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Rhetoric of Everyday English Texts
1st Edition
By Michael P. Jordan
October 01, 2025
First published in 1984, in Rhetoric of Everyday English Texts, the author uses over 100 short texts from educated writers in all walks of life to demonstrate that when we communicate there is a powerful unspoken linguistic consensus as to what is ‘relevant’ to our purpose in writing a particular ...
Rules and Laws in Sociology
1st Edition
By Robert Brown
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1973, this book examines the difficulties which sociologists have in providing useful scientific definitions of terms like ‘prejudice’ and ‘discrimination’. The author argues that such notions are essentially dependent on the social policy adopted, and that their common ...
Social Work and Social Philosophy: A Guide for Practice
1st Edition
By Chris L. Clark, Stewart Asquith
October 01, 2025
With the role of the social services increasingly being questioned, the values and general principles of social work are attracting considerable attention. First published in 1985, Social Work and Social Philosophy looks at the issues involved and provides social workers with a conceptual framework...
Sociological Analysis
1st Edition
By Arun Sahay
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1972, this book is an important introduction to the analytical aspects of sociology. It analyses the various strands in 20th Century sociological thought, illustrating the richness as much as the poverty of any particular approach. It explores and compares the work of Weber ...
Sri Lanka: In Change and Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By James Manor
October 01, 2025
First published in 1984, Sri Lanka: In Change and Crisis focuses on two major political events in Sri Lankan history- the presidential elections/referendum of 1982 and the communal riots of 1983. James Manor’s introduction attempts to place these events within an evolutionary analysis of Sri Lankan...
Symbolic Distance: In Relation to Analogy and Fiction
1st Edition
By S. Buchanan
October 01, 2025
First Published in 1932 Symbolic Distance presents the grammatical account of the structure of symbols and the description of the field within which fictions arise. The author argues that it seems improbable that distance should become an exact technical term in art criticism as long as the divorce...
Teaching and Learning as a Communication Process
1st Edition
By Philip Hills
October 01, 2025
First published in 1979, Teaching and Learning as a Communication Process provides practical guidelines for closer communication between the teacher and the student. It is intended for all those engaged in teaching and learning in higher, further, and continuing education. The book examines the ...
The Birth of Nigeria's University
1st Edition
By Kenneth Mellanby
October 01, 2025
First published in 1958, The Birth of Nigeria's University tells the story of how Dr Kenneth Mellanby, the ‘Principal Designate’, acquired five square miles of unsurveyed bush, and created there what is now accepted as one of the leading universities in Nigeria. Although Dr Mellanby modestly ...
The Brain of Robert Frost: A Cognitive Approach to Literature
1st Edition
By Norman N. Holland
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1988,this book brings brain science to literary criticism. The Brain of Robert Frost combines psychoanalysis with the findings of brain research and cognitive psychology to model the way we create and respond to literature. Norman Holland draws three central ideas from ‘the ...
The Condemned Playground: Essays: 1927-1944
1st Edition
By Cyril Connolly
October 01, 2025
First published in 1945, The Condemned Playground expresses the author’s personal views on art and literature and the social science. Infinitely entertaining and witty, at times devastatingly destructive and never merely kind, Mr. Connelly has, nevertheless, an underlying note of critical integrity...
The Cultural Critics: From Matthew Arnold to Raymond Williams
1st Edition
By Lesley Johnson
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary intellectuals over the preceding 100 years, a period characterized by a constant process of re-definition and change. The tradition of criticism in which these intellectuals wrote...
The Development of an African Working Class: Studies in Class Formation and Action
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Sandbrook, Robin Cohen
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1975, this volume reassesses the historical, political and social role of African workers and examines the extent to which a working class has formed and undertaken collective action in various parts of Africa. The book is based on primary historical sources or first-hand ...