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An Autobiography
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THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF PETER TOWNSEND, THE MAN CONSIDERED TO BE THE GREAT LOVE OF PRINCESS MARGARET'S LIFE, EQUERRY TO KING GEORGE VI AND HERO OF THE ...
A Survey of Household Resources and Standards of Living
The Evolution of Music by Culture and Science aims to recognise the impact of science on music, why it occurs, how we respond, and even to tentatively...
This reader brings together for the first time a collection of Peter Townsend's most distinctive work, allowing readers to review the changes that hav...
The Dark Side of Technology is intended as a powerful wake-up call to the potential dangers that could, in the near future, destroy our current advanc...
First published in 1993. The scientific and political debate about poverty has been changing fast -with dramatic implications for intellectual interpr...
A Key to Technology, Love, Life and Survival
It may be surprising to focus on and praise imperfection, but, in reality, perfection is a fiction. Every aspect of our technologies is based on under...
An Inquiry in East London
First published in 1957, The Family Life of Old People opens with the question: Are old people isolated from their families? Thereafter, the author de...
Robert and Helen Lynd's Middletown set the format in sociological theory and practice for hundreds of studies in the decades following its publication...
Jazz in American Culture offers an informed and entertaining introduction to jazz - one of the great musical cultures of the world. The book looks at ...
In May 1940, Group Captain Peter Townsend took command of 85 Squadron, tasked with preparing it for the defence of Great Britain against German bomber...
Decline and Fall of the British Empire
The Revolution in China
The Struggle for the Skies from the First World War to the Battle of Britain
Former RAF ace chronicles the growth of the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe and their decisive engagements during the Battle of Britain in 1940....
Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s
This book is a study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music. Pearl Harbor Jazz analyses the changes in the world of the pr...
Physical Processes and Geological Evolution
This book provides an introduction to ocean sciences that is engaging, evocative and accessible to non-experts interested in marine geoscience, while ...
Basic guide to small business law. Looks at a range of issues such as structuring your business, buying a business, business contracts, franchising, l...
Story of a 13-year-old's escape from Vietnam in an unseaworthy boat, her shipwreck and battle for survival against all odds....
A Contribution to the Bibliography of the Subject
A Survey of Househould Resources and Standards of Living
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressโs mission to seek out and cultivate the b...
Inequality and the North
When originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in different areas of the North ...
"Memoirs of aerial combat at night during the Battle of Britain"--Jacket....
Monograph on the relationships between sociology and social policy in the UK - discusses ways of eliminating poverty, and of improving income distribu...
Compilation of social research papers on the study and recognition of the needs and human rights of various low income minority groups, and of their r...
Tough Questions and Honest Answers about the Muslim Religion
An critical examination of the truth claims of the Muslim religion...
The Interim Report of a Survey of Persons Aged 65 and Over in Britain, 1962 and 1963
Aerial Combat
The Black Report
Eleven Fabian Essays
A Survey of Residential Institutions and Homes for the Aged in England and Wales
First published in 1964, The Last Refuge originated from the authorโs visit to a Victorian workhouse which had become an Institution for old people....
The Need to Establish an International Welfare State
A Reading and Writing Approach
An introduction to history from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages discusses the history of ancient Egypt, Israel, Greece, Rome, China, and medieval Eur...