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Anthropology and the Riddle of the Sphinx: Paradoxes of Change in the Life Course
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Spencer
July 01, 2025
Originally published in 1990, Anthropology and the Riddle of the Sphinx: Paradoxes of Change in the Life Course, seeks to relate the problems of maturation and ageing to the life course as a whole. As it is treated here, the riddle posed by the sphinx asks ‘What is it that changes as we age?’ and ...
Australian Economic Development in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Colin Forster
July 01, 2025
First published in 1970, Australian Economic Development in the Twentieth Century analyses aspects of Australian economic development in the twentieth century and places them in historical and international perspective. In Australia, the nineteenth century has been studied much more intensively ...
Double Lyric: Divisiveness and Communal Creativity in Recent English Poetry
1st Edition
By Merle E. Brown
July 01, 2025
Originally published posthumously in 1980, this book centres on 5 British poets – Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin, Jon Silkin, Thom Gunn and Charles Tomlinson – and on the emergence in postwar British poetry of ‘double-lyrics’, poems which have, according to the author ‘become two persons, two ways of...
Evelyn Waugh and the Problem of Evil
1st Edition
By William Myers
July 01, 2025
Originally published in 1991, this elegantly written book offers new readers a useful approach to the work of Evelyn Waugh and will persuade those familiar with it to look at it afresh. This introduction to Waugh’s novels places them high in the catalogue of great fiction. It claims for them an ...
Health Care and Popular Medicine in Nineteenth Century England: Essays in the Social History of Medicine
1st Edition
Edited
By John Woodward, David Richards
July 01, 2025
Originally published in 1977, this book presents a selection of work by historians and sociologists on medicine and society in the 19th century. It concentrates on practitioners and patients, quackery and folk medicine, as elements in the social, cultural, political and economic structure of the ...
In Defence of Reason
1st Edition
By H.J. Paton
July 01, 2025
First published in 1951, In Defence of Reason is a series of philosophical essays written at various times. Some of them are devoted to the interpretation of Kant’s philosophy, a subject which the author has made specially his own. Many of them, however, are concerned with more general topics, ...
India's Balance of Indebtedness: 1898–1913
1st Edition
By Y. S. Pandit
July 01, 2025
Originally published in 1937, this study was modelled on Jacob Viner’s famous work on Canada and when it was published it was an important addition to the growing literature in Applied Economics. The period selected was a time of increased foreign borrowings by India and expanding foreign demand ...
Making Ends Meet: Pawnbroking and Working-Class Credit
1st Edition
By Melanie Tebbutt
July 01, 2025
Originally published in 1983, this book filled a gap in the existing literature, because the effect of credit upon a family’s real income was frequently omitted in studies of living standards. The book highlights daily routines and relationships which would otherwise remain hidden, using interviews...
Revolt Against the Dead: The Modernization of a Mayan Community in the Highlands of Guatemala
1st Edition
By Douglas E. Brintnall
July 01, 2025
First published in 1979, Revolt Against the Dead describes the changing lifestyle of the Aguacatec Indians, a Mayan peasant people of the northwestern highlands of Guatemala. The author presents the societal transformation from an economic, social, political, and religious perspective. The book ...
Rewriting Nursing History
1st Edition
Edited
By Celia Davies
July 01, 2025
Originally published in 1980, this book written by nurses, historians and sociologists, challenges conventional forms of nursing history. Rather than a chronology of events or a focus on great men or women as instigators of change, the contributions address specific questions to historical data, ...
Russia in the Making
1st Edition
By John Lawrence
July 01, 2025
In Russia in the Making (originally published in 1957), John Lawrence presents the long and complicated history of Russia as a living and intelligible whole from the very beginning. Based on a wide knowledge of Russian history and a considerable experience of Soviet ways, his book provides an ...
The Defeat of Debt: A Full Account of the Power of International Finance
1st Edition
By R. McNair Wilson
July 01, 2025
Prior to World War I, international trade was conducted based on what is known as the classical gold standard. In this system, trade between nations was settled using physical gold. Nations with trade surpluses accumulated gold as payment for their exports. Conversely, nations with trade deficits ...