First published in 1979. Sociology flourished in China during the 1930s and 1940s but with the establishment of the People's Republic of China, controversies arose over the place of sociology in the process of socialist construction. Siu-lun Wong analyses the reasons for this change in the fortune of sociological studies in China and examines it in relation to the country's contemporary political system.

Sociology and socialism in contemporary China (International library of sociology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Wong, Siu-lun

Politics & Government

Routledge and K. Paul

Therapeutic communities: Reflections and progress

George Pfoundes is the greatest hypnotist of his generation. He has invented an extraordinary machine, the Pfoudnes Oscilloscope, which uses the resources of television technology to achieve miraculous cures by hypnotism, even to healing the blind. Pfoundes believes that hypnotism can raise the he is obsessed with the possibilities - so much enhanced by his invention - of this modern magic. Dying, he hypnotises his daughter, Angela, with his great Oscilloscope, and gives her a hypnotic command to find some means of bringing him back from the grave. How can Angela ever free herself from the posthumous personality of this terrible Father, who dies even as he holds her in the hypnotic trance? In this novel Peter Redgrove explores the fascinating world of the strange powers of the mind revealed by hypnosis. He examines the dilemmas of both hypnotiser and hypnotised, as it might be any parent and any child, and takes some side-swipes at television's power over us all. With his customary mixture of bizarre invention, profound feeling and sexual gusto, he shows how even such an awesome Father can be conquered. The book comes with a new introduction by Cliff Ashcroft. 'The author is a sorcerer who entices the mesmerised reader into the realms of magic and imagination. The reader is promptly inveigled into the extraordinary world of the occult by a plainness of approach that is in itself quite uncanny.' (The Spectator) 'Dreams, trances, heightened sexual awareness and religious ecstasy are presented with plain assurance and total conviction.' (The Observer) Peter Redgrove (1932-2003) worked in several interlinked as a poet, novelist, playwright, and in psychological practice. He believed creative, psychological and scientific work are aspects of the same common study, and his insights are profound, illuminating and constantly exciting. He received many awards during his life and was especially honoured by receiving the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1996.

The sleep of the great hypnotist: The life and death and life after death of a modern magician

REDGROVE, Peter

Mystics of Islam

Religion & Spirituality

Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne

Islam

Covering both formal and informal education, this volume examines Renaissance education in England and Italy, set within the relevant social, political and historical context.

Education in Renaissance England

History

Charlton, Kenneth

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Education in Renaissance England (Studies in social history)

Europe

The ship's compass,: Including general magnetism, theory, practice and calculations relating to magnetic and gyro compasses,

Engineering & Transportation

Grant, George Abernethy Alexander

Engineering

The author looks at the use of animals, in art, dating from prehistoric cave art up to the middle ages, to represent social, religious and political beliefs of man. Includes an extensive bibliography and over 300 illustrated plates in black-and-white. Slight beginnings of hinge separation at front and rear boards. Dust jacket chipped at spine ends. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. xxviii, 580 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 4to..

Animals in art and thought: To the end of the Middle Ages;

Klingender, F. D

New York 1972 first edition American St. Martins. Hardcover. Octavo, 326pp., index, cloth. VG, foxing on page fore-edges, in VG DJ. No ownership marks. Scarce.

Field-theory: A study of its application in the social sciences; (International library of sociology and social reconstruction)

Mey, Harald

Social Sciences

Text: English, Italian (translation)

History of modern architecture;

Arts & Photography

Benevolo, Leonardo

Architecture

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