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The Life of Ludwig Mond
1st Edition
By J. M. Cohen
September 14, 2026
First published in 1956, The Life of Ludwig Mond is one of the earliest biographies to present the story of Dr. Mond. The book, as a biography, is mainly and rightly concerned with the man himself, but it could hardly avoid dealing with the growth of those parts of the heavy chemical industry with ...
The Lotus and the Spinning Wheel
1st Edition
By Marie Beuzeville Byles
September 14, 2026
First published in 1963, The Lotus and the Spinning Wheel tells the story of India’s two great sons, the Buddha and the Mahatma. Both were the teachers their age and country needed, and this book goes beyond the merits of their teaching. The reader is invited to come with the author firstly through...
The Social History of Lighting
1st Edition
By William T. O'Dea
September 14, 2026
How was a billiards table lit in 1763, or the stage of the Red Bull playhouse in 1673? The earliest red and green traffic light was in London in 1868; but what was street lighting like in Paris in 1524, or San Jose, California, in 1885? How did the early U.S. settlers light their homes, and how did...
The Teaching of George Eliot
1st Edition
By William Myers
September 14, 2026
George Eliot thought of herself as a teacher, as did her contemporaries. Their view that her writing was not simply influenced in a relatively haphazard way by her philosophical and scientific reading but was a deliberate and consistent attempt to synthesize in fiction an elaborate and coherent ...
Black English: A Seminar
1st Edition
Edited
By Deborah Sears Harrison, Tom Trabasso
September 01, 2026
When this volume was originally published in 1976, it contained completely new and original essays on the language of Black speakers of English. The contributors offer different ethnic and professional perspectives, representing fields such as linguistics, psychology, anthropology, sociolinguistics...
Change in Language: Whitney, Bréal, and Wegener
1st Edition
By Brigitte Nerlich
September 01, 2026
First published in 1990, Change in Language provides a fresh view of the history of nineteenth-century language study by focusing on the writings of three linguists—Whitney, Bréal and Wegener in three countries—the United States, France, and Germany. The standard histories of linguistics portray ...
Church and State in Britain Since 1820
1st Edition
Edited
By David Nicholls
September 01, 2026
First published in 1967, Church and State in Britain Since 1820 is a selection of documents on the problems of church-state relations in Britain since the time of Coleridge. There is a full introduction in which the editor discusses a few of the problems raised by the pluralist solution of a ‘free ...
Citizens in Conflict: The Sociology of Town Planning
1st Edition
By J.M. Simmie
September 01, 2026
First published in 1974, Citizens in Conflict explodes the popular mythology that town planning is an objective, rational, apolitical professional activity conducted in the public interest. The book challenges the underlying professional conception that society functions as an integrated, ...
Contemporary Issues in Language and Discourse Processes
1st Edition
Edited
By Donald G. Ellis, William A. Donohue
September 01, 2026
Originally published in 1986, the goal of Contemporary Issues in Language and Discourse Processes was to provide various perspectives on three key issues facing scholars interested in how language is used communicatively in discourse. The first issue had generated considerable interest among ...
Crime and Authority in Victorian England: The Black Country 1835–1860
1st Edition
By David Philips
September 01, 2026
The Industrial Revolution seemed, to contemporary eyes, to produce an upsurge of crime threatening a complete breakdown of social order. Focusing on one industrial area – the Black Country for 1835–60 – Crime and Authority in Victorian England, originally published in 1977 tests the validity of ...
Family, Economy and State: The Social Reproduction Process Under Capitalism
1st Edition
Edited
By James Dickinson, Bob Russell
September 01, 2026
Understanding the precise nature of the relationship between the family, the economy, and the state has long been a central concern for social scientists across multiple disciplines. First published in 1986, Family, Economy, and State examines different dimensions of the social reproduction process...
Harold Pinter: Second Edition
1st Edition
By Bernard F. Dukore
September 01, 2026
Harold Pinter (1930–2008) was already highly acclaimed in 1988, when this book was originally published, and went on to become one of the most influential modern British dramatists, with a career that spanned over 50 years. This study reveals Pinter’s dramatic and theatrical stratagems and his ...