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The Ministry of Labour and National Service
1st Edition
By Godfrey Ince
August 03, 2026
Originally published in 1960, The Ministry of Labour and National Service, although by no means amongst the oldest Departments of State, was certainly amongst the most important at the time. During the second world war it achieved remarkable success in mobilizing the country’s men and women to a ...
Strategic Materials: A World Survey
1st Edition
By Rae Weston
August 01, 2026
When this book was originally published in 1984 there was little published data on the extraction or exploitation of strategic materials. The book surveys the entire range of strategic materials and considers both the economics of their extraction and the political issues involved in safeguarding ...
The Value of Medicine
1st Edition
By Philip Rhodes
July 31, 2026
Originally published in 1976, this book surveys the development of medicine through history and examines how it has related to society and the climate of opinion at different times. The main discussion, based on broad experience in the UK and Australia is what medicine’s place in the world should ...
'Race' in Britain: Continuity and Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles Husband
July 01, 2026
'Race' in Britain (1982) provides a consideration of the place in 1970s British culture and society of the concept of ‘race’. Through a historical examination of the origins of the concept, the cultural habit of placing people into ‘races’ is placed in perspective as a social rather than a ‘natural...
Commodity Conflict: The Political Economy of International Commodity Negotiations
1st Edition
By L.N. Rangarajan
July 01, 2026
Commodity Conflict (1978) examines the world economy after the crises of the early 1970s, with the collapse of the international monetary system, the quadrupling of oil prices, the boom in commodity prices in 1973 and 1974 and by unprecedented inflation, followed by a recession, in almost all major...
Development, Technology and Flexibility: Brazil Faces the Industrial Divide
1st Edition
By João Carlos Ferraz, Howard Rush, Ian Miles
July 01, 2026
Development, Technology and Flexibility (1992) is concerned with forecasting the use of innovation within manufacturing industries. It assesses the factors that inhibit and facilitate the implementation of new technologies and organisational techniques. The focus of the study is on Brazilian ...
Educational Traditions Compared: Content, Teaching and Learning in Industrialised Countries
1st Edition
By Martin McLean
July 01, 2026
Educational Traditions Compared (1995) is a comparative treatment of the educational curricula – their content, pedagogy and assessment – in schools and higher education institutions in industrial countries throughout the world. The emphasis is on differences between the major international blocs –...
Faith and the Flag: The Opening of Africa
1st Edition
By Jeremy Murray-Brown
July 01, 2026
Originally published in 1972 and as a second edition in 1979, this widely acclaimed biography of Africa’s first modern statesman tells the story of Kenyatta’s extraordinary and enigmatic career. It is the story of a life punctuated by dramatic twists of fortune which closely reflects Africa’s ...
Fantasy and Reason: Children’s Literature in the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Summerfield
July 01, 2026
First published in 1984, Fantasy and Reason (now with a new foreword by Judith Summerfield) retraces the major philosophical, moral and social factors bearing on children’s development in the eighteenth century, leading up to the poetic expression in book V of Wordsworth’s Prelude of a sustained ...
France Today: Introductory Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By J.E. Flower
July 01, 2026
France Today was first published in 1971 and quickly established itself as a valuable and important volume of essays providing a stimulating, clearly written introduction to contemporary France. This sixth edition (originally published in 1987, now with a new preface) looks at French social and ...
Health and Health Services: An Introduction to Health Care in Britain
1st Edition
By John R. Butler, Michael S.B. Vaile
July 01, 2026
Based on authors’ experiences in working in the NHS and in teaching medical students, nurses, social science undergraduates and trainees in community medicine, Health and Health Services (originally published in 1984) is an introductory text on health care policies. Since its introduction in 1948, ...
Kenyatta
1st Edition
By Jeremy Murray-Brown
July 01, 2026
Originally published in 1972 and as a second edition in 1979, this widely acclaimed biography of Africa’s first modern statesman tells the story of Kenyatta’s extraordinary and enigmatic career. It is the story of a life punctuated by dramatic twists of fortune which closely reflects Africa’s ...