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  • Fabre, Poet of Science

    by George Victor Legros ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (December 22, 1823 - October 11, 1915) was a French entomologist and author… Over the years he wrote a series of texts on insects and arachnids that are collectively known as the Souvenirs Entomologiques. Fabre's influence is felt in the later works of fellow naturalist Charles Darwin, who called Fabre "an inimitable observer". Fabre, however, ... Read more

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  • Social Sec:Beveridge Ils 191

    by George Victor ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    First Published in 1998. This book is concerned with the development of social security in the United Kingdom and is aimed mainly at social science students and social work students. References to the 1930's and earlier or to social security provisions in other countries are made with the sole intention of illuminating the events that make up the central theme of the book. The general problems ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Impact of Social Policy

    by Victor George, Profesor Paul Wilding ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1984, The Impact of Social Policy analyses and evaluates the effects of social policy on British society in the post-war period. The focus is on the consequences of social policy and the authors differentiate clearly between the objectives of social policy and what it actually achieves. What governments and individuals claim that social policy does, and what happens in practice, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Motherless Families

    by Victor George, Profesor Paul Wilding ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1972, Motherless Families shows how, with the slow disappearance of the extended family and the support that it could offer in such situations, society has found itself responsible for lone-parent families. The authors cover the situation of about six hundred families in the East Midlands where the father was caring for his children on his own. They examine the father’s feelings ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Ideology and Social Welfare

    by Victor George, Paul Wilding ...
    A revised and rewritten version of the best-selling textbook, described by Sociological Review as 'essential reading for every student of social policy. ' ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Social Security and Society

    by Victor George ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Welfare and the State
    Originally published in 1973, Social Security and Society examines of the dominant forces that form the British social security system and argues that social security provision is not the result of concern felt by the dominant groups in society. Instead the book suggests that it is the result of the threat posed to the status quo by the growing political power of the working class, and the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Hitler

    by George Victor ...
    Victor's book is the first to show that implementing the Final Solution was actually the root of Hitler's most disastrous military decisions. ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Social Security: Beveridge and After

    by Victor George ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Welfare and the State
    Originally published in 1968, Social Security: Beveridge and After concentrates on the development of social security in the U.K. since the Beveridge report. The book looks at the system of Social Security, since it was unified with the Ministry of Social Security, and looks at the extent to which the original proposals of Lord Beveridge have been modified over time. The book adopts an interesting ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Pearl Harbor Myth

    by George Victor ...
    Did U.S. intelligence know of Japan's coming attack on Pearl Harbor? Did President Roosevelt know? If so, why did he withhold warnings from the commanders in Hawaii? The answers are embedded in the cogent analysis of The Pearl Harbor Myth. Based on voluminous data that does not appear in other books on the topic, it discusses in detail Roosevelt's developing strategy-both military and diplomatic ... Read more

    $18.95 USD

  • Fabre: Poet of Science

    by Georges Victor Legros ...
    Here I offer to the public the life of Jean-Henri Fabre; at once an admiring commentary upon his work and an act of pious homage, such as ought to be offered, while he lives, to the great naturalist who is even to-day so little known. Hitherto it was not easy to speak of Henri Fabre with exactitude. An enemy to all advertisement, he has so discreetly held himself withdrawn that one might almost ... Read more

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  • Fabre Poet of Science

    by Georges Victor Legros ...
    The biography begins by recounting Fabre's early life in rural France, where his fascination with nature and insects began. Legros details Fabre's academic journey, his passion for studying the natural world, and the challenges he faced in gaining recognition within the scientific community. Through vivid anecdotes and personal insights, Legros paints a portrait of Fabre as both a meticulous ... Read more

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  • Hitler

    by Joachim Fest ...
    "The best single volume available on the torturous life and savage reign of Adolf Hitler." — TimeA bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest's Hitler has become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era.Fest tells and interprets the extraordinary story of a man's and nation's rise from impotence to absolute power, ... Read more

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