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Florence Nightingale is famous as the heroine of the Crimean War and later as a campaigner for medical care founded on a clean environment and good nursing. Suggestions for Thought, which contains th …

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. …

Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace and guidance in the face of life’s …

This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story (”Bildungsroman”) offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural cont …

The texts reproduced in facsimile in the three volumes of ”Legal Treatises” reconstruct the legal status of the early modern Englishwoman. To facilitate a reading of the treatises by broadly defini …

"Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years’ Residence in South America Vol. II" by William Bennet Stevenson is a captivating memoir that delves into the rich tapestry of South Am …

Aliens have landed in New York. After several months of no explanations, they finally reveal the reason for their arrival. The news is not good. Geneticist Marianne Jenner is having a career breakthr …

Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong”o, and the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and D …

"Herbert Spencer’s "First Principles: Part II: Laws of the Knowable" is a seminal work in philosophy of science literature, continuing Spencer’s exploration of epistemology and scienti …

"Our Village" by Mary Russell Mitford offers charming sketches depicting rural life in the English countryside. Through vivid portrayals of village life, Mitford introduces a colorful array …