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African Islands and Enclaves
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin Cohen
December 01, 2025
Small territories and islands are significant flashpoints in the contemporary world order. They are both exposed to the vicissitudes of international power rivalries and can find it difficult to sustain a stable internal political and economic order. Originally published in 1983 this book provides ...
African Labor History
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter C. W. Gutkind, Robin Cohen, Jean Copans
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1978, this book was distinctive in translating the work of French labour specialists and includes chapters on Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, Kenya, Tanganyika, Madagascar and Botswana. Although all the papers are set in historically specific events, some of the larger ...
An Introduction to Sophocles
1st Edition
By T. Webster
December 01, 2025
Professor Webster was a well-known, prolific writer on the Greek theatre. For this second edition of An Introduction to Sophocles, originally published in 1969, he provided additions and corrections to a work that had proved its value since its first appearance in 1936. After a chapter on the life ...
Arid Lands: A Geographical Appriasal
1st Edition
Edited
By E. S. Hills
December 01, 2025
In 1951 UNESCO launched an Arid Zone Programme with the object of promoting research into arid regions from every relevant scientific point of view. This book, originally published in 1966, represents the range of research undertaken and gives a general conspectus of arid zone geography. 17 authors...
Arms Control At Sea
1st Edition
By J Richard Hill
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1989, this book reviews the history of maritime control measures from before the First World War and provides a critical examination of both the objectives of maritime power and the concepts of disarmament, peace zones, parity, verifiability and peaceful co-existence. It ...
Art-Based Games
1st Edition
By Don Pavey
December 01, 2025
The visitor to an Art Arena game is confronted with an enormous piece of paper covering one wall of the room. Groups of players are at work painting, some with spontaneity or abandon, others with thoughtful precision. Back from the wall are knots of players calling our apparently cryptic ...
Asia’s New Industrial World
1st Edition
By Michael Smith, Jane McLoughlin, Peter Large, Rod Chapman
December 01, 2025
First published in 1985, Asia’s New Industrial World assesses the power and influence of four key corners of the Far East—Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Indonesia. Michael Smith visited Japan, the Far East’s most potent economic force; Jane McLoughlin went to Korea to see a country in ...
Authors, Publishers and Politicians: The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement, 1815-1854
1st Edition
By James J. Barnes
December 01, 2025
First published in 1974, Authors, Publishers and Politicians describes the efforts to secure an Anglo-American copyright agreement. It explores the underlying causes of the failure of this quest, a failure which enabled literary pirates on both sides of the Atlantic to continue operations for ...
Battlefields of Knowledge: The Interlocking of Theory and Practice in Social Research and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Norman Long, Ann Long
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1992, this book is an original contribution to overcoming the impasse of ‘totalizing’ theories in the sociology of development by arguing for an actor-oriented approach to the analysis of social change. Such an approach entails the development of theoretically grounded ...
Caring: Experiences of Looking After Disabled Relatives
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Briggs, Judith Oliver
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1985, Caring offers an account of the experiences of carers across the United Kingdom, spanning all ages and diverse backgrounds, as they care for disabled relatives. Through their own testimonies and direct storytelling, carers illustrate their lives in ways far more ...
Caring for the Mentally Ill in the Community
1st Edition
By Charles Anthony Butterworth, David Skidmore
December 01, 2025
First published in 1981, Caring for the Mentally Ill in the Community is a manual of treatment practice for those working with psychiatric patients in the community—psychiatric nurses, social workers, health visitors, district nurses, and general practitioners. The book seeks to remove psychiatric ...
Class Inequality and Health Care: The Origins and Impact of the National Health Service
1st Edition
By Vivienne Walters
December 01, 2025
Since its introduction in 1948 the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK has generally been regarded with veneration. There is a general belief that it has removed class inequalities in access to care and by implication, reduced inequalities in health. This book suggests that the formation of the...