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Planning and Politics: The British Experience 1960-1976
1st Edition
By Michael Shanks
June 01, 2026
First published in 1977, Planning and Politics examines Britain’s economic planning experiments during a period when the country’s seemingly intractable economic problems had become one of the major weaknesses of the western world. Since 1960, both Conservative and Labour governments carried out a ...
Psychology and Social Structure
1st Edition
By Barrie G Stacey
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1976, this book relates psychology to the wider question of the nature and structure of society, particularly Western industrialized societies. It examines various types of man-made inequality, particularly inequality of educational opportunities, class and stratification ...
Public Expenditures in Communist and Capitalist Nations
1st Edition
By Frederic L. Pryor
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1968, this book was an important contribution both to the economics of the public sector and to the study of comparative economic systems and remains of historical interest. In contrast to many expenditure specialists who deal primarily with aggregated data, the author ...
Regional Concept: The Anglo-American Leaders
1st Edition
By Robert E. Dickinson
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1976 this book provides a source of essential material on the founding fathers of British and American geography. An assessment of 150 years, the period in which geography became an organized discipline, the book concentrates on the development of the regional concept. This ...
Sherwood Anderson: A Biographical and Critical Study
1st Edition
By Irving Howe
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1951 and reissued in 1966 this book combines stimulating biography with sound literary criticism in its account of a writer who observed America’s great nineteenth century change from an agrarian to an industrial society. Irving Howe places Anderson in the cultural context ...
Students and Books
1st Edition
By Peter H. Mann
June 01, 2026
First published in 1974, Students and Books examines key questions about British university undergraduate reading habits of the time: What guidance on reading did undergraduates receive from their lecturers? What use did they make of their university libraries? How much money did they spend on ...
Teaching Craft, Design and Technology: Five to Thirteen
1st Edition
By Peter H.M. Williams
June 01, 2026
First published in 1985 (reissuing the second edition of 1990 here), Teaching Craft, Design and Technology provides both specialist and non-specialist teachers with the support and practical guidance necessary to teach and assess Craft, Design and Technology (CDT) throughout the early and middle ...
Thalidomide: My Fight
1st Edition
By David Mason
June 01, 2026
In the late 1950s and early 1960s the drug Thalidomide (marketed in the UK by Distillers Company without sufficient testing) was a sedative and medication prescribed for morning sickness. The Thalidomide tragedy is the story of one of the worst disasters ever inflicted by medicine which led to ...
The British Economy: Problems and Prospects
1st Edition
By John Hackett, Anne-Marie Hackett
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1967, this book provides a detailed survey of economic events from the early 1950s to the late 1960s. It provides an excellent source of reference on economic policy issues and will also be invaluable as a textbook of mid-20th century economic history. Part 1 discusses ...
The Communist Foreign Trade System: The Other Common Market
1st Edition
By Frederic L. Pryor
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1963 but with lasting historical interest, this book was based on extensive research including many personal interviews with foreign trade officials and economists in communist East Berlin. It surveys the extent of economic integration between the European communist nations ...
The State, France and the Sixteenth Century
1st Edition
By Howell A. Lloyd
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1983, this book discusses an important ideological development: the emergence of a new concept of the state as a substantive entity and the source of the ruler’s authority over his subjects. It maintains that such a concept emerged in French political thought of the ...
The Tragic Philosopher: Friedrich Nietzsche
1st Edition
By F.A. Lea
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1957 this classic book traces the development of Nietzsche’s thought through all its principal phases and stresses its relevance to our times. Based on original literary and biographical sources, it avoids technicalities and obscure comparison and is intended for the general...