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The Prefect in French Public Administration
1st Edition
By Howard Machin
April 18, 2026
The Prefect in French Public Administration (1976) examines the unique and theoretically powerful position of the Prefect in French local administration, concentrating on the period 1959–1975, the years of the Fifth Republic. It looks at the position of the Prefect and the attempts of governments ...
The Problem of Human Needs and the Critique of Civilisation
1st Edition
By Patricia Springborg
April 18, 2026
Originally published in 1981, The Problem of Human Needs and the Critique of Civilisation is a sociological and philosophical exploration of how human needs are understood and addressed within the framework of civilization. It belongs to the author’s life-long study of the presuppositions of, and ...
The Quest for Community: Social Aspects of Residential Growth
1st Edition
By David C. Thorns
April 18, 2026
Originally published in 1976, The Quest for Community is a wide comparative study of residential area development which discusses the key components in community formation and persistence. The actions of inhabitants as they have affected the development of the areas are studied and contrasted with ...
The Second Sin
1st Edition
By Thomas S. Szasz
April 18, 2026
Originally published in 1973, Thomas Szasz’s collection of aphorisms, definitions and maxims strikes at the heart of confusion, mystification and humbug, in the areas of human relations, language, thought and psychiatry. The book covers the remarkable range of one of America’s most original ...
The Three Rings: The History of the Spanish Jews
1st Edition
By Poul Borchsenius
April 18, 2026
Originally published in 1963, this book covers one of the least known parts of Jewish history: the golden age of Jewish culture in Spain with the interaction of Jewish, Muslim and Christian cultures, the horrors of the Inquisition and the final banishment of the race from the Iberian peninsula. In ...
Unholy Wedlock: The Failure of the Central African Federation
1st Edition
By Harry Franklin
April 18, 2026
Unholy Wedlock (1963) tells the story of the ill-fated creation of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1953. The author argues that it was done in the interests of the white minority, and against the wishes of the black majority, and examines the roles played by Whitehall and white ...
West African Government for Nigerian Students
1st Edition
By E.A. Keay, H. Thomas
April 18, 2026
West African Government for Nigerian Students (1965) was originally prepared as a guide to a Government exam in Nigeria, but now serves as a useful source of information to pre-colonial institutions and existing institutions in Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the Gambia....
A Study of Contemporary Ghana Volume 1: The Economy of Ghana
1st Edition
Edited
By Walter Birmingham, I. Neustadt, E.N. Omaboe
April 04, 2026
A Study of Contemporary Ghana Volume 1: The Economy of Ghana (1966) examines the problems of social and economic change in a rapidly developing society. This volume focuses on the economic aspects, and Volume 2: Some Aspects of Social Structure looks at the social changes. It looks at the main ...
Post Office Workers: A Trade Union and Social History
1st Edition
By Alan Clinton
April 04, 2026
Originally published in 1984, this book provides the first full account of the lives and aspirations of those who have worked in Britain to deliver mail, convey telegrams and transmit telephone conversations from the beginnings of such activities to the middle of the 20th century. For many years ...
A Spatial Analysis of Urban-Industrial Development in Ethiopia
1st Edition
By Mulatu Wubneh
April 02, 2026
Now reissued with a new preface by the author, this book was originally published in 1982 at a time when increasing emphasis was being given to regional development planning in many developing countries. This new emphasis arose from the conviction that the spatial organization of activities ...
Basic Intensive Psychotherapy
1st Edition
By William H. Reid
April 02, 2026
Originally published in 1980, this concise volume provides a clear guide to the practical and technical aspects of intensive psychotherapy - long term therapy with individual adults toward the goals of promoting insight and realigning unconscious defences which inhibit functioning and growth. The ...
Cicero
1st Edition
Edited
By T A Dorey
April 02, 2026
First published in 1965, Cicero contains a number of assessments of Cicero’s life and works, made by a group of scholars that includes some of the acknowledged experts in their particular field. Cicero is a man on whom most judgments have been harsh. His political ideals, though sincerely held, ...