Author: Johnston Birchall
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: business, people
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1994-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0719038618
ISBN-13: 9780719038617

The "Co-op", one of the world’s most successful businesses, has been a common experience for millions of working-class people in Britain since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This work celebrates, in words and pictures, the history of a social movement which began with shopkeeping and grew into a large-scale international business, completely owned and controlled by its customers. This title tells how this British invention spread across the world - from the 28 "Rochdale Pioneers" of 1844 to the 700 million members of today’s International Co-operative Alliance - and ho

Author: Simon Tormey
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: totalitarianism, interpretations, tyranny, sense, making
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1995-06
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0719036410
ISBN-13: 9780719036415

Totalitarianism remains a central concept in political theory, as relevant today in interpreting contemporary regimes in countries such as China, North Korea and Iraq as it was in the time of Hitler and Stalin. This book tries to resolve the long-running debates about what totalitarianism is or was, about how the term can be applied, and about what the future of the concept might be. Tormey looks in turn at the contributions of some of the best known writers on totalitarianism, such as Friedrich Hayek, Hannah Arendt, Carl Friedrich and Herbert Marcuse. He assesses the strengths and weaknesses

Authors:Giovanni Pascoli, P. R. Horne,
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: texts, italian, poems, selected
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1983-07
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0719008700
ISBN-13: 9780719008702

Author: Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: england, medieval, history, illustrated
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 1996-11
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 071904152X
ISBN-13: 9780719041525

The late Middle Ages (c.1200-1500) was an age of transition. The major events of this period - the Black Death, the Hundred Years War, the rise of Parliament, the deposition of five English kings between 1327-1483 are examined in this volume. Also discussed are the sub-currents running through English society during these years, such as the slow decline of serfdom, the triumph of the English language, the rise of the judicial and medical professions, and the growth of religious non-conformity in the century and a half before the reformation. The 11 chapters, each written by an expert in the fi

Author: Richard William Cox
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: publications, historical, bibliography, britain, sport
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1991-05
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0719025923
ISBN-13: 9780719025921

In recent years sport has captured the imagination of the academic historian as a legitimate and worthwhile field of social enquiry. This bibliography has been compiled to meet the increasing demand for information on publications from 1800 to the end of 1987. A comprehensive classified listing of over 6500 individual items, including monographs, theses, periodical articles and conference papers, with author index, this bibliography will provide a useful reference tool for those interested in the history and development of sport in Britain. There are three main sections - works on particular s

Author: Ruth Evans
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: essays, texts, culture, interdisciplinary, new, beauvoir, second, sex, simone
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 1998-05
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0719043026
ISBN-13: 9780719043024

Hailed by some feminists as the single most important theoretical work of this century, but ignored or reviled by others, Simone de Beauvoir’s "The second sex" (1949) occupies an anomalous and even uneasy place in the feminist ’canon’. Yet it has had an undeniable impact not only on the development of critiques of sexual politics but on twentieth-century Western thinking about ’woman’ in general. This collection of six new essays by scholars from the disciplines of French, English literature, history, cultural criticism, feminist theory and philosophy is a contrib

Authors:Arun V. Holden, Vitaly I. Kryukov,
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: nonlinear, science, proceedings, architecture, networks, theory, neural
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1990-11
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0719032792
ISBN-13: 9780719032790

The edited proceedings of a Soviet workshop on neurocomputers and architectures. The papers provide an overview of the current research by Soviet groups into the the theory of neural networks.