Originally published in 1979, this book explains why so many people suffer behavioural changes in later life; how this affects those around them; the services that exist to assist older people and those who work with them and how such services can be profitably used. A recurring theme is the interaction of the different varieties of mental illness with one another and with physical, emotional, social and personality factors. The book provides detailed guidance for social workers caring for...

Originally published in 1984 and concentrating on the West Midlands area of the UK, this book describes the innovations that were made and all that was involved in bringing about changes in care provision for elderly people. The areas covered include hospital-based geriatric and psychogeriatric services, changes in the public housing sector, the development of a domiciliary physiotherapy service and community nursing teams for the terminally ill. These new attitudes and practical treatment...

Lenin wrote this in November and December 1907, in the wreckage of a defeat. The revolution of 1905 had been beaten back, Stolypin's coup had dissolved the Second Duma that June, and the peasant risings were over. Out of that quiet came the most patient and statistical thing he ever wrote: not a pamphlet of the barricades but a book of land returns.Its ostensible subject is a quarrel inside the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party over the wording of its agrarian programme - nati...

An in-depth account of the ideology driving Israel's religious Zionist settler movements since the 1970s.The Jewish settlements in disputed territories are among the most contentious issues in Israeli and international politics. This book delves into the ideological and rabbinic discourses of the religious Zionists who founded the settlement movement and lead it to this day. Based on Hebrew primary sources seldom available to scholars and the public, Moshe Hellinge...

This is the official Soviet history of the Communist International - the Third International, the Comintern - from its founding under Lenin in March 1919 to its dissolution by Stalin in June 1943.It was produced by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the CPSU, by a group of seven historians headed by A. I. Sobolev, and issued under the modest Russian title Kratkii istoricheskii ocherk, "short historical sketch". At some 207,000 English words it is neith...