Author: Peter Townsend

First published in 1993. The scientific and political debate about poverty has been changing fast -with dramatic implications for intellectual inte...

The family of musical styles known as jazz came into being around 1900 as several popular black musical idioms coalesced. This free-flowing, sponta...

First published in 1957, The Family Life of Old People opens with the question: Are old people isolated from their families? Thereafter, the author...

First published in 1993. The scientific and political debate about poverty has been changing fast -with dramatic implications for intellectual inte...

Robert and Helen Lynd's Middletown set the format in sociological theory and practice for hundreds of studies in the decades following its publicat...

This report presents the first ever scientific measurement of the extent and depth of child poverty in developing regions. This measurement is base...

Jazz in American Culture offers an informed and entertaining introduction to jazz - one of the great musical cultures of the world. The book looks ...

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 un...

Robert and Helen Lynd's Middletown set the format in sociological theory and practice for hundreds of studies in the decades following its publicat...

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 tentativ...