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An Outline Geography of Africa
1st Edition
By H. R. Jarrett
October 01, 2025
First published in 1962, An Outline Geography of Africa gives a general geographical description of Africa. First the continent is dealt with as a whole from the physical and human standpoints, and then more detailed attention is given to the individual regions. Great care has been taken to see ...
Beneath the Surface: An Account of Three Styles of Sociological Research
1st Edition
By Colin Fletcher
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1974, this book evaluates and compares three important styles of sociological research: positivism, symbolic interactionism and critique. The book describes and evaluates each research technique as an experience for the researcher, and the author explains what they ...
Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography
1st Edition
By David Vincent
October 01, 2025
First published in 1981, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom is a study of 142 working class autobiographies all of which cover some part of the period between 1790 and 1850. It is a full-scale examination of a form of source material that is significantly extensive. The book illustrates many aspects of ...
British Policy in Changing Africa
1st Edition
By Andrew Cohen
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1959 by a former Governor of Uganda and Head of the Africa Division of the former Colonial Office, this book is a concise exposition of British aims and methods in colonial Africa and the extent of British influence, and the way the region was administered before the war ...
Commonsense in Nuclear Energy
1st Edition
By Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Hoyle
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1979, written at a time when the world stood on the brink of (another) energy crisis, this book argued that an alternative primary fuel had to be found and that the answer lay in the exploitation of nuclear fission. The book sought to dispel the anxieties of ...
Comparative Religion: An Introductory and Historical Study
1st Edition
By E. O. James
October 01, 2025
First published in 1938, Comparative Religion presents a comparative study of the history of religion intended primarily as a textbook for students, with references and full bibliography of relative literature. It is also designed to give the general reader an account of religious thought and ...
Concerning Human Understanding: Essays on the Common-sense Background of Philosophy
1st Edition
By Nikunja Vihari Banerjee
October 01, 2025
First published in 1958 Concerning Human Understanding treats the chief problems of philosophy. Professor Banerjee’s intention is ‘to separate philosophic thought from effects of sophistication and intellectual pride to which philosophical enquiry is usually prone’. The book pursues a line of ...
Conservative Politics in France
1st Edition
By Malcolm Anderson
October 01, 2025
First published in 1974 Conservative Politics in France gives a scholarly account of politics in France from 1880 to the present and explains the way in which the Right has evolved from a collection of weak and transitory political associations to the relatively well – organised Gaullist coalition....
Cosmic Humanism and World Unity
1st Edition
By Oliver L. Reiser
October 01, 2025
First published in 1975 Cosmic Humanism and World Unity presents a comprehensive overview of the world view, a theory of knowledge, a cosmology and a possible universal religion termed as cosmic humanism. It aims to discover and formulate some of the main principles that may help mankind integrate ...
Energy or Extinction?: The Case for Nuclear Energy
1st Edition
By Fred Hoyle
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1977 and as second edition in 1979, this book argues that without energy sources on a vast scale our present society cannot survive. According to the author, Fred Hoyle, the technology to tap solar, wind or wave power on a large enough scale just does not exist. He considers...
Fascism: Who Benefits?
1st Edition
By Max Ascoli, Arthur Feiler
October 01, 2025
First published in 1939, Fascism: Who Benefits? presents a comparative analysis of Italian and German Fascism. Divided into four parts, the book covers themes like international Fascism; the background of Italian Fascism; the social and economic reconstruction of the Italian state under Fascism; ...
Forced Labour in Colonial Africa: A. T. Nzula I. I. Potekhin and A. Z. Zusmanovich
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin Cohen
October 01, 2025
Originally published for the first time in English in 1979 this book represents one of the earliest Marxist analyses of the impact that colonialism had on Africa during the first half century that followed the Scramble. Nzula’s co-authored book, together with all his writings in the Negro Worker, ...