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Controlling the Constable: Police Accountability in England and Wales
1st Edition
By Tony Jefferson, Roger Grimshaw
June 02, 2025
In the early 1980s, the question of how far the police should be accountable for their actions had become extremely vexed. The impending new Police Bill, the Scarman report and the pressure from many sides for an independent complaints machinery hinged on this issue, and a careful review of the ...
Cruel Habitations: A History of Working-Class Housing, 1780–1918
1st Edition
By Enid Gauldie
June 02, 2025
Cruel Habitations (1974) looks at the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health reforms, by charitable agencies and by building societies – and with legislative action in ...
Female and Male in West Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Christine Oppong
June 02, 2025
In the 1970s and early 1980s, there was a lack of contemporary, readily available studies of the informal relationships between the sexes; their day to day activities and expectations and how these were altering; especially in contexts in which there were radical demographic, political and economic...
Resettling America: Energy, Ecology and Community
1st Edition
Edited
By Gary J. Coates
June 01, 2025
Every movement has its bellweathers, the ideas that lead the way and rally its adherents towards a set of shared values and visions. Resettling America was one such beacon – a publication for its time and ahead of its time. Those of us doing the work of sustainability and the transformation of ...
The Operated Jew and The Operated Goy: Two Tales of Anti-Semitism
1st Edition
Edited
By Jack Zipes
June 01, 2025
Originally published in English in 1991 and now reissued with a new Preface by Jack Zipes, this book presents and examines the work of two little-known writers, Oskar Panizza and Mynona (Salomo Friedlaender). In Panizza’s chilling story, The Operated Jew (1893), a turn-of-the- century Jew undergoes...
A Handbook of Latin Literature: From the Earliest Times to the Death of St. Augustine
1st Edition
By H. Rose
May 31, 2025
First published in 1954, A Handbook of Latin Literature is an attempt to put together a cohesive account of classical and early post-classical writings in the Latin tongue, and is a companion to the Handbook of Greek Literature. The book traces the history of Latin literature from the earliest ...
A Theory of Direct Realism: And the Relation of Realism to Idealism
1st Edition
By J. E. Turner
May 31, 2025
First published in 1925, A Theory of Direct Realism is divided in two parts: the first part is an attempt to formulate a realistic theory of Perception and of the physical world, and the second part is an exposition of Hegelian idealism and its compatibility with realism. This book on direct ...
Ancient Roman Religion
1st Edition
By H.J. Rose
May 31, 2025
First published in 1949, Ancient Roman Religion is an introduction to some of the most outstanding features of the complicated religion, or rather series of religions, which flourished in Rome between the earliest recoverable ages of her long history and the close of the classical epoch. This book ...
Critic as Scientist: The modernist poetics of Ezra Pound
1st Edition
By Ian F. A. Bell
May 31, 2025
First published in 1981, Critic as Scientist provides a detailed and scholarly account both of the scientific background and of contemporary artistic issues in its analysis of Ezra Pound’s poetics. During the crucial period of his years in London, Ezra Pound was striving to formulate not only a new...
Drama and the Theatre with Radio, Film and Television: An outline for the student
1st Edition
Edited
By John Russell Brown
May 31, 2025
First published in 1971, Drama and the Theatre with Radio, Film and Television is concerned with the nature of theatre as a subject for study and the ways of studying it. All its contributors have practical experience of staging plays for professional or student companies, or for both. ...
Essentials in the Development of Religion: A Philosophic and Psychological Study
1st Edition
By J. E. Turner
May 31, 2025
First published in 1934, Essentials in the Development of Religion was written with the conviction that the psychological and philosophical analysis of all phases of religious experience, even those which may be accounted the highest, is capable of yielding results of inestimable importance which ...
From Ape to Angel: An Informal History of Social Anthropology
1st Edition
By Hoffman R Hays
May 31, 2025
First published in 1958, From Ape to Angel is a popular history of social anthropology which sketches the extraordinary world of ethical, religious and marital customs revealed by the men and women who travelled to remote places to live among and observe primitive people. Here, in absorbing detail,...