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A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England
1st Edition
By Donald Thomas
January 19, 2026
Censorship of the written word has proved a constant source for debate and argument. To cut or not to cut is a question with a long and fascinating history. First published in 1969, A Long Time Burning is an account of the political, religious, and moral censorship of literature, in the context of ...
A Shaping Joy: Studies in the Writer's Craft
1st Edition
By Cleanth Brooks
January 19, 2026
In A Shaping Joy (originally published in 1971), Cleanth Brooks writes about modern literature and the criticism that has been developed to deal with it. Most of the essays concern poets and novelists of the twentieth century, but there are also discussions of nineteenth-century American writers ...
A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Gardner
January 19, 2026
First published in 1992, A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage brings together the most important and significant critical response to the poetry of A.E. Housman from the time of his writing to 1951. It contains ninety-four items—articles, reviews, and comments which provide an accurate picture of ...
Abortion Freedom: A Worldwide Movement
1st Edition
By Colin Francome
January 19, 2026
First published in 1984, Abortion Freedom explains the main reasons for widespread international liberalisation of abortion laws. Colin Francome points out that the birth control movement had its roots in a concern with overpopulation and that this is still a crucial issue today. A major change, ...
Adventures in Philosophy
1st Edition
By J. C. Wordsworth
January 19, 2026
First published in 1925, Adventures in Philosophy presents a series of essays dealing with some of the chief problems of metaphysics and beginning with a defence of that somewhat unpopular pursuit. The first part of the book is mainly constructive in character, and not only attempts to put as ...
Adventurous Film Making
1st Edition
By J. David Beal
January 19, 2026
Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve film makers in expressing their ideas. This volume spans every kind of film: travel, action, recreations of the past, visual and verbal comedy, the natural world, cartoon and puppet ...
African Kingships in Perspective: Political Change and Modernization in Monarchical Settings
1st Edition
Edited
By René Lemarchand
January 19, 2026
First published in 1977, African Kingships in Perspective deals comparatively and analytically with the dynamics of change in monarchical settings. It examines the variant responses of African kingships to the challenge of modernity and political centralisation, and to assess their successes and ...
African Penal Systems
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Milner
January 19, 2026
First published in 1969, African Penal Systems is the first book to explore the problems of African criminology. Sixteen distinguished contributors- sociologists, lawyers, and psychiatrists- each an authority on some aspect of African penal problems, have collaborated to produce it. Its first part ...
African Women: A Study of the Ibo of Nigeria
1st Edition
By Sylvia Leith-Ross
January 19, 2026
First Published in 1939 and reissued with a new preface in 1965, African Women presents a study of the Ibo women of Nigeria. The originality of the book lies in the fact that practically all the information is obtained from women and that throughout, customs, laws, circumstances and happenings are ...
After the Guns Fall Silent: Peace or Armageddon in the Middle-East
1st Edition
By Mohamed Sid-Ahmed
January 19, 2026
First published in 1976, After the Guns Fall Silent is an important Arab statement on the Middle East crisis. The central theme is that the October war and détente fundamentally changed the basis of the conflict. The Arab military success and the impact of the oil weapon established a parity ...
Agrarian Evolution in a Multiform Structure Society: Experience of Independent India
1st Edition
By V. G. Rastyannikov
January 19, 2026
India in the 1950s and 1960s, with its diversity of economic structures and different levels of regional development, offers a unique opportunity to explore a wide range of agrarian evolution within a multiform society. Basing his study on an extensive survey of the existing literature as well as ...
Alexandrine Teaching on the Universe
1st Edition
By R. B. Tollinton
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1932, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1931. The views of the universe as held by the great teachers of Ancient Alexandria are discussed: Philo, Clement, Origen, Plotinus and the Gnostics are considered and their outlook compared and ...