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Local Authority Borrowing: Past, Present and Future
1st Edition
By Sir Harry Page
January 19, 2026
Local Authority Borrowing (1985) sets out the history of local authorities’ activities as borrowers. The early attempts to finance the building of toll roads and bridges are the beginning of a story which carries on through the centuries to the present-day market in local authority bonds worth over...
Local Government Finance: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronan Paddison, Stephen Bailey
January 19, 2026
During recent years the financing of local government has become a key issue in developed countries. This book, originally published in 1988 looks at attempts to reform local finance in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, France, Norway, Sweden and the Republic of Ireland. Case studies of attempts ...
Local Government in Britain Since Reorganisation
1st Edition
By Alan Alexander
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1982, this book was the first comprehensive, critical assessment of the outcome of the controversial reorganisation of British local government outside London which took place between 1973 and 1975. The book deals with the new systems in England, Wales and Scotland, drawing ...
Logic and Criticism
1st Edition
By William Righter
January 19, 2026
First Published in 1963, Logic and Criticism makes one of the rare attempts since that of I.A. Richard’s Principles of Literary Criticism to examine the problems of criticism in the light of recent philosophical developments. The character of critical language and argument, the problem of judgement...
Looka Yonder!: The Imaginary America of Populist Culture
1st Edition
By Duncan Webster
January 19, 2026
From Reagan and the New Right to Thatcherism, from the success of Bruce Springsteen to the popularity of the Sun, populism is one of the central questions of the 1980s. First published in 1988, Looka Yonder! analyses the important and ambivalent terrain of American populism across a range of ...
Love Songs of Chandidas: The Rebel Poet-Priest of Bengal
1st Edition
Edited
By Deben Bhattacharya
January 19, 2026
First published in 1967, Love Songs of Chandidās provides an informative introduction which makes vividly clear the importance of Chandidās to the Indian peasant masses. As the author tells us, the traveller through the Birbhum area of Bengal hears Chandidās everywhere, in the villages, in the ...
Malaya and its History
1st Edition
By R. O. Winstedt
January 19, 2026
First published in 1948, Malaya and its History is a history of Malaya ranging from the thousand years of Hindu influence to the eras of Portuguese and Dutch rule, and from the establishment of the British protectorate to Malayan independence in 1957. There are chapters on law, trade, industry and ...
Malcolm Lowry
1st Edition
By Ronald Binns
January 19, 2026
Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano is now recognized as one of the major novels of the 20th Century, whose breadth and experimental prose have influenced a wide range of contemporary writers. This study, originally published in 1984, considers the significance of the autobiographical elements in ...
Man, Creator or Destroyer
1st Edition
By George Malcolm Stratton
January 19, 2026
First published in 1952, Man, Creator or Destroyer makes clear that mankind is preeminent both as a creator and as a destroyer. And we are doomed unless creative man can master destructive man. But how gain this mystery? How strengthen the one and weaken the other? This and other vital questions ...
Managing Mothers: Dual Earner Households After Maternity Leave
1st Edition
By Julia Brannen, Peter Moss
January 19, 2026
First published in 1991, Managing Mothers (now with a new preface by the authors) provides a detailed, authoritative inside story of the lives of parents, and particularly mothers, who return to work after the birth of a first child. It is based on a study of couples who have combined the ...
Marshal Pilsudski
1st Edition
By W. F. Reddaway
January 19, 2026
First published in 1939, Marshal Pilsudski presents a comprehensive biographical history of Józef Klemens Piłsudski (1867-1935). He was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920). He was viewed as the father of the Second Polish Republic,...
Mary Kingsley: A Victorian in the Jungle
1st Edition
By Olwen Campbell
January 19, 2026
The name of Mary Kingsley deserves to be more widely known than it is today. A woman of rare abilities and boundless courage, living in an age when the narrowest Victorian conventions about the duties of daughters in the home still prevailed, she nevertheless achieved fame and distinction as a ...