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Explosive Remnants of War: Mitigating the Environmental Effects
1st Edition
Edited
By Arthur H. Westing
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1985 this book draws attention to the terrible unexploded remnants of mines and other high-explosive munitions that remain hidden in former theatres of war and which claim so many innocent victims – often children – for so many years. The contributors to the book recommend a...
Financial Management in Local Government
1st Edition
By A. H. Marshall
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1974, this book shows how the financial thread is established and preserved. The author shows finance playing its part in providing better information for both decision making and control. He shows how the skills of accountants, economists, statisticians and others are ...
Fluvial Geomorphology: A Proceedings Volume of the Fourth Annual Geomorphology Symposia Series
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie Morisawa
June 01, 2026
It was not until the 20th century that many geomorphologists began to integrate the work of hydraulic engineers and hydrologists with geomorphic concepts in fluvial systems. Statistical manipulations and concepts aided greatly in the development of ideas on the relation of the magnitude and ...
Inspectorates in British Government: Law Enforcement and Standards of Efficiency
1st Edition
By Gerald Rhodes
June 01, 2026
Inspection is one of the oldest forms of governmental influence and control. Yet the process had been largely neglected in studies of British government. Originally published in 1981, this study examines two of its major, long-standing aims: to enforce statutory provisions and to ensure defined ...
International Institutions
1st Edition
By Paul Reuter
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1958, this book assesses the continuity and variety of international societies as they have existed in recent history. Although the study of international institutions is firmly based on a foundation of law, this book also encompasses sociology, history and politics. The ...
Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction
1st Edition
By John Stephens
June 01, 2026
When children read fiction, they are exposed to the beliefs which inform and structure their society. Books encourage child readers to internalize particular ways of seeing the world and help shape their development as individuals. Although this process forms a key part of their education, it ...
Literature, Language and Change: From Chaucer to the Present
1st Edition
By John Stephens, Ruth Waterhouse
June 01, 2026
How did the rise of polite society change the language of literature? What was the effect of Romanticism on poetic word order? How does knowing the answers to these questions alter the meaning of a text for us? Reading literature is a quest for sense, involving us in a need to grasp both how ...
Oman: The Making of a Modern State
1st Edition
By John Townsend
June 01, 2026
Oman was, until the coup which brought Sultan Qaboos (1940–2020) to power in July 1970, one of the most remote and least known countries in the world. This book, originally published in 1977 and written by someone who worked in Oman for a period spanning the old and new regimes, discusses the ...
Patrick White's Fiction
1st Edition
By William Walsh
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1977, this study is both a sympathetic insight into the Nobel Prize winning author Patrick White and his work and also a guidebook and map to one of the most complicated and significant bodies of work in 20th century literature. Along with creative energy the qualities of ...
Philosophy and the Human Sciences
1st Edition
By R.J. Anderson, J.A. Hughes, W.W. Sharrock
June 01, 2026
Students of the human sciences – economics, sociology, politics, anthropology, psychology – frequently encounter the names and distinctive theories of philosophers. It is none the less difficult to judge the contribution of such philosophers without a training in philosophy. First published in 1986...
Planning and Politics: The British Experience 1960-1976
1st Edition
By Michael Shanks
June 01, 2026
First published in 1977, Planning and Politics examines Britain’s economic planning experiments during a period when the country’s seemingly intractable economic problems had become one of the major weaknesses of the western world. Since 1960, both Conservative and Labour governments carried out a ...
Psychology and Social Structure
1st Edition
By Barrie G. Stacey
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1976, this book relates psychology to the wider question of the nature and structure of society, particularly Western industrialized societies. It examines various types of man-made inequality, particularly inequality of educational opportunities, class and stratification ...