Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle 1786605740, 9781786605740

The 1915 Rent Strikes in Glasgow, along with similar campaigns across the UK, catalysed rent restrictions and eventually

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Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle
1786605740, 9781786605740

Using original interviews with estate residents in London, Watt provides a vivid account of estate regeneration and its

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A study of desire and how it is represented in works of literature such as Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Mann's

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Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wid

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With incisive critiques of the moral turpitude and inefficiency of the diplomatic profession, this volume discusses the

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Public housing estates are disappearing from London’s skyline in the name of regeneration, while new mixed-tenure develo

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Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid oppositions in Western history. According to this dicho

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The introduction by Merold Westphal sets the scene: "Two books, two visions of philosophy, two friends and sometime

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Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry,Psychiatry and Its Discontentsprovides a wide-

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10 critical essays challenge speculative realism from perspectives from German idealism to phenomenology and deconstruct

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A TIMES BEST PHILOSOPHY & IDEAS BOOK OF 2022 A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher 'We

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