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Probability, Objectivity and Evidence
1st Edition
By F. C. Benenson
October 05, 2026
First published in 1984, in Probability, Objectivity and Evidence the author claims that the theory of probability provides a single, correct, analysis of probability and that the concept of probability employed in science can best be understood as that of inductive probability; to do so, it is ...
Pythagoras: A Life
1st Edition
By Peter Gorman
October 05, 2026
First published in 1979, Pythagoras aims to make available to a wide range of readers the events of Pythagoras’s life and his theories, and to present him not primarily as a mathematician and scientific genius nor as a poetical and mystical phenomenon but as a man of his times subject to diverse ...
Rebels in the Name of the Tsar
1st Edition
By Daniel Field
October 05, 2026
In Rebels in the Name of the Tsar (originally published in 1989), Daniel Field explores one of the most puzzling phenomena of late imperial Russia: the devotion of the common people to the person of the Tsar. His comprehensive and engaging study addresses the question of “naïve monarchism” from the...
Rethinking Transition: Educational Innovation and the Transition to Adult Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol Varlaam
October 05, 2026
In the early 1970s, nearly three-quarters of 16–19-year-olds were employed. First published in 1984, Rethinking Transition comprises a collection of papers based on the evaluation of a group of projects concerned with the problems faced by young people in the transition from school to working life....
Sin and the New Psychology
1st Edition
By Clifford E. Barbour
October 05, 2026
First published in 1931, in Sin and the New Psychology the author has confronted, not with denunciation but with reasoned argument, the common view that there is no such thing as sin in the Christian sense, because “complexes” now are all. So far from an internecine conflict obtaining between ...
Social Security and Social Control
1st Edition
By Hartley Dean
October 05, 2026
First published in 1991, Social Security and Social Control (now with a new preface by the author) takes a fresh look at social security policy and demonstrates how the disciplinary effects of social security and relief programmes are more extensive, pervasive, and subtle than is commonly supposed....
Strikes in Post-War Britain: A Study of Stoppages of Work Due to Industrial Disputes, 1946–73
1st Edition
By J.W. Durcan, W.E.J. McCarthy, G.P. Redman
October 05, 2026
First published in 1983, Strikes in Post-War Britain provides the first systematic long-run examination of official strike statistics since the war. It is based on a wealth of new material and analysis. The overall strike pattern is first compared with the relevant data on economic activity ...
The Growth of Working Class Reformism in Mid-Victorian England
1st Edition
By Neville Kirk
October 05, 2026
The post-Chartist period saw an easing of class tensions and the growth of a reformist working class. Using evidence based upon the cotton districts of north-west England, the author shows that enhanced socio-political stability owed much to economic restabilisation in his book The Growth of ...
The Historical Element in Religion: Lewis Fry Lectures
1st Edition
By Clement C.J. Webb
October 05, 2026
First published in 1935, The Historical Element in Religion explains the Historical Element as arising from the religious man’s interest in the past of a community of which in his religious life he feels himself to be a part, so that its past is, although not remembered by him as an individual, yet...
The Little Less: An Essay in the Political Economy of Restrictionism
1st Edition
By Albert Stephen James Baster
October 05, 2026
After the First World War, and partly because of it, nineteenth century capitalism began to be denounced by the critics both of the Left and of the Right- as an unintelligent system for producing too much of everything and for providing for the labour and capital engaged in the process a poor and ...
The Mind at Work and Play
1st Edition
By Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett
October 05, 2026
First published in 1951, The Mind at Work and Play consists of the 119th series of Christmas lectures given at The Royal Institution in 1948-49. The book raises some important questions like- how can the mind and its senses measure things accurately? What kinds of bodily movements can people make ...
The Planned Economies of Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Alan H. Smith
October 05, 2026
First published in 1983, The Planned Economies of Eastern Europe provides a penetrating analysis of the Eastern European economies, beginning with an examination of the Soviet model on which they are based. An interesting comparison is made between the levels of economic development in these ...