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Samuel Johnson: A Critical Study
1st Edition
By J.P. Hardy
December 01, 2025
Dr Samuel Johnson’s literary works are full of variety and interest. They include biographies, essays, political pamphlets, significant poems, a body of literary criticism remarkable for its range and shrewdness, a famous dictionary, and an edition of Shakespeare’s plays. Throughout his life, ...
School Improvement: What Can Pupils Tell Us?
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean Rudduck, Roland Chaplain, Gwen Wallace
December 01, 2025
First published in 1996, School Improvement provides, through the recorded words and experiences of pupils themselves, a picture of how teaching, learning, and the organisation of secondary schooling might be improved. By presenting first-hand the pupils’ own thoughts on crucial areas of school ...
Skill and the English Working Class, 1870–1914
1st Edition
By Charles More
December 01, 2025
First published in 1980, Skill and the English Working Class, 1870–1914 investigates the nature of work and the significance of skill in industrial manual labour during late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. The book places particular emphasis on apprenticeship while also examining ...
Skill in Work and Play
1st Edition
By T. H. Pear
December 01, 2025
First published in 1924, Skill in Work and Play discusses the most important problems in the acquisition of muscular or bodily skills. The book illustrates various ways in which muscular skill is, and might be, acquired by persons of different types of mentality, under various circumstances. The ...
Social Class, Status and Teacher Trade Unionism: The Case of Public Sector Further and Higher Education
1st Edition
By Sandra M. Turner
December 01, 2025
First published in 1988, Social Class, Status and Teacher Trade Unionism examines some of the causes underlying the growing resentment of public sector professionals, focusing on the teachers in the polytechnics and colleges of further and higher education and on their union, once the Association ...
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 ...
Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Cult of Elizabeth
1st Edition
By Robin Headlam Wells
December 01, 2025
First published in 1983, Spenser’s Faerie Queene and the Cult of Elizabeth presents The Faerie Queene as a central document in the cult of Elizabeth. It shows how Spenser combines the resources of medieval iconography and Renaissance rhetoric in celebrating the Queen as the predestined ruler of an ...
Superpower Rivalry and 3rd World Radicalism: The Idea of National Liberation
1st Edition
By S. Neil MacFarlane
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1985, this book examines the concepts underlying the notion of national liberation and compares these with Soviet and Western conceptions of political and social development in the non-European world, in order to determine the degree of ideological affinity between national ...
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 Art of Study
1st Edition
By T. H. Pear
December 01, 2025
First published in 1930, The Art of Study is addressed to all who are old enough and young enough to regard the winning of knowledge as fine art. Like other arts, it can be helped by science. The book discusses reasons for the success and failure of different individuals, not omitting intelligence,...
The Conscript Army: A Study of Britain's Unemployed
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank Field
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1977, this book was written at a time when unemployment figures in Britain were at their highest since the Depression of the 1930s, with 1.5 million people out of work. Beginning with a careful examination of what the unemployment figures do and do not tell, the book argues ...