A volume celebrating the 175th anniversary of the founding of St Mary’s University, London.
This volume celebrates the 175th anniversary of the founding of St Mary’s University (then St Mary’s Training College). Through a series of short essays on aspects of university life and the institution’s history, augmented by a collection of more than 100 associated colour photographs of items from the university’s archives, the book paints a fascinating picture of the rich history of this thriving and inclusive Catholic university.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the transport system. It looks at how it has developed, at how it will need to evolve to meet our need for travel – sustainably and economically – and at what our options are for meeting those needs.
This book examines the measure of money and, in that light, the actions of the Bank of England in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath.
School of Thought: 101 Great Liberal Thinkers profiles the lives and ideas of some of the leading thinkers on individual liberty, from ancient times to the present day.
This book looks at house prices over the long term in several countries including the UK, the US, France, Holland, Norway, Germany and Australia to find out what has happened to house prices and why. The author illustrates his findings with authoritative data on trends and provides intriguing details including a century long index of UK house prices, an analysis of the value of the White House and a fascinating four-hundred-year story of houses in Amsterdam.
