F G Bailey: 13 books

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The Saving Lie

Truth and Method in the Social Sciences

by F. G. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

This book explores the distinction between selflessness and self-interestedness, between acting for one's own advantage and acting, even when disadvantageous, for reasons of duty or conscience. This apparently straightforward contrast (exemplified in the difference between rational-choice models in...
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Stratagems And Spoils

A Social Anthropology Of Politics

by F.g. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018

F.G. Bailey's classic political-anthropology text is reissued here with a Postscript that comments critically on the book's scope, its reception, and its uses. First published in 1969, Stratagems and Spoils captured the imagination of scholars and students with a revealing examination of principles...
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Mothers in Poverty

A Study of Fatherless Families

by F.G. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

Professor Kriesberg explores in this book the many myths about the poor, the welfare dependents, and the husbandless mothers. The evidence marshalled does not support the idea that people continue on welfare generation after generation, that the children of broken families have disrupted marriages...
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Morality and Expediency

The Folklore of Academic Politics

by F.G. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

This book is about micro-politics: that kind of manoevre to control or avoid being controlled, to claim friendship or proclaim enmity, which takes place between people who know one another, and who must temper and adjust their actions towards one another because they share other activities. They are...
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Treasons, Stratagems, And Spoils

How Leaders Make Practical Use Of Beliefs And Values

by F. G. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018

Treasons, Stratagems, and Spoils is a sequel to the author's highly regarded Stratagems and Spoils.Treason, the new word in the title, indicates a heightened attention to morality?to ideas of duty and conscience?as a foil to rational calculations of advantage. By providing sets of propositions and...
Book cover of 50 Essential Classic Adventure Short Stories You Have To Read Before You Die, Vol.1: Jack London, Robert Ervin Howard, E.Nesbit, Max Brand... (Golden Deer Classics)
by Jack London, Golden Deer Classics, A.M. Chisholm
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019

Contents: A.M. CHISHOLM A Thousand a Plate A.M. WILLIAMSON The Eccentricity of Fleetwood ACHMED ABDULLAH The Home-Coming ARTHUR TRAIN The Escape of Wilkins ARTHUR TRAIN The Governor-General's Trunk BUCK CONNOR Get Your Man CHARLES BEADLE John O'Damn CHARLES E. VAN LOAN Water Stuff E.NESBIT The Dwellers...
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Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 2

Safety, quality and sustainability

by Sabine Cardoen, Wendie Claeys, Claire Verraes
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017

Summarises current research on pathogenic risks affecting milk and ways they can be controlled on the farm;  Reviews ways of measuring and reducing the environmental impact of dairy farming such as better grassland management;  Assesses the wider role of dairy farming and how it can be improved in the developing world
Book cover of Fortress of Terror: 550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Tales

Fortress of Terror: 550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Tales

The Phantom of the Opera, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Turn of the Screw, The Dunwich Horror, Frankenstein, The Vampire, Dracula, A Haunted Island, Black Magic, The Beetle, The Picture of Dorian Gray…

by Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Algernon Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Black Cat… Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental…...
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HALLOWEEN Boxed Set

550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Stories

by H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, M. R. James
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom...
Book cover of THE SPELL HAS BEGUN: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics

THE SPELL HAS BEGUN: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics

Black Magic, Sweeney Todd, The Vampyre, Dracula, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Tell-Tale Heart, A Haunted Island, Northanger Abbey, The Horla, The Willows…

by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018

This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie...
Book cover of HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection: 550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Stories

HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection: 550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Stories

The Dunwich Horror, Frankenstein, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Black Magic, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, Dracula, The Monk, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Northanger Abbey, Wuthering Heights, The Beetle…

by H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, M. R. James
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018

e-artnow presents to you this unique Halloween collection of the greatest horror classics, the darkest mysteries and supernatural tales: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom James Malcolm Rymer &...
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Law Enforcement in the Age of Black Lives Matter

Policing Black and Brown Bodies

by Hector Y. Adames, Marlon L. Bailey, Derrick R. Brooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017

There is a reason why people claim great respect for officers of the law: the job, by description, is hard—if not deadly. It takes a certain kind of person to accept the consequences of the job— seeing the very worst situations, on a regular basis, and knowing that one’s life is on the line...
Book cover of Welding Steels without Hydrogen Cracking
by F R Coe, T G Gooch, P H M Hart
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 1993

A comprehensive guide to avoiding hydrogen cracking which serves as an essential problem-solver for anyone involved in the welding of ferritic steels. The authors provide a lucid and thorough explanation of the theoretical background to the subject but the main emphasis throughout is firmly on practice.
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