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The Process of Becoming Ill
1st Edition
By David Robinson
September 01, 2025
First published in 1971, The Process of Becoming Ill is concerned with how people become ill: not with how people contract diseases but how people come to occupy the social status of ‘sick person’. It is concerned with an analysis of illness behaviour in terms of what it means to be an ill person ...
The Residential Community: A Setting for Social Work
1st Edition
By Howard Jones
September 01, 2025
In the 1970s residential care was usually seen by social workers as a regrettable necessity, to be used only as a last resort. So the important contribution it made to social wellbeing was not explored, and it remained the Cinderella of social work for resources, status and training. Originally ...
The Sociology of Social Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Davies
September 01, 2025
How do sociologists explain the role and function of social work in society? How has sociological knowledge been used, adapted and misused by social workers? Originally published in 1991, The Sociology of Social Work includes chapters on sociological theory and social work, child protection, ...
The Symmetrical Family: A Study of Work and Leisure in the London Region
1st Edition
By Michael Young, Peter Willmott
September 01, 2025
First published in 1973, The Symmetrical Family combines evidence about the family of the past with information from a sociological survey in the London region and uses both as the basis for a speculative discussion about the future. The argument is that a new style of family life has emerged. Its ...
Towards a New Social Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Howard Jones
September 01, 2025
In the 1970s, social work in Britain was in crisis. A process of self-searching had begun, stimulated by changes in the organization of social services departments, by the growth of the radical movement in social work, and by the emergence of new techniques in social work. All this might have ...
Beaumont and Fletcher: A Critical Study
1st Edition
By William W. Appleton
August 31, 2025
First published in 1956, Beaumont and Fletcher offers a compact critical survey of the plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, as well as Fletcher's collaborations with Massinger and Shakespeare.For a hundred years audiences and readers ranked Beaumont and Fletcher with Ben Johnson and with Shakespeare. ...
Britain, Europe and the World 1850-1986: Delusions of Grandeur
1st Edition
By Bernard Porter
August 31, 2025
First published in 1983, Britain, Europe and the World 1850-1986 examines the history of Britain’s international situation and foreign policy in relation to her domestic circumstances from the middle of the nineteenth century to the late twentieth century to provide answers to the following ...
Descriptive Statistics and Probability Theory
1st Edition
By Robert Arthur Barks
August 31, 2025
First published in 1972, in Descriptive Statistics and Probability Theory the numerical work- the selection of numerical data-is used as a basis for developing the statistical theory. Other starting points could have been chosen but a beginner will readily understand this sort of work and hence be ...
Distribution Theory
1st Edition
By Robert Arthur Barks
August 31, 2025
First published in 1972, Distribution Theory follows on from the author's earlier book, Descriptive Statistics and Probability Theory, but may easily be followed by any reader who has not studied that particular book but who has gained some knowledge of numerical distributions and basic probability...
Edmund Spenser: Prince of Poets
1st Edition
By Peter Bayley
August 31, 2025
First published in 1971, Edmund Spenser presents a comprehensive overview of Spencer's work, including the minor poems and the prose View of Ireland. There are chapters on the Shepheardes Calendar, the Complaints poems, the great love and religious poetry of 1595-6 and The Faerie Queene. The author...
Mantras: Sacred Words of Power
1st Edition
By John Blofeld
August 31, 2025
First published in 1977, in this unique and beautifully illustrated book called Mantras, John Blofeld, an acknowledged authority on Buddhist yogic contemplation, explains the significance and operation of the sacred ‘words of power’. With the dramatic growth of interest in the religions and ...
Parties and Party Systems in Liberal Democracies
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven B Wolinetz
August 31, 2025
First published in 1988, Parties and Party Systems in Liberal Democracies considers the extent and ways in which Western European and North American parties and party systems changed in the 1970s and 1980s after decades of relative stability. It examines changes in the nature and organisation of ...