This major new textbook will equip students with a complete understanding of contemporary politics, state and society in the United Kingdom today.

Key underlying themes include:

• The differences between traditional and alternative 'sites of power' and what we mean by 'political'
• the relationships between politics, society and how individuals become and remain engaged with politics
• the rapid transformations in contemporary social structures and their impact on social and political life
• the role of human agency and its significance to social...

Versification: A Short Introduction is written by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. The book discusses poetic meter, and may be the only source you need. McAuley devotes a short chapter to versification based on accent, syllable count, free verse and "classical" meters, but the book as a whole focuses on metrical verse and its constant reference back to stress in normal speechit suceeds in showing meterical verse as a natural outgrowth of what we do naturally. This dispels quickly any sense of the esotericpoetry is of and for people in general not for a special literati....