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Poetry and the Physical Voice
1st Edition
By Francis Berry
August 31, 2025
First published in 1962, Poetry and the Physical Voice is a companion volume to author’s Poets’ Grammar and its conclusions might well be related to his own recently published collection, Morant Bay and Other Poems. An enquiry as to how far the fact- that poetry is vocal sound- was modified by the ...
Probability, Objectivity and Evidence
1st Edition
By F. C. Benenson
August 31, 2025
First published in 1984, in Probability, Objectivity and Evidence the author claims that the theory of probability provides a single, correct, analysis of probability and that the concept of probability employed in science can best be understood as that of inductive probability; to do so, it is ...
Pythagoras: A Life
1st Edition
By Peter Gorman
August 31, 2025
First published in 1979, Pythagoras aims to make available to a wide range of readers the events of Pythagoras’s life and his theories, and to present him not primarily as a mathematician and scientific genius nor as a poetical and mystical phenomenon but as a man of his times subject to diverse ...
Sin and the New Psychology
1st Edition
By Clifford E. Barbour
August 31, 2025
First published in 1931, in Sin and the New Psychology the author has confronted, not with denunciation but with reasoned argument, the common view that there is no such thing as sin in the Christian sense, because “complexes” now are all. So far from an internecine conflict obtaining between ...
The English Morality Play: Origins, HIstory, and Influence of a Dramatic Tradition
1st Edition
By Robert A Potter
August 31, 2025
First published in 1975, The English Morality Play is the extended history of the English morality play, its persistence and flourishing as a dramatic tradition. The book sheds light on the intellectual and social origins of the morality play, its relationship to the medieval Corpus Christi cycle ...
The Little Less: An Essay in the Political Economy of Restrictionism
1st Edition
By Albert Stephen James Baster
August 31, 2025
After the First World War, and partly because of it, nineteenth century capitalism began to be denounced by the critics both of the Left and of the Right- as an unintelligent system for producing too much of everything and for providing for the labour and capital engaged in the process a poor and ...
The Mind at Work and Play
1st Edition
By Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett
August 31, 2025
First published in 1951, The Mind at Work and Play consists of the 119th series of Christmas lectures given at The Royal Institution in 1948-49. The book raises some important questions like- how can the mind and its senses measure things accurately? What kinds of bodily movements can people make ...
The Worlds of Patrick Geddes: Biologist, Town planner, Re-educator, Peace-warrior
1st Edition
By Philip Boardman
August 31, 2025
First published in 1978, The Worlds of Patrick Geddes is a study of Patrick Geddes’ thought and action, his relationships and his life, as someone who defied labelling and who was years ahead of his contemporaries. The work of Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) is coming to be more and more widely ...
Virgil's Aeneid: A Critical Description
1st Edition
By Kenneth Quinn
August 31, 2025
First published in 1968, Virgil’s Aeneid is to help all who approach the long and difficult poem seriously (in Latin or in English) to read it with discerning appreciation. This is not a handbook, nor is it a commentary: it is a critical description, from a number of aspects, of a poetic structure....
Accessibility: The Rural Challenge
1st Edition
By Malcolm J. Moseley
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1979, this book discusses the problem faced by planners, county councils, transport, health and education authorities as well as the inhabitants of rural Britain, of the inaccessibility of many areas of the UK. For certain sections of society such as the less well-off, ...
Auguste Comte: Thinker and Lover
1st Edition
By Jane M. Style
August 01, 2025
First published in 1928, Auguste Comte is a biography of the famous French philosopher Auguste Comte, the founder of the doctrine of positivism. In this book, the author traces Comte’s journey from his birth till his death. The final chapter ‘After Days’ provides a commentary on the changes the ...
China's Agricultural Modernization: The Socialist Mechanization Scheme
1st Edition
By On Kit Tam
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1985, this study investigates the actual experience in mechanization during the Fourth Five Year Plan period, a period which represented, in many ways, a new stage in China’s rural development. It examines the historical perspective and the development approach under which ...