Social Science - General

School Matters by Peter Mortimore, Pamela Sammons, Louise Stoll, David Lewis, and Russell Ecob is a landmark longitudinal study of fifty inner London primary schools that reshaped the way educators, policymakers, and researchers think about school effectiveness. Following nearly 2,000 children through their junior...

Today and Tomorrow Volume 15 Society and the State reprints It Isn't Done: Taboo Among the British Islanders, Stentor, Or the Press of Today and Tomorrow, Nuntius, or Advertising and its Future, and Cato, Or the Future of Censorship. Among other things these titles...

This book seeks to address the question of how the task of teaching mathematics to young children might be better understood. But rather than starting out with a conception of mathematics derived from the many histories mathematics might claim as its own we centre...

A significant driver of recent growth in the use of mathematics in the professions has been the support brought by new technologies. Not only has this facilitated the application of established methods of mathematical and statistical analysis but it has stimulated the development of...

Critical Issues in Mathematics Education presents the significant contributions of Professor Alan Bishop within the mathematics education research community. Six critical issues, each of which have had paramount importance in the development of mathematics education research, are reviewed and include a discussion of current...

Capturing Dorothy Hartley's point that there was "a dislocation of the food supply" during the Industrial Revolution, the poor laws, the game and corn laws, this section would begin with the date of Thomas Malthus's "Principle of Population" (1798) to capture voices invoked during...

Freud's Mass Psychology examines one of the key concepts in the theory of the psyche. Surprenant treats it as an epistemological issue rather than exclusively as a socio-political issue. Focusing on this neglected concept enables the author to raise anew the question of the...

Rich in detail and lucidly written, this is the first definitive study of the new middle class in Malaysia. Abdul Rahman Embong examines the emergence and role of the new Malay middle class, particularly with regard to democratization and evolution of civil society in...

In this book, Harry Gelber examines centuries of colonial interaction and argues for a close link between revolution in 18th century Europe and the development of Asian nationalism from the 19th Century onwards. The author reviews how adoption of European industrial and financial practices...

During the last decades of the twentieth century it has become increasingly difficult to consider British literature as 'national' or 'mainstream'. The book investigates contemporary fiction and poetry written in, or relating to, Britain and uncovers a distinct sense of a new and different...

Security experts from North Africa, Europe and the US explore confidence-building measures in the CSCE/OSCE for the Mediterranean. They review the Northern debate and Southern perceptions of four dialogues (OSCE, NATO, WEU, EU). Case-studies on Bosnia-Hercegovina and Cyprus discuss confidence-building measures for conflict resolution....

This is the only contemporary critical study to discuss the nature of comedy with exclusive reference to novels. It examines the comic styles of novelists from Fielding and Jane Austen to Waugh and Agnus Wilson, as well as less familiar writers such as Ronald...

Building on the philosophies of the social sciences and of religion, the book is concerned with the interplay between the inner powers of individuals and the structures of their societies and also with how these inner powers affect how they see outer realities. Dorothy...

The relationship between Britain and Greece, situated at the opposite ends of Europe has been close and troubled, especially since the emergence of Greece as an independent state in the 1830s. The essays in this book, some previously unpublished, focus on aspects of British-Greek...

This book developed from a conference held in 1992 to mark the 'coming of age' of E.P.Thompson's seminal concept of 'the moral economy'. The collection provides a critical evaluation of the original concept and of its application to a wide and diverse field of...

British policy towards European integration has been one of the most divisive issues in British politics since 1945. Based on a detailed evaluation of the newly-accessible government records, of the Conservative Party records, private papers and interviews, this timely book analyses British European policy...

...a most significant addition to the literature on its subject.' - Roger Morgan, Professor of Political Science, European University Institute, Florence An unconventional overview of a new and normal Germany fifty years after World War 2 and five years after unification. The authors address...

Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination is the first full-length evaluation of du Maurier's fiction and the first critical study of du Maurier as a Gothic writer. Horner and Zlosnik argue that the fears at the heart of du Maurier's Gothic...

War must be regarded as an institution which has evolved over time. If it's incidence is to be reduced, the forces that maintain it as an institution must be understood. In this book the nature of war and the factors that sustain it are...

This book explores the ideas of the neglected English aesthetician and art historian, Adrian Stokes. Stokes's Kleinian-based concepts of carving and modelling are analysed in relation to film, arguing that they replace the traditional notions of realism and montage in film theory and provide...

In this book John Burton and Frank Dukes place their theory of conflict and its resolution in a wider context by exploring both theoretical and practical issues of resolving difference and by categorizing types of disputes and conflicts. By broadening their focus beyond the...

'A rich contribution to the study of autobiography.' - James Olney Suzanne Nalbantian provides a precise and highly original basis to identify literary art with her novel approach to autobiography. Re-examining key writers of the early twentieth-century - Proust, Joyce, Woolf, with Nin in...

Structuralism and the Logic of Dissent is a fascinating and lucid exploration of the seminal writings of four eminent French structuralists that sheds new light on influential theoretical texts. Eve Tavor Bannet discusses the work of Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, and Lacan as coherent philosophical...

Drink, 'the curse of Britain', was sweeping the land, or so it seemed to many Englishmen in the early decades of the nineteenth century. They held it responsible for crime, poverty and many other ills of the rapidly industrializing towns. A 'moderation' temperance reform...

Author: Shirley Dex,Lois B. ShawISBN-10: 0333402197ISBN-13: 9780333402191Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/1986Pages: 160Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d

Since the Romantics culture has been identified with the promise of a complete development of human capacities and, typically, the 'rise of English' has been viewed in terms of the (true or distorted) fulfilment of this promise in the education system. This book presents...

Author: Geoffrey DebnamISBN-10: 0333362918ISBN-13: 9780333362914Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/1984Pages: 112Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d

Author: Oliver MacDonagh,Pauric TraversISBN-10: 0333328582ISBN-13: 9780333328583Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/1983Pages: 289Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

Author: D. W. SpringdISBN-10: 0333309391ISBN-13: 9780333309391Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/1982Pages: 302Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d

New breakthroughs in society, science, technology, and business keep upending our lives. This fascinating collection of articles explains how our world is constantly evolving, and predicts why your life may be transformed next. The pace of change in the world has accelerated dramatically to...

This work examines a trade that covered the backs of sailors and soldiers, that shirted labouring men and skirted working women, that employed legions of needlewomen and supplied retailers with new consumer wares. Garments, once bought, returned again to the marketplace, circulating like a...

Preface - PART I: Nature's Constraints: 'What are the Limits to Growth?' - The Future: A Search for Values - Energy and Exponentials - The Economics of Spaceship Earth - Our Environmental Charge Account Comes Due - PART II: The Human Animal: 'What is...

This study offers an engaging reassessment of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (the Columbian Exposition), generally regarded as the preeminent civic pageant in Victorian America. Based on exhaustive research, Downey uses the Exposition as a representative cultural symbol to challenge established interpretations of the...

The first full-length study of sensationalist and melodramatic elements in Hardy's novels uses six of his texts to demonstrate the ways in which Hardy uses the melodramatic mode to advance his critique of established Victorian cultural beliefs through the employment of non-realistic plot devices...

This book considers European perceptions of their rivals throughout history from the Islamic civilization between the first Crusade in 1095 and the final Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683 to the United States of America from independence in 1776 until the present and investigates...

We are living in a world of transformation, and the world tomorrow will be very different from the world today, or the world of yesterday. This extraordinary book will be fascinating to anyone concerned about the future of our world. Defining 6 key areas...

This book explores the publishing and reading practices formed and changed by the First World War. From an exploration of British and Australian trench journals to the impact of war on the literary figures of the home front, the essays provide new information about...

This book examines the concept of queer theory and combines it with the field of diaspora studies. By looking at the queer diasporic narratives in and from the Caribbean, it conducts an inquiry into the workings and underpinnings of both fields.Author: Z. PecicISBN-10: 0230367410ISBN-13:...

It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores the impact of technology upon conceptions of language, consciousness, human cognition, and the boundaries...

Addressing the perennial question: why should we be moral? this book argues that we can only give a truly and morally satisfying answer to that question by radically reconfiguring our conception of the self and the way it relates to others.Author: M. WalkerISBN-10: 0230282601ISBN-13:...

Critics have argued that the field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic due to its institutionalization in recent years. This book identifies some limits of postcolonial studies and suggests ways of coming to terms with this issue via a renewed engagement with the literary...

This volume brings together essays on the relations between fiction and the economy, all established or emergent scholars from different fields of expertise. The essays range widely in their respective foci, extending beyond purely literary studies to encompass history, the history of language, studies...

Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The...

Energy Storage in Energy Markets reviews the modeling, design, analysis, optimization and impact of energy storage systems in energy markets in a way that is ideal for an audience of researchers and practitioners. The book provides deep insights on potential benefits and revenues, economic...

Author: Fab Morvan,Parisa RoseISBN-13: 9798999985132Publisher: Los Angeles Tribune Publishing HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2025Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d

Author: Micah Reddy,Pauli Van WykISBN-10: 0624096165ISBN-13: 9780624096160Publisher: TafelbergLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2025Pages: 374Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.83d

Author: Walid F. KhayrISBN-13: 9798999948106Publisher: Walid KhayrLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2025Pages: 138Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.30d

Author: Robert SheaISBN-10: 1952746434ISBN-13: 9781952746437Publisher: Hilaritas Press, LLC.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2025Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.73d

This book offers a theological challenge to the dominant assumptions of most Christians and churches in the twenty-first century, which simply accept the American cultural values about money. The author offers stories and mini-biographies of churches and members throughout history who have approached spending,...

The Sidelined: A Mother's Fight for Her Daughter's DreamBy S. CousinsThe Sidelined is a powerful and emotionally raw memoir that captures the untold story of a mother and daughter's journey through the highs and heartbreaks of youth sports. S. Cousins shares an intimate and...