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In this study of the development of international legislation by the International Labor Organization, the author emphasizes the primary importance of a flexible process in making, interpreting, and revising labour conventions. Originally published in 1942.

A Franciscan Friar who became the first great teacher of mathematics in the courts and universities of Renaissance Italy is the central figure of this study. Taylor has examined Paciolo's writings and has translated large portions of them for the present volume. Originally published in 1942.

Here the techniques customarily employed in the interpretation of legal phenomena are critically analysed from the position of rigorous scientific method. Cairns's book is a brilliant statement for the possibilities of the scientific approach in regard to social institutions in general and to the sociology of law in particular. Originally published in 1941.

The ever-existing gap between poetry and academic criticism is seen by Elliott as a deep breach that can be overcome only by the development of a more historic, dramatic, and symbolic mode of imagination than we have exercised hitherto. Originally published in 1938.

This book is designed as an aid to the study of Southern Regions of the United States by Howard W. Odum. It will help any person or group in a factual and penetrating study of the entire South, especially as that region stands in comparison with the rest of the country. Originally published in 1937.

Writing with the intimate knowledge of a man who has carried on research among people on an Alabama upland plantation over a period of two decades, Nixon speaks with authority of the problems of the soil. He has given much attention to general and particular suggestions for change and improvement. Originally published in 1938.

This is the story of the problems and temptations confronting a great leader. Retelling the Bible story in twelve movements, or episodes, the author has created a symphonic poem. In telling Saul's story, he has followed the King James version with surprising closeness and presents a beautiful and powerful handling of a great story. Originally published in 1938.

Presents descriptions and illustrations of Septobasidium, a genus that is practically world wide in distribution. It is very abundant in certain localities, and occurs on a great variety of wild and cultivated woody plants, such as citrus, apple, tea, and rubber. The present work includes detailed descriptions with photographs and drawings. Originally published in 1938.

A century characterized by a growing interest in science, the opportunity for travel, and leisure for gardening furnishes the setting for Butler's book. The rise of landscape gardening in England is traced, and the origin and history of its most famous gardens are given. The close relation between England and America in the field of horticulture is also discussed. Originally published in 1938.

Johnson is concerned with the waste of land and human wealth in the Southeast. He believes that in practically every form it takes this waste is avoidable and remediable. He proposes a constructive regional planning program that would increase the wealth of the region until it would be capable of sustaining a civilization as fine as any the world has ever seen. Originally published in 1938.

One cannot study the life of Lindsley without being impressed by the amount and variety of his labours and the dignity and ability with which he accomplished them. As dean and chancellor of the medical school of the University of Nashville, which he organised and directed, he contributed vitally to the cause of organised medicine in the South and Southwest. Originally published in 1938.

This biography of Dom Pedro's reign tells how he met the problems arising from relations with the neighboring South American states, the premature political system of his own country, the struggle between church and state, the abolition of slavery, and the fostering of education. He died in exile after ruling Brazil for nearly fifty years. Originally published in 1937.

Defining liberty as balance between freedom and security, the author speculates on the possibilities of the preservation of liberty and the Union. This is dependent on the subordination of commercial activities, sectional interests, and our varying social traditions to a common purpose. Originally published in 1936.

No one can think intelligently about the British Empire unless he understands its ideational beginnings. Wright proves that the main propagandists of the idea of empire as a divine mission were ships' chaplains, company preachers, and such geographically minded clergymen as Hakluyt and Purchas. Originally published in 1943.

Provides a brief study of the general development of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to the present - Greek city-state, Roman Empire, Roman church, absolute monarchy, democracy, nation-state, and contemporary issues. Originally published in 1939.

This is the second of a series designed to test the usefulness of interlinear texts in learning foreign languages. This volume, with the one that precedes it, will provide sufficient reading and exercise material for the first year of German in college. Originally published in 1938.

The Commission on Country Life was appointed by President Thyeodore roosevelt on 10 August 1908; on 23 January 1909 its report was presented to the president. The purpose of the commission was to determine the status of country life in the United States, to point out its main deficiencies, and to suggest lines of action and inquiry. Originally published in 1944.

Patrick Geddes was a truant professor of botany who spent more time cleaning up slums, building cooperative apartment houses, founding student hostels, running summer schools, criticizing universities, and encouraging the arts than he did in the classroom. He became an expert in botany, sociology, city-planning, reclamation, and economics. Originally published in 1944.

Here is a half-century of North Carolina life, from the 1830s to the 1880s, as seen through the keenly observant eyes and the friendly humour of the man who put the state university back on its feet after the war of the sixties and remained its active president until 1891. Originally published in 1945.

Boerker points out exactly how important forests are for recreation, water supply, flood control, wild life, livestock raising, agriculture, and the lumber industry. Originally published in 1945.

Discusses the nature of the talent for speaking, the distribution of linguistic talent, the relationship of linguistic ability to immaturity, the vast difference between active active and passive knowledge of foreign languages, the effect of bilingualism on mental development, the disorder in language instruction, and the battle of the various methods. Originally published in 1945.

Explores the universal ideal of justice, known to many generations as the "laws of nature". The universal ideal of justice was conceived with insufficient realism when it was thought to furnish a law known to all, rather than a standard for justice. The book argues not for a revival of the law of nature but for a renewal of belief in the universality of "justice". Originally published in 1944.

In this book, written with brilliance and charm, we see Wilson, in bright, remembered flashes, through the eyes of his young sister-in-law. Here, also, is the Southern background-Illyria, a composite of several small Southern towns slowly reviving after the war, where lived the Axson family and Aunt Louisa, the staunch Puritan. Originally published in 1944.

In the struggle for power from which emerged the modern railroad network, the southern railroads came largely under the influence or control of northern financiers and institutions. The focus of this book is on that aspect of southern railroad development, but in a larger sense it is the story of the creation of one of the most important components of the New South. Originally published in 1955.