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  • MINERAL SPRINGS RESORTS IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
    JOHN K. WALTON
    Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, although in the railway age they began to suffer from competition from new fashions in leisure and tourism, especially the seaside holiday. During their heyday the leading spa resorts became hotbeds of political...

    $1,420.00

  • LABOR, CLASS, AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
    ALEJANDRO PORTES / JOHN WALTON
    Labor, Class, and the International System explores the interface between the labor process, class structure, and the global requirements of accumulation as a necessary complement to the analysis of capital and dominant institutions and focus on this interaction to clarify some of the apparent contradictions and bring the general models in line with empirical reality. The book...

    $970.00

  • MORE BAD NEWS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    PETER BEHARRELL / HOWARD DAVIS / JOHN ELDRIDGE / JOHN HEWITT / JEAN HART / GREGG PHILO / PAUL WALTON / BRIA
    First published in 1980, More Bad News is the Second Volume in the research findings of the Glasgow University Media Group. It develops the analytic findings and methods of the first volume Bad News through a series of Case Studies of Television News Coverage, and argues that much of what passes as balanced and factual news reporting is produced from a highly partial viewpoint....

    $1,280.00

  • BAD NEWS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    PETER BEHARRELL / HOWARD DAVIS / JOHN ELDRIDGE / JOHN HEWITT / JEAN HART / GREGG PHILO / PAUL WALTON / BRIA
    It is a commonly held belief that television news in Britain, on whatever channel, is more objective, more trustworthy, more neutral than press reporting. The illusion is exploded in this controversial study by the Glasgow University Media Group, originally published in 1976. The authors undertook an exhaustive monitoring of all television broadcasts over 6 months, from January...

    $540.00

  • THE SECOND REFORM ACT
    JOHN K. WALTON
    The Reform Act of 1867 was highly controversial at the time and has remained so. Was it an inevitable step on the road to full democracy or an irresponsible gamble by a politician desperate to win a tactical victory? ...

    $1,120.00

  • DISRAELI
    JOHN K. WALTON
    Disraeli is a key figure for students of nineteenth-century Britain. He is indelibly identified with the unmaking of Peel's version of the Conservative Party, and with the re-creation of a durable and outstandingly successful new party which retained the loyalty of the squires and the shires while reaching out to newer forms of property ownership and cultivating the attachment ...

    $700.00

  • CHARTISM
    JOHN WALTON
    Chartism is an essential introduction to the movement, and examines the controversial debates surrounding the topic. As well as providing a concise period background, the author includes discussion of: * the Chartists' economic, legislative and political goals * patterns of regional and local support * reasons for the Chartist decline * the success of Chartism in the light of i...

    $1,100.00

  • DEMONS AND SPIRITS IN BIBLICAL THEOLOGY
    JOHN H. WALTON / J. HARVEY WALTON
    Some people believe that a battle of cosmic proportions is raging as Satan and his demons seek to destroy Christians and undermine God's plans. Others believe that all talk of demons in the Bible and theology only reflects pre-modern superstitions that should be re-interpreted in philosophical and psychological terms. Despite their contrasts, both believe that the Bible directl...

    $745.00

  • THE LEGENDARY DETECTIVE
    JOHN WALTON
    An in-depth study of private detective fiction within the context of popular culture. “I’m in a business where people come to me with troubles. Big troubles, little troubles, but always troubles they don’t want to take to the cops.” That’s Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, succinctly setting out our image of the private eye. A no-nonsense loner, working on the margins of socie...

    $383.33