Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: w h g armytage

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  • YESTERDAY'S TOMORROWS
    W. H. G. ARMYTAGE
    First published in 1968, Yesterday’s Tomorrows elucidates on the favourite occupation of man: forecasting the future. By man’s predictions, he mirrors his own wish-fulfilments, displacements, projections, denials, evasions and withdrawals. These predications can take the form of countries of the imagination, ‘mirror worlds’ like Rabelais’ Ever-Ever lands or the Erewhon of Butle...

    $800.00

  • THE RUSSIAN INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH EDUCATION
    W. H. G. ARMYTAGE
    Originally published in 1969. British merchants first penetrated to Moscow in the early 16th century. From that time until today developments in Russia have influenced Britain in innumerable ways - sometimes unexpectedly. In this volume Professor Armytage traces this influence, showing how Tolstoy, Kropotkin and others better known for their activities in fields other than educ...

    $960.00

  • THE RISE OF THE TECHNOCRATS
    W.H.G. ARMYTAGE
    First published in 2006. The ambitious role cast for scientists in public affairs has been matched by an equal coyness on the part of scientists to play it. Yet in spite of themselves, they have been virtually dragged on to the political stage because of their 'collectivities' - groups formed over the last four centuries often more fugitive than institutional - which have helpe...

    $1,420.00

  • HEAVENS BELOW
    W.H.G. ARMYTAGE
    First published in 2006. This book tells a number of plain tales of those who tried to save the English behind their collective backs under the term of Utopian Experiments in England between 1560 and 1960. It looks at the influences of the church to community experiments and groups, the ideas of Robert Owen, William Allen, George Mudie, Abraham Combe and more. ...

    $1,320.00