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The Family Life of Old People: An Inquiry in East London
1st Edition
By Peter Townsend
July 31, 2025
First published in 1957, The Family Life of Old People opens with the question: Are old people isolated from their families? Thereafter, the author describes the results of intensive interviews with people of pensionable age in Bethnal Green in East London. Part one shows that most people are ...
The Freedom of Necessity
1st Edition
By John Desmond Bernal
July 31, 2025
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 Lotus and the Spinning Wheel
1st Edition
By Marie Beuzeville Byles
July 31, 2025
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 Miners: Years of Struggle: A History of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain from 1910 Onwards
1st Edition
By Robert Page Arnot
July 31, 2025
First published in 1953, The Miners: Years of Struggle is the official history of the British miners, which draws on original sources, moving into the stormy period when the economic bargaining of the million colliery employees with the mine owners became the concern of Parliament and people. The ...
The Payment of Wages: A Study in Payment by Results Under the Wage System
1st Edition
By G. D. H. Cole
July 31, 2025
First published in 1928, The Payment of Wages came out amid the controversies over workshop conditions caused by the Great War. It has held its place as the standard work describing the various systems of wage payments and their effects. Mr. Cole raises challengingly the question of the need for a ...
The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe
1st Edition
By William A. Rossi
July 31, 2025
First published in 1977, The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe examines the realities of foot and shoe eroticism practised by almost all of us, whether consciously or unconsciously. Provocative often witty and always original, the book takes us on a walking tour through history: from Chinese ...
The Textual Tradition of Chaucer's Troilus
1st Edition
By Robert Kilburn Root
July 31, 2025
First published in 1916, The Textual Tradition of Chaucer’s Troilus compares the best unprinted manuscripts of Chaucer’s Troilus with the printed texts. The purpose of the volume is to evaluate eighteen manuscripts, to determine so far as may be their relation to one another and to Chaucer’s ...
Virginia Woolf
1st Edition
By Michael Rosenthal
July 31, 2025
First published in 1979, Virginia Woolf is an original critical study of where the author considers Virginia Woolf’s non-fiction as well as fiction, exploring the different ways Woolf sought to embody her artistic vision throughout her remarkable literary career. The book establishes both the ...
What is Ahead of Us?
1st Edition
By G.D.H. Cole, Arthur Salter, Wickham Steed, Sidney Webb, P. M. S. Blackett, Lancelot Hogben
July 31, 2025
First published in 1937, What is Ahead of Us? is a collection of essays, which were originally presented as lectures before the Fabian Society. Conceived in an era of growing fascism and economic despair, the essays urge the reader to imagine more equitable alternatives to capitalism. The authors ...
Women and Property: Women as Property
1st Edition
Edited
By Renee Hirschon
July 31, 2025
First published in 1984, Women and Property studies the idea of wealth and property in relation to women in diverse countries. It attempts a definition of the term 'property' itself and goes on to look at the relationships and rights associated with these various kinds of property. The authors ...
Criticism and Objectivity
1st Edition
By Raman Selden
July 30, 2025
First published in 1984 Criticism and Objectivity argues that literary critics should not abandon the concept of knowledge. English literary criticism has long considered ‘theory’ to be alien to the felt experience of readers and writers; the Romantic attitude towards reason and feeling has ...
Aging in Society: Selected Reviews of Recent Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Matilda White Riley, Beth B. Hess, Kathleen Bond
July 01, 2025
Originally published in 1983, Aging in Society consists of a selection of papers that were prepared by various authors as background papers for the 1981 White House Conference on Aging. The papers provided an overview of knowledge on various aspects of aging in the United States at the time. Topics...