Routledge Revivals
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Revival: The Facetiae of Poggio and Other Medieval Story-tellers (1928)
1st Edition
By Poggio Bracciolini
January 29, 2019
The facetie, as a literary form, has an ancient lineage, while, if we regard it merely as a humorous tale or jocular anecdote, its history must be almost as old as the first laughs and smiles of prehistoric man. To go back no further, we may trace it in a direct line through Latin literature, to ...
Revival: The Family (1931)
1st Edition
By Franz Carl Muller-Lyer
January 29, 2019
This book is a sociological study of the institution of marriage in all its possible forms and a discussion of family and of kinship. What were marriage and the family in the "dim red dawn of man"? How have they changed and evolved? What is their probable future? This clear and comprehensive book, ...
Revival: The Future of the British Empire (1936): After Ten Years
1st Edition
By Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller
January 29, 2019
The author presents an exercise in the art of rational prediction, based on his reflection on events of the previous eight years to the time of writing....
Revival: The Interpreter Geddes (1928): The Man and His Gospel
1st Edition
By Amelia Defries
January 29, 2019
What so strongly attracted the author in Patrick Geddes when she came to know him in India was, not his scientific achievements, but, on the contrary, the rare fact of the fullness of his personality rising far above his science. Whatever subjects he has studied and mastered have ...
Revival: The Life of Caesar (1933)
1st Edition
By Guglielmo Ferrero
January 29, 2019
Translated from Italian into English, The Life of Caesar, by thethe author, is, as the title would suggest, a biography of the great Roman Dictator Julius Caesar. The author's book, however, cannot be described just as a biography. His work, in fact, can be more accurately defined as a ...
Revival: The Machinery of the Mind (1922)
1st Edition
By Violet Mary Firth
January 29, 2019
This book is one of the shortest and clearest of the many popular books upon modern psychology which have been published. The beginner would find this book, with its clear explanations of technical terms, a useful companion to more advanced treatises....
Revival: The Psychology of Persuasion (1920)
1st Edition
By William MacPherson
January 29, 2019
In the first three chapters of this book the elements of persuasion as a mental process are distinguished, and various forms of false persuasion in individuals and groups are described; it is shown how, from the very nature of the process involved, our persuasion of ourselves is only too apt to ...
Revival: The Psychology of the Criminal (1933)
2nd Edition
By Maurice Hamblin Smith
January 29, 2019
This book is based upon twenty-three years experience in local and convict prisons, and more particularly upon the work done, during the past three years, with offenders from Courts in Birmingham and the adjacent districts. The main object is to demonstrate how important is the throrough ...
Revival: The State (1922): Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically
1st Edition
By Franz Oppenheimer
January 29, 2019
A pioneering historical analysis of the state from a sociological perspective which focuses on the changing nature of political power and the groups who wielded this power. One of his key insights is the distinction between the economic and the political means of acquiring wealth. This is the 1914 ...
Revival: The Tragedy of Ah Qui (1930): And Other Modern Chinese Stories
1st Edition
Edited
By C. Egerton
January 29, 2019
Short stories translated from the Chinese by J.B. Kyn Yn Yu and from the French by E.H.F. Mills...
Revival: Why is there no Socialism in the United States? (1976)
1st Edition
By W Sombart
January 29, 2019
Why is the United States the only advanced capitalist country with no labor party? This question is one of the great enduring puzzles of American political development, and it lies at the heart of a fundamental debate about the nature of American society. Tackling this debate head-on, Robin Archer ...
Revival: Writing the Bodies of Christ (2001): The Church from Carlyle to Derrida
1st Edition
Edited
By John Schad
January 29, 2019
This title was first published in 2001. A volume of essays on the Pauline, ecclesiastical body of Christ -the church. It is, of course, not possible to separate completely one body of Christ from another, and the essays do not make the attempt. The dark, institutional history of the church is a ...