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Commonsense in Nuclear Energy
1st Edition
By Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Hoyle
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1979, written at a time when the world stood on the brink of (another) energy crisis, this book argued that an alternative primary fuel had to be found and that the answer lay in the exploitation of nuclear fission. The book sought to dispel the anxieties of ...
Comparative Religion: An Introductory and Historical Study
1st Edition
By E. O. James
October 01, 2025
First published in 1938, Comparative Religion presents a comparative study of the history of religion intended primarily as a textbook for students, with references and full bibliography of relative literature. It is also designed to give the general reader an account of religious thought and ...
Concerning Human Understanding: Essays on the Common-sense Background of Philosophy
1st Edition
By Nikunja Vihari Banerjee
October 01, 2025
First published in 1958 Concerning Human Understanding treats the chief problems of philosophy. Professor Banerjee’s intention is ‘to separate philosophic thought from effects of sophistication and intellectual pride to which philosophical enquiry is usually prone’. The book pursues a line of ...
Conservative Politics in France
1st Edition
By Malcolm Anderson
October 01, 2025
First published in 1974 Conservative Politics in France gives a scholarly account of politics in France from 1880 to the present and explains the way in which the Right has evolved from a collection of weak and transitory political associations to the relatively well – organised Gaullist coalition....
Cosmic Humanism and World Unity
1st Edition
By Oliver L. Reiser
October 01, 2025
First published in 1975 Cosmic Humanism and World Unity presents a comprehensive overview of the world view, a theory of knowledge, a cosmology and a possible universal religion termed as cosmic humanism. It aims to discover and formulate some of the main principles that may help mankind integrate ...
Energy or Extinction?: The Case for Nuclear Energy
1st Edition
By Fred Hoyle
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1977 and as second edition in 1979, this book argues that without energy sources on a vast scale our present society cannot survive. According to the author, Fred Hoyle, the technology to tap solar, wind or wave power on a large enough scale just does not exist. He considers...
Fascism: Who Benefits?
1st Edition
By Max Ascoli, Arthur Feiler
October 01, 2025
First published in 1939, Fascism: Who Benefits? presents a comparative analysis of Italian and German Fascism. Divided into four parts, the book covers themes like international Fascism; the background of Italian Fascism; the social and economic reconstruction of the Italian state under Fascism; ...
Forced Labour in Colonial Africa: A. T. Nzula I. I. Potekhin and A. Z. Zusmanovich
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin Cohen
October 01, 2025
Originally published for the first time in English in 1979 this book represents one of the earliest Marxist analyses of the impact that colonialism had on Africa during the first half century that followed the Scramble. Nzula’s co-authored book, together with all his writings in the Negro Worker, ...
Golf in Britain: A social history from the beginnings to the present day
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Cousins
October 01, 2025
First published in 1975 Golf in Britain traces the growth of the game from its small beginnings in fifteenth century Scotland to 1970s when it emerged as a widely enjoyed and massively financed sport. Golf has been peculiarly a subject related to economic and social change in society. Initially a ...
Ideologies of Welfare: From Dreams to Disillusion
1st Edition
By John Clarke, Allan Cochrane, Carol Smart
October 01, 2025
The British welfare state has been a political and ideological battleground since its inception, yet many of the voices in the crucial debates have been lost in orthodox histories. First published in 1987, Ideologies of Welfare (now with a new preface by the authors) explores the development of the...
International Labour and the Third World: The Making of a New Working Class
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosalind E. Boyd, Robin Cohen, Peter C. W. Gutkind
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1987, this book focusses on the debate around the international role of the working class and other dominated classes such as the rural and urban poor. The contributions discuss whether Marx’s original version of the revolutionary role of workers can still be sustained. They...
Law and Society
1st Edition
By Adam Podgórecki
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1974, this book looks at the general problems regarding the sociology of law. It describes the various methods of sociological research which may be applied in the field of sociology of law and shows their advantages and empirical limitations. It discusses the number and ...