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The Family, Women and Death: Comparative Studies
1st Edition
By S.C. Humphreys
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1983 and as a second edition in 1993, this book deals with 3 universal but culturally variable phenomena: the family, women and death. The book poses questions about our own ways of looking at the family and private life, at sex and gender and at death, by analysing ancient ...
The Green Edge of Asia
1st Edition
By Richard Pyke
October 01, 2025
First published in 1937, The Green Edge of Asia is a vivid and intimate account of the life in the Far East. The author’s writing is subtly evocative, and in a few words, he conjures up a complete picture of the Monastery of Secluded Light with its blue-robed pilgrims, of a sordid street in ...
The Haunt of Misery: Critical essays in social work and helping
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Rojek, Geraldine Peacock, Stewart Collins
October 01, 2025
First published in 1989, The Haunt of Misery offers social workers and students critical essays for critical times. Faced with unreflective wealth creation and the fragmentation of the counterculture, social work is perceived as failing to meet the needs of the client. Many social workers are left ...
The History of the British Navy
1st Edition
By Michael Lewis
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1959, this volume covers the history of the Service which has been through the centuries the first, and often the last line of British defence, and the spearhead of Britian’s imperial expansion. In the book Professor Lewis puts the Royal Navy into its true perspective in ...
The Industrial Geography of Canada
1st Edition
By Anthony Blackbourn, Robert G. Putnam
October 01, 2025
First published in 1984, The Industrial Geography of Canada provides a comprehensive overview of the Canadian industry. It introduces Canada’s physical and human resources, describes the settlement pattern and charts the development of industry from 1945. The main characteristics of each province’s...
The Loyal Conspiracy: The Lords Appellant under Richard II
1st Edition
By Anthony Goodman
October 01, 2025
First published in 1971, The Loyal Conspiracy gives a detailed examination of the most critical years of the reign of Richard II, through an account of the careers of the Lords Appellant. These were the five great noblemen, ranging from Thomas of Woodstock, the King’s uncle, to Henry of Bolingbroke...
The New Helots: Migrants in the International Division of Labour
1st Edition
By Robin Cohen
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1987 and now reissued with a substantial introduction by Robin Cohen, this wide-ranging work of comparative and historical sociology argues that a major engine of capital’s growth lies in its ability to find successive cohorts of quasi-free workers to deploy in the farms, ...
The Norwegian Economy: 1920–1980
1st Edition
By Fritz Hodne
October 01, 2025
The success of the Norwegian economy in the twentieth century has been remarkable. In 1910 Norway was industrially backward and one of the poorest nations in Europe. In 1980 The Economist ranked Norway among the three richest industrial countries in the world. In 2025 Norway is the 9th richest ...
The Polish Economy: In the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Zbigniew Landau, Jerzy Tomaszewski
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1985, this study by Polish authors was the first in the English language to cover Poland’s economic development from 1900 to the mid-1980s and it was published at a time when the Polish economy was in crisis and before the fall of the Iron Curtain. The book presents a ...
The Printing Unwins: A Short History of Unwin Brothers: The Gresham Press (1826-1976)
1st Edition
By Philip Unwin
October 01, 2025
First published in 1976, The Printing Unwins is the story of the firm of Unwin Brothers: the saga that began with the enterprise of Jacob Unwin who started the business which grew over the years into the Gresham Steam Press and under his sons George and Edward into Unwin Brothers of London and ...
The Uses of Obscurity: The Fiction of Early Modernism
1st Edition
By Allon White
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature and questions how we can begin to account for the forms of obscurity and difficulty which developed in the late 19th Century and which became so important to modernism. The author ...
Travelling by Train in the Edwardian Age
1st Edition
By Philip Unwin
October 01, 2025
First published in 1979, Travelling by Train in the Edwardian Age is a book for the steam train enthusiast, but it is much more than that: it is as well a fascinating social document reflecting an important aspect of Edwardian times. From boyhood memories the author calls to life the sights, sounds...