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The Petition to Ram: Hindi Devotional Hymns of the Seventeenth Century
1st Edition
By Tulsi Das
January 19, 2026
First published in 1966, The Petition to Ram, Vinaya-Patrika is a collection of devotional hymns and was primarily intended for singing. It is, however, a work of outstanding poetic beauty, and both its language and contents are unsurpassed in Tulsi Das’s other writings. Tulsi Das, a contemporary ...
The Political Economy of International Financial Instability
1st Edition
By Pier Carlo Padoan
January 19, 2026
The Political Economy of International Financial Instability (1986) discusses international financial problems as a global issue, concentrating on systemic interactions. The interrelations among nation states, international organizations and market forces provide the framework for analysis. This ...
The Political Nature of a Ruling Class: Capital and Ideology in South Africa 1890–1933
1st Edition
By Belinda Bozzoli
January 19, 2026
First published in 1981, The Political Nature of a Ruling Class is a study of the role played by the ‘organic intellectuals’, who were attached to the capitalist class in South Africa, in shaping the processes of state and class formation in the crucial decades when the foundations of modern South ...
The Politics and Ethics of Evaluation
1st Edition
Edited
By Clem Adelman
January 19, 2026
First published in 1984, The Politics and Ethics of Evaluation considers, from the vantage point of the authors’ considerable experience of a wide range of evaluation, the ways in which they, and others, have coped with ethical and political problems that inherently arise during the evaluation...
The Politics of Curriculum Change
1st Edition
By Tony Becher, Stuart Maclure
January 19, 2026
Curriculum development occupied an increasingly important place on the educational scene in the mid 1960s, foreshadowing much of the national debate initiated by the Prime Minister of Britain in late 1976. The agencies for development take different forms in different countries, but the underlying ...
The Politics of the Italian Army 1861-1918
1st Edition
By John Whittam
January 19, 2026
First published in 1977, The Politics of the Italian Army provides a comprehensive overview of the role played by the army in Italian history and politics from 1861-1918. Divided into three major parts the book attempts to do three things: to observe some of the familiar sights of nineteenth and ...
The Power of the Prime Minister
1st Edition
By Humphry Berkeley
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1968, the theme of this book is the decline of the influence of the House of Commons in general and the rise in particular in the power of the Prime Minister. The author looks behind the myths of how our constitution operates to describe what was actually happening in ...
The Privatised World
1st Edition
By Arthur Brittan
January 19, 2026
Unemployment and the economic crisis are the brutal facts of life in the everyday world around us. For many, the only retreat from this is to the privatized world of the suburbs, middle-class housing estates and high rise developments — a separate world in which the individual often feels entrapped...
The Process of Local Government Reform: 1966–74
1st Edition
By Bruce Wood
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1976, this book examines how and why local government reforms came about and what influences, pressures and compromises were involved. At the time of publication it provided the most detailed account so far of the process by which the 1972 Local Government Act was approved ...
The Profession of Letters: A Study of the Relation of Author to Patron, Publisher and Public, 1780-1832
1st Edition
By A.S. Collins
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1928, this is the companion volume which follows on from Authorship in the Days of Johnson. The book discusses the reading public and socio-economic effects on educational and recreational literacy from improved communications, the spread of radicalism and free-thinking and ...
The Psychology of Tragic Drama
1st Edition
By Patrick Roberts
January 19, 2026
First published in 1975, The Psychology of Tragic Drama offers an interpretation of some of the themes of both ancient and modern tragic drama through an investigation of the plays in the light of psychoanalytical ideas. In his introduction, the author explains and defends the application of ...
The Refugee in the Post-War World
1st Edition
By Jacques Vernant
January 19, 2026
First published in 1953, The Refugee in the Post-War World presents a comprehensive survey on the global refugee situation after the Second World War. Chapter I and II of Part I attempt a definition of what is meant by a refugee and states the problems to which the refugees give rise for the ...