Lorimer: 37 books

This book deals with the history of primitive marriage as that developed by Ferguson McLennan through his work on primitive marriage. Arguing from the prevalence of the symbolical form of capture in the marriage ceremonies of primitive races, he developed an intelligible picture of the growth of the...

At the hour of sunrise and sunset the East is its own. Every suggestion of Western influence and foreign invasion is wiped out. The going and the coming of the sun throws the land of the Pharaohs, the kingdom of Ra, the great Sun God, whose cradle was at Heliopolis.

When the new principal of a once-illustrious school in the rural Eastern Cape disappears, journalist Nix Mniki goes in search of her. Boniswa, the missing woman, had arrived at Girdwood College five months earlier, determined to restore the school to its former glory and to empower children from the...

The monarch indicated in There was a King in Egypt is Akhnaton, the heretic Pharaoh, first brought home to the English reader by the well known Egyptian archaeologist, Mr. Arthur Weigall. Akhnaton, or Amenhotep IV., has an interest for the whole world as the first Messiah. Like Our Lord, he was of Syrian...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A prominent politician is discovered hanged in a deserted factory. Was it suicide, as it appears, or the work of a group of vigilantes operating in the area? Police detectives Ann Morrison and Ian Hopkins investigate.

Practical – puts key information in clinical context Portable – fits easily into your bag Integrated – referenced back to Neale’s Disorders of the Foot 8E so the two work together

'Cardiovascular Disease' is the fourth monograph in the series on management and treatment in major clinical sub specialties or patient groups. Each book is complete in its own right and has been prepared by practising physicians with specialist experience and a particular interest in treatment and...

By exploring the dimensions of race, race relations and resistance, this book offers a new account of the British Empire’s greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources, this study of racial discourse from 1870 to 1914 argues that race, then...