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The Bible as Rhetoric: Studies in Biblical Persuasion and Credibility
1st Edition
Edited
By M Warner
January 19, 2026
First Published in 1990, The Bible as Rhetoric explores the ways in which the persuasive strategies employed in the biblical texts relate (both positively and negatively) to their preoccupations with religious and historical truth. The book contains pioneering interdisciplinary papers that clarify ...
The Black Douglas
1st Edition
By I. M. Davis
January 19, 2026
First Published in 1974, The Black Douglas is both exciting and informative, is based on fourteenth century chronicles and documents, and is the first full account of Douglas’s eventful and dangerous career up to his celebrated death carrying Bruce's heart into battle against the Moors. James of ...
The Black Hole: or The Makings of a Legend
1st Edition
By Iris Macfarlane
January 19, 2026
Who went into the Black Hole of Calcutta? Who came out alive? And does it matter anyway? Historically not at all, but it is perhaps important to try to understand why such an event (of which the known facts are so at variance with the legend) ever assumed such significance and became one of the few...
The British Business Elite: Its Attitudes to Class, Status and Power
1st Edition
By John Fidler
January 19, 2026
First published in 1981, The British Business Elite is a study of the attitudes to class, status and power of top businessmen in Great Britain, based upon first-hand interviews with chairmen, chief executives and other directors of Britain’s largest industrial, banking and insurance companies: men ...
The British Co-operative Movement
1st Edition
By Jack Bailey
January 19, 2026
First published in 1955, The British Co-operative Movement presents a comprehensive overview of the cooperative movement in Britain. It discusses important themes like co-operative beginnings; co-operative principles and methods; the retail societies; the ‘wholesales’; co-operative co- partnership;...
The British Seashore
1st Edition
By H. G. Vevers
January 19, 2026
First published in 1954, The British Seashore is written for those who love to wander along the coast- along the beaches of shingle and sand, the rocky shores, in the salt marshes, and up steep cliff paths. For the coastline of Britain is one of the most varied in the world, not only in its general...
The Chains Are Broken: The Story of Jewish Emancipation
1st Edition
By Poul Borchsenius
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1964, this further volume in Poul Borchsenius’ history of the Jewish people, is the story of the emancipation from the time when the Jews lived a segregated life in the ghetto, until the Age of Enlightenment they achieved equality. This was the time of Moses Mendelssohn, the...
The Charitable Imperative: Hospitals and Nursing in Ancien Régime and Revolutionary France
1st Edition
By Colin Jones
January 19, 2026
Drawing on a wide variety of archival and secondary sources, The Charitable Imperative, originally published in 1989, provides an overview of the very different institutions that treated the poor in France from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries: hospitals and poorhouses, ...
The Child in Primitive Society
1st Edition
By Nathan Miller
January 19, 2026
First published in 1928, The Child in Primitive Society examines the place of the child in the history of the less developed societies reaching back as close to social “origins” as is possible. The purpose here is not to enquire into the inner processes of learning, habit formation and ...
The Co-operative Movement in the Punjab
1st Edition
By Ata Ullah
January 19, 2026
First published in 1937, The Co-operative Movement in the Punjab presents a sketch of the development and working of the co-operative movement in the region in its various aspects. With its vast and fertile fields, it's sturdy and assimilative manpower, it's beautiful rivers and its marvelous canal...
The Collective Spirit: An Idealistic Theory of Evolution
1st Edition
By Viggo Cavling
January 19, 2026
The Collective Spirit (1925) lays down a rough outline of what science can tell us as to the progress of evolution, and criticises the various interpretations, before endeavouring to formulate an idealist theory of evolution....
The Conservatives: A History from Their Origins to 1965
1st Edition
Edited
By Lord Butler
January 19, 2026
First published in 1977, The Conservatives has been edited and designed by Lord Bulter, who has contributed much to the ethos and spirit of modern Conservatism. He has brought together a quartet of eminent modern historians, each of whom handles a significant period in the party’s and the nation’s ...