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Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan
1st Edition
By C. G. Seligman, Brenda Z. Seligman
December 01, 2025
First published in 1932, Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan is a general conspectus of the people, traditions, culture, and ways of thought in southern Sudan. The authors give their view of the remote racial origins of the people with whom their studies are concerned and then of the great sub-racial...
Personality, Appearance and Speech
1st Edition
By T. H. Pear
December 01, 2025
First published in 1957, Personality. Appearance and Speech is an intensive analysis of personality reflected by appearance and speech. It is a most fascinating study of the innumerable outward signs by which the man in the street judges personality. The author considers the effects this has on ...
Perspectives on Drought and Famine in Nigeria
1st Edition
By G. Jan Van Apeldoorn
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1981, this book provided the first concise and integrated account of the Nigerian crisis and uncovered the basic cause of the increasing vulnerability of the Nigerian rural poor during the 1970s to the effects of drought, in order to show the lessons of the crisis and how ...
Popular Struggles in South Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin Cohen, William Cobbett
December 01, 2025
‘Popular Struggles or One Struggle?’ Originally published in 1988 shortly after the miners’ strike in South Africa of 1987, this book begins with a strongly argued and seminal discussion of this question by William Cobbett and Robin Cohen. The book had an urgency and relevance at its time of ...
Potter and Patron in Classical Athens
1st Edition
By T. Webster
December 01, 2025
Pottery is the one industry in ancient Athens of which we have some detailed knowledge. In this book, originally published in 1972, Professor Webster examines the workshops, the painted pots and their purchasers over the period 600–400 B.C. The first chapter assembles the evidence for the size and ...
Public Administration in France
1st Edition
By F. F. Ridley, J. Blondel
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1964, this book was an important addition to the growing field of comparative government and administration. This book covers the organisation of the French cabinet, the structure and functions of government departments and of local authorities, the civil service, the police...
Reading Children’s Writing: A Linguistic View
1st Edition
By John Harris, Jeff Wilkinson
December 01, 2025
While many books of the time explored pedagogical, psychological, and linguistics perspectives of children’s writing, Reading Children’s Writing (originally published in 1986) takes a fresh and innovative approach by examining text-organizational methods of analysis. The book considers ‘whole texts...
Rehabilitation and Community Care
1st Edition
By Stephen Pilling
December 01, 2025
First published in 1991, Rehabilitation and Community Care provides a measured introduction to the debate about services for the long-term mentally ill and strikes a balance between the various treatment approaches. The author shows how community care cannot simply be regarded as the natural ...
Reluctant Hosts: Europe and Its Refugees
1st Edition
Edited
By Danièle Joly, Robin Cohen
December 01, 2025
Now reissued with a new Preface by Robin Cohen and Danièle Joly this book was originally published in 1989 at a time when the reality of a single European Community had begun to materialize the comfortable belief that many European countries offered havens for those fleeing persecution. This belief...
Repression and Resistance: Insider Accounts of Apartheid
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin Cohen, Yvonne G. Muthien, Abebe Zegeye
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1990, this book provides a unique view of South Africa and when it was published, it represented a coming of age of a new and vigorous strand of scholarship. The contributors are black social scientists, doctors or trade unionists, some working inside black universities ...
Residential Life with Children
1st Edition
By Christopher Beedell
December 01, 2025
First published in 1970, Residential Life with Children gives a detailed account of residential work with children. The author looks at various kinds of residential institutions, the needs of the children, and the ways in which these needs are met. A section is devoted to important questions ...
Restoration Literature: Critical Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Harold Love
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1972, Restoration Literature is a landmark in the study of seventeenth-century English literature. By assembling a diverse range of critical voices, Love captures the vibrancy and complexity of a period marked by both artistic innovation and ideological strife. The book ...