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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...
Combating Long-Term Unemployment: Local/ E.C. Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Kenneth Dyson
December 01, 2025
First published in 1989, Combating Long-Term Unemployment follows on from, and is a companion to, Local Authorities and New Technologies. The book seeks to inform debate by analysing policy responses to the problem of long-term unemployment and by focusing on the role of local initiatives in a ...
Computers into Classrooms: More Questions than Answers
1st Edition
Edited
By John Beynon, Hugh Mackay
December 01, 2025
First published in 1993, Computers into Classrooms critically examines computers and their uses in teaching and learning. It sets out to raise fundamental questions concerning the nature of ‘technological literacy’, a hitherto vague term. The authors set out to provide a series of guidelines for ...
Contemporary Education Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By John Ahier, Michael Flude
December 01, 2025
First published in 1983, Contemporary Education Policy examines the British education system during a period of contraction due to severe financial pressure and a falling school population. It analyses how unemployment, demographic changes, and political upheaval transformed this already complex ...
Crisis in the Caribbean
1st Edition
Edited
By Fitzroy Ambursley, Robin Cohen
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1983, this anthology was the first to integrate the political experiences of the Central American mainland and the Caribbean archipelago and provides analyses of some of the most explosive events of the 1970s and 80s in this region, including the Jonestown massacre, the ...
Designed To Live In
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Beazley
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1962, this book traces the main influences behind modern design in domestic architecture. It does so against the context of the effect each new dwelling has on its environment and the effect its design has on those in the surrounding (and often older, historic) housing stock...
Designed for Recreation: A Practical Handbook for All Concerned with Providing Leisure Facilities in the Countryside
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Beazley
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1969, at a time when there was an ever-increasing number of people going to the coast and countryside at weekends and on holiday, this book filled a gap by providing detail on the physical results of all that needed to be done for the leisure-seeking public. It discusses ...
Developing Communication and Counselling Skills in Medicine
1st Edition
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By Roslyn Corney
December 01, 2025
The need to train health professionals in communication skills is widely recognized. Good doctor/patient interaction has a positive effect on recovery from illness, decreasing patients’ anxiety, improving compliance with treatment, and reducing common causes of patients’ complaints. First ...