H W : 1212 books

Economic development has been for many years the dominant national policy objective of the countries in the Third World, but there has been little consensus on the goals and definitions of development. Focusing on the era since World War II, H. W. Arndt traces the history of thought about economic...

Everyone laughs at what southerners call a "snowstorm." A half-inch of the white stuff, and Atlanta panics. No one's laughing this time. A freakish combination of weather elements surpasses even the experts' predictions. Suddenly much of the upper South is covered in several...

A definitive survey of the Olympic games, from 776 B.C. to A.D. 261, this scholarly, yet immensely readable account of Olympic athletes in ancient times takes a highly realistic view of these fabled contests. Transporting readers back to the eighth century b.c., Professor M. I. Finley and Dr. H. W....

In China to Chitral H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman completes one of his great post-war journeys. He travels from Central China, crossing Sinkiang, the Gobi and Takla Makan Deserts, before escaping to a crumbling British Empire with a crossing of the Karakoram to the new nation of Pakistan. In 1951...

A werewolf story like no other. Peg, a racing greyhound, begins to transform, his mind and body expanding beyond his control. Refusing to race any more, he is sent to be `euthanised`, but fights his way out of a mass grave, to run away. He wanders into a seaside town, to be taken under the wing of...

From the day Commodore Dewey's battleships destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manila to the closing of the Subic Bay naval base in 1992 America and the Philippines have shared a long and tangled history. It has been a century of war and colonialism earnest reforms and blatant corruption diplomatic maneuvering...

In little more than two centuries Prussia rose from medieval obscurity and the devastation of the Thirty Years War to become the dominant power of continental Europe. Her rulers rose from Electors to Kings, and from Kings to Emperors. It is a dramatic story, and H. W. Koch fills a major gap in English-language...

‘Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.’ So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman in the spring of 1959. This approach to selecting volunteers for a year-long voyage of 20,000 miles brought...

‘Whether these mountains are climbed or not, smaller expeditions are a step in the right direction.’ It’s 1938, the British have thrown everything they’ve got at Everest but they’ve still not reached the summit. War in Europe seems inevitable; the Empire is shrinking. Still reeling...

These delightful essays by such luminaries as Dorothy L. Sayers, Vincent Starrett, Ronald A. Knox, and S. C. Roberts form a classic work in Sherlockian scholarship, edited by H. W. Bell. Topics include Holmes’s college career, the medical career of Dr. Watson, Mrs. Hudson’s little-known...

Sport in het oude Griekenland: wie denkt er niet aan de Olympische Spelen? Maar sport in Hellas is veel meer dan dat: van Homerus tot en met de tijd waarin Griekenland deel uitmaakte van het Romeinse rijk is sport altijd een middel geweest om uit te maken wie de beste was, wie het snelst kon lopen...

With a career spanning more than half a century, third native Governor-General and National Hero, the Right Excellent Sir Hugh Worrell Springer, solidified his place in Barbadian and Caribbean history, contributing remarkably to Barbadian public education policy and politics.  From his...

The years 1066 to 1271 witnessed some remarkable progress in English history, from the creation of English feudalism and the rejuvenation of the English church to changes in art, literature, and social life. H. W. Carless Davis describes England as undergoing the “truly English phase in her development” in this engaging history of the era.

This title was first published in 2001. A collection of essays written by H.W. Arndt, over a 50 year period, that cover a broad range of his work, from analytical issues in monetary and fiscal theory to political economy. The earlier essays should appeal to those interested in the history of economic thought whilst the more recent essays deal with issues such as economic globalization.