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Principles of Private and Public Planning: A Study in Economic Sociology
1st Edition
By Wilhelm Keilhau
July 08, 2026
Principles of Private and Public Planning (1951) looks at a key economic question: plan or no plan? By examining the economic theories of both planned and unplanned economies together with human and societal impulses, it aims to provide both an analysis and overview of the topic....
Public and Private in Social Life
1st Edition
Edited
By S. I. Benn, G. F. Gaus
July 08, 2026
Conceptions of publicness and privateness structure not only our thinking about society and ourselves, but also, by structuring our institutions and practices, dictate how we act within society. Originally published in 1983, the complexity inherent in the distinction between public and private is ...
Response to Music: Principles of Music Education
1st Edition
By J. Brian Brocklehurst
July 08, 2026
First published in 1971, Response to Music deals with the role of music in education, the formulation of aims and objectives, and the relationship between values, aims, and teaching methods. The author examines the relationship of aims in music education to the requirements of our modern ...
Salvage from the Sea
1st Edition
By Gerald Forsberg
July 08, 2026
Salvage from the Sea (1977) offers a fascinating insight into the interesting but complex and highly specialised profession of marine salvage and its associated disciplines. All aspects of the wide and varies field of marine salvage are covered and discussed in detail....
Sampling: An Introduction for Social Scientists
1st Edition
By Freda Conway
July 08, 2026
Sampling (1967) aims to simplify sampling theory for social scientists, many of whom are unwilling mathematicians. It discusses percentages and weighted averages; frequency distributions, their means and variances; experimental and theoretical sampling distributions; problems of estimation and ...
Sensibility and Creation: Studies in Twentieth-Century French Poetry
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Cardinal
July 08, 2026
Sensibility and Creation (1977) comprises a dozen critical studies by different contributors on a selection of major French poets of the twentieth century. These range from poets of long-established reputation, such as Paul Valéry, Pierre Reverdy, Saint-John Perse and Paul Eluard, to contemporary ...
Stopping the Spread of Nuclear Weapons: The Past and the Prospects
1st Edition
By David Fischer
July 08, 2026
Although in the early 1990s, nearly fifty countries had a nuclear capacity, and many more were close to it, only a handful were actually in possession of nuclear weapons. David Fischer’s book, originally published in 1992, was of particular interest in the light of the collapse of the post-war ...
Taming Philippine Headhunters: A Study of Government and of Cultural Change in Northern Luzon
1st Edition
By Felix M. Keesing, Marie Keesing
July 08, 2026
In the high mountains and jungles of the northern Philippines lived a quarter of a million people, Malayan, Indonesian and Pygmy. These so-called ‘non-Christians’, differing widely in life and custom, were little touched by Western-style culture and government until the twentieth century. Taming ...
The American Male: A Penetrating Look at the Masculinity Crisis
1st Edition
By Myron Brenton
July 08, 2026
First published in 1967, The American Male explores broad social patterns and major societal trends as they affect men in America. The author argues that American men are burdened by an outdated code of masculinity that stifles their personalities and limits their ability to enjoy life at every ...
The Augustan Age
1st Edition
By John Butt
July 08, 2026
The Augustan Age (1962) examines the writing of the time, and the critical theory that supported it. By focusing on a few writers of paramount interest, the book looks at what men of letters such as Dryden, Swift, Pope and a few others have to say, set against the background of the age in which ...
The Catholic Church and the French Nation 1589–1989
1st Edition
By Norman Ravitch
July 08, 2026
“Paris is worth a mass” was the realistic response of Protestant Henry IV, who changed his faith to secure the throne of France, to the central importance of the French Catholic Church. Principle and pragmatism have since been, in alteration, the two prime constituents of French Catholicism. In his...
The Comely Frontispiece: The Emblematic Title-Page in England 1550–1660
1st Edition
By Margery Corbett, R.W. Lightbown
July 08, 2026
Many of the major books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 – one of the richest periods in English culture – were embellished with an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects twenty such title-pages which represent the different branches of learning – theology...