John Hill 
Urania, or a Compleat View of the Heavens [PDF ebook] 
Containing the Antient and Modern Astronomy, in Form of a Dictionary, Illustrated With a Great Number of Figures

When a boy realises the grown-ups are killing animals and that he has been eating their bodies, he gives up meat. But should he share the truth and break another child’s heart? As a youth he wants to …

Since the peak of school desegregation in the late 1980s, schools across the nation have been resegregating such that schools are now as segregated as they were during the late 1960s. Segregation is …

When Boris Johnson announced the creation of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in June 2020, he signalled the dissolution of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) …

As Cold War battle lines are seemingly re-drawn, Russia”s various ”frozen” war zones (ongoing separatist conflicts) are often cited as particularly volatile and assumed by some Western …

This book provides basic information and analysis concerning how the forces of change during the Pacific Century will provide a base for the future of the Pacific Asia. It presents a general …

In today”s multicultural and multireligious societies, humour and comedy often become the focus of controversy over alleged racist or offensive content, as shown, for instance, by the intense debate …

After being granted full independence in 1961, Kuwait began its tumultuous relationship with the US. This book sets out to investigate this alliance within the frameworks of a ‘small state’ and ‘infl …

In this ground-breaking authoritative study, a highly documented and incisive analysis is made of the galvanising changes wrought to the people and landscape of British Mandated Palestine (1929-1948) …

First Published in 2004. Since the second half of the seventies, a period of economic recession, a growing interest for technological change can be noticed in all ‘old’ industrial countries. The reas …

First Published in 1990. This book forms part of the growing literature on aspects of conflict and conflict management in Japanese society. The explicit aim which has guided the volume”s creation, …