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Restoration Theatre Production
1st Edition
By Jocelyn Powell
June 03, 2026
Originally published in 1984, this book recreates the unique atmosphere of the Restoration playhouses in order to demonstrate how theatrical conditions spurred authors into creating new forms of tragedy, comedy and opera, the techniques of which anticipated the ideas of ‘gestus’ and ‘alienation’ ...
Restoration and Revolution
1st Edition
By William Myers
June 03, 2026
The year 1688 is a turning point in English culture, and one from which can be dated numerous distinctively ‘modern’ notions of truth, property and political order. The texts assembled in this collection, originally published in 1986, focus on this intellectual adjustment from five related ...
Revitalizing European Rituals
1st Edition
Edited
By JEREMY BOISSEVAIN
June 03, 2026
First published in 1992, Revitalizing European Rituals explores why revitalization of celebrations is taking place in communities throughout Europe. The festive behaviour appears to contradict the sober, rational conduct associated with modernization and industrialization. The contributors examine ...
Rich Country Interests and Third World Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Cassen, Richard Jolly, John W. Sewell, Robert Wood
June 03, 2026
First published in 1982, Rich Country Interests and Third World Development adds breadth and specificity to the exploration of the interests in Third World development of eleven “rich” countries—the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany, The ...
Samuel Beckett
1st Edition
By Francis Doherty
June 03, 2026
Originally published in 1971, this book elucidates Beckett’s work in the light of his concern with literary form. This is seen as an increasingly compressed and dense medium for the purer and purer statement of his view of man’s existence, and Beckett’s Man is seen as the medium for the ...
Saudi Arabia, the West and the Security of the Gulf
1st Edition
By Mazher A. Hameed
June 03, 2026
Saudi Arabia, the West and the Security of the Gulf (1986) considers the geopolitical environment of the Arab Gulf and the nature and threats to Western interests in the region. It also examines the political, economic and other Gulf resources that can be marshalled to protect those interests....
Sense and Thought: A Study in Mysticism
1st Edition
By Greta Hort
June 03, 2026
Originally published in 1936, the author investigates the working of the mind in various types of experiences, showing how sense and thought, volition and cognition, practice and theory, work together, as well in secular as in religious experiences; that in each type of experience reality presents ...
Social Hygiene in Twentieth Century Britain
1st Edition
By Greta Jones
June 03, 2026
In the early twentieth century, a group of writers and publicists began to talk and write about social hygiene or more commonly known as the theory of eugenics. By this they meant the improvement of the quality of the population by a conscious intervention in the biological laws which governed its ...
Social Provision in Rural Wiltshire
1st Edition
By H. E. Bracey
June 03, 2026
Social Provision in Rural Wiltshire was first published in 1952. The original blurb reads: “Outside Wiltshire, Dr Bracey’s book will be welcomed as an example of a new technique applied to the solution of an urgent rural problem. The problem, briefly, is whether our ancient market centres and ...
Social Surveys
1st Edition
By D. Caradog Jones
June 03, 2026
Social Surveys (1949) examines a host of fact-finding studies, dealing mainly with working class poverty, and the associated nature and problems. To describe the structure of a community demands a close study of the people who compose it, and of the environment in which they work and spend their ...
Social Theory for Planning
1st Edition
By Joe Bailey
June 03, 2026
Planners necessarily use theories of how society works. More often than not, however, these were left unstated or confused. As the scope of planning increased in the 1970s it became vital that planners adopted a more refined approach to the social life which they tried to influence. Originally ...
Strategic Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Neil Joeck
June 03, 2026
Strategic Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia (1986) examines the consequences for particular states should India and Pakistan decide to deploy nuclear weapons. It looks in detail at the positions of both India and Pakistan and the responses of the United States, the Soviet Union ...