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Public Policy-Making For Local Government
1st Edition
By J. A. Chandler
September 30, 2026
When this book was originally published in 1988, recent studies of policy-making in Britain had suggested that decisions were made as a consequence of the interplay of private and public interests and the government. This work concludes that, at least in the context of policy-making towards local ...
Qualitative Educational Research in Developing Countries: Current Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Crossley, Graham Vulliamy
September 30, 2026
First published in 1997, Qualitative Educational Research in Developing Countries offers a compelling collection of 11 original, in-depth accounts of qualitative research and evaluation in developing countries. The book argues that innovative qualitative methods provide significant advantages over ...
Reason and Common Sense: An Enquiry into Some Problems of Philosophy
1st Edition
By R. G. Mayor
September 30, 2026
First published in 1951, Reason and Common Sense by R.G. Mayor offers a profound exploration of philosophical questions surrounding knowledge, perception, mind, matter, and ethics. Divided into three parts—Philosophic Doubt, Mind and Matter, and Reason and Common Sense—the book examines topics such...
Talking Philosophy: A Wordbook
1st Edition
By A C W Sparkes
September 30, 2026
First published in 1991, Talking Philosophy: A Wordbook offers an insightful and critical exploration of key terminology in 20th-century Anglophone philosophy and common discourse. Arranged thematically, it covers topics like identity, meaning, nonsense, and logical relations. Combining concise ...
The Geography of Public Finance: Welfare Under Fiscal Federalism and Local Government Finance
1st Edition
By Robert J. Bennett
September 30, 2026
In this authoritative study, originally published in 1980, R. J. Bennett examines who receives what benefit, where and at what cost, from the social services. He adopts an integrated approach to taxes, benefits and intergovernmental grants, drawing empirical examples from a wide range of countries,...
The Personal Social Services in Local Government
1st Edition
By Christine Hallett
September 30, 2026
Originally published in 1982, this book locates the personal social services firmly in their context of local and central government. In so doing it provides detailed historical information about the structure and the finance in central government’s contribution to local government funding. It also...
The Philosophy of Citizenship: An Introduction to Civics for Adults
1st Edition
By E. M. White
September 30, 2026
First published in 1921, The Philosophy of Citizenship is a thought-provoking exploration of the principles and practices that underpin civic life and responsible citizenship. Through its six chapters, the book delves into the essence of civilization, the scope of civics, the core tenets of ...
Aging in Society: Selected Reviews of Recent Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Matilda White Riley, Beth B. Hess, Kathleen Bond
September 14, 2026
Originally published in 1983, Aging in Society consists of a selection of papers that were prepared by various authors as background papers for the 1981 White House Conference on Aging. The papers provided an overview of knowledge on various aspects of aging in the United States at the time. Topics...
Anthropology and the Riddle of the Sphinx: Paradoxes of Change in the Life Course
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Spencer
September 14, 2026
Originally published in 1990, Anthropology and the Riddle of the Sphinx: Paradoxes of Change in the Life Course, seeks to relate the problems of maturation and ageing to the life course as a whole. As it is treated here, the riddle posed by the sphinx asks ‘What is it that changes as we age?’ and ...
Australian Economic Development in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Colin Forster
September 14, 2026
First published in 1970, Australian Economic Development in the Twentieth Century analyses aspects of Australian economic development in the twentieth century and places them in historical and international perspective. In Australia, the nineteenth century has been studied much more intensively ...
Christian Science Today: Power, Policy, Practice
1st Edition
By Charles S. Braden
September 14, 2026
First published in 1958, in Christian Science Today the author's aim is to see what has happened in Christian Science since Mrs. Eddy’s time. Since the founder of Christian Science passed away, much has been written about Mary Baker Eddy and her movement; but not a single full-length study has ...
Double Lyric: Divisiveness and Communal Creativity in Recent English Poetry
1st Edition
By Merle E. Brown
September 14, 2026
Originally published posthumously in 1980, this book centres on 5 British poets – Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin, Jon Silkin, Thom Gunn and Charles Tomlinson – and on the emergence in postwar British poetry of ‘double-lyrics’, poems which have, according to the author ‘become two persons, two ways of...