Books by R.N. Morris

London, 1914. War has been declared, and DI Silas Quinn returns to New Scotland Yard to find the Special Crimes Department has been closed and his team absorbed into CID. But when a body is discovered in Wormwood Scrubs, a white feather placed in its mouth, Quinn is unable to take a back seat in the hunt to catch a killer.

Offers a theoretical introduction to urban sociology. Based on the urban theory of Louis Wirth, this book systematically examines Wirth's principal ideas in the contexts of pre-industrial cities, industrial cities and bureaucracies. It discusses conditions for the emergence of cities and for industrialization, and more.