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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 Court of Oliver Cromwell
1st Edition
By Roy Sherwood
June 01, 2026
The Cromwellian Protectorate was in effect a monarchical regime and many of the trappings associated with the generally accepted concept of a monarchy, that of a crowned head, were attached to the office of lord protector, and hence to the person of Oliver Cromwell. The most obvious way this became...
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...
Unsettled Affinities
1st Edition
By Reinhard Bendix, John Bendix
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1993, Unsettled Affinities was Reinhard Bendix's final work. It has a unique place in his writings, as it continues the themes contained in the two volumes of Embattled Reason and extends them in his consideration of the idea of community. For Bendix, our affinities are ...
A Dictionary of True Etymologies
1st Edition
By Adrian Room
May 01, 2026
Originally published in 1986 this dictionary gives the true etymologies, as far as they are known, of many English words that have frequently come to be associated with quite another, false origin. Among such words are those that have long been wrongly attributed in the language such as acorn, ...
Africa Today: A Short Introduction to African Affairs
1st Edition
By B.W. Hodder
May 01, 2026
The rapidly increasing importance of Africa in world affairs became apparent by the late 1970s. However, media coverage at that time presented a picture of great complexity, confusion, and even impending disaster. It was easy to take refuge in simplistic, over-generalized, and highly prejudiced ...
An Introduction to Economics for West African Students
1st Edition
By R. Olufemi Ekundare
May 01, 2026
An Introduction to Economics for West African Students (1980) explains the definition and scope of economics and discusses capitalism, socialism and the African economic system. It examines the creation of wealth and the structure and organisation of modern industrial production in West Africa. It ...
Anglo-Irish Trade in the Sixteenth Century
1st Edition
By Ada Kathleen Longfield
May 01, 2026
Anglo-Irish Trade in the Sixteenth Century (1929) examines the economic history of Ireland in Tudor times, using material from the English Custom’s Accounts and Post-Books to provide an in-depth analysis of the trade between England and Ireland in the period....
Breakaway Unions and the Small Trade Union
1st Edition
By Shirley W. Lerner
May 01, 2026
Originally published in 1961 and based on primary sources, this book examines inter-union disputes and trade union history. It reveals the human reactions involved in one of the most intractable spheres of industrial relations. The author made a number of case studies. The first demonstrates the ...