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Fifteen years ago the AIDS `epidemic' did not exist on the public agenda. In just over a decade the public and official response to the disease has resulted in the development of a whole network of organizations devoted to the study, containment, and practical treatment...
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OUP Oxford
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1996-03-29
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In First Among Friends, the first scholarly biography of George Fox (1624-91), H. Larry Ingle examines the fascinating life of the reformation leader and founding organizer of the Religious Society of Friends, more popularly known today as the Quakers.
Ingle places Fox...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-01-04
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`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.'
So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his...
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OUP Oxford
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1992-11-05
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This study overcomes the ambiguity and daunting scale of the subject of secularization by using the insights of anthropology and sociology, and by examining an earlier period than usually considered. Concentrating not only on a decline of religious belief, which is the...
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Oxford University Press
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1992-04-09
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The Unwritten Law examines the values and assumptions of mid-Victorian England as revealed in the actual workings of the criminal justice system.The working definitions of criminality and justice were often influenced more by certain tacit assumptions than by the...
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Oxford University Press
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1991-01-10
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Did you know that...The "contemporary" fashion of living together before marriage is far from new, and was frequently practiced in earlier days...Self-divorce, although never legal, was once a commonplace occurrence...Marriage is more popular today than in the Victorian...
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Oxford University Press
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1985-11-21
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'outstanding ... one of the most valuable contributions ever made to our knowledge of the history of our own land'
English Historical Review
This book covers the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms to the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1970-02-18
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'outstanding ... one of the most valuable contributions ever made to our knowledge of the history of our own land'
English Historical Review
This book covers the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms to the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1970-02-18
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''In that book my theme was the eternal conflict between One Man Government and the Rich. Napoleon said: the only institution ever devised by men for mastering the Money Power in the State is Monarchy. It is obviously true and is the most practically important of all...
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2025-07-08
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This amusing foray into eighteenth century literature is an entertaining tabloid biography of an age not unlike our own; men and women of fashion led their lives under the avid scrutiny of a public with a sharp appetite for scandal and sensation. In the period between...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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