Elias Canetti, who won the Nobel Prize in 1994, was a Bulgarian-born writer who, fleeing the Nazis, moved to England with his wife in 1939, when he was 34. There he became involved with an intellectual social set that included T.S. Eliot, William Empson, Arthur Waley, and of course Iris Murdoch, with whom Canetti had a tumultuous three-year affair ...
This comprehensive introduction to sexually transmitted diseases gives concise, practical information on a wide range of diseases. The text of this fifth edition is substantially rewritten, updated and illustrated with new photographs, drawings and charts. It gives the latest guidance on presenting symptoms, diagnosis, management, and ...
Although social security is one of the central institutions of the welfare state, and plays a vital role in the lives of millions of people, the escalating costs of social security provisions have increasingly come under attack and are criticized for encouraging "dependency" and eroding incentives. Yet despite its importance for claimants and as a ...
"Discourse, Power and Justice" is a distinctive and theoretically informed, empirical study of the administration of the Scottish prison system. It is based on extensive research and combines theoretical innovation with detailed empirical evidence. The book is located at a confluence of two academic sub-disciplines and their associated literature, ...
This is an exposition of the law of parental choice of school in Britain, and particularly in Scotland where parents have much greater freedom over where their children will be educated. Using new research and extensive statistical surveys the authors conclude that the introduction of parental choice in Scotland is best seen as a political rather ...
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