Ian Dowbiggin 
Quest for Mental Health [PDF ebook] 
A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society

Private law enforcement and order maintenance have usually been seen as working against or outside of state authority. A History of Private Policing in the United States surveys private policing sinc …

What can we learn about the trial of Socrates from Plato»s dialogues? Most scholars say we can learn a lot from the Apology, but not from the rest. Plato»s Trial of Athens rejects this assumption a …

This description of Allied contingency plans for military operations in the Middle East – in the event of conflict with the Soviet Union – argues that diplomatic events and crises in the Middle East …

Positioning race front and centre, this book theorizes that political violence, in the form of a socio-political process that differentiates between human and less-than-human populations, is used by …

Beginning with the extraordinary rescript by Tsar Nicholas II in August 1898 calling the world»s governments to a disarmament conference, this book charts the history of the two Hague peace conferen …

The Rootes Group once dominated the British motor industry, and its legacy lives on in thousands of carefully maintained cars – most notably Hillmans, Humbers, Singers and Sunbeams. In this book, usi …

This book provides a meticulously documented account of officially sanctioned cannibalism in the south-western province of Guangxi during the Cultural Revolution. Zheng Yi paints a disturbing picture …

This volume of thirteen original essays provides a timely analysis of African foreign policies in a post–Cold War environment where African marginalization from the global economy appears to be incre …

Between 1940 and 1945, Britain»s Special Operations Executive (SOE) carried out sabotage and organised resistance across occupied Europe. Over 5 years, SOE sent over 500 agents into Norway to carry …

Exploring the largely positive representations of Romanian Germans predominating in post-1989 Romanian society, this book shows that the underlying reasons for German prestige are strongly connected …