Explores the varied meanings of manhood in early modern England & their complex, & often contested, relationship with patriarchal principles. Using social, political & medical commentary, alongside evidence of social practice derived from court records, this title argues that patriarchal ideology contained numerous contradictions. ...

This book is the first systematic attempt to analyse the growth of mass higher education in a specifically British context, while seeking to develop more theoretical perspectives on this transformation of elite university systems into open post-secondary education systems. ...

Provides an ethnographically rich study of local politics & gender in rural India. It is based on her extensive fieldwork in Janta, a village near Bishnupur in Bankura, West Bengal, a state where the Communist Party of India (Marxist), CPI (M), has been in power since 1977. ...

Wexford is brought in to deal with a distraught mother whose baby girl has been swapped with an unknown baby boy. When a local priest discovers the missing baby, safe & sound, on the church steps, the hunt for the missing girl is quickly over. Mother & daughter are happily reunited, but the mystery of the baby boy remains unsolved. ...

East London, the early 1980s. Frank Pollack (Jeff Robert) & his sons Mark & Colin (Phil Daniels & Tim Roth) are all unemployed. The situation seems hopeless, & things are made worse when Colin's Auntie Barbara (Marion Bailey) tries to help out by offering him some decorating work, an act which arouses Mark's jealousy & ultimately effects everyone in the family. Directed by Mike Leigh & also featuring Gary Oldman as Colin's skinhead mate Coxy. ...

A boy stumbles upon the lab of a mad scientist who asks him to choose between testing a mind-reading device, a time machine, & a doomsday machine. Using an ingenious system of tubes & tabs, this title means that you can follow the tabs to create your own story. ...