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Confucius: The Man and the Myth
1st Edition
By H. G. Creel
July 08, 2026
Originally published in 1932, and therefore inevitably of its time, this book discusses the place of the intellect as a guide to religious truth. The author's work brought principles from Quaker decision-making to bear on wider questions about democracy and religion. The author affirms that the ‘...
Copernicus: The Founder of Modern Astronomy
1st Edition
By Angus Armitage
July 08, 2026
Copernicus (1938) presents an account of the astronomer Copernicus, and of the historic book in which he laid the foundations of the heliocentric theory of the planetary motions. The book is of great interest to students of the history of astronomy, and those interested in Copernicus as one of the ...
Drugs and British Society: Responses to a Social Problem in the Eighties
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne MacGregor
July 08, 2026
First published in 1989, Drugs and British Society (now with a new preface by Susanne MacGregor) provides information on the drugs problem in Britain in the 1980s, based on extensive research and experience, and places it in its international and historical context. The contributors to this book ...
Elizabethan Life in Town and Country
1st Edition
By M. St. Clare Byrne
July 08, 2026
Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the student as an accepted authority for the social history of the age. Its range and method are indicated by the reviewer who hailed it as ‘more ...
England 1175–1425
1st Edition
By Edmund King
July 08, 2026
During the years 1175–1425, English society developed in many ways. First published in 1979, England 1175–1425 offers an ideal introduction to the period, presenting as it does a view of a whole society that is derived from a study of economic, social, political, and administrative history. It ...
Features of Person and Society in Swat: Collected Essays on Pathans
1st Edition
By Fredrik Barth
July 08, 2026
First published in 1981, Features of Person and Society in Swat brings together Professor Barth’s writings on the Swat Pathans. Professor Barth’s investigations of Swat Pathan society revealed aspects which were often at variance with the prevailing anthropological paradigm of the 1950s, and in ...
Figures of Reality: A Perspective on the Poetic Imagination
1st Edition
By Roger Cardinal
July 08, 2026
Figures of Reality (1981) may be described as a polemic against those who feel poetry to be remote from normal life – an abstruse and empty game. The author argues from a contrary perspective, shared by many poets in the Romantic and Surrealist tradition, in which poetry is viewed as being vitally ...
Gabon: The Development of a Nation
1st Edition
By Marc Aicardi De Saint-Paul
July 08, 2026
First published in 1987 and in English in 1989, Gabon provides an essential introduction to the geography, history, sociology, economics and politics of Gabon in considerable detail. It assesses Gabon’s achievement-the initiation of a national minimum wage, of a campaign for women's rights, of an ...
Games and Gamesters of the Restoration: The Compleat Gamester, by Charles Cotton, 1674; and, Lives of the Gamesters, by Theophilus Lucas, 1714. With an introduction by Cyril Hughes Hartmann
1st Edition
By Charles Cotton, Theophilus Lucas
July 08, 2026
Games and Gamesters of the Restoration (1930) reprints two vastly different books The Compleat Gamester (1674) and Lives of the Gamesters (1714) that together give a comprehensive and representative view of gamesters and gambling in the latter half of the seventeenth century – a time that saw an ...
Geneva and the Drift to War
1st Edition
By Norman Angell
July 08, 2026
Geneva and the Drift to War (1938) is based on the work of the 1937 session of the Geneva Institute of International Relations, which brought together men and women from all parts of the world to pool the results of their studies in international affairs, their experience of international ...
Geography and Regional Administration: England and Wales 1830–1968
1st Edition
By T. W. Freeman
July 08, 2026
At the time of the publication of this book in its fourth edition in 1969, Ireland was alone globally in having experienced a decline of population for more than a century. National movements in Wales and Scotland made the story of the Irish Republic’s first fifty years increasingly interesting. ...
History of Palestine
1st Edition
By Angelo S. Rappoport
July 08, 2026
First published in 1931, History of Palestine is the dramatic picture of the Holy Land to which Jews returned after many centuries. The author has written the history of Palestine of 4000 years with the mind of the scholar and the heart of the religious mystic. Divided into three ...