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Practical Inferences
1st Edition
By D S Clarke
November 30, 2024
First published in 1985, Practical Inferences describes how practical inferences are used. Starting with relatively simple inference patterns exhibited in everyday prudential decisions, the author extends a basic structural framework to the more complex inferences used in assessing probabilities, ...
Reconstructing Educational Psychology
1st Edition
Edited
By Bill Gillham
November 30, 2024
First published in 1978, Reconstructing Educational Psychology presents a new look at topics of central social concern such as children’s rights, the community approach to children’s problems, the inutility of traditional concepts of intelligence and personality, the interactionist approach to the ...
Sex and Society
1st Edition
By Helena Wright
November 30, 2024
First published in 1968, Sex and Society presents and analyses the code of sexual behaviour based on the universal use of contraceptive methods. It includes discussion of all forms of sexual activity, and emphasises in particular the attitudes that should be adopted in sex education. Backed up by ...
The Bourbon Tragedy
1st Edition
By Rupert Furneaux
November 30, 2024
First published in 1968, The Bourbon Tragedy marks the fall of the ancient French monarchy on August 10, 1792. The Bourbon Royal Family was imprisoned in the tower of the Temple, a dark, medieval dungeon. The following January Louis XVI was taken out, tried and guillotined, and later Marie ...
The Coherence of Gothic Conventions
1st Edition
By Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
November 30, 2024
First published in 1986, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions makes the case that the Gothic in English literature has been marked by a distinctive and highly influential set of ambitions about relations of meaning. Through readings of classic Gothic authors as well as of De Quincey and the Brontës,...
The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Fallaize
November 30, 2024
First published in 1988, The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir concentrates specifically on the novels of the famous 20th Century French writer, Simone de Beauvoir. Her novels are popular with both the students and general readers of literature and philosophy, and they will welcome this authoritative ...
Values in Social Policy: Nine Contradictions
1st Edition
By Jean Hardy
November 30, 2024
First published in 1981, Values in Social Policy provides a means towards understanding the conflicts, contradictions and uncertainties involved in working in a welfare state. In the nine chapters, Jean Hardy explores the conflicting values posed within nine contradictions: authority versus ...
Vocabularies of Public Life: Empirical Essays in Symbolic Structure
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Wuthnow
November 30, 2024
First published in 1992, Vocabularies of Public Life explores the revolution that has taken place in our understanding of contemporary culture and decodes a number of the symbols which now dominate public life. Wuthnow divides the essays collected here into three distinct ‘vocabularies.’ Part I ...
Western Civilization in the Near East
1st Edition
By Hans Kohn
November 30, 2024
First published in 1936, Western Civilization in the Near East traces the spread and growth of Western civilization in the countries of the Levant and their immediate hinterland. The author argues that modern civilization took birth in Western Europe and then slowly spread to the rest of Europe and...
Wrongful Imprisonment: Mistaken Convictions and their Consequences
1st Edition
By Ruth Brandon, Christie Davies
November 30, 2024
First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analysis of how and why they occur. It deals in detail with the English system, but also provides comparisons with Scotland, France, and the United States. ...
Dilemmas of Discourse: Controversies about the Sociological Interpretation of Language
1st Edition
By Anthony Wootton
November 29, 2024
First Published in 1975, Dilemmas of Discourse brings together strands of arguments from disciplines like sociology, anthropology, linguistics and philosophy to explore the debate around the issue of deciding the meaning of what people may say. Can the meaning of words be described satisfactorily ...
Local Government Finance: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronan Paddison, Stephen Bailey
November 22, 2024
During recent years the financing of local government has become a key issue in developed countries. This book, originally published in 1988 looks at attempts to reform local finance in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, France, Norway, Sweden and the Republic of Ireland. Case studies of attempts ...