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Social and Economic Statistics for Africa: Their Sources, Collection, Uses and Reliability
1st Edition
By G.M.C. Kpedekpo, P.L. Arya
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1981, this book deals with the general nature of social and economic statistics; their sources, collection, use and reliability with an emphasis on Africa and source material available in Africa which deals with Africa. The authors look in depth at specific topics such as ...
Systematic Geography
1st Edition
By Brian Knapp
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1986, this comprehensive and integrated text covers both physical and human geography. In the physical geography sections, the human factor receives due attention; man-environment themes such as resource use and environmental management are interwoven throughout the book; ...
Technological Literacy and the Curriculum
1st Edition
Edited
By John Beynon, Hugh Mackay
December 01, 2025
First published in 1992, Technological Literacy and the Curriculum addresses the question ‘what should technological literacy consist of?’. The authors’ view is very different from the narrow, skills-based, technical perspective. They see the cultural and social as central to the technological ...
The Countryside on View: A Handbook on Countryside Centres, Field Museums and Historic Buildings Open to the Public
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Beazley
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1971 The Countryside on View is a handbook which provides extensive information about the many ways in which visitors to rural areas may find out about what they have come to enjoy. A major part of it concerns small countryside centres which house information services and ...
The Cross Moves East: A Study in the Significance of Gandhi’s “Satyagraha”
1st Edition
By John S. Hoyland
December 01, 2025
First published in 1931, The Cross Moves East examines Gandhi’s concept of Satyagraha (non-violent resistance) and analyses its philosophical parallels with Christian principles. The book begins by exploring the Cross and its significance in Christian history and theology. It then provides a ...
The Dignity of Labour?: A Study of Childbearing and Induction
1st Edition
By Ann Cartwright
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1979, this study looks at the experience of childbearing from three viewpoints: first and foremost from that of the childbearing women; but in addition it considers the views and experiences of midwives and consultant obstetricians.It examines the proportion of induced ...
The Fifties
1st Edition
By John Montgomery
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1965, this book recaptures the major events of the years between 1949 and 1960 including: Austerity and rationing in the UK, the Festival of Britain, the expansion of television and flying saucers, as well as the Korean war, the threat of nuclear war, Suez, the renaissance ...
The Greek Chorus
1st Edition
By T. B. L. Webster
December 01, 2025
The Greek chorus was an essential part of Greek life. It varied in scale from the tiny festival conducted by the family to the choruses of fifty men or boys which competed in honour of Dionysos at Athens, and in tone from the songs in honour of athletic victories to the solemn tragic choruses of ...
The Liberation of Capital
1st Edition
By Folkert Wilken
December 01, 2025
First published in 1982, The Liberation of Capital develops a challenging and critical confrontation of orthodox and Marxist theories of capital with the unifying concept of ‘free capital’ – human creativity and intellectually-derived productivity. He argues that progress must include the ...
The Literature and Study of Urban and Regional Planning
1st Edition
By Brenda White
December 01, 2025
First published in 1974, The Literature and Study of Urban and Regional Planning discusses the processes of spatial planning and the range of subject knowledge which is required to contribute to it. It describes the physical forms in which the literature relating to spatial planning is usually ...
The Mainspring of Economic Development
1st Edition
By Priyatosh Maitra
December 01, 2025
From a narrow technological and economic point of view, the industrial revolution is regarded as the process by which a society gains control of vast sources of energy and thereby experiences accelerated economic growth. However, such a definition has serious limitations as it does not do justice ...
The Making of Modern China: A Short History
1st Edition
By Owen Lattimore, Eleanor Lattimore
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1945 at a time when China’s importance in world affairs was growing, this book examined the story of China’s long past which explains her strengths and weaknesses and rightly predicted the role the country would play in the future of Asia and the world. The book discusses ...