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Scepticism and Poetry: An Essay on the Poetic Imagination
1st Edition
By D. G. James
October 31, 2025
First published in 1937, in Scepticism and Poetry the author argues that a theory of poetry is primarily a theory of the imagination; that the imagination which is present in the making of poetry is present also in all our knowledge of the world; and that its operation in poetry cannot therefore be...
The Hindu-Muslim Problem in India
1st Edition
By Clifford Manshardt
October 31, 2025
First published in 1936, The Hindu-Muslim Problem in India is an attempt to analyse in a non-technical manner for the general reader some of the causes of Hindu-Muslim conflict. The book traces briefly the cultural history of Hinduism and of Islam, describes the clash between cultures, and then ...
Armada Guns: A Comparative Study of English and Spanish Armaments
1st Edition
By Michael Lewis
October 10, 2025
Originally published in 1961, this masterly study of the guns used by the rivals in the Armada campaign remains an essential contribution to the understanding of the event, for it gave a new perspective to the whole battle. The long-drawn-out struggle in the summer of 1588 was the first major ...
British Locomotive Design: 1825-1960
1st Edition
By Graham Glover
October 10, 2025
First published in 1967, British Locomotive Design is a review of British locomotive practice during the century and a quarter of steam’s ascendency. The author shows how the Stephenson basic plan, while remaining essentially unchanged, was adapted over the years to meet the increasing demands made...
Early Wooden Railways
1st Edition
By M. J. T. Lewis
October 10, 2025
The basic principle of the railway is one of great antiquity and wooden railways were used in many European mines from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. But the most far-reaching developments, as Dr. Lewis shows in this classic and hard-to-find reissued book, originally published in 1970, ...
English Interludes (Revival): Mallarmé, Verlaine, Paul Valéry, Valery Larbaud in England, 1860–1912
1st Edition
By Cecily Mackworth
October 10, 2025
London during the mid- and late-Victorian period was a place of refuge from the tensions of France. In this book, originally published in 1974, Cecily Mackworth writes about four outstanding French poets who came to England at that time. Mallarmé, Verlaine, Paul Valéry and Valery Larbaud each ...
Language as Ideology
1st Edition
By Robert Hodge, Gunther Kress
October 10, 2025
Critical Linguistics, inaugurated in 1979 with the publication of Language as Ideology, has been widely influential and successful in documenting the connection of linguistic and social practices. Published as a second edition in 1993, the reissue of this classic text still provides a most detailed...
Mind Over Matter: A scientist's view of the paranormal
1st Edition
By Kit Pedler
October 10, 2025
First published in 1981, Mind Over Matter stems from Kit Pedler’s TV series of the same name and is an engrossing, open-minded survey of all aspects of the paranormal. It controversially suggests that metal-bending, telepathy, precognition and out-of-body experiences may not after all be the domain...
Modern Colonization
1st Edition
By R.J. Harrison Church
October 10, 2025
First published in 1951, Modern Colonization breaks new ground in British geographical literature since it aims at outlining the geographical factors in colonization, particularly that of the tropics. French geographers have contributed much to what they have termed ‘colonial geography’, but this ...
Napoleon and his British Captives
1st Edition
By Michael Lewis
October 10, 2025
Napoleon – arguably more than any other single man – was the creator of modern total war; and in this book, originally published in 1962, he is seen creating one important side of it – that which concerns prisoners of war. In sheer numbers, the Royal Navy, the Merchant Navy and the Army were the ...
Policy-Making and Planning in the Health Sector
1st Edition
By Kenneth Lee, Anne Mills
October 10, 2025
Now, as when this book was originally published in 1982, health services have shown themselves only too capable of absorbing a large share of the resources that nations have available for public and private expenditure. Then, as now, as nations are faced with problems of slow or negative economic ...
Russia in Asia: A Record and a Study 1558–1899
1st Edition
By Alexis Krausse
October 10, 2025
First published in 1899, with a second edition following in 1900 – just four years prior to the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War – this in-depth study of Russia’s great expansion into Asia describes in detail the policies which brought it about. It is based on over 200 sources, both from Russian ...