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9781472435903, titled "Gerald Howard-smith and the ‘lost Generation’ of Late Victorian and Edwardian England" | Routledge, August 30, 2016, cover price $150.00

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Product Description: First published in 1985. Too often aspects of working-class life have been treated as distinct and separate. The contributors to this volume are aware of the dangers of such atomisation and have attempted to bring together a collection of studies which add to our knowledge of life in that time...read more
By John Benson (editor)

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9781138638570, titled "The Working Class in England 1875-1914" | Routledge, June 6, 2016, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: First published in 1985.
9780709906926 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, January 1, 1985, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: First published in 1985.

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Product Description: During the past 30 years, China has undergone extensive economic reform, replacing the government’s administration of enterprises with increasing levels of market-oriented enterprise autonomy. At the heart of the reform are changes in the employment relationship, where state control has been superceded by market relationships...read more

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9780415731393 | Reprint edition (Routledge, September 20, 2013), cover price $52.95 | About this edition: During the past 30 years, China has undergone extensive economic reform, replacing the government’s administration of enterprises with increasing levels of market-oriented enterprise autonomy.

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Product Description: Coal is a topic that has been, remains, and will continue to be of significant interest to those concerned with the causes, course and consequences of industrialization and de-industrialization. This six-volume, reset collection provides scholars with a wide variety of sources relating to the Victorian coal industry...read more
By John Benson (editor), Keith Gildart (editor) and James Jaffe (editor)

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9781848930612 | Pickering & Chatto Ltd, June 30, 2012, cover price $490.00 | About this edition: Coal is a topic that has been, remains, and will continue to be of significant interest to those concerned with the causes, course and consequences of industrialization and de-industrialization.

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Product Description: Investing for Retirement describes the reality, obstacles, and solutions for investors, as they face the daunting challenge to prepare themselves financially for retirement. Investing for Retirement, leads the reader through the steps for developing an appropriate investment plan and becoming a successful investor...read more

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9781460966983 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 4, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Investing for Retirement describes the reality, obstacles, and solutions for investors, as they face the daunting challenge to prepare themselves financially for retirement.

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Product Description: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Japan is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique illustrated cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of the must-see sights, plus street-by-street maps of key cities and towns...read more

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9780756670085 | Dk Pub, March 21, 2011, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Japan is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world.

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Product Description: Offering a comprehensive account of the role of trade unions in Asia today, this book, put together by two editors who have published extensively in the areas of business and economics in Asia, covers all the important Asian economies: both developed and developing...read more
By John Benson (editor) and Ying Zhu (editor)

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9780415410076 | Routledge, July 23, 2008, cover price $178.00 | About this edition: Offering a comprehensive account of the role of trade unions in Asia today, this book, put together by two editors who have published extensively in the areas of business and economics in Asia, covers all the important Asian economies: both developed and developing.

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Product Description: According to a recent study by the ILO (2001), women's share of the labour force is increasing worldwide. Today, women's participation rate in the labour force is over 40 per cent of the global workforce. Higher educational levels and falling fertility rates have contributed to this increased participation...read more
By John Benson (editor)

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9780415356374 | Routledge, December 20, 2005, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: According to a recent study by the ILO (2001), women’s share of the labour force is increasing worldwide.

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9780415568388 | Routledge, October 16, 2009, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: According to a recent study by the ILO (2001), women's share of the labour force is increasing worldwide.

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Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

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9780559226663 | Bibliobazaar, October 30, 2008, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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9780559226632 | Bibliobazaar, October 30, 2008, cover price $20.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781429010627 | Applewood Books, January 1, 2008, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Long and Benson's 1896 work provides instruction on the manufacture of specific cheeses.

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9780076110230 | Student edition (Wright Group/ McGraw-Hill, March 30, 2008), cover price $96.96

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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

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9780548892817 | Kessinger Pub Co, February 21, 2008, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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Product Description: The history of romance comics publisher Archer St. John, with a short biography, interviews with the editors and artists, critical commentary and more.

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9781560977919 | Fantagraphics Books, April 9, 2007, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The history of romance comics publisher Archer St.

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Product Description: Frank Sibley (1923-1996) was one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics of the last fifty years, whose published papers are required reading for serious students of the subject. Approach to Aesthetics will be welcomed both for bringing together these well known papers, and for its inclusion of new, previously unpublished papers...read more
By John Benson (editor), Jeremy Roxbee Cox (editor), Betty Redfern (editor) and Frank Sibley

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9780198238997 | Clarendon Pr, August 9, 2001, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: A complete collection of Frank Sibley's articles on philosophical aesthetics, this volume includes five, remarkable, hitherto unpublished papers written in Sibley's later years.

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9780199204137 | Clarendon Pr, November 9, 2006, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Frank Sibley (1923-1996) was one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics of the last fifty years, whose published papers are required reading for serious students of the subject.

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Product Description: Here are the children of men and angels, and all the ways a world can end; an owl-man in the spring of stupidity and a murderess mourning her victim's death as it never really happened; an outcast who finds her long-sought ideal too perfect, and anorexic ghosts of a man's desire; a dead girl with her disturbing doll, and matters of family tangled up in blue...read more
By John Benson (editor)

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9780809562152 | Prime Books, June 30, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Here are the children of men and angels, and all the ways a world can end; an owl-man in the spring of stupidity and a murderess mourning her victim's death as it never really happened; an outcast who finds her long-sought ideal too perfect, and anorexic ghosts of a man's desire; a dead girl with her disturbing doll, and matters of family tangled up in blue.

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Product Description: The rate of economic change in East Asia over the past two decades has been astounding. High levels of growth have been experienced by a number of the region’s developing economies, centralized systems have developed large market sectors, Japan has suffered a prolonged downturn and the 1997 crisis plunged the region into economic turmoil...read more
By John Benson (editor) and Ying Zhu (editor)

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9780415343183 | Routledge, December 30, 2005, cover price $178.00 | About this edition: The rate of economic change in East Asia over the past two decades has been astounding.

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Product Description: Provides a wide-ranging, well-informed, and accessible interpretation of British social history during a century of profound and unprecedented, economic, political, cultural, demographic and ideological upheaval.

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9780340763674 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 17, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Provides a wide-ranging, well-informed, and accessible interpretation of British social history during a century of profound and unprecedented, economic, political, cultural, demographic and ideological upheaval.

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By John Benson (editor) and Chris Rowley (editor)

Hardcover:

9780714655864 | Routledge, May 1, 2004, cover price $220.00

Paperback:

9780714684697 | Routledge, May 1, 2004, cover price $68.95

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Product Description: A first-time collection of the best romance comics of the 1950s. Four genres dominated American comic books in the 1940s and '50s: superheroes, funny animals, horror, and... romance. This revisionist collection of romance comics stories from the '50s challenges the cliche of the "tear-stained face" that later dominated the genre and became widely known and vilified as a tiresome icon of moral uplift...read more

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9781560975588 | Fantagraphics Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A first-time collection of the best romance comics of the 1950s.

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This book analyzes the history of labour from the point of view of the "ordinary" men and women whose history it was. It provides an account of working-class life, as well as offering a guide to the major issues in labour and social history. The author examines the material conditions, such as income and housing, of working-class life; explores family and community life; and considers working-class values and organization. It may be of interest to undergraduate/postgraduate students of modern British economic, social, political and labour history, as well as industrial relations. It is also designed to be accessible to anyone interested in the history of the working class.

Hardcover:

9780582053168 | Addison-Wesley, December 1, 1989, cover price $38.75 | About this edition: This book analyzes the history of labour from the point of view of the "ordinary" men and women whose history it was.

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9781860649028, titled "The Working Class in Britain 1850-1939" | Tauris Academic Studies, September 1, 2003, cover price $24.50
9780582495029 | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, June 1, 1989, cover price $22.01

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Product Description: A Nation of Shopkeepers reflects some of the most exciting research on retail history and cultures of consumption. The contributors challenge existing ideas about retail development showing how, for example, large-scale retailers played a far lesser role in the development of the modern city than is generally thought, and how the success of department stores was determined less by ‘entrepreneurial’ spirit and more by the unforeseen consequences of legislation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By John Benson (editor) and Laura Ugolini (editor)

Hardcover:

9781860647093 | Tauris Academic Studies, February 8, 2003, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: A Nation of Shopkeepers reflects some of the most exciting research on retail history and cultures of consumption.

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9781860647086 | Tauris Academic Studies, December 1, 2002, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A Nation of Shopkeepers reflects some of the most exciting research on retail history and cultures of consumption.

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Product Description: Presupposing no prior knowledge of philosophy, John Benson introduces the fundamentals of environmental ethics by asking whether a concern with human well-being is an adequate basis for environmental ethics. He encourages the reader to explore this question, considering techniques used to value the environment and critically examining 'light green' to 'deep green' environmentalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780415212359 | Routledge, December 1, 2000, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Presupposing no prior knowledge of philosophy, John Benson introduces the fundamentals of environmental ethics by asking whether a concern with human well-being is an adequate basis for environmental ethics.

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9780415212366 | Routledge, April 1, 2001, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: Presupposing no prior knowledge of philosophy, John Benson introduces the fundamentals of environmental ethics by asking whether a concern with human well-being is an adequate basis for environmental ethics.

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