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Dante, Michelangelo and Milton
1st Edition
By John Arthos
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1963, this is a study of the greatness of Dante, Michelangelo and Milton, and of the differences in the power and effect of their work. This book shows how differing philosophical commitments help explain differences in the character of their greatness. The ancient treatise ...
Deconstructing America: Representations of the Other
1st Edition
By Peter Mason
January 19, 2026
First published in 1990, Deconstructing America breaks new ground by locating the European discovery of America within the study of representations of Otherness. Peter Mason acknowledges that America was part of the European imagination before its discovery, but challenges the claim that the ...
Delivering Motherhood: Maternal Ideologies and Practices in the 19th and 20th Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Katherine Arnup, Andrée Lévesque, Ruth Roach Pierson
January 19, 2026
In the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, motherhood in Canada, as elsewhere in the western world, became contested terrain. Male medical practitioners vied with midwives, and midwives with nurses, while reform-minded middle-class women joined with the eugenically minded state ...
Democracy and Bureaucracy: Tensions in Public Schooling
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith D. Chapman, Jeffrey F. Dunstan
January 19, 2026
First published in 1990, Democracy and Bureaucracy examines the tensions associated with the reorganization of public education in Australia. Contributors explore these tensions through a variety of related antimonies: bureaucracy and democracy, control and autonomy, centralism and devolution. The ...
Democratic Theory and Local Government
1st Edition
By Dilys M. Hill
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1974, this book filled a gap in its examination and evaluation of the way in which English local government forms a part of democratic society. Modern society is complex and although local government brings many benefits to ordinary people, it also circumscribes what they ...
Developing Competent Teachers: Approaches to Professional Competence in Teacher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By David Hustler, Donald McIntyre
January 19, 2026
First published in 1996, Developing Competent Teachers aims to explore the implications of different ways of thinking about the professional competences of teachers. It does so through case studies of competence frameworks used in a number of teacher education contexts – and, for comparative ...
Development from Within: Survival in Rural Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By D. R. F. Taylor, Fiona Mackenzie
January 19, 2026
The decade of 1980s was one of crisis for Africa. Neither African governments nor development agencies made a significant impact on the quality of life of rural people. The enormous range of contexts in Africa — social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental — limits the value of the ...
Dictionary of World Literary Terms: Enlarged and Completely Revised Edition
1st Edition
Edited
By Joseph T. Shipley
January 19, 2026
First published in 1970, Dictionary of World Literary Terms brings together in one volume authoritative definitions of literary terms, forms and techniques, figures of speech and detailed notes on the history and development of the literatures and literary movements of the world. Arranged in ...
Dilemmas of Discourse: Controversies about the Sociological Interpretation of Language
1st Edition
By Anthony Wootton
January 19, 2026
First Published in 1975, Dilemmas of Discourse brings together strands of arguments from disciplines like sociology, anthropology, linguistics and philosophy to explore the debate around the issue of deciding the meaning of what people may say. Can the meaning of words be described satisfactorily ...
Disability in Modern Children's Fiction
1st Edition
By John Quicke
January 19, 2026
First published in 1985, Disability in Modern Children’s Fiction presents a case for the inclusion of a planned element in the mainstream curriculum, specifically designed to encourage positive attitudes and actions towards children with special needs, and for utilising the possibilities inherent ...
Discovering Men
1st Edition
By David H. J. Morgan
January 19, 2026
Feminism has put the critical study of men and masculinities firmly on to the academic agenda. First published in 1992, Discovering Men explores key issues in this field of study, looking at the theoretical, practical, and political difficulties that arise when men begin to study themselves, and ...
Dress and Undress: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Iris Brooke
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1958, this book deals with the details of dress – formal and informal – from the time of Charles II to the end of the eighteenth century. Most of the illustrations are taken from existing garments preserved in private collections or museums. Many verbatim descriptions are ...