Routledge Revivals
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The Training of Prison Governors
1st Edition
By P.A.J. Waddington
November 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1983, examines in detail the training of the key group of people within the British prison system: prison governors. It shows how problems, endemic to the prison system, influences their training; how staff seek to construct a coherent training course and how recruits ...
The Welsh in their History
1st Edition
By Gwyn A. Williams
November 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1982, is a sequence of interrelated essays and aims to redirect attention to some critical moments in Welsh history from Roman times to the present. Each of the essays breaks new ground, argues for a new approach or opens a new discourse....
Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China
1st Edition
By Khun Eng Kuah
November 06, 2023
Originally published in 2000, this second edition was first published in 2010. This is a discussion of the relationship between one group of Singapore Chinese and their ancestral village in Fujian in China. It explores the various reasons why the Singapore Chinese continue to want to maintain ties ...
Studies in Profit, Business Saving and Investment in the United Kingdom 1920-1962: Volume 1
1st Edition
Edited
By P. E. Hart
November 01, 2023
The results of the 1959 Glasgow University investigation into British industrial profit, business saving, and investment are the subject of this book, originally published in 1965. Part 1 presents original estimates of profits in British industries 1920-1938, which when linked with Government ...
Studies in Profit, Business Saving and Investment in the United Kingdom 1920-1962: Volume 2
1st Edition
Edited
By P. E. Hart
November 01, 2023
Originally published in 1968, this second volume of the Glasgow Studies in Profit, Business Saving and Investment uses the financial data assembled in Volume 1 to test economic theories of the factor distribution income, of the appropriation of profit, of the determinants of investment, and of the ...
The Film Business: A History of British Cinema 1896-1972
1st Edition
By Ernest Betts
November 01, 2023
First published in 1973 The Film Business makes a factual survey of British films from their beginnings in 1896 to 1972. Ernest Betts offers character studies of men who have built the film industry and made it what it is. He examines the financial and political background and shows how, ...
The Spirit of Indian Philosophy
1st Edition
By Nikunja Vihari Banerjee
November 01, 2023
First published in 1975 The Spirit of Indian Philosophy provides a systematic overview of Indian philosophy. The book is divided into four major parts dealing with Indian epistemology, Indian metaphysics, Indian ethics, and Indian philosophy of religion. It makes a departure from usual method of ...
The Theatre of Commitment: And Other Essays on Drama in Our Society
1st Edition
By Eric Bentley
November 01, 2023
First published in 1967 The Theatre of Commitment presents miscellaneous collection of seven essays written over fifteen years. Eric Bentley deals with themes like is the drama an extinct species; the American drama; what is theatre; the pro and con of political theatre; letter to a would-be ...
Freedom and History
1st Edition
By H. D. Lewis
October 30, 2023
First published in 1962, Freedom and History expresses a deep concern about freedom and the way it is imperilled by misunderstandings. The cause of freedom has not always been well served by its friends; by presenting one -sided ideas of freedom they have often paved the way for extreme forms of ...
Problems of Mind: Descartes to Wittgenstein
1st Edition
By Norman Malcolm
October 30, 2023
First published in 1972, Problems of Mind begins with a consideration of the view that the human mind is an immaterial thing that does not require corporeal embodiment for its operations. It takes up the conception that "inner experiences" are "strictly identical" with brain processes. The book ...
The Art of Marvell's Poetry
1st Edition
By J. B. Leishman
October 30, 2023
First Published in 1966, The Art of Marvell's Poetry presents J.B. Leishman’s appreciation of Andrew Marvell’s poems by demonstrating a sensitive understanding of attitudes peculiar to the seventeenth century and to Marvell. Leishman calls Marvell an "inveterate imitator and experimenter". His ...
The Elusive Mind
1st Edition
By H. D. Lewis
October 30, 2023
First published in 1969, The Elusive Mind argues that the mental processes are of a quite different nature from physical ones and belong to an entity which is elusive in the sense that it can only be known, in the first instance, by each person in his own case in the course of having any kind of ...