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Close to the Earth: Living Social History of the British Isles
1st Edition
By Judith Cook
March 03, 2025
First published in 1984, Close to the Earth is a record of a vanishing age in Britain, of working communities and working individuals who made their living from the land, the rivers and the sea. It is based on conversations and personal memories collected for over twenty years and is illustrated ...
English Speech from an Historical Point of View
1st Edition
By N. Bøgholm
March 03, 2025
First published in 1939, English Speech from an Historical Point of View presents the history of the English language under three major components: Old English, Middle English and Modern English. Each of these divisions, with the partial exception of Modern English, treats English with regard to ...
Escaping the Dragon
1st Edition
By Tom Field
March 03, 2025
First published in 1985, Escaping the Dragon is written for anyone- parents, family, friends, teachers, health professionals- who want to know about heroin addiction. Based on the author’s own experience and research, this book details the misuse of heroin with emphasis on the recognition of ...
From School Board to Local Authority
1st Edition
By Eric Eaglesham
March 03, 2025
First published in 1956, From School Board to Local Authority is a meticulous and exact inquiry into the events which led up to the famous Cockerton v. The School Board for London case. It suggests that the reorganization of the education system in 1902 was not primarily the result of an unexpected...
Gangland: The Case of Bentley and Craig
1st Edition
By Francis Selwyn
March 03, 2025
On the evening of 2nd November 1952, a shot fired from a makeshift weapon on a warehouse roof in Croydon killed PC Sidney Miles. Next morning the newspaper headlines proclaimed a Chicago gun-battle in London, gangsters machine-gunning armed police over the rooftops. But the trial of Bentley and ...
Hitler's Englishman: The Crime of 'Lord Haw-Haw'
1st Edition
By Francis Selwyn
March 03, 2025
‘Lord Haw-Haw’ (William Joyce) was Hitler’s secret weapon of the airwaves. Nightly through the Second World War Joyce’s nasal tones were transmitted to a delighted if sceptical audience. He had a large and enthusiastic following, who looked upon his catchphrase ‘Jairmany calling’ as the promise of ...
Humanism in the Age of Henry VIII
1st Edition
By Maria Dowling
March 03, 2025
First published in 1986, Humanism in the Age of Henry VIII is concerned with the flourishing humanism outside the religious and political spheres in many different fields and its intellectual and cultural impact on the schools and universities and in the realm of private study, paying particular ...
John Bunyan: Allegory and Imagination
1st Edition
By E. Beatrice Batson
March 03, 2025
First published in 1984, John Bunyan: Allegory and Imagination is informed not only by an enthusiasm for Bunyan but by an understanding of the literary and theological currents of the time. Criticism of John Bunyan has generally presented him as ‘an artist in spite of himself’, an unreflective ...
Military Technology, Military Strategy and the Arms Race
1st Edition
By Marek Thee
March 03, 2025
First published in 1986, Military Technology, Military Strategy and the Arms Race argues that a principal factor contributing to the arms race is the military research and development (R and D) sector. It traces the arms race since World War II and explores the relationship between the emergence of...
Nuclear Power Struggles: Industrial Competition and Proliferation Control
1st Edition
By William Walker, Måns Lönnroth
March 03, 2025
First published in 1983, Nuclear Power Struggles (now with a new preface by the authors) analyses the strains within the nuclear reactor industry and assesses the scale and location of future markets. It looks at the strengths and weaknesses of leading exporters and considers what can be done to ...
Pacific Asia in the 1990s
1st Edition
By Masahide Shibusawa, Zakaria Haji Ahmad, Brian Bridges
March 03, 2025
First published in 1992, Pacific Asia in the 1990s explores the main economic and political trends among the Pacific Asian countries in the second half of the 1980s. It suggests where the potential problems lie and where the opportunities are. This book is an unusual collaborative venture in that...
Philosophy and Human Movement
1st Edition
By David Best dec'd
March 03, 2025
First published in 1978, Philosophy and Human Movement examines the major philosophical issues in the rapidly growing field of the study of human movement, physical education, and sport and dance. Issues which start with, and grow from, the central problem of the relation of body to mind. The ...