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Distribution Theory
1st Edition
By Robert Arthur Barks
August 31, 2025
First published in 1972, Distribution Theory follows on from the author's earlier book, Descriptive Statistics and Probability Theory, but may easily be followed by any reader who has not studied that particular book but who has gained some knowledge of numerical distributions and basic probability...
Edmund Spenser: Prince of Poets
1st Edition
By Peter Bayley
August 31, 2025
First published in 1971, Edmund Spenser presents a comprehensive overview of Spencer's work, including the minor poems and the prose View of Ireland. There are chapters on the Shepheardes Calendar, the Complaints poems, the great love and religious poetry of 1595-6 and The Faerie Queene. The author...
Mantras: Sacred Words of Power
1st Edition
By John Blofeld
August 31, 2025
First published in 1977, in this unique and beautifully illustrated book called Mantras, John Blofeld, an acknowledged authority on Buddhist yogic contemplation, explains the significance and operation of the sacred ‘words of power’. With the dramatic growth of interest in the religions and ...
Parties and Party Systems in Liberal Democracies
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven B Wolinetz
August 31, 2025
First published in 1988, Parties and Party Systems in Liberal Democracies considers the extent and ways in which Western European and North American parties and party systems changed in the 1970s and 1980s after decades of relative stability. It examines changes in the nature and organisation of ...
Poetry and the Physical Voice
1st Edition
By Francis Berry
August 31, 2025
First published in 1962, Poetry and the Physical Voice is a companion volume to author’s Poets’ Grammar and its conclusions might well be related to his own recently published collection, Morant Bay and Other Poems. An enquiry as to how far the fact- that poetry is vocal sound- was modified by the ...
Probability, Objectivity and Evidence
1st Edition
By F. C. Benenson
August 31, 2025
First published in 1984, in Probability, Objectivity and Evidence the author claims that the theory of probability provides a single, correct, analysis of probability and that the concept of probability employed in science can best be understood as that of inductive probability; to do so, it is ...
Pythagoras: A Life
1st Edition
By Peter Gorman
August 31, 2025
First published in 1979, Pythagoras aims to make available to a wide range of readers the events of Pythagoras’s life and his theories, and to present him not primarily as a mathematician and scientific genius nor as a poetical and mystical phenomenon but as a man of his times subject to diverse ...
Sin and the New Psychology
1st Edition
By Clifford E. Barbour
August 31, 2025
First published in 1931, in Sin and the New Psychology the author has confronted, not with denunciation but with reasoned argument, the common view that there is no such thing as sin in the Christian sense, because “complexes” now are all. So far from an internecine conflict obtaining between ...
The English Morality Play: Origins, HIstory, and Influence of a Dramatic Tradition
1st Edition
By Robert A Potter
August 31, 2025
First published in 1975, The English Morality Play is the extended history of the English morality play, its persistence and flourishing as a dramatic tradition. The book sheds light on the intellectual and social origins of the morality play, its relationship to the medieval Corpus Christi cycle ...
The Little Less: An Essay in the Political Economy of Restrictionism
1st Edition
By Albert Stephen James Baster
August 31, 2025
After the First World War, and partly because of it, nineteenth century capitalism began to be denounced by the critics both of the Left and of the Right- as an unintelligent system for producing too much of everything and for providing for the labour and capital engaged in the process a poor and ...
The Mind at Work and Play
1st Edition
By Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett
August 31, 2025
First published in 1951, The Mind at Work and Play consists of the 119th series of Christmas lectures given at The Royal Institution in 1948-49. The book raises some important questions like- how can the mind and its senses measure things accurately? What kinds of bodily movements can people make ...
The Worlds of Patrick Geddes: Biologist, Town planner, Re-educator, Peace-warrior
1st Edition
By Philip Boardman
August 31, 2025
First published in 1978, The Worlds of Patrick Geddes is a study of Patrick Geddes’ thought and action, his relationships and his life, as someone who defied labelling and who was years ahead of his contemporaries. The work of Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) is coming to be more and more widely ...