Society & Social Sciences

The second edition of Jeremy Black's War has been completely revised in the light of recent events in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jeremy Black's book pro...

Use the techniques in this book to conduct productive, successful sessions with your clients!Social Work and the Family Unit offers methods and sug...

Available in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One covers the role Jac...

"Abuse and Victimization across the Life Span" addresses the problem of family violence from a developmental perspective. Rather than limiting the ...

After suffering crushing military defeats in 1945, both Japan and Germany have again achieved positions of economic dominance and political influen...

Many people assume that a French-English cleavage has always existed and historians have been uncertain as to just how it unfolded. This book provi...

Many senior army officials still claim that if they had been given enough soldiers and weapons, the United States could have won the war in Vietnam...

"If Europe blazes in the late spring or summer, we must put our house in order before the sparks reach the Western Hemisphere." (Testimony before t...

From behind the close doors of Meech Lake comes this insider's account of the negotiations that put Canada's future on the line. Patrick J. Monahan...

"The world is large; Russia is great; death is inevitable." Almost forty years ago Robert A.D. Ford came across this sentence in a Russian school p...

The Prebendal School is one of the oldest in Britain. It may have existed as long as the Cathedral with which it has always been associated. It may...

An attack by a British destroyer on a German U-boat in the Eastern Mediterranean in October 1942 altered the course of the entire war. The capture ...

The poor economic performance of some African countries since independence has been a major concern to both African leaders and policy makers. This...

Focusing in particular on the European borders, this volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of academics to consider questions of immigr...

Many people are now interested in the relationship between religion and science, but links between Christian belief and psychology have been relati...

This book examines the developments in military technique and technology which both fueled and resulted from the changing nature of warfare.

How will civil-military relations affect efforts to consolidate new democracies in developing and postcommunist countries? How should democratic go...

For more than two hundred years the Royal Institution has been at the centre of scientific research and has also provided a cultural location for s...

First published in 2004. These four classic masterpieces in esoteric research by the noted orientalist - M. Penzer explore customs and traditions f...