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

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

Like new copy, DJ has sunned spine, else fine

Man and his habitat: Essays presented to Emyr Estyn Evans

Ronald Hull Buchanan and etc

William Butterfield has taken a central place in every history of nineteenth-century architecture; and rightly, for he was the pioneer of the original High Victorian phase of the Gothic Revival, and the first Victorian architect to experiment with constructional color.  This is the first biography of Butterfield and thus meets a major need. It seeks, through a combined discussion of Butterfield's personality, his style, and the social situation in which he worked, to reach a new understanding not merely of Butterfield but of the whole significance of High Victorian architecture.  The author defines his approach as follows:  "I have...relegated the descriptive chronological surveys which normally form the core of such a book to the second part, for two reasons. The first is that Butterfield's purpose and style in design are fundamentally contentious, so that survey before analysis would be meaningless. The second is that I wish not merely to describe Butterfield's work, but to interpret it: to discover the forces which shaped it, and the meaning which he and his patrons and contemporaries found in it.  "I have tried to do this on a series of levels—personality, patronage, technology, religious, social and aesthetic conventions and values—which are all potentially relevant to other situations; but I do not wish to suggest that explanations of Butterfield's work necessarily apply to other men or other periods. Factors such as religion or individual personality can be dominant in some situations and irrelevant in others... Equally I do not accept the crude technological determinism so common in modern and architectural history. Building is, of course, a material art, and some technological and economic influences upon its form are inevitable, in a certain sense primary; but they are by no means always dominant, and indeed have very often been merely passive limitations. In this book I have tried to indicate the contribution made by each level of interpretation, but not to impose any universal hierarchy of importance upon them; for ultimately this is an issue which depends not upon fact, but upon one's concept of man."  This book is richly illustrated with photographs in black and white and in color.

William Butterfield

Thompson, Paul Richard

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