Society & Social Sciences books

Originally published in 1983, Play is a Feeling is an exploration of the world of childhood, those first discoveries...  Read More >>

First published in 1935, this title was written as a short and simple treatise on ‘Functional Nerve Disease’ for...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1976 and again in 1988 under the current title, the author describes, examines and introduces...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1970 this book quickly became a classic textbook. This edition reissues the 7th edition...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1925, this volume was written at a time when the cost of living was rising in France and...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1980, this book provides an analysis and assessment of events in local government management...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1976, this book examines how and why local government reforms came about and what influences,...  Read More >>

World War I left in its wake an unparalleled amount of international debt. Originally published in 1927, this book...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1925, written by someone who was associated with the work of the League of Nations from...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1978, this book covers all aspects of the development of local authorities; the changing...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1992, this book was the first to gather together the view of industrialists, teachers and...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1974, this book filled a gap in its examination and evaluation of the way in which English...  Read More >>

First published in 1988, Military Disengagement from Politics explores the reasons and conditions for military withdrawal...  Read More >>

First published in 1992, this book (now with a new preface by the author) explains changes in the period up to AD...  Read More >>

First published in 1990, Nationalism in France (now with a new preface by the author) is a concise history of the...  Read More >>

In British Politics and the Policy Process (originally published in 1987), Grant Jordan and Jeremy Richardson provide...  Read More >>

First published in 1977, A History of Rhodesia is a history of the origins and course of modern European occupation...  Read More >>

First published in 1977, The Conservatives has been edited and designed by Lord Bulter, who has contributed much...  Read More >>

Dr Róheim, a young Hungarian anthropologist, whose work had already attracted the attention of English authorities,...  Read More >>

The Rise of the Pelhams (1957) looks at the important period between the fall of Walpole and the appointment of...  Read More >>

The Rise of Party in England (1975) examines the English political party as an essential entity to the meaningful...  Read More >>

The Decline of Neutrality (1971) examines neutrality as it was codified in the Hague Convention in 1907 and the...  Read More >>

English History in Forms of Essays (1927) is an audacious and ambitious history of England in an abbreviated form...  Read More >>

Britons Abroad (1968) takes the lid off nine 1960s package tours, mainly in Europe, revealing the kind of people...  Read More >>

Local Authority Borrowing (1985) sets out the history of local authorities’ activities as borrowers. The early attempts...  Read More >>