Firth: 84 books

This wonderful new book by local author Malcolm Hitt and local historian Gary Firth, takes a comparative peep into how Titus Salt's model industrial village has changed since acquiring the status of a World Heritage site. Images are brought together to compare and contrast changing modes of transport,...

This story for young children is about the adventures of brave young swallows and their epic journey migrating halfway round the world. It is set against the backdrop of the Battle of Britain in 1940 where they share the sky with the strange new machines that can fly almost as well as a swallow. It...

Want to cook ridiculously good plant-based food from scratch but have no idea where to start? With over 100 incredibly easy and outrageously tasty all-plants meals, BOSH! will be your guide. Henry Firth and Ian Theasby, creators of the world’s biggest and fastest-growing plant-based platform,...

BEAT THE DRUM SLOWLY is the story of war, parenthetically and unfortunately, it is also unavoidably, the story of man's history. From our earliest days, conflict has been the single most common characteristic of humanity. Man has fought man and men have fought men on every continent, every ocean...

For the very worst kind of liberals they long ago beginning with guys like Bertram Russell Woodrow Wilson and the Fabian Society understood that the greatest flaw in democracy was the one man one vote concept and if they could corrupt this system they could hugely benefit and in the process gain enormous...

The second volume in Charles Harding Firth’s history of the protectorate covers the years 1657 and 1658, examining Oliver Cromwell’s reign and government, his influence at home and abroad, and the social and economic condition of England under his governance. A thoughtful contribution to the history of England.

Suddenly, in 1994, the author stopped taking life for granted. When her existence filled with sunshine, parties and good times came to an end. A near fatal car crash left her comatose for six weeks; Gillian doesnt know what happened on that night and never will. Gillian Mk2 chronicles her feisty determination...

An illuminating introduction to the methods and problems of social anthropology, this book draws on a wide range of illustrations, including Raymond Firth's own experiences in New Zealand, Malaya and the Solomon Islands. The concept of social organisation is discussed with special reference to the...

First published in 1929, Raymond Firth’s original and insightful study offers an incredibly detailed account of the social and economic organisation of the Maori people before their contact with Western civilisation. Bridging the gap between anthropology and economics, the work covers the...

Religion: A Humanist Interpretation represents a lifetime's work on the anthropology of religion from a rather unusual personal viewpoint. Raymond Firth treats religion as a human art, capable of great intellectual and artistic achievements, but also of complex manipulation to serve the human interests...

Re-visiting Tikopia a decade after his first visit, Raymond Firth here examines what impact the forces of modernization had on Tikopia society with regard to economics, law, politics and social affairs. Suffering a famine whilst there, the author also examined the issues of responsibility for the...

The Golden Verses of Pythagoras by Florence M. Firth Pythagoras of Samos (born between 580 and 572 BC, died between 500 and 490 BC) was an Ionian Greek mathematician and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic and scientist;...

As increased access to employment and educational opportunities brought dramatic changes to women's lives, sociologists began to look at the effect of women's changing roles on their children and families. Based on empirical investigations and personal experience, the studies included in the volumes...

When author and high school teacher Walter Firth attempted to start a Christian after-school programme, he found that the traditional curriculum sources had not been meeting the demands of todays society. By putting his teaching skills to good use, he began formulating a programme designed to engage...