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The Doctor Looks at Literature: Psychological Studies of Life and Letters
1st Edition
By Joseph Collins
September 14, 2026
First published in 1923, the original blurb reads: “This series of studies by a distinguished neurologist and psychiatrist, who is also an accomplished writer, will stir clamorous approval and dissent. But none who read it will ever view the most modern literature from quite the same angle as ...
The Freedom of Necessity
1st Edition
By John Desmond Bernal
September 14, 2026
First published in 1949, The Freedom of Necessity explores various aspects of the transformation of human society in the mid-20th century. It deals with themes like man and the world; relevance of science; science and the humanities; science and the arts; organised research for peace; science in ...
The Life of Ludwig Mond
1st Edition
By J. M. Cohen
September 14, 2026
First published in 1956, The Life of Ludwig Mond is one of the earliest biographies to present the story of Dr. Mond. The book, as a biography, is mainly and rightly concerned with the man himself, but it could hardly avoid dealing with the growth of those parts of the heavy chemical industry with ...
The Lotus and the Spinning Wheel
1st Edition
By Marie Beuzeville Byles
September 14, 2026
First published in 1963, The Lotus and the Spinning Wheel tells the story of India’s two great sons, the Buddha and the Mahatma. Both were the teachers their age and country needed, and this book goes beyond the merits of their teaching. The reader is invited to come with the author firstly through...
The Social History of Lighting
1st Edition
By William T. O'Dea
September 14, 2026
How was a billiards table lit in 1763, or the stage of the Red Bull playhouse in 1673? The earliest red and green traffic light was in London in 1868; but what was street lighting like in Paris in 1524, or San Jose, California, in 1885? How did the early U.S. settlers light their homes, and how did...
The Teaching of George Eliot
1st Edition
By William Myers
September 14, 2026
George Eliot thought of herself as a teacher, as did her contemporaries. Their view that her writing was not simply influenced in a relatively haphazard way by her philosophical and scientific reading but was a deliberate and consistent attempt to synthesize in fiction an elaborate and coherent ...
Permission and Regulation: Law and Morals in Post-War Britain
1st Edition
By Tim Newburn
September 02, 2026
First published in 1992, Permission and Regulation examines the period known as “the permissive age”: the 1960s. Perhaps more than any other decade in history, the 1960s have generated seemingly imperishable myths. This book seeks to separate myth from reality by focusing on a series of legislative...
Black English: A Seminar
1st Edition
Edited
By Deborah Sears Harrison, Tom Trabasso
September 01, 2026
When this volume was originally published in 1976, it contained completely new and original essays on the language of Black speakers of English. The contributors offer different ethnic and professional perspectives, representing fields such as linguistics, psychology, anthropology, sociolinguistics...
Change in Language: Whitney, Bréal, and Wegener
1st Edition
By Brigitte Nerlich
September 01, 2026
First published in 1990, Change in Language provides a fresh view of the history of nineteenth-century language study by focusing on the writings of three linguists—Whitney, Bréal and Wegener in three countries—the United States, France, and Germany. The standard histories of linguistics portray ...
Church and State in Britain Since 1820
1st Edition
Edited
By David Nicholls
September 01, 2026
First published in 1967, Church and State in Britain Since 1820 is a selection of documents on the problems of church-state relations in Britain since the time of Coleridge. There is a full introduction in which the editor discusses a few of the problems raised by the pluralist solution of a ‘free ...
Citizens in Conflict: The Sociology of Town Planning
1st Edition
By J.M. Simmie
September 01, 2026
First published in 1974, Citizens in Conflict explodes the popular mythology that town planning is an objective, rational, apolitical professional activity conducted in the public interest. The book challenges the underlying professional conception that society functions as an integrated, ...
Contemporary Issues in Language and Discourse Processes
1st Edition
Edited
By Donald G. Ellis, William A. Donohue
September 01, 2026
Originally published in 1986, the goal of Contemporary Issues in Language and Discourse Processes was to provide various perspectives on three key issues facing scholars interested in how language is used communicatively in discourse. The first issue had generated considerable interest among ...