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The United States: A Companion to American Studies
2nd Edition
Edited
By Dennis Welland
January 19, 2026
First published in 1987, the second edition of The United States illuminates America’s past and present by a straightforward examination of a wide range of subjects – geography, urbanization, immigration, and race, American wars, government, politics and foreign policy, literature, the visual arts ...
The Varieties of Goodness
1st Edition
By Georg Henrik von Wright
January 19, 2026
First published in 1963, Varieties of Goodness presents analysis of the concept of value and its relations with the neighbouring concepts of fact and norm. The author discusses important themes such as instrumental and technical goodness; utilitarian goodness; goodness of faculties; active and ...
The Ways of Knowing: Or The Methods of Philosophy
1st Edition
By William Pepperell Montague
January 19, 2026
The Ways of Knowing (1925) examines the ways of attaining knowledge and verifying it, looking at the six methods of logic. It is also concerned with the epistemological problem of interpreting the relation of truth to the mind....
The West Indies: The Federal Negotiations
1st Edition
By John Mordecai
January 19, 2026
First Published in 1968, The West Indies is the history of Federation in the British West Indies since 1920’s, in itself a fascinating story full of strong and colorful personalities; at the same time, it offers an incisive analysis of the reasons why Federations have proved so unstable in the post...
The Word and the World: Explorations in the Form of Sociological Analysis
1st Edition
By Michael Mulkay
January 19, 2026
First published in 1985, The Word and the World is a significant, empirically-based contribution to the sociological analysis of scientists’ discourse and scientific culture. It also offers a radical departure from established forms of sociological discourse which has far-reaching implications for ...
The Writing on the Wall: The British Commonwealth and Aggression in the East 1931–1935
1st Edition
By E. M. Andrews
January 19, 2026
First published in 1987, The Writing on the Wall tells the story of the muddle, shortsightedness and duplicity which characterised Britain’s dealings with her Pacific Dominions. It describes the reactions of each Dominion and chronicles the desultory responses of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand ...
The Writings: The Third Division of the Old Testament Canon
1st Edition
By T. Henshaw
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1963, this work is a study of the Old Testament books known as ‘The Writings’ (Ketuvim). Introductory chapters supply the necessary background material and are followed by separate chapters on the books themselves, their origin, purpose, contents date of composition, ...
Thinking: An Experimental and Social Study
1st Edition
By Frederic Bartlett
January 19, 2026
First Published in 1958, Thinking Introduces a number of simple experiments which can all be repeated by anybody who is interested. They show that the thinker is all the time trying to fill up gaps in information that is available to him in such a manner that there is a good prospect that all other...
Thinking in Opposites: an investigation of the nature of man as revealed by the nature of thinking
1st Edition
By Paul Roubiczek
January 19, 2026
First published in 1952, Thinking in Opposites insists on the need for a carefully thought-out, rather than a merely authoritarian, basis for faith; but also insists that an indispensable preliminary is to know the laws which govern and limit the scope of human thinking in relation to three areas: ...
Three Latin American Sociologists: Gino Germani, Pablo Gonzales Casanova, Fernando Henrique Cardosa
1st Edition
By Joseph A. Kahl
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1976 under the title Modernization, Exploitation and Dependency in Latin America, and again in 1988 under the current title, the author describes, examines and introduces the life and work of three of the most important figures in the development of comparative politics and ...
Tolstoy
1st Edition
By Ronald Hayman
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1970, this account of Tolstoy’s achievement as a novelist concentrates on the best known of his works, in particular the two masterpieces Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Extracts are, however, taken from all the major novels and are arranged chronologically to demonstrate ...
Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall
1st Edition
By Herbert Weisinger
January 19, 2026
First published in 1953, Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall argues that our response to tragedy is made up of a series of responses: the impact of experience which produces the archetypes of belief; the formation of the archetype of rebirth; the crystallization of the archetype of ...