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Primitive Culture in Italy
1st Edition
By H.J. Rose
May 31, 2025
First published in 1926, Primitive Culture in Italy intends to determine to what extent there survived, in the ancient civilization with which it deals, any characteristic features of savage life and thought. The primitive man provides an ideal beginning to study the long upward progress of ...
The Dangerous Sex: The Myth of Feminine Evil
1st Edition
By Hoffman R Hays
May 31, 2025
First published in 1966, The Dangerous Sex shows how the irrational concept of the "dangerous sex" evolved and how it was – and is – used by man to maintain his dominance. He examines sexual practices and beliefs, marriage customs and rituals, and social behaviour in every society and every age ...
The Last Refuge: A Survey of Residential Institutions and Homes for the Aged in England and Wales
1st Edition
By Peter Townsend
May 31, 2025
First published in 1964, The Last Refuge originated from the author’s visit to a Victorian workhouse which had become an Institution for old people. A visit that was to show frightful overcrowding in sparsely furnished dormitories. Day-rooms bleak and uninviting in which sat watery-eyed and feeble ...
The Mystery of the Great Pyramid: Traditions concerning it and its Connection with the Egyptian Book of the Dead
1st Edition
By Basil Stewart
May 31, 2025
First published in 1929, The Mystery of the Great Pyramid attempts to unravel the secrets of the Great Pyramid by drawing parallels with the rituals in the Book of the Dead. The conception of the Pyramid and the origin of the cult of Osiris and of the Book of the Dead are to be found in a common ...
The Schools of Design
1st Edition
By Quentin Bell
May 31, 2025
First published in 1963, The Schools of Design is a history of English Art Education. The story of the genesis of English art schools is one of the fierce conflicts in which private feuds mingle with questions of principle. It is a story of administrative chaos and open scandal in which some ...
The limbo people: A study of the constitution of the time universe among the aged
1st Edition
By Haim Hazan
May 31, 2025
First published in 1980, The limbo people is based upon research carried out in a day centre (‘the Centre’) for elderly Jewish people in a London Borough and studies the experience and the conception of time among the elderly. The development of the arguments concerning time was founded on (a) the ...
Turkey and the West
1st Edition
By David Barchard
May 31, 2025
First Published in 1985, Turkey and the West critically examines the likely costs and benefits of closer Turkish relations with the West. Turkey is strategically important to the West and yet set apart by its geographical location, political system, and level of economic development. Turkey’s ...
Arab Dollars for Africa
1st Edition
By E. C. Chibwe
May 30, 2025
First Published in 1976, Arab Dollars for Africa examines how Arab funds can be recycled into the African Economy. The long-term industrial future of the Arab oil producers is dependent on the availability of raw materials. Africa as a whole contains vast reserves of vital minerals, but they ...
Arab Petro-Politics
1st Edition
By Abdulaziz Al_Sowayegh
May 30, 2025
First Published in 1984, Arab Petro-Politics argues that oil is important to Arab world both as an instrument for economic development and as an element of political influence. Oil has changed the political and economic structures and policies in the Middle East and dramatically influenced ...
British Poetry 1964 to 1984: Driving through the Barricades
1st Edition
By Martin Booth
May 30, 2025
First published in 1985, British Poetry presents a personal and political account of British poetry from 1964 to 1984. Martin booth, himself a poet, poetry publisher, critic and editor, and the participant in poetry readings in Britain and overseas, shows that British poetry underwent a renaissance...
English Domestic Life during the last 200 years: An Anthology...
1st Edition
By L.A. G. Strong
May 30, 2025
First Published in 1942, English Domestic Life presents an anthology that gives as complete a picture as possible of the English domestic scene during the last 200 years. With Fielding we accompany an eighteenth-century family to the theatre to see Mr Garrick in Hamlet; with Thackeray we see Mrs ...
Gabon: The Development of a Nation
1st Edition
By Marc Aicardi De Saint-Paul
May 30, 2025
First published in 1987 and in English in 1989, Gabon provides an essential introduction to the geography, history, sociology, economics and politics of Gabon in considerable detail. It assesses Gabon’s achievement-the initiation of a national minimum wage, of a campaign for women's rights, of an ...