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Physical Education in Relation to School Life: A Statement of Present Conditions and Future Needs
1st Edition
By Reginald E. Roper
July 31, 2025
First published in 1917, Physical Education in Relation to School Life views the problems of growth and health in relation to education. The main outlines of a satisfactory physical education and its importance are indicated. The author has compared his aims and objectives, and appreciated the ...
Questions of Censorship
1st Edition
By David Tribe
July 31, 2025
First published in 1973 Questions of Censorship offers a lively yet scholarly account of the forces that have exercised censorship down the ages. Unlike most other works on this theme, which have been confined to media, legislation, or countries, this book essays a broader theme, viewing censorship...
Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By L.A. Williams
July 31, 2025
Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century (1975) is a detailed study of transportation by road in one region of Britain. By the middle decades of the nineteenth century, roads are being superseded by railways as the main form of land transportation, but until then roads had carried the ...
Russian Zone
1st Edition
By Gordon Schaffer
July 31, 2025
First published in 1947 Russian Zone is a record of the conditions Gordon Schaffer found in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany during a stay of ten weeks. In that time, he had interviewed scores of Germans in positions of responsibility- ministers of the various provincial governments, leaders of ...
Sheridan: The Track of a Comet
1st Edition
By Madeleine Bingham
July 31, 2025
First published in 1972, Sheridan is primarily a rounded, colourful portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, his triumphs and failures, his ferocious duels and sudden romances, and his rise to oratorical fame in the arena of politics. But it is also something more: a wide canvas – sometimes ...
South Wales Miners: Glowyr de Cymru: A History of the South Wales Miners' Federation (1914-1926)
1st Edition
By Robert Page Arnot
July 31, 2025
First published in 1975, South Wales Miners starts with the War of Empires, when nearly 50,000 Welsh miners, almost one-fifth of the total manpower of their coalfield, responded to the call and voluntarily enlisted in the British armed forces. The author uncovers how the coalowners in the meantime ...
The British Constitution
1st Edition
By H.R.G. Greaves
July 31, 2025
First published in 1938, The British Constitution discusses the basic features of the British Constitution. The author argues that the Constitution is more than a body of institutions working in accordance with principles laid down in law or expressed in conventions. It is society in its political ...
The Challenge of Labour: Shaping British Society, 1850–1930
1st Edition
By Keith Burgess
July 31, 2025
The Challenge of Labour (1980) explains the changing forms of labour’s relationship with British society during the period of 1850 to 1930 – as the economic and social relations of Britain, the pioneer of modern industrial development, were undergoing a profound transformation due to increasing ...
The Family Life of Old People: An Inquiry in East London
1st Edition
By Peter Townsend
July 31, 2025
First published in 1957, The Family Life of Old People opens with the question: Are old people isolated from their families? Thereafter, the author describes the results of intensive interviews with people of pensionable age in Bethnal Green in East London. Part one shows that most people are ...
The Miners: Years of Struggle: A History of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain from 1910 Onwards
1st Edition
By Robert Page Arnot
July 31, 2025
First published in 1953, The Miners: Years of Struggle is the official history of the British miners, which draws on original sources, moving into the stormy period when the economic bargaining of the million colliery employees with the mine owners became the concern of Parliament and people. The ...
The Payment of Wages: A Study in Payment by Results Under the Wage System
1st Edition
By G.D.H. Cole
July 31, 2025
First published in 1928, The Payment of Wages came out amid the controversies over workshop conditions caused by the Great War. It has held its place as the standard work describing the various systems of wage payments and their effects. Mr. Cole raises challengingly the question of the need for a ...
The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe
1st Edition
By William A. Rossi
July 31, 2025
First published in 1977, The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe examines the realities of foot and shoe eroticism practised by almost all of us, whether consciously or unconsciously. Provocative often witty and always original, the book takes us on a walking tour through history: from Chinese ...