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People, Poverty and Shelter: Problems of Self-help Housing in the Third World
1st Edition
Edited
By R.J. Skinner, M.J. Rodell
April 01, 2026
People, Poverty and Shelter (1983) analyses the practical field experience of self-help as a solution to housing problems in the developing world. Focusing on practical, project-level issues , and problems encountered with policy implementation, this important collection examines the experiences of...
Physiological Variation and its Genetic Basis
1st Edition
Edited
By J. S. Weiner
April 01, 2026
Originally published in 1977, Physiological Variation and its Genetic Basis. The editor of this volume, and organizer of the symposium on which it is based, was well aware that the enterprise represented an excursion into difficult, and at the time, largely unknown and even dangerous territory. ...
Political Leadership in Africa
1st Edition
By John Cartwright
April 01, 2026
Political Leadership in Africa (1983) reviews the different types of leadership in Africa, ranging from the beneficial guidance of Nyerere to the despotism of Amin. It examines the options open to the leaders of the newly-independent countries in Africa and shows that attitudes to colonial rule ...
Residential Housing and Nuclear Attack
1st Edition
By Diane Diacon
April 01, 2026
Residential Housing and Nuclear Attack (1984) considers the likely effects of a nuclear attack and examines the effectiveness of proposed civil defence measures. It looks in particular at the degree of protection residential housing is likely to provide. Examining the nature of nuclear attack, it ...
Rivers: Form and Process in Alluvial Channels
1st Edition
By Keith Richards
April 01, 2026
Originally published in 1982, this book presents a detailed review of alluvial river form and process and integrates the distinct but related approaches of geomorphologists, geologists and engineers to the subject. It outlines the environmental catchment factors that control the development of ...
Sociology
1st Edition
By W. J. H. Sprott
April 01, 2026
Originally published in 1949, this third edition of Sociology in 1966 asks the questions: What do sociologists study? What methods do they employ? How far are economic and political patterns, population distribution, the accepted system of social institutions, religious and ethical ideas ...
Tennyson
1st Edition
By Paul Turner
April 01, 2026
Alfred Tennyson’s writing life spanned a period of some seventy years, from the Regency to the last decade of Victoria’s reign and he is often regarded as the representative cultural figure of his age. Originally published in 1976, this account of Tennyson’s life, character and work looks at him in...
The Age of Madness: The History of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization Presented in Selected Texts
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas S. Szasz
April 01, 2026
For centuries forced confinement, cruel ‘cures’, political repression and ritualized personal degradation have all been rationalized and justified by appeals to the dogmas of psychiatry. Originally published in 1973 this book, written by one of the twentieth century’s most respected yet ...
The Elizabethan Love Sonnet
1st Edition
By J. W. Lever
April 01, 2026
This classic study of the Elizabethan sonnet, first published in 1956 and as a second edition in 1965, describes the development of the English sonnet from the early poems of Wyatt and Surrey, which were strongly influenced by Petrarch, to the great original sonnets of Sidney, Spenser and ...
The Indian Ocean and the Superpowers: Economic, Political and Strategic Perspectives
1st Edition
By Rasul B. Rais
April 01, 2026
The Indian Ocean and the Superpowers (1986) provides an analysis of the evolution of superpower strategy and interests in the Indian Ocean. It argues that the priorities of the United States and the Soviet Union are to safeguard their own economic, strategic and security interests by containing ...
The Moral Economy of Trade: Ethnicity and Developing Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By Hans-Dieter Evers, Heiko Schrader
April 01, 2026
The Moral Economy of Trade (1994) investigates the agents of trade during the process of transformation from an indigenous rural subsistence economy into a cash-crop-producing market economy and a more-or-less integrated market-system in Southeast Asia. Drawing on earlier anthropological and ...
The Politics of Preferences: EEC Policy Making and the Generalised System of Preferences
1st Edition
By Peter Tulloch
April 01, 2026
The Politics of Preferences (1975) examines the development of European Community trade policy between 1963 and 1973 and its impact on developing countries. It also looks at the strategy and tactics pursued by developing countries during the same period in an attempt to get a better deal for their ...