new orthodoxy of multiculturalism decrees that no culture is superior or inferior to another, so it is impossible to say what is truly right and what is wrong. However, cultural relativists sometimes want it both ways. They simultaneously assert that no culture is better than another, but they will happily go on to say that Western culture is actually inferior, and shy away from celebrating it for fear of causing ‘offence’. Multiculturalism is a sign of the counter-Enlightenment times we live in. Since the Holocaust and Hiroshima, the West has lost faith in its capacity to use reason and science to make our world a better place. Because of their perverse self-loathing, many left-liberals lend their tacit or overt support to oppressive cultures that deny equal rights to its population or condone the killing of homosexuals and the virtual enslavement of women. By dwelling on problematic aspects of our history, like slavery and colonialism, the denigrators of the West ignore its rich and admirable tradition of social liberalism that says that individuals should be rendered as much freedom as possible in the private sphere. It is time we cherished the tradition of the Enlightenment, with its aspiration that the prizes of liberty, democracy, color-blindness, equality of opportunity and progress can be shared among all. Western culture has spawned the most open, liberal and progressive societies. Thanks to its enlightenment, it has unshackled itself from oppressive and barbarous regimes, creating states in which universal franchise, free speech and democracy are the norm and the expectation. It is time these values were cherished. It is also time to expose the poverty of multiculturalism.

Poverty of Multiculturalism

West, Patrick

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