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'Race' in Britain: Continuity and Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles Husband
July 01, 2026
'Race' in Britain (1982) provides a consideration of the place in 1970s British culture and society of the concept of ‘race’. Through a historical examination of the origins of the concept, the cultural habit of placing people into ‘races’ is placed in perspective as a social rather than a ‘natural...
Commodity Conflict: The Political Economy of International Commodity Negotiations
1st Edition
By L.N. Rangarajan
July 01, 2026
Commodity Conflict (1978) examines the world economy after the crises of the early 1970s, with the collapse of the international monetary system, the quadrupling of oil prices, the boom in commodity prices in 1973 and 1974 and by unprecedented inflation, followed by a recession, in almost all major...
Development, Technology and Flexibility: Brazil Faces the Industrial Divide
1st Edition
By João Carlos Ferraz, Howard Rush, Ian Miles
July 01, 2026
Development, Technology and Flexibility (1992) is concerned with forecasting the use of innovation within manufacturing industries. It assesses the factors that inhibit and facilitate the implementation of new technologies and organisational techniques. The focus of the study is on Brazilian ...
Educational Traditions Compared: Content, Teaching and Learning in Industrialised Countries
1st Edition
By Martin Mclean
July 01, 2026
Educational Traditions Compared (1995) is a comparative treatment of the educational curricula – their content, pedagogy and assessment – in schools and higher education institutions in industrial countries throughout the world. The emphasis is on differences between the major international blocs –...
Faith and the Flag: The Opening of Africa
1st Edition
By Jeremy Murray-Brown
July 01, 2026
Originally published in 1972 and as a second edition in 1979, this widely acclaimed biography of Africa’s first modern statesman tells the story of Kenyatta’s extraordinary and enigmatic career. It is the story of a life punctuated by dramatic twists of fortune which closely reflects Africa’s ...
Fantasy and Reason: Children’s Literature in the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Summerfield
July 01, 2026
First published in 1984, Fantasy and Reason (now with a new foreword by Judith Summerfield) retraces the major philosophical, moral and social factors bearing on children’s development in the eighteenth century, leading up to the poetic expression in book V of Wordsworth’s Prelude of a sustained ...
France Today: Introductory Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By J.E. Flower
July 01, 2026
France Today was first published in 1971 and quickly established itself as a valuable and important volume of essays providing a stimulating, clearly written introduction to contemporary France. This sixth edition (originally published in 1987, now with a new preface) looks at French social and ...
Health and Health Services: An Introduction to Health Care in Britain
1st Edition
By John R. Butler, Michael S.B. Vaile
July 01, 2026
Based on authors’ experiences in working in the NHS and in teaching medical students, nurses, social science undergraduates and trainees in community medicine, Health and Health Services (originally published in 1984) is an introductory text on health care policies. Since its introduction in 1948, ...
Kenyatta
1st Edition
By Jeremy Murray-Brown
July 01, 2026
Originally published in 1972 and as a second edition in 1979, this widely acclaimed biography of Africa’s first modern statesman tells the story of Kenyatta’s extraordinary and enigmatic career. It is the story of a life punctuated by dramatic twists of fortune which closely reflects Africa’s ...
Living Skills for Mentally Handicapped People
1st Edition
By Christine Peck, Chia Swee Hong
July 01, 2026
First published in 1988, Living Skills for Mentally Handicapped People describes the relevant theory, practical skills, likely problems and possible solutions involved in developing an integrated approach to the teaching of independent living skills. It aims to provide staff with sufficient ...
Medical Encounters: The Experience of Illness and Treatment
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Davis, Gordon Horobin
July 01, 2026
Originally published in 1977, this book looks at medical sociology from the inside. Each chapter has been written by sociologists who themselves were patients – participant observers. Each experienced problems and sought solutions in the health services, at the same time bringing their training in ...
Mixed Race Children: A Study of Identity
1st Edition
By Anne Wilson
July 01, 2026
Mixed Race Children (1987) challenges the stereotype of ‘mixed race’ children having identity problems, that they ‘don’t fit in anywhere’, showing that many of the children in this study of radical identity and categorization had worked out their own positive mixed race identity. The study goes on ...