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From Military to Civilian Rule
1st Edition
Edited
By Constantine P. Danopoulos
January 19, 2026
Military disengagement from power in favour of a civilian government is not an uncommon phenomenon, especially in the developing world. First published in 1992, From Military to Civilian Rule is the first comparative study of the motives behind military withdrawal and the establishment of ...
From Renaissance to Revolution: A Study of the Influence of the Renaissance upon the Political Development of Europe
1st Edition
By Sylvia Benians
January 19, 2026
From Renaissance to Revolution (1923) traces in some of its many expressions the influence of the Renaissance on the politics and culture of Europe during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It starts with the decay of medieval civilisation and the emergence through the Renaissance...
Geography and Gender: An Introduction to Feminist Geography
1st Edition
By Women and Geography Study Group of the IBG
January 19, 2026
In the 1980s feminist geography offered a stimulating new approach to the subject, providing fresh perspectives on traditional areas of the discipline. Originally published in 1984, the authors of Geography and Gender, members of the Women and Geography Study Group of the Institute of British ...
Geography from the Air
1st Edition
By F. Walker
January 19, 2026
First Published in 1953, Geography from the Air is the first book in English to explain and illustrate fully the use of air photographs in the study of geography. It sets out in simple form the limited amount of technical information which is necessary in order to enjoy fully the fascinating ...
George Orwell: And the Problem of Authentic Existence
1st Edition
By Michael Carter
January 19, 2026
First Published in 1985, the aim of this book is to define an aspect of Orwell’s literary identity which underlies and informs the sociopolitical content of his novels, and which may account for his being ‘more widely read’ than perhaps any other serious writer in the twentieth century. It is the ...
Global Capitalism: Theories of Societal Development
1st Edition
By Richard Peet
January 19, 2026
In Global Capitalism (originally published in 1991), Richard Peet surveys the various approaches made by social theory towards seeing history in terms of its regional dynamics. He reviews environmental determinism, modernization, dependency, and world systems theories, and argues that the most ...
God and Man in Early Israel
1st Edition
By J. W. D. Smith
January 19, 2026
First published in 1956, God and Man in Early Israel deals with Old Testament history from Abraham to Solomon in the light of modern archaeological research and biblical scholarship, and in terms of the Christian belief in divine revelation. The book is divided into three parts—God and Man in the ...
God and the Processes of Reality: Foundations of a Credible Theism
1st Edition
By David A. Pailin
January 19, 2026
Can belief in God be rational? David A. Pailin identifies the reasons behind this questioning of theistic faith in his book God and the Processes of Reality (originally published in 1989) and demonstrates how the supposed incoherences in the concept of God are due to the generalization of partial ...
Goethe: New Perspectives on a Writer and his Time
1st Edition
By Derek Van Abbe
January 19, 2026
First published in 1972, Goethe presents a biography looking at one of the few great Europeans to be universally recognized as a hero of culture, and in the light of modern sociological thought puts the hero into his background, human, social and political. Goethe is seen in the context of his ...
Governments-in-Exile in Contemporary World Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Yossi Shain
January 19, 2026
Exiled governments play a crucial role in long-standing national conflicts around the world. They have an enormous impact on transnational politics and the world order. First published in 1991, Governments-in-Exile in Contemporary World Politics examines the odd but pivotal place that ...
Graduates: The Sociology of an Elite
1st Edition
By R.K. Kelsall, Anne Poole, Annette Kuhn
January 19, 2026
Graduates (1972) examines the careers of UK graduates for six years following their successful completion of their degrees. It takes a detailed look at the issues of social mobility, formal education, family influences, achievement motivation, differences between the sexes, social origins, and the ...
Graham Greene
1st Edition
By John Spurling
January 19, 2026
Graham Greene is an immensely popular as well as powerful and idiosyncratic writer. His leading characters are murderers, spies, fugitives and outsiders and his most typical plot is that of the hunter and the hunted. In this book, originally published in 1983, John Spurling sets about tracking down...






