Each book in this series offers all the statutes, legal opinions, and studies a student needs to structure a cohesive argument on a given controversial topic. Issues are presented from multiple points of view; sidebars cite law and opinions to aid in critical analysis; paratextual questions encourage reader engagement; and all sources are fully documented and grouped by the side of the argument. Discusses limitations of free expression: Where is the line to be drawn between free expression and obscenity? How free should the press be to cover information that may benefit the public?
Each book in this series offers all the statutes, legal opinions, and studies a student needs to structure a cohesive argument on a given controversia...
This work tells how, for a decade, Gordon Brown was Prime Minister Tony Blair's right-hand man - the 'Iron Chancellor' who piloted the British economy through years of growth. But behind the scenes, a bitter power struggle between the two men was rocking the foundations of the Labour Party.
This work tells how, for a decade, Gordon Brown was Prime Minister Tony Blair's right-hand man - the 'Iron Chancellor' who piloted the British economy...
The United States was founded as, and has remained, a land of immigrants, but immigration has always proved a complex issue for the country. This edition has been updated to cover new controversies and include up-to-date statistics on this perennially controversial issue.
The United States was founded as, and has remained, a land of immigrants, but immigration has always proved a complex issue for the country. This edit...
Explains the 1814 Conference of Vienna, in which major European powers came together to restore the order that had been upset by the Napoleonic Wars of the previous 25 years.
Explains the 1814 Conference of Vienna, in which major European powers came together to restore the order that had been upset by the Napoleonic Wars o...
During the summer of 1940, the fate of the world hung in the balance as Adolf Hitler's powerful air force, the Luftwaffe, contested the skies above southern England with Britain's Royal Air Force. A handful of brave but outnumbered RAF pilots, many hailing from outside the United Kingdom, fought desperately to hold the Nazi juggernaut back and, in doing so, defend Britain from invasion. In Prime Minister Winston Churchill's immortal words, those brave RAF pilots were the few on whom so much depended. The brand-new The Battle of Britain traces the origins and course of the Battle of Britain,...
During the summer of 1940, the fate of the world hung in the balance as Adolf Hitler's powerful air force, the Luftwaffe, contested the skies above so...
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport's rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the...
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expec...