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Ways to Paradise: The Chinese Quest for Immortality
1st Edition
By Michael Loewe
April 30, 2024
First published in 1979, in Ways to Paradise Michael Loewe, an internationally recognised authority on Han China, assesses a wealth of an archaeological evidence in an attempt to uncover the attitudes of the pre-Buddhist Chinese to matters relating to death and hereafter. Dr Loewe examines in ...
Winners and Losers: Ethnic Minorities in Sport and Recreation
1st Edition
By Gajendra Verma, Douglas S. Darby
April 30, 2024
First published in 1994, Winners and Losers is based upon a two-year study carried out in Manchester. Using a wealth of research material gathered from 1000 respondents from seven ethnic minority groups, it details the social, cultural, and religious priorities of these groups, and through this, ...
Poetics of Village Politics: The Making of West Bengal's Rural Communism
1st Edition
By Arild Engelsen Ruud
April 20, 2024
Originally published in 2003, this volume studies village politics and the changes brought about in rural society through political developments. It focuses on the social, political and cultural circumstances of communist mobilization in rural West Bengal. It analyses the emergence of rural ...
Vulnerable Children: Three Studies of Children in Conflict: Accident Involved Children, Sexually Assaulted Children and Children with Asthma
1st Edition
By Lindy Burton
April 20, 2024
Originally published in 1968, this book was an experimental investigation into some personality characteristics associated with three types of child problem behaviour. The behaviour of the children in school is described, and their underlying personality needs, as evinced by the stories they told ...
An Introduction to the French Poets: Villon to the Present Day
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Brereton
April 08, 2024
The French poetry of some five centuries is here surveyed in a series of studies of the work and personality of individual poets from Villon to the present day. Each chapter is primarily concerned with establishing the ‘literary identity’ of the poet or poets with whom it deals: the work of each is...
Principles of Tragedy: A Rational Examination of the Tragic Concept in Life and Literature
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Brereton
April 08, 2024
What is tragedy? What does the term imply? The word had outgrown its original context of literature and art and acquired wider and looser meanings. Originally published in 1968, Dr Brereton seeks to establish the basis of a definition which will hold good on various planes and over a wide range of ...
Agricultural Extension Worldwide: Issues, Practices and Emerging Priorities
1st Edition
Edited
By William M. Rivera, Susan G. Schram
March 30, 2024
First published in 1987, Agricultural Extension Worldwide presents an international perspective on agricultural extension and highlights extension as an integral function of agricultural development. Agricultural extension is one of the largest nonformal problem-solving educational systems in the ...
Coming to Know
1st Edition
Edited
By Phillida Salmon
March 30, 2024
First published in 1980, Coming to Know offers an account which runs counter to orthodox educational psychology, in which learning and knowledge are reified, emotional aspects are excluded, the personal-social situation of the learner is ignored, and the created character of knowledge with all its ...
From Policy to Administration: Essays in Honour of William A. Robson
1st Edition
Edited
By J.A. G. Griffith
March 30, 2024
First published in 1976, From Policy to Administration is not the conventional Festschrift written by many hands on many unrelated subjects- rather it is a tight collection of essays conceived and written around a unified theme. From one point of view, policy and administration are at two opposite ...
Local Government in Crisis
1st Edition
By W. A. Robson
March 30, 2024
First published in 1966, Local Government in Crisis presents a comprehensive overview of the challenges and limitations of the local government in Britain. William A. Robson discusses major themes like loss of municipal functions and public utilities; transfer of powers from county districts to ...
Psychology for Teachers: An alternative approach
1st Edition
By Phillida Salmon
March 30, 2024
First published in 1988, Psychology for Teachers offers a new approach to the study of the psychology of education. In contrast to many traditional texts, in which measurement is overemphasized and the individual tends to disappear in generalizations, this accessible book stresses the importance of...
Shelter, Settlement & Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Lloyd Rodwin
March 30, 2024
First published in 1987, Shelter, Settlement & Development presents a comprehensive and authoritative reappraisal of shelter, settlement and development policies and programs in third world countries. Drawing on the considerable research and advisory experience of an internationally ...