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The Social Value of Art: A Psychological and Linguistic Approach to an Understanding of Art Activity
1st Edition
By F.R. O'Neill
January 19, 2026
The Social Value of Art (1939) is a thorough examination of art activity, using the knowledge of the workings of the mind and of the attractions of pleasure. It helps us understand the arts through an analysis which goes to the root of our ways of thinking and feeling....
The Sociological Study of Religion
1st Edition
By Betty R. Scharf
January 19, 2026
First published in 1970, The Sociological Study of Religion distinguishes the sociological from the philosophical or theological approach to religion. It reviews the major theories relating to religious practice to social structure and analyzes the social functions of religion. The contributions of...
The Sociology of the Palestinians
1st Edition
Edited
By Khalil Nakhleh, Elia Zureik
January 19, 2026
First published in 1980, The Sociology of the Palestinians is a comprehensive collection of sociological and demographic studies of the Palestinian people. One paper deals with the Palestinian Arabs in pre-1967 Israel and the various methods of social control adopted by the Zionist regime to co-opt...
The Solitary Warrior: New Letters by Ruskin
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Howard Whitehouse, John Ruskin
January 19, 2026
The Solitary Warrior (1929) contains a large number of letters by Ruskin, none of which has been previously published. They are of special importance and interest: many belong to the middle period of his life and show the influences which produced ‘Fors Clavigera’. They are full of vivid pictures ...
The Son of a Star
1st Edition
By Poul Borchsenius
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1960, and the first of three volumes on the history of the Jews during the dispersal, this book covers briefly the period from the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in the year 70 down to Hadrian’s suppression of Simeon’s insurrection in 135. It sketches the political ...
The Spirit and Purpose of Geography
1st Edition
By S. W. Wooldridge, W. G. East
January 19, 2026
First published in 1951, The Spirit and Purpose of Geography offers an introduction to the scope and spirit of geography. This undertakes a no less ambitious task than that of discovering the spatial relationships of the manifold features, physical and human, which diversify the Earth's surface. ...
The Stationers' Company: A History, 1403–1959
1st Edition
By Cyprian Blagden
January 19, 2026
The Stationers’ Company (1960) examines the corporate existence, under one name or another, of the Stationers’ Company over five hundred and fifty years. At some periods of its life it was of importance only to its own members, while at others it played parts of consequence in the history of the ...
The Struggle for the Pacific
1st Edition
By Gregory Bienstock
January 19, 2026
The Struggle for the Pacific (1937) examines the rivalries and postures as various powers – European, the US, Japan and China – attempted to militarily, politically and economically dominate the Asia Pacific sphere. It traces the rise and fall of the many countries and the strategies they undertook....
The Swahili Coast: Politics, Diplomacy and Trade on the East African Littoral, 1798-1856
1st Edition
By Christine Nicholls
January 19, 2026
First published in 1971, The Swahili Coast deals with a sixty-year period in which Arabs from Oman in Arabia extended their influence over the East African coast from Mogadishu in the north to Cape Delgado in the South. This region had a culture and a way of life quite distinct from that of the ...
The Theory and Practice of Homosexuality
1st Edition
By John Hart, Diane Richardson
January 19, 2026
First published in 1981 and now with a new preface by the renowned scholar Jeffrey Weeks, The Theory and Practice of Homosexuality discusses the way people who are homosexuals see themselves and are seen by others. It provides a conceptual framework to account for the development and maintenance of...
The Transformation of Work?: Skill, Flexibility and the Labour Process
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Wood
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1989, and now reissued with a new preface by the editor, this interdisciplinary study brings together an internationally distinguished group of scholars to shed light about work organization and the effects of new management methods and technologies. The book gives an ...
The Troubadour Revival: A Study of Social Change and Traditionalism in Late Medieval Spain
1st Edition
By Roger Boase
January 19, 2026
First published in 1978, this book argues that the troubadour revival in late medieval Spain was a conservative reaction to social crisis by those who belonged, or were affiliated, to a powerful, expanding and belligerent aristocracy. The crisis was produced by a discrepancy between social theory ...