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This is Your Child: The Story of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
1st Edition
By Anne Allen, Arthur Morton
January 16, 2026
Originally published in 1961, when the NSPCC played a very real and important part in the Welfare State. This is Your Child, written by the Director of the Society, and a Justice of the Peace, sketches the history of the Society and gives a moving account of the work it does in relieving neglect ...
Politics, Security and Development in Small States
1st Edition
Edited
By Colin Clarke, Tony Payne
January 02, 2026
First published in 1987, Politics, Security and Development in Small States analyses the crisis facing small states in the international political system at the time. Incorporating general theoretical statements, case-studies, academic reflection, and policy prescription, it ranges widely in terms ...
An Introduction to the Sociology of Rural Development
1st Edition
By Norman Long
January 01, 2026
Social change that occurs with rural development in the developing world is as important as economic change. But all too often economic aspects of development have been stressed without due regard to the sociological dimension. In this book, originally published in 1977, Norman Long uses empirical ...
Authority and Delinquency in the Modern State: A Criminological Approach to the Problem of Power
1st Edition
By Alex Comfort
January 01, 2026
In Authority and Delinquency in the Modern State, originally published in 1950, Alex Comfort discusses the relationship between crime and power, and traces the mechanisms which may lead to delinquent behaviour by those in office. In the early twentieth century, the literature of abnormal behaviour ...
Caring Under Pressure
1st Edition
By Roland Chaplain, Andrea Freeman
January 01, 2026
First published in 1994, Caring Under Pressure examines the neglected area of stress and coping strategies of children and staff in residential settings who have to function within contradictory expectations of the general public and policy makers. The book discusses the development of specialist ...
Civil Liberties in Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Larry Gostin
January 01, 2026
Larry Gostin brings together the finest civil libertarians and humanists from both sides of the Atlantic in Civil Liberties in Conflict (originally published in 1988) in which he and his contributors engage with the charged issues of public order, racism, pornography, and national security. The ...
Comparative Development in Social Welfare
1st Edition
Edited
By E. W. Martin
January 01, 2026
Social welfare history has needed historical reconsideration since the growth of regional research. Pivoting on a central theme of the development of public provision for social welfare, Comparative Development in Social Welfare (originally published in 1972) investigates how elements of social ...
Educational Change and Social Transformation: Teachers, Schools and Universities in Eastern Germany
1st Edition
By Hans N. Weiler, Heinrich Mintrop, Elisabeth Fuhrmann
January 01, 2026
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the East German educational system has undergone fundamental changes within the context of a vast restructuring of the economy, the political system, and the institutions of civil society. These changes affect the very core of what goes on in teaching and ...
Edwardian Conservatism: Five Studies in Adaptation
1st Edition
Edited
By J.A. Thompson, Arthur Mejia
January 01, 2026
Conservatism is not an ideology but a frame of mind, an outlook, a general approach, grounded in temperament, psychology, economic interest, or any combination of these factors. Attempts to analyse it largely in terms of a written body of carefully formulated and coherent thought in the same way ...
Experiments in Recreation Research
1st Edition
By Thomas L. Burton
January 01, 2026
First published in 1971, Experiments in Recreation Research examines critically the techniques of assessment, measurement, and projection for use in studies of the supply and demand aspects of sport and recreation. The research was carried out in two main parts—first, a desk study of previous ...
Farming and Food Supplies: The Case for Expansion of British Agriculture
1st Edition
By Margaret Bramley
January 01, 2026
In the 1960s, the farming industry of Britain had been transformed and modernised to the point where output per person was the highest in Europe. Many farmers reasoned from this that there should be expansion of agriculture rather than restriction, and that the natural resources of Britain should ...
Foundations of Faith Volume 1: Theological
1st Edition
By W. E. Orchard
January 01, 2026
Originally published in 1924, this is the first of four volumes to discuss Christian Theology, under the guidance of the historic decisions of the Christian Church and the prevailing tendencies of Catholic thought in the early 20th Century. This volume deals with the fundamental groundwork of ...