Search Results: Politics from BookMangos

London: Dent, 1976. Reprint. Fine/fine. The Athenian Constituition is the only surviving part of a collection of the constitutions of one hundred and fifty-eight states, compiled by students of the Lyceum under Aristotles supervision. clipped First Edition AB32

London: Portobello Books Ltd, 2008. First edition. Near Fine. An eye opening and unprecedented tour through the world of human waste, one of the biggest unchallenged causes of death worldwide, and for the many, to their immense cost,the last remaining taboo. AB17

London: Routledge, 1993. Revised. Paperback. Very Good +. This is the ninth edition of Anthony Birch's classic text, extensively revised. It provides a lively, comprehensive and up-to-date account of British political institutions, the way they operate and what they reveal of the society in which they developed. The book examines recent political developments without losing sight of the underlying structure of governmental institutions and its relationship with political ideas and behaviour. This revised edition features an entirely new chapter on the European Community, an expanded chapter on citizens' rights, and a rewritten concluding chapter which pays particular attention to an examination of the success of representative government in Britain. paperback with minor shefwear.foredge some staining and rubbing. clean pages and tight binding. AB70

London: Macmillan, 1967. Very Good/very good. The object of this book is to delineate the influence upon politics and society of two famous eighteenth century staesmen, William Pitt and William Petty. Maroon boards with writing to spine, some fading.Nice clean pages and tight binding. Dj a little rubbed and some shelf wear. Afew small nicks to the top front cover.Not price clipped, marked 84s First Edition AB65

London: John Murray, 1923. Very Good. Thomas Creevey a one time member of parliament for thetford and afterwards for Appleby compiled in the form of letters a history of his times. Blue boards with writing to spine. Faded and shelf worn and loose binding. Being a larger book the postage will be adjusted. AB12

Cairo, 1966. First printing. Very Good. Arabic text, 276 pages New quarter leather binding. Nice tight binding . Some pages have owner markings, and the first pages has a small tear. AB53

Pretoria: Idasa, 2009. first published. Paperback. Very Good. Analysts look at how the African Charter on democracy, elections and governance is to the continent and the need for political parties to get their houses in order so that the charter does not rot in an archive. This contains the full charter. Booklet with green cover and the map of Africa as a border along the top. One slight bump om bottom left corner, but very nice condition. AB25

London: macmillan education, 1987. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Leisure is seen as both promise and problem, It's domination by the market and the state, its persisatant inequalities demonstrates how leisure has become an integral part of the structure of our capatilist society. Crease to front cover AB17

London: Methuen , 1976. Fourth reprint. Paperback. Very Good. The aim of the book is to re-examine the story of European Affairs from1815-1920, mainly, but not exclusively from the point of view of international relations Slight rubbing to top of spine AB17

New York: Penguin Putnam, 2002. First edition. Very Good/good +. The creation of the world wide energy web and the redistribution of power on earth.The Hydrogen economy makes possible a vast redistribution of power, in which todays centrilized, top down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies, and utilities becomes obsolete Embossed dj First Edition AB17

London: Faber and Gwyer, 1927. Very Good. Edited with an Introduction by C.W.Everett.The hypothesis here advanced is, briefly, that the Letters of Junius were written by the Earl of Shelburne, in pursuance of the policies for which he had stood in the cabinet of 1767-1768."" Green boards with writing to spine. Minor bumping. Handcut pages, some foxing. Nice tight binding. Owner inscription.Heavy book so post and packing to be adjusted accordingly. AB66

Oxford: Clarendon press, 1953. Third edition. Very Good. A snapshot of banking at the beginning of the 1950s Red boards with writing to spine.minor bumping to corners.Shelf wear. clean pages and tight binding.heavy book so post and packing may be adjusted accordingly. AB67

London: Collins, 1968. Very Good. An account of the struggle between the house of lords and the government of Mr Asquith. Grey boards with writing to spine. Some bumping but nice tight binding and clean pages. AB12

New Jersey: Rutgers University Press., 1996. Paperback. Very Good. In their attempts to cope with the daunting problems of poverty and pregnancy, poor women in nineteenth-century France struggled with their environment and in some respect helped shape it. Rachel Fuchs reveals who these women were and how they survived. With dramatic detail, and drawing on actual hospital records and court cases and court testimonials, Fuchs portrays poor women's childbirth experiences. tight;slight chipping on corners and edge;clean AB38

London: Horace Marshall and Son , 1894. Very Good. In compiling a history of Tiverton which was published as ""The Chronicles of Twyford"", this book recounts the political events of the borough. Blue boards with gold writing to front. Some bumping and shelfwear.There is a black and white photograph inside of Lord Palmerston and Rowcliffe. What makes this book even more special is that it is autographed by George Julian Harney as it contains an account of his intervention as a Chartist candidate against Lord Palmerston in the Tiverton by-election of 1847. AB12

London: selection, 1915,1919,1917. Very Good. This is a collection of theses two authors pamphlets which have been bound together into one book. The titles are , The crimes of England, Letters to an Old Garibaldian, Peace Conference Hints, How to Settle the Irish Question. Green boards with gold writing to spine. Four political pamphlets bound into one book. They are, G K Chesterton, The Crimes of England, 1915 first edition, letters to an old Garibaldian, 1915 first edition. George Bernard Shaw, Peace Conference Hints 1919, How to Settle the Irish Question 1917. Pages yellowed and foxed. Some bumping to cover, very nice book. Some writing in pencil inside the front cover. AB50

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1914. First edition. Good +. The Constitution as we know it wears, to all intents and purposes, the shape it assumed in 1832. To parody a famous phrase, that year is now the limit of constitutional memory. The passing of the Great Reform Bill takes us suddeny into another air; we leave the remote world of the 18th century, peopled by the heroic ghosts of Pitt and Fox and Canning, for the era of Peel and Palmerston, of corn-laws and the Crimea. The old aristocratic system begins to crumble and the feet of the nation are set in the path that leads to democracy. The story of the Reform Bill has never been fully told. This book was mainly written in the summer of 1912 as a dissertation for a Trinity fellowship. It is more concerned throughout with negotiations behind the scenes, and with the working and effect of popular opinion, than with the course of events in Parliament. minor marks to cover, blue boards with writing to spine. some bumping.pages some foxing and the… Read More

London: Associated business press, 1979. First edition. Very Good. Christian Peterson was the youngest ever member of the institute of practitioners in advertising and of the advertising association, a founder member of the marketing society. Glossy cover, slight bumping to corners, tight binding and clean pages. AB12

uk: Penguin Press, 2000. First edition. Near Fine/very good. The Twentieth Century has witnessed Environmental transformations of a scale and subtley never before seen, the consequences of which remain among the most worrisome riddles of our common future. Slight curling to dj First Edition AB17

London: Rupert Hart Davis, 1952. Second impression. Very Good. The life of Stanley Baldwin and his role in the conservatiove party. Purple boards with gold writing to spine.A little marked and some shelfwear. Nice tight binding and clean pages. No dj. AB12