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This is the first critically evaluative study of Gaston Bachelard's philosophy of science.

The forces of competition, which in the early stages of capitalism lead to rapid technical change and productivity growth, promote non-productive and even counterproductive activities in its more advanced stages.

This book documents the growth of unproductive activity in the United States economy since World War II.

This book examines the scope for longitudinal studies in a range of developmental fields.

This study, first published in 2000, analyses Renaissance literary theory in the context of social transformations of the period.

This book widens the focus of economic analysis to examine how people affect each other within and around markets.

Exploration of ways in which poets interrogate the contradictory relations inherent in pastoral as a genre, first published in 1995.

An individual's decision to use alcohol and the frequency, quantity and situation of such use are the result of a combination of biological and social factors. Drinking is not only a personal choice, but also a matter of custom and social behaviour, and is influenced by access and economic factors including levels of disposable income and cost of alcoholic beverages. Until prevention efforts cease to focus narrowly on the individual and begin ...

This 1993 book explores the history of French theatre in the nineteenth century.

Robin Headlam Wells re-examines the myth, central to the Orpheus story, in this 1994 book.

Argues that some English writers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries synthesized a liberal republicanism.

Explores how workers both perceived, responded to and helped shape the outcome of Mexico's revolution.

This book challenges the popular and scholarly concepts of psychological reality throughout history.

This 1999 book studies the pictorial language of gesture revealed in Anglo-Saxon art, and its debt to classical Rome.

A detailed account for cell biologists and clinicians of the colony-stimulating factors.

Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession.

Steve's poetry is a delightful and refreshing read. He reminds us that a poetic beauty thirsts for solitude away from loud minds with small hearts, away from gross egos with uncaring eyes and ears. His poems create visual images and rhythms that provide a glimpse of "something better...". Good poetry can feed the best of the human personality the way petunia waves feed a butterfly. If you've had a hectic day or week, then take some time for yo...

The masters of horror have united to teach you the secrets of success in the scariest genre of all!In On Writing Horror, Second Edition, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, Jack Ketchum, and many others tell you everything you need to know to successfully write and publish horror novels and short stories.Edited by the Horror Writers Association (HWA), a worldwide organization of writers and publishing professionals ...

Between 1848 and 1849, whispers of gold in California became a roar. The gold rush was on, and thousands established rough camps in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Among these camps, nestled in a small valley, was Sutter Creek. The town is named for the famous John Sutter, whose discovery of gold at Coloma started the rush. And though many gold-mining tent cities died out over time, Sutter Creek transitioned to a solid community wi...

This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a collection of the principal essays of Professor Emeritus R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority on the history of Canadian legal thought.Frank Scott, Bora Laskin, W.P.M. Kennedy, John Willis and Edward Blake are among the better known figures whose thinking and writing about law...