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Divination and Oracles
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Loewe, Carmen Blacker
January 30, 2024
First published in 1981, Divination and Oracles analyses the religious practices of the ancient world as they have been witnessed from Scandinavia to Tibet and Japan, from the third millennium BC until the present day. Divination and the consultation of oracles formed part of the religious practice...
Education for the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
By Hedley Beare, Richard Slaughter
January 30, 2024
First published in 1993, Education for the Twenty-First Century grew out of a common and deep-seated concern about the way young people think of their own future, and about some of the relatively simplistic education reforms advocated, often by people with scant comprehension of modern educational ...
Education, Innovations, and Agricultural Development: A Study of North India (1961-72)
1st Edition
By D. P. Chaudhri
January 30, 2024
First published in 1979, Education, Innovations, and Agricultural Development investigates the effect of education on agricultural productivity and innovations that took place in the wake of the Green Revolution in North India, using a simultaneous equations model. The Green Revolution of the 1960s...
English Literature Between the Wars
1st Edition
By B. Ifor Evans
January 30, 2024
First published in 1948, English Literature Between the Wars sets out to answer a question: to what extent did the years between the two wars constitute a period in literature? Its exploration leads the author to assess the changes in the reading public, and in the movement of taste. He is led to ...
Handbook for History Teachers
1st Edition
Edited
By W. Burston dec'd, Cyril Green, E Nicholas, A Dickinson, D Thompson
January 30, 2024
First published in 1972, Handbook for History Teachers is intended to be a general and comprehensive work of reference for teachers of history in primary and secondary schools of all kinds. The book covers all aspects of teaching history: among them are the use of sources, world history, art and ...
Helping in Social Work
1st Edition
By Bill Jordan
January 30, 2024
First published in 1979, Helping in Social Work elaborates on the personal processes of influence in social work between clients and social workers. Shifting focus from the organizational structure of social work to face-to-face interactions, the author expounds on the personal and qualitative ...
Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model: A legacy for Gorbachev
1st Edition
By Kristian Gerner, Stefan Hedlund
January 30, 2024
First published in 1989, Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model assumes that since the October Revolution the development of the Soviet Union has essentially been a process of trial and error. Economic rationality has been sacrificed to political expedients, and the cultural sphere has been ...
Imperial China: The Historical Background to the Modern Age
1st Edition
By Michael Loewe
January 30, 2024
First published in 1966, Imperial China sets out to explain China’s past histories to non-specialists. Too often the West has misunderstood the East. China is credited with an excessively long cultural history; with a continuous line of dynastic succession; with uniformly practised institutions; or...
Inner Visions: Explorations in magical consciousness
1st Edition
By Nevill Drury
January 30, 2024
First published in 1979, Inner Visions discussion the nature of contemporary magical thought – encompassing the Tarot and the Qabalah – and considers its impact on the creative imagination. The author presents a fusion of the creative, magical and mythological undercurrents which are part of the ‘...
Johnson without Boswell: A Contemporary Portrait of Samuel Johnson
1st Edition
Edited
By Hugh Kingsmill
January 30, 2024
First published in 1940, Johnson without Boswell is about Samuel Johnson, the dictator of eighteenth-century English letters. It has become almost axiomatic never to mention that mammoth of wit and wisdom without linking him at least in thought with his great biographer, James Boswell. But there ...
Literature and Science
1st Edition
By B. Ifor Evans
January 30, 2024
First published in 1954, Literature and Science discusses historically the relationship between science and literature and between scientists and men of letters from the Renaissance onwards. It shows periods when writers were enthusiastic about science as in the early days of the Royal Society and ...
Local Government Economics in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By David Neden King
January 30, 2024
First published in 1992, Local Government Economics in Theory and Practice is an effort to rectify the lack of a comparative analysis between democratic local governments of various countries and their methods of financing. A series of chapters examines the theoretical basis for different systems ...