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Sets and Groups: A First Course in Algebra
1st Edition
By J. A. Green
December 01, 2026
Originally published 1988, this is a fully revised and extended edition of the author’s highly successful Set and Groups (1965). Intended for students beginning algebra at university or college, it is a major textbook for all students of mathematics and the sciences. The first four chapters give a ...
Social Progress and Educational Waste: Being a Study of the “Free-Place” and Scholarship System
1st Edition
By Kenneth Lindsay
December 01, 2026
Originally published in 1926, Social Progress and Educational Waste: Being a Study of the “Free-Place” and Scholarship System looks at social mobility and the school system intended to help bright students from lower income families gain an advantage via secondary education. Education was only ...
Socialisation in Australia
1st Edition
Edited
By F. J. Hunt
December 01, 2026
Originally published in 1978, Socialisation in Australia looks at the process of socialisation, which has a pervasive effect upon every individual and considerable relevance to the continued functioning of society and the many groups within it. An understanding of this process which has attracted ...
The Dissolution of Communist Power: The Case of Hungary
1st Edition
By Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai
December 01, 2026
The speed and seeming ease with which the communist systems of Eastern Europe collapsed raise interesting questions about the stability of the structure that held them in place. The book explains the demise of communist power by analysing in detail the internal apparatus of the communist regime in ...
The Management of Normality: Critical Essays in Health and Welfare
1st Edition
By Abram De Swaan
December 01, 2026
Maintaining normality is hard work. It takes time, effort, and foresight. However, because it is romantic, it is also taken for granted – not least by social scientists. In a series of dazzling case studies, the author shows in his book The Management of Normality (first published in 1990, now ...
The Mind of the Growing Child
1st Edition
Edited
By Viscountess Erleigh
December 01, 2026
Originally published in 1928 and now reissued with a new Preface by Anthony Hulse and a substantial introduction by Gill Gregory, the granddaughter of the author Dr. Hazel Chodak Gregory, this is a remarkable collection of essays. It represents a major contribution to a subject that is increasingly...
The Restrictive Society: A Report on Restrictive Practices
1st Edition
By John A. Lincoln
December 01, 2026
Originally published in 1967, despite the controversial nature of the subject and non-cooperation from Trade Unions and employers’ organisations alike, John A. Lincoln produced the first comprehensive survey of Restrictionism. It is his case that restrictive practices had a stranglehold on almost ...
The Secondary Technical School: A Usable Past?
1st Edition
By Gary McCulloch
December 01, 2026
Originally published in 1989, Gary McCulloch’s work provided an elegant and pointed answer to the plea for more historical study in the curriculum domain. He focuses on a fascinating episode in the long history of vocationalism in Britain – the Secondary Technical School. In undertaking this ...
The Social Dynamics of Schooling: Participants, Priorities and Strategies
1st Edition
By F. J. Hunt
December 01, 2026
Originally published in 1990, when there was a period of social change, with profound implications for schooling. In many societies efforts were being directed to change the priorities of school activity at all levels and in all sectors. The author examines schooling in commonly used structuralist ...
The Youth Training Scheme: A New Curriculum?: Episode 1
1st Edition
By Terry Edwards
December 01, 2026
Originally published in 1984, this book was the first serious attempt to grapple with the curricular implications of the Youth Training Scheme and with the questions about the organization, administration and manpower policy objectives of the scheme. The book develops an organizational perspective ...
Traditional Country Craftsmen
1st Edition
By J. Geraint Jenkins
December 01, 2026
The country craftsmen have always been an essential member of every rural community. He looked no further than the bounds of his own village or locality for his livelihood and was often carrying on a tradition which went back more than a thousand years. First published in 1965 (reissuing the ...
Two Kinds of Values
1st Edition
By L. M. Loring
December 01, 2026
Originally published in 1966, this book neither presents nor advocates any ethical thesis. It is concerned with ethics only in so far as it selects for treatment one of the various distinctions which may be drawn between ethical and non-ethical evaluation. The two kinds of values here contrasted ...