Clive Hart Boeken

A self-contained textbook covering the three modules required for AS - physical environment, human environment and geographical investigation. Geography for AS has been developed specifically for the new Advanced Subsidiary specifications, and matches the requirements of OCR's Geography specification A. The content closely follows the specification, with sections on each of the three modules required for AS: the physical environment, the human environment and geographical investigation. The authors have included a diverse range of case studies, photographs, maps and diagrams. Opportunities for the development of key skills, relating to student activities and module 3 (geographical investigation) have been sign-posted throughout. The book has been written by experienced teachers and geographers, and has been endorsed by OCR for use with their AS specification. It is also relevant to Advanced level and undergraduate students.

With the banking crisis having shaped much of the history of the past two years, now seems a good time to ask some searching questions about the relationship between the financial sector, governments, and the productive parts of the world's economy. But who is asking them? The assumption remains firmly in place that the prosperity of the modern world is based upon the capitalist system that has grown up over the past three centuries or so. Poverty, on the other hand, is widely associated with older systems of production; and its survival into the modern world is often seen as crying out for the wider implementation of more progressive systems. It is, of course, a highly commendable object to "Make Poverty History"; but is the link between poverty and history really what it is made to appear? This book is about England, birthplace of the financial system, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It examines the deteriorating conditions of life for the majority of people, and the controversy about the causes of poverty which resulted. Its conclusions cast serious doubt on the doctrine of underdevelopment upon which our modern views of poverty and its alleviation seem to be based.

The Rise and Fall of the Mounted Knight is a detailed history of knights and their legacy, from their origins in the Roman Empire to their eventual decline.