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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 ...
Credit Marketing and Consumer Protection
1st Edition
By Terence G. Ison
August 01, 2025
The mid-20th century saw a significant expansion in the purchase of consumer goods and in the use of credit. At the same time, several changes in the nature of consumer credit took place. Credit cards made credit more readily available for goods and services and mass production, automated selling ...
Drama and Reality: The European Theatre Since Ibsen
1st Edition
By Ronald Gaskell
August 01, 2025
First published in 1972, Drama and Reality is a lucid account of the forces that have shaped modern European theatre, and especially of the different conceptions of reality implied in different plays. Three major views are distinguished (the naturalistic, the subjective, the religious) and related ...
Education and Research in Public Administration in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Adebayo Adedeji, Colin Baker
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1974, this book is a valuable contribution to the literature about the African context of public administration. The application of research to public administration and the communication of research findings are discussed in depth. All aspects of the subject are presented: ...
Education in Recession: Crisis in County Hall and Classroom
1st Edition
By Eric Hewton
August 01, 2025
The provision of education is at the centre of a heated and often acrimonious debate, with both administrators and teachers under severe pressures as a result of profound and enforced changes. Education can be said to be in recession in three senses. It is a service provided within an economy which...
Education, Recession and the World Village: A Comparative Political Economy of Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Frederick M. Wirt, Grant Harman
August 01, 2025
First published in 1986, Education, Recession and the World Village explores the effects of world economic recession on the educational arrangements of eight modern nations including Hong Kong, Australia, US, Nigeria, UK, and China and just how nations adjust their educational systems to meet these...
English Literature in History: 1730–80
1st Edition
By John Barrell
August 01, 2025
In eighteenth-century Britain, the study of history was understood first and foremost as the study of how states developed—and lost—their political coherence. But at the same time, writers, preoccupied by contemporary social change, were coming to believe that economic progress was largely ...
European Music in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Howard Hartog
August 01, 2025
First published in 1957, European Music in the Twentieth Century includes chapters by Everett Helm on Bartók, Eric Walter White on Stravinsky, Norman del Mar on Hindemith, and Walter Goehr on Schönberg; followed by various critics on musical development during the twentieth century in Austria, the ...
Explaining and Predicting Elections: Issue Effects and Party Strategies in Twenty-Three Democracies
1st Edition
By Ian Budge, Dennis J. Farlie
August 01, 2025
First published in 1983, Explaining and Predicting Elections is the first cross-national and comprehensive explanation of election results. It considers why one election differs from another and attempts to account for party gains and losses in the elections which have taken place in twenty-three ...
Historical Research on Social Mobility: Western Europe and the USA in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
1st Edition
By Hartmut Kaelble
August 01, 2025
First published in English in 1981, Historical Research on Social Mobility treats a central area of social history: the history of social mobility. It provides a unique guide to the wide range of research in this area that is carried out by many specialists of varying disciplines within social ...
Human Relations and Hospital Care
1st Edition
By Ann Cartwright
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1964, this book describes the hospital service as it is seen by patients. It is based mainly on interviews with a random sample of patients and discusses the relationships between patients and between them and hospital doctors, nurses, and general practitioners. The best ...