Mahatma Gandhia -- s fundamental work - a key to understanding both his life and thought, and South Asian politics in the twentieth century.

Why does democracy, both as a word and an idea, linger so large in the political imagination in the modern world? Answering this question, this book charts its slow but insistent metamorphosis from its roots in Ancient Greece to its triumph in the years, since 1945.

Supplementing the Official CIMA Learning Systems and Revision Cards , this kit helps CIMA students to prepare and pass the syllabus first time. It provides worked answers to fully explain the correct answer, and analysis of incorrect answers - helping CIMA students avoid common pitfalls.

Shows how John Locke, a great English philosopher of 18th century, arrived at his theory of knowledge. This work also shows how the liberal values of toleration formed the backbone of European thought of the 18th century. It looks at the questions which he addressed with such tenacity: 'how Man can know' and 'how Man should try to live'.

A reference guide to Russian, combining traditional and function-based grammar. It covers traditional grammatical categories such as agreement, nouns, verbs and adjectives. It is organized around language functions covering major communication situations. It places emphasis on contemporary usage.

With plants in NSW, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia Comeng had already become the largest rolling-stock manufacturer in Australia. This title tells the story in 1955 and traces the company's activities to 1966 - detailing the unprecedented expansion that took place during that period.

Focusing on the ineffectual contribution of modern academic study of political theory to show human beings how they have good reason to act in the historical situation in which they find themselves, this work offers a reappraisal of the nature of political theory and its role in contemporary life.

The history of Commonwealth Engineering spans some 70 years, and its story is really a window into Australia's industrial and manufacturing development, from the end of the First World War, through to the early 1990s. At its peak, the Comeng Holdings empire was the largest manufacturer of railway rolling stock in the Southern Hemisphere.

Jack Goody sets his own observations on cooking in West Africa. He criticizes those approaches which overlook the comparative historical dimension of culinary, and other, cultural differences that emerge in class societies, both of which elements he particularly emphasizes in this book.

Edmund Leach's book investigates the writings of 'structuralists' and their theories in anthropology.

Why does democracy, both as a word and an idea, linger so large in the political imagination today? John Dunn charts its slow but insistent metamorphosis from its roots in Ancient Greece to its overwhelming triumph in the years since 1945. Setting the People Free is an account of this extraordinary idea and its evolution.

Mr Dunn addresses the central questions of political philosophy from an unusually broad variety of perspectives.

This text analyzes ritual kinship, patron-client relations and friendship, looking at them as mechanisms of social exchange, examining their impact on the institutional structures in which they exist, and assessing the significance of the variations in their occurrence.

A critical assessment of recent experiments where it was attempted to impart a language, either natural or invented, to an ape. The performance of the animals is compared with the semantic and syntactic development in children, both speaking and signing.

In 1956 the West African coast between southern Mauretania and western Cameroun was lined with no less than ten European colonial territories, along with a single independent African state.

This study provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of the meaning of Locke's political thought.

Looks at the notion of distinct mentalities which has been used by historians to describe and explain cultural diversity. The author rejects this psychologizing talk of mentalities and proposes an alternative approach, which takes as its starting point the social contexts of communication.