Reviews for Washington History! Surprising Secrets About Our State's Founding Mothers, Fathers & Kids!

The average rating for Washington History! Surprising Secrets About Our State's Founding Mothers, Fathers & Kids! based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-04-12 00:00:00 John Green The Welfare State in Britain is an academic work by Michael Hill, which attempts to chart social policy in Britain from Clement Attlee’s Labour government (1945-51) to Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government (1979-90). The book is read chronologically, guiding the reader through successive governments and their approaches to the welfare state. This may serve as the most practical and readable structure for readers with an in-depth (perhaps scholarly) knowledge of British politics, and likely facilitates its use as a reference-work rather well. However, I don’t think that enough context is provided in places, and in its current state I would have preferred a thematic structure. For instance, the fifth chapter, entitled ‘The Labour Governments 1964-70’, consists of a number of sections: ‘Introduction’; ‘Social Security – Back to Beveridge?’; ‘Housing’; ‘Education’; ‘Institutional Reform in Health and Social Services’; ‘The Community Development Project and the Inner Cities’, ending with a conclusion. Each chapter in The Welfare State in Britain adopts a similar structure, with the sections’ names of course being reworded to reflect the different focuses and achievements of the various governments. The result is that the National Health Service, for instance, may only appear each twenty or thirty pages when Hill returns to the relevant topic, necessitating a fair amount of flicking back and forth. It would have been much more readable, in my opinion, if a topic, e.g. education, was given its own chapter, in which the successive governments’ policies on that area were listed. Nevertheless, The Welfare State in Britain fulfils its purpose, and its 170 pages are certainly informative enough to warrant a read.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-09-28 00:00:00 Remi Juillin More than just patterns in Math and Poetry, but nature itself. Why wasn't it taught this way when I was in school? So edifying and absorbing, I want to go back to college and major in Math!