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Puritan, Paranoid, Remissive: A Sociology of Modern Culture
1st Edition
By John Carroll
September 01, 2024
First published in 1977, Puritan, Paranoid, Remissive investigates the process of the transformation of Western society in the twentieth century. The author questions assumptions of sociological fashion and goes beyond the descriptions of changes in the economy, government, education, the family, ...
Rape on Trial
1st Edition
By Zsuzsanna Adler
September 01, 2024
First published in 1987, Rape on Trial investigates the impact of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act, 1976 and considers the treatment of rape victims by the courts in United Kingdom. Extracts from trials are used extensively, and the author examines in particular: how the anonymity provisions ...
Sensation and Perception: A History of the Philosophy of Perception
1st Edition
By D.W. Hamlyn
September 01, 2024
First published in 1961, Sensation and Perception aims to cast light upon the nature of perception itself. This, the author believes, can be achieved only through an understanding of the concepts of sensation and perception. A survey of the principal attempts to arrive at such an understanding ...
The Bhopal Syndrome: Pesticides, Environment and Health
1st Edition
By David Weir
September 01, 2024
First published in 1988, The Bhopal Syndrome documents one of world’s worst industrial disaster: The Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984. The tragedy exposed a variety of issues plaguing rapid development such as the negligence of corporations and government, prioritizing of commercial benefits over human ...
The Burial of the Dead
1st Edition
By W. H. F. Basevi
September 01, 2024
First published in 1920, The Burial of the Dead emerged from the idea that the primitive man did not imagine graves as receptacles for the dead, but refuges for the living. The book is an anthropological and a philosophical quest to understand when and how the custom of burial came about within ...
The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in HIstorical Outline
1st Edition
By D D Kosambi
September 01, 2024
First published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real cultural history of India. The main features of the Indian character are traced back into remote antiquity as the natural outgrowth of historical process. Did ...
The Novel in India: Its Birth and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By T. W. Clark
September 01, 2024
First published in 1970, The Novel in India traces the birth and development of prose fiction in Bengali, Marathi, Urdu, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam. It is addressed not only to academic students of Asian culture but to all who are interested in literary history. India and Pakistan have many great ...
The Stalker Affair and the Press
1st Edition
By David Murphy
September 01, 2024
First published in 1991, The Stalker Affair and the Press documents the media treatment of police constable John Stalker’s removal from his job and argues that this case presents a major difficulty for the standard academic analysis of the press in Britain: namely that it supports the status quo ...
Wedding Cakes and Cultural History
1st Edition
By Simon Charsley
September 01, 2024
First published in 1992, Wedding Cakes and Cultural History is a unique contribution to the anthropology of food, tracing the fascinating history of wedding cakes, from late medieval feasts and rites, through the Victorian wedding breakfast and into the 1990s. Dr. Charsley maps the intricate ...
Agrarian Change in Egypt: An Anatomy of Rural Poverty
1st Edition
By Samir Radwan, Eddy Lee
August 30, 2024
First published in 1986, Agrarian Change in Egypt based on extensive original research as well as field survey of eighteen villages, analyses and explains the changes in the agricultural sector in Egypt. It shows how various policies and other factors have affected agricultural output and how ...
Assessing the Demographic Impact of Development Projects: Conceptual, methodological and policy issues
1st Edition
By A. S. Oberai
August 30, 2024
First published in 1992, Assessing the Demographic Impact of Development Projects based on studies in developing countries focuses on conceptual, methodological and policy issues related to development projects. It considers whether demographic effects can be assessed and why development planners ...
Education and Income Distribution in Asia: A study prepared for the International Labour Office...
1st Edition
By P. Richards, M. Leonor
August 30, 2024
First published in 1981, Education and Income Distribution in Asia looks in detail at a number of aspects of the relation between education, employment, and income. Education is now the major programme of expenditure of governments in Asian countries. This book brings case studies from Philippines,...