The creation of Britain's welfare state in 1948 was an event of major international importance. Designed to provide a concise introduction to the evolution of both the structure of the welfare state and attitudes towards it. Concentrates on five core services: health care, education, social security, the personal social services and housing. For each service it examines the original vision, the attempts to implement this vision, the resulting complexities and controversies and, above all, the impact on individual 'customers'. A wide range of documentary evidence is used, including published and unpublished government sources, political memoirs, newspaper exposes and personal testimony. -- .

A contemporary retelling of tales from the Mabinogion, the earliest Welsh manuscripts which date from the 13th century.

The themes of this memoir cover the autobiography of an African American woman's life born in the south during 1930's. It talks about issues of historical post slavery and focuses on transformational self-help and the healing of childhood wounds. This fascinating memior covers a significant period of American history and shows how one woman found victory through a life led by Spirit. As a recounting of the important turning points in this author's life and the lessons that she learned makes this book effective. Especially inspiring is her decision to leave home and move to New York City. This set the tone of courage and adventure through out the book. Another turning point occurred when she found herself remarried and moving to the Chicago area. Margaret is a graduate of the Johnnie Colemon Institute's, Chicago, IL, "Better Living" program and was licensed to teach their metaphysical principles. The Intensive Program from which Margaret graduated required six years of study and passing both written and oral testing. Read how Margaret's journey of living, loving and learning led her to overcome many obstacles by using the principles that she learned.

This is the inspiring memoir of a woman raised within the cultural confines of a Midwestern Catholic upbringing in the 1940s and '50s, and her life's journey as her consciousness awakens. Her path takes her through the expectations of the church, a painful marriage with an undiagnosed bipolar husband, and her food addiction. Desperately looking for guidance and answers to her innermost questions, she encounters a series of "gurus"-bringing her unexpected but valuable lessons that she integrates along the way. And at the age of sixty-three, she begins to reinvent herself-and a beautiful, gratifying life of her own begins to unfold. Interwoven throughout her story are poems that deeply express her feelings in a way that the reader won't forget. This true story of a woman who learns to come to terms with herself, thereby opening the door to real freedom, will benefit readers of all ages.