Whitaker's Concise Almanack 2008 is the definitive reference guide to the UK. A softback, shorter version of its big sister, Whitaker's Almanack, the Concise edition is packed with thousands of UK-centric facts,figures and statistics on a wide range of subjects. The only differencebetween this and the standard edition is that it doesn't include theinternational coverage of the standard edition, so the reader is reallygetting value for money at half the price. Areas of coverage include: government and politics, communications,private and state education, religion, environment, cultural heritage,the UK legal system, royalty and peerage, social welfare (includingpensions!), IT, mobile phone industry, environment, heritage, astronomyof course, and much more - quite simply, the UK in one volume! 'Whitaker's remains the most comprehensive compendium of information in the English language' Jon Snow 'In an age of fast multiplying sources ofinformation, from the internet to the proliferating magazine market,Whitaker's Almanack offers an unusually compact, comprehensive andaccurate source book.' Andrew Marr
