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The Practice of Family TherapyKey Elements Across Models Now in its fifth edition The Practice of Family Therapy comes at a time when traditional approaches to psychotherapy have given way to multidimensional strategies that best serve the needs of diverse groups who are grappling with the many challenges unique to family therapy practice. With expanded coverage of different models along with new developments in evidence-based and postmodern practices this integrative textbook bridges the gap between science and systemic/relational approaches as it guides the reader through each stage of family therapy. Part I lays the groundwork by introducing the first- second- and third-generation models of family therapy teaching the reader to integrate different elements from these models into a systemic structure of practice. Part II explores the practical application of these models including scripts for specific interventions and rich case examples that highlight how to effectively work with diverse client populations. Students will learn how to make connections between individual symptoms and cutting-edge family practices to respond successfully to cases of substance abuse trauma grief depression suicide risk violence LGBTQ families and severely mentally ill clients and their families. Also included are study guides for each model and a glossary to review main concepts. Aligned with the Association of Marital and Family Therapy Regulatory Boards’ (AMFTRB) knowledge and content statements this textbook will be key reading for graduate students who are preparing for the national licensing exam in marriage and family therapy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138484719

The Practice of Foreign Language Teaching First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138153530

The Practice of Generalist Social Work The fifth edition of The Practice of Generalist Social Work expands its foundational and integrative coverage of social work values ethics competencies and behaviors as they relate and function within diverse practice settings. Through a strengths-based perspective students are given a comprehensive overview of the major skills and considerations for practice with individuals families groups communities and organizations encompassing planned change engagement assessment intervention evaluation termination and follow-up. In response to the challenges and realities of professional practice chapters in this new edition open with a case which is integrated to provide connections between the book’s content and real-life practice settings. Each chapter builds on the knowledge gained from previous chapters and provides expanded resources that contain up-to-date guidance for the beginning practitioner. These include: Consistent and in-depth use of key theoretical perspectives and case examples to demonstrate essential knowledge values and skills for generalist social work practice. Grand Challenges from the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare which illustrate the connection between social work and the most significant contemporary challenges in our society. A clear focus on generalist social work practice informed by the authors’ decades of real-world practice experience at all levels of engagement and intervention. This edition also offers revised and expanded student and instructor resources which are available at www.routledgesw.com including new conceptually-based companion readings access to six unique and interactive case simulations quick guides for improved fieldwork and annotated weblinks for further reading listening and viewing. Combining comprehensive and current resources in traditional and online formats the new edition of The Practice of Generalist Social Work facilitates a dynamic experiential introduction to social work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367354312

The Practice of Generalist Social WorkChapters 10-13 This abridged version of the fifth edition of The Practice of Generalist Social Work expands its foundational and integrated coverage of social work values ethics competencies and behaviors as they converge and operate within dynamic practice situations with communities and organizations. Through case studies examples exercises and updated connections to the Grand Challenges of Social Work which add vibrancy to the concepts and theories that are introduced throughout the text students will understand how different stages of the practice framework apply to macro contexts and learn how to engage in culturally competent and evidence-based practice.  The text also comes with a rich companion website that includes instructor support materials and realistic case studies that connect learning to practice. Please visit www.routledgesw.com to explore the cases and access the additional resources. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367488000

The Practice of Generalist Social WorkChapters 10-13 The fourth edition of　The Practice of Generalist Social Work　continues to teach students to apply micro macro and mezzo social work skills. This new edition strengthens the connection between the three levels of practice and is fully updated to the 2015 EPAS. This edition also contains more illustrations of theory and more context for deciding which type of intervention is a good fit. Most chapters now open with a case study and continually refer back to the case to provide additional connections between theory and real-life practice. Each chapter also incorporates a link to a Grand Challenge of Social Work from the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare which shows the connection between social work and the most significant societal challenges of today. The Quick Guides within the text offer students guidance for their field experience and practice after graduation. The text also comes with a rich companion website that includes support materials and six unique cases that encourage students to learn by doing. Go to　www.routledgesw.com to explore the cases and additional resources. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138056497

The Practice of Generalist Social WorkChapters 1-5 The fourth edition of　The Practice of Generalist Social Work　continues to teach students to apply micro macro and mezzo social work skills. This new edition strengthens the connection between the three levels of practice and is fully updated to the 2015 EPAS. This edition also contains more illustrations of theory and more context for deciding which type of intervention is a good fit. Most chapters now open with a case study and continually refer back to the case to provide additional connections between theory and real-life practice. Each chapter also incorporates a link to a Grand Challenge of Social Work from the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare which shows the connection between social work and the most significant societal challenges of today. The Quick Guides within the text offer students guidance for their field experience and practice after graduation. The text also comes with a rich companion website that includes support materials and six unique cases that encourage students to learn by doing. Go to　www.routledgesw.com to explore the cases and additional resources. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138056473

The Practice of Generalist Social WorkChapters 6-9 The fourth edition of　The Practice of Generalist Social Work　continues to teach students to apply micro macro and mezzo social work skills. This new edition strengthens the connection between the three levels of practice and is fully updated to the 2015 EPAS. This edition also contains more illustrations of theory and more context for deciding which type of intervention is a good fit. Most chapters now open with a case study and continually refer back to the case to provide additional connections between theory and real-life practice. Each chapter also incorporates a link to a Grand Challenge of Social Work from the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare which shows the connection between social work and the most significant societal challenges of today. The Quick Guides within the text offer students guidance for their field experience and practice after graduation. The text also comes with a rich companion website that includes support materials and six unique cases that encourage students to learn by doing. Go to　www.routledgesw.com to explore the cases and additional resources. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138056480

The Practice of Generalist Social WorkChapters 8-13 The fourth edition of　The Practice of Generalist Social Work　continues to teach students to apply micro macro and mezzo social work skills. This new edition strengthens the connection between the three levels of practice and is fully updated to the 2015 EPAS. This edition also contains more illustrations of theory and more context for deciding which type of intervention is a good fit. Most chapters now open with a case study and continually refer back to the case to provide additional connections between theory and real-life practice. Each chapter also incorporates a link to a Grand Challenge of Social Work from the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare which shows the connection between social work and the most significant societal challenges of today. The Quick Guides within the text offer students guidance for their field experience and practice after graduation. The text also comes with a rich companion website that includes support materials and six unique cases that encourage students to learn by doing. Go to　www.routledgesw.com to explore the cases and additional resources. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138056510

The Practice of Government Public Relations In addition to traditional management tools government administrators require a fundamental understanding of the tools available to address the ever-changing context of government communications. Examining the ins and outs of the regulations influencing public information The Practice of Government Public Relations unveils novel ways to integrate cutting-edge technologies—including Web 2.0 and rapidly emerging social media—to craft and maintain a positive public image. Expert practitioners with extensive government communications experience address key topics of interest and provide an up-to-date overview of best practices. They examine the specifics of government public relations and detail a hands-on approach for the planning implementation and evaluation of the wide-ranging aspects of government public relations—including how to respond during a crisis.In addition to the tools provided on the accompanying CD-ROM most chapters include a Best Practice Checklist to help you successfully utilize the communication strategies outlined in the book. Focusing on the roles of government managers enacting policies adopted by elected officials and politicians this book is ideal for program managers seeking innovative and inexpensive ways to accomplish their programs’ missions. While no manager can be an expert in all aspects of public administration this book helps you understand the external communications tools available to advance the mission and results of your agency. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781439834657

The Practice of Graduate Research in Hospitality and Tourism Improve your hospitality and tourism research abilities with this impressive collection of research methods! The Practice of Graduate Research in Hospitality and Tourism assists you in gaining insight into different facets of research design conceptual development research methods and conclusions drawn from research in hospitality and tourism. As a professional researcher or graduate student in the hospitality and tourism field you will benefit from this collection of chapters that represent examples of research trials conducted by graduate students in hospitality and tourism and are selected on the basis of the originality of the students’concepts research methods and interest of the work to graduate students. This informative volume will provide you and your students with up-to-date and effective ideas for researching topics within the field of hospitality. The Practice of Graduate Research in Hospitality and Tourism is an excellent supplemental textbook for research methods classes in graduate hospitality and tourism programs. The wide variety of chapters will stimulate discussions on research in hospitality and tourism from conceptual secondary data and primary data approaches. Some of the research articles you will explore in The Practice of Graduate Research in Hospitality and Tourism are based on different statistical techniques research designs and trends of subjects. Topics include: selecting service-oriented employees based on person-organization fit measuring the effectiveness of advertising on the Internet examining factors that affect food expenditures of U.S. tourists when they are away from home explaining the competitive structure of Japanese travelers’overseas destination plans determining the motivational needs of managers in the on-site foodservice segment providing adequate education on HIV and AIDS in the workplace for hospitality managers identifying influential variables of employee turnover in the food and beverage industryThe Practice of Graduate Research in Hospitality and Tourism serves as an important forum for initiating research and new ideas internationally. The carefully selected chapters of this essential text will provide you and your students with suggestions that will improve research competency as well as hospitality services to patrons. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138989702

The Practice of Humanitarian InterventionAid workers Agencies and Institutions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo This book examines the practices in Western and local spheres of humanitarian intervention and shows how the divide between these spheres helps to perpetuate Western involvement. Using the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a case study – an object of Western intervention since colonial times –  this book scrutinizes the contemporary practice of humanitarian intervention from the inside. It seeks to expose how humanitarian aid and peacekeeping works what obstacles they encounter and how they manage to retain their legitimacy. By examining the relationship between the West and the DR Congo this volume asks why intervention continues to be so central for the relationship between Western and local spheres. Why is it normal and self-evident? The main answer developed here is that the separation of these two spheres allows intervention to enjoy sufficient degrees of legitimacy to be sustained. Owing to the contradictions that surface when juxtaposing the Western and Congolese spheres this book highlights how keeping them separate is key to sustaining intervention. Bridging the divide between the liberal peace debate in International Relations and anthropologies of humanitarianism this volume thus presents an important contribution to taking both the legitimizing proclamations and ‘local’ realities of intervention seriously. The book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding peacebuilding peacekeeping anthropology research methods and IR in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815347651

The Practice of Internal Dosimetry in Nuclear Medicine Written by one of the world's leading experts in the field of nuclear medicine dosimetry this text describes in detail the use of internal dose calculations in the practice of nuclear medicine. While radiation therapy with external sources of radiation always employs calculations of dose to optimize therapy for each patient this is not routinely conducted in nuclear medicine therapy. As the trend towards an increasing role of dosimetry in therapy planning increases this book reviews the available methods and technologies available to make this a more common practice. The book begins by covering the mathematical fundamentals of internal dose calculations and uses sample calculations to demonstrate key principles. The book then moves forward to describe anthropomorphic models dosimetric models and types and uses of diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. The depth of coverage makes it useful reference and guide for researchers performing dose calculations and for physicians considering incorporating dose calculations into the treatment of their cancer patients. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367574536

The Practice of International Commercial ArbitrationA Handbook for Hong Kong Arbitrators Focusing on practical principles or guidelines for arbitrators this book covers everything a prospective international commercial arbitrator should know about conducting an arbitration in Hong Kong. Specifically geared to those interested in or starting work as an international commercial arbitrator in Hong Kong the book takes readers step-by-step through the problems that are likely to arise in the conduct of a commercial arbitration and in the development of their careers as international commercial arbitrators. Media > Books > Print Books Informa Law from Routledge 9781138202283

The Practice of International Development Development analysts tend to give short shrift to the seemingly minor bureaucratic hitches faced by practitioners—those who design manage implement and evaluate aid projects.　Often critical of foreign aid either for its apparent ineffectiveness at alleviating poverty or its purported neocolonial implications the academic literature rarely acknowledges the experiences and pressures faced by practitioners themselves as they implement aid-funded development projects—the meetings paperwork negotiations site visits financial transactions logistical arrangements interviews program activities and beneficiary interactions—that keep projects running. And yet the impact of aid projects and indeed the impact of development itself often grows out of the daily activities and personal interactions of development practitioners. This unique book considers challenges from the perspective of development practitioners who confront technical managerial political theoretical and moral quandaries on a daily basis. With chapters written by expert practitioners on different aspects of design and management of international development activities this book examines real issues and navigates the often contradictory demands of local development needs including international donor imperatives; limited financial resources time information and assurance of results; the competing pulls of administrative efficiency; and the desire to alleviate suffering. It also gives readers access to the crucial but little-heard voices of those who spend their professional lives designing and managing foreign aid projects offering insight into what did or did not work on projects they have managed implemented or evaluated. These insights do not seek to identify universally right or wrong ways of doing development; instead they highlight pros and cons associated with various approaches and decisions. This book provides valuable insights for students and others interested in a development career encourages practitioners to engage in reflection and persuades researchers to further consider the influence of practice on project success or failure. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781466586727

The Practice of Lacanian PsychoanalysisTheories and Principles The Practice of Lacanian Psychoanalysis lays out an Aristotelian framework to account for the different types of knowing and not-knowing operative in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. The book proposes a new model for diagnosis giving preference to fewer over more diagnoses and seeks to better organize them by distinguishing between structure and surface symptoms. It examines many principles of Lacanian clinical practice including different types of frames and evidence the practice of citation and listening the resistance and desire of the analyst transference love as a metaphor the role of negative transference at the end of analysis and the identification with the sinthome as Lacan's last formulation regarding the end of analysis. The text also suggests that there are three forms of love and hate based on the works of Lacan and Winnicott. Underpinned by extensive practical knowledge of the clinic and case examples for clinicians analysts and practicing Lacanian analysts this book should be of interest to academics scholars and clinicians alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367342371

The Practice of Leadership in Higher EducationReal-world Perspectives on Becoming Being and Leaving This practice-orientated book explores the nature of leadership in higher education during three key stages of the leadership cycle: becoming being and leaving leadership. Providing perspectives on leadership from a range of professional sectors this book presents considered views on contemporary and future leadership practices in higher education from a global network of contributors. Included within each chapter are prominent questions designed to engage the reader to think about their own leadership experiences to date and leadership development needs. Key points covered include: the complexities of leadership in higher education in a changing world discussion of internally resourced leadership development frameworks and programmes currently used across the sector leading complex education systems perspectives on leadership from a range of professional sectors such as corporate military elite sport and public that can be used to improve the quality of higher education leadership case studies of academics’ leadership practices that provide readers with authentic personal insights into discipline-specific leadership experiences from around the world. Full of practical examples of personal leadership experiences which can be used to help inform readers’ leadership aspirations development and legacy planning this is the ideal read for anyone interested in understanding their identity and practice as a leader in higher education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367423674

The Practice of Management This classic volume achieves a remarkable width of appeal without sacrificing scientific accuracy or depth of analysis. It is a valuable contribution to the study of business efficiency which should be read by anyone wanting information about the developments and place of management and it is as relevant today as when it was first written. This is a practical book written out of many years of experience in working with managements of small medium and large corporations. It aims to be a management guide enabling readers to examine their own work and performance to diagnose their weaknesses and to improve their own effectiveness as well as the results of the enterprise they are responsible for. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138454057

The Practice of Mathematics The psychological description and explanation of how children learn to work with numbers is dominated by the theories of Piaget. Yvette Solomon suggests an alternative approach to the child's conception of number. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203769652

The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant PsychotherapyClaiming the Baby The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy is a comprehensive handbook addressing the provision of therapeutic help for babies and their parents when their attachment relationship is troubled and a risk is posed to the baby's development. Drawing on clinical and research data from neuroscience attachment and psychoanalysis the book presents a clinical treatment approach that is up-to-date flexible and sophisticated whilst also being clear and easy to understand. The first section: The theory of psychoanalytic parent infant psychotherapy – offers the reader a theoretical framework for understanding the emotional-interactional environment within which infant development takes place. The second section The therapeutic process invites the reader into the consulting room to participate in a detailed examination of the relational process in the clinical encounter. The third section Clinical papers provides case material to illustrate the unfolding of the therapeutic process. This new edition draws on evidence from contemporary research with new material on: Embodied communication between parent and infant and clinician-patient/s Fathers and fathering Engagement of at-risk populations Written by a team of experienced clinicians writers teachers and researchers in the field of infant development and psychopathology The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy will be an essential resource for all professionals working with children and their families including child psychiatrists psychoanalysts psychotherapists and clinical and developmental psychologists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138792784

The Practice of Psychotherapy506 Questions and Answers Freud once humorously remarked that "Anyone who wants to make a living from the treatment of nervous patients must clearly be able to do something to help them". It is amazing how frequently this simple precept is ignored and when a patient does not get well how often the failure is attributed to lack of proper motivation diminutive ego strength latent schizophrenia and a multitude of assorted resistances. Difficulties that arise during therapy are not due to a deliberate conspiracy of neglect on the part of the therapist. They usually come about because of obstructive situations that develop in work with patients with which the therapist is unprepared to cope. During his psychiatric career the author who spent time both teaching and supervising collected and collated questions from students and graduate therapists who had raised concerns about psychotherapy that related to such obstructive situations. Originally published in 1982 this volume contains both those questions and his answers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138784000

The Practice of PsychotherapySecond Edition The Practice of Psychotherapy brings together Jung's essays on general questions of analytic therapy and dream analysis. It also contains his profoundly interesting parallel between the transference phenomena and alchemical processes. The transference is illustrated and interpreted by means of a set of symbolic pictures and the bond between psychotherapist and patient is shown to be a function of the kinship libido. Far from being pathological in its effects kinship libido has an essential role to play in the work of individuation and in establishing an organic society based on the psychic connection of its members with one another and with their own roots. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138135932

The Practice of PsychotherapySecond Edition The Practice of Psychotherapy brings together Jung's essays on general questions of analytic therapy and dream analysis. It also contains his profoundly interesting parallel between the transference phenomena and alchemical processes. The transference is illustrated and interpreted by means of a set of symbolic pictures and the bond between psychotherapist and patient is shown to be a function of the kinship libido. Far from being pathological in its effects kinship libido has an essential role to play in the work of individuation and in establishing an organic society based on the psychic connection of its members with one another and with their own roots. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315725284

The Practice of PunishmentTowards a Theory of Restorative Justice This study focuses on the practice of punishment as it is inflicted by the state. The author's first-hand experience with penal reform combined with philosophical reflection has led him to develop a theory of punishment that identifies the principles of sentencing and corrections on which modern correctional systems should be built. This new theory of punishment is built on the view that the central function of the law is to reduce the need to use force in the resolution of disputes. Professor Cragg argues that the proper role of sentencing and sentence administration is to sustain public confidence in the capacity of the law to fulfil that function. Sentencing and corrections should therefore be guided by principles of restorative justice. He points out that although punishment may be an inevitable concomitant of law enforcement in general and sentencing in particular inflicting punishment is not a legitimate objective of criminal justice. The strength and appeal of this account is that it moves well beyond the boundaries of conventional discussions. It examines punishment within the framework of policing and adjudication analyses the relationship between punishment and sentencing and provides a basis for evaluating correctional practices and such developments as electronic monitoring. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138995208

The Practice of QualityChanging General Practice This work adopts a modern approach to quality assurance and quality improvement in general practice. It provides an introduction to the subject enabling readers to see how best to proceed in their own practices. It revises and updates previous books by Donald and Sally Irvine on clinical audit by placing audit within the wider quality context. It is designed to provide an easily accessible approach to the basic tenets as well as speculating on the future developments in this area and should be of interest to all members of the practice team. The themes of the book are illustrated by reference to the five major case studies provided which describe in some detail the various ways of starting implementing and maintaining quality assurance in general practice today. Practical examples of Total Quality Management the use of British Standard 5750 Kings Fund organizational audit Investors in People and Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners by assessment are also provided. These studies are written by the practitioners medical and non-medical who have themselves been through the experience of turning theory into practice. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781315377308

The Practice of Reform in Health Medicine and Science 1500–2000Essays for Charles Webster Histories of medicine and science are histories of political and social change as well as accounts of the transformation of particular disciplines over time. Taking their inspiration from the work of Charles Webster the essays in this volume consider the effect that demands for social and political reform have had on the theory and above all the practice of medicine and science and on the promotion of human health from the Renaissance and Enlightenment up to the present. The eighteen essays by an international group of scholars provide case studies covering a wide range of locations and contexts of the successes and failures of reform and reformers in challenging the status quo. They discuss the impact of religious and secular ideologies on ideas about the nature and organization of health medicine and science as well as the effects of social and political institutions including the professions themselves in shaping the possibilities for reform and renewal. The Practice of Reform in Health Medicine and Science 1500-2000 also addresses the afterlife of reforming concepts and describes local and regional differences in the practice and perception of reform culminating in the politics of welfare in the twentieth century. The authors build up a composite picture of the interaction of politics and health medicine and science in western Europe over time that can pose questions for the future of policy as well as explaining some of the successes and failures of the past. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237626

The Practice of Social influence in Multiple Cultures This book provides a diverse collection of studies reporting the effects of social influence processes in multiple cultures at both the universal and culture-specific levels. The book is characterized by three distinct features. First the social influence process is considered as a ubiquitous and pervasive feature of human interaction. Second the book represents a multicultural approach which includes both cross-cultural and culture-focused examinations. Third the book emphasizes practical implications of the research presented. This volume incorporates theory and research stemming from three different approaches to social influence: social influence principles across cultures social influence and social change across cultures and culture and moral perspective in the social influence process. Because each of these three parts encompasses a considerable variety of research methodologies social contexts and cultures each is proceeded by an integrative commentary authored by one of the book editors. These essays provide syntheses of the topics and themes within the corresponding sections and within the book as a whole. They also offer critical commentaries on both theoretical and methodological issues raise suggestions for future research and focus on practical applications. This book is intended for both scholars interested in cross- and multicultural research into the mechanisms of the social influence process and for the professional whose mission is to make planned changes in a society. Knowledge about the influence process especially regarding how it works in different cultures and within several cultural groups facilitates this goal. The practical implications ending each chapter serve as encouraging instructions for such applications. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138012608

The Practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment The practical application of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is becoming increasingly common. A growing number of SEAs are being undertaken around the world and several countries have issued guidance on how these should be carried out. However few countries as yet have formal SEA regulations and few completed SEAs have demonstrated all the elements of current best practice. The Practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment aims to provide a unique analysis of SEAs which have been undertaken drawing on a variety of methods and circumstances to illustrate how best practice can be achieved and providing inspiration for those considering studying commission or carrying out an SEA. Part I sets the rest of the book in context giving a review of international SEA guidance and regulations and discussing models and methodologies. Part II then analyses a comprehensive set of case studies from countries which have extensive experience in SEA or which provide particularly good examples. The case studies are discussed in three sections ? sectoral SEAs SEAs of land-use plans and SEAs of policies ? and provide examples of different scales and approaches as well as country-specific experience. The final chapter draws out some constraints to effective SEA as well as positive themes which show how effective SEA can contribute to wider environmental assessment. Written by an international team of SEA practitioners and experts this volume will be of particular use to students of environmental policy and management environmental consultants local authorities policy-makers and anyone involved in the commissioning process or review of SEAs. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138458253

The Practice of Sustainable TourismResolving the Paradox Sustainable tourism is a widely used term that has accumulated considerable attention from researchers and policy makers over the past two decades. However there is still an apparently wide gap between theory and practice in the area. Recent scholarly research has tended to focus on niche areas of alternative tourism rather than address the broader issues and vagaries and paradoxes that appear to plague the broader notion of sustainable tourism. As such there is a need for a new and pragmatic analysis of sustainable tourism as an overarching idea and how this manifests in practice. The Practice of Sustainable Tourism fulfils this need by offering a fresh perspective on sustainable tourism as an umbrella concept with inherent tensions. It presents a way of thinking about tourism based on the notion of finding common ground using the dialectic tradition of philosophy. Dialectics focusses on resolving opposing viewpoints by recognising they have common elements that can be combined into a rational and practical solution over time. As part of this approach the book examines the strongly apparent tensions within alternative tourism as well as the paradox of continuing growth and other mass tourism related issues. It is divided into three parts Part I includes chapters discussing the general concept of sustainable tourism its history current status and possible futures; Part II includes a range of destination case studies exploring how sustainable tourism has been applied and Part III includes perspectives from the tourism operator view. Given the international content and challenging themes the book will be appealing internationally to students researchers and academics in the fields of tourism geography sustainability and social science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138083950

The Practice of TeachingA Sociology of Education This title first published in 1990 examines the work of teachers in the classroom and the school from a sociological perspective. It will be important reading for teacher education students who have little or no background in sociology providing them with information understanding and techniques which will enable them to operate as competent teachers in the classroom. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138244542

The Practice of the MealFood Families and the Market Place Reflecting a growing interest in consumption practices and particularly relating to food this cross disciplinary volume brings together diverse perspectives on our (often taken for granted) domestic mealtimes. By unpacking the meal as a set of practices - acquisition appropriation appreciation and disposal - it shows the role of the market in such processes by looking at how consumers make sense of marketplace discourses whether this is how brand discourses influence shopping habits or how consumers interact with the various spaces of the market. Revealing food consumption through both material and symbolic aspects and the role that marketplace institutions discourses and places play in shaping perpetuating or transforming them this holistic approach reveals how consumer practices of ‘the meal’ and the attendant meaning-making processes which surround them are shaped. This wide-ranging collection will be of great interest to a wide range of scholars interested in marketing consumer behaviour and food studies as well as the sociology of both families and food. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367870980

The Practice of the Presence of GodTheology as a Way of Life Exploring the unity of the practice of prayer and the practice of theology this book draws together insights from world-class theologians including Rowan Williams Andrew Louth Frances Young Margaret R. Miles Sebastian Brock and Nicholaï Sakharov. Offering glimpses of the prayer-life and witness that undergirds theological endeavour some authors approach the topic in a deeply personal way while others express the unity of prayer and the theologian in a traditionally scholarly manner. No matter what the denomination of the Christian theologian - Greek or Russian Orthodox Roman Catholic Anglican Methodist - authors demonstrate that the discipline of theology cannot properly be practiced apart from the prayer life of the theologian. The prayer of the theologian shapes her or his approach to theology. Whether it be preaching teaching writing or research the deep soundings of prayer inform and embrace all. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472478320

The Practice Turn in Architecture: Brussels after 1968 What makes a city? What makes architecture? And what is to be included in the discussions of architecture and the city? Attempting to answer such ambitious questions this book starts from a city’s specificity and complexity. In response to recent debates in architectural theory around the agency and locus of critical action this book tests the potential of criticality through-practice. Rather than through conceptual and ideological categorisations it studies how architecture and criticality work within specific circumstances. Brussels a complex city with a turbulent architectural and urban past forms a compelling case for examining the tensions between urban politics architectural imaginations society’s needs and desires and the city’s history and fabric. Inspired by pragmatist-relational philosophies this book tests the potential of criticality through-practice. It studies a series of critical actions and tools which occurred in Brussels’ architectural and urban culture after 1968. Weaved together Brussels architectural production emerges from a variety of actors including architects urban policy makers activists social workers and citizens but also architectural movements and ideologies urban renewal programs urban traumas plans and projects and mundane everyday practices and constructions. This book contributes to the study of Brussels and offers a timely contribution to recent scholarship on the critical reappraisal of architectural debates from the 1960s through to the 1990s. In addition by showing how pragmatist-relational philosophies can be made relevant for architectural theory the book opens hopeful potentials for how architectural theory can better contribute to the formulation of a critical agenda for architecture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138572317

The Practices of CrusadingImage and Action from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries The crusades influenced western European society in the middle ages far beyond the military campaigns themselves. Reactions and involvement did not always follow the assumptions of ideology or supporters medieval or modern. In this wide ranging collection of articles spanning thirty years Christopher Tyerman explores the relationships between action and perception ambition and practice propaganda and support. One section concentrates on the role the crusade played in the politics and elite culture of the early fourteenth century particularly in France. A further series of essays examines the nature of crusading as a phenomenon from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries notably the contrasts between official literary and popular reception and how it was variously understood by contemporaries and promoted by apologists in England continental Europe and the Baltic. Finally the structure of crusading armies is explored in a sequence that analyses the organisation of expeditions including communal decision-making on the First Crusade the sociology of recruitment and in a previously unpublished major study the importance of pay to crusaders from 1096 onwards.The crusades influenced western European society in the middle ages far beyond the military campaigns themselves. Reactions and involvement did not always follow the assumptions of ideology or supporters medieval or modern. In this wide ranging collection of articles spanning thirty years Christopher Tyerman explores the relationships between action and perception ambition and practice propaganda and support. One section concentrates on the role the crusade played in the politics and elite culture of the early fourteenth century particularly in France. A further series of essays examines the nature of crusading as a phenomenon from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries notably the contrasts between official literary and popular reception and how it was variously understood by contemporaries and promoted by apologists in England continental Europe and the Baltic. Finally the structure of crusading armies is explored in a sequence that analyses the organisation of expeditions including communal decision-making on the First Crusade the sociology of recruitment and in a previously unpublished major study the importance of pay to crusaders from 1096 onwards. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367601645

The Practices of HappinessPolitical Economy Religion and Wellbeing A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. There is growing evidence that rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have not been matched by greater incidences of reported well-being and happiness. Indeed material affluence is often accompanied instead by greater social and individual distress. A growing literature within the humanities and social sciences is increasingly concerned to chart not only the underlying trends in recorded levels of happiness but to consider what factors if any contribute to positive and sustainable experiences of well-being and quality of life. Increasingly such research is focusing on the importance of values and beliefs in human satisfaction or quality of life; but the specific contribution of religion to these trends is relatively under-examined. This unique collection of essays seeks to rectify that omission by identifying the nature and role of the religious contribution to wellbeing. A unique collection of nineteen leading scholars from the field of economics psychology public theology and social policy have been brought together in this volume to explore the religious contribution to the debate about happiness and well-being. These essays explore the religious dimensions to a number of key features of well-being including marriage crime and rehabilitation work inequality mental health environment participation institutional theory business and trade. They engage particularly closely with current trends in economics in identifying alternative models of economic growth which focus on its qualitative as well as quantitative dimensions. This distinctive volume brings to public notice the nature and role of religion’s contribution to wellbeing including new ways of measurement and evaluation. As such it represents a valuable and unprecedented resource for the development of a broad-based religious contribution to the field. It will be of particular relevance for those who are concerned about the continuing debate about personal and societal well-being as well as those who are interested in the continuing significance of religion for the future of public policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415746830

The Practices of Literary TranslationConstraints and Creativity In their introduction to this collection of essays the editors argue that constraints can be seen as a source of literary creativity and given that translation is even more constrained than 'original' literary production it thus has the potential to be even more creative too. The ten essays that follow outline ways in which translators and translations are constrained by poetic form personal histories state control public morality and the non-availability of comparable target language subcodes and how translator creativity may-or may not-overcome these constraints. Topics covered are: Baudelaire's translation practices; bowdlerism in translations of Voltaire Boccaccio and Shakespeare among others; Leyris's translations of Gerard Manley Hopkins; ideology in English-Arabic translation; the translation of censored Greek poet Rhea Galanaki; theatre translation; Nabokov and translation; gay translation; Moratín's translation of Hamlet; and state control of translation production in Nazi Germany. The essays are mostly highly readable and often entertaining. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138142862

The Practitioner Guide to Skills Training for Struggling Kids Addressing frequently encountered emotional behavioral and academic difficulties this essential guide shows how to help parents implement proven skills-building strategies with their kids (ages 5-17). The author draws on over 25 years of research and clinical practice to provide a flexible program for individual families or parent groups. The focus is on teaching kids the skills they need to get their development back on track and teaching parents to cope with and manage challenging behavior. Featuring vignettes and troubleshooting tips the Practitioner Guide is packed with ideas for engaging clients and tailoring the interventions. In a large-size format for easy photocopying it contains more than 60 reproducible handouts and forms.See also Skills Training for Struggling Kids an invaluable client recommendation which guides parents to implement Dr. Bloomquist's strategies and includes all of the handouts and forms they need. Media > Books > Print Books Guilford Press 9781462507368

The Practitioner Handbook of Project Controls Although projects always carry risk too many projects run late or exceed their original budgets by eye-watering amounts. This book is a comprehensive guide to the procedures needed to ensure that projects will be delivered on time to specification and within budget. Eight expert contributors have combined their considerable talents to explain all aspects of project control from project conception to completion in an informative text liberally supported where necessary by clear illustrations. This handbook will benefit all project practitioners including project managers and those working in project management offices. It will also provide an invaluable guide for students studying for higher degrees in project management and its associated disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367253097

The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching The world’s challenges are becoming more and more complex and adapting to those challenges will increasingly come from teams of people innovating together. The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching provides a dedicated and systematic guide to some of the most fundamental issues concerning the practice of team coaching. It seeks to enhance practice through illustrating and exploring an array of contextual issues and complexities entrenched in it. The aim of the volume is to provide a comprehensive overview of the field and furthermore to enhance the understanding and practice of team coaching. To do so the editorial team presents synthesizes and integrates relevant theories research and practices that comprise and undergird team coaching. This book is therefore an invaluable specialist tool for team coaches of all levels; from novice to seasoned practitioners. With team coaching assuming an even more prominent place in institutional and organizational contexts nowadays the book is bound to become an indispensable resource for any coaching training course as well as a continuing professional development tool. This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in coaching in both practice and educational settings. It will be of use not only for professional coaches but also for leaders managers HR professionals learners and educators in the business public independent and voluntary sectors. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138576926

The Practitioner's Guide to Child Art TherapyFostering Creativity and Relational Growth Even in the face of challenging conditions art therapy treatment offers meaningful opportunities for growth. It’s not always easy though to navigate the complex interplay of art processes relational states and developmental theories. For any clinician looking for guidance on the ins and outs of using art therapy with children there is no better resource than The Practitioner’s Guide to Child Art Therapy. Both graduate students and professionals will find its pages replete with strategies for developing engaging and effective tools for understanding children’s creative expression and applying this understanding toward treatment. Clinically relevant and theoretically sound this book synthesizes the best of the literature on art development art therapy and child development while emphasizing the powerful role of art media in fostering creativity and relational growth. Compelling case material and numerous art examples illustrate psychosocial neurobiological and attachment theories as well as practical applications including working with attachment disruptions anxiety grief parental conflict economic poverty chemical dependency child abuse and autism spectrum disorder. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415829038

The Practitioner's Guide to POLCAThe Production Control System for High-Mix Low-Volume and Custom Products POLCA (Paired-cell Overlapping Loops of Cards with Authorization) is a card-based visual control system that manages the flow of jobs through the shop floor: at each operation it controls which job should be worked on next to meet delivery targets. POLCA ensures that upstream operations use their capacity effectively by working on jobs that are needed downstream while at the same time preventing excessive work-in-process (WIP) build-ups when bottlenecks appear unexpectedly. POLCA is particularly suited to companies manufacturing high-mix low-volume and customized products. Such companies struggle with long lead times late deliveries and daily expediting to meet delivery dates. ERP systems are not designed to deal with this highly variable environment and add-on software such as Finite Capacity Scheduling systems can require complex installation. Also the Kanban system does not work well with low-volume or custom production. POLCA has delivered impressive results in such environments. It does not require any complex software implementation: it can be used without an ERP system or it can seamlessly complement an existing ERP system. This book: Provides a step-by-step roadmap on how to implement POLCA; invaluable for both companies that wish to implement POLCA as well as consultants and academics advising such companies. Explains the concepts in practical and easy-to-understand terms by showing detailed shop-floor examples. Includes more than 100 illustrations for understanding how POLCA works as well as for elaborating on details of the implementation steps. Contains case studies written by company owners and executives documenting their POLCA implementation process and the results achieved in various industries in six countries. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781138210646

The Practitioner's Handbook of Project PerformanceAgile Waterfall and Beyond Practitioners operate in a necessary reality. We work in a space where project performance is above theory or methodology. In the best environments delivery and an affirmative culture are what matter most. In the worst it is politics and survival. In any environment we are challenged to adopt best practices and adapt our style to the environment in which the project is occurring. This is a book about those best practices and practitioner experiences. It is a must-have reference and guidebook for project managers general managers business leaders and project management researchers. This book is the result of the hard work and dedication of more than 35 authors from more than 15 countries across four continents. It brings a diversity of experience professional and personal. It includes practitioners leading academics renowned theorists and many who straddle those roles. The chapters cover experiences in software large-scale infrastructure projects finance and health care to name a few. The chapters themselves take many forms. Check out the Table of Contents to get a deeper sense of the topics included. All provide real-world guidance on delivering high-performing projects and show you how to build lead and manage high-performing teams. The Practitioner's Handbook of Project Performance is complete in itself. It can also be an enticing start to an ongoing dialogue with the authors and a pleasurable path to get deeper into the subject of project performance. Find your favorite place to begin learning from these chapters to begin taking notes and taking away nuggets to use in your everyday. But don’t stop there. Contact information and further resources for this diverse team of experts are found throughout. The Practitioner's Handbook is a modern guide to the leading edge of project performance management and a path to the future of project delivery. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138288225

The Pragmatic Basis of AphasiaA Neurolinguistic Study of Morphosyntax Among Bilinguals This language study's primary purpose is to use aphasic performance to understand language rather than to use linguistic analysis to understand aphasia. Examining the detailed nature of linguistic performance of bilingual aphasics in a variety of "natural" and metalinguistic tasks the book reports the results of a study of morphology and syntax among Spanish-English bilingual and monolingual hispanophones in Puerto Rico. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138989719

The Pragmatics of Literary TestimonyAuthenticity Effects in German Social Autobiographies In this book Warner examines a number of German-language literary autobiographies that are connected to diverse social movements of the last forty years. These books have all received critical attention from the popular press topped bestseller lists and have been pivotal in discussions of authenticity subjectivity and referentiality. Because of the thematic diversity of these works scholars within literary and cultural studies have tended to treat them separately under topical categories such as women’s literature the post-war generation migration and multiculturalism etc. Underlying Warner’s analysis is the belief that the social construction of autobiographical acts is as much a matter of textuality as it is of topicality i.e. how language means rather than what it means and that a pragmatic-stylistic approach is well-suited to describing how literary autobiographies come to function as testimonies to certain collective experiences. By presenting a model for an integrative stylistics approach The Prgamatics of Literary Testimony participates in current discussions within fields of literary linguistic scholarship as well as autobiographical theory. In its analysis of key examples of German social testimonies from the late twentieth century this book incorporates insights from discourse analysis pragmatics cogntive poetics and sociolinguistics in order to demonstrate that this diverse body of works constitutes a particular form of textual practice defined by what the author calls authenticity effects—feelings of realism immediacy exemplarity genuineness and social relevance. Such a study of authenticity as a poetic effect can help us to better understand the testimonial glamour owned by various types of autobiographical narration. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138115927

The Pragmatics of Style In the general area of style study or stylistics there is no shortage of ideas definitions or published works. It is hoped in the present volume to contribute to the prosperity of the discipline mainly by clarifying and exemplifying how pragmatic considerations may be relevant to any study of style in the conviction that pragmastylistics is more interesting and useful than stylistics on its own. The starting point must be a brief survey of the definitions and style and stylistics. The very form of the latter term suggests a scientific and orderly rather than an intuitive or impressionistic investigation of style. There are two separate levels of study: one a general methodical and scientific discipline; the other an application of its methods or postulates to the analysis of the ‘style’ of a specific utterance text speaker writer movement or period. It is clear that in order to approach either we must first attempt to understand style. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138998056

The Pragmatics of Text MessagingMaking Meaning in Messages This book provides a comprehensive linguistic exploration of textism use by bilingual young adults illustrating the function of alternative and creative linguistic features and their role in conveying tone through text. Drawing on a corpus of nearly 45 000 text messages donated by bilingual young adults in New York City this volume explores the ways in which the use of texting features such as ‘lol ’ emojis abbreviations and acronyms is systematic and essential.In part toward the aim of exposing the tensions bilinguals face navigating a platform that preferences monolingual language practices the book highlights creativity as a means of both constructing meaning and performing identity for bilingual youths. These findings are extended to explore the role texting plays in communication and identity construction in contemporary society more generally. This volume extends the boundaries of emerging research on language and digital communication and will be of particular interest to graduate students and scholars in computer-mediated communication pragmatics and new media. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367590123

The Praise of Musicke 1586An Edition with Commentary This volume provides the first printed critical edition of The Praise of Musicke (1586) keeping the original text intact and accompanied by an analytical commentary. Against the Puritan attacks on liturgical music The Praise of Musicke the first apologetic treatise on music in English epitomizes the Renaissance defence of music in civil and religious life. While existing studies of The Praise of Musicke are limited to the question of authorship the present volume scrutinizes its musical discourse which recapitulates major issues in the ancient philosophy and theology of music considering the contemporary practice of sacred and secular music. Through an interdisciplinary analysis of The Praise of Musicke combining historical musicology with philosophical theology this study situates the treatise and its author within the wider historical intellectual and religious context of musical polemics and apologetics of the English Reformation thereby appraising its significance in the history of musical theory and literature. The book throws fresh light on this substantial but neglected treatise that presents with critical insights the most learned discussion of music from classical antiquity to the Renaissance and Reformation era. In doing so it offers a new interpretation of the treatise which marks a milestone in the history of musical apologetics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367881610

The Preachers of Culture (1975)A Study of English and its Teachers Published in 1975 Margaret Mathieson has drawn on her experience both in schools and in the training of English teachers to relate the discussions and writings of the previous two centuries to the debate probably livelier than ever before among English practitioners about the role of their subject. Of all subjects ‘English' can be the most stimulating and also the most problematic. In order to assess the continual discussion and controversy about English its nature purpose and place in the curriculum an understanding of its development as a subject and its entry into the teaching timetable is invaluable. For over a hundred and fifty years educators have been making different claims for English as a subject in school and higher education. This book contains a careful clear examination of the conflicting views of these 'preachers of culture' on the four main activities within English – literature creativity discrimination and classroom discussion. These preachers were in Matthew Arnold's words to have 'a hard time of it' as English struggled to establish itself; at every stage of the subject's growth urgent demands have been made for teachers with exceptional qualities to undertake the heavy responsibilities of English in the classroom and it can be seen from this study that an over-abundance of advice often contributed to the dilemmas and tensions among the teachers themselves and between English and other subjects. The final section of the book is concerned less with making recommendations than with drawing conclusions from the evidence of the past. It shows that generations of writers on English teaching from Culture and Anarchy to Stepney Words provide vital insights into the state of the subject today. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815355168

The Preaching FoxElements of Festive Subversion in the Plays of the Wakefield Master First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415762748

The Precarious BalanceState And Society In Africa Since independence the political institutions of many African states have undergone a process of consolidation and subsequent deterioration. Constrained by external economic dependency and an acute scarcity of economic and technical resources state officials have demonstrated a diminished capacity to regulate their societies. Public policies are agreed upon but ineffectively implemented by the weak institutions of the state. Although scholars have analyzed the various facets of state-building in detail little systematic attention has been given to the issue of the decline of the state and mechanisms to cope with state ineffectiveness in Africa. This book focuses especially on the character of the postcolonial state in Africa the nature of and reasons for state deterioration and the mechanisms and policies for coping with state malfunction. Scholars from Africa the United States Europe and the Middle East combine a broad understanding of African political processes with expertise on specific regions. Their analytic and comparative perspective provides a comprehensive and timely treatment of this vital and heretofore neglected theme in African politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295318

The Precarious GenerationA Political Economy of Young People This book draws on a wealth of evidence including young people’s own stories to document how they are now faring in increasingly unequal societies like America Britain Australia France and Spain. It points to systematic generational inequality as those born since 1980 become the first generation to have a lower standard of living than previous generations. While governments and experts typically explain this by referring to globalization new technologies or young people’s deficits the authors of this book offer a new political economy of generations which identifies the central role played by governments promoting neoliberal policies that exacerbate existing social inequalities based on age ethnicity gender and class. The book is a must read for social science students human service workers and policy-makers and indeed for anyone interested in understanding the impact of government policy over the last 40 years on young people. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138603226

The Precautionary Principle in Marine Environmental LawWith Special Reference to High Risk Vessels The book examines whether the jurisdiction of coastal States under international law can be extended to include powers of intervention towards vessels posing a significant risk to their coastal and marine environment but which have not yet been involved in any incident or accident. The books sets out how it is that coastal State jurisdiction can indeed be seen as including powers of intervention towards High Risks Vessels before an incident or accident happens on the basis of the precautionary principle. The precautionary principle requires taking action when a risk of damage to the environment is suspected but cannot be confirmed scientifically.The book thus considers the potential opportunities for the coastal state under international law to regulate international shipping where they consider vessels to an unacceptable risk to the environment in order to prevent or minimise the risk of occurrence of the accident or incident leading to damage. The book acknowledges that this puts into question some very old and established principles of the law of the sea most importantly the principle of freedom of navigation. But Bénédicte Sage-Fuller contends that this change would itself be a consequence of the evolution since the end of WWII of on the one hand international law of the sea itself and of international environmental law on the other hand. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138189805

The Precautionary Principle in the 20th CenturyLate Lessons from Early Warnings The precautionary principle is widely seen as fundamental to successful policies for sustainability. It has been cited in international courts and trade disputes between the USA and the EU and invoked in a growing range of political debates. Understanding what it can and cannot achieve is therefore crucial. This volume looks back over the last century to examine the role the principle played or could have played in a range of major and avoidable public disasters. From detailed investigation of how each disaster unfolded what the impacts were and what measures were adopted the authors draw lessons and establish criteria that could help to minimise the health and environmental risks of future technological economic and policy innovations. This is an informative resource for all those from lawyers and policy-makers to researchers and students needing to understand or apply the principle. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315071985

The Prediction and Control of Organized CrimeThe Experience of Post-Soviet Ukraine Like most former Soviet republics Ukraine has experienced a formidable proliferation of crime and corruption as it struggles with economic reform and the establishment of democracy.During the early 90s Ukraine became one of the primary recipients of foreign assistance from the United States and its crime and corruption situation was increasingly seen as an impediment to economic transition and achieving a more democratic way of life. Thus in 1998 as part of a larger U.S. law enforcement assistance effort in Ukraine the idea for a research partnership between criminologists and legal scholars in the two countries was born in this volume.The original research papers contained are the products of this ambitious research project. The realities of crime in post-Soviet Ukraine as well as divergent methodological approaches and communication problems presented the research partners with enormous challenges. This volume represents the culmination of that collaborative effort and provides a singular look into the current crime situation in Ukraine and into the potential global threat presented by Ukrainian organized crime.Contributions include analyses of the prediction and control of organized crime trafficking in women and children for sexual exploitation international money laundering the transnational political criminal nexus of trafficking in women countermeasures against economic crime and corruption heroin trafficking business victimization by organized crime and understanding and combating organized crime. The Prediction and Control of Organized Crime will be critical reading for security planners policymakers and criminal justice officials as well as comparative criminologists legal scholars and political scientists interested in organized crime and political corruption. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537736

The Preferred Provider's HandbookBuilding A Successful Private Therapy Practice In The Managed Care Marketplace First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203765678

The Prefunctional Stage of First Language Acquistion (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics)A Crosslinguistic Study This book provides a theory of first language acquisition in the syntactic framework of the theory of Universal Grammar. It addresses issues related to the earliest stage of development which ends roughly around the child’s second birthday. The theory put forward capitalises on the traditional observation that early child grammars characteristically lack lexical and morphological elements which belong to the ‘closed-class’ system. This book provides an account of the grammatical differences between the set of functional categories and the substantive categories. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138989726

The Prehistoric Foundations of Europe to the Mycenean Age First published in 1940 this is a classic work by one of the most well-regarded archaeological scholars. European archaeology had made remarkable progress in the early twentieth century and this volume offers a clear impression of the understanding of European prehistory as a whole. Broken into six topics with additional prologue and epilogue the text traces out the early foundations of human culture in Europe covering the Palaeolithic Mesolithic Neolithic and Bronze Ages as well as offering specific focuses on trade routes and migration and conflict. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138817913

The Prehistoric Peoples of Scotland Based on lectures given at the Conference of the British Summer School of Archaeology at Edinburgh in 1954 this book published in 1962 surveys the general field of pre-historic Scotland five archaeologists each contributing chapters discussing the main aspects and problems that have presented themselves in specialised research areas. From the first peopling of the area by human communities with hunting and food-gathering economies to field antiquities and the introduction of copper and bronze metallurgy and on to the first settlement by Celtic speakers and the links to the first historically documented Scotland. Contributors: R.J.C. Atkinson G.E. Daniel T.G.E. Powell and C.A.R. Radford. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138818040

The Prehistoric Settlement of Britain This study first published in 1978 explores the evidence for pre-Roman settlement in Britain. Four aspects of the prehistoric economy are described by the author – colonisation and clearance; arable and pastoral farming; transhumance and nomadism; and hunting gathering and fishing. These aspects have been brought together to formulate a structure which contains the evidence more naturally than chronological schemes that depend on assumed changes in population or technology. The book draws upon environmental evidence and recent developments in archaeological fieldwork. It also provides an extensive exploration of the published literature on the subject and the scope of the evidence. Originally conceived as an ‘ideas book’ rather than a final synthesis the author’s intention throughout is to stimulate argument and research and not to replace one dogma with another. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138817104

The Pre-history of ‘The Midsummer Marriage’Narratives and Speculations The Pre-history of ‘The Midsummer Marriage’ examines the early collaborative phase (1943 to 1946) in the making of Michael Tippett’s first mature opera and charts the developments that grew out of that phase. Drawing on a fascinating group of Tippett’s sketchbooks and a lengthy sequence of his letters to Douglas Newton it helps construct a narrative of the Tippett-Newton collaboration and provides insights into the devising of the opera’s plot both in that early phase and in the phase from 1946 onwards when Tippett went on with the project alone. The book asks: who was Newton and what kind of collaboration did he have—then cease to have— with Tippett? What were the origins of and shaping factors behind the original scenario and libretto-drafts? How far did the narrative and controlling concepts of Midsummer Marriage in its final form tally with—and how far did they move away from—those that had been set up in the years of the two men’s collaboration the ‘pre-historic’ years? The book will be of particular interest to scholars and researchers in opera studies and twentieth-century music. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367243166

The Prehistory of Denmark First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138136632

The Prehistory of FoodAppetites for Change The Prehistory of Food sets subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultural artefact. It brings together contributors with a scientific and biological expertise as well as those interested in the patterns of consumption and social change and includes a wide range of case studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415513494

The Prehistory of IberiaDebating Early Social Stratification and the State The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological problem. The impressive advance of archaeological research has revealed that first and foremost the pre-eminence of stratified or class society in today’s world is the result of a long social struggle. This volume advances the archaeological study of social organisation in Prehistory and more specifically the rise of social complexity in European Prehistory. Within the wider context of world Prehistory in the last 30 years the subject of early social stratification and state formation has been a key subject on interest in Iberian Prehistory. This book illustrates the differing forms of resistances the interplay between change and continuity the multiple paths to and from social complexity and the ‘failures’ of states to form in Prehistory. It also engages with broader questions such as: when did social stratification appear in western European Prehistory? What factors contributed to its emergence and consolidation? What are the relationships between the notions of social complexity social inequality social stratification and statehood? And what are the archaeological indicators for the empirical analysis of these issues? Focusing on Iberia but with a permanent connection to the wider geographical framework this book presents for the first time a chronologically comprehensive up-to-date approach to the issue of state formation in prehistoric Europe. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367865771

The Prehistory of Metallurgy in the British Isles: 5 "First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an Informa company." Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781351199476

The Prehistory Of Scotland This volume originally published in 1935 sought to reveal the significance of Scottish prehistory for the development of understanding of European prehistory. Written at a time of rapid accumulation of new relics and monuments and the insights from them Professor Childe presented some important new data and made tentative conclusions for the future results from these finds. After an introduction to the geography of Scotland the book looks at evidence from cairns tombs and stone circles and then addresses chronologically the evidence from Early Bronze Age to Late and onto the Iron Age with a chapter devoted to forts towns and castles. It ends with a discussion of what happened in the Dark Ages and addresses questions about the Celts and the Picts and the diversity of the peoples in Scotland. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138817272

The Prehistory of the Northwest Coast This volume provides a descriptive overview of the cultural complexity on the northwest coast that stretches from northern California to Alaska. Topics covered range from the earliest settlements to the subsequent cultural diversities in Native American populations. Maps charts and illustrations further enhance the book's interest and appeal. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315417417

The Premise of Inequality in RuandaA Study of Political Relations in a Central African Kingdom Originally published in 1961 this study of the indigenous system of government in Ruanda-Urundi until the beginning of the 20th century describes the complex relationship between the Tutsi and the Hutu and shows how the Tutsi succeeded in maintaining their political dominance without endangering the unity and efficient working of Ruanda society. It analyses the political organization of Ruanda and the position of the Tutsi prior to the civil war of the 1990s. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138595781

The Prenatal Theme in Psychotherapy This book is an attempt to examine whether patients in analysis or therapy can sometimes be said to form a kind of transference that not only operates at a prenatal level but can also lend itself to interpretation just like any other postnatal level of transference. The author considers whether the prenatal condition usually conceived from a ps Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367328528

The Preparation for Life Curriculum Originally published in 1984. Many schools are faced with the problem of what to teach the large numbers of below average pupils who are never likely to pass any GCE or CSE examination. These pupils are often troublesome bored and eager to get out of school into the real world of work. At this time many schools were planning a new curriculum for these pupils - taking account of limited abilities and concentrating on teaching skills and knowledge which will be useful when they have left school. This book based on extensive original research considers this problem and puts forward suggestions for how the curriculum might be reformed to cater for these pupils. It discusses both what the content of the reformed curriculum might be and how the process might be implemented to involve those teachers who teach the pupils concerned. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138322066

The Preparation of Dispersions in Liquids This work details the preparation of dispersions in liquids. It sets out to bridge the gap in information for the chemist who is not applications oriented and the chemical engineer who needs to solve problems in the field based on theoretical methods of dispersions of solids liquids and gases. Insights are provided into many topics including the transportation and handling of finely divided soils or highly viscous liquids; the reactions between reactants dissolved in immiscible phases; the formation of porous materials; and filtration. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781003067511

The Pre-Psychoanalytic Writings of Sigmund Freud The traditional dating of the origin of psychoanalysis to 1900 when Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams ignores the massive body of work he produced well before this date. Covering fields as diverse as neurology physiology philosophy and pharmacology this wealth of unjustly neglected material was to have a profound influence upon the Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367328535

The Pre-Reformation Church in England 1400-1530 Offers a concise synthesis of the valuable research accomplished in recent years which has transformed our view of religious belief and practice in pre-Reformation England. The author argues that the church was neither in a state of crisis nor were its members clamouring for change let alone `reformation' during the early years of Henry VIII's reign. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138153868

The Presence of God in the Works of William Wordsworth Approaching Wordsworth’ writings from perspectives which have not been considered in critical literature this book offers a multiangled reflection on the technicalities of the poet’s religious discourse including the methodology of The Prelude revision or Wordsworth’s patent art of "pious postscripts." The book constitutes a self-contained whole and can be read independently. Simultaneously it creates an unusual duet with The Absent God in The Works of William Wordsworth whose six chapters follow this book’s eight chapters like a sestet which complements the octave—becoming thus a tribute to Wordsworth as one of the most prolific sonneteers in history. Both monographs build their theses on Wordsworth’s entire oeuvre and embrace the whole of his wide lifespan. Their completion in 2020 coincides with several round anniversaries: the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth the 200th anniversary of The River Duddon and the 170th　anniversary of the publication of his autobiographical masterpiece The Prelude. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367608125

The Presence of PersonsEssays on Literature Science and Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century This book deals with important aspects of nineteenth-century culture literary philosophical and scientific which remain live issues today. It examines in detail the writings of Dickens Charlotte and Emily Bronte James Hamilton Eliot Mill Arnold Pater and Newman and makes substantial reference to Hawthorne Dickinson Spencer Carlyle and Hardy all in the context of the dominant intellectual movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The thought of Hamilton Newman Mill and Spencer is contrasted with that of twentieth-century figures like the philosophers Frege Husserl Wittenstein Merleau-Ponty the neo-Darwinists Monod and Dawkins and critics like Eagleton and Miller. William Myers argues for a traditional view deriving largely from Newman of the unity and autonomy of individual human beings. He suggests that science and literature depend on persons being actively and responsively present to each other that freedom is always interpersonal and that in great literature we can discover the workings of this deep mutuality and its enemies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367888190

The Presence of the AbsentTherapy with Families and their Ghosts Where live our most cherished (or painful) memories? Where do our beloved (or dreaded) exist when departed? In the gray zone between our self and our world they can exist as internal reminiscences for some and striking images for others; individually or collectively perceived and interacted; vividly or as tenuous presences.This book familiarizes us with six examples of individuals and families in therapy who live and interact with the presence of their absent pivotal people in their lives who either died or disappeared but are still there. It familiarizes us with their plight in a tender compassionate style describing in detail interviews and therapeutic transformations and in several cases follow-ups as well as echoes of those processes. It teaches us to respect those presences as well as how to help families and individuals treasure them…and in many cases to let them go.Written in a vivid intense language The Presence of the Absent offers a marvelous insight into these processes that may prove transformative for the therapist (both family and individually-oriented) as well as enlightening to the general public. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138847781

The Presence of the PastMemory Heritage and Childhood in Post-War Britain The presence of the Past studies the interaction of heritage and fiction written for children over a 40 year period in Britain exploring a range of works for children from The Tale of Peter Rabbit to I Spy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138979246

The Present Politics of the PastIndigenous Legal Activism and Resistance to (Neo)Liberal Governmentality This work applies Jacques Derrida's framework of "spectropolitics" to (post)coloniality in order to investigate the emergence of indigenous peoples' movements advances a poststructural approach to the analysis of liberal politics based upon the historical sociology of Michel Foucault and critically engages the literatures on ethnic politics critical legal studies and multicultural democracy. In addition two historical case dossiers (the Mabo v. Queensland decision and its aftermath in Australia; and the diverse legal strategies of First Nations activism in Canada following the Delgamuukw v. B.C. decision) focus on the "strategic space" in which new indigenous political identities are produced and performed. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415651042

The Present State of Haiti (Saint Domingo) 1828With Remarks on its Agriculture Commerce Laws Religion etc. First published in 1972. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138995239

The Present Word. Culture Society and the Site of LiteratureEssays in Honour of Nicholas Boyle This book reflects the three major emphases of Nicholas Boyle's intellectual life — literature philosophical theology and social and cultural criticism — and the distinctive emphasis of his approach to all three. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367601782

The Presentation and Settlement of Contractors' Claims - E2 Contractual disputes often involving large sums of money occur with increasing frequency in the construction industry. This book presents - in non-legal language - sound professional advice from a recognized expert in the field on the practical aspects of claims. This edition has been brought right up to date by taking into account legal decisions promulgated over the last 17 years as well as reflecting the effect of current inflation on claims. The new edition is based on the 1998 JCT contract. *Fully updated second edition of this practical guide. *Worked examples to back up the advice offered and relate it to practitioners' experience. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138979253

The Presented PastHeritage Museums and Education The Presented Past is concerned with the differences between the comparatively static well-understood way in which the past is presented in schools museums and at historic sites compared to the approaches currently being explored in contemporary archaeology. It challenges the all-too-frequent representation of the past as something finished understood and objective rather than something that is `constructed' and therefore open to co-existing interpretations and constant re-interpretation. Central to the book is the belief that the presentation of the past in school curricula and in museum and site interpretations will benefit from a greater use of non-documentary sources derived from archaeological study and oral histories. The book suggests that a view of the past incorporating a larger body of evidence and a wider variety of understanding will help to invigorate the way history is taught. The Presented Past will be of interest to teachers archaeologists cultural resource managers in fact anyone who is concerned with how the past is presented. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415513425

The Preservation of Memory An increase in average life expectancy has given rise to a number of pressing health challenges for the 21st century. Age-related memory loss whether due to a neurodegenerative condition such as Alzheimer’s disease or as a product of the normal process of aging is perhaps the most significant of the health problems of old age presently confronting our society. The Preservation of Memory explores non-invasive empirically sound strategies that can be implemented to ensure long-lasting and effective retention of information. The chapters in this volume describe and evaluate both well-established and novel methods for improving and strengthening memory for people with and without dementia. They also look at ways in which effective detection and care can be implemented and describe empirical findings that can be translated into everyday practice. The contributors take a multidisciplinary approach motivated by the desire to look beyond and across boundaries to find new areas of knowledge and new opportunities. The Preservation of Memory will be useful reading for students and researchers focusing upon memory aging and dementia and also for mental health practitioners social workers and carers of persons living with dementia or other memory impairments. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138840195

The Presidency and Political Science: Paradigms of Presidential Power from the Founding to the Present: 2014Paradigms of Presidential Power This history of presidential studies surveys the views of leading thinkers and scholars about the constitutional powers of the highest office in the land from the founding to the present. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780765642288

The Presidency and Social MediaDiscourse Disruption and Digital Democracy in the 2016 Presidential Election The media have long played an important role in the modern political process and the 2016 presidential campaign was no different. From Trump’s tweets and cable-show-call-ins to Sander’s social media machine to Clinton’s "Trump Yourself" app and podcast journalism social and digital media and entertainment media were front-and-center in 2016. Clearly political media played a dominant and disruptive role in our democratic process. This book helps to explain the role of these media and communication outlets in the 2016 presidential election. This thorough study of how political communication evolved in 2016 examines the disruptive role communication technology played in the 2016 presidential primary campaign and general election and how voters sought and received political information. The Presidency and Social Media includes top scholars from leading research institutions using various research methodologies to generate new understandings—both theoretical and practical—for students researchers journalists and practitioners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138081543

The Presidency A-Z An illustrated reference guide that offers quick answers to readers' questions about the American presidency and the individuals who have served it (all American presidents are included). Abundant charts tables illustrations and a detailed index enhance more than 300 alphabetical entries that bring to life the history processes and personalities connected to America's highest office. This Second Edition includes information up through the 1996 election and President Clinton's second term. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315062358

The Presidency in the Constitutional OrderAn Historical Examination This classic collection of studies first published in 1980 contributes to the revival of interest in the powers and duties of the American presidency. Unlike many previous books on the constitution and the president the contributors to this volume are political scientists not law professors. Accordingly they display political scientists' concern with structures as well as power with conflict between the branches of government as well as their functional separation and with political prescription as well as legal analysis. Underlying the entire volume is a persistent attention to the nature of executive power and its particular manifestation in the American system.Part One introduces the foundations that underlie contemporary issues including the famous James Madison-Alexander Hamilton debate over the powers of the presidency. Contemporary political and scholarly controversies which are the subjects of Part Two include the constitutionality of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 the legislative veto executive privilege and secrecy the character of the presidency presidential selection and the nature of executive power.The essays in The Presidency in the Constitutional Order represent some of the most cogent thought available about the highest elected office in America and the themes of the volume continue to be timely and provocative. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537743

The President the State and the Cold WarComparing the foreign policies of Truman and Reagan US foreign policy during the Cold War has been analysed from a number of perspectives generating large bodies of literature attempting to explain its origins its development and its conclusion. However there are still many questions left only partially explained. In large part this is because these accounts restrict themselves to a single level of analysis either the international system or the structure of the state and society. The first level of analysis focusing on the role of individuals has largely been excluded. This book argues that structural theories and any approach that limits itself to one level of analysis are inadequate to explain the development of US foreign policy. Instead it is necessary to incorporate the first level of analysis in order to bring human agency back and provide a more detailed explanation of US foreign policy. Bilsland proposes an analytical framework which incorporates presidential agency into a multi-level analysis of US foreign policy during the Cold War constructing a multi-level case study comparison of the foreign policies of Presidents Truman and Reagan. He argues that the worldview of the president is central to agenda setting in US foreign policy making and that the management style of the president influences both decision-making and the implementation of US foreign policy. Evidence to support this is drawn from detailed empirical analysis of Truman’s foreign policy of containment in Korea and Reagan’s foreign policy of rollback in Nicaragua. This work will be of interest to students and scholars of US Foreign Policy US History and International Relations  Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138818316

The President And The Council Of Economic AdvisorsInterviews With Cea Chairmen Interviews with ten former chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers--from the Truman to the Carter administrations--are gathered in this book to examine the relationship between economic advisers and the president and the institutional relationships among the CEA executive departments and federal financial agencies. The interviews also reconstruct major presidential decisions since the establishment of the CEA such as the 1964 tax cut the 1971 wage and price freeze and presidential strategies for managing inflation and recession. In a preface to each interview the editors analyze the conditions for CEA effectiveness look at how well the advice of the Council has conformed to the presidential world view and pinpoint the distribution of responsibility for policy analysis and advice within successive administrations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295332

The President as Leader By analyzing the leadership skills of seven recent American presidents this book seeks to de-mystify the elements and dynamics of effective presidential leadership which our democracy has come to depend upon and value. Building on the pioneering work of political scientist Fred Greenstein and others this book argues that leadership in the White House can be explained and assessed by using a consistent set of criteria to analyze presidential performance. Siegel shows that presidential leadership is exercised by real flawed human beings and not by superheroes or philosopher-kings beyond the reach of scrutiny or critique. New to the Second Edition Includes a new chapter covering both terms of the Obama administration. Applies the author’s four-part leadership framework to the early part of the Trump administration. Discusses the possibilities of presidential leadership in an era of intense partisanship. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138231078

The Presidential CharacterPredicting Performance in the White House With a Revised and Updated Foreword by George C. Edwards III A book entitled The Presidential Character is more timely and necessary than ever. This new issue of James David Barber’s classic work appears almost 50 years after its first publication and yet reads like a roadmap to the 2020 presidential election. Its subtitle “Predicting Performance in the White House ” is an apt reflection on the election of 2016. With a revised and updated foreword by George C. Edwards III that brings in the Trump Administration this book argues that patterns in a person’s character world view and political style can allow us to anticipate his or her performance as president. How would Barber have categorized Donald J. Trump who appears to defy every presidential type and norm? This question suggests one of the most provocative and appealing reasons for students scholars and voters to re-read The Presidential Character at this particular juncture. What should we look for in a president? This text offers explanations and predictions of the performance of past presidents and presidential candidates with many cautionary tales looking forward. Features Presents a revised and updated foreword by presidential scholar George C. Edwards III Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University that includes the advent of the Trump Administration and highlights the book’s classic and enduring contributions. Includes predictions of presidential performance from Nixon to Bush. Analyzes the media’s role in providing information about the political candidates and in shaping public opinion of them. Draws on historical biographical and psychological research to help voters make judicious choices in determining the country’s highest leaders. Encourages citizens to be actively involved scholars critics and participants in their government. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367366773

The Presidential DilemmaRevisiting Democratic Leadership in the American System This brief thought-provoking text evaluates the performance of recent presidents from Johnson to Bush finding that overall each has failed to live up to public expectations. Written by one of the top presidency scholars today The Presidential Dilemma reflects on the idea that as our country's problems grow our politicians seem to shrink. Arguing that American presidents of the last 40 years have largely failed to meet the needs expectations and responsibilities placed upon them the book discusses how presidents might better maximize their opportunities for leadership and suggests a distinctive theory of presidential politics: presidents facing a system of multiple veto points seek to maximize power and influence.The third edition of Genovese's stimulating book is thoroughly updated to reflect presidential development in recent years and a new introduction brings his arguments current. As he demonstrates the emergence of democracy as a new social and political paradigm undermined traditional authority and legitimacy. Subjects no longer automatically follow; now citizens must be persuaded. They may give to a leader their authority and power or not. As Genovese notes in a world of mass consumerism those wishing to lead have precious little to offer by way of inducement.Genovese's goal is to examine the reasons why the performance of recent presidents has been underwhelming discuss how they might maximize their opportunities for leadership and ask a key question: Can presidents be both powerful and accountable? The book follows a clear format and tries to show why America's officeholders have so rarely been leaders and how presidents can become leaders instead of mere officeholders. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537750

The Presidential Election Game The Presidential Election Game may change the way you think about presidential elections and for that matter American politics in general. It is not filled with statistics about the voting behavior of citizens nor does it give detailed histories of past campaigns. Rather it is an analytic treatment of strategy in the race for the presidency from the primaries to the general election. Using modern game theory and decision theory Brams demonstrates why certain campaign strategies are more effective than others and supports his analysis with historical evidence. Media > Books > Print Books A K Peters/CRC Press 9781138427532

The Presocratic Philosophers The Presocratics were the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition and the first masters of rational thought. This volume provides a comprehensive and precise exposition of their arguments and offers a rigorous assessment of their contribution to philosophical thought. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138171305

The Press and Popular Culture in Interwar Europe This collection shows the importance of a comparative European framework for understanding developments in the popular press and journalism between the wars. This was it argues a formative and vital period in the making of the modern press. A great deal of fine scholarship on the development of modern forms of journalism and newspapers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has emerged within discrete national histories. Yet in bringing together essays on Britain France Germany Italy and Poland this book discerns points of convergence and divergence and the importance of the European context in shaping how news was defined produced and consumed. Challenging the tendency of histories of the press to foreground processes of ‘Americanisation’ and the displacement of older notions of the ‘fourth estate’ by new forms of human interest journalism the chapters draw attention to the complex ways in which the popular press continued to be politicized throughout the interwar period. Building on this analysis the book examines the forms processes and networks through which newspapers were produced for public consumption. In a period of massive social political and economic upheaval and conflict the popular press provided a forum in which Europe’s meanings and nature could be constructed and contested. The interpersonal material and technological links between newspapers news corporations and news agencies in different countries served to define the outlines of Europe. Europe was called into being through the circulation of news and the practices and networks of the modern mass press traced in this volume. This publication is highly relevant to scholars of the history of journalism and cultural historians of interwar Britain and Europe. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138305014

The Press and SocietyFrom Caxton to Northcliffe First published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138179752

The Press And The Carter Presidency This book is intended to open an inquiry into the role of political journalists as public teachers of the presidency. It examines national print reporting and commentary on one presidency and uncovers some of the underlying notions of leadership held by political journalists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367310813

The Press and the SuburbsThe Daily Newspapers of New Jersey The changing economic and demographic patterns of the United States have many measurements; few of them however are more comprehensive than the new circulation realities of the press. This volume tells the story of the twenty-six daily newspapers of New Jersey from the 1960s to the 1980s and in so doing tells the story of the rise of suburbia and the golden age of suburban journalism. In an intense effort to keep pace with the changing location of their readers—and most particularly with the upscale consumers—the shift to the suburbs was marked by changes in news coverage advertising and promotion.Though people have predicted the decline of newspaper business for more than fifty years they were proven wrong by the rise of the suburban press and by the survival of most newspapers urban and suburban alike through the 1980s and 1990s. But in the twenty-first century the news and information industry has changed and the national and international economy has faltered.In his new preface David Sachsman takes the reader on a tour of what happened to each of the New Jersey daily newspapers since the publication of the original. The twenty-six newspapers studied have dwindled to sixteen and huge losses in circulation have caused drastic cutbacks and mergers. The decline in New Jersey newspaper readership is part of a national trend. This is an essential book for all American historians journalists and communication specialists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412851930

The Press Clause and Digital Technology's Fourth WaveMedia Law and the Symbiotic Web During the first part of the twenty-first century bloggers citizen journalists social media users Yelp reviewers and a myriad of other communicators have found themselves facing defamation privacy campaign finance and other lawsuits as a result of the messages they have communicated. In many ways these communicators are facing legal questions that are similar to what traditional journalists have faced for centuries regarding their rights to gather and publish information. This book examines how the press clause a First Amendment freedom with no agreed-upon definition can be understood in order to help guide the courts and twenty-first-century publishers regarding protecting expression as we move into the fourth wave of networked communication an era that will be defined by increasingly complex relationships between humans and artificially intelligent communicators. To do so the book draws upon the discourse theory of communication in democratic society the legal and foundational history of the press clause lower-court cases that involve citizen publishers who have claimed protections that have historically been associated with traditional journalism and established legal and scholarly examinations of artificial intelligence to ultimately construct a framework for how the press clause can be reimagined to protect older and newer generations of publishers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367593247

The Press We Deserve Originally published in 1970. This book takes an extremely critical look at the British Press and explodes complacently held views of the time about the merits and virtues of British newspapers. From its polemical introduction by the editor it continues with chapters by a strong host of contributors to set the press in historical context consider Fleet Street’s methods and look at the effect of advertising. Particular aspects investigated are that of women’s journalism sport financial journalism and reviewing. Final chapters look at the underground fringe press provincial papers and a comparison with other countries’ press. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138928183

The Pressuremeter This classic title deals presents all one needs to know about pressuremeter test a soil and rock test used in civil engineering. It consists of placing a cylindrical probe in the ground and expanding the probe to pressurize the soil or the rock horizontally. The pressure on the soil and the relative increase in cavity radius are obtained and give an in situ stress strain curve. The pressuremeter test is repeated at various depths in order to obtain profiles of soil parameters. The design applications of the preboring pressuremeter test include: shallow foundations under vertical loads deep foundations under vertical and horizontal loads ground anchors cantilever drilled shaft walls and anchored bulkheads pavements stone columns ground improvement and compaction control. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203736173

The Prester John of the IndiesA True Relation of the Lands of the Prester John being the narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Ethiopia in This is an account of the Portuguese mission which landed at Massawa on the west coast of the Red Sea in April 1520 and re-embarked 6 years later. It was the first European embassy known to have reached the Ethiopian court and returned safely from it. It was a small group of fourteen among whom was the chronicler Alvares who wrote the most detailed early account of the country valuable for Ethiopian history and the history of the expansion of Europe. Alvares's account was translated into English for the Hakluyt Society by Lord Stanley in 1881. This revision makes use of sources since discovered corrects certain errors and modifies the style of the early version. There is an introduction detailed annotation and a number of appendices. Continued in the following volume (Second Series 115) with which the main pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1961. Media > Books > E-books Hakluyt Society 9781315554013

The Prester John of the IndiesA True Relation of the Lands of the Prester John being the narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Ethiopia in This is an account of the Portuguese mission which landed at Massawa on the west coast of the Red Sea in April 1520 and re-embarked 6 years later. It was the first European embassy known to have reached the Ethiopian court and returned safely from it. It was a small group of fourteen among whom was the chronicler Alvares who wrote the most detailed early account of the country valuable for Ethiopian history and the history of the expansion of Europe. Alvares's account was translated into English for the Hakluyt Society by Lord Stanley in 1881. This revision makes use of sources since discovered corrects certain errors and modifies the style of the early version. There is an introduction detailed annotation and a number of appendices. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volumes first published in 1961. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315085517

The Presumption of Innocence in International Human Rights and Criminal Law This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the presumption of innocence from both a practical and theoretical point of view. Throughout the book a framework for the presumption of innocence is developed. The book approaches the right to presumption of innocence from an international human rights perspective using specific examples drawn from international criminal law. The result is a framework for understanding the right that is grounded in human rights law. This framework can then be applied across different national and international systems. When applied it can help determine when the presumption of innocence is being infringed upon eroded violated and ensure that the presumption of innocence is protected.　 The book is an essential resource for students academics and practitioners working in the areas of human rights criminal law international criminal law and evidence. The themes also have a more general application to national jurisdictions and legal theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367512088

The Presupposition and Discourse Functions of the Japanese Particle Mo First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138979291

The Prevent Strategy and Right-wing ExtremismA Case Study of the English Defence League In 2011 the U.K. Government reviewed its counter terrorism Prevent Strategy to include "all forms of extremism" with an emphasis on right-wing extremism. This book - written by the former Head of Strategy and Policy at the Office of the National Coordinator for Prevent - provides the most detailed assessment yet of this shift in emphasis. It explores how the inclusion of right-wing extremism within the counter terrorism Prevent Strategy impacted local responses to the English Defence League. This is explored through numerous interviews and several case studies which were carried out by the author while he was serving as a senior police officer within the Counter Terrorism Command of the Metropolitan Police Service. The book balances empirical research with practical recommendations for policymakers and practitioners from a unique "insider" perspective.This book will be of appeal to an array of audiences including scholars and students of Terrorism Studies professionals working in the areas of counter terrorism public order policing and the promotion of community cohesion and to those who have an interest in wider non-political responses to right-wing extremism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367730420

The Prevention and Control of Delinquency In this important classic work one of America's foremost social scientists introduces a significant approach to the causation of delinquency and advances an all-inclusive strategy for coping with a national problem of continuing concern. MacIver shows that delinquency is caused by a complex and bewildering interplay of many factors and is not susceptible to simplistic explanations and solutions. He advances reasoned critiques of various theories regarding the causation of delinquency while suggesting that the two combined factors most closely associated with delinquency--despite its increase among middle class youth--are urbanized poverty and ethnic or racial discrimination. Citing the encouraging results obtained by the establishment of "predelinquent gangs" by various organizations he demonstrates that prevention of delinquency is far more successful than rehabilitation.MacIver emphasizes the need for a strategy consisting of closer coordination of programs in nation as well as city a sustained system of group after-care and special training for law enforcement officers and judges to enable them to deal more competently with delinquents. In particular he calls for better educational services increased employment opportunities and higher qualifications and salaries for counselors.The Prevention and Control of Delinquency exploring an important aspect of urbanized life in instructive and absorbing detail points the way for effective action in the various areas of delinquent behavior. It provides a concrete description of the more important devices and experiments that are now being developed and practiced. Written by an outstanding authority this major work on the theoretical understanding control and cure of one of the crucial problems of our urban civilization is addressed to social scientists organizational leaders and workers and educators and planners in the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537774

The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide Over the last twenty years the world has witnessed four major genocides. There was the genocide in Iraq (1988) in Rwanda (1994) in Srebrenica (1995) and in Darfur (2003 and continuing). Most observers agree there is an urgent need to assess the international community's efforts to prevent genocide and to intervene (once a genocide is under way) in an effective and timely manner. This volume the latest in a widely respected series on the subject of genocide provides an overview of a host of issues germane to this task.The book begins with a cogent discussion of the issues of prevention and intervention during the Cold War years. The second chapter discusses the abject failures and moderate (though in some cases highly controversial) successes at prevention and intervention carried out in the 1990s and early 2000s. Further chapters examine latest efforts to develop an effective genocide early warning system and examine the complexity of and barriers to prevention. The pros and cons of sanctions and the problems of enforcement and evaluation their effectiveness are then discussed. Conflicts between state sovereignty and the protection of threatened populations are examined both in historical context and by incorporating the latest thinking.Later chapters treat the issue of intervention; why and how it has met with only limited success. Concentrating on Rwanda and Srebrenica chapter 8 discusses various peace operations that were abject failures and those that were moderately successful. The concept of an anti-genocide regime is examined in terms of progress in developing such a regime as well as what the international community must do in order to implement it. Chapters discuss key issues related to post-genocidal periods those that need to be addressed in order to establish stability in a wounded land and populace as well as to prevent future genocides. The final chapter asks whether bringing perpetrators to justice has any impact in breaking impunity ensuring deterrence and bringing about reconciliation.The contributors to the volume are all noted scholars some of whom specialize in the study of genocide and others who specialize in such areas as early warning peacekeeping and sanctions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138516755

The Prevention and Intervention of GenocideAn Annotated Bibliography This volume is comprised of over 2 300 annotations on a wide array of issues and topics germane to the subject of preventing the atrocities of genocide and managing these conflicts when they do arise. Samuel Totten brings together in one comprehensive collection the research and findings in various fields such as political science sociology history and psychology to enable specialists in genocide studies peace studies and conflict resolution to benefit from the insights of a diverse range of scholars and foster an understanding of how the various components of genocide studies connect. Among the topics included are: key conventions international treaties and covenants genocide early warning signals and forecasting risk data bases sanctions peacekeeping missions conflict resolution the International Criminal Court realpolitik vis-à-vis the issue of genocide prevention and intervention key non-governmental agencies key governmental and UN bodies working on these important issues.   In addition to the annotations Totten frames the bibliography with a major essay that introduces the reader to the subject of prevention and intervention of genocide raising a host of critical issues regarding the strengths weaknesses and limitations of various approaches germane to issues of managing these conflicts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138979321

The Prevention of CancerPointers from Epidemiology Epidemiological studies show that cancer incidence is far more dependent on the conditions of life than previously supposed. Classically cancers occurred with heavy exposure to a specific occupational hazard or were associated with habits. In some instances research shows the incidence of cancer falls when the method of work or the associated habit is changed. In short variation in incidence is now known to be the rule rather than the exception in cancer. No cancer that occurs with even moderate frequency occurs everywhere and always to the same extent. Sometimes it is even epidemic similar in scale to an epidemic of infectious disease but modified by the fact that the induction period may be as much as thirty years.Prevention of cancer is now coming to be regarded as a practicable alternative to its cure. We remain almost totally ignorant of how cancer is produced at the cellular level and until we know this our methods of prevention are liable to be cumbersome and inefficient. Ethical considerations and the time scale of the disease make it impossible to obtain experimental evidence in man and what action to take has been determined from observing nature's experiments and by analogy from experiments in animals.The evidence from epidemiological studies is of particular interest. Such studies suggest relationships that would never be thought of in the ordinary course of laboratory work and results that are directly relevant to the problems of human disease. The large numbers at risk and the intensity of the medical care to which people with cancer are subjected make it possible to recognize relatively small improvements. Such practical decisions based on information thus obtained have largely eliminated the risk of cancer due to occupational hazards in several industries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537781

The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating DisordersTheories Research and Applications In a detailed analysis of the field of eating problems and disorders this book highlights the connections between the prevention of eating problems and disorders and theory and research in the areas of prevention and health promotion. It also looks at models of risk development and prevention specific issues and challenges the status of current prevention research and lessons for prevention program development. In this unique text Levine and Smolak draw on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives including prevention science developmental psychology public health and neuroscience to provide a thorough review history and critique of the topic in light of a range of empirical studies. The only authored volume with a broad detailed and integrated view of theories research and practice this expanded fully revised and updated new edition features new chapters on dissonance-based approaches public health biopsychiatry and neuroscience gender culture(s) technology obesity  protective factors and ecological approaches. The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders: Theories Research and Applications is essential reading for clinicians academics researchers graduate students upper-level undergraduates and activists and advocates involved in work pertaining to eating disorders disordered eating prevention health promotion body image obesity and biopsychosocial perspectives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138225107

The Prevention of Suicide in PrisonCognitive behavioural approaches Suicide is considered to be the leading cause of preventable death in prisons. While there is increasingly expansive literature examining the various risk factors associated with a likelihood of eventual prison suicide so far this has struggled to lead to successful prevention programmes. An alternative approach is needed that seeks to understand at the individual level what leads a prisoner to contemplate ending their own life. This book describes how the authors developed and delivered evidence-based psychological interventions for suicide prevention in prison.The authors present a compelling argument for a psychological approach to the prevention of prison suicide drawing upon a cognitive behavioural perspective with chapters investigating two novel psychological therapies: Cognitive Behavioural Suicide Prevention and Problem Solving Training. The methodology behind each study is presented alongside preliminary findings emerging from the evaluations and detailed case studies are included as exemplars of the process and content of the therapies as well as the individual and contextual challenges to be overcome. The book provides timely research into the development of a better understanding of why prisoners engage in suicide behaviour and the preventive interventions showing the most promise for future investigation.The Prevention of Suicide in Prison will be critical reading for clinical and forensic psychologists psychological therapists psychiatrists and other mental health staff working within a prison context as well as postgraduates in training and researchers studying suicide in forensic settings. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815357698

The Prevention of Tuberculosis (Routledge Revivals) First published in 1908 this book presents a study of tuberculosis. It looks first at its causes before examining how the problem of mortality from illness had already been reduced. The third part of the book then focuses on measures for reducing and annihilating tuberculosis altogether. Being written in the earlier years of the twentieth century the book will not only be of interest to medical students and practitioners but also to historians. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138907935

The Price Index and its ExtensionA Chapter in Economic Measurement The book is not an unrestricted survey engaging a vast and repetative literature but a systematic treatise within clear boundaries largely a document of Afriat's own work. The original motive of the work is to elaborate a concept of what really is a price index which despite some kind of price-level notion having a presence throughout economics in theory and practice had been missing. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415652643

The Price of Coal This book originally published in 1974 examines the changes that took place in the market position of the coal industry in the twentieth century. It examines in detail the position of the industry during the two World Wars the problems of the inter-war years the effects of nationalisation and the coal shortage after the Second World War the decline of the markets in the 1960s and the consequences of the energy crisis of the early 1970s. The book analyses what problems the changes caused and what measures were taken to try to overcome them. Looking in detail at the industrial disputes of 1971/2 and 1973/4 the book shows how the miners' actions fitted in closely with their past experiences and behaviour patterns. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138304741

The Price of FreedomA History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present The Price of Freedom surveys and explains the fascinating and intricate history of East Central Europe - the present day countries of the Czech Republic Hungary Poland and Slovakia. Taking a thematic approach the author explores such issues and controversies as the tension between the industrial developed West and the agrarian East Central Europe the rise of modern nationalism democracy and authoritarianism and Communism. While the countries of East Central Europe have differed dramatically from one another the author asserts that they have been bound by a certain community of fate. These comparisons are traced through the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This exploration reveals that it is no accident that the Czech Republic Hungary and Poland were the first among the former Soviet bloc nations to be admitted to NATO and are likely to become the first members of the expanded European Union. Thus an understanding of their experiences contributions and their place within the European community of nations vastly enriches our knowledge of Europe's past and present.The second edition of this distinguished book brings the history of the region up to date. It discusses the events of the post-communist decade of the 1990s and the problems resulting from the transition to democracy and market economy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138130012

The Price of Gender EqualityMember States and Governance in the European Union This thoroughly researched well-documented book presents a theoretically guided empirical analysis of developing and implementing gender equality policies in the European Union (EU). In spite of a wealth of research many questions have long remained unanswered and these are addressed here. The author developed an international relations theoretical framework in order to explain the changing fortunes of women's activism the changing attitudes of European institutions and the behaviour of member states in a multi-level setting. The book traces the history and development of EU gender policy to the present day and will be inspirational reading for those interested in European governance and the European Union as well as gender issues and political sociology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367605742

The Price of Global HealthDrug Pricing Strategies to Balance Patient Access and the Funding of Innovation The Price of Global Health is a unique book that describes the pharmaceutical pricing process and its business economic and social challenges. Global drug pricing is one of the most hotly debated yet least understood aspects of the pharmaceutical industry. How should drug prices be set and what does it mean for patients? Why do governments increasingly get involved and what is its impact on the global competitive environment? How can a life-saving industry have a poorer image than gun and tobacco industries whose products are associated with death? The pharmaceutical industry is under unprecedented pressure due to a combination of declining R&D productivity payer/provider demands for better value and public pressures to show pricing restraint. Rapidly increasing cost of healthcare shifts from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement public pressure on drug pricing and an increasingly vocal medical community have empowered public and private payers worldwide to be more demanding on evidence of value for the prescription drugs that are brought to market. Pharmaceutical companies have often failed to deliver evidence of patient value as development decision-making is overly focused on speed to FDA approval rather than speed to commercial success by effectively addressing the many “Access Journey” obstacles that typify today’s much changed pharmaceutical environment. This 3rd edition is significantly expanded with ten new chapters and revised and updated throughout to reflect today’s environment. The contents are reorganized to directly address critical pricing and patient access issues. Ed Schoonveld explains how pharmaceutical prices are determined in a complex global payer environment and what factors influence the process. His insights will help a wide range of audiences from healthcare industry professionals to policy makers consumers pharmaceutical company leaders and access and pricing professionals to gain a better understanding of this highly complex and emotionally charged field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367279400

The Price of LoveThe selected works of Colin Murray Parkes In the course of a long career Colin Murray Parkes one of the most important and influential psychiatrists working in the field of bereavement and loss has produced a body of work which can be considered truly ground-breaking. His early studies involved working alongside John Bowlby in the development of attachment theory and led to his pioneering work on the Harvard Bereavement Project in the USA and at the new St Christopher's Hospice in Britain. Parkes focussed on two psychological processes grief which is the painful search for a lost person or object of attachment and transition which is the process of changing the assumptive world in ways that ensure that nothing worthwhile need be completely lost. Out of the struggle to resolve the conflict between holding on and letting go of the old assumptions there gradually emerges a new and more mature model of the world. These ideas throw light on a wide range of life change events and have proved useful to people faced with bereavement physical disabilities dying disasters and even terrorist attacks. In recent years he has supported humanitarian efforts in countries including Rwanda India and Japan. Parkes’ career has spanned several decades and touched countless lives. In The Price of Love Parkes presents papers which span the full extent of his career covering and linking together our understanding of the five major areas of his work: - Love and grief; - Crisis trauma and transition; - Death and dying; - Disasters; - War and terrorism: breaking the cycle. The papers included here have been carefully selected and annotated to show how Parkes’ thinking has developed during a career as researcher practitioner and educator. In each section of the book psychological and social causes are paired with consequences and interventions (both preventive and therapeutic) and explored from Western and cross-cultural perspectives all with Parkes’ customary clarity and compassion. This unique collection of papers will prove invaluable to psychologists psychiatrists palliative care staff counsellors and students as well as those studying international conflict and working with the bereaved. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138026100

The Price of Morality Originally published in 1961 this book defines the specific traits and describes the concrete qualities of moral action. It denotes the boundaries and discusses the conflicts which arise between the aims of moral goodness and those of pure religiosity personal and historic grandeur and creative excellence. The theories of theologians like Barth and Brunner among others and the maximalist theories of Nietzsche and his disciples and certain existentialists are contrasted with Kant’s essay on pure ethics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367466350

The Price Of Punishment: Public Spending For Corrections In New York Despite the intensity of the national debate concerning control and correctional policies neither the costs of existing agencies nor of alternative approaches are adequately understood. Accurate figures are not reported to private citizens or public officials and spending is fragmented among different agencies and governing units. This study presents a comprehensive description and analysis of how much money was actually spent in New York in 1977–1978 at all levels of government for each of the control systems that incarcerate or supervise criminal offenders/defendants. After a broad overview of criminal justice spending it details spending for prisons jails probation and parole; evaluates the services provided by these public expenditures; and discusses proposals for alternative penal policies and their fiscal implications. The book concludes with recommendations for improved government cost accounting as well as suggestions for broader penal reforms. Although restricted to an analysis of New York the findings and recommendations are broadly relevant to other regions of the country. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295363

The Price of Sex As a society we are buying more sex than ever before. Adult sex shops now take their place amongst retailers in the high street and lap dancing clubs compete for an increased share of the leisure economy; hotel chains offer sexually explicit films as part of their standard service the party selling of adult toys to women in their homes has become a mainstream activity; and at the traditional end of the sexual service economy prostitution has experienced new growth. Along with this has come new legal measures and attempts to regulate the sexual leisure economy and far more comprehensive plans than ever before to regulate prostitution in particular in the form of the new Sex Offences Act. This book seeks to address the range of issues and contemporary debates on the sex industry including the demand by customers who buy sex the policing of women who work in the street sex industry and the violence that pervades prostitution. It shows how these issues have been addressed in policy terms the problems that have emerged in this and how a social policy might be formulated to minimize harm and enhance public understanding. Overall the book aims to provide a critical perspective on prostitution policies and the legal chaos and complexities that surround this. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781843926566

The Price of WarUrbanization in Vietnam 1954-1985 Much rare material is incorporated in this unique account of urbanization in a developing country that was ravaged by war for twenty years. With due emphasis on the experience of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) the authors present an account of what happened to the towns and cities of Vietnam between the establishment of Ho Chi Minh's socialist state in 1954 and the mid 1980s. The story is introduced through a general theoretical and empirical account of urbanization in socialist Third World countries. The book stresses the importance of the turmoil created by warfare in directing urbanization but it also refers to the more conventially studied determinants of the process such as the institution of a planned economy. As one of the few books highlighting the impact of warfare on urban settlements The Price of War will interest all those interested in urbanization development and South-East Asia. This book was first published in 1986.       Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138873988

The Price ReportersA Guide to PRAs and Commodity Benchmarks Every consumer in a modern economy is indirectly exposed to the work of a price reporting agency (PRA) each time they fill up their car take a flight or switch on a light and yet the general public is completely unaware of the existence of PRAs. Firms like Platts Argus and ICIS which are referenced every day by commodity traders and which influence billions of dollars of trade are totally unfamiliar to consumers. The Price Reporters: A Guide to PRAs and Commodity Benchmarks brings the mysterious world of price reporting out of the shadows for the first time providing a comprehensive guide to the agencies that set the world’s commodity prices. This book explains the importance of PRAs to the global commodities industry highlighting why PRAs affect every consumer around the world. It introduces the individual PRAs their history and the current state of play in the industry and also presents the challenges that the PRA industry is facing now and in the future in particular how regulation might impact on the PRAs their relationships with commodity exchanges and their likely direction. This is the first-ever guide to PRAs and is destined to become the standard reference work for anyone with an interest in commodity prices and the firms that set them. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138721562

The Price You PayThe Hidden Cost of Women's Relationship to Money In The Price We Pay Margaret Randall interviews women from a wide range of economic racial and cultural backgrounds to reveal the role money plays in their lives. These women speak of their changing expectations and attitudes regarding money. Daughters of immigrants remember what money meant in the transition between worlds. They disclose the feelings that they have of stigma or shame at not having enough guilt at having too much and the lies secrets and silences caused by these feelings. These personal stories are woven into a history of women's economics and chapters on family work the media power and control and lesbian economics. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315865881

The Primacy of Method in Historical ResearchPhilosophy of History and the Perspective of Meaning How does history relate to the past? According to leading historical theorists the relation to the past in history is reducible to evidential psychological practical and retrospective concerns. In contrast this volume claims that historical relations to the past are irreducible products of the logical commitments of history as method. Ahlskog argues that the method of history shapes and enables relations to the past in historical research by invoking past perspectives of meaning for rendering reality intelligible. The book provides a much-needed philosophical clarification of key concepts in one of the most fundamental debates within the humanities today. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367642907

The Primary Behaviour CookbookStrategies at your Fingertips Developed in conjunction with practitioners and teachers The Primary Behaviour Cookbook provides highly effective practical strategies for responding to and resolving behavioural issues in primary classrooms. Consisting of over forty ‘recipes’ the book’s unique format enables practitioners to quickly and easily access information and advice on dealing with specific behaviours. Each ‘recipe’ details strategies and interventions for immediate application in the classroom setting considers possible causes of the given behaviour and offers helpful approaches for responding to the child’s needs in the longer term. From disengagement to impulsivity attention-seeking defiance bullying anxiety and aggression the book’s five sections cover a broad spectrum of behaviours falling within five broader categories: Getting things done: supporting positive student engagement and achievement Dealing with disruption: increasing motivation and skills to facilitate learning Social interactions: resolving problematic situations that occur between pupils. Emotional distress: understanding distress and developing coping strategies Behaviours of special concern: recognising behaviours associated with autism trauma or abuse. Underpinned by positive psychology and emphasizing the importance of constructive relationships communication inclusion and child wellbeing this is an indispensable resource for primary school teachers and assistants behaviour support consultants SENDCOs and educational psychologists.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815393382

The Primary Coordinator and OFSTED Re-Inspection Specifically designed for busy teachers who have responsibility for coordinating a subject area within their primary school. Each volume in the series conforms to a concise style while providing a wealth of tips case studies and photocopiable material that teachers can use immediately. subject they are called on to co-ordinate these books provide guidance and examples to tackle the job.; There are special volumes dedicated to dealing with OFSTED creating whole school policy and the demands of co-ordinating several subjects within a small school.; The entire set of 16 volumes is available. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138421714

The Primary CurriculumLearning from International Perspectives This book is concerned with the relationships and tensions in education between children's needs and societies' demands questions which primary teachers everywhere face on a daily basis such as: how does society's view of children and childhood affect teaching and learning? how do the dictates of the education system including a national curriculum shape teaching practice? how do the conventions of classroom practice fit with teachers' own beliefs and values? The first part of the book offers a basic framework for thinking about primary curricula from the perspectives raised by these questions whilst the second part presents a range of international views on the primary curriculum from Australia New Zealand South-East Asia Europe and the USA. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138416338

The Primary English EncyclopediaThe heart of the curriculum This newly updated user friendly Primary English Encyclopedia addresses all aspects of the primary English curriculum and is an invaluable reference for all training and practising teachers. Now in its fifth edition entries have been revised to take account of new research and thinking. The approach is supportive of the reflective practitioner in meeting National Curriculum requirements in England and developing sound subject knowledge and good classroom practice. While the book is scholarly the author writes in a conversational style and includes reproductions of covers of recommended children’s books and examples of children’s writing and drawing to add interest. The encyclopedia includes: over 600 entries many expanded and entirely new for this edition including entries on apps blogging and computing; short definitions of key concepts; input on the initial teaching of reading including the teaching of phonics and the other cue-systems; extended entries on major topics such as speaking and listening reading writing drama poetry non-fiction bilingualism and children’s literature; information on new literacies and new kinds of texts for children; discussion of current issues and input on the history of English teaching in the primary years; extended entries on gender and literacy; important references for each topic advice on further reading and accounts of recent research findings; and a Who’s Who of Primary English and lists of essential texts updated for this new edition. This encyclopedia will be ideal for student teachers on BA and PGCE courses preparing for work in primary schools and primary school teachers. Anyone concerned with bringing about the informed and imaginative teaching of primary school English will find this book helpful and interesting. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138650275

The Primary FRCA Structured Oral Exam Guide 1 The Primary FRCA Structured Oral Examination Study Guide 1 is the definitive revision aid to the Primary FRCA structured oral examination. This second edition is revised and updated in line with the new Royal College of Anaesthetists ‘Guide to the Primary FRCA’ with over 20 new topics to reflect changes to the RCoA’s model questions and major revisions to graphs diagrams and many of the pre-existing sections. Packed with new guidelines and current hot topics this first volume covers physiology and physics. The nearly 50 physiology topics covered include lung function hypoxia acid–base balance pain pathways oxygen transport cerebral blood flow and more. Nearly 30 physics topics are covered including gas laws oxygen measurement cardiac output monitoring safety features of the anaesthetic machine resuscitation bags and valves depth of anaesthesia monitoring and more. The second edition of this hugely popular book is improved in clarity and content but stays true to the pragmatic approach adopted by the authors in the first edition. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781785230981

The Primary FRCA Structured Oral Exam Guide 2 The Primary FRCA Structured Oral Examination Study Guide 2 is the definitive revision aid to the Primary FRCA structured oral examination. This second edition is revised and updated in line with the new Royal College of Anaesthetists ‘Guide to the Primary FRCA’ with over 20 new topics to reflect changes to the RCoA’s model questions and major revisions to graphs diagrams and many of the pre-existing sections. Packed with new guidelines and current hot topics this second volume covers pharmacology special patient groups and critical incidents in depth. Over 37 pharmacology topics are covered including mechanisms of drug action dose-response curves drug interactions half-life variations in drug metabolism opioids neuromuscular blocking drugs and more. Twelve special patient groups topics are covered including paediatrics elderly pregnancy diabetes hypertension and more. Over 20 critical incidents topics are covered including aspiration cyanosis bradycardia failed intubation ST segment changes hypoxia and more. The second edition of this hugely popular book is improved in clarity and content but stays true to the pragmatic approach adopted by the authors in the first edition. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781785231056

The Primary Headteacher's Handbook Launching the new Kogan Page Primary Essentials series this indispensable handbook for all practising and aspiring primary headteachers will help primary school leaders rise to the many challenges that face them in the task of effectively managing a busy primary school. Some of the key areas examined are: * staff development* recruiting and managing staff* the school as an organisation* leadership* managing a successful inspection. As well as acting as a guide to best practice for those tasked with the role of headship this comprehensive and straightforward handbook will also assist governors deputies senior teachers those studying for NPQH to understand how an effective head can create and sustain an effective school. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138178083

The Primary School in Changing TimesThe Australian Experience Following substantial changes throughout the Australian education system primary schools are no longer in the protected position of having a regulated flow of clients a pre-determined curriculum and marginal levels of staff development. Recent moves have brought new or increased responsibilities for all schools in areas such as: curriculum and policy development staff development monitoring and assessment the use of new technologies resource allocation This book seeks to review the impact of this change on Australian primary schools on the people who are involved with them and the issues they face. Primary education is being re-structured throughout the world and therefore these issues are of great interest and relevance to educators worldwide. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138418530

The Primary Sector in Economic Development (Routledge Revivals)Proceedings of the Seventh Arne Ryde Symposium Frostavallen August 29-30 1983 A major problem for less developed countries is to make their primary sectors sufficiently profitable in order to be able to build up manufacturing and service sectors. This edited collection first published in 1985 examines the nature of the primary sector and its role in economic development. Chapters consider problems of stagnation and income distribution in such countries as Chile and Brazil; trade in national primary products and exports in Africa and the Middle East; and reform and policies of development in countries such as Peru. An interesting volume with an international scope this title will be of value to economics students with a particular interest in the role of the primary sector in developing economies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138818880

The Primary STEM Ideas BookEngaging Classroom Activities Combining Mathematics Science and D&T The Primary STEM Ideas Book is designed to promote the integrated teaching of STEM in the primary classroom by providing teachers with lesson ideas for investigations and projects. The statutory requirements of the National Curriculum for science mathematics and design and technology are comprehensively covered through a variety of practical stimulating and engaging activities which have all been tried and tested in the primary classroom. The interrelationship between the STEM subjects is strongly integrated throughout allowing children’s knowledge and skills to develop with confidence in these key subjects through activities that only require easily accessible resources generally found in the classroom. Written by subject specialists with years of classroom experience teaching STEM subjects each chapter contains: A rationale showing links to the National Curriculum Key subject knowledge Brief activity plans Ideas for supporting higher and lower attaining children Follow-up ideas to provide extra inspiration Including ‘how to’ guides and other photocopiable resources this book is perfect for creating integrated lessons group work and discussions relating to STEM. The Primary STEM Ideas Book provides easy to follow instructions and helps spark fresh inspiration for both new and experienced teachers in primary STEM education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138340541

The Primary Teacher's Career Handbook The Primary Teacher’s Career Handbook is invaluable to all those in Primary education. This essential and unique handbook sets out a complete and much needed career development path for Primary School teachers from the stage of seeking a first appointment through to middle-management Headship and beyond. Throughout the book teachers will be shown how to plan their career development by making their present role successful enabling them to make a smooth progression to achieve their career aspirations. Offering realistic advice and including pragmatic solutions which result from years of first-hand experience the chapters explore key career stages such as: applying for your first teaching post; being successful in your induction year; managing a subject area; professional development and developing as a leader; preparing for Deputy Headship and achieving your first Headship role; building your CV and making an application; interviews; and working with colleagues parents and governors. Written to support the work of all those in the field of Primary education this book is not just essential reading for trainee and newly qualified teachers but it is an invaluable resource for teachers at every stage of their careers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138814059

The Primate ZoonosesCulture Change and Emerging Diseases This book offers an accessible and up-to-date reference on primate zoonoses. Recent years have witnessed a rise in human diseases zoonotically transferred from animals with wild primates implicated in the spread of numerous newly emerging infections. The authors go beyond simply providing an inventory of diseases helping readers to understand how and why they are transmitted. Important consideration is given to the contemporary cultural and ecological factors involved. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367607326

The Primitive Edge of Experience This book is concerned with the primitive edge of human experience. It explores the idea that human experience is the product of the dialectical interplay of three modes of generating experience: the depressive the paranoid-schizoid and the autistic-contiguous. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367328542

The Primitive Mind And Modern Civilization First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138874947

The Primordial Mind in Health and IllnessA Cross-Cultural Perspective The universal quest to create cosmologies – to comprehend the relationship between mind and world - is inevitably limited by the social cultural and historical perspective of the observer in this instance western psychoanalysis. In this book Michael Robbins attempts to transcend such contextual limitations by putting forward a primordial form of mental activity that co-exists alongside thought and is of equal importance in human affairs. This book challenges the western assumption that knowledge is synonymous with rational thought and that the aspect of mind that is not thought is immature irrational regressive and pathological. Robbins illustrates the central role of primordial mental activity in spiritual cultures analogous to that of thought in western culture as well as its significant contributions to numerous other phenomena including dreaming language creativity shamanism and psychosis. In addition to his extensive clinical experience as a psychoanalyst Robbins draws on first-hand contact with Maori and other shamanistic cultures. Vividly illustrated by first and second hand accounts this book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts those with a psychological interest in spiritual cultures as well as those in the fields of developmental psychology cultural anthropology neuroscience aesthetics and linguistics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415454612

The Primordial ViolenceSpanking Children Psychological Development Violence and Crime A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014! Why do parents hit those they love? What effect does it have on children? What can be done to end this pattern? These are some of the questions explored in The Primordial Violence. Featuring longitudinal data from over 7 000 U.S. families as well as results from a 32 nation study the book presents the latest research on the extent to which spanking is used in different cultures and the subsequent effects of its use on children and on society. Evidence that shows the relationship between spanking and the subsequent slowing of cognitive development and increase in antisocial and criminal behavior is shown. Both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies are explored in an accessible fashion. An abundance of high quality research has produced findings that are highly consistent from study to study which show that spanking is a risk factor for aggressive behavior and other social and psychological problems. Because of these findings the authors argue for policy changes and recommend a drastic reduction in the use of spanking. Policy and practical implications are explored in most chapters.　 　 The Primordial Violence highlights: The benefits of avoiding spanking such as the development of better interpersonal skills and higher academic achievement; The link between spanking and behavioral problems and crime; The extent to which spanking is declining and why despite the unusually high level of agreement between numerous studies which found harmful effects from spanking most parents continue to spank. Part 1 documents the worldwide use of spanking and why parents spank. The possible adverse effects of spanking on children’s behavior and academic achievement and the potential for violence and criminal behavior in later life are explored in Parts 2 3 and 4. Part 5 examines trends in spanking and suggests what can be done to lower the percent of parents who spank. Contradictory opinions about whether to spank are explored. The book concludes with a call for change in this aspect of parenting which will have profound benefits for the children and families involved and society as a whole.　 Intended for a general audience of readers who are interested in child development and parenting and for advanced undergraduate and/or graduate courses in child abuse family violence juvenile delinquency criminal behavior social development sociology of the family or parenting and family relations taught in psychology human development family studies criminology education social work sociology and social policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781848729537

The Princess's Novelettes Complete Story 1886 - 1888 (6-vol. EP set) The Princess's Novelettes was a successful Victorian ‘penny’ magazine aiming at the market of mainly working class young women. The weekly was launched by Edwin J. Brett known as publisher and editor of the popular magazine The Boys of England. Each issue featured one short novel as well as a small column on gossips of royals and/or celebrities and included many illustrations and plates. Most of the novels are by unknown authors and contain sensational stories of romance or mystery. The title The Princess's Novelettes appears in various primary sources of history of Victorian women. It was believed to be circulated widely not only in London but also in regional towns and even parts of rural England. However despite its importance the number of academic libraries holding the original volumes of the periodical is extremely limited. This is the first time that the early volumes (1-6) in complete issues have become available. Providing easy access to primary materials on working class society of the Victorian period which compared to the rich historical source material available on the middle classes can often be hard to locate this facsimile reprint is particularly vital for any scholars in the field of Women’s history and literature of 19th century England. Media > Books > Print Books Edition Synapse 9784902454840

The Principal as Human Resources LeaderA Guide to Exemplary Practices for Personnel Administration Increasingly personnel administrative duties within schools have been delegated to the local school principal. This accessible book arms school leaders with the knowledge and skills required to be an effective human resources leader and shows them how to fold these additional duties seamlessly into their daily routines. This practical resource provides school administrators with guidance on personnel selection growth and development orientation and placement school climate legal processes leadership for classified staff and other important human resources processes. Special Features: • Grounded in extensive research and interviews with practicing principals• Provides a wealth of examples strategies tips and best practices for leading the human resources function at the school level• Chapter exercises and case studies explore the skills and knowledge needed for effective human resource leadership• Details the significance of developing a positive school climate• Legal aspects of human resources administration are made digestible and understandable   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138024403

The Principal as Instructional LeaderA Practical Handbook In the updated third edition of this highly successful book leadership expert Sally Zepeda offers savvy advice to both new and seasoned principals and assistant principals. You get practical tools and strategies along with real-world examples to help you improve teacher effectiveness and boost student achievement. This edition features valuable resources for teacher evaluation and professional development programs including: Tools and procedures for conducting classroom observations and pre- and post-observation conferences How-to steps for assessing the culture and climate of your school Strategies to address marginal teaching Techniques to support adult learning and professional development Related News & Media Dr. Doug Green featured a book summary of The Principal as Instructional Leader: A Practical Handbook (3rd Edition) on his website.The Principal as Instructional Leader: A Practical Handbook (3rd Edition) by Sally J. Zepeda was reviewed in The 21st Century Principal. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781596672215

The Principal Factors in Freight Train Operating This book first published in 1923 examines the states of Britain’s rail network at the cusp of great change. The Railways Act of 1921 placed public service on behalf of the community as the raison d’etre of a railway company’s existence – rather than the private gain of shareholders. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138632660

The Principal's Guide to the First 100 Days of the School YearCreating Instructional Momentum For veteran principals new principals and aspiring principals this book is a critical resource for building instructional momentum during the beginning of the school year. Educational leadership expert Shawn Joseph guides administrators through five key areas: Vision Instructional Leadership Politics Data and Planning. With detailed timelines practical advice and ready-to-use resources Joseph explains the essential steps to leadership success that will continue throughout the school year. New to this edition: Updated advice to align with the revised ISLLC standards and general updates to reflect the current educational terrain Additional sample letters lists and timelines to aid the busy principal eResources with supplemental material Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138658455

The Principal's Guide to the First 100 Days of the School YearCreating Instructional Momentum For veteran principals new principals and aspiring principals this book is a valuable resource for building instructional momentum during the beginning of the school year. Educational leadership expert Shawn Joseph guides administrators through five key areas: Vision Instructional Leadership Politics Data Planning With detailed timelines practical advice and ready-to-use resources Joseph explains the essential steps to leadership success that will continue throughout the school year. Supplemental Downloads available to book-buyers! Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781596672024

The Principalship from A to Z The second edition of The Principalship from A to Z provides a set of tools that can be used immediately to improve your leadership practice. Organized into 26 chapters—one for each letter of the alphabet—this book covers the most important and prevalent issues and skills for leaders in today’s schools including matters of limited funding juggling social media teacher evaluation student achievement school safety and collaborating with parents. This accessible guide offers specific strategies that will help you navigate the complexity of your job and help you to become a more effective principal. Topics new to this updated edition include: A renewed focus on student learning as the first priority of a principal and updated strategies for becoming a powerful instructional coach Information about restorative justice practices and other disciplinary approaches Timely new chapters on motivating teachers and students using social media and handling limited resources Updated resources at the end of each chapter For both new and experienced leaders you’ll find this book to be full of practical templates and strategies to implement immediately. Many tools are available as free eResources from our website www.routledge.com/9781138899568. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138899568

The Principle of Double EffectA History and Philosophical Defense This book offers a comprehensive history of the principle of double effect and its applications in ethics. Written from a non-theological perspective it makes the case for the centrality of the double effect reasoning in philosophical ethics. The book is divided into two parts. The first part thoroughly examines the history of double effect reasoning. The author’s history spans from Thomas Aquinas’s opera omnia to the modern and influential understanding of the principle known as proportionalism. The second part of the book elucidates the principle and addresses various objections that have been raised against it including those that arise from an in-depth discussion of the trolley problem. Finally the author examines the role of intentions in ethical thinking and constructs a novel defense of the principle based on fine distinctions between intentions. The Principle of Double Effect: A History and Philosophical Defense will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in moral philosophy the history of ethics bioethics medical ethics and the Catholic moral tradition. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367442460

The Principle of Effective Legal Protection in Administrative LawA European Perspective This collection presents a comparative analysis of the principle of effective legal protection in administrative law in Europe. It examines how European states consider and enforce the related requirements in their domestic administrative law. The book is divided into three parts: the first comprises a theoretical introductory chapter along with perspectives from International and European Law; part two presents 15 individual country reports on the principle of effective legal protection in mostly EU member states. The core function of the reports is to provide an analysis of the domestic instruments and procedures. Adopting a contextual approach they consider the historical political and legal circumstances as well as analysing the relevant case law of the domestic courts; the third part provides a comparative analysis of the country reports. The final chapter assesses the influence and relevance of EU law and the ECHR. The book thus identifies the most important trends and makes a valuable contribution to the debate around convergence and divergence in European national administrative systems. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138606630

The Principle of SustainabilityTransforming law and governance This book investigates how sustainability informs key principles and concepts of domestic and international law. It calls for the recognition of ecological sustainability as a fundamental principle to guide the entire legal system rather than just environmental legislation. To this end the book makes a contribution to global environmental constitutionalism a rapidly growing area within comparative and international environmental law and constitutional law. This 2nd edition has been fully revised and updated to take account of recent developments and new case law. The book will be a valuable resource for students researchers and policy makers working in the areas of environmental law and governance. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472481313

The Principle of SustainabilityTransforming Law and Governance This book investigates how sustainability informs the universal principles used in domestic and international law. It calls for the acceptance of sustainability as a recognized legal principle which could be applied to the entire legal system rather than just environmental law and regardless of its international or domestic levels. To this end the book makes a contribution to a theory of global law by discussing whether as a universally shared concern environmental protection and the principle of sustainability should contribute to the 'greening' of the fundamental principles of law and governance. The book will be a valuable resource for students researchers and policy makers working in the areas of environmental law and governance. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553962

The Principles and Practice of Primary Care and Family MedicineAsia-Pacific Perspectives Guidelines are powerful instruments of assistance to clinicians capable of extending the clinical roles of nurses and pharmacists. Purchasers and managers perceive them as technological tools guaranteeing treatment quality. Guidelines also offer mechanisms by which doctors and other health care professionals can be made more accountable to their patients. But how can clinicians tell whether a guideline has authority and whether or not it should be followed? Does the law protect doctors who comply with guidelines? Are guideline developers liable for faulty advice? This timely book provides a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the many medical and legal issues arising from the current explosion of clinical guidelines. Featuring clear summaries of relevant UK US and Commonwealth case law it is vital reading for all doctors health care workers managers purchasers patients and lawyers. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781315365275

The Principles and Practice of Tonal Counterpoint The Principles and Practice of Tonal Counterpoint is a comprehensive textbook that combines practical "how-to" guidance in 18th-century techniques with extensive historical examination of contrapuntal works and genres. Beginning with an introductory grounding in species counterpoint tonal harmony and figured bass students progress through the study of chorale preludes invertible counterpoint and canonic and fugal writing. This textbook thoroughly joins principle with practice providing a truly immersive experience in the study of tonal counterpoint and familiarizing students with contrapuntal styles from the Baroque period to the 21st century. Also available is a companion volume The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint which focuses on 16th-century techniques and covers modal music from Gregorian chant through the 17th century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415988667

The Principles of Embryology First published in 1956 this book was considered the first comprehensive and unitary work on the subject since 1934. It provides an analysis of the relations between genetics and epigenetics between genes and their effects. The book will be of interest to ebryologists but also to more general biologists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138956988

The Principles of Gender-Sensitive Parliaments Gender serves as a lens that makes visible important issues in the field of representation: Whom do elected politicians represent? What is at stake in the parliamentary process? What do we know about the interplay between parliaments and the everyday lives of citizens? It is widely understood that women’s presence in government matters but we need to understand the conditions under which it matters more clearly. Using Sweden as a case study a country where the number of women elected to the national parliament has steadily risen since the 1970s Lena Wängnerud presents a novel approach on which characteristics inside a parliament help translate physical representation into substantive representation for women. Using three guiding principles: (i) the implementation of equal opportunities for women and men to influence internal parliamentary working procedures; (ii) the creation of room for women’s interests and concerns on the political agenda; and (iii) the production of gender-sensitive legislation Wängnerud shows what are the necessary conditions for women’s needs interests and concerns to be adequately integrated into parliamentary processes. The Principles of Gender-Sensitive Parliaments book adds fuel to all these classical debates within the field of political representation and will bring attention to a wider audience on why electing women matters. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138066632

The Principles of Green UrbanismTransforming the City for Sustainability How can we transform and future-proof the post-industrial city through strategies of architectural and urban design? The answer is to use an energy-efficient zero-carbon model based on renewable energy sources and renewable building typologies. This book presents different models for sustainable urban growth based on the principles of 'Green Urbanism'. Current and emergent forms of urbanism are influenced by climate change leading to the idea of a new generation of 'zero-emission cities'. These cities are seen as applying new concepts in densification and expansion designed with energy efficiency and sustainability as principal criteria. The aim of this type of 'Systems Thinking' is to connect and integrate sustainable design principles with a holistic idea for the future of our cities to generate future-proof strategies for the revitalization of the urban landscape. The first section of the book clearly explains these principles and how they can be employed illustrated by clear diagrams for ease of comprehension. The principles as applied are then explored through in-depth case studies of the post-industrial Australian city of Newcastle which is at an important juncture in its urban evolution. This is essential reading for urban designers architects landscape architects and researchers/students in these disciplines around the world. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781849775342

The Principles of Housing The Principles of Housing is an engaging and discursive introduction to the key topics within housing studies. Whereas many books get bogged down in country-specific policy or small innovations this book argues that the fundamental concepts of what we call housing are relatively stable and unchangeable. By focusing on universal principles the book provides an introduction to housing that can be used by students world-wide. The book consists of a series of short chapters relating to the key issues of housing such as borrowing choice finance government need reform and welfare. Each chapter is designed to be a starting point for a wider conversation with discussion questions and a number of think pieces and international case studies to help students connect these general principles to their own surroundings. Written by renowned housing expert Peter King The Principles of Housing succeeds in being accessible and engaging without shying away from the complexities of housing issues. The book will be invaluable to students on housing-related courses across finance real estate planning development politics and sociology subjects. The book would also be useful to housing professionals and policy makers aiming to expand their understanding of housing issues. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138939424

The Principles of Islamic Marketing The Principles of Islamic Marketing fills a gap in international business literature covering the aspects and values of Islamic business thought. It provides a framework and practical perspectives for understanding and implementing the Islamic marketing code of conduct. It is not a religious book. The Islamic Economic System is a business model adopted by nearly one fifth of the world's population. Baker Alserhan identifies the features of the Islamic structure of International Marketing practices and ethics. Adherence to such ethical practices elevates the standards of behaviour of traders and consumers alike and creates a value-loaded framework for firms establishing harmony and meaningful cooperation between international marketers and their Muslim target markets. His book provides a complete guide to the requirements an organization needs to follow when managing its entire marketing function within the Muslim market or when adapting part of its offering to that market. It addresses the challenges facing marketers involved in business activities with and within Islamic communities the knowledge needs of academic institutions and the interest of multinationals keen on tapping the huge Islamic markets. Along the way Baker Alserhan provides insights into the various aspects of promoting to the Islamic markets such as franchising distribution channels and retailing practices branding positioning and pricing issues; all within the Muslim legal and cultural norms. Above all The Principles of Islamic Marketing will lay the foundation of and advance Islamic Marketing as a new social science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367667399

The Principles of Islamic Marketing The Principles of Islamic Marketing fills a gap in international business literature covering the aspects and values of Islamic business thought. It provides a framework and practical perspectives for understanding and implementing the Islamic marketing code of conduct. It is not a religious book. The Islamic Economic System is a business model adopted by nearly one quarter of the world’s population. Baker Alserhan identifies the features of the Islamic structure of International Marketing practices and ethics. Adherence to such ethical practices elevates the standards of behaviour of traders and consumers alike and creates a value-loaded framework for meaningful cooperation between international marketers and their Muslim markets. His book provides a complete guide for an organization when managing its entire marketing function or when customising part of its offering to suit Muslim customers. It addresses the challenges facing marketers involved in business activities with and within Islamic communities the knowledge needs of academic institutions and the interest of multinationals keen on tapping the huge Islamic markets. Along the way Baker Alserhan provides insights into key elements such as distribution channels retailing practices branding positioning and pricing; all within the Muslim legal and cultural norms. This second edition brings the book up to date and features a number of new case studies and two additional chapters on Maqasid Al Shariah and the Islamic economy and a strategic perspective on Islamic marketing and branding. Media > Books > Print Books Gower 9781472460301

The Principles of Islamic Marketing The Principles of Islamic Marketing fills a gap in international business literature covering the aspects and values of Islamic business thought. It provides a framework and practical perspectives for understanding and implementing the Islamic marketing code of conduct. It is not a religious book. The Islamic Economic System is a business model adopted by nearly one quarter of the world’s population. Baker Alserhan identifies the features of the Islamic structure of International Marketing practices and ethics. Adherence to such ethical practices elevates the standards of behaviour of traders and consumers alike and creates a value-loaded framework for meaningful cooperation between international marketers and their Muslim markets. His book provides a complete guide for an organization when managing its entire marketing function or when customising part of its offering to suit Muslim customers. It addresses the challenges facing marketers involved in business activities with and within Islamic communities the knowledge needs of academic institutions and the interest of multinationals keen on tapping the huge Islamic markets. Along the way Baker Alserhan provides insights into key elements such as distribution channels retailing practices branding positioning and pricing; all within the Muslim legal and cultural norms. This second edition brings the book up to date and features a number of new case studies and two additional chapters on Maqasid Al Shariah and the Islamic economy and a strategic perspective on Islamic marketing and branding. Media > Books > E-books Gower 9781315553948

The Principles of Multimedia JournalismPackaging Digital News In this much-needed examination of the principles of multimedia journalism experienced journalists Richard Koci Hernandez and Jeremy Rue systemize and categorize the characteristics of the new often experimental story forms that appear on today's digital news platforms. By identifying a classification of digital news packages and introducing a new vocabulary for how content is packaged and presented the authors give students and professionals alike a way to talk about and understand the importance of story design in an era of convergence storytelling. Online all forms of media are on the table: audio video images graphics and text are available to journalists at any type of media company as components with which to tell a story. This book provides insider instruction on how to package and interweave the different media forms together into an effective narrative structure. Featuring interviews with some of the most exceptional storytellers and innovators of our time including web and interactive producers at the New York Times NPR The Marshall Project The Guardian National Film Board of Canada and the Verge this exciting and timely new book analyzes examples of innovative stories that leverage technology in unexpected ways to create entirely new experiences online that both engage and inform. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415738163

The Principles of New Ethics IIINormative Ethics II From Descartes to Spinoza Western philosophers have attempted to propose an axiomatic systemization of ethics. However without consensus on the contents and objects of ethics the system remains incomplete. This four-volume set presents a model that highlights a Chinese philosopher’s insights on ethics after a 22 year study. Three essential components of ethics are examined: metaethics normative ethics and virtue ethics. This volume is the second part of the discussion on normative ethics. 　The author analyzes humanity liberty justice happiness and systems of moral rules. He puts forward 26 value standards that construct a system of measuring state instruction; reveals the relationship between humanity liberty and justice; puts forward three objective laws of happiness; and discusses the goodness of important moral rules such as honesty self-respect and courage. This set is an essential read for students and scholars of ethics and philosophy in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138331631

The Principles of New Ethics IINormative Ethics I From Descartes to Spinoza Western philosophers have attempted to propose an axiomatic systemization of ethics. However without consensus on the contents and objects of ethics the system remains incomplete. This fourvolume set presents a model that highlights a Chinese philosopher’s insights on ethics after a 22-year study. Three essential components of ethics are examined: metaethics normative ethics and virtue ethics. This volume is the fi rst part of the discussion on normative ethics. The author sets out to discuss morality and shows how the reasoning behind it can be both good and bad for human society from various perspectives. A system of an ultimate standard of morality is introduced and it is shown that where there are confl icts between different moral norms that cannot be compromised people undoubtedly sacrifi ce less important moral norms to follow more fundamental and important moral norms or principles. The ultimate standard of morality is also the ultimate value standard for the evaluation of the goodness or badness of state institutions. Justice is the fundamental value standard to measure state institutions. Equality is the most important justice. The Chinese version of this set sold more than 60 000 copies and has exerted tremendous infl uence on the academic scene in the People’s Republic. The English version will be an essential read for students and scholars of ethics and philosophy in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138331624

The Principles of New Ethics IMeta-ethics From Descartes to Spinoza Western philosophers have attempted to propose an axiomatic systemization of ethics. However without consensus on the contents and objects of ethics the system remains incomplete. This fourvolume set presents a model that highlights a Chinese philosopher’s insights on ethics after a 22-year study. Three essential components of ethics are examined: metaethics normative ethics and virtue ethics. This volume mainly studies meta- ethics. The author not only studies the fi ve primitive concepts of ethics— “value ” “good ” “ought ” “right ” and “fact”— and reveals their relationship but also demonstrates the solution to the classic “Hume’s guillotine”— whether “ought” can be derived from “fact.” His aim is to identify the methods of making excellent moral norms leading to solutions on how to prove ethical axioms and ethical postulates. Written by a renowned philosopher the Chinese version of this set sold more than 60 000 copies and has exerted tremendous infl uence on the academic scene in China. The English version will be an essential read for students and scholars of ethics and philosophy in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138331617

The Principles of New Ethics IVVirtue Ethics From Descartes to Spinoza Western philosophers have attempted to propose an axiomatic systemization of ethics. However without consensus on the contents and objects of ethics the system remains incomplete. This four-volume set presents a model that highlights a Chinese philosopher’s insights into ethics after a 22-year study. Three essential components of ethics are examined: meta-ethics normative ethics and virtue ethics. In this volume the author analyzes the relationship between people’s sense of reputation the political and economic status of a nation and the observation of virtue ethics and he argues that reputation can encourage people to conform to virtue ethics. In addition a nation’s political and economic status is closely connected to people’s virtue ethics. That is people will have higher virtue ethics when constitutional democracy a market economy without government control freedom of speech and the moral system of liberalism and egalitarianism are established in a nation. This title is an essential read for students and scholars of ethics and philosophy in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138331648

The Principles of PleasureWorking with the Good Stuff as Sex Therapists and Educators There are tremendous benefits to discussing the subject of sexual and emotional pleasure with clients and this book addresses the challenges and misconceptions of doing just that. Laura Rademacher and Lindsey Hoskins teach the skills necessary for mental health professionals and sex educators to build competence in this work with their clients. Readers get techniques to implement in therapeutic clinical and educational settings and learn how to examine pleasure in ways that are currently lacking from academic work on sexual health. This book covers skills for working with populations of all orientations and gender expressions. Language and phrasing for addressing pleasure issues in a wide variety of educational or therapeutic settings is also provided. Information about sexual lubrication and sex toys that is rarely taught in professional training programs is included as well as how to appropriately incorporate information about these important sexual tools into your work. Issues such as abstinence sexual orientation couple therapy and sexual education will be discussed outside of the standard medical model of sex therapy. The Principles of Pleasure will help you feel relaxed and confident while moving clients and students closer to their pleasure goals and provides the evidence to back up the importance of talking and teaching about pleasure should you need to justify this work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138884823

The Principles of Project Finance The Principles of Project Finance reviews the technique of project finance. It explores step-by-step the key ingredients of the concept. The book is aimed at a business savvy audience but one which is not necessarily up to speed on the concept and has a global reach by covering both OECD countries and the emerging markets. Project finance is positioned at a key point between the global capital markets and the energy and infrastructure industries. To explain and illustrate the ideas behind project finance the book is made of chapters written by a range of leading players in the market from around the world and is split into four sections: ¢ The first reviews various themes and issues key to the project finance market - views from bankers lawyers and advisers plus chapters on bank bond and multilateral finance and a look at environmental insurance and construction market issues. ¢ The second section looks at how project finance is used in various sectors of the energy and infrastructure market - renewable energy oil and gas mining PPPs and roads and transportation. ¢The third then takes an in-depth look at various projects finance markets from around the world - Australia Vietnam Indonesia India Turkey Russia Africa France USA and Brazil. ¢ Finally the fourth section presents a series of Top 10 deal cases studies from the pages of Thomson Reuters Project Finance International (PFI) the leading source of global project finance information. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138245686

The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Taylor Read the American classic that inspired Shigeo Shingo! Frederick W. Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Managementwas a mental revolution that spawned the very ideas of process improvement equity and efficiency between workers and management and the attainability of high production with low labor costs. Taylor discusses eliminating waste by using the system he developed over the course of his career and how it applies to individual as well as collective improvement initiatives. As the basis of modern organizational efficiency this instrumental book has motivated managers and engineers for almost 100 years. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781897363898

The Principles of Sustainability At a time of increasingly rapid environmental deterioration and climate change sustainability is one of the most important issues facing the world. Can we create a sustainable society? What would that mean? How should we set about doing it? How can we bring about such a profound change in the way things are organized? This text tackles these questions directly. It covers: historical development of the concept of sustainability; contemporary debates about how to achieve it; and obstacles and the prospects for overcoming them. This new fully revised edition covers the latest on the climate change front particularly the advances in scientific understanding and political awareness of climate change. Other updates include more recent economic analyses particularly the Stern Report and the global shift away from faith in markets over the past five years. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781849773249

The Principles of TeachingBased on Psychology First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138875203

The Printed Image in Early Modern LondonUrban Space Visual Representation and Social Exchange Presenting an inventive body of research that explores the connections between urban movements space and visual representation this study offers the first sustained analysis of the vital interrelationship between printed images and urban life in early modern London. The study differs from all other books on early modern British print culture in that it seeks out printed forms that were active in shaping and negotiating the urban milieu-prints that troubled categories of high and low culture images that emerged when the political became infused with the creative as well as prints that bear traces of the roles they performed and the ways they were used in the city. It is distinguished by its close and sustained readings of individual prints from the likes of such artists as Wenceslaus Hollar Francis Barlow and William Faithorne; and this visual analysis is complemented with a thorough examination of the dynamics of print production as a commercial exchange that takes place within a wider set of exchanges (of goods people ideas and money) across the city and the nation. This study challenges scholars to re-imagine the function of popular prints as a highly responsive form of cultural production capable not only of 'recording' events spaces and social actions but profoundly shaping the way these entities are conceived in the moment and also recast within cultural memory. It offers historians of print culture and British art a sophisticated and innovative model of how to mobilize rigorous archival research in the service of a thoroughly historicized and theorized analysis of visual representation and its relationship to space and social identity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138247147

The Prior Consultation of Indigenous Peoples in Latin AmericaInside the Implementation Gap This book delves into the reasons behind and the consequences of the implementation gap regarding the right to prior consultation and the Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America. In recent years the economic and political projects of Latin American States have become increasingly dependent on the extractive industries. This has resulted in conflicts when governments and international firms have made considerable investments in those lands that have been traditionally inhabited and used by Indigenous Peoples who seek to defend their rights against exploitative practices. After decades of intense mobilisation important gains have been made at international level regarding the opportunity for Indigenous Peoples to have a say on these matters. Notwithstanding this the right to prior consultation and the FPIC of Indigenous Peoples on the ground are far from being fully applied and guaranteed. And even when prior consultation processes are carried out the outcomes remain uncertain. This volume rigorously investigates the causes of this implementation gap and its consequences for the protection of Indigenous Peoples’ rights lands identities and ways of life in the Latin American region. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138488069

The Prism of Just WarAsian and Western Perspectives on the Legitimate Use of Military Force Through a careful examination of religious and philosophical literature the contributors to the volume analyze compare and assess diverse Western Islamic Hindu and East Asian perspectives concerning the appropriate criteria that should govern the decision to resort to the use of armed force and once that decision is made what constraints should govern the actual conduct of military operations. In doing so the volume promotes a better understanding of the various ways in which diverse peoples and societies within the global community approach the question of what constitutes the legitimate use of military force as an instrument of policy in the resolution of conflicts. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553924

The Prison House of Alienation The Prison House of Alienation is an exploration of the humanist theme of alienation that Marx theorized in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. It relates this theme of alienation with the themes of haunting in the Manifesto of the Communist Party and accumulation of capital that he outlined in his magnum opus Capital. The volume claims that humanity plagued by ghosts is dwelling in a prison house from which there seems no escape. Yet humanity seeks to escape from this prison house. The essays are a consequent journey in dramaturgy where science and art truly meet to create emancipatory politics that goes well beyond the entire discourse of twentieth-century socialism. The volume begins with Hamlet’s lament in Shakespeare’s tragedy who struck by alienation is haunted by the ghost of his dead father. It then discusses how instead of creating a radical theory for creating a socialist alternative ‘haunting’ gave way to interpretation as an estranged hermeneutical act that displaces revolutionary theory and praxis. This displacement of revolutionary praxis in turn gave way to violence. This volume therefore also analyzes violence from Clausewitz to Mao revealing that a rigorous line must be drawn between Stalinism and Maoism on one side and authentic Marxism on the other side. It concludes by questioning the very idea of ideology suggesting that ideology is not merely a false consciousness but a terrible psychotic act that would devour the entire emancipatory project of Marxism itself. Placing the human condition at the centre for alternative twenty-first-century politics The Prison House of Alienation reveals that there can be no science without art and no politics without humanity. It will be of great interest to scholars of philosophy and politics. The essays were originally published in various issues of Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367430931

The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman Kaneko Fumiko (1903-1926) wrote this memoir while in prison after being convicted of plotting to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Despite an early life of misery deprivation and hardship she grew up to be a strong and independent young woman. When she moved to Tokyo in 1920 she gravitated to left-wing groups and eventually joined with the Korean nihilist Pak Yeol to form a two-person nihilist organization. Two days after the Great Tokyo Earthquake in a general wave of anti-leftist and anti-Korean hysteria the authorities arrested the pair and charged them with high treason. Defiant to the end (she hanged herself in prison on July 23 1926) Kaneko Fumiko wrote this memoir as an indictment of the society that oppressed her the family that abused and neglected her and the imperial system that drove her to her death. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315541334

The Prisoner Little of what we know about prison comes from the mouths of prisoners and very few academic accounts of prison life manage to convey some of its most profound and important features: its daily pressures and frustrations the culture of the wings and landings and the relationships which shape the everyday experience of being imprisoned. The Prisoner aims to redress this by foregrounding prisoners’ own accounts of prison life in what is an original and penetrating edited collection. Each of its chapters explores a particular prisoner sub-group or an important aspect of prisoners’ lives and each is divided into two sections: extended extracts from interviews with prisoners followed by academic commentary and analysis written by a leading scholar or practitioner. This structure allows prisoners’ voices to speak for themselves while situating what they say in a wider discussion of research policy and practice. The result is a rich and evocative portrayal of the lived reality of imprisonment and a poignant insight into prisoners’ lives. The book aims to bring to life key penological issues and to provide an accessible text for anyone interested in prisons including students practitioners and a general audience. It seeks to represent and humanize a group which is often silent in discussions of imprisonment and to shine a light on a world which is generally hidden from view. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415668668

The Prisonhouse of Psychoanalysis In The Prisonhouse of Psychoanalysis Arnold Goldberg trains a searching critical eye on his own profession.  His subject matter is the system of interlocking constraints - theoretical institutional educational - that imprisons psychoanalysis and the psychoanalyst.  His agenda is to sketch the shape analysis might take in the absence of these constraints.  What emerges from these twin endeavors is a penetrating critique of psychoanalysis from the inside - from the vantage point of a senior analyst who has labored for many years within the prisonhouse that he now criticizes. In proffering an alternative vision of psychoanalysis Goldberg ventures into recent literature in epistemology philosophy of science cognitive psychology and the neurosciences so that one valuable byproduct of his work is a brilliant application of insights culled from these fields to the question of what analysis is and what it may yet become.  His examination of "psychoanalysis without foundations" challenges the ability of infancy research data and neurological findings respectively to provide an empirical rock bottom from which psychoanalytic theory-building can proceed.  His chapter on "psychoanalysis without representations" reviews the analytic literature on the latter concept only to show how recent theories of brain processing including connectionism provides a basis for understanding mental phenomena without any intermediary representations.  Finally his vision of "psychoanalysis without a subject" assesses recent findings about the nature of memory insights of contemporary philosophy and Kohut's notion of the selfobject as converging tributaries that make possible an analysis that dispenses with the conventional dichotomy of subject and object. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138869530

The Privacy of the Self The Privacy of the Self was the first collection of papers showing the development of the author's thinking over twenty five years of clinical work. He was nurtured in the tradition of Anna Freud John Rickman and D.W. Winnicott but his contribution to psychoanalytic literature was a distinctive and personal one. What emerges from this book is the natural and private crystallization of his experiences with his patients and teachers.As he says in his preface: "Psychoanalysis is an extremely private discipline of sensibility and skill. The practice of psychoanalysis multiplies this privacy into a specialized relationship between two persons who through the very nature of their exclusivity with each other change each other. The first thing I wish to say about my work reported in these papers is that my patients have helped me become and personalize my potential of thought affectivity and effort into a way of life that I find deeply satisfying. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367104863

The Private Collector's MuseumPublic Good Versus Private Gain The Private Collector’s Museum connects the rising popularity of private museums with evolving models of collecting and philanthropy and new inter-relationships between private and public space. It examines how contemporary collectors construct museums to frame themselves as cultural arbiters of global distinction.By exploring a range of in-depth contemporary case studies the book aims for a more complex understanding of the private collector’s museum assessing how it is realised funded and understood in a broader cultural context. It examines the ways in which this particular museum model has evolved within a historical Western tradition of collecting and museum-building and considers how private museums will endure alongside their public counterparts. It also sheds light on the shifting patterns of collecting such as the transition of personal art collections into the public sphere. The developments are situated within the wider context of private–public engagement in general.Providing a new analysis of philanthropy public access and the museum The Private Collector’s Museum is essential reading for scholars and students interested in the private museum and key reading for those interested in related issues. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367728861

The Private Correspondence of Admiral Lord Collingwood This volume attempts to rescue Nelson’s second-in-command at Trafalgar from the comparative obscurity that had overtaken him since the close of the nineteenth century. Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood (1748-1810) lionised for his role at Trafalgar by his contemporaries and by Victorians had become widely viewed in the first half of the twentieth century as a naval ‘mediocrity’. The contents are Collingwood’s correspondence (1776-1810) mainly from private collections and do not include any of his official correspondence which can be found at the National Maritime Museum. Thus in this volume there are no broad comprehensive accounts of Trafalgar though there are related snippets of professional and human interest not least regarding the sense of injustice felt by the officers of the ships that had not returned home after the battle but stayed on in the Mediterranean and feared themselves forgotten by the Admiralty in the bestowal of rewards. Clearly glimpsed is Collingwood’s own frustration with an Admiralty that despite his repeated protestations of ill-health steadfastly refused to relieve him from the Mediterranean command. There are letters to his relations that provide vivid accounts of the Glorious First of June and the battle of Cape St Vincent; letters of a domestic and revealingly personal nature and incidental letters to other recipients including Rear-Admirals Sir Thomas Louis and Sir Thomas Pasley and Captain Benjamin Hallowell. Inward correspondence consisting of letters (1808-10) from the Duke of Northumberland forms an appendix. The outward correspondence opens in March 1776 when Collingwood was about to become first lieutenant of the sloop Hornet under a brutal and despised captain who had him court-martialled the following year (he was acquitted) and closes in March 1810 when weary and ailing he was yet again desperately pleading to be relieved. (The final letter dated 15 March 1810 is to Collingwood’s sister from the First Secretary to the Admiralty unaware that the admiral had died at sea on 7 March). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781911423249

The Private History of the Court of Englandby Sarah Green Whilst an important and under-researched example of women's writing scholars of Romanticism and the nineteenth century will also find much value in this challenging political satire. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138235687

The Private Lives and Professional Identity of Medical Students This book is a study of the impact of professional socialization on the private and family lives of medical students. It is concerned with revealing how students articulate their emerging identities as professionals with primary identities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138516762

The Private Papers of John Earl of Sandwich1771-1782 Vol. I The Fourth Earl of Sandwich was First Lord of the Admiralty (for the third time in his long career) from 1771 to 1782. Blamed by the Whig opposition for many of the disasters of the American War he was additionally loaded by 19th-century Whig historians with the false image of a corrupt libertine. It was the publication of these volumes of his correspondence and papers (then in the family home now in the National Maritime Museum) covering the years 1771 to 1782 which restored his reputation as a conscientious and imaginative naval administrator and reformer especially of the dockyards and of the timber question. Without entirely rescuing his status as a strategist they showed very clearly the weaknesses at the heart of the North administration which damaged its handling of the war and undermined Sandwich’s efforts. A fifth volume intended to cover his handling of naval patronage was overtaken by the war. This volume covers August 1770 to March 1778. With this volume a separate booklet was published which was the Corrigenda to Papers relating to the First Dutch War 1652-54 Capt A Dewar. See NRS Volumes 13 17 30 37 41 and 66. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781911248972

The Private Papers of John Earl of Sandwich1771-1782 Vol. II The Fourth Earl of Sandwich was First Lord of the Admiralty (for the third time in his long career) from 1771 to 1782. Blamed by the Whig opposition for many of the disasters of the American War he was additionally loaded by 19th-century Whig historians with the false image of a corrupt libertine. It was the publication of these volumes of his correspondence and papers (then in the family home now in the National Maritime Museum) covering the years 1771 to 1782 which restored his reputation as a conscientious and imaginative naval administrator and reformer especially of the dockyards and of the timber question. Without entirely rescuing his status as a strategist they showed very clearly the weaknesses at the heart of the North administration which damaged its handling of the war and undermined Sandwich’s efforts. A fifth volume intended to cover his handling of naval patronage was overtaken by the war. This volume is from March 1778 to May 1779. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781911248996

The Private Papers of John Earl of Sandwich1771-1782 Vol. III The Fourth Earl of Sandwich was First Lord of the Admiralty (for the third time in his long career) from 1771 to 1782. Blamed by the Whig opposition for many of the disasters of the American War he was additionally loaded by 19th-century Whig historians with the false image of a corrupt libertine. It was the publication of these volumes of his correspondence and papers (then in the family home now in the National Maritime Museum) covering the years 1771 to 1782 which restored his reputation as a conscientious and imaginative naval administrator and reformer especially of the dockyards and of the timber question. Without entirely rescuing his status as a strategist they showed very clearly the weaknesses at the heart of the North administration which damaged its handling of the war and undermined Sandwich’s efforts. A fifth volume intended to cover his handling of naval patronage was overtaken by the war. This volume is from May 1779 to December 1780. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780853540557

The Private Papers of John Earl of Sandwich1771-1782 Vol. IV The Fourth Earl of Sandwich was First Lord of the Admiralty (for the third time in his long career) from 1771 to 1782. Blamed by the Whig opposition for many of the disasters of the American War he was additionally loaded by 19th-century Whig historians with the false image of a corrupt libertine. It was the publication of these volumes of his correspondence and papers (then in the family home now in the National Maritime Museum) covering the years 1771 to 1782 which restored his reputation as a conscientious and imaginative naval administrator and reformer especially of the dockyards and of the timber question. Without entirely rescuing his status as a strategist they showed very clearly the weaknesses at the heart of the North administration which damaged its handling of the war and undermined Sandwich’s efforts. A fifth volume intended to cover his handling of naval patronage was overtaken by the war. This volume is from 1781 to 1782. The planned fifth volume was never completed. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780853540564

The Private Regulation of American Health Care This work discusses a transformation of health care delivery that was launched by coalitions of business leaders during the early 1970s. It argues for a single-payer system and considers how public regulation offers the possibility of democratic participation in setting health care policies. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315287379

The Private Rented Housing MarketRegulation or Deregulation? The privately rented housing market has largely catered for young mobile people and students since it was deregulated in the UK. In this volume key writers provide timely insights into this rapidly evolving market. This volume is based on new original research which brings together specialists in housing policy and legal studies with their common and increasingly interdependent knowledge base about the privately rented sector and its future direction. The collection opens with an overview of the historical context and recent changes to the sector such as the rapid and continued expansion of the buy-to-let market followed by a discussion of the factors shaping the contemporary market. The contributors show how the new regulatory environment is opening a series of issues with significant potential to affect (and potentially damage) the market. The volume will interest academics and students in social and public policy law and housing studies as well as law practices and housing authorities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815398127

The Private Sector after CommunismNew Entrepreneurial Firms in Transition Economies The transformation of state-owned enterprises into privately owned ones is commonly referred to as 'privatization'. Just as important as this process though sometimes not given the attention it deserves and requires is the establishment and expansion of new private firms.This book analyzes new entrepreneurial firms that emerge and occasionally flourish after a period of state communism has come to an end. The authors rightly focus on the aftermath of the end of communism by looking first at the inevitable output decline followed by an overview of new entrepreneurial firms. Specific East European examples are examined and the lessons which can be learned from these will interest academics and policy-makers alike.Committed and knowledgeable authors in this book treat the sometimes emotive issue of transition-developing economies maturely and expertly. The result is a volume which will interest scholars with an interest in transition economics and politics as well as those who actively work in transition economies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415651059

The Private Sector and Water Pricing in Efficient Urban Water Management This book focuses on participation of the public and private sectors in urban water management and on the role of water pricing. It discusses in-depth topics such as public choices of urban water service management; dynamics of privatization and regulation of water services; adoption of water demand instruments; impacts of price and non-price policies on residential water demand; quality of water services; lessons from not-for-profit public-private partnerships; and critical examinations of models and projections of demands in water utility resource planning in England and Wales. Appropriateness of water prices and tariffs in achieving socially desirable outcomes is also analyzed and a global survey of urban water tariffs is approached with a focus on sustainability efficiency and fairness. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138693012

The Private Sector's Role in DisastersLeveraging the Private Sector in Emergency Management This book examines the role of the private sector in emergency management and how that role is changing through private sector intersections with government government agencies and the public sectors in all phases of emergency management. It particularly focuses on the areas in which government regulations and guidelines promote or encourage private sector involvement and looks at best practices for public–private partnerships as well as some of the common pitfalls of the contracting model. The private sector now plays a tremendous role in the creation of policies related to emergency management and their implementation at the federal state and local levels. The Private Sector’s Role in Disasters: Leveraging the Private Sector in Emergency Management explores some of the challenges of implementing policies in the current contracting model. It also compares emergency management to other government services that have been privatized. Case studies of recent disasters and examples of the privatization of some emergency management functions are presented to illustrate how to better plan for private sector involvement in future disasters. Given the sometimes dysfunctional relationships that have emerged from public–private partnerships in disaster situations it is important to analyze and improve principles and practices to work toward more effective partnership. This book provides thoughtful guidelines recommendations and best-practice approaches to public–private development implementation and collaboration throughout the disaster cycle. It gives focused directions for cultivating public–private working relationships to make emergency responses quicker and assistance more effective. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781482244083

The Privatisation of European Telecommunications This international volume presents a comprehensive comparative study of the transformation of the European telecommunications industry from 1990 to the present. The book focuses on the old incumbent operators and their dramatic change from state agencies to listed companies. It analyzes the liberalization process as well as the corporatization and privatization of these companies. The contributors assess the conditions for the transformations taking place; the driving forces for change; the effects to management the efforts of the EU during these processes and ultimately the role of the private owner. Political science publications have all but excluded analysis of the newly privatized companies; their contribution to the liberalization process both before and after privatization; and the interplay between the national political and company levels. The book redresses this shortcoming and also features a double empirical focus in that the main national incumbents in Europe are analyzed and compared to Telenor the Norwegian former incumbent. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815398134

The Privatization of CareThe Case of Nursing Homes Nursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes the conditions of work make it difficult to make care as good as it can be. For the last eight years an international team from Germany Sweden Norway the UK the US and Canada have been searching for promising practices that treat residents families and staff with dignity and respect in ways that can also bring joy. While we did find ideas worth sharing we also saw a disturbing trend toward privatization. Privatization is the process of moving away not only from public delivery and public payment for health services but also from a commitment to shared responsibility democratic decision-making and the idea that the public sector operates according to a logic of service to all. This book documents moves toward privatization in the six countries and their consequences for families staff residents and eventually us all. None of the countries has escaped pressure from powerful forces in and outside government pushing for privatization in all its forms. However the wide variations in the extent and nature of privatization indicate privatization is not inevitable and our research shows there are alternatives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138346024

The Privatization of Fraud InvestigationInternal Investigations by Fraud Examiners This book discusses privatization of law enforcement in relation to suspected corporate crime and recommends guidelines for successful fraud examinations. There is a growing business for global auditing and local law firms to conduct internal investigations at client organizations when there is suspicion of white-collar misconduct and crime. This book reflects on the work by these private fraud examiners in terms of an evaluation of their investigation reports. The book brings an original theoretical and methodological approach to investigations of white-collar crime. It develops the theory of convenience as an explanation for motive opportunity and willingness to commit and conceal white-collar crime. This theory is then related to the case studies. Structured in such a way as to allow the reader to use the text as a nonsequential reference source or guide to a set of connected issues the book illustrates the practice of privatization by cases and presents guidelines for successful fraud examination. As an investigation can lead to conviction and incarceration this privatization of crime investigation feeds into the larger issue of privatization of policing. The work will be a valuable resource for students academics and practitioners working in the areas of Criminal Justice Corporate Law and Business. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367359577

The Privatization of Space ExplorationBusiness Technology Law and Policy Space was at the center of America's imagination in the 1960s. President John F. Kennedy's visionary statement captured the mood of the day: "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard." The Apollo mission's success in July 1969 made almost anything seem possible but the Cold War made space flight the province of governmental agencies in the United States. When the Apollo program ended in 1972 space lost its hold on the public interest as the great achievements wound down.Entrepreneurs are beginning to pick up the slack—looking for safer more reliable and more cost effective ways of exploring space. Entrepreneurial activity may make create a renaissance in human spaceflight. The private sector can energize the quest for space exploration and shape the race for the final frontier. Space entrepreneurs and private sector firms are making significant innovations in space travel. They have plans for future tourism in space and safer shuttles. Solomon details current US and international laws dealing with space use settlement and exploration and offers policy recommendations to facilitate privatization.As private enterprise takes hold it threatens to change the space landscape forever. Individuals are designing spacecraft start-up companies are testing prototypes and reservations are being taken for suborbital space flights. With for-profit enterprises carving out a new realm it is entirely possible that space will one day be a sea of hotels and/or a repository of resources for big business. It is important that regulations are in place for this eventuality. These new developments have great importance huge implications and urgency for everyone. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412847568

The Privileges of WealthRising inequality and the growing racial divide The American Dream is under assault. This threat results not from a lack of means but from an unwillingness to share. Total household wealth increased by half in the past generation but barely one fifth of American households captured this new wealth. For the rest the dream of owning a home gaining a secure retirement and ensuring a college education for their kids is disappearing. Worse still the widening wealth divide largely tracks our racial fault lines. The Privileges of Wealth investigates the impact of the rising concentration of wealth. It describes how households accumulate wealth along three pathways: household saving appreciation of assets and family gifts and inheritances. In addition federal wealth policies in the form of assorted tax deductions and credits act as a fourth pathway that favors wealthy households. For those with means each pathway operates as a virtuous cycle enabling families to build wealth with increasing ease. For those without these same pathways are experienced as vicious cycles. The issue of wealth privilege is even more pronounced when examining the racial wealth gap. Typically White households own ten times the wealth of Black or Latino families. This chasm results from the durability and transferability of wealth across generations and serves as a persistent legacy of our history of racial enslavement expropriation and exclusion. Current policies favoring the wealthy are simply cementing these wealth disparities. This book explains how these sources of wealth privilege are systemic features of our economy and the basis of rising disparities. The arguments and evidence presented here offer a compelling case for how our current policies are undermining the American Dream for most Americans while fortifying a White plutocracy with dire consequences for us all. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138227507

The PROACT® Root Cause AnalysisQuick Reference Guide Root Cause Analysis or RCA "What is it?" Everyone uses the term but everyone does it differently. How can we have any uniformity in our approach much less accurately compare our results if we’re applying different definitions? At a high level we will explain the difference between RCA and Shallow Cause Analysis because that is the difference between allowing a failure to recur or dramatically reducing the risk of recurrence. In this book we will get down to basics about RCA the fundamentals of blocking and tackling and explain the common steps of any investigative occupation. Common investigation steps include: 　 Preserving evidence (data)/not allowing hearsay to fly as fact Organizing an appropriate team/minimizing potential bias Analyzing the events/reconstructing the incident based on actual evidence Communicating findings and recommendations/ensuring effective recommendations are actually developed and implemented Tracking bottom-line results/ensuring that identified meaningful metrics were attained 　 We explore "Why don’t things always go as planned?" When our actual plans deviate from our intended plans we usually experience some type of undesirable or unintended outcome. We analyze the anatomy of a failure (undesirable outcome) and provide a step-by-step guide to conducting a comprehensive RCA based on our 3+ decades of applying RCA as we have successfully practiced it in the field. This book is written as a how-to guide to effectively apply the PROACT® RCA methodology to any undesirable outcome is directed at practitioners who have to do the real work focuses on the core elements of any investigation and provides a field-proven case as a model for effective application. This book is for anyone charged with having a thorough understanding of why something went wrong such as those in EH&S maintenance reliability quality engineering and operations to name just a few. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367517380

The Problem Knee A fully updated edition of the classic text on the knee The Problem Knee Third Edition is highly illustrated in colour and offers a fundamental approach to dealing with soft-tissue and skeletal disorders of the knee. The book focuses on younger patients rather than degenerative conditions covering both injuries and congenital abnormalites. The crucial skills of accurate history-taking clinical examination investigation and modern surgical management are the focus throughout. From this framework the latest techniques in imaging and arthroscopic procedures rehabilitation methods and ligament reconstruction are discussed plus indications for techniques such as meniscal suturing and osteochondral grafting. A logical systematic approach Clear line drawings to illustrate examination methods Scans and x-rays to help you identify injuries and problems Over 500 references Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138372467

The Problem of AsiaIts Effect upon International Politics The Problem of Asia the celebrated American naval historian and strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan analyzes the geopolitical structure of world politics at the dawn of the twentieth century. Mahan wrote his book at a time when the United States was emerging as a world power having recently acquired overseas territories as a result of its victory in the Spanish-American War. It was a call to America and its leaders to break with the intellectual tradition of Washington's Farewell Address and to recognize that U.S. security was tied to the balance of power in Asia as well as Europe.For Mahan the immediate "problem of Asia" was the threat of Russian expansion into Central Europe Central Asia East Asia and the Middle-East/Persian Gulf region. Mahan advocated an alliance consisting of Britain . Japan Germany and the United States to counter the Russian threat. He also discussed the rise of Japan as a world power the potential for China to emerge as a great power later in the twentieth century and the increasing importance of the Middle East/Persian Gulf region to the global balance of power. The Problem of Asia contains geopolitical insights and analyses that remain relevant today. As recent events have reminded us the world of the twenty-first century is still composed of nation-states and non-state actors that vigorously and sometimes brutally pursue their goals and self-interests. Mahan's approach in The Problem of Asia to the study and analysis of international politics in an anarchic world provides an important conceptual framework for understanding the fundamentals of global politics.This edition of Mahan's classic work includes a lengthy introduction by Francis P. Sempa that analyzes the book in the context of Mahan's life and other writings. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537811

The Problem of China 'China by her resources and her population is capable of being the greatest power in the world after the United States.' Bertrand Russell The Problem of China In 1920 the philosopher Bertrand Russell spent a year in China as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Beijing (then Peking) where his lectures on mathematical logic enthralled students and listeners including Mao Tse Tung who attended some of Russell’s talks. Written at a time when China was largely regarded by the West as backward and weak The Problem of China sees Russell rise above the prejudices of his era and presciently assess China's past present and future. Russell brings his analytical and insightful eye to bear on some fundamental aspects of China’s history and politics cautioning China against adopting a purely Western model of social and economic development which he regarded as characterized by a combination of greed and militarism. Beginning with an overview of nineteenth-century Chinese history and considering China's relations with Japan and Russia Russell then contrasts Chinese civilization with Western. He devotes a fascinating chapter to the character of the Chinese which he argues is complex but ultimately defined by a ‘pacific temper’. With uncanny foresight Russell predicts China’s resurgence but only if it is able to establish an orderly government promote industrial development under Chinese control and foster the spread of education. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new introduction by Bernard Linsky. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367540807

The Problem of Democracy in Postwar EuropePolitical Actors and the Formation of the Postwar Model of Democracy in France West Germany and Italy The current perception of democratic crisis in Western Europe gives a renewed urgency to a new perspective on the way democracy was reconstructed after World War II and the principles that underpinned its postwar transformation. This study accounts for the formation of the postwar democratic order in Western Europe by studying how the main political actors in France West Germany and Italy conceptualized democracy and strove over its meaning. Based upon a wide range of librarian and archival sources from these countries it tracks changing conceptions of democracy among leading politicians political parties and leaders of social movements and unveils how they were deeply divided over key principles of postwar democracy – such as the political party the free market economy representation and civic participation. By comparing three national debates on the question what democracy meant and how it should be institutionalized and practiced this study argues that only in the 1970s conceptions of democracy converged and key political actors accepted each other as democrats with similar conceptions of democracy. This study thereby deconstructs the myth of the quick emergence of one consensual Western European model of democracy after 1945 demonstrates that its formation was a long and contentious process in which national differences were often of crucial importance and contributes to an enhanced understanding of the historical roots of the current sentiment of democratic crisis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138329720

The Problem of Emotions in Societies Like any other valued resource emotions are distributed unequally. Moreover emotions are a generalized resource because they give people the confidence or lack of confidence to secure additional types of resources. Thus this distribution of emotions roughly corresponds to the shares of others kinds of resources that members of various social classes possess. The level of positive and negative emotional energy evident among members of different social classes has large consequences for the viability of human societies. When a large majority of members in diverse social classes have reservoirs of positive emotional energy these emotions work to legitimate macrostructures and to build people’s commitments to societies. When however significant numbers of persons in lower social classes and at times in middle to upper social classes as well reveal reservoirs of negative emotional energy they are likely to de-legitimate key institutional systems and under specifiable conditions mobilize collective—often with violent outcomes. Thus emotions are at the core of both integrative and disintegrative forces in societies and when large reservoirs of negative emotional energy exist they pose a problem for societies. The goal of this new unique Series is to offer readable teachable "thinking frames" on today’s social problems and social issues by leading scholars all in short 60 page or shorter formats and available for view on http://routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-social-issues.html For instructors teaching a wide range of courses in the social sciences the Routledge Social Issues Collection now offers the best of both worlds: originally written short texts that provide "overviews" to important social issues as well as teachable excerpts from larger works previously published by Routledge and other presses. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138143784

The Problem of Enforcement in International LawCountermeasures the Non-Injured State and the Idea of International Community This book explores the contentious topic of how collective and community issues should be protected and enforced in international law. Elena Katselli Proukaki takes a detailed look at the issue of third-State countermeasures and considers the work the International Law Commission has done in this area. The volume addresses both the theory and practice of third-State countermeasures within international law. Critically reviewing the conclusions of the International Law Commission on the non-existence of a right to third-State countermeasures it includes consideration of examples of State practice not previously covered in the literature of this topic. In taking a thorough view of the issues involved the author identifies concerns about third-State countermeasures which remain unanswered and considers the possible legal ramifications arising from a clash between a right to third-State countermeasures and obligations arising from other international norms. The Problem of Enforcement in International Law explores questions evolving around the nature integrity and effectiveness of international law and the role it is called to play in a contemporary context. This book is of great interest and value not only for specialists in this area of international law but also human rights trade and EU lawyers practitioners legal advisers and students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415685528

The Problem of Existence This book explores the question of why there is something instead of nothing. Several responses to this question are possible but only some of them address the question seriously respecting its emotional aspects as well as its cognitive dimension. The author carefully distinguishes those answers that are truly satisfactory in both respects from those that are inadequate. It can be argued that the existence of the world has no explanation at all or that there is a necessary being whose existence is self-explanatory or that the world exists because it has value. Each kind of response is defensible to some degree and it is argued that where they are defensible they have a common content. Incorporating aspects of both the 'analytical' and 'continental' traditions this book also responds to several historical philosophers concerned with these questions including Plato Leibniz Kant and Nietzsche. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138272996

The Problem of FederalismA Study in the History of Political Theory - Volume One First published in 1931. The Problem of Federalism provides a comprehensive and critical survey of the historical development and practical application of the idea of federalism as a form of state organisation. The author explores federal ideas from the eighteenth- up until the early twentieth-century. This extensive study will be useful to students of politics and philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367222413

The Problem of FederalismA Study in the History of Political Theory - Volume Two First published in 1931. The Problem of Federalism provides a comprehensive and critical survey of the historical development and practical application of the idea of federalism as a form of state organisation. The author explores federal ideas from the eighteenth- up until the early twentieth-century. This extensive study will be useful to students of politics and philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367222451

The Problem of Foreign Policy (Routledge Revivals)A Consideration of Present Dangers and the Best Methods for Meeting Them First published in 1921 Gilbert Murray’s treatise considers a largely euro-centric foreign policy during the inter-war period. Believing passionately in the prospect of a Liberal England and the hope promised by the League of Nations with Britain at its centre Murray argues that a secure future can only be obtained through ‘equal law good government and good faith’. Concentrating on a number of country-based studies the main focus is on how to avoid the causes of international war; Murray supports the International Financial Commission’s recommendation that this could be partly achieved through disarmament and freedom of trade. This is a fascinating title that will be of particular value to history students researching the inter-war period and the League of Nations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415729987

The Problem of Free WillA Contemporary Introduction Do we really have freedom to act or are we slaves to our genes environment or culture? Regular TPM columnist Mathew Iredale gets to grips with one of the most intractable issues in philosophy: the problem of free will. Iredale explores what it is about the free will problem that makes it so hard to resolve and argues that the only acceptable solution to the free will problem must be one that is consistent with what science tells us about the world. It is here maintains Iredale that too many works on free will introductory or otherwise fall down by focusing only on how free will relates to determinism. Iredale shows that there are clear areas of scientific research which are directly and significantly relevant to free will in a way that does not involve determinism. Although these areas of scientific research do not allow us to solve the problem they do allow us to separate the more plausible ideas concerning free will from the less plausible. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781844655045

The Problem of Health Technology Health technology is a pivotal locus of change and controversy in health care systems and The Problem of Health Technology offers a comprehensive and novel analysis of the topic. The book illuminates the scientific and policy arguments that are currently deployed in industrialized countries by addressing the perspectives of clinicians health care managers scholars policymakers patients and industry. And by establishing a dialogue between two interdisciplinary fields--Health Technology Assessment and Science and Technology Studies--Pascale Lehoux argues for re-centering the debate around social and political questions rather than questions of affordability thereby developing an alternative framework for thinking about the implications of health technology. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315810782

The Problem of HellA Philosophical Anthology How can a perfectly good God justifiably damn anyone to hell? This is one version of the problem of hell. The problem of hell has become one of the most widely discussed topics in contemporary philosophy of religion. This anthology brings together contributions by contemporary philosophers whose work shapes the current debate. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138265967

The Problem of Invented Religions Invented religions have been described as modern religions which advertise their invented status and reject traditional strategies of authorisation. But what does it mean for a religious formation to be ‘made up’ and how might this status affect perceptions of its legitimacy or authenticity in wider society? Based in original fieldwork and archival sources and in the secondary literature on invented and constructed formations this volume explores the allure of as well as the limits of the invention of religion. Through a series of case studies the contributors discuss strategies of mobilization and legitimation for new traditions at their point of emergence as well as taking issue with simplistic interpretations of the phenomenon which neglect wider cultural and political dimensions. This book was originally published as a special issue of Culture and Religion. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138099036

The Problem of Knowledge Originally published in 1916. This book reviews the common problems of philosophy and then critiques the varied epistemological theories of the time. A theory of knowledge may be either dualistic or monistic and realistic or idealistic. Examining the resulting doctrines at the beginning this book then goes on to consider mysticism psychology logic consciousness intellectualism and then scientific method. A fascinating insight into early Twentieth century philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138908901

The Problem of Leisure First published in 1938. This study examines various aspects of leisure in the early twentieth century. The author observes the differences in leisure between the various echelons of society as well as the differences of leisure amongst children and adults. Durant also explores in depth several modes of leisure including the cinema sport and gambling. This title will be of interest to students of history sociology and leisure studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367133078

The Problem of PleasureLeisure Tourism and Crime The tourism and leisure industries are big business. Opportunities for leisure and tourism have escalated as disposable income technology travel and education have become increasingly available in recent times. However this trend has been juxtaposed with an increase in crime particularly since the early the 1950s. Acquisitive crimes have been facilitated with the development of more portable and valuable commodities; some activities such as drink driving and disorder have now been socially defined as crimes and are more readily identified through new technology such as the increasing use of CCTV.　 The Problem of Pleasure covers them all. The purpose of this book is to inform and enlighten a range of readers whose interests may be academic or commercial on possible crime events and modus operandi of criminals. The book has a global perspective bringing together leading academics from the UK the US South Africa Australia and New Zealand who examine several aspects of leisure that are vulnerable to crime from illegal hunting to street racing as well as the impact of crime upon tourists and the tourism industry. This book will be a key text for students of tourism and leisure as well as criminology and sociology; people working in the tourism and recreation industry; policy makers and the police. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415672580

The Problem of Political Obligation First published in 1987. This study is an attempt to distinguish the problem of political obligation as it was formulated in the ancient world from the problem as it has presented itself in the modern world and assesses the idealist achievement in the philosophical treatment of the problem of political obligation. This title will be of interest to students of philosophy and politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367226060

The Problem of Political TrustA Conceptual Reformulation Trust has been the subject of empirical and theoretical inquiry in a range of disciplines including sociology economics psychology philosophy public policy and political theory. The book approaches trust from a multi-disciplinary scope of inquiry. It explains why most existing definitions and theories of trust are inadequate. The book examines how trust evolved from a quality of personal relationships into a critical factor in political institutions and representation and to an abstract and impersonal factor that applies now to complex systems including monetary systems. It makes a distinctive contribution by recasting trust conceptually in dialectical and pragmatic terms and reapplying the concept to our understanding of critical issues in politics and political economy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367504366

The Problem of ProductionA new theory of the firm The theory of the firm has been fertile ground for economists. Bylund proposes a new theory rooted in Austrian economics which examines the firm as a part of the market and not as a free-standing entity. In this integrated view a theory is offered which incorporates entrepreneurship production market process and economic development. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138299979

The Problem of Realism This title was first published in 2003:This book explores the problem of realism both metaphysical and scientific. Renowned specialists in the field - including Michael Devitt David Papineau Mark Sainsbury and Wesley Salmon - contribute new essays that shed new light on the main topics in the current realism/antirealism debate. Discussing a wide range of issues related to realism both in metaphysics and in the philosophy of science they address more specific questions including those concerning metaphysical realism scientific realism the relations between epistemology and ontology causation dispositions and personal identity and the relations between science and common sense. Presenting a comprehensive overview of the problem of realism as well as in-depth discussion of particular topics this book offers valuable insights for both students and researchers in the field. It can also be used in undergraduate and graduate courses of philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138737280

The Problem of Social InequalityWhy It Destroys Democracy Threatens the Planet and What We Can Do About It Within and among nations rising levels of social inequality threaten our collective future. Currently upwards of 80% of people’s life chances are determined by factors over which they have absolutely no control. Social inequality threatens the democratic project because it destroys the trust on which governments depend and it gives rise to corrupt political and economic institutions. How can we get out of the traps we have created for ourselves? We need to reboot capitalism. Drawing on diverse examples from a range of countries McNall explains the social economic and ecological traps we have set for ourselves and develops a set of rules of resilience that are necessary conditions for the creation and maintenance of democratic societies and a set of rules essential for creating a sustainable future. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138959705

The Problem of Sociology First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138148789

The Problem of SolidarityTheories and Models Presently the world is undergoing tremendous social cultural and economic transformation. For sociologists the challenge is arriving at a sound mapping of this tumultuous world stage.In this book the contributing authors consider solidarity as a cognitive problem of basic science. They examine how solidarity is produced and reproduced how it is related to social processes and how such processes can be formalized and create conditions for productively studying their properties. Mathematical models and representations are presented by the authors as a coherent set of tools for understanding many social phenomena. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138983793

The Problem of the Poor in Tudor and Early Stuart England This pamphlet examines recent research into the poor laws of Tudor and Stuart England. Dr Beier asks the question ‘who were the poor?’ and in answering it places the ‘problem of the poor’ in its historical context examining it in relation to medieval provisions for dealing with poverty. He shows how far legislation was influenced by economic changes by ideas about poverty and by the interests of the legislators themselves. Dr Beier evaluates the varying interpretations of the poor laws from those who have seen them as an early ‘welfare state’ to those who have considered them to be the manifestation of a ‘Protestant ethic’. The major poor-law statues are summarized in an appendix and there is a useful bibliography. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138157934

The Problem of the Unemployed (Routledge Revivals)An Enquiry and an Economic Policy First published in 1896 this seminal work considers the Question of the Unemployed at the height of imperialist capitalism. Hobson proposes a controversial theory of social progress which argues that unemployment is a natural and necessary result of the mal-distribution of consumption power. In a comprehensive assessment of the practicalities of capitalism The Problem of the Unemployed considers the root causes and meaning of unemployment and possible solutions to the issue. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415659208

The Problem of Trust and Monopoly Control This book first published in 1928 was written at a time when the tendency in industry was towards the formation of large combines. With competition growing as markets and methods of communication grew many manufacturers considered their only option was to unite in self-defence setting up a movement that restrictive legislation was unable to check. This book analyses the proper relations between monopolistic combines and the State and was the first to examine the German experience of organised monopoly and the means used to prevent it from becoming a mere protection for inefficient producers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138573949

The Problem of Value PluralismIsaiah Berlin and Beyond Value pluralism is the idea most prominently endorsed by Isaiah Berlin that fundamental human values are universal plural conflicting and incommensurable with one another. Incommensurability is the key component of pluralism undermining familiar monist philosophies such as utilitarianism. But if values are incommensurable how do we decide between them when they conflict? George Crowder assesses a range of responses to this problem proposed by Berlin and developed by his successors. Three broad approaches are especially important: universalism contextualism and conceptualism. Crowder argues that the conceptual approach is the most fruitful yielding norms of value diversity personal autonomy and inclusive democracy. Historical context must also be taken into account. Together these approaches indicate a liberal politics of redistribution multiculturalism and constitutionalism and a public policy in which basic values are carefully balanced. The Problem of Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin and Beyond is a uniquely comprehensive survey of the political theory of value pluralism and also an original contribution by a leading voice in the pluralist literature. Scholars and researchers interested in the work of Berlin liberalism value pluralism and related ideas will find this a stimulating and valuable source. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138724822

The Problem Plays of ShakespeareA Study of Julius Caesar Measure for Measure Antony and Cleopatra The opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has been done in the past. Julius Caesar Measure for Measure Antony and Cleopatra are then discussed in separate chapters not only as problem plays but from various points of view: such matters as themes structural pattern character-problems the play's relation to its sources as well as to other plays in the canon are all touched upon. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415850179

The Problem with MulticulturalismThe Uniqueness and Universality of Western Civilization The horrors of the past century have done little to advance appreciation for the virtues of Western civilization. Criticism of the West has mounted and the West itself has lost sight of its uniqueness. Westerners tend to endow other societies with liberal philosophy and practices. While politically profitable this fails to educate these societies about their own civilizations' contributions to the idea of a common humanity human rights and the legitimacy of dissent and diversity.John M. Headley argues for the West's uniqueness and universality while critiquing multiculturalism's failure to recognize these special characteristics. He looks to civilization rather than to the nation-state as the source of the West's achievements arguing that its uniqueness was evident from its beginnings.Headley also seeks to advance the ever-contentious discussion about secularization. He sees secularization as a neutralizing force regarding the religions of other civilizations allowing them to accept Western influence which thus becomes universal. To understand secularization and how it operates from a naturalistic perspective one must see civilization itself as a defining element in world affairs. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412854979

The Problem with Survey Research The Problem with Survey Research makes a case against survey research as a primary source of reliable information. George Beam argues that all survey research instruments all types of asking including polls face-to-face interviews and focus groups produce unreliable and potentially inaccurate results. Because those who rely on survey research only see answers to questions it is impossible for them or anyone else to evaluate the results. They cannot know if the answers correspond to respondents' actual behaviors (objective phenomena) or to their true beliefs and opinions (subjective phenomena). Reliable information can only be acquired by observation experimentation multiple sources of data formal model building and testing document analysis and comparison.In fifteen chapters divided into six parts Ubiquity of Survey Research The Problem Asking Instruments Asking Settings Askers and Proper Methods and Research DesignsThe Problem with Survey Research demonstrates how asking instruments settings in which asking and answering take place and survey researchers themselves skew results and thereby make answers unreliable. The last two chapters and appendices examine observation other methods of data collection and research designs that may produce accurate or correct information and shows how reliance on survey research can be overcome and must be. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138516779

The Problems Of Arab Economic Development And Integration In this book scholars journalists and officials of Arab pan-Arab and non-Arab institutions afford insights into the problems of Arab economic development and integration. The contributors who met on the occasion of the 11th Arab Summit (also known as the First Arab Economic Summit) demonstrate that Arab economic integration is the best means by which individual Arab countries can achieve economic development. Their study of the integration process the obstacles encountered and the results achieved in addition to being of interest to anyone concerned with the Arab world is of particular relevance to those studying economic development in the Third World and South-South or North-South relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295370

The Problems of Logic Originally published in 1941. Professor Ushenko treats of current problems in technical Logic involving Symbolic Logic to a marked extent. He deprecates the tendency in influential quarters to regard Logic as a branch of Mathematics and advances the intuitionalist theory of Logic. This involves criticism of Carnap Russell Wittgenstein Broad and Whitehead with additional discussions on Kant and Hegel. The author believes that the union of Philosophy and Logic is a natural one and that an exclusively mathematical treatment cannot give an adequate account of Logic. A fundamental characteristic of Logic is comprehensiveness which brings out the affinity between logic and philosophy for to be comprehensive is the aim of philosophical ambition. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367422530

The Problems of Perception First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138884274

The Problems of Refugees in AfricaBoundaries and Borders First published in 1999 this volume is an attempt to make the facts of the tremendous physical social and psychological problems for the uprooted due to the numerous conflicts known to all and to stress the need for a concerted effort by all to achieve lasting peace on the continent. Ebenezer Q. Blavo had substantial opportunity to observe first hand and be in close contact with refugees of almost all African nationalities. He explores concepts and experiences of being refugees as well as current and potential refugee policies for African countries. This book forms part of a series on voices in development management in which grass roots organisations and development practitioners can voice their views and present their perspectives along with the conventional development experts. Many of the volumes in the series will contain explicit debates between the various voices in development and permit the suite of neglected development issues such as gender and transport or the microcredit needs of low income communities to receive appropriate public and professional attention. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138341616

The Problems with Teamwork and How to Solve Them This book offers practical evidence-based solutions to help professionals implement and support effective teamwork. Lantz Ulber and Friedrich draw on their considerable professional experience to present common problems in team-based organizations what empirical research tells us the causes are and which solutions are more effective in overcoming team-based obstacles. In The Problems with Teamwork and How to Solve Them nine common problems are identified ranging from lack of leadership and adaptability to conflict and cohesiveness accompanied by clear instructions on how to approach and resolve the individual issues. Detailed case studies are presented throughout the book demonstrating how theory can be applied to real-life situations to produce optimal results for both the team and the larger organisation. By combining theory and practice and using state-of-the-art research the book constructs a cognitive map for identifying problem causes and effect and step-by-step instructions on how to solve problems. This is essential reading for anyone working in team-based organizations as well as students and academics in related areas such as organizational psychology and organizational behaviour. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367172886

The Problem-Solving Problem-Prevention and Decision-Making GuideOrganized and Systematic Roadmaps for Managers Each day managers and employees are confronted with a plethora of real problems and decisions that are creating issues suchs as lost throughput poor quality personnel problems and material shortages.How they approach these daily quandaries will determine how successful they are at resolving problems and making effective decisions. It is human nature for managers to solutions before they even understand the nature of the problems they are trying to solve. As a result they end up making blind decisions that change perfectly acceptable processes for incorrect reasons. The real secret to solving problems does not depend upon the number of sophisticated statistical tools that one applies -- The secret to solving most problems is to keep the approach simple and uncomplicated. Many managers and employees make mistakes because they fail to do what Toyota does so effortlessly -- . They fail to perform the 'genmba walk ' during which they go to see the actual process understand the work ask questions and learn. By following a structured approach and using only simple tools most problems can be solved effective decisions can be made and problems prevented. The cornerstones of this book are three detailed roadmaps for solving problems preventing problems and making effective decisions. Each roadmap contains a step-by-step explanation on how to solve existing problems how to prevent future problems and how to make effective decisions. The book provides real case studies to illustrate each of the techniques presented in the book. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9780815361404

The Procaccini and the Business of Painting in Early Modern Milan The book investigates the lives and careers of the Procaccini brothers: Camillo (1561–1629) Carlo Antonio (1571–1631) and Giulio Cesare (1574–1625) the most important family of painters working in northern Italy at the start of the seventeenth century. The Procaccinis' work is here analysed by interconnecting their individual stories and understanding their success as the combination of mutual artistic choices a high level of specialization and precise business organization. The book looks at this family of painters as entrepreneurs emphasizing their conscious response to the requests of public and private patrons as well as their ability to balance instances of originality and imitation in an era characterized by a wide range of artistic opportunities including religious commissions national and international patronage and multifaceted markets. This book will be of interest to scholars studying art history early modern studies the art market Italian studies and Italian history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367275389

The Proceedings Against the Templars in the British IslesVolume 1: The Latin Edition In October 1307 all the brothers of the military religious Order of the Temple in France were arrested on the instructions of King Philip IV and charged with heresy. In November Pope Clement V instructed King Edward II of England to do likewise. This volume provides the first full edition of the four surviving texts of the trial proceedings that followed in Britain and Ireland; volume 2 supplies the translations into English. The trial of the Templars was the first major heresy trial in the British Isles and the proceedings reveal the Episcopate's attempts to deal with this unprecedented situation the varying procedures followed in different countries and how testimonies were recorded and summarised for the Church Councils which eventually decided the fate of the Order of the Temple. The testimonies given during the trial contain a wealth of information about religious beliefs among the lay population of the British Isles (both the Templars and outsiders who gave evidence during the trial) national and international mobility of lay religious the social function of the order of the Temple in the British Isles and its relations with society at large and the organisation and operations of the Order of the Temple at a local national and international level. Detailed introductions to each volume describe the manuscripts and how the material was compiled and arranged and discuss the course of the proceedings and the value of the evidence they contain. Appendices in volume 2 (the translation) list the names of all the Templars mentioned during the proceedings Templar houses and the locations of the proceedings in London. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409436508

The Proceedings Against the Templars in the British IslesVolume 1: The Latin Edition In October 1307 all the brothers of the military religious Order of the Temple in France were arrested on the instructions of King Philip IV and charged with heresy. In November Pope Clement V instructed King Edward II of England to do likewise. This volume provides the first full edition of the four surviving texts of the trial proceedings that followed in Britain and Ireland; volume 2 supplies the translations into English. The trial of the Templars was the first major heresy trial in the British Isles and the proceedings reveal the Episcopate's attempts to deal with this unprecedented situation the varying procedures followed in different countries and how testimonies were recorded and summarised for the Church Councils which eventually decided the fate of the Order of the Temple. The testimonies given during the trial contain a wealth of information about religious beliefs among the lay population of the British Isles (both the Templars and outsiders who gave evidence during the trial) national and international mobility of lay religious the social function of the order of the Temple in the British Isles and its relations with society at large and the organisation and operations of the Order of the Temple at a local national and international level. Detailed introductions to each volume describe the manuscripts and how the material was compiled and arranged and discuss the course of the proceedings and the value of the evidence they contain. Appendices in volume 2 (the translation) list the names of all the Templars mentioned during the proceedings Templar houses and the locations of the proceedings in London. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553887

The Proceedings against the Templars in the British IslesVolume 1: The Latin Edition Volume 2: The Translation In October 1307 all the brothers of the military religious Order of the Temple in France were arrested on the instructions of King Philip IV and charged with heresy. In November Pope Clement V instructed King Edward II of England to do likewise. These two volumes provide the first full edition and translation of the four surviving texts of the trial proceedings that followed in Britain and Ireland. The trial of the Templars was the first major heresy trial in the British Isles and the proceedings reveal the Episcopate's attempts to deal with this unprecedented situation the varying procedures followed in different countries and how testimonies were recorded and summarised for the Church Councils which eventually decided the fate of the Order of the Temple. The testimonies given during the trial contain a wealth of information about religious beliefs among the lay population of the British Isles (both the Templars and outsiders who gave evidence during the trial) national and international mobility of lay religious the social function of the order of the Temple in the British Isles and its relations with society at large and the organisation and operations of the Order of the Temple at a local national and international level. Detailed introductions to each volume describe the manuscripts and how the material was compiled and arranged and discuss the course of the proceedings and the value of the evidence they contain. Appendices in volume 2 (the translation) list the names of all the Templars mentioned during the proceedings Templar houses and the locations of the proceedings in London. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780754653943

The Proceedings Against the Templars in the British IslesVolume 2: The Translation In October 1307 all the brothers of the military religious Order of the Temple in France were arrested on the instructions of King Philip IV and charged with heresy. In November Pope Clement V instructed King Edward II of England to do likewise. This volume provide the first full translation of the four surviving texts of the trial proceedings that followed in Britain and Ireland complementing the edition published in volume 1. The trial of the Templars was the first major heresy trial in the British Isles and the proceedings reveal the Episcopate's attempts to deal with this unprecedented situation the varying procedures followed in different countries and how testimonies were recorded and summarised for the Church Councils which eventually decided the fate of the Order of the Temple. The testimonies given during the trial contain a wealth of information about religious beliefs among the lay population of the British Isles (both the Templars and outsiders who gave evidence during the trial) national and international mobility of lay religious the social function of the order of the Temple in the British Isles and its relations with society at large and the organisation and operations of the Order of the Temple at a local national and international level. Detailed introductions to each volume describe the manuscripts and how the material was compiled and arranged and discuss the course of the proceedings and the value of the evidence they contain. Appendices in this volume also list the names of all the Templars mentioned during the proceedings Templar houses and the locations of the proceedings in London. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409436522

The Process and Structure of CrimeCriminal Events and Crime Analysis Criminology has developed strong methodological tools over the past decades establishing itself as a competitive sophisticated and independent social science. Perhaps because of its emphasis on matters of design methodology and quantitative analysis criminology has had few significant advances in theory. Advances in Criminological Theory is the first series exclusively dedicated to the dissemination of original work on criminological theory.The Process and Structure of Crime the ninth volume in this landmark series is a thorough overview of the conceptual and empirical issues raised by the adoption of a criminal event perspective which takes into account the multifaceted character of human behavior. This book is divided into three sections: conceptual bases of criminal events the criminal event perspective itself and responses to criminal events. Contributors analyze and explore a wide range of topics including: how interpersonal routines are structured through past experience; the influence of social context on interpersonal routines; criminal opportunity and its impact on criminal events; the significance of neighborhood context; the effect of victimization and fear; how problem-oriented policing efforts need to be informed by and reflect the problems of repeat offenders repeat victims and hot spots of crime; and finally how changes in the physical environment constrain or limit criminal opportunities. This fascinating work will be beneficial to criminologists sociologists and scholars of legal studies.Contributors to this volume include: Leslie W. Kennedy Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot Robert F. Meier Mark Warr Christopher Birkbeck Luis Gerardo Gabaldon Kriss A. Drass Terance D. Miethe Julie Horney Jeffrey Fagan Deanna L. Wilkinson Robert J. Buskirk Jr. Vincent F. Sacco Ross Macmillan John E. Eck Paul J. Brantingham and Pat Brantingham. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138516786

The Process MindNew Thoughtware ® for Designing Your Business on Purpose What if you could double your productivity without additional capital investment? What if you could outperform your competition by changing the way you think? What if you could be fast flexible and low cost?In The Process Mind Philip Kirby not only opens your mind to these possibilities but shows you how it is done. The book emphatically makes the case that the new thoughtware® of process thinking is imperative if you are to compete in the twenty-first century.Business performance is rooted in your processes and superior performance depends on how you think about and run these processes. To improve and sustain performance you need a process mind.With game-changing thinking thought-provoking principles and eye-opening examples Kirby brings to life the operating intelligence of a process mind and demonstrates why process is the most innovative product you can build.This book covers the downside of old thoughtware and the upside of new thoughtware. It sets out the principles on which thoughtware operates describes its application at every level of work and illustrates the impact of new thoughtware with real-life examples and case reports.Kirby presents insights gained through decades of successful implementation of new thoughtware practices across North America Europe Asia and Australia. Kirby’s track record is so exceptional that by following the proven concepts discussed in this book you can expect a 50 percent improvement in performance.The game-changing principles and practices covered in this book from the shop floor to the corner office make it a compelling and inspiring must-read. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781482228953

The Process of ArgumentAn Introduction The Process of Argument: An Introduction is a necessary companion for anyone seeking to engage in successful persuasion: To organize construct and communicate arguments. It is both comprehensive and accessible: An authoritative guide to logical thinking and effective communication.　 The book begins with techniques to improve reading comprehension including guides on navigating through fake news and internet trolls. Then readers are taught how to reconstruct deductive inductive and abductive presentations so that the logical structure is explicit. And finally there is a step-by-step guide for responding to these texts via the argumentative essay.　 Along the way are current examples from social media and elsewhere on the internet along with guides for assessing truth claims in an ever-complicated community worldview. Throughout are carefully selected reading questions and exercises that will pace readers in order to ensure that the text is securely grasped and successfully applied. Key Features Offers guidance on how to read a text through self-analysis and social criticism Provides a step-by-step procedure for allowing the student to move from reading to reconstruction to being prepared to write an effective argumentative essay Presents truth theory and shows readers how they can helpfully acquaint themselves with a version of realistic foundational epistemology Offers guidelines and helpful tools on how best to structure an argumentative pro or con essay Includes expansive coverage of inductive logic through the use and assessment of statistics Covers abductive logic as it applies to the analysis of narrative in argumentative writing Has up-to-date examples from the media including from blogs social media and television Includes a helpful glossary of all important terms in the book Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367425258

The Process of DramaNegotiating Art and Meaning The Process of Drama provides an original and invaluable model of the elements of drama in context and defines how these are negotiated to produce dramatic art. John O'Toole takes the reader through a lively fascinating account of the relationships between the playwright the elements of dramatic art and the other artists involved in this most interactive of creative processes. In doing so he demonstrates - with clarity and wit - how dramatic meaning emerges; how the dramatic event is constructed. Areas covered include: roles and relationships the drama space language and movement tension and the audience gesture and movement This is an essential book for every student of drama who wants to understand how the theatrical art form operates Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138135918

The Process of Economic Development The fifth edition of The Process of Economic Development offers a thorough and up-to-date treatment of development economics. It has been extensively revised throughout reflecting the most recent developments in research and incorporating the latest empirical data as well as key theoretical advances and many new topics. The world has seen vast economic growth in China economic transformation in India new challenges in Latin America rapid economic progress in Southeast Asia and the deepening impact of environmental issues such as climate change. This new edition addresses all these critical issues as well as the pivotal role of the state where China’s capacity is contrasted with that of African states. Transnational corporations’ reliance on low-wage manufacturing and labor arbitrage is featured in the book. Agricultural policy—extensively explored—remains crucial as does the promotion of industrialization. This fifth edition offers a ‘state-of-the-art’ analysis of these essential themes and many others. Numerous case studies and issue focuses have been integrated with sundry central topics. Neoclassical theories and applications including a timely exploration of behavioral economics are both rigorously and accessibly explicated. Cypher’s comprehensive account remains the development economics text par excellence as it takes a much more practical hands-on view of the issues facing the developing countries than other overly mathematical texts. This book is unique in its scope and in the detailed attention it gives to a vast range of ideas including pioneering developmentalist and heterodox formulations. Distinct institutional structures are examined within their historical contexts. This landmark text will continue to be an invaluable resource for students teachers and researchers in the fields of development economics and development studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367256821

The Process of Economic Development The fourth edition of The Process of Economic Development offers a thorough and up-to-date treatment of development economics. This landmark text will continue to be an invaluable resource for students teachers and researchers in the fields of development economics and development studies. The new edition has been revised and updated throughout reflecting the most recent developments in research and incorporating the latest empirical data as well as key theoretical advances. The period since the publication of the third edition of The Process of Economic Development has been a time of immense change in the developing world. The period has seen huge economic growth in China economic restructuring in India and the continuing impact of environmental issues such as climate change. The fourth edition reflects these developments as well as including numerous case studies and new material on the following: transnational corporations and labor in export processing zones industrial policy and structural change gender inequality income distribution and development progress towards the Millennium Development Goals technology and national innovation systems aid and the least developed nations the post debt crisis era and debt relief for Africa. Cypher’s comprehensive account remains the development economics text par excellence as it takes a much more practical hands-on view of the issues facing developing countries than other overly mathematical texts. This book is unique in its scope and in the detailed attention it gives to the historical contexts that have influenced progress toward development. It is accessibly written both for students of economics and for those with an interest in the many aspects of development studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415643283

The Process of GovernmentA Study of Social Pressures Arthur F. Bentley originally wrote this book over the years 1896-1908 while working as a Chicago newspaper reporter and editor during which time he had a "sense of tremendous social activity taking place " and a feeling that "all the politics of the country so to speak were drifting across [his] desk." This prompted Bentley to develop an analysis of group interests which he believed to be the true dictators of government decisions.He was hailed on methodological grounds as an early supporter of the "behavioral revolution " which called for the use of natural scientific methods in the social sciences and for offering a group theory of politics. Bentley's implicit critique of narrow empiricism reflects the diverse influences of Dilthey Simmel and Dewey. The Process of Government was virtually ignored until the post-World War II period but is now regarded as a classic in political science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537828

The Process of Highly Effective CoachingAn Evidence-Based Framework The Process of Highly Effective Coaching offers a unique blend of theory and practical methods for conducting effective coaching conversations. It provides an umbrella under which all of the major conceptual models for helping people change can not only coexist but work together. In addition to using this integrative approach The Process of Highly Effective Coaching presents a framework for conducting coaching conversations and for relating the coaching process to the coaching competencies defined by the International Coach Federation the largest coach-credentialing organization in the world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138906013

The Process of LearningSome Psychological Aspects of Learning and Discipline in School Originally published in 1930 this book was designed to meet the needs of students in Training Colleges. It is the outcome of first-hand experience of the difficulties encountered by students in the subject of educational theory and its application to the problems of the classroom at the time. It was the hope of the writer that this book may help the student to find a profitable connection between the theory of the lecture room and the problems of the school classroom. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138283640

The Process of PoliticsA Comparative Approach The successful teaching of an introductory course in comparative politics or comparative government--as any instructor will agree involves the presentation of information organized around a coherent framework. Therefore to be effective a textbook must provide an articulate methodical structure that no clarifies basic information but also makes it relevant and vital for the student.The Process of Politics is just such a book carefully chosen material; intellectual coherence and stylistic clarity are the prime characteristics of this core volume in comparative politics. Here the significant data of comparative research are tied in with the continuing study of political systems. Throughout a wealth of substantive material illustrates the author's theoretical perspective so that while concentrating on existing cross-national relations and behavior patterns the student discovers both the unique qualities of a given political system and the shared patterns common to all political systems.The Process of Politics can be adapted to any preferred method of instruction. For example with a country-by-country approach it can be used as an introduction to the overall field and the findings it presents can serve as models against which politics in each country may be compared. Similarly instructors who choose the functional approach can use the book to introduce the primary governmental functions as they are performed in various political settings. The Process of Politics stimulates the student's interest in the comparative approach by emphasizing the characteristics of sound research examining the potentialities and deficiencies of structural functionalism and demonstrating the need for greater integration of research in this exciting and rapidly growing area. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537835

The Process Of Priority FormulationU.s. Foreign Policy In The Indopakistani War Of 1971 How are foreign policy objectives and priorities formulated by decision makers in the U.S. government? Dan Haendel answers this question by examining the decision-making process during the Indo-Pakistani War focusing on the behavior of government institutions and individuals as they attempted to cope with the events of 1971. After a discussion of post-World War II U.S. foreign policy in South Asia the area's importance to the United States during the Cold War and the internal crisis in Pakistan leading up to its war with India the author considers the U.S. government's response to the Indo-Pakistani clash. He discusses the organizational structure for the conduct of U.S. foreign policy the relative importance of the various governmental decision-making units and the impact of an individual such as Kissinger within the organization. Using as his basic source information gathered in interviews with the participants he provides an account of deliberations with the U.S. government. This work introduces to the field of foreign policy analysis the concept of priority formulation Examining the argument that a decision maker establishes a subjective and personal scale the author points out that beliefs and values are likely to determine the approach used by the decision maker in coping with complex stimuli and in structuring problems. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295387

The Process of Psychoanalytic TherapyModels and Strategies In his extensive description of the heuristic approach to psychoanalytic therapy Peterfreund discusses the strategies used by both patient and therapist as they move toward discovery and deeper understanding. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138872059

The Process of PsychotherapyEmpirical Foundations and Systems of Analysis To understand the process of psychotherapeutic change one must look for the answers in the psychotherapeutic process itself. This process involves the exchange of communications between two (or more) participants and as a result of the exchange modifications in the personality and behavior of the patient are expected to occur. But what is the nature of the therapeutic messages? How do they produce changes in the patient? What aspects of the messages are important for therapeutic change? And if the therapeutic force is somehow encoded in the messages where shall we look for it- in sentence structure in emotional overtones in gestures and body movements?The Process of Psychotherapy is divided into two major parts dealing respectively with method and with systems. In Part I the author presents an analysis of psychotherapy process research from a communications perspective developing an incisive and detailed analysis of the methodological issues that confront researchers in this field and suggesting theoretical and empirical strategies for addressing these issues.Part II provides the first exhaustive and detailed summary of extant psychotherapy process systems. The author first deals with direct systems those procedures of content analysis or rating scales that have been developed to assess the exchanges between therapists and patients. Seventeen major direct process systems are presented in detail and are summarized with ample citations to the literature. The final section of the book offers an exhaustive listing and concise description of various indirect measures of psychotherapy process which do not assess the verbatim interview exchanges of the participants in therapy but rather assess the participants' perceptions via self-report or standard analogue procedures.This book is a basic sophisticated and exhaustive coverage of psychotherapy process and content analysis that will become the standard and authoritative source for anyone interested in the process of psychotherapy whether as student researcher or practitioner. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537842

The Processes and Practices of Fair TradeTrust Ethics and Governance This book analyzes the factors behind the recent expansion of Fairtrade and questions whether the trust given to the scheme by "ethical" shoppers is warranted. It goes about this assessment by analyzing the claim of ethical shopping and by scrutinizing the specific contribution of the Fairtrade Certification Mark to producer’s welfare. This assessment is based on information gathered in a mixture of desk-based research and fieldwork carried out in Argentina Bolivia Chile Peru Tanzania and South Africa. This book comprises separate chapters written by academics of various backgrounds who have worked together on Fairtrade it should however be noted that the authors do not necessarily hold a common set of views in respect to Fairtrade. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138808430

The Processing of Information and Structure First published in 1974. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9781315802862

The Processing of Memories (PLE: Memory)Forgetting and Retention Originally published in 1978 this volume contains the evidence that is most crucial for our understanding the processes of forgetting and retention. Organized in terms of problem areas and issues that are particularly pertinent to understanding these processes the book deals with both animal and human studies. The author begins by defining the topic and reviewing its historical development. A theoretical orientation follows and then the author begins to address the major factors that determine what is and what is not remembered. Although we cannot yet specify the principles from which we can predict when an episode once learned will be remembered well or forgotten entirely the author demonstrates that such principles are not that far away. He considers the issues that must be resolved before such principles are established and in the course of doing so covers the major research on why we remember events and why they are forgotten. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138998063

The Procurement and Management of Small Works and Minor MaintenanceThe Principal Considerations for Client Organisations Many client organisations occupy large and often diverse property estates which require significant expenditure on maintenance alterations refurbishment or small-scale new building work. Effective organisation and efficient allocation of resources are essential to ensure that the works are carried out successfully.This book provides a detailed introduction to small works procurement and management within the large client organisation a significant sector of the construction industry which has hitherto been neglected by researchers. In the large organisational context characterised by large property holdings perhaps over wide geographic areas the importance of ensuring maximum efficiency of resource use is crucial. If the regular and numerous work which is required throughout the year is not carried out in line with organisational goals then the core business will suffer.The book focuses on the suitability efficiency and effectiveness of procurement organisation and management of small works and outlines the main stages in the formulation and implementation of well-defined and measurable objectives. Overall it will enable the reader to understand the decision factors involved in designing a small works procurement strategy.The Procurement and Management of Small Works and Minor Maintenance is an indispensible reference for all facilities managers consultants and contractors. It is also useful reading for undergarduate and postgraduate courses in building construction management maintenance and facilities management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138424906

The Procurement Models Handbook Building from the previous two successful editions The Procurement Models Handbook is an essential resource for everyone working in the procurement profession including those selling directly to it. The authors provide the reader with a useful guide to the business models most frequently applied in the procurement and supply chain arena. Procurement and supply chain management are two of the highest contributors to corporate success in the modern world. This third edition is a new revised international version with additional tools that reflect the value of procurement in our globally-connected world. The authors have included over 50 well-established strategic and operational models that have a proven track record of delivering value over years of practice. Each model is presented pictorially with explanatory commentary on its practical application to support. These models are designed to save unnecessary cost and deliver significant benefits for their user and have been carefully selected by the authors based on their originality and usefulness for practical application in the context of procurement and the supply chain. The Procurement Models Handbook is an invaluable and enduring source of reference for practitioners and business managers as well as an essential learning support for business and procurement students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815375609

The Pro-democracy Protests in ChinaReports from the Provinces The mass protests that erupted in China during the spring of 1989 were not confined to Beijing and Shanghai. Cities and towns across the great breadth of China were engulfed by demonstrations which differed regionally in content and tone: the complaints and protest actions in prosperous Fuijan Province on the south China coast were somewhat different from those in Manchuria or inland Xi'an or the country towns of Hunan. The variety of the reactions is a barometer of the political and economic climate in contemporary China. In this book Western China specialists who were on the spot that spring describe and analyze the upsurges of protest that erupted around them. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315699202

The Producer's Business HandbookThe Roadmap for the Balanced Film Producer Gain a comprehensive understanding of the business of entertainment and learn to successfully engage in all aspects of global production with the revised and updated 4th edition of The Producer's Business Handbook. Learn how to cultivate relationships with key industry players including domestic and foreign studios agencies attorneys talent completion guarantors banks and private investors. This edition has been updated to include the latest opportunities presented by changing technology and their impact on the producer’s ability to brand monetize finance and globally release content. Also included is new information on audience earning distribution and funding opportunities created by the explosive growth of VR AR 360 and gaming as well as the rapid conversion to OTT. Additional features include: Completely updated production financing worksheets – an essential tool for producers; Expanded information for low-budget independent producers internationally-based producers producers using government funding and film school students alike; Coverage of China’s changing entertainment landscape including their entertainment consumption their commitment to produce content for the big global territories and more; New full-color illustrations and graphics that provide a visual representation of complex topics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138050938

The Producer's Playbook: Real People on CameraDirecting and Working with Non-Actors Producer’s Playbook: Real People on Camera is a no-nonsense guide for producers looking to get the best performances from "real people" to tell powerful stories on video. Director/producer Amy DeLouise brings years of experience to this resource for creating the best on-screen impact with non-actors for interviews re-enactments documentary and direct-to-camera messages. With useful case studies and tips on everything from managing locations and budgeting to strategies for managing crews and the expectations of executive producers and clients this is an invaluable resource for professionals working in reality TV documentary corporate video and more. Ample case studies with perspectives from industry professionals interviewed by the author as well as her own plentiful stories from the field Tips are featured in sidebars throughout the text so that readers can see how the information applies to real situations Full-color photographs allow readers to visualize real world production situations The appendix includes useful templates and checklists for working producers Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138920484

The Product Wheel HandbookCreating Balanced Flow in High-Mix Process Operations The Product Wheel (PW) design process has practical methods for finding the optimum sequence minimizing changeover costs and freeing up useful capacity. So much so that the DuPont™ Company and Exxon Mobil are just a few companies that have used the product wheel concept to achieve and sustain a competitive advantage.Breaking down a fairly complex design process into manageable steps The Product Wheel Handbook: Creating Balanced Flow in High-Mix Process Operations walks readers through the process for designing and implementing the PW technique. It includes a case study taken from actual practice that illustrates the design process and its benefits. Describing how to apply the product wheel technique to any manufacturing operation the book: Details the steps required to implement product wheels Explains why certain traditional manufacturing metrics should be reevaluated so they don’t inhibit product wheel performance Defines the cultural foundation necessary for smooth product wheel design and implementation Includes a real-world case study and several examples of product wheels being used by successful manufacturing companies—including BG Products Inc. the DuPont™ Company the Dow Chemical Company and Appleton Many of the steps in wheel design described in this book are not new. What’s new is their application to production planning and scheduling problems and more importantly a clear roadmap explaining how and when they should be used in product wheel design.Supplying you with the tools to reduce the chaos often found in production scheduling the book outlines a disciplined structure that will allow you to spend less of your time resolving schedule problems. Most importantly it provides your organization with a stable platform to deal with abnormal events in a less stressful and more logical manner. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781466554184

The Production and Consumption of Music in the Digital Age The economic geography of music is evolving as new digital technologies organizational forms market dynamics and consumer behavior continue to restructure the industry. This book is an international collection of case studies examining the spatial dynamics of today’s music industry. Drawing on research from a diverse range of cities such as Santiago Toronto Paris New York Amsterdam London and Berlin this volume helps readers understand how the production and consumption of music is changing at multiple scales – from global firms to local entrepreneurs; and in multiple settings – from established clusters to burgeoning scenes. The volume is divided into interrelated sections and offers an engaging and immersive look at today’s central players processes and spaces of music production and consumption. Academic students and researchers across the social sciences including human geography sociology economics and cultural studies will find this volume helpful in answering questions about how and where music is financed produced marketed distributed curated and consumed in the digital age. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138546417

The Production Manager's ToolkitSuccessful Production Management in Theatre and Performing Arts "Our theater world is so much better with this book in it and even better with Cary and Jay at the helm." –David Stewart Director of Production for the Guthrie Theater The Production Manager’s Toolkit is a comprehensive introduction to a career in theatrical and special event production for new and aspiring professionals given by expert voices in the field. The book discusses management techniques communication skills and relationship building tactics to create effective and successful production managers. With a focus on management theory advice from top production managers provide insights into budgeting scheduling meetings hiring maintaining safety and more. Through interviews and case studies the history and techniques of production management are explored throughout a variety of entertainment venues: theatre dance opera and special events. The book includes references tools templates and checklists; and a companion website contains downloadable paperwork and links to other useful resources such as unions venues and vendors. This book is written for student and professional production managers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138838840

The Production of Alternative Urban SpacesAn International Dialogue Alternative urban spaces across civic private and public spheres emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are currently confronted with. Labour markets are changing rapidly the availability of affordable housing is under intensifying pressure and public spaces have become battlegrounds of urban politics.This edited collection brings together contributors in order to spark an international dialogue about the production of alternative urban spaces through a threefold exploration of alternative spaces of work dwelling and public life. Seeking out and examining existing alternative urban spaces the authors identify the elements that provide opportunities to create radically different futures for the world’s urban spaces. This volume is the culmination of an international search for alternative practices to dominant modes of capitalist urbanisation bringing together interdisciplinary empirically grounded chapters from hot spots in disparate cities around the world.Offering a multidisciplinary perspective The Production of Alternative Urban Spaces will be of great interest to academics working across the fields of urban sociology human geography anthropology political science and urban planning. It will also be indispensable to any postgraduate students engaged in urban and regional studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367664817

The Production of HeritageThe Politicisation of Architectural Conservation In this important book the authors unpack the theoretical and practical issues around the development of heritage sites critically dissecting key conservation benchmarks such as the ICOMOS guidelines BS 7913 and the RIBA Conservation Plan of Work to reveal the mechanics of heritage guidance its advantages and conceptual limitations. Underpinned by an active understanding of the conservation philosophy of William Morris the book presents five case studies from the UK and North and South America that speak about different facets of heritage value such as urban identity commodification authenticity materiality and heritage as an intellectual and ethical framework. Heritage is never neutral; its definition is privileged yet its influence is political. Art landscape and archaeology all offer examples of how the operational ideas of adjacent disciplines can influence an integrated idea of heritage conservation and how this is communicated in order to determine significance and share in its custodianship. This book provides insights into how to identify and challenge these limitations expanding inclusion by describing tactics for changing how people can relate to and build on the past. Clearly written for all levels of readership within the conservation professions and community custodians of heritage buildings and places the book provides strategies and tactics for understanding the heritage significance of materials their fabrication detail and use. The narratives that historic fabric contains can help shape the meaningful involvement of local people providing a roadmap for those navigating the double-bind of using the past to underpin the future.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367078010

The Production of Hospice SpaceConceptualising the Space of Caring and Dying Challenging the widely held notion of a hospice as a building or a place this book argues that it should instead be a philosophy of care. It proposes that the positive and negative impact that space can have in the pursuit of an ideal such as hospice care has previously been underestimated. Whether it be a purpose-built hospice part of a hospital a nursing home or within the home a hospice is anchored by space and spatial practices and these spatial practices are critical for a holistic approach to dying with dignity. Such spatial practices are understood as part of a broad architectural social conceptual and theoretical process. By linking health social and architectural theory and establishing conceptual principles this book defines 'hospice' as a philosophy that is underpinned by space and spatial practice. In putting forward the notion of 'hospice space' removed from the bounds of a specific building type it suggests that hospice philosophy could and should be available within any setting of choice where the spatial practices support that philosophy be it home nursing home hospice or 'hospice-friendly-hospitals'. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138245723

The Production of ProphecyConstructing Prophecy and Prophets in Yehud The Persian and Hellenistic periods saw the production and use of a variety of authoritative texts in Israel. 'The Production of Prophecy' brings together a range of influential biblical scholars to examine the construction of prophecy and prophetic books during the Persian period. Drawing on methodological and comparative research and studies of particular biblical texts the volume explores biblical prophecy as a written phenomenon examining the prophets of the past setting this within the general history of Yehud. The relationship between prophetic and other authoritative written texts is explored as well as the general social and ideological setting in which the prophetic books emerged. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315710891

The Production Sites of Architecture The Production Sites of Architecture examines the intimate link between material sites and meaning. It explores questions such as: how do spatial configurations produce meaning? What are alternative modes of knowledge production? How do these change our understanding of architectural knowledge? Featuring essays from an international range of scholars the book accepts that everything about the production of architecture has social significance. It focuses on two areas: firstly relationships of spatial configuration form order and classification; secondly the interaction of architecture and these notions with other areas of knowledge such as literature inscriptions interpretations and theories of classification ordering and invention. Moving beyond perspectives which divide architecture into either an aesthetic or practical art the authors show how buildings are informed by intersections between site and content space and idea thought and materiality architecture and imagination. Presenting illustrated case studies of works by architects and artists including Amale Andraos Dan Wood OMA Koen Deprez and John Soane The Production Sites of Architecture makes a major contribution to our understanding of architectural theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138559448

The Productive Efficiency of Container TerminalsAn Application to Korea and the UK This work applies the theory and techniques of economic efficiency measurement to the realistic context of the ports industry. The objective is to assess the practical impact of port privatization policies upon the economic performance of the sector. Specifically this volume presents Korea’s port and terminal development plans and systematically analyses not only the process and results of privatisation but also the claims of its proponents that it leads directly to improved efficiency. The Korean experience is given global relevance by applying the same approach to Britain’s main container ports and terminals which of course are at a more advanced stage in the privatisation process. This work constitutes a unique contribution to the literature relating to shipping and ports econometrics and the Korean economy and will be of primary interest to port authorities and practitioners as well as to students of economics and/or the shipping industry. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138263864

The Profession and Practice of Horticultural Therapy The Profession and Practice of Horticultural Therapy is a comprehensive guide to the theories that horticultural therapists use as a foundation for their practice and provides wide-ranging illustrative models of programming. This book aims to enhance understanding and provide insight into the profession for both new and experienced practitioners. It is directed to students in the field along with health care and human service professionals to successfully develop and manage horticultural therapy programming. The book is organized into four sections: an overview of the horticultural therapy profession theories supporting horticultural therapy use models for programs and tools for the therapist. Areas of focus include: Overview of the profession including the knowledge skills and abilities needed to practice Discussion of related people-plant endeavors and theories supporting horticultural therapy Issues within the profession of horticultural therapy including employment models professionalism and ethics and credentials Characteristics and implementation of therapeutic vocational and wellness program models Accommodations and adaptive techniques to best serve the needs of all participants Strategies for assessment and documentation for horticultural therapy intervention Issues for managing programs including how horticultural therapy programs collaborate with other disciplines determining program costs and budget managing staff and growing spaces and conducting program evaluations Horticultural therapy serves the needs of the whole individual when practitioners have a broad and deep comprehension of the theories techniques and strategies for effective program development and management. The Profession and Practice of Horticultural Therapy provides relevant and current information on the field with the intent to inspire best practices and creative effective programs. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138308695

The Profession of City PlanningChanges Images and Challenges: 1950-200 In thirty-four provocative and insightful chapters the nation's leading planners present a definitive assessment of fifty years of city planning and establish a benchmark for the profession for the next fifty years. The book appraises what planners do and how well they do it how and why their current activities differ from past practices and how much and in what ways planners have or have not enhanced the quality of urban life and contributed to the intellectual capital of the field.How have the goals values and practices of planners changed? What do planners say about their roles and the problems they confront? What is the relevance of their skills from design capabilities and environmental savvy to intermediate and long-term perspectives and the pragmatics of implementation? The contributors seeking to answer these questions include Anthony Downs Nathan Glazer Philip B. Herr Judith E. Innes Terry S. Szold Lawrence J. Vale and Sam Bass Warner Jr.The Profession of City Planning contrasts with the main changes in the US over the second half of the twentieth century in city planning. Sector images of the practice and effects of planning on housing transportation and the environment as well as the development of economic tools are also discussed. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315134253

The Profession of English Letters First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415850186

The Professional CounselorChallenges and Opportunities The Professional Counselor: Challenges and Opportunities weaves a rich narrative for the inner counselor of self-discovery mindfulness and self-care emotional intelligence counselor identity ethical issues career maturation and future trends in counseling. Readers will be confronted with professional decision points regarding enrollment in the counselor profession ethical issues client treatment accreditation and occupational outlook. The text also posits counseling as an emerging global profession and addresses the ways technology will transform professional practice. Each chapter concludes with a Lessons Learned section in which the author uses his personal and professional experiences to address relevant professional issues in mindfulness-based treatment. The Professional Counselor is an excellent resource and guide for students in graduate counseling programs those considering the field and counselors new to the profession. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367002213

The Professional Development of Early Years Educators This book provides a critical insight into comparative approaches to the professional learning and development of early years educators – taken to include all those working in a professional capacity with young children in educative settings including home-based care and education. It also analyses leadership development for the early years workforce and the evaluation of the success or otherwise of professional development initiatives involving early years educators. The book includes perspectives on relevant policy development at local and national levels and critical consideration of research literature on the effectiveness of professional development programmes for early years educators.The book is essential reading for professionals working in early years settings for those engaged with the professional learning of early years educators and for academics researching professionalism in early years education. It provides international perspectives on the professional learning and development of those working in early years education.This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Professional Development in Education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367892104

The Professional Development of Teacher Educators This book makes a significant contribution to a hitherto much neglected area. The book brings together a wide range of papers on a scale rarely seen with a geographic spread that enhances our understanding of the complex journey undertaken by those who aspire to become teachers of teachers. The authors from more than ten countries use a variety of approaches including narrative/life history self-study and empirical research to demonstrate the complexity of the transformative search by individuals to establish their professional identity as teacher educators. The book offers fundamental and thoughtful critiques of current policy practice and examples of established structures specifically supporting the professional development of teacher educators that may well have a wider applicability. Many of the authors are active and leading persons in the international fields of teacher education and of professional development. The book considers: novice teacher educators issues of transition; identity development including research identity; the facilitation and mentoring of teacher educators; self-study research including collaborative writing use of stories; professional development within the context of curriculum and structural reform. Becoming a teacher is recognised as a transformative search by individuals for their teaching identities. Becoming a teacher educator often involves a more complex and longer journey but according to the many travel stories told here one that can be a deeply satisfying experience. This book was published as a special issue of Professional Development in Education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415657945

The Professional EdgeCompetencies in Public Service The new context and character of public service - shifting values entrepreneurship information technology multi-sector careers - require enhanced technical ethical and leadership skills. This concise and readable work describes what it means to be a consummate professional public servant. It sets standards for everyone who conducts the public's business and links them with performance management human resource administration and information technology skills. The authors identify the ethical foundations of public service and how to integrate them in practice. They also address individual leadership what it means and how it is based on a foundation of technical and ethical skills. Filled with original illustrative examples and case studies from government the non-profit sector and business The Professional Edge is an ideal supplement for any introductory course in Public Administration or Ethics in the Public Service. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315669229

The Professional Identity of Teacher EducatorsCareer on the cusp? The Professional Identity of Teacher Educators offers a contemporary study of teacher education in a period of huge international institutional and professional change. The book explores the experiences understandings and beliefs that guide the professional practices of teacher educators and paints a picture of a profession that offers huge rewards alongside challenges and frustrations. What are the responsibilities of the job and how does it re-shape the professional identity of those who do it day in day out? What are the challenges and opportunities for teacher educators arising from constantly evolving education policies? Drawing on the findings of a phenomenological study of the professional self-image and identities of pre-service teacher educators this book provides an account of how a number of teacher educators have come to terms with their own identities as professionals at a time of considerable institutional turmoil. Moving beyond these individual stories broader theoretical issues are also addressed: are there some distinctive but common elements that might distinguish the professional identity of the particular group we call teacher educators; and if there are what might those characteristics be? Included in the book: identity and professional identity in teaching and teacher education investigating a professional identity the process of becoming a teacher educator teacher educators’ changing job descriptions in an era of reform the distinctive knowledge-base and expertise of teacher educators’ teacher educators’ self-image teacher educators as a community of practice. Ronnie Davey provides a unique and compelling report on cutting edge teacher education research encapsulating the major issues associated with being a teacher educator and how that influences and shapes teacher educators’ identity. This book will be invaluable reading for teacher educators and researchers with an interest in professional identity and teaching in Higher Education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415536417

The Professional Identity of the Human Rights Field Officer The important and groundbreaking volume The Professional Identity of the Human Rights Field Officer completes the study of human rights field work begun in the earlier The Human Rights Field Operation: Law Theory and Practice (2007: Ashgate). Building on the critique of the field’s historical development and current situation featured in the earlier volume O’Flaherty Ulrich and their fellow contributors focus on the specific responsibilities of the individual human rights officer and concentrate on vital issues of professionalism beyond the confines of any specific organization. Their expansion of the analysis in the case studies section of the first volume has resulted in an up to date global edition of significant academic interest to anyone within the field of human rights law. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553863

The Professional Practice of Jungian CoachingCorporate Analytical Psychology O’Brien and O’Brien and their collection of international contributors introduce the historical and current theory and practice of Corporate Analytical Psychology. Uniquely and practically bringing Jungian ideas to the corporate world the chapters discuss the increasing need for ethical corporations in the context of individuation and moral hazard demonstrate how to manage and define complexes that inhibit creativity and productivity and shows practitioners how to recognise and connect with symbols as an active and living manifestation of the personal and collective psyche. The book is illustrated with practical examples and case studies encountered by the authors during their 30 years of experience consulting the world’s leading companies and institutions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367404123

The Professional ScientistA Study of American Chemists This classic book available in paperback for the first time is based on a 1962 study of the American Chemical Society one of the great U. S. scientific societies. The society has a membership educated in the fundamental scientific field of chemistry whose knowledge and talents are essential to modem industrial civilization. Without chemistry we would have neither automobiles nuclear devices nor all the varied products essential to our modern way of life.Chemists are caught up in the dynamic changes in our society. The explosive advance of scientific knowledge leads to increasing specialization until experts in one field may have little in common with those in another. Also as the knowledge and skills of chemistry are incorporated in the workaday world of industry more and more trained chemists spend their days in routine application and organization of their skills and knowledge.The unique element of this study is its assessment of the role and function of a professional society for its members. Not much is known of how professionals feel about their societies what they expect of them or how they function for their members.Such studies assume increasing importance as the trend toward professionalization incorporates more specialized skills and as the members of these professions look increasingly to their societies for assistance in establishing their rights and privileges vis-à-vis the rest of society. This remains a unique effort at professional ethnography. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412818582

The Professional Skills Handbook For Engineers And Technical Professionals This new handbook covers a wide range of engineering skills generally not taught in today's college-level technical programs. New engineers though technically sound need to master these other skills upon entering the professional world. Topics covered include teaming root cause analysis Lean manufacturing and management presentation skills innovation and change leadership. Based on the author’s 30　years of engineering and leadership experience this work contains a wealth of practical tips and advice as well as lessons learned the hard way. Portable and concise the handbook can help new engineers thrive in and enjoy the technical world and their professional careers. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367424992

The Professional Student Affairs AdministratorEducator Leader and Manager Styled as a complete update to the 1991 book "Administration and Leadership in Student Affairs" this work addresses issues of importance to student affairs professionals. Grounded in human development learning leadership group dynamics management theories and social science research and evaluation methods this book articulates the means for college student affairs administrators to function in the forefront of student learning and personal development initiatives. The book focuses on the three essential roles played by student affairs administrators: as educators who play a significant role in addressing the academic goals of their institutions as leaders who help to shape the vision of their institution's student affairs practice and education mission and as managers who are responsible for co-ordinating programs and services supervising staff and overseeing university facilities and budgets. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415763387

The Professionalisation of African Medicine Originally published in 1986 this book draws upon a range of authors to reflect wide interest in systematising traditional medicine and to include material on significant instances of regulation or organisation. It was the first book to study the efforts of traditional healers and their newly formed professional associations and as such constitutes a pioneering collection of sources. Because of the changing position of traditional medicine it may well also be a unique record: before long what is described here will largely have disappeared. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367000578

The Professionalisation of Human Resource ManagementPersonnel Development and the Royal Charter Evolving economies the emergence of new technologies and organisational forms are all features of late capitalism. Among this milieu a marked feature has been the emergence and recognition in society of new occupations. The claim upon a body of knowledge and practice and a societal domain in which to exercise expertise characterise these occupations. Status and recognition may ensue; in short they claim ‘professionalism’. ‘Professionalism’ is a word resonant with allusions to a particular time and place loosely located in the United States and England in the twentieth century although its roots are far earlier and its present branches are far-reaching. The text is an account of the Human Resource Management occupation’s search for status legitimacy and "professionalism" and illustrates how key agents wove a purposeful plan in pursuit of goals through changing socio-economic and political contexts. The text also discusses the changed meanings of and opportunities for professionalism for individual agents as members of a social grouping that is the occupation. This text is an analysis of the recent development of the Human Resource occupation against the backdrop of changing meanings and models of professions and professionalism and the traditional signifier of professionalism in the U.K. the Royal Charter. The original research from the UK outlines the efforts undertaken between 1968 and 2000 by the professional body the present day Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD the Institute) to attain a Royal Charter. This text addresses the following: • The role of key agents and institutions on shaping social structures and practice regimes • The changing construction and meanings of professionalism and professional occupations • The role of the collective professional body in shaping occupational practices in Human Resource Management and Human Resource Development and their effect upon working lives • The continuing significance of the Royal Charter as an ancient institution with deep societal effect Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138492493

The Professionalization of EconomicsAlfred Marshall and the Dominance of Orthodoxy This book sheds light on how and why early in the twentieth century one set of economic ideas came to exert a preeminence which has persisted to this day. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537866

The Professionalization of Public Participation The Professionalization of Public Participation is an edited collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars examining the emerging profession of public participation professionals. Public participation professionals are persons working in the public private or third sectors that are paid to design implement and/or facilitate participatory forums. The rapid growth and proliferation of participatory arrangements call for expertise in the organizing of public participation. The contributors analyze the professionalization of this practice in different countries (United States France Canada Italy and the United Kingdom) to see how their actions challenge the development of participatory arrangements. Designing such processes is a delicate activity since it may affect not only the quality of the processes and their legitimacy but also their capacity to influence decision-making. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138638129

The Professional's Guide to Mining the InternetInfromation Gathering and Research on the Net Whatever is needed from in-depth research material for a report or academic paper to the telephone number of a company on the other side of the world or what is showing at the local cinema this guide aims to help readers find the answer on the internet faster and more easily. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138419612

The Professions State and the MarketMedicine in Britain the United States and Russia This unique book enhances our understanding of the links between professions the state and the market – and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice. In so doing the book adopts a neo-Weberian perspective in which professions are seen as a form of exclusionary social closure based on legal boundaries established by the state. To illustrate the overarching theme the book considers how healthcare in general and medicine in particular as a form of professional work is organized in public and private arenas in three societies with different socio-political philosophies - namely Britain the United States and Russia. As such it examines the varying extent to which the development of independent professional organizations has been enhanced or restricted in public as compared to more privatized social contexts. The comparative perspective adopted in this book thereby provides insight into the organization of professional work in different contexts and the all-important effects of this on delivery to the public.This book will be of particular interest to scholars researchers and students of Management Public Policy and Health Care. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367738136

The Professions in Early Modern England 1450-1800Servants of the Commonweal This new history examines the development of the professions in England centering on churchmen lawyers physicians and teachers. Rosemary O'Day also offers a comparative perspective looking at the experience of Scotland and Ireland and Colonial Virginia. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315841847

The Profit of PeaceCorporate Responsibility in Conflict Regions It may seem a strange notion to give the private sector a role in conflict prevention or resolution but multinational corporations (MNCs) do have some characteristics that make them good partners in a well-designed strategy for peace and stability. By focusing on their core competencies their presence in a conflict region can help to provide prosperity for rebuilding society and its institutions and improved respect for human rights.  This book is not a song of praise for MNCs in general. There is a litany of examples of companies that feel no shame in profiting from conflicts by trading weapons or illegal resources that prolong war by supporting one or other of the parties or that are only in a war-torn country because the lawlessness suits them well. Even companies that refrain from such criminal activities cannot be envisaged as potential peace-builders if they profit unscrupulously from cheap labour or cheap subcontractors. Instead this book is about corporations that are disposed to ethical responsible entrepreneurship: companies that balance their desire for profit with compliance with international business and human rights standards and with a genuine investment in local workers environmental protection social development and stability.  Worldwide about 60 000 MNCs work in over 70 conflict regions. They operate in regions where social unrest is harshly repressed where outright fighting takes place or where civil war has recently ended. Whatever the attitude of multinationals and whatever their area of business they influence conflicts or are themselves influenced by conflicts. Even if they do not directly invest in or trade with a conflict region they always risk being associated with those conflicts.  The Profit of Peace examines how multinationals can use their core business competencies to promote peace and stability in conflict regions and what role  – if any  – business has in diplomacy. To investigate these questions the authors interviewed CEOs and high-level managers of multinationals working in 'challenging' countries such as Afghanistan Burma and Rwanda. The interviewees provided extraordinarily candid views on both the practical and ethical issues that occur when operating under extremely volatile circumstances. The lessons learned by these managers make the book invaluable for any manager working for a large company in a region of unrest.  Two vital elements emerged. Firstly the ability to manage cultural differences is a key factor for success. Without a keen sense of the differences in management styles in perceptions of ethics and morality and in the values behind political opinions every peace effort is doomed to fail. Secondly ethically correct decisions do not necessarily lead to ethically correct results.  It was not the objective of the authors to judge which of the parties in conflict regions are right or wrong. Rather they wanted to find out what kind of attitude at the end of the day contributes most effectively to conflict prevention or stabilisation of a region. In other words in this book corporate responsibility is measured by the results and not by the intentions.  All of the CEOs interviewed for this book were well aware of the fact that their companies operating in conflict regions would always influence the conflict one way or another. This awareness in itself is quite extraordinary and it shows that the indifferent comment "business is business" by and large belongs to a past era. Also extraordinary was that the managers allowed such a frank look into their sanctuary since this candour makes them all the more vulnerable to criticism.  Through the information from the interviewees and from other managers who have experience in conflict regions the book outlines the ingredients for an approach that can best lead to a solution of conflicts and to greater stability. It will only be in the long run that we will be able to establish how successful the new profession of 'business diplomat' can be but in the meantime the daily practices of MNCs show that they can work on 'the profit of peace'.  This book is based on investigative journalism and contains many examples of best practices worldwide. It will be essential reading for practitioners policy-makers and students involved with corporate social responsibility peace studies development studies and stakeholder management. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781351280686

The Programme and Portfolio WorkoutDirecting Business-Led Programmes and Portfolios Implementing change is needed in every business. But how do you get started and ensure you actually realize the benefits you need? How do you direct and manage the tens hundreds or even thousands of projects and the other pieces of work your business is undertaking? How do you make sure everyone is working towards the same goals? Building on five previous editions of The Project Workout this book focusses on programme and portfolio management. It is a valuable companion for every business executive and programme manager as well as a comprehensive resource for students of business portfolio and programme management. The Programme and Portfolio Workout provides practical advice and techniques to direct and manage your business in a structured yet agile way. Aimed at both business and programme managers it takes you through different approaches to portfolio programme and project management and shows you how they can work together. The practical approach is enhanced throughout with a series of ‘Workouts’: exercises techniques and checklists to help you put the book’s advice into practice. The Workouts are supported by an on-line resource of tools. This expanded edition contains a wealth of new material on the governance and management of portfolio and programmes including how to work with standards and methods such as GovS 002 ISO 21504 BS6079 and MSP. The companion to this book The Project Workout deals with directing and managing individual projects. It uses the same concepts and approaches so that you know when directing your portfolio or programme that your project sponsors and managers are taking the same approach. Together these books give you what you need to ensure your organization succeeds. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138721210

The Progress of ScienceAn Account of Recent Fundamental Researches in Physics Chemistry and Biology The Progress of Science first published in 1934 was originally intended to help the interested reader develop their understanding of the natural sciences as they stood in the period leading up to the Second World War. This intention was predicated on the belief that the spirit of science can only have a positive influence on human society and that when enough people are sufficiently scientifically-minded the problems of civilisation will be resolved through the steady application of scientific principles. Covering the full range of the distinct disciplines– physics chemistry biology – this collection offers a fascinating window into the attitudes towards science at a time when the full extent of its potentially catastrophic potential was about to be realised across the world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138989733

The Progressive Era in the USA: 1890–1921 Few periods in American history have been explored as much as the Progressive Era. It is seen as the birth-place of modern American liberalism as well as the time in which America emerged as an imperial power. Historians and other scholars have struggled to explain the contradictions of this period and this volume explores some of the major controversies this exciting period has inspired. Investigating subjects as diverse as conservation socialism or the importance of women in the reform movements this volume looks at the lasting impact of this productive yet ultimately frustrated generation's legacy on American and world history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138378407

The Progressive MovementA Non-Partisan Comprehensive Discussion of Current Tendencies in American Politics Benjamin Parke DeWitt's study of the Progressive Era represents a comprehensive history of the theory and practice of politics from a progressive perspective. His account of the history and projections about the future of the progressive science of politics provided the American liberal-progressive tradition with its first full narrative history at a time when it was not yet the dominant interpretation of the American political order. Its greatest importance however lies in DeWitt's conception of where the broad-based progressive critique of the Founders' was heading.DeWitt's history of the origins and projected destiny of the progressive tradition commands a respect that places him in the same company as better-known writers. His historical narrative of the liberal progressive tradition was implicit among a number of writers before the Progressive Movement but no contemporary writer provided a better roadmap of where progressivism was going than DeWitt. What gives DeWitt's critique a twist is his focus on the individualism of the founders which he regards as the heart of their anti-democratic principles. His critique of this individualism is the foundation for his argument that collectivism is arguably a more democratic alternative.Benjamin Parke DeWitt is one of the lesser-known often overlooked writers who worked to establish the liberal library of American political thought. This book deserves to be read as one of the neglected gems of the Progressive Era that it chronicles. This is an important addition to the Library of Liberal Thought series. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412849623

The Project Management Scorecard Return on Investment (ROI) remains one of the most challenging and intriguing issues facing human resource development and performance improvement professionals. Drawing on their expertise in developing and implementing ROI programs in human performance and training Jack J. Phillips Ph.D. Timothy W. Bothell and G. Lynn Snead demonstrate how you can effectively apply ROI to project management.Today almost every industry requires employees to manage multiple projects with competing priorities critical deadlines and unexpected interruptions—rendering everyone a project manager in some respect. Most employees feel the pressure of juggling any number of key projects simultaneously. Organizations have responded by investing large amounts of both time and money to improve project management and most strive to justify the efforts and resources dedicated to improving this goal. 'The Project Management Scorecard' is a welcome relief for anyone managing a project or multiple projects as well as the trainers human resource development staff or supervisors charged with measuring evaluating and managing project managers.Project Management is one of the hottest topics in business management today affecting nearly every individual in any organization across the globe. Let three HRD experts show you how to apply the hugely popular ROI process to the key organizational issue of successful project management including:* Project management issues and challenges* Measuring reaction and satisfaction* How to calculate and interpret ROI* Capturing business impact data* Measuring skill and knowledge changes during the project* Monitoring the true costs of the project solution* Converting business measure to monetary values* Forecasting ROIThe authors' step-by-step approach allows you to begin the ROI process immediately. Start measuring the success of your project management results today. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780080515212

The Project Manager's Communication Toolkit Addressing the unique difficulties involved in day-to-day project management communication The Project Manager’s Communication Toolkit provides proven methods for creating clear and effective communications—including text-based plans reports messages and presentations. It examines the many tools available and goes beyond traditional coverage to define their proper use and application.Using language that’s easy to understand the author explains how to determine the appropriate tools for specific communication needs. This time-saving resource provides the understanding to harness the power of everyday communication such as email and PowerPoint® to: Gain control over project parametersOvercome conflictCreate effective project plans charters and statements of workConsidering that most projects fail due to lapses in communication it is essential for project managers to understand how to communicate their plans and ideas clearly and effectively. Complete with numerous examples and case studies this book provides the understanding required to select the right tools as well as the insight to use those tools effectively in a wide range of real-world situations. Praise for:... a ‘slam dunk’ in providing the reader a foundation emphasizing various tools techniques; and in which situations they should be applied. The case studies further challenge the day-to-day situations one may face; providing techniques that work! Anyone that has been part of a project team will benefit from this book.—Lisa Holowiak Quality Assurance Specialist Pfizer in PM World Today Vol. XII Issue X… a valuable resource for program and project managers at all levels and all industries. Shankar very successfully managed very large and complex projects for my organization utilizing many of these tools and Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367384326

The Project Manager's Emergency Kit Project success requires a solid understanding and proper implementation of the tools techniques and principles of project management. A reference for both the novice and expert project manager The Project Manager's Emergency Kit provides you with everything you will need to get your project off to a solid start and overcome any emergencies that may arise during the project life cycle. It supplies you with over 200 project management tools techniques and principles arranged in alphabetical order. The text provides guidance on how to complete projects on time and within budget while meeting the needs of your customers. It presents easy-to-follow project planning steps covering the responsibilities work breakdown structures time and cost estimating scheduling resource allocation and budgeting. The Project Manager's Emergency Kit provides you with straightforward guidelines that will help you overcome any challenges that may arise and deliver a product or service that will satisfy everyone who has a stake in the outcome of your project. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367454784

The Project Manager's Guide to Health Information Technology Implementation This book focuses on providing information on project management specific for software implementations within the healthcare industry. It can be used as a beginners’ guide as well as a reference for current project managers who might be new to software implementations. Utilizing the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) methodology the defined process groups and knowledge areas will be defined related to implementing custom and Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software. The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a standard for developing custom software but can also be followed for implementing COTS applications as well. How will the system be set-up from an architecture and hardware standpoint? What environments will be needed and why? How are changes managed throughout the project and after? These questions and more will be reviewed. The differences between types of testing are defined as well as when each are utilized. Planning for the activation and measuring the success of the project and how well the strategic need has been met are key activities that are often not given the time and effort to plan as the other parts of the implementation project. This new edition updates the current content to better align with the newest version of the PMI’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) the latest technology and concepts. In addition this new edition includes additional chapters covering security and privacy contract management and system selection and transition to support. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781138626232

The Project Manager's Guide to PurchasingContracting for Goods and Services This very practical guide describes the whole process of contracting for goods and services from selecting tenderers to placing a contract. It details the key topics that are necessary for success such as contract strategy contract types contract law and evaluating tenders. Whilst the book also addresses the project context in which purchasing takes place the subject matter could equally be applied to any business context. The treatment of the subject assumes no prior knowledge but at the same time provides the experienced person with new and sometimes unconventional insights into the subject. The book includes personal experiences cases and exercises in order to root the subject into the real world. The Project Manager's Guide to Purchasing has been structured so that the reader can choose the chapter topic areas that they wish to study in isolation. Where necessary references are provided to complement the individual chapters. Illustrations of key documents in the purchasing and contracting process are also provided. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553856

The Project Risk Maturity ModelMeasuring and Improving Risk Management Capability Top businesses recognise risk management as a core feature of their project management process and approach to the governance of projects. However a mature risk management process is required in order to realise its benefits; one that takes into account the design and implementation of the process and the skills experience and culture of the people who use it. To be mature in the way you manage risk you need an accepted framework to assess your risk management maturity allowing you to benchmark against a recognised standard. A structured pathway for improvement is also needed not just telling you where you are now but describing the steps required to reach the next level. The Project Risk Maturity Model detailed here provides such an assessment framework and development pathway. It can be used to benchmark your project risk processes and support the introduction of effective in-house project risk management. Using this model implementation and improvement of project risk management can be managed effectively to ensure that the expected benefits are achieved in a way that is appropriate to the needs of each organisation. Martin Hopkinson has developed The Project Risk Maturity Model into a robust framework and this book allows you to access and apply his insights and experience. A key feature is a CD containing a working copy of the QinetiQ Project Risk Maturity Model (RMM). This will enable you to undertake maturity assessments for as many projects as you choose. The RMM has been proven over a period of 10 years with at least 250 maturity assessments on projects and programmes with a total value exceeding £60 billion. A case study in the book demonstrates how it has been used to deliver significant and measurable benefits to the performance of major projects. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237572

The Project WorkoutThe Ultimate Guide to Directing and Managing Business-Led Projects Projects are an important strategic management tool and a way of life in every business. But how do you get started and ensure you realize the benefits you need? Now in its 5th edition the Project Workout is the definitive book on business-led project management. It is a valuable companion for every executive and project manager as well as a comprehensive resource for students of project management. Projects are a way of life in every business and an important strategic management tool. But how do you ensure a project realizes the benefits you need? The Project Workout provides practical advice and techniques to direct and manage a project. Aimed at both project sponsors and project managers it works through the life cycle of a project from initial idea to successful result. The practical approach is enhanced throughout with a series of "Workouts": exercises techniques and checklists to help you put the book’s advice into practice. The Workouts are supported by an on-line resource of tools including MS project views project logs and templates. This expanded edition contains a wealth of new information including how to work with standards and methods such as ISO 21500 BS6079 and PRINCE2 and PMBoK. The companion to this book The Programme and Portfolio Workout deals with directing and managing whole portfolios of projects making sure everyone in your organization is working towards the same goals; together these books give you what you need to ensure all your projects succeed. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138721449

The Projectification of the Public Sector In recent decades we have witnessed an increasing use of projects and similar temporary modes of organising in the public sector of nations in Europe and around the world. While for some this is a welcome development which unlocks entrepreneurial zeal and renders public services more flexible and accountable others argue that this seeks to depoliticise policy initiatives rendering them increasingly technocratic and that the project organisations formed in this process offer fragmented and unsustainable short-term solutions to long-term problems. This volume sets out to address public sector projectification by drawing together research from a range of academic fields to develop a critical and theoretically-informed understanding of the causes nature and consequences of the projectification of the public sector. This book includes 13 chapters and is organised into three parts. The first part centres on the politics of projectification specifically the role of projects in de-politicisation often accomplished by rendering the political “technical”. The chapters in the second part all relate to the reframing of the relationship between the centre and periphery or between policy making and implementation and the role of temporality in reshaping this relation. The third and final part brings a focus upon the tools techniques and agents through which public sector projectification is assembled constructed and performed. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367183332

The Projective Use Of Mother-And- Child Drawings: A ManualA Manual For Clinicians First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138883697

The Proliferation of Privileged Partnerships between the European Union and its Neighbours This edited volume provides a timely analysis of the European Union’s ‘privileged’ partnerships with neighbouring countries identifying key points of comparison. It analyses which policy areas are covered and why the reasons why a specific institutional arrangement has been chosen the major advantages and shortcomings for both sides and how effectively the privileged partnerships have worked in practice. Drawing on a number of case studies the book highlights critical junctures and path dependence in the EU’s external relations and examines what general lessons can be drawn regarding privileged partnerships in particular with a view to the UK’s post-Brexit relationship with the EU. This book will be of key interest to scholars students and practitioners in EU affairs European politics diplomacy studies and more broadly to international relations and law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138350700

The Proliferation Of RightsMoral Progress Or Empty Rhetoric? The Proliferation of Rights explores how the assertion of rights has expanded dramatically since World War II. Carl Wellman illuminates for the reader the historical developments in each of the major categories of rights including human rights civil rights women's rights patient rights and animal rights. He concludes by assessing where this pr Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367318925

The Proliferation PuzzleWhy Nuclear Weapons Spread (and What Results) Originally published in 1993 this volume was unique in its scope and approach: Unlike most literature on nuclear weapons proliferation at the time the essays in this volume offer theoretical discussions and suggest testable hypotheses about the causes and effects of nuclear weapons proliferation. The proliferation of nuclear weapons is an ideal subject for social science scholarship and such scholarship is especially timely now. Among the topics discussed in The Proliferation Puzzle are: The building of nuclear weapons is a complex task touching upon many of the subjects of study at the core of social science and international relations. Nuclear weapons may be acquired as a hedge against external threat for reasons of national prestige or as a result of pressures by domestic coalitions among scientists bureaucrats and the military. They may be sought for defensive purposes or to support hegemonic aspirations. Nuclear weapons also raise questions about civilian command and control especially in crisis situations. During the last two decades the acquisition of nuclear weapons has been proscribed by the non-proliferation regime. The decisions countries made about acquiring these weapons and the manner they chose to build them serve as a test of the efficacy of this particular regime and of international regimes more generally. Nuclear weapons were introduced at the time bipolarity became the international order. As the world moves away from bipolarity there is a need to answer questions such as: What would be the effect of nuclear weapons in a multipolar order? How will the spread of nuclear weapons affect the distribution of capabilities among states? If nuclear weapons spread to additional countries will they enhance stability or exacerbate instability? Can the spread of these weapons be managed or controlled? This book brings together scholars from different schools within international relations and the social sciences to address the question of why nuclear weapons spread. A disciplined rigorous examination of proliferation is important not only for scholarship but also for informed policymaking. The purpose of social science is to formulate hypotheses and devise theories that advance our understanding of society and aid in the fashioning of enlightened policy. The essays in this volume show how explicit hypotheses about the causes and consequences of nuclear weapons proliferation provide a deeper understanding of the problem and suggest specific theory-informed policy recommendations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367543532

The Promiscuity of Network CultureQueer Theory and Digital Media Liking sharing friending going viral: what would it mean to recognize these current modes of media interaction as promiscuous? In a contemporary network culture characterized by a proliferation of new forms of intimate mediated sociality this book argues that promiscuity is a new standard of user engagement. Intimate relations among media users and between users and their media are increasingly structured by an entrepreneurial logic and put to work for the economic interests of media corporations. But these multiple intimacies can also be understood as technologies of promiscuous desire serving both to liberalize mediated social connection and to contain it within normative frames of value. Payne brings crucial questions of gender sexuality intimacy and attention back into conversation with recent thinking on network culture and social media identifying the queer undercurrents of these current media dynamics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138549029

The Promise and Perils of TransnationalizationNGO Activism and the Socialization of Women’s Human Rights in Egypt and Iran To date most constructivist international relations studies have characterized the influence of transnationalism on domestic forms of activism as uniformly positive. In particular transnational interactions are viewed as positive factors for the development and daily impact of gender activism. Benjamin Stachursky’s book questions the unvarying positive view of transnationalism on domestic forms of activism arguing for a more nuanced analysis that permits an understanding of the enabling and restricting effects of transnationalism. Stachursky also challenges the dominant view of civil society as normatively homogenous by illustrating the complex relationships and conflicts that exist between NGOs and other civil society representatives. He grounds his theoretical arguments with a comparative case study on women’s rights activism in Egypt and Iran which uses semi-structured interviews with women’s rights activists in the two countries and analysis of documentation by local political and societal actors. Looking at the period from the mid-1980s up to present developments such as the Arab Spring Stachursky analyzes the emergence and development of NGO activism in Egypt and Iran the social political and legal context of NGO activism and key domestic debates on the impact and legitimacy of the actors operating in women’s rights activism. By closely examining the ambivalent relationship between transnationalism and human rights organizations Stachursky proves that transnationalization has both enabling and constraining effects on the domestic legitimacy of women’s rights activists and on their ability to create meaningful social and political change. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138926417

The Promise of American Life The Promise of American Life was first published in 1909. It had an immediate and extensive influence on what social historians call the Progressive Era. At the dawn of the New Deal Era Felix Frankfurter wrote that Croly's book became "a reservoir for all political writings after its publication. Roosevelt's New Nationalism was countered by Wilson's New Freedom but both derived from Croly."While this may have been hyperbole it is also a reflection of the impact The Promise made on intellectuals coming of age in the days of doubt and hope just before the Fust World War. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. calls this book "a substantive and sensitive essay on the American political experience worth examination not just for historical reasons but on its continuing merits as a diagnosis of the American condition."Croly himself summarizes the work thus: "From the beginning the land of democracy has been figured as the land of promise. The American's loyalty to the national tradition rather affirms than denies the imaginative projection of a better future." Croly's book can be viewed as both an affirmation and critique of how the idea of progress works its way out in American life. And reading it at the end of the century only reaffirms one's sense of appreciation of the American tradition as a whole.The technology and science may be different but the themes covered by Croly show an astonishing continuity of value issues: American Democracy and National Principles Reform and Reaction; Federalists and Republicans Nationalism and Internationalism; and the Individual and the National Purpose. All of these themes are central to Croly and remain so to this day. The new forty-page introduction by Scott R. Bowman brings the story of The Promise up to date. But it may be studied with a critical eye to the social maladies confronting Americans as a new century approaches. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537897

The Promise of Contemporary Primatology This book argues for a contemporary primatology that recognizes humans as integral components in the ecologies of primates. This contemporary primatology uses a broadened theoretical lens and methodological toolkit to study primate behavior and ecology in increasingly anthropogenic contexts and seeks points of intersection and spaces for collaborative exchange across the natural sciences social sciences and humanities. The book begins by exploring the American tradition of anthropology providing historical and disciplinary context for the emergence of field primatology and how it became a part of this tradition. It then examines how primatology transformed into a field dominated by evolutionary approaches and highlights how the increasingly anthropogenic environments in which primates live present opportunities to understand primate adaptability at work. In doing so it explores how an extended evolutionary approach can help explain behavioral variation in these contemporary environments. Focus is then given to the ethnoprimatological approach a contemporary approach that provides a pluralistic framework drawing from the natural and social sciences and humanities needed to study human-primate coexistence in the Anthropocene. Finally the book considers how such a crossing of disciplines can inform primate conservation in the future. An important interdisciplinary reassessment this book will be of significant interest to primatologists biological anthropologists and scholars of anthropology more generally as well as evolutionary and conservation biologists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781629580715

The Promise of Democratic Equality in the United States The Promise of Democratic Equality in the United States explores the ways in which the American political system fails to fully respect political equality. Douglas D. Roscoe argues these deficiencies are not necessarily failures of justice but often reflect attempts to balance important but competing principles and values. He analyzes the balance among these competing values in a variety of contexts including congressional representation the Electoral College voting regulations campaign finance lobbying the Senate filibuster rules and protections for civil rights and liberties. A diverse set of methodological approaches is employed to carefully evaluate whether the limits placed on political equality are reasonable and necessary. Using a rigorous normative framework while leaning heavily on high-quality quantitative evidence and social science research this book provides students of democratic theory and American politics with a compact and manageable review of the degree to which democratic equality is supported in the United States. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138555594

The Promise of NostalgiaReminiscence Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Culture The Promise of Nostalgia analyses a range of texts – including The Virgin Suicides both the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides’ and Sofia Coppola’s screen adaptation photography of Detroit’s ‘abandoned spaces’ and blogger Tavi Gevinson's media output – to explore nostalgia as a prominent affect in contemporary American cultural production. Counter to the prevalent caricature of nostalgia as anti-future the book proposes a more nuanced reading of its stakes and meanings. Instead of understanding it as evidence of the absence of utopia it contends that there is a masked utopian impulse in this nostalgia ‘mode’ and critical potential in what has typically been dismissed as ideological. This book will be of interest to scholars graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students interested in contemporary culture cultural theory media studies the Frankfurt School utopian studies and American literature and culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367134983

The Promise of Reconciliation?Examining Violent and Nonviolent Effects on Asian Conflicts The Promise of Reconciliation? explores the relationship between violence nonviolence and reconciliation in societal conflicts with questions such as: In what ways does violence impact the reconciliation process that necessarily follows a cessation of deadly conflict? Would an understanding of how conflict has been engaged with violence or nonviolence be conducive to how it could be prevented from sliding further into violence?The contributors examine international influences on the peace/reconciliation process in Indonesia's Aceh conflict as well as the role of Muslim religious scholars in promoting peace. They also examine the effect of violence in southern Thailand where insurgent violence has provided "leverage" during the fighting but negatively affects post-conflict objectives. The chapter on Sri Lanka shows that "successful" violence does not necessarily end conflict—Sri Lankan society today is more polarized than it was before its civil war. The Vietnam chapter argues that the rise of nonviolent protest in Vietnam reflects a profound loss of state legitimacy which cannot be resolved with force while another chapter on Thailand examines "Red Sunday " a Thai political movement engaged in nonviolent protest in the face of violent government suppression. The book ends with a look at Indonesian cities sites of ethnic conflicts as potential abodes of peace if violence can be curtailed. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412856973

The Promise of Representative BureaucracyDiversity and Responsiveness in a Government Agency This text on representive bureaucracy covers topics such as: bureaucracy as a representative institution; bureaucratic power and the dilemma of administrative responsibility; and representative bureaucracy and the potential for reconciling bureaucracy and democracy. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315699196

The Promise of Small and Medium EnterprisesBRICS National Systems of Innovation This series of books brings together results of an extensive research programme on aspects of the national systems of innovation (NSI) in the five BRICS countries — Brazil Russia India China and South Africa. It provides a comprehensive and comparative examination of the challenges and opportunities faced by these dynamic and emerging economies. In discussing the impact of innovation with respect to economic geopolitical socio-cultural institutional and technological systems it reveals the possibilities of new development paradigms for equitable and sustainable growth. This volume third in the series looks at the relationship between small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and the National Systems of Innovation in the BRICS countries. It brings to fore crucial issues in the evolution and future trends of industrial or innovation policies for small firms: their scope applicability co-ordination and main results as well as the influence of macroeconomic legal and regulatory environments. Taking into account the specificities and complexities of SMEs’ production and innovation systems it seeks to inform research policy design and implementation in the field. Original and detailed data together with expert analyses on wide-ranging issues make this book an invaluable resource for researchers and scholars in economics development studies and political science in addition to policy makers and development practitioners interested in the BRICS countries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9781138561052

The Promise of Social MarketingA Powerful Tool for Changing the World for Good Social marketing is an exciting new field of study that promises much to help alleviate many dilemmas of the human condition. It may be associated with any social project undertaken where human interests (short and long term) override commercial ones. The Promise of Social Marketing examines the potential of this new field to help address effectively local and global issues that most nations are grappling with. It clarifies the history philosophies disciplines and techniques associated with best practice and highlights the need to engage with this field to help develop it further so as to benefit humanity as a whole.There is an ongoing debate about the nature of marketing and whether it is able to fulfill or adapt to both commercial and social objectives. The unifying view is that marketing is a tool that can be used for individual organizational or social benefits and the aim of this book is to introduce the reader to an approach that is developing into a promising and rich new science currently known as Social Marketing. It is a tool that brings hope to improving the world for good.The book guides the reader step by step demonstrating how this promising area can be applied to aims as diverse as HIV/AIDS prevention responsible (global) citizenship conflict resolution or the promotion of a worthwhile education. It will be of interest to not only those who study marketing management business ethics education and public policy but anybody who’s interest is in improving the human condition. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367596286

The Promise of the New and Genealogies of Education Reform This volume explores questions about hope optimism and the possibilities of the ‘new’ as expressed in educational thinking on the nature and problem of adolescence. One focus is on the interwar years in Australian education and the proliferation of educational reports and programs directed to understanding governing educating and enlivening adolescents. This included studies of the secondary school curriculum reviews of teaching of civics and democracy the development of guidance programs the specification of the needs and attributes of the adolescent and interventions to engage the ‘average student’ in post-primary schooling. Framed by imperatives to respond in new ways to educational problems and to the call of modernity many of these programs and reforms conveyed a sense of enormous optimism in the compelling power of education and schools to foster new personal and social knowledge and transformation. A second focus is the expression of such utopianism in educational history – themes that may seem novel or incongruous or even inexplicable in the present – and in studies and representations of young people as citizens in the making. Finally developing broadly genealogical approaches to the study of adolescence the chapters variously seek to provoke more explicitly historical thinking about the construction of the field of youth studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Educational Administration and History. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138379459

The Promised Land?The Lives and Voices of Hispanic Immigrants in the New South Through analysis of in-depth interviews with seventy-three Hispanic immigrants in Central Virginia this book offers a rare in-depth look at the views and circumstances of immigrants in a new receiving area. It provides an examination of the new migration trend including an analysis of immigrants' living and working conditions their family life and their plans for the future. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415652650

The PromiseWho is in Charge of Time and Space? Our sense of identity begins (our psychological birth sometime in the first year of life) with the feeling that we are the centre of the universe protected by godlike benevolent parents who will enable us to live happily ever after. This is the "Promise" that is never given up lurking in the unconscious part of our minds. We must learn reluctantly that our parents are unable to protect us from the passage of time from decline and from death. Yet we retain even as adults the delusion that while others may die we never will. This adds fuel to the murderous anger we are born with and must master alongside the contradictory vertical split in the mind that we are destined to die. The "Promise" is described in patients and in examples from biography and fiction in relation to anniversaries and specific holidays. The book ends with a specific illustration in relation to an eight-month-old infant. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782201502

The Prop Building GuidebookFor Theatre Film and TV Experienced prop maker Eric Hart walks readers through techniques used in historical and contemporary prop making and demonstrates how to apply them to a variety of materials. Hundreds of full-color photographs illustrate the tools and techniques used by professional prop makers throughout the entertainment industry. New features to the second edition include: Updated information on the latest tools and materials used in prop making Both metric and standard measuring units Step-by-step photos on common techniques such as upholstery mold making and faux finishing Expanded coverage of thermoplastics foam and water-based coatings Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138183674

The Prop Effects GuidebookLights Motion Sound and Magic In The Prop Building Guidebook author Eric Hart demonstrated how to cut glue sculpt and bend raw materials to build props. Now in The Prop Effects Guidebook he shows us how to connect and assemble components and parts to make those props light up explode make noise and bleed. It delves into the world of electricity pneumatics liquids and mechanical effects to teach you how to make your props perform magic in front of a live audience. The book is complemented by a companion website featuring videos of how to create individual prop special effects: www.propeffectsguidebook.com. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138641136

The Properties Director's ToolkitManaging a Prop Shop for Theatre This book explains and provides templates for organizing and managing a prop shop from pre-production organization to production processes budgeting and collaborations with other production areas. It explores how to plan organize and maintain a prop shop for safe and efficient production work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138084155

The Property MastersA history of the British commercial property sector This is a thorough exploration of the evolution of the commercial property investment and development markets from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. It explains how the current investment scene emerged and fills an important gap in the literature on the property market. Media > Books > Print Books Taylor & Francis 9781138983991

The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced PersonsBeyond Restitution The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution explores how the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement. The focus of most of the international community’s recent protection efforts has been on returning displaced persons to their homes following armed conflict. 　This prioritization has been entrenched further by the 2005 United Nations Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons (the "Pinheiro Principles"). Yet as Anneke Smit chronicles in this book the international community’s attempts to promote widespread return through establishing housing and property restitution mechanisms have largely failed. 　Further this focus on return and restitution of property has come at the expense of supporting effectively local integration and resettlement as possible durable solutions. 　 This book argues that particularly in cases of protracted displacement a range of accepted approaches to the protection of housing and property rights would be preferable. In addition to more than a dozen case studies the discussion draws throughout on international human rights and refugee law property law and theory and sociological and anthropological literature on displacement and the meaning of ‘home’. 　The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Personsis based on more than a decade of the author’s extensive academic research and practical experience on displacement issues. It will be of considerable interest to those with academic and policy interests in the rights of refugees and displaced persons and theories of property. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415731904

The Property-Owning DemocracyFreedom and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century The ideas of ‘predistribution’ and the property-owning democracy have recently emerged as the central features of the progressive social liberal response to the problems of poverty unemployment economic insecurity burgeoning socio-economic inequality and economic instability none of which the more familiar institutions of welfare state capitalism seem able effectively to solve. These social liberal proposals for institutional reform have however been rejected by ‘neo-classical’ liberals who have attempted to modernize and revitalize the traditional classical liberal case for a set of ‘market democratic’ laissez-faire institutions. This book makes a fresh attempt to demarcate an area of common ground between the positions occupied by classical and social liberals by identifying a set of institutional arrangements to which both can agree while at the same time recognizing that there will be many important issues about which liberal (and non-liberal) political and social thinkers will continue strongly to disagree. Drawing on ideas and arguments identifiable within a particular branch of the left-libertarian tradition the book develops market democratic interpretations of the ideas of predistribution and the property-owning democracy and presents a powerful case for an institutional reform which constitutes a genuinely progressive alternative to more familiar social democratic institutions. By identifying progressive predistributive institutions as essential conditions both for the effective protection of 'market freedom' and for the maximization of the substantive opportunities of the least advantaged members of society the book shows how these institutions may be justified on grounds which both classical and social liberals may reasonably be expected to endorse. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367371913

The Prophet and the Age of the CaliphatesThe Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century The Prophet and the Age of Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c.600-1050AD the period in which Islamic society was formed. Beginning with the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam Hugh Kennedy goes on to explore the great Arab conquests of the seventh century and the golden age of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates when the world of Islam was politically and culturally far more developed than the West. The arrival of the Seljuk Turks and the period of political fragmentation which followed shattered this early unity never to be recovered. This new edition is fully updated to take into account the considerable amount of new research on early Islam and contains a completely revised bibliography. Based on extensive reading of the original Arabic sources Kennedy breaks away from the Orientalist tradition of seeing early Islamic history as a series of ephemeral rulers and pointless battles by drawing attention to underlying long term social and economic processes. The Prophet and the Age of Caliphates deals with issues of continuing and increasing relevance in the twenty-first century when it is perhaps more important than ever to understand the early development of the Islamic world. Students and scholars of early Islamic history will find this book a clear informative and readable introduction to the subject. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138787612

The Prophets and the Rise of Judaism Originally published between 1920-70 The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor C.K. Ogden was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians anthropologists archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings: * Prehistory and Historical Ethnography Set of 12: 0-415-15611-4: £800.00 * Greek Civilization Set of 7: 0-415-15612-2: £450.00 * Roman Civilization Set of 6: 0-415-15613-0: £400.00 * Eastern Civilizations Set of 10: 0-415-15614-9: £650.00 * Judaeo-Christian Civilization Set of 4: 0-415-15615-7: £250.00 * European Civilization Set of 11: 0-415-15616-5: £700.00 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415869744

The Prophets of Israel and their Place in History In the history of nineteenth-century religious thought William Robertson Smith occupies an ambiguous position. More than any other writer he stimulated the theories of religion later advanced by Frazer Durkheim and Freud. Smith himself was not an original scholar but was rather "clever at presenting other men's theories" within new and sometimes hostile contexts. Smith was an important contributor to two of the most serious challenges to Christian orthodoxy of the last century the "Higher Criticism" of the Bible and the comparative study of religion and was also the victim of the last successful heresy trial in Great Britain. Yet he was an utterly devout Protestant whose views on Biblical criticism (for which he was damned) are now considered as true as his views on totemism and sacrifice (for which he was praised) are now considered false. Despite Smith's enormous significance for the history of religious ideas he has been written about relatively little and most of what we know about his life and work comes from a source almost a century old. Originally published in 1882 The Prophets of Israel is a collection of eight lectures including "Israel and Jehovah;" "Jehovah and the Gods of the Nations " "Amos and the House of Jehu " "Hosea and the Fall of Ephraim " "The Kingdom of Judah and the Beginnings of Isaiah's Work " "The Earlier Prophesies of Isaiah " "Isaiah and Micah in the Reign of Hezekiah " and "The Deliverance from Assyria."A new introduction by Robert Alun Jones discusses Smith's early life the heresy trial Smith's early view of prophecy and the classic text itself. The book will be of interest to students and teachers of religious studies and general readers interested in Robertson Smith. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537910

The Proscription of Terrorist OrganisationsModern Blacklisting in Global Perspective Powers to outlaw or proscribe terrorist organisations have become cornerstones of global counter-terrorism regimes. In this comprehensive volume an international group of leading scholars reflect on the array of proscription regimes found around the world using a range of methodological theoretical and disciplinary perspectives from Political Science International Relations Law Sociology and Criminology. These perspectives consider how domestic political and legal institutions intersect with and transform the use of proscription in countering terrorism and beyond. The chapters advance a range of critical perspectives on proscription laws processes and outcomes drawing from a global range of cases including Australia Canada the EU Spain Sri Lanka Turkey the UK and the USA.Using single and comparative cases the authors emphasise the impacts of proscription on freedoms of speech and association dissent political action and reconciliation. The chapters demonstrate the manifold consequences for diasporas and minorities especially those communities linked to struggles overseas against oppressive regimes and stress the significance of language and other symbolic practices in the justification and extension of proscription powers. The volume concludes with an in-depth interview on the blacklisting of terror groups with the former U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367730529

The Prosecution of International CrimesA Critical Study of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia The post-World War Two period has witnessed numerous armed conflicts characterized by extensive violations of relevant obligatory international norms. Responding to these events the United Nations General Assembly created a per­manent international court in 2003 with jurisdiction over selected international crimes. The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia was a precursor to this permanent court. It was established for the purpose of "prosecuting persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia." As a precedent for what we may expect in the future it deserves special attention from a historical politi­cal and especially an international law point of view.The Prosecution of International Crimes comprehensively examines the creation mandate and challenges of the Inter­national Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Derived from a special issue of Criminal Law Forum: An International Journal a peer-review journal dedicated to the advance­ment of criminal law theory practice and reform through­out the world it is now available in paperback. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537927

The Prospect of Internet Democracy The internet opens up new opportunities for citizens to organize and mobilize for action but it also provides new channels that established political social and economic interests can use to extend their powers. Will the internet revolutionize politics? The Prospect of Internet Democracy is a rich and detailed exploration of the theoretical implications of the internet and related information and communication technologies (ICTs) for democratic theory. Focusing in particular on how political uses of the internet have affected or seem likely to affect patterns of influence among citizens interest groups and political institutions the authors examine whether the internet's impact on democratic politics is destined to repeat the history of other innovative ICTs. The volume explores the likely long-term effects of such uses on the conduct of politics in the USA and other nations that declare themselves modern democracies and assesses the extent to which they help or hinder viable democratic governance. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553832

The Prospect of WarThe British Defence Policy 1847-1942 First Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138178816

The Prospects for a Regional Human Rights Mechanism in East Asia Regional inter-governmental human rights organizations have been in operation for sometime in Europe the Americas and Africa. These regional human rights mechanisms have proven to be useful and effective in comparison to the global human rights mechanisms available at the United Nations. The purpose of this study first published in 2004  is to investigate the possibility of establishing a regional inter-governmental human rights mechanism in East Asia with a focus on the contributions of nongovernmental organizations' (NGOs) to such a development. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138901469

The Prospects for North Korea Survival North Korea�s economic and security policies imperil both itself and its neighbours. The economy has been contracting for almost a decade and the regime appears unwilling or unable to arrest the decline. Instead Pyongyang has resorted to begging for international aid. This approach alone cannot work: fundamental reform is needed; without it the regime cannot survive. In the meantime the North�s problems will be destabilising for the region. Pyongyang has secured short-term international humanitarian assistance but in the long term the South is its best hope for investment and economic help. Despite Pyongyang�s defensive approach to the South limited commercial arrangements are in place and may moderate the North�s policies and help to ease the unpredictable consequences of Pyongyang�s collapse. Pyongyang has tried to improve relations with the US in a bid to ease economic sanctions and attract investment. However the nuclear deal reached with the US in October 1994 � under which the North agreed to give up its ambiguous nuclear programme � is in difficulties. In this paper David Reese argues that despite these problems the North�s neighbours must persevere with engagement policies. At the same time South Korea and the US must maintain their security posture on the Peninsula.South Korean President Kim Dae Jung�s attempts to establish commercial links with the North need time and patience and should not be derailed by relatively minor incidents. Both Seoul and Washington must ensure that they coordinate their policies to prevent the North from playing one off against the other. Selectively easing sanctions on a case-by-case basis could allow the North to earn desperately needed hard currency. Although it is difficult for Washington and Seoul to maintain political support for engagement both should make further efforts to draw the North into making significant policy changes. The US and South Korea should ensure that they involve the intereste Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138437203

The Prospects of Industrial Civilisation The Prospects of Industrial Civilization provides a rare glimpse into areas of Russell's political thought which are often ignored. Written with Dora Black (who became Russell's second wife) on a trip to China in 1920 it is revealing both as a period piece and as a book for our times. Russell criticises his own age and demonstrates how humanity perpetually struggles against the centralising forces of industrialism and nationalism. He views industrialism as a threat to human freedom as it creates large populations which have to be subject to controls and he likens Bolshevik Russia to Cromwell's England asserting that both were dictatorships designed to force an essentially feudal society to adopt industrialism. He sees industrialism and nationalism as fundamentally linked and proposes one government for the whole world as a solution. Russell is not blind to the positive side of industrialism; without machines an economy of subsistence would be the best for which society could hope but argues that the global village and prevailing political democracy should be its eventual results. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315866017

The Prospects of Industrial Civilization First published in 1923 The Prospects of Industrial Civilization is considered the most ambitious of Bertrand Russell's works on modern society. It offers a rare glimpse into often-ignored subtleties of his political thought and in it he argues that industrialism is a threat to human freedom since it is fundamentally linked with nationalism. His proposal for one government for the whole world as the ultimate solution along with his argument that the global village and prevailing political democracy should be its eventual results is both provocative and thoroughly engaging. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138175440

The Prostitute's BodyRewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain Attwood examines Victorian attitudes to prostitution across a number of sources: medical literary pornographic. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138661189

The Protean TextA Study of Versions of the Medieval French Legend of "Doon and Olive" Originally published in 1988 The Protean Text looks at the shifting evolution of medieval texts and how changing social and aesthetic values were depicted in the literature of the period. The book examines how this was reflected in the reworking and rewriting of texts - a common practice in medieval literature - as various groups adapted existing legends to their own socio-aesthetic needs. Such textual fluidity often resulted in a proliferation of versions. This tendency to experience the text in protean terms is intrinsic to medieval literary expression. This book uses the legend of "Doon and Olive" to discuss the protean text and uses the diverse series of extant versions available to enhance our understanding of the possibilities of literary shift and modulation through this period. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367184070

The Protected VistaAn Intellectual and Cultural History The Protected Vista draws a historical lineage from the eighteenth-century picturesque to present-day planning policy highlighting how the values embedded within familiar views have developed over time through appropriation by diverse groups for cultural and political purposes. The book examines the intellectual construction of the protected vista questioning the values entrenched within the view by whom and how they are observed and disseminated to reveal how these views have been and continue to be part of a changing historical and political narrative. With a deeper knowledge and understanding of the shifting values in urban views we will be better equipped to make decisions surrounding their protection in our urban centres. The book identifies the origins of current view protection policy in the aesthetic convention of the picturesque drawing on a range of illustrated examples in the UK the US Australia Canada and South Africa to serve as a useful reference for students researchers and academics in architecture architectural conservation landscape and urban planning. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367729288

The Protection of Cultural Heritage During Armed ConflictThe Changing Paradigms This book analyses the current legal framework seeking to protect cultural heritage during armed conflict and discusses proposed and emerging paradigms for its better protection. Cultural heritage has always been a victim of conflict with monuments and artefacts frequently destroyed as collateral damage in wars throughout history. In addition works of art have been viewed as booty by victors and stolen in the aftermath of conflict. However deliberate destruction of cultural sites and items has also occurred and the Intentional destruction of cultural heritage has been a hallmark of recent conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa where we have witnessed unprecedented systematic attacks on culture as a weapon of war. In Iraq Syria Libya Yemen and Mali extremist groups such as ISIS and Ansar Dine have committed numerous acts of iconoclasm deliberately destroying heritage sites and looting valuable artefacts symbolic of minority cultures. This study explores how the international law framework can be fully utilised in order to tackle the destruction of cultural heritage and analyses various paradigms which have recently been suggested for its better protection including the Responsibility to Protect paradigm and the peace and security paradigm. This volume will be an essential resource for scholars and practitioners in the areas of public international law especially international humanitarian law and cultural heritage law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367253912

The Protection of Diplomatic Personnel The recent emergence of many new states and the creation of a large number of international institutions have resulted in considerable growth in the number of persons having diplomatic status. However an unfortunate side-effect of this growth has been a corresponding increase in the number of attacks on diplomatic personnel as symbolic figures diplomats are targets for all types of political violence. This book provides an in-depth examination of the legal and non-legal regimes directed towards the protection of diplomatic personnel around the world. It examines the theoretical and practical justifications for the granting of special protection to such personnel and also particular recent developments in international law relating to the prevention of terrorism and the development of international criminal law including the International Criminal Court. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138253063

The Protection of Vulnerable Groups under International Human Rights Law The protection of vulnerable groups varies under international human rights law. Depending on the group at stake protection may be more or less advanced. In some cases the international community has deemed it necessary to adopt conventions providing for the rights of certain vulnerable groups and establishing mechanisms to verify State compliance. Other groups have not been the focus of States’ standard-setting endeavours but their protection still falls within the scope of human rights treaties of general application and the mandate of their respective monitoring bodies. This book takes an innovative approach to the investigation of the international legal protection of vulnerable groups. Rather than examining the situation of a number of vulnerable groups and applicable international or regional conventions this book reviews the overall scope of the protection of vulnerable groups under International Human Rights Law. This book conceptualizes the protection of vulnerable groups as an underlying and essential component of International Human Rights Law through a systematic and comprehensive analysis of international human rights law instruments and relevant practice of international and regional human rights monitoring bodies. The book illuminates how human rights monitoring bodies foster protection of vulnerable groups and their members at the domestic level and underscores and assesses vulnerability paradigms these bodies have elaborated. The book also puts forward a legal definition of vulnerable groups. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international human rights law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367266837

The Protective Shell in Children and Adults This book suggests that psychotherapeutic treatment which is based on a deep understanding of the function of autism can modify and heal the overwhelming need for this powerful inbuilt survival reaction so that it is used appropriately in a less overall and crippling way.The author's theme in this book concerns the protective and preservative Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367328559

The Protein Folding Problem Proteins in living systems carry out a great variety of specific functions each of which depends on the precise three-dimensional structure of a particular protein. Proteins are synthesized in the form of a flexible polypeptide chain that is capable of assuming a vast number of configurations; the transformation of this chain into a specific relatively rigid three-dimensional structure is called folding--a remarkable process of self-organization. It is known that the amino acid sequences of some proteins have sufficient information to determine their three-dimensional structures. There are other proteins whose folding requires additional information beyond that found in the sequence of the mature protein. This book introduces the central problem of folding mechanisms as well as a number of other closely related issues. This book is neither a textbook nor a treatise. Rather it is an attempt by several investigators to convey the excitement and challenges of those aspects of the folding problem in which they are actively engaged. The contributors give brief introductions to protein folding from the perspectives of molecular architecture stability and dynamics phage genetics DNA exons general physiology and natural selection. They point out emerging new directions including the suggestion of a class of diseases that result from protein folding defects. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295394

The Protestant Establishment Revisited In the latter half of the twentieth century The American upper class has become less like an aristocracy governing and guiding the nation and more like a caste a privileged and closed body whose contribution to national leadership has steadily declined. This loss of power and authority has been the focus of the work of E. Digby Baltzell whose 1964 work The Protestant Establishment analyzed the fate and function of a predominantly Anglo-Saxon and Protestant upper class in an ethnically and religiously heterogeneous democracy. After 27 years Baltzell's theory of the structure and function of the establishment remains unique in the literature of class stratification and authority.Baltzell views an open and authoritative establishment as a necessary and desirable part of the process of securing responsible leaders in a democratic society. Such an establishment is the product of upper-class institutions that are open to talented individuals of varying ethnic and social backgrounds. The values of upper-class tradition include an aristocratic ethos emphasizing the duty to lead as opposed to the snobbish ethos of caste that emphasizes only the right to privilege. Baltzell regards this as a protector of freedom in modern democratic societies guaranteeing rules of fair play in contests of power and opinion.As Baltzell points out historically the alternatives to rule by establishments have been rule by functionaries and demogogues neither of which has proven satisfactory in protecting freedoms. As against Marxists who see hegemony as a social evil Baltzell following Tocqueville sees it as necessary to the well-being of society. Hegemonic establishments give coherence to the social spheres of greatest contest. They do not eliminate conflict but prevent it from ripping society apart.Baltzell's work provides uncommon insight into the relationship of social class and personal power in contemporary America. This book will be of inte Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315134314

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism For the first time in 70 years a new translation of Max Weber's classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism --one of the seminal works in sociology-- published in September 2001. Translator Stephen Kalberg is an internationally acclaimed Weberian scholar and in this new translation he offers a precise and nuanced rendering that captures both Weber's style and the unusual subtlety of his descriptions and causal arguments. Weber's original italicization highlighting major themes has been restored and Kalberg has standardized Weber's terminology to better facilitate understanding of the various twists and turns in his complex lines of reasoning.Weber's compelling work remains influential for these reasons: it explores the continuing debate regarding the origins and legacy of modem capitalism in the West; it helps the reader understand today's global economic development; and it plumbs the deep cultural forces that affect contemporary work life and the workplace in the United States and Europe.This new edition/translation also includes a glossary; Weber's 1906 essay "The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism"; and Weber's masterful prefatory remarks to his Collected Essays in the Sociology of Religion in which he defines the uniqueness of Western societies and asks what "ideas and interests" combined to create modem Western rationalism Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315063645

The Protestant Ethic Turns 100Essays on the Centenary of the Weber Thesis Marking the centennial anniversary of the first publication of Max Weber's "Protestant Ethic" essays a group of internationally recognized Weber scholars review the significance of Weber's essays by addressing their original context historical reception and ongoing relevance. Lawrence Scaff Hartmut Lehmann Philip Gorski Stephen Kalberg Martin Riesebrodt Donald Nielsen Peter Kivisto and the editors offer original perspectives that engage Weber's indelible work so as to inform current issues central to sociology history religious studies political science economics and cultural studies. Available in several English translations the Protestant Ethic is listed by the International Sociological Association among the top five "Books of the Century." The Protestant Ethic continues to be a standard assigned reading in undergraduate and graduate courses spanning a variety of academic disciplines. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315632544

The Protestant Reformation in Europe This is a wide-ranging study of the Protestant Reformation. Starting with an analysis of the late-medieval church the book charts the progress of reform and concludes with an important assessment of the impact of the Reformation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138144712

The Proto-totalitarian StatePunishment and Control in Absolutist Regimes Totalitarian rule is commonly thought to derive from spe- cific ideologies that justify the complete control by the state of social cultural and political institutions. The major goal of this volume is to demonstrate that in some cases brutal forms of state control have been the only way to maintain basic social order.Dmitry Shlapentokh seeks to show that totalitarian or semi-totalitarian regimes have their roots in a fear of disorder that may overtake both rulers and the society at large. Although ideology has played an important role in many totalitarian regimes it has not always been the chief reason for repression. In many cases the desire to establish order led to internal terror and intrusiveness in all aspects of human life.Shlapentokh seeks the roots of this phenomenon in France in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries when asocial processes in the wake of the Hundred Years War led to the emergence of a brutal absolutist state whose features and policies bore a striking resemblance to totalitarian regimes in the Soviet Union and China. State punishment and control allowed for relentless drive to "normalize" society with the state actively engaged in the regulation of social life. There were attempts to regulate the economy and instances of social engineering attempts to populate emerging colonial empires with exiles and produce "new men and women" through reeducation. This increased harshness in dealing with the populace in fact the emergence of a new sort of bondage was combined with a twisted form of humanitarianism and the creation of a rudimentary safety net. Some of these elements can be found in the democratic societies of the modern West although in their aggregation these attributes are essential features of totalitarian regimes of the modem era. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138516809

The Protozoan Phylum ApicomplexaVolume 1 About the turn of the century the Apicomplexa plus some other groups were called Sporozoa. With the advent of the electron microscope it was realized that most "Sporozoa" have an apical complex; those which do not (the Microspora Myxozoa and Ascetospora) were removed and the name Apicomplexa was put forward by Dr. Levine in 1970. Most of the important Apicomplexa fall into five main groups: the gregarines haemogregarines (about which there is relatively little known) coccidia haemosporids and piroplasms. These two volumes classify list (with synonyms and hosts) and give references to descriptions of the approximately 4600 species of Apicomplexa that have been named so far. Volume I contains an 8-page introduction and covers the gregarines and coccidia (including the haemogregarines). In volume II are the Sarcocystidae (the predator-prey coccidia) the haemosporids (the malaria and related parasites) the piroplasms and some parasites of uncertain affinities. The Apicomplexa are divided into over 300 genera and more than 60 families but this division is deceiving. Most of these groups contain only one or a few species. There are fewer than 50 genera with 10 or more named species and only 8 with 100 or more. These 8 genera (Eimeria Haemogregarina Gregarina Isospora Haemoproteus Plasmodium Sarcocystis and Babesia) comprise more than half of the species. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315897004

The Protozoan Phylum ApicomplexaVolume 2 About the turn of the century the Apicomplexa plus some other groups were called Sporozoa. With the advent of the electron microscope it was realized that most "Sporozoa" have an apical complex; those which do not (the Microspora Myxozoa and Ascetospora) were removed and the name Apicomplexa was put forward by Dr. Levine in 1970. Most of the important Apicomplexa fall into five main groups: the gregarines haemogregarines (about which there is relatively little known) coccidia haemosporids and piroplasms. These two volumes classify list (with synonyms and hosts) and give references to descriptions of the approximately 4600 species of Apicomplexa that have been named so far. Volume I contains an 8-page introduction and covers the gregarines and coccidia (including the haemogregarines). In volume II are the Sarcocystidae (the predator-prey coccidia) the haemosporids (the malaria and related parasites) the piroplasms and some parasites of uncertain affinities. The Apicomplexa are divided into over 300 genera and more than 60 families but this division is deceiving. Most of these groups contain only one or a few species. There are fewer than 50 genera with 10 or more named species and only 8 with 100 or more. These 8 genera (Eimeria Haemogregarina Gregarina Isospora Haemoproteus Plasmodium Sarcocystis and Babesia) comprise more than half of the species. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315897011

The Province of Jurisprudence Determined by John Austin First published in 1998 this text is the prefatory first part of Austin’s Lectures on Jurisprudence or the Philosophy of Positive Laws and first appeared separately from the Lectures in 1832. This volume reproduces the standard text of The Province from Robert Campbell’s fifth edition published in 1885 and clarifies the structure and readability of the text retaining Austin’s ‘Analysis’ as a whole at the start of the book. John Austin (1790-1859) was the first professor of jurisprudence at the University of London which is now University College. His classic The Province of Jurisprudence Determined was derived from his course lectures. Austin took great pride in his ability to clearly delineate the study of law. Austin took a surgical approach and created a stripped down view of material central to the study of law. While this approach overlooks the ambiguity inherent in interpretations of law it nevertheless stands as a landmark work and provides an excellent starting point for any deeper inquiry into the subject of jurisprudence. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367027513

The Province of LogicAn Interpretation of Certain Parts of Cook Wilson's “Statement and Inference” Originally published in 1931. This inquiry investigates and develops John Cook Wilson’s view of the province of logic. It bases the study on the posthumous collected papers Statement and Inference. The author seeks to answer questions on the nature of logic using Cook Wilson’s thought. The chapters introduce and consider topics from metaphysics to grammar and from psychology to knowledge. An early conception of logic in the sciences and presenting the work of an important twentieth century philosopher this is an engaging work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367422592

The Provincial Music Festival in England 1784–1914 A history of the English music festival is long overdue. Dr Pippa Drummond argues that these festivals represented the most significant cultural events in provincial England during the nineteenth century and emphasizes their particular importance in the promotion and commissioning of new music. Drawing on material from surviving accounts committee records programmes contemporary pamphlets and reviews Drummond shows how the festivals responded to and reflected the changing social and economic conditions of their day. Coverage includes a chronological overview documenting the history of individual festivals followed by a detailed exploration of such topics as performers and performance practice logistics and finance programmes and commissioning together with information concerning the composition and provenance of festival choirs and orchestras. Also discussed are the effects of improved transport and new technologies on the festivals sacred and secular conflicts gender issues the role of philanthropy the nature of patronage and the changing social status of festival audiences. The book will also be of interest to social economic and local historians. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138260580

The Provocation of LevinasRethinking the Other There is a growing recognition of Levinas's importance. It can in part be attributed to an increasing concern that twentieth-century continental philosophy seems to have no place for ethics. In making ethics fundamental to philosophy rather than a problem to which we might one day return Levinas transforms continental thought. The book brings together some of the most interesting and far-reaching responses to the work of Levinas in three different areas: contemporary feminism psychotherapy and Levinas's relation to other philosophers. It includes a newly translated paper by Levinas on suffering and a specially commissioned interview. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415755016

The Provocation of the Senses in Contemporary Theatre Di Benedetto considers theatrical practice through the lens of contemporary neuroscientific discoveries in this provoking study which lays the foundation for considering the physiological basis of the power of theatre practice to affect human behavior. He presents a basic summary of the ways that the senses function in relation to cognitive science and physiology offering an overview of dominant trends of discussion on the realm of the senses in performance. Also presented are examples of how those ideas are illustrated in recent theatrical presentations and how the different senses form the structure of a theatrical event. Di Benedetto concludes by suggesting the possible implications these neuroscientific ideas have upon our understanding of theatrical composition audience response and the generation of meaning. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415506991

The Provoked EconomyEconomic Reality and the Performative Turn Do things such as performance indicators valuation formulas consumer tests stock prices or financial contracts represent an external reality? Or do they rather constitute in a performative fashion what they refer to? The Provoked Economy tackles this question from a pragmatist angle considering economic reality as a ceaselessly provoked reality. It takes the reader through a series of diverse empirical sites – from public administrations to stock exchanges from investment banks to marketing facilities and business schools – in order to explore what can be seen from such a demanding standpoint. It demonstrates that descriptions of economic objects do actually produce economic objects and that the simulacrum of an economic act is indeed a form of realization. It also shows that provoking economic reality means facing practical tests in which what ought to be economic or not is subject to elaboration and controversy. This book opens paths for empirical investigation in the social sciences but also for the philosophical renewal of the critique of economic reality. It will be useful for students and scholars in social theory sociology anthropology philosophy and economics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138961807

The Pseudo-Cleft Construction in English This work first published in 1979 was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 22nd 1973. The ostensible central topic of this essay is a construction which is generally known as the "pseudo-cleft" construction. This essay aims to provide an overall picture of the construction and show why another treatment of it is necessary. This book will be of interest to those pursuing the topic of copular sentences. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138910157

The Psyche in the Modern WorldPsychotherapy and Society The Psyche in the Modern World sets out to open consulting room doors and bring the concept of the Psyche and its main advocate the psychotherapy discipline into public space and into the realm of interdisciplinary discourse. A culture of carefully guarded clinical confidentialities inadvertently turned the consulting room into a proverbial ivory tower which has done much to obscure the psychotherapeutic body of knowledge and contributed to the myths and misinformation that surround and veil psychotherapy in the public space. This book redresses the balance and confronts some challenging and sometimes uncomfortable questions about the dichotomies that both characterize our relationships with the Psyche and contextualize the provision of psychotherapy services today. The contributors present contemporary discussion on a broad range of current subjects encompassing socio-political as well as philosophical theoretical and clinical dimensions in an accessible manner. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782200468

The Psyche of the BodyA Jungian Approach to Psychosomatics The Psyche of the Body is a passionate and well-informed plea for a Jungian version of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy. Illustrated by vivid clinical illustrations of case histories The Psyche of the Body reviews the long history of psychosomatic medicine and models of the relationship between psyche and body that have evolved over time and presents a full revision of research in the field over the last twenty years. It presents a much-needed theoretical model together with practical guidelines that demonstrate how the psychological aspects of specific illnesses should be handled in therapy and analysis. Practicing and training Jungian analysts as well as all those involved in clinical treatment will find the interdisciplinary approach to psychosomatic medicine promoted in this book fascinating reading. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315726229

The Psychiatrist in the CourtroomSelected Papers of Bernard L. Diamond M.D. Over the course of an illustrious career the late Bernard Diamond established himself as the preeminent forensic psychiatrist of the century.  The Psychiatrist in the Courtroom brings together in a single volume Diamond's pivotal contributions to a variety of important issues including the nature of diminished capacity the fallacy of the impartial expert the predictability of dangerousness and the unacceptability of hypnotically facilitated memory in courtroom proceedings. Ably introduced and edited by Jacques M. Quen M.D. a close colleague of Diamond's and leading historian of forensic psychiatry these writings enable experts and neophytes alike to track Diamond's evolving positions while clarifying where current legal and psychiatric opinion converge -- and diverge -- on a host of critical topics.For the forensic specialist The Psychiatrist in the Courtroom is not only an invaluable reference work but a compassionate reminder of the clinician's obligation to protect patients in legal proceedings. And in an age when clinicians are increasingly called into court the book will be no less valuable to psychoanalysts and other mental health professionals eager for an introduction to the intricacies of judicial reasoning. Then too owing to Diamond's clinical acumen the book is a compelling human document. With great erudition and deep compassion Diamond tackles these and other knotty questions always with an eye to clarifying the legal and clinical implications of the answers. By combining superb clinical gifts with an incisive understanding of legal principle Diamond produced a seminal corpus whose relevance to discussions of therapeutic ethics and to legal debates will continue well into the next century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138881617

The Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability Comprehensive concise and easily accessible this is the first health economics dictionary of its kind and is an essential reference tool for everyone involved or interested in healthcare. The modern terminology of health economics and relevant terms used by economists working in the fields of epidemiology public health decision management and policy studies are all clearly explained. Combined with hundreds of key terms the skilful use of examples figures tables and a simple cross-referencing system between definitions allows the often complex language of health economics to be demystified. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781315378909

The Psychiatry of Palliative MedicineThe Dying Mind This Second Edition of The Psychiatry of Palliative Medicine remains a practical and pragmatic distillation of the psychiatry relevant to the terminally ill. Revised throughout and greatly expanded by the addition of two entirely new chapters it reviews the major psychiatric syndromes encountered in palliative care - depression anxiety delirium - and examines psychopharmacological and psychological interventions in detail. It succinctly considers the psychiatric aspects of pain sleep cognitive impairment terminal neurodegenerative diseases sedation artificial feeding and euthanasia. The dying chronically ill psychiatric patient is also discussed. The author has drawn on his great experience in both consultation-liaison psychiatry and palliative medicine to produce an essential evidence-based guide for all healthcare professionals involved in palliative care. These include consultants and senior nurses as well as psychiatrists especially consultation-liaison psychiatrists and trainees. 'I find this an immensely sympathetic book beautifully written. It is a testimony to the summation of specialist psychiatric knowledge broad scholarship and a rich personal practice in bedside palliation.' From the Foreword by Ian Maddocks Reviews of the first edition: '...a relevant highly readable and reasonably priced book which will be of interest to all whether from a psychiatric or palliative care background who seek to improve the care of dying patients INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOGERIATRICS 'Practical scientifically based and scholarly addressing a comprehensive set of common and important clinical problems in palliative care. The book will doubtlessly be highly valued by palliative care clinicians for its practical and thorough overview of some of the most challenging clinical problems they face. Excellent and timely.' AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781846195358

The Psychiatry of Stroke Treating stroke requires attention not only to patients’ physical needs but to their psychiatric needs as well. Unfortunately there has been a considerable lack of literature that tackles this important facet of recovery. The Psychiatry of Stroke fills this void through a comprehensive examination that explores the mental and physical issues faced by stroke patients and offers up-to-date treatment options. Based on extensive clinical experience the text offers practical advice for improving the treatment of stroke by increasing the attention paid to its mental aspects. Detailed and definitive this unique text demonstrates how mental impairment sets limits to stroke treatment and rehabilitation and shows how to evaluate and treat these impairments. Accessible to a wide range of readers this new edition presents detailed reviews of classical papers as well as more basic outlines that provide a general overview. Regardless of familiarity readers will find comprehensive and authoritative guidance for improving treatment. Some of the topics covered include: background and causation risk factors and diagnosis of stroke localization of mental functions neuropsychopharmachology psychiatric syndromes apathy and failure to rehabilitate depression anxiety and dementia sex anger and violence outcome and effects the process of recovery family treatment team legal issues money and ethics and much more!The Psychiatry of Stroke also includes a wealth of informative tables and diagrams as well as a full glossary of terms. Extensively referenced this important text also provides useful appendices that look at resources for caregivers and the anatomy and historical significance of stroke. Physicians and mental health professionals who treat stroke patients; staff of stroke units and rehabilitation hospitals and centers; fellows in geriatric psychiatry geriatrics and stroke programs; gerontology students and educators; and families of the victims of stroke or vascular dementia will find this book an invaluable day-to-day resource. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203726075

The Psychic HomePsychoanalysis consciousness and the human soul The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis of Consciousness and the Human Soul develops from a number of different viewpoints the significance of home in our lives. Roger Kennedy puts forward the central role of what he has termed a ‘psychic home’ as a vital psychic structure which gathers together a number of different human functions. Kennedy questions what we mean by the powerfully evocative notion of the human soul which has important links to the notion of home and he suggests that what makes us human is that we allow a home for the soul. As an illustration of this concept he explores how it can help to understand a vital element of William Wordsworth’s development as a poet. The word soul is both abstract and yet also powerfully emotive. Kennedy shows that it can be approached from a number of different angles from psychoanalysis philosophy religion sociology literature and neuroscience. The Psychic Home discusses the mysteries and complexities of the soul and aims to evoke some restoration of its place in our thinking. It illustrates how the word soul and similar key words such as spirit and inwardness express so much that is essential for humans even if we cannot be too precise about their meanings. Insightful enlightening and broad reaching The Psychic Home brings the concept of the soul centre stage as an entity that is elemental an essence irreducible and what makes us human as subjects of experience. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts psychotherapists neuroscientists philosophers and those interested in spirituality and religion. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415710145

The Psycho-Analysis Of Artistic Vision And HearingAn Introduction to a Theory of Unconscious Perception First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138874961

The Psychoanalysis of Career Choice Job Performance and SatisfactionHow to Flourish in the Workplace Freud said that "love and work" are the central therapeutic goals of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living the "good life." While psychoanalysis has masterfully contributed to understanding the experience of love it has only made a modest contribution to understanding the psychology of work. This book is the first to explore fully the psychoanalysis of work analysing career choice job performance and job satisfaction with an eye toward helping people make wiser choices that bring out the best in themselves their colleagues and their organization. The book addresses the crucial questions concerning work: how does one choose the right career; what qualities contribute to excellence in performance; how best to implement and cope with organizational change; and what capacity and skills does one need to enjoy every day work? Drawing on psychoanalytic thinking vocational counseling organizational psychology and business studies The Psychoanalysis of Career Choice Job Performance and Satisfaction will be invaluable in clinical psychoanalytic work as well as for mental health professionals scholars career counselors and psychologists looking for a deeper understanding of work-based issues. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138211650

The Psychoanalysis of OrganizationsA psychoanalytic approach to behaviour in groups and organizations One of the most pressing needs of modern society is to understand and construct organizations that are not only effective in terms of carrying out work but that also allow and encourage people to develop their full human potential. Psychoanalytic theory describes those primary processes that lie at the heart of human activity and provides new insights for understanding group and organizational behaviour. With a new introduction written by Vega Roberts this Classic Edition of The Psychoanalysis of Organizations presents the theories of Sigmund Freud Melanie Klein Wilfred Bion Elizabeth Lewin and Eric Menzies in plain language and shows their relevance to normal working life. First published in 1978 Robert De Board takes a wide-ranging overview of the major psychoanalytic theorists and organizational researchers and analyses how the two groups can work together. Written in a very accessible style it makes sophisticated psychoanalytic and management concepts comprehensible and usable for anyone. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415855778

The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming SufferingFlourishing Despite Pain The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering: Flourishing Despite Pain offers a guide to understanding and working with a range of everyday causes of suffering from a psychoanalytic perspective. The book delineates some of the underappreciated everyday facets of the troubling and challenging psychological experiences associated with love work faith mental anguish old age and psychotherapeutic caregiving. Examining both the suffering of the patient and therapist Paul Marcus provides pragmatic insights for changing one’s way of being to make suffering sufferable. Written in a rich but accessible style one that draws from ancient wisdom and spirituality The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering provides an essential guide for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists and their clients and will also appeal to anyone who is interested in understanding how we suffer why we suffer and what we can do about it. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138482166

The Psychoanalysis of Sexual Functions of Women This book discusses the problems of the sexual life of woman throughout the duration of her sexual maturity i.e. from the beginning of puberty onwards. It reports all the new insights into the mental life of woman in her relations to the reproductive function with the aid of the analytic method. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367328566

The Psychoanalysis of the AbsurdExistentialism and Phenomenology in Contemporary Psychoanalysis The Psychoanalysis of the Absurd offers an interdisciplinary study of Existentialism and Phenomenology and their importance to the clinical work of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. The concept of Absurdity developed by Camus has never been applied to the therapeutic situation or directly contrasted with its antithesis; the search for personal meaning. The book begins with narrative accounts of the historical development of Psychoanalysis Existentialism and Phenomenology in 20th century Europe. The focus here is on fin de siècle Vienna and Paris between the Wars as the principal incubators of the two disciplines. Accompanied by composite case illustrations Leffert then explores his own development of the Psychoanalysis of the Absurd drawing on the work of Camus Heidegger and Sartre. Absurdity is first discussed in relation to the Bio-Psycho-Social Self and Dasein is posited as a bridge concept with personal meaning as the antithesis to Absurdity before being discussed in relation to the world and how it impinges on self. A final chapter attempts to tie together particular issues raised by the book: Subjective well-being Meaning thrownness Absurdity Death and Death Anxiety and how we have become technologically enhanced human beings. Existential psychotherapy and psychoanalysis have until now largely gone their own way: the goal of this book is to fold them back into Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Establishing that the concept of Absurdity is of singular clinical importance to both diagnosis and therapeutic action this book will be of great interest to clinicians philosophers and interdisciplinary scientists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367367374

The Psycho-Analysis of the Nursery Originally published in English in 1953 this title was first printed in Hungarian in 1931. Already translated into German French and Spanish Alice Balint (the first wife of Michael Balint) had intended to translate the title into English herself but died suddenly at the beginning of the Second World War. Eventually their son by this time a qualified doctor was instrumental in bringing this edition about. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138943162

The Psychoanalyst the Theatre of Dreams and the Clinic of Enactment This book is recommended to psychoanalysts and therapists interested in the analytical technique and particularly that work with patients who have deficits in their symbolization capacity. It presents studies of technical aspects of the analytical process with patients who are difficult to reach. Collusions named 'chronic enactments' show that the analytic dyad cannot dream and the analytical field is paralyzed without the analyst perceiving it. Chronic enactments are undone through unconscious acts or behaviours that threaten to destroy the analytical process: behaviours that are named 'acute enactments'. The thorough study of these enactments show that they take the dyad to an awareness of the discrimination between self and object and re-establish the capacity to dream. It is demonstrated that this occurs in an attenuated traumatic form revealing in the analytical field the externalization of primitive non-dreamed traumas. Clinical artistic and mythical models are part of the discussion. The emphasis on clinical aspects allows readers to use different theories to consider the clinical facts. The clinical theories used by the author are mostly post-Kleinian and Bionian. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782205074

The Psychoanalyst and the ChildFrom the Consultation to Psychoanalytic Treatment The Psychoanalyst and the Child explores the unique nature of psychoanalytic work with children. This book is based on more than 30 years of practice and reflection within the framework of the Alfred Binet Centre in Paris France. The very great diversity of situations encountered at the Centre brings the issue of therapeutic indications to the forefront. Michel Ody focuses on the diversification of fifteen clinical situations and their theorization ranging from basic consultation to psychoanalytic treatment. With this framework as his starting-point he looks at the common features between the therapeutic consultation – a consultation that becomes therapeutic – and the analytic treatment as well as what differentiates them. This implies examining at the technical level the different forms of interventions and interpretations presented as well as their metapsychological articulation. Ody draws on decades of clinical expertise to set out not just the basic considerations and problems typically encountered in work with this patient group but clear guidelines for methodology and technique. Psychoanalysis can be an intellectual process dependent on the ability of the patient to express themselves verbally which can make working clinically with children challenging. The Psychoanalyst and the Child seeks to help psychoanalysts through the most challenging of clinical treatments with this patient group. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138389267

The Psychoanalyst's Superegos Ego Ideals and Blind SpotsThe Emotional Development of the Clinician Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts enter an emotional relationship when they treat a patient; no matter how experienced they may be their personalities inform but also limit their ability to recognise and give thought to what happens in the consulting room. The Psychoanalyst’s Superegos Ego Ideals and Blind Spots investigates the nature of these constrictions on the clinician’s sensitivity. Vic Sedlak examines clinicians’ fear of a superego which threatens to become censorious of themselves or their patient and their need to aspire to standards demanded by their ego ideals. These dynamic forces are considered in relation to treatments which fail to supervision and to recent innovations in psychoanalytic technique. The difficulty of giving thought to hostility is particularly stressed. Richly illustrated with clinical material this book will enable practitioners to recognise the unconscious forces which militate against their clinical effectiveness. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367205089

The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological EyeToward an American Independent Tradition In The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition Nancy J. Chodorow brings together her two professional identities psychoanalyst and sociologist as she also brings together and moves beyond two traditions within American psychoanalysis naming for the first time an American independent tradition. The book's chapters move inward toward fine-tuned discussions of the theory and epistemology of the American independent tradition which Chodorow locates originally in the writings of Erik Erikson and Hans Loewald and outward toward what Chodorow sees as a missing but necessary connection between psychoanalysis the social sciences and the social world. Chodorow suggests that Hans Loewald and Erik Erikson self-defined ego psychologists each brings in the intersubjective attending to the fine-tuned interactions of mother and child analyst and patient and individual and social surround. She calls them intersubjective ego psychologists—for Chodorow the basic theory and clinical epistemology of the American independent tradition. Chodorow describes intrinsic contradictions in psychoanalytic theory and practice that these authors and later American independents address and she points to similarities between the American and British independent traditions. The American independent tradition especially through the writings of Erikson points the analyst and the scholar to individuality and society. Moving back in time Chodorow suggests that from his earliest writings to his last works Freud was interested in society and culture both as these are lived by individuals and as psychoanalysis can help us to understand the fundamental processes that create them. Chodorow advocates for a return to these sociocultural interests for psychoanalysts. At the same time she rues the lack of attention within the social sciences to the serious study of individuals and individuality and advocates for a field of individuology in the university. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367134235

The Psychoanalytic Method First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138875678

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V. 10 First published in 1983.  Volume 10 of the Psychoanalytic Study of Society papers. with essays on anthropology religion history literature and music. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138872066

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V. 11Essays in Honor of Werner Muensterberger Volume 11 includes chapters on the analysis of dybbuk possession and exorcism in Judaism (Y. Bilu); crisis and continuity in the personality of an Apache shaman (L. B. Boyer et al.); culture shock and the inability to mourn ( H. Stein); charismatically led groups (L. Balter); the psychoanalytic and social aspects of telephoning (R. Almansi); and an ethnographic study of hermaphroditism ((G. Herdt & R. Stoller). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138872103

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V. 12Essays in Honor of George Devereux Volume 12 includes chapters on the hermeneutics of structuralism and psychoanalysis (H. van Velzen); prophetic initiation in Israel and Judah (D. Merkur); the cult phenomenon and the paranoid process (W. Meissner); the ego and adaptation (P. Parin); male adolescent initiation rituals (L. Rosen); gender identity in a New Guinea people (E. Foulks); and the film Cabaret (S. Bauer). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138872219

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V. 13Essays in Honor of Weston LaBarre Volume 13 includes chapters on the contributions of Weston LaBarre (B. Kilbourne); Geza Roheim's theory of myth (S. Morales); the origins of Christianity (W. Meissner); myths in Inuit religion (D. Merkur); the psychology of a Sherpa shaman (R. Paul); the psychoanalytic study of urban legends (M. Carroll); and the dogma of technology (H. Stein & R. Hill). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138872240

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V. 14Essays in Honor of Paul Parin Volume 14 includes chapters on the psychoanalysis of political commitment (P. Parin); Jews and homosexuals as strangers (P. Parin); the analogous tasks of the psychoanalyst and the ethnographer (M. Gehrie); cultic elements in early Christianity (W. Meissner); Jewish apocalyptists (D. Merkur); creationist resistance to evolution (R. Graber & L. McWhorter); sacred objects and transitional phenomena in aboriginal Central Australia; and a review of the contributions of Paul Parin (D. Freeman). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138872257

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V. 15Essays in Honor of Melford E. Spiro Volume 15 features Melford Spiro's "Culture and Human Nature" and "The internalization of Burmese Gender Identity" along with an interview of Spiro by B. Kilbourne and S. Bolle. Additional topics include children's fantasy life in Papua New Guinea (F. Poole); a psychoanthropological approach to Kagwahiv food taboos (W. Kracke); an ethnological and Rorschach study of three groups of Australian aborigines (R. Boyer et al.); a consideration of the "trickster" in relation to issues of sublimation and psychosocial development; and a review of Bettelheim's contribution to anthropology (R. Paul). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138881556

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V. 16Essays in Honor of A. Irving Hallowell Volume 16 offers appreciations of A. Irving Hallowell by M. Spiro R. Fogelson and E. Bourguignon. Additional topics include Kagwahiv dream beliefs (W. Kracke); experiences of the self in Papua New Guinea (F. Poole); house design and the self in an African culture (R. & S. LeVine); circumcision and biblical narrative (M. Lansky & B. Kilborne); and cultic elements in early Christianity (W. Meissner). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138881587

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V. 17Essays in Honor of George D. and Louise A. Spindler In Volume 17 a series of critical appreciations of George and Louise Spindler's multidisciplinary contributions focus on homogeneity and heterogeneity in American cultural anthropology (S. Parman); the molding of American anthropology (M. Suarez); education (H. Trueba); and the uses of projective techniques in the field (R. Edgerton & G. DeVos). Additional topics include the primary process (M. Spiro); psychotherapy and culture (L. Bloom); unconscious aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict (A. Falk); and medieval messianism and Sabbatianism (W. Meissner). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138872448

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V. 18Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes Opening with a critical appreciation of Alan Dundes (M. Carroll) and Dundes's own cross-cultural study of the cockfight Volume 18 includes chapters on psychoanalysis and Hindu sexual fantasies (W. Doniger); the modern folk tale "The Boyfriend's Death" (M. Carroll); a gruesome Eskimo bedtime story (R. Boyer); the homosexual implications of Argentinean soccer (M. Suarez-Orozco); and the symbolism of a Malaysian religious festival (E. Fuller). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138872479

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V. 19Essays in Honor of George A. De Vos Critical appreciations of George A. De Vos a pioneer in the cross-cultural application of projective techniques (M. Suarez-Orozco P. Lerner) and De Vos's own reminiscences are followed by contributions true to the spirit of De Vos's methodology. They include a demonstration of the usefulness of projective tests in the psychodiagnostic evaluation of schizophrenia (J. Stone P. Wilson & B. Boyer); an examination of the role of historical events in the development of Chinese and Japanese personality characteristics (J. Connor); a review of the impact of Freudian and Jungian thought in India (S. Kakar); and a study of loss and grief in a community of the North American Great Plains (H. Stein). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138872493

The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis Fenichel's classic text summarized the first half century of psychoanalytic investigation into psychopathology and presented a general psychoanalytic theory of neurosis. When Otto Fenichel died Anna Freud mourned the loss of 'his inexhaustible knowledge of psychoanalysis and his inimitable way of organizing and presenting his facts'. These qualities shine through The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis which has been a standard reference for generations of psychoanalysts. For this anniversary edition Leo Rangell has written an introduction that sets Fenichel's work in context. He sees Fenichel as a worthy heir to Freud; both men influenced their followers by what Rangell calls 'the charisma of ideas'. In his epilogue Rangell describes the fate of Fenichel's ideas and of this book as 'a barometer of the place of psychoanalysis ... within the external intellectual world and even more significantly of the trends and shifting winds of opinion within the psychoanalytic field itself'. He traces those trends through the turbulent controversies of the field concluding that Fenichel's observations are as fresh and relevant today as they were fifty years ago. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138147829

The Psychoanalytic Theory Of Neurosis Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung Sigmund Freud Jean Piaget Otto Rank James Hillman Erich Fromm Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own as part of a themed mini-set or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in the "International Library of Psychology" series is available upon request. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138875562

The Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance This book presents the proceedings of the of the conference on the Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance held in Belfast in June 2008.The aim of the conference was to offer a state of the art communication of the key psychoanalytic thinking and approaches to the conceptualisation and treatment of severe disturbance. The result of a unique gathering of the most eminent psychoanalysts in the field with insights into their work on personality disorder psychotic states and the nature and function of suicidal ideation. This book will be of interest to mental health professionals - psychiatrists psychoanalysts psychotherapists psychologists social workers and nurses who have an interest in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367106195

The Psychoanalytic VisionThe Experiencing Subject Transcendence and the Therapeutic Process Psychoanalytic therapy is distinguished by its immersion in the world of the experiencing subject. In The Psychoanalytic Vision Frank Summers argues that analytic therapy and its unique epistemology is a worldview that stands in clear opposition to the hegemonic cultural value system of objectification quantification and materialism. The Psychoanalytic Vision situates psychoanalysis as a voice of the rebel affirming the importance of the subjective in contrast to the culture of objectification.　 Founded on phenomenological philosophy from which it derives its unique epistemology and ethical grounding psychoanalytic therapy as a hermeneutic of the experiential world has no role for reified concepts. Consequently fundamental analytic concepts such as "the unconscious" and "the intrapsychic " are reconceptualized to eliminate reifying elements. The essence of The Psychoanalytic Vision is the freshness of its theoretical and clinical approach as a hermeneutic of the experiential world. Fundamental clinical phenomena such as dreams time and the experience of the other are reformulated and these theoretical shifts are illustrated with a variety of vivid case descriptions. The last part of the book is devoted to the surreptitious role beliefs and values of contemporary culture play in many forms of psychopathology. For clinicians The Psychoanalytic Vision offers a fresh clinical theory based on the consistent application of the subjectification of human experience and for scholars a worldview that provides the framework for a potentially fruitful cross-fertilization of ideas with cognate disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415519403

The Psychoanalytic VocationRank Winnicott and the Legacy of Freud Object relations which emphasizes the importance of the preoedipal period and the infant-mother relationship is considered by many analysts to be the major development in psychoanalytic theory since Freud.  In this reinterpretation of its history Peter L. Rudnytsky focuses on two pivotal figures: Otto Rank one of Freud's original and most brilliant disciples who later broke away from psychoanalysis and D. W. Winnicott the leading representative of the Independent tradition in British psychoanalysis. Rudnytsky begins with an overview arguing that object relations theory can synthesize the scientific and hermeneutic dimensions of psychoanalysis.  He the uses the ideas of Rank and Winnicott to uncover the preoedipal aspects of Sophocles' Oedipus the King.  After an appraisal of the relationship between Rank and Freud he turns to Rank's neglected writings between 1924 and 1927 and shows how they anticipate contemporary object relations theory.  Rudnytsky critically measures Winnicott's achievement against those of Heinz Kohut and Jacques Lacan the founders of two competing schools of psychoanalysis and compares Winnicott's life and work with Freud's.  Next using both published and unpublished accounts by the psychotherapist Harry Guntrip of his analyses with W. R. D. Fairbairn and Winnicott he probes the personal and intellectual interactions among these three British clinicians.  Rudnytsky concludes by advancing a psychoanalytic theory of the self as a rejoinder to the postmodernism that is the dominant ideology in literary studies today.  In two appendices he makes available for the first time an English translation of Rank's "Genesis of the Object Relation" and a 1983 interview with Clare Winnicott.  Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138883819

The Psychoanalytic Work of Hansi KennedyFrom War Nurseries to the Anna Freud Centre (1940-1993) This book presents a selection of the works of Hansi Kennedy pre-eminent child psychoanalyst whose career began with Anna Freud in the Hampstead War Nurseries and continued at the Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic (renamed the Anna Freud Centre in 1982) until her retirement in 1993. Her career spanned a significant period in the development of child Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367328573

The Psychoanalytic ZeroA Decolonizing Study of Therapeutic Dialogues Winner of the 2020 Gradiva Award The Psychoanalytic Zero: A Decolonizing Study of Therapeutic Dialogues is written from the unique perspective of a Western-trained Asian psychoanalyst and applies principles of Eastern philosophy to understand the psychoanalytic relationship psychoanalytic processes and their uses—and limitations—for alleviating human suffering. Bringing a unique Eastern perspective to a previously Western-dominated discipline and framed within the current relational and ethical trends in psychoanalysis the book enables readers to develop a language for understanding an Eastern ethical viewpoint and explore how this language can change our awareness of psychoanalytic practice and human suffering. Chapters are devoted to the Eastern concepts of nothingness emptiness surrender sincerity silence and narrative and issues including existential "guilt of being " trauma contingency informed consent the sense of being human and uncertainty. Discussions are illustrated and illuminated through vivid recreations and careful elaboration of therapeutic case studies with traumatized patients. The studies demonstrate the process by which patients regain a sense of being human. This enriched perspective will it is hoped help the analyst treat traumatized patients who are unable to relate to others and who do not experience themselves as being human. The Psychoanalytic Zero will enrich an analyst’s sensitivity to the appearance of the moment without context—the psychoanalytic zero—which opens infinite opportunities for continued growth in a psychoanalytic relationship. It will be of great appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists interested in self-psychological intersubjective and relational theories. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367859374

The Psychobiology of Affective Development Originally published in 1984 this was the first volume on this topic to appear in an emerging area of study at the time. The Editors were selective in choosing their contributions to the volume to ensure that both the developmental and neuropsychological domains were well represented. One of the major goals was to foster greater contact and cross-fertilization between subdisciplines that they firmly believed should be more intimately connected. The result is this title which can now be enjoyed in its historical context. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138818224

The Psychobiology of Human Motivation This is a classic edition of Hugh Wagner’s influential overview of the biopsychological underpinnings of human motivation. It includes a new foreword written by Michael Richter who reflects on Wagner’s 20 years of teaching writing and research in the field of biopsychology and promises an engaging succinct and accessible introductory text that remains relevant and useful to students today. The Psychobiology of Human Motivation explores what directs our behaviour from basic physiological needs like hunger and thirst to more complex aspects of social behaviour like altruism. Wagner explores the limits of biological explanations and shows how humans can influence ‘basic’ physiological drives in order to adapt to a complex social environment. An accessible engaging resource strengthened by many applied examples Wagner’s text continues to be integral reading for undergraduate students seeking a solid introduction to the psychology of human motivation across the social and behavioural sciences. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367699703

The Psycho-Biology Of LanguageAN INTRODUCTION TO DYNAMIC PHILOLOGY First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138875098

The Psychobiology of Mind Originally published in 1978 this book develops a conceptual synthesis of the field of physiological psychology the science specifically concerned with the relationship between the brain and the mind. It was designed to elucidate the important questions under investigation the basic intellectual and technical problems that were encountered and the significance of the major empirical results of the time. Of equal or even greater importance is the author’s derivation of the general principles relating brain and mind that had emerged after decades of modern research into this important question. Included in the volume are historical and philosophical perspectives on the mind-brain problem as well as extensive discussions of instruments methodology empirical findings and theory. Here is a powerful heuristic tool that informs the reader about the concepts and ideas implicit in this science rather than simply exhaustively listing experimental results. The author does not ignore findings; he organizes them into three broad categories – localization; representation and learning – then emphasizes the relationships among experiments. This is a book that synthesizes integrates and stresses concepts principles and problems. The careful organization of the book makes it especially useful for students of brain and mind at all levels. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138989757

The Psychobiology of Sensory Coding Originally published in 1973 this book deals with what were even at that time the well-known neural coding processes of the sensory transmission processes. The book was written to demonstrate the common features of the various senses. It concentrates on the most peripheral neural aspects of the senses starting with the physical transduction process and culminating in the arrival of signals at the brain. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138989764

The Psychodynamic ImageJohn D. Sutherland on Self in Society The Psychodynamic Image is the first selection of John D. Sutherland’s major papers.  It provides an overview of the development of his thought on self and society and reveals the extent of his contribution to the field of mental health.  Jill Savege Scharff introduces Sutherland’s most important and influential essays. These reflect his range as a theoretician moving easily from the intrapsychic to the interpersonal level building bridges between points of view and integrating psychoanalytic and social theories.  Sutherland’s work calls for changes at the individual level through understanding conflicts and unconscious processes as aspects of parts of the self in interaction.  He inspires respect and understanding of the self and its drive toward autonomy. These papers push the boundaries of psychoanalytic thinking and succeed in demonstrating the relevance of psychoanalysis to the wider society. They will be of great interest to psychoanalysts psychotherapists counsellors and social workers. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315787657

The Psychodynamics of Social NetworkingConnected-up Instantaneous Culture and the Self Over the past decade the very nature of the way we relate to each other has been utterly transformed by online social networking and the mobile technologies that enable unfettered access to it. Our very selves have been extended into the digital world in ways previously unimagined offering us instantaneous relating to others over a variety of platforms like Facebook and Twitter. In The Psychodynamics of Social Networking  the author draws on his experience as a psychotherapist and cultural theorist to interrogate the unconscious motivations behind our online social networking use powerfully arguing that social media is not just a technology but is essentially human and deeply meaningful. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781780490922

The Psychodynamics of Toxic OrganizationsApplied Poems Stories and Analysis Understanding experience at work especially in toxic organizations is a multidimensional undertaking that must include all senses. The use of applied poetry has its primary value as an evocative approach to sensing knowing and understanding workplace experience. Poetry at its best condenses into relatively few words metaphors and images what conventional social science narratives would take much longer to articulate. Where poetry often hints and alludes narrative seeks to spell out expound and complete. Where poetry leaves much mental space for the listener or reader to fill in with one’s imagination narrative fills in the spaces with rich detail. Applied poetry and its contextual stories offer a way of accessing workplace experience that is unique and valuable in terms of understanding lives at work. The use of complementary psychodynamic theories like all theories is a way of trying to account for what we have found and experienced and in particular why it happened. "Why " the authors suggest is critical in terms of understanding the sensing images and metaphors evoked by the poetry and stories that may resonate with hearers and readers for reasons that are unconscious and are rooted in the past. These transferences that come forward from life experience into the present are the critical data we work with. These are the data of psychoanalysis. This book both widens and deepens the scope of organizational research offered by other researchers theorists and approaches to understanding interpreting explaining leading and consulting with workplace organizations. Its triangulating integration of applied poetry experience and stories behind the poetry and the three psychoanalytic models of explaining life in workplaces is a new and distinct contribution to organizational research leadership and consulting efforts to help organization members solve real underlying problems and not offer simplistic formulaic solutions based solely on a study of the organization’s surface. It will be of interest to researchers academics and students in the fields of organizational studies leadership and management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367442354

The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease First published in 1960. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315727639

The Psychological Assessment of Abused and Traumatized Children The past decade has seen more and more clinicians involved in the assessment and treatment of abused and traumatized children. They have contributed to an impressively large body of literature on the impact of abuse and trauma at all ages the focus of which has been the short and long-term sequelae apparent in the child's behavior emotional experience and social interaction. But there have been few efforts to investigate the ways in which abuse and trauma damage the intrapsychic systems and structures that often guide direct and inform the child's manifest adjustment and functioning. The need to redress the balance was the major impetus for this book. Kelly offers a clinical paradigm for the personality assessment of abused or traumatized children via projective instruments--the TAT and Rorschach--and shows how various projective measures and indices can be utilized as sensitive barometers of changes in self object and ego functioning following therapeutic interventions and other corrective experiences. But further integrating the tenets of trauma theory and those of psychoanalytic theory he sets this clinical paradigm in a meaningful theoretical context and draws on both theory and clinical experience to develop a comprehensive psychological composite of the child who has been maltreated. Part I provides an overview of theoretical models relevant to the assessment and diagnosis of the maltreated child. Contemporary psychoanalytic theory serves as one frame and is discussed first with particular emphasis on object relations and ego functions. Equal attention is devoted to developmental psychology as another frame. Part II reviews relevant research. The Mutality of Autonomy Scale (MOA) and the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale (SCORS) are introduced as examples of reliable and valid instruments readily employed to assess the impact of abuse or trauma on a child's object relations functioning. Additional Rorschach indices--boundary disturbance measures thought disorder indices trauma markers and defensive functions measures--are discussed as measures of the impact on different facets of ego functioning. These various projective measures can be utilized as sensitive barometers of changes in self object and ego functioning following therapeutic interventions and other corrective experiences. Part III includes a variety of extended clinical illustrations. Seven cases of boys and girls subjected to varying degrees of abuse and trauma are presented to demonstrate the clinical utility of projective material for assessment diagnosis and treatment planning. For the clinician who takes the idiographical-phenomenological approach appropriate given the uniqueness of each situation of abuse or trauma and the frequent brevity and barrenness of the protocol such material can open a window onto a rich vista of the child's psychological terrain. The resulting map can point the way to wise decisions about type timing and level of therapeutic intervention the resolution of such process issues as transference and countertransference plus additional questions. Two cases of adult women who were abused as children and find themselves continuing to struggle with enduring unresolved issues vis a vis their own children are also presented. These cases underscore the value of TAT and Rorschach material and object relations measures in assessing and understanding the abusive and potentially abusive parent. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138003101

The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates Looking back over the past 25 years Stanley Renshon explores how the issue of character has come to dominate presidential campaigns. Drawing on his clinical and political science training Renshon has devised a theory which allows the public to evaluate the qualities of presidential candidates. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138459267

The Psychological AutopsyA Roadmap for Uncovering the Barren Bones of the Suicide's Mind The best way to grasp the essence of death scene investigation (DSI) is to witness its application called the psychological autopsy by an expert forensic scientist/clinician. This remarkable book affords the opportunity to delve into the challenges that the forensic mental health specialist and public safety professional confront in DSI. Suicides and often death are complex multidetermined events. People whether police investigators or mental health professionals are generally perplexed and even confused when they are confronted by the equivocal case. Was it a suicide? Homicide? Accident? These are critical questions. Dr. Leenaars shows that DSI is however not mysterious; the reader can learn the generally accepted evidence-based protocols of the psychological autopsy. Illuminated by individual (idiographic) case studies and general (nomothetic) research this definitive guide allows the investigator to uncover the bare bones of a suicide or death. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780895039194

The Psychological Birth of the Human InfantSymbiosis and Individuation 'The biological birth of the human infant and the psychological birth of the individual are not coincident in time. The former is a dramatic observable and well-circumscribed event; the latter a slowly unfolding intra psychic process.'Thus begins this highly acclaimed book in which the author and her collaborators break new ground in developme Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367328580

The Psychological Construction of Emotion This volume presents cutting-edge theory and research on emotions as constructed events rather than fixed essential entities. It provides a thorough introduction to the assumptions hypotheses and scientific methods that embody psychological constructionist approaches. Leading scholars examine the neurobiological cognitive/perceptual and social processes that give rise to the experiences Western cultures call sadness anger fear and so on. The book explores such compelling questions as how the brain creates emotional experiences whether the "ingredients" of emotions also give rise to other mental states and how to define what is or is not an emotion. Introductory and concluding chapters by the editors identify key themes and controversies and compare psychological construction to other theories of emotion. Media > Books > Print Books Guilford Press 9781462516971

The Psychological Development of Girls and WomenRethinking change in time Choice Recommended Read This thoroughly revised new edition updates Sheila Greene's original transformative account of the psychological development of girls and women and the central role of time in shaping human experience. Greene critically reviews traditional and contemporary theoretical approaches – ranging from orthodox psychoanalysis to relational and post-modern theories – and argues that even those that claim to focus on development have presented a view of women's lives as fixed and determined by their nature or their past. These theories she believes should be rejected because of their inherent lack of validity and their frequently oppressive implications for women. Essential but often neglected insights from the more compelling developmental and feminist theories are woven together within a theoretical framework that emphasizes temporality emergence and human agency. The result is a liberating theory of women's psychological development as constantly emerging and changing in time rather than as static and fixed by their nature socio-cultural context and personal history. Updated for a new generation of readers The Psychological Development of Girls and Women will continue to be essential reading for students and researchers in the psychology of women developmental psychology and women's studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415730174

The Psychological Effects of War and Violence on Children The outgrowth of a conference planned as a response to the need for researchers and clinicians to develop integrated plans for addressing the psychological trauma of children exposed to violence this volume's goals are: * to summarize research on the subject with particular emphasis on the Gulf War; * to use this information to formulate an outline of what current knowledge suggests are reasonable approaches to public mental health intervention; and * to develop an agenda for future research necessary for improving clinical efforts in varying international conflicts. A significant collection of diverse perspectives attending to a diversity of cultural and political contexts the contributors offer many conclusions about important dimensions for analyzing the effects of violence on children. Suggesting informed approaches to public mental health efforts which can be implemented the work presented here directs attention to the need for interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers and clinicians to better understand the effects of exposure to violence on the psychological well being of children and the optimal modes of remediation on individual family and community levels. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9781315807003

The Psychological Origins of Institutionalized Torture Original research including interviews with former Greek torturers is supplemented by discussion of former studies military records and other sources to provide disturbing but valuable insights into the psychology of torture. The book describes parallel situations such as the rites of passage in pre-industrial societies and cults elite Corps military training and college hazing eventually concluding that the torturer is not born but made.Of essential interest to academics and students interested in social psychology and related disciplines this book will also be extremely valuable to policy-makers professionals working in government and all those interested in securing and promoting human rights. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138880269

The Psychological Power of Language This volume shows how the psychology and power of language can create realities. It examines the psychological implications of language as a way of being and not just as an instrument of communication. It discusses how a shift in language gives rise to an existential transformation and shows how creative modes of expression lead to a radical transformation of beings. Throughout both the theoretical and practical implications of the psychological power of language are presented particularly how language may result in a healthier inter- and intrapersonal world. It will interest upper-level students and researchers of language in Psychology Linguistics Philosophy and Education as well as professional counselors. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138044739

The Psychological Processes of ChildbearingFourth Edition Childbearing seems eternal primordial and universal. Yet human reproduction in the 21st century is in a state of flux. This accessible book highlights dramatic changes that have occurred over the last decades focusing on both individual and cross-cultural diversity across the now elongated childbearing cycle and the uniqueness of desire and em Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367328597

The Psychological Roots of Modernism: Picasso and Jung A radically new interpretation of Picasso’s life and work by an important Jungian scholar The Psychological Roots of Modernism is an exciting contribution to the fields of both Jungian psychology and cultural criticism.All of Picasso’s major works from the Blue period masterpieces to the abstractions of mature Cubism are examined as part of a single narrative which directly challenges our assumptions and the views of a number of prominent art historians and provides an entirely new perspective on the signature achievements of the modernist movement. Beginning with Picasso’s first months in Paris the author shows how Picasso’s art evolved as a hero’s journey involving encounter with the unconscious the emergence of a strengthened ego and the eventual balance of the ego and the unconscious which attained visible expression in the forms of Cubism. Through the Jungian framework the reader is able to understand how not only Picasso’s art but his relations to his mistress and colleagues his changing lifestyle and work habits and his attraction to major Modernist figures like Rousseau and Cezanne were expressions of this psychological transformation. While using Jung to illuminate Picasso The Psychological Roots of Modernism also employs Picasso to illuminate Jung providing the clearest and most compelling support for the bedrock principles of analytical psychology. The book’s powerful application of Jung’s psychology and its radically new perspectives on Picasso’s art make it essential reading for students in the fields of art history and Freudian and Jungian psychology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138085299

The Psychological Treatment of Depression 'A clear rigorous account of cognitive behavioural methods for treating depression.' - British Journal of PsychiatryThe use of behavioural and cognitive techniques for treating depression has yielded exciting results. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is as effective in the short term as anti-depressant drugs and has longer-lasting effects than medication. This book brings together assessment and treatment techniques of proven efficacy describing them in usable detail and setting them in the context of current psychological theories of depression. It is an invaluable guide to practitioners wishing to make use of CBT. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138169753

The Psychologist At WorkAn Introduction to Experimental Psychology First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138875272

The Psychologist-Manager JournalVolume 3 Number 1 First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315045887

The Psychologization of SocietyOn the Unfolding of the Therapeutic in Norway The Psychologization of Society explores the manner in which psychology has increasingly crept into everyday life with nature reduced to a source of mental health the belief in God motivated by health not salvation sin and evil turned into psychiatric diagnosis and the market economy being primarily driven by psychology. Showing that Norway like the United States and Great Britain is currently subjected to a psychological worldview or "therapeutic ethos " Madsen examines an array of spheres such as media law religion self-help literature and cosmetic surgery to shed light on the ways in which the therapeutic ethos rather than simply "triumphing" over them actually blends in with regional norms and values. A study of the psychological imprint on Western countries as a form of the global democratisation of psychologised self-care this book explores the boundless struggle to be the "best version of yourself" in contemporary neoliberal culture. As such it will appeal to scholars of sociology psychology and cultural and media studies with interests in therapeutic discourses and paradoxes of health. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367897284

The Psychology and Economics of HappinessLove life and positive living Much attention has been given to the economics of everyday life which typically applies economic principles to the analysis of the different choices that people face under different situations. Yet there are hardly any books on the economics of life—an economics that takes the finite lifespan as the starting point and that looks at how one can maximize the subjective value from life given the constraint of the limited lifespan. In this volume Lok Sang Ho suggests that the lack of progress in happiness among developed countries despite significant economic growth is due to a deficit of "mental goods" rather than a lack of material goods. The author stresses the role of culture and mental habits in determining the efficacy of gaining mental goods which includes love a sense of security and autonomy contentment self-esteem self-acceptance and freedom from anxiety. Drawing on empirical research the book explores how to invest work and consume from a whole life perspective arguing that every action - consumption investment or work - should enhance the total quality of life. This overriding concern about life itself is known as love. The Psychology and Economics of Happiness uses the analytical framework of economists on a subject studied by positive psychologists drawing both from empirical evidence and from psychological literature. It will be of interest to researchers and academics interested in economic and positive psychology as well as those from related fields keen to learn more about living fuller happier lives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138669826

The Psychology and Education of Gifted Children Originally published in 1977 this book looks at the problem of educating highly intelligent and gifted children which it felt was of paramount importance to modern society. In the 1970s education increasingly focused on average pupils and often made excellent provision for handicapped children the authors felt it all the more important for teachers parents and educationalists generally to be made aware of the special needs of the bright and talented and how they could best be catered for. In this book Professor Vernon and his two co-authors discuss the provision of special facilities for the education of these children at the time particularly with reference to the UK and Canada. The serious losses to society when the gifted and specially talented are ignored or repressed are pointed out and the merits and difficulties of alternative schemes are underlined. Detailed consideration is given to the psychological origins and nature of intelligence (both genetic and environmental) and of creativity and special talents (artistic and scientific) and also to available tests and other techniques for identifying exceptionally able children. The book was particularly intended to help teachers and educational administrators of the time together with the parents of very bright children. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415717076

The Psychology and Politics of the CollectiveGroups Crowds and Mass Identifications What are the psychological factors in operation when we form groups or crowds and how are these affected by socio-historical circumstances? History offers endless examples of different forms of human collectivity both private and public small-scale and large: from the primal horde to the modern nuclear family from the Athenian polis to virtual internet communities. Within the context of shifting social bonds in global culture this book brings together debates on the left from political philosophy psychoanalysis social psychology and media and cultural studies to explore the logic of the formation of collective identities from a new theoretical perspective. Challenging liberal-capitalist models of individualism as well as postmodern identity politics analysts here turn to Continental philosophy (Lacan Derrida Agamben Laclau Badiou among others) in order to re-think collectivity in relation to questions of agency alterity affect sovereignty the national imaginary and the biopolitical. In the aftermath of the great mass movements of the twentieth century (Marxist-Leninism Mao) which resulted in bureaucratic submission and the cult of the State the fate of our collective identity today raises urgent questions about the future of collaborative activity the role of mediating institutions in shaping mass psychology what is at stake in a radical democracy and what happens in a crowd. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415754569

The Psychology Behind Trademark Infringement and Counterfeiting As those involved in commerce are aware preventing competitors and others from imitating successful brands is a difficult and costly task. This book serves to inform the reader concerning complexities of the issues of brand imitation integrating the disciplines of psychology business and law to the area of trademark infringement and counterfeiting. Principles and theories from psychology and how they are relevant to consumers' perceptions in the marketplace are used to explain why competitors steal the intellectual property of another company or entity. The possibility of brand imitation or counterfeiting should be contemplated in designing new products or brand packaging just as it is in the printing of currency. It is the intent of The Psychology Behind Trademark Infringement and Counterfeiting to provide those involved in commerce with some understanding some ideas and perhaps some strategy for building differentiated brands that are easy to protect. Brand managers expert witnesses to trademark cases intellectual property lawyers and academics of consumer behavior and marketing will find this book useful to understanding consumer motives and processes of trademark infringement and counterfeiting. It could be used as a textbook in courses on marketing. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9781315820965

The Psychology of a Musical Prodigy First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138875036

The Psychology of Adaptation To AbsurdityTactics of Make-believe The major goal of this book is to explore and integrate all that is scientifically known about the utility of magical plans and strategies for coping with life's inevitable absurdities. Make-believe has great adaptive value and helps the average individual to function better in cultures saturated with puzzling contradictions. This book traces the origins of pretending (illusion-construction) and the developmental phases of this skill. Further it analyzes how parents depend on pretending to secure conformity and self-control from their children. It unravels the ways in which make-believe is utilized to defend against death-anxiety and feelings of fragility. It examines the relationship between pretending and the classical defense mechanisms -- and particularly weighs the evidence bearing on the potential protective power of embracing religious beliefs. Finally it defines the diverse contributions of make-believe to the construction of the self-concept the defensive maneuvers typifying psychopathology and the maintenance of somatic health. In short this book pulls together a spectrum of scientific information concerning the defensive value of illusory make-believe in coping with those aspects of life -- such as death loss suffering and injustice -- that are experienced as unreasonable and beyond understanding. The volume is unique not only in the breadth of the literature it analyzes but also in demonstrating the contribution of make-believe to both the psychological and somatic aspects of behavior. No previous work has documented in such detail and across so many domains how basic the capacity to engage in make-believe is to human adaptation. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138876309

The Psychology of Addiction When does a harmless habit become an addition? Why do only some of us get addicted? What can make recovery possible? The Psychology of Addiction is a fascinating introduction to the psychological issues surrounding addiction and the impact they have on social policy recovery and an addict’s everyday life. The book focuses on drug and alcohol addiction and tackles topics such as whether drug use always leads to addiction and the importance of social networks to recovery. It also looks at how people can become addicted to activities like gambling gaming and sex. In a society that still stigmatises addiction The Psychology of Addiction emphasises the importance of compassion and provides a sensitive insight to anyone with experience of addiction. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138207288

The Psychology of Advertising The Psychology of Advertising offers a comprehensive exploration of theory and research in (consumer) psychology on how advertising impacts the thoughts emotions and actions of consumers. It links psychological theories and empirical research findings to real-life industry examples showing how scientific research can inform marketing practice. Advertising is a ubiquitous and powerful force seducing us into buying wanted and sometimes unwanted products and services donating to charitable causes voting for political candidates and changing our health-related lifestyles for better or worse. This revised and fully updated third edition of The Psychology of Advertising offers a comprehensive and state-of-the art overview of psychological theorizing and research on the impact of online and offline advertising and discusses how the traces consumers leave on the Internet (their digital footprint) guides marketers in micro-targeting their advertisements. The new edition also includes new coverage of big data privacy personalization and materialism and engages with the issue of the replication crisis in psychology and what that means in relation to studies in the book. Including a glossary of key concepts updated examples and illustrations this is a unique and invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and instructors. Suitable for psychology advertising marketing and media courses. It is also a valuable guide for professionals working in advertising public health public services and political communication. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367346393

The Psychology Of Alfred Adlerand the Development of the Child First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415868877

The Psychology of AnxietySecond Edition Originally published in 1980 this title builds on the first edition which provided a comprehensive review and evaluation of theory and research on anxiety at the time. In the time between publications there had been many studies of anxiety phenomena and substantial progress in our conceptual understanding of the nature of anxiety and its measurement. The author incorporates those advances in empirical knowledge and new theoretical insights into this second edition. The most important and well-documented empirical findings in anxiety research are emphasized throughout the book but attention is also called to unresolved theoretical issues and problem areas of the time where there was urgent need for additional research. Although much research has been done since the authoritative analysis of anxiety phenomena that is presented in this book will still be of interest to medical social and behavioral scientists and personality theorists and to mental health workers of all disciplines who are engaged in clinical work with emotionally disturbed persons. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138942714

The Psychology of Aristotle The PhilosopherA Psychoanalytic Therapist's Perspective In this book the author collects and discusses views and ideas of the ancient philosopher Aristotle which have psychological interest and compares them with today's theories. First the soul-body problem is presented showing that Aristotle accepts a psychosomatic unity theorizing the human being in a holistic approach. Then the mental functions are described according to the aristotelian definitions together with their interactions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781855758117

The Psychology of ArsonA Practical Guide to Understanding and Managing Deliberate Firesetters The Psychology of Arson is the first book in its field to focus specifically on contemporary topics relevant to practitioners and professionals working with adolescent and adult deliberate firesetters. Rebekah Doley Geoffrey Dickens and Theresa Gannon have integrated the very latest information regarding prevalence theory research and practice in one accessible resource and provide practical advice strategies and techniques in a context of evidence-based research which will be invaluable for all treatment providers who work in the field of deliberate fire setting. Unique features of this book include chapters considering community awareness strategies survivors of arson filicide and suicide by fire as well as a new treatment model developed on the basis of the latest research in the field. It is divided into four parts: Theories and typologies of firesetting Legal investigative and preventative issues Assessment and risk assessment of deliberate firesetters Treatment needs and management of deliberate firesetters The Psychology of Arson provides the first scientist-practitioner model for the treatment of arson offenders. It will be an essential resource for forensic psychiatrists clinical psychologists and other professionals working with this client group. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415810692

The Psychology of Art Why do we enjoy art? What inspires us to create artistic works? How can brain science help us understand our taste in art? The Psychology of Art provides an eclectic introduction to the myriad ways in which psychology can help us understand and appreciate creative activities. Exploring how we perceive everything from colour to motion the book examines art-making as a form of human behaviour that stretches back throughout history as a constant source of inspiration conflict and conversation. It also considers how factors such as fakery reproduction technology and sexism influence our judgements about art. By asking what psychological science has to do with artistic appreciation The Psychology of Art introduces the reader to new ways of thinking about how we create and consume art. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367609931

The Psychology of Assessment Centers Research on the reliability and validity of assessment centers (ACs) has been ongoing for at least 50 years and continues to this day. The assessment center method is a technique or process that is used to assess individual performance and potential. One of the most heavily researched topics over the last 30 years has been the internal structure of AC ratings that assessors make on rating dimensions after the completion of each exercise. This volume with contributions from experts from around the world  looks at Dimension-Based Assessment Centers Task-Based Assessment Centers and Mixed-Model Assessment Centers. All three perspectives are presented in different sections and a summary of these diverse perspectives is given at the end of the book. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415878142

The Psychology of Attention Attention has long been recognized as a central topic in human psychology. And in an increasingly ‘connected’ world understanding our attentional networks—in particular their role in the selection of information the maintenance of alertness and self-control and the management of emotions—is arguably more important than ever. As research in and around the psychology of attention continues to flourish this new four-volume collection from Routledge meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a complex body of research. The materials gathered in Volume I include explorations of the limits of attention and early empirical work on methods to probe brain activity. The major works collected in the second volume examine critical theories that allow computer programs to simulate and predict how attention operates while Volume III is organized around the use of brain imaging cellular recording and optogenetics to delineate how the brain carries out the functions of attention. The final volume connects studies of attention to applications including: connectivity to electronic media; brain-based educational curricula the economics of decision making and psychopathologies. With a full index together with a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context The Psychology of Attention is an essential work of reference. The collection will be particularly useful as a database allowing scattered and often fugitive material to be easily located. It will also be welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiar—and sometimes overlooked—texts. For researchers and advanced students it is a vital one-stop research and instructional resource. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138848320

The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change Human beings have a unique ability to create elaborate predispositions and evaluations based on their social experiences. The concept of attitudes is central to understanding how experience gives rise to these predispositions and psychologists have spent the best part of the past 100 years trying to understand the intricacies of this process. Yet despite decades of research we still do not fully understand how attitudes are created maintained and changed. The main objective of this book is to review and integrate some of the most recent cutting-edge developments in research on attitudes and attitude change presenting the work of eminent scholars in this field. Chapters in this book deal with such intriguing questions as: What role do associative processes play in the formation of attitudes? How do attitudes function as global and local action guides? What is the function of implicit evaluations and vicarious experiences in producing attitude change? Are implicit associations a useful way to measure attitudes? What role does affect play in attitude formation and change? What role do social interaction processes play in persuasion and how does persuasion work in real-life settings? The book is essential reading for students and researchers in social psychology as well as practitioners in every field where understanding and changing attitudes is important such as clinical counseling organizational marketing forensic and developmental psychology. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138984127

The Psychology of Becoming a Successful WorkerResearch on the changing nature of achievement at work What is success at work and why is it important? How do top workers describe their success? How can work community leadership family or home and school promote success? Success at work is often associated with career-oriented individuals who sacrifice other areas of life to achieve highly in the workplace but success can also be defined in other ways. It can consist of feelings of knowledge competence and accomplishment stemming from an inner drive to work well and create an expression of mastery. This book focuses on employees who have been rewarded for their skills and expertise. Based on the authors’ in-depth research into the phenomenon of success at work this book provides a positive human-strength based approach to success and offers a fresh viewpoint to the modern demanding and hectic work life. Drawing from the theory of positive psychology and outlining new theoretical ideas including work motivation career orientation work characteristics and positive states of work success is described as a combination of multiple elements which include other areas of life. The book is illustrated throughout with case studies from employees and it will ignite thoughts about what success at work is and can be and how to recognize factors which enhance or hinder success in varying contexts. Considering a variety of data this book will appeal to researchers and academics from the fields of work and organisational psychology positive psychology career counselling and coaching. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138703001

The Psychology of Behaviour at WorkThe Individual in the Organization This superb introduction to the field of organizational psychology and organizational behaviour builds on the foundation of the highly successful first edition to provide up-to-date explanations of all the key topics in a clear coherent and accessible style. The text is supported by numerous illustrations and examples as well as end-of-chapter summaries and concluding remarks. Topic sections on key research studies as well as applied aspects such as human resources applications and cross-cultural issues lead the reader through the complexities of the theory to its practical application.The Psychology of Behaviour at Work covers all major topics in the field from vocational choice personality attitudes motivation and stress to cooperation learning training group dynamics decision making and leadership. Further sections introduce corporate culture and climate as well as organisational structure change and development and a final section outlines predictions not only for the future study of organizational psychology but of the future of work itself. As with the first edition The Psychology of Behaviour at Work will prove to be an invaluable resource for psychology students on work and organizational psychology courses business students on organizational behaviour courses and human resources managers eager to expand their knowledge of this fascinating field. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9780203506974

The Psychology of Belonging Can a sense of belonging increase life satisfaction? Why do we sometimes feel lonely? How can we sustain lasting human connections? The Psychology of Belonging explores why feeling like we belong is so important throughout our lives from childhood to old age irrespective of culture race or geography. With its virtues and shortcomings belonging to groups such as families social groups schools workplaces and communities is fundamental to our identity and wellbeing even in a time when technology has changed the way we connect with each other. In a world where loneliness and social isolation is on the rise The Psychology of Belonging shows how meaningful connections can build a sense of belonging for all of us.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367347529

The Psychology of Celebrity Why are we fascinated by celebrities we’ve never met? What is the difference between fame and celebrity? How has social media enabled a new wave of celebrities? The Psychology of Celebrity explores the origins of celebrity culture the relationships celebrities have with their fans how fame can affect celebrities and what shapes our thinking about celebrities we admire. The book also addresses the way in which the media has been and continues to be an outlet for celebrities culminating in the role of social media reality television and technology in our modern society. Drawing on research featuring real life celebrities from the Kardashians to Michael Jackson The Psychology of Celebrity shows us that celebrity influence can have both positive and negative outcomes and the impact these can have on our lives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815369561

The Psychology Of CharacterWITH A SURVEY OF PERSONALITY IN GENERAL First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138875432

The Psychology of Chess Do you need to be a genius to be good at chess? What does it take to become a Grandmaster? Can computer programmes beat human intuition in gameplay? The Psychology of Chess is an insightful overview of the roles of intelligence expertise and human intuition in playing this complex and ancient game. The book explores the idea of ‘practice makes perfect’ alongside accounts of why men perform better than women in international rankings and why chess has become synonymous with extreme intelligence as well as madness. When artificial intelligence researchers are increasingly studying chess to develop machine learning The Psychology of Chess shows us how much it has already taught us about the human mind. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138216655

The Psychology of Children's DrawingsFrom the First Stroke to the Coloured Drawing First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415864404

The Psychology of Climate Change What explains our attitudes towards the environment? Why do so many climate change initiatives fail? How can we do more to prevent humans damaging the environment? The Psychology of Climate Change explores the evidence for our changing environment and suggests that there are significant cognitive biases in how we think about and act on climate change. The authors examine how organisations have attempted to mobilise the public in the fight against climate change but these initiatives have often failed due to the public’s unwillingness to adapt their behaviour. The book also explores why some people deny climate change altogether and the influence that these climate change deniers can have on global action to mitigate further damage. By analysing our attitudes to the environment The Psychology of Climate Change argues that we must think differently about climate change to protect our planet as a matter of great urgency. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138484528

The Psychology of Closed Mindedness The fundamental phenomenon of human closed-mindedness is treated in this volume. Prior psychological treatments of closed-mindedness have typically approached it from a psychodynamic perspective and have viewed it in terms of individual pathology. By contrast the present approach stresses the epistemic functionality of closed-mindedness and its essential role in judgement and decision-making. Far from being restricted to a select group of individuals suffering from an improper socialization closed-mindedness is something we all experience on a daily basis. Such mundane situational conditions as time pressure noise fatigue or alcoholic intoxication for example are all known to increase the difficulty of information processing and may contribute to one's experienced need for nonspecific closure. Whether constituting a dimension of stable individual differences or being engendered situationally - the need for closure once aroused is shown to produce the very same consequences. These fundamentally include the tendency to 'seize' on early closure-affording 'evidence' and to 'freeze' upon it thus becoming impervious to subsequent potentially important information. Though such consequences form a part of the individual's personal experience they have significant implications for interpersonal group and inter-group phenomena as well. The present volume describes these in detail and grounds them in numerous research findings of theoretical and 'real world' relevance to a wide range of topics including stereotyping empathy communication in-group favouritism and political conservatism. Throughout a distinction is maintained between the need for a nonspecific closure (i.e. any closure as long as it is firm and definite) and needs for specific closures (i.e. for judgments whose particular contents are desired by an individual).Theory and research discussed in this book should be of interest to upper level undergraduates graduate students and faculty in social cognitive and personality psychology as well as in sociology political science and business administration. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138004320

The Psychology of Concentration in Sport PerformersA Cognitive Analysis First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9781315784946

The Psychology of Conflict and Conflict Management in Organizations This volume in SIOP's Organizational Frontiers Series is a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary conflict research which aims to place conflict research and theory squarely within the realm of industrial and organizational psychology. This volume brings together and integrates classic and contemporary insight in conflict origins conflict processes and conflict consequences. In addition it stimulates modeling conflict at work at relevant levels of analyses: the interpersonal and group and the organizational. It is appropriate for scholars and practitioners in the areas of industrial-organizational psychology human resource management organizational behavior applied psychology and social psychology. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9780415651110

The Psychology Of Consciousness First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138875302

The Psychology of Conservatism (Routledge Revivals) First published in 1973 The Psychology of Conservatism explores attitudes their measurement their structure and dynamics and the personality traits apparently underlying attitude patterns. It examines the link between differing attitudes and discusses characteristic patterns and syndromes. The book focuses on the origins and dynamics of a major factor called "liberalism – conservatism" which is found to account for much of the variance in attitudes amongst different people. Contributors review previous studies relating to personality and attitude before engaging in new studies and proposing their own theories to explain the conservative attitude. The book introduces provocative theoretical ideas and provides a valuable examination of an important psychological and social attitude syndrome. This book will be of interest to researchers in personality and social psychology sociology and political science and education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415810180

The Psychology of Conspiracy Why did the third World Trade Center building (WTC7) collapse on September 11th even though it was not struck by any aircraft? Why did Princess Diana’s "drunk" driver look sober as he climbed into the car minutes before their deadly accident? Could a slender birch tree really have caused the plane crash which killed the President of Poland in 2010? ‘Conspiracy thinking’ – the search for explanations of significant global events in clandestine plots suppressed knowledge and the secret actions of elite groups – provides simple and logical answers to the social doubts and uncertainties that occur at times of major national and international crises. Contemporary social psychology seeks to explain the human motivation to create share and receive conspiracy theories and to shed light on the consequences of these theories for people’s social and political functioning. This important collection written by leading researchers in the field is the first to apply quantitative empirical findings to the subject of conspiracy theorizing. The first section of the book explores conspiracy theories in the context of group perception and intergroup relations paying particular attention to anti-Semitic conspiracy stereotypes. It then goes on to examine the relationship between an individual’s political ideology and the degree to which they engage in ‘conspiracy thinking’. The concluding part of the book considers the explanatory power of conspiracy focusing on the link between social paranoia and digital media and highlighting the social political and environmental consequences of conspiracy theories. The Psychology of Conspiracy will be of great interest to academics and researchers in social and political psychology and a valuable resource to those in the fields of social policy anthropology political science and cultural studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138815230

The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories Who believes in conspiracy theories and why are some people more susceptible to them than others? What are the consequences of such beliefs? Has a conspiracy theory ever turned out to be true? The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories debunks the myth that conspiracy theories are a modern phenomenon exploring their broad social contexts from politics to the workplace. The book explains why some people are more susceptible to these beliefs than others and how they are produced by recognizable and predictable psychological processes. Featuring examples such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks and climate change The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories shows us that while such beliefs are not always irrational and are not a pathological trait they can be harmful to individuals and society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138696105

The Psychology of Consumer Behavior After years of study in the area of consumer behavior Mullen and Johnson bring together a broad survey of small answers to a big question: "Why do consumers do what they do?" This book provides an expansive accessible presentation of current psychological theory and research as it illuminates fundamental issues regarding the psychology of consumer behavior. The authors hypothesize that an improved understanding of consumer behavior could be employed to more successfully influence consumers' use of products goods and services. At the same time an improved understanding of consumer behavior might be used to serve as an advocate for consumers in their interactions in the marketplace. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9780203782002

The Psychology of Consumer Profiling in a Digital Age Understanding how consumers choose between different products and services is a crucial part of professional marketing. Targeting brands at the consumers most likely to be interested in them is another critical aspect of business success. Marketers need to know what consumers think about brands why they like them and what purposes they serve. This means delving into the psychology of the consumer to find ways of differentiating between consumers and matching brands to consumer niches at the level of consumers’ relationships with brands. Using psychology to segment consumers has been regarded as a valuable adjunct to standard geo-demographic definitions of market segments. The Psychology and Consumer Profiling in a Digital Age examines how this field of ‘psychographics’ has evolved the different approaches to psychological segmentation of consumers the different ways in which it has been applied in consumer marketing settings and whether psychographics works. It draws upon research from around the world and incorporates its analysis of the use of psychographics with an examination of major shifts in marketing in a digital and global era. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138340749

The Psychology of Control and Aging Originally published in 1986 the central topic of this book is the analysis and application of control-related beliefs and behaviours for theory and practice in the psychology of aging. The volume was written for two specific interrelated purposes aimed at cross-fertilization between the psychology of control and the field of gerontology. The first purpose was to summarise available research and theory on the psychology of control for researchers and professionals interested in gerontology at the time. The second was to enrich the field of the psychology of control. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781848724600

The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking This book provides a critical overview of significant developments in research and theory on counterfactual thinking that have emerged in recent years and spotlights exciting new directions for future research in this area. Key issues considered include the relations between counterfactual and casual reasoning the functional bases of counterfactual thinking the role of counterfactual thinking in the experience of emotion and the importance of counterfactual thinking in the context of crime and justice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415758659

The Psychology of CourageAn Adlerian Handbook for Healthy Social Living Courage refers to the willingness for risk taking and to move ahead in the presence of difficulties. The purpose of this book is to present courage as the main foundation of understanding and training for mental health in the three life task areas described by Adler: Work Love and Friendship.  It explores the meaning of each life task and problems of fear compensation or evasion as well as Adlerian insight on socially useful attitudes of approaching the task under discussion.  Socratic dialog boxes are included throughout each chapter to encourage the interactivity between the text and readers’ thought processes.  Also included is a set of twenty-two helping tools that were creatively designed for self-exercise or to be used to help others uncover or acquire courage.  For those in the helping professions this text will be a unique and valuable handbook for not only working with and helping their clients but also for their own personal development. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138884397

The Psychology of Crime Policing and Courts This book brings together an international group of experts to present cutting-edge psychological research on crime policing and courts. With contributors from the UK Germany Italy Norway Cyprus Israel Canada and the USA this volume explores some of the most interesting and contemporary areas of criminological and legal psychology. The Psychology of Crime Policing and Courts is divided into three parts. Part I explores crime and anti-social behaviour including the concentration of offending within families juvenile delinquency adolescent bullying cyberbullying violence risk assessment and psychopathy. Part II examines policing and the detection of deception with chapters on interrogational practices police interviews of children and modern detection methods. Part III focuses on courts and sentencing with chapters exploring wrongful convictions the role of juries extra-legal factors in sentencing decisions and an examination of sentencing itself. Representing the forefront of research in developmental criminology and criminological and legal psychology this book is a comprehensive resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying psychology and criminology with particular value for those studying forensic psychology. This book is also a valuable resource for psychologists lawyers social scientists and law enforcement personnel. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138499386

The Psychology of Criminal Conduct The Psychology of Criminal Conduct  Sixth Edition provides a psychological and evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many criminological and mental health explanations of criminal behavior. Drawing upon the General Personality and Cognitive Social Learning theory James Bonta and Donald Andrews provide an overview of the theoretical context and major knowledge base of the psychology of criminal conduct discuss the eight major risk/need factors of criminal conduct examine the prediction and classification of criminal behavior along with prevention and rehabilitation and summarize the major issues in understanding criminal conduct. This book also offers the Risk/Need/Responsivity (RNR) model of offender assessment and treatment that has guided developments in the subject throughout the world. In this edition the first since Andrews' death Bonta carefully maintains the book's original contributions while presenting these core concepts succinctly clearly and elegantly. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as for scholars researchers and practitioners The Psychology of Criminal Conduct Sixth Edition further extends and refines the authors' body of work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138935778

The Psychology of Criminal InvestigationFrom Theory to Practice The contribution of psychological research to the prevention of miscarriages of justice and the development of effective investigative techniques is now established to a point where law enforcement agencies in numerous countries either employ psychologists as part of their staff or work in cooperation with academic institutions. The application of psychology to investigation is particularly effective when academics and practitioners work together. This book brings together leading experts to discuss the application of psychology to criminal investigation. This book offers an overview of models of investigation from a psychological and practical view point covering topics such as investigative decision making the presentation of evidence witness testimony the detection of deception interviewing suspects and evidence-based police training. It is essential reading for students researchers and practitioners engaged with police practice investigation and forensic psychology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138639416

The Psychology of Death InvestigationsBehavioral Analysis for Psychological Autopsy and Criminal Profiling The Psychology of Death Investigations outlines definitively how behavioral evidence can often provide the necessary components and "missing pieces" to complement physical evidence as an essential tool for incident reconstruction. In order to determine the direction of an investigation and to prioritize leads if necessary death investigators must establish the manner of a death: natural accident homicide or suicide. The most overlooked aspect of death investigation is the psychological dimension which can provide unique leads correct false assumptions enhance investigative awareness and solve cases in surprising ways. In an estimated 10–20% of cases the manner of death cannot be determined or worse has been erroneously categorized.　 Since many jurisdictions can’t afford behavioral consultants this book has been written to provide practical information for a basic psychological analysis. If the circumstances surrounding a death are equivocal psychological consultants can compile information retrospectively about a deceased person’s mental state and possible motive to assist with unravelling ambiguity about the manner of death. This is the primary function of a psychological autopsy and as such this is the first book of its kind dedicated solely to the topic. In the event that the manner of death is determined to be a homicide behavioral profiling can help to focus the potential pool of suspects.　　 Professionals and students alike will benefit from the exercise of cognitive awareness and the application of psychological logic presented.　 Psychologists medical examiners coroners attorneys fraud examiners law enforcement personnel death and homicide investigators and students enrolled in criminal profiling forensic psychology and criminal justice programs will find this text to be a compelling and insightful reference to add to their professional toolkit. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138735293

The Psychology of Deductive Reasoning Originally published in 1982 this was an extensive and up-to-date review of research into the psychology of deductive reasoning Jonathan Evans presents an alternative theoretical framework to the rationalist approach which had dominated much of the published work in this field at the time. The review falls into three sections. The first is concerned with elementary reasoning tasks in which response latency is the prime measure of interest. The second and third sections are concerned with syllogistic and propositional reasoning respectively in which interest has focused on the explanation of frequently observed logical errors. In an extended discussion it is argued that reasoning processes are content specific and give little indication of the operation of any underlying system of logical competence. Finally a dual process theory of reasoning with broad implications and connections with other fields of psychology is elaborated and assessed in the light of recent evidence. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781848723160

The Psychology of DesignCreating Consumer Appeal Design plays an increasingly larger role today in creating consumer desire for products and liking for commercial messages. However the psychological processes involved are only partially understood. In addition design is inherently interdisciplinary involving (among others) important elements of aesthetics anthropology brand strategy creativity design science engineering graphic design industrial design marketing material science product design and several areas within psychology. While researchers and practitioners in all of these fields seek to learn more about how and why "good" design works its magic they may benefit from each other’s work. The chapters in this edited book bring together organizing frameworks and reviews of the relevant literatures from many of these contributing disciplines along with recent empirical work. They cover relevant areas such as embodied cognition processing fluency experiential marketing sensory marketing visual aesthetics and other research streams related to the impact of design on consumers. Importantly the primary focus of these chapters is not on product design that creates functional value for the targeted consumer but rather on how design can create the kind of emotional experiential hedonic and sensory appeal that results in attracting consumers. Each chapter concludes with Implications for a theory of design as well as for designers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780765647603

The Psychology of Desire Providing a comprehensive perspective on human desire this volume brings together leading experts from multiple psychological subdisciplines. It addresses such key questions as how desires of different kinds emerge how they influence judgment and decision making and how problematic desires can be effectively controlled. Current research on underlying brain mechanisms and regulatory processes is reviewed. Cutting-edge measurement tools are described including practical recommendations for their use. The book also examines pathological forms of desire and the complex relationship between desire and happiness. The concluding section analyzes specific applied domains--eating sex aggression substance use shopping and social media. Media > Books > Print Books Guilford Press 9781462521609

The Psychology of Desire Providing a comprehensive perspective on human desire this volume brings together leading experts from multiple psychological subdisciplines. It addresses such key questions as how desires of different kinds emerge how they influence judgment and decision making and how problematic desires can be effectively controlled. Current research on underlying brain mechanisms and regulatory processes is reviewed. Cutting-edge measurement tools are described including practical recommendations for their use. The book also examines pathological forms of desire and the complex relationship between desire and happiness. The concluding section analyzes specific applied domains--eating sex aggression substance use shopping and social media. Media > Books > Print Books Guilford Press 9781462527687

The Psychology of Dieting Why do some of us become overweight? Why is it so difficult to lose weight? How can we adopt healthy attitudes towards food? The Psychology of Dieting takes a broad and balanced view of the causes of weight gain and the challenges involved in dieting. Exploring the cognitive emotional and social triggers which lead us to make poor decisions around food the book considers what it means to diet well. By understanding our psychological selves the book shows how we can change our unhealthy behaviours and potentially lose weight. In an era of weight problems obesity and dangerous dieting The Psychology of Dieting shows us that there is no such thing as a miracle diet and that we must understand how our minds shape the food choices we make. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138501256

The Psychology of Digital Media at Work In many professions daily work life has become unthinkable without the use of a computer with access to the Internet. As technological innovations progress rapidly and new applications of interactional media are invented organizational behaviour continues to change. The central theme of this book is how new media affect organizational behavior and employee well-being. A variety of topics are considered: applications of new media in both personnel psychology and organizational psychology tools to improve selection and assessment issues arising in the context of training learning and career development the use of online games for education and recreation the impact of mobile devices on organizational life the implications of new forms of collaboration by means of virtual teams. The research documented in this volume consists of high quality quantitative studies illustrated by lively practical examples. The combination of science and practice ensures that new insights supported by empirical studies are translated into practical implications. The book will be essential reading for researchers and students in organizational psychology and related disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781848721241

The Psychology of Dog Ownership What are the benefits of owning a dog on health and well-being? Why does a ‘problem dog’ behave as it does and how can owners deal with unwanted behaviour? How do dogs communicate with humans and each other? The Psychology of Dog Ownership explores the nature of our unique relationship with dogs and its effect on our mental and physical welfare. The book uses psychological learning theory to examine dog behaviour and highlights the importance of determining between typical dog behaviour and behaviour disorders that need treatment. Focusing on how dog owners can communicate effectively with their pets and always with the dog’s best interests in mind The Psychology of Dog Ownership enhances our understanding of the modern human-canine bond and shows how important and enjoyable this relationship can be. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815362449

The Psychology of Doping in Sport This is the first book to draw together cutting-edge research on the psychological processes underlying doping use in sport and exercise thereby filling an important gap in our understanding of this centrally important issue in contemporary sport. Covering diverse areas of psychology such as social cognition automatic and controlled processes moral decision-making and societal and contextual influence on behaviour the book also explores methodological considerations surrounding doping assessment in psychological research as well as future directions for evidence-based preventive interventions and anti-doping education. Written by a team of leading international researchers from countries including the US Canada Australia the UK Greece Germany Italy Denmark and Ireland the book integrates empirical findings with theoretical guidance for future psychological research on doping and illuminates the challenges needs and priorities in contemporary doping prevention. It is important reading for advanced students and researchers in sport and exercise science sport management and sport policy and will open up new perspectives for professional coaches sports administrators policy makers and sport medicine specialists looking to better understand the doping behaviours of athletes in sport. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138705197

The Psychology of Dreaming Why do we dream? What is the connection between our dreams and our mental health? Can we teach ourselves to have lucid dreams? The Psychology of Dreaming delves into the last 100 years of dream research to provide a thought-provoking introduction to what happens in our minds when we sleep. It looks at the role that dreaming plays in memory problem-solving and processing emotions examines how trauma affects dreaming and explores how we can use our dreams to understand ourselves better. Exploring extraordinary experiences like lucid dreaming precognitive dreams and sleep paralysis nightmares alongside cutting-edge questions like whether it will ever be possible for androids to dream The Psychology of Dreaming reveals some of the most fascinating aspects of our dreaming world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138699519

The Psychology of Driving Road accidents are the major cause of death and injury among young people in the developing world and the field of psychology can offer great insights into the many factors that are at play when we get behind the wheels of our cars. Based on data collected around the world on drivers of all age groups Graham Hole provides an up to date picture of the realities of driving including visual perception issues cell phone distractions fatigue drugs and the effects of aging. These insights can help explain why we crash as well as how we achieve the amazing feat of not crashing more often than we do.  In this jargon-free and very accessible book Hole applies psychological methods and insights to this every-day experience with two audiences in mind. First he speaks to accident investigators who frequently rely on well-developed understandings of engineering and forensics and less insight into the psychology of the driver. Second of course this book will be of value to anyone interested in the application of cognitive psychology to real-world behaviors and to anyone who drives. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9781315805627

The Psychology of Early ChildhoodA Study of Mental Development in the First Years of Life Originally published in 1942 this title attempted to trace from their very earliest appearances after birth all aspects of mental development in childhood up to the age of about 4 or 5. It is based largely on the author’s almost daily observations of his own five children over a period of some twenty years supplemented by numerous tests and experiments. The first purpose of this book was to advance our knowledge of the psychology of childhood. The importance of such knowledge had become increasingly recognised. Even if not all is completely determined in the first 4-5 years there was little doubt by this time that these first years are of profound significance for future development: and the better understanding and training of the young child may be at the root of many of our educational and social problems. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138899452

The Psychology of Eating and Drinking Choice Recommended Read This insightful thought-provoking and engaging book explores the truth behind how and why we eat and drink what we do. Instead of promising easy answers to eliminating picky eating or weight loss this book approaches controversial eating and drinking issues from a more useful perspective—explaining the facts to promote understanding of our bodies. The only book to provide an educated reader with a broad scientific understanding of these topics The Psychology of Eating and Drinking explores basic eating and drinking processes such as hunger and taste as well as how these concepts influence complex topics such as eating disorders alcohol use and cuisine. This new edition is grounded in the most up-to-date advances in scientific research on eating and drinking behaviors and will be of interest to anyone. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415817073

The Psychology Of Economics First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415868860

The Psychology of Educational Technology and Instructional Media What can research in cognitive psychology offer the growth of educational technology and instructional media? Originally published in 1988 this book argues that for much of its history educational technology has been concerned with justifying and verifying the basic assumption that the processes and products of technology can improve instructional effectiveness. The result is seen as a systems approach grounded in empiricism and the failure to incorporate much important research in cognitive psychology. The book argues that it is now time for educational technology to come to terms with new ideas in cognitive and particularly constructivist psychology and it both advocates and describes the forging of new links between the two disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138709997

The Psychology of Effective ManagementStrategies for Relationship Building The Psychology of Effective Management combines basic psychological principles with practical recommendations for building positive and productive manager-employee relations. Each recommendation is based on real-life situations taken from respected scholars in the field as well as the author’s own professional experiences. With particular attention to the human element of management the practical advice presented in this book is aimed at helping managers create a positive psychological environment in the workplace and lead their employees into a productive and satisfying professional life. The content is presented in an easy-to-follow format so that any manager can put his or her knowledge immediately into practice. By striking a compelling balance between the science and practice of management this will be an indispensable resource for managers administrators and business owners at all levels as well as students of business and management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138655584

The Psychology of Effective StudyingHow to Succeed in Your Degree This book provides a vital guide for students to key study skills that are instrumental in success at university covering time management academic reading and note-taking academic integrity preparation of written assignments teamwork and presentations. With each chapter consisting of sub-sections that are titled with a single piece of fundamental advice this is the perfect ‘hit the ground running’ resource for students embarking on their undergraduate studies. The book uses evidence from psychology to account for the basic errors that students make when studying illuminating how they can be addressed simply and effectively. Creating an ‘insider’s guide’ to the core requisite skills of studying at degree level and using a combination of research and practical examples the author conveys where students often go fundamentally wrong in their studying practices and provides clear and concise advice on how they can improve. Written in a humorous and irreverent tone and including illustrations and examples from popular culture this is the ideal alternative and accessible study skills resource for students at undergraduate level as well as any reader interested in how to learn more effectively. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138570924

The Psychology of EmotionMorbid and Normal First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138007383

The Psychology of Employee EmpowermentConcepts Critical Themes and a Framework for Implementation The complexities of employee empowerment have been largely underestimated and it is clear that organisations struggle with putting the concept into practice. Rozana Ahmad Huq recognises that effective utilisation of human resources is a strategic issue for organisations. Hierarchical organisations struggle to survive. The growing trend for downsizing and merging of organisations means that they can no longer maintain the 'command and control' approach and employees are given more responsibility and expected to take decisions. However simply burdening employees with extra responsibility without empowering them does not deliver results. Drawing on her own research in organisations Dr Huq investigates the concept of empowerment in a new way that combines themes from the disciplines of management and social work the latter being a domain where empowerment is an important construct. This helps to bridge the gaps in knowledge in the management domain and draws attention to the positive and negative psychological implications for employees of the practice of empowerment that are often ignored by leaders and managers. Ultimately the author offers a 'practice model' to help people in management and non-management understand the new roles and behaviours that they need to adopt if empowerment is to become a reality. This book is a resource for any business or other organisation genuinely interested in employee empowerment and for those with a responsibility for teaching about it. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138098602

The Psychology of Entertainment MediaBlurring the Lines Between Entertainment and Persuasion In this volume psychologists and communication experts present theory on understanding and predicting how learning occurs through media consumption. As the impact of traditional advertising has declined over the last couple of decades marketers have scrambled to find other ways to effectively communicate with consumers. Among other approaches marketers have utilized various forms of product integration. Product integration is mixing a commercial message in with the non-commercial message via TV movie video and other entertainment venues. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in psychology marketing communication advertising and consumer behavior. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138110601

The Psychology of Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is essential for international social and economic well-being as new ventures are the dominant source of job creation market innovation and economic growth in many societies. In this book a noted group of researchers use findings methods and theories of modern psychology as the basis for gaining important new insights into entrepreneurship-and into the hearts and minds of the talented passionate professionals who create new business ventures. The Psychology of Entrepreneurship a volume in the SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series is the first book written about the psychology of entrepreneurship and includes over 60 research questions to guide industrial organizational psychology organizational behavior and entrepreneurship research about entrepreneurs. It seeks to answer questions such as how and why do some people but not others recognize opportunities decide to start new ventures and organize successful rapidly growing new ventures? Some topics addressed include: methods to help researchers explore the domain of entrepreneurship research; the entire process of starting a new business; characteristics of the individual entrepreneur; the history of entrepreneurship education; the cross-cultural effects of entrepreneurship; and the viewpoints of seasoned psychologists who analyze current entrepreneurship research methods. This book will appeal to teachers students and researchers in the areas of industrial organizational psychology organizational behavior entrepreneurship and management. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9780415652667

The Psychology of EntrepreneurshipNew Perspectives The Psychology of Entrepreneurship: New Perspectives is an update of the earlier landmark volume in the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Organizational Frontiers Series. This new book takes stock of the advances in the field of the psychology of entrepreneurship with all new chapters and presents the latest findings on traditional topics such as cognition motivation affect personality and action. The Psychology of Entrepreneurship: New Perspectives compiles research of the most prolific scholars in the field to produce an overview of the most important psychological topics relevant to entrepreneurship. It includes novel insights into topics such as entrepreneurial cognition intrapreneurship and innovation leadership entrepreneurial competencies action theory entrepreneurship training and the process of entrepreneurship. Additionally the updated volume presents new topics that have become more and more important in entrepreneurship research. These topics include affect clinical psychology and disorders biological correlates of entrepreneurship entrepreneurial teams culture identity starting capital failure and exit contextual factors age and demographic change evidence-based entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs’ well-being. With a collection of authors comprising experts who have developed the field over the last decade The Psychology of Entrepreneurship: New Perspectives is vital to all students scholars and instructors interested in staying abreast of the most current novel research and insights into the psychology of entrepreneurship. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367684471

The Psychology of EvaluationAffective Processes in Cognition and Emotion The affective connotations of environmental stimuli are evaluated spontaneously and with minimal cognitive processing. The activated evaluations influence subsequent emotional and cognitive processes. Featuring original contributions from leading researchers active in this area this book reviews and integrates the most recent research and theories on this exciting new topic. Many fundamental issues regarding the nature of and relationship between evaluations cognition and emotion are covered. The chapters explore the mechanisms and boundary conditions of automatic evaluative processes the determinants of valence indirect measures of individual differences in the evaluation of social stimuli and the relationship between evaluations and mood as well as emotion and behavior. Offering a highly integrated and comprehensive coverage of the field this book is suitable as a core textbook in advanced courses dealing with the role of evaluations in cognition and emotion. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9780415652674

The Psychology of Executive CoachingTheory and Application With the first edition of this text Peltier drew on his extensive experience in both the clinical and business worlds to create a comprehensive resource that brought psychological and coaching concepts together.  It quickly became a practical and invaluable guide for both mental health practitioners looking to expand their practice into coaching and business professionals interested in improving their own coaching skills.  In this updated edition topics reflect the latest developments in the field of executive coaching.  Peltier describes several important psychological theories and how to effectively translate them into coaching strategies; essential business lessons in leadership marketing and the corporate viewpoint along with vocabulary for the therapist; the challenges women face as managers and executives and effective coaching methods for working with them; and lessons from successful athletic coaches that can be integrated into consulting skills.  This edition includes four new chapters one describing psychopathology likely to be encountered by coaches.  Another describes and evaluates emotional intelligence a third summarizes adult developmental theory for coaches and a fourth sorts out the popular and scientific literature on leadership and leader development. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138127272

The Psychology of Exercise Why should we exercise? When should we exercise? Why don’t we exercise? The Psychology of Exercise separates fact from fiction delving into key theories ideas and the impact of life stages on when why and how we exercise. It explores the barriers and motivators to exercise for children teenagers adults and retirees as well as for those living with a chronic health condition. It shows how when we personalise activity programmes exercise becomes a life-affirming life-lengthening habit. Using real-life case studies from those who work with exercisers at all levels The Psychology of Exercise shows us the huge value that comes from exercising in every stage of our lives.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367370848

The Psychology of ExerciseIntegrating Theory and Practice Now in its fifth edition The Psychology of Exercise: Integrating Theory and Practice is the ideal resource for undergraduate courses devoted to the study of exercise behavior. Following the success of previous editions this book successfully integrates theoretical principles and the latest research with intervention strategies that students can apply in real-world settings. Students will find multiple forms of presentation throughout including graphics and models questionnaires and other instruments focus boxes highlighting research on the impact of physical activity on specific populations and review questions and activities to enhance learning. This edition includes a substantial revision of the theory and intervention chapters with a focus on the most popular theories currently thriving in the field a discussion of environmental and policy influences on behavior and an expanded presentation of intervention components design and evaluation. Separate chapters are also dedicated to popular topics such as personality self-perceptions stress anxiety depression emotional well-being cognitive function and health-related quality of life. For those seeking to learn more about exercise behavior The Psychology of Exercise: Integrating Theory and Practice is a must-have resource. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367186807

The Psychology of ExpertiseCognitive Research and Empirical Ai This volume investigates our ability to capture and then apply expertise. In recent years expertise has come to be regarded as an increasingly valuable and surprisingly elusive resource. Experts who were the sole active dispensers of certain kinds of knowledge in the days before AI have themselves become the objects of empirical inquiry in which their knowledge is elicited and studied -- by knowledge engineers experimental psychologists applied psychologists or other experts -- involved in the development of expert systems. This book achieves a marriage between experimentalists applied scientists and theoreticians who deal with expertise. It envisions the benefits to society of an advanced technology for capturing and disseminating the knowledge and skills of the best corporate managers the most seasoned pilots and the most renowned medical diagnosticians. This book should be of interest to psychologists as well as to knowledge engineers who are "out in the trenches" developing expert systems and anyone pondering the nature of expertise and the question of how it can be elicited and studied scientifically. The book's scope and the pivotal concepts that it elucidates and appraises as well as the extensive categorized bibliographies it includes make this volume a landmark in the field of expert systems and AI as well as the field of applied experimental psychology. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138989771

The Psychology of Extreme ViolenceA Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide Mass Shooting School Shooting and Lone-actor Terrorism Featuring a unique overview of the different forms of extreme violence this book considers the psychology of extreme violence alongside a variety of contributing factors such as brain abnormalities in homicide offenders. Featuring several contemporary real-world case studies this book offers insight into the psychology of serial homicide offenders mass shooters school shooters and lone-actor terrorists. The main purpose of this book is not to glorify or condemn the actions of these individuals but to attempt to explain the motivations and circumstances that inspire such acts of extreme violence. By adopting a detailed case study approach it aims to increase our understanding of the specific motivations and psychological factors underlying extreme violence. Using nontechnical language this book is the ideal companion for students researchers and forensic practitioners interested in the multidisciplinary nature of extreme violence. This book will also be of interest to students taking courses on homicide mass shooting school shooting terrorism forensic psychology and criminology and criminal justice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367480936

The Psychology of Eyewitness Identification This volume provides a tutorial review and evaluation of scientific research on the accuracy and reliability of eyewitness identification. The book starts with the perspective that there are a variety of conceptual and empirical problems with eyewitness identification as a form of forensic evidence just as there are a variety of problems with other forms of forensic evidence. There is then an examination of the important results in the study of eyewitness memory and the implications of this research for psychological theory and for social and legal policy. The volume takes the perspective that research on eyewitness identification can be seen as the paradigmatic example of how psychological science can be successfully applied to real-world problems. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138117235

The Psychology of Fake NewsAccepting Sharing and Correcting Misinformation This volume examines the phenomenon of fake news by bringing together leading experts from different fields within psychology and related areas and explores what has become a prominent feature of public discourse since the first Brexit referendum and the 2016 US election campaign. Dealing with misinformation is important in many areas of daily life  including politics the marketplace health communication journalism education and science. In a general climate where facts and misinformation blur and are intentionally blurred this book asks what determines whether people accept and share (mis)information and what can be done to counter misinformation? All three of these aspects need to be understood in the context of online social networks which have fundamentally changed the way information is produced consumed and transmitted. The contributions within this volume summarize the most up-to-date empirical findings theories and applications and discuss cutting-edge ideas and future directions of interventions to counter fake news. Also providing guidance on how to handle misinformation in an age of “alternative facts” this is a fascinating and vital reading for students and academics in psychology communication and political science and for professionals including policy makers and journalists.     Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367271831

The Psychology of Family HistoryExploring Our Genealogy This important book examines the motives that drive family historians and explores whether those who research their ancestral pedigrees have distinct personalities demographics or family characteristics. It describes genealogists’ experiences as they chart their family trees including their insights dilemmas and the fascinating sometimes disturbing and often surprising outcomes of their searches. Drawing on theory and research from psychology and other humanities disciplines as well as from the authors’ extensive survey data collected from over 800 amateur genealogists the authors present the experiences of family historians including personal insights relationship changes mental health benefits and ethical dilemmas. The book emphasises the motivation behind this exploration including the need to acknowledge and tell ancestral stories the spiritual and health-related aspects of genealogical research the addictiveness of the detective work the lifelong learning opportunities and the passionate desire to find lost relatives. With its focus on the role of family history in shaping personal identity and contemporary culture this is fascinating reading for anyone studying genealogy and family history professional genealogists and those researching their own history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367820428

The Psychology of Fashion The Psychology of Fashion offers an insightful introduction to the exciting and dynamic world of fashion in relation to human behaviour from how clothing can affect our cognitive processes to the way retail environments manipulate consumer behaviour. The book explores how fashion design can impact healthy body image how psychology can inform a more sustainable perspective on the production and disposal of clothing and why we develop certain shopping behaviours. With fashion imagery ever present in the streets press and media The Psychology of Fashion shows how fashion and psychology can make a positive difference to our lives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138658677

The Psychology of Feeling SorryThe Weight of the Soul Can feeling genuinely sorry enable an important healing experience? Can relieving the weight of guilt restore a general sense of self-worth? Can an individual's dawning awareness give birth to feelings of remorse; perhaps even to acts of repentance? The concepts of betrayal vengeance and forgiveness have long been a major part of religious doctrine throughout the world. However only in recent times has the impact of these emotions become of interest to those involved in psychological study. In The Psychology of Feeling Sorry Peter Randall links contemporary psychological research with religious teachings and doctrine that have provided spiritual guidance for hundreds of years. Illustrated with explanatory narratives Randall fuses religious precepts with psychological theory concerning one of the least understood but most common of human emotions; feeling bad about one's 'sins'. Using an eclectic approach Randall explores how much of what is believed within the domain of faith is now supported by modern psychological research. This book will be of interest not only to those with religious beliefs but to psychologists psychotherapists students and anyone with an interest in the intersection of psychology psychotherapy and theology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415600477

The Psychology of Female ViolenceCrimes Against the Body First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315201252

The Psychology of Food Marketing and Overeating Integrating recent research and existing knowledge on food marketing and its effects on the eating behaviour of children adolescents and adults this timely collection explores how food promotion techniques can be used to promote healthier foods. Numerous factors influence what when and how we eat but one of the main drivers behind the unhealthy dietary intake of people is food marketing. Bringing together important trends from different areas of study with state-of-the-art insights from multiple disciplines the book examines the important factors and psychological processes that explain the effects of food marketing in a range of contexts including social media platforms. The book also provides guidelines for future research by critically examining interventions and their effectiveness in reducing the impact of food marketing on dietary intake in order to help develop new research programs legislation and techniques about what can be done about unhealthy food marketing. With research conducted by leading scholars from across the world this is essential reading for students and academics in psychology and related areas as well as professionals interested in food marketing and healthy eating. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367223168

The Psychology of Fraud Persuasion and Scam TechniquesUnderstanding What Makes Us Vulnerable The Psychology of Fraud Persuasion and Scam Techniques provides an in-depth explanation of not only why we fall for scams and how fraudsters use technology and other techniques to manipulate others but also why fraud prevention advice is not always effective. Starting with how fraud victimisation is perceived by society and why fraud is underreported the book explores the different types of fraud and the human and demographic factors that make us vulnerable. It explains how fraud has become increasingly sophisticated and how fraudsters use communication deception and theories of rationality cognition and judgmental heuristics as well as specific persuasion and scam techniques to encourage compliance. Covering frauds including romance scams and phishing attacks such as advance fee frauds and so-called miracle cures the book explores ways we can learn to spot scams and persuasive communication with checklists and advice for reflection and protection. Featuring a set of practical guidelines to reduce fraud vulnerability advice on how to effectively report fraud and educative case studies and examples this easy-to-read instructive book is essential reading for fraud prevention specialists fraud victims and academics and students interested in the psychology of fraud. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367859565

The Psychology of Gardening Why do so many people love gardening? What does your garden say about you? What is guerrilla gardening? The Psychology of Gardening delves into the huge benefits that gardening can have on our health and emotional well-being and how this could impact on the entire public health of a country. It also explores what our gardens can tell us about our personalities how we can link gardening to mindfulness and restoration and what motivates someone to become a professional gardener. With gardening being an ever popular pastime The Psychology of Gardening provides a fascinating insight into our relationships with our gardens. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138207882

The Psychology of Gender What is the difference between sex and gender? What is the impact of gender-role stereotypes on our lives our relationships and the world? What does gender mean to you? The Psychology of Gender looks at our biology history and culture to consider the impact of gender roles and stereotypes and addresses the 'dilemmas' we have regarding gender in a post-modern world. It offers a unique perspective on gender through storytelling and explores ideas around transgender and cisgender identities and androgyny tackling hidden assumptions and helping us make sense of the world of gender. By examining the future of gender The Psychology of Gender offers a platform for further exploration and arrives at a new psychology of gender that emphasises relationships and helps us to understand our own gender identity and that of those around us. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138748576

The Psychology of GrandparenthoodAn International Perspective The majority of people will now spend about one-third of their lives as grandparents yet developmental psychologists have largely ignored the nature of the grandparental role and the influence which grandparents can have on grandchildren. Originally published in 1991 this book redresses the balance and uses life-span evolutionary and psychodynamic theoretical frameworks to provide a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of grandparenthood from cross-cultural perspectives. Much recent work in developmental psychology has disregarded the extended family in favour of the two-generational nuclear family of parents and children. But grandparents do have a significant role in family relationships and children’s development. This volume contains detailed discussion of intergenerational transmission of parenting skills cooperation and conflict in three-generational families and the ways in which grandparents and grandchildren perceive one another. The importance of considering social and cultural contexts of development applies to grandparents just as much as to other areas of human development. Kinds of family structure social policies regarding employment health and housing attitudes to marriage and even particular historical events all have an impact on the position and role of grandparents and on stereotypes of old age. These factors vary considerably from country to country. Our understanding of grandparenthood can only be enriched by learning about the variety of ways in which it is expressed in different cultural settings. Most previous research has been confined to the USA. This book is truly international containing contributions from Britain Canada Finland Italy the Netherlands Poland West Germany and the USA. International comparisons enable us to see which elements are essential to grandparenthood and which are culture dependant. In most Western countries the population is ageing and this sort of study is becoming vitally important. The Psychology of Grandparenthood is required reading for anybody who is professionally involved with the elderly and for psychologists interested in development the life-span and family systems. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138300361

The Psychology of Grief What is happening emotionally when we grieve for a loved one? Is there a ‘right’ way to grieve? What effect does grief have on how we see ourselves? The Psychology of Grief is a humane and intelligent account that highlights the wide range of responses we have to losing a loved one and explores how psychologists have sought to explain this experience. From Freud’s pioneering psychoanalysis to discredited ideas that we must pass through ‘stages’ of grief the book examines the social and cultural norms that frame or limit our understanding of the grieving process as well as looking at the language we use to describe it. Everyone at some point in their lives experiences bereavement and The Psychology of Grief will help readers understand both their own and others’ feelings of grief that accompany it. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138088078

The Psychology of Group Perception This groundbreaking work by leading social psychologists who have all contributed in important ways to the psychology of group perception focuses in particular on three interrelated issues: (1) whether groups are seen to be diverse or relatively homogeneous; (2) whether groups are seen as real and stable or only transitory and ephemeral; and (3) whether group membership derives from some essential quality of the members or rather is based on social constructions. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9780415651158

The Psychology of Happiness What is happiness?  Why are some people happier than others? This new edition of The Psychology of Happiness provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of research into the nature of happiness. Major research developments have occurred since publication of the first edition in 1987 – here they are brought together for the first time often with surprising conclusions. Drawing on research from the disciplines of sociology physiology and economics as well as psychology Michael Argyle explores the nature of positive and negative emotions and the psychological and cognitive processes involved in their generation. Accessible and wide-ranging coverage is provided on key issues such as: the measurements and study of happiness mental and physical health; the effect of friendship marriage and other relationships on positive moods; happiness mental and physical health; the effects of work employment and leisure; and the effects of money class and education. The importance of individual personality traits such as optimism purpose in life internal control and having the right kind of goals is also analysed. New to this edition is additional material on national differences the role of humour and the effect of religion. Are some countries happier than others? This is just one of the controversial issues addressed by the author along the way. Finally the book discusses the practical application of research in this area such as how happiness can be enhanced and the effects of happiness on health altruism and sociability. This definitive and thought-provoking work will be compulsive reading for students researchers and the interested general reader     Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315812212

The Psychology of Happiness Is happiness all down to luck? Do events in our life influence how happy we feel? Can too much of a good thing make us less happy? The Psychology of Happiness introduces readers to the variety of factors that can affect how happy we are. From our personality and feelings of self-worth to our physical health and employment status happiness is a subjective experience which will change throughout our lives. Although feeling happy is linked with positive thinking and our sociability in daily life the book also includes surprising facts about the limitations of our personal happiness. We all want to feel happy in our lives and The Psychology of Happiness shows us that achieving it can be both an accident of fortune and as a direct result of our own actions and influence. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138090798

The Psychology of Human Social DevelopmentFrom Infancy to Adolescence The Psychology of Human Social Development provides a comprehensive introduction to the essential core topics and exciting new findings in this thriving field of developmental psychology. Following a thematic approach the book looks at key topics in social development in childhood and adolescence including personality development and research methods taking the reader from first principles to an advanced understanding. The book explores socio-emotional development and social learning as well as the history of thinking and the evolutionary roots of social development whilst also providing a clear balance between nature and nurture approaches. Taylor and Workman’s user-friendly writing style accommodates readers with no previous knowledge of the subject area whilst exploring the most up-to-date theories and research from various areas of psychology which have gained relevance to developmental psychology. Featuring student-friendly pedagogy throughout including end-of-chapter summaries further reading recommendations and questions for discussion The Psychology of Human Social Development is essential reading for undergraduates on social development or developmental psychology courses and relevant for related fields such as education gender studies and nursing. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138217171

The Psychology of Human Values This original and engaging book advocates an unabashedly empirical approach to understanding human values: abstract ideals that we consider important such as freedom equality achievement helpfulness security tradition and peace. Our values are relevant to everything we do helping us choose between careers schools romantic partners places to live things to buy who to vote for and much more. There is enormous public interest in the psychology of values and a growing recognition of the need for a deeper understanding of the ways in which values are embedded in our attitudes and behavior. How do they affect our well-being our relationships with other people our prosperity and our environment? In his examination of these questions Maio focuses on tests of theories about values through observations of what people actually think and do. In the past five decades psychological research has learned a lot about values and this book describes what we have learned and why it is important. It provides the first overview of psychological research looking at how we mentally represent and use our values and constitutes important reading for psychology students at all levels as well as academics in psychology and related social and health sciences. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138655355

The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction Defines the psychology of human-computer interaction showing how to span the gap between science & application. Studies the behavior of users in interacting with computer systems. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138432956

The Psychology of Humor at Work This is the first book to look at the psychological processes that enable humor to affect people and teams in the workplace. It recognizes that humor plays many roles beyond making people feel happier and more productive and acknowledges humor’s potential darker side as well. Bringing together a small but growing field of study the book features chapters around core psychological topics such perception creativity and stress while also addressing organizational issues such as leadership teamwork and social networks. The collection concludes with chapters on the role of humor in recruitment processes as well as how humor consultants work with organizations. Each chapter in The Psychology of Humor at Work not only provides a comprehensive review of what is known in that area but also considers future directions for research and practice. It will prove fascinating reading for students practitioners and researchers in organizational psychology HRM and business and management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138232365

The Psychology of Implicit Emotion RegulationA Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion Emotion regulation has traditionally been conceived as a deliberative process but there is growing evidence that many emotion-regulation processes operate at implicit levels. Implicit emotion regulation is initiated automatically without conscious intention and aims at modifying the quality of emotional responding. This special issue showcases recent advances in theorizing and empirical research on implicit emotion regulation. Implicit emotion regulation is pervasive in everyday life and contributes considerably to the effectiveness of emotion regulation. The contributions to this special issue highlight the significance of implicit emotion regulation in psychological adaptation goal-directed behavior interpersonal behavior personality functioning and mental health. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781848727373

The Psychology of Infancy Originally published in 1933 this volume was the result of many years’ careful first-hand study of child psychology enriched by the author’s unusually wide experience in dealing with the subject with students. It was intended to follow the development of children from infancy to adolescence but was cut short due to the author’s untimely death. The book makes available the results of modern experimental work of the time much of which was published in scattered journals. Chapters deal with the development of sensory and muscular control including walking and talking and with the development of the intellectual emotional and social life of children up to three years of age. A pioneer in the development of experimental psychology Hazlitt’s work can now be enjoyed again in its historical context. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781848722491

The Psychology of InfluenceTheory research and practice Whether it’s our choice of a new car or what we think about our neighbours our opinions and attitudes are a way of negotiating the world around us. The Psychology of Influence explores how these preferences and behaviours are influenced and affected by the messages we receive in daily life. From consumer choices to political lifestyle and financial decisions the book examines how and why we may be influenced by a range of sources from written text and television to social media and interpersonal communication. In a field that has fascinated scholars since Plato the book addresses the key questions across cognitive social and emotional domains: When do arguments become persuasive? What influence do role models have? What role do simple rules of thumb social norms or emotions play? Which behaviours are difficult to influence and why? Covering topics from attraction prejudice and discrimination to reward punishment and unconscious bias The Psychology of Influence will be invaluable reading for students and researchers across a range of areas within applied and social psychology as well as those in political science communications marketing and business and management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138655393

The Psychology of Intelligence What fascinates us about intelligence? How does intelligence impact our daily lives? Why do we sometimes fear intelligence? Human intelligence is a vital resource yet the study of it is pervaded by neglect and misconceptions. The Psychology of Intelligence helps make sense of the contradictory social attitudes and practices in relation to intelligence that we have seen over the decades from the idea that it drove eugenicist policies and actions in the past to our current backlash against "experts" and critical thinking. Showing how our approach to intelligence impacts our everyday lives in educational occupational medical and legal settings the book asks if it is possible to lift the taboo and move beyond the prejudices surrounding intelligence. Challenging popular assumptions The Psychology of Intelligence encourages us to face intelligence in ourselves and others as an important fact of life that we can all benefit from embracing more openly. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367482930

The Psychology Of Intelligence And Will First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138875456

The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations Published in the year 1982 The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Psychology. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9780203781159

The Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships This textbook provides an integrated and organized foundation for students seeking a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field of relationship science. It emphasizes the relationship field's intellectual themes roots and milestones; discusses its key constructs and their conceptualizations; describes its methodologies and classic studies; and most important presents the theories that have guided relationship scholars and produced the field's major research themes. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138436558

The Psychology of Interpersonal TrustTheory and Research Trust is a crucial facet of social functioning that feeds into our relationships with individuals groups and organizations. The Psychology of Interpersonal Trust: Theory and Research examines existing theories frameworks and models of trust as well as the methods and designs for examining it. To fully examine how interpersonal trust impacts our lives Rotenberg reviews the many essential topics trust relates to including close relationships trust games behavioural trust and trust development. Designed to encourage researchers to recognize the links between different approaches to trust this book begins with an overview of the different approaches to interpersonal trust and a description of the methods used to investigate it. Following on from this each chapter introduces a new subtopic or context including lying adjustment socialization social media politics and health. Each subtopic begins with a short monologue (to provide a personal perspective) and covers basic theory and research. Rotenberg’s applied focus demonstrates the relevance of interpersonal trust and highlights the issues and problems people face in contemporary society. This is essential reading for students researchers and academics in social psychology especially those with a specific interest in the concept of trust. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138490222

The Psychology of Investing While traditional finance focuses on the tools used to optimize return and minimize risk this book explains how psychology can affect our decisions more than financial theory. Covering the ways investors actually behave this is the first book of its kind to delve into the ways biases influence investment behavior and how overcoming these biases can increase financial success. Now in its sixth edition this classic text features: An easy-to-understand structure illustrating psychological biases as everyday behavior; analyzing their effect on investment decisions; and concluding with academic studies that exhibit real-life investors making choices that hurt their wealth. A new chapter on the biology of investment exploring the latest research on genetics neuroscience and how hormones aging and nature versus nurture inform our investment behavior. An additional strategy for controlling biases helping readers understand the psychology that motivates markets and how to address it. Experiential examples chapter summaries and end-of-chapter discussion questions to help readers test their practical understanding. Fully updated with the latest research in the field The Psychology of Investing will prove fascinating and educational for advanced students in investment portfolio management and behavioral finance classes as well as investors and financial planners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415397575

The Psychology of Job Interviews Most people at some point in their lives experience the stress of being interviewed for a job they want. Many also face the challenge of interviewing other people. But what does the science tell us about this unique social situation? What biases are involved and how can we become aware of them? And how can job interviews be structured so that they are fair and effective? The Psychology of Job Interviews is the first book to provide an accessible and concise overview of what we know. Based on empirical research rather than second hand advice it discusses the strategies and tactics that both applicants and interviewers can use to make their interviews more successful; from how to make a good first impression to how to decide which candidate is the best fit for the role. Illustrated with examples throughout the book guides job applicants on how best to prepare for and perform in an interview and provides managers with best-practice advice in selecting the right candidate. Debunking several popular myths along the way this is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding what is really happening in a job interview whichever side of the desk you are sitting. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138646278

The Psychology of Justice and Legitimacy In response to the international turmoil violence and increasing ideological polarization social psychological interest in the topics of legitimacy and social justice has blossomed considerably. Social psychologists have explored the psychological underpinnings of people’s reactions to injustice and illegitimacy including the behavioral and psychological consequences of the motivation to view individual outcomes and governmental systems as just and legitimate. Although injustice and illegitimacy are clearly related at conceptual and theoretical levels these two rich literatures are rarely integrated. Social justice researchers have focused on how people make sense of particular instances of injustice whereas legitimacy researchers have tended to focus primarily on people’s reactions to unfair systems of intergroup relations. This 11th volume of the Ontario Symposium series brings together the work of leading researchers in fields of social justice and legitimacy to facilitate the cross-pollination and integration of these fields. The contributions address broad theoretical issues and cutting-edge empirical advances while illustrating the diversity and richness of research in the two fields. By uniting these two domains this volume will stimulate new directions in theory and research that seek to explain how and why people make sense of injustice at all levels of analysis. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138984134

The Psychology of Language And Communication This wide-ranging introduction to the psychology of human language use offers a new breadth of approach by breaching conventional disciplinary boundaries with examples and perspectives drawn from many subdisciplines - cognitive and social psychology psycholinguistics neuropsychology and sociology. After an exploration of the diverse nature of communication using examples throughout the animal kingdom the authors focus on the range of human communicative channels the nature of human language and the variations occurring between and within societies and cultures. Subsequent chapters cover speech production as a psycholinguistic skill; the coordination of verbal and non-verbal channels; the structure and management of conversations; language perception and comprehension; the cognitive neuropsychology of language and the development of communicative skills. The book also presents an informative and entertaining historical perspective and illustrates the fact that insights gained into controversial problems in other fields and at other times can shed light on many of today's most contentious debates in psychology. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9781315804767

The Psychology of Language and Communication This is a classic edition of Geoffrey Beattie’s and Andrew Ellis’ influential introduction to the psychology of human language and communication now including a new reflective introduction from the authors. Drawing on elements from many sub-disciplines including cognitive and social psychology psycholinguistics and neuropsychology the book offers an approach which breaches conventional disciplinary boundaries. Exploring the diverse nature of communication Beattie and Ellis focus on the range of human communicative channels and the variations which occur both between and within societies and cultures. Written from an informative and entertaining historical perspective The Psychology of Language and Communication remains a key resource for anyone interested in the psychology of communication language and linguistics 30 years on from its first publication. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138734531

The Psychology of LanguageFrom Data to Theory Now in full colour this fully revised edition of the best-selling textbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language for undergraduates postgraduates and researchers. It contains everything the student needs to know about how we acquire understand produce and store language. Whilst maintaining both the structure of the previous editions and the emphasis on cognitive processing this fourth edition has been thoroughly updated to include: the latest research including recent results from the fast-moving field of brain imaging and studies updated coverage of key ideas and models an expanded glossary more real-life examples and illustrations. The Psychology of Language Fourth Edition is praised for describing complex ideas in a clear and approachable style and assumes no prior knowledge other than a grounding in the basic concepts of cognitive psychology. It will be essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of cognition psycholinguistics or the psychology of language. It will also be useful for those on speech and language therapy courses. The book is supported by a companion website featuring a range of helpful supplementary resources for both students and lecturers. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781848720893

The Psychology of Lean ImprovementsWhy Organizations Must Overcome Resistance and Change the Culture Fear of change—we all experience it. Some accept change immediately some gradually adapt while others may never get there. Whether it’s poor leadership the inability to change or pure ego this Shingo Prize-winning book explores this perplexing commitment to inefficiency. Winner of a 2013 Shingo Prize!The Psychology of Lean Improvements: Why Organizations Must Overcome Resistance and Change the Culture examines the psychology behind why businesses avoid Lean transformations. It investigates why businesses cling to the eight deadly wastes and why they still find ways to place continuous improvement on the back burner. Frequently sought out for his expertise in Lean manufacturing Chris Ortiz has been featured in a number of trade publications and on the television show Inside Business with Fred Thompson. In this book Mr. Ortiz breaks down the fear of change within executives and organizational leaders. He examines the psychology of dysfunction provides insight into why so many businesses fall short in creating visions for growth and prosperity and identifies tools that can help you address resistance to change. Detailing implementation techniques with a proven track record for success the book considers specific strategies that can be helpful towards improving your company and changing its culture—including cellular manufacturing total productive maintenance setup reduction Kanban visual communication and in-line production. It explains how to get started on your Lean transformation describes why an economic downturn might be a good time to embrace Lean and warns of the dangers behind failing to do so. Chris A. Ortiz is the founder and president of Kaizen Assembly a Lean manufacturing training and implementation firm in Bellingham Washington. Watch Chris has being interviewed on Inside Business with Fred Thompson on CNN Headline News. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMm3fVsbPtM) Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781439878798

The Psychology of Learning MathematicsExpanded American Edition This classic text presents problems of learning and teaching mathematics from both a psychological and mathematical perspective. The Psychology of Learning Mathematics already translated into six languages (including Chinese and Japanese) has been revised for this American Edition to include the author's most recent findings on the formation of mathematical concepts different kinds of imagery interpersonal and emotional factors and a new model of intelligence. The author contends that progress in the areas of learning and teaching mathematics can only be made when such factors as the abstract and hierarchical nature of mathematics the relation to mathematical symbolism and the distinction between intelligent learning and rote memorization are taken into account and instituted in the classroom. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138169494

The Psychology of Learning Science Focusing on the teaching and learning of science concepts at the elementary and high school levels this volume bridges the gap between state-of-the-art research and classroom practice in science education. The contributors -- science educators cognitive scientists and psychologists -- draw clear connections between theory research and instructional application with the ultimate goal of improving science teachers' effectiveness in the classroom. Toward this end explicit models illustrations and examples drawn from actual science classes are included. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138866607

The Psychology of Left and Right Originally published in 1976 this title deals with the problem of how we tell left from right. The authors argue that the ability to tell left from right depends ultimately on a bodily asymmetry such as preference for one or the other hand or dominance of one side of the brain. This has implications for child development reading disability navigation art and culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367501495

The Psychology of MarketingCross-Cultural Perspectives This comprehensive guide to both the theory and application of psychology to marketing comes from the author team that produced the acclaimed Customer Relationship Management. It will be of immeasurable help to marketing executives and higher level students of marketing needing an advanced understanding of the applied science of psychology and how it bears on consumers; on influencing; and on the effective marketing of organizations themselves as well as of products and services. Drawing on consumer management industrial organizational and market psychology The Psychology of Marketing's in-depth treatment of theory embraces: ¢ Cognition theories. ¢ Personality perception and memory. ¢ Motivation and emotion. ¢ Power control and exchange. Complemented by case studies from across the globe The Psychology of Marketing provides a trans-national perspective on how the theory revealed here is applied in practice. Marketers and those aspiring to be marketers will find this book an invaluable help in their role as 'lay psychologists'. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553795

The Psychology of Marxian Socialism This classic work on the psychology of socialism carries for this edition a slightly refurbished title. By calling it The Psychology of Marxian Socialism the work is sharply distinguished from an earlier work of the same title (written at a much earlier time) by Gustave LeBon. This book was written in the post-Bolshevik revolutionary era at the height of the Weimar democracy in Germany; LeBon’s represents a fin de siècle effort reflecting earlier concerns in socialist theory. De Man’s work derives its strength from a close and hard look at how socialism operated in one country. It is probably one of the greatest such efforts in the post-World War I period. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537934

The Psychology of Meaning in Life This book offers an inspiring exploration of current findings from the psychology of meaning in life analysing cutting-edge research to propose practical evidence-based applications. Schnell draws on psychological philosophical and cognitive perspectives to explore basic concepts of meaning and introduce a multidimensional model of meaning in life. Written in an accessible style this book covers a range of topics including the distinction between meaning and happiness the impact of meaning on health and longevity meaning in the workplace and meaning-centred interventions. Each chapter ends with exercises to encourage self-reflection and measurement tools are presented throughout including the author’s original Sources of Meaning and Meaning in Life Questionnaire (SoMe) to inspire the reader to consider the role of meaning in their own life. The Psychology of Meaning in Life is essential reading for students and practitioners of psychology sociology counselling coaching and related disciplines  and for general readers interested in exploring the role of meaning in life. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367415853

The Psychology of Men in Context What does it really mean to say that boys will be boys men are from Mars or that contemporary men are in crisis? Does modern psychology support or refute these notions? And how is psychological theory and research about boys and men used in society? The Psychology of Men in Context is an essential introduction to the field which challenges readers to examine psychological research on men masculinity and gender and consider its impact on daily life through everyday speech popular media political rhetoric and more. The authors offer a range of lenses for studying masculinity including biology social learning social constructionism feminism and intersectionality. Demonstrating how these frameworks can be used to understand research on pressing topics such as violence health and relationships the book also considers masculinity in its broader philosophical and historical contexts equipping readers with the tools needed to connect the psychology of men with other areas of social science. Exercises and prompts to help students relate the research to their own lives are included throughout. Designed for students at undergraduate and graduate level but suitable for anyone curious about understanding the field from a more critical social scientific perspective The Psychology of Men in Context is a valuable introduction to the history current scholarship and social implications of the psychological study of men and masculinity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138589346

The Psychology Of Men Of Genius First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138882539

The Psychology of Misconduct Vice and Crime Born in Vienna in 1864 Bernard Hollander was a London-based psychiatrist in the early twentieth century. He is best known for being one of the main proponents of the interest in phrenology at that time. This title originally published in 1922 contains the reflections of the author on his experience as a physician specialising in nervous and mental disorders. He looks at a range of patients "suffering from character defects leading to moral failings..." finding that these cases of "moral derangement" come in all kinds. Very much of its time he suggests that treating the causes should be with both physical and mental measures including psychotherapy which at the time consisted of "persuasion suggestion auto-suggestion hypnotism psychological analysis as well as re-education." A fascinating glimpse into psychology from the early twentieth century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138841529

The Psychology of Money This fascinating book examines such diverse and compelling subjects as: money and power gender differences morality and tax the very rich the poor lottery and pools winners how possessions and wealth affect self-image and esteem why some people become misers and others gamblers spendthrifts and tycoons and why some people gain more pleasure from giving away money than from retaining it. Comprehensive and cross-cultural The Psychology of Money integrates fascinating and scattered literature from many disciplines and includes the most recent material to date. It will be of interest to psychologists sociologists anthropologists and to people interested in business and economics. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315812496

The Psychology of Negotiations in the 21st Century WorkplaceNew Challenges and New Solutions The "litigation explosion" in the 21st century workplace means increasing costs and risks of lawsuits. Negotiation appears the attractive alternative to litigation. This new volume with contributions from experts in psychology management and other disciplines bridges the gap between management and negotiation research. Managers students and researchers interested in the field of negotiation will find this new book in SIOP’s Organizational Frontiers series of interest. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138107670

The Psychology of Nutrition This title explores the psychological processes involved in the selection and consumption of foods and drink. The exposition is firmly linked to research evidence on the cognitive socio-economic and physiological influences on the desire to eat and drink. The basic theory is that appetite is a learned response to a recognized complex of cues from foods the body and the social and physical environment.; The volume starts with infant-care giver interactions in feeding then moves on to consider how physical and social maturation in Western culture affects attitudes to foods concentrating on the phenomena of ordinary dieting and the extremes of disordered eating. The concluding chapters deal with the process within the lives of individual consumers which causes the same eating habits to form in different segments of society. It also looks at food technology marketing and governmental regulation.; "The Psychology of Nutrition" tackles questions about what goes on in eaters' and drinkers' minds about the foods and beverages they are consuming and about the cultural meaning of the eating occasion in industrialized cultures. Media > Books > E-books Taylor & Francis 9780203970492

The Psychology of PerceptionA Philosophical Examination of Gestalt Theory and Derivative Theories of Perception Originally published in 1957 the primary aim of this study was to shed light upon the logical character of the psychology of perception. D.W. Hamlyn begins by delimiting the field of psychological inquiry into perception then gives a detailed account of the types of explanation appropriate in the field. He maintains that these explanations have certain important peculiarities which distinguish them from other scientific inquiries. In view of the central importance of Gestalt Theory in this field an account is given of its origins and its main features are critically discussed. The work should still be of considerable interest to both philosophers and psychologists as well as to all those interested in the relations between the two subjects. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138202757

The Psychology of Perfectionism in Sport Dance and Exercise Perfectionism has been found to play an important yet complex role in sport dance and exercise. This collection provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of theory measurement research findings and practitioner issues associated with perfectionism providing readers with insights into both its benefits and its costs. The book features contributions from many of the leading researchers in the field and also includes recommendations from experienced practitioners and clinicians on how best to work with perfectionists. This book will provide students and researchers in sport and exercise psychology as well as coaches and instructors in sport dance and exercise with an invaluable resource to guide their research and practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138958692

The Psychology of PerfectionismTheory Research Applications This milestone text provides a comprehensive and state-of-the art overview of perfectionism theory research and treatment from the past 25 years with contributions from the leading researchers in the field. The book examines new theories and perspectives including the social disconnection model of perfectionism and the 2 × 2 model of perfectionism. It also reviews empirical findings with a special focus on stress vulnerability and resilience and examines perfectionism in specific populations. Finally it considers how perfectionism relates to physical health and psychophysiological processes and introduces new approaches to effective prevention and treatment. By increasing our understanding of perfectionism as a complex personality disposition and providing a framework for future explorations this landmark publication aims to promote further research in this field. It will be invaluable reading for academics students and professionals in personality psychology clinical and counseling psychology applied psychology and related disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138691032

The Psychology of Performance Why is performing under pressure often so difficult? What strategies can help us deliver our best performance? How can we boost our self-confidence? The Psychology of Performance explores the key psychological factors that affect our ability to cope under pressure whether it’s competing in a sport appearing in front of an audience or meeting a tight deadline. It looks at how we develop skills through learning and practice and how self-confidence and decision-making can be sharpened to boost our expertise. The book explains how to develop the best mindset for performance and shows how factors such as sleep nutrition and rest and recovery can influence our moods and how we function. When we need to perform a task with little room for error The Psychology of Performance helps us to understand how to do this to the best of our ability. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138219205

The Psychology of Person Identification Originally published in 1978 the laws and procedures governing person identification parades photofit pictures and the forms of questions asked to obtain a description had been increasingly called into question. The problem had been highlighted by several well publicised court cases and considered by the Devlin Committee. This book reviews the status of psychological knowledge at the time concerning the many aspects of person identification and scientifically evaluates the methods and procedures used. Contrary to the popular belief that identification is a simple affair the authors use the theory and method of psychology to reveal the sources of the difficulties involved in recognising a once-seen person. Estimates of just how good a witness can be are drawn from laboratory studies using face photographs from mock crime incidents and from actual criminal cases for reliability varies markedly in each of these three situations. Both an individual and a social perspective is taken of the eye-witnesses and research into perception and memory together with individual differences in such things as cognitive style personality suggestibility age sex and ability to form both eidetic and memory images are examined. The social aspects of stereotypes the presence of other witnesses and the desire to be a ‘good witness’ are all discussed at length. Finally an extended examination of the possibility of voice parades and changes in identification procedures together with man-machine interaction techniques is undertaken. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138692015

The Psychology of Personal Constructs First published in 1992. Unavailable for many years this is a reissue of George Kelly's classic work. It is the bible of personal construct psychology written by its founder. The first volume presents the theory of personal construct psychology and the second volume shows the implications for clinical practice. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203359037

The Psychology Of Philosophers First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138875289

The Psychology of Pierre Janet (Routledge Revivals) Pierre Janet (1859 – 1947) is considered to be one of the founders of psychology and pioneered in the disciplines of psychology philosophy and psychotherapy. Janet’s most crucial research particularly in the subjects of ‘dissociation’ and ‘subconscious’ - terms coined by him - is explored in this book first published in 1952. As Janet did not publish much in English these notes provide guidance on such areas of study as hysteria and hypnosis obsessive thinking and the psychology of adaption. Elton Mayo’s comprehensive collection is an important guide for any student with an interest in the history of psychology psychopathology and social study and Janet’s revolutionary work in the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415730235

The Psychology of Planning in OrganizationsResearch and Applications This book examines planning as the critical influence on performance at work and in organizations.   Bridging theory and practice it unites cutting-edge research findings from cognitive science social psychology industrial and organizational psychology strategic management and entrepreneurship and describes the practical applications of these research findings for practitioners interested in improving planning performance in organizations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138800472

The Psychology of Political CommunicatorsHow Politicians Culture and the Media Construct and Shape Public Discourse In this timely study Ofer Feldman Sonja Zmerli and their team of experts shed light on the multiple ways communication affects political behavior and attitudes. Written for students and scholars alike The Psychology of Political Communicators uses examples from the US Europe Asia and the Middle East to examine the nature characteristics content and reception of communication in three major areas of discourse: The style and nature of language used by political actors in the national and international arenas The discourse used in nationalist populist movements and during negative campaigns The rhetoric of the media as it tries to frame politics political events and political actors Collectively the essays form a solid foundation on which to understand the different roles language plays in the conduct of politics the way in which these roles are performed in various situations in different societies and cultures and the political outcomes of verbal behavior. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of political psychology and communication studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138596191

The Psychology of Political ExtremismWhat Would Sigmund Freud have Thought About Islamic State? Recent terrorist attacks have left the UK (and Europe) genuinely at sea as to how to respond to these distressing events. There are the predictable interpretations with politicians on the right talking about counter-terrorism harsher punishments and tightening up on the internet whilst on the political left there is talk about blaming foreign wars. All this analysis is relevant but insufficient. Politicians are not talking enough about why so many young people are sufficiently angry and alienated that they are prepared to be seduced by the toxic and poisonous ideology of Islamic State. The Psychology of Political Extremism examines both the politics and the psychology as well as what motivates people to behave in ways that are so disturbing. Freud is the hook as the founding father of the talking cure. A radical and subversive theorist in his time he claimed that mankind was influenced more by the inner workings of the mind and internal conflicts than by rational thought. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782206637

The Psychology of Politics How do some political leaders capture popular support? What is the appeal of belonging to a nation? Can democracy thrive? The Psychology of Politics explores how the emotions which underpin everyday life are also vital in what happens on the political stage. It draws on psychoanalytic ideas to show how fear and passion shape the political sphere in our changing societies and cultures and examines topical social issues and events including Brexit the changing nature of democracy activism and Trump in America. In a changing global political climate The Psychology of Politics shows us how we can make sense of what drives human conduct in relation to political ideas and action. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138551701

The Psychology of Politics In writing The Psychology of Politics Hans Eysenck had two aims in mind: to write a book about modern developments in the field of attitude studies which would be intelligible to the layman; and one that would integrate into one consistent theoretical system a large number of contributions on the topic from different fields. Eysenck believes that science has something to say about such problems as anti-Semitism the origin and growth of fascist and communist ideologies the causal determinants of voting behavior the structure of opinions and attitudes and the relationship between politics and personality. He seeks to rescue these factual findings from the obscurity of technical journals and present them in a more accessible form.The research presented in this book outlines the main principles of organization and structure in the field of attitudes. These principles account in a remarkably complete and detailed manner for the systems of political organization found in Great Britain that is the Conservative Liberal and Socialist parties and the communist and fascist groups. Next Eysenck relates these principles to the system of personality structure which for many years formed the main focus of research activity at the Institute of Psychiatry in London.The Psychology of Politics integrates attitude research with modern learning theory. In his new introduction Eysenck writes that his research and personal experiences in Germany led him to believe that authoritarianism could appear equally well on the left as on the right. He saw Stalin as equally authoritarian as Hitler and communism as equally totalitarian as Nazism. The Psychology of Politics contains the evidence and arguments Eysenck used to demonstrate his approach. This volume is of enduring significance for psychologists political theorists and historians. It is by indirection a major statement in modern liberalism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537941

The Psychology of PopulismThe Tribal Challenge to Liberal Democracy The recent rise of populist politics represent a major challenge for liberal democracies. This important book explores the psychological reasons for the rise of populism featuring contributions from leading international researchers in the fields of psychology and political science. Unlike liberal democracy based on the Enlightenment values of individual freedom autonomy and rationality both right-wing and left-wing populism offer collectivist autocratic formulations reminiscent of the evolutionary history and tribal instincts of our species. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the psychology of populism covering such phenomena as identity seeking anger and fear collective narcissism grievance norms perceptions of powerlessness and deprivation authoritarianism nationalism radicalism propaganda and persuasion ethnocentrism xenophobia and the effects of globalization. The book is divided into four parts. Part I deals with the motivational and emotional factors that attract voters to populist causes and the human needs and values that populist movements satisfy. Part II analyzes the cognitive features of populist appeals especially their emphasis on simplicity epistemic certainty and moral absolutism. Part III turns to one of the defining features of populism: its offer of a powerful tribal identity and collectivist ideology that provide meaning and personal significance to its followers. Finally in Part IV the propaganda tactics used by populist movements are analysed including the role of charismatic leadership authoritarianism and nationalism and the use of conspiracy narratives and persuasive strategies. This is fascinating reading on a highly topical issue. The book will be of interest to students researchers and applied professionals in all areas of psychology and the social sciences as a textbook or reference book and to anyone interested in the global rise of populism. Please follow this link for an insightful interview by one of the editors of the book - Joseph P. Forgas: https://www.routledge.com/blog/article/editor-interview-the-psychology-of-populism We have also created a short promotional video for the book here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK1BEF8WyMA. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367523817

The Psychology of PrayerA Scientific Approach Reviewing the growing body of scientific research on prayer this book describes what is known about the behavioral cognitive emotional developmental and health aspects of this important religious activity. The highly regarded authors provide a balanced perspective on what prayer means to the individual how and when it is practiced and the impact it has in people's lives. Clinically relevant topics include connections among prayer coping and adjustment as well as controversial questions of whether prayer (for oneself or another) can be beneficial to health. The strengths and limitations of available empirical studies are critically evaluated and promising future research directions are identified. Media > Books > Print Books Guilford Press 9781462506958

The Psychology of Prejudice Why do we develop extreme attitudes to others? Can our personality contribute to our prejudices? How do we reduce prejudice and discrimination? The Psychology of Prejudice explores different forms of prejudice and discrimination from racial jokes to genocide. It looks at what might cause our prejudiced attitudes including our personalities social influences group identity and evolutionary factors and how prejudice can be reduced through education campaigning and consciousness raising. Offering insights into a topic of great public concern and debate The Psychology of Prejudice shows us how we can confront our prejudiced attitudes and contribute to greater tolerance and understanding. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367534639

The Psychology of PrejudiceThe Ontario Symposium Volume 7 This volume consists of expanded and updated versions of papers presented at the Seventh Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology. The series is designed to bring together scholars from across North America who work in the same substantive area with the goals of identifying common concerns and integrating research findings. The topic of this symposium was the psychology of prejudice and the presentations covered a wide variety of issues. The papers present state-of-the-art research programs addressing prejudice from the point of view of both the bigoted person as well as the victim of bigotry. The chapter authors confront this issue from two major -- and previously separate -- research traditions: the psychology of attitude and intergroup conflict. The chapters are organized in the following sequence of topics: the determinants and consequences of stereotypes individual differences in prejudicial attitudes intergroup relations the responses of victims to prejudice and discrimination and an integrative summary/commentary. Illustrating both the diversity and vitality of research on the psychology of prejudice the editors hope that this volume will stimulate further research and theorizing in this area. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9780203763377

The Psychology of Questions Originally published in 1985 the chapters in this volume collectively approach the phenomenon of questioning from many perspectives. There are studies on question comprehension question answering question asking and the influence of adjunct questions on text comprehension and memory. The chapters cover different theories models methods and practical applications. Some contributors focus exclusively on adult subjects whereas other examine cognitive development in children. The earlier chapters in the book have a "pure science" emphasis whereas the later chapters have an "applied" emphasis. Of course the distinction between science and application had in the editors’ words become "very fuzzy" in the years prior to publication. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815393979

The Psychology of Radicalization and Terrorism Terrorism and radicalization have a long history but in recent years their prominence has been a particularly conspicuous and influential feature of the global political landscape. This important book presents an overview of the processes involved in radicalization and terrorism and introduces a systematic framework which captures the most crucial individual and social factors involved in determining these processes. The authors begin by considering the possible role of prejudice economic deprivation and discrimination and the cognitive responses and emotions they can trigger. Such responses tend in turn to increase the importance of group membership and promote intergroup differentiation and polarization a process which is often accompanied by more pronounced and more extreme religious and ideological beliefs. The book also describes the role of cultural values and social climate in processes of radicalization as well as the role of personality factors and demographics such as age and marital status. As for violent terrorist action itself this final most radical stage is elicited by a number of group factors such as groupthink isolation and leadership. Certain cognitive mechanisms – for example dehumanizing the target and attributing responsibility elsewhere – can also provide excuses for violence. The book explores why some groups turn to violence and others don’t and it addresses processes of disengagement deradicalization programs and other methods used to inhibit the spread of radicalization and terrorism. The Psychology of Radicalization and Terrorism takes a unique and systematic approach to a vital topic integrating knowledge from diverse literatures and using social psychology as a basis for comprehending human behaviour. It will be essential reading for students and researchers from all disciplines seeking a greater understanding of terrorism and violent political conflict in all its forms. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781848724426

The Psychology of Reading The last 20 years have witnessed a revolution in reading research. Cognitive psychologists using high-speed computers to aid in the collection and analysis of data have developed tools that have begun to answer questions that were previously thought unanswerable. These tools allow for a "chronometric " or moment-to-moment analysis of the reading process. Foremost among them is the use of the record of eye movements to help reveal the underlying perceptual and cognitive processes of reading. This volume provides a coherent framework for the research accomplished on the reading process over the past 15 years. It emphasizes how readers go about extracting information from the printed page and how they comprehend the text. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203357798

The Psychology of Reading Originally published in 1984 this new introductory text fulfilled a need amongst both psychology and education students for a book which dealt with reading in a way that explored areas beyond the strictly practical question of how to teach children to read. Previous books on the psychology of reading had often concentrated on the analytic approach in which reading had been seen in terms of a set of interconnected sub-skills and the experimental study of these components had become an end in itself. As a result although great advances had been made in our understanding of certain aspects of the process psychological studies of reading had increasingly been seen by teachers and others as unduly abstract. The Psychology of Reading goes back to first principles and attempts to set reading in its context alongside other cognitive activities particularly those involving memory and perceptual processes. Professor Kennedy argues that it is wrong to set reading apart as a ‘skill’ when it needs to be understood against a background of work in cognitive psychology. Reading is a social phenomenon concerned with human communication and in this context it must be seen in terms of an interaction between writer and reader. The book explores the nature of this interaction and the various stylistic and other devices which sustain the ‘contract’ between reader and writer. In particular the psychological processes which allow a reader to make sensible assumptions about a writer’s intentions are dealt with in detail. No theory of reading the author argues should ignore the purpose of the enterprise. Similarly explaining success and failure in teaching children to read may well hinge on an understanding of what children think reading is about. The style of this book is concise and largely non-technical. The Psychology of Reading will be welcomed as stimulating and demanding by experts and non-specialist general readers alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138090620

The Psychology of Reading and Spelling Disabilities Originally published in 1983 recent advances in cognitive psychology had revealed that reading and spelling disabilities may be due to deficits in basic cognitive processes. Dr Jorm looks at each type of disability in detail in relation to normality as well as intellectual disability (formerly called retardation) and finds that the new research provides a useful approach to seemingly intractable problems. He covers a broad range of topics including the social context of reading disabilities the role of biological factors remedial teaching and prevention of literacy problems. He also gives a forward-looking account of how research at the time on the cognitive processes in comprehension might aid our understanding of the relatively neglected group of children who can read individual words yet fail to comprehend adequately. Reading disabilities are increasingly serious in a culture which places an ever higher value on literacy and the discoveries of the cognitive psychologists are presented here in a way that will still be accessible to all those teachers and parents who want to know about developments in the past. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138088467

The Psychology of ReadingAn Interdisciplinary Approach (2nd Edn) The need to know why as well as how children and youth respond as they do to reading instruction has guided the selection of this book’s content. The second edition of this title originally published in 1990 has retained and elaborated upon the three major themes previously presented: that reading is a linguistic process; that motivation the affective domain may be as important in learning to read as the cognitive domain; and that the reality of learning theory is to be found in the mechanisms of the brain where information is mediated and memory traces are stored.The text integrates views from cognitive psychology psycholinguistics and neuropsychology as they relate to reading and writing. A learning-motivation model is provided to present associative learning conceptualization and self-directed reading in a hierarchical relationship with distinct cognitive and affective components. The distinction between beginning and proficient reading is maintained throughout the text. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138092679

The Psychology of ReadingTheory and Applications Incorporating cognitive neuropsychological and sociocultural perspectives this authoritative text explains the psychological processes involved in reading and describes applications for educational practice. The book follows a clear developmental sequence from the impact of the early family environment through the acquisition of emergent literacy skills and the increasingly complex abilities required for word recognition reading fluency vocabulary growth and text comprehension. Linguistic and cultural factors in individual reading differences are examined as are psychological dimensions of reading motivation and the personal and societal benefits of reading.User-Friendly Features*End-of-chapter discussion questions and suggestions for further reading.*Explicit linkages among theory research standards (including the Common Core State Standards) and instruction.*Engaging case studies at the beginning of each chapter.*Technology Toolbox explores the pros and cons of computer-assisted learning.   Media > Books > Print Books Guilford Press 9781462523504

The Psychology of Reasoning First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138875050

The Psychology Of Religion Theory in the psychology of religion is in a state of rapid development and the present volume demonstrates how various positions in this field may be translated into original foundational work that will in turn encourage exploration in many directions. A number of new contributions are collected with previously published pieces to illustrate the Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367318932

The Psychology of Religion Does religion positively affect well-being? What leads to fundamentalism? Do religious beliefs make us more moral? The Psychology of Religion explores the often contradictory ideas people have about religion and religious faiths spirituality fundamentalism and atheism. The book examines whether we choose to be religious or whether it is down to factors such as genes environment personality cognition and emotion. It analyses religion’s effects on morality health and social behavior and asks whether religion will survive in our modern society. Offering a balanced view The Psychology of Religion shows that both religiosity and atheism have their own psychological costs and benefits with some of them becoming more salient in certain environments. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815368120

The Psychology of Religion and Spirituality for CliniciansUsing Research in Your Practice Many therapists and counselors find themselves struggling to connect the research on the psychology of religion and spirituality to their clinical practice. This book will address this issue providing a valuable resource for clinicians that will help translate basic research findings into useful clinical practice strategies. The editors and chapter authors all talented and respected scholar-clinicians offer a practical and functional understanding of the empirical literature on the psychology of religion and spirituality of while at the same time outlining clinical implications assessments and strategies for counseling and psychotherapy. Chapters cover such topics as religious and spiritual identity its development and its relationship with one’s personality; client God images; spiritually transcendent experiences; forgiveness and reconciliation; and religion and spirituality in couples and families. Each concludes with clinical application questions and suggestions for further reading. This book is a must-read for all those wishing to ground their clinical work in an empirical understanding of the role that religion and spirituality plays in the lives of their clients.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415873437

The Psychology of ReligionAn Empirical Approach Keeping up with the rapidly growing research base the leading graduate-level psychology of religion text is now in a fully updated fifth edition. It takes a balanced empirically driven approach to understanding the role of religion in individual functioning and social behavior. Integrating research on numerous different faith traditions the book addresses the quest for meaning; links between religion and biology; religious thought belief and behavior across the lifespan; experiential dimensions of religion and spirituality; the social psychology of religious organizations; and connections to coping adjustment and mental disorder. Chapter-opening quotations and topical research boxes enhance the readability of this highly instructive text.   Media > Books > Print Books Guilford Press 9781462535989

The Psychology of Religious Behaviour Belief and Experience Because society is increasingly secular it may seem irrelevant to consider the psychology of religion. But the diversity of our multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society in fact makes religion more important to the social sciences than it has ever been before. What are the social consequences of religion? Every day the news is full of events that can be blamed on religion perpetrated by a range of groups from whole societies to individuals. Beit-Hallami and Argyle are renowned for their clear analytical approach to topics and this new state-of-the-art study of psychology and religion is no exception. It will be welcomed as an update to their previous work in the area by social psychologists sociologists and theologians worldwide. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315812601

The Psychology of Religious Mysticism First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415864480

The Psychology of Restorative JusticeManaging the Power Within This ground-breaking collection dares to take the next step in the advancement of an autonomous inter-disciplinary restorative justice field of study. It brings together criminology social psychology legal theory neuroscience affect-script psychology sociology forensic mental health political sciences psychology and positive psychology to articulate for the first time a psychological concept of restorative justice. To this end the book studies the power structures of the restorative justice movement the very psychology motivations and emotions of the practitioners who implement it as well as the drivers of its theoreticians and researchers. Furthermore it examines the strengths and weakness of our own societies and the communities that are called to participate as parties in restorative justice. Their own biases hunger for power and control fears and hopes are investigated. The psychology and dynamics between those it aims to reach as well as those who are funding it including policy makers and politicians are looked into. All these questions lead to creating an understanding of the psychology of restorative justice. The book is essential reading for academics researchers policymakers practitioners and campaigners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815391975

The Psychology of Retirement How can you make the most of retirement? How should you plan for retirement? What are the challenges of retirement and how can they be dealt with? 　 The Psychology of Retirement looks at this life stage as a journey that involves challenges opportunities setbacks periods of disenchantment and often exciting new beginnings. Taking a positive approach the book explores how retirement provides opportunities to cultivate new friendships interests and hobbies consolidate and renegotiate long-held ones and even re-invent oneself in a post-work environment. It also emphasizes the value of pre-retirement planning and the importance of establishing new goals and purposes.　 　 Retirement can be a period of significant psychological growth and development and The Psychology of Retirement shows how it can herald the beginning of a vibrant and active stage of life. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815347088

The Psychology of Safety Handbook You cannot improve your organization's safety performance to enviable levels without addressing human behavior and attitude effectively. The only comprehensive reference on the psychology of the human dynamics of safety The Psychology of Safety Handbook shows you how to apply psychology to improve safety and health in your organization. Dr. Geller Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9780429144172

The Psychology of School Bullying Why do children get involved with bullying? Does cyberbullying differ from traditional bullying? How can bullying at school be prevented? The Psychology of School Bullying explores what bullying is and what factors lead to children playing roles as bullies victims defenders bystanders or even some combination of these The book examines proactive strategies to reduce the likelihood of bullying happening in school but also looks at what action the school could take if bullying incidents do occur. As bullying can have such far-reaching consequences and sometimes tragic outcomes it is vital to grasp how and why it happens and The Psychology of School Bullying shows how improved knowledge and understanding can lead to effective interventions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138699403

The Psychology of Science Text Comprehension This volume's goal is to provide readers with up-to-date information on the research and theory of scientific text comprehension. It is widely acknowledged that the comprehension of science and technological artifacts is very difficult for both children and adults. The material is conceptually complex there is very little background knowledge for most individuals and the materials are often poorly written. Therefore it is no surprise that students are turned off from learning science and technology. Given these challenges it is important to design scientific text in a fashion that fits the cognitive constraints of the learner. The enterprise of textbook design needs to be effectively integrated with research in discourse processing educational technology and cognitive science. This book takes a major step in promoting such an integration. This volume: *provides an important integration of research and theory with theoretical methodological and educational applications; *includes a number of chapters that cover how science text information affects mental representations and strategies; *introduces important suggestions about how text design and new technologies can be thought of as pedagogical features; and *establishes academic text taxonomies and a consensus of the criteria to organize inferences and other mental mechanisms. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138833401

The Psychology Of Self-Conciousness First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138875340

The Psychology of Sex What can psychology teach us about sex? How do different bodies and brains respond sexually? How can we prevent people being stigmatised for their sexuality? The Psychology of Sex takes you on a tour through the different ways that psychologists have created and sustained certain understandings of sex and sexuality. Bearing in mind the subjective nature of sex the book explores cultural concerns around sexualisation pornography and sex addiction as well as drawing on research from sexual communities and the applied area of sex therapy. When so much of our relationship to sex happens in the mind The Psychology of Sex shows us how important it is to understand where our ideas about sex come from. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138676497

The Psychology of Soccer Sports psychology exploring the effects of psychological interventions on important performance-related outcomes has become ever more popular and prevalent within elite level soccer clubs in the past decade as teams look to gain psychological as well as physiological advantages over their competitors. The Psychology of Soccer seeks to present the detailed understanding of the theories underpinning the psychological issues relating to soccer along with practical insights into effective psychological interventions and strategies This book uses contemporary theory and research to elucidate key concepts and applied interventions. It includes world-leading expert commentaries of contemporary theoretical and applied approaches in understanding critical issues in soccer and provides practical implications and insights into working effectively in soccer-related contexts. The Psychology of Soccer is an evidence-based resource to guide research and facilitate practice and will be a vital resource for researchers practitioners and coaches within the area of sport psychology and related disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367350284

The Psychology of Social Conflict and Aggression This book provides an up-to-date integration of some of the most recent developments in social psychological research on social conflict and aggression one of the most perennial and puzzling topics in all of psychology. It offers an informative scholarly yet readable overview of recent advances in research on the nature antecedents management and consequences of interpersonal and intergroup conflict and aggression. The chapters share a broad integrative orientation and argue that human conflict is best understood through the careful analysis of the cognitive affective and motivational processes of those involved in conflict situations supplemented by a broadly-based understanding of the evolutionary biological as well as the social and cultural contexts within which social conflict occurs. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781848729322

The Psychology of Social Media Are we really being ourselves on social media? Can we benefit from connecting with people we barely know online? Why do some people overshare on social networking sites? The Psychology of Social Media explores how so much of our everyday lives is played out online and how this can impact our identity wellbeing and relationships. It looks at how our online profiles connections status updates and sharing of photographs can be a way to express ourselves and form connections but also highlights the pitfalls of social media including privacy issues. From FOMO to fraping and from subtweeting to selfies The Psychology of Social Media shows how social media has developed a whole new world of communication and for better or worse is likely to continue to be an essential part of how we understand our selves. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138047754

The Psychology of Socialism First published in 1899 during a period of crisis for French democracy The Psychology of Socialism details Le Bon's view of socialism and radicalism primarily as religious movements. The emotionalism and hysteria of the period especially as manifested during the Dreyfuss Affair convinced Le Bon that most political controversy is based neither on reasoned deliberation nor rational interest but on a psychology that partakes of contatgion andhysteria. Le Bon points to the irrationality of religion and uses the religiosity of socialism to debunk socialism as an irrational movement based on hatred and jealousy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537965

The Psychology of Space ExplorationWhat Freud Might Have Said This short book grapples with two vast questions: the nature of our minds and our place in the wider universe. It considers how one mutually influences the development of the other. The changes and challenges that will accompany the first humans to leave Earth and travel to another planet or even further will not only impact our technical capabilities but will also represent a watershed moment within our individual and collective human psychology. Many of the problems of resource use environmental degradation and waste or destructive processes are contained in the larger process of exploring another environment and planet. But This book also offers a shift in perspective that allows us to consider humanity from an alternative more holistic perspective reappraising our own minds both individually and within dynamic social processes. The Psychology of Space Exploration considers our place and purpose in the widest possible perspective that of space exploration and the natural universe. It doesn’t seek to answer these questions but provides a perspective to explore even further. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138351400

The Psychology Of Special Abilities And Disabilities First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138875104

The Psychology of Sport and Performance InjuryAn Interprofessional Case-Based Approach The use of psychological interventions and counselling strategies has become a central part of injury prevention rehabilitation and return to participation process. The Psychology of Sport and Performance Injury: An Interprofessional Case-Based Approach is the first book to offer students academic scholars and practitioners case studies that are grounded in psychological theory and empirical evidence with a specific focus on addressing psychological aspects of sport and performance injuries in an interprofessional manner. This book presents nine "real-life inspired" fictional sport and performance injury cases. It demonstrates the viability and effectiveness of adopting an interprofessional person-centered approach to injury rehabilitation and return to participation process. Each case is focused on a particular phase of rehabilitation with specific attention placed on relevant biopsychosocial concerns. Within each chapter a theoretical conceptual and empirical analysis of the case is presented followed by detailed accounts on how a range of professionals and significant others can work alongside each other to provide a holistic care for the injured performer within their own competencies. The Psychology of Sport and Performance Injury: An Interprofessional Case-Based Approach emphasizes the importance of holistic interprofessional approach to sport and performance injury rehabilitation. This book is a vital resource for upper-level students academic scholars and applied practitioners from a range of sport and performance related disciplines such as athletic training kinesiology occupational therapy physical therapy sport psychology sports therapy and strength and conditioning. It offers a valuable reading for a range of individuals and professionals who are involved in sport and performance injury prevention rehabilitation and return to participation process. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815362692

The Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation Athletes routinely use psychological skills and interventions for performance enhancement but perhaps surprisingly not always to assist in recovery from injury. This book demonstrates the ways in which athletes and practitioners can transfer psychological skills to an injury and rehabilitation setting to enhance recovery and the well-being of the athlete. Drawing on the very latest research in sport and exercise psychology this book explores key psychological concepts relating to injury explaining typical psychological responses to injury and psychological aspects of rehabilitation. Using case studies in every chapter to highlight the day-to-day reality of working with injured athletes it introduces a series of practical interventions skills and techniques underpinned by an evidence-base with a full explanation of how each might affect an athlete’s recovery from injury. The Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation emphasises the importance of an holistic multi-disciplinary approach to sports injury and rehabilitation. No other book examines the psychological aspects of both sports injury and the rehabilitation process and therefore this is an essential resource for students scholars and practitioners working in sport psychology sports therapy sports medicine or coaching. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415695893

The Psychology of Sports CoachingResearch and Practice This is the first book to offer a comprehensive review of current research in the psychology of sports coaching. It provides detailed critical appraisals of the key psychological concepts behind the practice of sports coaching and engages with contemporary debates in this field. Organised around three main themes it discusses factors affecting the coaching environment; methods for enhancing coach performance; and how to put theory into practice through coaching work. Written by an international team of researchers and practitioners at the cutting edge of psychology and coaching each chapter introduces a key concept defines key terms provides a comprehensive literature review and considers implications for future research and applied practice. Encompassing the latest developments in the field it addresses topics such as: the theory behind effective coaching creating performance environments promoting psychological well-being developing resilience through coaching transformational leadership and the role of the coach. The Psychology of Sports Coaching: Research and Practice is an indispensable resource for sport psychologists and sports coaches and is essential reading for all students and academics researching sport psychology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815357247

The Psychology of Strength and Conditioning An effective strength and conditioning program underpins the training regime of every successful athlete or sportsperson and it is now widely recognized that psychology plays a significant role in the application of strength and conditioning principles. This is the first book to examine the importance of psychological factors in strength and conditioning and to offer a comprehensive overview of current research theory and best practice. Written by a team of leading international researchers and practitioners the book looks at how psychology influences training and performance and how training can influence an individual’s psychological well-being. It explores a range of key topics in contemporary sport psychology and athletic training including: mental skills training behaviour change psychology in professional practice psychological problems including exercise dependence eating disorders and steroid use. Throughout the book combines evidence-based research with discussion of the practical issues facing athletes coaches and sport science professionals. By firstly developing our understanding of the latest psychological skills and techniques used by athletes and coaches to maximize strength and conditioning training and performance and then the ways other psychological factors influence and are influenced by strength and conditioning training this book represents invaluable reading for all advanced students researchers trainers and sport scientists with an interest in strength and conditioning or sport psychology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415574099

The Psychology of Study Success in Universities Universities around the world are under increasing pressure to maintain high levels of graduation and to make study processes as efficient as possible with teachers and students struggling to meet the expectations placed upon them as a result. The Psychology of Study Success in Universities asks whether it is possible to meet these demands at the same time as protecting the well-being of students. Drawing on an extensive and detailed analysis of study success in universities in Finland the authors of this thought-provoking work argue that universities should be more concerned with students’ satisfaction and place greater weight on students’ perceptions of the elements that enhance or hinder their success. The book provides a multi-dimensional picture of the student-related and teaching-related factors that promote study success. Giving voice to graduate students including those enrolled on a PhD the authors look at the resources that students have at their disposal in order to establish what inspires and motivates the students what slows them down and what kinds of experiences students have of successful studies. Määttä and Uusiautti present a wealth of high-quality research showing that good teaching and successful study processes can be secured by immediate and caring interaction flexible and student-centred teaching and supervision and interdisciplinary collaboration between teachers. The Psychology of Study Success in Universities is essential reading for academics researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education and psychology as well as for those interested in positive psychology student well-being and pedagogical studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367190262

The Psychology of Sub-Culture in Sport and Physical ActivityCritical perspectives International Perspectives on Key Issues in Sport and Exercise Psychology is a series of edited books with a global focus which reflect the state of art in areas of current and emerging interest in the study of sport and exercise psychology. Each volume in the series contributes to the better understanding of a key issue facing researchers and practitioners in sport psychology. This volume in the series focuses upon the sociocultural issues that challenge and often undermine participation performance and well-being in sports. Contributors address a number of important issues such as exclusion miscommunication and ineffective practice in sport. The book extends the recent interest in culture within sport psychology by using a critical approach to highlight less mainstream sports such as martial arts circus arts extreme sports and dance and it will help sports participants and social scientists to gain an understanding of these marginalized sporting identities. By highlighting "subcultural" contexts with their individual practices and values it is hoped that the volume will promote the goal of achieving a more just inclusive and ethical sport psychology. The Psychology of Sub-Culture in Sport and Physical Activity will be ideal reading for sport and exercise academics and practitioners advanced students of applied sport psychology and related fields such as sport science critical studies sociology cultural studies and social anthropology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781848721586

The Psychology of Successful TradingBehavioural Strategies for Profitability This book is the first to demonstrate the practical implications of an important yet under-considered area of psychology in helping traders and investors understand the biases and attribution errors that drive unpredictable behaviour on the trading floor. Readers will improve their chances of trading successfully by learning where cognitive biases lead to errors in stock analysis and how these biases can be used to predict behavior in market participants. Focusing on the three major types of bias—Belief-Formation Quasi-Economic and Social—the book provides a rigorous discussion of the literature before explaining how each of these biases plays out in financial markets. The author brings together the fields of philosophical psychology and behavioral finance to introduce "theory of mind " providing readers with tools to predict biases in others as well as using these predictions to form optimal trading strategies for themselves. Readers will also learn to understand their own behaviors counteracting biases such as overconfidence and conformity—and the "curse" of their own knowledge—to strengthen trade performance. Pairing his skill and experience with an extensive research bibliography Short positions the foundational sources of cognitive biases alongside concrete examples experimental designs and trader’s anecdotes helping readers to apply theoretical guidelines to real-life scenarios. Shrewd professionals and MBA students will benefit from The Psychology of Successful Trading’s intuitive structure and practical focus. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138096288

The Psychology of Teaching Physical EducationFrom Theory to Practice This book weaves together theory research and practical information related to the psychological aspects of physical education. Unlike other exercise/sport psychology books on the market The Psychology of Teaching Physical Education is written especially for future and practicing physical educators and focuses on the psychological principles and strategies that are most relevant to them. The book covers the important topics of motivation reinforcement feedback modeling prosocial behaviors/moral development and self-perception. In each chapter narratives about real practicing teachers show how they apply the principles and theories of psychology to physical education and particularly to actual situations that readers are likely to encounter professionally. Each chapter contains three main sections: following an opening scenario in which Blankenship captures the reader's attention with a real-life problem the author then (1) highlights theories related to the subject matter of the chapter (2) summarizes the research that has been conducted on the theories and the chapter topic and (3) gives examples of practical applications of the theory and research to physical education. Throughout the chapter as the theory research and application of the topic are discussed Blankenship presents possible solutions to the challenge presented in the chapter-opening vignette. The classroom applications and real-world examples are relevant to many different physical education settings including those at the elementary middle and high school levels in both urban and rural schools representing various geographical regions of the country. These examples bring the theories to life and help readers envision how their own classes will benefit as they apply what theyíve learned about the psychology of teaching physical education. Key Features of the Book A theory-to-research-to-practice approach. An author whose background in both sport psychology and physical education makes her uniquely qualified to write this book. Chapter-ending application exercises that encourage readers to go beyond rote memorization of concepts and principles to apply what they learned in various specific examples. Sample instructional models and guidelines to enable readers to incorporate concepts discussed in the chapter into their own classes. A comprehensive glossary. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138078291

The Psychology of Television This volume addresses the content of television -- both programs and advertisements -- and the psychological effects of the content on the audience. The author not only reports new research but explains its practical applications without jargon. Issues are discussed and described in terms of psychological mechanisms and causal routes of influence. While primarily referring to the American television industry and American governmental regulations the psychological principles discussed are applicable to television viewers world wide. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138412156

The Psychology of Terrorism What is terrorism? Can anyone be radicalized? How can we respond to terrorist acts? The Psychology of Terrorism seeks to explain why some acts of violence are considered terrorism and others are not and why some individuals may be more susceptible to engaging in radical terrorist behavior. Debunking myths and lazy stereotypes the book delves into some of the most shocking atrocities of our times to discuss the complex and varied psychological characteristics of individual terrorists organized groups and their acts. Whilw there is no simple solution The Psychology of Terrorism shows us that a growing reverse radicalization movement and modern interventionist techniques can give us hope for the future. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367353315

The Psychology of Terrorism This new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded. The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology the most insightful and evidence-based research to date not only illustrates the lack of any identifiable psychopathology in terrorists but demonstrates how frighteningly 'normal' and unremarkable in psychological terms are those who engage in terrorist activity. By producing a clearer map of the processes that impinge upon the individual terrorist a different type of terrorist psychology emerges one which has clearer implications for efforts at countering and disrupting violent extremism in today's world. In this 2nd edition Horgan further develops his approach to the arc of terrorism by delving deeper into his IED model of Involvement Engagement and Disengagement – the three phases of terrorism experienced by every single terrorist. Drawing on new and exciting research from the past decade with new details from interviews with terrorists ranging from al-Qaeda to left-wing revolutionaries biographies and autobiographies of former terrorists and insights from historic and contemporary terrorist attacks since 2005 Horgan presents a fully revised and expanded edition of his signature text. This new edition of The Psychology of Terrorism will be essential reading for students of terrorism and political violence and counterterrorism studies and recommended for forensic psychology criminology international security and IR in general.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415698023

The Psychology of the Asian Consumer Why is it important to conduct research on the psychology of the Asian consumer? What research themes have already emerged? What are the relevant theories and practical applications based on this research? These are some of the questions and issues addressed in this unique book. With chapters written by experts in their field The Psychology of the Asian Consumer highlights how consumer psychology can contribute to an understanding of Asian consumer behaviour and is especially timely in light of today's global economy and its focus on the Pacific Rim. Chapters are organised around the key concepts of theory and culture and include numerous case studies and practical applications. The book focuses on research summaries that provide readers with important need-to-know information. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780765646477

The Psychology of the Imagination First published in 1972. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138146822

The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE INFANT First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415868822

The Psychology of the Language Learner Revisited Over the past decade the focus of inquiry into the psychology of SLA has shifted from the analysis of various characteristics within individuals towards a greater consideration of individuals’ dynamic interactions with diverse contexts. This revisit of the bestselling The Psychology of the Language Learner reflects on these developments by challenging some of the assumptions upon which the original text was based maintaining the familiar structure of the original while situating the discussion within a very different theoretical framework. Written in a lively accessible style the book considers how the field has evolved and maintains a keen eye on the future suggesting exciting new directions for the psychology of SLA. The Psychology of the Language Learner Revisited will appeal to students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines including applied linguistics second language acquisition modern languages and psychology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138018747

The Psychology of the Language LearnerIndividual Differences in Second Language Acquisition Research results over the past decades have consistently demonstrated that a key reason why many second language learners fail--while some learners do better with less effort--lies in various learner attributes such as personality traits motivation or language aptitude. In psychology these attributes have traditionally been called "individual differences." The scope of individual learner differences is broad--ranging from creativity to learner styles and anxiety--yet there is no current comprehensive and unified volume that provides an overview of the considerable amount of research conducted on various language learner differences until now.Each chapter in this new volume focuses on a different individual difference variable. Besides a review of the relevant second language literature Zoltán Dörnyei presents a concise overview of the psychological research involving each topic. A key concern for the author has been to define the various learner factors as measurable constructs and therefore the discussion includes a summary of the most famous tests and questionnaires in each domain.A wide range of readers will benefit from this book--students in linguistics applied linguistics modern languages and psychology programs; second language teachers participating in in-service training courses; and researchers in second language acquisition and psychology. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781410613349

The Psychology of the Learning Group Originally published in 1973 this work takes a hard look at the claims made for the small group as a learning medium (lecture structured discussion ‘sensitivity’ training groups etc.). Various theories of group dynamics leadership function and learning process are looked at critically on the basis of actual research findings. It was intended for students of social psychology and anyone teaching or training to teach at Further Education level at the time and will still be of interest in its historical context today. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138957374

The Psychology of the Movements of Handwriting Originally published in 1926 this title is a summary in English of the works of the great French graphologist Jules Crépieux-Jamin. He was recognised at the time in France as the first authority on the subject of graphology but was less well-known in England and America. This title brought his work to the English speaking world and he went on to be known as one of the most important exponents of graphology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138947214

The Psychology of the Paranormal Can mediums communicate with the dead? Do people really believe they’ve been abducted by aliens? Why do some people make life decisions based on their horoscope? The Psychology of the Paranormal explores some commonly held beliefs regarding experiences so strange they can defy an obvious scientific explanation. The book explains how psychologists have conducted experiments to provide insight into phenomena such as clairvoyance astrology and alien abduction as well as teaching us fundamental truths about human belief systems. From debunking myths about Extra Sensory Perception to considering whether our lives can truly be fated by the stars The Psychology of the Paranormal shows us that however unlikely belief in the paranormal will continue to be widespread. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138307889

The Psychology of the Person This new title from a distinguished psychoanalyst will inspire both those in the psychoanalytic field and the general reader.'In this book the author attempts to sketch out a "Psychology of the Person". The definition of "person" implies that no two people even identical twins are the same. Although this is obvious and no sensible person would quarrel with such a view yet many terms are used that imply that there is a sameness between two or more people. For instance it is often said that one individual is identified with another which in ordinary language means that he or she makes him or herself the same as the other yet this is an impossibility. So what is a person? How is a person different from someone who is not a person? This book sets out to answer these questions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781780490694

The Psychology of the Social Self Leading theoreticians and researchers present current thinking about the role played by group memberships in people's sense of who they are and what they are worth. The chapters build on the assumption developed out of social identity theory that people create a social self that both defines them and shapes their attitudes and behaviors. The authors address new developments in the theoretical frameworks through which we understand the social self recent research on the nature of the social self and recent findings about the influence of social context upon the development and maintenance of the social self. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9781315805689

The Psychology of the Transference An account of Jung's handling of the transference between psychologist and patient in the light of his conception of the archetypes. Based on the symbolic illustrations in a sixteenth century alchemical text. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138834545

The Psychology of Theft and LossStolen and Fleeced Why do we steal? This question has confounded everyone from parents to judges teachers to psychologists economists to more than a few moral thinkers. Stealing can be a result of deprivation of envy or of a desire for power and influence. An act of theft can also bring forth someone’s hidden traits – paradoxically proving beneficial to their personal development. Robert Tyminski explores the many dimensions of stealing and in particular how they relate to a subtle balance of loss versus gain that operates in all of us. Our natural aversion to loss can lead to extreme actions as a means to acquire what we may not be able to obtain through time work or money. Tyminski uses the myth of Jason Medea and the Golden Fleece to explore the dilemmas involved in such situations and demonstrate the timelessness of theft as fundamentally human. The Psychology of Theft and Loss incorporates Jungian and psychoanalytic theories as well as more recent cognitive research findings to deepen our appreciation for the complexity of human motivations when it comes to stealing culminating in consideration of the idea of a perpetually present ‘inner thief’. Combining case studies Jungian theory and analysis of many different types of stealing including robbery kidnapping plagiarism and technotheft The Psychology of Theft and Loss is a fascinating study which will appeal to psychoanalysts psychologists psychiatrists social workers family therapists and students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415830898

The Psychology of Thinking In this concise and lucid survey originally published in 1972 the author considers the major theoretical perspectives influential in the psychology of thinking at the time. They are looked at in relation to the problems which they are designed to answer and their success in accounting for the experimental evidence. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138578524

The Psychology of Thinking about the Future Why do people spend so much time thinking about the future imagining scenarios that may never occur and making (often unrealistic) predictions? This volume brings together leading researchers from multiple psychological subdisciplines to explore the central role of future-thinking in human behavior across the lifespan. It presents cutting-edge work on the mechanisms involved in visualizing predicting and planning for the future. Implications are explored for such important domains as well-being and mental health academic and job performance ethical decision making and financial behavior. Throughout chapters highlight effective self-regulation strategies that help people pursue and realize their short- and long-term goals. Media > Books > Print Books Guilford Press 9781462534418

The Psychology Of Thought And FeelingA Conservative Interpretation of Results in Modern Psychology First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415758024

The Psychology of time First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415758062

The Psychology of Today's WomanNew Psychoanalytic Visions The sexual revolution oft discussed in the journalistic literature of recent years has brought in its wake a host of questions that are only beginning to be addressed.  How are women coping with "real world" challenges for which they may be ill prepared both socially and psychologically?  How successfully are they integrating old and new ego ideals in forging new identities?  Is their ostensible "liberation" actually making for a sense of integration and wholeness? The Psychology of Today's Woman: New Psychoanalytic Visions probes these and related questions from the standpoint of both developmental and therapeutic concerns.  Taking Freud's notion of female sexuality as a point of departure editors Bernay and Cantor have compiled a collection of original essays that reassesses traditional conceptions of female psychology (Section I) proffers new visions of femininity (Section II) and explores critical situations in the lives of contemporary women (Section III).  A final section of the book of special interest to analysts and psychotherapists examines the various facets of the clinical treatment of women. Collectively the contributors to this volume articulate a strong challenge to the "deficiency model" of female identity that has long dominated psychoanalytic theory.  More impressively still they offer constructive alternatives to the preconceptions of the past.  They converge in the belief that the richness and diversity of female experience cannot be encompassed in the overly simplified definitions and "masculine" analogizing of classical analysis.  Whether we investigate the status of "masculinity" and "femininity" as personality traits the relationship between "nurturance" and "aggression" in female identity or the meaning of "normality" and "pathology" in treatment situations we are very much in a realm of multiple truths in which the formulas of the past give little sense of the options of the present or the possibilities of the future. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138872110

The Psychology of Tolerance in Times of Uncertainty This unique book lays out the motivational basis for tolerance the most important underlying factor that shapes people’s social attitudes and determines our ability to get along with others. Closed- or open-mindedness distinguishes people open to information and new ideas prepared to change their views from people who are rigidly attached to their convictions and resistant to the unknown. Demonstrating how the mechanism underlying closed-mindedness is rooted in uncertainty and fear with the fundamental consequence of closed-mindedness being intolerance the author shows how basic features of human psychology drive large-scale socio-political developments that determine the fate of peoples and nations. Kossowska argues that recent political events across Europe including the popularity and rise of extreme right-wing groups are no longer adequately explained by traditional distinctions like people versus the elite religion versus no religion left versus right. Exploring how this can provide knowledge to increase the capability of people groups or societies to improve their lives in an era of uncertainty created by economic and political turmoil the book also focuses on discussing ways to make people more open thus tolerant. Written from a psychological perspective this is an ideal resource for students and academics in psychology and social and political science as well as anybody interested in understanding psychological mechanisms of intolerance. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367420567

The Psychology of Touch Designed to make research on touch understandable to those not specifically involved in tactile research this book provides broad coverage of the field. It includes material on sensory physiology and psychophysics thermal sensibility pain pattern participation sensory aids and tactile perception in blind people. While the volume is important for researchers in the area of touch it should also prove valuable to a broad audience of experimental and educational psychologists and health professionals. The book should also be of interest to scientists in perception cognition and cognitive science and can be used as a supplementary reader for courses in sensation and perception. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138175235

The Psychology of Trust What makes us trust people? How is trust developed and maintained? Is Western society facing a crisis of trust? The Psychology of Trust addresses trust issues that are directly relevant to peoples’ experiences in their daily lives. It identifies the factors that cause people to trust and the consequences of trust for real world issues in health politics terrorism the workplace and religious faith. It also explores the impact of a lack of trust and what causes distrust of individuals groups and organisations. In a world where trust impacts our daily lives The Psychology of Trust shows the role trust plays in our relationships and provides practical guidance regarding our own trust in others. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138678491

The Psychology of ValuesThe Ontario Symposium Volume 8 The eighth Ontario Symposium brought together an international group of scholars who work in the area of the psychology of values. Among the categories these experts address are the conceptualizations of values value systems and value-attitude-behavior relations; methodological issues; the role of values in specific domains such as prejudice commitment and deservingness; and the transmission of values through family media and culture. Each chapter in the volume illustrates both the diversity and vitality of research on the psychology of values. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138989788

The Psychology of Vampires Why have vampires become such a feature of modern culture? Can vampire-like conditions be explained by medical research? Is there a connection between vampirism and Freud? The Psychology of Vampires presents a captivating look at the origins of vampires in myth and history and the psychological theories which try to explain why they fascinate us. It traces the development of vampires from the first ever vampire tale written by John Polidori in 1819 to their modern cultural legacy. Together with historical detail about Polidori’s eventful life the book also examines the characteristics of vampires and explores how and why people might identify as vampires today. From sanguinarians who drink blood to psychic vampires who suck the energy from those around them The Psychology of Vampires explores the absorbing connections between vampirism and psychology theology medicine and culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138057678

The Psychology of Video Games What impact can video games have on us as players? How does psychology influence video game creation? Why do some games become cultural phenomena? The Psychology of Video Games introduces the curious reader to the relationship between psychology and video games from the perspective of both game makers and players. Assuming no specialist knowledge this concise approachable guide is a starter book for anyone intrigued by what makes video games engaging and what is their psychological impact on gamers. It digests the research exploring the benefits gaming can have on players in relation to education and healthcare considers the concerns over potential negative impacts such as pathological gaming and concludes with some ethics considerations. With gaming being one of the most popular forms of entertainment today The Psychology of Video Games shows the importance of understanding the human brain and its mental processes to foster ethical and inclusive video games. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367493134

The Psychology of Weather Do you feel happier on a sunny day? Are you afraid of thunderstorms? Are you dreaming of a White Christmas? The Psychology of Weather explores our relationship with the weather and how it can affect our mood behaviour and lifestyle. The book sheds light on our preoccupation with this natural phenomenon providing insights into how the weather on the day we were born can directly affect our intelligence and personality and explore such surprising findings that suicide rates peak in the spring and summer. When the weather affects everything from our buying behaviour to the jobs we do The Psychology of Weather shows us that understanding and appreciating the weather can improve our well-being and contribute to human survival. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815394877

The Psychology of Wellbeing How can we improve our sense of wellbeing? What explains the current wellbeing boom? What does wellbeing mean to you? The Psychology of Wellbeing offers readers tools to navigate their own wellbeing and understand what makes a ‘good life’. Using self-reflection and storytelling it explores how trust affects psychological and emotional wellbeing considers how stress and inequality impact our psychological wellbeing and how trends such as positive psychology influence our understanding of happiness. In a world where the ‘wellness economy’ is big business The Psychology of Wellbeing shows how we can question and make sense of information sources and sheds light on the wellness self-care and self-help industry. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367898083

The Psychology of Word Meanings This volume contains perspectives from a collection of cognitive scientists on the psychological philosophical and educational issues surrounding the meanings of words and how these meanings are learned and accessed. It features chapters covering the nature and structure of word meaning how new word meanings are acquired in childhood and later on in life and how research in word processing may tell us something about the way in which word meanings are represented and how they relate to the language processor. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138989795

The Psychology of Working Life What motivates us to do a good job? When does the pressure of work impact upon our health and well-being? How can employers choose the right candidates? The Psychology of Working Life shows how whether we like it or not the way we work and our feelings about it play a fundamental role in overall well-being. From the use of psychometrics in recruiting the right candidate to making working life more efficient the book illustrates how work in industrialized societies continues to be founded upon core psychological ideas. Motivation and job satisfaction have become recognized as key to job design and The Psychology of Working Life suggests that changing the way we work can impact on our stress levels overall health and productivity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138207257

The Psychology of WorkingA New Perspective for Career Development Counseling and Public Policy In this original and major new work David Blustein places working at the same level of attention for social and behavioral scientists and psychotherapists as other major life concerns such as intimate relationships physical and mental health and socio-economic inequities. He also provides readers with an expanded conceptual framework within which to think about working in human development and human experience. As a result this creative new synthesis enriches the discourse on working across the broad spectrum of psychology's concerns and agendas and especially for those readers in career development counseling and policy-related fields. This textbook is ideal for use in graduate courses on counseling and work or vocational counseling. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203935477

The Psychology of Workplace Technology Recent advances in technology have dramatically altered the manner in which organizations function transforming the way people think about and perform their work. The implications of these trends continue to evolve as emerging innovations adapt to and are adapted by organizations workers and other components of the socio-technical systems in which they are embedded. A rigorous consideration of these implications is needed to understand manage and drive the reciprocal interplay between technology and the workplace. This edited volume brings together top scholars within and outside of the field of industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology to explore the psychological and organizational effects of contemporary workplace technologies. A special section is included at the end of the book by four experts in the field entitled Reflections and Future Directions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138801639

The Psychology of WorkTheoretically Based Empirical Research This edited volume is derived from a conference held in honor of Charles Hulin's contribution to the psychology of work. His research has carefully developed and tested theory related to job satisfaction withdrawal from work and sexual harassment. Edited by Hulin's students The Psychology of Work discusses research in job satisfaction. This research shows that job satisfaction plays an essential role in theories of organizational behavior. Formal models are used such as item response theory structural equation modeling and computational models. Three general and consistent themes in Hulin's research are represented in this book's chapters. The first theme is a focus on broad general constructs such as job satisfaction. The virtue of this approach is that a wide range of behavior can be explained by a small number of variables. The second theme involves the examination of the antecedents and consequences of job satisfaction. This theme is increasingly important because it ties research on job attitudes and job behaviors where links are consistently found to social attitudes and behaviors where links are rarely found. The third theme consists of Hulin's interest in the use of formal models to characterize and understand behavior. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students in industrial/organizational psychology human resources organizational behavior and management. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9780415652681

The Psychology of Written Composition First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203812310

The Psychology Research CompanionFrom student project to working life The Psychology Research Companion: From student project to working life not only gives you the skills and confidence to conduct your psychology research project at university but is the first book to show how these skills will help you get ahead in your first job in the workplace. Jessica S. Horst an American psychologist teaching in the UK takes you through every step of the research process; from conceiving your research question and choosing a research methodology to organizing your time and resources effectively. The book includes sections on ethics data management working with research participants and report writing but each chapter is also informed by the wider aim of providing a toolkit for working life. Each chapter is packed with tips and skills that can be taken into the workplace including working collaboratively and organising your workload as well as discussing your research project in interview situations and when applying for jobs. This invaluable guide will appeal to all undergraduate and postgraduate psychology students whose aim is to learn a set of transferable research skills as well as to obtain a good degree result. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138785328

The PsychomatrixA Deeper Understanding of Our Relationship with Pain What is pain? What does it mean to have a relationship with it and how does this affect your identity and existence? The author's definition of pain is derived from that proposed by scientists such as Melzack Wall and Freud. Pain is a dynamic multi-layered diverse collection of experiences which impacts and influences us throughout life. Pain is a kind of conglomerate of past traumatic neurobiological psychological and emotional imprints--pain as in suffering or being in pain. The author argues that it is not pain as such but our relationship with pain which is most significant to the processes of our lives. In examining the combination of Freud's psychosexual theory of development and Melzack's theory of the neuromatrix the author endeavours to evidence her theory that there is the distinct possibility for the existence of what she has named a Psychomatrix-patterns of pain (loss abandonment grief rejection desire) imprinted from infancy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782203186

The Psychopathology of Everyday Racism and Sexism In this enlightening book women of color eloquently and honestly articulate the impact of racism sexism and poverty on their personal lives and on the histories of their people. They express anger at the failure of traditional psychiatry and psychology--which tend to advocate assimilation meaning the denial of one's cultural and historical identity--to understand the struggles and problems in their lives. The contributors to The Psychopathology of Everyday Racism and Sexism--who come from both inside and outside the psychological disciplines--examine newer therapies in which women are encouraged to identify and express emotional reactions to other people racism and abuse and to expose the humiliation they feel. These new therapeutic processes--representing a milestone in psychological theory and practice--help women of color develop their historical identity and reject socially-induced shame and degredation.The editor of this vital book is Lenora Fulani a developmental psychologist and an active political leader. Dr. Fulani explores how a lack of power over one's life and deprivation of a sense of oneself as historical are commonly associated with psychological problems. The added stress of low social status sexual exploitation poverty abuse and drug and alcohol problems result in an enormous sense of failure and incredible vulnerability to emotional stress. With passion and compassion The Psychopathology of Everyday Racism and Sexism advocates an empowering sense of community based on the power of and love for the oppressed. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9781315798646

The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic SyndromesNeurobiology and Illness Behavior in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Fibromyalgia Gulf War Ill Learn how a patient’s behavior can factor into the prognosis of medically unexplainable illness! The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes examines the link between mental illness and physical syndromes that lack organic disease explanations including chronic fatigue syndrome fibromyalgia premenstrual dysphoria irritable bowel and Gulf War illness. The author has evaluated the best research work of the past 20 years to determine the association between psychopathology and functional illness the biological gradient between somatic and psychological symptoms and the manifestations of dysfunctional coping. The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes challenges recent conceptualizations of functional somatic syndromes as brain disorders connected to affective spectrum disorder serotonin deficiency cerebral hypoperfusion or abnormal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function and highlights the importance of abnormal illness behavior sexual victimization and maladaptive coping for the production and maintenance of these disorders. The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes explores observations on the neurobiology and the personality abnormalities of patients made from structured data collected over a period of several years. It describes modern perceptions of functional somatic syndromes and how they have evolved into a tightly knit family of self-standing syndromes with a common core. The book examines the correlation between the burden of psychopathology and the physical features of these illnesses; reviews advances made in the appraisal of the neuroanatomy neuropsychology and neurochemistry of functional syndromes; and focuses on the connection between measurable dimensions of personality coping and illness behavior and the prognosis of medically unexplainable illnesses. The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes examines: psychiatric morbidity brain perfusion post-traumatic stress in Gulf War illness the spectrum of mood disorders the hypothalamatic-pituitary-adrenal axis the sexual victimization of patients and much more! The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes is an essential resource for psychiatrists and psychologists working in outpatient practice. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003063773

The PsychopathTheory Research and Practice The Psychopath: Theory Research and Practice is a comprehensive review of the latest advancements in the study of psychopathy. As research into psychopathy over the past two decades has burgeoned it has had significant implications for clinical practice with important ethical considerations raised as interest into psychopathy has moved into the real world. This volume is the first comprehensive review of these applied topics. Dr. Robert Hare a leading authority on the subject introduces the work by discussing the current state of psychopathy research highlighting its advancements potential pitfalls or impediments and future trajectory. Subsequent chapters give a historical overview of psychopathy examine measurement issues etiological theories and practical considerations. The Psychopath provides a solid foundation from which research and practice into this socially destructive condition can advance into the 21st century. This book will attract academics researchers theorists practitioners lawyers judges law enforcement personnel students and other professionals interested in or working with forensic psychology. It also serves as a supplementary text for graduate students enrolled in programs with a specialization in forensic psychology or criminology. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315085470

The Psychopharmacologists 3 The Psychopharmacologists 3 completes a trio of interview-based books about the process of therapeutic innovation in clinical psychiatry. David Healy's method is to interview key individuals involved in the discovery and deployment of drugs that have proved useful to psychiatry and to draw them together within a model of the mechanism and clinical discovery that he uses as an overall framework.These are historical accounts but highly relevant to the clinical psychiatrist of today emphasising the importance of research and of the marketing strategies of pharmaceutical companies in formulating disease entities as well as treatments for them. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781003058892

The PsychopharmacologistsInterviews by David Healey Create! is a Design and Technology course for Key Stage 3. It provides all the material needed to deliver the demands of the new Key Stage 3 strategy. The course follows the QCA scheme and the materials support ICT requirements. A wide range of differentiated worksheets is available on a customisable CD-ROM. The student books contain clear links to the Key Stage 3 strategy and include design-and-make assignments product evaluations and practical tasks; each spread opens with objectives to focus the lesson and ends with a plenary to summarise and evaluate. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367447755

The Psychopolitics of FoodCulinary rites of passage in the neoliberal age The Psychopolitics of Food probes into the contemporary ‘foodscape’ examining culinary practices and food habits and in particular the ways in which they conflate with neoliberal political economy. It suggests that generic alimentary and culinary practices constitute technologies of the self and the body and argues that the contemporary preoccupation with food takes the form of ‘rites of passage’ that express and mark the transition from a specific stage of neoliberal development to another vis-à-vis a re-configuration of the alimentary and sexual regimes. Even though these rites of passage are taking place on the borders of cultural bi-polarities their function nevertheless is precisely to define these borders as sites of a neoliberal transitional demand; that is to produce a cultural bifurcation between ‘eating orders’ and ‘eating dis-orders’ by promoting and naturalising certain social logics while simultaneously rendering others as abject and anachronistic. The book is a worthwhile read for researchers and advanced scholars in the areas of food studies critical psychology anthropology and sociology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138549845

The PsychosesThe Seminar of Jacques Lacan During the third year of his famous seminar Jacques Lacan gives a concise definition of psychoanalysis: 'Psychoanalysis should be the science of language inhabited by the subject. From the Freudian point of view man is the subject captured and tortured by language.' Since psychosis is a special but emblematic case of language entrapment Lacan devotes much of this year to grappling with distinctions between the neuroses and the psychoses. As he compared the two relationships symmetries and contrasts emerge that enable him to erect a structure for psychosis. Freud's famous case of Daniel Paul Schreber is central to Lacan's analysis. In demonstrating the many ways that the psychotic is `inhabited possessed by language' Lacan draws upon Schreber's own account of his psychosis and upon Freud's notes on this 'case of paranoia'. The analysis of language is both fascinating and enlightening. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138146136

The Psychosocial Interior of the Family Drawing upon findings from many disciplines including sociology communication family studies human development psychology and anthropology-this book provides the first composite study of the whole family and of the complex interplay between self and collectivity in family life. It departs sharply from the traditional two-person cause-effect models used in conventional studies and attempts to delineate a social psychology of the family.This book undertakes to define and understand the nature of families to point out ways of discerning different family characters and to comprehend the processes by which these characters are established and maintained; by so doing it introduces a new dimension into the study of family behavior and provides a framework within which meaningful investigations and practical applications can be pursued.This long-awaited fourth edition continues the goal of preceding editions: to understand families in terms of the kinds of interaction through which family life is constructed. Contributors drawn from a wide variety of disciplines sociology; communication; family studies; human development; psychology; anthropology; and social work - provide a range of authoritative and up-to-date sources on the family and interpersonal relations including newly emergent forms of family organization. In providing a new framework for fruitful investigation and practical application this volume contains the best available interdisciplinary work on the social psychology of the family. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781351328487

The Psychosocial Work EnvironmentWork Organization Democratization and Health : Essays in Memory of Bertil Gardell Dedicated to the late Bertil Gardell a Swedish Social Scientist this text comprises of 18 essays that shares a common vision - the impact of work on the interconnected processes of stress and disease. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315223490

The Psychospiritual Clinician's HandbookAlternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders Learn to treat a variety of diagnostic disorders through various psychospiritual treatment models!Increasing numbers of people are moving beyond psychological therapy to seek alternative spiritual perspectives to medical and mental health care such as yoga and meditation. The Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders provides the latest theoretical perspectives and practical applications by recognized experts in positive and integrative psychotherapy. Leading clinicians examine and re-examine their therapeutic worldviews and attitudes to focus on the right problems to solve—for the whole person.This essential Handbook is a window on the quiet revolution now sweeping the field of psychology that of locating the whole human being in the center of the therapeutic process. The Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders helps you effectively treat the whole person by providing a practical introduction to some of the worldviews and most effective practices like yoga meditation and humanological therapy used by psychospiritually oriented therapists. Helpful illustrations of body positions used in yoga and meditation plus photographs tables figures and detailed case studies illustrate the process.The Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders will show you: the importance of a therapist’s worldview for effective therapeutic outcome new perspectives on alternative treatments for depression anxiety eating disorders OCD PTSD ADHD Alzheimer’s disease and sexual dysfunction how yoga and mindfulness meditation can be used in psychotherapy the use and integration of meditation therapies in emergency situations the therapeutic integration of other alternative treatments such as Kundalini yoga each contributor’s case studies as illustration of effective treatmentThe Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders is an invaluable resource for those interested in treating patients with a therapeutic process that is effective adaptable and wholly transformational. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315808635

The Psychotherapy of Everyday Life The place of the psychotherapist within the hierarchy of the medical profession and his status in the public opinion are ambiguous: many myths and ill-informed fears cloud the practice of psychotherapy not the least of which is the thorny issue of doctor-patient relationships. In this finely etched book Peter Lomas puts the case for a personal psychotherapeutic approach based on his work with patients over many years.The Psychotherapy of Everyday Life argues that the response to a person who comes for help should be an intuitive one not hidebound by confusing technical theory. Psychotherapy is best understood as the application of ordinary interpersonal competence within an unusual setting and formulations about its nature should take this point into account as their starting point.In his brilliant new introduction the author juxtaposes the clinical neutrality of Sigmund Freud to the Saridor Ferenczi position which entails a sense of the rights of and respect for the patient. Lomas holds that Freud initiated the setting but brought to bear upon it an unnecessary and inappropriate theoretical superstructure that now stands between therapist and patient. It is not ideology but everyday judgment that should be the touchstone of treatment. Rigid professional distance can blind the analyst to the actual needs of real people. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537972

The Psychotherapy Of The Elderly Self People grow old. We are terrified by the fact. And this fear has translated into a pervasive neglect of the elderly across all spheres of living. Now Dr. Hyman Muslin steps forward to challenge the mental health field to reevaluate its perspective on this powerful human resource. The book is written in the effort to dispel some of the myths of aging; to highlight old age as a natural developmental phase and to delineate an effective model of observation diagnosis and therapy for working with the elderly. Ultimately Dr. Muslin's message is one of hope - for older individuals currently in need of psychological help and for the elderly self who awaits us all. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138004931

The Psychotic Core This book examines the key ordering—disordering processes of the psychotic self. It draws on Sigmund Freud Jung object relation and selfpsychologies and particularly the work of Winnicott Bion and Elkin. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367328627

The Psychotic WavelengthA Psychoanalytic Perspective for Psychiatry The Psychotic Wavelength provides a psychoanalytical framework for clinicians to use in everyday general psychiatric practice and discusses how psychoanalytic ideas can be of great value when used in the treatment of seriously disturbed and disturbing psychiatric patients with psychoses including both schizophrenia and the affective disorders. In this book Richard Lucas suggests that when clinicians are faced with psychotic patients the primary concern should be to make sense of what is happening during their breakdown. He refers to this as tuning into the psychotic wavelength a process that allows clinicians to distinguish between and appropriately address the psychotic and non-psychotic parts of the personality. He argues that if clinicians can find and identify the psychotic wavelength they can more effectively help the patient to come to terms with the realities of living with a psychotic disorder. Divided into five parts and illustrated throughout with illuminating clinical vignettes case examples and theoretical and clinical discussions this book covers: the case for a psychoanalytical perspective on psychosis a historical overview of psychoanalytical theories for psychosis clinical evidence supporting the concept of a psychotic wavelength the psychotic wavelength in affective disorders implications for management and education. The Psychotic Wavelength is an essential resource for anyone working with disturbed psychiatric patients. It will be of particular interest to junior psychiatrists and nursing staff and will be invaluable in helping to maintain treatment aims and staff morale. It will also be useful for more experienced psychiatrists and psychoanalysts. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315811833

The PsychoticAspects of the Personality The Psychotic: Aspects of the Personality presents the results of the author's many years of experience as an analyst working with deeply disturbed or psychotic patients and demonstrates how the deeply resulting clinical and theoretical formulations may additionally be applied to less disturbed patients. Dealing with the theory and clinical treatment of the psychotic aspects of the personality includes a review of the literature and a rich array of clinical material to illustrate the author's technical approach. A chapter devoted to the survivors of concentration camps shows how the concept of encapsulated autistic nuclei leads to new diagnostic and technical procedures while a further paper discusses the psychotic difficulties attending heart-transplant surgery. Further essays illuminate the importance of the accurate detection and the use of the countertransference and the significance of the supervisor's supportive role in severe cases. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367099732

The Public Administration Casebook The Public Administration Casebook is a practice-based collection that speaks to the lived experience of students and prepares them to become more effective practioners of public and non-profit sectors by providing case studies arranged around major themes in public administration. Key Features: The 14 case studies are organized by main themes of public administration including political context of public administration bureaucracy and organizational structure organizational culture leadership human relations administration budgeting ethics and decision making. Since they reflect actual experience each case contains one or two secondary themes illustrating how the fundamental concepts and issues that students learn about function in concert in the real world. Students worked with the text authors to create develop and write each of these case studies so that the material better reflects current workplace realities and therefore results in a more meaningful learning experience for everyone. The focus on students provides a teaching case methodology that serves as an easily adaptable model for other instructors. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138463189

The Public Administration ProfessionPolicy Management and Ethics While many introductory public administration textbooks contain a dedicated chapter on ethics The Public Administration Profession is the first to utilize ethics as a lens for understanding the discipline. Analyses of the ASPA Code of Ethics are deftly woven into each chapter alongside complete coverage of the institutions processes concepts persons history and typologies a student needs to gain a thorough grasp of public service as a field of study and practice. Features include: A significant focus on "public interests " nonprofit management hybrid-private organizations contracting out and collaborations and public service at state and local levels. A careful examination of the role that religion may play in public servants’ decision making as well as the unignorable and growing role that faith-based organizations play in public administration and nonprofit management at large. End-of-chapter ethics case studies key concepts and persons and dedicated "local community action steps" in each chapter. Appendices dedicated to future public administration and nonprofit career management writing successful papers throughout a student’s career and professional codes of ethics. A comprehensive suite of online supplements including: lecture slides; quizzes and sample examinations for undergraduate and graduate courses containing multiple choice true-false identifications and essay questions; chapter outlines with suggestions for classroom discussion; and suggestions for use of appendices e.g. how to successfully write a short term paper a brief policy memo resume or a book review. Providing students with a comprehensive introduction to the subject while offering instructors an elegant new way to bring ethics prominently into the curriculum The Public Administration Profession is an ideal introductory text for public administration and public affairs courses at the undergraduate or graduate level. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815353447

The Public Administration Theory Primer The Public Administration Theory Primer explores how the science and art of public administration is definable describable replicable and cumulative. The authors survey a broad range of theories and analytical approaches—from public institutional theory to theories of governance—and consider which are the most promising influential and important for the field. This book paints a full picture of how these theories contribute to and explain what we know about public administration today. The third edition is fully revised and updated to reflect the latest developments and research in the field including more coverage of governments and governance feminist theory emotional labor theory and grounded research methodology. Expanded chapter conclusions and a brand-new online supplement with sample comprehensive exam questions and summary tables make this an even more valuable resource for all public administration students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780813349664

The Public Administration Workbook Public administration is a craft that demands real-world application of concepts and theories often learned in a classroom. Yet many students find it difficult to make the leap from theory to practice completely unaided. The Public Administration Workbook 8e is specifically designed with the theoretically-grounded practice-minded student in mind. It reviews scholarship in political science law industrial psychology and the sociology of organizations and then allows students to see how these intellectual fields inform the analytical and managerial tasks that comprise public administration. Where standard public administration textbooks examine the nature of public agencies and explain how bureaucracies relate to other institutions this workbook promotes a more effective way of learning—by doing—and more directly prepares those who will pursue careers in public agencies. Each chapter begins with a discussion of relevant concepts and scholarship before moving into a hands-on exercise analyzing core analytical and management challenges. This edition includes an all-new exercise on contract negotiation many international examples interwoven throughout the book and a fully updated HRM section to reflect alternative ranking and compensation systems. Each chapter is further supported by a detailed Instructor’s Manual written by the author to guide instructors on solutions explanations and ideas for using or modifying the exercises to fit a variety of course needs as well as downloadable datasets and exercises providing students with a unique opportunity to apply and test classroom concepts outside of the job. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138682085

The Public Affairs Faculty ManualA Guide to the Effective Management of Public Affairs Programs While public affairs faculty study administration and management techniques few administrators of public affairs programs receive formal training in the nuts and bolts of academic administration. Even those faculty who come to academia after distinguished careers in managerial positions may not be ready for the very different (and difficult) environment of university administration. The Public Affairs Faculty Manual argues that public affairs as a field needs to ensure that knowledge about administration and management is applied to the running of its academic programs and brings together major leaders in the discipline to explore key features of academic administration. Many of these leaders have served as Master of Public Administration (MPA) directors chairs and deans at the nation’s top public affairs programs. Crucial issues of academic administration discussed include the basics of public affairs programs models of governance roles of different administrative leaders planning and budgeting for programs navigating the accreditation process assessing and improving student learning ensuring social equity and cultural competency mentoring faculty developing curriculum and helping provide service and applied research to community partners. Contributors have served as MPA directors chairs and deans at the nation’s topic public affairs programs. Themes running throughout the book’s chapters are examined and additional resources to help manage public affairs programs are offered. This collection of essays and the strategies within it are designed to encourage faculty to assume positions of leadership in their programs and manage those programs in an effective efficient and fair manner. The Public Affairs Faculty Manual is required reading for new seasoned and aspiring academic administrators in public administration public policy and nonprofit management programs as well as schools of government. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367861964

The Public and Atlantic Defense This book first published in 1985 analyses the polarization of popular opinion over NATO defence policies during the latter years of the Cold War. In many countries the domestic consensus that once supported Allied policies came close to collapsing and this study examines the question of the democratization of defence policy. It explores four themes for each of the Allied countries: views of the Soviet Union; deterrence; security; and the Allies. A rigorous and systematic analysis of the raw data allows for easy cross-national comparisons. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367568993

The Public Art Museum in Nineteenth Century BritainThe Development of the National Gallery During the mid-nineteenth century a debate arose over the form and functions of the public art museum in Britain. Various occurrences caused new debates in Parliament and in the press about the purposes of the public museum which checked the relative complacency with which London's national collections had hitherto been run. This book examines these debates and their influence on the development of professionalism within the museum trends in collecting and tendencies in museum architecture and decoration. In so doing it accounts for the general development of the London museums between 1850 and 1880 with particular reference to the National Gallery. This involves analysis of art display and its relations with art historiography alongside institutional and architectural developments at the British Museum the South Kensington Museum and the National Gallery. It is argued that the underpinning factor in all of these developments was a reformulation of the public museum's mission which was in turn related to the electoral reform movement. In a potential situation of mass enfranchisement the 'masses' should be well educated; the museum was openly identified as a useful institution in this sense. This consideration also influenced approaches to collecting and arranging artworks and to configuring their architectural setting within the museum allowing for displays to be instructive in specific ways. Dissatisfaction with the British Museum and National Gallery buildings and their locations led to proposals to move the national collections possibly merging and redefining them. Again the socio-political usefulness of the museum was key in determining where the national collections should be housed and in what form of building. This rich debate is analysed with full references to the various forums in and out of Parliament. Part one covers these issues in a thematic structure examining all of the national collections their interrelationships and their gradual development of discrete (yet sometimes arbitrary) museological territories. Part two focuses on the individual case of the National Gallery observing how museological debate was brought to bear on the development of a specific institution. Every architectural development and redisplay is closely analysed in order to gauge the extent to which the products of debate were carried through into practice and to comprehend the reasons why no museological grand project emerged in London. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237565

The Public Budgeting and Finance PrimerKey Concepts in Fiscal Choice This primer succinctly summarises key theoretical concepts in fiscal choice for both practitioners and scholars. The author contends that fiscal choice is ultimately a choice of both politics and economics. The book first introduces budget institutions and processes at various levels of government which restrict budget decision makers' discretion. It also explains budget decision makers' efforts to make rational resource allocations. It then shows how and why such efforts are stymied by the decision makers' capacity and institutional settings. The book's unique benefit is its emphasis on all the essential topics with short module-type chapters which can be read in any order. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780765637970

The Public Communication of Science 4-vol. set This is a new title from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Sociology series. Compiled by the editorial team behind the acclaimed International Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology (Routledge 2008) this four-volume ‘mini library’ provides an easy-to-use one-stop collection of the best foundational and cutting-edge scholarship from the fast-growing—and increasingly important—scholarly domain that is the public communication of science. As well as bringing together the major works that have shaped this field of research the collection will be welcomed as the first mapping of an area that to date has rather lacked an authoritative interdisciplinary synthesis. The collection assembles contributions from a variety of subjects (including media and journalism studies sociology and the history of science) and it contrasts the perspectives of different geographical and cultural contexts. Together with the editors’ introductions the gathered materials allow users to make sense of the wide range of approaches theories and concepts that have informed the public communication of science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415718042

The Public CongressCongressional Deliberation in a New Media Age Contemporary members of Congress routinely use the media to advance their professional goals. Today virtually every aspect of their professional legislative life unfolds in front of cameras and microphones and increasingly online. The Public Congress explores how the media moved from being a peripheral to a central force in U.S. congressional politics. The authors show that understanding why this happened allows us to see the constellation of forces that combined over the last fifty years to transform the American political order. Malecha and Reagan’s keen analysis links the new "public" Congress and the forces that are shaping political parties the Presidency interest groups and the media. They conclude by asking whether the kind of discourse that this "new media" environment fosters encourages Congress to make its distinctive deliberative contribution to the American polity. This text brings historical depth as well as coverage of the most current cutting edge trends in new media environment and provides an exhaustive treatment of how the U.S. Congress uses the media in the governing process today. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415894289

The Public Economy of Urban Communities Originally published in 1965 Margolis brings together a wide variety of papers on a multitude of subjects relating to the urban public economy presented at the second conference on urban public expenditures in 1964. This collection covers issues such as criteria for decision-making in urban public spending public and private supply and the political and voting behaviour of urban economies in order to contribute to the development of new analytical models and techniques as well as to disseminate findings of research results to a larger audience. This title will be of interest to those studying Environmental studies and Economics as well as professionals. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138946422

The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in DiasporaImagining the Religious ‘Other’ The growing pace of international migration technological revolution in media and travel generate circumstances that provide opportunities for the mobility of African new religious movements (ANRMs) within Africa and beyond. ANRMs are furthering their self-assertion and self-insertion into the religious landscapes of Europe the Americas and Asia. Their growing presence and public visibility seem to be more robustly captured by the popular media than by scholars of NRMs historians of religion and social scientists a tendency that has probably shaped the public mental picture and understanding of the phenomena. This book provides new theoretical and methodological insights for understanding and interpreting ANRMs and African-derived religions in diaspora. Contributors focus on individual groups and movements drawn from Christian Islamic Jewish and African-derived religious movements and explore their provenance and patterns of emergence; their belief systems and ritual practices; their public/civic roles; group self-definition; public perceptions and responses; tendencies towards integration/segregation; organisational networks; gender orientations and the implications of interactions within and between the groups and with the host societies. The book includes contributions from scholars and religious practitioners thus offering new insights into how ANRMs can be better defined approached and interpreted by scholars policy makers and media practitioners alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138546295

The Public History Reader Drawing on theory and practice from five continents The Public History Reader offers clearly written accessible introductions to debates in public history as it places people such as practitioners bloggers archivists local historians curators or those working in education at the heart of history-making. Hilda Kean and Paul Martin explore public history as an everyday practice rather than simply as an academic discipline - the idea that historical knowledge is discovered and accrued from everyday encounters people have with their environments and the continuing dialogue that the present has with the past. Divided into three parts Part I looks at who makes history focusing on the ways in which the past has taken on a heightened popular sense of importance in the present and the ways in which it is used. Accordingly history far from being ‘fixed’ in time is fluid and is re-made to serve contemporary agendas in the present. Part II addresses the question of materials and approaches to making history. By using material more commonly within the domain of artists collectors or geographers and archaeologists public historians have opened up understandings of the past. Part III looks at the way in which presentations of the past change over time and their different forms and emphases. Throughout the Reader emphasizes the challenges for public historians today. Using their own expertise in constructing and teaching a Public History MA Hilda Kean and Paul Martin have suggested themes and indicative extracts that draw on their understanding of what works best with students. The Public History Reader is a perfect resource for all students of public history and all those interested in understanding the role of the past in our lives today. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415520416

The Public in LawRepresentations of the Political in Legal Discourse Bringing together established academics and new researchers the chapters in this collection interrogate the operation of 'the public' in a range of different legal illegal and alegal spaces. The key question which frames the contributions is whether and in what manner 'the public' operates as an interface between law and society allowing the interests and opinions of the population at large to be represented and reflected in legal discourse such that collectively generated imperatives may be imposed upon political and economic actors. Multi-disciplinary in its approach the volume reflects an understanding that there is more to the role of 'the public' in relation to law than the conventional demarcation of the field of 'public law' and that this relationship is open to comment from a wide range of actors. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138273962

The Public in PerilTrump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism This is one of the first books to thoroughly critique the rise of Trumpism and its potential impact nationally and　 globally. One of the world’s leading social critics Giroux offers new critiques of Trump and his early Cabinet choices in the context of longer term trends including the rise of right-wing populism the threat of planetary peril anti-intellectual fervor the war on youth a narrowing political discourse deepening inequality and disposability authoritarianism  the crisis of civic culture the rise of the mass incarceration state and more. Giroux dissects the diverse forces that led to Trump’s rise and points to pathways for resisting his authoritarian instincts. Offering a new language of hope and possibility Giroux’s optimism is rooted especially in the resurgence of progressive politics among youth. Giroux reclaims the centrality of education to politics and boldly articulates a vision in which the radical imagination merges with civic courage as part of a broad-based struggle for a radical democracy. Deep inquiries into fast-changing and pressing issues of our time makes this book 'the essential Giroux' that citizens and students must read debate and act upon. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138719033

The Public Legitimacy of Minority ClaimsA Central/Eastern European perspective Problems involving minorities still constitute a significant challenge for public policies in countries such as the ones on the territories of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Unassimilated facing the cultural "non-transparency" of their lifeworlds and usually without autonomy their problems are quite different from those in Western Europe and North America. This book presents a study of public policies concerning the national ethnic and religious minorities in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It explores the opportunities available for applying the model of deliberative democracy to the domain of designing and realizing minority policies. It examines the possibility that minority groups can influence – and ideally even pre-decide – minority policies by legitimizing claims concerning their needs and rights in a way that leaves democratic public opinion no choice but to support them. Adopting a novel approach to the public legitimization of minority claims it proposes that the general public’s evaluation of the credibility of minority claims should focus on the procedural qualities of the intra-group (ethical-political) discourses through which these claims are articulated and substantiated. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of public policy minority politics the politics of Eastern Europe political theory and comparative politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367173555

The Public Library in the Bibliographic Network This book first published in 1986 focuses on valuable information to all public library professionals who have questions about their participation in bibliographic networks. Contributors provide insights into both the benefits and the costs of networking by libraries of varying sizes and geographic locations. The actual uses of networks their costs (including initial and ongoing expenses) and staffing needs are clearly explained. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367421069

The Public Lives of Charlotte and Marie Stopes Charlotte Stopes was the first woman in Scotland to get a university qualification. She devoted her life to studying Shakespeare and the promotion of women in public life. Though Charlotte is largely forgotten her daughter Marie is well known. Green asserts that Marie’s success can only be understood in relation to the achievements of her mother. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138661745

The Public Nature of Private Property What exactly is private property? Or to ask the question another way what rights to intrude does the public have in what is generally accepted as private property? The answer perhaps surprisingly to some is that the public has not only a significant interest in regulating the use of private property but also in defining it and establishing its contour and texture. In The Public Nature of Private Property therefore scholars from the United States and the United Kingdom challenge traditional conceptions of private property while presenting a range of views on both the meaning of private property and on the ability some might say the requirement of the state to regulate it. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138251977

The Public Nature of Private ViolenceWomen and the Discovery of Abuse First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138154742

The Public Opinion ProcessHow the People Speak What is public opinion? How can we best study it? This work presents a "process model" that answers these questions by defining public opinion in a way that also identifies an approach to studying it. The model serves as a framework into which the findings of empirical research are integrated producing a comprehensive understanding of public opinion that encompasses the congeries of middle-range theories that have emerged from empirical research. The three-dimensional process model--and the way it is explicated--satisfies the diverse and sometimes divergent needs and interests of political scientists sociologists social psychologists and communication specialists who study public opinion. This is achieved by clearly differentiating and interrelating the following: * individual opinions--the judgmental outcomes of a process in which attitudinal systems--comprised of beliefs values/interests and feelings--function as intervening variables that direct and structure perceptions of public issues; * collective opinions--the outcomes of communication from which mutual awareness emerges and that integrate separate individual opinions into a significant social force; and * political roles of collective and individual opinions--the outcomes of the extent to which collective and individual opinions have achieved legitimacy as the basis for governing a people. DON'T USE THIS PARAGRAPH FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... Each dimension of the model has its corresponding subprocess: transactions between individuals and their environments communications among individuals and collectives and political legitimation of public opinion. Since the process model is -- by definition -- interactional none of the three dimensions has theoretical or sequential priority over the others. Instead of treating the psychological political and sociological aspects of public opinion as separate stages of an unidirectional process the three aspects are modeled as dimensions of a complex ongoing system in continuous interaction with each other. This conceptualization satisfies the need for a truly interdisciplinary theory in that it demands that each dimension be studied in terms of its defining sub-process. It also avoids the twin errors of reductionism and reification in the study of public opinion. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203810859

The Public Philosophy Begun in 1938 and completed only in 1955 The Public Philosophy offers as much a glimpse into the private philosophy of America's premier journalist of the twentieth century as it does a public philosophy.The basis of Lippmann's effort is "that there is a deep disorder in our society which comes not from the machinations of our enemies and from the adversaries of the human condition but from within ourselves." He also provides a special sort of legacy to liberalism in its broadest sense - as the root approach to human existence that could provide civility and accommodation against incivilities and extremism and that uniquely stood against the totalitarian counter-revolutions from Jacobism to Leninism. This work is a masterful defense of the public philosophy as a constitutional tradition and can be easily read as such today.Paul Roazen long identified with the analysis of Lippmann's work points out that no matter how trenchantly Lippmann dissected democracy and the populist faith in the people's wisdom he still sought to study the world in order to help govern it. His constant flow of journalistic writing had the educative intent of raising the level of the public's knowledge. His rationalist conviction that clearheadedness on public matters can be effectively relayed to people is nowhere more evident than in The Public Philosophy. In this sense it is an argument for the democratic ideal that people can be rallied in defense of the public interest. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138537996

The Public Policy PrimerManaging the Policy Process Fully revised for a second edition this essential guide provides a concise and accessible overview of the public policy process: agenda-setting policy formulation decision-making implementation and evaluation. The book provides an introduction to the key policy functions the challenges they entail and how the challenges may be addressed by policy actors. Written from a comparative perspective the authors include examples from a diverse range of countries at different stages of development highlighting key principles and practices through which policy actors can effectively manage their policy processes and outcomes. Key features of the second edition: fully updated and revised content throughout; expanded references and further reading; more guidance towards understanding the key concepts in public policy. This important tool offers students of public policy and policy practitioners guidance on how to make implement and evaluate public policies in ways that improve citizens' lives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138651548

The Public Policy Process The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of policy-making the book gives a thorough overview of the people and organisations involved in the process. Fully revised and updated for a 7th edition The Public Policy Process provides: Clear exploration using many illustrations of how policy is made and implemented. A new chapter on comparative theory and methods. New material on studying advocacy coalitions policy changes governance and evaluation. More European and international examples.   This edition appears at a time when its concern to emphasise the complex implications of modern ‘governance’ and the way in which the ultimate outcome of a new policy initiative will depend on policy formulation and implementation processes is particularly relevant to the UK government’s efforts to leave the European Union. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138909502

The Public Policy Theory Primer Public policy is a broad and interdisciplinary area of study and research in the field tends to reflect this. Yet for those teaching and studying public policy the disjointed nature of the field can be confusing and cumbersome. This text provides a consistent and coherent framework for uniting the field of public policy. Authors Kevin B. Smith and Christopher W. Larimer offer an organized and comprehensive overview of the core questions and concepts major theoretical frameworks primary methodological approaches and key controversies and debates in each subfield of policy studies from the policy process and policy analysis to program evaluation and policy implementation.　The third edition has been updated throughout to include the latest scholarship and approaches in the field including new and expanded coverage of behavioral economics the narrative policy framework Fourth Generation implementation studies the policy regime approach field experiments and the debate of program versus policy implementation studies. Now with an appendix of sample comprehensive exam questions The Public Policy Theory Primer remains an indispensable text for the systematic study of public policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780813350059

The Public Private Mix for Health Recent changes to the health service including new structures and ways of working at both local and national levels are having major influences on the working lives of every health visitor and community nurse and on their professional opportunities. Understanding these changes is essential and this practical and authoritative handbook addresses them all. The authors all have first-hand experience of the radical changes underway. The clear straightforward format is designed to allow quick access to relevant and up-to-date information. The book is vital reading for every community practitioner. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781315377575

The Public RealmExploring the City's Quintessential Social Territory This book is about the "public realm " defined as a particular kind of social territory that is found almost exclusively in large settlements. This particular form of social-psychological space comes into being whenever a piece of actual physical space is dominated by relationships between and among persons who are strangers to one another as often occurs in urban bars buses plazas parks coffee houses streets and so forth. More specifically the book is about the social life that occurs in such social-psychological spaces (the normative patterns and principles that shape it the relationships that characterize it the aesthetic and interactional pleasures that enliven it) and the forces (anti-urbanism privatism post-war planning and architecture) that threaten it. The data upon which the book's analysis is based are diverse: direct observation; interviews; contemporary photographs historic etchings prints and photographs and historical maps; histories of specific urban public spaces or spatial types; and the relevant scholarly literature from sociology environmental psychology geography history anthropology and architecture and urban planning and design. Its central argument is that while the existing body of accomplished work in the social sciences can be reinterpreted to make it relevant to an understanding of the public realm this quintessential feature of city life deserves much more u it deserves to be the object of direct scholarly interest in its own right. Choice noted that: "The author's writing style is unusually accessible and the often fascinating narrative is generously supported by well-chosen photos." Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315134352

The Public Relations Handbook The Public Relations Handbook 6th edition provides an engaging in-depth exploration of the dynamic and ever-evolving public relations industry. Split into four parts exploring key conceptual themes in public relations the book offers an overview of topics including strategic public relations politics and the media; media relations in the social media age; strategic communication management; public relations engagement in the not-for-profit sector; activism and public relations; and the effects of globalisation and technology on the field. Featuring wide-ranging contributions from key figures in the PR profession this new edition presents fresh views on corporate social responsibility public relations and politics corporate communication globalisation not-for-profit financial and public sector public relations. The book also includes a discussion of key critical themes in public relations research and exploratory case studies of PR strategies in a variety of institutions including Extinction Rebellion Queen Margaret University Mettis Aerospace and Battersea Cats’ and Dogs’ Home. Containing student-friendly features including clear chapter aims analytical discussion questions and key further reading throughout the text The Public Relations Handbook is an ideal resource for students of public relations corporate and strategic communications and media studies. 　 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367278915

The Public Relations of EverythingThe Ancient Modern and Postmodern Dramatic History of an Idea The public relations of "everything" takes the radical position that public relations is a profoundly different creature than a generation of its scholars and teachers have portrayed it. Today it is clearly no longer limited if it ever has been to the management of communication in and between organizations. Rather it has become an activity engaged in by everyone and for the most basic human reasons: as an act of self-creation self-expression and self-protection. The book challenges both popular dismissals and ill-informed repudiations of public relations as well as academic and classroom misconceptions. In the age of digitization and social media everyone with a smart phone Twitter and Facebook accounts and the will and skill to use them is in the media. The PR of everything – the ubiquitousness of public relations – takes a perspective that is less concerned with ideas of communication and information than with experience and drama a way of looking at public relations inside out upside down and from a micro rather than a macro level. Based on a combination of the research of PR practice and critical-thinking analysis of theory and founded in the author’s extensive corporate experience this book will be invaluable reading for scholars and practitioners alike in Public Relations Communications and Social Media. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367867348

The Public Relations Strategic ToolkitAn Essential Guide to Successful Public Relations Practice The Public Relations Strategic Toolkit presents guidance to instruct and educate students and professionals of public relations and corporate communications. Alison Theaker and Heather Yaxley cover every aspect of critical practice including definitions of public relations key theoretical concepts and both original and established methodological approaches. Case studies and interviews are featured  to provide real-world context and advice for professional development. The new edition is fully revised with brand new case studies and updated content which reflect significant developments in theory and contemporary practice. It puts particular emphasis on the use of technology (including automation) and social media in current public relations planning corporate communications and stakeholder engagement. The book is divided into four parts; covering the profession  public relations planning corporate communication and stakeholder engagement. Features include: definitions of key terms contemporary case studies interviews with practitioners handy checklists practical activities and assignments. By combining theory and practice with an invaluable insight from experts in the field this guide will introduce readers to all the professional skills needed for a career in public relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138678675

The Public Relations Writer’s Handbook From pitches and press releases to news and feature stories to social media writing and more this new book by author Whitney Lehmann and a handful of experienced contributors breaks down the most widely used types of public relations writing needed to become a PR pro. The Public Relations Writer’s Handbook serves as a guide for those both in the classroom and in the field who want to learn and master the style and techniques of public relations writing. Eighteen conversational chapters provide an overview of the most popular forms of public relations writing focusing on media relations storytelling writing for the web/social media business and executive communications event planning and more. Chapters include user-friendly writing templates exercises and AP Style skill drills and training. Whether you’re a PR major or PR practitioner this book is for you. Lehmann has combined her industry and classroom experience to create a handbook that’s accessible for PR students and practitioners alike. A dedicated eResource also supports the book with writing templates and answer keys (for instructors) to the end-of-chapter exercises in the text. www.routledge.com/9780815365280.  Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815365280

The Public Role In The Dairy EconomyWhy And How Governments Intervene In The Milk Business All over the world governments play a part in the milk business for compelling economic reasons and not as many assert just because dairy farmers are numerous and organized. This book examines the role of federal state and local governments in the dairy economy of the United States where major public involvement in industry began during the Great Depression. Dr. Manchester considers the conditions in the 1930s that led to government involvement the changes that have occurred in the industry and the public role since then and the prospects for the 1980s and beyond. He also analyzes possible alternative public dairy policies for the present and the rest of the decade. Many things have changed points out Dr. Manchester but the fundamental conditions that led to public involvement in the dairy industry still exist. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367310868

The Public Services under ReconstructionClient experiences professional practices managerial control This book examines the services in and around the public domain. The author analyses a number of socio-cultural changes that are generally considered relevant to these services including the rationalising efforts of the New Public Management and the introduction of IT. The book particularly addresses the diversity of services. It focuses on the local complexities of their day to day processes of service delivery and on the diversity of client experiences and professional roles associated with various client relationships. A practical objective of this book is to encourage its readers to ‘redefine’ the services they professionally deal with and move beyond the standard requirements of the New Public Management that are so often taken for granted as a starting point. Professional managers are for instance invited to reconsider their currently quite dominant ‘technical’ managerial perspective. Service professionals are encouraged to make sense of the risks and responsibilities involved with their day to day negotiations including the impact of the services on the lives of their clients. Gastelaars adopts and interpretive approach to her subject combining discourse analysis and ethnographic research to concentrate on the actual practices associated with service delivery rather than on theories and justifications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138864092

The Public Shaping of Medical ResearchPatient Associations Health Movements and Biomedicine Patient organizations and social health movements offer one of the most important and illuminating examples of civil society engagement and participation in scientific research and research politics. Influencing the research agenda and initiating funding and accelerating the development of diagnostic tools effective therapies and appropriate health-care for their area of interest they may champion alternative sometimes controversial programs or critique dominant medical paradigms. Some movements and organizations advocate for medical recognition of contested illnesses as with fibromyalgia orADHD while some attempt to "de-medicalize" others such as obesity or autism.Bringing together an international selection of leading scholars and representatives from patients' organizations this comprehensive collection explores the interaction between civil society groups and biomedical science technology development and research politics. It takes stock of the key findings of the research conducted in the field over the past two decades and addresses emerging problems and future challenges concerning the interrelations between health movements and patient organisations on the one hand and biomedical research and research policies on the other hand. Combining empirical case studies with conceptual discussion the book discusses how public participation can contribute to as well as restrict the democratization of scientific knowledge production.This volume is an important reference for academics and researchers with an interest in the sociology of health and illness science and technology studies the sociology of knowledge medical ethics or healthcare management and research as well as medical researchers and those involved with health-related civil society organizations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367341411

The Public Space of Social MediaConnected Cultures of the Network Society Social media is restructuring urban practices–through ad-hoc experimentation commercial software development and communities of participation. This book is the first to consider how practices contained within social media are situated within a larger genealogy of public space including theories of communal identity civitas and democracy the fete and self-expression. Through empirical research the actual social practices of participants of networked publics are described and analyzed. Documenting how online counterpublics use the Internet to transmit classified photos mobilize activists and challenge the status quo Tierney argues that online activities do not stop in online conversations; they are physically grounded through mobile GPS coordinates which are then transformed into activities in physical space—the street the plaza the places where people have traditionally gathered to demonstrate and express their opinions publicly. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138649309

The Public Understanding of Assessment Assessment of educational achievement whether by traditional examinations or by teachers in schools attracts considerable public interest particularly when it is associated with ‘high stakes’ outcomes such as university entry or selection for employment. When the individual’s results do not chime with their or their teachers’ expectations doubts creep in about the process of assessment that has arrived at this result. However educational assessment is made up of many layers of complexity which are not always clear to the general public including teachers students and parents and which are not easily understood outside of the expert assessment community. These layers may be organized in highly co-dependent relationships that include reliability validity human judgment and errors and the uses and interpretations of the various types of assessment. No-one could reasonably argue that the principles and complexities of educational assessment should be core learning in public education but there is a growing realization that trust in the UK assessment system is under some threat as the media and others sensationalize or politicize any problems that arise each year. This book offers the first comprehensive overview of how the general public is considered to perceive and understand a wide variety of aspects of educational assessment and how this understanding may be improved. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Oxford Review of Education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138308961

The Public-private Health Care StateEssays on the History of American Health Care Policy The distinctive mixing and continuous remixing of public and private roles is a defining feature of health care in the United States. The Public-Private Health Care State explores the interweaving of public and private enterprise in health care in the United States as a basis for thinking about health care in terms of its history and its continuing evolution today. Historian and policy analyst Rosemary Stevens has selected and edited seventeen essays from both her published and unpublished work to illustrate continuing themes such as: the flexible meanings of the terms "public" and "private " and how useful their ambiguity has been and is; the role of ideology as ratifying rather than preordaining change; and the common behavior of public leaders and corporate entities in the face of fiscal opportunity. The topics--covering the period of 1870 through the twenty-first century--represent Stevens' research interests in hospital history and policy the medical profession government policy and paying for health care. The volume also considers her involvement with policy questions which include health services research health maintenance organizations and physician workforce policy. Section I demonstrates the long history of state government involvement with private not-for-profit hospitals from the 1870s through the 1930s. Section II examines the federal role in health care from the 1920s through the 1970s including the establishment of veterans' hospitals and the implementation of Medicaid. Section III shows how shifting governmental roles require constantly changing organizing rhetoric whether for inventing a federal role for health services research and HMOs "regionalization" in the 1970s or defining civil rights and "equity" as mobilizing vehicles in the 1980s. Section IV examines growing concerns from the 1970s through the present about the traditional "public" role of the largely "private" medical profession. Section V returns to the ambiguous public-private status of not-for profit hospitals buffeted in the 1980s and 1990s by assumptions about the efficiency of the market. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138516816

The Publishing and Review of Reference Sources This book first published in 1987 provides important information on reference publishing including valuable guidelines on evaluating publications and sources. The articles contained here are all written by leading experts in the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367373696

The Publishing Challenge for Independent Video game DevelopersA Practical Guide Professor Odile Limpach gives independent developers everything they need to succeed in the world of video game publishing. The Publishing Challenge for Independent Video Game Developers: A Practical Guide defines what game publishing means for the indie developer and offers a concise framework to tackle the decision of whether to self-publish or not. Furthermore the text establishes a catalogue of current known publishers with some salient characteristics and offers a list of useful publishing tools. Along with showcasing testimonials from several young and seasoned developers on their experiences with publishing and partners and recommendations from renown experts of the industry this book offers tools platforms and guides to game publishing. 　 Key features: Provides a broad overview of the game publishing market Explores criteria for choosing between a publishing partner or self-publishing Offers case studies and testimonials from indie game developers and publishers about the process. 　 Professor Odile Limpach teaches economics and entrepreneurship at the Cologne Game Lab TH Köln (Technical University of Cologne). She is also co-founder of the Acceleration Program SpielFabrique 360° and works as a Strategic Consultant for games and serious game projects. Between 2007 and 2014 she was the managing director of the German entertainment software studio Ubisoft Blue Byte. Before she was the managing director of Ubisoft GmbH. She graduated from business school Institut Commercial de Nancy in France and completed her MBA in the United States. Odile Limpach is also involved as a volunteer in the areas of vocational training and acts as a German partner for Games for Change Europe. Furthermore she acts as an advisor (Conseiller du Commerce Extérieur) for the French Ministry for International Business Development. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367416720

The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852–2002 Uncle Tom's Cabin continues to provoke impassioned discussions among scholars; to serve as the inspiration for theater film and dance; and to be the locus of much heated debate surrounding race relations in the United States. It is also one of the most remarkable print-based texts in U.S. publishing history. And yet until now no book-length study has traced the tumultuous publishing history of this most famous of antislavery novels. Among the major issues Claire Parfait addresses in her detailed account are the conditions of female authorship the structures of copyright author-publisher relations agency and literary economics. To follow the trail of the book over 150 years is to track the course of American culture and to read the various editions is to gain insight into the most basic structures formations and formulations of literary culture during the period. Parfait interrelates the cultural status of this still controversial novel with its publishing history and thus also chronicles the changing mood and mores of the nation during the past century and a half. Scholars of Stowe of American literature and culture and of publishing history will find this impressive and compelling work invaluable. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237558

The Publishing Industry in China China has a long and complex history of relating to the outside world. With its recent entry into the World Trade Organization China is now committed to comply with the principles and rules of the international trading system as the largest trading country to join the system. China's commitment offers new commercial opportunities for foreign companies which in turn will transform the domestic economy. The common need throughout the process will be information documentation reporting and education on all levels and in all parts of the huge country. Therefore the publishing industry will play a critical part in providing the key information elements required by a country that is on fast forward.The Publishing Industry in China is a timely volume that covers all aspects of China's book magazine and online publishing industry. Ten contributing authors have been carefully selected to represent their sector of the publishing industry and to provide a critical analysis of both present conditions as well as trends for new developments in book and magazine publishing. Eleven chapters discuss the different market segments of trade scientific technical professional education and children's books.The economics and distribution of both book and magazine publishing are covered in separate chapters. Finally there are guidelines for international magazine publishers to enter the market and how translation or co-publishing rights for books can be developed during this period of growth and development. A concluding chapter reviews the challenges and developments of education and professional training for the publishing industry. An appendix provides published references and web sites for further background information and resources.The Publishing Industry in China stands alone as the only comprehensive guide and reference source to understanding recent developments and trends as well as providing guidelines for the single largest market in the world. It is essential reading for all publishers who wish to explore growth in the international arena. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538009

The Pulse of PoliticsElecting Presidents in the Media Age Every four years journalists propel a presidential campaign into the national consciousness. New candidates and issues become features of the political landscape while familiar rituals are reshaped by the unpredictability of personalities and events. Underlying this apparent process of change however is a recurrent cycle of political themes and social attitudes a pulse of politics that locks the process of choosing a president into a predictable pattern. In this bold and brilliant examination of modern presidential politics James David Barber reveals the dynamics of this cycle and shows how the pattern of drift and reaction may be broken in this most critical of political choices.Barber probes beneath the surface of campaigns to detect a steady rhythm of major political motifs. The theory he advances in colorful narrative chapters is that three dominant themes-conflict conscience conciliation-recur in foreseeable twelve-year cycles. A combative campaign-Truman vs. Dewey in 1948-is followed four years later by a moral crusade-Eisenhower vs. Stevenson in 1952-which in turn is succeeded by a contest to unify the nation-the Eisenhower-Stevenson rematch in 1956. The pattern is then renewed: the fierce combat between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960 was followed in 1964 by the contest of principle between Johnson and Goldwater. In 1968 Richard Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey by promising to bring the nation together.Monitoring shifting national political moods is a new elite: the journalists. Barber makes the case that the party system increasingly clumsy and inflexible can no longer pick up the beat of politics. Instead it is through newspapers magazines and television that the main themes of a campaign are sounded created and destroyed. This new edition of The Pulse of Politics provides a timely guide to the themes of the 1992 presidential campaign and to future elections. It will be of special interest to political scientists historians media analysts and journalists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538016

The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia is the definitive book on the company’s work to date marking eighteen years of Punchdrunk’s existence. It provides the first full-scale historical account of one of the world’s foremost immersive theatre companies drawn from unrivalled access to the collective memory and archives of their core creative team. The playful encyclopaedic format much like a Punchdrunk masked show invites readers to create their own journey through the ideas aesthetics contexts and practices that underpin Punchdrunk’s work. Interjections from Felix Barrett Stephen Dobbie Maxine Doyle Peter Higgin Beatrice Minns Colin Nightingale and Livi Vaughan among others fill out the picture with in-depth reflections. Charting Punchdrunk’s rise from the fringe to the mainstream this encyclopaedia records the founding principles and mission of the company documenting its evolving creative process and operational structures. It has been compiled to be useful to scholars and students from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines from secondary level through to doctoral research and is intended for those with a fascination for theatre in general and immersive work in particular. Ultimately it is written for those who have dared to come play with Punchdrunk across the years. It is also offered　to the curious; those adventurers ready and waiting to be immersed in Punchdrunk worlds. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138556799

The Punishment Response Punishment occupies a central place in our lives and attitudes. We suffer a profound ambivalence about its moral consequences. Persons who have been punished or are liable to be punished have long objected to the legitimacy of punishment. We are all objects of punishment yet we are also its users. Our ambivalence is so profound that not only do we punish others but we punish ourselves as well. We view those who submit too willingly to punishment as "obedient" verging on the groveling coward and we view those who resist punishment as "disobedient " rebels. In The Punishment Response Graeme Newman describes the uses of punishment and how these uses change over time.Some argue that punishment promotes discrimination and divisiveness in society. Others claim that it is through punishment that order and legitimacy are upheld. It is important that punishment is understood as neither one nor the other; it is both. This point simple though it seems has never really been addressed. This is why Newman claims we wax and wane in our uses of punishment; why punishing institutions are clogged by bureaucracy; why the death penalty comes and goes like the tide.Graeme Newman emphasizes that punishment is a cultural process and also a mechanism of particular institutions of which criminal law is but one. Because academic discussions of punishment have been confined to legalistic preoccupations much of the policy and justification of punishment have been based on discussions of extreme cases. The use of punishment in the sphere of crime is an extreme unto itself since crime is a minor aspect of daily life. The uses of punishment and the moral justifications for punishment within the family and school have rarely been considered certainly not to the exhaustive extent that criminal law has been in this outstanding work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538023

The Purchase of ParadiseGift Giving and the Aristocracy 1307-1485 Originally published in 1972 The Purchase of Paradise is an account of medieval philanthropy and looks at the late medieval aristocracy as a social rather than political group. The book analyses their voluntary behaviour their gift giving and the Church and addresses the nature of charity in the Middle Ages providing an insight into the noble families of the time. The book depicts charitable practices within the family such as the buying of prayers for relatives and the family traditions of support for favoured houses lasting through several generations. The book shows that the family was the most operative unit for most forms of benefaction and ecclesiastical contact and that the hard necessities of baronial politics were often ignored when men turned their thoughts to philanthropy and prayers for their immortal souls. The book will of value to historians and sociologists alike as well as those working in the field of anthropology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367206055

The Purchase of PardiseThe social function of aristocratic benevolence 1307-1485 First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415851473

The Pure State of NatureSacred cows destructive myths and the environment 'Aborigines did not cause the extinction of the megafauna . . . and it is unlikely that they have caused the extinction of any element of the fauna and flora.''If you want to practise control burning in order to protect houses or farms then do it in the same way as you would use a bulldozer to clear a firebreak but don't pretend that you are doing anything but damage to the environment.''If you commercialise an environmental resource you do so to make money. Don't pretend that it also benefits the environment.'Spanning fifty thousand years and an entire continent The Pure State of Nature presents a passionate account of the Australian environment. The myths that abound in popular and scientific writing the 'theories' and fancies about the place of humans in the ecology of this vast landmass are subjected to scrutiny. In particular the author demolishes the widely accepted orthodoxy about the use of fire by Aborigines and their supposed part in the extinction of the Australian megafauna.From the ruins of those myths The Pure State of Nature offers lessons for the new millennium. In turns provocative humorous impassioned and gentle this is a bold book of ideas about the past and present a book about how we can shape the future.To The Pure State of Nature Dr David Horton brings many years' experience as scientist farmer and archaeologist. Among his publications are Recovering the Tracks and The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia. He now writes and consults from his stud sheep farm in New South Wales. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003118190

The Pure Theory of Capital F. A. Hayek’s long-overlooked volume was his most detailed work in economic theory. Originally published in 1941 when fashionable economic thought had shifted to John Maynard Keynes Hayek’s manifesto of capital theory is now available again for today’s students and economists to discover. With a new introduction by Hayek expert Lawrence H. White who firmly situates the book not only in historical and theoretical context but within Hayek’s own life and his struggle to complete the manuscript this edition commemorates the celebrated scholar’s last major work in economics. Offering a detailed account of the equilibrium relationships between inputs and outputs in an economy Hayek’s stated objective was to make capital theory "useful for the analysis of the monetary phenomena of the real world.” His ambitious goal was nothing less than to develop a capital theory that could be fully integrated into the business cycle theory.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138009189

The Pure Theory of International Trade There has long been a need for a systematic introduction to the modern pure theory of international trade that would take the student through a careful introduction to the tools of analysis and the main logical propositions into the application of the theory to practical problems of international economic policy. Trade theory should be part and parcel of price theory distinguished only by the fact that other countries form part of the natural opportunities--and natural constraints--that a country confronts in its efforts to bend nature to its desire to produce utility-yielding goods and services; but its exposition is often confused by the attachment of its expositors to obsolete problems and backward analytical techniques.This book covers in detail classical neoclassical and modern theories of international trade with special attention to problems of equilibrium growth and welfare and discusses the work of all major contributors in this field from Ricardo and Mill through Meade Heckscher and Ohlin to the growth models of Johnson Solow and Uzawa. All problems are clearly stated and the easiest and most convenient solutions are sought in each case with the more technical topics in the field discussed in several chapters and appendixes that may be omitted for less advanced students without interrupting the continuity of the book.The book's coverage is complete and entirely up-to-date. It is written primarily for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in international trade but it will also serve as an important reference tool for professional economists working in this field and will be of considerable interest to students and practitioners dealing with problems of economic development and international business relationships more generally. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538030

The Pure Theory of International Trade and Distortions (Routledge Revivals) First published in 1978. This book provides a simple systematic yet rigorous treatment of the key aspects of the pure theory of international trade and distortions. The opening chapter presents the standard two-factor two-commodity barter model of international trade and a comprehensive treatment of the important properties and relationships. The rest of the book consists of four sections: parts One and Two are devoted to an analysis of factor market imperfections and Parts Three and Four consider the trade-theoretical consequences of product market imperfections. A concluding chapter presents some generalised theorems. This book would be of interest to students of economics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138644687

The Puritan Culture of America's MilitaryU.S. Army War Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan This book explores Puritanism and its continuing influence on U.S. and military law in the Global War on Terror exploring connections between Puritanism and notions of responsibility in relation to military crimes superstitious practices within the military and urges for revenge. Engaging with the work of figures such as Durkheim Fauconnet and Weber it draws on primary data gathered through participation and observation at the U.S. Army courts-martial following events at Abu Ghraib Operation Iron Triangle the Baghdad canal killings and a war crimes case in Afghanistan to show how Puritan cultural habits color and shape both American military actions and the ways in which these actions are perceived by the American public. A theoretically sophisticated examination of the cultural tendencies that shape military conduct and justice in the context of a contemporary global conflict The Puritan Culture of America’s Military will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in social theory and sociology cultural studies politics and international relations and military studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138267251

The Puritan Experience Originally published in 1972 and based on extensive research and use of source materials including manuscripts this book examines Puritan spiritual autobiographies written before 1725 and sets them in the context of the literary tradition out of which they grew. As well as Bunyan Baxter and Fox this book also discusses important works which have received less attention notably the Confessions of Richard Norwood the Bermudan settler. The book identifies 3 strands in the tradition: the work of the ‘orthodox’ Puritans; the prophets of the Commonwealth and the confessions and journals of the early Quakers. The social religious and literary factors which contributed to their development are discussed and it is shown how the self-analysis popularized by the Puritan preachers and writers contributed to the development of the novel. The book will be of particular value to those interested in 17th Century literature or religion. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367628598

The Puritan FamilyA Social Study from the Literary Sources Originally published in 1969 this study examines the religious and ethical community which had an immense influence on the spiritual development of the Anglo-American world – the family in Puritan England. The book makes extensive reference to the outstanding literary works of the period and to the Puritan ‘conduct-books’ thus illustrating the Puritan way of thinking and attitude to life and showing the relationship between the development of literary taste and the social class system. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367628840

The Puritan GentryThe Great Puritan Families of Early Stuart England Originally published in 1984 this was the first detailed study of the impact of Puritan influences on the wealthy county families of early Stuart England. It discusses one of the central issues in the history of the English Civil War: what motivated those men and women who risked all in opposition to King Charles I. The book looks at the role played by gentry families in the advancement or defence of ‘true religion’ and considers the reasons why powerful families which helped to govern the counties were to be found among the godly. It explores the conflict between class values and the exacting demands of an austere religious philosophy and examines the relationship between the Puritan gentry and the clerical Puritans who included authors university dons schoolmasters lecturers and parish clergy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367625382

The Puritan Origins of American SexReligion Sexuality and National Identity in American Literature From witch trials to pickaxe murderers from brothels to convents and from slavery to Toni Morrison's Paradise these essays provide fascinating and provocative insights into our sexual and religious conventions and beliefs. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315023083

The Puritan RevolutionA Documentary History Originally published in 1968 the documents collected in this volume (all re-set for ease of reading) trace the history of the Puritan Revolution from its roots in the early seventeenth century to the Restoration. They show how the causes and the course of the upheaval were reflected immediately and polemically in the torrent of books tracts and pamphlets letters speeches sermons petitions paper constitutions and government instruments that accompanied and often precipitated events. The documents substantiate the conviction of many scholars that the English Revolution represented a shaking of society comparable to the French and Russian revolutions. The Introduction discusses the work of historians of modern-day historians of the period and contributes to the debate about the underlying causes of the crisis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367628406

The Purloined SelfInterpersonal Perspectives in Psychoanalysis The Purloined Self: Interpersonal Perspectives in Psychoanalysis brings together nineteen essays in updated form still as relevant witty and informative today as when the book originally published. Edgar Levenson is a key figure in the development of Interpersonal psychoanalysis and his ideas remain influential. This book covers his seminal writing on theoretical topics such as models of psychoanalysis Harry Stack Sullivan’s theories and the nature of change as well as his more familiar focus on practical analytic topics such as transference supervision and the use of the self in psychoanalytic clinical work. The content ranges from more technical articles on psychoanalysis and general systems theory the holographic dimensions of psychoanalytic change; on to issues of metapsychology; and then to articles devoted to examining the nuances of the therapeutic praxis. The general thrust of the book is in the Interpersonal tradition and is a major contribution to a contemporary elaboration of post-Sullivanian Interpersonalism and of the two-person model of psychoanalysis that has come to permeate the entire field. With a new foreword by Donnel Stern himself a major name in current Interpersonal analysis this book gives a comprehensive overview of Levenson’s work and its continued relevance in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. The Purloined Self is highly readable: the author’s witty essayist style and original perspective on its material has made it appealing across a wide range of readerships. It will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as undergraduate and advanced postgraduate students in these fields. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138101661

The Purpose of India’s Security StrategyDefence Deterrence and Global Involvement This book comprises the journey of the Indian nation state and its tryst with destiny where successive political leaderships while governing India contributed to a better understanding of the idea of India its political and strategic culture and the role that its military has had to play to develop that culture. Hence the journey has been from the backwaters of ‘defensive defence’ to create a credible deterrence capacity as well as a doctrine to implement the same through political will and enter the domain of global involvement in the strategic non-strategic as well as non-traditional areas of security. Thus the title of the book The Purpose of India’s Security Strategy: Defence Deterrence and Global Involvement. It is hoped that this book will serve as a referral document to understand the polemics of the development of a strategic culture in India for an era which will be dominated by the information age and artificial intelligence without forgetting that the Indian political leadership has come of age to understand the role of the military in the process of nation building. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367435929

The Purposes of EducationA Conversation Between John Hattie and Steen Nepper Larsen What are the purposes of education and what is the relationship between educational research and policy? Using the twin lenses of Visible Learning and educational philosophy these are among the many fascinating topics discussed in extended conversations between John Hattie and Steen Nepper Larsen. This wide-ranging and informative book offers fundamental propositions about the nature of education. It maps out in fascinating detail a coming together of Hattie’s empirical data and world-famous Visible Learning paradigm with the rich heritage of educational philosophy. Additionally it explores the inevitable questions of the purpose of education and the development of students in a learning society. Part clash of cultures part meeting of minds always fascinating and illuminating this intriguing book will inspire teachers students and parents at all levels of the educational system – from kindergarten through school to university. Conversations include: What are the purposes of education? Does educational data speak for itself? What is the role of the teacher? Is learning a visible phenomenon? Is it important to teach and learn specific subjects? What is the role of neuroscience research? What is the relationship between educational research and educational politics? What is the role of the state in education? Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367416645

The Pursuit of Comparative AestheticsAn Interface Between the East and West Comparative aesthetics is the branch of philosophy which compares the aesthetic concepts and practices of different cultures. The way in which cultures conceive of the aesthetic dimension of life in general and art in particular is revelatory of profound attitudes and beliefs which themselves make up an important part of the culture in question. This anthology of essays by internationally recognised scholars in this field brings into one volume some of the most important research in comparative aesthetics from classic early essays to previously unpublished contemporary pieces. Ranging across cultures and time periods as diverse as ancient Greece India and China and the modern West and Japan the essays reveal both similarities and deep differences between the aesthetic traditions concerned. In the course of these expositions and comparisons there emerges the general conclusion that no culture can be fully grasped if its aesthetic ideas are not understood. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138250024

The Pursuit of HappinessBetween Prosperity and Adversity The Pursuit of Happiness: Between Prosperity and Adversity looks at activities practices and experiences that are instrumental in changing one’s level of well-being. This book focuses on the situations in which well-being is challenged or even decreased and explores guided by Dialogical Self Theory pathways that lead to its elevation. Research has suggested that there are three main determinants of well-being: genetic factors one’s individual’s history and happiness-relevant activities. The third and most promising means of altering one’s happiness level are activities and practices that require some degree of effort. A surprising finding is that these personal efforts may have a happiness-boosting potential that is almost as large as the probable role of genetics and apparently larger than the influence of one’s individual history. Efforts are invested in fields of tension between prosperity and adversity. The Pursuit of Happiness covers a variety of topics such as finding happiness and well-being in the face of extreme adversity the role of honesty in genuine happiness the promise of minimalistic life orientations the value of inner silence evaluating our lives from a future perspective and the relationship between happiness career development counselling and psychotherapy. This book was originally published as a special issue of the British Journal of Guidance & Counselling. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367437121

The Pursuit of HistoryAims methods and new directions in the study of history This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions - what is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical truth exist and can we ever access it? In answering these central questions John Tosh argues that despite the impression of fragmentation created by postmodernism in recent years history is a coherent discipline which still bears the imprint of its nineteenth-century origins. Consistently clear-sighted he provides a lively and compelling guide to a complex and sometimes controversial subject while making his readers vividly aware of just how far our historical knowledge is conditioned by the character of the sources and the methods of the historians who work on them. The sixth edition has been revised and updated with key new material including: - a brand new chapter on public history - sections on digitised sources and historical controversy - discussion of topics including transnational history and the nature of the archive - an expanded range of examples and case studies - a comprehensive companion website providing valuable supporting material study questions and a bank of primary sources. Lucid and engaging this edition retains all the user-friendly features that have helped to make this book a favourite with both students and lecturers including marginal glosses illustrations and suggestions for further reading. Along with its companion website this is an essential guide to the theory and practice of history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138808089

The Pursuit of Perfect Packing Coauthored by one of the creators of the most efficient space packing solution the Weaire–Phelan structure The Pursuit of Perfect Packing Second Edition explores a problem of importance in physics mathematics chemistry biology and engineering: the packing of structures. Maintaining its mathematical core this edition continues and revises some of the stories from its predecessor while adding several new examples and applications. The book focuses on both scientific and everyday problems ranging from atoms to honeycombs. It describes packing models such as the Kepler conjecture Voronoï decomposition and Delaunay decomposition as well as actual structure models such as the Kelvin cell and the Weaire–Phelan structure. The authors discuss numerous historical aspects and provide biographical details on influential contributors to the field including emails from Thomas Hales and Ken Brakke. With examples from physics crystallography engineering and biology this accessible and whimsical book touches on many aspects of packing objects. It will help you understand components of packing and aid you in the quest for the perfect packing solution. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367387693

The Pursuit of Pleasure Pleasure is biologically desirable and good for physical and mental health. In The Pursuit of Pleasure Lionel Tiger explores this aspect of human nature by focusing on the origins and forms of pleasure. Medical science has perfected a host of often astonishingly impressive methods for preventing alleviating or recovering from pain. Its opposite pleasure has not had such a well-funded and fully justified constituency. In fact those committed to the understanding and pursuit of pleasure are rarely accorded respect and a sense of significance. People have objected to the notion of pleasure for a variety of reasons. The most complex derive from religious convictions that the most morally admirable human life is marked by abstemiousness suffering even martyrdom. There is also a corresponding fear that people may pursue pleasure too avidly and with too strong a sense of entitlement and the world's work will not get done. But just as there have been suspicions of the dangers of pleasure there have also been its supporters who assert its vital and joyful centrality to human experience. The Pursuit of Pleasure favors an agnostic approach borrowed from natural science.In lively witty and eminently readable prose Tiger identifies major forms of pleasure and explores their variations now and in the past. Pleasure says Tiger is not a luxury but an evolutionary entitlement that deserves to be taken seriously. As we acknowledge our need for enjoyment we understand the need to establish balance in our lives-our need for the pursuit of pleasure. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538054

The Pursuit of Public JournalismTheory Practice and Criticism The Pursuit of Public Journalism is an engaging introduction to the theoretical foundations and practices of the journalistic reform movement known as 'public journalism.' Public journalism - stated briefly - seeks to reinvest journalism with its fundamental responsibilities to democracy and public life. This book argues against many deeply ingrained practices ranging from journalistic detachment to framing stories via polar conflict in favor of greater civic involvement on the part of journalists. Tanni Haas traces the historical context in which public journalism emerged develops a philosophy for public journalism reviews empirical research on public journalism’s performance to date and responds to the major criticisms directed at public journalism.  He also examines the particular challenges that public journalism poses to curriculum and instruction: how can journalism educators teach students to write stories useful and of concern to citizens and how can they encourage citizens to publicly criticize news coverage of given topics? Following review of the major challenges and criticisms of public journalism the author offers practical solutions for improving public journalism and speculates on public journalism’s likely future. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203941911

The Pusher and the SuffererAn Unsentimental Reading of "Moby Dick" First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138878457

The Pushing-Hands of Translation and its TheoryIn memoriam Martha Cheung 1953-2013 This book presents an East-West dialogue of leading translation scholars responding to and developing Martha Cheung’s "pushing-hands" method of translation studies. Pushing-hands was an idea Martha began exploring in the last four years of her life and only had time to publish at article length in 2012. The concept of pushing-hands suggests a promising line of inquiry into the problem of conflict in translation. Pushing-hands opens a new vista for translation scholars to understand and explain how to develop an awareness of non-confrontational alternative ways to handle translation problems or problems related to translation activities that are likely to give rise to tension and conflict. The book is a timely contribution to celebrate Martha's work and also to move the conversation forward. Despite being somewhat tentative and experimental it probes into how to enable and develop dynamic interaction between and reciprocal determinism of different hands involved in the process of translation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367133856

The Puzzle of Ethics First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an Informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315502977

The Puzzle of Evil First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315699172

The Puzzle of ExistenceWhy Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious naturalistic platonistic and skeptical. Does science answer the question? Or does theology? Does everything need an explanation? Or can there be brute inexplicable facts? Could there have been nothing whatsoever? Or is there any being that could not have failed to exist? Is the question meaningful after all? The volume advances cutting-edge debates in metaphysics philosophy of cosmology and philosophy of religion and will intrigue and challenge readers interested in any of these subjects. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138823440

The Puzzle of God First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an Informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315699165

The Puzzle of the Gospels First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315699158

The Pyramid Builders of Ancient EgyptA Modern Investigation of Pharaoh's Workforce In Rosalie David's hands the Egyptian builders of the pyramids are revealed as simple people leading ordinary lives while they are engaged on building the great tomb for a Pharoah. This is an engrossing detective story bringing to the general reader a fascinating picture of a special community that lived in Egypt and built one of the pyramids some four thousand years ago. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138153110

The Pyramid of Game DesignDesigning Producing and Launching Service Games Game design is changing. The emergence of service games on PC mobile and console has created new expectations amongst consumers and requires new techniques from game makers. In The Pyramid of Game Design Nicholas Lovell identifies and explains the frameworks and techniques you need to deliver fun profitable games. Using examples of games ranging from modern free-to-play titles to the earliest arcade games via PC strategy and traditional boxed titles Lovell shows how game development has evolved and provides game makers with the tools to evolve with it. Harness the Base Retention and Superfan Layers to create a powerful Core Loop. Design the player Session to keep players playing while being respectful of their time. Accept that there are few fixed rules: just trade-offs with consequences. Adopt Agile and Lean techniques to "learn what you need you learn" quickly Use analytics paired with design skills and player feedback to improve the fun engagement and profitability of your games. Adapt your marketing techniques to the reality of the service game era Consider the ethics of game design in a rapidly changing world. Lovell shows how service games require all the skills of product game development and more. He provides a toolset for game makers of all varieties to create fun profitable games. Filled with practical advice memorable anecdotes and a wealth of game knowledge the Pyramid of Game Design is a must-read for all game developers.   Key Features Harness the Base Retention and Superfan Layers to create a powerful Core Loop. Design the player Session to keep players playing while being respectful of their time. Accept that there are few fixed rules: just trade-offs with consequences. Adopt Agile and Lean techniques to "learn what you need you learn" quickly. Use analytics paired with design skills and player feedback to improve the fun engagement and profitability of your games. Adapt your marketing techniques to the reality of the service game era. Consider the ethics of game design in a rapidly changing world. Media > Books > Print Books A K Peters/CRC Press 9781138298897

The Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks in the Chinese Diaspora Originating in the 1820s and used for 150 years thereafter qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese emigrants to accompany remittances. Their key function was to preserve family ties. Although such correspondence focused principally on the provision of economic support the qiaopi also touched on cultural political educational and gender themes. This book therefore seeks to examine the qiaopi from two interconnected perspectives. One views qiaopi from a political and institutional angle the other from a financial and social angle. Bringing together the extensive research of a group of international scholars this multi-authored volume sheds light on the larger significance of the qiaopi for modern China. Taking an empirical evidence-driven approach the contributors employ a wide range of primary sources in both Chinese and English and relate their findings to scholarship in both the Chinese-speaking world and in non-Chinese interdisciplinary fields. In so doing this book helps to bridge the gap between Chinese- and English-speaking researchers in the field of qiaopi studies. As one of the first books in English on the qiaopi trade and its significance this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese history and Chinese migration as well in Migration Studies and Diaspora Studies more generally. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138081062

The Qualified StudentA History of Selective College Admission in America In The Qualified Student Harold S. Wechsler focuses on methods of student selection used by institutions of higher education in the United States. More specifically he discusses the way that college and university reformers employed those methods to introduce higher education into a broader cross-section of America by extending access to an increased number of students from nontraditional backgrounds.Implicit in much of this book is an underlying social and ethical question: How legitimate was and is higher education's regulation of social mobility? Public concern over colleges' and universities' practices became inevitable once they became regulators between social classes. The challenging of colleges' admissions policies in the courts augments similar concerns that have been present in legislatures for decades.The volume is divided into three main sections: Prerequisites Columbia and the Selective Function and Implications. It focuses mainly on four universities The University of Michigan Columbia University the University of Chicago and the City University of New York. Wechsler maintains that unlike other universities these institutions were pacesetters; they did not adopt a new policy simply because some other college had already adopted it. A new introduction brings the book originally published in 1977 up to date and demonstrates its continuing importance in today's academic world of selective admissions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412853606

The Qualitative Dissertation in EducationA Guide for Integrating Research and Practice The Qualitative Dissertation in Education focuses on the experiences of students pursuing a doctorate in education and writing a qualitative dissertation. The literature on qualitative research has grown substantially over the past 25 years but methods books often fail to consider the unique situations and resources available to students pursuing a professional doctorate. This book examines the entirety of the dissertation experience walking readers through the process with examples and guidelines. The structure of the book outlines each chapter of the dissertation as well as the necessary steps to start and complete the dissertation such as working with a faculty chair and committee developing a peer support group and organizing literature. Not only does the book cover each stage of the dissertation process it also provides practical guidance on topics such as productivity with exercises and resources to help students overcome obstacles and make progress in their writing. The Qualitative Dissertation in Education provides a foundation to understand both the basics of qualitative research and the expectations of the EdD dissertation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138486706

The Qualitative ManifestoA Call to Arms Now issued as part of the Routledge Education Classic Edition series  The Qualitative Manifesto provides a "call to arms" for researchers from the leading figure in the qualitative research community Norman Denzin. Denzin asks for a research tradition engaged in social justice sensitive to identity and indigenous concerns brave to risk presentation in forms beyond traditional academic writing and committed to teaching this to their students and colleagues. A new preface text by the author reflects on the changes in research society and in social justice since the publication of the original edition. Denzin looks to the past present and future of the field underlining the continuing importance of this brief provocative book. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138326231

The Qualitative ManifestoA Call to Arms Now issued as part of the Routledge Education Classic Edition series A Qualitative Manifesto provides a "call to arms" for researchers from the leading figure in the qualitative research commnunity Norman Denzin. Denzin asks for a research tradition engaged in social justice sensitive to identity and indigenous concerns brave to risk presentation in forms beyond traditional academic writing and committed to teaching this to their students and colleagues. A new preface text by the author reflects on the changes in research society and in social justice since the publication of the original edition. Denzin looks to the past present and future of the field underlining the continuing importance of this brief provocative book. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315417370

The Qualities of TimeAnthropological Approaches This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time tothe way we understand history participate in the events around us and experienceour lives. Time is not just an abstract principle we live by or a local cultural construct: it is shaped punctuated organized and suffered in complex ways by real people negotiating their lives and relations with others. Space may be opened up for politics violence or revolutionary change within the framework of ceremonial markers of social time: holy days festivals and carnivals. People create and recreate patterns in the way they imagine the past present and future at such moments through material objects language symbolic action and bodily experience. The rhythms of social life including periodic episodes of sacred or special time interact with 'historical events' in strange ways. They are fundamental not only to the human condition but to the making andremembering of history as well as to what we recognize as the unexpected or abnormal. The Qualities of Time brings anthropologists and archaeologists together in a new conversation about the 'patterns' of our understanding and experience of time. The authors reflect on how we should interpret evidence about the distant past andhow far the structuring of social time is a human universal. They also consider whether anthropology itself has been so oriented to the present it has still to develop ways of dealing with temporality. The interactions of time-structures ceremonials and specific historical events including violence inspired by the millennium are interrogated. The experience of individuals who feel the times are for them 'out of joint' is also examined. By combining socio-cultural philosophical and historical approaches thisthought-provoking book moves anthropological debates about time's qualities wellbeyond existing studies.This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time toth Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003135449

The Quality Audit for ISO 9001:2000A Practical Guide Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2000 the revised ISO 9001 standard has been implemented and is being used widely. While the basic premise of the original book is still sound the reality of auditing the new standard has shown up various areas which require refinement - this new edition addresses that need. It remains a pragmatic guide covering all aspects of auditing including certification assessment supplier investigation and internal audit enabling auditors to appreciate the approaches adopted by those working in related areas. With its detailed analysis of the requirements of ISO 9001:2000 this book will also be of interest to all those involved in implementing certified quality management systems as well as the auditors who are required to examine those systems. A down-to-earth approach is taken throughout The Quality Audit for ISO 9001:2000 avoiding the impractical and nit-picking methods which have so often characterized quality management audits making it an invaluable source of realistic advice. It demonstrates how to produce real benefits from an audit programme rather than simply guaranteeing compliance to a documented system. Everyone who sees audits as a useful tool for business improvement should read this book! Media > Books > E-books Gower 9781315237534

The Quality Classroom Manager Drawing upon thirty-two years of extensive school work (including classroom teaching school administrator principal District Curricula Director responsible for change school psychologist and Director of Special Education and presently teaching at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse) the principals of control theory/reality therapy and Dr. William Deming's philosophy on quality management Bob Norton created this "how-to" text to effectively achieve quality classroom management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415784733

The Quality Improvement Field GuideAchieving and Maintaining Value in Your Organization The Quality Improvement Field Guide: Achieving and Maintaining Value in Your Organization covers the key aspects that quality professionals must know to attain mastery in their field. After reading this book readers will not only gain an understanding of the key quality improvement concepts but will gain the practical insight required to implement them correctly. The book starts with a brief history of quality and quality management including the necessary quality documents. It describes key quality standards including ISO 9001:2008 the upcoming ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 9004:2008. Next it explores quality deployment concepts such as capturing the voice of the customer the Kano model quality function deployment and quality policy deployment. SMART goals SWOT analysis and key process indicators are also addressed. The book covers the seven classic quality tools: flowchart Ishikawa diagram Pareto diagram scatter diagram histogram check sheet and run chart. It also identifies the seven new management and planning tools: affinity diagram tree diagram process decision program chart matrix diagram prioritization matrix interrelationship digraph and activity network diagram.Presenting methods for failure prevention and detection the text explores measurement system analysis gage repeatability and reproducibility studies and the basics of maintaining a calibration system. It examines the various aspects of continuous quality improvement complaints management and the use of 8D reports for reporting on failures. The book describes the four types of measurement scales and various measuring devices a quality professional may encounter and also contains a glossary that explains the basic quality-related terminology. Describing each quality method with sufficient detail so that readers can immediately apply them this book is an ideal guide for anyone new to the field of quality as well as experienced quality professionals who need a quick overview. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781498745741

The Quality of Democracy in Post-Communist Europe The countries of the former Eastern Bloc and Soviet Union have exhibited remarkable diversity in their post-communist regime paths. Whereas some states have become demonstrably more democratic and have moved in the space of fifteen years from the periphery to the centre of European politics in others the political and economic climates seem hardly to be better and their societies no more free than in the final years of the Cold War.Assessing progress towards democracy in the former Eastern Bloc - or the lack of it - requires a qualitative examination of post-communist polities. This collection of articles brings together a number of perspectives both macro and micro-analytical on the 'quality' of democracy in post-communist Europe.This volume was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138997004

The Quality of LearningAn Essay Concerning the Education of Dull Children First published in 1951. This book examines the challenges and difficulties that schools may face when it comes to the teaching of children with special needs. The author explores the argument that any challenges can be eliminated by the expenditure of more money or whether these challenges cannot be solved merely by increased expenditure and a well-directed administrative effort to provide teachers classrooms and materials. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138587601

The Quality of the Urban EnvironmentEssays on "New Resources" in an Urban Age The quality of the environment in which people live work and play influences to no small degree the quality of life itself. The environment can be satisfying and attractive and provide scope for individual development or it can be poisonous irritating and stunting. The papers in this volume first published in 1969 are concerned with the urban environment – in which the majority of Americans live – or more accurately with the environment of urbanites for the concern extends to outlying areas where urban dwellers visit and play. The chapters aim to provide a better understanding of the natural resource elements in the urban environment and will be of interest to students of environmental studies and human geography. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138930438

The Quantified Process Approach to Neuropsychological Assessment Since the late 1800s psychologists have been interested in discerning the strategies subjects employ to solve psychological tests (Piaget 1928 Werner 1940 Gesell 1941). Much of this work however has relied on qualitative observations. In the 1970s Edith Kaplan adopted this approach to the analysis of standardized neuropsychological measures. Unlike her predecessors Dr. Kaplan and her colleagues emphasized the application of modern behavioral neurology to the analysis of the test data. Her approach was later termed the Boston Process Approach to neuropsychological assessment. While Edith Kaplan's work generates a great deal of enthusiasm the qualitative nature of her analyses did not allow for its adoption by mainstream neuropsychologists. However in recent years this limitation has begun to be addressed. Clinicians and researchers have developed new methodologies for quantifying the Boston Process Approach leading to the emergence of a new field which is collectively termed the Quantified Process Approach. Quantified Process Approach to Neuropsychological Assessment outlines the rationale for the emergence of this new approach and reviews the state of the art research literature and up to date clinical applications as they pertain to the evaluation of neuropsychiatric head injured and learning disabled patients. When available norms and scoring forms are included in the appendices. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138006232

The Quantified Self in PrecarityWork Technology and What Counts Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers but what happens when machines become tool bearers calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics?The Quantified Self in Precarity highlights how whether it be in insecure ‘gig’ work or office work such digitalisation is not an inevitable process – nor is it one that necessarily improves working conditions. Indeed through unique research and empirical data Moore demonstrates how workplace quantification leads to high turnover rates workplace rationalisation and worker stress and anxiety with these issues linked to increased rates of subjective and objective precarity.Scientific management asked us to be efficient. Now we are asked to be agile. But what does this mean for the everyday lives we lead? With a fresh perspective on how technology and the use of technology for management and self-management changes the ‘quantified’ precarious workplace today The Quantified Self in Precarity will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in fields such as Science and Technology Organisation Management Sociology and Politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367872908

The Quantitative Analysis of Social Representations First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138468245

The Quantum Dice "Real black magic calculus" is how Albert Einstein described quantum mechanics in a letter in 1925. Quantum mechanics is now rather more widely understood by physicists but still many "outsiders" are unaware of what quantum mechanics is how it has changed the course of development of physics and how it affects their everyday lives. This book gives a fascinating account of the evolution of the ideas and concepts of quantum theory and modern physics written by an "insider" but aimed specifically at the general science reader. Many anecdotes from famous past physicists give an insight into their work and personalities. The many illustrations are an important and attractive feature of the book. Leonid Ponomarev is a leading theoretical physicist. His deep understanding of the subject is allied with his wide knowledge of history literature and philosophy to produce this history of the development of modern physics and its impact on our lives. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781003062950

The Quantum of ExplanationWhitehead’s Radical Empiricism The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries. Using a complete interpretation of Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophical and mathematical writings and an interpretive structure that is essentially new Auxier and Herstein argue that Whitehead has never been properly understood nor has the depth and breadth of his contribution to the human search for knowledge been assimilated by his successors. This important book effectively applies Whitehead’s philosophy to problems in the interpretation of science empirical knowledge and nature. It develops a new account of philosophical naturalism that will contribute to the current naturalism debate in both Analytic and Continental philosophy. Auxier and Herstein also draw attention to some of the most important differences between the process theology tradition and Whitehead’s thought arguing in favor of a Whiteheadian naturalism that is more or less independent of theological concerns. This book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to Whitehead’s philosophy and is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in American philosophy the philosophy of mathematics and physics and issues associated with naturalism explanation and radical empiricism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367258498

The Quantum Phase OperatorA Review Describing the phase of an electromagnetic field mode or harmonic oscillator has been an obstacle since the early days of modern quantum theory. The quantum phase operator was even more problematic with the invention of the maser and laser in the 1950s and 1960s. This problem was not solved until the Pegg-Barnett formalism was developed in the 1980s. Edited by one of the scientists who created this key solution The Quantum Phase Operator: A Review charts the development of phase and angle operators from their first appearance to modern theory. Bringing together vital works that have been published on the subject the book presents the ideas that led to the current theory of the phase operator and provides a complete picture of the progress that has followed since then. With introductions by the editors to put the papers in context and unify the content of the book each section focuses on a different aspect of phase operators. The editors also chronologically organize the papers within the sections to highlight how scientific thought has evolved if at all over time.A collection of important relevant material that is scattered throughout the literature this volume chronicles the history of the various facets of the quantum phase operator promoting a solid foundation in quantum theory. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367389147

The Quantum Physics of Atomic Frequency StandardsRecent Developments Up-to-Date Coverage of Stable and Accurate Frequency Standards The Quantum Physics of Atomic Frequency Standards: Recent Developments covers advances in atomic frequency standards (atomic clocks) from the last several decades. It explains the use of various techniques such as laser optical pumping coherent population trapping laser cooling and electromagnetic and optical trapping in the implementation of classical microwave and optical atomic frequency standards. The book first discusses improvements to conventional atomic frequency standards highlighting the main limitations of those frequency standards and the physical basis of the limitations. It then describes how advances in the theory and applications of atomic physics have opened new avenues in frequency standards. The authors go on to explore the research and development of new microwave and optical frequency standards before presenting the results in frequency stability and accuracy achieved with these new frequency standards. They also illustrate the application of atomic clocks in metrology telecommunications navigation and other areas and give some insight into future work. Building on the success of the previous two volumes this up-to-date in-depth book examines the vast improvements to atomic clocks that have occurred in the last 25 years. The improved stability and accuracy enable the verification of physical concepts used in fundamental theories such as relativity as well as the stability of fundamental constants intrinsic to those theories. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138894556

The Quark MachinesHow Europe Fought the Particle Physics War Second Edition Relating the story of the transatlantic struggle for subnuclear domination The Quark Machines: How Europe Fought the Particle Physics War Second Edition covers the history the politics and the personalities of particle physics. Extensively illustrated with many original photographs of the key players in the field the book sheds new light on the sovereignty issues of modern scientific research as well as the insights it has produced.Throughout the twentieth century Europe and the United States have vied for supremacy of subnuclear physics. Initially the advent of World War II and an enforced exodus of scientific talent from Europe boosted American efforts. Then buoyed along by the need to develop the bomb and the ensuing distrust of the Cold War the United States vaulted into a commanding role-a position it retained for almost fifty years. Throughout this period each new particle accelerator was a major campaign each new particle a battle won.With the end of the Cold War U.S. preeminence evaporated and Europe retook the advantage. Now CERN for four decades the spearhead of the European fightback stands as the leading global particle physics center. Today particle physics is at a turning point in its history-how well Europe retains its advantage remains to be seen. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138406353

The Quarrel Between Philosophy and PoetryStudies in Ancient Thought Now available in paperback The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry focuses on the theoretical and practical suppositions of the long-standing conflict between philosophy and poetry. Stanley Rosen--one of the leading Plato scholars of our day--examines philosophical activity questioning whether technical philosophy is a species of poetry a political program an interpretation of human existence according to the ideas of 19th and 20th-century thinkers or a contemplation of beings and Being. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138156371

The Quarrel Between Poetry and PhilosophyPerspectives Across the Humanities The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-philosopher Plato referred centuries ago in the Republic. The book presents eight chapters by four humanities scholars that historically contextualize and cross-interpret aspects of the quarrel in question. The authors share the view that although poets and philosophers continually quarrel a harmonious union between the two groups is achievable in a manner promising application to a variety of contemporary cultural-political　and aesthetic debates all of which have implications for the current status of the humanities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367863357

The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415869010

The Quattro Cento and Stones of RiminiA Different Conception of the Italian Renaissance This title was first published in 2002. Adrian Stokes was a British painter and writer whose books on art have been allowed to go out of print despite their impact on Modernist culture. This new edition of The Quattro Cento and The Stones of Rimini presents the original texts of 1932 and 1934 and furnishes them with introductions by David Carrier and Stephen Kite that will help readers grasp the structure and significance of what have become Stokes' most widely cited and influential books. Written as parts of an incomplete trilogy The Quattro Cento and The Stones of Rimini mark a crossroad in the transition from late Victorian to Modernist conceptions of art especially sculpture and architecture. Stokes continued even expanded John Ruskin's and Walter Pater's belief that art is essential to the individual's proper psychological development but wove their teaching into a new aesthetic shaped by his experience of psychoanalysis and recent innovations in literature dance and the visual arts. This volume will be of interest to those concerned with art criticism aesthetics and psychoanalysis as well as the art and architecture of the Renaissance and Modern periods. Supported by the Henry Moore Foundation in memory of David Sylvester. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138727632

The Queening of America Since at least the end of the nineteenth century gay culture - its humour its icons its desires - has been alive and sometimes even visible in the midst of straight American society. David Van Leer puts forward here a series of readings that aim to identify what he calls the "queening" of America a process by which "rhetorics and situations specific to homosexual culture are presented to a general readership as if culturally neutral." The Queening of America examines how the invisibility of gay male writing especially in the popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s facilitated the crossing of gay motifs in straight culture. Van Leer then critiques some current models of making homosexuality visible (the packaging of Joe Orton the theories of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick the rise of gay studies) before concluding more optimistically with the possible alliances between gay culture and other minority discourses. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203609972

The Queer Sixties The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive group of cultural critics to go against the grain of 1960s studies and proposes new and different ways of the last decade before the closet doors swung open. Imbued with the zeitgeist of the 60s this playful and powerful collection rescues the persistence of the queer imaginary. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315022772

The Quest and Occupation of Tahiti by Emissaries of Spain during the Years 1772-1776Told in Despatches and other Contemporary Documents. Volumes I-III Instructions minutes despatches and other documents from Spanish and English archives relating to exploration of the East Indies translated into English and compiled with notes and an introduction.. Continued in Second Series 36 and 43. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1913. Owing to technical constraints the section of the large general chart of the islands constructed by Don Juan Hervd showing Huahine Ra'iatea Tahaa and Porapora is not included. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553719

The Quest For A Just World Order In response to a growing sense of dissatisfaction with the state of the world and the state of international relations research Professor Kim has taken an alternative approach to the study of contemporary world politics. Specifically he has adopted and expanded the cross-cultural interdisciplinary and transnational approach developed by the World Order Models Project (WOMP) an enterprise committed to the realization of peace economic equality and well-being social justice and ecological balance. Systemic in scope and interdisciplinary in methodology The Quest for a Just World Order explains and projects the issues patterns and trends of world politics giving special attention to the attitudinal normative behavioral and institutional problems involved in the politics of system transformation. Professor Kim also attempts to remedy a number of problematic features of traditional approaches including a value-neutral orientation; fragmentation and overspecialization; overemphasis on national actors the superpowers and stability; and the Hobbesian image of world politics. Part 1 presents a conceptual framework for developing a normative theory of world order. Each of the four chapters in Part 2 examines a specific global crisis in depth working within the framework laid out in Part 1. In Part 3 a variety of desirable and feasible transition strategies are proposed and Professor Kim assesses the prospects for achieving a just and humane world order system by the end of this century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295417

The Quest for Conscience and the Birth of the Mind This book offers a new perspective on conscience as an as yet unrealized human potential but a potential toward which human beings are naturally driven. A distinction is made between a "mature" or "healthy" conscience - a "conscience capable of maturation" - and the classical notion of the superego; it also postulates that the two may represent two separate lines of development. Conscience is seen to be inseparable from consciousness; the development of a mature conscience is seen to have its foundation in the development of a true or authentic self while the classical notion of the superego is viewed as an often pathological manifestation of this natural mental potential. Theological ideas are relevant to any discussion of morality conscience and guilt. Freud's and Bion's perspectives on religion are closely examined revealing fundamental differences in their views of the mind. The author incorporates the metaphysical perspective central to Bion's concept of "O" as fundamental to an understanding of the development of a healthy conscience. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367106416

The Quest for ConstitutionalismSouth Africa since 1994 This volume provides a timely assessment on the progress made towards the achievement of a constitutional democracy in South Africa. The chapters collectively present an in-depth analysis of the development of the legal system and of the implications of the Constitution for the social configuration of power. To what extent has the vision of constitutionalism contained in the Constitution been realised? Primarily concerned with the impact of laws and the salience of their existence and enforcement for South Africans the work highlights the importance of placing the constitutional regime in its historical cultural social economic and political context. The book further recognises the importance of the South African constitutional provisions for transnational or globalised constitutionalism more broadly. It contains contributions from South African scholars as well as European authors bringing in new analytical angles and adding a specific comparative dimension. Through the prism of South Africa the authors discuss the innovative character of constitutional and legal provisions in terms of both constitution-making and law-making processes and their contents. This book provides analysis that will be relevant to scholars students and practitioners specifically those interested in International Relations Law Sociology of Law and African Studies as well as socio-political comparative studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367600013

The Quest for Human LongevityScience Business and Public Policy Many scientists today are working to retard the aging process in humans so as to increase both life expectancy and the quality of life. Over the past decade impressive results have been achieved in targeting the mechanisms and pathways of aging. In The Quest for Human Longevity Lewis D. Solomon considers these scientific studies by exploring the principal biomedical anti-aging techniques. The book also considers cutting edge research on mental enhancements and assesses the scientific doubts of skeptics. The Quest for Human Longevity is also about business. Solomon examines eight corporations pursuing various age-related interventions profiling their scientific founders and top executives and examining personnel intellectual property and financing for each firm. Academic scientists form the link between research and commerce. Solomon notes that the involvement of university scientists and researchers follows one of two models. The first is a traditional model in which scientists leave academia to work for a corporation or remain in academia and obtain business support for their research. The second is a modern model in which scientists use their intellectual property as a catalyst for acquiring equity interests in the firms they organize. Critics have pointed to the dangers of commercialized science but Solomon's analysis on balance finds that the benefits outweigh the costs and that problems of secrecy and conflicts of interest can be addressed. If scientists succeed in unlocking the secrets of aging and developing drugs or therapies that will allow us to live decades longer the consequences for society will include profound social political economic and ethical questions. Solomon deals with the public policy aspects of significant life extension and looks at the conflict between those who advocate the acceptance of mortality and the partisans of life. The Quest for Human Longevity will be of interest to policymakers sociologists scientists and students of business as well as general readers interested in these compelling issues. Lewis D. Solomon is Theodore Rinehart Professor of Business Law at George Washington University Law School. A prolific author on legal business public policy and religious topics he has written over fifty books and numerous articles. He is an ordained rabbi and interfaith minister. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138516823

The Quest for Japan's New ConstitutionAn Analysis of Visions and Constitutional Reform Proposals 1980-2009 This book examines the many attempts over the last three decades to revise Japan’s constitution. As the book shows these attempts at revision have been relatively conservative aiming to embed in the constitution visions of a different future for Japan. Specific reforms advocated include: enabling Japan to have a more proactive foreign policy more independent of the US-Japan alliance; strengthening the role of the Emperor and excluding female succession to the throne; and emphasising more citizens’ duties rather than their rights in order to strengthen community and societal cohesion. By far the most comprehensive analysis of constitutional reform debate in Japan to be published to date it offers translations and analysis of more than two dozen amendment proposals. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the details of the reform proposals charts the so far unsuccessful attempts to bring about the reforms discusses the different groups arguing for reform and assesses the nature of the proposed reforms. It categorises different versions of the vision for Japan’s future and shows that only a few campaigners are advocating anything like a return to Japan’s pre-war constitution. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415731508

The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science The transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences in the third part of the 19th century was closely related to attempts to develop and implement methods for dealing with social tensions and the rationalization of society. This book studies the connections between academic disciplines and notions of Jewish assimilation and integration and demonstrates that the quest for Jewish assimilation is linked to and built into the conceptual foundations of modern social science disciplines. Focusing on two influential "assimilated" Jewish authors—anthropologist Franz Boas and sociologist Georg Simmel—this study shows that epistemological considerations underlie the authors’ respective evaluations of the Jews’ assimilation in German and American societies as a form of "group extinction" or as a form of "social identity." This conceptual model gives a new "key" to understanding pivotal issues in recent Jewish history and in the history of the social sciences. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415540735

The Quest for Legitimacy in Chinese PoliticsA New Interpretation Xiang explains the nature and depth of the legitimacy crisis facing the government of China and why it is so frequently misunderstood in the West. Arguing that it is more helpful to understand the quest for legitimacy in China as an eternally dynamic process rather than to seek resolutions in constitutionalism Xiang examines the understanding of legitimacy in Chinese political philosophy. He posits that the current crisis is a consequence of the incompatibility of Confucian Republicanism and Soviet-inspired Bolshevism. The discourse on Chinese political reform tends to polarize between total westernization on the one hand or the rejection of western influence in all forms on the other. Xiang points to a third solution - meeting western democratic theories halfway avoiding another round of violent revolution. This book provides valuable insights for scholars and students of China’s politics and political history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367339715

The Quest for ModernitySecular Liberal and Left-wing Political Thought in Egypt 1945-1958 This book analyses the political ideologies of the several highly influential liberal socialist and communist thinkers groups and movements which sought to modernize Egypt after World War II. Most of the representatives of these currents intended to transform Egyptian society completely through rapid industrialization land reforms and economic planning which would eliminate the peasantry rationalize the economy and create a new Egyptian citizen who would live 'in accordance with the spirit of the age'. This study explains why and how most liberal and left-wing intellectuals eventually supported the authoritarian modernization programme of the July Revolution of 1952. It gives new insights into intellectual life during one of the most optimistic periods in Egyptian history a time when Egypt was at the height of its power and believed a whole new future lay before it uniting the Arab world and joining Asia and Africa in the common struggle for independence and dignity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138869875

The Quest for Quality in the NHSA Chartbook on Quality of Care in the UK PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NUFFIELD TRUST Quality is an issue of central importance in the NHS and yet despite a considerable number of initiatives programmes and organisation that have focussed on improving quality in the NHS over recent years there's no comprehensive reliable balance and rigorous account of the strengths and weaknesses in healthcare delivery. This book provides an authoritative and accessible account of the state of quality in the NHS. Unless information on quality is properly gathered organised analysed and used the health service will continue to lack a foundation on which sustained and systemic improvement can be based. The Quest for Quality in the NHS: a chartbook on quality of care in the UK is a comprehensive rigorous and robust account of healthcare quality and will inform the public managers researchers and policymakers about gaps between what is possible and what is delivered by the healthcare system. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781315377384

The Quest for Revolution in Australian Schooling Policy This book seeks to critically examine the impacts of ‘grand designs’ in public policy through a detailed historical analysis of Australian schooling reforms since the ‘education revolution’ agenda was introduced by the federal government in the late 2000s. Combining policy analyses and interviews with senior policy makers and ministerial advisors centrally involved in the reforms it offers a detailed interpretive analysis of the complexities of policy evolution and assemblage. The book argues that the education revolution sought to impose a new order on Australian schooling by aligning state and territory systems to common policies and processes in areas including curriculum assessment funding reporting and teaching. Using a theory and critique of ‘alignment thinking’ in public policy Savage shows how the education revolution and subsequent reforms have been underpinned by uncritical faith in the power of nationally aligned data evidence and standards to improve policies and unite systems around practices ‘proven to work’. The result is a new national policy assemblage that has deeply reshaped the making and doing of schooling policy in the nation generating complex questions about who is steering the ship of education into the future. The Quest for Revolution in Australian Schooling Policy is a must read for education policy researchers policy makers education ministers and school leaders and will appeal to anyone with an interest in the complex power dynamics that underpin schooling reforms. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367681876

The Quest for Security in the CaribbeanProblems and Promises in Subordinate States This comprehensive work on security in the English-speaking Caribbean offers a wealth of information about the history politics economics and geography of the entire region. The author examines security problems in the region as a geopolitical unit not on a selective case-study basis as is usually done. He assesses Caribbean security within a theoretical framework where four factors are critical: perceptions of the political elites; capabilities of the states; the geopolitics of the area; and the ideological orientations of the parties in power. Political and economic issues are judged to be as relevant to security as military factors. The author identifies safeguards which countries in the region may take in the coming decade. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315699141

The Quest for Sustainable BusinessAn Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility In January 2010 author academic and social entrepreneur Dr Wayne Visser set off on a nine-month 20-country "quest" to talk to entrepreneurs business leaders and innovators and learn about how companies in all parts of the world can and are helping to tackle the world's most pressing social and environmental problems. His aim was to explore the many varieties of global approaches to sustainable business practices first-hand and to share some of the most innovative global examples.The result is this treasure trove of a book full of stories ideas links to more than 100 video interviews best practices and tools for making sustainable business work in a myriad of different contexts cultures and settings. Besides sharing insights from his 2010 "CSR Quest World Tour" the author captures his professional experiences and the evolution of sustainable business over the past 20 years.The path begins in Africa and winds its way through Asia North America Europe Australasia and Latin America. The author shares what he has learned in encounters with mega-corporations and small farmers and conversations with CEOs and social entrepreneurs. There are facts and figures about world trends and interviews with thought leaders and activists. This is a tale that consciously weaves the personal and the professional mixing anecdotes and case studies. It looks outwards and reflects inwards and is both autobiography and the life story of a global movement. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781906093761

The Quest for Tejano Identity in San Antonio Texas 1913-2000 The Quest for Tejano Identity was written as a study of Mexican American consciousness and a history of the assumptions and intellectual responses of Mexican Americans in south Texas. The work uses history to inquire why different ethnic groups think act and speak as they do as they encounter American society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415651240

The Quest for the InvisibleMicroscopy in the Enlightenment The eighteenth century has often been viewed as a period of relative decline in the field of microscopy as interest in microscopes seemed to wane after an intense period of discovery in the seventeenth century. As such developments in the field during the Enlightenment have been largely overlooked. This book therefore fills a considerable gap in the study of this life science providing a thorough analysis of what the main concerns of the field were and how microscopists learned to communicate with each other in relevant ways in order to compare results and build a new discipline. Employing a substantial body of contemporary literature from across Europe Marc J. Ratcliff is able to present us with a definitive account of the state of research into microscopy of the period. He brings to light the little known work of Louis Joblot re-evaluates the achievements of Abraham Trembley and gives new weight to Otto-Friedrich Müller's important contributions. The book also connects changes in instrument design to an innovative account of microscopical research during the eighteenth century and the rich social networks of communication that grew during this period. Investigating the history of microscopical research from 1680 up to 1800 also shows how scholars progressively established a modern rule on which to shape their new discipline: balancing microscopical magnification with shared vision. This rule developed in response to the diminishing size of the microscopical object during the course of the eighteenth century from dry minute organisms such as insects to aquatic minute bodies such as polyps and finally to aquatic invisible organisms thus completing the scholar's quest to study the invisible. This book will be essential reading for historians of microscopy epistemologists and for historians of the life sciences in the modern period. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553696

The Quest for the Melodic Electric BassFrom Jamerson to Spenner The double bass - the preferred bass instrument in popular music during the 1960s - was challenged and subsequently superseded by the advent of a new electric bass instrument. From the mid-1960s and throughout the 1970s a melismatic and inconsistent approach towards the bass role ensued which contributed to a major change in how the electric bass was used in performance and perceived in the sonic landscape of mainstream popular music. Investigating the performance practice of the new melodic role of the electric bass as it appeared (and disappeared) in the 1960s and 1970s the book turns to the number one songs of the American Billboard Hot 100 charts between 1951 and 1982 as a prime source. Through interviews with players from this era numerous transcriptions - elaborations of twenty bass related features - are presented. These are juxtaposed with a critical study of four key players who provide the case-studies for examining the performance practice of the melodic electric bass. This highly original book will be of interest not only to bass players but also to popular musicologists looking for a way to instigate methodological and theoretical discussions on how to develop popular music analysis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367879631

The Quest for the Nazi PersonalityA Psychological Investigation of Nazi War Criminals Half a century after the collapse of the Nazi regime and the Third Reich scholars from a range of fields continue to examine the causes of Nazi Germany. An increasing number of young Americans are attempting to understand the circumstances that led to the rise of the Nazi party and the subsequent Holocaust as well as the implication such events may have for today as the world faces a resurgence of neo-Nazism ethnic warfare and genocide. In the months following World War II extensive psychiatric and psychological testing was performed on over 200 Nazis in an effort to understand the key personalities of the Third Reich and of those individuals who "just followed orders." In addressing these issues the current volume examines the strange history of over 200 Rorschach Inkblot protocols that were administered to Nazi war criminals and answers such questions as: * Why the long delay in publishing protocols? * What caused such jealousies among the principals? * How should the protocols be interpreted? * Were the Nazis monsters or ordinary human beings? This text delivers a definitive and comprehensive study of the psychological functioning of Nazi war criminals -- both the elite and the rank-and-file. In order to apply a fresh perspective to understanding the causes that created such antisocial behavior these analyses lead to a discussion within the context of previous work done in social and clinical psychology. Subjects discussed include the authoritarian personality altruism obedience to authority diffusion of responsibility and moral indifference. The implications for current political events are also examined as Neo-Nazism anti-Semitism and ethnic hate are once again on the rise. While the book does contain some technical material relating to the psychological interpretations it is intended to be a scholarly presentation written in a narrative style. No prior knowledge of psychological testing is necessary but it should be of great benefit for those interested in the Rorschach Inkblot test or with a special interest in psychological testing personality assessment and the history of psychology. It is also intended for readers with a broad interest in Nazi Germany. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138989801

The Quest for the Northwest PassageKnowledge Nation and Empire 1576–1806 These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage – the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans – from the early modern era to the start of the nineteenth century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138661820

The Quest for the True Figure of the EarthIdeas and Expeditions in Four Centuries of Geodesy In the 1730s two expeditions set out from Paris on extraordinary journeys; the first was destined for the equatorial region of Peru the second headed north towards the Arctic Circle. Although the eighteenth century witnessed numerous such adventures these expeditions were different. Rather than seeking new lands to conquer or mineral wealth to exploit their primary objectives were scientific: to determine the Earth's precise shape by measuring the variation of a degree of latitude at points separated as nearly as possible by a whole quadrant of the globe between Equator and North Pole. Although such information had consequences for navigation and cartography the motivation was not simply utilitarian. Rather it was one theme among many in an intellectual revolution in which advances in mathematics paralleled philosophical strife and reputations of the living and the dead stood to be elevated or destroyed. In particular the two expeditions hoped to prove the correctness of Isaac Newton's prediction that the Earth is not a perfect sphere but flattened at the poles. In this study the 'Figure of the Earth' controversy is for the first time comprehensively explored in all its several dimensions. It shows how a largely neglected episode of European science that produced no spectacular process or artefact - beyond a relatively minor improvement in maps - nevertheless represents an almost unique combination of theoretical prediction and empirical method. It also details the suffering of the two teams of scientists in very different extremes of climate whose sacrifices for the sake of knowledge rather than colonial gain caught the imagination of the literary world of the time. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237527

The Quest for Total PeaceThe Political Thought of Roger Martin du Gard This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138984370

The Quest for UtopiaJewish Political Ideas and Institutions Through the Ages This exploration of the Jewish political tradition elucidates a long rich and diverse experience of both sovereignty and dispersed statelessness. It holds insights as Zvi Gitelman points out in his introductory chapter for anyone interested comparative and ethnic politics Jewish history and the prehistory of contemporary Israeli politics. Stuart Cohen analyzes the "covenant idea" and the constitutional character of ancient Israel which had a profound influence on Western political thought through the medium of the Bible. Gerald Blidstein examines rabbinic strategies for accommodation to the realities of Jewish dispersion in the middle Ages while Robert Chazan focuses on communal authority and self-governance in the same period. Jonathan Frankel and Paula Hyman move the study into modern times with attempts to characterize the diverse patterns of Jewish political culture and activity in different parts of Europe in the process revealing the dynamics of political cultural influence. Finally Peter Medding looks at the "new politics" of contemporary American Jews - as voters as public officials and as organizational actors. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315486536

The Quest for World Environmental CooperationThe Case of the UN Global Environment Monitoring System First published in 1992. In 1972 the UN Conference on the Human Environment initiated the process of world environmental cooperation. This study is about GEMS (the Global Environment Monitoring System) which the Conference recommended be set up to generate data and information necessary for worldwide environmental assessment. This book examines the genesis and evolution of GEMS and the complex task involved in establishing GEMS and making it perform its functions. It relates GEMS to the factors which have shaped the international environmental agenda and cooperation since 1972. In particular it highlights North-South differences and the problems inherent in the international organizations belonging to the UN system vis-á-vis the novel and multifaceted challenges involved in dealing with systemic cross-sectoral nature of global environmental problems. The lessons of GEMS and other issues presented in this book are highly relevant to the continuing efforts to set up effective programmes for ‘earthwatching’ and to promote international environmental cooperation. They also relate more broadly to the challenges of managing global interdependence and to the need to devise supporting organizational structures through reform and strengthening of the UN system. The comprehensive nature of the political and institutional analyses presented in this book make it an academic reference work of lasting value. Its frank tone and willingness to derive prescriptive conclusions will appeal in particular to the many actors engaged in the processes and structures of global multilateral cooperation. The book will be of special use to those interested in environmental issues and international organization Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367193720

The Quest of the Historical GospelMark John and the Origins of the Gospel Genre First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367863609

The Quest of the Holy Grail Published in 1965: In the following pages the author has endeavoured to give as clearly and concisely as possible a description of the literature composing the Grail cycle an analysis of its content and a survey of the leading theories to which this perplexing body of romance has given rise. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367146085

The Quest to Feel Good Emotions rather than simply being the result of random or disordered biochemical processes are adaptive mechanisms that are often overly relied upon as a function of basic learning processes. The Quest to Feel Good helps the reader understand that negative emotions serve a critical adaptive purpose that functions in relation to one’s ultimate desire for a felt-positive state. Paul Rasmussen addresses the role of emotions as adaptive components in combination with cognitive and behavioral processes to our overall orchestration of life. To this end the therapist is directed to use a client’s negative affect as a means of guiding critical therapeutic conclusions and decisions. Rasmussen emphasizes an integration of the basic premises of Adlerian psychology with the evolutionary-imperative model presented by Theodore Millon (1990 1999). This integration is used to explain the primacy of emotions in the manifestation of most clinical conditions. This critical integration and focus makes the volume important necessary and unique to mental health professionals. Case examples and illustrations are also offered throughout the text. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138872905

The Question of Artificial IntelligencePhilosophical and Sociological Perspectives Originally published in 1987 when Artificial Intelligence (AI) was one of the most hotly debated subjects of the moment; there was widespread feeling that it was a field whose ‘time had come’ that intelligent machines lay ‘just around the corner’. Moreover with the onset of the revolution in information technology and the proclamation from all corners that we were moving into an ‘information society’ developments in AI and advanced computing were seen in many countries as having both strategic and economic importance. Yet aside from the glare of publicity that tends to surround new scientific ideas or technologies it must be remembered that AI was a relative newcomer among the sciences; that it had often been the subject of bitter controversy; and that though it had been promising to create intelligent machines for some 40 years prior to publication many believe that it had actually displayed very little substantive progress. With this background in mind the aim of this collection of essays was to take a novel look at AI. Rather than following the path of old well-trodden arguments about definitions of intelligence or the status of computer chess programs the objective was to bring new perspectives to the subject in order to present it in a different light. Indeed instead of simply adding to the endless wrangling ‘for’ and ‘against’ AI the source of such divisions is made a topic for analysis in its own right. Drawing on ideas from the philosophy and sociology of scientific knowledge this collection therefore broke new ground. Moreover although a great deal had been written about the social and cultural impact of AI little had been said of the culture of AI scientists themselves – including their discourse and style of thought as well as the choices judgements negotiations and competitive struggles for resources that had shaped the genesis and development of the paradigmatic structure of their discipline at the time. Yet sociologists of science have demonstrated that the analysis of factors such as these is a necessary part of understanding the development of scientific knowledge. Hence it was hoped that this collection would help to redress the imbalance and provide a broader and more interesting picture of AI. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138585348

The Question of German Unification1806-1996 The course of recent German history has been volatile. Events in Eastern Europe the collapse of European Communism and German Re-Unification has brought issues of Germany's status into the arena of world politics. The Question of German Unification presents an introduction to the last two hundred years of German history and addresses questions raised by the status of Germany as a single or split national state.Imanuel Geiss: * argues that Germany has fluctuated all too frequently and catastrophically between being the power centre of Europe or a power vacuum * describes the special features of German history and looks at Germany within a European framework * analyses the political economic and social aspects of German Nationalism as well as the impact of the collapse of Communism on Germany through detailing long-term structures and processes * includes discussion of recent political events as well as a chronology and further reading. Imanuel Geiss reflects on the irrationalities of German history surveys how they have been explained by historians and provides a succinct and readable account of the complex issues involved. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138161566

The Question of LimitsA Historical Perspective on the Environmental Crisis We have forgotten how to think about limits. Most philosophical approaches to the environment have focused primarily on the value of the natural world the status of anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene and the largely ethical questions of our impact on the world. While fully acknowledging these concerns this book emphasizes the centrality of the confrontation between the imperative of growth that has been present since the Enlightenment and our belated rediscovery of limits. The expression "Limits to Growth" the title of a famous book from 1972 by Donella H. Meadows et al. may have passed into a common discourse yet the notion of limits itself remains insufficiently theorized or even reflected upon in the current movement of environmental advocacy. Sometimes it even seems as if there is an effort to avoid it. This book argues that on the contrary we can only resolve the present global challenges by confronting the question of limits and making it central to our reflection. This entails discussing the long history of thinking about limits in which Malthus is the most infamous figure but which also includes such major participants as John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. Ultimately The Question of Limits contends that the value of embracing limits extends beyond the environment and offers the potential to become a transformative social good.The Question of Limits will be of great interest to students and scholars working at the intersection of environmental studies economics intellectual history and philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367664619

The Question of the GiftEssays Across Disciplines The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields including anthropology literary criticism economics philosophy and classics it provides new paradigms and poses new questions concerning the theory and practice of gift exchange. In addressing these questions contributors not only challenge the conventions of their fields but also combine ideas and methods from both the social sciences and humanities to forge innovative ways of confronting this universal phenomenon. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415869140

The Quick Changeover PlaybookA Step-by-Step Guideline for the Lean Practitioner This book covers the basics of setup reduction and quick changeover and data collection. It outlines the first pass of waste reduction through the implementation of the visual workplace and layout improvements. The book covers two quick changeover concepts: intermediate tooling and one-turn methods. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781498741644

The Quiet RevolutionariesHow the Grey Nuns Changed the Social Welfare Paradigm of Lewiston Maine The book recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious the Grey Nuns of Lewiston Maine. The founding of their hospital was significant in its time as the first hospital in that factory city; and is significant today if one desires a more accurate and inclusive history of women and healthcare in America. The fact that this community lived in a hostile Protestant-dominated industrial environment while submerged in a French-Canadian Catholic world of ethnicity tradition and paternalism makes their accomplishments more compelling. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415651257

The Quintessential ZerkaWritings by Zerka Toeman Moreno on Psychodrama Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy The Quintessential Zerka documents the origins and development of the theory and practice of psychodrama sociometry and group psychotherapy through the work and innovation of its co-creator Zerka Toeman Moreno. This comprehensive handbook brings together history philosophy methodology and application. It shows the pioneering role that Zerka along with her husband J. L. Moreno played in the development not only of the methods of psychodrama and sociometry but of the entire group psychotherapy movement worldwide. It demonstrates the extent to which Zerka's intuitive and intellectual grasp of the work combined with her superb ability to organize and synthesize continue to exert an influence on the field. Toni Horvatin and Edward Schreiber have selected articles that span a career of some sixty years from Zerka’s very first publication to recent previously unpublished work. Personal anecdotes and poetry from Zerka herself provide a valuable context for each individual article. The selection includes: psychodrama it's relation to stage radio and motion pictures psychodramatic rules techniques and adjunctive methods beyond aristotle breuer and freud: Moreno’s contribution to the concept of catharsis psychodrama role theory and the concept of the social atom. This book provides a rich source of insight and inspiration for all those interested in the history development and practice of psychodrama sociometry and group psychotherapy whatever their level of experience. It will be of interest to anyone involved in the fields of psychology counselling sociology social work education theatre or human relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138871861

The Quito Papers and the New Urban Agenda The future is urban. Indeed the battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities. Not a moment too soon then that urbanization is suddenly at the centre of global policy making. In 2015 the governments of the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in 2016 they adopted the New Urban Agenda. However the question of how these Agendas will be pursued concretely remains. Unfortunately the prevailing model is rigidly technocratic Charter of Athens from 1933—the strict functionalist separation of activities that it prescribes still dominates planning practices worldwide. The purpose of The Quito Papers and the New Urban Agenda is to start a discussion that both challenges this status quo and opens up new lines of enquiry. It intentionally does not propose a manifesto made up of simplistic slogans and recommendations as cities in the 21st century are more fragile and complex. Its content therefore is intentionally broad ranging from architecture planning and urban design to land ownership and regulation water management and environmental philosophy. This multifaceted assembly of perspectives critiques the tenets of the Charter of Athens identify new trends and propose new insights on contemporary urbanization. Part One outlines the overall challenges facing cities in the 21st century and Part Two offers a number of conceptual frameworks and approaches for dealing with those challenges. Each Part is also composed of a body of illustrated arguments synthesized from selectively-abridged background papers from over 15 commissioned authors interspersed with in-depth papers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815379294

The Qur’anFormative Interpretation This volume is one of two edited by Andrew Rippin which are designed to complement one another and to comprehend the principal trends in modern scholarship on the Qur’an. Both volumes are provided with a new introduction by the editor analysing this scholarship and providing references for further study. The Qur’an: Formative Interpretation is concerned with the questions that have been addressed within the study of the early interpretation (tafsir) of the Qur’an. These papers exemplify the areas of debate within the field the need for detailed investigative scholarship of individual texts and the progress made in the systematic study of these early works. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315264295

The Qur’anStyle and Contents This volume is one of two edited by Andrew Rippin which are designed to complement one another and to comprehend the principal trends in modern scholarship on the Qur’an. Both volumes are provided with a new introduction by the editor analysing this scholarship and providing references for further study. The Qur’an: Style and Contents reveals the variety of approaches followed within the study of the text. From Nöldeke’s examination of style through Arkoun’s project for the future these scholarly statements reflect the historical development of the discipline while providing overviews of key elements for the understanding of the Qur’an. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315264301

The Qur'an and its Biblical Subtext This book challenges the dominant scholarly notion that the Qur’ān must be interpreted through the medieval commentaries shaped by the biography of the prophet Muhammad arguing instead that the text is best read in light of Christian and Jewish scripture. The Qur’ān in its use of allusions depends on the Biblical knowledge of its audience. However medieval Muslim commentators working in a context of religious rivalry developed stories that separate Qur’ān and Bible which this book brings back together. In a series of studies involving the devil Adam Abraham Jonah Mary and Muhammad among others Reynolds shows how modern translators of the Qur’ān have followed medieval Muslim commentary and demonstrates how an appreciation of the Qur’ān’s Biblical subtext uncovers the richness of the Qur’ān’s discourse. Presenting unique interpretations of 13 different sections of the Qur’ān based on studies of earlier Jewish and Christian literature the author substantially re-evaluates Muslim exegetical literature. Thus The Qur’ān and Its Biblical Subtext a work based on a profound regard for the Qur’ān’s literary structure and rhetorical strategy poses a substantial challenge to the standard scholarship of Qur’ānic Studies. With an approach that bridges early Christian history and Islamic origins the book will appeal not only to students of the Qur’an but of the Bible religious studies and Islamic history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415524247

The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions This book is a study of related passages found in the Arabic Qur’ān and the Aramaic Gospels i.e. the Gospels preserved in the Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic dialects. It builds upon the work of traditional Muslim scholars including al-Biqā‘ī (d. ca. 808/1460) and al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505) who wrote books examining connections between the Qur’ān on the one hand and Biblical passages and Aramaic terminology on the other as well as modern western scholars including Sidney Griffith who argue that pre-Islamic Arabs accessed the Bible in Aramaic. The Qur’ān and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions examines the history of religious movements in the Middle East from 180-632 CE explaining Islam as a response to the disunity of the Aramaic speaking churches. It then compares the Arabic text of the Qur’ān and the Aramaic text of the Gospels under four main themes: the prophets; the clergy; the divine; and the apocalypse. Among the findings of this book are that the articulator as well as audience of the Qur’ān were monotheistic in origin probably bilingual culturally sophisticated and accustomed to the theological debates that raged between the Aramaic speaking churches. Arguing that the Qur’ān’s teachings and ethics echo Jewish-Christian conservatism this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Religion History and Literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138668553

The Qur'an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish RepublicAn Exegetical Tradition The Qur’an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic is one of the few book-length studies on an Ottoman Qur’an commentary. Its premise is that "the Ottoman Empire" did not come to an end until 1950 so far as Islam was concerned in Turkey.The work explores the relationship between Elmalılı’s Qur’an commentary and the intellectual trends of the period including the impact of materialism the sciences notions of civilizational progress and philosophy. In doing so this study emphasizes the "local" aspect of the Qur’an commentary through a sustained focus on the Istanbul context in which it was written. This work demonstrates that Elmalılı’s Qur’an commentary is a product of and reaction to the religious intellectual political and social trends of the period. This work in considering all the factors that led to the commissioning of Elmalılı’s Qur’an commentary also contributes to our understanding of the history of Islam in early to mid-twentieth-century Turkey.This intellectual history of modern Islamic thought contributes to our understanding of the genre of Qur’an commentary in the early twentieth century. It is a key text for students and scholars interested in Islam in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey modern Islamic thought and the Middle East. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367671716

The Qur'an in Christian-Muslim DialogueHistorical and Modern Interpretations Offering an analysis of Christian-Muslim dialogue across four centuries this book highlights those voices of ecumenical tone which have more often used the Qur’an for drawing the two faiths together rather than pushing them apart and amplifies the voice of the Qur’an itself.Finding that there is tremendous ecumenical ground between Christianity and Islam in the voices of their own scholars this book ranges from a period of declining ecumenism during the first three centuries of Islam to a period of resurging ecumenism during the most recent century until now. Among the ecumenical voices in the Christian-Muslim dialogue this book points out that the Qur’an itself is possibly the strongest of those voices. These findings are cause for and evidence of hope for the Christian–Muslim relationship: that although agreement may never be reached dialogue has led at times to very real mutual understanding and appreciation of the religious other. Providing a tool for those pursuing understanding and mutual appreciation between the Islamic and Christian faiths this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Islam the Qur’an and the history of Christian-Muslim relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367868116

The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian WorldContext and Interpretation The largely Arabo-centric approach to the academic study of tafsir has resulted in a lack of literature exploring the diversity of Qur'anic interpretation in other areas of the Muslim-majority world. The essays in The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World resolve this aiming to expand our knowledge of tafsir and its history in the Malay-Indonesian world. Highlighting the scope of Qur'anic interpretation in the Malay world in its various vernaculars it also contextualizes this work to reveal its place as part of the wider Islamic world especially through its connections to the Arab world and demonstrates the strength of these connections. The volume is divided into three parts written primarily by scholars from Malaysia and Indonesia. Beginning with a historical overview it then moves into chapters with a more specifically regional focus to conclude with a thematic approach by looking at topics of some controversy in the broader world. Presenting new examinations of an under-researched topic this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Islamic studies and Southeast Asian studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367281090

The Quran: A New InterpretationIn English with Arabic Text This new rendering of the Holy Quran into the English language is the first of its kind since it is a combination of translation and exegesis in which the author 'opens out' the verses of the Holy Book to reveal some of the layers of meaning expounded by the Prophet and transmitted through the ages by the Prophet's companions family and the scholars who followed them. The fruit of over thirty years of research into the principles of Quranic exegesis and hadith analysis this work matches a depth of Arabic and Islamic learning with a mastery of English that is lucid and accessible while preserving the integrity of the original text. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138869844

The Qur'anAn Introduction This new work presents a concise and accessible introduction to the Qur'an. Muhammad Abu-Hamdiyyah first explores the concept of deity including the Christian and Jewish understanding of God and second discusses the Qur'anic message from the perspective of modern knowledge. This is an ideal textbook for students with no prior knowledge of the complexities of the Qur'an's message. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003070917

The Qur'an's Reformation of Judaism and ChristianityReturn to the Origins This volume explores the relationship between the Qur’an and the Jewish and Christian traditions  considering aspects of continuity and reform. The chapters examine the Qur’an’s retelling of biblical narratives as well as its reaction to a wide array of topics that mark Late Antique religious discourse including eschatology and ritual purity prophetology and paganism and heresiology and Christology.Twelve emerging and established scholars explore the many ways in which the Qur’an updates transforms and challenges religious practice beliefs and narratives that Late Antique Jews and Christians had developed in dialogue with the Bible. The volume establishes the Qur’an’s often unique perspective alongside its surprising continuity with Judaism and Christianity. Chapters focus on individual suras and on intra-Qur’anic parallels on the Qur’an’s relationship to pre-Islamic Arabian culture on its intertextuality and its literary intricacy and on its legal and moral framework. It illustrates a move away from the problematic paradigm of cultural influence and instead emphasizes the Qur’an’s attempt to reform the religious landscape of its time.The Qur'an's Reformation of Judaism and Christianity offers new insight into the Islamic Scripture as a whole and into recent methodological developments providing a compelling snapshot of the burgeoning field of Qur’anic studies. It is a key resource for students and scholars interested in religion Islam and Middle Eastern Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367731052

The Qur'anThe Basics This second edition of a popular introduction to the Qur’an includes an essential updated reference guide including a chronology of the revelation links to internet resources and suggestions for further reading. Exploring the Qur'an's reception through history its key teachings and its place in contemporary thought and belief this volume analyzes: the Qur'an as the word of God; its reception and communication by the Prophet Muhammad; the structure and language of the text; conceptions of God the holy law and jihad; and Islamic commentaries on Qur’anic teachings through the ages. The Qur'an: The Basics Second Edition is a concise and accessible introduction. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138666313

The R Primer Newcomers to R are often intimidated by the command-line interface the vast number of functions and packages or the processes of importing data and performing a simple statistical analysis. The R Primer provides a collection of concise examples and solutions to R problems frequently encountered by new users of this statistical software. Rather than explore the many options available for every command as well as the ever-increasing number of packages the book focuses on the basics of data preparation and analysis and gives examples that can be used as a starting point. The numerous examples illustrate a specific situation topic or problem including data importing data management classical statistical analyses and high-quality graphics production. Each example is self-contained and includes R code that can be run exactly as shown enabling results from the book to be replicated. While base R is used throughout other functions or packages are listed if they cover or extend the functionality. After working through the examples found in this text new users of R will be able to better handle data analysis and graphics applications in R. Additional topics and R code are available from the book’s supporting website at www.statistics.life.ku.dk/primer/ Media > Books > Print Books Chapman & Hall 9781439862063

The R Student Companion R is the amazing free open-access software package for scientific graphs and calculations used by scientists worldwide. The R Student Companion is a student-oriented manual describing how to use R in high school and college science and mathematics courses. Written for beginners in scientific computation the book assumes the reader has just some high school algebra and has no computer programming background. The author presents applications drawn from all sciences and social sciences and includes the most often used features of R in an appendix. In addition each chapter provides a set of computational challenges: exercises in R calculations that are designed to be performed alone or in groups. Several of the chapters explore algebra concepts that are highly useful in scientific applications such as quadratic equations systems of linear equations trigonometric functions and exponential functions. Each chapter provides an instructional review of the algebra concept followed by a hands-on guide to performing calculations and graphing in R. R is intuitive even fun. Fantastic publication-quality graphs of data equations or both can be produced with little effort. By integrating mathematical computation and scientific illustration early in a student’s development R use can enhance one's understanding of even the most difficult scientific concepts. While R has gained a strong reputation as a package for statistical analysis The R Student Companion approaches R more completely as a comprehensive tool for scientific computing and graphing. Media > Books > Print Books Chapman & Hall 9781439875407

The Rādhā TantraA critical edition and annotated translation The Rādhā Tantra is an anonymous 17th century tantric text from Bengal. The text offers a lively picture of the meeting of different religious traditions in 17th century Bengal since it presents a Śākta version of the famous Vaiṣṇava story of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. This book presents a critically edited text of the Rādhā Tantra based on manuscripts in India Nepal and Bangladesh as well as an annotated translation It is prefaced by an introduction that situates the text in its social and historical context and discusses its significance. The introduction also looks at the composition and metrics vocabulary and grammar and contents and doctrine of the text. It also includes a discussion of the extensive intertextualities of the Rādhā Tantra as well as the sources used for this edition. The Sanskrit text in Roman transliteration following the standard IAST system is then presented followed by an English translation of the text. This book will be of interest to scholars of South Asian Religion Tantric Studies and Religious History. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367026004

The Rabbi As Symbolic ExemplarBy the Power Vested in Me The solution to the growing problem of stress and burnout in rabbis!Written by a practicing clinical psychologist who spent 10 years as a congregational rabbi The Rabbi As Symbolic Exemplar: By the Power Vested in Me presents positive solutions to the inevitable negative effects of symbolic exemplarhood coaching rabbis through dilemmas of the “inner soul.” Being a rabbi means serving as a Symbolic Exemplar of the best that is in humankind being experienced and treated and expected to act as a stand-in for God and a walking talking symbol of all that Jewish tradition represents. The burden of being a symbolic exemplar of God is extraordinary and the struggle to live up to its “requirements” can be one of loneliness frustration and despair alienating rabbis who tire of living in a glass house.The Rabbi As Symbolic Exemplar examines how the symbolic role that serves as the source of the rabbi’s authority and power can lead to disillusionment and disenchantment. Author Jack H Bloom draws on his own experience as a rabbi who watched the successful career he enjoyed turn into one he desperately wanted to forsake and how he was inspired to become an “athletic coach” for rabbis. This unique book details how symbolic exemplarhood is created what its downside is what power it offers how it can be used effectively how rabbis can deal with their inner lives and what can be done to help rabbis stay “human” while maintaining their leadership.The Rabbi As Symbolic Exemplar is equally effective as a complete text or as a source of stand-alone chapters on specific topics including: special tensions of being a rabbi effects of symbolic exemplarhood on the rabbi’s family educating rabbis on their power training suggestions curing and healing and The Ten Commandments for rabbisThe Rabbi As Symbolic Exemplar is essential reading for rabbis rabbinical students congregants Christian clergy seminarians and anyone interested in what it is to be a clergy person and how they can support the work clergy do. The book educates both clergy and laity on the humanity of clergy.Visit the author’s website at http://jackhbloom.com Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203049419

The Race and Media Reader The Race and Media Reader provides a wide-ranging introduction to major issues and debates surrounding the role that the media plays in ongoing struggles around race and racism in the US today. The essays collected here come from a wide variety of disciplinary theoretical and methodological perspectives and focus on a broad range of media practices racial and ethnic populations and historical moments. These readings curated by Gilbert Rodman offer an intersectional approach to thinking about media and the politics of race arguing that media representations of specific racial/ethnic identities need to be understood within the broader social cultural and economic contexts in which they circulate. With concise introductory notes by Rodman these selections ask readers to take a critical stance on the media’s role as one of the most powerful institutions involved in the creation and maintenance of problematic racial hierarchies and to consider ways of thinking and acting that might bring us closer to a world where racism no longer exists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415801591

The Race GameSport and Politics in South Africa 1999 North American Society for Sports History Book of the YearDouglas Booth looks at the role of sport in the fostering of a new national identity in South Africa. He analyzes the effect of the 30-year sport boycott but concludes that sport will never unite South Africans except in the most fleeting and superficial manner. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203044476

The Race to Commercialize BiotechnologyMolecules Market and the State in Japan and the US This comparative study looks at the early development of biotechnology in the US and Japan. Drawing on primary and secondary sources it traces the historical roots of recombinant DNA technology discusses the tensions between regulation and promotional policies and identifies the major actors and strategies that launched biotechnology in both countries. Developing several strands of theory in economic history science and technology policy the book proposes a simple model that relates the differences in the two countries' responses to variations in the availability of institutional financial and organizational resources needed to commercialize the new technology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415651295

The RacehorseA Veterinary Manual Written by one of the UK’s leading equine veterinary practitioners this textbook is dedicated wholly to the veterinary management of the racehorse. The Racehorse: A Veterinary Manual brings together all the major orthopaedic and non-orthopaedic conditions likely to be encountered in racehorse practice and concisely details state-of-the-art ‘best practice’ for diagnosis and management. The book spans the full range of fields relevant to the clinician including topics as diverse as rehabilitation respiratory medicine exercise physiology pre-purchase and ‘herd health.’ Well-illustrated and comprehensive it succeeds in being both practical and firmly evidence based making it an invaluable resource for clinicians worldwide as well as a useful reference work for many non-veterinarians in the racing industry. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781482221916

The Racial ComplexA Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race In The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race Fanny Brewster revisits and examines Jung’s classical writing on the theory of complexes relating it directly to race in modern society. In this groundbreaking exploration Brewster deepens Jung’s minimalist writing regarding the cultural complexes of American blacks and whites by identifying and re-defining a psychological complex related to ethnicity. Original and insightful this book provides a close reading of Jung’s complexes theory with an Africanist perspective on raciality and white/black racial relationships. Brewster explores how racial complexes influence personality development cultural behavior and social and political status and how they impact contemporary American racial relations. She also investigates aspects of the racial complex including archetypal shadow as core constellations and their expression and cultural trauma in the African diaspora. The book concludes with a discussion of racial complexes as a continuous psychological state and how to move towards personal cultural and collective healing. Analyzing Jung’s work with a renewed lens and providing fresh comparisons to other literature and films including Get Out Brewster extends Jung’s work to become more inclusive of culture and ethnicity addressing issues which have been left previously unexamined in psychoanalytic thought. Due to its interdisciplinary nature this book will be of great importance to academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies sociology politics history of race African American studies and African diaspora studies. As this book discusses Jung’s complexes theory in a new light it will be of immense interest to Jungian analysts and analytical psychologists in practice and in training. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367177706

The Racialisation of Disorder in Twentieth Century Britain This book develops the concept of racialisation. It argues that a full understanding of racialized discourse must pay attention to both the particular local circumstances in which they appear and well-established themes which have unfolded over time. An important aspect of the study is the examination of other discourses with which racialized ideas have co-joined reflecting the way in which notions of 'race' are socially constructed. The final part of the book returns to debates of the 1980’s and argues that the racialisation of unrest in that decade was closely intertwined with conservative perspectives which sought to deny socio-economic causes in favour of explanations based upon the supposed cultural or personal proclivities of those involved. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138272095

The Racing Game This study of a unique social world probes beneath the thrill and spectacle of horse racing into the lives of the "honest boys " the "gyps " the "manipulators " the "stoops " and the "Chalk eaters"--the constituents of race track society and the players of the racing game. With scientific precision and journalistic vigor Scott describes the everyday activities--the objectives and strategies--of those whose lives are organized around track proceedings and who compete with chance and one another.The players in the racing game range from track owners to stable boys from law enforcers to lawbreakers and from casual sportsmen to pathologically addicted gamblers. Considering the self-interests the normative and operational codes and the interactional relationships among the major types and subtypes of participants the author defines the components of strategic movement within the framework of rules and resources to show how a player's relations to the "means of production" governs his behavior.The fruitful application of sociological theory and method to an unusually interesting social context makes this particularly useful still for courses in social problems and the sociology of organizations and of leisure. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538085

The Racing TribePortrait of a British Subculture It is generally assumed that anthropologists do their research in remote and uncomfortable parts of the world--places with monsoons mud huts and malaria. In this volume social anthropologist Kate Fox has taken on an altogether more enjoyable assignment the study of the arcane world of British horseracing. For Fox field research meant wandering around racetracks in a pink hat and high heels (standard tribal costume) rather than braving killer insects and primitive sanitation. Instead of an amorphous racing crowd the author finds a complete subculture with its own distinctive customs rituals language and etiquette. Among the spectators she identifies Horseys Addicts Anoraks Pair-Bonders Day-Outers Suits and Be-Seens--all united by remarkable friendliness and courtesy. Among the racing professionals the tribal structure includes Warriors (jockeys) Shamans (trainers) Scribes (journalists) Elders (officials and stewards) and Sin-Eaters (bookies). Fox includes witty and incisive descriptions of the many strange ceremonies and rituals observed by racegoers--the Circuit Ritual Ritual Conversations ("What do you fancy in the next?") Celebration Rituals the Catwalk Ritual and Post-Mortem Rituals (naturally a horse never loses a race because it's too slow)--and their special codes of behavior such as the Modesty Rule the Collective Amnesia Rule and the Code of Chivalry. The Racing Tribe is also a refreshingly candid account of anthropological fieldwork including all the embarrassing mistakes hiccups short-cuts and guesswork that most social scientists keep very quiet about. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538092

The Radiation Legacy of the Soviet Nuclear ComplexAn Analytical Overview A study of the legacy of nuclear contamination in the Soviet Union. It gives the location and characteristics of the accumulated radioactive material and wastes by each sector from ore and mining to use and disposal. It describes types of storage capacity and utilization age and location. It gives information on the territories and locations contaminated by normal operations and by accidents from which strategic plans for remediation can be formulated. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138984462

The Radical and Socialist Tradition in British Planning RPDFrom Puritan colonies to garden cities Focusing on the key period between the late 18th century and 1914 this book provides the first comprehensive narrative account of radical and socialist texts and organised movements for reform to land planning and housing policies in Britain. Beginning with the early colonial settlements in the puritan and enlightenment eras it also covers Benthamite utilitarian planning Owenite and utopian communitarianism the Chartists late Chartists and the First International Christian socialists and positivists working class and radical land reform campaigns in the late 19th century Garden City pioneers and the institutionalisation of the planning profession. The book in effect presents a prehistory of land planning and housing reform in the UK in contrast with most historiography which focuses on the immediate pre-World War I period. Providing an analysis of different intellectual traditions and contrasting middle class-led reform initiatives with those based on working class organisations the book seeks to relate historical debates to contemporary themes including utopianism and pragmatism the role of the state the balance between local initiatives and centrally driven reforms and the interdependence of land housing and planning. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138616561

The Radical Ecology of the ShelleysEros and Environment The Radical Ecology of the Shelleys: Eros and Environment is the first full-length study to explore a radically queer ecology at work in writings by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley as their discussions of nature and the natural consistently link ecology and erotic practice. Initiated by Timothy Morton in 2010 as a hybrid of two schools of thinking about nature queer ecology combines the alertness of environmentalists to constructions of the "natural" with efforts of sexuality scholars to denaturalize identity and to expose sexuality as a culture-bound construct. Conceptions of place are central to this investigation not only because an attachment to place is traditionally thought to be the ontological basis of all environmental consciousness (e.g. think-globally-act-locally) but because these two Romantic writers underscore the dynamic interaction between a person’s natural surroundings and his/her interpersonal attachments. The poetical and prose writings of the Shelleys claim our special attention because of their unusual conception of the oikos the etymological root of "ecology " to mean both local grounds and the social often domestic places in which people dwell and desire. The overarching thesis of this book asserts that proto-ecological theories in Romantic-era England cannot be understood separately from discourses related to married/family life and the texts considered demonstrate the comingling of earthly and erotic enjoyment. The issues raised by Eros and Environment are fundamental not only to literary and queer history but to all humanistic studies. They render the study of nature from a queer perspective a matter of intense interest to scholars in numerous disciplines ranging from ecocriticism and the natural sciences including climate studies to feminist criticism and sexuality studies. 　 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367664589

The Radical in PerformanceBetween Brecht and Baudrillard The Radical in Performance investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre and celebrates the subversive in performance. It is the first full-length study to explore the link between a western theatre which says Kershaw is largely outdated and the blossoming of postmodern performance much of which has a genuinely radical edge. In staying focused on the period between Brecht and Baudrillard modernity and postmodernism Baz Kershaw identifies crucial resources for the revitalisation of the radical across a wide spectrum of cultural practices. This is a timely necessary and rigorous book. It will be a compelling read for anyone searching for a critical catalyst for new ways of viewing and practising cultural politics. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315008509

The Radical Left and Social TransformationStrategies of Augmentation and Reorganization This comprehensive collection draws upon and reengages with a long history of Marxian-anchored thought to analyze the potential for social transformation through a reinvigorated radical Left all within the context of the ascendance of an increasingly ethnonationalist patriarchal and authoritarian far Right worldwide. The authors identify and reflect on strategies tactics and possibilities for analyzing and intervening in advanced capitalist societies by increasing and deepening popular participation and support on the far Left. The chapters are framed in terms of conceptualizing the capitalist present organizing "the people" and reimagining the radical Left. Together in diverse ways that draw upon both qualitative and quantitative approaches the authors evaluate the difficulties of augmentation across multiple planes from the tension between migrants and citizen workers to the uneasy relationship between sovereignty and class to the contradictions operating across international versus domestic dynamics. How and why (if at all) should the radical Left reexamine its understanding of political consciousness identity ideology and institutions as they relate to Marxian analysis and various threads of critical theory? The authors suggest new approaches for understanding what the radical Left is up against and how problematic barriers might be torn down thus disrupting unhelpful binaries such as state versus capital national versus international worker versus migrant activist versus candidate and freedom versus necessity.This book was originally published as a special issue of the online journal Global Discourse. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367664213

The Radical Left in Britain1931-1941 This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138984486

The Radical Left in Europe in the Age of Austerity The complex trajectory of Europe after the 2008 global financial crisis has led to the catastrophic failure of deep austerity measures that swept across the Union and is reflected in the rise of some radical left parties such as SYRIZA as well as an unfortunate rise in far right and nationalist parties and movements. This collection brings together a group of European scholars and activists from various European countries to discuss the recent economic political and electoral changes in respective countries and the current status and future plans of radical left parties and movements. This book fills a significant gap within the current literature in the English-speaking world on post-2008 Europe featuring a nation-based European wide survey of the current activities and plans of radical Left parties and movements in relation to the mounting social political and economic problems in Europe. This book contributes to the discussion by presenting a realistic depiction of the existing radical Left forces in Europe. This title was previously published as a special issue of Socialism and Democracy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367596774

The Radical Left Party Family in Western Europe 1989-2015 This book provides an innovative analysis and interpretation of the overall trajectory of the Western European radical left from 1989 to 2015. After the collapse of really existing communism this party family renewed itself and embarked on a recovery path seeking to fill the vacuum of representation of disaffected working-class and welfarist constituencies created by the progressive neoliberalisation of European societies. The radical left thus emerged as a significant factor of contemporary political life but despite some electoral gains and a few recent breakthroughs (SYRIZA in Greece PODEMOS in Spain) it altogether failed to embody a credible alternative to neoliberalism and to pave the way for a turn to a different developmental model. This book investigates why this was the case combining aggregate (17 countries) case study (Germany Italy and France) and comparative methods. It accurately charts the evolution of the nature strength cohesion and influence of the Western European radical left offering new insights in explaining its behaviour success and limits. It is essential reading for scholars students and activists interested in the radical left and in contemporary European politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367595968

The Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and FreireAncient Rhetoric/Radical Praxis Situating contemporary critical praxis at the intersection of the social the political and the rhetorical this book is a provocative inquiry into the teaching philosophies of Plato’s Socrates and Paulo Freire that has profound implications for contemporary education. Brown not only sheds new light on the surprising and significant points of intersection between ancient rhetoric and radical praxis as embodied in the teaching philosophies of Socrates and Freire using the philosophy of each to illumine the teaching of the other but uses this analysis to lead contemporary education in a bold new direction articulating a vision for a neo-humanist pragmatism. The book draws on the post-Freudian theories of Jacques Derrida Peter Brooks and Otto Rank as well as on the neo-pragmatism of Cornell West to craft a new radical pedagogy configured to the realities of "post flash-crash" America. In the process it discovers a space for a much broader application of Freire’s teaching philosophy than previous works moving beyond a narrow focus on "liberatory" pedagogy or "teaching resistance " toward a neo-humanist pragmatism emphasizing interactive learning problem-posing analysis and civic engagement. Brown crafts a social-epistemic praxis that fuses the pedagogies of Freire and Socrates joining the analytical the ethical and the political as part of an inquiry and intervention into the real the good and the possible that poses problematic aspects of contemporary reality in a search for the program content of a Pedagogy of Social Change. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138097827

The Radical Philosophy of Rights After 1989 human rights have expanded into a vernacular touching every aspect of social life. They are seen as the key concept in morals and politics and a main tool for forging individual and collective identities. They are the ideology after ‘the end of ideologies’ – the only values left after ‘the end of history’. The response of the left to the rights revolution has been muted and unsure. Classical Marxist critiques of (natural) rights have made the left justly suspicious and this is still the case today. Elaborating and addressing a series of foundational paradoxes of rights this book – the third in Costas Douzinas’s human rights trilogy following The End of Human Rights and Human Rights and Empire – provides a long-overdue re-evaluation of the history and political uses of rights for the left. The book examines the history and philosophy of the (legal) person the subject the human and dignity from classical Rome to postmodern Brussels. It traces the gradual abandonment of right virtue and the common good for individual rights and self-interest. The limited and distorted conception of rights of liberal jurisprudence is contrasted with an alternative that sees rights as a relation involved in the struggle for recognition and an everyday utopia. The right to resistance and revolution prohibited but regularly returning like the repressed rescues law from sclerosis and presents a case study of the paradoxical nature of rights. Finally the book offers a brief examination of law’s encounter with radical politics informed by the author’s strange experience as an ‘accidental’ politician in the first radical left government in Europe. The book’s radical concept of legal philosophy and public law will be of considerable value to legal theorists political philosophers and anyone with an interest in thinking and acting in ways that go beyond the limits of liberal and neoliberal ideology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138025103

The Radical Right Two vivid sets of images epitomize the dramatic course of the American right in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The main image is of a triumphant President Ronald Reagan reasonably viewed as the most effec-tive president of recent decades. A second set of images comes from the bombing of a government building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh a man linked to shadowy parts of the contemporary ultraright. The roots of Reaganism are conservative intellectual and political movements of the 1950s and 1960s including currents that in those years were considered marginal and ex-tremist. The roots of the ultraright of the 1990s have intersecting though by no means identical sources.Serious evaluation of the American right should begin with The Radical Right. It describes the main positions and composition of distinctive forces on the right in the first half of the 1950s and the next decade. It recognizes the right's vehement opposition to domestic and international Communism its sharp rejec-tion of the New Deal and its difficulty in distinguishing between the two. Bell's controversial point of departure is to regard the basic position of what he terms the radical right as excessive in its estimation of the Communist threat and unrealistic in its rejection of New Deal reforms. From this starting point Bell and his authors evaluate the ways the right went beyond programs and the self-descriptions of its leaders and organizers.The Radical Right explains McCarthyism and its successors in terms of conflicts over social status and the shape of American culture. Daniel Bell focuses on the social dislo-cation of significant groups in the post-New Deal decades. Many members of these groups perceived themselves as dispossessed and victimized by recent changes even if it was not possible to regard them as having undergone any great suffering.David Plotke's major new introduction discusses the book's argument McCarthyism and American politics the changing shape of the American right from 1965-2000 mili-tias and new issues in American politics. This edition also includes an afterword by Daniel Bell responding to Plotke's interpretation and revisiting his own perspectives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538108

The Radical Right in Germany1870 to the Present The Radical Right has represented a major element in German politics and society throughout the history of the united country (i.e. since the 1870s) though the understandable concentration on the Third Reich (1933-45) has tended to distort the wider picture. This book explores the history of the radical right through the full span of Germany's life as a nation thus putting the Third Reich in its natural context and also emphasising that the attitudes and policies of the radical right did not begin with Hitler's pursuit of power in the 1920s or end with his death in the ruins of Berlin. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138425330

The Radical Right in Late Imperial RussiaDreams of a True Fatherland? The revolutionary movements in late tsarist Russia inspired a reaction by groups on the right. Although these groups were ostensibly defending the status quo they were in fact as this book argues very radical in many ways. This book discusses these radical rightist groups showing how they developed considerable popular appeal across the whole Russian Empire securing support from a wide cross-section of society. The book considers the nature and organisation of the groups their ideologies and polices on particular issues and how they changed over time. The book concludes by examining how and why the groups lost momentum and support in the years immediately before the First World War and briefly explores how far present day rightist groups in Russia are connected to this earlier movement. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138476707

The Radical Soldier's TaleJohn Pearman 1819-1908 First published in 1988 The Radical Soldier’s Tale is both an introduction to and a transcript of his ‘Memoirs’ written after his retirement in 1881. In this autobiography he presents his life as a soldier during the Sikh Wars his life as a policeman and the ideologies which divided people from each other in the societies he had known and read about. Carolyn Steedman introduces the ‘Memoirs’ by placing the document in its textual context as well as the context of history and politics and shows how it directs fascinating light on popular political thought in the mid-Victorian years. In her introduction she looks closely at the kind of narratives people have access to in different social circumstances and the stories they tell themselves to explain who they are. This book will be of particular interest to students of Victorian history and politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138640146

The Radical Tradition (Routledge Revivals)A Study in Modern Revolutionary Thought Originally published in 1978 Richard Gombin’s book traces the recurrent attitudes in the history of the European revolutionary movement which have criticized socialist and communist parties for their authoritarian and bureaucratic tendencies and which have stressed spontaneity and decentralization as the correct basis from which to change society. From a critique of Marx through to an examination of Soviet practice under Lenin Trotsky and Stalin as a factor in the disillusionment of the left with the methods of the Russian Revolution Gombin’s study examines the concepts of ‘workers’ councils’ as they emerged in several countries after the First World War. This comparative study develops the idea of a ‘council communism’ as opposed to a ‘party communism’ which he suggests is the fundamental concept in the criticism of orthodox Communism from the left. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203609835

The Radical Women's Press of the 1850s First published in 1991. The volume reprints excerpts from six radical feminist journals of this crucial decade:The Lily the Genius of Liberty the Pioneer and Women's Advocate the Una The Woman's advocate and The Sybil Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203708941

The Radicalism of Romantic LoveCritical Perspectives Undoubtedly Romantic love has come to saturate our culture and is often considered to be a or even the major existential goal of our lives capable of providing us with both our sense of worth and way of being in the world. The Radicalism of Romantic Love interrogates the purported radicalism of Romantic love from philosophical cultural and psychoanalytic perspectives exploring whether it is a subversive force capable of breaking down entrenched social political and cultural norms and structures or whether in spite of its role in the fight against certain barriers it is in fact a highly conservative impulse. Exploring both the grounds for the central place of Romantic love in contemporary lives and the meaning extent and nature of its supposed radicalism this volume considers love from a variety of theoretical perspectives with attention to matters of gender sexuality class and ethnicity. With authors examining a range of questions including the role of love in the same-sex marriage debate polyamory and the notion of love as a political force The Radicalism of Romantic Love illuminates a fundamental but perplexing aspect of our contemporary lives and will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities with interests in the emotions and love as a social and political phenomenon. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138364455

The Radicals' City: Urban Environment Polarisation Cohesion Bringing together comparative case studies from Belfast Beirut Amsterdam and Berlin this book examines the role of the urban environment in social polarisation processes. In doing so it provides a timely and refreshingly innovative voice in the confusing babble on (counter-)terrorism urban conflict and community cohesion. Despite their socio-political differences these cities are telling cases of how the location and shape of very mundane objects such as rubbish bins bridges clothes’ stores shopping malls and cafés - in addition to the obvious fences walls and barbed wire - are often subject to heated controversies and influence the way urban conflict is 'lived' and practised. Within a Science and Technology Studies (STS) theoretical framework the authors provide a systematic analysis of these four cities and provide many concrete and richly illustrated examples of ’material agency’ without losing sight of their specific historical political geographical and social conditions. The STS angle permits some surprising yet extremely convincing conclusions which are of use not only for a range of practitioners but also to scholars interested in the social shaping processes and the consequences of urban artefacts. The authors argue that although architecture and urban design is clearly not the sole cause of conflict and polarisation neither is it completely innocent. Conversely it cannot be the silver bullet to solve related problems and to create community cohesion. However the materiality of our cities must not be ignored; in fact it can and should be ’enrolled’ in our efforts. The book contains detailed descriptions of such positive cases as inspiration for practitioners as diverse as policy makers architects urban designers planners community workers consultants or police officers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138279568

The Radio StationBroadcasting Podcasting and Streaming The Radio Station offers a concise and insightful guide to all aspects of radio broadcasting streaming and podcasting. This book’s tenth edition continues its long tradition of guiding readers to a solid understanding of who does what when and why in a professionally managed station. This new edition explains what "radio" in America has been where it is today and where it is going covering the basics of how programming is produced financed delivered and promoted via terrestrial and satellite broadcasting streaming and podcasting John Allen Hendricks and Bruce Mims examine radio and its future within a framework of existing and emerging technologies. The companion website is new revised with content for instructors including an instructors’ manual and test questions. Students will discover an expanded library of audio interviews with leading industry professionals in addition to practice quizzes and links to additional resources. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138218819

The Radiology Technologist's Handbook to Surgical Procedures In the past several years the rapid development of sophisticated imaging modalities has made radiology the fastest growing specialty in medicine. It is important for the radiologic technologist to keep pace with technology's advancements. The influx of freestanding outpatient facilities and the demands of insurance companies HMOs and third party reimbursement have brought about change. Medical facilities have begun to call upon nurses surgical technicians and other non-radiologic personnel to assist with patient positioning during surgical procedures requiring imaging-creating a need for a concise how-to guide to performing surgical procedures. The Radiology Technologist's Handbook to Surgical Procedures provides a quick reference for using fluoroscopic and x-ray equipment during surgical procedures. This book includes detailed descriptions and photographs taken in actual clinical settings.By using this manual as a foundation the radiologic technologist will be able to master many of the operating room x-ray procedures. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9780203736098

The Radon Transform and Local Tomography Over the past decade the field of image processing has made tremendous advances. One type of image processing that is currently of particular interest is "tomographic imaging " a technique for computing the density function of a body or discontinuity surfaces of this function. Today tomography is widely used and has applications in such fields as medicine engineering physics geophysics and security. The Radon Transform and Local Tomography clearly explains the theoretical computational and practical aspects of applied tomography. It includes sufficient background information to make it essentially self-contained for most readers. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367448677

The RAF and Aircraft DesignAir Staff Operational Requirements 1923-1939 This work examines the evolution of the RAF's operational requirements for its home defence air force - for bombers to mount a deterrent counter offensive and for fighters to provide direct defence of Britain. It discusses the management processes policies and decisions relevant to operational requirements on the basis of a detailed study of Air Ministry papers of the time. By tracing the development of operational requirements the author exposes the thinking behind the RAF's quest for effective fighter and bomber aircraft. He describes the ideas and concepts of air warfare that were adopted in the 1920s and shows how these evolved into the Air Staff's requirements for the aircraft which the RAF entered and fought in World War II. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415761307

The Raiders and Writers of Cervantes' ArchiveBorges Puig and García Márquez Within the context of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and his influence on Jorge Luis Borges Manuel Puig and Gabriel Marquez Paul Kong brings a variety of theoretical perspectives to bear as he analyzes the concepts of the archive and the manuscript. Setting the stage with an exploration of the intricate and intriguing relationship between the archive and the manuscript Kong questions the apparently natural association between the two. In the light of Kong's historically contextualized and patient exegesis the ideological nature of the archive evident in its charge to serve as a totalizing habitat stands in contrast with the manuscript that resists attempts to contain it. The playful responses of Borges Puig and Marquez as they mine the "archive" of Cervantes' works support the anti-colonial dimension of Latin American literature and further problematize the relationship between archive and manuscript. The book concludes with a discussion of the future of archival discourse especially in the setting of the virtual reality of the Internet and of globalization. Carefully grounded by Kong's close readings and supported by a wealth of astute references and allusions to writers as diverse as Virgil Wordsworth and Dickens The Raiders and Writers of Cervantes' Archive is sure to provoke and intrigue Latin American scholars narrative theorists archivists and those interested in issues related to cultural domination ideology and cyberspace. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237503

The Rainbow Game Rainbow promotes personal and social development in all age groups. The game facilitates the raising of self-awareness while developing communication skills between players. These skills are readily transferable to every day life encounters.  With three levels available - the third being the most challenging Rainbow facilitates interaction verbal expression and respectful discussion between players. Each level has seven mini-games within it. Every mini-game is colour-coded to relate to a different quality for personal and social development.  Red for Action  Orange for Courage  Yellow for Imagination  Green for Feeling  Blue for Talk  Pink for Stimulus  Purple for Insight  Playing with all colours develops the full spectrum of self-awareness and social skills. The game will:  Expand social skills  Propagate positive interaction  boost confidence  deal with decision-making  promote problem-solving skills  encourage consideration of personal values  let even the shyest person's voice be heard  help each individual get along with others  increase self-awareness Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780863888144

The Rainbow of DesireThe Boal Method of Theatre and Therapy Rainbow of Desire is a handbook of exercises with a difference. It is Augusto Boal's bold and brilliant statement about the therapeutic ability of theatre to liberate individuals and change lives. Now translated into English and comprehensively updated from the French Rainbow of Desire sets out the techniques which help us `see' for the first time the oppressions we have internalised. Boal a Brazilian theatre director writer and politician has been confronting oppression in various forms for over thirty years. His belief that theatre is a means to create the future has inspired hundreds of groups all over the world to use his techniques in a multitude of settings. This his latest work includes such exercises as: * The Cops in the Head and their anti-bodies * The screen image * The image of the future we are afraid of * Image and counter-image ....and many more. Rainbow of Desire will make fascinating reading for those already familiar with Boal's work and is also completely accessible to anyone new to Theatre of the Oppressed techniques. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138170391

The Rainy Spell and Other Korean Stories This anthology of short stories reflects the writers' shared core experience of Korea's trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state through Japanese colony and battle-ground for the Korean War to a modernizing society. Three stories have been added to the original edition. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315699134

The Raising of IntelligenceA Selected History of Attempts To Raise Retarded Intelligence The history of attempts to raise the intelligence of mentally retarded individuals is wrought with controversy. Spanning the years from 1800 to the present this book offers a critical review of the methods and philosophy behind these efforts. A fascinating contribution to the long-standing debate on the malleability of intelligence and the influence of heredity and environment. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203056790

The Random Spatial Economy and its Evolution First published in 1998 this volume spanning a lifetime's research is a highly innovative first attempt at a consistent theoretical approach to the elements structures and dynamics of the geography of agents settlements and trade. Cause and effect are replaced by chance within constraints. Populations are substituted for unreal representative individuals variability for uniformity probabilistic process for unique history. Ignorance is a major factor in interpersonal and inter-areal commercial relations so that the focus is on flows of information and their effects on the efficiency of the economy or alternatively on changes in its information content. Recent work on spatial arrangements in many physical and social sciences is incorporated but always interpreted from an overriding geographical viewpoint. Key concepts are locational potential distance friction mobility diffusion spatial pattern and texture adaptability efficiency spatial interaction and dependence. Analytic methods include autocovariance and transfer functions areal special densities and entropy. Various forms of self-organization of economic spatial patterns are examined. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138384347

The RandstadA Polycentric Metropolis The Randstad metropolitan region encompassing Amsterdam The Hague Rotterdam and Utrecht in the western Netherlands is regarded worldwide as a model of a ‘successful’ polycentric metropolis. It is widely cited as an example of how a region of interconnected small cities can effectively compete globally by providing complementary functions which together match the power of large monocentric cities. The methods of strategic spatial planning regional design and strategic projects that are said to underpin this polycentric metropolis are used as models for practitioners and students around the world. But is this high reputation deserved? Does the Randstad really function as a polycentric metropolis? The operation of the Randstad as a polycentric networked region is controversial both in terms of the actual strength of relations between its component parts and the value of promoting polycentricity in policy. What are the costs and benefits of a Randstad metropolis? Does polycentricity improve the performance of the region in economic social and environmental terms? How has the polycentric metropolis evolved and what part is played by its delta location? Has spatial planning made a difference in the form and operation of the region today? How will this spatial configuration fare in the face of the climate crisis and need to create healthy cities and regions? Is there benefit in pursuing the idea of a polycentric metropolis in government policy and action and how? These questions are of critical interest within the Netherlands but experience in the Randstad offers valuable insights to many other complex urban regions around the world. This book will provide a critical analysis of the Randstad and lessons for strategic planning in other metropolitan regions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415826099

The Rape of the Lock First published in 1971. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138135956

The Rapture of PoliticsChristian Right as the United States Approaches the Year 2000 Theologically conservative Protestants have entered the political arena with an agenda that is at once political and religious. Assessing the current impact of this New Christian Right (NCR) on American politics the contributors to this new book present provocative and diverse perspectives on a phenomenon that has despite its pervasiveness in American culture been too little examined. While some contributors show a disdain for the NCR others evince genuine sympathy for the movement.Steve Bruce takes aim at sociologists of religion who in his estimation have exaggerated the strength of the NCR. Clyde Wilcox believes the NCR attracts only a limited electoral following and will have little success at the state and national levels. Stephen Johnson reports on voting patterns of Catholics mainline Protestants and conservative Protestants in Muncie Indiana. And Phillip Hammond and his associates observe that the main fault line between conservatives and liberals is now over “family values.” John Simpson singles out debates over abortion and homosexuality as the most potent cultural divisions arising out of the 1980s. Lyman A. Kellstedt and colleagues mark the 1992 presidential election as a watershed event beginning a dramatic new cleavage in the two-party system. James M. Penning and Matthew C. Moen address issues related to NCR organizations and their place in the political arena.It is clear that the NCR will remain a part of the religious and political landscape lor some time though there is little consensus over where the NCR will be located in that landscape. The Rapture of Politics will be of interest to political scientists theologians sociologists and scholars of American culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538115

The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin or al-Nawadir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Mahasin al-Yusufiyya by Baha' al-Din Ibn Shaddad Saladin is perhaps the one and only Muslim ruler who emerges with any clarity in standard tales and histories of the Crusades; this is a translation of Baha’ al-Din Ibn Shaddad’s account of his life and career. Ibn Shaddad (1144-1234) was clearly a great admirer of Saladin and was a close associate of his serving as his qadi al-’askar (judge of the army) from 1188 until Saladin’s death in 1193. His position and his access to information make this an authoritative and essential source for Saladin’s career while his personal relationship with the sultan adds a sympathetic and moving element to the account of his final years. Aside from its inherent value as a source for the history of Egypt and the Middle East it therefore provides a much-needed complement and corrective to the widely-known Latin accounts of the Crusades and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 12th century. The present translation is based on a fuller edition of the text than that used in the previous 19th-century translation and takes into account the translator’s readings of the earliest manuscript of the work dated July 1228. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237497

The Rash Resolve and Life's Progressby Eliza Haywood Eliza Haywood was one of the most popular and versatile writers of the eighteenth century. The two novellas in this edition – The Rash Resolve (1724) and Life’s Progress (1748) – show her developing and adapting her ideas on the subject of passion and romance. Though superficially presented as cautionary tales Haywood introduces a feminist slant. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138235472

The Rastafari MovementA North American and Caribbean Perspective The Rastafari Movement: A North American and Caribbean Perspective provides a historical and ideological overview of the Rastafari movement in the context of its early beginnings in the island of Jamaica and its eventual establishment in other geographic locations. Building on previous scholarship and the author's own fieldwork the text goes on to provide a rich comparative analysis of the Rastafari movement with other Black theological movements specifically the Nation of Islam and the Black Hebrew Israelites in the context of the United States. The text explores the following topics: • Pan-Africanism Black nationalism and Rastafari; • gender dynamics; • globalization; • concepts and symbols; • other Black theological movements. This text is ideal for students of religious studies sociology anthropology African Diaspora studies African American studies and Black studies who wish to gain an understanding of the history and beliefs of the Rastafari Movement. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138682153

The RatA Study in Behavior The laws of animal behavior have been revised and revealed through research performed by zoologists physiologists and experimental psychologists. Each has contributed much. Their main meeting ground has been the study of mammals especially rats. This classic book is unique in bringing together the principal conclusions of these researchers in a compact well illustrated and lucid form.The author himself made important original contributions to wild rat behavior; his account of "white rat psychology" and of relevant work on other species is equally authoritative. Experience as a teacher enabled him to write an unusually logical and comprehensive text suitable for students of zoology psychology and medicine.This book belongs to no particular school of biology or psychology. Rather it admits the work of all schools and strict adherence to none. The principal topics covered include: movement in the living space; feeding behavior; social and reproductive behavior; the analysis of "instinct"; the analysis of learned behavior; "motivation" and "drive"; the brain and behavior. The book includes a full carefully selected bibliography current up to the time of original publication of the original edition. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538122

The Rate of Exchange and the Terms of Trade This volume originated in a course of lectures which the author originally gave at the Universitu lnternationale de Sciences Comparues at Luxembourg. The book appeared under the title of the course and followed the same pattern. In the course of revisions the analysis has been carried a little further than it was originally presented and many details have been added to its algebraic parts. In spite of these amplifications however the text remains on the level of elementary economics and may be recommended to students whose interest in the subject is ahead of their technical background.Ozga provides an intelligible theoretical outline of the rate of exchange the terms of trade and the balance of trade that brings into focus the complementarity of various widely used models. Simple supply and demand relations are developed to establish a link between the classical and Keynesian approaches and between the partial and the general equilibrium methods; and the emphasis is always on clarifying the part that the relations considered in individual models would actually play in a more comprehensive system.Requiring some familiarity with economic theory but no previous training in mathematics this simple and concise volume is exceptionally well suited to courses on the macro-theory of international trade and is useful reading for all courses in macroeconomics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538139

The Rational and the SocialHow to Understand Science in a Social World To paraphrase Marx sociologists have only interpreted science; the point is to improve it. The Rational and the Social attempts both. It begins by sketching recent sociological approaches to science notably the strong programme – Bloor’s ‘science of science’ and Barnes’s ‘finitism’ – and that of the ‘anthropologists in the lab’ Collins and Latour and Woolgar. The author argues that although sociological accounts are valuable in many respects when morals are drawn about the structure and epistemology of science they are badly flawed. In rejecting the sociological theory of science it is not necessary to conclude that science develops without reference to the social. James Robert Brown argues for an alternative account. He proposes a novel way of viewing the history of science as a source of evidence for how to do good science and argues that the most important aspect of methodology is that it is comparative. Rival theories are evaluated by comparison and the contribution of the social to this process is inevitable and should be acknowledged. This is the challenge to science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138989818

The Rational Foundations of Ethics Originally published in 1988 this landmark study develops its own positive account of the nature and foundations of moral judgement while at the same time serving as a guide to the range of views on the matter which have been given in modern western philosophy. The book addresses itself to two main questions: Can moral judgements be true or false in that fundamental sense in which a true proposition is one which describes things as they really are? Are rational methods available in ethics which can be expected to produce convergence on shared moral views on the part of those who use them intelligently? Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367502690

The Rational GoodA Study in the Logic of Practice First published in 1921 this book explores the function of Reason in practical life. It considers whether there is a Rational demonstrable standard of values to which the actions of man and the institutions of society may be referred for judgement and to what authority and power does it possess to influence the actual conduct of men and society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138929333

The Rational PoliticianExploiting the Media in New Democracies This title was first published in 2000:  An examination of the way in which post-communist political actors have persisted in exploiting controlling and manipulating the media in spite of rhetorical commitments to freer and more independent media. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138700185

The Rationalist ReaderArchitecture and Rationalism in Western Europe 1920–1940 / 1960–1990 The Rationalist Reader incorporates the first documentary collection of writing on rationalism in twentieth century architecture providing an accessible introduction to the subject direct insight into the thinking of individual architects and their critics and a current re-evaluation of the context from which they emerged. Key texts including new translations are placed within a wider historical and philosophical context by Alan Colquhoun and considered with particular reference to nineteenth century architectural theory by Charles Rattray. Two separate documentary sections address the thinking behind rationalist architecture within the Modern Movement and ‘Rational Architecture’ as its counterpart within Neo-rationalism. German architectural historian Thilo Hilpert and Dutch architect and critic Henk Engel provide introductions to the two periods while Cambridge historian Nicholas Bullock contributes a linking piece focused on French experience post-war. A postscript samples retrospective views. The two sets of ‘documents’ identified with the periods 1920–1940 and 1960–1990 are arranged under comparative headings allowing the reader to establish correspondences between the key themes of rationalist architecture. When the ‘historical’ experience of many young architects is confined to ‘masters’ and ‘iconic buildings’ located within the general flux of modernity here the trajectory of rationalism in twentieth century architecture is seen to veer between a scientific methodology identified with generic models and a formal paradigm of typological consistency. With its immediate philosophical origins in Enlightenment culture the development of rationalism in nineteenth century architecture prefaced the volatility of later interpretations of rationalist architecture outlined and documented in this book. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415604369

The Rationality of Feeling (RLE Edu K)Learning From the Arts This volume emphasizes the necessity for arts teachers to nurture the personal development of their students by expanding their artistic understanding and creativity. In aiming to provide a broader understanding for the effective teaching of the arts the author provides powerful reasons for seeing the arts as agents of learning understanding and development. The volume also demonstrates that whilst the arts are centrally concerned with feeling they are as fully open to objective reasoning as any other subject discipline such as science but the dichotomy between ‘scientism’ and ‘subjectivism’ is all-pervading in a curriculum which marginalises the teaching of the arts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138007567

The Rationality Of Political ProtestA Comparative Analysis Of Rational Choice Theory The authors systematically apply rational choice theory in order to suggest hypotheses about political protest. They test these hypotheses by means of surveys and compare their rational choice hypotheses with competing hypotheses. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295424

The Rationality of Rural LifeEconomic and Cultural Change in Tuscany This monograph analyzes the developments in rural life in detail and at the same time places them in a wider context exploring the strengths and weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture. What is revealed is a profound transformation in the rationality of farming one which touches every aspect of the lives of rural people. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138984561

The Rationality of Science First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138172630

The RBT® Ethics CodeMastering the BACB© Ethical Requirements for Registered Behavior Technicians™ This practical textbook will enable students training to become Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs™) to fully understand and follow the new RBT® Ethics Code administered by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB®). Starting with an overview of the role of ethics and core ethical principles subsequent chapters provide concrete guidance for each of the three sections of the RBT® Ethics Code: responsible conduct responsibility to clients and competence and service delivery. The authors then show correct and incorrect applications of each code item and provide practical examples and solutions for applying each section to everyday practice. Also included are test questions where RBTs™ can test themselves on their newfound knowledge along with a glossary the complete RBT® Code of Ethics and suggested readings. Last Appendix D "Considerations and Conversation Starters " will help RBT™ trainers quickly focus on specific code items and presenting scenarios for discussion and role-plays. This book is intended to serve as a primary text for the training of RBTs™ as well as a reference and study guide for these RBTs™ and their trainers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367415099

The Reach of the AestheticCollected Essays on Art and Nature This title was first published in 2001. This book focuses on the rich web of interrelations between aesthetic and wider human concerns. Among topics explored are concepts of truth and falsity (within art and aesthetic experience generally) superficiality and depth in aesthetic appreciation of nature moral beauty and ugliness the projects of integrating a life of fashioning a life as a work of art experiments in the aesthetic re-working of the 'sacred' the role of imagination within religion and in our attempts to place and identify ourselves within the cosmos. The essays are both interlinked and distinct allowing them to be read in any order and providing useful themes for discussion groups and seminars. Ronald Hepburn aims to arouse in the reader something of his enjoyment in unravelling the connections of ideas that come into view when one approaches aesthetics in its widest setting. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138726635

The Reader's Construction of Narrative In this book first published in 1981 the author argues that narrative is an interaction between "the presented world and the presentational process" and attempts to define narrative from the perspective of reading. The Reader’s Construction of Narrative includes chapters on narrative language translating narrative and discusses what happens when we read a narrative text. This book will be of particular interest to students of literary theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138684638

The Reading for Real Handbook The Reading for Real Handbook was very well received by both teachers and literacy specialists when it was published in 1992. Since its first publication there have been significant changes in the field of 'reading' not least of which has been governmental demands for higher standards in reading and the resultant National Literacy Strategy (NLS).As well as providing invaluable help for teachers struggling with the National Literacy Strategy and the Literacy Hour several other new topics of interest are also addressed including teaching fiction/non-fiction inside and outside the Literacy Hour integrating reading writing and spelling work involving parents assessment and working with slower readers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138163577

The Reading of Theoretical Texts Since the structuralist debates of the 1970s the field of textual analysis has largely remained the preserve of literary theorists. Social scientists while accepting that observation is theory laden have tended to take the meaning of texts as given and to explain differences of interpretation either in terms of ignorance or bias. In this important contribution to methodological debate Peter Ekegren uses developments within literary criticism philosophy and critical theory to reclaim this study for the social sciences and to illuminate the ways in which different readings of a single text are created and defended. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415757768

The Reagan WarsA Constitutional Perspective On War Powers And The Presidency Ronald Reagan's term in office was punctuated by four significant employments of military force: the deployment of Marines to Lebanon; the intervention in Grenada; the air strikes against Libya; and the deployment of naval forces to the Persian Gulf. In the aftermath of each of these military operations critics questioned the constitutional basis for such unilateral presidential war-making arguing that Congress alone is empowered to declare war. Debates over whether the President failed to comply with the statutory requirements of the War Powers Resolution further complicated these constitutional disagreements. In The Reagan Wars David Hall seeks to overcome a key source of confusion in these heated debates—the failure to distinguish between the wisdom of Reagan's actions and their legality. He demonstrates that the circumstances under which the Constitution permits unilateral presidential war-making were present when President Reagan waged war between 1980 and 1988. Hall first considers the thinking of the Constitution's Framers on the question of war powers and the subsequent two hundred years of judicial interpretation regarding the proper balance between congressional and presidential authority to make war. In light of this historical background he then closely examines the facts and the legal circumstances of each of the four "Reagan wars." Hall's thought-provoking conclusions deserve the attention of anyone interested in the role of the Constitution in U.S. foreign policy-making. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295431

The Real Cost of Cheap Food This thought-provoking but accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us. Detailing the numerous ways that our understanding of food has narrowed such as its price per ounce combination of nutrients yield per acre or calories the book argues for a more contextual view of food when debating its affordability. The first edition published in 2011 was widely praised for its innovative approach and readability. In this new edition the author brings all data and citations fully up to date. Increased coverage is given to many topics including climate change aquaculture financialization BRICS countries food-based social movements gender and ethnic issues critical public health and land succession. There is also greater discussion about successful cases of social change throughout all chapters  by including new text boxes that emphasize these more positive messages. The author shows why today's global food system produces just the opposite of what it promises. The food produced under this regime is in fact exceedingly expensive. Many of these costs will be paid for in other ways or by future generations and cheap food today may mean expensive food tomorrow. By systematically assessing these costs the book delves into issues related but not limited to international development national security healthcare industrial meat production organic farming corporate responsibility government subsidies food aid and global commodity markets. It is shown that exploding the myth of cheap food requires we have at our disposal a host of practices and policies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138080768

The Real Estate Solar Investment HandbookA Commercial Property Guide to Managing Risks and Maximizing Returns The Real Estate Solar Investment Handbook explains the business case for property professionals to pursue solar projects. A project’s value is determined by its potential risks and rewards; these are explained thoroughly in terms understood by the real estate industry. This book provides a framework for practical decision-making with each chapter addressing a step in the process from project idea to completion. Written from the perspective of the commercial real estate industry professional it will help investors evaluate opportunities and execute projects that offer solid risk-adjusted investments. For property owners investors landlords service providers and all those looking to invest in solar on commercial property The Real Estate Solar Investment Handbook will guide you through all the steps needed to gain years of revenue from a project. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415660389

The Real in the IdealBerkeley's Relation to Kant This book first published in 1989 presents sixteen articles on Kant and Berkeley examining their attitude to the physical world. They were both idealists regarding the physical world as being in some way a product of perceptions and thought. At the same time they both held it to be no mere illusion but real and objective: it was in a sense ideal but in a different sense also real. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367184643

The Real Jouissance of Uncountable NumbersThe Philosophy of Science within Lacanian Psychoanalysis Lacan critiqued imaginary intuition for confusing direct perception with unconscious pre-conceptions about people and the world. The emphasis on description goes hand in hand with a rejection of theory and the science of the unconscious and a belief in the naive self-transparency of the world. At the same time knowing in and of the Real requires a place beyond thinking multi-valued forms of logic mathematical equations and different conceptions of causality acausality and chance. This book explores some of the mathematical problems raised by Lacan's use of numbers and the interconnection between mathematics and psychoanalytic ideas. Within any system mathematical or otherwise there are holes or acausal cores and remainders of indecidability. It is this senseless point of non-knowledge that makes change and the emergence of the new possible within a system. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782201717

The Real NegroThe Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature In this book Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in 'the real Negro' transforms the question of what race an author belongs into a question of what it takes to belong to that race. Consequently Paul Laurence Dunbar's Negro dialect poems were prized in the first part of the century because - written by a black man - they were not 'imitation' black while the dialect performances by Zora Neale Hurston were celebrated because written by a 'real' black they were not 'imitation' white. The second half of the century in its dismissal of material segregation sanctions a notion of black racial meaning as internal and psychological and thus promotes a version of black racial 'truth' as invisible and interior yet fixed within a stable conception of difference. The Real Negro foregrounds how investments in black racial specificity illuminate the dynamic terms that define what makes a text and a person 'black' while it also reveals how 'blackness' spoken and authentic guards a more fragile because unspoken commitment to the purity and primacy of 'whiteness' as a stable uncontested ideal. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138806450

The Real Peace ProcessWorship Politics and the End of Sectarianism The Good Friday Agreement resulted in the cessation of paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland. However prejudice and animosity between Protestants and Catholics remains. The Real Peace Process draws on extensive fieldwork in Protestant and Catholic churches across Ireland to analyse how Christian worship can become caught up in sectarianism. The book examines the need for a peace process that changes hearts and minds and not merely civic structures of their inhabitants. Aspects of everyday worship – ranging from the spatial and symbolic to the verbal musical and interpersonal – are explored as the means by which sectarianism can be challenged and transformed. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315539492

The Real SelfA Developmental Self And Object Relations Approach First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138009431

The Real Situation in Russia (Routledge Revivals) The Real Situation in Russia first published in 1928 contains three of Trotsky’s harshest rebuttals of Stalin’s takeover of the Russian Revolution following the death of Lenin. The first part contains a defence of the ‘Opposition Platform’ against the Stalinist denunciation; the second details Trotsky’s view of the precise nature of the Stalinist program as well as its disastrous consequences for Russia; and the third demonstrates the unashamed falsification of the history by Stalin with regard to the beginning of the Revolution. Including a sympathetic but nonetheless astute introduction to Trotsky’s argument by the translator The Real Situation in Russia will prove to be of value to all students of twentieth-century Marxism and in particular to those interested in the Russian Revolution – not only its origins and early development but also perhaps the reasons for its ultimate failure. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138015272

The Real Stalin In this book originally published in English in 1953 the author recognized as one of the best-informed experts on Eastern European politics reconstructed during the course of a decade's work the real history of Stalin from his youth in Georgia to the last year of his life. Utilizing an enormous mass of largely unpublsihed documents he reconstructed a living Stalin with all his qualities and faults crimes and achievements. He tells the secrets of Stalin's rise to power and of the extraordinary complexity and effectiveness of his tactics which can be seen in his attitude towards the problems of  Marxist philosophy in his attitude towards the German Question and his role as military commander. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138703841

The Real TripitakaAnd Other Pieces First published in 1952. The Real Tripitaka gives an account of the seventh century pilgrim's adventures spiritual and material both in India and after his return to China. In addition the book contains an account of a Japanese pilgrim's visit to China in the ninth century which describes the Wu-t'ai Shan China's great place of Pilgrimage and an eye-witness's account of the great persecution of Buddhism in 842-845 A.D. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415612739

The Real World of the Small Business Owner (Routledge Revivals) Small businessmen and entrepreneurs came firmly back in fashion when this book was first published in 1980. As the Western economies moved into recession many governments particularly Mrs Thatcher’s administration looked to the entrepreneurial spirit of the small businessman to rejuvenate and revitalise Western society. Stripping away the political rhetoric this book provides a serious social portrait of the small businessman in the economy at the time in which this book was written. Based upon extensive original research the detailed analyses focus on the key issues in the small businessmen’s life. At a time when there was much argument about the motivation and will to work of Western society this study of the traditional custodians of capitalism is particularly relevant. Above all it shows how the historical values of the small businessman have survived in the changed circumstances of the advanced economies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138829442

The Realisation of ConceptsInfinity Cognition and Health There has recently been a flurry of theoretical activity in affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis. This book argues that the ability to integrate biological and psychological levels of understanding is inhibited by two important issues. First is the assumption made by most theorists that physical and mental phenomena are essentially different ("the Hard Problem"). Second is the ambiguity of the widely used "Affect Concept". Ideas about the autonomic nervous system are integrated with those from the author's previous text A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis. The Realization of Concepts is based on four key assumptions: (1) There is no "Hard Problem"; (2) Motivational theory and cognitive theory can be integrated to create more valid models of body brain and mind interactions; (3) "Affect Concepts" are superfluous and work to inhibit theory integration; and (4) Affect theory developed as a "compromise formation" in response to radical reductionism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782200703

The Realism of Piero della Francesca The fifteenth-century Italian artist Piero della Francesca painted a familiar world. Roads wind through hilly landscapes run past farms sheds barns and villages. This is the world in which Piero lived. At the same time Piero’s paintings depict a world that is distant. The subjects of his pictures are often Christian and that means that their setting is the Holy Land a place Piero had never visited. The Realism of Piero della Francesca studies this paradoxical aspect of Piero’s art. It tells the story of an artist who could think of the local churches palaces and landscapes in and around his hometown of Sansepolcro as miraculously built replicas of the monuments of Jerusalem. Piero’s application of perspective to which he devoted a long treatise was meant to convince his contemporaries that his paintings report on things that Piero actually observed. Piero’s methodical way of painting seems to have offered no room for his own fantasy. His art looks deliberately styleless. This book uncovers a world in which painting needed to validate itself by cultivating the illusion that it reported on things observed instead of things imagined by the artist. Piero’s painting claimed truth in a world of increasing uncertainties.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367359737

The Realism Reader The Realism Reader provides broad coverage of a centrally important tradition in the study of foreign policy and international politics. After some years in the doldrums political realism is again in contention as a leading tradition in the international relations sub-field. Divided into three main sections the book covers seven different and distinctive approaches within the realist tradition: classical realism balance of power theory neorealism defensive structural realism offensive structural realism rise and fall realism and neoclassical realism. The middle section of the volume covers realism’s engagement with critiques levelled by liberalism institutionalism and constructivism and the English School. The final section of the book provides materials on realism’s engagement with some contemporary issues in international politics with collections on United States (U.S.) hegemony European cooperation and whether future threats will arise from non-state actors or the rise of competing great powers. The book offers a logically coherent and manageable framework for organizing the realist canon and provides exemplary literature in each of the traditions and dialogues which are included in the volume. Offering substantial commentary and analysis and including enhanced pedagogy to facilitate student learning The Realism Reader will provide a 'one-stop-shop' for undergraduates and masters students taking a course in contemporary international relations theory with a particular focus on realism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415773577

The Realist Author and Sympathetic Imagination This book draws on the assumption of certain essential continuities between Romanticism and realism both in the way realist authors imagine their relation to reality and in the way they stage their own authorial images examining the role of the sympathetic imagination. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367601829

The Realist HopeA Critique of Anti-Realist Approaches in Contemporary Philosophical Theology Taking into consideration analytical continental historical post-modern and contemporary thinkers Insole provides a powerful defence of a realist construal of religious discourse. Insole argues that anti-realism tends towards absolutism and hubris. Where truth is exhausted by our beliefs about truth there is no conceptual space for doubting those beliefs; only a conception of truth as absolute given and accessible can guarantee the very humility sense of fallibility and sensitivity to difference that the anti-realist rightly values. Cutting through some of the tired and well-rehearsed debates in this area Insole provides a fresh perspective on approaches influenced by Wittgenstein Kant and apophatic theology. The defence of realism offered is unusual in being both analytically precise and theologically sensitive with a view to some of the wider and less well-explored cultural ethical and political implications of the debate. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553634

The Realities of Completing a PhDHow to Plan for Success The Realities of Completing a PhD gives a balanced and evidence-based view of the realities of PhD life. Full of practical tips and including a checklist to complete before sending an application the book helps prospective PhD students prepare for the realities of taking on a PhD from an informed basis and offers guidance on submitting a well-planned application.　　 This is the first book of its kind to bring together a range of international data that helps to paint a more balanced picture of the PhD process. The book outlines different types of PhD how to select a topic for a PhD how to write a robust research proposal and application and the realities of PhD study in relation to student wellbeing social commitments and employment prospects. By considering the issues raised in this book students are less likely to be overwhelmed by the PhD process and better equipped to complete their award. The book will be invaluable for potential doctoral students as well as those already embarking on a PhD. It will also enable university mentors and supervisors to consider how the application phase is key to managing student expectations and how they can further promote a healthy and productive PhD experience.　 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367677626

The Reality EffectFilm Culture and the Graphic Imperative It used to be only movies were on film; now the whole world is. The most intimate and most banal moments of our lives are constantly recorded for public consumption. In The Reality Effect Joel Black argues that the desire to make visible every aspect of our lives is an impulse derived from cinema- one that has made life both more graphic and less "real." He approaches film as a documentary medium that has obscured-if not obliterated- the line between reality and fiction. To illustrate this effect Black traces the uncanny interplay between movies and real-life events through a series of comparative analyses-from Lolita and the murder of JonBenét Ramsey to Wag the Dog and the Clinton scandal to Crash and Princess Diana's violent death. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203953082

The Reality GameA Guide to Humanistic Counselling and Psychotherapy In the years since it was first published The Reality Game has become a classic text. For all those training and practising in humanistic and integrative psychotherapy it is an essential guide to good practice and an excellent introduction to the skills used in individual and group therapy. This new edition has been updated to take into account changes in the field and John Rowan's own work while still providing guidance on establishing and developing the relationship between counsellor and client and covering: assessment; the initial interview; the opening session; aims; transference; resistance and supervision. With the student’s needs always at the forefront this extensively revised new edition responds to the questions most often asked by trainees in these disciplines and includes discussions of ethics and new chapters on transpersonal psychology and on dialogical self-theory. It will be a must read for psychotherapists and counsellors in practice and training especially those involved in humanistic and integrative psychotherapy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138850125

The Reality of Aid 1996An independent review of international aid 'Should be on the shelf of any academic student NGO activist or politician with an interest in aid issues. It should also be required reading for donor agency officials' Development and Change 'As accessible as it is comprehensive has established itself as a reliable 'watchdog' for anyone interested in this important aspect of international relations' ORBIT Despite commitments to eradicate poverty 21 of the world's richest nations have slashed their aid to the world's poorest countries to just 0.3% of GNP its lowest level for more than 20 years. In real terms aid in 1994 was below the 1990 level and with several donors planning further cuts it is likely that the aid level will continue to fall. Now in its fourth annual edition The Reality of Aid critically examines the reality behind the rhetoric of development assistance and the discrepancy between the targets that the 21 member countries of the OECD Development Assistance Committee are publically committed to and the aid that is actually disbursed. Part 1 of this year's edition includes analyses of; * the impact of the Copenhagen World Summit for Social Development and '20/20' compact; * developing countries' debt and their Northern creditors including banks and international financial institutions; * efforts to eradicate poverty a stated aim of development assistance; * the human and economic cost of the estimated 140 million unexploded landmines currently planted around the world; and * the impact of conflict and humanitarian need on development cooperation. In a new section Part 2 presents perspectives from the South with contributors from India Cambodia Peru Zimbabwe Poland and Fiji. Part 3 consists of detailed country-by-country profiles of the aid performance of the OECD donors; and Part 4 reviews aid spending by Northern governments and NGOs with 'at a glance' tables and charts which compare donors' performance on issues such as aid to basic health and education the priority given to poverty reduction the political management of aid and public attitudes to aid in developed countries. Throughout information is summarized in easily interpreted figures and graphs. First produced in 1993 The Reality of Aid has established itself as a unique source of independent evaluation and comment on aid policies and developments. It is indispensable for all involved in development aid whether in the official or voluntary sectors. Originally published in 1996 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415851480

The Reality of Aid 1997-1998An independent review of development cooperation NOW IN ITS FIFTH ANNUAL EDITION The Reality of Aid continues to present the most comprehensive and rigorous independent analysis available of the aid and development policies of the world's richest nations and exposes the gaps between rhetoric and reality. Part I presents a consideration of current issues in development cooperation in the context of globalisation and the increasing importance of private aid flows. Part II gives a full-report on the performance of OECD countries and the European Union over the last year and also includes a report on the continuing Lom negotiations between the EU and Africa. Part III gives a Southern perspective with chapters on development and cooperation in Argentina Central and Eastern Europe Ghana Guatemala Haiti India Latin America Uganda and Zimbabwe. Part IV reviews trends in aid policy and spending by Northern governments and NGOs with 'at a glance' tables and charts which compare donors' performance on issues such as poverty eradication gender emergency relief leadership and public information. Throughout information is presented in easily interpreted diagrams and graphs. First produced in 1993 The Reality of Aid has established itself as a unique source of independent evaluation and comment on aid policies and development. It is indispensable for all in the field whether in the official or voluntary sectors. Originally published in 1997 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415851497

The Reality of Aid 1998-1999An independent review of poverty reduction and development assistance NOW IN ITS SIXTH ANNUAL EDITION The Reality of Aid has for the first time analysed the 'fair share' of bilateral aid for basic social services � basic education basic health reproductive health nutrition clean water and sanitation - that should come from each donor; an analysis which shows only two donors meeting their fair share and the G7 nations (Canada France Germany Italy Japan UK US) falling behind by over US$5 billion. This year and next The Reality of Aid focuses on basic education as a right and not a privilege and its role in development cooperation and poverty elimination. A key feature of The Reality of Aid 1998/1999 is the ten chapters offering analysis of development cooperation from the perspective of southern NGOs. Many of these focus on basic education and raise issues around transparency gender and civil society. 'If policies were programmes and promises were dollars The Reality of Aid could report great progress on the road to eradicating global poverty this year. But at a time when donors acknowledge that ending poverty is possible it seems that commitments are being offered instead of resources and real change.' From the Summary Part I presents a useful Summary highlighting the steps that donors could take now to make progress towards poverty eradication and reviews the trends in development cooperation debt relief measures targeted towards the new millennium and commitment to the goal of ensuring basic education for all. Part II gives a full report on the overseas aid performance of OECD country aid donors and the European Union over the last year. Part III sets out a Southern perspective on development cooperation. Part IV provides 'at a glance' comparisons of donors' aid outlook and commitment to development cooperation in the 21st Century poverty eradication gender and public support. Part V contains handy reference material. Throughout the book information is presented in easily interpreted diagrams and graphs. The Reality of Aid has established itself as a unique source of independent evaluation and comment on aid policies and development. It is indispensable for all in the field whether in the official or voluntary sectors. 'Indispensable ... it gives you most of the hard facts you need to know about the major issues' New Internationalist 'The most comprehensive and rigorous independent analysis of the aid and development policies of the world's wealthiest nations ... Essential reading' Charity World 'The Reality of Aid remains an essential purchase by the libraries of development institutions and an invaluable reference for development practitioners' Development & Change 'A reliable 'watchdog' for anyone interested in this important aspect of international relations' ORBIT 'An accessible reference ... [it] encompasses many key issues and stimulates further research' Commonwealth & Comparative Politics Originally published in 1998 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415851503

The Reality of Aid 2000An independent review of poverty reduction and development assistance NOW IN ITS SEVENTH ANNUAL EDITION The Reality of Aid 2000 looks at how the performance of OECD donor countries on aid and development cooperation has matched up to the challenge of eliminating absolute poverty. The report charts some improvements at the level of donor policy and rhetoric. But its stark conclusion is that the potential of aid to combat poverty is constantly undermined by governments both North and South who fail to address the extreme inequalities of income and the structural social and political injustices that entrench people in poverty. Part I of The Reality of Aid 2000 presents an overview of poverty in the current global context and an analysis of recent trends in aid - looking particularly at basic education. In Part II chapters by experts from NGOs in OECD countries and the European Union show how donor aid administrations approach poverty - and highlight the weakness of political commitment in the North to the needs of the poor. Part III sets out Southern perspectives on development cooperation. Part IV provides 'at a glance' comparisons of donors' aid outlook and commitment to development cooperation in the 21st century poverty eradication gender and public support. Throughout the book information is presented in easily interpreted diagrams and graphs. The Reality of Aid has established itself as a unique source of independent evaluation and comment on aid policies and development. It is indispensable for all in the field whether in the official or voluntary sectors providing a regular reality check on just how much the international community is doing to realise the achievable goal of eliminating poverty. 'Indispensable ... it gives you most of the hard facts you need to know about the major issues' Nett-' Internationalist 'The most comprehensive and rigorous independent analysis of the aid and development policies of the world's wealthiest nations ... Essential reading' Charity World 'The Reality of Aid remains an essential purchase by the libraries of development institutions and an invaluable reference for development practitioners' Development & Change 'A reliable 'watchdog' for anyone interested in this important aspect of international relations' ORBIT 'An accessible reference ... [it] encompasses many key issues and stimulates further research' Commonwealth & Comparative Politics Originally published in 1999 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415853804

The Reality of ArtifactsAn Archaeological Perspective Artifacts are hybrids both natural and cultural. They are also an essential component in the process of human evolution. In recent years a wide range of disciplines including cognitive science sociology art history and anthropology have all grappled with the nature of artifacts leading to the emergence of a renewed interdisciplinary focus on material culture. The Reality of Artifacts: An Archaeological Perspective develops an argument for the artifact as a status conferred by human engagement with material. On this basis artifacts are considered first in terms of their relationship to concepts and cognitive functions and then to the physical body and sense of self. The book builds on and incorporates the latest developments in archaeological research particularly from the archaeology of human evolution and integrates this wealth of new archaeological data with new research in fields such as cognitive science haptics and material culture studies.　　 Making the latest research available for the general reader interested in material culture while also providing archaeologists with new theoretical perspectives built on a synthesis of interdisciplinary research this book is suitable for courses taught at both graduate and undergraduate students and is broadly accessible. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138635777

The Reality Of National Computer Networking For Higher EducationProceedings Of The 1978 Educom Fall Conference Contributors to this book present a comprehensive view of the current status prospects and problems of computer networking in higher education examining networking from the perspectives of both computer users and network suppliers. In the opening chapter William F. Miller discusses the role that computer networking is likely to play in higher education. He notes that a national network often can provide specialized services more cost-effectively than can individual institutions and is able to offer a wider variety of services than is available at any single computer center. In succeeding chapters Ronald Segal reports the results of an extensive research project on networking that included the simulation of a national network serying higher education and research; Paul Heller describes the early experiences of the EDUNET network; and Robert Scott discusses important facets of the EDUNET Business Plan. In the concluding chapters William Massy Tad Pinkerton and Barry Berman review conference workshops in three broad areas: policy issues in networking facilitating services for networking and network resources. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780429314193

The Reality of PrecautionComparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe The 'Precautionary Principle' has sparked the central controversy over European and U.S. risk regulation. The Reality of Precaution is the most comprehensive study to go beyond precaution as an abstract principle and test its reality in practice. This groundbreaking resource combines detailed case studies of a wide array of risks to health safety environment and security; a broad quantitative analysis; and cross-cutting chapters on politics law and perceptions. The authors rebut the rhetoric of conflicting European and American approaches to risk and show that the reality has been the selective application of precaution to particular risks on both sides of the Atlantic as well as a constructive exchange of policy ideas toward 'better regulation.' The book offers a new view of precaution regulatory reform comparative analysis and transatlantic relations. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781936331802

The Reality of Social Groups Examining the ontological nature of social groups and the way in which groups should be regarded within moral deliberation this book makes an original contribution to the field of social philosophy. It tackles the fundamental metaphysical question that has either been ignored or unsatisfactorily addressed: ’what kind of thing is a social group?’ Sheehy argues for an ontological realism about groups defending the thesis that groups are composite material particulars ontologically on a par with individuals and capable of figuring in their own right in descriptions and explanations. He then goes on to discuss the practical and moral question of whether groups can be regarded as the bearers of moral status rights and moral judgements. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138264878

The Reality of the MindSt Augustine's Philosophical Arguments for the Human Soul as a Spiritual Substance Among the various approaches to the question of the nature of the mind (or soul) Augustine’s philosophical arguments for the existence of an incorporeal and spiritual substance in man and against materialism are here thoroughly examined on their merits as a source of insight for contemporary discussion. This book originally published in 1986 employs Augustine’s method of introspection and argues that as a philosopher Augustine can teach the modern mind how to detect the reality of such a spiritual subject in and through basic human acts and faculties such as imagination memory knowledge free-will and self-knowledge. It presents a critical dialogue with various materialistic anthropologies directly addressed by Augustine himself or those which have arisen at later periods including epiphenomenalism mind-brain identity theory Marxism and others. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138989825

The Really Useful Book of ICT in the Early Years Practitioners and students wishing to know how very young children develop an awareness of ICT will find this text invaluable. ICT has arguably one of the biggest impacts on every-day 21st century life so its inclusion in the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum reflects the need to encourage forward-looking practice in classrooms and nurseries. This book enables you to help young children develop their knowledge understanding and skill in the use of ICT with chapters from contributors with a wide range of practical experience. Full of ideas and new thinking this practical guide shows you how to: promote independence in children's use of ICT through resources like digital cameras and role-play toys. explore the nature of creativity through ICT using it to support the more traditional areas of art music dance and writing use ICT to enhance the physical and sensory aspects of outdoor learning experiences. harness the potential of ICT in reaching children with a variety of different learning needs particularly those with profound and multiple learning difficulties or autistic spectrum disorders. value children's home experiences of ICT and build on what they already know and how to work with parents in developing their child's ICT capability. ICT can underpin all areas of learning for young children; this highly practical inspirational and informative text is therefore relevant to all practitioners and students training in Early Years education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138133938

The Really Useful Book of Science Experiments100 easy ideas for primary school teachers The Really Useful Book of Science Experiments contains 100 simple-to-do science experiments that can be confidently carried out by any teacher in a primary school classroom with minimal (or no!) specialist equipment needed. The experiments in this book are broken down into easily manageable sections including: It’s alive: experiments that explore our living world including the human body plants ecology and disease A material world: experiments that explore the materials that make up our world and their properties including metals acids and alkalis water and elements Let’s get physical: experiments that explore physics concepts and their applications in our world including electricity space engineering and construction Something a bit different: experiments that explore interesting and unusual science areas including forensic science marine biology and volcanology. Each experiment is accompanied by a ‘subject knowledge guide’ filling you in on the key science concepts behind the experiment. There are also suggestions for how to adapt each experiment to increase or decrease the challenge. 　 The text does not assume a scientific background making it incredibly accessible and links to the new National Curriculum programme of study allow easy connections to be made to relevant learning goals. This book is an essential text for any primary school teacher training teacher or classroom assistant looking to bring the exciting world of science alive in the classroom. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138784147

The Really Useful Book of Secondary Science Experiments101 Essential Activities to Support Teaching and Learning How can a potato be a battery? How quickly will a shark find you? What food should you take with you when climbing a mountain? The Really Useful Book of Secondary Science Experiments presents 101 exciting ‘real-world’ science experiments that can be confidently carried out by any KS3 science teacher in a secondary school classroom. It offers a mix of classic experiments together with fresh ideas for investigations designed to engage students help them see the relevance of science in their own lives and develop a passion for carrying out practical investigations. Covering biology chemistry and physics topics each investigation is structured as a problem-solving activity asking engaging questions such as ‘How can fingerprints help solve a crime?’ or ‘Can we build our own volcano?’ Background science knowledge is given for each experiment together with learning objectives a list of materials needed safety and technical considerations detailed method ideas for data collection advice on how to adapt the investigations for different groups of students useful questions to ask the students and suggestions for homework. Additionally there are ten ideas for science based projects that can be carried out over a longer period of time utilising skills and knowledge that students will develop as they carrying out the different science investigations in the book. The Really Useful Book of Secondary Science Experiments will be an essential source of support and inspiration for all those teaching in the secondary school classroom running science clubs and for parents looking to challenge and excite their children at home. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138192102

The Really Useful Creativity Book What is creativity and how do we teach it? The Really Useful Creativity Book provides approaches and ideas that will enable children to develop their creativity. Written for the primary school teacher student or trainee teacher the book shows you how creativity can flourish in your classroom. With examples of practice included throughout the issues covered include: everyday creativity – ideas to get started on straight away planning – with ideas for cross-curricular planning and many other ways to plan for creativity creativity and the environment – starting with the classroom and school then going further afield creative Partnerships – working with other people to stimulate children’s creativity the drama of creativity – showing how teachers can adopt the mantle of the expert thinking about creativity – thinking skills for your children and ways of thinking for you. This lively stimulating book will help busy teachers working with the National Curriculum to develop children’s creativity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138165007

The Really Useful Drama BookUsing Picturebooks to Inspire Imaginative Learning The Really Useful Drama Book offers busy primary school teachers a collection of step-by-step drama sessions inspired by high-quality picturebooks that will engage children and promote enjoyable learning across the curriculum. Lively and thoughtful the interactive drama sessions are structured around a wide range of texts including wordless picturebooks postmodern picturebooks short stories well-known texts by recognisable authors and some you may not have come across before all chosen for their power to foster curiosity. The step-by-step sessions can also be adapted to incorporate your own ideas and passions allowing you to structure them for the topics you’re exploring with your class. Each session is structured around two texts and offers a guide to the drama strategies used teaching objectives ideas for writing opportunities problems emotions and challenges to explore and a clear guide to exploring each text. Ten key themes are explored: Suspense Prejudice Friendship Rhyme and rhythm War and conflict Nature Overcoming fear Possessions and obsessions Dreams Short stories With a focus on the crucial role of imagination in the classroom The Really Useful Drama Book helps reclaim a purposeful passionate pedagogy and shows teachers how drama can place children right at the heart of a story encouraging their desire to ask questions solve problems and search out new information. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138186019

The Really Useful ICT BookA practical guide to using technology across the primary curriculum The Really Useful ICT Book is a practical and easy-to-use guide to give you all the confidence you need to use ICT really effectively inside and outside the primary classroom. It makes clear how ICT can be taught as a standalone subject and how it can be used easily and imaginatively to enhance teaching other subjects. Jam-packed with ideas and templates to save you time this friendly handbook offers an introduction to: using ICT inside the classroom – including interactive whiteboards computer suites VLEs and e-safety using ICT outside the classroom – including word processors laptops data loggers and digital cameras when and how to use a wide range of software and hardware – from spreadsheet packages through to digital photography e-portfolios and software simulation using ICT in all subject areas practical suggestions for using ICT in cross-curricular topics using ICT to develop teacher and pupil creativity using ICT for assessment and in your professional role. With an emphasis on developing children’s creativity and on progression from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2 The Really Useful ICT Book is a comprehensive compendium of advice and inspiration for all training newly qualified and experienced teachers as well as those in support roles in primary schools. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415592772

The Really Useful Literacy BookLinking theory and practice in the primary classroom Now in its third edition The Really Useful Literacy Book is the definitive guide to the high quality teaching of literacy in your primary classroom. Written specifically for primary school teachers and student trainee teachers this book offers inventive ideas for the classroom together with an accessible and informative summary of the theories that underpin them. It explores creative approaches to literacy teaching as well as offering a range of units on all areas – speaking listening reading and writing. While this book provides creative ideas that can be taken by teachers and developed for their own classrooms it clearly explains the theoretical rationale for these ideas. It can also be used by school literacy leaders to develop whole school approaches and high quality teaching throughout the school. This accessible and engaging text will be an essential companion for all primary teachers at any stage in their career looking to motivate engage and challenge their children in their literacy lessons. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415694377

The Really Useful Maths BookA guide to interactive teaching The Really Useful Maths Book is for all those who want children to enjoy the challenge of learning mathematics. With suggestions about the best ways to use resources and equipment to support learning it describes in detail how to make learning the easy option for children.An easy-to-follow comprehensive guide packed with ideas and activities it is the perfect tool to help teachers who wish to develop their teaching strategies. The second edition has been fully updated in light of the latest research as well as in response to the new mathematics curriculum. It includes many more practical activities for each mathematical topic and explores exciting new areas. Key topics covered include: Numbers and the number system Operations and calculations Shape and space Measures statistics and data handling Cross-curricular approaches Resources and planning for teaching and learning Contexts for making sense of mathematics Bridges strategies and personal qualities Dialogue and interactive teaching International perspectives on teaching and learning Psychology and neuroscience to maximize learning. The Really Useful Maths Book makes mathematics meaningful challenging and interesting. It will be invaluable to practicing primary teachers subject specialists maths co-ordinators student teachers mentors tutors home educators and others interested in mathematics education programmes. Tony Brown was formerly the Director of ESCalate the UK Centre for Education in HE at the Graduate School of Education University of Bristol UK. Henry Liebling formerly led Primary Mathematics Education at University College Plymouth Marjon UK. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415829496

The Really Useful Physical Education BookLearning and teaching across the 11-16 age range The Really Useful Physical Education Book offers support guidance and practical ideas for effective innovative and imaginative physical education lessons. Underpinned by easy-to-understand theory this second edition is fully updated in line with the National Curriculum for Physical Education at Key Stages 3 and 4 and provides a wide range of high-quality lessons alongside engaging teaching examples and methodologies. With an emphasis on inclusive physical education it highlights the ways in which schools can re-design the curriculum to ensure maximum enjoyment for all pupils. Key topics covered include: â€¢ Planning progression and assessment• Health and safety issues• Inclusive track and field athletics• Adapting activities to support SEND • Swimming and water-based activities• Alternative activities including street-surfing and combat sports • Introducing dance into the curriculum • Enjoyable gymnastics for physical literacy• On-site adventurous activities• Values-based teaching• Teaching accredited awards• Using new and emerging technologies The Really Useful Physical Education Book offers essential advice and inspiration for both trainee and practising teachers responsible for the 11–16 age range. It is a must-read for all those who want to make their lesson inclusive and fun whilst promoting a healthy lifestyle and enthusiasm for lifelong activity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138187153

The Really Useful Primary Design and Technology BookSubject knowledge and lesson ideas The Really Useful Primary Design and Technology Book brings together essential subject knowledge and pedagogy to support and inspire those planning to teach D&T in the primary school. Offering comprehensive coverage of the 2014 National Curriculum as well as exciting ideas to extend beyond it the book is packed full of everything the busy teacher needs to be able to develop children’s key skills and techniques and a range of big and small projects to put them into practice. With crucial subject knowledge explained in detail useful ‘How To’ guides at the end of each chapter reinforce the skills and technology covered with instructions for making a variety of models. Sets of lesson plans include information on the resources needed to support both more and less able children and assessment guidance ‘Top Tips’ and ‘Things to Consider’ provide extra help and inspiration. Key topics covered include: cooking and nutrition textiles and the design cycle IT control and monitoring mechanisms structures electronic systems the roles and responsibilities of the DT leader assessment of D&T. The Really Useful Primary Design and Technology Book provides all the information a new teacher needs to be able to teach D&T confidently and with valuable cross-curricular links and photocopiable templates even experienced teachers and subject leaders will find fresh inspiration for their lessons. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138927834

The Really Useful Primary Languages BookPractical strategies and ideas for enjoyable lessons The Really Useful Primary Languages Book is an easily accessible guide full of handy resources and activities which are perfect to dip into for enjoyable engaging and ultimately effective language lessons. Providing principles approaches and ideas to help bring the teaching of languages to life in your classroom this highly practical book will be essential reading for the development of children’s language skills across Key Stage 2.　With examples of practice included throughout the book covers key topics such as: principles of good planning mixed age classes developing skills such as literacy and oracy phonics grammar storytelling poems and songs using language games and activities activities for developing reading skills supporting children’s writing integrating learning a language with daily routines cross-curricular language learning peer and self-assessment involving parents in language work at school. The experienced author team draws upon their own personal teaching experience coupled with knowledge of primary best practice and government guidance to ensure that The Really Useful Primary Languages Book is a stimulating resource to help busy teachers trainee teachers and teaching assistants to develop their own effective teaching style.     Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138900813

The Really Useful Science BookA Framework of Knowledge for Primary Teachers Offering support to both trainee and practising teachers the fourth edition of The Really Useful Science Book is the perfect tool for those who wish to extend their subject knowledge enhance their teaching and create lessons which link directly to the National Curriculum. The easy-to-follow framework provides comprehensive science knowledge for Key Stages 1 and 2 and is fully updated with new material to inspire stimulating and engaging science lessons. The book is divided into three sections: Biology Chemistry and Physics. Each section integrates key scientific ideas and facts with innovative teaching methods and activity suggestions and user-friendly language and illustrations help to explain key scientific concepts. With links to global learning discussion of common misconceptions and ideas for cross-curricular opportunities each chapter connects knowledge to practice and informs creative and inspiring teaching. The Really Useful Science Book is an invaluable reference resource for all classroom teachers who wish to develop the confidence to teach enquiry-based practical science with relevance to pupils and their global community. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138192089

The Realm of a Rain QueenA Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society Originally published in 1943 this book discusses the life and culture of the Lovedu a Bantu tribe in South Africa. As well as discussing the Rain-Queen much of the book is devoted to the royal institutions; the network of links woven by kinship marriage and marriage cattle the legal procedure of compromise and appeasement and various aspects of magic witchcraft and religion. Considered as a whole the culture emerges as a structure supporting and in turns supported by the Rain-Queen. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138589780

The Realpolitik of EvaluationWhy Demand and Supply Rarely Intersect The Realpolitik of Evaluation shines a light on the divergent demands for evaluation. But what explains the "gap" between what those on the "demand" side expect in terms of evaluation results and the "supply" of information provided by evaluators? Can anything be done to narrow this gap? What works and what does not work? Examining these questions from both the demand and the supply side experts describe ten different global examples of the gap between demand and supply of evaluation information in different contexts. In an attempt to bridge that gap they effectively reveal the biases behind supposedly sources of evaluation information and highlight the pros and cons of attempts to bridge the gap through the use of third parties enhanced stakeholder involvement and the incorporation of social science models to strengthen Theories of Change (ToC). The Realpolitik of Evaluation is an important book that poses questions at multiple levels of thinking. It will be of great interest to policymakers program implementers and project managers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367434328

The Reason of StatesA Study in International Political Theory Originally published in 1978 this book examines how the states-system grew over generations first within Europe then world wide and how the idea of the state came to monopolise our vision of the world. It discusses the grounds for the division of humanity into separate states in reason and history and whether or not we can use terms like ‘obligation’ and ‘justice’ in seeking to understand our relations with people of other states. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138942288

The Reasoning CriminalRational Choice Perspectives on Offending The assumption that rewards and punishments influence our choices between different courses of action underlies economic sociological psychological and legal thinking about human action. Hence the notion of a reasoning criminal—one who employs the same sorts of cognitive strategies when contemplating offending as they and the rest of us use when making other decisions—might seem a small contribution to crime control. This conclusion would be mistaken.This volume develops an alternative approach termed the "rational choice perspective " to explain criminal behaviour. Instead of emphasizing the differences between criminals and non-criminals it stresses some of the similarities. In particular while the contributors do not deny the existence of irrational and pathological components in crimes they suggest that the rational aspects of offending should be explored.An international group of researchers in criminology psychology and economics provide a comprehensive review of original research on the criminal offender as a reasoning decision maker. While recognizing the crucial influence of situational factors the rational choice perspective provides a framework within which to incorporate and locate existing theories about crime. In doing so it also provides both a new agenda for research and sheds a fresh light on deterrent and prevention policies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412852753

The Reasoning CriminologistEssays in Honour of Ronald V. Clarke This book is a tribute to the work of criminologist Professor Ronald V. Clarke in view of his enormous and enduring contribution to criminology and crime science. Clarke is best known for his development of the theory and application of situational crime prevention although he also played a major part in the establishment of the British Crime Survey in discussions of evaluation methodology and in improving the knowledge base and tools for problem-oriented policing. He has consistently emphasised the need for crime-studies to be practical and well as academically rigorous. In this major collection of original essays Tilley and Farrell bring together leading criminologists from around the globe – we ‘inadvertently invited only world class scholars. Oops.’ the editors profess – all of whom are colleagues or ex-students of Clarke. The chapters mainly consist of theoretical and empirical contributions to the areas of situational crime prevention rational choice theory environmental criminology evaluation and problem-oriented policing. The largely biographical introduction ‘Ronald V. Clarke – The Quiet Revolutionary’ is based on interviews with Clarke. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415688529

The Rebel PassionA Short History of Some Pioneer Peace-Makers Originally published in 1964 The Rebel Passion endeavours to tell the continuous story in terms of their ideas and personalities and the vital flame that inspired them of a group of very different yet spiritually related Christians who sought to confront a world involved in deeper conflict than any could fully realize with the basic essentials of peace. Individual and corporate witness beginning even before 1914 is presented against the dark background of many countries involved directly or indirectly in war and illustrates the international scene dangerous and tragic yet revolutionary and apocalyptic over the tremendous half-century through which the older generation had lived and which shaped the lives of their juniors. In 1941 the last revised edition was issued of a factual historic record of the work of the I.F.o.R. up to twenty years ago. The present book aims at a different treatment which instead of mainly summarizing missions conferences and committees seeks to interpret persons and events rather than merely describe them. It tries above all to indicate how the philosophy and example of prophetic personalities influenced their various communities in spite of totally different official values and the consistent opposition of ‘establishments’ to minority opinions based on insight and inspiration. It suggests that the thinking of ordinary individuals with distinguished minds without the advantage of conspicuous social labels or the opportunity to stand on political pedestals actually operates as a leaven which changes the thought of a generation. The fact that such a result had been achieved within measurable time should have encouraged those who worked on the contemporary scene to create spiritual foundations for the labours of future man and women. This book was published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation founded at Cambridge in December 1914 and followed by the International Fellowship in 1919. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367261757

The Rebellion of Absalom With extraordinary range and literary energy the story of Absalom’s rebellion in 2 Samuel ranks as the most elaborate and extensively narrated internal political event in the Hebrew Bible complete with a host of scandalous and sordid events: illicit sex murder cover-up petty crime to name a few. For many students approaching the historical books of the Bible however texts often fail to address the vitality of this most turbulent period of King David’s career. Bodner addresses this shortcoming with his The Rebellion of Absalom a lively analysis of the early monarchy of Israel written by a recognized commentator of the Bible’s historical books. Concise and insightful each chapter incrementally focuses on the stages of David’s rise to power and Absalom’s early life and rebellion. Crucial issues in the development of Israel’s monarchy are embedded in this story including: royal legitimation divine election succession usurpation divine and human punishment. The Rebellion of Absalom is a student-friendly culturally savvy approach to one of the most important episodes in deciding how the kings of Israel would be determined throughout the monarchic period. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415719483

The Rebordering of North AmericaIntegration and Exclusion in a New Security Context First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315024349

The Rebound Effect in Home HeatingA guide for policymakers and practitioners This is a definitive guide to the rebound effect in home heating – the increase in energy service use after a technological intervention aimed at reducing consumption. It sets out what the effect is how it plays out in the home heating sector what this implies for energy saving initiatives in this sector and how it relates to rebound effects in other sectors. The book outlines how the concept of the rebound effect has been developed and the scope of research on it both generally and particularly in the home heating sector. Within the context of energy and CO2 emissions policy it summarises the empirical evidence exploring its causes and the attempts that are being made to mitigate it. Various definitions of the rebound effect are considered in particular the idea of the effect as an energy-efficiency ‘elasticity’. The book shows how this definition can be rigorously applied to thermal retrofits and to national consumption data to give logically consistent rebound effect results that can be coherently compared with those of other sectors and allow policy makers to have more confidence in the predictions about potential energy savings.　 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138788350

The Receiving End Originally published in 1973 The Receiving End looks at the British welfare services for deprived children. The book is comprised of essays from individuals that have been on the receiving end of the social help agencies such as adoption societies fostering agencies and children’s homes. Each contributor provides a unique viewpoint of their own experiences the experiences include chapters from those with experience of adopting a child those that have been in the care of the local authority and a first-hand account of a teenager in a psychiatric clinic. The book provides a valuable insight social work from the viewpoint of those receiving it. The book is still very much relevant today and will be of interest to those working in the field of social work or those studying social work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138365360

The Recent Archaeology of the Early Modern Period in Quebec City: 2009 "This volume is the result of collaboration between SPMA and the Association des archeologues du Quebec (AAQ); its guest editor is William Moss Chief Archaeologist for the City of Quebec. The publication has arisen from the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the city's founding by Samuel de Champlain in 1608 an occasion which gave momentum to a number of important archaeological projects in the city and surrounding region and provided an excellent opportunity to present their results. It contains sixteen papers all translated from French the language of Quebec City. They include accounts of exciting discoveries relating to the port the great chateau on the crag above it the defences and the newly discovered remains of the short-lived colony of the 1540s. The papers underline Quebec's status as one of the leading centres of urban research in North America. The volume provides the only modern overview of archaeological work in the city in the English language." Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781351193351

The Reception and Rendition of Freud in ChinaChina’s Freudian Slip Although Freud makes only occasional brief references to China and Chinese culture in his works for almost a hundred years many leading Chinese intellectuals have studied and appropriated various Freudian theories. However whilst some features of Freud’s views have been warmly embraced from the start and appreciated for their various explanatory and therapeutic values other aspects have been vigorously criticized as implausible or inapplicable to the Chinese context. This book explores the history reception and use of Freud and his theories in China and makes an original and substantial contribution to our understanding of the Chinese people and their culture as well as to our appreciation of western attempts to understand the people and culture of China. The essays are organised around three key areas of research. First it examines the historical background concerning the China-Freud connection in the 20th century before going on to use reconstructed Freudian theories in order to provide a modernist critique of Chinese culture. Finally the book deploys traditional Chinese thought in order to challenge various aspects of the Freudian project. Both Freudianism’s universal appeal and its cultural particularity are in full display throughout the book. At the same time the allure of Chinese cultural and literary expressions both in terms of their commonality with other cultures and their distinctive characteristics are also scrutinized. This collection of essays will be welcomed by those interested in early modern and contemporary China as well as the work and influence of Freud. It will also be of great interest to students and scholars of psychology psychoanalysis literature philosophy religion and cultural studies more generally. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138108899

The Reception of Byzantium in European Culture since 1500 Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civilization means also studying how it was used subsequently. This kind of approach is still relatively rare in the field of Byzantine Studies. This volume which is the result of the range of interests in (mostly) non-English-speaking research communities takes an important step to filling this gap by investigating the place and dimensions of ’Byzantium after Byzantium’. This collection of essays uses the idea of ’reception-theory’ and expands it to show how European societies after Byzantium have responded to both the reality and the idea of Byzantine Civilisation. The authors discuss various forms of Byzantine influence in the post-Byzantine world from architecture to literature to music to the place of Byzantium in modern political debates (e.g. in Russia). The intentional focus of the present volume is on those aspects of Byzantine reception less well-known to English-reading audiences which accounts for the inclusion of Bulgarian Czech Polish and Russian perspectives. As a result this book shows that although so-called 'Byzantinism' is a pan-European phenomenon it is made manifest in local/national versions. The volume brings together specialists from various countries mainly Byzantinists whose works focus not only on Byzantine Studies (that is history literature and culture of the Byzantine Empire) but also on the influence of Byzantine culture on the world after the Fall of Constantinople. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367879815

The Reception of Classical German Literature in England 1760-1860 Volume 10A Documentary History from Contemporary Periodicals The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18th Century through the first decades of the 19th German books and ideas attracted then gained the attention of a nation. Despite the acknowledged importance of the influence on writers such as Coleridge and Carlyle the subject though often alluded to was rarely studied. This collection provides a guidebook through the masses of periodical and allows the English side of the Anglo-German literary relationship to be explored in detail. In order to make the collection useful to scholars with a wide range of interest it has been divided into three parts: Part 1 is a chronological presentation of commentary on German literature in general. It also contains collective reviews of multiple German authors notices of important anthologies and reactions to influential works about Germany and its culture. Part 2 collects reviews of 18th Century individual German authors and Part 3 is devoted to the English reception of Goethe and Schiller. Parts 2 & 3 contain cross-references to the collective reviews of Part 1. Containing over 200 British serials and articles and reviews from all the major English literary periodicals the collection also includes a broad sampling of opinion from the more general magazines including some popular religious publications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367820152

The Reception of Classical German Literature in England 1760-1860 Volume 2A Documentary History from Contemporary Periodicals The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18th Century through the first decades of the 19th German books and ideas attracted then gained the attention of a nation. Despite the acknowledged importance of the influence on writers such as Coleridge and Carlyle the subject though often alluded to was rarely studied. This collection provides a guidebook through the masses of periodical and allows the English side of the Anglo-German literary relationship to be explored in detail. In order to make the collection useful to scholars with a wide range of interest it has been divided into three parts: Part 1 is a chronological presentation of commentary on German literature in general. It also contains collective reviews of multiple German authors notices of important anthologies and reactions to influential works about Germany and its culture. Part 2 collects reviews of 18th Century individual German authors and Part 3 is devoted to the English reception of Goethe and Schiller. Parts 2 & 3 contain cross-references to the collective reviews of Part 1. Containing over 200 British serials and articles and reviews from all the major English literary periodicals the collection also includes a broad sampling of opinion from the more general magazines including some popular religious publications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367814205

The Reception of Classical German Literature in England 1760-1860 Volume 3A Documentary History from Contemporary Periodicals The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18th Century through the first decades of the 19th German books and ideas attracted then gained the attention of a nation. Despite the acknowledged importance of the influence on writers such as Coleridge and Carlyle the subject though often alluded to was rarely studied. This collection provides a guidebook through the masses of periodical and allows the English side of the Anglo-German literary relationship to be explored in detail. In order to make the collection useful to scholars with a wide range of interest it has been divided into three parts: Part 1 is a chronological presentation of commentary on German literature in general. It also contains collective reviews of multiple German authors notices of important anthologies and reactions to influential works about Germany and its culture. Part 2 collects reviews of 18th Century individual German authors and Part 3 is devoted to the English reception of Goethe and Schiller. Parts 2 & 3 contain cross-references to the collective reviews of Part 1. Containing over 200 British serials and articles and reviews from all the major English literary periodicals the collection also includes a broad sampling of opinion from the more general magazines including some popular religious publications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367817565

The Reception of Classical German Literature in England 1760-1860 Volume 4A Documentary History from Contemporary Periodicals The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18th Century through the first decades of the 19th German books and ideas attracted then gained the attention of a nation. Despite the acknowledged importance of the influence on writers such as Coleridge and Carlyle the subject though often alluded to was rarely studied. This collection provides a guidebook through the masses of periodical and allows the English side of the Anglo-German literary relationship to be explored in detail. In order to make the collection useful to scholars with a wide range of interest it has been divided into three parts: Part 1 is a chronological presentation of commentary on German literature in general. It also contains collective reviews of multiple German authors notices of important anthologies and reactions to influential works about Germany and its culture. Part 2 collects reviews of 18th Century individual German authors and Part 3 is devoted to the English reception of Goethe and Schiller. Parts 2 & 3 contain cross-references to the collective reviews of Part 1. Containing over 200 British serials and articles and reviews from all the major English literary periodicals the collection also includes a broad sampling of opinion from the more general magazines including some popular religious publications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367818821

The Reception of Classical German Literature in England 1760-1860 Volume 5A Documentary History from Contemporary Periodicals The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18th Century through the first decades of the 19th German books and ideas attracted then gained the attention of a nation. Despite the acknowledged importance of the influence on writers such as Coleridge and Carlyle the subject though often alluded to was rarely studied. This collection provides a guidebook through the masses of periodical and allows the English side of the Anglo-German literary relationship to be explored in detail. In order to make the collection useful to scholars with a wide range of interest it has been divided into three parts: Part 1 is a chronological presentation of commentary on German literature in general. It also contains collective reviews of multiple German authors notices of important anthologies and reactions to influential works about Germany and its culture. Part 2 collects reviews of 18th Century individual German authors and Part 3 is devoted to the English reception of Goethe and Schiller. Parts 2 & 3 contain cross-references to the collective reviews of Part 1. Containing over 200 British serials and articles and reviews from all the major English literary periodicals the collection also includes a broad sampling of opinion from the more general magazines including some popular religious publications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367819255

The Reception of Classical German Literature in England 1760-1860 Volume 6A Documentary History from Contemporary Periodicals The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18th Century through the first decades of the 19th German books and ideas attracted then gained the attention of a nation. Despite the acknowledged importance of the influence on writers such as Coleridge and Carlyle the subject though often alluded to was rarely studied. This collection provides a guidebook through the masses of periodical and allows the English side of the Anglo-German literary relationship to be explored in detail. In order to make the collection useful to scholars with a wide range of interest it has been divided into three parts: Part 1 is a chronological presentation of commentary on German literature in general. It also contains collective reviews of multiple German authors notices of important anthologies and reactions to influential works about Germany and its culture. Part 2 collects reviews of 18th Century individual German authors and Part 3 is devoted to the English reception of Goethe and Schiller. Parts 2 & 3 contain cross-references to the collective reviews of Part 1. Containing over 200 British serials and articles and reviews from all the major English literary periodicals the collection also includes a broad sampling of opinion from the more general magazines including some popular religious publications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367819514

The Reception of Classical German Literature in England 1760-1860 Volume 7A Documentary History from Contemporary Periodicals The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18th Century through the first decades of the 19th German books and ideas attracted then gained the attention of a nation. Despite the acknowledged importance of the influence on writers such as Coleridge and Carlyle the subject though often alluded to was rarely studied. This collection provides a guidebook through the masses of periodical and allows the English side of the Anglo-German literary relationship to be explored in detail. In order to make the collection useful to scholars with a wide range of interest it has been divided into three parts: Part 1 is a chronological presentation of commentary on German literature in general. It also contains collective reviews of multiple German authors notices of important anthologies and reactions to influential works about Germany and its culture. Part 2 collects reviews of 18th Century individual German authors and Part 3 is devoted to the English reception of Goethe and Schiller. Parts 2 & 3 contain cross-references to the collective reviews of Part 1. Containing over 200 British serials and articles and reviews from all the major English literary periodicals the collection also includes a broad sampling of opinion from the more general magazines including some popular religious publications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367819637

The Reception of Classical German Literature in England 1760-1860 Volume 8A Documentary History from Contemporary Periodicals The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18th Century through the first decades of the 19th German books and ideas attracted then gained the attention of a nation. Despite the acknowledged importance of the influence on writers such as Coleridge and Carlyle the subject though often alluded to was rarely studied. This collection provides a guidebook through the masses of periodical and allows the English side of the Anglo-German literary relationship to be explored in detail. In order to make the collection useful to scholars with a wide range of interest it has been divided into three parts: Part 1 is a chronological presentation of commentary on German literature in general. It also contains collective reviews of multiple German authors notices of important anthologies and reactions to influential works about Germany and its culture. Part 2 collects reviews of 18th Century individual German authors and Part 3 is devoted to the English reception of Goethe and Schiller. Parts 2 & 3 contain cross-references to the collective reviews of Part 1. Containing over 200 British serials and articles and reviews from all the major English literary periodicals the collection also includes a broad sampling of opinion from the more general magazines including some popular religious publications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367820015

The Reception of Classical German Literature in England 1760-1860 Volume 9A Documentary History from Contemporary Periodicals The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18th Century through the first decades of the 19th German books and ideas attracted then gained the attention of a nation. Despite the acknowledged importance of the influence on writers such as Coleridge and Carlyle the subject though often alluded to was rarely studied. This collection provides a guidebook through the masses of periodical and allows the English side of the Anglo-German literary relationship to be explored in detail. In order to make the collection useful to scholars with a wide range of interest it has been divided into three parts: Part 1 is a chronological presentation of commentary on German literature in general. It also contains collective reviews of multiple German authors notices of important anthologies and reactions to influential works about Germany and its culture. Part 2 collects reviews of 18th Century individual German authors and Part 3 is devoted to the English reception of Goethe and Schiller. Parts 2 & 3 contain cross-references to the collective reviews of Part 1. Containing over 200 British serials and articles and reviews from all the major English literary periodicals the collection also includes a broad sampling of opinion from the more general magazines including some popular religious publications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367820060

The Reception of Classical German Literature in England 1760-1860 Volume1A Documentary History from Contemporary Periodicals The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18th Century through the first decades of the 19th German books and ideas attracted then gained the attention of a nation. Despite the acknowledged importance of the influence on writers such as Coleridge and Carlyle the subject though often alluded to was rarely studied. This collection provides a guidebook through the masses of periodical and allows the English side of the Anglo-German literary relationship to be explored in detail. In order to make the collection useful to scholars with a wide range of interest it has been divided into three parts: Part 1 is a chronological presentation of commentary on German literature in general. It also contains collective reviews of multiple German authors notices of important anthologies and reactions to influential works about Germany and its culture. Part 2 collects reviews of 18th Century individual German authors and Part 3 is devoted to the English reception of Goethe and Schiller. Parts 2 & 3 contain cross-references to the collective reviews of Part 1. Containing over 200 British serials and articles and reviews from all the major English literary periodicals the collection also includes a broad sampling of opinion from the more general magazines including some popular religious publications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367810450

The Reception of David Ricardo in Continental Europe and Japan This book is a coherent and unique collection of chapters exploring the reception and diffusion of David Ricardo’s writings in different languages. The book highlights the similarities and differences between them. This book seeks to delineate the diffusion of Ricardo's theory in various parts of Europe and Japan. While there may have been case studies about the reception of Ricardo’s thoughts for several countries there has not yet been a systematic study of the diffusion process under consideration as a whole. This book caters to all scholars dedicated to the history of economic thought and to students who are interested to learn about the peculiarities of the evolution of economic theories in different countries. This book is the first of its kind with no known predecessor and it aims to shed light on how and why some of Ricardo’s writings were picked up and why others were not. Given Ricardo’s importance in the field of economics the book will be of interest to many.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138685574

The Reception of the Printed Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesMultiplied and Modified This book examines the early development of the graphic arts from the perspectives of material things human actors and immaterial representations while broadening the geographic field of inquiry to Central Europe and the British Isles and considering the reception of the prints on other continents. The role of human actors proves particularly prominent i.e. the circumstances that informed creators’ producers’ owners’ and beholders’ motivations and responses. Certainly such a complex relationship between things people and images is not an exclusive feature of the pre-modern period’s print cultures. However the rise of printmaking challenged some established rules in the arts and visual realms and thus provides a fruitful point of departure for further study of the development of the various functions and responses to printed images in the sixteenth century. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history print history book history and European studies. Chapter # of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license at https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780367465117_oaintroduction.pdf Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367465117

The Reception Of Unconventional Science The issue of perhaps greatest concern to historians of science today is the internalist-externalist dichotomy. This volume directly addresses that issue at the same time providing a context for the serious study of heterodox science and scientific theories. The book consists of four studies each of which considers the response of a scientific community to an unconventional theory or claim: the acausal physics of Heisenberg; Wegener's geological theory of continental drift; acupuncture; and the statistical argument for extrasensory perception. As they reveal a wide range of reactions to orthodoxy the studies themselves exemplify the range of approaches the historian may use in examining scientific unconventionality. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295455

The Reception Year in Action revised and updated editionA month-by-month guide to success in the classroom ‘The Reception Year in Action will take the understanding of outdoor play teaching and learning to a new level. Everyone who is involved with early years education and care should read this book!’ Helen Bilton University of Reading UK ‘This is a fantastic book... it shows exactly how an excellent reception class is organised and run. There is a clear theoretical underpinning to the practice described and the photos really bring the text alive.’ Margaret Edgington independent early years consultant and trainer 　 Children thrive when a reception class is organised and managed by the adults but led by the children. They learn and develop if they are in a stimulating environment which is carefully organised and when observations are used to support their ‘next steps’. They take risks and surpass expectations when they have clear routines and boundaries combined with a supportive staff and an enabling environment. The Reception Year in Action offers a unique insight into the workings of a highly successful Reception class as it progresses through a complete academic year. The book covers all aspects of practice from the organisation of the classroom and garden and the rationale behind this to the routines and boundaries that ensure children are safe happy and therefore able to explore and learn. It tracks the events of each month in the year paying particular attention to the environment the role of the adult links with parents children’s individual needs and the key areas of learning and development. At each stage Anna Ephgrave gives the reason behind each decision and shows what the outcomes have been for the children. This revised edition has been updated to show how the methods described complement the revised Early Years Foundation Stage Framework and how the planning system has been received under the new Ofsted framework. Key Features include: photocopiable pages of planning sheets record keeping sheets sample letters to parents and role play resources also available for download; over 150 full-colour photographs to illustrate practice; lists of resources and materials; examples of recorded observations and planning for next steps; guidance on what to look for when assessing children’s progress. Written by an advanced skills teacher who is gaining national recognition for her practice this book provides teachers with the practical ideas and evidence of success to work with confidence in a way that is rewarding manageable and above all best for the children. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415659734

The Recession and BeyondLocal and Regional Responses to the Downturn How has the recession impacted on firms people and places? How have local and regional authorities responded? This book aims to answer these questions by offering an overview of the impacts of the recession on people and places and how it has affected local authorities in the UK and other OECD countries. Being ‘close to the ground’ local authorities are usually at the forefront of dealing with the impacts of recession on people and places. During recessions they face important challenges: on the one hand they have to cope with increasing demand for services and on the other hand they may face a decrease in their income due to the slowdown in the economy. And with the shift from local government to local governance in the last 10 years they also have an increasing role in terms of coordinating various organisations in the delivery of local services. This book begins by looking at the potential impacts of downturns and economic shocks on firms workers communities and places both in the short and long term (Part I). Part II then looks at interventions and responses that local authorities can put in place on their own or in partnership with other local regional and/or national actors to try to deal with these differential impacts. Building on these insights part III offers international perspectives outlining the role of local authorities during the recession in France Canada and Australia. These examples and cases highlight some key variations in the availability of resources at the local level across countries and shed light on the way particular economic situations and governance contexts influence local authorities’ responses. This section also includes work by the OECD LEED Programme which surveys cities worldwide and which looks at the application of the ‘Barcelona Principles’. Overall the volume makes a fresh contribution to understanding local economic development and governance by providing a unique perspective and original data on the way local authorities have dealt with the recent economic shock across countries. Looking ahead the book also raises some important issues in relation to local and regional governance and policies to foster long term sustainable economic recovery. This edited volume will be accessible to and suitable for students and researchers studying economic change the recession planning public policy and industrial policy interventions and political science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415710152

The Recession Prevention HandbookEleven Case Studies 1948-2007 The United States has endured eleven recessions since the end of World War II including the recession of 2007-2009. This book focuses on the performance of the economy and the actions taken during the expansion period before the onset of each recession. It's goal is to help prevent or at least lessen the severity of possible future recessions. Well-known economics writer Arthur Frumkin analyzes each of the eleven contemporary recessions to determine: What weaknesses appeared in the economy during the twelve months preceding the onset of the recession? What were economic forecasters predicting? What economics policy actions were taken by the Federal Reserve the president and Congress? Incorporating extensive real-time data Frumkin points to persistent failures over the past sixty years by the Federal Reserve and the president to forecast or to acknowledge the possibility of future recessions. Based on these findings he concludes with a range of policy recommendations for avoiding or ameliorating future recessions. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315699127

The Recipe ReaderNarratives - Contexts - Traditions Over the last decade there has been an intense and widespread interest in the writing and publishing of cookery books; yet there remains surprisingly little contextualized analysis of the recipe as a generic form. This essay collection asserts that the recipe in all its cultural and textual contexts - from the quintessential embodiment of lifestyle choices to the reflection of artistic aspiration - is a complex distinct and important form of cultural expression. In this volume contributors address questions raised by the recipe its context its cultural moment and mode of expression. Examples are drawn from such diverse areas as: nineteenth and twentieth-century private publications official government documents campaigning literature magazines and fictions as well as cookery writers themselves cookbooks and TV cookery. In subjecting the recipe to close critical analysis The Recipe Reader serves to move the study of this cultural form forward. It will interest scholars of literature popular culture social history and women's studies as well as food historians and professional food writers. Written in an accessible style this collection of essays expands the range of writers under consideration and brings new perspectives contexts and arguments into the existing field of debate about cookery writing. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237480

The Reciprocity of Perceiver and EnvironmentThe Evolution of James J. Gibson's Ecological Psychology Originally published in 1987 this title intended to historically reveal through tracing Gibson’s development the substance of his views and how they bore upon general philosophical issues in theories of knowledge and to investigate in detail the historical context of Gibson’s theoretical position within psychology. Though the author has included a history of Gibson’s perceptual research and experimentation the focus is to explicate the ‘dynamic abstract form’ of Gibson’s ecological approach. His emphasis is philosophical and theoretical attempting to bring out the direction Gibson was moving in and how such changes could restructure the theoretical fabric of psychology. He devotes considerable attention to the Greeks Medievalists and the founders of the Scientific Revolution. This is because Gibson’s theoretical challenge runs deep into the structure of western thought. The authors’ central goal was to set Gibson’s ecological theory within the historical context of fundamental philosophical-scientific issues. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138200500

The Recognition of Prior Learning in Post-Apartheid South AfricaAn Alternative Pedagogy for Transformation of the Built Environment Professions This book addresses a critical gap in the effective implementation of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in post-apartheid South Africa. This book responds to a critical problem whereby a critical mass of historically disadvantaged persons continues to face exclusion by entrenched systems of professional education and training. Focusing on case studies from higher education and build environment studies it defines the rationale and fundamental principles of an innovative model for the evaluation of RPL which can be adapted and applied across disciplines and professions while promoting high quality standards. RPL is considered as a transformative strategy to oppose the injustices of pedagogic exclusion and upskill a historically disadvantaged population. The book makes a strong case for an alternate system based on the potentiality of transformed legislation and frameworks in post-apartheid South Africa. The book will be of interest to researchers in alternative pedagogies scholars engaged with epistemologies of the South and alternative knowledge systems legislative bodies policy makers and facilitators of professional education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367639433

The Reconceptualization of Curriculum StudiesA Festschrift in Honor of William F. Pinar In this volume scholars from around the world consider the influential work of William F. Pinar from a variety of "conversations" his ideas have generated. The major focus is on the What Why and How of the word "reconceptualization " which involves engaging critically and ethically as public intellectuals with gender class and race issues theorized in a variety of disciplines. The book introduces Pinar’s seminal argument for curriculum to return to its root in the word currere (the running of the course of study) and its key concepts: autobiography as alternative to the denial of subjectivity in traditional curriculum studies study and place. Issues addressed include the ethics of study both of self and of the discipline of curriculum studies the politics of presence the curricular importance of entering the public sphere the openness to complicating simple solutions and the ethical dealing with alterity (the state of being other or different;　otherness). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138345294

The Reconquest of the New WorldMultinational Enterprises and Spain's Direct Investment in Latin America This title was first published in 2001. This informative volume gives penetrating insight into why multinational enterprises (MNEs) headquartered in Spain invested so heavily in Latin America in the 1990s. This is an invaluable resource for scholars of international political economics international relations economics business and development studies and those with an interest in Spain and Latin America. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138725225

The Reconstruction Of Disturbed Arid LandsAn Ecological Approach This volume emphasizes application of the basic ecological relationships among plants animals microorganisms the physical environment and man to reconstruct wildland ecosystems. It contains the proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295462

The Reconstruction of Space and TimeMobile Communication Practices One of the most significant and obvious examples of how mobile communication influences our understanding of time and space is how we coordinate with one another. Mobile communication enables us to call specific individuals not general places. Regardless of location we are able to make contact with almost anyone almost anywhere. This advancement has changed and continues to change human interaction. Now instead of agreeing on a particular time well beforehand we can iteratively work out the most convenient time and place to meet at the last possible moment--on the way to the meeting or once we arrive at the destination.In their early days mobile devices were primarily used for various types of emergency situations and for work. In some cases the device was an essential element in various business operations or used so that overseas workers could communicate with their families. The distance between a remote posting and the people back home was suddenly and dramatically reduced. People began to share these devices not necessarily out of economic issues but also questions of family and interpersonal dynamics.The process of sharing decisions as to who is a legitimate partner makes the nature of relationships more explicit. By examining the economy of sharing we not only see how sharing mobile phones restructures social space but are also given insight into an individual's web of interactions. This cutting-edge book deals with modern ways of thinking about communication and human interaction; it will illuminate the ways in which mobile communication alters our experience with space and time. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315134499

The Reconstruction of the Juridico-PoliticalAffinity and Divergence in Hans Kelsen and Max Weber Hans Kelsen and Max Weber are conventionally understood as the original proponents of two distinct and opposed processes of concept formation generating two separate and contrasting theoretical frameworks for the study of law.　The Reconstruction of the Juridico-Political: Affinity and Divergence in Hans Kelsen and Max Weber contests the conventional understanding of the theoretical relationship between Kelsen’s legal positivism and Weber’s sociology of law. Utilising the conceptual frame of the　juridico-political the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume analyse central points of affinity and divergence in the work of these two influential figures. Thus the chapters collected in The Reconstruction of the Juridico-Political offer a comprehensive reconsideration of these affinities and divergences through a comparison of their respective reconstruction of the notions of democracy the State legal rights and the character of law. From this reconsideration a more complex understanding of their theoretical relationship emerges combined with a renewed emphasis upon the continued contemporary relevance of the work of Kelsen and Weber. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138091283

The Reconstruction of Western Europe 1945-51 This paperback edition has now been reissued alongside Alan Milward's new book The European Rescue of the Nation State. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138142398

The Reconstruction of Western Europe 1945-1951 First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415612876

The Record of the National Government The introduction of the National Government in 1931 came about due to the Wall Street Crash leading to a British Government run by members of all parties more commonly known as a coalition government today. With public opinion split on how to deal with the financial crisis this was initially seen as a positive step by many but for many the national government was not the ideal solution. Ramsay Muir was one such ex-supporter and originally published in 1936 his study aims to provide a timeline of the events happening before during and after the original national government and how this impacted on British politics. This title will be of interest to students of Politics and Political History. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138643529

The RecorderA Research and Information Guide A Choice "Best Academic" book in its first edition The Recorder remains an essential resource for anyone who wants to know about this instrument. This new edition is thoroughly redone takes account of the publishing activity of the years since its first publication and still follows the original organization. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415998581

The Recovered VoiceTales of Practical Psychotherapy What happens in psychotherapy and when is it helpful? With twelve case reports covering the most frequent disorders requiring psychotherapy the prominent psychiatrist psychotherapist and psychoanalyst Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla shows how success can be achieved with the flexible integration of different psychotherapeutic methods. The focus is on individuals in their social context with their various biographies life situations and creative potentialities. The narratives revolve around an ‘ABCDE’ model and highlight the following aspects of modern psychotherapy: therapeutic alliance behaviour change cognitive reflection psychodynamic analysis and existential understanding. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782203988

The Recovery of Natural Environments in ArchitectureAir Comfort and Climate The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located. This book unravels the extremely complex history of understanding and perception of air bad air miasmas airborne pathogens beneficial thermal conditions ideal climates and climate determinism. It uncovers inventive and entirely viable attempts to design large buildings hospitals theatres and academic buildings through the 19th and early 20th centuries which use the configuration of the building itself and a shrewd understanding of the natural physics of airflow and fluid dynamics to make good comfortable interior spaces. In exhuming these ideas and reinforcing them with contemporary scientific insight the book proposes a recovery of the lost art and science of making naturally conditioned buildings. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138651463

The Red and the BlackStudies in Greek Pottery The Red and the Black covers the major stages in the history of Greek pottery production both figured and plain as they are understood today. It provides an up-to-date evaluation of ways of studying Greek pottery and encourages new approaches.There is a detailed analysis of the subject matter of figured scenes covering some of the main preoccupations of ancient Greece: myth fantasy and everyday life. Furthermore it sets the artefacts in the context of the societies that produced them highlighting the social art historical mythological and economic information that can be revealed from their study.This volume also covers a hitherto neglected area: the history of the collecting of Greek pottery through the Renaissance and up to the present day. It shows how market values have gradually increased to the high prices of today and goes on to take a closer look at the enthusiasm of the collectors. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315887722

The Red Book of C.G. JungA Journey into Unknown Depths This book focuses on some of the main aspects and importance of The Red Book for the understanding of the work of C.G. Jung. It sheds light on the great mysteries of human nature and the new dimension uncovered by Jung and Freud: the universe of the unconscious and the possible ways to approach it. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782204510

The Red Book: Reflections on C.G. Jung's Liber Novus In 2009 WW Norton published ‘The Red Book’ a book written by Jung in 1913-1914 but not previously published. Snippets of information about the likely contents of the Red Book had been in circulation for years and there was much debate and eager anticipation of its publication within the Jungian field and the larger reading public. In 2010 a conference was held at the San Francisco Jungian Institute which brought together an international group of distinguished scholars in analytical psychology to explore and address critical contextual aspects of ‘The Red Book’ and to debate its importance for current and future Jungian theory and practice. The Red Book: Reflections on C.G. Jung’s Liber Novus is based on that conference the individual papers have been thoroughly revised and updated for this book and address some of the important questions and issues that were raised at that conference in response to the presentation of these papers. As yet there has been very little published about ‘The Red Book’. The Red Book: Reflections on C.G. Jung’s Liber Novus will contribute to setting the agenda for further research both scholarly and clinical in response to Jung’s account of his experiences between 1913-1914 when arguably the future course of his entire project was set in motion. This book will be essential reading for any Jungian interested in the importance of The Red Book analytical psychologists trainee analysts those with an interest in the history of ideas and historians. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415659963

The Red Brigades and the Discourse of ViolenceRevolution and Restoration This book explores the communicative practices of the Italian radical group Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse or BR) the relationship the group established with the Italian press and the specific social historical context in which the BR developed both its own self-understanding and its complex dialectical connection with the society at large. The BR’s worldview and the dominant ideology(ies) mediated by the press are treated as competing responses to structural issues of Italian history: the structural weakness of the nation state the contradictions of an uneven economic development and the consequent struggle of the bourgeois class to achieve hegemonic rule. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138776920

The Red MirrorChildren Of China's Cultural Revolution These evocative stories bring to life the tragic personal impact of the Cultural Revolution on the families of China's intellectuals. Now adults survivors recall their childhood during the tumultuous years between 1965 and 1976 when Mao's death finally drew a curtain on a bitterly failed social and political experiment.A series of first-person na Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367320379

The Red Rose and the WhiteThe Wars of the Roses 1453-1487 If Richard III had not charged to his death at Bosworth how different might the history of Britain have been? Beginning in 1453 and ending in 1487 The Red Rose and the White provides a gripping overview of the bitter dynastic struggle for supremacy that raged between the houses of York and Lancaster for thirty years culminating in the dramatic events on Bosworth Field in 1485. As well as offering a comprehensive account of the campaigns battles and sieges of the conflict the book also assesses the commanders and men involved and considers the weapons and tactics employed. Photographs maps and portraits of the principal characters help to bring the period to life whilst the fast-paced narrative conveys a sense of what it was actually like to fight in battles such as Towton or Tewkesbury the effect of the arrow storm and the grim realities of hand-to-hand combat with edged and bladed weapons. Skilfully weaving in political and social events to place the conflict in its context The Red Rose and the White is a fascinating exploration of the turbulent period that would change the course of British history forever. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138375055

The Red Sea and Adjacent Countries at the Close of the Seventeenth CenturyAs described by Joseph Pitts William Daniel and Charles Jacques Poncet With additional documents. The first narrative is from Pitts' Religion and Manners of the Mahometans (Third Edition 1731); Daniel's journal was printed in 1702 Poncet's in 1709. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1949. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553610

The Red Sea RegionLocal Actors and the Superpowers Since the late 1970s the Red Sea has become extremely important both in international politics and regional affairs. This situation came about because of the growing Soviet presence in the Horn of Africa and Saudi efforts to have the Red Sea treated as an ‘Arab Lake’. This book first published in 1985 examines the development of the Red Sea as a significant problem in superpower relations and assesses its relative importance in the context of other conflicts in the Gulf and elsewhere in the Third World. It analyses Soviet interests in the Red Sea area and examines its record in seeking to intervene in the domestic politics of the region. The book also discusses the degree of regional stability in the Red Sea both in terms of inter-Arab relations and Afro-Arab regulations. This issue is considered against the background of the security of the Nile valley. In conclusion the book argues that Saudi Arabia’s regional policies aimed at enhancing internal and external security have proved destabilizing and in a way even adventurous. By fermenting Somali nationalism Saudi Arabia hoped to push the Soviets out of the Red Sea. In fact this policy reinforced the Soviet presence in the Horn of Africa. Similarly Saudi Arabia’s regular interference in the domestic affairs of North Yemen may well prove extremely counter-productive. The book argues that the West’s preoccupation with the region would lessen considerably if Saudi Arabia and Egypt would promote policies of cooperation rather than destabilization at both inter-Arab and Afro-Arab levels. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138923768

The Red Sea Terror TriangleSudan Somalia Yemen and Islamic Terror In the aftermath of the terror campaign launched on Sep- tember 11 2001 the United States declared war against global terror. It identified the al-Qaida organization and Afghanistan under the Taliban regime as the initial targets of the offensive and Iraq as the next. However aside from the countries included by President Bush in the Axis of Evil (Iraq Iran and North Korea) a triangle of countries in the Red Sea region are also potential targets in the war against terror - Sudan Somalia and Yemen.This assessment is based on the historical record: Each of these countries has in one form or another provided refuge for Islamic terror organizations. Sudan Somalia and Yemen are Muslim states situated at the periphery of the heart of Islam which is generally identified as the Arab Peninsula Egypt and the Fertile Crescent. This area is of strategic significance to both sides of the vital shipping route that connects the Arabian Sea (the Indian Ocean) and the Red Sea. Osama Bin Laden al-Qaida and members of other radical Islamic organizations have found allies and safe havens in both the heart of Islam and its periphery. The presence of radical Islamic entities in the region alongside local problems and conflicts rooted in national ethnic and tribal issues has turned the Red Sea countries into a nucleus of instability and dissension one that threatens the security and peace of both neighboring and more distant countries.Shay examines the three countries designated as the Red Sea Terror Triangle and explores the ties each maintains with Islamic terror as well as the reciprocal links between them. Understanding these countries is of critical importance since all or some of them may constitute a base for Islamic terror organizations in the future. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315134505

The Redcoat and ReligionThe Forgotten History of the British Soldier from the Age of Marlborough to the Eve of the First World War This compelling study presents the most comprehensive examination available of the role of religion in the army during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through extensive analysis of official military sources religious publications and personal memoirs Michael Snape challenges the widely-held assumption that religion did not play a role in the British Army until the mid-Victorian period and demonstrates that the British soldier was highly susceptible to religious influences long before the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny rendered the subject of wider public concern. In The Redcoat and Religion Snape argues that religion was of significant even defining importance to the British soldier and reveals the enduring strength and vitality of religion in contemporary British society challenging the view that the popular religious culture of the era was wholly dependent upon the presence and activities of women. Students of British history military history and religion will all find this an insightful resource for their studies. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203631911

The Redeployment of State Power in the Southern MediterraneanImplications of Neoliberal Reforms for Local Governance The effects of neoliberal economic reforms in the Southern Mediterranean are now widely regarded as a main underlying cause of the Arab uprisings. An often neglected dimension is that of the reforms’ implications for local governance. The contributions to this edited volume examine how state power is being re-articulated but also challenged at sub-national levels in Morocco Egypt Jordan Israel Lebanon and Turkey. They explore the effects of neoliberal economic and local governance reforms such as decentralization public-private partnerships and outsourcing in the area of public service delivery poverty alleviation and labor market reforms on local patronage networks public accountability and state-society relations. The findings show that such reforms are often subordinated to established patterns of political contestation among actors who seize on the opportunities that reforms offer to advance their political agendas thereby illustrating the local specificity of ‘actually existing neoliberalisms’. The book thus fills an important knowledge gap by combining public policy and management theories with those on patron-client networks and public accountability at the local level and situating them within the critical literature on neoliberalism. This book was published as a special issue of Mediterranean Politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138594456

The Redesign of the Global Financial ArchitectureState Authority New Risks and Dynamics More than ten years on from the most intense phase of the global financial crisis and the collective international response in the G20 summit in London a ‘new normal’ has emerged with systems in place to mitigate against further banking crises. This updated new edition analyzes this post-crisis international and national regulatory framework and asks whether the current paradigm is fit for purpose as new dangers gestate and develop. This new edition includes a discussion of the impact of the aggressively deregulatory and anti-globalist policies of the Trump administration and its pursuit of an ‘America First’ policy and explores its implications for the regulatory landscape constructed and tended by previous leaders. The author addresses new and future systemic risks many outside the regulated banking sector which have grown in importance since 2015. He develops possible future scenarios for the international regulatory architecture both negative and positive asking ‘Are we better prepared for future banking crises?’ New risks including the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crash are testing the global system; and the G20 without US leadership may be failing in this latest most severe crisis of our lifetimes. This book provides a unique narrative explanation drawn from leading actors of key events and policy changes as they unfolded immediately post-crisis. The author builds upon the first edition to capture key developments that have occurred during the past five years while raising key questions and vulnerabilities and looking at future risks and challenges that may emerge. This text will be of great interest to students teachers and researchers of financial frameworks globalisation and political economy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367857479

The Rediscovered Psychoanalytic Work of Herbert SilbererDer Traum Charles Corliss presents for the first time the complete English translation of Herbert Silberer’s work on dreams Der Traum: Einführung in die Traumpsychologie. Based on lectures delivered at the majestic Urania Star Observatory in Vienna in 1918 Der Traum was a wide-ranging accessible introduction to the meaning of dreams with examples from Silberer’s practice providing a rich source of illustration. One hundred years after the work was first published in Silberer’s native German Corliss rescues his voice from obscurity and adds key supplementary information to place the work in context. The book begins with an introduction which surveys the range of Silberer’s contributions to psychoanalysis and sets out what is known of his life before presenting the full original text. Presented in eight parts each with preliminary remarks by Corliss the book covers several topics including differing viewpoints on dreams Silberer’s concept of the hypnagogic phenomenon experimental dreams and aspects of his own theory. Der Traum ends with a philosophical exploration of how dream content relates to the core moral fiber of our being with the work as a whole reflecting Silberer’s optimistic depth-oriented and at times almost mystical stance. Corliss concludes the book with a reflection on the rich teleologically optimistic and refreshingly panoramic value of Der Traum. This unique book will be of interest to analytical psychologists and Jungian psychotherapists in practice and training as well as to academics and students of Jungian studies and the history of psychoanalysis psychoanalytic studies theology philosophy and the history of psychology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367281137

The Rediscovery of Teaching The Rediscovery of Teaching presents the innovative claim that teaching does not necessarily have to be perceived as an act of control but can be understood and configured as a way of activating possibilities for students to exist as subjects. By framing teaching as an act of dissensus that is as an interruption of egological ways of being this book positions teaching at the progressive end of the educational spectrum where it can be reconnected with the emancipatory ambitions of education. In conversation with the works of Emmanuel Levinas Paulo Freire Jacques Rancière and other theorists Gert Biesta shows how students’ existence as subjects hinges on the creation of existential possibilities through which students can assert their "grown-up" place in the world. Written for researchers and students in the areas of philosophy of education educational theory curriculum theory teaching and teacher education The Rediscovery of Teaching demonstrates the important role of teachers and teaching in the project of education as emancipation towards grown-up ways of being in the world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138670709

The Reduction of Drug-Related Harm First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315002958

The Reemergence Of Civil Society In Eastern Europe And The Soviet Union The turmoil that shook Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and challenged traditional centers of power in the Soviet Union has touched off an intense debate about the forces behind the recent collapse of Soviet-type systems. Civil society a key concept in the debate is the focus of this thought-provoking volume which contrasts the views of Eastern scholars and activists in independent movements against those of Western academics. The authors' various perspectives on the struggle between the people and their governments highlight different facets of civil society providing new insights into its definition origin and function within a nation's public life. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367310936

The re-emergence of co-housing in Europe Across Europe the number of co-housing initiatives is growing and they are increasingly receiving attention from administrators and professionals who hold high expectations for urban liveability. Is co-housing a marginal idealist phenomenon or the urban middle class’ answer to the current housing crisis? And has the development of theoretical insight and research kept up with the actual expansion of co-housing as a practice? These questions were raised during the first European conference on co-housing research which took place in Tours France in March 2012. Both the conference and this book aim to move beyond case-studies and to look more particularly at the implications and wider perspective of the current co-housing trend. Using the specific vocabulary of different disciplines and geographic regions the contributions to this book analyse the underlying thinking behind and the expectations projected on diverse models of collaborative housing. The authors are aware of the qualities of contemporary co-housing but they go beyond advocacy to investigate the conditions under which co-housing can be successful as a strategy for housing provision; can offer solutions for sustainable urban development; or indeed can contribute to involuntary or intentional gentrification. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Urban Research and Practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138302990

The Re-Emergence of the Single State Solution in Palestine/IsraelCountering an Illusion Providing the first in-depth intellectual and organizational mapping of the single state idea’s recent resurgence in Palestine/Israel this book enquires into its nature as a phenomenon of resistance as well as into its potential as a counterhegemonic force in the making against the processes of Zionism. Reconstructing this moment of re-emergence through primary material and interviews with diverse influential intellectuals—its analysis highlights their self-understandings worldviews strategies and perceptions of the phenomenon in which they are involved while questioning whether the single state idea has the potential to become a Gramscian inspired movement of resistance against Zionism. In presenting this rare insight into a resistance movement in the making this book resurrects an empowering image of Antonio Gramsci infused with the writings of Edward Said. This it does in an effort to both problematize the dominant interpretations of Gramsci’s writings in International Relations and to decolonise the abstract way in which resistance and counter hegemony are often studied in the discipline. Contributing a mapping of a silenced alternative and hopeful way forward in the context of escalating violence this book is essential reading for those studying the Arab-Israeli conflict Middle East Politics and International Relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815348900

The Re-Emergence of Virtual Reality In this short book Evans interrogates the implications of VR’s re-emergence into the media mainstream critiquing the notion of a VR revolution by analysing the development and ownership of VR companies while also exploring the possibilities of immersion in VR and the importance of immersion in the interest and ownership of VR enterprises. He assesses how the ideologies and desires of both computer programmers and major Silicon Valley industries may influence how VR worlds are conceived and experienced by users while also exploring the mechanisms that create the immersive experience that underpins interest in the medium. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367423803

The Re-Evolution of American Street Gangs The problem of gangs and gang subculture is a growing threat to the stability of neighborhoods and entire communities. During the past two decades gang members have increasingly migrated from large urban centers to suburban areas and other countries. This book addresses the intricacies and diversities of street gangs drawing on the expertise of high-ranking law enforcement officials monitoring terrorist activity and gang-related crimes as well as professional private investigators who have spent several decades investigating gangs and learning their subculture lifestyle motivations and relationships.Ideal for supplemental reading in gang violence courses on criminal justice sociology law and psychology this comprehensive anthology presents thorough coverage of a notoriously difficult subject. It explores the following key topics:Social psychological and criminal impact of street gangs on juvenilesPsychology of gang membership and the pathways that lead into and out of gang cultureRelationship between religion and dangerous criminal gangsHow U.S.-based gangs are using technology to advance their operationsUse of graffiti by street gangsEvolution of gangs and recommendations for preventing future growthGang enhancement crimes and associated misconduct of police and prosecutorsLike any type of crime street gang criminal activity cannot be totally eliminated. This book aims to provide a better understanding of gangs so that we can influence today’s potential gang members to make the right decisions for their sake and the sake of society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367598174

The Reference CollectionFrom the Shelf to the Web Stay up-to-date with the growing amount of reference resources available onlineHow important is the World Wide Web to information retrieval and communication? Important enough that information professionals have seen students exit from their libraries en masse when Internet service was lost. Internet providers dominate the indexing and abstracting of periodical articles as major publishers now offer nearly all of their reference titles in digital form. Libraries spend increasing amounts of funding on electronic reference materials and librarians devote an increasing amount of time to assisting in their use. The Reference Collection: From the Shelf to the Web is an essential guide to collection development for electronic materials in academic and public libraries. The Reference Collection: From the Shelf to the Web tracks the continuing evolution of electronic reference resources-and how they’re accessed—in a variety of settings. Librarians representing university elementary school and public libraries in the United States and Australia examine how reference collections have evolved over time (and may soon be a thing of the past); how public and school libraries have dealt with the changes; why library research assignments have become more difficult for teachers to make and for students to complete; how to organize online reference sources; and why the nature of plagiarism has changed in the electronic era. The book also examines the use of electronic references from a publisher’s perspective and looks at the most important Web-accessible reference tools—both free and subscription—in the areas of humanities medicine the social sciences business and education. The Reference Collection: From the Shelf to the Web also examines: issues of authority accessibility cost comfort and user education in evaluating electronic resources the formation of purchasing consortia to facilitate the transfer of reference materials from print to online formats current literature and research findings on the state of digital versus print reference collections what electronic publishing means to smaller reference books (dictionaries almanacs etc.) the need for increased information literacy among students the nature extent and causes of cyber plagiarism the use of federated search tools and includes a selected list of the top 100 free Internet reference sitesThe Reference Collection: From the Shelf to the Web is an essential resource for all reference and collection development librarians and an invaluable aid for publishing professionals. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203051313

The Reference Librarian and Implications of Mediation This book first published in 1992 examines the reference librarian's role as a connecting link between information seekers and the resources they need. It provides the best approaches to providing resolutions or guidance to the appropriate resources. It analyses librarians’ reference skills communication abilities accuracy in responding to specific inquiries and sensitivity to various groups such as paraprofessionals and non-traditional patrons. This provocative book encourages librarians to go beyond merely providing an answer or resource to helping clients better understand the physical surroundings the social or educational context and the ethical political and economic climate in which the process takes place. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367425142

The Reflective CitizenOrganizational and Social Dynamics This is the first in a "Reflective Citizen" series the intention being to develop volumes from the various OPUS (An Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society) activities which include Scientific Meetings Workshops Lectures Debates and Conferences. The objective of OPUS is to promote and develop the study of conscious and unconscious organisational and societal dynamics through educational activities research; consultancy and training; and the publication and dissemination of these activities for the public benefit. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367106898

The Reflective Counselor45 Activities for Developing Your Professional Identity This practical workbook contains 45 experiential and creative activities intentionally created to facilitate counselor professional identity development. Each reflective activity is designed for students and supervisees to learn more about counselor professional identity as well as integrate their knowledge of counseling skills and content with personal attributes and experiences. Individual and group process questions and group follow-up activities make this an ideal workbook to supplement classes or group supervision. Upon completion of the workbook students and supervisees will have a journal of their process in the beginning stages of counselor professional identity development. With chapters focusing on areas including counselor wellness self-growth personal and professional values multicultural awareness research and assessment and more The Reflective Counselor is an essential resource for counseling graduate students supervisees and new professionals alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367182977

The Reflective Entrepreneur In a world where entrepreneurial success often seems deceptively accessible it is not always clear what makes a person entrepreneurial. In this book Dimo Dimov offers a reflective insight into the entrepreneurial journey striking up a conversation about entrepreneurship in order to challenge and untangle existing preconceptions.A discussion of challenges and tensions such as idea versus opportunity genius versus lunatic and skill versus luck forms the foundation of the book while the second part offers actions and considerations which can help the reader to seek opportunities in a fractious environment. The final part of the text focuses on the collective spirit in entrepreneurship arising from the interplay between participation and outcomes.The author brings a succinct diversity to the field making this book essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students on entrepreneurship courses as well as scholars researchers and practitioners looking for a new perspective on entrepreneurship. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367670184

The Reflective Museum PractitionerExpanding Practice in Science Museums The Reflective Museum Practitioner explores a range of expansive and creative ways in which the concept of “reflective practice” has been applied in the informal STEM (science technology engineering and mathematics) learning environments of museums and zoos. It seeks to demonstrate how such a process can inspire lifelong learning in practitioners to the benefit of practitioners and visitors alike. Presenting six projects that employed reflective practice the contributors examine how each project has encouraged and sustained reflection and the outcomes thereof. The projects cover a wide range of different practitioners—including administrators scientists educators and other front-line and back-room staff—who work at different junctures of their organizations. Collectively they raise key questions about changing communities of practice in Informal Science Learning institutions. The projects and concept of “reflective practice” are fully defined and contextualized by the editors who offer in-depth analysis along with a cultural-historical activity theory framework for understanding how changes in museum practice unfold in an institutional context. The Reflective Museum Practitioner offers museum professionals insight into “reflective practice ” as practiced by other institutions in their sector providing practical examples that can be adapted to their needs. It will also be of interest to scholars and students focusing on science museums or professional practice development in museums. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781629582238

The Reflective Practice GuideAn interdisciplinary approach to critical reflection The Reflective Practice Guide supports all students for whom the process of reflecting on developing knowledge and skills is crucial to successful professional practice.　It offers an accessible introduction to a wide range of theories and models that can help you engage more effectively in critical reflection.　Illustrated throughout with examples and case studies drawn from a range of interdisciplinary professional contexts The Reflective Practice Guide offers models of practice that can be applied in a variety of settings. Reflective questions in each chapter help you apply ideas to your own professional context. Drawing on literature from a range of disciplines key aspects of reflection explored include: Becoming more self-aware The role of writing in reflection Learning from experience Learning from positives and negatives Emotions and processing feelings Bringing assumptions to the surface Learning from feedback Reflecting in groups Managing change. The Reflective Practice Guide is an essential source of support guidance and inspiration for all students on education nursing social work and counselling courses who want to think about practice at a deeper level question approaches challenge assumptions and gain greater self-awareness. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138784314

The Reflective PractitionerHow Professionals Think in Action A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions - engineering architecture management psychotherapy and town planning - to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals Donald Schön maintains know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work they rely less on formulas learned in graduate school than on the kind of improvisation learned in practice. This unarticulated largely unexamined process is the subject of Schön's provocatively original book an effort to show precisely how 'reflection-in-action' works and how this vital creativity might be fostered in future professionals. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138458284

The Reflexive InitiativeOn the Grounds and Prospects of Analytic Theorizing The Reflexive Initiative is an authoritative intervention in the practice and tradition of reflexive social theory. It demonstrates the importance of the reflexive imperative not only in the investigation of everyday life but across a wide range of human sciences and philosophical perspectives. Forty years after the publication of On the Beginning of Social Inquiry the chapters in this collection range from re-appraisals of earlier essays on topics such as ‘reunions’ ‘rethinking art’ and ‘expats’ to contributions emphasising the opening of radical dialogues with other reflexive traditions and perspectives. These include psychoanalysis Lacan Hegel Rene Girard Daseinanalysis dialectical method critical feminism and the dialogical tradition.In this dialogical spirit the book contributes to the continuing project of analytic theorizing associated with the work of Alan Blum and Peter McHugh and the recent turn to more ‘existential’ topics and politically engaged forms of reflexive research. It will be of particular use to students working in interpretive traditions of sociology Critical theory Postmodern thought and debates associated with reflexivity and dialectics in other disciplines and research programmes. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367873424

The Reflexive Nature of AwarenessA Tibetan Madhyamaka Defence Places the controversy initiated by the Tibetan Tsong kha pa - who elaborated on one of the eight difficult points in understanding Madhyamaka philosophy - in its Indian and Tibetan context. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138984837

The Reflexivity of Language and Linguistic InquiryIntegrational Linguistics in Practice This book explores the reflexivity of language both from the perspective of the lay speaker and the linguistic analyst. Linguistic inquiry is conditional upon linguistic reflexivity but so is language. Without linguistic reflexivity we would not be able to make sense of everyday linguistic communication and the idea of a language would not be conceivable. Not even fundamental notions such as words or meaning would exist. Linguistic reflexivity is a feature of the communication process and it essentially depends on situated participants and time. It is a defining characteristic of the human language but despite its obvious importance it is not very well understood theoretically and it is strangely under-researched empirically. Throughout history and in modern linguistics it has mostly either been taken for granted misconstrued or ignored. Only integrational linguistics fully recognizes its specifically linguistic implications. However integrational linguistics does not provide the necessary methodological basis for investigating linguistic phenomena empirically. This catch-22 situation means that the goal of the book is twofold: one part is to explore the reflexivity of language theoretically and the other part is to propose an applied integrational linguistics and to implement this proposal in practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367583118

The Reform Decade in ChinaFrom Hope to Dismay This book first published in 1992 provides a detailed analysis of the reform programme in post-Mao China. In it a distinguished group of specialists show how the dramatic events that came to a head in Tiananmen Square in 1989 were the result of a profound crisis in the reform programme launched in 1978. Individual chapters examine the roots of this crisis: the inability to deal sufficiently with the Maoist legacy; insufficient political reform; the clash between Deng’s revolution from above and society’s revolution from below; the imbalances created by the new economic programme; and the relationship between these domestic changes and China’s foreign policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138343719

The Reform of Child Care LawA Practical Guide to the Children Act 1989 Children Act 1989 introduced the most radical changes to child care law for a generation. Eekelaar and Dingwall provide a concise practical guide to the legislation for all professionals practising in this area. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138468368

The Reform of Girls' Secondary and Higher Education in Victorian EnglandA Study of Elites and Educational Change Originally published in 1987 this title was first submitted as a doctoral dissertation at the University of California Berkeley in 1974. Completed just as the years of expansion in higher education were drawing to a close it reflects the growing doubts of the period as to the ability of formal education provision alone to effect major changes in the distribution of socio-economic privilege at the group level whether as between the sexes classes or ethnic groups. Reforms in women’s education had traditionally been dealt with as a small part of the women’s emancipation movement. This book approaches the education reforms in a different way and begins with the question of which social groups participated in the movement. Seen from this point of view a primary interest of the reforms is the function they served in promoting a redefinition of the status and roles of a social elite. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815399483

The Reform of International Economic Governance The second half of the twentieth century saw the emergence of international economic law as a major force in the international legal system. This force has been severely tested by the economic crisis of 2008. Unable to prevent the crisis the existing legal mechanisms have struggled to react against its direst consequences. This book brings together leading experts to analyse the main causes of the crisis and the role that international economic law has played in trying to prevent it on the one hand and worsening it on the other. The work highlights the reaction and examines the tools that have been created by the international legal field to implement international cooperation in an effort to help put an end to the crisis and avoid similar events in the future. The volume brings together eminent legal academics and economists to examine key issues from the perspectives of trade law financial law and investment law with the collective aim of reform of international economic governance. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138483880

The Reform of Prisoners1830-1900 This study first published in 1987 focuses on Victorian approaches to the moral reformation of prisoners and aims to emphasise the ways in which the human value and social inclusion of prisoners were pursued. The author begins by discussing the evangelical view of social problems and human value in early-industrial Britain as well as the ‘associationist’ psychological analysis of human attitude developed by theorists from John Locke to Jeremy Bentham. The workings of these two theoretical frameworks in the practice of British prisons are then analyses arguing that by 1860 both theories were basic to the approach to the incarceration of wrongdoers. After 1860 the picture changed radically to an unambiguous deterrent severity. This was linked to a more ‘scientific’ and evolutionist analysis of human conduct and attitude; theological objections to reformism were also brought into play. In the last forty years of the nineteenth century prisoners came to be seen as constitutionally inferior beings for whom no hope of reform could be generally entertained. This title will be of interest to students of history and of criminology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138942837

The Reform of Property Law First published in 1997 this volume constitutes a collection of new papers by more than 20 United Kingdom and International experts on general and specific issues relating to the reform of all aspects of property law. Topics covered include the language of property law and the dangers of reform the role of the Law Commission and the workings of Parliamentary procedures registration of title to land landlord and tenant land pollution mortgages sale of goods the Hague Convention on trusts together with general comparative papers and papers dealing with specific issues of property law reform affecting Hong Kong Ireland Scotland and South Africa. The volume arises out of the successful conference 'The Reform of Property Law' hosted by the Centre for Property Law at The University of Reading in 1996. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138366381

The Reform of the CAP and Rural Development in Southern Europe Today the use of the term countryside reflects a dual historical shift due to the decreasing importance of agriculture - both in terms of employment and production - in European economies and the shift toward the environment. An increasing part of rural populations is being drawn into non-agricultural sectors such as tourism construction manufacturing and the conventional and innovative services thereby granting a more diversified and contemporary role to the countryside. The environmental shift has questioned many of the very fundamental premises governing the relationship between social practices and nature. Agenda 2000 and the ongoing debate concerning the CAP reforms are connected to a large extent with these new realities. This engaging book focuses on the prospects for the development of the Southern European countryside during a transitional period of a major policy paradigm shift. Bringing together case studies from Portugal Spain France Italy and Greece the book discusses the key issues mentioned above as well as the restricting factors and prospects of the adjustments required. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138277533

The Reform of the International System of Units (SI)Philosophical Historical and Sociological Issues Systems of units still fail to attract the philosophical attention they deserve but this could change with the current reform of the International System of Units (SI). Most of the SI base units will henceforth be based on certain laws of nature and a choice of fundamental constants whose values will be frozen. The theoretical experimental and institutional work required to implement the reform highlights the entanglement of scientific technological and social features in scientific enterprise while it also invites a philosophical inquiry that promises to overcome the tensions that have long obstructed science studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367662608

The Reform of UK Personal Property Security LawComparative Perspectives There has been much discussion in the last ten years about the need to reform the law governing company charge registration with many bodies including the Department of Trade and Industry and Law Commissions considering the case for reform of this area in the context of a wider scheme of personal property security reform. This has culminated in the coming into force of Part 25 of the Companies Act 2006 which is concerned with company charge registration. This major book features the work of international experts on personal property security law. It focuses on the reform of UK company charge law and argues that the Companies Act 2006 did not go far enough in reforming the law. It addresses the question as to whether the UK should follow the lead of other jurisdictions that have adopted US Article 9 type personal property security schemes. As well as considering current UK law the book also addresses the changes proposed by the Law Commissions and despite current government inaction considers whether these reform proposals should be adopted. The book contains major international comparisons and in particular looks at law reform in the USA Canada Australia New Zealand Singapore and Europe. This comparative treatment gives the reader a full perspective on this difficult and constantly developing area of law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge-Cavendish 9780415631549

The Reformation and the Book Although the connection between the invention of printing and the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century has long been a scholarly commonplace there is still a great deal of evidence about the relationship to be presented and analysed. This collection of authoritative reviews by distinguished historians deals with the role of the book in the spread of the Reformation all over the continent identifying common European experiences and local peculiarities. It summarises important recent work on the topic from every major European country introducing English-speakers to much important and previously inaccessible research. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237459

The Reformation in Eastern and Central Europe This work provides a comprehensive and multi-facetted account of the Reformation in eastern and central Europe drawing on extensive archival research carried out by Continental and British scholars. Across a broad thematic temporal and geographical range the contributors examine the cultural impact of the Reformation in Eastern Europe the encounters between different confessions and the blend of religious and political pressures which shaped the path of Reformation in these lands. By making the fruits of their research accessible to a wider audience the contributors hope to emphasise the important role of eastern and central Europe on the early modern European scene. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237442

The Reformation in RhymeSternhold Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter 1547–1603 The Whole Booke of Psalmes was one of the most published and widely read books of early modern England running to over 1000 editions between the 1570s and the early eighteenth century. It offered all of the Psalms paraphrased in verse with appropriate tunes together with an assortment of other scriptural and non-scriptual hymns and prose prayers for domestic use. Because the Elizabethan Church rapidly and pervasively (if unofficially) adopted this metrical psalter for congregational singing and because it had in practical terms no rivals for church use until the end of the seventeenth century essentially the entire conforming population of early modern England after 1570 would have been familiar with its psalms and hymns as elements of both public worship and private devotion. Yet despite the significant impact of The Whole Booke of Psalmes upon English culture and literature this is the first book-length study of it and the first sustained critical examination of the texts of which it comprises. In large part this neglect is due to the reputation it gained after the mid-seventeenth century as a work of poor poetry mainly valued by vulgar and/or sectarian audiences. This later reception however was the product of not only changing literary tastes but an ideological desire to reshape the history of the Reformation. This study focuses on the actual aims of its authors and editors over the course of its gradual composition during the tumultuous religious changes of the mid-sixteenth century and recovers its significant influence on the English church and literary practice. By tracing the ways in which historical contingency religious fervor and the print marketplace together created and were changed by one of the most successful books of English verse ever printed this study opens a new window through which to view the intellectual and ecclesiastical culture of Tudor England. It also shows how in metrical psalmody Protestant reformers discovered what turned out to be a uniquely flexible and effective instrument for advancing their vision of a godly society. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237435

The Reformation of England's PastJohn Foxe and the Revision of History in the Late Sixteenth Century This book is a detailed examination of the sources and protocols John Foxe used to justify the Reformation and claim that the Church of Rome had fallen into the grip of Antichrist. The focus is on the pre-Lollard medieval history in the first two editions of the Acts and Monuments. Comparison of the narrative that Foxe writes to the possible sources helps us to better understand what it was that Foxe was trying to do and how he came to achieve his aims. A focus on sources also highlights the collaborative circle in which Foxe worked recognizing the essential role of other scholars and clerics such as John Bale and Matthew Parker. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138605251

The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology Michael Sudduth examines three prominent objections to natural theology that have emerged in the Reformed streams of the Protestant theological tradition: objections from the immediacy of our knowledge of God the noetic effects of sin and the logic of theistic arguments. Distinguishing between the project of natural theology and particular models of natural theology Sudduth argues that none of the main Reformed objections is successful as an objection to the project of natural theology itself. One particular model of natural theology - the dogmatic model - is best suited to handle Reformed concerns over natural theology. According to this model rational theistic arguments represent the reflective reconstruction of the natural knowledge of God by the Christian in the context of dogmatic theology. Informed by both contemporary religious epistemology and the history of Protestant philosophical theology Sudduth’'s examination illuminates the complex nature of the project of natural theology and its place in the Reformed tradition. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138270046

The Reforming of General EducationThe Columbia Experience in Its National Setting This comprehensive examination of general education by Daniel Bell scrutinizes the experiences of Columbia College Harvard and The College of the University of Chicago. These three basic models of general education in the country are set against a background of social change which includes a detailed analysis of structural changes in American society the universities and the secondary schools and what Bell has called the emerging "postindustrial" society.Bell attacks the distinction between general education and specialism. He holds that one must embody and exemplify general education through disciplines and extend the context of specialism by setting it within the methodological grounds of knowledge. The common link between the two is the emphasis on conceptual inquiry. By emphasizing modes of conceptualization "how one knows rather than what one knows" Bell insists that colleges can have a new vivifying function between the pressures of the secondary and graduate schools.In his proposals for a new curriculum Bell sets forth a scheme that imagines the first year as an acquisition of necessary historical and humanistic knowledge the next two years as training in a discipline and the last year "the third-tier" the most radical innovation as a new kind of general education course which would "brake" specialization and apply disciplined knowledge to broad intellectual and policy questions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538153

The Reforming OrganizationMaking Sense of Administrative Change Originally published in 1993. Organizations have become larger more professionalized more differentiated and wealthier. At the same time they are often subject to large-scale changes: either as a result of mergers and acquisitions or simply in response to changed market conditions or new technologies. In this climate the people who run organizations frequently find themselves acting as "reformers". The central concern of this study is to analyze the reforming process within organizations and assess its impact. The authors define reform as the process by which individuals seek to achieve desired goals by changing the structure of their organization: the administrative procedures chains of command and lines of communication. Drawing on empirical case studies from a range of different sectors The Reforming Organization questions the relationship between the changes that can be seen occurring in organizations all the time and these conscious internal attempts at reform. This is a different approach to some of the central concerns in organizational theory. The relationship between individuals and structures and the "learning" capacity of organizations. This title will be of interest to students of Business Studies and Management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815369516

The Reforms of Peter the GreatProgress Through Violence in Russia This psychologically penetrating revisionist account of the life and rule of Rusia's 18th-century Tsar-reformer develops an important theme - that is what happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic expansionist impulse rather than to a larger goal of human emancipation? And what has been the price of power - both for Peter and for Russia? Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315699110

The Refugees Convention 50 Years onGlobalisation and International Law This title was first published in 2003. The authors of the essays in this collection all internationally recognised refugee scholars and practitioners look at the controversial "hot" topic of refugee rights. They consider whether 50 years after its agreement the Refugees' Convention can provide an adequate framework for protection. In particular the authors address: the effect of globalization upon the human rights of asylum seekers and refugees; the efficacy of the Convention as an instrument of international law; the role of the UNHCR; whether NGOs are effective instruments for change; and nationality and citizenship issues. They also consider alternatives and options for solutions to the global refugee problem. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138715257

The Refutation of DeterminismAn Essay in Philosophical Logic Perhaps everyone who can think has the concept of possibility but no one understands it. The metaphysical theory of Determinism is a symptom of this lack of understanding and the inconclusiveness of its opponents’ arguments indicates that the lack is universal. In this book first published in 1968 the author shows that there are a number of different kinds on non-logical possibility subtly interrelated each requiring separate explanation. An original contribution to the subject it is essential reading for all students of philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138732094

The Refutation of the Self in Indian BuddhismCandrakīrti on the Selflessness of Persons Since the Buddha did not fully explain the theory of persons that underlies his teaching in later centuries a number of different interpretations were developed. This book presents the interpretation by the celebrated Indian Buddhist philosopher Candrakīrti (ca. 570–650 C.E.). Candrakīrti’s fullest statement of the theory is included in his Autocommentary on the Introduction to the Middle Way (Madhyamakāvatārabhasya) which is along with his Introduction to the Middle Way (Madhyamakāvatāra ) among the central treatises that present the Prāsavgika account of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) philosophy. In this book Candrakīrti’s most complete statement of his theory of persons is translated and provided with an introduction and commentary that present a careful philosophical analysis of Candrakīrti’s account of the selflessness of persons. This analysis is both philologically precise and analytically sophisticated. The book is of interest to scholars of Buddhism generally and especially to scholars of Indian Buddhist philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138086838

The Regal Phantasm (Routledge Revivals)Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectacle First published in 1989 this title explores the relationship theater and power in the English Renaissance. Shakespeare’s Henry V Richard II and Macbeth are examined alongside a range of cultural materials including philosophical and historical accounts of sovereignty royal portraiture and representations of treason and punishment. Renaissance theater was far more than a vehicle for the expression of a political content: it played a constitutive role in forming the distinctive theory of sovereignty and the distinctive political subjectivity of the era. By reading Shakespeare’s plays conjunction with other ideologically charged forms of representation the book continues new-historicist efforts to uncover the complex relations between literary texts and cultural contexts. Providing an interesting and detailed analysis this reissue will be of value to students of Shakespeare and the English Renaissance and those concerned with exploring the intersection between cultural analysis post-structuralism and psychoanalytic interpretation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138808928

The Regeneration ImperativeRevitalization of Built and Natural Assets This book on urban regeneration takes an approach that captures the increasing urbanization of modern living in all parts of the world. Revitalization of built and natural surroundings needs to take place to achieve resilient environmental social and economic success. The book looks at proactive natural and built regeneration strategies to increase biocapacity as well as contribute to quality urbanism. Adapting and coping approaches found within big city success stories illustrate the challenges of modern urban living. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367737498

The Regeneration of Public Parks The Urban Parks Programme financed by the Heritage Lottery Fund has sparked a new enthusiasm for the regeneration of Britain's parks. This unique reference book gives a valuable overview of all the elements of public park design. It emphasizes our parks' diversity and richness and offers practical guidance as to their renovation and future care. It is essential reading for all those involved in the design upkeep and regeneration of public parks. Media > Books > Print Books Taylor & Francis 9781138144583

The Regime of the BrotherAfter the Patriarchy This collection of original essays looks at a topic of growing interest and debate in feminist and historical circles: the social regulation of women through law during the 19th and 20th centuries and the resistance which emerged in response. The collection refutes the notion of women oppressed during the 19th century unable to act in opposition to the law. When issues of motherhood and women's sexuality became areas of public policy women began to negotiate the law as case studies from Europe and the USA show. This book should be of interest to students of women's studies sociology of law and social policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138475557

The Region in the New Economy: An International Perspective on Regional Dynamics in the 21st CenturyAn International Perspective on Regional This title was first published in 2002. This international volume analyzes the newly emerging profile of regions and cities with contributions encapsulating issues like ICT infrastructure the labour market migration sustainability innovation and public policy design. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315183756

The Regional CityAn Anglo-American Discussion of Metropolitan Planning In this volume leaders in the fields of urban design and planning from both sides of the Atlantic examine the structure and functioning of the urban region discuss the strategies and machinery required to make regional planning effective compare experiences in urban renewal and analyze the part played by transportation and land values in the shaping of regional development.For thousands of years we have lived in cities towns villages or country houses and most of us still think of our surroundings in these traditional terms. Today however most people in Western countries inhabit a new form of social environment--the urban region. For all who live within thirty or forty miles of a metropolitan center modern means of transport communication and power transmission have opened up a vastly extended range of choice in employment recreation and every other form of social activity. But our obsolete pattern of settlement and our pre-motor-age administrative organization prevent us from making the most of the opportunities to enrich the quality of everyday life which advances in technology have put within our reach.In our efforts to plan for a fuller enjoyment of the benefits of regional living we can learn much from those who are tackling this worldwide problem in the context of different laws public outlooks and degrees of motorization. Therefore this Anglo-American discussion of metropolitan planning offering much material that is new unfamiliar or not easily available has special timeliness and significance. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538160

The Regional Dimension of the European UnionTowards a Third Level in Europe? Decision-making within the EU has moved to a third (regional) level of government emerging in the EU policy process alongside the first (Union) and second (member state) levels. Multi-level governance can increasingly be identified. These papers describe and analyse this third level. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203044360

The Regional Dimension of Transformation in Central Europe Providing a new picture of the socio-economic map of central Europe after several years of transformation and focusing in particular on Poland this book gives an account of the major problems of regional restructuring. The author identifies the opportunities and problems faced by particular regions by relating the Polish experience to the experience of other central European countries. This in turn provides a general picture of spatial patterns of transformation in this specific part of Europe and will interest those concerned with the transformation of Eastern Europe. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138410862

The Regional Governing Of Metropolitan America The book explores the regional governing of metropolitan America in a comprehensive and systematic fashion. It reviews the financial system of state and local government at the broadest possible level?the national level?and explores the relationships between the federal government the 50 state governments and the 86 000 local governments that con Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367318949

The Regional ImperativeRegional Planning and Governance in Britain Europe and the United States Based on cases and interviews in Britain Europe and the United States this book explains the recurrence of regional planning and of initiatives in regional governance in a wide range of advanced industrial countries. Providing an analysis of the nature of regional planning and governance the book traces the development of regional planning and the institutions associated with it. It also looks at the way that regions have been changing their form under pressure from economic and political developments and examines how regional planning and governance has responded comparing experience in the UK the rest of Europe and the US. In concluding that regionalism is an imperative feature of politics in most countries associated with almost any of the variety of forms of governance the author offers a major appraisal of the significance of regional planning in an intemational context Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138166233

The Regional Integration ManualQuantitative and Qualitative Methods First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415746717

The Regions of GermanyA Geographical Interpretation First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415868549

The Registration and Monitoring of Sex OffendersA Comparative Study This book seeks to track the origins of sex offender registers their purpose and the law and policy that underpins them in various parts of the world. Sex offender registers are not really registers at all but a set of ‘legal requirements’ that fall automatically on a person convicted or cautioned for a designated sexual offence; the term ‘register’ is a form of shorthand for these requirements designed to be a contribution to greater public protection and community safety. This book provides the first serious and detailed narrative of the conception and implementation of the sex offender registers. It seeks to do so in a clear and easy-to-follow text that will be both informed and critical and will also serve as a resource book for those wanting to make further study of the process of registration and monitoring. It looks in detail at the practice of implementing registers and considers questions about their effectiveness in monitoring sex offenders and the implications of someone being on a sex offender register. The book examines the legal challenges to registers and monitoring and the position of registrants in the context of human rights and seeks to place registers and monitoring in the wider context of what is being called the surveillance society. The Registration and Monitoring of Sex Offenders will be key reading for students of criminology and criminal justice surveillance and human rights and practitioners in criminal justice fields of policing probation social work children’s services the judiciary prison work and others. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415667814

The Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and SafetyHistorical and Emerging Trends The book provides a collection of cutting-edge multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety. Featuring research from Australia Europe and North America the chapters traverse important historical examples and place important emerging contemporary trends like work in the gig economy into wider international and historical perspectives. The authors are leading authorities in their fields. The book contributes to advancing our knowledge – empirical and theoretical – of the ways in which labour market dynamics management strategies state regulation and public policy and union organisation affect outcomes for workers. It features in-depth exploration of and reflection on some of the major labour market challenges facing workers and analysis of strengths and weaknesses of responses to those challenges whether via management state regulation or collective employee voice. The chapters highlight shifts in in/equality of outcomes; access to security and flexibility at work; genuine access to workplace voice and decision-making; and the implications of different avenues and mechanisms for regulating work and employment. The text is aimed at researchers undergraduate and postgraduate students in work and organisational studies industrial/employment relations and human resource management workplace (or occupational) health and safety employment law and labour history. It will also be of particular interest to policy makers and practitioners working in the field of workplace health and safety. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367211448

The Regulation and Reform of Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century England Music criticism in England underwent profound change from the 1880s to the 1920s. It gave rise to ‘New criticism’ that aimed to be rational impartial and intellectually authoritative. It was a break from the criticism of old: the work of the opinionated journalist who wrote descriptive concert reviews with invective cliché bias and bombast. Critics such as Ernest Newman (1868–1959) John F. Runciman (1866–1916) and Michel D. Calvocoressi (1877–1944) fostered this new school and wrote extensively of their aspirations for musical criticism in their own times and for the future. This book charts the genesis of this new wave of musical criticism that sought to regulate and reform the profession of music critic. Alongside the establishment of principles training manuals and schools for critics hundreds of journal articles and dozens of books were written that encouraged new criticism which also had a bearing on scholarly writing in biography aesthetics and history. The Regulation and Reform of Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century England considers the influence and advocacy of individual critics and the role that institutions such as the Musical Association and the Musical Times played in this period of change. The book also explores the impact that French and German writers had on their English counterparts demonstrating the internationalization of critical thought of the period. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367886660

The Regulation and Supervision of BanksThe Post Crisis Regulatory Responses of the EU Over the past two decades the banking industry has expanded and consolidated at a stunningly unprecedented speed. In this time banks have also moved from focusing purely on commercial banking activities to being heavily involved in market-based and transaction-oriented wholesale and investment banking activities. By carrying out an all-encompassing set of activities banks have become large complex interconnected and inclined to levels of risk-taking not previously seen. With the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis it became apparent that there was an issue of institutions being too big to fail. This book analyses the too-big-to-fail problem of banks in the EU. It approaches the topic from an interdisciplinary perspective using behavioural finance as a tool to examine the occurrence of the global financial crisis and the emergence of the structural problem in large banking institutions. The book draws a comparison between the EU the US and the UK and the relevant rules to assess the effectiveness of various approaches to regulation in a global context. Chen Chen Hu goes on to use behavioural analyses to provide new insights in evaluating the current structural reform rules in the EU Proposal on Bank Structural Regulation and the newly adopted bank recovery and resolution regime in the EU Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive and the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) in the Single Resolution Regulation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367591359

The Regulation of Animal Health and WelfareScience Law and Policy The Regulation of Animal Health and Welfare draws on the research of scientists lawyers economists and political scientists to address the current and future regulatory problems posed by the issues of animal health and disease.  Recent events such as the outbreak of mad cow disease concerns about bluetongue in sheep and the entry into the food chain of the offspring of cloned cattle have heightened awareness of the issues of animal disease and welfare. This book critically appraises the existing regulatory institutions and guiding principles of how best to maintain animal health in the context of social change and a developing global economy. Addressing considerations of sound science the role of risk management and the allocation of responsibilities it also takes up the theoretical and practical challenges which here – and elsewhere – attend the co-operation of scientists social scientists lawyers and policy makers. Indeed the collaboration of scientists and social scientists in determined and regulatory contexts such as that of animal disease is an issue of ever-increasing importance. And this book will be of considerable value to those with interests in this issue as well as all those concerned with the law and policy relating to animal health and welfare Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415827485

The Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technology This title was first published in 2003. This collection of papers examines the regulatory framework as it applies to assisted reproduction technology in a number of jurisdictions including the UK and other European countries the USA Australia Canada and New Zealand and an overview of the situation in some Asian countries. Contributors consider a wide range of issues relating to human rights access genetic screening and what constitutes the family. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315182124

The Regulation of Cosmetic ProceduresLegal Ethical and Practical Challenges This book examines the legal ethical and regulatory debates surrounding the rise of the cosmetic procedures industry.In the past cosmetic procedures were often seen as limited to a small number of wealthy older women. Today such procedures have gone mainstream partly facilitated by the rise of ‘non-invasive’ techniques such as the use of Botox and Dermal Fillers. While still a business dominated by the female consumer there is also an increasing number of males undertaking cosmetic procedures as social expectations around appearance and ageing are challenged. At the same time the rapid expansion of this business and the incoherent diverse approach to its regulation have given rise to concern. It has been seen as a ‘Wild West’. If cosmetic procedures go wrong such procedures give rise to real risks of harm. This book examines the historical backdrop current practice and risks associated with cosmetic procedures. It discusses the ethical and regulatory challenges for this area. It also examines the current legal frameworks concerning people practitioners and products in the UK. The book also draws lessons from regulatory approaches in other jurisdictions with particular reference to the United States Brazil and France. It then sets out a legal and regulatory framework that might better protect and empower the cosmetic consumer now and in the future. The book is likely to be of particular interest to those working in the areas of health and medical law socio-legal studies and political science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138593046

The Regulation of Dietary SupplementsA Historical Analysis This book documents the long still ongoing battle between the US Food and Drug Administration and the dietary supplement industry. It presents the complex often subtle and sometimes overlooked series of events that had a major impact on how dietary supplements are manufactured marketed sold and used today. While the first few chapters focus on some background topics the remaining chapters walk the reader through timeline of events legislative actions FDA proposed and final rules and judicial decisions that led to our current dietary supplement regulatory framework. Interwoven in narrative are examples of the roles of science social and public policy politics and popular media. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367901943

The Regulation of Emotion The main goal of this volume is to present in an integrated framework the newest most contemporary perspectives on emotion regulation. The book includes empirically-grounded work and theories that are central to our understanding of the processes that constitute emotion regulation and their consequences. This volume has several secondary aims as well. One is to highlight several newer subareas in the domain of emotion regulation that hold much promise such as the relationship between psychopathology and emotion regulation. The book also presents data and theory that have applied value that may be useful for people working in such fields as communication psychotherapy and counseling. Finally the volume gathers contributions across a variety of subfields and includes authors working not just in North America but in other areas of the world. To help achieve these goals the volume has been organized to begin with the presentation of the most molecular aspects of emotion regulation and to end with the most molar ones. It comprises four parts each integrating different lines of research from related domains. Part I is devoted to basic processes in emotion regulation such as neurological physiological or cognitive processes; part II examines the interplays between emotion regulation and individual regulation; part III presents work on individual differences and developmental processes in emotion regulation; and part IV examines the social functions and constraints of emotion regulation. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9780415652698

The Regulation of Financial Planning in AustraliaCurrent Practice Issues and Empirical Analysis This book investigates the legitimacy of the current Australian Financial Services Licensee-Authorised Representative (AFSL-AR) licensing model as specified in the Commonwealth Corporations Act 2001. The book rectifies the deficiency in scholarly attention to this matter by developing a new conceptualised framework for the financial planning discipline. It takes into account theories in agency legislation legitimacy and the independent individual regulatory regimes in other professions; thereafter integrating this framework with the financial planning theory to examine the legitimacy or what was found to be the illegitimacy of licensing advisers via multiple third party conflicted commercially oriented licensees. This book makes a very useful reference to understanding financial planning licencing model in Australia. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367149970

The Regulation of GoodsVolume II International rules on trade in goods are at the core of the multilateral trading system and have been influential in all areas of trade law. The essays in this collection represent the very best academic writing from six decades of international trade law and policy. They range from seminal analyses of the core non-discrimination principles to explorations of areas that are still evolving such as rules on trade remedies regional trade agreements and developing countries. Alongside analytical pieces the editors have included a number of essays with a comparative institutional political or economic perspective with an introduction offering their own perspective on these themes. This volume is an essential guide to the legal complexities controversies and policy implications of the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409442325

The Regulation of International Trade Drawing on a wide variety of classic and contemporary sources respected authors Trebilcock  Howse and Eliason here provide a critical analysis of the institutions and agreements that have shaped international trade rules. In light of the growing debate over globalization they include special sections with examinations of topics such as: agriculture services and Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights labour rights the environment migration competition. Drawing on previous highly praised editions this comprehensive text is an invaluable guide to students of economics law politics and international relations. Now fully updated this fourth edition includes full coverage of new developments including the Doha trade round the proliferation of Preferential Trade Agreements the debate on trade climate change and green energy the response of the trading system to the 2007--10 financial and economic crisis the controversy over trade and exchange rate manipulation and the growing body of WTO dispute resolution case law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415610902

The Regulation of Internet PornographyIssues and Challenges The regulation of pornography has always been a contentious issue which has sparked wide-ranging debates surrounding the acceptability and place of pornography in society. The use of the internet to distribute and access pornography has magnified this debate and has presented a number of challenges for the law in terms of effective and proportionate regulation. Following unsuccessful attempts by states to transpose traditional laws to cyberspace a new and radical regulatory framework eventually evolved for regulating internet pornography. In this process the focus of the law has changed from merely controlling the publication and distribution of obscene material to a model that aims to deter private consumption of illegal content. In addition various self- and co-regulatory initiatives have been introduced with the involvement of non-state actors imposing a certain degree of de facto liability on intermediaries all of which raise interesting issues.This book examines the relevant regulatory responses to internet pornography with particular reference to the UK but also drawing comparisons with other countries where relevant. It argues that the internet has fundamentally and in many ways irreversibly changed the regulation of pornography. Classifying internet pornography into three broad categories – child pornography extreme pornography and adult pornography – the book provides an in-depth analysis of the legal issues involved in regulating internet pornography and argues that the notions of obscenity and indecency on their own will not provide an adequate basis for regulating online pornography. The book identifies the legitimising factors that will lend credibility and normative force to the law in order to successfully regulate pornography in cyberspace. It is the only comprehensive text that rigorously addresses the regulation of internet pornography as a whole and offers valuable insights that will appeal to academics students policy makers and those working in the areas of broader internet governance and online child protection. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367583491

The Regulation of Post-Communist Party Politics The question of how political parties are and ought to be regulated has assumed an increased importance in recent years both within the scholarly community and among policy-makers and politicians as the state assumes an increasingly active role in the management of and control over their behaviour and organisationThis book concentrates on the regulation of political parties in the EU post-communist democracies and on Bulgaria Croatia the Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Poland Slovakia Slovenia and Romania in particular. In analysing the various dimensions of party regulation it builds on the main premises derived from the neo-institutionalist literature in political science concerning the ways in which the (formal and informal) rules and procedures may influence constrain or determine the behaviour of political actors. In doing so it provides a comprehensive overview of the regulation of Eastern European political parties provided by leading experts in the field and casts theoretical and empirical light on the manner in which the constitutional and legal regulation of party organizations and finances have had an impact (or not) on the consolidation of party politics in post-communist Europe since 1989.This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of Political Parties and Behaviour East European and Post-Communist Politics and Comparative Politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367877217

The Regulation of Services and Intellectual PropertyVolume III International rules on trade in services and intellectual property are ’new’ additions to the multilateral trading system but both have played an important role in the system since their entry. Accompanied by a detailed introduction this volume contains essays which cover not only the law and jurisprudence of these topics but also the underlying economics and politics behind their incorporation into the multilateral system and continued prominence. The volume provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the development of these controversial and increasingly important areas of international trade law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409442332

The Regulatory Approach to Air Quality ManagementA Case Study of New Mexico In the wake of the Clean Air Amendments of 1970 in the United States sources of emissions could be held accountable for the degradation of air quality in the local environment. This case study of air quality management in New Mexico was produced to shed some light on the procedures and activities used by agencies in order to control air quality. Originally published in 1981 Winston Harrington uses New Mexico as a case study for its largely centralised control system in Santa Fe to explore the behaviour of air quality agencies and pollution sources and comments on policy implications from this study’s conclusions. This title will be of interest to students of environmental studies and policy makers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138944565

The Rehabilitation of Sexual OffendersComplexity Risk and Desistance Sexual offenders – arguably the most hated and feared of all offenders – commit their crimes in our communities and are then hidden from public view as they serve long prison sentences. However despite the public’s understandable anxiety our criminal justice systems hold to the premise that almost all offenders have the right to hope for rehabilitation even redemption. Therefore the majority of sexual offenders return to live in our communities closely monitored by criminal justice agencies and subject to rigorous controls. This book provides an authoritative guide to working with sexual offenders with a focus on managing those who are reintegrating into the community. It includes those with the most striking histories of trauma and psychological difficulty and those who have previously failed in their attempts at resettlement. It covers helpful theoretical ideas such as attachment theory and models of desistance as well as the latest evidence base for good quality risk assessment. The book supports practitioners on the front line of this work by providing them with evidence-based guidance. It presents a multitude of case examples and practice tips that can support effective decision making and achieve safe outcomes as well as help such offenders build worthwhile community lives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138570641

The Rehnquist Court and Criminal Punishment First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138984899

The Reign of Elizabeth I1558–1603 Covering the period from 1558–1603 The Reign of Elizabeth I looks at all the important aspects of the reign of the last of the Tudor monarchs. The volume gives students the critical tools to enable them to perform to their best ability drawing together the main issues on each topic and providing an accessible guide to the period. Using extensive sources and historiography Stephen J. Lee explores: the religious settlement government and foreign policy the economy Elizabeth's relationship with Parliament society and culture. Also including a glossary of key terms and a helpful chronology this is an essential tool for any student of British history. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203089477

The Reign of King Stephen1135-1154 At last: an authoritative up to date account of the troubled reign of King Stephen by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world. David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the empress the aristocracy the Church government and the nation at large. He also looks at the wider dimensions of the story in Scotland Wales Normandy and elsewhere. The result (weaving its discussions around a vigorous narrative core) is a a work of major scholarship. A must for specialist and amateur medievalists alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138148857

The Reign of Mary I Until recently the reign of Mary Tudor was generally seen as a ‘sterile interlude’ in the Tudor century with Mary herself dismissed as ‘Bloody Mary’. Extensive research in the past several decades has overturned these assumptions in almost every respect.  In this succinct and up-to-date introduction to Mary’s reign Tittler and Richards provide new insight into the circumstances of Mary’s accession and go on to show that her reign was a lot more stable and her regime much more competent and innovative than once believed.   This fully revised third edition includes a diverse range of primary sources and sheds new light on a variety of topics such as:   ·   The complexities of Mary’s relations with Philip of Spain ·   The restoration of Catholicism ·   The use of visual as well as literary means to legitimize and support Mary’s rule ·   The context for the war with France   This concise and thought-provoking introduction is ideal for students and interested readers at all levels. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781408245347

The Reign of Mary TudorPolitics Government and Religion in England 1553-58 `...by far the best overall history of the reign to date.'American Historical ReviewWithin a chronological framework David Loades adopts a thematic approach to the reign. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138836341

The Reign of Nebuchadnezzar I in History and Historical Memory Nebuchadnezzar I (r. 1125-1104) was one of the more significant and successful kings to rule Babylonia in the intervening period between the demise of the Kassite Dynasty in the 12th century at the end of the Late Bronze Age and the emergence of a new independent Babylonian monarchy in the last quarter of the 7th century. His dynamic reign saw Nebuchadnezzar active on both domestic and foreign fronts. He tended to the needs of the traditional cult sanctuaries and their associated priesthoods in the major cities throughout Babylonia and embarked on military campaigns against both Assyria in the north and Elam to the east. Yet later Babylonian tradition celebrated him for one achievement that was little noted in his own royal inscriptions: the return of the statue of Marduk Babylon’s patron deity from captivity in Elam.The Reign of Nebuchadnezzar reconstructs the history of Nebuchadnezzar I’s rule and drawing upon theoretical treatments of historical and collective memory examines how stories of his reign were intentionally utilized by later generations of Babylonian scholars and priests to create an historical memory that projected their collective identity and reflected Marduk’s rise to the place of primacy within the Babylonian pantheon in the 1st millennium BCE. It also explores how this historical memory was employed by the urban elite in discourses of power. Nebuchadnezzar I remained a viable symbol though with diminishing effect until at least the 3rd century BCE by which time his memory had almost entirely faded. This study is a valuable resource to students of the Ancient Near East and Nebuchadnezzar but is also a fascinating exploration of memory creation and exploitation in the ancient world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367591298

The Reign of Richard LionheartRuler of The Angevin Empire 1189-1199  This ground-breaking and substantive new history considers Richard's reign from a perspective that is as much French as English. Viewing the king himself as a great military commander it also shows him as a more competent administrator than previously acknowledged.  Modern revisionist work allows the authors to correct many misconceptions about Richard's French possessions and recent scholarship on his rival Philip Augustus permits examination of the formidable threat that the resurgent Capetian monarchy represented. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315842950

The Reign of StephenKingship Warfare and Government in Twelfth-Century England In this study of Stephen's reign Keith Stringer looks at the relationship between government warfare and the rise and fall of medieval states. Using primary sources and the most recent research he offers an important re-evaluation of the so-called `Anarchy' and a radical reassessment of Stephen's ability as a ruler. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138157699

The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016A Political and Economic History The Reinvention of Britain 1960–2016 explores the transformation of contemporary Britain tracing its evolution from the welfare state of the post-1945 era to social democracy in the 1960s and 1970s and the liberal market society of 1979 onwards. Focusing primarily on political and economic change it aims to identify which elements of State policy led to the crucial strategy changes that shaped British history over the past six decades. This book argues that since 1960 there have been two reinventions of the political economy of the United Kingdom: a social-democratic shift initiated by the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan and developed by Labour under Harold Wilson and a subsequent change of direction towards a free market model attempted by the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher. Structured around these two key policy reinventions of the late twentieth century chapters are organized chronologically from the development of social democracy in the early 1960s to the coalition government of the early 2010s the Conservative election win that followed and the ‘Brexit’ referendum of 2016. Providing a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the political and economic history of this period The Reinvention of Britain 1960–2016 is essential reading for all students of contemporary British history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138800045

The Reinvention of Primitive SocietyTransformations of a Myth Adam Kuper’s iconoclastic intellectual history argues that the idea of “primitive society” is a western myth. The “primitive” is imagined as the opposite of the “civilised”. But this is a protean myth. As ideas about civilisation change so the image of primitive society must be adjusted. By way of fascinating account of classic texts in anthropology ancient history and law Kuper reveals how this myth underpinned academic research and inspired political programmes. Its ancestry is traced back to classical western beliefs about barbarians and savages and Kuper also tackles the latest version of the myth the idea of a global identity of “indigenous peoples”. The Reinvention of Primitive Society is a key text in the history of anthropology and will interest anyone who has puzzled about the very idea of “primitive society” – and so by implication about “civilisation”. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138282650

The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-century EuropeTraditions Texts and Performance This book discusses the styles of performance developed in different European countries in response to prevailing conditions drawing attention to the complex relationship between scripted text and improvisation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367601836

The Rejected BodyFeminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability The Rejected Body argues that feminist theorizing has been skewed toward non-disabled experience and that the knowledge of people with disabilities must be integrated into feminist ethics discussions of bodily life and criticism of the cognitive and social authority of medicine. Among the topics it addresses are who should be identified as disabled; whether disability is biomedical social or both; what causes disability and what could 'cure' it; and whether scientific efforts to eliminate disabling physical conditions are morally justified. Wendell provides a remarkable look at how cultural attitudes towards the body contribute to the stigma of disability and to widespread unwillingness to accept and provide for the body's inevitable weakness. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203724149

The Rejuvenation of Political Economy This book provides the basic knowledge of Japanese contributions in political economy and the ongoing research agenda such as the pursuit of theoretical consistency in Marxian economics by Uno School; the concept of ‘civil society’ as a criterion of existing socio-economic structure; a mathematical reconstruction of Marxian theory; and an analysis of environmental pollution. The new generation of Japanese political economists in collaboration with their overseas counterparts has produced new insights into political economy and into the newly emerging structure of the world economy. The book provides useful insights into international capitalism and how past patterns of uneven development are now changing; the role of international finance in affecting both national and international growth and employment patterns; an analysis of recent growth patterns in Asia; and the specific issue emerging within the Asian region and the implications for economics social change and geopolitics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138317987

The Relational Ethics of Narrative Inquiry Narrative inquiry is based on the proposition that experience is the stories lived and told by individuals as they are embedded within cultural social institutional familial political and linguistic narratives. It represents the phenomenon of experience but also constitutes a methodology for its study. At the heart of this methodology is relational ethics. However until now the functioning of this key relationship in practice has remained largely undefined. In this book the authors take on the essential task of developing a conceptual framework for the application of relational ethics to narrative inquiry. Building on a corpus of more generalized research this book is grounded in a multi-year study with indigenous youth and families. The authors describe their experiences of narrative inquiry highlighting how relational ethics informed their negotiation of these research relationships. They also engage in a conversation with the work of philosophers who have guided their narrative inquiry to offer a more thorough understanding of relational ethics. Through this and contributions from five further studies on a diverse range of subjects a number of key points for successful relational ethics are isolated and expounded upon. This book is an invaluable tool for researchers and postgraduates engaged in qualitative research — providing clear and practical guidance on ethical concerns. It also extends the work of the authors’ two previous titles Engaging in Narrative Inquiry and Engaging in Narrative Inquiries with Children and Youth. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138285729

The Relational Interpretation of DreamsWhen it’s About More Than Your Mother This book explains the use of dreams as a tool in psychotherapy to provide meaning establish and maintain a therapeutic relationship and thus enhance and progress treatment. Maintaining a focus on the synergy between dreams and relationship it includes interviews with four eminent dream researchers and scholars: John S. Antrobus G. William Domhoff Mark J. Blechner and J. Allan Hobson. This book explores the synergistic qualities between dreams and relationships and how that synergy generates biographically professionally and psychotherapeutically formative experiences. The book delineates the ways in which dreams provide a foundation for relating provides a container (Bion 1967/1993) for the unthought known (Bollas 1987) creates meaning through relationships and ultimately fosters dispersion of relational dynamics originating from the culture of the times and more. From a relational psychoanalytic perspective this book describes the role of dreams in shaping our relational living. This book provides a unique perspective that illustrates using yourself as a tool in relational establishment preservation and knowing. It is ideal for students working toward an understanding of the influence of intersubjective space in clinical interactions and clinicians looking for additional and alternate ways to connect with patients. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367754150

The Relational Systems Model for Family TherapyLiving in the Four Realities The Relational Systems Model for Family Therapy presents a multi-systems approach to family therapy that teaches the therapist important self-differentiating capacities that set the tone for creating a powerful therapeutic atmosphere. While the model demands no specific treatment procedures it does rely on the therapist’s capacity to adhere to its basic ideas as she/he is the most vital factor in the model’s success.In The Relational Systems Model for Family Therapy Author Donald R. Bardill encourages the therapist to be the learning vehicle for the integration of the four realities of life (self other context spiritual) and the differentiating process that is necessary for human survival safety and growth. Understanding this model allows therapists to lead clients to heightened self-awareness and the realization of their human potential--both important factors for intellectual growth emotional maturity and problem solving. To this end readers learn about: the self-differentiating therapist--the person-of-the-therapist is the crucial variable in an effective family treatment process the facing process--the client faces such issues as self-identity life-purpose thought and behavior patterns emotionalized fears and the future emotionalized right/wrong--focus is on consequences of actions rather than right/wrong judgments in relationship issues life stances--the uniqueness of the individual affects their connection to the life realities family grid--a way for the therapist to organize and talk about important family systems dynamics the therapeutic paradox--the client’s worldview is examined through the therapist’s worldview and a new worldview is formedThe Relational Systems Model for Family Therapy is an important handbook for practitioners and students in the fields of clinical social work psychology marriage and family therapy mental health counseling counseling psychology pastoral counseling and psychiatric nursing. The book is also useful as a supplemental text for advanced undergraduate classes and postgraduate seminars in family therapy and family counseling. The self-differentiation nature of the content also lends this book useful to self-help readers. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315810058

The Relationality of Race in Education Research This edited collection examines the ways in which the local and global are key to understanding race and racism in the intersectional context of contemporary education. Analysing a broad range of examples it highlights how race and racism is a relational phenomenon that interconnects local national and global contexts and ideas. The current educational climate is subject to global influences and the effects of conservative hyper-nationalist politics and neoliberal economic rationalising in local settings that are creating new formations of race and racism. While focused predominantly on Australia and southern world or settler colonial contexts the book aims to constructively contribute to broader emerging research and debates about race and education. Through the adoption of a relational framing it draws the Australian context into the global conversation about race and racism in education in ways that challenge and test current understandings of the operation of race and racism in contemporary social and educational spaces. Importantly it also pushes debates about race and racism in education and research to the foreground in Australia where such debates are typically dismissed or cursorily engaged. The book will guide readers as they navigate issues of race in education research and practice and its chapters will serve as provocations designed to assist in critically understanding this challenging field. It reaches beyond education scholarship as concerns to do with race remain intertwined with wider social justice issues such as access to housing health social/economic mobility and political representation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138501072

The Relationship between Human Security Discourse and International LawA Principled Approach The concept of human security has emerged in international relations and policy as an idea which not only seeks to relocate the focus of international society on the individual but also challenges the current priorities of the international community. In particular it places emphasis on promoting and facilitating a nexus between security development and human rights. It is potentially a paradigm in the making gaining considerable momentum within the UN international relations scholarship and regional bodies. And yet by-and-large it continues to be unexplored by the international legal community despite the success of a number of international treaties being attributed to the discourse.This book seeks to address this gap and establish the nature of the relationship between human security discourse and international law determining whether human security can meaningfully contribute to the international legal framework. To determine this the book analyses the core principles of human security discourse and examines the degree to which they find parallels in the existing normative structure of international law. The book examines the how the broad-narrow debate that dominates human security discourse has played out in international law-making. It goes on to consider the processes for the creation of so called ‘human security’ treaties in order to determine a blueprint for future development of international human security treaty law. In concluding Shireen Daft sets out a structured principled approach through which international legal scholarship can engage with human security highlighting the ways in which engagement between the two fields can be sustained. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367884383

The Relationship between Liberalism and ConservatismParasitic Competitive or Symbiotic? First published in 1999 this volume is a radical text which contributes to the current debate over the future of liberal theory as it offers an explicit critique of some of the leading players in that debate - namely William Galston Jeffrey Reiman and Richard Rorty. It also offers an implicit critique of the general de-ontological liberal position. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138354036

The Relationship between Rhetoric and Terrorist Violence Studies have demonstrated that choices in the use of language convey information that goes beyond the content of the words themselves. In many cases how something is said matters as much as what is said. Using techniques collectively referred to as linguistic content analysis researchers have studied topics ranging from how to identify if individuals are lying to whether there are particular characteristics associated with leaders who take their nations to war. This book presents findings from a research effort funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate which examined whether linguistic content analysis can indicate whether groups will engage in terrorist violence. Specifically this project brought together several researchers who have developed manual and automated coding systems to analyse documents issued by Central al Qa’ida and al Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula and two non-terrorist comparison groups. The intention has been to test whether linguistic content analysis can first distinguish the language of terrorist groups from that of non-terrorist groups and second provide indicators of specific terrorist attacks. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138850699

The Relationship Between Social and Cognitive Development Published in the year 1983 The Relationship Between Social and Cognitive Development is a valuable contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9780203781111

The Relationship Cards The Relationship Cards are 48 emotive and artistic images designed to help people to review the key relationships in their lives in a meaningful and often transformative way. The cards provide an engaging way for people to talk about and clarify their feelings while reflecting on what they value in their relationships and what they might want to change. Spanning both positive and negative states in relationships the cards show themes such as trust resentment fear of abandonment drifting apart encouragement and feeling supported. The accompanying booklet explains how to use the cards with participants in a supportive and safe way to facilitate deeper conversations about relationships with people in their lives past and present. Accompanying translations are provided in German French Swedish Dutch Spanish Italian Portuguese and Japanese. This beautiful resource can be used by educators therapists or anyone wishing to open a dialogue about relationships. It is also a perfect supplement to Draw on Your Relationships Margot Sunderland’s bestselling book. The second edition of Draw on Your Relationships contains a new section that explains how to get the most out of combining the activities in the book with these cards to encourage meaningful conversations and take steps towards positive action. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138071018

The Relationship Factor in Safety LeadershipAchieving Success through Employee Engagement At the core of The Relationship Factor in Safety Leadership are eight beliefs about human nature that are common to leaders who successfully communicate that safety is important while meeting business results. Using stories and business language the book explains how to create and recover important stakeholder relationships by setting priorities and taking action based on these beliefs. The beliefs are based on the author’s 25 years of experience supporting operational and safety leaders with successful and unsuccessful change efforts in pharmaceutical nuclear mining manufacturing and power generation. The author also offers compelling evidence from many social and scientific disciplines that support the conclusion that satisfying our need for relationship is a major motivator. The Five Orientations Model offers a perspective on solving complex problems when confronted with multiple demands. The book provides managers and supervisors with the motivation to build relationships and points to the conditions needed for success. It also describes a process to take united action but retain the flexibility to change course as necessary.  The book is written for managers and leaders at all levels concerned with occupational health and safety and wishing to learn how to leverage relationships to achieve higher employee engagement and performance. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367177720

The Relationship-Driven Supply ChainCreating a Culture of Collaboration throughout the Chain Collaboration in supply chains means managing the chain beyond traditional or transactional methods. It involves rethinking the way your business is managed both internally and externally and the ways in which employees and partners relate to each other. Stuart Emmett and Barry Crocker's book explains how a relationship-based approach to supply chain management can transform business; how to organise your business internally for effective supply chain relationships and how to transform your external supply chain using relationship marketing customer relationship management and supply chain partnerships. One of the key distinguishing characteristics of a high performing supply chain is the presence of strategic trust. With strategic trust the parties have access to each other's strategic plans; relevant cost information and forecasts are shared; risks and rewards are addressed openly. This book explains how to embed a culture of inter-company trust and to realise the benefits of improved supply chain relationships. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138380950

The Relevance of Models for Social Anthropology There has been much discussion in recent years about the construction of theoretical models useful in the explanation of particular areas of social organization. This volume charts that discussion and its results and covers a wide ethnographic range from the Pacific Island of Truk through African pastoral societies south-east Asia and Hong Kong back to Polynesia. First published in 1965. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415866552

The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language and Mind This work discusses philosophical problems of perceptual content the content of deomonstrative thoughts and the unity of proposition. By demonstrating a connection between phenomenology and analysis Kelly suggests ways in which they can be fruitfully pursued. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138997202

The Relevance of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy for Modern CBT and Psychotherapy The Relevance of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy for Modern CBT and Psychotherapy explores the contemporary relevance of this treatment for modern psychotherapy from the point of view of a leading contributor. First founded in 1955 by Albert Ellis REBT still has much to offer the field. Despite this the therapy has been increasingly neglected by cognitive behaviour therapy and other practitioners. To demonstrate its contributed relevance Professor Windy Dryden outlines in this book his current thinking and practice in regard to REBT. He advocates its key features of flexibility and non-extremeness and explores what he believes REBT has to contribute to the discussion surrounding contemporary issues in psychotherapy. The Relevance of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy for Modern CBT and Psychotherapy is an excellent resource for CBT and other therapists who would like to know more about the relevance of REBT to their work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138607675

The Relevance of Regions in a Globalized WorldBridging the Social Sciences-Humanities Gap This volume provides a unique open inter-disciplinary dialogue across the Humanities and Social Sciences to further our understanding of the phenomenon of regions and regionalism in a globalized world both at the theoretical and empirical levels. What comprises a region? What are the different regional dynamic processes that take place? What is the relationship between the regional and the global? What role does identity building play? Bringing together scholars from various disciplines within and across the Social Sciences and the Humanities to reflect on these questions the book explores how regions are imagined constructed understood and explained in different academic disciplines. Each chapter addresses these common questions and uses its own disciplinary lenses to answer them. In addition the volume offers interesting reflections on the academic borders constructed in the study of regions thus demonstrating the importance of obtaining insights from both social scientists and humanities scholars in order to better understand the relevance of regions in a complex and globalized world. An important work for scholars and postgraduate students in many fields including political science international relations sociology economics geography history and literature as well as for those interested in regionalism and area studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138554733

The Relevance of WhiteheadPhilosophical Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Alfred North Whitehead First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138871045

The Reliability of the Cognitive MechanismA Mechanist Account of Empirical Justification Originally published in 1990. Examining epistemic justification truth and logic this book works towards a holistic theory of knowledge. It discusses evidence belief reliability and many philosophical theories surrounding the nature of true knowledge. A thorough Preface updates the main work from when it was written in 1976 to include theories ascendant in the ‘80s. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138908925

The Religion of EthnicityBelief and Belonging in a Greek-American Community The integrative role of religion has been a recurrent theme of sociological and anthropological theory. This role is apparent in the Greek-American community; religion functions as a cement of the social fabric. Indeed it would be hard to overestimate the role of Greek Orthodoxy in joining people of Greek ancestry into a community and reinforcing their sense of ethnic identity. The nature of ethnic identity and the church’s role in fostering and sustaining it are subjects of this study first published in 1990. In ultimately focusing on the interplay between church community and individual the book suggests that understanding the relation of these people to their church is to understand them as a people. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367085759

The Religion of Islam (Routledge Revivals) The book first published in 1906 outlines the religious ceremonial civil and moral laws and regulations of Islam. The four sources from which the doctrines and precepts of Islam are founded are the Quran the Sunna the Ijma and the Qias. This title also interprets the principles of the four sources in respect to ‘ilm or positive knowledge and fiqh or understanding. It is with these aspects of Islamic theology and law that this book is concerned. This book will be of interest to students of theology and religious studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138912281

The Religion of the Peacock AngelThe Yezidis and Their Spirit World Based in Iraq Syria and Turkey the Yezidi people claim their religion - a unique combination of Christian Islamic and historical faiths - to be the oldest in the world. Yezidi identity centres on their religion Sharfadin which has evolved into a highly complex pantheon of one God with many incarnations the chief of whom is Melek Taus the Peacock Angel. The Yezidi faith can be traced to a range of pre-Islamic belief systems such as Sufism some extreme Shi'ite sects Gnosticism and other traditions surviving from the ancient world. This particular formulation has served to unify Yezidi religious identity and ethnicity. Based on extensive fieldwork The Religion of the Peacock Angel presents the first detailed examination of the Yezidi pantheon. The idea of one God and his chief incarnations is first analysed then the various 'deity figures ' saints holy patrons and divinized personalities in the Yezidi belief system are considered in the context of related religious traditions. The study determines the place of all these characters in the system of the Yezidi faith defining their main functions features and genealogies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781844657612

The Religion of the People of Israel (Routledge Revivals) This book first published in 1925 aims to demonstrate the ultimate roots of the many religious ideas of the Hebrews in Canaanite thought. This book will be of interest to students of theology and religious studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138912380

The Religionization of Israeli Society During Israel's military operation in Gaza in the summer of 2014 the commanding officer of the Givati infantry brigade Colonel Ofer Vinter called upon his troops to fight "the terrorists who defame the God of Israel." This unprecedented call for religious war by a senior IDF commander caused an uproar but it was just one symptom of a profound process of religionization or de-secularization that Israeli society has been going through since the turn of the twenty-first century.This book analyzes and explains for the first time the reasons for the religionization of Israeli society a process known in Hebrew as hadata. Jewish religion inseparable from Jewish nationality was embedded in Zionism from its inception in the nineteenth century but was subdued to a certain extent in favor of the national aspect in the interest of building a modern nation-state. Hadata has its origins in the 1967 war has been accelerating since 2000 and is manifested in a number of key social fields: the military the educational system the media of mass communications the teshuvah movement the movement for Jewish renewal and religious feminism. A major chapter of the book is devoted to the religionization of the visual fine arts field a topic that has been largely neglected by previous researchers.Through careful examination of religionization this book sheds light on a major development in Israeli society which will additionally inform our understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As such it is a key resource for students and scholars of Israel Studies and those interested in the relations between religion culture politics and nationalism secularization and new social movements. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367588175

The Religions of India First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415865777

The Religions of Tibet This book first published in 1961 examines the old Tibetan Bon religion the development of Buddhism in India and Tibet and covers the religious struggles of the eighth and ninth centuries. It also describes the rise of the Lamaist sects and the priest state of the Dalai Lamas and taken as a whole is a study of the development of the character of Tibet itself. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138338777

The Religious Culture of Marian England Loades explores England's religious cultures during the reign of Mary Tudor. He investigates how conflicting traditions of conformity and dissent negotiated the new spiritual political and legal landscape which followed her reintroduction of Catholicism to England. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138662957

The Religious Culture of the Huguenots 1660-1750 Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the history of the Huguenots and new research has increased our understanding of their role in shaping the early-modern world. Yet while much has been written about the Huguenots during the sixteenth-century wars of religion much less is known about their history in the following centuries. The ten essays in this collection provide the first broad overview of Huguenot religious culture from the Restoration of Charles II to the outbreak of the French Revolution. Dealing primarily with the experiences of Huguenots in England and Ireland the volume explores issues of conformity and nonconformity the perceptions of 'refuge' and Huguenot attitudes towards education social reform and religious tolerance. Taken together they offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Huguenot religious identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815398141

The Religious Factor in Russia's Foreign Policy This book examines how religion interacts with Russian foreign policy arguing that religion is an important and neglected factor in shaping Russia’s outlook towards international relations. It surveys the importance of religion in Russian social life - past and present - and considers the range of attitudes which are affected by religion – such as Russian nationalism notions of Slavic solidarity the divine mission of Russian Orthodox civilisation Russian imperialism and Russia’s special approach towards Islam. The book discusses how religious organizations especially the Russian Orthodox Church operate in international relations pursuing through ‘religious diplomacy’ their own interests and those of the Russian state; explores how religious ideas and culture linked to religion impinge on Russian attitudes and identity and thereby affect policy; and demonstrates how policy influenced by religion impacts on Russian foreign policy in practice in a wide range of examples including Russia’s relations with other orthodox countries non-orthodox Western countries Muslim countries Israel and the Vatican. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138816831

The Religious Figural Imagery of Byzantine Lead Seals IIStudies on Images of the Saints and on Personal Piety The articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals ranging from the 6th to the 15th century. A number of the studies present tables charts and graphs in their analysis of iconographic trends and changing popularity of saintly figures over time. And since many of the seals bear inscriptions that include the names titles or offices of their owners information often not given for the patrons of sacred images in other media these diminutive objects permit an investigation into the social use of sacred imagery through the various sectors of Byzantine culture: the civil ecclesiastical and military administrations. The religious figural imagery of the lead seals accompanied by their owners’ identifying inscriptions offers a means of investigating both the broader visual piety of the Byzantine world and the intimate realm of their owners’ personal devotions. Other studies in the volume are devoted to rare or previously unknown sacred images that demonstrate the value of the iconography of Byzantine lead seals for Byzantine studies in general. This volume includes various articles focusing on sphragistic images of saints and on the religious imagery of Byzantine seals as a means of investigating the personal piety of seal owners as well as the wider realm of the visual piety and religious devotions of Byzantine culture at all levels. A companion volume includes studies dedicated to the image of Christ primarily found on imperial seals various images of the Virgin and narrative or Christological scenes. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367346997

The Religious Figural Imagery of Byzantine Lead Seals IStudies on the Image of Christ the Virgin and Narrative Scenes The articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals ranging from the 6th to the 15th century. A number of the studies present tables charts and graphs in their analysis of iconographic trends and changing popularity of saintly figures over time. And since many of the seals bear inscriptions that include the names titles or offices of their owners information often not given for the patrons of sacred images in other media these diminutive objects permit an investigation into the social use of sacred imagery through the various sectors of Byzantine culture: the civil ecclesiastical and military administrations. The religious figural imagery of the lead seals accompanied by their owners’ identifying inscriptions offers a means of investigating both the broader visual piety of the Byzantine world and the intimate realm of their owners’ personal devotions. Other studies in this volume are devoted to rare or previously unknown sacred images that demonstrate the value of the iconography of Byzantine lead seals for Byzantine studies in general. This volume includes studies dedicated to the image of Christ primarily found on imperial seals various images of the Virgin and narrative or Christological scenes. A companion volume presents various articles focusing on sphragistic images of saints and on the religious imagery of Byzantine seals as a means of investigating the personal piety of seal owners as well as the wider realm of the visual piety and religious devotions of Byzantine culture at all levels. (CS1085) Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367346966

The Religious Formation of John WitherspoonCalvinism Evangelicalism and the Scottish Enlightenment This book explores in unprecedented detail the theological thinking of John Witherspoon during his often overlooked ministerial career in Scotland. In contrast to the arguments made by other historians it shows that there was considerable continuity of thought between Witherspoon’s Scottish ministry and the second half of his career as one of America’s Founding Fathers. The book argues that Witherspoon cannot be properly understood until he is seen as not only engaged with the Enlightenment but also firmly grounded in the Calvinist tradition of High to Late Orthodoxy embedded in the transatlantic Evangelical Awakening of the eighteenth century and frustrated by the state of religion in the Scottish Kirk. Alongside the titles of pastor president educator philosopher should be a new category: John Witherspoon as Reformed apologist. This is a fresh re-examination of the intellectual formation of one of Scotland’s most important churchman from the eighteenth century and one of America’s most influential early figures. The volume will be of keen interest to academics working in Religious History American Religion Reformed Theology and Calvinism as well as Scottish and American history more generally. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367350895

The Religious Foundations of InternationalismA Study in International Relations Through the Ages This book discusses the relation of different religious systems to the development of world unity peace and international law. It examines Pagan worship Judaism Christianity Islam and the Indian and Far Eastern religions and shows how far their universalism has made for peace or war. It traces the struggle for religious freedom through the ages and what part religion could and should play in the movement for international peace. At a time when religious fundamentalism and nationalism are once again issues of global significance this book is as relevant today as when it was originally published. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138945982

The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary ArchitectureA Reader This anthology collects substaniates and demonstrates the importance of the religious imagination within Western modern and contemporary architecture. The essays written expressly for the anthology take a critical look at the relationship between religion and architecture in the twentieth century as well as giving a brief look at the pre-history of the modern movement and its relationship to religion and architecture. These are grounded by and help to explicate the reprinted essays that are culled from the last one hundred years.  This is an important introduction to the religious imagination in architectural thought of the last one hundred years and to the interdisciplinary discourse that examines how different disciplines express abstract concepts such as faith spirit God and knowledge. It makes essential reading for any architect aspiring or practising delving deeper into the meaning of architectural practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415780810

The Religious Paintings of Hendrick ter BrugghenReinventing Christian Painting after the Reformation in Utrecht The first in-depth study of the Utrecht artist to address questions beyond connoisseurship and attribution this book makes a significant contribution to Ter Brugghen and Northern Caravaggist studies. Focusing on the Dutch master's simultaneous use of Northern archaisms with Caravaggio's motifs and style Natasha Seaman nuances our understanding of Ter Brugghen's appropriations from the Italian painter. Her analysis centers on four paintings all depicting New Testament subjects. They include Ter Brugghen's largest and first known signed work (Crowning with Thorns) his most archaizing (the Crucifixion) and the two paintings most directly related to the works of Caravaggio (the Doubting Thomas and the Calling of Matthew). By examining the ways in which Ter Brugghen's paintings deliberately diverge from Caravaggio's Seaman sheds new light on the Utrecht artist and his work. For example she demonstrates that where Caravaggio's paintings are boldly illusionistic and mimetic thus de-emphasizing their materiality Ter Brugghen's works examined here create the opposite effect connecting their content to their made form. This study not only illuminates the complex meanings of the paintings addressed here but also offers insights into the image debates and the status of devotional art in Italy and Utrecht in the seventeenth century by examining one artist's response to them. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138109650

The Religious Patronage of the Duke of Lerma 1598–1621 Introducing fresh archival evidence author Lisa Banner here demonstrates how Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas first Duke of Lerma served as a vital link in Habsburg architectural patronage. She traces Lerma's trajectory as beginning with the ancient royal city of Valladolid he embarked on a career of renovating or building religious foundations in various towns and cities around seventeenth-century Spain. The unintended consequence of his architectural patronage and involvement was to proliferate the distinctive royal architectural style developed under Philip II which connected the foundations of Lerma indelibly with the traditions of noble patronage in Habsburg Spain. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138265509

The Religious Problem with Religious FreedomWhy Foreign Policy Needs Political Theology Rival understandings of the meaning and practice of the religious and the secular lead to rival public perspectives about religion and religious freedom in North America. This book explores how debates over the American Office of Religious Freedom and its International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA 1998) and very recent debates over the Canadian Office of Religious Freedom (2013) have pitted at least six basic but very different meanings of the religious and the secular against each other in often undisclosed and usually unproductive ways. Properly naming this ‘religious problem’ is a critical first step to acknowledging and conciliating their practically polar political prescriptions. It must be considered how we are to think about religion in political offices both the Canadian and the American experience as an essentially contested term and one which demands better than postmodern paralysis what the author terms political theology. This is especially critical since both of these cases are not just about how to deal with religion at home but how to engage with religion abroad where real peril and real practical policy must be undertaken to protect increasingly besieged religious minorities. Finally a principled pluralist approach to the religious and the secular suggests a way to think outside the ‘religious problem’ and productively enlist and engage the forces of religion resurging around the globe.The book will be of great use to scholars and students in religion and foreign affairs secularization political theology and political theory as well as professionals and policy makers working in issues relating to religion religious freedom and foreign affairs. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367877996

The Religious Rhetoric of U.S. Presidential CandidatesA Corpus Linguistics Approach to the Rhetorical God Gap Drawing on corpus linguistic methods of analysis this book critically examines the "rhetorical God gap" in American political discourse between the Democratic and Republican parties. The volume investigates the claims (which have often not been substantiated by quantitative data in the literature and have tended to focus on particular genres of political discourse) that there is a correlation between a higher degree of religiosity in Republican political discourse and voting preferences for the party and that Democratic politicians should engage in similar discourse toward "closing" the gap.  The book adopts a keyword approach using such techniques as collocation analyses concordance reading and Bible-specific N-gram identification toward the study of a corpus of general campaign speeches over a 50-year period and links findings from this data with social and cultural contextual factors to provide a more informed understanding of rhetorical patterns in religiously laden political language. The volume showcases the value of corpus linguistic methods in interrogating claims around political language and their broader applicability in linguistic research making this key reading for students and scholars in corpus linguistics critical discourse analysis American politics and religious studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367141264

The Religious Roots of American Sociology This book first published in 1992 demonstrates that American sociology has deep religious roots which continue both directly and indirectly to influence the discipline today. Early American sociology was closely aligned with the social gospel movement in Protestantism which hope to make use of the new science of sociology to help solve social problems and ultimately prepare America for the establishment of Christ’s kingdom on earth. Although American sociology became secularized after 1920 it retained its ameliorative outlook hoping to ‘save’ mankind through positivistic analysis and technocratic societal planning. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367085339

The Religious Traditions of AsiaReligion History and Culture This essential student textbook consists of seventeen sections all written by leading scholars in their different fields. They cover all the religious traditions of Southwest Asia Southeast Asia Central Asia Tibet and East Asia. The major traditions that are described and discussed are (from the Southwest) Hinduism Jainism Buddhism Sikhism and Islam and (from the East) Taoism Confucianism and Shinto. In addition the tradition of Bon in Tibet the shamanistic religions of Inner Asia and general Chinese Korean and Japanese religion are also given full coverage. The emphasis throughout is on clear description and analysis rather than evaluation. Ten maps are provided to add to the usefulness of this book which has its origin in the acclaimed Encyclopedia of Religion edited by Mircea Eliade of the University of Chicago. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138146761

The Remaking of the British Working Class 1840-1940 Mike Savage and Andrew Miles provide a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1840. This textbook: * Includes a provocative timely and clear defence of class analysis * Breaks new ground in showing how social mobility and urban change affected working class formation * Demonstrates how the history of the working class is politically reconstructed * Shows how class and gender interact in mediating social and political change Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138161801

The Reminiscence Quiz Book1930's - 1960's An enduringly popular informative and unusual quiz book specifically produced for work with reminiscence groups. Covering the years 1930 to 1969 it draws on memories and experiences of daily life and recalls major events and celebrities. More than 600 questions and answers are offered on four topics - news people entertainment and daily life. Questions can be adapted to all ages and abilities and answers are supported by a wealth of background information ensuring that the answers can be discussed to extend the activity. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315170824

The Reminiscence Skills Training Handbook This easy-to-use guide provides an accessible workbook for reminiscence skills training. It includes: information on the history and definition of reminiscence work; the value of the reminiscence experience to older people and their carers as well as practical ideas and suggestions on how to use reminiscence in a beneficial and therapeutic way; how to set up run and maintain group and individual reminiscence activities; training points and training activities for each section to enhance understanding by making links with the personal experience of the reader; and emphasis on the role of reminiscence work in the social and emotional care of ethnic minority elders people with dementia and older people who have been bereaved. This handbook will not only help to promote reminiscence work but also enhance everyday communication between carers and older people. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315174259

The Remix ManualThe Art and Science of Dance Music Remixing with Logic Can you turn a soulful ballad into a hit dance track or make any Billboard hit your own? With this all-in-one guide to remixing you can! Whether you're a professional DJ or producer or are just beginning to mix tracks this step-by-step guide will bring you through the entire process of making your own professional-quality remixes. Author Simon Langford a renowned producer/remixer with over 300 remixes and chart-toppers under his belt shares his years of experience and expertise in the most in-depth guide on the market. The Remix Manual covers creative processes technical legal and contractual issues and includes a unique remix "walk-through " and useful contacts and links. The companion website www.TheRemixManual.com provides source files that illustrate all stages of the remix as well as additional interviews additional "walk-throughs" a "Buyer's Guide" video tutorials and demo versions of the hottest mixing software. A working musician and remixer Simon Langford provides up-to-the-minute information on all aspects of the remix process from the latest software tips and tricks to timeless artistic advice. While technical aspects are explained in detail you also get a pro's advice on how to produce outstanding tracks by being aware of the originals message style and emotion. The creative side of remixing is explored from all angles as a wide variety of industry insiders weigh in on key issues in exclusive interviews and quotes. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780240814582

The Renaissance The Renaissance now in its third edition engages with earlier and current debates about the Renaissance especially concerning its ‘modernity’ its elitism and gender bias and its globalism. This new edition has been revised to include a discussion of Venice Rome Naples and Florence and their relationship with surrounding courts and smaller provincial towns. Brown provides a fresh insight into some of the main themes of the Renaissance with humanism now being explored in relation to gender the position of women and the response of religious reformers to the new ideas. The broad geographical scope concluding with an examination of diffusion through trade with Constantinople Portugal and Spain allows students to fully explore how the Renaissance transformed into a global movement. Key themes such as humanism art and architecture Renaissance theatre and the invention of printing are illustrated with quotations and exempla making this book an invaluable source for students of the Renaissance early modern history and social and cultural history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367151881

The Renaissance and 17th Century RationalismRoutledge History of Philosophy Volume 4 This fourth volume traces the history of Renaissance philosophy and seventeenth century rationalism covering Descartes and the birth of modern philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138147911

The Renaissance and the Ottoman World This volume brings together some of the latest research on the cultural intellectual and commercial interactions during the Renaissance between Western Europe and the Middle East with particular reference to the Ottoman Empire. Recent scholarship has brought to the fore the economic political cultural and personal interactions between Western European Christian states and the Eastern Mediterranean Islamic states and has therefore highlighted the incongruity of conceiving of an iron curtain bisecting the mentalities of the various socio-political and religious communities located in the same Euro-Mediterranean space. Instead the emphasis here is on interpreting the Mediterranean as a world traversed by trade routes and associated cultural and intellectual networks through which ideas people and goods regularly travelled. The fourteen articles in this volume contribute to an exciting cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary scholarly dialogue that explores elements of continuity and exchange between the two areas and positions the Ottoman Empire as an integral element of the geo-political and cultural continuum within which the Renaissance evolved. The aim of this volume is to refine current understandings of the diverse artistic intellectual and political interactions in the early modern Mediterranean world and in doing so to contribute further to the discussion of the scope and nature of the Renaissance. The articles from major scholars of the field include discussions of commercial contacts; the exchange of technological cartographical philosophical and scientific knowledge; the role of Venice in transmitting the culture of the Islamic East Mediterranean to Western Europe; the use of Middle Eastern objects in the Western European Renaissance; shared sources of inspiration in Italian and Ottoman architecture; musical exchanges; and the use of East Mediterranean sources in Western scholarship and European sources in Ottoman scholarship. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472409911

The Renaissance and the PostmodernA Study in Comparative Critical Values The Renaissance and the Postmodern reconsiders postmodern readings of Renaissance texts by engaging in a dialectics the authors call comparative critical values. Rather than concede the contemporary hierarchy of theory over literature the book takes the novel approach of consulting major Renaissance writers about the values at work in postmodern representations of early modern culture. As criticism seeks new directions and takes new forms insufficient attention has been paid to the literary and philosophical values won and lost in the exchanges. One result is that the way we understand the logical connections the literary textures and the philosophical impulses that make up the literature of writers like Spenser Shakespeare and Milton has fundamentally changed. Examining theoretical debates now in light of polemical controversies then the book goes beyond earlier studies in that it systematically examines the effects of these newer critical approaches across their materialist historicist deconstructive and psychoanalytic manifestations. Bringing gravity and focus to this question of critical continuities and discontinuities each chapter counterposes one major Renaissance voice with a postmodern one to probe these issues and with them the value of the cultural past. As voices on both sides of the historical divide illuminate key differences between the Renaissance and the Postmodern a critical model emerges from the book to re-engage this period’s humane literature in a contemporary context with intellectual rigor and a renewed sense of cultural enrichment. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367870102

The Renaissance Artist At WorkFrom Pisano To Titian This book gives the necessary background for the study and appreciation of Italian painting and sculpture from about 1250 to 1550. It tells how the artists learned their craft the organization of their workshops and the guilds they belonged to; how their customers or patrons treated them and where their work was displayed?churches civic buildings or private homes. The book discusses how art was made?tempera oil panel canvas fresco; it surveys the characteristic types of Renaissance art?altarpieces portraits tombs busts doors fountains medals etc. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367094812

The Renaissance Drama of KnowledgeGiordano Bruno in England Giordano Bruno’s visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture ranging from the newly-developing science the philosophy of knowledge and language to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry and drama. This book explores Bruno's influence on English figures as different as the ninth Earl of Northumberland Thomas Harriot Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Originally published in 1989 it is of interest to students and teachers of history of ideas cultural history European drama and renaissance England. Bruno's work had particular power and emphasis in the modern world due to his response to the cultural crisis which had developed - his impulse towards a new ‘faculty of knowing’ had a disruptive effect on existing orthodoxies – religious scientific philosophical and political. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415752688

The Renaissance Ethics of MusicSinging Contemplation and Musica Humana In early modern Europe music – particularly singing – was the arena where body and soul came together embodied in the notion of musica humana. Kim uses this concept to examine the framework within which music and song were used to promote moral education and addresses Renaissance ideas of religion education and music. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138053472

The Renaissance in Europe Originally published in 1933 this volume traces the history of the Renaissance in Europe and shows how its artistic manifestations differed in each successive country drawing reference from the numerous works of art that were in the London Museums and galleries in the early 20th Century. Among other things the book covers Sculpture Painting Drawing Manuscripts Bronzes Ceramics Jewellery and Glass. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367272210

The Renaissance of LettersKnowledge and Community in Italy 1300-1650 The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian Renaissance. This edited collection contains case studies ranging from the late medieval re-emergence of letter-writing to the mid-seventeenth century that offer a comprehensive analysis of the different dimensions of late medieval and Renaissance letters—literary commercial political religious cultural social and military—which transformed them into powerful early modern tools. The Renaissance was an era that put letters into the hands of many kinds of people inspiring them to see reading writing receiving and sending letters as an essential feature of their identity. The authors take a fresh look at the correspondence of some of the most important humanists of the Italian Renaissance including Niccolò Machiavelli and Isabella d'Este and consider the use of letters for others such as merchants and physicians. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of Early Modern History and Literature Renaissance Studies and Italian Studies. The engagement with essential primary sources renders this book an indispensable tool for those teaching seminars on Renaissance history and literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138367500

The Renaissance of PlotinusThe Soul and Human Nature in Marsilio Ficino’s Commentary on the Enneads Plotinus (204/5–270 C.E.) is a central figure in the history of Western philosophy. However during the Middle Ages he was almost unknown. None of the treatises constituting his Enneads were translated and ancient translations were lost. Although scholars had indirect access to his philosophy through the works of Proclus St. Augustine and Macrobius among others it was not until 1492 with the publication of the first Latin translation of the Enneads by the humanist philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) that Plotinus was reborn to the Western world. Ficino’s translation was accompanied by a long commentary in which he examined the close relationship between metaphysics and anthropology that informed Plotinus’s philosophy. Focusing on Ficino’s interpretation of Plotinus’s view of the soul and of human nature this book excavates a fundamental chapter in the history of Platonic scholarship one which was to inform later readings of the Enneads up until the nineteenth century. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in the history of Western philosophy intellectual history and book history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138630895

The Renaissance of TakefuHow People and the Local Past Changed the Civic Life of a Regional Japanese Town This book tells the story of a citizen group through the example and results of their participation in local civic life. The book draws attention to the complicated conditions under which civic participation may succeed. The story is about the individuals and organizations in the regional Japanese town of Takefu but these events are also placed in the context of the surrounding Japanese Sea region of west Japan and the wider currents of the Japanese nation-state at the time. Also inlcludes maps. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138011564

The Renaissance Palace in FlorenceMagnificence and Splendour in Fifteenth-Century Italy This book provides a reassessment of the theory of magnificence in light of the related social virtue of splendour. Author James Lindow highlights how magnificence when applied to private palaces extended beyond the exterior to include the interior as a series of splendid spaces where virtuous expenditure could and should be displayed. Examining the fifteenth-century Florentine palazzo from a new perspective Lindow's groundbreaking study considers these buildings comprehensively as complete entities from the exterior through to the interior. This book highlights the ways in which classical theory and Renaissance practice intersected in quattrocento Florence. Using unpublished inventories private documents and surviving domestic objects The Renaissance Palace in Florence offers a more nuanced understanding of the early modern urban palace. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138265479

The Renaissance Theatre: Texts Performance DesignVolume II: Design Image and Acting Originally published in 1999 this book is a critical analysis of Renaissance theatre including chapters on speaking theatres performing theatre and redesigning Shakespeare. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367134334

The Renaissance TheatreTexts Performance and Design First published in 1999 this volume examines iconography nature gardens staging tradition and innovation in the Renaissance theatre continuing the growing interest in relationships between image and performance as a fertile field for theatre research. Papers explored areas including The Tempest Elizabeth Cary Antonia Pulci and Shakespeare’s Italian nature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138360631

The Renaissance UtopiaDialogue Travel and the Ideal Society A study of European utopias in context from the early years of Henry VIII’s reign to the Restoration this book is the first comprehensive attempt since J. C. Davis’ Utopia and the Ideal Society (1981) to understand the societies projected by utopian literature from Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) to the political idealism and millenarianism of the mid-seventeenth century. Where Davis concentrated on understanding utopias historically Renaissance Utopia also seeks to make sense of utopia as a literary form offering both a new typology of utopia and a new history of European humanist utopianism. This book examines how the utopia was transformed from an intellectual exercise in philosophical interrogation to a serious means of imagining practical social reform. In doing so it argues that the relationship between Renaissance utopia and Renaissance dialogue is crucial; the utopian mode of discourse continued to make use of aspects of dialogue even when the dialogue form itself was in decline. Exploring the ways in which utopian texts assimilated dialogue Renaissance Utopia complements recent work by historians and literary scholars on early modern communities by providing a thorough investigation of the issues informing a way of modelling a very particular community and literary mode - the utopia. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138255906

The Renaissance World With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas political history cultural history and art history this volume in the successful Routledge Worlds series offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries and shows how the Renaissance laid key foundations for many aspects of the modern world. Collating thirty-four essays from the field's leading scholars John Jeffries Martin shows that this period of rapid and complex change resulted from a convergence of a new set of social economic and technological forces alongside a cluster of interrelated practices including painting sculpture humanism and science in which the elites engaged. Unique in its balance of emphasis on elite and popular culture on humanism and society and on women as well as men The Renaissance World grapples with issues as diverse as Renaissance patronage and the development of the slave trade. Beginning with a section on the antecedents of the Renaissance world and ending with its lasting influence this book is an invaluable read which students and scholars of history and the Renaissance will dip into again and again. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203401163

The Renal Drug HandbookThe Ultimate Prescribing Guide for Renal Practitioners 5th Edition This invaluable guide endorsed by the UKMi and reflecting the extensive experience of the UK Renal Pharmacy Group features drug monographs guiding physicians in how to prescribe prepare and administer drugs to patients with different levels of kidney function and when undergoing renal replacement therapy. It has been fully updated for this fifth edition to include up to 100 additional drugs while maintaining the clear structure and format that is easy to use and simple to follow in the busy clinical setting. It continues to offer support and guidance to health care professionals enabling them to prescribe medications to their renal patients appropriately and safely. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138624795

The Renewable Energy LandscapePreserving Scenic Values in our Sustainable Future Winner of the 2017 EDRA Great Places Award (Research Category) Winner of the 2017 VT ASLA Chapter Award of Excellence (Communications Category) The Renewable Energy Landscape is a definitive guide to understanding assessing avoiding and minimizing scenic impacts as we transition to a more renewable energy future. It focuses attention for the first time on the unique challenges solar wind and geothermal energy will create for landscape protection planning design and management.　 Topics addressed include: Policies aimed at managing scenic impacts from renewable energy development and their social acceptance within North America Europe and Australia Visual characteristics of energy facilities including the design and planning techniques for avoiding or mitigating impacts or improving visual fit Methods of assessing visual impacts or energy projects and the best practices for creating and using visual simulations Policy recommendations for political and regulatory bodies. A comprehensive and practical book The Renewable Energy Landscape is an essential resource for those engaged in planning designing or regulating the impacts of these new critical energy sources as well as a resource for communities that may be facing the prospect of development in their local landscape. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138808980

The Rentier State This volume first published in 1987 is devoted to a discussion of interrelations of the economic base with the cultural social and political structures and of its impact on the state. The ‘rentier states’ of the Middle East which derive of substantial part of their revenue from foreign sources in the form of rent largely oil revenues face the same basic problem the challenge of transforming their economies to give increased strength to productive activity and rely on its progress to increase state revenue from domestic sources. The chapters collected here examine the issue of the modernization of rentier states’ public finance which may well entail important modifications in their domestic politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138923720

The Reorganization of Soviet Foreign TradeLegal Aspects Translated from the Russian. Edited and with a foreword by Serge L. Levitsky. A systematic and authoritative analysis of current Soviet legislation related to the organization and the mechanism of foreign economic relations under perestroika. Of particular interest to prospective partners in joint v Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315492575

The Repair of Vehicle Bodies The revised and updated seventh edition of this best-selling reference manual on vehicle body repair brings the book up to date for the current body repair trade. It serves as a comprehensive guide covering the vocationally related qualification (VRQ) required by the modern student and apprentice as well as providing the CPD essential for all working professionals. The entire book is overhauled to reflect current industry trends with regards to materials processes and procedures. New additions include: An entirely new section on the work of the MET technician (mechanical electrical and trim) New developments in body repair methodology such as repair pods and the greater use of alignment equipment Greater emphasis on the environment with new sections on hybrid vehicles and the hazards of starting current vehicles with high levels of technology Details on both the historic and the current joining methods for the vintage and modern markets Full coverage on the legalities surrounding insurance work for bodyshop staff Updated tables and illustrations This book not only provides the knowledge and skills for body repair it helps to develop a real understanding of the how and why behind this information. It will be essential for anyone studying Levels 1-3 Vehicle Body Repair Vehicle Refinishing and MET courses including the new apprenticeships and technical certificates from the IMI Pearson-BTEC and C&G. HNC and degree Automotive Engineering students will find the text valuable to develop skills and knowledge for practical project work. Industry professionals vehicle restorers and car DIY enthusiasts will continue to find it an essential and comprehensive source of information. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815378693

The Reparative Effects of Human Rights TrialsLessons From Argentina Justice in domestic courts is one of the most prominent aims of victims seeking to obtain accountability for human rights violations. It is however also one of the most difficult to achieve. In many Latin American countries as well as elsewhere activists have put human rights prosecutions forward as a fundamental means to end impunity build democracy strengthen the rule of law and address victims’ rights. But there is still little knowledge about what actually happens when these judicial mechanisms are effectively put to work. Can prosecutions of mass human rights violations contribute to overcome the effects of state violence and impunity? Can trials enable meaningful reparative changes for victims in their local contexts? Analysing the human rights trials in Argentina established to prosecute those responsible for human rights violations during the military dictatorship this book addresses how and why domestic prosecutions can operate as a means for reparation and contribute to dealing with the damage caused by crimes against humanity. Based on a series of interviews conducted with victims participating in these prosecutions as well as with lawyers prosecutors judges and other relevant actors in five provinces of Argentina this book will be of considerable interest to those studying and working in the interdisciplinary field of transitional justice and human rights. The PhD thesis on which this book was based was awarded with the 2016 Doctoral Studies Award of the Philipps University of Marburg in Germany. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367191832

The Representation of Japanese Politics in MangaThe Visual Literacy Of Statecraft This edited volume explores political motives discourses and agendas in Japanese manga and graphic art with the objective of highlighting the agency of Japanese and wider Asian story-telling traditions within the context of global political traditions.　Highly illustrated chapters presented here investigate the multifaceted relationship between Japan’s political storytelling practices media and bureaucratic discourse as played out between both the visual arts and modern pop-cultural authors. From pioneering cartoonist Tezuka Osamu contemporary manga artists such as Kotobuki Shiriagari and Fumiyo Kōno to videogames and everyday merchandise a wealth of source material is analysed using cross-genre techniques. Furthermore the book resists claims that manga unlike the bandes dessinées and American superhero comic traditions is apolitical. On the contrary contributors demonstrate that manga and the mediality of graphic arts have begun to actively incorporate political discourses undermining hegemonic cultural constructs that support either the status quo or emerging brands of neonationalism in Japanese society. The Representation of Politics in Manga will be a dynamic resource for students and scholars of Japanese studies media and popular cultural studies as well as practitioners in the graphic arts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367439965

The Representation of Language in the Brain: In Honour of John C. MarshallA Special Issue of Aphasiology John C Marshall is one of the most influential neuropsychologists of his generation. His impact on the development of cognitive neuropsychology has been pivotal particularly in the neuropsychology of language. This Festschrift in his honour brings together contributions from his colleagues and friends to celebrate this contribution and presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary and historical issues concerned with The Representation of Language in the Brain. There are contributions on reading naming syntax comprehension foreign accent syndrome progressive aphasia the history of aphasia treatment the evolution of language calculation and embodied cognition. The content reflects John’s own interests in language and aphasia and it is therefore no wonder that it also reflects current and central issues in the neuropsychology of language. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138877696

The Representation of Meaning in Memory (PLE: Memory) Originally published in 1974 this volume presents empirical and theoretical investigations of the role of meaning in psychological processes. A theory is proposed for the representation of the meaning of texts employing ordered lists of propositions. The author explores the adequacy of this representation with respect to the demands made upon such formulations by logicians and linguists. A sufficiently large number of problems are encompassed by the propositional theory to justify its use in psychological research into memory and language comprehension. A number of different experiments are reported on a wide variety of topics and these test central portions of this theory and any that purports to deal with how humans represent meaning. Among the topics discussed are the role of lexical decomposition in comprehension and memory propositions as the units of recall and the effects of the number of propositions in a text base upon reading rate and recall. New problems are explored such as inferential processes during reading differences in levels of memory for text and retrieval speed for textual information. On the other hand a study of retrieval from semantic memory focusses on a problem of much current research. The final review chapter relates the present work to other current research in the area at the time. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138989849

The Representation of Slavery in the Greek NovelResistance and Appropriation This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how the five canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery. In each novel one or both elite protagonists are enslaved and Owens explores the significance of the genre’s regular social degradation of these members of the elite. Reading the novels in the context of social attitudes and stereotypes about slaves Owens argues for an ideological division within the genre: the earlier novelists Xenophon of Ephesus and Chariton challenge and undermine elite stereotypes; the three later novelists Longus Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus affirm them. The critique of elite thinking about slavery in Xenophon and Chariton opens the possibility that these earlier authors and their readers included literate ex-slaves. The interests and needs of these authors and their readers shaped the emerging genre and not only made the protagonists’ slavery a key motif but also made slavery itself a theme that helped define the genre. The Representation of Slavery in the Greek Novel will be of interest not only to students of the ancient novel but also to anyone working on slavery in the ancient world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367348755

The Representation of the PastMuseums and Heritage in the Post-Modern World The 1980s and early 1990s have seen a marked increase in public interest in our historic environment. The museum and heritage industry has expanded as the past is exploited for commercial profit. In The Representation of the Past Kevin Walsh examines this international trend and questions the packaging of history which serves only to distance people from their own heritage. A superficial unquestioning portrayal of the past he feels separates us from an understanding of our cultural and political present. Here Walsh suggests a number of ways in which the museum can fulfill its potential - by facilitating our comprehension of cultural identity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138143487

The Representative Agent in Macroeconomics Rpresentative agent models have become a predominant means of studying the macroeconomy in modern economics without there being much discussion in the literature about their propriety or usefulness. This volume evaluates the use of these models in macroeconomics examining the justifications for their use and concluding that representative agent models are neither a proper nor a particularly useful means of studying aggregate behaviour. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138866126

The Representative Turn in EU Studies After the participative and deliberative turns in both democratic theory and EU studies we are currently witnessing a ‘representative turn’ to which this volume contributes by addressing the relation between representation and democracy in the EU. Although in the Lisbon Treaty the EU conceives itself as a representative democracy the meaning of this concept in a supranational polity is far from clear – either in theory or practice. Instead the historically contingent link between representation and democracy is today severely challenged by various processes of diversification at all levels of political action (national regional supranational). These processes challenge our understanding of representative democracy as involving electoral democracy within clearly delineated nation-states provoking a situation in which ‘new frontiers’ of representation develop. Consequently it becomes increasingly difficult to provide normative standards as well as accurate assessments of democratic representation in the EU. This volume addresses these core challenges of representative democracy in the EU from normative theoretical and methodological perspectives. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415836029

The Reproduction of EvilA Clinical and Cultural Perspective Why is it that victims of abuse so often become perpetrators and what can psychoanalysis offer to these survivor-perpetrators whose criminal conduct seems to transcend the possibilities of empathic psychoanalytic inquiry. In The Reproduction of Evil Sue Grand engages these deeply troublesome issues in the belief that psychoanalysts can and should reclaim the study of what lies beyond ordinary human empathy. Her goal is to elucidate the link between traumatic memory and the perpetration of evil. To this end she presents an interdisciplinary analysis at once scholarly and passionate of the ways in which families and cultures transform victims of malignant trauma into perpetrators of these very traumas on others. Through intensive case studies Grand draws the reader into the world of the survivor-perpetrators who commit acts of child abuse of incest of racial persecution even of homicide and genocide. By infusing psychoanalytic inquiry with cultural analysis and by supplementing clinical vignettes with well-chosen literary illustrations Grand is able to convey the survivor-perpetrator's immediacy of experience in a manner that readers may find unsettling even uncanny. By interweaving psychoanalytic sociohistorical and literary perspectives Grand fills a critical lacuna in the literature about trauma and its intergenerational transmission. Her analysis of the psychodynamic processes and cultural tensions that bind perpetrators victims and bystanders provides trenchant insights into the violence and fragmentation that beset our society. Essential reading for a wide clinical audience The Reproduction of Evil will also be powerfully informative for academic and lay readers interested in the intrapsychic interpersonal and cultural factors that account for the perpetuation of evil from generation to generation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138151154

The Reproductive Body at WorkThe South African Bioeconomy of Egg Donation The transnational industry surrounding assisted reproductive technology and regenerative medicine is based on the unacknowledged labour of gamete providers surrogates and research subjects and benefits from low labour costs in ‘enabling’ sectors such as logistics and transport. This finding calls for a comprehensive analysis of how the contemporary intersection of neoliberal capitalism and the life sciences - in short the bioeconomy - capitalises on the body and its (re)productive capacities.The Reproductive Body at Work uptakes this challenge as it explores the relations between value production labour and the body in one particular realm of the global bioeconomy: the South African bioeconomy of ‘egg donation’. It highlights different forms and dimensions of unacknowledged or precarious human labour that are constitutive for the procurement brokering and circulation of oocytes as valuable resources. The analysis illustrates that the respective organisation of value and labour renegotiate what ‘the’ (re)productive body can do which status and roles it is ascribed which cultural and economic values it signifies and how it is experienced and enacted within a matrix of intersectional power relations.A theoretically profound contribution to the interdisciplinary debate on ‘New materialism’ The Reproductive Body at Work will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as gender studies medical anthropology cultural studies sociology political economy and science and technology studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367670832

The Reproductive Unconscious in Late Medieval and Early Modern England First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138985186

The Republic Of KoreaEconomic Transformation And Social Change This book concentrates on the process of economic growth for which Korea today is renowned. It examines some of the salient forces that helped to produce Korea's remarkable change and explores the evolution of the class structure in Korea and the changes it is now experiencing. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295486

The Republic of LebanonNation in Jeopardy Torn by civil war its major city in shambles and occupied by foreign peacekeeping forces as well as foreign armies the Republic of Lebanon in the 1980s was struggling to regroup rebuild and resolve its problems under new leadership. In this analytical survey first published in 1983 Professor Gordon addresses such questions as why the republic – rooted in the distant past – succumbed to such disintegration. Lebanon’s multi-ethnic character and the Palestinian presence are considered fully and Lebanon is examined in the international context inevitably with particular reference to the creation of Israel and its consequences. The country is viewed both in its own right and also as a small skiff on a very rough regional and international sea. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138642119

The Republic of the UshakovkaAdmiral Kolchak and the Allied Intervention in Siberia 1918-1920 This volume originally published in 1990 and now with an updated Preface  gives an account of the Allies' last concerted attempt to destroy Russia's nascent Bolshevik regime. At the start it looked like a threat that should be taken seriously as the Reds' enemies both native and foreign combined with trained mercenaries under the leadership of a Tsarist admiral. But it finished with a firing squad on the ice and a grisly end for the ill-fated Admiral Kolchak. With him died the last hope for the old order in Russia and the future of the new Soviet state was secure. The skill of the author's narrative lies in his mastery both of the detail and of the wider implications of these epic events. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138634602

The Republican Roman ArmyA Sourcebook The Republican Roman Army assembles a wide range of source material and introduces the latest scholarship on the evolution of the Roman Army and the Roman experience of war. The author has carefully selected and translated key texts many of them not previously available in English and provided them with comprehensive commentaries and essays. This wide-ranging survey of documents recreates the social and historical framework in which ancient Roman warfare took place – from the Archaic and Servian period through to the Late Republic. The topics addressed extend beyond the conventional questions of army mechanics such as strategy and tactics and explore questions such as the army’s influence on Roman society and its economy. Complete with notes index and bibliography The Republican Roman Army provides students of Ancient and Military History with an unprecedented survey of relevant materials. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203926611

The Republican Tradition in Europe (Routledge Revivals) First published in 1911 this pioneering and ambitious work provides a history of the evolution of republican thought and practice in Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the twentieth century. Based a series of lectures delivered by the author at Lowell Institute in 1910 this is a comprehensive treatment of the subject which moves deftly from the political thought of the middle ages through to the rise of Protestantism the wave of revolution across Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries concluding with an analysis of the republican cause and the permanence of the Republican idea in the consciousness of Europe. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415679619

The RepublicConversations on Fundamentals In more than 230 years of statehood the United States has created its own distinctive way of living and governing--a way which its citizens cherish but about whose essence for want of definition they frequently disagree. Charles Beard offered in a synthesis of his life work a permanent statement on the nature of the American Republic.To carry out his purpose Beard discusses among other subjects the making of one nation out of many peoples and nationalities the letter and the spirit of the Constitution the rights and liberties of citizens the theory of checks and balances the role of political parties the Republic in the world of nations and the coming fate and fortune of America. Above all he deals philosophically with the eternal conflict between power and freedom security and liberty.In form the book is a series of conversations among friends. The author and two public-spirited citizens carry the main burden of the discourse and other figures are introduced to present special but prevailing points of view. In this way the reader not only feels that he is participating in a search for the truth but discovers that his own point of view has here an able sponsor. Beard has taken a theme of majestic scope and presented it in terms that are warm and human and immediately relevant. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538184

The Republics and Regions of the Russian Federation: A Guide to the Politics Policies and LeadersA Guide to the Politics Policies and Leaders Russia is divided into seven federal districts encompassing 89 units -- regions (oblasts) territories (krais) and republics. As central power has weakened the importance of these units and their local leadership has increased commensurately.This work brings together in one volume all basic political economic and demographic data on every territorial unit of the Russian Federation its local government structure and electoral history current through the spring 2000 elections and the summer 2000 reorganization. Each entry includes an extensive profile of the president governor or prime minister and an overview of local political trends policies economy and business conditions. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315500577

The Repugnant ConclusionA Philosophical Inquiry The Repugnant Conclusion is a controversial theorem about population size. It states that a sufficiently large population of lives that are barely worth living is better than a smaller population of high quality lives. This is highly counter-intuitive. It implies that we can improve the world by trading quality of life for quantity of lives. Can it be defended? Christopher Cowie explores these questions and unpacks the controversies surrounding the Repugnant Conclusion. He focuses on whether the truth of the Repugnant Conclusion turns - as some have claimed - on the uncomfortable claim that many people’s lives are actually bad for them and that even privileged people lead lives that are only just worth living. Highly recommended for those interested in ethics applied ethics and population studies The Repugnant Conclusion will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as economics development studies politics and international relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138605442

The Reputation Risk HandbookSurviving and Thriving in the Age of Hyper-Transparency This book will show you how to build a sustainable reputation risk management framework and how to handle your next reputation risk crisis. It will help you identify ways in which reputation risk can impact bottom line and then show you how to set up a framework for turning that risk into an opportunity for good sustainable business. Reputation risk is a strategic risk and a potentially material risk all the more so in the "age of hyper-transparency". This needs to be clearly understood by both management and boards of directors so that the people tasked with reputation risk have the support they need to align their reputation risk management with business strategy and planning. The Reputation Risk Handbook provides a clear framework to identify manage and resolve reputation risk including: a clear description of what reputation risk is and how it fits within the pantheon of corporate and institutional risk and strategic management; a practical process for creating early warning systems and on-going management and monitoring of reputation risks; techniques for aligning reputation risk management with business strategy and business planning; several case studies including examples of when reputation risk management has gone wrong; examples of how to manage specific reputation risks successfully or deal with a reputation risk crisis. The Reputation Risk Handbook is not just for practitioners – those who manage risk and reputation directly – but for those who have oversight of risk management – namely boards their committees and the c-suite.  In addition to a framework for practitioners the book provides specific suggestions for boards including questions to ask management and what to look for within their organizations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781910174302

The Reputations of Thomas MoorePoetry Music and Politics This collection of eleven essays positions Moore within a developing and expanding international readership during the course of the nineteenth century. In accounting for the successes he achieved and the challenges he faced recurring themes include: Moore’s influence and reputation; modes of dissemination through networks and among communities; also the articulation of personal political and national identities. This book the product of an international team of scholars is the first to focus explicitly on the reputations of Thomas Moore in different parts of the world including Bombay Dublin Leipzig and London as well as America Canada Greece and the Hispanic world. Through it we will understand more about Moore’s reception and also appreciate how the publication and dissemination of poetry and song in the romantic and Victorian eras operated in different parts of the world—in particular considering how artistic and political networks effected the transmission of cultural products. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367353391

The Research ActA Theoretical Introduction to Sociological Methods At once a unique textbook for methods courses and a major contribution to sociological theory this book teaches students the principles of research and how to construct and test theories. It brings coherence to the study of methods by presenting four major approaches to experimentation: survey research participant observation life histories and unobtrusive measures from a single theoretical point of view symbolic interaction. It demonstrates the need for a synthesis between theory and methods and shows how different methods limit and aff ect research results.Denzin's argues that no single method theory or observer can capture all that is relevant or important in reality. He argues for the use of triangulation and for a view of theory and methods as "concept sensitizers." His approach enables sociologists to acquire specifi c facts about a particular situation while simultaneously elevating these to the level of shared meaning.The author shows students how to proceed with research bringing sharply into focus the possibilities and their limitations. Since his view is integrated rather than eclectic this is much more than a "how to do it" manual. Denzin points out aspects of research that fall outside the scope of a given method yet aff ect results and emphasizes the need to employ several methods to cross-check each other. The Research Act covers all the content of conventional methods courses. The presentation is exciting and imaginative and provides a thorough review of major sociological methods a cogent statement about approaches to sociological inquiry and a source from which a understanding of the problems of research can be derived. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538191

The Research CompanionA practical guide for those in the social sciences health and development Have you ever wanted to know an effective and ethical way to: Design a study? Recruit participants? Report findings? And improve the quality and output of your research? The Research Companion focuses on the practical skills needed to complete research in the social or health sciences and development. It covers the behind-the-scenes essentials you need to run an effective and ethical piece of research and offers clear honest advice to help avoid typical problems and improve standards and outcomes.　 It addresses each stage of the research process from thinking of a research idea through to managing monitoring completing and reporting your project and working effectively and safely with participants and colleagues. As well as covering theoretical issues in research the book is full of links to other resources and contains practical tips and stories from researchers at all levels. This new edition is fully updated to reflect shifts in funding structures open access and online developments and has a link to a blog and friendly online community for readers to connect with diverse researchers all sharing experiences and offering practical advice. The Research Companion brings hard-earned lessons from the real world to offer invaluable guidance to all students of the social and health sciences from those just beginning their first research project to experienced researchers and practitioners. It will be instrumental in raising readers’ competence levels and making their research more accurate ethical and productive. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138917613

The Research JourneyIntroduction to Inquiry Designed to foster "inquiry-mindedness " this book prepares graduate students to develop a conceptual framework and conduct inquiry projects that are linked to ongoing conversations in a field. The authors examine different ways of knowing and show how to identify a research question; build arguments and support them with evidence; make informed design decisions; engage in reflective ethical practices; and produce a written proposal or report. Each chapter opens with a set of critical questions followed by a dialogue among five fictional graduate students exploring questions and concerns about their own inquiry projects; these issues are revisited throughout the chapter. Other useful features include end-of-chapter learning activities for individual or group use.Useful pedagogical features include:*Framing questions for exploration and reflection.*Chapter-opening dialogues that bring in perspectives from multiple disciplines.*Example boxes with detailed cases and questions for the reader.*End-of-chapter activities and experiential exercises that guide readers to develop their own inquiry projects.*Suggestions for further reading. Media > Books > Print Books Guilford Press 9781462505128

The Research Library in the 21st Century The essays presented in this book reflect revised papers delivered at the Research Library in the 21st Century Symposium held at The University of Texas at Austin September 2006. Internationally known library museum information agency and higher education administrators have contributed their views concerns and optimism in developing this book. In an effort to begin shaping a strategy for the future of academic research libraries some of the best minds in the field and representatives from leading institutions have been chosen to explore these issues. These essays investigate the evolving nature of scholarly communications the many challenges facing higher education generally and the obligations of research libraries to promote teaching learning and research in a time of rapid change. Readers will find the perspectives offered here are as incisive and as fresh now as when they were presented. This book was based on a special issue of Journal of Library Administration. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415641241

The Research Process in Classroom Discourse AnalysisCurrent Perspectives This volume gives intellectual space to a range of current perspectives on classroom discourse research and provides a forum for conversations about the research process. Classroom discourse researchers from different theoretical perspectives provide five separate analyses of the same instructional unit in a high school biology class using the same set of data. Interwoven with the five research reports are several conversations among the editors and researchers regarding specific aspects of the research process. These conversations illuminate some of the actual decisions that researchers make when looking at data and crafting their analyses. This book is intended for graduate students researchers and teacher educators across the fields of applied linguistics and education who are interested in studying classroom discourse and more generally language-in-use. With its focus on both the research process and the outcomes of research as well as on the theory-method relationship this book is relevant for courses in research methodology language in education applied linguistics discourse analysis language development and multiculturalism in the classroom. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315085418

The Research Process in Educational Settings (RLE Edu L)Ten Case Studies This book presents a series of research biographies based on research experiences in the study of educational settings. The main aim is to provide a set of first person accounts on doing research that combine analysis with description. The contributors have been drawn from the disciplines of sociology and educational studies and have all conducted ethnographic work or case studies in a variety of educational settings. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415753111

The Research Process in Sport Exercise and HealthCase Studies of Active Researchers What are the challenges and potential pitfalls of real research? What decision-making process is followed by successful researchers? The Research Process in Sport Exercise and Health fills an important gap in the research methods literature. Conventional research methods textbooks focus on theory and descriptions of hypothetical techniques while the peer-reviewed research literature is mainly concerned with discussion of data and the significance of results. In this book a team of successful researchers from across the full range of sub-disciplines in sport exercise and health discuss real pieces of research describing the processes they went through the decisions that they made the problems they encountered and the things they would have done differently. As a result the book goes further than any other in bringing the research process to life helping students identify potential issues and problems with their own research right at the beginning of the process. The book covers the whole span of the research process including: identifying the research problem justifying the research question choosing an appropriate method data collection and analysis identifying a study’s contribution to knowledge and/or applied practice disseminating results. Featuring real-world studies from sport psychology biomechanics sports coaching ethics in sport sports marketing health studies sport sociology performance analysis and strength and conditioning the book is an essential companion for research methods courses or dissertations on any sport or exercise degree programme. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415673501

The Research ProjectHow to Write It Edition 5 Now in its fifth edition this guide to project work continues to be an indispensable resource for all students undertaking research.Guiding the reader right through from preliminary stages to completion The Research Project: How to write it sets out in clear and concise terms the main tasks involved in doing a research project covering:* choosing a topic* using the library effectively* taking notes* shaping and composing the project* providing footnotes documentation and a bibliography* avoiding common pitfalls.Fully updated throughout this new edition features a chapter on making the most out of the Internet from knowing where to start to assessing the quality of the material found there. Other features include a model example of a well researched clearly written paper with notes and bibliography and a chapter on getting published in a learned journal for more advanced researchers.Whether starting out or experienced in research The Research Project: How to write it is an essential tool for success. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203362679

The Researcher's ToolkitThe Complete Guide to Practitioner Research The Researcher's Toolkit is a practical rather than an academic text for all those undertaking perhaps for the first time small-scale research. Written by an experienced team of practising researchers it covers the entire research process - from designing and submitting a research proposal through to its completion. This book is suitable for all researchers but is particularly designed for those practitioner-based researchers from the fields of education social work nursing criminal justice and community work. This fresh new idea for those conducting small-scale research comes from a team of practising researchers who possess a broad range of experiences and knowledge of research design execution and completion. They write in a user-friendly style that those researchers new to the subject will find easy to follow and understand. It will act both as a roadmap to planning execution and completing research and also as a dip-in reference guide. Using features such as activity boxes to highlight key concepts and short summary boxes to indicate fundamental elements of the research area under discussion this accessible book will be of great value to all who read it. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138137615

The Resegregation of SchoolsEducation and Race in the Twenty-First Century Access to a quality education remains the primary mechanism for improving one’s life chances in the United States and for children of color a “good education” is particularly linked to their individual and collective well-being. Despite the popular perception that America is in a “post-racial” epoch opportunities to access quality learning environments and human development resources remain determined according to race class gender and ability. Taking a more nuanced approach to race and the resegregation of the American school system this volume examines how and why the education quality for the majority of students of color in America remains fundamentally unequal. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138941700

The Resettlement of Sex Offenders after CustodyCircles of Support and Accountability Circles of Support and Accountability is a voluntary initiative that assists people with convictions for sexual offences to resettle in the community. People leaving prison with such convictions often have difficulties in resettling. They carry the burden of the conviction itself which may be both stigmatising and isolating and they are the subject of sex offender register requirements parole and other supervisory conditions. Circles of Support and Accountability in the UK started over ten years ago and have slowly spread across the country. They work closely with the police and probation services but rely entirely on volunteers prepared to give up their time to work with people often otherwise shunned by communities. Circles offer support to the person concerned but also hold them accountable for their future behaviour. They aim to ensure there are ‘no more victims’. This book is based on original research and provides a close-up picture of how these Circles of Support and Accountability work in practice. It brings together for the first time the voices of all the participants from the offenders and the volunteers through to the Coordinators who link the volunteers to the professionals in the form of the police and probation services. The research was commissioned by Circles UK and funded by the Wates Foundation and the University of Leeds School of Law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367227111

The Resilience and Wellbeing ToolboxA guide for educators and health professionals The Resilience and Wellbeing Toolbox is an inspiring book and a beacon for social emotional change in schools. Within these pages teachers and other professionals will find fantastic resources that they can easily implement in the classroom. By following this programme teachers will see their students developing skills in persistence problem solving and emotional regulation as well as independence empathy kindness contribution and good will whilst planting the essential seeds of resilience and wellbeing. Helpful suggestions offered in each chapter on how to bring wellbeing and resilience into the home can be shared with parents and families. The lively and engaging resources in this book include: Practical photocopiable guide sheets and worksheets also available as eResources Adaptable role plays and activities Solid research-based strategies A flexible framework that can be creatively implemented in the classroom This is a must-have handbook for anyone seeking to provide young people in their care with a strong foundation for better social emotional and learning outcomes. Resources can be downloaded at https://www.routledge.com/The-Resilience-and-Wellbeing-Toolbox-A-guide-for-educators-and-health/Nawana-Parker/p/book/9781138921177 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138921177

The Resilience and Wellbeing ToolboxBuilding Character and Competence through Life’s Ups and Downs This fully updated second edition is a practical guide for parents teachers and other professionals to create cultures of resilience and wellbeing in schools homes and health care settings. Students will build lifelong competencies to improve their emotional regulation empathy persistence problem solving mindset optimism gratitude kindness and values; improving their psychological readiness to bounce back from life’s ups and downs. Alongside new lesson plans that are even easier to follow and specific guidance on how to meet criteria on social emotional learning frameworks the lively and engaging resources in this book include: Practical photocopiable guide sheets and worksheets also available as eResources via www.positivemindsaustralia.com.au Adaptable role plays and activities Solid research-based strategies A flexible framework that can be creatively implemented in classrooms homes and health care settings Parent tips at the end of each chapter This is a must-have handbook for anyone seeking to provide young people in their care with a strong foundation for life long social emotional and learning outcomes. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367490294

The Resilience Approach to Climate Adaptation Applied for Flood RiskUNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis Nowadays the uncertainties associated with the process of making decisions for water infrastructure investments can be significant and arise from amongst other factors a lack of knowledge about primary external drivers like climate change. New and improved methods for the assessment climate impacts and adaptation are needed to address these uncertainties; otherwise investment strategies can be maladaptive resulting in either increased risks or unnecessary costs of potentially irreversible measures. In response to this need there has been a significant expansion of the approaches and methods in use. This book provides practical experience with two different assessment methods: Real-In-Options and Adaptation Tipping Points. These were selected because they both provide insight into and promote the ability of the system to deal with future change and thus can be used within a resilience approach. The resilience approach takes a dynamic perspective on adaptive processes and the effects of these processes at/across different spatio-temporal scales. Although the methods share a similar aim they have considerable differences in orientation and application. This book discusses the concept procedures case examples and benefits/limitations of each method examining its usefulness for informing investment decisions. It gives specific recommendations on which method to use under what circumstances. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780415624855

The Resilience HandbookApproaches to Stress and Trauma How are people and communities able to prevail despite challenge? What helps them bounce back from adversity and even grow in knowledge and understanding? And can this resilience be taught? During the past decade exciting scientific advances have shed light on how resilience operates from neurons to neighborhoods. In The Resilience Handbook experts in the science of resilience draw on human and animal research to describe the process of resilience and follow its course as it unfolds both within individuals and in social networks. Contributors also highlight the promise of new interventions that apply what we know about resilience processes to bolster positive health and raise some of the pressing questions and issues for the field as it matures. This handbook is designed to be used by students as an invitation to a burgeoning field; by researchers as a framework for advancing theories hypotheses and empirical tests of resilience functions; and by clinicians as a comprehensive and up-to-the-minute integration of theory and practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415818834

The Resilience Machine We live in a time where environmental pressures social inequities and political derision are the backdrop of everyday life and where resilience has become a routine prescription for coping with the conditions of modern existence. Drawing an analogy to Harvey Molotch’s urban growth machine this book explores different narratives of resilience and their policy and practice manifestations for cities citizens and communities. It expands on the metaphor of the machine to show how resilience can be better understood as an assemblage. Bringing together authors from multiple disciplines and different parts of the world the book unmasks the often invisible effects of resilience strategies by examining ways in which neoliberal mentalities are fed through the rhetoric of resilience practices policies and development projects. The contributing essays provide provocative accounts of several areas of inquiry including biopolitics and smart bodies resilient cities and communities urban planning and disaster management justice and vulnerability and resistance to resilience. Holding out hope for critical potentials in ‘resilience ’ The Resilience Machine proposes to move beyond mechanisms of adaptation and into imagining what resilient life could look like in a more just equitable and democratic world. The Resilience Machine is a current vital addition to resilience community and urban scholarship. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815381136

The Resilient Healthcare OrganizationHow to Reduce Physician and Healthcare Worker Burnout Professional burnout is an epidemic in America. Approximately half of physicians and nurses are affected and at risk for themselves and their patients. Much has been written about professional burnout. The term was originally coined in the 1970s by American psychologist Herbert Freudenberger to describe the consequences of severe stress and high ideals experienced by people working in "helping" professions. Since then many books have been written to address this looming national public health crisis. But unfortunately there has been much less written from a solution standpoint: getting to the root cause of why this is occurring now more than ever. The Resilient Healthcare Organization engages readers focusing on physicians and healthcare professionals and their experiences and how they overcame a loss of enthusiasm for work feelings of cynicism and a low sense of personal accomplishment. The feelings of emotional exhaustion are characterized by depersonalization and perceived ineffectiveness. These are the cardinal features that define "burnout" and affect almost 50% of physicians and 30–70% of nurses. This book addresses why burnout is viewed as a threat and how it can be fought. The author discusses the contributing factors and solutions at the health system and societal level. Additionally this book explores the current and future etiology and impacts on physicians and healthcare professionals with a significant emphasis on solutions at both the individual level and the system level. Contributors: Patricia S. Normand MD Bruce Flareau MD Kathleen Ferket MSN APRN Daniel Edelman DO and Peter B. Angood MD.   Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9780367249939

The Resilient Mental Health PracticeNourishing Your Business Your Clients and Yourself The Resilient Mental Health Practice: Nourishing Your Business Your Clients and Yourself is a fundamental resource for mental health professionals designed to serve as a comprehensive yet parsimonious handbook to inspire and inform novice developing and experienced mental health professionals. Replete with case studies The Resilient Mental Health Practice gives readers a big-picture view of private practice including detailed explorations of various topics related to therapist self-care and preventing burnout. Chapters provide a range of ways in which clinicians can build a resilient and sustainable practice while also taking care of their clients and themselves. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138935891

The Resilient PractitionerBurnout and Compassion Fatigue Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for the Helping Professions The Resilient Practitioner 3rd edition gives students and practitioners the tools they need to create their own personal balance between caring for themselves and caring for others. This new edition includes a new chapter on resiliency an updated self-care action plan self-reflection exercises in each chapter and a revised resiliency inventory for practitioners. Readers will find however that the new edition keeps its strong focus on research and accessible writing style. The new edition also retains its focus on establishing working alliances and charting a hopeful path for practitioners a path that allows them to work intensely with human suffering and also have a vibrant career in the process. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138830073

The Resistant Object of ArchitectureA Lacanian Perspective Architecture’s role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent complicit part of its mechanism. The Resistant Object of Architecture addresses this problem and does so in a way that represents a marked departure from predominant responses which as the book shows do not address the core issue. The book addresses this problem by focusing on the question "what is architecture? " and responds to this question by developing the immanent structural logic of architecture that enables it to work not only as an instrumental thinking practice but as a practice of creative thinking. This means that it alone determines its issues problems and priorities and precisely because of that it has the capacity and cogency to destabilise indeed pierce holes in the system in which it operates. The Resistant Object of Architecture draws on various theoretical sources from the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan and the philosophy of Alain Badiou to contemporary architectural theory. In contrast to the predominant view of today it demonstrates that architecture has an affirmative transformative capacity. This book is an ideal read for those interested in architectural theory and history analysis of contemporary architecture and philosophy of architecture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367624408

The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest Popular music has traditionally served as a rallying point for voices of opposition across a huge variety of genres. This volume examines the various ways popular music has been deployed as anti-establishment and how such opposition both influences and responds to the music produced. Implicit in the notion of resistance is a broad adversarial hegemony against which opposition is measured. But it would be wrong to regard the music of popular protest as a kind of dialogue in league against 'the establishment'. Convenient though they are such 'us and them' arguments bespeak a rather shop-worn stance redolent of youthful rebellion. It is much more fruitful to perceive the relationship as a complex dialectic where musical protest is as fluid as the audiences to which it appeals and the hegemonic structures it opposes. The book's contemporary focus (largely post-1975) allows for comprehensive coverage of extremely diverse forms of popular music in relation to the creation of communities of protest. Because such communities are fragmented and diverse the shared experience and identity popular music purports is dependent upon an audience collectivity that is now difficult to presume. In this respect The Resisting Muse examines how the forms and aims of social protest music are contingent upon the audience's ability to invest the music with the 'appropriate' political meaning. Amongst a plethora of artists genres and themes highlights include discussions of Aboriginal rights and music Bauhaus Black Sabbath Billy Bragg Bono Cassette culture The Capitol Steps Class The Cure DJ Spooky Drum and Bass Eminem Farm Aid Foxy Brown Folk Goldie Gothicism Woody Guthrie Heavy Metal Hip-hop Independent/home publishing Iron Maiden Joy Division Jungle Led Zeppelin Lil'Kim Live Aid Marilyn Manson Bob Marley MC Eiht Minor Threat Motown Queen Latifah Race Rap Rastafarianism Reggae The Roots Diana Ross Rush Salt-n-Pepa 7 Seconds Roxanne Shanté Siouxsie and the Banshees The Sisters of Mercy Michelle Shocked Bessie Smith Straight edge Sunrize Band Bunny Wailer Wilco Bart Willoughby Wirrinyga Band Zines. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781351218061

The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster 1772–1775Volume IV This presents the previously unpublished journal of the principal naturalist on Cook's second voyage. The main pagination of this volume and the three previous volumes in the set (Second series 152-154) is continuous. Overshadowed for nearly two hundred years in European scholarship by the achievements and reputation of his eldest son George Forster J. R. Forster - principal naturalist on James Cook’s second voyage - was nevertheless recognised by many contemporaries as one of the ’universal geniuses’ of the late 18th century. His journal of the voyage offers many new insights expressed at times in quite unrestrained language into the day-to-day relationships life and thinking and theory-testing on the second and the most scientific and the most epic of Cook’s voyages. However the circumstances of Forster’s career and personality were such that his work was dogged by debilitating disputes and vendettas. Consequently important works such as this journal which would have established him as the leading comparative anthropologist linguist geographer and zoologist of the Pacific have thus far remained obscure and seldom-used manuscripts. Anthropologists ethnolinguists geographers botanists zoologists and medical and literary historians will find here much new observation and theory; for the two Forsters fashioned forces to influence Alexander von Humboldt and foretell Charles Darwin. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1981. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237411

The Resolution of Sovereign Debt CrisesInstruments Inefficiencies and Options for the Way Forward The insolvency of states is by no means a rare or new phenomenon. Despite this it still seems to be widely felt that states do not go bankrupt. As of yet there are no regulated insolvency proceedings for states. This book examines the current mechanisms for solving sovereign debt crises. It presents an analysis of their weaknesses and shows possibilities for dealing with such crises in the future. In this respect the work focusses on crisis resolution measures at European level: the aid packages for Greece the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism the European Financial Stabilisation Facility and the European Stability Mechanism. These are examined for their appropriateness as well as whether they contain elements of insolvency law. Ultimately it explores possible insolvency proceedings for states at EU level and their implementation options. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367182359

The Resonance of EmptinessA Buddhist Inspiration for Contemporary Psychotherapy This work presents an exploration of Buddhist philosophy and practice as a potential resource for an approach to psychotherapy which is responsive to the needs of its time and context and attempts to open up a three-way dialogue between Buddhism psychotherapy and contemporary discourse to reveal a meaningful theory and practice for a contemporary psychotherapy. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315027371

The Resource Handbook of Electronics Building upon the extensive resources of Whitaker's The Electronics Handbook The Resource Handbook of Electronics offers the most complete collection of reference and tabular data available. It provides the data that engineers and technologists need in a clear concise format that does away with detailed explanations and presents just the facts-the essential tables charts formulas definitions and equations with just enough detail to accomplish the task at hand.This one-stop reference covers a broad range of technologies emphasizes practical applications and provides references to more detailed information on important subjects. Its many topics include: Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781315220673

The Resources of the Third World First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315061641

The Respectful ManagerThe Guide to Successful Management Many people are confused by mixed messages from their managers. About 85% of the pool of managers are malevolent who do not care about the organisation and use the structure for their own needs of power and control. We know what a good manager looks like but in complex social interactions within organisations this can be confused with the manipulations of the malevolent managers from CEO to the lowest grade supervisor. The Respectful Manager: The Guide to Successful Management is about the application of the Executive Impression Management type of the Respectful Manager derived from new ground-breaking research regarding fraudster managers. It explains clearly and precisely what a good manager looks like and behaves like with their co-workers. In this book the foundations are laid to understand and recognise a Respectful Manager. This is critical for management training purposes and for managerial recruitment and promotion procedures. For those looking at increasing profitability increasing competitive edge and engaging their workforce in fulfilling work the Respectful Manager is the key. This book is a must read for those who aspire to management roles including senior management as a guide to the very best practice in the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138306677

The Responsibility to Protect and the International Criminal CourtProtection and Prosecution in Kenya This book provides an account of how the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) were applied in Kenya. In the aftermath of the disputed presidential election on 27 December 2007 Kenya descended into its worst crisis since independence. The 2007-08 post-election crisis in Kenya was among the first situations in which there was an appeal to both the responsibility to protect and a responsibility to prosecute. Despite efforts to ensure compatibility between R2P and the ICC the two were far from coherent in this case as the measures designed to protect the population in Kenya undermined the efforts to prosecute perpetrators. This book will highlight how the African Union-sponsored mediation process effectively brought an end to eight weeks of bloodshed while simultaneously entrenching those involved in orchestrating the violence. Having secured positions of power politicians bearing responsibility for the violence set out to block prosecutions at both the domestic and international levels eventually leading the cases against them to unravel. As this book will reveal by utilising the machinery of the state as a shield against prosecution the Government of Kenya reverted to an approach to sovereignty that both R2P and the ICC were specifically designed to counteract. This book will be of interest to students of the Responsibility to Protect humanitarian intervention African politics war and conflict studies and IR/Security Studies in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367597238

The Responsibility to Protect in DarfurFrom Forgotten Conflict to Global Cause and Back This book analyzes the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in the context of the conflict in Darfur using detailed empirical evidence. The volume traces Darfur’s evolution from forgotten conflict to a major global cause and back to obscurity. The emergence of a far-reaching international response to the war in Darfur began in 2004 and included the most influential international advocacy movement since the anti-apartheid campaign and one of the world’s largest peacekeeping missions. The book analyzes how Darfur slid back into international obscurity after 2011 despite ongoing violence against civilians and the continued risk of conflict escalation following Omar al-Bashir’s ousting in April 2019. Based on an analysis of more than 100 interviews and over 1 000 media reports the book examines one of the most pressing questions related to the R2P: why do some situations of mass atrocities cause an international outcry while others are met with complacency and silence? It argues that the presence or absence of a compelling narrative which frames a situation in moral terms and unambiguously conveys who is responsible who suffers and what should be done facilitates whether or not sufficient traction will be gained to beget a robust R2P response. This book will be of much interest to students of the Responsibility to Protect human rights peacekeeping conflict resolution African politics and International Relations in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367183707

The Responsibility to Protect in International LawAn Emerging Paradigm Shift This book will consider a rapidly emerging guiding general principle in international relations and arguably in international law: the Responsibility to Protect. This principle is a solution proposed to a key preoccupation in both international relations and international law scholarship: how the international community is to respond to mass atrocities within sovereign States. There are three facets to this responsibility; the responsibility to prevent; the responsibility to react and the responsibility to rebuild. This doctrine will be analysed in light of the parallel development of customary and treaty international legal obligations imposing responsibilities on sovereign states to the international community in key international law fields such as international human rights law international criminal law and international environmental law. These new developments demand academic study and this book fills this lacuna by rigorously considering all of these developments as part of a trend towards assumption of international responsibility. This must include the responsibility on the part of all states to respond to threats of genocide crimes against humanity ethnic cleansings and large-scale war crimes. The discussion surrounding aggravated state responsibility is also explored with the author concluding that this emerging norm within international law is closely related to the responsibility to protect in its imposition of an international responsibility to act in response to an international wrong. This book will be of great interest to scholars on international law the law of armed conflict security studies and IR in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138614314

The Responsibility to Protect in International LawPhilosophical Investigations This book tracks the development of the emerging international legal principle of a responsibility to protect over the past two decades. It contrasts the influential version of the principle introduced by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001 with subsequent interpretations of the responsibility to protect advocated by the United Nations through its human protection agenda and reviews the dangers and inconsistencies inherent in both perspectives. The author demonstrates that the evolving responsibility to protect principle can be recruited to support a wide range of irreconcilable projects from those of cosmopolitan constitutionalism to those of hegemonic international law. However despite the dangers posed by this susceptibility to conceptual hijacking Oman argues that the responsibility to protect like human rights is an essential a modern emancipatory formation. To remedy this dangerous malleability the author advocates a third distinctive interpretation of the responsibility to protect designed to limit its cooptation by liberal anti-pluralist and hegemonic international law agendas. Oman outlines the key features of such a minimalist conception and explores its fit with the "RtoP" version of the responsibility to protect promoted in recent years by the UN. The author argues that two crucial features missing from the UN reading of the principle should be developed in future: an acknowledgement of the role of non-state actors as bearers of the responsibility to protect and a recognition of the principle's legal character. Both of these aspects of the principle offer means to democratize the international law-making enterprise. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472423948

The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and SyriaMass Atrocities Human Protection and International Law This book offers a novel and contemporary examination of the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) doctrine from an international legal perspective and analyses how the doctrine was applied within the Libyan and Syrian conflicts as two recent and highly significant R2P cases. The book dissects each of R2P’s three component pillars to examine their international legal underpinnings drawing upon diverse legal frameworks – including the laws of the UN laws of international organisations human rights law humanitarian law criminal law environmental law and laws of State responsibility – to extract conclusions regarding existing and emerging host and third-State obligations to prevent and react to mass atrocity crimes. It uses this legal grounding to critically examine specific aspects of the Libyan and Syrian R2P cases engaging with some of the more traditional debates surrounding R2P’s application most notably those that pertain to the use of force (or lack thereof) but also exploring some of the less-researched non-military methods that were or could have been employed by States and international organisations to uphold the doctrine. Such an analysis captures the diversity in the means and actors through which R2P can be implemented and allows for the extraction of more nuanced conclusions regarding the doctrine’s strengths and limitations gaps in enforceability levels of State support and future trajectory. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of international law and human rights law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138618657

The Responsibility to ProtectPerspectives on the Concept's Meaning Proper Application and Value This book presents the views of various international law and human rights experts on the contested meaning scope of application value and viability of R2P; the principle of the Responsibility to Protect . R2P refers to the notion that the international community has a legal responsibility to protect civilians against the potential or ongoing occurrence of the mass atrocity crimes of genocide large scale war crimes ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. R2P allows for intervention where the individual State is unable or unwilling to so protect its people or is in fact a perpetrator. The book addresses also the controversial issue of whether intervention by States implementing R2P with or without the endorsement of the United Nations Security Council constitutes a State act of aggression or instead is legally justified and not an infringement on the offending State’s sovereign jurisdiction. The adverse impact on global peace and security of the failure to protect civilians from mass atrocity crimes has put in stark relief the need to address anew the principle of ‘responsibility to protect’ and the feasibility and wisdom of its application and this book is a significant contribution to that effort. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367026394

The Responsible Economy After the ‘financial crisis’ and ‘Great Recession’ some have called for replacing standard economic theory by heterodox models based upon behavioural approaches. The Responsible Economy argues that there is nothing wrong with economic theory. Instead the problem has been a ‘devil’s pact’ of simplistic pro-market economics combined with simplistic Keynesian monetary policy. This book revisits the fundamental theorems in economics that state the conditions for markets to achieve efficiency. It has long been known that there are limitations of markets in dealing with externalities increasing returns to scale and monopoly. The role of information in the economy was developed in economic theory in the 1970s onwards and in a world of imperfect and asymmetric information markets perform poorly. Managers of firms engage in short-termism take on excessive risk and misstate their own and their firm’s performance. While finance theory makes clear that much of the activity in the financial services sector is of no economic value and represents wasteful ‘financial engineering’. In this real world it is economically inefficient for firms to maximise shareholder value. On the macroeconomics side monetary expansion cannot be an effective substitute for addressing real problems of infrastructure and education investment. This book maintains that markets work best if individuals and firms behave ethically and responsibly. Employment should be a long-term relationship; firms should pay living wages produce good products at a fair price and pay their share of taxes. Where these standards don’t hold governments should not try to micromanage through regulation but set up simple and straightforward policies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138376984

The Responsible Fashion CompanyIntegrating Ethics and Aesthetics in the Value Chain In The Responsible Fashion Company Rinaldi and Testa argue that the fashion industry is at a crossroads: the need for a global shift to a sustainable model has never been more urgent. Yet they demonstrate that we are witnessing a revolution led by conscious consumers and enlightened companies who are redefining the rules of the fashion market. The question is: when will the rest of the industry catch up? Rinaldi and Testa raise a fundamental but often neglected issue in the fashion sustainability debate: long-term equilibrium can only be achieved by integrating economic goals with environmental social and ethical values. "The Responsible Fashion Company" provides a clear overview of the theory challenges and opportunities of sustainability in the industry and demonstrates how fashion companies can achieve competitive advantage through sustainable innovation. The authors show how leading fashion companies are challenging traditional thinking and present inspiring examples from pioneers such as Gucci Levi's Timberland and Brunello Cucinelli who create quality products without leaving a negative impact behind.Refreshing and timely The Responsible Fashion Company is essential reading for the socially conscious consumer and anyone with a professional or personal interest in the fashion design and luxury industries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781783532216

The Responsible Investor HandbookMobilizing Workers' Capital for a Sustainable World For decades workers’ capital stewards have invested wisely to provide a secure retirement for millions of people around the world. This money – our money â€“ represents an enormous share of economic and capital market wealth. It has seeded and grown innumerable innovative industries that have had far-reaching impacts. However the 2008 financial crisis has seriously threatened these trusted assets and drained away prosperity.In response a growing number of investors are moving towards responsible investment policies and strategies addressing the rising expectations of consumers and benefiting from the financial advantages such strategies bring. Everyday citizens now want to see their investments not only do well but do good. But what constitutes responsible investment and how can it be undertaken in practice? What is the impact of responsible investment strategies on investment performance? How can trustees managers and advisors implement these strategies in line with their fiduciary responsibilities? How can plan trustees and staff members convince all stakeholders of the need to invest in resilient growth?The Responsible Investor Handbook commissioned by the AFL-CIO and global progressive investors is a lay-friendly “how-to” manual sharing the best in responsible investment practice with capital stewards and other policy leaders who want to do the right thing with our common wealth.This invaluable toolkit enables readers to: Understand the pioneering role of workers’ capital in building infrastructure and vital services Devise a responsible investment strategy Select and monitor service providers Bring on board stakeholders with conflicting interests Avoid short-termism The Responsible Investor Handbook is the first book devoted to aligning the long-term investment priorities of working people with capital stewards and the financial complex that manages their assets. It is an essential read for trustees and capital stewards seeking the positive outcomes of a responsible investment strategy; pension and institutional investors looking to realign their strategies with the interests of workers and citizens; and any professional seeking a better understanding of the importance of responsible investment and its impact on capital markets. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781783535620

The Responsible MethodologistInquiry Truth-Telling and Social Justice Winner of The University of Alabama 2017 President’s Faculty Research Award What does it mean to be a responsible methodologist? Certainly it is more than being a research middle-manager who ensures that the tools used in a thesis or dissertation are of the right gauge. In The Responsible Methodologist leading education scholar Aaron Kuntz uses the latest movements in social theory to challenge qualitative researchers to reconceptualize their work away from the technocratic toward an intervention an ethical disruption of the norm an activist stance toward progressive social change. Inviting creativity and vision he insists that the responsible methodologist become a force leading the discourse toward social justice. His book-challenges the technocratic role given to qualitative methodologists in university settings;-urges them to become a force for change through Foucault’s parrhesia risky truth-telling;-includes research projects that have incorporated this vision. http://amkuntz.people.ua.edu/ Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781611323696

The Responsive MuseumWorking with Audiences in the Twenty-First Century What is the relationship today between museums galleries and learning? The Responsive Museum interrogates the thinking policies and practices that underpin the educational role of the museum. It unravels the complex relationship of museums with their publics and discusses today's challenges and the debates that have resulted. The highly experienced team of writers including museum educators and directors share their different experiences and views and review recent research and examples of best practice. They analyse the implications of audience development and broadening public access particularly in relation to special groups minority communities and disabled people and for individual self-development and different learning styles; they explore issues of public accountability and funding; discuss the merits of different evaluation tools and methodologies for measuring audience impact and needs; and assess the role of architects designers and artists in shaping the visitor experience. The latter part of this book reviews practical management and staffing issues and training and skills needs for the future. This book is for students museum staff especially those involved in education and interpretation and senior management and policy-makers. This is a much-needed review of the relationship between museums and galleries and their users. It also offers a wealth of information and expertise to guide future strategy and practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815346616

The Rest PrincipleA Neurophysiological Theory of Behavior First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138406759

The Restless CityA Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a brief insightful and lively history of the peoples events and interactions that have formed New York City. Weaving together the shifting currents of economic political social and cultural life Joanne Reitano shows how New York has acted both as an indicator and a driver of the American experience in its negotiation of evolving urban challenges. The third edition of The Restless City has been updated to include new material on early settler/Native American interactions and to be more fully inclusive of the outer boroughs of New York. Each chapter features at least two primary sources accompanied by discussion questions for students. Authoritative and comprehensive The Restless City remains a superior resource for students and scholars interested in the rich history of the nation’s premier urban center. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138681705

The Restless Universe Applications of Gravitational N-Body Dynamics to Planetary Stellar and Galactic Systems The Restless Universe: Applications of Gravitational N-Body Dynamics to Planetary Stellar and Galactic Systems stimulates the cross-fertilization of ideas methods and applications among the different communities who work in the gravitational N-body problem arena across diverse fields of astrophysics. The chapters and topics cover three broad themes: the dynamics of the solar system the dynamics of galaxies and star clusters and the large scale structure of the universe. The book is essential reading for scientists and graduate students studying N-body dynamics from the fundamental techniques to the cutting edge of modern research in planetary stellar and galactic systems. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138406230

The Restoration and the England of Charles II This key Seminar Study was first published as Restoration England: The Reign of Charles II in 1985. Unavailable for several years the book has now been heavily revised and expanded to take account of over ten years of new scholarship. In particular the Second Edition reflects new work done on political parties the constitution taxation the church and the legacy of the civil wars. As ever primary documents illustrate points raised in the text and an extensive bibliography directs readers to further reading. New for this edition is a chronology of the main events in Charles II's reign which given the thematic treatment of the reign readers are likely to find particularly useful. When Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660 the event was widely greeted as a return to normal after the upheavals of civil war. In this short study Professor John Miller explores how far this was true and how far the civil wars had in fact weakened (or strengthened) the monarchy. The book divides neatly into two: in the first part the 'Restoration Settlement' of 1660-4 is examined in detail; and in the second the salient features of government politics and religion under Charles II are considered seeking to show how well the restored regime worked in practice. Throughout complex issues of change over time are explained as clearly and concisely as possible and the Restoration is placed in the wider context of the development of England in the seventeenth century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138149656

The Restoration of Ghirlandina Tower in Modena and the Assessment of Soil-Structure Interaction by Means of Dynamic Identification Techniques This book is the first of a series of volumes on Built Heritage and Geotechnics intended to reach a wide audience: professionals and academics in the fields of civil engineering architecture restoration and cultural heritage management and even the wider public. The present volume provides essential information on the history of the construction of the Ghirlandina Tower in Modena the techniques involved and the restoration works and proves how the interaction with the supporting soil may explain the reasons behind the corrections that masons implemented during construction the pattern of settlements suffered by the tower and the Cathedral and their mutual interaction. In addition to the above there is one particular aspect that should capture the interest of a wide readership: in 1997 the Cathedral and the Ghirlandina Tower were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List and it was recognized that the creation process shared by Lanfranco and Wiligelmo is a masterpiece of human creativity in which a new dialectical relationship between architecture and sculpture was created in Romanesque art. The Modena complex bears exceptional witness to the cultural traditions of the 12th century in northern Italy's urban society its organization religious character beliefs and values all being reflected in the history of the buildings. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367187088

The Restoration of the Nativity Church in Bethlehem This book is a summary of the main restoration works carried out at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem that commenced in September 2013. Work on roof wooden structures wall and floor mosaics internal plasters wooden architraves and painted columns of the naves external wall surfaces and Narthex is all presented in a sequence of reports that accompany the reader up to the final interventions through accurate descriptions of historical and archaeological features initial state of conservation and appropriate techniques of conservation and restoration. Topics are treated with the methodological and linguistic rigor specific to each disciplinary sector involved even if in the interest of making reading and comprehension easier it was sometimes preferred to present only significant case studies which are nevertheless representative of groups of wider and more complex problems. Through the reading of this work the reader can simply fulfil his desire for knowledge and obtain answers to certain curiosities about the past history of the Church. At the same time useful guidelines in dealing with conservation and restoration interventions at historic-architectural sites of similar complexity can be found. The book is therefore addressed to a generic reader interested in the history and conservation of one of the most representative examples of our heritage but also in light of its technical and scientific value to university students technicians restorers architects structural engineers archaeologists and historians. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138488991

The Restorative Justice Ritual Restorative justice is an innovative approach to responding to crime and conflict that shifts the focus away from laws and punishment to instead consider the harm caused and what is needed to repair that harm and make things right. Interest in restorative justice is rapidly expanding with new applications continuously emerging around the world. The restorative philosophy and conference process have shown great promise in providing a justice response that heals individuals and strengthens the community. Still a few key questions remain unanswered. First how is the personal and relational transformation apparent in the restorative justice process achieved? What can be done to safeguard and enhance that effectiveness? Second can restorative justice satisfy the wider public’s need for a reaffirmation of communal norms following a crime particularly in comparison to the criminal trial? And finally given its primary focus on making amends at an interpersonal level does restorative justice routinely fail to address larger structural injustices? This book engages with these three critical questions through an understanding of restorative justice as a ritual. It proffers three dominant ritual functions related to the performance of justice: the normative the transformative and the proleptic. Two justice rituals namely  the criminal trial and the restorative justice conference are examined through this framework in order to understand how each process fulfills or fails to fulfill the multifaceted human need for justice. The book will be of interest to students academics and practitioners working in the areas of Restorative Justice Criminal Law and Criminology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367560782

The Restrictive Covenant in the Control of Land Use First published in 1999 this book breaks new ground by treating the restrictive covenant from the aspect of the control of land use. At its heart is a detailed account of the discharge or modification mechanism a system of practical importance to professionals in law planning and land management. This central component is furthered by an historical account of the development of the concept from Tulk v Moxhay (the seminal case of 1848) to the present and by an assessment of its future in a legal system dominated by planning and environmental control. It is a study of the way in which a particular equitable doctrine has grown from simple beginnings to become a tool of considerable practical importance enabling it to meet changing social and economic needs. It charts the growth of a concept wherein principles of private and public law come together in the fields of property and planning and gives some pointers to possible reform of the law and the future role of the restrictive covenant. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138366190

The Results FacilitatorExpert Manager Mentor A facilitator has been traditionally defined as someone who helps a group of people understand their objectives and assists them in planning to achieve them without taking a position in the discussion. Recently the International Standards Organization’s (ISO’s) implementation and other long-term multi-year team involvement has challenged neutrality in all cases and has created a new type of facilitator the results facilitator.The Results Facilitator: Expert Manager Mentor identifies the skills training and education that today’s facilitators must possess. Outlining the new role of the facilitator it presents powerful tools and techniques that can help facilitators achieve success. Continuous learning is a must and should follow the model-Learn-Practice-Evaluate-Act.The book demonstrates the use of Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for measuring progress toward achieving the objectives of a long-term program. It also supplies authoritative guidance on how to effectively plan conduct and complete meeting responsibilities. What can go wrong for a facilitator is outlined and methods to eliminate or mitigate these undesired situations are shown.The text details the core competencies that have been established by the International Institute for Facilitators (INIFAC) as well as the International Association of Facilitators (IAF). It shows where improvements can be made in each and recommends a joint IAF and INIFAC effort to consolidate into one facilitator’s competency list.The book explains the need for an additional phase to the Tuckman’s Group Dynamic Model. It shows several coaching processes including how to use the Toyota Production System’s Kata for team improvement. The chapters have a facilitator exercise at the ends to help the reader apply their new knowledge to build their confidence and knowledge. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781482252354

The Resurgence of the RealBody Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World In this insightful beautifully written work one of America's most important feminist ecological thinkers reflects on the roots of modernity in Renaissance humanism the Reformation the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Spretnak argues that an "ecological postmodern" ethos is emerging in the 1990s. the creative cosmos and the complex sense of place." Both a sharp critique and a graceful performance of the art of the possible The Resurgence of the Real changes the way we think about living in the modern world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138432277

The Resurgence of the StateTrends and Processes in Cyberspace Governance The transnational architecture of global information networks has made territorial borders less significant. Boundaries between spaces are becoming blurred in the evolving information age. But do information and communication technologies networks really lead to a weakening of the nation-state? This volume revisits the 'retreat of the state' thesis and tests its validity in the 21st century. It considers cyberspace as a matter of collective and policy choice prone to usurpation by governance structures. Governments around the world are already reacting to the information revolution and trying to re-establish their leading role in creating governance regimes for the Information Age. The volume comes at a historical moment when new political dynamics are detected and new conceptual models are sought to categorize the attempts to deal with global/transnational issues. It will intrigue the reader with expert-level analysis of the role of the state in the emerging global/supranational governance structures by providing historical context and conceptualizing trends and social dynamics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138383715

The Resurrection in Karl Barth Karl Barth repeatedly spoke of the centrality and unparalleled significance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ for his theological understanding yet a clear grasp of its nature and scope in Barth continues to find little expression in scholarly literature. This book seeks to draw out the theological substance and systematic implications of Barth's thinking on this theme. Barth's mature understanding of the resurrection concentrates upon the transition from the objective achievement of reconciliation culminating in the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ to its subjective appropriation in the life of the believer all within a thoroughly christological context. The resurrection may be described as the way of the crucified Lord to others and is for Barth the essential and efficient link between christology proper and the extension of Christ's saving work to others. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138265080

The Retailing Reader Most of us think we know something about retailing: we shop we buy we consume. But retailing perhaps more than any other economic sector has been transformed fundamentally over the last thirty years both economically and culturally. Featuring work from seminal theorists in the area and charting the development of retailing as an important discipline in its own right this superb volume examines the key themes in contemporary retailing. Organized into five sections each of which includes an illuminating editorial overview The Retailing Reader examines:consumers and shoppersretail branding and marketingmerchandising and buying; strategy power and policyinternational retailing.Extensive case studies include an analysis of the British grocery market the strategies embodied by Nike Town stores and the development of retail economies in China and Latin America. The Retailing Reader presents a comprehensive overview of this important area of study and is an ideal companion for any student of retailing marketing or business and management. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003060413

The Reticulocyte First Published in 1986 this book offers a full comprehensive guide to immature red blood cells. Carefully compiled and filled with a vast repertoire of notes diagrams and references this book serves as a useful reference for Students of Medicine and other practitioners in their respective fields. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367236908

The Return of AinuCultural mobilization and the practice of ethnicity in Japan First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138985407

The Return of EpidemicsHealth and Society in Peru During the Twentieth Century Historians have long recognized epidemics to be a significant though sometimes hidden factor in the fortunes of societies and civilizations. The study of epidemics heightens our understanding of relationships between economic systems and living conditions. It illuminates the ideologies and religious beliefs of the affected community and illustrates the efforts and inadequacies of public health systems. This investigation of the history of epidemics in various parts of Peru during the twentieth century opens up a new field for Latin American studies to include health and disease. These are important areas of the past that enable us to understand better the living conditions of people the role of state authority and the dynamics of social movement. Marcos Cueto examines five series of epidemics: the bubonic plague of 1903-1930; the fever epidemic of 1919-1922; the typhus and small pox epidemics in the Andes; attempts to control and eradicate malaria and the cholera epidemics of 1991. In each case he studies the biological and ecological factors that caused the outbreak and the techniques and policies applied to fight it together with the response of the affected society. The experience of epidemics in Peru has been cyclical. Poverty breeds disease which in turn results in further poverty. One of the aims of this study is to highlight areas of success and failure in the fight against epidemics in the hope that such awareness may help break this vicious circle. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138263420

The Return of Feminist Liberalism While it is uncontroversial to point to the liberal roots of feminism a major issue in English-language feminist political thought over the last few decades has been whether feminism's association with liberalism should be relegated to the past. Can liberalism continue to serve feminist purposes? This book examines the positions of three contemporary feminists - Martha Nussbaum Susan Moller Okin and Jean Hampton - who notwithstanding decades of feminist critique are unwilling to give up on liberalism. This book examines why and in what ways each of these theorists believes that liberalism offers the normative and political resources for the improvement of women's situations. It also brings out and tries to explain and evaluate the differences among them notwithstanding their shared allegiance to liberalism. In so doing the books goes to the heart of recent debates in feminist and political theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781844652709

The Return of NatureSustaining Architecture in the Face of Sustainability The Return of Nature asks you to critique your conception of nature and your approach to architectural sustainability and green design. What do the terms mean? Are they de facto design requirements? Or are they unintended design replacements? The book is divided into five parts giving you multiple viewpoints on the role of the relations between architecture nature technology and culture. A detailed case study of a built project concludes each part to help you translate theory into practice. This holistic approach will allow you to formulate your own theory and to adjust your practice based on your findings. Will you provoke change design architecture that responds to change or both? Coedited by an architect and a historian the book features new essays by Robert Levit Catherine Ingraham Sylvia Lavin Barry Bergdoll K. Michael Hays Diane Lewis Andrew Payne Mark Jarzombek Jean-Francois Chevrier Elizabeth Diller Antoine Picon and Jorge Silvetti. Five case studies document the work of MOS Architects Michael Bell Architecture Steven Holl Architects George L. Legendre and Preston Scott Cohen. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415897891

The Return of the BuddhaAncient Symbols for a New Nation The Return of the Buddha traces the development of Buddhist archaeology in colonial India examines its impact on the reconstruction of India’s Buddhist past and the making of a public and academic discourse around these archaeological discoveries. The book discusses the role of the state and modern Buddhist institutions in the reconstitution of national heritage through promulgation of laws for the protection of Buddhist monuments acquiring of land around the sites restoration of edifices and organization of the display and dissemination of relics. It also highlights the engagement of prominent Indian figures such as Nehru Gandhi Ambedkar and Tagore with Buddhist themes in their writings. Stressing upon the lasting legacy of Buddhism in independent India the author explores the use of Buddhist symbols and imagery in nation-building and the making of the constitution as also the recent efforts to resurrect Buddhist centers of learning such as Nalanda. With rich archival sources the book will immensely interest scholars researchers and students of modern Indian history culture archaeology Buddhist studies and heritage management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9781138663947

The Return of the Cold WarUkraine The West and Russia This book examines the crisis in Ukraine tracing its development and analysing the factors which lie behind it. It discusses above all how the two sides have engaged in political posturing accusations escalating sanctions and further escalating threats arguing that the ease with which both sides have reverted to a Cold War mentality demonstrates that the Cold War belief systems never really disappeared and that the hopes raised in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union for a new era in East-West relations were misplaced. The book pays special attention to the often ignored origins of the crisis within Ukraine itself and the permanent damage caused by the fact that Ukrainians are killing Ukrainians in the eastern parts of the country. It also assesses why Cold War belief systems have re-emerged so easily and concludes by considering the likely long-term ramifications of the crisis arguing that the deep-rooted lack of trust makes the possibility of compromise even harder than in the original Cold War. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138572355

The Return of the PeasantLand Reform in Post-Communist Romania This title was first published in 2001. Of the many far reaching issues facing post-communist states in the wake of the collapse of communist rule few have continued to pose such dilemmas for future progress as the land question. This book provides a historical account of national and local attempts to reform land ownership and agricultural production and in particular the way in which land law defined the land question. Using archive work to demonstrate the selectivity of the law in righting wrongs and case studies to illustrate the practical obstacles to attempts at reconstructing the pre-communist system this work is a critical and detailed portrait of the forces that stand to shape the future of post-communist rural life. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138734258

The Return to EthicsSpecial Issue of The Translator (Volume 7/2 2001) If civilizations are to cooperate as well as clash our mediators must solve problems using serious thought about relations between Self and Other.Translation Studies has thus returned to questions of ethics. But this is no return to any prescriptive linguistics of equivalence. As the articles in this volume show ethics is now a broadly contextual question dependent on practice in specific cultural locations and situational determinants. It concerns people perhaps more than texts. It involves representing dynamics seeking specific goals challenging established norms and bringing theory closer to historical practice.The contributions to this volume study a wide range of translational activity questioning global copyright regimes denouncing exploitation within the translation profession defending a Bible translation in terms of multilateral loyalty and delving into the dynamics of popular genres the culture bubbles of talk shows the horrors of disaster relief in Turkey military interpreters in the Balkans and urgent political pleas from a Greek prison. The theoretical approaches range from empirical text analysis to applications of fuzzy logic passing through a proposed Translator's Oath and converging in a common concern with cross-cultural alterity Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138473751

The Return to War and ViolenceCase Studies on the USSR Russia and Yugoslavia 1979-2014 This volume includes five case studies on war and the military in the USSR Russia and Yugoslavia. It argues that the armed forces were at the core of socialist statehood and that their role and their change in late socialism and post-Communism are thus far understudied. Discussing the similarities as well as the differences between the Soviet the Russian and the Yugoslav case the introduction seeks new explanations for war and military violence in these countries. Rather than pointing exclusively to ethnic mobilization and nationalism it views the transformation and collapse of the Communist party-state and its army as a precondition for violence and civil war. It places these cases using innovative methodological approaches to the research on physical violence war and military. These studies explore the experience and the representation of violence army service combat and war in late socialism and scrutinize individual actors and their behaviour within violent spaces. In retrospect the emerging wars in the post-Soviet space – from Chechnya to the Donbas – and in Yugoslavia are at least as crucial for the region as Gorbachev's reforms. They help to better understand the conflicts of the present in the post-Soviet space. This book was originally published as a special issue of Nationalities Papers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367109301

The Reuniting of EuropePromises Negotiations and Compromises This title was first published in 2001: In 1989 central and Eastern European countries broke free form the Soviet Union and looked upon the European Community to support their 'return to Europe'. Some years later leaders of the European Community meeting in Copenhagen in June 1993 endorsed for the first time the membership aspirations of the recently democratized countries of Central and Eastern Europe. This insightful text examines the negotiations debates tensions and contradictions behind the process of approximation between the two halves of Europe both within the EC itself as well as between the EC and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The extensive consultation of unpublished internal documents and a theoretically relevant and well-written analysis ensures that this book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of EC/EU relations with Central and Eastern Europe. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415792981

The Reuse and Recycling of Contaminated Soil This book presents a new way of viewing contaminated soil-as a resource that in many instances can be recovered. The Reuse and Recycling of Contaminated Soils addresses the waste problem associated with contaminated soil and considers alternatives that are environmentally sound cost-effective and time efficient. It provides thorough coverage of practical issues associated with reuse and recycling including: Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367579456

The Re-Use AtlasA Designer's Guide Towards the Circular Economy This book is a highly illustrated “map ” using photos infographics and statistics showing designers how they can successfully navigate the emerging field of resource management and the circular economy. Using the Brighton Waste House Project as a basis for this the book will look at key moments and landmark decisions made during its design and construction as well as the people and projects from around the world that inspired them. Media > Books > Print Books RIBA Publishing 9781859466445

The Re-Use of Urban RuinsAtmospheric Inquiries of the City How do urban ruins provoke their cultural revaluation? This book offers a unique sociological analysis about the social agencies of material culture and atmospheric knowledge of buildings in the making. It draws on ethnographic research in Berlin along the former Palace of the Republic the E-Werk and the Café Moskau in order to make visible an interdisciplinary regime of design experts who have developed a professional sensorium turning the built memory of the city into an object of aesthetic inquiry. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367599928

The Revaluation of Women's Work This book provides a survey and analysis of the different ways in which women's work is valued throughout the world. It challenges the narrow definition of work as paid work as that excludes so many of women's activities. It looks at ways in which women's worth has been consistently undervalued in industrial as well as non-industrial countries in socialist as well as free-enterprise economies. These practices distort the national product of countries heavily dependent on women's labour but above all they are among the most obvious marks of the exploitation of women. Technological changes are already altering established female/male divisions of labour. Transnational enterprises often located in Special Economic Zones are reducing differences between industrial and nonindustrial countries. Valuing women's work correctly whether unpaid in the home or underpaid outside it is part of the battle against discrimination and poverty. Men who do similar work also benefit. It is the crucial step towards the achievement of male/female equality. The book will be particularly valuable for those concerned with the issues in trade unions women's groups international agencies and NGOs and for course in economics and social studies. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315066332

The Revelation of Nature This title was first published in 2001. "The Revelation of Nature" embraces pragmatism aesthetics and metaphysics in an effort to narrate a fundamental relationship between the contemporary world and the natural source and site for any world of meaning. Beginning with an exploration of Heidegger's seminal insight into the way we exist - that human existence must be understood in its everydayness - Matthews links these ideas to Heidegger's interpretation of the development of Western history in terms of its grounding metaphysical determinations to do with truth reality and the nature of things. Matthews concludes that our everyday lives are informed and shaped by intellectual precepts and normative modes of behaviour that promote the combination and enslavement of both nature and ourselves within a mass technological grid. This book breaks new ground in theology without underpinning the analysis with a particular religious viewpoint. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138722118

The Revenue ImperativeThe Union's Financial Policies During the American Civil War Provides a comprehensive overview of the Union financial policies during the American Civil War. This work argues that the revenue imperative the need to keep pace with the burgeoning expenses of the conflict governed the development of fiscal policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138663527

The Reviewer’s Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences The Reviewer’s Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences provides evaluators of research manuscripts and proposals in the social and behavioral sciences with the resources they need to read understand and assess quantitative work. 35 uniquely structured chapters cover both traditional and emerging methods of quantitative data analysis which neither junior nor veteran reviewers can be expected to know in detail. The second edition of this valuable resource updates readers on each technique’s key principles appropriate usage underlying assumptions and limitations providing reviewers with the information they need to offer constructive commentary on works they evaluate. Written by methodological and applied scholars this volume is also an indispensable author’s reference for preparing sound research manuscripts and proposals. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138800137

The Revision Of Psychoanalysis In 1965 Erich Fromm became professor emeritus of psychoanalysis at the National Autonomous University of Mexico City. In the same year he finished his field research on the social character of the Mexican peasant village Chiconcuac. Released from his obligations at the university and free for a new project he applied to various funding organizations for money to undertake a "Systematic Work on Humanistic Psychoanalysis " which he had decided to write in the course of the next few years. It was conceived as a work of three to four volumes that would deal with the complete range of psychoanalytic theory and practice. He intended nothing less than a dialectic revision. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295493

The Revitalized Tutoring CenterA Guide to Transforming School Culture Tapping into the existing resources and staff available within your school The Revitalized Tutoring Center provides an effective strategy to improve instruction and student performance. This practical guide shares the blueprint best practices and resources necessary to create and implement a robust embedded tutoring center. This dynamic peer tutoring model brings together teachers peers and community members in a support network that identifies students in need and facilitates individualized instruction. With a peer tutoring model in place schools are better positioned to initiate and sustain a variety of initiatives such as PLCs RTI formative assessment community partnerships and service learning while creating equitable access and opportunity for all. This book illustrates how instructional leaders can leverage existing resources in a sustainable and cost-effective way to implement a model that ultimately leads to cultural changes innovation and significant academic improvement. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138185104

The Revival of Natural LawPhilosophical Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School Natural law theory has been enjoying a significant revival in recent times. Led by Germain Grisez in the USA and John Finnis in the UK one school of thinkers has been articulating a highly developed system of natural law built upon a sophisticated account of practical reasoning and a rich and flexible understanding of the human good. However long-standing prejudices against old-style natural law among moral philosophers and Protestant ethicists together with the new theory's appropriation by conservatives in the impassioned debate between the Vatican and dissenting theologians in the United States have prevented the Finnis-Grisez version from being adequately appreciated. Providing a clear and substantive introduction to the theory for those who are new to it this book then broadens assesses and advances the debate about it examining crucial philosophical theological and ethical issues and opening up discussion beyond the confines of the Roman Catholic Church. Part 1 on philosophical issues starts with two broad chapters that locate the Grisez school in relation to modern moral philosophy and the Roman Catholic philosophical tradition of Thomism and then follows these with further chapters on two crucial issues: the possibility of consensus on the human good and the nature of moral absolutes. Part 2 on theological dimensions begins with a Lutheran critique of Grisez locates him in relation to the ethics of two very prominent 20th century Protestants Karl Barth and Stanley Hauerwas and then explores the major area of theological controversy within the Roman Catholic community - how to conceive of the "Church's" authority with regard to moral matters. Part 3 subjects the school's thought to critical examination in a broad range of ethical fields: bioethics gender sex and the environment. A concluding chapter then develops eight topics that recur in the course of the book: the status of ethical realism in the contemporary intellectual climate; whether realism is best conceived in rationalist or naturalist terms; whether marriage should be counted as a basic good; whether physical pleasure should not be counted a basic good; whether it is always wrong to act deliberately against a basic good; the problems of moral certainty and authority; the rapproachement between Protestant and Roman Catholic ethics; and finally whether ethical understanding is really independent of one's anthropological point of view. Drawing together North American European and Australian contributors from across moral philosophy and Protestant ethics as well as from Roman Catholic moral theology this book opens up the debate about the Finnis-Grisez theory highlighting its strengths and weaknesses in order to advance current discussion about natural law in moral theology and in moral and legal philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138256712

The Revival of Planetary Astronomy in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe This title was first published in 2002: Before the introduction of Greco-Arabic mathematical astronomy in the 12th century what astronomy was there in the medieval West? While we know of developments in computus which calculated with solar and lunar cycles to create Christian calendars and in monastic time-telling by the stars was anything known of the five planets? Using glosses commentaries and diagrams to the early manuscripts of four classical Latin authors - Pliny Macrobius Martianus Capella and Calcidius - Bruce Eastwood provides evidence for the extensive development of the sixth liberal art astronomy from the time of Charlemagne forward with a particular focus on the diagrams used and invented by Carolingian and later scholars. Learning to understand the motions of planets in terms of spatial or geometrical arrangement they mined these Roman writings for astronomical and cosmological doctrines in the process not only absorbing but also creating models of planetary motions. What they accomplished over three centuries was to establish a basic set of models that showed the reasoned order of the planets in the heavens. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138731929

The Revival of Private Enterprise in China The re-emergence of private enterprises is one of the most important factors in China's recent economic development. They will play a key role in maintaining China's high growth rate and honouring its commitments to the WTO. Despite this they face obstacles to growth including borrowing restrictions high taxes ineffective legal protection and lack of technical and information support. The authors in this book discuss these obstacles and propose measures for improving private enterprise development. They consider how private enterprises can help China mitigate its macroeconomic problems such as unemployment income inequality financial disintermediation and cyclical boom and bust. Finally they examine the lessons to be learnt from other countries in promoting privatization. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553511

The Revival of Right Wing Extremism in the Nineties Most studies of the radical right concentrate on movements in a single country neglecting to some extent the international dimensions of right-wing extremism. Here Merkl and Weinberg adopt a comparative perspective concentrating on the revival of the right across a variety of countries. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315037639

The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian PoliticsThe Deployment of Adat from Colonialism to Indigenism The Indonesian term adat means ‘custom’ or ‘tradition’ and carries connotations of sedate order and harmony. Yet in recent years it has suddenly become associated with activism protest and violence. This book investigates the revival of adat in Indonesian politics identifying its origins the historical factors that have conditioned it and the reasons behind its recent blossoming. It considers whether the adat revival is a constructive contribution to Indonesia’s new political pluralism or a divisive dangerous and reactionary force and examines the implications for the development of democracy human rights civility and political stability. The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian Politics provides detailed coverage of the growing significance of adat in Indonesian politics. It is an important resource for anyone seeking to understand the contemporary Indonesian political landscape. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415542081

The Revolt Against DualismAn Inquiry Concerning the Existence of Ideas The Revolt Against Dualism first published in 1930 belongs to a tradition in philosophical theorizing that Arthur O. Lovejoy called "descriptive epistemology." Lovejoy's principal aim in this book is to clarify the distinction between the quite separate phenomena of the knower and the known something regularly obvious to common sense if not always to intellectual understanding. This work is as much an argument about the ineluctable differences between subject and object and between mentality and reality as it is a subtle polemic against those who would stray far from acknowledging these differences. With a resolve that lasts over three hundred pages Lovejoy offers candid evaluations of a generation's worth of philosophical discussions that address the problem of epistemological dualism.In his stunning new introduction Jonathan B. Imber offers a reassessment of Lovejoy's career as a thinker and as an active participant in the worldly affairs of academic life. He introduces to a new generation of readers some enduring principles of the vocation of the scholar to which Lovejoy not only subscribed but to which he also gave substance through his activities as an academic man. The opening statement provides both a fit tribute to a great pioneer in the history of ideas and an example of intellectual history in its own right. The Revolt Against Dualism will be a significant addition to the libraries of philosophers sociologists and history of ideas scholars. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538207

The Revolt Against the MassesAnd Other Essays on Politics and Public Policy The author of this stunning set of essays on politics and public policy makes crystal clear the meaning of the title. "The revolutionaries of contemporary America do not seek to redistribute privilege from those who have it to those who do not. These radicals wish to arrange a transfer of power from those elites who now exercise it to another elite namely themselves who do not. This aspiring elite is of the same race (white) the same class (upper middle and upper) and the same educational background (the best colleges and universities) as those they wish to displace." Wildavsky's bracing work takes a close look at these elites who probably make up little more than one percent of the population. He sees their common denominator as hostility toward the masses anti-American attitudes derision of authority and a belief in participatory rather than representative politics. The author carries through these themes in a variety of essays on black-white racial relations social work orientations and black militancy the politics of budgetary reform elite and mass trends in the political party system and the substitution of bureaucratic for democratic modes of advancing the policy process. This work is in short vintage Wildavsky: tough minded spirited and plain-spoken political analysis. In his new Introduction Irving Louis Horowitz examines what has changed and what continues to be salient in Wildavsky's line of analysis. Essentially the report card on The Revolt Against the Masses is that the situation described in these essays has changed somewhat in style but hardly at all in substance. The nuclear shield replaces the ABM treaty and Afghanistan replaces Vietnam as centers of political gravity-but the same coalition of forces across party and economy still dominate the American political process. The justifiably famous essay on "The Two Presidencies" shows how persistent is the gap between the conflict over domestic priorities and the consensus on foreign policy-and why. This is in short a classic text that continues to merit careful study by all those interested in political life. Aaron Wildavsky was until his death in 1993 professor of political science and public policy at the University of California in Berkeley. He was also director of its Survey Research Center. He served as director of the Russell-Sage Foundation was a president of the American Political Science Association and held a number of visiting professorships during his lifetime. Most recently Transaction has posthumously published Wildavsky's complete essays and papers in five volumes. Irving Louis Horowitz is Hannah Arendt distinguished university professor emeritus at Rutgers The State University and longtime friend and associate of Aaron Wildavsky. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538214

The Revolt in Hindustan 1857 - 59With Eight Illustrations and Five Maps First published in 1908 Wood creates a recount in this work covers specific events and figures involved in the revolt against the British forces and rule in India during 1857 – 1859. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367181383

The Revolt of SnowballsMurano Confronts Venice 1511 The Revolt of Snowballs unpicks a rare and turbulent event which occurred in 1511 and investigates the meaning behind it. On January 27 1511 the island of Murano was the scene of an exceptional event during which the representative of Venice exercising power in the island on behalf of the Serenissima was hunted by the inhabitants under a shower of snowballs and the sound of a hostile clamour. This book uses microhistory techniques to examine the trial records of the incident and explores the lives of the Murano’s inhabitants at its heart. The book begins by providing a detailed introduction to life in Murano during the sixteenth century including its political framework and the relationship it shared with Venice. Against this context the political skills of Murano’s inhabitants are considered and key questions regarding political action are posed including why and how people chose to protest what sense of justice drove their actions and what form those actions took. The latter half of the book charts the events that followed the revolt of snowballs including the inquest and its impact on Murano’s society. By putting Murano under the microscope The Revolt of Snowballs provides a window into the cultural and political world of early modern Italy and is essential reading for historians of revolt and microhistory more broadly. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138066069

The Revolt of the College Intellectual The exuberant explosions of old college days have traditionally been forgiven as somewhat enviable expressions of the high spirits of exultant youth. Are young intellectuals now the dominant group in many colleges less adolescent and more mature or do their immaturities merely manifest themselves in different ways? As intellectual individualists students do not usually care for group explosions unless they are for social causes such as the rights of minorities. But their adolescence often manifests itself individually in a superior condescension or in depressive inferiority complexes.This book is a fascinating account of the changes that have taken place in the backgrounds attitudes and temperaments of students at the so-called prestige colleges. Though Everett Lee Hunt draws heavily upon his observations and experiences during more than thirty years as a dean and professor of Swarthmore College his book is much more than a case study of one outstanding college. Hunt presents many concrete examples of student moods customs actions and expressions of values. With wisdom and warmth he discusses three successive eras in the college schooling of American adolescents: guarded education conformity to accepted ways and intellectual individualism.Teachers deans student counselors personnel workers and school psychologists and psychiatrists will find this classic book of continuing interest in guiding their dealings with adolescent students. The Revolt of the College Intellectual may also interest students themselves their parents alumni and all who are in anyway concerned with education as a preparation for life in a rapidly changing and troubled world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538221

The Revolt of the PrimitiveAn Inquiry into the Roots of Political Correctness The Revolt of the Primitive explores the psychological dynamics of political correctness and gender warfare. Author Howard Schwartz argues that perceptions of men as abusers sexual predators and deadbeat dads have become firmly entrenched in our culture due to fantasy rather than solid objective facts. This volume delves into the psychological forces that have given rise to these ideas and reveals the hard facts about men and women in our society.Schwartz illustrates how feminists have taken the most vulgar stereotype of men and pronounced it a universal and inviolable cultural norm. He then examines his thesis in the context of work and the work organization discussing how the feminization of the workplace has been driven by the archetypal need to remake it into a maternal world banishing the limitations that shape survival and progress. He examines the traditional sexual division of labor and its alleged oppressive nature. He also discusses the psychological forces that drive the idea of placing women in combat roles in the military.Howard S. Schwartz is a professor of organizational behavior in the School of Business Administration at Oakland University in Rochester Michigan and is one of the founders of the International Society for Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538238

The Revolting SelfPerspectives on the Psychological Social and Clinical Implications of Self-Directed Disgust This book looks at the phenomenon of self-directed disgust and examines the role of self-disgust in relation to psychological experiences and potential ensuing psychopathology and to physical functioning such as disability chronic physical health and sexual dysfunction. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782200086

The Revolution in Anthropology Ils 69 Professor Jarvie examines the nature of the revolution in social anthropology in order to investigate its results. Working within Karl Popper's radical view of the nature of science he argues that the subject is one of the oldest and most fundamental of all studies and suggests it can easily be traced back to Plato and Aristotle not merely as a matter of historical curiosity but as having fruitful results for the understanding of Malinowski and the revolution. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203709078

The Revolution in German Theatre 1900-1933 (Routledge Revivals) First published in 1981 this book represents the first work in English to give a comprehensive account of the revolutionary developments in German theatre from the decline of Naturalism through the Expressionist upheaval to the political theatre of Piscator and Brecht. Early productions of Kaiser’s From Morning till Midnight and Toller’s Transfiguration are presented as examples of Expressionism. A thorough analysis of Piscator’s Hoppla Such is Life! And Brecht’s Man show the similarities and differences in political theatre. In addition elements of stage-craft are examined — illustrated with tabulated information an extensive chronology and photographs and designs of productions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138658530

The Revolution in International RelationsA Study in the Changing Balance of Power Published in 1965: The study examines the changing structure and pattern of international relations in a world wide context. Defining balance of power in a dynamic sense akin to that of a "moving equilibrium". Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367206246

The Revolution in Science 1500 - 1750 The ‘revolution in science’ of this book concerns the natural sciences that is knowledge of the external world which we now presume to exist independently of man. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138158672

The Revolution in Strategic Affairs Rapid developments in information technology and precision weaponry are said to herald a 'revolution in military affairs' (RMA) making possible quick and decisive victories with minimal casualties and collateral damage. But has such a revolution taken place? The issues that drive conflict will persist and many of the technical advances associated with the RMA will not necessarily produce a transformation in the nature of warfare. The end of the Cold War has highlighted another revolution one in political affairs. Major powers appear less likely to go to war with one another than they are to intervene in conflicts involving weak states with potential opponents including militia groups drug cartels and terrorists. RMA technology may be less suited to conflicts such as these. If the cumulative effect of these changes has produced a revolution it is a revolution in strategic as much as military affairs. This paper argues that: the RMA is the practical expression of a 'Western Way of Warfare' the key features of which are: professional armed forces; intolerance of casualties; and intolerance of collateral damage the key technological and conceptual components of the RMA were in place by the early 1970s. The trend has therefore been evolutionary rather than revolutionary. The significant difference is in the new political setting of the end of the Cold War and the revolution in perceptions of Western particularly US conventional military strength brought about by the Gulf War of 1991 the Gulf conflict could mark the start of a true 'revolution' if future battles offer similar opportunities to exploit the RMA's technology. However since the US and its allies appear unbeatable when fighting on their own terms future opponents will fight differently the West will therefore face opponents who will follow strategies that contradict the Western Way of Warfare. They will avoid pitched battles will exploit the West's reluctance to inflict civilian suffering and will target their opponent's domestic political base as much as its forward troops. The problem for the West is not how to prevail but how to do so in an acceptable manner. The more warfare becomes entwined with civilian activity the more difficult it is to respond with the type of decisive and overwhelming military means embodied in the RMA. The RMA does not create a situation in which information is the only commodity at stake and so does not offer the prospect of a 'virtual war'. The new circumstances and capabilities do not prescribe one strategy but extend the range of strategies available. The issue underlying the RMA is the ability of Western countries in particular the US to follow a line geared to their own interests and capabilities. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315000886

The Revolution in Transmedia Storytelling through PlacePervasive Ambient and Situated This book proposes that the theory and practice of transmedia storytelling must be re-considered from a social impact and community development perspective and that time has come for a rigorous critique of the limited ways in which it has been commonly represented. Transmedia storytelling has become one of the most influential and profitable innovations in the field of media and entertainment. It has changed the ways audiences interact with films television and web series advertising gaming and book publishing. It has also shifted the practices around creation and dissemination of such content. This book asserts that the futures of transmedia storytelling for social impact or change are deeply tied to understandings of place grounded in human geography. Through a series of case studies of projects which challenge the status quo of transmedia this book explores the elements of transmedia that can be used to amplify under-represented voices and make stories that signal a more inclusive and sustainable future. This book offers a valuable contribution to the literature in the areas of transmedia storytelling narratology digital fiction electronic literature locative storytelling performative writing digital culture studies and human geography. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367222383

The Revolution in Words First published in 1990. The revolution is one of the most radical periodicals of the Western women's movement. Though it only lasted a few years it drew considerable attention to the courage and eloquence of its editors and contributors. The volume presents a wide range of exerpts from the periodical evoking the undeminished power of these women's voices Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203708934

The Revolution Wasn't TelevisedSixties Television and Social Conflict Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions The Revolution Wasn't Televised explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television became a ubiquitous element in American homes. The contributors in this volume argue that due to TV's constant presence in everyday life it became the object of intense debates over childraising education racism gender technology politics violence and Vietnam. These essays explore the minutia of TV in relation to the macro-structure of sixties politics and society attempting to understand the struggles that took place over representation the nation's most popular communications media during the 1960s. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203700426

The Revolutionary AsceticEvolution of a Political Type Why have the great revolutionary leaders of modern times—from Robespierre to Lenin and Mao Tse-tung—so often been ascetics austere "puritans" with few emotional ties? What functions political as well as personal do these ascetic traits perform for the modern revolutionary leader and for his followers?Noted historian and author Bruce Mazlish is convinced that beginning in the nineteenth century the needs of modernizing revolutions have produced a distinct new type of political leader the revolutionary ascetic. This individual's denial of personal pleasures and commitments both enables him to perform politically necessary if personally repulsive revolutionary acts and to command the allegiance of his more worldly followers.Starting with Cromwell and the religious ascetics of the Puritan Revolution Mazlish shows in a series of fascinating personality sketches how this asceticism first became secularized with the French Revolution and then in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was put to the service of a new kind of "total" modernizing revolution in Russia China and elsewhere. In two remarkably vivid portraits of Lenin and Mao Tse-tung Mazlish shows us precisely how two of the century's best-known revolutionaries consciously and unconsciously used their personal asceticism to induce revolutionary change. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412852982

The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian PoliticsElites and Shifting Relations The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been dubbed the ‘kingmaker’ in recent studies of Iranian politics precipitating heated debates surrounding the potential militarization of the Iranian regime and giving rise to paradoxical understandings of the IRGC; whether as a military institution entering politics or a political institution with a military history. Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics offers a way out of this paradox by showing that the IRGC is not a recently politicized institution but has instead been highly politicized since its inception. It identifies the ways in which the IRGC relates to national political dynamics examines the factors contributing to this relationship and its implications on Iranian politics from the revolution up to the present day. The book examines the three decades following the revolution uncovering the reasons behind the rise of the Revolutionary Guards and tracking the organization’s evolving relationship with politics. Establishing a theoretical framework from revolution and civil-military relations theories this book provides new perspectives on the relationship between the IRGC and Iranian politics. This book would be of interest to students and scholars of Middle East Studies and Iranian Studies in particular Iranian Politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815357926

The Rexall StoryA History of Genius and Neglect In the second half of the twentieth century 20 percent (10 000) of all retail druggists were Rexall druggists. Now there are none and this book explains why! The Rexall Story: A History of Genius and Neglect shows how a brilliant and successful business/pharmacy venture was allowed to fail through carelessness and an inattention to the original formula of the company. From the celebrated genius of Louis Liggett—who started United Drug in 1903—to the business’s demise nearly 75 years later this significant text will provide you with new insight into the pharmacy industry. With The Rexall Story pharmacists pharmacy and business educators and historians alike can see how Louis Liggett single-handedly transformed the retail drug business using innovative business practices and policies. Author Mickey C. Smith editor of the Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Economics and principal author and editor of the seminal book Pharmaceutical Marketing: Principles Environment and Practices uses his expertise to explain how Louis Liggett’s techniques were so successful in the industry. This book explores in detail his communication and merchandising skills his principles in doing business and his revolutionary techniques for keep his business prosperous. Using internal documents photographs and direct quotes from radio promotions and the recollections of former Rexall employees this book chronicles Rexall’s story including: the beginnings of Rexall—its origins and expansion International Rexall Clubs and the unparalleled efforts of Liggett and his franchisees the “Dear Pardner” letters (1903-1923)—unprecedented in “Big Business” even today these were personal letters between Liggett and his people the Rexall “family”—conversations and correspondence with former “Rexallites ” capturing how the ret Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367393731

The RF and Microwave Handbook - 3 Volume Set By 1990 the wireless revolution had begun. In late 2000 Mike Golio gave the world a significant tool to use in this revolution: The RF and Microwave Handbook. Since then wireless technology spread across the globe with unprecedented speed fueled by 3G and 4G mobile technology and the proliferation of wireless LANs. Updated to reflect this tremendous growth the second edition of this widely embraced bestselling handbook divides its coverage conveniently into a set of three books each focused on a particular aspect of the technology. Six new chapters cover WiMAX broadband cable bit error ratio (BER) testing high-power PAs (power amplifiers) heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) as well as an overview of microwave engineering. Over 100 contributors with diverse backgrounds in academic industrial government manufacturing design and research reflect the breadth and depth of the field. This eclectic mix of contributors ensures that the coverage balances fundamental technical issues with the important business and marketing constraints that define commercial RF and microwave engineering. Focused chapters filled with formulas charts graphs diagrams and tables make the information easy to locate and apply to practical cases. The new format three tightly focused volumes provides not only increased information but also ease of use. You can find the information you need quickly without wading through material you don’t immediately need giving you access to the caliber of data you have come to expect in a much more user-friendly format. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781315217703

The RF Transmission Systems Handbook Although it is one of the oldest sectors of electronics and now somewhat taken for granted radio frequency transmission literally changed our world. Today it is still the backbone of myriad applications from broadcasting to electronic counter-measures. The wide variety of hardware in use means that those working in the field must be familiar with a multitude of principles and applications but finding an up-to-date comprehensive source for this background material has been difficult if not impossible.The RF Transmission Systems Handbook addresses the underlying concepts operation and maintenance of high-power RF devices transmission lines and antennas for broadcast scientific and industrial use. Focusing on devices and systems that produce more than one kilowatt of output power the handbook explores the following major topics:Applications: The common uses of radio frequency energyFundamental principles: The basic technologies concepts and techniques used in RF transmissionPower vacuum devices: The principles and applications of gridded vacuum tubes and microwave power devicesSolid-state power devices: The operating parameters of semiconductor-based power devicesRF components and transmission lines: The operation of hardware used to combine and conduct RF powerAntenna systems: The different types of antennas and their basic operating parametersTroubleshooting: Basic troubleshooting techniques and the operation of important test instrumentsContrary to the perceptions of many RF technology remains a dynamic field that continues to advance to higher power levels and higher frequencies. Those who specify install and maintain RF equipment will welcome this reference that uniquely serves their needs. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781315220130

The Rhaeto-Romance Languages The Rhaeto-Romance languages have been known as such to the linguistic community since the pioneering studies of Ascoli and Gartner over a century ago. There has never been a community of RR speakers based on a common history or polity and the various dialects are mutually unintelligible but a unity based on a number of common features has been advanced. This book is the first general description of the Rhaeto-Romance languages to be written in English. It provides a critical examination of the phonology morphology lexicon and syntax of the modern Rhaeto-Romance dialects within the broader perspective of Romance comparative linguistics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138868427

The Rhetoric of EmotionsA Dramatistic Exploration Kenneth Burke founder of the critical method of dramatism believed that motives and attitudes are constantly generated by individuals as they encounter social situations and material objects in the course of their everyday lives. In The Rhetoric of Emotions Robert Perinbanayagam proposes that by analysing individuals' experiences especially through their interaction with creative outlets we can come to a deeper understanding of how the human mind systematically approaches the emotive process.The author maintains that individuals use spoken language and all other forms of symbolism including art and literature to elicit social cooperation and emotional understanding both in regard to the world around them and within themselves. Rhetoric and culture are mechanisms for managing values behaviour and emotions. In order to ground this philosophical viewpoint Perinbanayagam strategically discusses famous novels and paintings to show how individuals construct emotional responses to the rhetorical objects at their disposal.In addition to the ideas of Burke and George Herbert Mead the ideas of Max Weber Georg Simmel Charles Sanders Peirce Edmund Husserl Alfred Schutz and Erving Goffman are also reflected in this provocative analysis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412863964

The Rhetoric of FoodDiscourse Materiality and Power This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice including politics culture lifestyle identity advertising environment and economy. The essays visit a rich variety of dominant discourses and material practices through a range of media channels and settings including the White House social movement rhetoric televisual programming urban gardens farmers markets domestic and international agriculture institutions and popular culture. Rhetoricians address the cultural political and ecological motives and consequences of humans’ strategic symbolizing and attendant choice-making visiting discourses and practices that have impact on our species in their producing distributing regulating marketing packaging consuming and talking about food. The essays in this book are representative of dominant and marginal discourses as well as perennial issues surrounding the rhetoric of food and include macro- meso- and micro-level analyses and case studies from international neoliberal trade policies to media and social movement discourse to small group and interactional dynamics. This volume provides an excellent range and critical illumination of rhetoric’s role as both instrumental and constitutive force in food representations and its symbolic and material effects. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415727563

The Rhetoric of Intellectual PropertyCopyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities. The impact of digital recording technologies and distributed file sharing systems has forever changed the expectations of everyday users with regard to digital information. At the same time however U.S. Copyright Law has shown a decided trend toward more restrictions over what we are able to do with digital materials. As a result a gap has emerged between the reality of copyright law and the social reality of our everyday activities. Through an analysis of the competing rhetorical frameworks about copyright regulation in a digital age this book shows how the stories told by active parties in the debate shape our cultural understanding of what is and is not acceptable in the use of copyrighted works on digital networks. Reyman posits recent legal developments as sites of conflict between competing value systems in our culture: one of control relying heavily on comparisons of intellectual property to physical property and emphasizing ownership theft and piracy and the other a value of community implementing new concepts such as that of an intellectual "commons " and emphasizing exchange collaboration and responsibility to a public good. Reyman argues that the rhetoric of the digital copyright debate namely the rhetorical positioning of technology as destructive to creative and intellectual production has profound implications for the future of digital culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415636445

The Rhetoric of Oil in the Twenty-First CenturyGovernment Corporate and Activist Discourses This book examines mass communication and civic participation in the age of oil analyzing the rhetorical and discursive ways that governments and corporations shape public opinion and public policy and activists attempt to reframe public debates to resist corporate framing. In the twenty-first century oil has become a subject of civic deliberation. Environmental concerns have intensified questions of indigenous rights have arisen and private and public investment in energy companies has become open to deliberation. International contributors use local events as a starting point to explore larger issues associated with oil-dependent societies and cultures. This interdisciplinary collection synthesizes work in the energy humanities rhetorical studies and environmental studies to analyze the global discourse of oil from the start of the twentieth century into the era of transnational corporations of the 21st century. This book will be a vital text for scholars in communication studies the energy humanities and in environmental studies. Case studies are framed accessibly and the theoretical lenses are accessible across disciplines making it ideal for a post-graduate and advanced undergraduate audience in these fields. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138484375

The Rhetoric of Racist HumourUS UK and Global Race Joking In today's multicultural and multireligious societies humour and comedy often become the focus of controversy over alleged racist or offensive content as shown for instance by the intense debate of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters Ali G and Borat and the Prophet Muhammad cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Despite these intense debates commentary on humour in the academy lacks a clear way of connecting the serious and the humorous and a clear way of accounting for the serious impact of comic language. The absence of a developed 'serious' vocabulary with which to judge the humorous tends to encourage polarized debates which fail to account for the paradoxes of humour. This book draws on the social theory of Zygmunt Baumann to examine the linguistic structure of humour arguing that as a form of language similar to metaphor it is both unstable and unpredictable and structurally prone to act rhetorically; that is to be convincing. Deconstructing the dominant form of racism aimed at black people in the US and that aimed at Asians in the UK The Rhetoric of Racist Humour shows how racist humour expresses and supports racial stereotypes in the US and UK while also exploring the forms of resistance presented by the humour of Black and Asian comedians to such stereotypes. An engaging exploration of modern late modern and fluid or postmodern forms of humour this book will be of interest to sociologists and scholars of cultural and media studies as well as those working in the fields of race and ethnicity humour and cultural theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138624665

The Rhetoric of Social MovementsNetworks Power and New Media This collection provides an accessible yet rigorous survey of the rhetorical study of historical and contemporary social movements and promotes the study of relations between strategy symbolic action and social assemblage. Offering a comprehensive collection of the latest research in the field The Rhetoric of Social Movements: Networks Power and New Media suggests a framework for the study of social movements grounded in a methodology of "slow inquiry" and the interconnectedness of these imminent phenomena. Chapters address the rhetorical tactics that social movements use to gain attention and challenge power; the centrality of traditional and new media in social movements; the operations of power in movement organization leadership and local and global networking; and emerging contents and environments for social movements in the twenty-first century. Each chapter is framed by case studies (drawn from movements across the world ranging from Black Lives Matter and Occupy to Greek anarchism and indigenous land protests) that ground conceptual characteristics of social movements in their continuously unfolding reality furnishing readers with both practical and theoretical insights. The Rhetoric of Social Movements will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of rhetoric communication media studies cultural studies social protest and activism and political science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367523862

The Rhetoric of the RightLanguage Change and the Spread of the Market This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift. In this rigorous analysis David George uses as his data a century of word usage within The New York Times starting in 1900. It is not always obvious how the changes identified necessarily reflect a stronger prejudice toward laissez-faire free market capitalism and so much of the book seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which the changing language indeed carries with it a political message. This analysis is made through exploration of five major areas of focus: "economics rhetoric" scholarship and the growing "behavioral economics" school of thought; the discourse of government and taxation; the changing meaning of "competition " and "competitive"; changing attitudes toward labor; and the celebration of growth relative to the decline in attention to economic justice and social equality. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138791497

The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied PracticeProcedural Habits The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice offers a critical reassessment of embodiment and materiality in rhetorical considerations of videogames. Holmes argues that rhetorical and philosophical conceptions of "habit" offer a critical resource for describing the interplay between thinking (writing and rhetoric) and embodiment. The book demonstrates how Aristotle's understanding of character (ethos) habit (hexis) and nature (phusis) can productively connect rhetoric to what Holmes calls "procedural habits": the ways in which rhetoric emerges from its interactions with the dynamic accumulation of conscious and nonconscious embodied experiences that consequently give rise to meaning procedural subjectivity control and communicative agency both in digital game design discourse and the activity of play. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367890902

The Rhetorical WordProtestant Theology and the Rhetoric of Authority This title was first published in 2003:This book offers a bold reading of Protestant tradition from a rhetorical and literary perspective. Arguing that Protestant thought is based in a rhetorical performance of authority Hobson draws on a wide range of modern and postmodern thought to defend this account of rhetorical authority from various charges of authoritarianism. With close readings of Augustine Luther Kierkegaard and Barth this book develops a new 'rhetorical theology of the Word' and also a new critique of secular modernity with particular reference to modern literature and the thought of Nietzsche. Confronting the related issues of rhetoric and authority Hobson provides a provocative account of modern theology which offers new perspectives on theology's relationship to literature and postmodern thought. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138736658

The Rhetorics of FeminismReadings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press Is it possible that changes in rhetorical practice could alter not just how thought is expressed but also how it is made? Through a close stylistic and rhetorical analysis of contemporary feminist writing - from the cultural theory of Judith Butler to the popular journalism of Naomi Wolf and Germaine Greer - Lynne Pearce demonstrates how feminist thought is created as well as communicated through the frameworks in which it is presented. By linking rhetorical innovation with feminist epistemology in such a direct way this is a book that will be of immense methodological as well as theoretical interest to readers providing valuable insight into the often mysterious processes of conception and composition. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203603697

The Rhine and European Security in the Long Nineteenth CenturyMaking Lifelines from Frontlines Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine’s (CCNR) efforts to secure the principle of freedom of navigation on Europe’s prime river. The book explores how the most fundamental change in the history of international river governance arose from European security concerns. It examines how the CCNR functioned as an ongoing experiment in reconciling national and common interests that contributed to the emergence of European prosperity in the course of the long nineteenth century. In so doing it shows that modern conceptions and practices of security cannot be understood without accounting for prosperity considerations and prosperity policies. Incorporating research from archives in Great Britain Germany and the Netherlands as well as the recently opened CCNR archives in France this study operationalises a truly transnational perspective that effectively opens the black box of the oldest and still existing international organisation in the world in its first centenary. In showing how security-prosperity considerations were a driving force in the unfolding of Europe’s prime river in the nineteenth century it is of interest to scholars of politics and history including the history of international relations European history transnational history and the history of security as well as those with an interest in current themes and debates about transboundary water governance. The Open Access version of this book available at www.taylorfrancis.com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367345761

The RhizosphereBiochemistry and Organic Substances at the Soil-Plant Interface Second Edition In the rhizosphere exudates from plants and microorganisms as well as stable soil organic matter influence processes that can control plant growth microbial infections and nutrient uptake. As the chemistry and biochemistry of these substances becomes more and more clear their study promises to shed light on the complex interactions between plant and soil microflora. Maintaining the interdisciplinary approach of the first edition The Rhizosphere: Biochemistry and Organic Substances at the Soil-Plant Interface Second Edition summarizes information on soil science agronomy plant nutrition plant physiology microbiology and biochemistry to provide a comprehensive and updated overview of the most recent advances in the field. Revised and expanded the second edition presents new information on areas that are only recently gaining importance for understanding the complex biochemistry of the soil-microbe-plant interaction. New topics include the role of nutrient availability in regulating root morphology and architecture the involvement of root membrane activities in determining and responding to the nutritional conditions in the rhizosphere molecular signals between root-root and root-microbe and gene flow and the evolution of rhizosphere organisms and their coevolution with plants. The book also covers mathematical modeling and methodological approaches to the study of the rhizosphere. Information in all chapters derives from a molecular approach which contributes to a better understanding of the biochemical processes occurring at the plant-soil interface. Drawing on the expertise of pioneers in the field The Rhizosphere: Biochemistry and Organic Substances at the Soil-Plant Interface Second Edition contributes to the vigorous interchange between rhizosphere biochemistry and molecular biology to provide the most current information and stimulate further interest and research on this fascinating topic. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367389123

The Rhythm of Business The Rhythm of Business identifies and describes the natural development process which all successful business people use intuitively when starting and running a business. Once you understand The Rhythm of Business you will never feel lost or out of sync no matter what business you are in because The Rhythm of Business incorporates a process with concrete steps to attain business success applicable for any business. A lot of business books deal in `tips.' This book deals with the most fundamental principles in business. Fundamental principles might not sound interesting to someone who is trained to think in terms of the practicalities of daily business life but in fact The Rhythm of Business is the most practical down-to-earth business book you will ever read!Jeffrey C. Shuman has crafted a unique career as an entrepreneur consultant business professor and author. He is considered a leading expert in the emerging field of entrepreneurial studies. His courses in entrepreneurship at Bentley College tap state-of-the-art knowledge about business creation. His writings include dozens of articles and a book on entrepreneurs and the business creation process. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138140776

The Rhythm Of Everyday LifeHow Soviet And American Citizens Use Time This book describes an important advance in international social science research—the first cooperative survey of representative samples of the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It identifies changes in the time-use patterns of both cities during the last two decades. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295509

The Rhythms of English Poetry Examines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in any language: the natural rhythm of the spoken language itself; the properties of rhythmic form; and the metrical conventions which have grown up within the literary tradition. He investigates these in order to explain the forms of English verse and to show how rhythm and metre work as an essential part of the reader's experience of poetry. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315835983

The Rice CrisisMarkets Policies and Food Security The recent escalation of world food prices â€“ particularly for cereals - prompted mass public indignation and demonstrations in many countries from the price of tortilla flour in Mexico to that of rice in the Philippines and pasta in Italy. The crisis has important implications for future government trade and food security policies as countries re-evaluate their reliance on potentially more volatile world markets to augment domestic supplies of staple foods. This book examines how government policies caused and responded to soaring world prices in the particular case of rice which is the world's most important source of calories for the poor. Comparable case studies of policy reactions in different countries principally across Asia but also including the USA provide the understanding necessary to evaluate the impact of trade policy on the food security of poor farmers and consumers. They also provide important insights into the concerns of developing countries that are relevant for future international trade negotiations in key agricultural commodities. As a result more appropriate policies can be put in place to ensure more stable food supplies in the future. Published with the Food and Agriculture (FAO) Organization of the United Nations Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781849776684

The Rice Economy of Asia To millions of people in the world rice is the centre of existence especially in Asia where more than 90 percent of the world's rice is grown. This book is about the trends and changes that have occurred in the Asian rice economy since World War II but particularly since the introduction of new varieties of rice and modern technology in the mid-1960s. Although there is now a vast amount of literature and statistical data on various aspects of the subject no single comprehensive treatment has previously been prepared. The Rice Economy of Asia not only provides such a treatment but also presents a clear picture of some of the critical issues dealing with productivity and equity --- as a glance at the table of contents will show. In addition to 18 chapters there are an extensive bibliography 150 tables and 50 charts. The volume as a whole should be interesting and useful to decision makers at national and international levels to professionals and to students of development. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138471962

The Rich The Poor And The Taxes They Pay This book presents a selection of essays on public finance which is concerned with taxation income maintenance and social security with emphasis on the analysis of policy alternatives to improve tax and transfer systems. It is useful for those who are interested in learning tax policy issues. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295523

The Rich And The PoorDevelopment Negotiations And Cooperation--an Assessment This book is about proceedings from the Third World to the South-South Conference held in Beijing in April 1983 on strategies of development negotiations and cooperation pursued by developing countries in the last thirty years. It discusses the principal elements in the global economic crisis. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780429314261

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get PrisonA Reader (2-downloads) This book shows students that much that goes on in the criminal justice system violates their own sense of basic fairness presents evidence that the system malfunctions and sketches a whole theoretical perspective from which they might understand the failures and evaluate them morally. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315662848

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get PrisonThinking Critically About Class and Criminal Justice For 40 years this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren’t the tools of the criminal justice system being used to protect Americans from predatory business practices and to punish well-off people who cause widespread harm? This new edition continues to engage readers in important exercises of critical thinking: Why has the U.S. relied so heavily on tough crime policies despite evidence of their limited effectiveness and how much of the decline in crime rates can be attributed to them? Why does the U.S. have such a high crime rate compared to other developed nations and what could we do about it? Are the morally blameworthy harms of the rich and poor equally translated into criminal laws that protect the public from harms on the streets and harms from the suites? How much class bias is present in the criminal justice system – both when the rich and poor engage in the same act and when the rich use their leadership of corporations to perpetrate mass victimization? The Rich Get Richer shows readers that much of what goes on in the criminal justice system violates citizens’ sense of basic fairness. It presents extensive evidence from mainstream data that the criminal justice system does not function in the way it says it does nor in the way that readers believe it should. The authors develop a theoretical perspective from which readers might understand these failures and evaluate them morally—and they to do it in a short text written in plain language. Readers who are not convinced about the larger theoretical perspective will still have engaged in extensive critical thinking to identify their own taken-for-granted assumptions about crime and criminal justice as well as uncover the effects of power on social practices. This engagement helps readers develop their own worldview. New to this edition: Presents recent data comparing the harms due to criminal activity with the harms of dangerous—but not criminal—corporate actions Updates statistics on crime victimization incarceration wealth and discrimination Increased material for thinking critically about criminal justice and criminology Increased discussion of the criminality of middle- and upper-class youth Increased coverage of role of criminal justice fines and fees in generating revenue for government and how algorithms reproduce class bias while seeming objective Streamlined and condensed prose for greater clarity Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367231798

The Rich World and the Impoverishment of EducationDiminishing Democracy Equity and Workers' Rights Advancing a powerful critique of neoliberalized education in many of the rich countries of the world (USA Canada Finland Greece Israel Japan England and Wales and others) the chapters in this book written by an international array of acclaimed and emerging radical educators and policy analysts critically examine and evaluate: What neoliberal changes have taken place (e.g. privatization vouchers charter schools weakening of democratic control of schools setting up markets in schools and retreating from the comprehensive school principle commercialization of education new public managerialism in education)? What are the impacts of these changes on access and equal opportunities on democracy and critical thinking and on the rights pay and conditions of teachers and ancillary/support staff? Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415507097

The Richard & Judy Book Club ReaderPopular Texts and the Practices of Reading In January 2004 daytime television presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan launched their book club and sparked debate about the way people in Britain from the general reader to publishers to the literati thought about books and reading. The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader brings together historians of the book literature scholars and specialists in media and cultural studies to examine the effect of the club on reading practices and the publishing and promotion of books. Beginning with an analysis of the book club's history and its ongoing development in relation to other reading groups worldwide including Oprah's the editors consider issues of book marketing and genre. Further chapters explore the effects of the mass-broadcast celebrity book club on society literature and its marketing and popular culture. Contributors ask how readers discuss books judge value and make choices. The collection addresses questions of authorship authority and canon in texts connected by theme or genre including the postcolonial exotic disability and representations of the body food books and domesticity. In addition book club author Andrew Smith shares his experiences in a fascinating interview. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138379626

The Riddle of FreudJewish Influences on his Theory of Female Sexuality In The Riddle of Freud Estelle Roith argues that certain important elements of Judaic culture were so integral a part of Freud's personality that they became visible in his work and especially in his attitudes to and theories of femininity. Freud's formulation of femininity which the author contends is mistaken is seen not as a simple error but as resulting from a complex bias in which personal and social factors are interrelated. The author proposes that the considerable ambivalence experienced by Freud about his sexual cultural and social identity in which both overt and covert aspects of his Jewish culture survived could not be surmounted by him in the case of women. Estelle Roith describes Freud's theory of femininity and its implications for psychoanalytic theories of human development and motivation in general. She examines Freud's relationships with his women disciples and also the social and political conditions that obtained for Jews of Freud's time. Finally her book helps illuminate the reasons for Freud's emphasis on the paternal power within the Oedipus complex. It is essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists for students of women's issues and all those interested in Freud's impact on contemporary Western thought. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138181267

The Rift in IsraelReligious Authority and Secular Democracy The subject matter of this book first published in 1971 is not less relevant though less familiar than the military adventures of Israel. For the book deals with the spiritual tensions that underlie and go far to explain the conduct of the country standing as it does at the heart of some of the world’s most dangerous political conflicts. The superpowers confront at its borders. So do the ‘modern’ West and the force of Arab nationalism. It is the focus too of anti-Semitism with its potential threat to the future of all Jews and of world peace. The questions here examined are rooted in the nature of Judaism and in the two distinct urges – religious and nationalist – that created Israel. Within its tiny territory some of mankind’s most urgent spiritual problems appear at their most intense. What do men live for: for themselves their country higher values? How these tensions are resolved will affect both the conduct of Israel with its effects on the fortunes of all nations and the thoughts of men everywhere about their own and their countries’ deeper problems. One section of the book deals with the institutions and policies of Israel as expressions of its inner spirit: the kibbutz the army the ingathering of exiles the attitudes to Arabs within and beyond the frontiers relations with world Jewry. Two final chapters describe and analyse the perennial problem of Jewish identity seen in the light of the actions of a modern state. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138902367

The Right ChoiceUsing Theory of Constraints for Effective Leadership The need for competent leadership remains one of the most pressing issues facing organizations. Introducing a powerful technique to help readers become better decision makers The Right Choice: Using Theory of Constraints for Effective Leadership supplies the understanding required to manage effectively well into the future through the use of the coaching cycle and the reflection process. Using case studies the book explains how to create a leadership culture at the organizational team and individual levels through the development of the flight crew as well as how to link that to effective strategies and tactics in leading the organization forward. The case studies illustrate what leaders have actually done what they’ve struggled with and the importance of understanding causal relationships. Emphasizing the importance of consequences when making choices the book reflects the author's vast experience with companies across a range of industries. It explains how to resolve conflicts and restore relationships through the use of time-tested tools in particular the cloud technique from the Theory of Constraints Thinking Processes. The book details a practical methodology that you can use in various situations. Through the use of the coaching cycle and the coaching quadrant it provides a solid platform for any leader wishing to take their organization forward. The tools and methods described in this book will help you become a leader who engages with the people in your organization and allows them to choose to engage rather than be forced. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781439886212

The Right in Latin AmericaElite Power Hegemony and the Struggle for the State Most current analysis on Latin American politics has been directed at examining the shift to the left in the region. Very little attention however has been paid to the reactions of the right to this phenomenon. What kind of discursive policy and strategic responses have emerged among the right in Latin America as a result of this historic turn to the left? Have there been any shifts in attitudes to inequality and poverty as a result of the successes of the left in those areas? How has the right responded strategically to regain the political initiative from the left? And what implications might such responses have for democracy in the region? The Right in Latin America seeks to provide answers to these questions while helping to fill a gap in the literature on contemporary Latin American politics. Unlike previous studies Barry Cannon’s book does not simply concentrate on party political responses to the contemporary challenges for the right in the region. Rather he uses a wider more comprehensive theoretical framework grounded in political sociology in recognition of the deep social roots of the right among Latin America’s elites in a region known for its startling inequalities. Using Michael Mann’s pioneering work on power he shows how elite dominance in the key areas of the economy ideology the military and in transnational relations has had a profound influence on the political strategies of the Latin American right. He shows how left governments especially the more radical ones have threatened elite power in these areas influencing right-wing strategic responses as a result. These responses he persuasively argues can vary from elections through street protests and media campaigns to military coups depending on the level of perceived threat felt by elites from the left. In this way Cannon uncovers the dialectical nature of the left/right relationship in contemporary Latin American politics while simultaneously providing pointers as to how the left can respond to the challenge of the right’s resurgence in the current context of left retrenchment. Cannon’s multi-faceted inter-disciplinary approach including original research among right-leaning actors in the region makes the book an essential reference not only for those interested in the contemporary Latin American right but for anyone interested in the region’s politics at a critical juncture in its history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415840705

The Right LightMatching Technologies to Needs and Applications With so many new lighting technologies available for a wide range of visual environments how do you choose the options that best address the needs and improve the quality of life for various groups? Focusing on applications and everyday use of light sources The Right Light: Matching Technologies to Needs and Applications provides a comprehensive explanation of all light sources to be used as a guide to choosing the right lighting technology. The book supplies a quick overview of the main characteristics of the existing technologies in the market and suggestions for appropriate technologies for a range of applications from health related issues to safety and security. The author characterizes different lamp technologies based on the large number of parameters required when choosing a light source. He makes suggestions based mainly on the qualities of the light such as color/wavelength of the light color rendering index of the source and in the case of white light the color temperature. Other parameters such as the luminous flux or the lifetime may play a role in some cases. From the improvement of the quality of life of people in their working and living spaces to road safety or treatment of medical conditions and from managing cancer rates to improving the lives of vision impaired people the correct choice of light sources and the appropriate lighting design can indeed make the difference between comfortable and problematic everyday life or indeed life and death. Whether you design work spaces public spaces or living spaces this book examines the different technologies and their properties in a way that allows you to find the correct lighting solutions and light related answers for any space. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138075863

The Right MeasuresThe Story of a Company’s Journey to Find the True Indicators of Its Success and Values Organizational measures are the foundational building blocks that shape an organization’s vision and action. All too often however these measures do not receive the attention they deserve. In addition it is common for organizations to overact and measure too much resulting in the same results as when you don’t measure at all—a lack of understanding focus and direction.The Right Measures: The Story of a Company’s Journey to Find the True Indicators of Its Success and Values uses a compelling story to explain how using the right measures can make all the difference between success and failure in your organization. It follows the story of two companies—one that measures in great detail yet its overall goals and objectives are not being achieved. While the other uses a much simpler yet effective measurement structure that integrates cultural acceptance individual performance and team performance with key performance indicators (KPIs). Defines organizational measures and explains why companies use them Explains what different companies measure and how those measurements reflect organizational values Supplies the tools to make measurement a focus in your organization Illustrating how measures can impact employee behavior bottom-line profitability and customer satisfaction this fast-paced business novel provides the understanding required to select the appropriate measures for your organization—measures that will motivate and guide your employees along the path to success. Using real-world examples it supplies time-tested insights to help you establish the foundational structure needed to succeed in today’s increasingly competitive global business environment. A website dedicated solely to the book can be found at: http://www.therightmeasures.com/ Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781439878651

The Right Not to be CriminalizedDemarcating Criminal Law's Authority This book presents arguments and proposals for constraining criminalization with a focus on the legal limits of the criminal law. The book approaches the issue by showing how the moral criteria for constraining unjust criminalization can and has been incorporated into constitutional human rights and thus provides a legal right not to be unfairly criminalized. The book sets out the constitutional limits of the substantive criminal law. As far as specific constitutional rights operate to protect specific freedoms for example free speech freedom of religion privacy etc the right not to be criminalized has proved to be a rather powerful justice constraint in the U.S. Yet the general right not to be criminalized has not been fully embraced in either the U.S. or Europe although it does exist. This volume lays out the legal foundations of that right and the criteria for determining when the state might override it. The book will be of interest to researchers in the areas of legal philosophy criminal law constitutional law and criminology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138273726

The Right of the Child to a Clean Environment This title was first published in 2000:  A discussion on the right of a child to a clean environment. It links two important contemporary issues: human rights and the environment. The volume consists of the extended versions of some of the papers which were presented at a workshop on "The Right of a Child to a Clean Environment" held at Queen Mary and Westfield College University of London in 1997 and there are also some additional contributions. The workshop participants included Michael Anderson and Sylvia Bluck Harry Post Holly Cullen and Olufemi Elias. The additional contributors include Veronic Wright Maria G. Doglioli and Soledad Aguilar. There are essays on general issues selected case studies and annexes. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138707917

The Right to a Fair Trial The right to a fair trial is often held as a central constitutional protection. It nevertheless remains unclear what precisely should count as a 'fair' trial and who should decide verdicts. This already difficult issue has become even more important given a number of proposed reforms of the trial especially for defendants charged with terrorism offences. This collection The Right to a Fair Trial is the first to publish in one place the most influential work in the field on the following topics: including the right to jury trial; lay participation in trials; jury nullification; trial reform; the civil jury trial; and the more recent issue of terrorism trials. The collection should help inform both scholars and students of both the importance and complexity of the right to a fair trial as well as shed light on how the trial might be further improved. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138378520

The Right to be ForgottenA Canadian and Comparative Perspective Exploring the evolution of the right to be forgotten its challenges and its impact on privacy reputation and online expression this book lays out the current state of the law on the right to be forgotten in Canada and in the international context while addressing the broader theoretical tensions at its core. The essays contemplate questions such as: How does the right to be forgotten fit into existing legal frameworks? How can Canadian courts and policy-makers reconcile rights to privacy and rights to access publicly available information? Should search engines be regulated purely as commercial actors? What is the right’s impact on free speech and freedom of the press? Together these essays address the questions that legal actors and policy-makers must consider as they move forward in shaping this new right through legislation regulations and jurisprudence. They address both the difficulties in introducing the right and the long-term effects it could have on the protection of online (and offline) reputation and speech. As the question of implementing the right to be forgotten in Canada has been put forward by the Privacy Commissioner and considered by courts Canada is in need of academic literature on the matter; a need that with this book we intend to fulfill. The questions put forward in this book will thus advance the legal debate in Canada and provide a rich case study for the international legal community. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367859749

The Right to Bodily Integrity The right to bodily integrity has become a notable controversial issue within moral political and legal discourse and this right is regarded as one of the most precious rights that persons have alongside the right to life. Recent scholarly debate has focused attention on the content scope and force of this right and has lead to the recognition that a better understanding of the nature of this right will contribute to determining whether and why a multitude of clinical and research activities in medical practice should be seen as permissible or impermissible. The essays selected for this volume examine topics such as pregnancy and reproduction altering children’s bodies transplantation controversial modifications and surgeries and experimentation and dead bodies. This is the first collection of scholarly research articles to provide a comprehensive overview of the ethical and legal aspects of the right to bodily integrity and its implications in theory and practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409466079

The Right to Democracy in International LawBetween Procedure Substance and the Philosophy of John Rawls This book explores the right to democracy in international law and contemporary democratic theory asking whether international law encompasses a substantive or procedural understanding of the notion. The book considers whether there can be considered to be a basis for the right to democracy in international customary law through identification of the relevant State practice and opinio juris as well as through an evaluation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and whether the relevant provisions might be interpreted as forming customary law. The book then goes on to explore the relevant provisions in international treaties including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights before looking at the role of regional organizations and human rights regimes including the European Court of Human Rights and the Arab human rights regime. Khalifa A. Alfadhel draws on the work of John Rawls in order to put forward a theoretical basis for the right to democracy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367193478

The Right to Development in International LawThe Case of Pakistan The Right to Development in International Law rigorously explores the right to development (RTD) from the perspectives of international law as well as the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights and the Islamic concept of social justice in Pakistan. The volume draws on a wide range of relevant sources to analyse the legal status of international cooperation in contemporary international law before exploring the domestic application of the right to development looking at the example of Pakistan a country that is undergoing radical transformation in terms of its internal governance structures and the challenges it faces for enforcing the rule of law. Of particular importance is the examination of the RTD and Shari‘ah law in Pakistan which adds a new perspective to the RTD debate and enriches the discussion about human rights and Shari‘ah across the world. Through focusing on Pakistan the book links international perspectives and the international human rights framework with the domestic constitutional apparatus for enforcing the RTD within that jurisdiction. In doing so Khurshid Iqbal argues that the RTD may be promoted through existing constitutional mechanisms if fundamental rights are widely interpreted by the superior courts effectively implemented by the lower courts and if Shari‘ah law is progressively interpreted in public interest. Iqbal’s work will appeal to researchers professionals and students in the fields of law human rights development international law South Asian Studies Islamic law and international development studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415631617

The Right to Development in the African Human Rights System The right to development (RTD) seeks to address global inequities hidden in world politics and global institutions through the game of influences played by powerful actors. The negative impacts of the Atlantic slave trade colonialism and the subjugation of Africa through globalisation and its institutions are key factors that have caused Africa and African people claiming their RTD. This book examines how the African continent protects the right to development examining the nature of the RTD and controversies surrounding it and how it is implemented. The book then goes onto explore the RTD at the regional level including through the jurisprudence of the African Commission and the African Court on Human Rights at the sub-regional level including in sub-regional courts and tribunals at the national levels through case studies and through the African Union governance institutions. Through this examination the author unveils what are the prospects and challenges to the realisation of the RTD in Africa. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367593193

The Right to DieV1 Definitions and Moral Perspectives: Death Euthanasia Suicide and Living Wills V2 Who Decides? Issues and Case Studies First Published in 1996. The key issue in all right-to-die matters is “who decides?” Who will decide whether life support should be terminated? Who will decide if a person is competent to make life and death decisions? The law is quite clear that in cases of conscious competent adults the individual is free to make all decisions relating to his or her care and future. This volume is a collection of writings and case studies around the topics of personal choice AIDS and informed consent due process and the right to die. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315050492

The Right to Equality in European Human Rights LawThe Quest for Substance in the Jurisprudence of the European Courts A right to equality and non-discrimination is widely seen as fundamental in democratic legal systems. But failure to identify the human interest that equality aims to uphold reinforces the argument of those who attack it as morally empty or unsubstantiated and weakens its status as a fundamental human right. This book argues that an understanding of the human interest which equality aims to uphold is feasible within the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the European Court of Justice (ECJ). In comparing the evolution of the prohibition of discrimination in the case-law of both Courts Charilaos Nikolaidis demonstrates that conceptual convergence within the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the EU on the issue of equality is not as far as it might appear initially. While the two bodies of equality law are extremely divergent as to the requirements they impose their interpretation by the international judiciary might be properly analysed under a common light to emphasise the substantive dimension of equality in European Human Rights law. The book will be of great use and interest to scholars and students of human rights discrimination law and European politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138687646

The Right to Family Life in the European Union Exploring the main developments and challenges for the right to family life in the context of European integration this book examines the right to family life in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the interplay between family life citizenship and free movement; it analyzes the combined impact of the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights on the concept of the family protected by the law in light of recent case law. Considering the broadening understanding of what constitutes family the challenges for the right to family life in the context of immigration and the protection of families and social rights it provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of family life in the European Union. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367075521

The Right to Food Guidelines Democracy and Citizen ParticipationCountry case studies It is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines were negotiated agreed and adopted internationally by states. This book provides a review of its objectives and the extent of success of its implementation. The focus is on the first key guideline – "Democracy good governance human rights and the rule of law" – with an emphasis on civil society participation in global food governance. The five BRICS countries (Brazil Russia India China and South Africa) are presented as case studies: representing major emerging economies they blur the line between the Global North and South and exhibit different levels of human rights realisation. The book first provides an overview of the right to adequate food accountability and democracy and an introduction to the history of the development of the right to adequate food and the Right to Food Guidelines. It presents a historical synopsis of each of the BRICS states’ experiences with the right to adequate food and an analysis of their related periodic reporting to the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights as well as a specific assessment of their progress in regard to the first guideline. The discussion then focuses on the effectiveness of the Right to Food Guidelines as both a policy-making and monitoring tool based on the analysis of the guidelines and the BRICS states. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367227715

The Right to Higher EducationBeyond widening participation The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent years partly as a result of diversification and massification. However persistent patterns of under-representation continue to perplex policy-makers and practitioners raising questions about current strategies policies and approaches to widening participation. Presenting a comprehensive review and critique of contemporary widening participation policy and practice Penny Jane Burke interrogates the underpinning assumptions values and perspectives shaping current concepts and understandings of widening participation. She draws on a range of perspectives within the field of the sociology of education – including feminist post-structuralism critical pedagogy and policy sociology – to examine the ways in which wider societal inequalities and misrecognitions which are related to difference and diversity present particular challenges for the project to widen participation in higher education. In particular the book: focuses on the themes of difference and diversity to shed light on the operations of inequalities and the politics of access and participation both in terms of national and institutional policy and at the level of student and practitioner experience. draws on the insights of the sociology of education to consider not only the patterns of under-representation in higher education but also the politics of mis-representation critiquing key discourses of widening participation. interrogates assumptions behind WP policy and practice including assumptions about education being an unassailable good provides an analysis of the accounts and perspectives of students practitioners and policy-makers through in-depth interviews observations and reflective journal entries. offers insights for future developments in the policy practice and strategies for widening participation The book will be of great use to all those working in and researching Higher Education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415568241

The Right to housing in law and society From the very first negotiations of the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights half a century ago to the present day socio-economic rights have often been regarded as less enforceable than civil and political rights. The right to adequate housing even though protecting one of the most basic needs of human beings has not escaped this classification. Despite its strong foundations in international regional and domestic legislation many people are still deprived of one or more of the different key elements that comprise adequate housing. How then can international human rights theory and case law be developed into effective vehicles at the domestic level? Rather than focusing merely on possibilities for individualized relief through the court system The Right to Housing in Law and Society looks into more effective socio-economic rights realization by addressing both conceptual and practical stumbling blocks that hinder a more structural progress at the national level. The Flemish and Belgian housing legislation and policy are used to highlight the problems and illustrate the pathways here presented. While first and foremost legal in its approach the book also offers a more sociological perspective on the functioning of the right to housing in practice. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to researchers academics policymakers and students in the fields of international socio-economic rights law and human rights law more generally. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367590437

The Right to LandscapeContesting Landscape and Human Rights Associating social justice with landscape is not new yet the twenty-first century's heightened threats to landscape and their impact on both human and more generally nature's habitats necessitate novel intellectual tools to address such challenges. This book offers that innovative critical thinking framework. The establishment of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948 in the aftermath of Second World War atrocities was an aspiration to guarantee both concrete necessities for survival and the spiritual/emotional/psychological needs that are quintessential to the human experience. While landscape is place nature and culture specific the idea transcends nation-state boundaries and as such can be understood as a universal theoretical concept similar to the way in which human rights are perceived. The first step towards the intellectual interface between landscape and human rights is a dynamic and layered understanding of landscape. Accordingly the 'Right to Landscape' is conceived as the place where the expansive definition of landscape with its tangible and intangible dimensions overlaps with the rights that support both life and human dignity as defined by the UDHR. By expanding on the concept of human rights in the context of landscape this book presents a new model for addressing human rights - alternative scenarios for constructing conflict-reduced approaches to landscape-use and human welfare are generated. This book introduces a rich new discourse on landscape and human rights serving as a platform to inspire a diversity of ideas and conceptual interpretations. The case studies discussed are wide in their geographical distribution and interdisciplinary in the theoretical situation of their authors breaking fresh ground for an emerging critical dialogue on the convergence of landscape and human rights. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138255531

The Right to Life and the Value of LifeOrientations in Law Politics and Ethics This groundbreaking book is the first collection to investigate the law political science and ethical perspectives collectively in relation to the right and value of life. Its contributions from international roster of scholars are organized around five themes: a theoretical positioning of life and death; War armed conflict and detention; Death as punishment; Medical parameters for ending life; and medical policies for the preservation of life. In studying this issue in its contemporary contexts of "right" and "value " the volume fills the current scholarly lacuna in the general subject of the orientations of life. It presents a much-needed examination of key issues in a broad practical and theoretical context and holds broad appeal for scholars researchers and students occupied with issues of war armed conflict the death penalty and various contemporary medico-legal scenarios. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138251113

The Right to Life in Japan The Right to Life in Japan is a study that brings new perspectives to bear on an extremely important topic for all those facing the moral dilemmas of such issues as abortion and the death penalty. It also helps to fill a gap in life in social science and law studies of contemporary Japan.Noel Williams approaches the right to life in Japan from a legal viewpoint via a broad range of issues such as abortion suicide capital punishment and death from overwork. Following a discussion of law and rights in Japan from an historical perspective the author examines the question of what life is in contemporary Japan and focuses on problematic areas which have arisen in life issues including infringements of the right to life within the modern company organization and by the state as well as the question of the equality of the right to life. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138863019

The Right to NatureSocial Movements Environmental Justice and Neoliberal Natures Since the 2008 financial crash the expansion of neoliberalism has had an enormous impact on nature-society relations around the world. In response various environmental movements have emerged opposing the neoliberal restructuring of environmental policies using arguments that often bridge traditional divisions between the environmental and labour agendas. The Right to Nature explores the differing experiences of a number of environmental-social movements and struggles from the point of view of both activists and academics. This collection attempts to both document the social-ecological impacts of neoliberal attempts to exploit non-human nature in the post-crisis context and to analyse the opposition of emerging environmental movements and their demands for a radically different production of nature based on social needs and environmental justice. It also provides a necessary space for the exchange of ideas and experiences between academics and activists and aims to motivate further academic-activist collaborations around alternative and counter-hegemonic re-thinking of environmental politics. This book will be of great interest to students scholars and activists interested in environmental policy environmental justice social and environmental movements. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138385375

The Right to Religious Freedom in International LawBetween Group Rights and Individual Rights This book analyses the right to religious freedom within international law. Analysing legal structures in a variety of both Western and non-Western jurisdictions the book sets out a topography of the different constitutional structures of religion within the state and their compliance with international human rights law. The book also considers the position of women's religious freedom vis a vis community claims of religious freedom. Taking a rigorous approach to the right Anat Scolnicov argues that the interpretation and application of religious freedom must be understood as a conflict between individual and group claims of rights and argues for an individualistic interpretation of this right. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415813488

The Right to Self-determination Under International Law“Selfistans ” Secession and the Rule of the Great Powers This book proposes a novel theory of self-determination; the Rule of the Great Powers. This book argues that traditional legal norms on self-determination have failed to explain and account for recent results of secessionist self-determination struggles. While secessionist groups like the East Timorese the Kosovar Albanians and the South Sudanese have been successful in their quests for independent statehood other similarly situated groups have been relegated to an at times violent existence within their mother states. Thus Chechens still live without significant autonomy within Russia and the South Ossetians and the Abkhaz have seen their conflicts frozen because of the peculiar geo-political equilibrium of power within the Caucuses region. The Rule of the Great Powers which asserts that only those self-determination seeking entities which enjoy the support of the majority of the most powerful states (the Great Powers) will ultimately have their rights to self-determination fulfilled. The Great Powers potent military economic and political powerhouses such as the United States China Russia Japan the United Kingdom France Germany and Italy often dictate self-determination outcomes through their influence in global affairs. Issues of self-determination in the modern world can no longer be effectively resolved through the application of traditional legal rules; rather resort must be had to novel theories such as the Rule of the Great Powers. This book will be of particular interest to academics and students of law political science and international relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138189836

The Right to The Truth in International LawVictims’ Rights in Human Rights and International Criminal Law The United Nations has established a right to the truth to be enjoyed by victims of gross violations of human rights. The origins of the right stem from the need to provide victims and relatives of the missing with a right to know what happened. It encompasses the verification and full public disclosure of the facts associated with the crimes from which they or their relatives suffered. The importance of the right to the truth is based on the belief that by disclosing the truth the suffering of victims is alleviated. This book analyses the emergence of this right as a response to an understanding of the needs of victims through to its development and application in two particular legal contexts: international human rights law and international criminal justice. The book examines in detail the application of the right through the case law and jurisprudence of international tribunals in the human rights and also the criminal justice context as well as looking at its place in transitional justice. The theoretical foundations of the right to the truth are considered as well as the various objectives appropriate for different truth-seeking mechanisms. The book then goes on to discuss to what extent it can be understood constructed and applied as a hard legally enforceable right with correlating duties on various people and institutions including state agencies prosecutors and judges. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138961449

The Right to TransportationMoving to Equity Does transportation affect the lives of minority low-income elderly and physically disabled citizens? The answer is yes and those effects can be profound according to The Right to Transportation. The authors argue that transportation policies can limit access to education jobs and services for some individuals while undermining the economy and social cohesion of entire communities. Policies that have nurtured the U.S. highway system and let public transportation wither have also led to ghettos and social isolation. More and more communities are recognizing the problem. This book explains the strategies and policies that can address inequities in the nation's transportation and transportation planning systems so that the benefits and burdens of those systems can be shared equally across all communities. With a close examination of how transportation policies affect individuals and communities the book is a guide to transportation fairness. It explains the demographic trends historical events and current policies that have shaped transportation in the U.S. and offers recommendations for moving to equity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138373914

The Right to WaterPolitics Governance and Social Struggles The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood negotiated experienced and struggled over remain key challenges. The Right to Water elucidates how universal calls for rights articulate with local historical geographical contexts governance politics and social struggles thereby highlighting the challenges and the possibilities that exist. Bringing together a unique range of academics policy-makers and activists the book analyzes how struggles for the right to water have attempted to translate moral arguments over access to safe water into workable claims. This book is an intervention at a crucial moment into the shape and future direction of struggles for the right to water in a range of political geographic and socio-economics contexts seeking to be pro-active in defining what this struggle could mean and how it might be taken forward in a far broader transformative politics. The Right to Water engages with a range of approaches that focus on philosophical legal and governance perspectives before seeking to apply these more abstract arguments to an array of concrete struggles and case studies. In so doing the book builds on empirical examples from Africa Asia Oceania Latin America the Middle East North America and the European Union. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781849713597

The Right Way to FlourishReconnecting to the Real World In this ground-breaking book pre-eminent thought leader in the fields of sustainability and flourishing John R. Ehrenfeld critiques the concept of sustainability as it is understood today and which is coming more and more under attack as unclear and ineffective as a call for action. Building upon the recent work of cognitive scientist Iain McGilchrist who argues that the human brain’s two hemispheres present distinct different worlds this book articulates how society must replace the current foundational left-brain-based beliefs – a mechanistic world and a human driven by self interest – with new ones based on complexity and care. Flourishing should replace the lifeless metrics now being used to guide business and government as well as individuals. Until we accept that our modern belief structure is itself the barrier we will continue to be mired in an endless succession of unsolved problems. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367244255

The Rights Of Man Today This book analyzes the evolution of the idea of human rights the "universalization" of human rights as reflected in the spread of "constitutionalism" to almost all states. It focuses on the conditions that must exist if the rights of men and women are to be more secure in the future. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295530

The Rights of StrangersTheories of International Hospitality the Global Community and Political Justice since Vitoria This study investigates the thinking of European authors from Vitoria to Kant about political justice the global community and the rights of strangers as one special form of interaction among individuals of divergent societies political communities and cultures. Taking an interdisciplinary approach it covers historical material from a predominantly philosophical perspective interpreting authors who have tackled problems related to the rights of strangers under the heading of international hospitality. Their analyses of the civitas maxima or the societas humani generis covered the nature of the global commonwealth. Their doctrines of natural law (ius naturae) were supposed to provide what we nowadays call theories of political justice. The focus of the work is on international hospitality as part of the law of nations on its scope and justification. It follows the political ideas of Francisco de Vitoria and the Second Scholastic in the 16th century of Alberico Gentili Hugo Grotius Samuel Pufendorf Christian Wolff Emer de Vattel Johann Jacob Moser and Immanuel Kant. It draws attention to the international dimension of political thought in Thomas Hobbes John Locke Jean-Jacques Rousseau David Hume Adam Smith and others. This is predominantly a study in intellectual history which contextualizes ideas but also emphasizes their systematic relevance. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315085395

The Rights of Woman as ChimeraThe Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft The Rights of Woman as Chimera examines Mary Wollstonecraft's intellectual relationship to Rousseau Locke and Aristotle. Although she learned much from each philosopher her own thought cannot be said to be simply derivative of these thinkers. In considering "the woman question " Wollstonecraft levels important but friendly critiques of her male predecessors. She puts forth a conception of the nature of woman which is informed by and consistent with her larger political philosophy and this study endeavors to outline this conception of the nature of woman. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138879867

The Rise Decline and Renewal of Silicon Valley's High Technology Industry Originally published in 1997 this book examines the unique nature and characteristics of Silicon Valley and looks at the factors that led to the economic and competitiveness problems of the 1980s. The research concluded that the information revolution caused a complex set of events that had global ramifications. Silicon Valley was no longer operating as a driver of this revolution but it was facing the onslaught of the global competitiveness it had unleashed. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815353614

The Rise and Decline of Small Firms (Routledge Revivals) First published in 1973 this title examines the development patterns of small businesses. It considers why people found firms; the factors that contribute to entrepreneurial success; problems of management succession and inheritance; the strengths and weaknesses of family firms; the reasons why small firms are taken over; and the social economic and managerial context of their growth decline and revival. Based on a survey of sixty-four firms each employing fewer than five hundred people in engineering hosiery and knitwear and on the records of 370 similar organisations a striking gap in performance and management attitudes emerges as between dynamic mostly founder-run firms and stagnant mostly inherited ones. Where many books are either minutely specialised or highly abstract and over-generalised Jonathan Boswell’s work is practical and diagnostic probing the inner recesses of the small firm sector. With particular relevance to the difficulties faced by entrepreneurs in today’s economic environment this title advances selective measures to deal with old firms and inheritance and a wide range of policies to encourage new entrepreneurship. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138781221

The Rise and Decline of the Asian CenturyFalse Starts on the Path to the Global Millennium First published in 1997 this volume reflects an attempt to put order in the place of what appears to be chaos amidst East Asia’s rapid dash toward economic development. With experiences of Turkey during and after martial law Italy during the Red Brigade England during the ‘Winter of Discontent’ post-Franco Spain’s stumbling embrace of democracy Poland in the beginning of the solidarity movement South Africa in the crumbling of apartheid China during the early student protests and Europe when the Iron Curtain was lifted Christopher Lingle applies these ideas to modern developments in East Asia providing an intriguing counter-intuitive refreshing take on its economies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138360235

The Rise and Demise of Black Theology Black Theology emerged in the 1960s as a response to black consciousness. In South Africa it is a critique of power; in the UK it is a political theology of black culture. The dominant form of Black Theology has been in the USA originally influenced by Black Power and the critique of white racism. Since then it claims to have broadened its perspective to include oppression on the grounds of race gender and class. In this book the author contests this claim especially by Womanist (black women) Theology. Black and Womanist Theologies present inadequate analyses of race and gender and no account at all of class (economic) oppression. With a few notable exceptions Black Theology in the USA repeats the mantras of the 1970s the discourse of modernity. Content with American capitalism it fails to address the source of the impoverishment of black Americans at home. Content with a romantic imaginaire of Africa this 'African-American' movement fails to defend contemporary Africa against predatory American global ambitions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138357495

The Rise And Demise Of Democratic Kampuchea This study traces the rise of Kampuchean communism from its inception in 1930 to the present. The author analyzes the socioeconomic and political conditions that brought Cambodia to an explosive stage in 1970 and documents the cataclysmic transformation that followed. The protagonist in this ongoing historical drama is the revolutionary movement known as the Khmer Rouge or "Red Khmers." Their revolution was so ultraradical that even the communists were appalled. The Soviets studiously ignored it the Chinese vainly tried to moderate it and the Vietnamese ultimately destroyed it. In an attempt to explain the Khmer revolution—one of the most violent in modern political history—the author focuses on the ideology created by a key group of Khmer Rouge leaders. The theoretical and historical significance of the Khmer revolution and the state of Democratic Kampuchea has received little attention from scholars and far too much of what has been written has been motivated by a bewildering array of ideological and geopolitical interests. This book is one of the first to apply a systematic analytical framework to the creation growth and destruction of Democratic Kampuchea. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295547

The Rise and Development of FinTechAccounts of Disruption from Sweden and Beyond This comprehensive guide serves to illuminate the rise and development of FinTech in Sweden with the Internet as the key underlying driver. The multiple case studies examine topics such as: the adoption of online banking in Sweden; the identification and classification of different FinTech categories; process innovation developments within the traditional banking industry; and the Venture Capital (VC) landscape in Sweden as shown through interviews with VC representatives mainly from Sweden but also from the US and Germany as well as offering insight into the companies that are currently operating in the FinTech arena in Sweden. The authors address questions such as: How will the regulatory landscape shape the future of FinTech companies? What are the factors that will likely drive the adoption of FinTech services in the future? What is the future role of banks in the context of FinTech and digitalization? What are the policies and government initiatives that aim to support the FinTech ecosystem in Sweden? Complex concepts and ideas are rendered in an easily digestible yet thought-provoking way.The book was initiated by the IIS (the Internet Foundation in Sweden) an independent organization promoting the positive development of the Internet in the country. It is also responsible for the Internet’s Swedish top-level domain .se including the registration of domain names and the administration and technical maintenance of the national domain name registry. The book illustrates how Sweden acts (or does not act) as a competitive player in the global FinTech arena and is a vital addition to students and practitioners in the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367735180

The Rise and Fall of a National StrategyThe UK and The European Community: Volume 1 This text analyzes British official thinking behind the UK's standing aloof from the moves after 1945 towards European economic collaboration leading to the establishment of ECSC and the EEC in the 1950s. It deals with the later change of tack (1961) covers the organization in Whitehall for the negotiations with the Communities and the major problem areas - the Commonwealth British agriculture financial implications of British membership sovereignty and the future of EFTA. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415832342

The Rise and Fall of American Art 1940s–1980sA Geopolitics of Western Art Worlds In The Rise and Fall of American Art 1940s-1980s Catherine Dossin challenges the now-mythic perception of New York as the undisputed center of the art world between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall a position of power that brought the city prestige money and historical recognition. Dossin reconstructs the concrete factors that led to the shift of international attention from Paris to New York in the 1950s and documents how ’peripheries’ such as Italy Belgium and West Germany exerted a decisive influence on this displacement of power. As the US economy sank into recession in the 1970s however American artists and dealers became increasingly dependent on the support of Western Europeans and cities like Cologne and Turin emerged as major commercial and artistic hubs - a development that enabled European artists to return to the forefront of the international art scene in the 1980s. Dossin analyses in detail these changing distributions of geopolitical and symbolic power in the Western art worlds - a story that spans two continents forty years and hundreds of actors. Her transnational and interdisciplinary study provides an original and welcome supplement to more traditional formal and national readings of the period. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138295575

The Rise and Fall of Arab JerusalemPalestinian Politics and the City since 1967 This book examines Palestinian politics in Jerusalem since 1967 and in particular since the outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000 focusing on the city’s decline as an Arab city and the identity crisis among the Jerusalemite Palestinians. Principally concerned with Palestinian politics and how they have evolved over time from the grass roots upwards it covers issues such as the separation wall military activity and terror planning regulations the joint Jewish-Arab struggle against the occupation and efforts to remove Palestinians from the city. Drawing upon conversations with hundreds of Palestinians – Islamists nationalists collaborationists and a-political people – as well as upon military courts files and Palestinian writings Hillel Cohen tells the story of the failure of the Palestinian struggle in Jerusalem in both its political and military dimensions. He points at the lack of leadership and at the identity crisis among Palestinian Jerusalemites which were created by Israeli policies (the separation wall the closure of Palestinian institutions) and Palestinian faults (the exclusion of Jerusalem from the Palestinian Authority in Oslo Agreements or the suicide attacks in the second Intifada). Providing a broad overview of the contemporary situation and political relations both inside the Palestinian community and with the Israeli authorities the book gives a unique insight into Palestinians' views political behaviour and daily life in Israel's capital. As such it is an important addition to the literature on Palestinian politics Jewish and Israeli studies and Middle Eastern politics. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203834893

The Rise and Fall of British Crusader Medievalism c.1825–1945 This book investigates the uses of crusader medievalism – the memory of the crusades and crusading rhetoric and imagery – in Britain from Walter Scott’s The Talisman (1825) to the end of the Second World War. It seeks to understand why and when the crusades and crusading were popular how they fitted with other cultural trends of the Victorian and Edwardian eras how their use was affected by the turmoil of the First World War and whether they were differently employed in the interwar years and in the 1939-45 conflict. Building on existing studies and contributing the fruits of fresh research it brings together examples of the uses of the crusades from disparate contexts and integrates them into the story of the rise and fall crusader medievalism in Britain. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367593223

The Rise and Fall of British IndiaImperialism as Inequality A great deal of argument about the theory and practice of imperialism has been generated in recent years much of it Eurocentric and much of it focusing on the causes of imperialism. In this singularly clear and perceptive study first published in 1983 Karl de Schweinitz concentrates instead on a view of imperialism as a coercive relationship Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415395014

The Rise and Fall of British Liberalism1776-1988 Here is the first book to cover the history of British Liberalism from its founding doctrines in the later eighteenth century to the final dissolution of the Liberal party into the Liberal Democrats in 1988. The Party dominated British politics for much of the later nineteenth-century most notably under Gladstone whose premierships spanned 1868-1894 and during the early twentieth but after the resignation of Lloyd George in 1922 the Liberal Party never held office again. The decline of the Party remains a unique phenomenon in British politics and Alan Sykes illuminates its dramatic and peculiar circumstances in this comprehensive study. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138159648

The Rise And Fall Of Communism Writing this book has been a rewarding but challenging experience. Along the way I• have had the helpful comments and criticisms of a number of friends and colleagues. Pat Maus Susanna Frenkel Kit Christensen and Carl Ross read the entire manuscript. Steve Chilton Milan Kovacovic and .Marina Rumyantseva read parts of it. They and the reviewers for Westview Press have weeded out many errors and forced me to think through a number of difficult points. The errors and confusions that remain do so in spite of their best efforts. I thank them all. I would also like to thank Spencer Carr of Westview Press for his support of this project and for his editorial suggestions which resulted in major improvements. Finally thanks to Jean Vileta for her editorial assistance in preparing the manuscript for publication. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295554

The Rise and Fall of Corporate Social Responsibility Corporate social responsibility was one of the most consequential business trends of the twentieth century. Having spent decades burnishing reputations as both great places to work and generous philanthropists large corporations suddenly abandoned their commitment to their communities and employees during the 1980s and 1990s indicated by declining job security health insurance and corporate giving. Douglas M. Eichar argues that for most of the twentieth century the benevolence of large corporations functioned to stave off government regulations and unions as corporations voluntarily adopted more progressive workplace practices or made philanthropic contributions. Eichar contends that as governmental and union threats to managerial prerogatives withered toward the century's end so did corporate social responsibility. Today with shareholder value as their beacon large corporations have shred their social contract with their employees decimated unions avoided taxes and engaged in all manner of risky practices and corrupt politics. This book is the first to cover the entire history of twentieth-century corporate social responsibility. It provides a valuable perspective from which to revisit the debate concerning the public purpose of large corporations. It also offers new ideas that may transform the public debate about regulating larger corporations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412865203

The Rise and Fall of Countryside ManagementA Historical Account For at least half a century since the emergence of Country Parks and Forest Parks countryside services have provided leisure tourism conservation restoration and regeneration across Britain. Yet these services are currently being decimated as public services are sacrificed to the new era of austerity. The role and importance of countryside management have been barely documented and the consequences and ramifications of cuts to these services are overlooked and misunderstood. This volume rigorously examines the issues surrounding countryside management in Britain. The author brings together the results of stakeholder workshops and interviews and in-depth individual case studies as well as a major study for the Countryside Agency which assessed and evaluated every countryside service provision in England. A full and extensive literature review traces the ideas of countryside management back to their origins and the author considers the wider relationships and ramifications with countryside and ranger provisions around the world including North America and Europe.  The book provides a critical overview of the history and importance of countryside management detailing the achievements of a largely forgotten sector and highlighting its pivotal yet often underappreciated role in the wellbeing of people and communities. It serves as a challenge to students planners politicians conservationists environmentalists and land managers in a diversity of disciplines that work with or have interests in countryside leisure and tourism community issues education and nature conservation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415844260

The Rise and Fall of ElitesApplication of Theoretical Sociology Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Italian social theorist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly readable English translation of Pareto's last monograph "Generalizations " originally published in 1920 this work illustrates how and why democratic forms of government undergo decay and are eventually reinvigorated. More than any other social scientist of his generation Pareto offers a well-developed articulate and compelling theory of change based on a Newtonian vision of science and an engineering model of social equilibrium.This dynamic involves a shifting balance among the countervailing forces of centralization and decentralization of power economic expansion and contraction and liberalism versus traditionalism in public sentiment. By 1920 Pareto had developed a scheme for predicting shifts in magnitude of these forces and subsequent change in the character of society. This book will be of interest to students teachers or general readers interested in political science sociology and late-nineteenth/ early-twentieth century social theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538269

The Rise and Fall of Fu Ren University BeijingCatholic Higher Education in China This new book tells the story of the rise and fall of Fu Ren University (1925-1952) and provides an analysis of a key Catholic higher education institution in China. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138985452

The Rise and Fall of Global MicrocreditDevelopment debt and disillusion In the mid-1980s the international development community helped launch what was to quickly become one of the most popular poverty reduction and local economic development policies of all time. Microcredit the system of disbursing tiny micro-loans to the poor to help them to establish their own income-generating activities was initially highly praised and some were even led to believe that it would end poverty as we know it. But in recent years the microcredit model has been subject to growing scrutiny and often intense criticism. The Rise and Fall of Global Microcredit shines a light on many of the fundamental problems surrounding microcredit in particular the short- and long-term impacts of dramatically rising levels of microdebt.　 Developed in collaboration with UNCTAD this book covers the general policy implications of adverse microcredit impacts as well as gathering together country-specific case studies from around the world to illustrate the real dynamics incentives and end results. Lively and provocative The Rise and Fall of Global Microcredit is an accessible guide for students academics policymakers and development professionals alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138714120

The Rise And Fall Of Italian Terrorism Italian democracy may not be as fragile as many of its observers feared or imagined. It has lasted more than twice as long as the Fascist dictatorship that preceded it. Since the end of the Second World War Italy's citizens and their political leaders have had to overcome massive problems of both state and society that their counterparts in more tranquil parts of Europe have not encountered. The problem to which this book is devoted is that of political terrorism. It deals with a large-scale and protracted outbreak of domestic terrorism. It is concerned with terrorist violence in Italy committed by Italians against other Italians the purpose of which was to influence the course of that country's political life Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295561

The Rise and Fall of London’s Ringways 1943-1973 Urban motorways are among the greatest – and least forgiven – legacies of post-war planning in Britain. Ringways explores the genesis development and collapse of London’s controversial plans for nearly 500 miles of highways to understand why such ambitious and unlamented programmes gained widespread support and triggered urban uproar. Combining a review of the wider intellectual climate with extensive archival research Ringways asks how far the rise of the urban motorway can be attributed to urban contingency as opposed to far-seeing planners; how ideas of the environment changed as proposals were debated; and whether their fall was the work of popular revolt or expert regret. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367361570

The Rise and Fall of ManagementA Brief History of Practice Theory and Context Insight into today's economic and financial problems comes in this revealing book from an understanding of how and why the practice and the teaching of management has developed as it has. Gordon Pearson who has spent equal parts of his long career as a practising manager and a management educator clarifies through rigorous historical review the difficult issues around management with which we struggle today such as why management custom and practice so often lead to contravention of the law. Pearson reviews how management became a practice and body of understanding the development of its crucial role in economic progress and then how its corruption came about as a result of malign theory leading to the dominance of the bonus payment culture and short term deal-making that plague us today. Understanding management's past suggests Pearson will help its improvement for the future. Contributing to that understanding this challenging book sheds light on how management might be renewed and on the benign role it could play if freed from the restraints of inappropriate economic theory. This book is not just a history or a sociological analysis of management. It gives a broad practically informed critical view of the subject that will be welcomed by any reader with a professional or an academic interest in practice theory and context. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409448297

The Rise and Fall of Mass Marketing (RLE Marketing) This book provides new insights into the changes in interpretation of marketing and the evolution of marketing strategies during the twentieth century. The focus is on the development of mass marketing in the United States and the way in which more flexible and adaptable forms of marketing have increasingly been taking over. This highly international volume draws contributors from the USA Europe and Japan and from a variety of academic disciplines including marketing economics and business history. Chapters provide detailed analysis of the marketing of a range of products including cars washing machines food retailing Scotch whisky computers financial services and wheat. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138989856

The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires The global reach of imperialism makes it both an important and a complex topic that requires a multi-country perspective and a comparative framework. This four volume series collects together many of the most influential articles on the topic and offers a broad choice of themes geographies and interpretations of the impact and importance of empires their making their rule and their demise. Each volume takes up a different theme such that the reader has access to the perspectives of both coloniser and colonised in a variety of settings across the full range of modern empires. Classic articles are well represented as are recent scholarly trends in the field. All four volumes are edited by leading scholars in the field and the series constitutes an inclusive reference resource for libraries students and academic researchers interested in every aspect of modern history. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003082057

The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires The global reach of imperialism makes it both an important and a complex topic that requires a multi-country perspective and a comparative framework. This four volume series collects together many of the most influential articles on the topic and offers a broad choice of themes geographies and interpretations of the impact and importance of empires their making their rule and their demise. Each volume takes up a different theme such that the reader has access to the perspectives of both coloniser and colonised in a variety of settings across the full range of modern empires. Classic articles are well represented as are recent scholarly trends in the field. All four volumes are edited by leading scholars in the field and the series constitutes an inclusive reference resource for libraries students and academic researchers interested in every aspect of modern history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367534981

The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires Volume IIColonial Knowledges This volume reproduces key historical texts concerning `colonial knowledges’. The use of the adjective 'colonial' indicates that knowledge is shaped by power relationships while the use of the plural form ’knowledges’ indicates the emphasis in this collection is on an interplay between different often competing cognitive systems. George Balandier’s notion of the colonial situation is an organising principle that runs throughout the volume and there are four sub-themes: language and texts categorical knowledge the circulation of knowledge and indigenous knowledge. The volume is designed to introduce students to a range of important interventions which speak to each other today even if they were not intended to do so when first published. An introductory essay links the themes together and explains the significance of the individual articles. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409436669

The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires Volume IIIEconomics and Politics Few aspects of the history of modern empires are of such significance as their economics and politics. These factors are inextricably linked in many analyses have generated extensive historiographical debate and are currently the subject of some of the freshest and liveliest scholarship. The articles and chapters which are brought together in this volume relate not only to the European colonial empires but also to the Napoleonic Russian and Japanese empires. The collection is strongly comparative in approach with the articles arranged into thematic sections on: the place of politics and economics in the rise and fall of modern empires; the causal relationship between modern empires and colonial global and metropolitan economic transformations; and the ’technologies of rule’ which provided the frameworks through which colonial economies were managed and rights defined. The collection reflects new approaches as well as the continuing importance of issues addressed in an older historiography and the thematic arrangement produces useful juxtapositions of older and newer literatures. The substantial introduction explores the themes and identifies key historiographical trends in relation to each. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409432753

The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires Volume ISocial Organization This collection brings together twenty-one articles that explore the diverse impact of modern empires on societies around the world since 1800. Colonial expansion changed the lives of colonised peoples in multiple ways relating to work the environment law health and religion. Yet empire-builders were never working with a blank slate: colonial rule involved not just coercion but also forms of cooperation with elements of local society while the schemes of the colonisers often led to unexpected outcomes. Covering not only western European nations but also the Ottomans Russians and Japanese whose empires are less frequently addressed in collections this volume provides insight into a crucial aspect of modern world history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409433972

The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires Volume IVReactions to Colonialism The collection of essays in this volume offers an overview of scholarly approaches to the ways in which diverse actors representing the colonised or the colonising nations or indeed the international community reacted to colonialism during the lifetime of the modern colonial empires or in their aftermath. The coverage is broad in terms of geographical scope and historical period with articles on the major colonial empires in Asia and Africa and the imperial centres of Paris London and Berlin from the conquests of the late nineteenth century to the period of decolonisation. The selection also reflects recent academic trends by focusing on countries whose colonial past and experience of decolonisation have been studied and debated with particular intensity such as Algeria Kenya and India. The volume draws on previously published articles and book chapters by leading international scholars writing in or translated into English and includes a critical introduction which situates each essay in relation to recent debates in this dynamic and expanding field of study. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409438564

The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires: 4-Volume Set The global reach of imperialism makes it both an important and a complex topic that requires a multi-country perspective and a comparative framework. This four volume series collects together many of the most influential articles on the topic and offers a broad choice of themes geographies and interpretations of the impact and importance of empires their making their rule and their demise. Each volume takes up a different theme such that the reader has access to the perspectives of both coloniser and colonised in a variety of settings across the full range of modern empires. Classic articles are well represented as are recent scholarly trends in the field. All four volumes are edited by leading scholars in the field and the series constitutes an inclusive reference resource for libraries students and academic researchers interested in every aspect of modern history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409439974

The Rise and Fall of Money Manager CapitalismMinsky's half century from world war two to the great recession The book studies the trends that led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression as well as the unfolding of the crisis in order to provide policy recommendations to improve financial stability. The book starts with changes in monetary policy and income distribution from the 1970s. These changes profoundly modified the foundations of economic growth in the US by destroying the commitment banking model and by decreasing the earning power of households whose consumption has been at the core of the growth process. The main themes of the book are the changes in the financial structure and income distribution the collapse of the Ponzi process in 2007 and actual and prospective policy responses. The objective is to show that Minsky’s approach can be used to understand the making and unfolding of the crisis and to draw some policy implications to improve financial stability. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138650169

The Rise and Fall of Philanthropy in East AfricaThe Asian Contribution Robert G. Gregory challenges the apparent assumption that non-Western peoples lack a significant indigenous philanthropic culture. Focusing on the large South Asian community in East Africa he relates how over a century they built a philanthropic culture of great magnitude and how it finally collapsed under the ascendency of increasing state regulation and policies directed against non-African communities.Compelled by poverty to seek better oppurtunities overseas most Asians arrived in East Africa as peasant farmers. Denied access to productive land and sensing economic opportunity they turned to business. Despite severe forms of racial discrimination in the colonial society they suffered few restrictions on their business enterprises and some became very wealthy. Gregory's historical analysis shows philanthropy as an important contribution one that stemmed from deep roots in Hindu Muslim and Buddhist culture. The sense of nonracial social responsibility cultivated social medical and educational facilities designed for all.This age of philanthropy terminated with the Asian exodus. The socialist and racial policies adopted by East African governments over the past few decades have virtually destroyed the foundation necessary for philanthropy as well as the distinct Asian cultural identity. Gregory's account of the East Asian's role in philanthropy deserves great attention and sober reflection. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412853859

The Rise and Fall of Russia's Far Eastern Republic 1905–1922Nationalisms Imperialisms and Regionalisms in and after the Russian Empire The Russian Far East was a remarkably fluid region in the period leading up to during and after the Russian Revolution. The different contenders in play in the region imagining and working toward alternative futures comprised different national groups including Russians Buryat-Mongols Koreans and Ukrainians; different imperialist projects including Japanese and American attempts to integrate the region into their political and economic spheres of influence as well as the legacies of Russian expansionism and Bolshevik efforts to export the revolution to Mongolia Korea China and Japan; and various local regionalists who aimed for independence or strong regional autonomy for distinct Siberian and Far Eastern communities and whose efforts culminated in the short-lived Far Eastern Republic of 1920–1922. The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Far Eastern Republic 1905–1922 charts developments in the region examines the interplay of the various forces and explains how a Bolshevik version of state-centered nationalism prevailed. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367588458

The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber IndustryAn Historical Anthropology In this engaging book Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He considers rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term extractive industry that linked remote forest tappers to technical innovations central to the industrial transformation of Europe and North America emphasizing the links between the social landscape of Amazonia and the global economy. Through a critical examination focused on the rubber industry Nugent addresses myths that continue to influence perceptions of Amazonia. The book challenges widely held assumptions about the hyper-naturalism of the ‘lost world’ of the Amazon where ‘the challenge of the tropics’ is still to be faced and the ‘frontiers of development’ are still to be settled. It is relevant for students and scholars of anthropology Latin American studies history political ecology geography and development studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138894037

The Rise and Fall of the American SystemNationalism and the Development of the American Economy 1790-1837 The American System was implemented by the US government after the American-British War of 1812 to develop a national domestic market. This study explores the rise and fall of the system between its inception in 1790 and the Panic of 1837. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138663848

The Rise and Fall of the British Press The Rise and Fall of the British Press takes an artful look at the past present and immediate future of the printed newspaper. Temple offers a thought-provoking account of the evolution of Britain’s news consumption across the centuries situating it within significant social cultural and political currents of the time. Chapters cover: The impact of key technological developments; from the birth of print and the introduction of television to the rise of the internet and digital media; The ever-shifting power play between political parties and the press; The notion of the ‘public sphere’ and how newspapers have influenced it over the decades; The role of news media during some of Europe’s most significant historical events such as the French Revolution the First and Second World Wars and the Suez crisis; The aftermath of the Leveson inquiry and the question of increased media regulation; The successes and failures of important media players including Baron Beaverbrook and Lord Northcliffe in the nineteenth century and Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Throughout the book parallels are drawn between current issues impacting on the press and society and those from previous decades further illuminating the role both historic and ongoing of the news media in Britain. Temple concludes the book by looking to the future of print journalism calling for a reassessment of its role in the twenty-first century redefining what journalism should be and reasserting its value in society today. This far-reaching analysis will be an invaluable resource for both students and researchers of journalism and media studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138895102

The Rise and Fall of the East Asian Growth System 1951-2000Institutional Competitiveness and Rapid Economic Growth Huang examines a recurring pattern of rapid economic growth in East Asia from 1951 to the present and explores how far a single East Asian Growth model can be said to exist. Assessing the various theories put forward to explain the phenomenon and supported by the most comprehensive data the book finds that methods of institutional enhancement were at the core of the growth. This institutional enhancement affected state structure and functions economic policy corporate arrangements social structure and relations individual behaviour and domestic and international interaction.  Each of these elements was a critical aspect of the growth system that defined and propelled the rapid growth. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415651509

The Rise and Fall of the English ChristendomTheocracy Christology Order and Power English Christendom has never been a static entity. Evangelism politics conflict and cultural changes have constantly and consistently developed it into myriad forms across the world. However in recent times that development has seemingly become a general decline. This book utilises the motif of Christendom to illuminate the pedigree of Anglican Christianity allowing a vital and persistent dynamic in Christianity namely the relationship between the sacred and the mundane to be more fundamentally explored.Each chapter seeks to unpack a particular historical moment in which the relations of sacred and mundane are on display. Beginning with the work of Bede before focusing on the Anglo Norman settlement of England the Tudor period and the establishment of the church in the American and Australian colonies Anglicanism is shown to consistently be a religio-political tradition. This approach opens up a different set of categories for the study of contemporary Anglicanism and its debates about the notion of the church. It also opens up fresh ways of looking at religious conflict in the modern world and within Christianity. This is a fresh exploration of a major facet of Western religious culture. As such it will be of significant interest to scholars working in Religious History and Anglican Studies as well as theologians with an interest in Western Ecclesiology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367890766

The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South 1918–1942 The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South provides the first detailed examination of the Universal Negro Improvement Association's rise maturation and eventual decline in the urban South between 1918 and 1942. It examines the ways in which Southern black workers fused locally-based traditions ideologies and strategies of resistance with the Pan-African agenda of the UNIA to create a dynamic and multifaceted movement. A testament to the multidimensionality of black political subjectivity Southern Garveyites fashioned a politics reflective of their international regional and local attachments. Moving beyond the usual focus on New York and the charismatic personality of Marcus Garvey this book situates black workers at the center of its analysis and aims to provide a much-needed grassroots perspective on the Garvey movement. More than simply providing a regional history of one of the most important Pan-African movements of the twentieth century The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South demonstrates the ways in which racial class and spatial dynamics resulted in complex and at times competing articulations of black nationalism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415804028

The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic Most public debate on reunited Germany has emphasized economic issues such as the collapse of East German industry mass unemployment career difficulties and differences in wages and living standards. The overwhelming difficulty resulting from reunification however is not persisting economic differences but the internal cultural divide between East and West Germans one based upon different moral values in the two Germanies. The invisible wall that has replaced the previous highly visible territorial division of the German nation is rooted in issues of the past-the Nazi past as well as the German Democratic Republic past. In emphasizing economic differences the media and academics have avoided dealing with typically German cultural traits. These include the psychological posture of West Germany which emphasized not differences between East and West but the break with Germany's Nazi past. The adversarial posture of certain professional groups in East Germany towards the liberal and democratic values of West Germany have also been an obstacle. Reviewing the problems accompanying reunification chapter 1 explores German culture and history and the moral lessons evolved from the Nazi past. Chapter 2 focuses on the East-West mindset and how differences in attitude affect efforts to adapt to reunification. Chapter 3 discusses the simulated break with Nazi Germany in the German Democratic Republic. Chapters 4 5 and 6 analyze the roots of the adversary posture of the professional groups in East Germany towards the values of the Berlin Republic. Chapter 7 demonstrates the strong presence of inherited typically German cultural traits among East Germans such as a lack of individualism suspicion of strangers and obedience to authority. Chapter 8 documents the extent to which a right-wing extremist culture has remained latent in Eastern Germany. Chapter 9 documents the extent to which moral reasoning in the GDR relieves the individual of any kind of responsibility for the actions of the state reproducing the way ordinary Germans rationalized their participation in the Nazi regime immediately after World War II. Chapter 10 concludes with an overview of the historical and sociological factors revolving around the discussion of Nazi Germany the GDR and inner unification.This volume will be important for historians political scientists anthropologists sociologists and a general public interested in Germany's reunification. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138516830

The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990 This new book investigates communist rule in East Germany from its establishment as a sphere of Soviet influence after World War II to its rapid collapse after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Using newly available archive material the early chapters trace the emergence of the GDR out of the Soviet zone of occupation. Later chapters cover the dramatic episodes of the 1953 uprising against Soviet dominance and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The subsequent stabilisation of the GDR and the establishment of an uneasy compromise between the ruling elites and the population in the later 1960s and 1970s are explained with reference to a range of internal social economic and political factors. The disintegration of the regime in 1989 is explained in the light of : The chronic weakness of Gorbachev's Soviet Union. The bravery of the protestors. The enduring appeal of West Germany's social market economy. Political pluralism. This clear and comprehensive survey marshals secondary and original primary sources in order to give a unique insight into the GDR's struggles and achievements. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138158405

The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry Italian cinema triumphed globally in the 1960 with directors such as Rossellini Fellini and Leone and actors like Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni known to audiences around the world. But by the end of the 1980s the Italian film industry was all but dead. The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry traces the rise of the industry from its origins in the 19th century to its worldwide success in the 1960s and its rapid decline in the subsequent decades. It does so by looking at cinema as an institution – subject to the interplay between the spheres of art business and politics at the national and international level. By examining the roles of a wide range of stakeholders (including film directors producers exhibitors the public and the critics) as well as the system of funding and the influence of governments author Marina Nicoli demonstrates that the Italian film industry succeeded when all three spheres were aligned but suffered and ultimately failed when they each pursued contradictory objectives. This in-depth case study makes an important contribution to the long-standing debate about promoting and protecting domestic cultures particularly in the face of culturally dominant and politically- and economically-powerful creative industries from the United States. The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry will be of particular interest to business and economic historians cinema historians media specialists and cultural economists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138340787

The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal 1895-1970 Spanning almost a century of penal policy and practice in England and Wales this book is a study of the long arc of the rehabilitative ideal beginning in 1895 the year of the Gladstone Committee on Prisons and ending in 1970 when the policy of treating and training criminals was very much on the defensive. Drawing on a plethora of source material such as the official papers of mandarins ministers and magistrates measures of public opinion prisoner memoirs publications of penal reform groups and prison officers the reports of Royal Commissions and Departmental Committees political opinion in both Houses of Parliament and the research of the first cadre of criminologists this book comprehensively examines a number of aspects of the British penal system including judicial sentencing law-making and the administration of legal penalties. In doing so Victor Bailey expertly weaves a complex and nuanced picture of punishment in twentieth-century England and Wales one that incorporates the enduring influence of the death penalty and will force historians to revise their interpretation of twentieth-century social and penal policy. This detailed and ground-breaking account of the rise and fall of the rehabilitative ideal will be essential reading for scholars and students of the history of crime and justice and historical criminology as well as those interested in social and legal history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367077112

The Rise and Fall of the Right of Silence Within an international context in which the right to silence has long been regarded as sacrosanct this book provides the first comprehensive empirically-based analysis of the effects of curtailing the right to silence. The right to silence has served as the practical expression of the principles that an individual was to be considered innocent until proven guilty and that it was for the prosecution to establish guilt. In 1791 the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution proclaimed that none ‘shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself’. In more recent times the privilege against self-incrimination has been a founding principle for the International Criminal Court the new South African constitution and the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Despite this pedigree over the past 30 years when governments have felt under pressure to combat crime or terrorism the right to silence has been reconsidered (as in Australia) curtailed (in most of the United Kingdom) or circumvented (by the creation of the military tribunals to try the Guantánamo detainees). The analysis here focuses upon the effects of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 in England and Wales. There curtailing the right to silence was advocated in terms of ‘common sense’ policy-making and was achieved by an eclectic borrowing of concepts and policies from other jurisdictions. The implications of curtailing this right are here explored in detail with reference to England Wales and Northern Ireland but within a comparative context that examines how different ‘types’ of legal systems regard the right to silence and the effects of constitutional protection. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138590984

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union 'An expert in probing mafia-type relationships in present-day Russia Martin McCauley here offers a vigorously written scrutiny of Soviet politics and society since the days of Lenin and Stalin.'John Keep Professor Emeritus University of Toronto.The birth of the Soviet Union surprised many; its demise amazed the whole world.  How did imperial Russia give way to the Soviet Union in 1917 and why did the USSR collapse so quickly in 1991?  Marxism promised paradise on earth but the Communist Party never had true power instead allowing Lenin and Stalin to become dictators who ruled in its name.  The failure of the planned economy to live up to expectations led to a boom in the unplanned economy in particular the black market.  In turn this led to the growth of organised crime and corruption within the government. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union examines the strengths weaknesses and contradictions of the first Marxist state and reassesses the role of power authority and legitimacy in Soviet politics.  Including first-person accounts anecdotes illustrations and diagrams to illustrate key concepts McCauley provides a seminal history of twentieth-century Russia.    Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138837584

The Rise and Fall of the The Soviet EconomyAn Economic History of the USSR 1945 - 1991 Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart? Did the economy simply overreach itself through military spending? Was it the centrally-planned character of Soviet socialism that was at fault? Or did a potentially viable mechanism come apart in Gorbachev's clumsy hands? Does its failure mean that true socialism is never economically viable? The economic dimension is at the very heart of the Russian story in the twentieth century. Economic issues were the cornerstone of  soviet ideology and the soviet system and economic issues brought the whole system crashing down in 1989-91. This book is a record of what happened and it is also an analysis of the failure of Soviet economics as a concept. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138138698

The Rise and Fall of the Well-Made Play (Routledge Revivals) First published in 1967 this title considers the idea of the ‘well-made play’ in the context of how and why it has been devalued and how far in allowing it to be devalued we have lost sight of certain important elements of the theatre. The focus of the book is largely on the development of British theatre and those who have been instrumental to it. This is an indispensable introduction for any student with an interest in the history and development of the British theatre. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415727853

The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism This book examines the evolution of historical professionalism with the development of an international community that shares a set of values regarding both methodological minimum demands and what constitutes new results. Historical professionalism is not a fixed set of skills but a concept with varying import and meaning at different times depending on changing norms. Torstendahl covers the propagation of these different ideals and of new educational forms from the late 18th century to the present from Ranke’s state-centrism to a historiography borne by social theories. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138379404

The Rise and Rise of IndicatorsTheir History and Geography This book makes indicators more accessible in terms of what they are who created them and how they are used. It examines the subjectivity and human frailty behind these quintessentially ‘hard’ and technical measures of the world. To achieve this goal The Rise and Rise of Indicators presents the world in terms of a selected set of indicators. The emphasis is upon the origins of the indicators and the motivation behind their creation and evolution. The ideas and assumptions behind the indicators are made transparent to demonstrate how changes to them can dramatically alter the ranking of countries that emerge. They are after all human constructs and thus embody human biases. The book concludes by examining the future of indicators and the author sets out some possible trajectories including the growing emphasis on indicators as important tools in the Sustainable Development Goals that have been set for the world up until 2030. This is a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the areas of economics sociology geography environmental studies development studies area studies business studies politics and international relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415786812

The Rise of Academic Architectural EducationThe origins and enduring influence of the Académie d’Architecture Academic architectural education started with the inauguration of the Académie d'Architecture on 3 December 1671 in France. It was the first institution to be devoted solely to the study of architecture and its school was the first dedicated to the explicit training of architectural students. The Académie was abolished in 1793 during the revolutionary turmoil that besieged France at the end of the eighteenth century although the architectural educational tradition that arose from it was resurrected with the formation of the École des Beaux-Arts and prevails in the ideologies and activities of schools of architecture throughout the world today. This book traces the previously neglected history of the Académie’s development and its enduring influence on subsequent architectural schools throughout the following centuries to the present day. Providing a valuable context for current discussions in architectural education The Rise of Academic Architectural Education is a useful resource for students and researchers interested in the history and theory of art and architecture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138562271

The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879–1930From Frege to Ramsey In this book Michael Potter offers a fresh and compelling portrait of the birth of modern analytic philosophy viewed through the lens of a detailed study of the work of the four philosophers who contributed most to shaping it:　 Gottlob Frege Bertrand Russell Ludwig Wittgenstein and Frank Ramsey. It covers the remarkable period of discovery that began with the publication of Frege's Begriffsschrift in 1879 and ended with Ramsey's death in 1930. Potter—one of the most influential scholars of this period in philosophy—presents a deep but accessible account of the break with absolute idealism and neo-Kantianism and the emergence of approaches that exploited the newly discovered methods in logic. Like his subjects Potter focusses principally on philosophical logic philosophy of mathematics and metaphysics but he also discusses epistemology meta-ethics and the philosophy of language. The book is an essential starting point for any student attempting to understand the work of Frege Russell Wittgenstein and Ramsey as well as their interactions and their larger intellectual milieux. It will also be of interest to anyone who wants to cast light on current philosophical problems through a better understanding of their origins. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138015142

The Rise of Asian DonorsJapan's Impact on the Evolution of Emerging Donors Why do poor countries give aid to others? This book critically examines how aspirations for providing aid have coexisted with experiences of receiving aid and have transformed the practice of giving aid with particular reference to the experiences of Japan and China. It highlights the historical sources that explain the pattern and strength of foreign aid that these new donors provide. The book has systematically examined the situation unique to middle income countries that are receiving and giving aid simultaneously. It sheds light on the endogenous elements embedded in the socio-economic conditions of emerging donors as well as their learning process as aid recipients. This book examines not only the perspectives of recipients but also those of donors: Japan in the case of China and the USA and the World Bank in the case of Japan. By bringing in the donor’s perspective we come to a holistic understanding of foreign aid as a product of interaction between the various agents involved. The book provides not only an in-depth case study of Japan from a historical perspective but also stretches its scope to cover contemporary debates on "emerging donors " including China India and Korea who have received substantial amount of aid from Japan in the past. This book connects the often separated discussion of Japanese aid and the way it developed in relation to outside forces. In short this book represents the first attempt to empirically examine the "life of a donor" with a clear focus on the origins struggles and futures of non-western donors and their impact on established aid regime. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415705813

The Rise of AsiaTrade and Investment in Global Perspective The Rise of Asia examines emerging trends and patterns of foreign trade and investment in Asia with a view to contributing to the policy debate on how development strategies should be adopted in response to challenges to economic globalization. The existing body of knowledge in this subject area has predominantly been shaped by the experiences of the newly industrialized countries (NICs) in East Asia. This volume is inspired by the conviction that generalization from the NIC experience is hazardous because the on-going process of economic globalization over the past two decades has dramatically transformed the international context of national development policy making. Moreover as ‘embracing market’ albeit at varying degree and rapidly has now become an Asia-wide phenomenon it is vital to look at the issues from a broader relational perspective paying attention to opportunities for intra-regional division of labour within the wider context of global economic integration. This book will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in Asian studies economics political economy and globalization. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415690010

The Rise of AutismRisk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis The Open Access version of this book available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429285912 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This innovative book addresses the question of why increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with autism since the 1990s. Providing an engaging account of competing and widely debated explanations it investigates how these have led to differing interpretations of the same data. Crucially the author argues that the increased use of autism diagnosis is due to medicalisation across the life course whilst holding open the possibility that the rise may also be partly accounted for by modern-day environmental exposures again across the life course. A further focus of the book is not on whether autism itself is valid as a diagnostic category but whether and how it is useful as a diagnostic category and how the utility of the diagnosis has contributed to the rise. This serves to move beyond the question of whether diagnoses are 'real' or social constructions and instead asks: who do diagnoses serve to benefit and at what cost do they come? The book will appeal to clinicians and health professionals as well as medical researchers who are interested in a review of the data which demonstrates the rising use of autism as a diagnosis and an analysis of the reasons why this has occurred. Providing theory through which to interpret the expanding application of the diagnosis and the broadening of autism as a concept it will also be of interest to scholars and students of sociology philosophy psychiatry psychology social work disability studies and childhood studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367250812

The Rise of Big Government The Rise of Big Government chronicles the phenomenal growth of local state and federal government over the last 100 years. The authors explain this growth by arguing that public and social acceptance of government intervention has allowed government to maintain a presence at all levels of the economy. The authors take issue with the opposing argument that government has grown by itself and by the bureaucracy's constant push for its own expansion. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315699103

The Rise of Big GovernmentHow Egalitarianism Conquered America Americans tend to believe that their country is very different from Europe. Yet over the past half century they have imported and embraced the most transformative social idea of modern Scandinavia: egalitarianism. Today the United States is more like Sweden than it is different dedicated to economic redistribution and to vigorously defending its big government. What price morally and economically are today’s Americans willing to pay to preserve their egalitarian welfare state? Are they willing to turn life into a fiscal cost item? Will they sacrifice their children’s future prosperity to defend their entitlements? The Rise of Big Government: How Egalitarianism Conquered America pursues the answer to these questions by going back to the ideological origins of the modern egalitarian welfare state. Specifically the book asks why this unity has been able to set such deep roots in the United States a country that is often perceived as fundamentally different when it comes to the role of government in the economy. It is shown that there are more similarities than differences between the welfare state in the United States and its Swedish "template." This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how the egalitarian ideology conquered the United States and who seeks to gain a deeper understanding of its strength its resiliency and the problems it faces in the future. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138296992

The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia In this pamphlet Margaret Shennan surveys the rise of Prussia from the early seventeenth century to 1740 highlighting and evaluating the role of its rulers in particular of Frederick William I the Great Elector and his two successors. The author takes account of: * international relations * social and economic structures * domestic pressures * ethical and cultural influences * idiosyncratic personalities * terrain and boundaries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138160293

The Rise of British West Africa First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138010901

The Rise of Business Ethics In 1973 Daniel Bell argued that corporations in post-industrial societies increasingly needed to behave in accord with widely accepted social norms particularly in terms of ethical behavior and social responsibility. Yet widespread criticism of business behavior was not an invention of the 1960s and 70s or a product of changing commercial norms. The key feature historically has been business scandal. Understandings of how the field of business ethics has emerged are undeveloped however. This book is the first attempt to explain the conditions which saw a focus develop on business ethics especially in the 1960s and 70s and how the broader field developed to encompass related notions such as corporate governance corporate social responsibility ethical leadership sustainable business and responsible management education. The Rise of Business Ethics provides an introduction and analysis of the key developments in contemporary business ethics by examining them in terms of their diachronic development – the key thinkers the key issues the key institutions and how they each contributed to contemporary understandings of business ethics governance and practice. Addressing the topic from a European as well as North American perspective The Rise of Business Ethics will be of interest to researchers academics and students in the fields of business ethics business and society business history organization studies and political economy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138614079

The Rise of Catalan IndependenceSpain’s Territorial Crisis As recently as the mid-2000s Catalonia was described and analysed by scholars as exhibiting a non-secessionist nationalism and was seen within Europe and beyond as a role model for successful devolution which had much to teach other parts of the world. The Spanish state seemed to be on a journey towards an authentic federal order and was generally admired. However the new century has been marked by an ever-growing independence movement with 47.8 per cent of Catalonia voting in favour of independence in September 2015. Pro-independence mobilization has produced a rupture in political relations with the rest of Spain leading to a sovereignty struggle with Madrid. This book explores how an accumulation of long- medium- and short-term factors have produced the current situation and why the Spanish territorial model has been unable or possibly unwilling to respond. The Catalan question is not purely a Spanish problem: it has direct implications for the traditional nation-state model in Europe and beyond. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138587700

The Rise of Causal Concepts of DiseaseCase Histories Much of contemporary medical theory and practice focuses on the identification of specific causes of disease. However this has not always been the case: until the early nineteenth century physicians thought of diseases in quite different terms. The modern quest for causes of disease can be seen as a single Lakatosian research programme. One can track the rise and elaboration of this programme by a series of case histories. The success of work on bacterial diseases such as cholera and tuberculosis tends to eclipse the broad context in which those studies were embedded. Yet in the 1830s fifty years before Koch's publications on tuberculosis specific causes were already being identified for several non-bacterial diseases including scabies muscardine and ringworm. Moreover by the end of the century the quest for specific causes had spread well beyond bacterial diseases. The expanding research programme included Freud's early work on psychopathology the discovery of viruses the discovery of vitamins and the recognition of genetic disorders such as Down's syndrome. Existing historical discussions of research in these areas for example histories of work on the deficiencies diseases take the view that success in bacteriology was a positive obstacle to the identification of causes for other kinds of diseases. Treating the quest for causes as a single coherent research programme provides a better understanding of the disease concepts that characterise the last 150 years of medical thought. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138248120

The Rise of China and the Capitalist World Order China's rise within global society and politics has brought it into the spotlight - for social scientists the country's long and dramatic transformations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries make it an ideal case study for research on political and economic development and social changes. China's size integration and dynamism are impacting on the functioning of the capitalist world system. This book offers a non-conventional analysis of the possible outcomes from China's transformation and provides a dialectical understanding of the complexities and underlying dynamics brought about by the rise of modern-day China. The theoretical and methodological approaches will prove useful for students and researchers of development studies and international relations. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553436

The Rise of China and Transformation of the US-China RelationshipForging Partnership in the Age of Strategic Mistrust The rise of China has transformed Sino-US relations in the 21st century. Although the United States remains atop the global power hierarchy its relative leverage has become more restraint as China has steadily stepped up as a counterweight to US influence. The Sino-US relationship has therefore become increasingly strategic and complicated. In addition to the often sharp differences over many bilateral issues such as trade human rights and Taiwan a strategic distrust i.e. suspicion of each other’s long-term intentions has emerged to overshadow the relationship. While many Chinese are concerned that the US will try to keep China down some Americans are anxious about the implications of China’s great power aspiration for US interests. How has China’s rise resulted in the strategic distrust? Can the US and China function in a world of relatively greater power equality and interdependence? Can they forge a partnership to expand cooperation in areas of common interests? Specifically what is the US anxiety of the "China threat" and responses to the transformation of the US-China relationship in the 21st century? How do the Chinese perceive the new relationship with the US? What are the Chinese perspectives of opportunities and challenges working with the US in traditional and non-traditional security issue areas? Can China replace the US leadership in Asia? How has the shifting balance of power between the US and China led to new dynamics in their respective relations with Japan and Taiwan? These are the critically important questions that this book of contributions by leading scholars seeks to find answers. This book is based on a collection of papers from the Journal of Contemporary China. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415707770

The Rise of Consciousness and the Development of Emotional Life Synthesizing decades of influential research and theory Michael Lewis demonstrates the centrality of consciousness for emotional development. At first infants' competencies constitute innate reactions to particular physical events in the child's world. These "action patterns" are not learned but are readily influenced by temperament and social interactions. With the rise of consciousness these early competencies become reflected feelings giving rise to the self-conscious emotions of empathy envy and embarrassment and later shame guilt and pride. Focusing on typically developing children Lewis also explores problems of atypical emotional development. Winner/m-/William James Book Award Society for General Psychology (APA Division 1) Media > Books > Print Books Guilford Press 9781462512522

The Rise of Consumer Capitalism in America 1880 - 1930 This book offers a genealogical account of the rise of consumer capitalism tracing its origins in America between 1880 and 1930 and explaining how it emerged to become the dominant form of social organization of our time. Asking how it was that we came to be consumers who live in societies that revolve around an ever-spinning circle of production and consumption not only of goods but also of events experiences emotions and relations The Rise of Consumer Capitalism in America presents an extensive analysis of primary sources to demonstrate the conditions and forces from which consumer capitalism emerged and became victorious. Employing a Weberian approach that brings liminality to the fore as a master concept to make sense of historical change the author links an in-depth empirical investigation to supple sociological theorizing to show how the encirclement of all aspects of life by the logic of consumer capitalism was a time-bound historical creation rather than a necessary one. A fascinating study of the appearance and triumph of the "ideology" of our age this book will appeal to scholars of social and anthropological theory historical sociology cultural history and American studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367856618

The Rise of Contemporary Conservatism in the United States The Rise of Contemporary Conservatism in the United States offers students an accessible introduction to the history of modern American conservatism. The author provides a concise but substantial discussion of modern conservatism from its origins in opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal up until the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump. The text examines electoral coalitions and politics as connected to economic and foreign policy as well as ideology. Conservative ideas and values are addressed directly both on their own terms and in the context of contemporary political applications. A robust collection of primary documents offers students and instructors the opportunity to examine directly the views of both conservatives and their critics. Supported by range of study tools including a glossary of key figures and terms a detailed chronology and ample suggestions for further reading The Rise of Contemporary Conservatism in the United States is the ideal introduction for students interested in the forging and fracturing of modern conservative coalitions and ideologies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138096264

The Rise of Contemporary SpiritualismConcepts and controversies in talking to the dead Talking to the dead and communication with 'the other side' is often presented as a taboo in an increasingly technological and medically advanced world. However practices of spiritualism and mediumship continue to remain popular and in high demand within contemporary Western societies. This book analyses the practices of today’s mediums who insist on standing at the threshold between life and death interpreting signs and passing on communications and asks how such concepts and practices are perceived by contemporary society. Using first-hand material gathered from alternative fairs mediumistic congresses séances and interviews with both practitioners and clients as well as thorough textual analysis Anne Kalvig provides a clear overview of the various forms of consumption of mediumship in Western society and places these within a socio-cultural religious and historical context. She also raises questions as to the controversies surrounding spiritualism and its representation and relationship with popular culture and the media. This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of sociology religious studies folklore media studies and anthropology as well as to anyone interested in the upsurge of contemporary spiritualism psychic phenomena and the paranormal. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367595982

The Rise of Corporate Publishing and Its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America This study examines the way that the modernization and incorporation of the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century both helped to foment the emerging late industrial cultural hierarchy and capitalized on that same hierarchy to increase readership and profits. More importantly however it attempts to trace the ways in which recently-introduced marketing techniques reconceived ideas of audience and new paradigms in author-publisher relations affected American writers of the 1930s and the literature they produced. Using case studies of authors chosen from various points on the spectrum of so-called high- middle- and lowbrow literature the author demonstrates that contrary to popular critical opinion this new publishing landscape--dominated by big-business practices and strict categorizations of audiences writers and works--did not ruin or corrupt literature but in fact enriched our literary heritage by providing authors with inspiration and opportunity that they may not otherwise have had. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415762472

The Rise of Critical Animal StudiesFrom the Margins to the Centre As the scholarly and interdisciplinary study of human/animal relations becomes crucial to the urgent questions of our time notably in relation to environmental crisis this collection explores the inner tensions within the relatively new and broad field of animal studies. This provides a platform for the latest critical thinking on the condition and experience of animals. The volume is structured around four sections: engaging theory doing critical animal studies critical animal studies and anti-capitalism contesting the human liberating the animal: veganism and activism. The Rise of Critical Animal Studies demonstrates the centrality of the contribution of critical animal studies to vitally important contemporary debates and considers future directions for the field. This edited collection will be useful for students and scholars of sociology gender studies psychology geography and social work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138125919

The Rise of Econometrics In the memorable words of Ragnar Frisch econometrics is ‘a unification of the theoretical–quantitative and the empirical–quantitative approach to economic problems’. Beginning to take shape in the 1930s and 1940s econometrics is now recognized as a vital subdiscipline supported by a vast—and still rapidly growing—body of literature. Edited by a leading researcher in the history of econometrics this new collection from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Economics series brings together in one ‘mini library’ the best and most influential scholarship on the rise of econometrics. The set provides an authoritative one-stop resource to enable users to understand what has shaped econometrics into its current form. With a full index and comprehensive introductions to each volume newly written by the editor the collection also provides a synoptic view of many current key debates and issues. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415616782

The Rise of Ethnic Politics in NepalDemocracy in the Margins The relationship between ethnic politics and democracy presents a paradox for scholars and policy makers: ethnic politics frequently emerge in new democracies and yet are often presumed to threaten these new democracies. As ethnic politics is becoming increasingly central to Nepali politics this book argues it has the potential to strengthen rather than destabilize democracy. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork Susan Hangen focuses on the ethnic political party Mongol National Organization (MNO) which consists of multiple ethnic groups and has been mobilizing support in rural east Nepal. By investigating the party’s discourse and its struggles to gain support and operate within a village government the book provides a window onto the processes of democratization in rural Nepal in the 1990s. This work presents a more nuanced understanding of how ethnic parties operate on the ground arguing that ethnic parties overlap considerably with social movements and that the boundary between parties and movements should be reconceptualised. The analysis demonstrates that ethnic parties are not antithetical to democracy and that democratization can proceed in diverse and unexpected ways.   Providing an in-depth discussion of the indigenous nationalities movement one of Nepal’s most significant social movements this work will be of great interest to scholars and students of Asian Politics South Asian Studies and Political Anthropology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415502085

The Rise of European Liberalism Beginning with the new worlds of the Renaissance and the Reformation this book traces the growth of liberal doctrine through the advent of the French Revolution. It shows the relationship of liberalism to the emerging economic system of capitalism and the impact of this relationship upon science philosophy and literature. Laski explains how the same causes which produced the socially active aspect of liberalism also inspired the growth of socialism. The contributions of men like Machiavelli Locke and Voltaire the influence of the voyages of discovery and the effect of the Puritan Rebellion are among the special topics discussed.The Rise of European Liberalism is a historical survey of the development of liberal thought from its earliest whispers in early Protestantism to its significance in the "Red Decade" of the 1930s. Laski argues that liberalism as a philosophy came into existence with the rise of capitalism and thus functions primarily as an ideological defense of private property in a business civilization. Hence liberalism's progressive side is doomed to defeat because throughout its history the bourgeois nature of the ideology has always prevailed.In the new introduction John Stanley traces the history and influences of Laski's thought and provides a detailed analysis of Laski's work. The essay provides a coherent study in itself of why Laski is better remembered than widely read. The Rise of European Liberalism is a classic text that deserves rediscovery for historians philosophers sociologists and political scientists of the present day. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538283

The Rise of European Liberalism (Works of Harold J. Laski)An Essay in Interpretation A valuable piece of intellectual history readable in its own terms this volume beginning with the Renaissance and the Reformation traces the growth of Liberal doctrine until the advent of the French Revolution. It shows the relation of Liberalism to the new economic system and the impact of this upon science philosophy and literature. The book explains how the same causes which produced the Liberal spirit also produced the reasons for the growth of Socialism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138823051

The Rise of Gawain Nephew of Arthur Published in 1984: The Rise of Gawain Nephew of Arthur is an exciting adventure story of the training testing and recognition of knighthood in King Arthur's court. The setting is the historical world of the fifth century: Rome Jerusalem Britannia. Atleast one copy of the story circulated in England apparently influencing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Faerie Queene Book 1. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367146238

The Rise of Hotel Chains in the United States 1896-1980 This title combines history organizational theory and statistical analysis to examine how chains have come to dominate the hotel industry over the past century. It provides information and insight not only on a major American industry but also on the rise of chains - a phenomenon increasingly affecting many other industries. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315051802

The Rise of India and ChinaSocial Economic and Environmental Impacts This book offers a comparative analysis of the rise of India and China and their decisive economic and social roles in a global context. It presents a cumulative picture of the socio-economic challenges as well as the opportunities for growth and inclusive development before India and China. The volume analyses the performance of the two countries based on economic and human development indicators. It highlights the key achievements of the two countries in governance and financial growth and the potential for further economic development. Drawing on government data and empirical research the book examines India and China’s relative growth in trade investments renewable energy technologies urbanisation and employment and their policies on agriculture land use public health and rural-urban inequality. Further it discusses the shared challenges of inequality poverty gender disparity and environment degradation which both countries face and contrasts their policy priorities and governance mechanisms. Comprehensive and insightful this book will be of great interest for researchers and scholars of development studies economics international relations comparative politics sociology public policy and Asian studies. It will also be useful for think tanks policy makers and general readers interested in the India–China relationship. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9780367562243

The Rise of Italian Fascism (RLE Responding to Fascism)1918-1922 The rise of Italian fascism is often seen as a pre-condition as well as a precursor of later developments in Europe most notably in Germany. As such they were also much discussed in the English speaking world throughout the 1930’s. First published in English in 1938 this book gives an account of Italian history in the years immediately following the first world war culminating in the triumph of Mussolini. Arguing that Mussolini succeeded because he was much more ruthless than his opponents he concludes that this is something that must be learnt from: ‘in point of material and military strength we must be superior to the fascists since that is the ground on which they are trying to force a decision.' . Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415851510

The Rise of Japanese NGOsActivism from Above Over the past two decades non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have exploded in number and emerged as a new force in international and transnational politics. Why however do some countries nonetheless have more active NGO sectors than others? Using the case of Japan this book uncovers patterns of convergence and divergence in levels of activism across industrialized countries and offers a two-level political explanation for the rise of NGOs as a global phenomenon. The author argues that activism has been cultivated from "above" and shows the ways in which political structures and processes at the domestic and international level have either encouraged or discouraged activism. Japan a late developer in terms of its number of NGOs provided a poor political environment for NGO activism for most of the post-war period. In the past two decades however as this situation has changed NGOs have become a visible player as both critics and partners of the government.. Using the concepts of international political opportunity norm socialization and transnational diffusion Reimann traces the ways in which domestic and international politics interact and promote the rise of NGOs globally. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students and academics working in political science international relations sociology policy studies Asian studies international development and environmental politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415690294

The Rise of Law and EconomicsAn Intellectual History This is a history—though intentionally a brief history—of the rise of law and economics as a field of thought in the U.S. college and law school academy though the field has expanded to Europe and South America and will expand further as other legal systems develop. This book explains the origins of the field and the sources of its growth during its formative period. It describes the intellectual roots of the field and the field’s relationship to the understanding of the role of the legal system in directing the functioning of the economy. It describes the effect of the Great Depression and the expansion of governmental power on advancing the functional approach. The book then addresses the work of Aaron Director during the late 1950s on focusing economic analysis as a means of understanding the effects of the legal and regulatory system on the allocation of resources in the society. Then it turns to the subsequent intellectual founders of the field—Ronald Coase Guido Calabresi and Richard Posner—and attempts to explain the significance of their work. It also discusses the efforts of Robert Bork and Henry Manne toward the influence of law and economics on public policy. The book ends with the founding of the American Law and Economics Association in 1991. This is an essential companion to law and economics texts for undergraduate law and economic students and especially a general supplement to first-year casebooks for law school students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367339388

The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth CenturyAnxious Employment Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre and traces the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s covering a range of publications by both well-known and obscure writers. The book's central theme is the struggle of eighteenth-century journalists to attain literary respectability and the strategies by which editors sought to improve the literary and social status of their publications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415651516

The Rise of Louis Napoleon Originally published in 1968 this book follows the life of Louis Napoleon from his birth to his exile and education his time as a 'political pretender' a 'political prisoner' and finally a citizen. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367146351

The Rise of Management Consulting in Britain This title was first published in 2002: The history of management consulting in Britain is a subject that has received little attention in the past in terms of research or publication. This work redresses the gap in the knowledge base of business and management history presenting the historical situation in the context of management consulting. Identifying the beginnings of consultancy services in the mid-nineteenth century Ferguson charts its progression through a series of time frames that span the twentieth century. Utilizing a series of consistent themes such as service delivery forms and training which can be compared and contrasted across time the book provides not only a history of management consultancy services but also shows how the take-up and form of services was heavily dependent upon the prevailing attitudes within business to the role of management. The thoroughly researched and well-presented arguments in this book will greatly add to our knowledge of British management during the twentieth century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138740372

The Rise of Merchant Banking This is the first serious history of merchant banking based on the archives of the leading houses and the records of their activities throughout the world. It combines scholarly insight with readability and offers a totally new assessment of the origins of one of the most dynamic sectors of the City of London money market of the British economy as a whole and of a major aspect of the growth of international business. Dr Chapman has researched new material from the archives of Rothschilds Barings Kleinwort Benson and other leading houses together with a wide range of archives and published work in Europe America and South Africa to trace the roots of British enterprise in financing international trade exporting capital floating companies arbitrage and other activities of the merchant banks. While mindful of the subtleties of international financial connections this book assumes no previous acquaintance with the jargon of banking economics and sociology. It will therefore prove equally interesting to students of history business and finance and offers a 'good read' to anyone interested in the City of London and the international economy. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203709498

The Rise of Modern Diplomacy 1450 - 1919 Though international relations and the rise and fall of European states are widely studied little is available to students and non-specialists on the origins development and operation of the diplomatic system through which these relations were conducted and regulated. Similarly neglected are the larger ideas and aspirations of international diplomacy that gradually emerged from its immediate functions.This impressive survey written by one of our most experienced international historians and covering the 500 years in which European diplomacy was largely a world to itself triumphantly fills that gap. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138139558

The Rise of Modern Industry First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415850407

The Rise of Modern Japan It is now generally recognized that Japan has been much the most successful of the countries outside Europe and North America in achieving modernization. The transformation from a feudal society with a Confucian ethic to a ‘modern Western style economy’ is charted in this book (originally published in 1990) which follows the political economic and social changes from the decline of the Tokugawa in the 1860s all the way through to the death of Emperor Hirohito and the end of the Showa era in 1989.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415851527

The Rise of Modern Jewish PoliticsExtraordinary Movement The path toward modern Jewish politics a process that required a dramatic reconstruction of Jewish life may have emerged during a far earlier time frame and in a different geographic and cultural context than has previously been thought. Drawing upon current sociological understanding of social movements this book places the 1827 organized protest in London as an integral part of a transnational social movement continuum—similar to the abolitionist and women’s rights movements—that waxed and waned throughout the 19th century. From its early origins in London in 1827 to Montefiore’s gallant style of leadership in the Middle East to the rise of the "Mourning March" and street processions of the early twentieth-century and then on to the civil disobedience of the 1980s the movement evolved shifted its contentious center from England to the United States and adapted to a dramatically altered post-Holocaust environment. This multifaceted and often fractious campaign was never monolithic by nature and was often rife with internal disputes. It ran the gamut between stirring accomplishments and mobilizations that fell far short of expectations. Any attempt to view the lengthy series of international protests as a steady progression of liberality and advancement would be at odds with a far more ambiguous reality. The Rise of Modern Jewish Politics argues that the numerous protest insurgences strengthened Jewish participation in the public sphere and further defined a public political culture. While the movement certainly evolved through the decades the core values that first arose in London were retained during the course of several contentious cycles that later surfaced both in Britain and the United States. This book utilizes an innovative interpretive framework to formulate a new paradigm of how Jews entered the modern world. The struggle for Jewish rights remains one of the most enduring social movements in modern history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138118638

The Rise of NonProfit Investigative Journalism in the United States With a foreword from Michael Schudson The Rise of Nonprofit Investigative Journalism in the United States examines the rapid growth impact and sustainability of not-for-profit investigative reporting and its impact on US democracy and mainstream journalism. The book addresses key questions about the sustainability of foundation funding the agendas of foundations and the ethical issues that arise from philanthropically funded journalism. It provides a theoretical framework that enables readers to recognize connections and relationships that the nonprofit accountability journalism sector has with the economic political and mainstream media fields in the United States.As battered news media struggled to survive the financial crisis of 2007-2009 dozens of investigative and public service reporting startups funded by foundations billionaires and everyday citizens were launched to scrutinize local state and national issues. Foundations donors and many journalists believed there was a crisis for investigative journalism and democracy in the United States. This book challenges this and argues that legacy editors acted to quarantine their investigative teams from newsroom cuts. It also demonstrates how nonprofit journalism transformed aspects of journalistic practice. Through detailed research and practical discussion it provides a comprehensive study of this increasingly important genre of journalism. The Rise of Nonprofit Investigative Journalism in the United States is an important text for academics and students of journalism communications theory media and democracy-related units as well as journalists worldwide. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367582333

The Rise of Obesity in EuropeA Twentieth Century Food History Twentieth century Europe went through a dramatic transition from low income populations experiencing hunger and nutritionally inadequate diets to the recent era of over-consumption and growing numbers of overweight and obese people. By examining the trends in food history from case studies across Europe this book offers a historical context to explain how and why this transition has occurred and what we can learn in order to try and address the vitally important issues arising from obesity in contemporary Europe. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138251106

The Rise of Our East African Empire (1893)Early Efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda (2 Volume Set) First published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315889313

The Rise of Our East African Empire (1893)Early Efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda (Vol 1 of 2 Vols) First published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203770405

The Rise of Our East African Empire (1893)Early Efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda (volume 2 of 2 vols) First published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203770382

The Rise of Planning in Industrial America 1865-1914 Central economic planning is often associated with failed state socialism and modern capitalism celebrated as its antithesis. This book shows that central planning is not always or even primarily a state enterprise and that the giant industrial corporations that dominated the American economy through the twentieth century were first and foremost unprecedented examples of successful consensual central planning at a very large scale. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138243828

The Rise of Political Advisors in the Westminster System Political advisors have risen in significance in Westminster countries and have been increasingly thrust into the limelight by headline scandals and through their characterisation in various television series. This increased prominence has led to greater scrutiny of their role and influence. This book demonstrates that the introduction of political advisors into the structure of the executive has led to the erosion of the Westminster doctrine of ministerial responsibility. Adopting a comparative approach the book analyses the rise in the power and significance of political advisors in the Westminster jurisdictions of the United Kingdom Australia New Zealand and Canada. It shows the fundamental shift of the locus of power from the neutral public service to highly political and partisan ministerial advisors. Tracing the divergent paths for legal and political regulation of political advisors Yee-Fui Ng illuminates the tensions that they pose within the Westminster system in terms of the media/politics and faction/opposition interfaces. Providing insights for those researching or engaged in politics and public administration this work will interest scholars and students of politics and public law policy and administration. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415787482

The Rise of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment This collection of essays provides a comprehensive view of the economic thought of the Scottish Enlightenment. Organized as a chronological account of the rise and progress of political economy in eighteenth century Scotland each chapter discusses the way in which the moral and economic improvement of the Scottish nation became a common concern. Contributors not only explore the economic discourses of David Hume James Steuart and Adam Smith but also consider the neglected economic writings of Andrew Fletcher Robert Wallace Francis Hutcheson William Robertson John Millar and Dugald Stewart. This book addresses the question of how these economic writings interacted with the moral political and historical arguments of the time and shows how contemporary issues related to the union with England natural jurisprudence classical republicanism and manners and civilization all contained an economic dimension. Key chapters include: The ancient modern controversy in the Scottish Enlightenment The 'Scottish Triangle' in the shaping of political economy: David Hume Sir James Steuart and Adam Smith Civilization and history in Lord Kames and William Robertson  Adam Smith in Japan This view of the origin of economic science in Britain is markedly different from traditional accounts and will be of interest to economic political and social historians. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415753944

The Rise of Professional SocietyEngland Since 1880 The Rise of Professional Society lays out a stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society challenging accepted paradigms based on class analysis. Perkins argues that the non-capitalist "professional class" represents a new principle of social organization based on trained expertise and meritocracy a "forgotten middle class" conveniently overlooked by classical social theorists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138153004

The Rise of ProfessionalismMonopolies of Competence and Sheltered Markets What gave rise to our modern conceptions of professional status and how did particular professions gain their privileged status? Magali Sarfatti Larson shows how our present conception and acceptance of profession was shaped in the liberal phase of capitalism.Larson argues that professionalization was both a response to the extension of market relations and a movement for the conquest of collective social status by sectors of the bourgeoisie. By comparing the development of various professions in England and the United States during the first part of the nineteenth century the author gives concrete historical illustration to the multiple relations professions form within their society.Larson examines the new conditions of professionalization in the phase of corporate capitalism drawing on a number of historical and sociological sources. While professions began as a mode of autonomous work organization many credentialed occupations aspire to professionalize in order to shelter the labor markets in which they work. Larson argues that the idea of profession can function as a form of ideological control and concludes that today professionalism works against many of the values that had been historically vested in it. This classic book complete with a new introduction that brings the work into the twenty-first century is timely and should be read by all interested in the history and development of organizational life. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412847773

The Rise of Prussia 1700-1830 At the beginning of the eighteenth century Prussia was but one in a mosaic of German states but it rose to be the unchallenged leader of German-speaking Europe after the fall of Napoleon. The book goes beyond the political military and diplomatic concerns of the Prussian elite whose record of events is the one upon which most histories of Prussia are based and explains its rise in relation to Prussian society as a whole. Political analysis is integrated with material on such areas as agrarian society urban life and religion which are not fully examined in existing histories. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138837645

The Rise of Regional Europe In the 1970s and 1980s there was a steady transfer of power in mainland Europe to new powerful regional authorities and these in their turn started to build up a new form of intra-European co-operation. With the acceleration of European integration the rise of the multinational firm and new media and transport technologies the traditional defence-based nation-states are under threat. In this challenging study Christopher Harvie alters the ways in which we have traditionally surveyed the European past by setting the positive and negative aspects of the present European situation in their historical context. He reappraises the actors of `national' politics the persistence of types of civic and internationalist discourse and finally looks at the transactions which have created `bourgeois regionalism' and its implications for the future of Europe. Harvie argues that we are only beginning to realise the shift in consciousness as well as in politics and administration that an integrated Europe will involve. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138156616

The Rise of RegionalismCauses of Regional Mobilization in Western Europe During the past 40 years regions have become increasingly important in Western Europe both as units of government and as sources for political mobilization. This book examines why regional identities are stronger in some regions than in others and why regional elites attempt to mobilize the public on a regionalist agenda at certain points in time. The author develops a model that explains change across space as well as time and provides a comprehensive discussion of the causes of regionalism. It focuses on endogenous developments in the regions and on change across time in the economic and political landscapes of the regions. Using a quantitative study of 212 Western European regions which examine whether regionalism is related to cultural economic and political characteristics of the regions the book builds a model of the causes of regionalism. The issues are further explored through case studies on Scotland (UK) and Rogaland (Norway). This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political and social sciences especially those with an interest in regions regionalism and regional nationalism Scottish politics Norwegian politics territorial identities and territorial politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415853378

The Rise of RevolutionInternal Displacement in Contemporary Nepal This volume focuses on Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and IDPs in South Asia. The volume begins with an overview of Maoist rebels in 1996 as they launched a ‘people’s war’ to overthrow the monarchy and establish a socialist republic in Nepal. Specifically it attempts to bring out the tensions between minority ethnic groups and low castes in the rural areas and the upper caste Hindus who still have a hold albeit tenuous over the country. The work attempts to document and analyse the conflict which ended with a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in November 2006 and providing for the return and rehabilitation of all people displaced by the conflict. Those from impoverished communities fled the fighting Maoist extortion and forced recruitment to district centres large cities such as Kathmandu Biratnagar Nepalgunj and across the border to India.Apart from the question of filling in the gap in the existing literature on the People’s War in Nepal the volume aims to raise certain questions relating to the situation of the Internally Displaced Persons in Nepal. The study also focuses on the governmental measures the attitude of the host community and the struggle of the IDPs in a new environment that influenced and impacted upon their social and cultural life.This volume is invaluable for scholars of South Asian Studies Nepal Strategic Studies Human Rights and IDPs. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138484771

The Rise Of Rhetoric And Its Intersection With Contemporary Critical Thought This book features contemporary critical and Marxist theories of resistance domination knowledge and systems of ideological control. It offers a balanced discussion of classical and modern theories of rhetoric as well as critical theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367311032

The Rise of Science in Islam and the WestFrom Shared Heritage to Parting of The Ways 8th to 19th Centuries This is a study of science in Muslim society from its rise in the 8th century to the efforts of 19th-century Muslim thinkers and reformers to regain the lost ethos that had given birth to the rich scientific heritage of earlier Muslim civilization. The volume is organized in four parts; the rise of science in Muslim society in its historical setting of political and intellectual expansion; the Muslim creative achievement and original discoveries; proponents and opponents of science in a religiously oriented society; and finally the complex factors that account for the end of the 500-year Muslim renaissance. The book brings together and treats in depth using primary and secondary sources in Arabic Turkish and European languages subjects that are lightly and uncritically brushed over in non-specialized literature such as the question of what can be considered to be purely original scientific advancement in Muslim civilization over and above what was inherited from the Greco–Syriac and Indian traditions; what was the place of science in a religious society; and the question of the curious demise of the Muslim scientific renaissance after centuries of creativity. The book also interprets the history of the rise achievement and decline of scientific study in light of the religious temper and of the political and socio-economic vicissitudes across Islamdom for over a millennium and integrates the Muslim legacy with the history of Latin/European accomplishments. It sets the stage for the next momentous transmission of science: from the West back to the Arabic-speaking world of Islam from the last half of the 19th century to the early 21st century the subject of a second volume. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472447333

The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United StatesCathedrals of Sport Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation’s geography. Stadiums serve as iconic monuments of urban and university identities. Indeed the power of sport in modern American culture has produced ‘sportscapes’—landscapes literally shaped by their devotion to athletic competition. Curiously given the importance of the secular cathedrals in American culture historians have paid little attention to these edifices. The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States: Cathedrals of Sport seeks to remedy that oversight. This book will analyze stadiums from a variety of perspectives paying special attention to the links between the ‘built environment’ in which Americans watch and play games and the larger social environments that the nation’s sporting practices inhabit. The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States: Cathedrals of Sport explores the role of stadiums in shaping urban identities determining the economics of intercollegiate athletics influencing local and national politics. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415853811

The Rise of Tamil Separatism in Sri LankaFrom Communalism to Secession Among the examples of civil wars armed secessionist movements and minority uprisings in the world today many involve conflict between a minority group’s aim for political self-determination and the nation state’s resistance to any diminution of sovereignty. With the expansion of the international regime of human rights minority groups have reconceptualised their struggle with the understanding that a minority which is linguistically religiously or ethnically distinctive is entitled to self-determination if their aspirations cannot be met. This book explores the relationship between minority rights self-determination and secession within international law by contextualising these issues in a detailed case study of the rise of Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka. Welhengama and Pillay show how Tamil communalism hardened into secession and assess whether the Sri Lankan government has met its obligations with respect to the right to self-determination short of secession. Focusing on the legal and human rights arguments for secession by the Tamil community of the North and East of Sri Lanka the book demonstrates how the language of international law and international human rights played a major role in the development of the arguments for secession. Through a close examination of the case of the Tamil’s secessionist movement the book presents valuable insights into why modern nation states find themselves threatened by separatist claims and bids for independence based on ethnicity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138665750

The Rise of Thana-Capitalism and Tourism We live in a society that is bombarded by news of accidents disasters and terrorist attacks. We are obsessed by the presence of death. It is commodified in newspapers the media entertainment and in our cultural consumption. This book explores the notion of an emergent class of “death-seekers” who consume the spectacle of the disaster exploring spaces of mass death and suffering. Sites that are obliterated by disasters or tragic events are recycled and visually consumed by an international audience creating a death-seekers economy. The quest for the suffering of others allows for a much deeper reinterpretation of life and has captivated the attention of many tourists visiting sites such as concentration camps disasters zones abandoned prisons and areas hit by terrorism. This book explores the notion of the death-seekers economy drawing on the premise that the society of risk as imagined by postmodern sociology sets the pace to a new society: thana-capitalism. The chapters dissect our fascination with other’s suffering what this means for our own perceptions of the self and as a tourist activity. It also explores the notion of an economy of impotence where citizens feel the world is out of control. This compelling book will be interest to students and scholars researching dark tourism tourist behaviour disaster studies cultural studies and sociology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138339484

The Rise of the American Business Corporation First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Taylor & Francis 9780415850391

The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information ExchangeMerchants Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countr Most scholars agree that during the sixteenth century the centre of European international trade shifted from Antwerp to Amsterdam presaging the economic rise of the Dutch Republic in the following century. Traditionally this shift has been accepted as the natural consequence of a dynamic and progressive city such as Amsterdam taking advantage of expanding commercial opportunities at the expense of a more conservative rival hampered by outmoded medieval practices. Yet whilst this theory is widely accepted is it accurate? In this groundbreaking study Clé Lesger argues that the shift of commercial power from Antwerp to Amsterdam was by no means inevitable and that the highly specialized economy of the Low Countries was more than capable of adapting to the changing needs of international trade. It was only when the Dutch Revolt and military campaigns literally divided the Low Countries into separate states that the existing stable spatial economy and port system fell apart and a restructuring was needed. Within this process of restructuring the port of Amsterdam acquired a function radically different to the one it had prior to the division of the Netherlands. Before the Revolt it had served as the northern outport in a gateway system centred on Antwerp but with access of that port now denied to the new republic Amsterdam developed as the main centre for Dutch shipping trade and - crucially - the exchange of information. Drawing on a wide variety of neglected archival collections (including those of the Bank of Amsterdam) this study not only addresses specific historical questions concerning the commercial life of the Low Countries but through the case study of Amsterdam also explores wider issues of early modern European commercial trade and economic development. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237299

The Rise of the British Coal Industry First Published in 1966. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138997370

The Rise of the Celts Originally published between 1920-70 The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor C.K. Ogden was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians anthropologists archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings: * Prehistory and Historical Ethnography Set of 12: 0-415-15611-4: £800.00 * Greek Civilization Set of 7: 0-415-15612-2: £450.00 * Roman Civilization Set of 6: 0-415-15613-0: £400.00 * Eastern Civilizations Set of 10: 0-415-15614-9: £650.00 * Judaeo-Christian Civilization Set of 4: 0-415-15615-7: £250.00 * European Civilization Set of 11: 0-415-15616-5: £700.00 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415850414

The Rise of the Chinese Economy: The Middle Kingdom EmergesThe Middle Kingdom Emerges In this analysis of the roots and objectives of Chinese economic and industrial policy Mastel outlines the implications of China's rise for the world economy. He then proposes strategies to address the hazards this rise will pose as well as the opportunities it will create. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315293653

The Rise of the Corporate Economy First published in 1976 this much acclaimed book looks at the story of how today's large corporations have superseded the small competing firms of the nineteenth century. The long-run analysis confirms that the crucial periods in the formulation of the modern corporate system were the 1920's and 1960's. The merger wave of these decades was associated with a desire to improve the efficiency of Britain’s industrial organization and the author shows that it was in a large measure responsible for the trend improvement (by historical if not international standards) in Britain's growth performance. Students of business economic history and industrial economics will all welcome the return to print of a notable contribution to the continuing debate on the evolution and control of the corporate manufacturing sector. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203709504

The Rise of the Dutch New RightAn Intellectual History of the Rightward Shift in Dutch Politics In the past 20 years a wave of right-wing populist movements has swept over Europe changing the face of European politics. The Netherlands has been one of the more iconic countries to partake in this shift. Known internationally as an emblem of progressivism and tolerance the country soon became a frontrunner in the revival of nationalist and anti-immigrant sentiment. This is the first study to offer an extensive engagement with the ideas behind the Dutch swing to the right. The emergence of Dutch populism this book shows formed an integral part of a broader conservative tendency identified as the Dutch New Right. In the US and the UK the term New Right has been used to describe conservative backlash movements that arose in opposition to the progressive movements of the 1960s. The Dutch swing to the right this book argues formed a belated iteration of the New Right backlash that occurred overseas. This text will be essential reading for students and scholars in the fields of European Studies and Political Science and Dutch politics and society more specifically. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138624153

The Rise of the English Regions? This book analyzes devolution as it affects the English Regions working from the perspective of uneven development and drawing on the rich tradition of regional geography. Currently London is the power centre ruling over the other English regions. The first part of the book looks at how this regional structure has arisen and the theories that can be used to analyze it. The contributors discuss the nature of regional problems and governance the institutions involved in regional governance and regional approaches to economic development. The second part of the book devotes a chapter to each English region examining each region’s unique characteristics and the opportunities created for it by devolution. By looking carefully at the regions this part of the book sheds light on the question of whether Regional governance benefits the regions or simply rescales governance to introduce another layer of bureaucracy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415654081

The Rise of the Gothic Novel One of the central images conjured up by the gothic novel is that of a shadowy spectre slowly rising from a mysterious abyss. In The Rise of the Gothic Novel Maggie Kilgour argues that the ghost of the gothic is now resurrected in the critical methodologies which investigate it for the revelation of buried cultural secrets. In this cogent analysis of the rise and fall of the gothic as a popular form Kilgour juxtaposes the writings of William Godwin with Mary Wollstonecraft and Ann Radcliffe with Matthew Lewis. She concludes with a close reading of the quintessential gothic novel Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. An impressive and highly original study The Rise of the Gothic Novel is an invaluable contribution to the continuing literary debates which surround this influential genre. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138149007

The Rise of the Great Powers 1648 - 1815 The heyday of the European states system was in the century before the First World War. How the system of five great powers in conscious equilibrium came into being is the central theme of this book. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138181564

The Rise of the Hispanic Market in the United StatesChallenges Dilemmas and Opportunities for Corporate Management Not only are Hispanics the largest minority group in the United States but Mexico is fast becoming our major trading partner surpassing even Japan. In fact the U.S. now has the fourth largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico Spain and Argentina. How has this demographic group transformed the U.S. into a bi-lingual nation within the span of a generation? Why do Hispanics resist assimilation and insist on speaking Spanish in public life? And how can businesses effectively reach the emerging Hispanic consumer market with its estimated puchasing power of USD1 trillion by 2010? These questions constitute the single-most important marketing challenge for corporate America in the twenty-first century. This book examines the Hispanic worldview and how it informs people's economic decisions both in the United States and across North America. It challenges the viewpoint that American culture will soon dominate its NAFTA trading partners looks carefully at the market for Hispanic goods in the U.S. and the market for our goods throughout the Spanish-speaking world and shows how marketeers are now reaching the Hispanic community domestically. The information and insights found here are essential for teachers students and professionals in the fields of international finance and world trade as well as almost all areas of business marketing and strategic planning. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315699097

The Rise of the ImageEssays on the History of the Illustrated Art Book The Rise of the Image reveals how illustrations have come to play a primary part in books on art and architecture. Italian Renaissance art is the main focus for this anthology of essays which analyse key episodes in the history of illustration from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The authors raise new issues about the imagery in books on the visual arts by Leonardo da Vinci Giorgio Vasari Sebastiano Serlio Andrea Palladio Girolamo Teti and Andrea Pozzo. The concluding essays evaluate the roles of reproductive media including photography in Victorian and twentieth-century art books. Throughout images in books are considered as vehicles for ideas rather than as transparent passive visual forms dependent on their accompanying texts. Thus The Rise of the Image enriches our understanding of the role of prints in books on art. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138249752

The Rise of the Indian NavyInternal Vulnerabilities External Challenges The Indian Navy has gradually emerged as an indispensable tool of Indian diplomacy in recent years making it imperative for Indian policy-makers and naval thinkers to think anew the role of the nation’s naval forces in Indian strategy. There is a long tradition in India of viewing the maritime dimension of security as central to the nation’s strategic priorities. With India's economic rise India is trying to bring that focus back making its navy integral to national grand strategy. This volume is the first full-length examination of the myriad issues that have emerged out of the recent rise of Indian naval power. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138261501

The Rise of the Japanese Corporate System Japan’s economy is invariably seen as a prime example of a capitalist system and a consideration of the elements upon which the Japanese economy is founded seems to lead inexorably to the conclusion that Japan is an established member of the group of highly developed capitalist nations. Yet a country’s internal mechanisms can differ markedly from the system as perceived externally. Although not yet widely recognized a new kind of economic system has developed in Japan a system that differs greatly from traditional capitalism. The author of this book has observed Japanese industry from the inside. He provides detailed explanations of the unique features of the new corporate system and how it differs from the system of orthodox capitalistic corporations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415851534

The Rise of the Joyful EconomyArtistic invention and economic growth from Brunelleschi to Murakami This book argues for the increasing importance of the arts as a major resource in fuelling growth through the experiential dimension of today’s economy. As we move from the knowledge economy to a new stage called the joyful economy consumers shift their spending from physical objects and technical know-how to experiences of joy and disappointment. This book investigates how artistic ideas are translated into successful commercial production and how economic growth impacts artistic invention. It examines cases of successful innovation in the creative industries ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the present. The book suggests a framework where social players move in diverse worlds of value which leads to a stream of controversies and manias that result in the establishment of new joy products. Studies include the effect of linear perspective as pioneered by Filippo Brunelleschi the discovery of taste as an argument for consumption the serial production of Pop Art and the self-commercialization of contemporary works by artists like Takashi Murakami . This theoretical and empirical study brings together the fields of cultural economics economic sociology management studies and cultural history. In doing so it offers a fascinating study of how creativity has shaped and fuelled commerce. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138795297

The Rise of the Labour Party 1880-1945 This popular study covers two major topics: the formation of the Labour Party and its emergence as the main rival to the conservatives. This transformation of the British political scene has been accounted for in a variety of ways. Dr Adelman examines these explanations and concludes that while there is a consensus about the reasons for the creation of the Labour Party there is no agreement about why it rose to such prominence. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138149083

The Rise of the Labour Party 1893-1931 This pamphlet examines the principal developments of party organization electoral growth and policy-making in the period. It gives particular attention to the constituent elements that made up the party and the nature of its support and explores the party's predominant attitudes ideology and policies from 1900 to 1931. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138155138

The Rise of the Left in Southern EuropeAnglo-American Responses This study looks at the influence of the Anglo-American 'special relationship' on the rise of the left in southern Europe and concurrent European influence on the Atlantic alliance. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138661776

The Rise of the London Money Market (Routledge Revivals)1640-1826 The Rise of the London Money Market first published in English in 1910 provides an analysis of the growth of the English banking business from the middle of the seventeenth century. This book will be of interest to students of economics finance and history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138911536

The Rise of the Medical ProfessionA Study of Collective Social Mobility Originally published in 1976 The Rise of the Medical Profession combines a sociological and historical approach to the rise of the medical profession in England. Sociologically it offers a theoretical framework which for the first time links the study of social mobility and professionalism with the theory of stratification. Historically it examines the movement which led to the unification of the medical profession arising from effective social organisation among the surgeon-apothecaries in the early nineteenth century. It demonstrates that through the successful pursuit of the occupational strategy of professionalism the doctors have been able to raise their income and status in the community and to dominate the institutions and organisations of medical care. In their relationship with the state they have been generally successful in securing a recognition of their privileged position. The future of the medical profession and of professionalism is discussed in the context of the changing balance between state power and that of free private occupation associations whether of the type based on professionalism or unionism. The ideal-type conception of the middle class as essentially individualistic is challenged by the exploration of middle class collective action particularly professionalism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367001827

The Rise of the Meritocracy Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future "Meritocracy." Indeed the word is now part of the English language. It would appear that the formula: IQ+Effort=Merit may well constitute the basic belief of the ruling class in the twenty-first century. Projecting himself into the year 2034 the author of this sociological satire shows how present decisions and practices may remold our society.It is widespread knowledge that it is insufficient to be somebody's nephew to obtain a responsible post in business government teaching or science. Experts in education and selection apply scientific principles to sift out the leaders of tomorrow. You need intelligence rating qualification experience application and a certain caliber to achieve status. In a word one must show merit to advance in the new society of tomorrow.In a new opening essay Young reflects on the reception of his work and its production in a candid and lively way. Many of the critical ambiguities surrounding its original publication are now clarified and resolved. What we have is what the Guardian of London called "A brilliant essay." and what Time and Tide described as "a fountain gush of new ideas. Its wit and style make it compulsively enjoyable reading from cover to cover." Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538306

The Rise of the Modernist BookshopBooks and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. This collection is concerned with the cultural and economic roles of independent bookstores and it considers how eight shops founded during the modernist era provided distinctive spaces of literary production that exceeded and yet never escaped their commercial functions. As the contributors show these booksellers were essential institutional players in literary networks. When the eight shops examined first opened their doors their relevance to literary and commercial life was taken for granted. In our current context of box stores online shopping and ebooks we no longer encounter the book as we did as recently as twenty years ago. By contributing to our understanding of bookshops as unique social spaces on the thresholds of commerce and culture this volume helps to lay the groundwork for comprehending how our relationship to books and literature has been and will be affected by the physical changes to the reading experience taking place in the twenty-first century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367880842

The Rise of the Must-See ExhibitionBlockbusters in Australian Museums and Galleries Blockbuster exhibitions are ubiquitous fixtures in the cultural calendars of major museums and galleries worldwide.　The Rise of the Must-See Exhibition charts their ascent across a diverse array of museums and galleries. The book positions these exhibits in the Australian cultural context demonstrating how policy developments and historical precedents have created a space for their current domination. Drawing on historical evidence policy documents and contemporary debates the book offers a complex analysis of the aims and motivations of blockbuster exhibitions. Its chronological approach reveals a genealogy of exhibits from the mid-nineteenth century onward to identify precursors to current practice. This provides a foundation upon which to examine the unprecedented growth of blockbusters in the latter half of the twentieth century. The examples discussed offer a unique opportunity to study how institutional growth political support individual champions and audience interest have influenced the development of large-scale temporary exhibitions.The Rise of the Must-See Exhibition considers blockbusters as an international phenomenon and as such is highly relevant to practitioners working across the cultural sector around the world. The book will also appeal to academics and students engaged in the study of museums and galleries arts management and curating as well as those interested in the history of exhibitions and cultural policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367664060

The Rise Of The Nazi RegimeHistorical Reassessments Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Hitler's seizure of power a group of leading historians and political sociologists participated in a historical reassessment of the Nazi regime sponsored by the Harvard Center for European Studies. Their papers focus on recent scholarly controversies and on the questions that have preoccupied observers since the events took place: the nature of Nazi support the role of the dictator the function of ideology and anti-Semitism and the goals of foreign policy. Some of the specific issues addressed include the reason for the collapse of the Weimar Republic the social origins of Nazi Party members the role of women under Nazism the relationship of Nazi leaders to the older German bureaucratic framework and the impact of Nazi policies abroad. The volume thus provides an incisive briefing on Hitler's rise to power and summarizes the major interpretations of the issues still under debate. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295585

The Rise of the Networking RegionThe Challenges of Regional Collaboration in a Globalized World How regions and cities adapt to a Network Society and a globalized environment the policies they pursue and how structures of governance are transformed in the pursuit of those policies are major themes in this volume. These issues are addressed with specific reference to the Nordic regions of Europe. Covering the four Nordic countries of Denmark Finland Norway and Sweden plus the Faroe Islands this volume charts the changes in networking activities and related development initiatives that have taken place over the last ten years. This means analysing regions in their pursuit of new policies partnerships and styles of representation. Through this process regions are becoming partners and players in European integration and a movement of integrative regionalism is taking shape which is different from inward looking identity regionalism or self-centred competitive regionalism and takes regions beyond lobbying in Brussels. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138261327

The Rise of the Ottoman EmpireStudies in the History of Turkey thirteenth–fifteenth Centuries Paul Wittek’s The Rise of the Ottoman Empire was first published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1938 and has been out of print for more than a quarter of a century. The present reissue of the text also brings together translations of some of his other studies on Ottoman history; eight closely interconnected writings on the period from the founding of the state to the Fall of Constantinople and the reign of Mehmed II. Most of these pieces reproduces the texts of lectures or conference papers delivered by Wittek between 1936 and 1938 when he was teaching at Université Libré in Brussels Belgium. The books or journals in which they were originally published are for the most part inaccessible except in specialist libraries in a period when Wittek's activities as an Ottoman historian in particular his formulations regarding the origins and subsequent history of the Ottoman state (the "Ghazi thesis") are coming under increasing study within the Anglo-Saxon world of scholarship. An introduction by Colin Heywood sets Wittek's work in its historical and historiographical context for the benefit of those students who were not privileged to experience it firsthand. This reissue and recontextualizing of Wittek’s pioneering work on early Ottoman history makes a valuable contribution to the field and to the historiography of Asian and Middle Eastern history generally. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138948440

The Rise Of The PhoenixThe United States In A Restructured World Economy This book provides a grand design on a world scale that encompasses not only American interests but those of the other industrial countries the developing world and non-market economies. It suggests sectorial U.S. trade agreements based on the principles of efficiency equity and participation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295592

The Rise of the Republican RightFrom Goldwater to Reagan Few scholars have paid close attention to the factors internal to the Republican Party that helped the Right to consolidate its power within the party between the 1960s and the 1980s. Plugging the gap in party literature The Rise of the Republican Right: From Goldwater to Reagan provides a comprehensive account of the rise of the Republican Right in the years between Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential defeat and the election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980. Specifically it offers a historical-institutional analysis of the organizational factors internal to the Republican Party that helped the conservative Right maintain and then expand its ascendant position within the GOP in the critical years between Goldwater and Reagan. Brian M. Conley demonstrates how the growth of the Right during this period was aided by a desire on the part of many Republican leaders to rebound from electoral defeat by rebuilding the party organizationally rather than reforming it politically through the introduction of a more "service" -oriented party structure. The Rise of the Republican Right will interest academics party scholars and researchers eager to gain a more nuanced understanding of the factors that helped the Right become a dominant force within the Republican Party. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138478800

The Rise of the Superconductors High-temperature superconductors are one of the most active and exciting areas of condensed matter physics research. From high-quality thin-films to friction-less transportation their applications in industries such as telecommunications environment and geology medicine nuclear physics and security are just the beginning.The Rise of the Superconductors is an ideological chronology of the science that has produced superconductors. Beginning with the first liquefaction of helium the book presents the discovery of the Meissner effect and the development of type II superconductors before discussing the impact of Bednorz and Müller's Nobel prize-winning research in high temperature ceramic superconductors. Authors seamlessly introduce the rise of Tc materials whose layer-like nature anisotropic behavior and other properties are discussed in Chapter 4. The next chapter is devoted to the discovery development and characteristics of organic superconductors particularly in fullerene materials whose discovery earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996.The authors then examine the properties and theoretical developments explaining the behavior of simple superconductors highlighting their impact on theoretical physics. Subsequent chapters analyze the technological advances production challenges and future directions of large- and small-scale applications Josephson effects the development of SQUID technology and the specific behavior of high temperature superconductors. The Rise of the Superconductors concludes with a brief look at the struggle for technical superiority between the U.S. and Japan European contributions and commentary on the current state of the art. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138404205

The Rise of the TechnocratsA Social History First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415853828

The Rise of the Victorian Actor Originally published in 1978. Between 1830 and 1890 the English theatre became recognisably modern. Standards of acting and presentation improved immeasurably new playwrights emerged theatres became more comfortable and more intimate and playgoing became a national pastime with all classes. The actor’s status rose accordingly. In 1830 he had been little better than a social outcast; by 1880 he had become a member of a skilled relatively well-paid and respected profession which was attracting new recruits in unprecedented numbers. This is a social history of Victorian actors which seeks to show how wider social attitudes and developments affected the changing status of acting as a profession. Thus the stage’s relationship with the professional world and the other arts is dealt with and is followed by an assessment of the moral and religious background which played so decisive a part in contemporary attitudes to actors. The position of actresses in particular is given special consideration. Many non-theatrical sources are used here and there is a survey of salaries and working conditions in the theatre to show how the rising social status of the actor was matched by changes in his theatrical standing. A novel area of study is covered in tracing the changing social composition of the acting profession over the period and in exploring the case-histories of three generations of performers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138936584

The Rise of Think Tanks in China Despite continuing criticism of the Chinese authoritarian political system the range of participants in the decision-making process has widened with different social actors now playing an increasingly important role in the Chinese policymaking process. Accordingly the role of think tanks in the policymaking process has generated great interest within and outside China. This book explores the behaviour and influence of China’s think tanks and explains the reasons and social consequences of the rise of think tanks in China. The book raises several questions on the topic: How did think tanks emerge in China? What are the essential factors that determine think tanks in terms of building their governmental and personal networks? How do think tanks work and build their influence in the Chinese policy process? What happens to Chinese society when think tanks become important policy participants in the policy process? The book goes on to discuss new perspectives on policy processes and elite politics in China and empirically with comparative case study and data from nationwide questionnaire surveys provides a comprehensive picture of think tanks in the current political system of the country. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138954694

The Rise of TranstextsChallenges and Opportunities This volume builds on previous notions of transmedia practices to develop the concept of transtexts in order to account for both the industrial and user-generated contributions to the cross-media expansion of a story universe. On the one hand exists industrial transmedia texts produced by supposedly authoritative authors or entities and directed to active audiences in the aim of fostering engagement. On the other hand are fan-produced transmedia texts primarily intended for fellow members of the fan communities with the Internet allowing for connections and collaboration between fans. Through both case studies and more general analyses of audience participation and reception employing the artistic marketing textual industrial cultural social geographical technological historical financial and legal perspectives this multidisciplinary collection aims to expand our understanding of both transmedia storytelling and fan-produced transmedia texts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367874407

The Rise of Universities At the time of its publication in 1923 Charles Homer Haskins' The Rise of Universities was considered remarkable for its erudition succinctness and balance. The his-torian Theodor Mommsen described it as "a work which has remained unsurpassed in the conciseness and vividness of its account." Eight decades after its appearance it remains fresh and informative. It has not been surpassed and is as invaluable as ever.Haskins traces the rise of the mediaeval university as one phase of the intellectual awakening in Europe in the late Middle Ages in an effort to broaden our understanding of "the ancient and universal company of scholars." In the depth and breadth of its analysis there is no better portrait of universities during their infancy in the Middle Ages. With great detail and preci-sion Haskins describes the university's curriculum teaching teachers and students. Drawing deeply on his knowledge as one of the leading mediaeval scholars of his day he provides an exceptionally vivid picture of student life of tht time through his analysis of their manuals letters and poetry. The Rise of Universities goes far beyond its central subject to offer a broad description of the social conditions in which universities took root and flourished. At the same time one cannot read Haskins without seeing the influences of the mediaeval university on contemporary institutions of higher learning. The Rise of Universities reminds us that the univer-sity has not only been a crucible fostering intellectual inquiry and creativity but continues after eight hundred years to be a center of teaching and learning.In his new introduction Lionel S. Lewis develops Haskins' passing observation that "the university of the twentieth cen-tury is the lineal descendant of mediaeval Paris and Bologna " and considers the question of why universities came into being at the particular time in history when they did. The Rise of the Universities will be of interest to educators and students who wish to better understand the institutions in which they have lived taught and been taught. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538313

The Rise of Urban America The rise of cities in the United States from the early seventeenth century to the 1960s is the subject of this sophisticated and witty appraisal by a Pulitzer Prize historian. Constance McLaughlin Green traces the forces - economic political social - that led to today's urban civilization beginning with the growth of colonial seaports and local government the rise of new cities that competed for wealth and power with the older cities the spread of industrialization transportation and communications that made complex city life possible. She discussed the influence of city life on art and architecture the impact of depression and prosperity upon urban centres and analyses present-day problems - race-relations the population explosion automation the rise of suburbia and the development of the 'megapolis' that links city with city in one vast urban interstate region. This book was first published in 1966.       Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415759649

The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist PartyDocuments and Analysis This collection of documents covers the rise to power of the Chinese communist movement. They show how the Chinese Communist Party interpreted the revolution how it devised policies to meet changing circumstances and how these policies were communicated to party members and public. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315288215

The Rishi of BangladeshA History of Christian Dialogue This book is a study of the changing relationship over time (1856-1994) between the Rishi an ex-Untouchable jati of Bengal/South-West Bangladesh and various groups of Catholic missionaries. The book's originality and importance lies in its multi-disciplinary approach which combines anthropological fieldwork historical research philosophical enquiry and contemporary missiological debates. Moreover it addresses issues of great current relevance in its discussions of Orientalism Neo-colonialism and Otherness. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138878921

The Rising of the LudditesChartists and Plug-Drawers First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138985469

The Risings of the LudditesChartists and Plug-Drawers Published in 1968. Interest in the Luddite machine-breaking and food riots of 1812 which took place in the North and Midlands continues unabated. Peel was a pioneer local historian collecting oral accounts from participants and old inhabitants as well as studying the printed evidence carefully. In the introduction to the new edition E. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367146801

The Risk in Risk ManagementFinancial Organizations & the Problem of Conformity Banks take very large risks by consistently herding in the same perilous directions while believing they are safe and unique. This book presents a risk management framework to understand conformity and deviance within investment banks and other large organizations. It suggests that some groups understand the dynamics of this conformity to their advantage. This requires a deeper understanding of the risk in risk management. Fraudsters can game the system to their advantage legally and illegally; therefore risk managers must understand the interplay of multiple logics in order to govern and manage risk. Featuring short illustrative cases of massive risk mismanagement this book walks the reader through four risk management perspectives (economic institutional evolutionary and contrarian) that explain why and how economic rationality is overridden by social forces. By understanding conformity and deviance groups within organizations will be better equipped to manage risk and go against the tides of conformity to their advantage. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415509855

The Risk Mitigation HandbookPractical steps for reducing your business risks Disruption over-regulation and cyber threats are typical of the major risks that management has to cope with. But until now there hasn’t been a formula to contain them. In The Risk Mitigation Handbook Kit Sadgrove provides practical and actionable steps you can take to minimise the threats to your business. With over 160 checklists and a wealth of revealing case studies this is the first book to recommend detailed action plans. After reviewing each risk the author provides a list of measurable tactics necessary to neutralise the threat. The book lists a comprehensive range of risks that organisations face today with a special emphasis on business strategy security and people management. Sadgrove also takes a sharp look at how to reduce the risk of operational failure supply chain weakness and regulatory compliance. Unlike previous books on enterprise risk The Risk Mitigation Handbook sets out detailed solutions rather than generic risk management theories. The book has been carefully edited to provide fast information for the busy senior manager. Stripped back to the bare essentials The Risk Mitigation Handbook gives the reader bullet points and strategies that give you the information you need to mitigate hundreds of risks. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367605971

The Risk of Regional GovernanceCultural Theory and Interlocal Cooperation Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient equitable and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together across municipal boundaries to solve large-scale problems. How do these local officials think? Why do they only sometimes cooperate? What kind of governance do they choose in the face of persistent problems? The Risk of Regional Governance offers a new perspective on these questions. Drawing on theory from sociology and anthropology it argues that many of the most important cooperative decisions local officials make—those about land use planning and regulation—are driven by heuristic biased reasoning driven by cultural values. The Risk of Regional Governance builds a sociocultural collective action framework and supports it with rich survey and interview data from hundreds of local elected officials serving in the suburbs of Detroit and Grand Rapids Michigan. It is a story of the Rust Belt of how local officials think about their community and the region and—most importantly—of how we might craft policies that can overcome biases against regional governance. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367371982

The Risk of Social Policy?The electoral consequences of welfare state retrenchment and social policy performance in OECD countries The Risk of Social Policy? uses a comparative perspective to systematically analyse the effects of social policy reforms and welfare state retrenchment on voting choice for the government. It re-examines twenty elections in OECD countries to show if and how social policy issues drive elections. This book contributes to the existing literature by providing an empirical analysis of the electoral implications of social policy. Giger asks the basic research question: What are the electoral consequences of social policy performance and retrenchment? More specifically the following questions are addressed in order to provide a systematic test of the topic: Is retrenchment indeed completely unpopular? Do people punish the government for bad performance in the field of social policy? And what are the political implications of such a punishment reaction; does it affect the government composition? It shows empirically that the risks of welfare state retrenchment to incumbent governments may be lower than previously thought and presents a theoretical framework for re-examining the impact of retrenchment initiatives on election outcome. Making an important contribution to studies in political economy and welfare by questioning the assumption that social policy is an inherently controversial policy field in times of elections The Risk of Social Policy? will be of interest to scholars and students concerned with the interplay between government and citizens social policy and voting behaviour and the political economy of welfare. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138882171

The Risks of Medical InnovationRisk Perception and Assessment in Historical Context The risks involved in introducing new drugs and devices are amongst the most discussed issues of modern medicine. Presenting a new way of thinking about these issues this volume considers risk and medical innovation from a social historical perspective and studies specific cases of medical innovation including X-rays the pill and Thalidomide in their respective contexts. International cases are examined through the lens of a particular set of shared questions - highlighting differences similarities continuities and changes and offering a historical sociology of risk. Particularly important is the re-conceptualization of dangers in terms of risk - a numerical and probabilistic approach allowing for seemingly objective and value-neutral decisions. Read together these papers add to our understanding of the current debate about risk and safety by providing a comparative background to the discussion as well as a set of generally applicable criteria for analyzing and evaluating the contemporary issues surrounding medical innovation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138867949

The Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy This book introduces the reader to the relationship between the Italian national movement achieved by the Risorgimento and the Italian unification in 1860. These themes are discussed in detail and related to the broader European theatre. Covering the literary cultural religious and political history of the period Beales and Biagini show Italy struggled towards nation state status on all fronts.The new edition has been thoroughly rewritten. It also contains a number of new documents. In addition all the most up to date research of the last 20 years has been incorporated.The Risorgimento and the Unification of Italyremains the major text on nineteenth century Italy.  The long introduction and useful footnotes will be of real assistance to those interested in Italian unification. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138132009

The Rite of Christian InitiationAdult Rituals and Roman Catholic Ecclesiology In the wake of recent papal legislation the various liturgies of the Roman Rite may today be celebrated in either their post-Tridentine or post-Vatican II forms. Whilst much discussion of this new situation focuses on purely liturgical issues this book breaks new ground by arguing that the coexistence of the two forms raises questions of a profoundly ecclesiological character. Peter McGrail explores the relationship between ritual form ecclesial self- understanding and constructs of the world that are at play as adults become members of the Church. Analysing the rites by which adults were taken into the Church for three and a half centuries this book goes on to explore attempts to find a new ritual expression for the journey to Christian Initiation set against the divergent and even conflicting ecclesiologies which were at play before and during the Council. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409426554

The Rites of AssentTransformations in the Symbolic Construction of America The Rites of Assent examines the cultural strategies through which "America" served as a vehicle simultaneously for diversity and cohesion fusion and fragmentation. Taking an ethnographic cross-cultural approach The Rites of Assent traces the meanings and purposes of "America" back to the colonial typology of mission and specifically (in chapters on Puritan rhetoric Cotton Mather Jonathan Edwards and the movement from Revival to Revolution) to the legacy of early New England. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315811659

The Ritual Culture of Victorian ProfessionalsCompeting for Ceremonial Status 1838-1877 Focusing on the middle decades of the nineteenth century Albert D. Pionke's book historicizes the relationship of ritual class and public status in Victorian England. His analysis of various discourses related to professionalization suggests that public ritual flourished during the period especially among the burgeoning ranks of Victorian professions. As Pionke shows magazines court cases law books manuals and works by authors that include William Makepeace Thackeray Thomas Hughes Anthony Trollope Charles Dickens George Eliot and Elizabeth Barrett Browning demonstrate the importance of ritual in numerous professional settings. Individual chapters reconstruct the ritual cultures of pre-professionalism provided to Oxbridge undergraduates; of oath-taking in a wide range of professional creation and promotion ceremonies; of the education promotion and public practice of Victorian barristers; and of Victorian Parliamentary elections. A final chapter considers the consequences of rituals that fail through the lens of the Eglinton tournament. The uneasy place of Victorian writers who were both promoters of and competitors with more established professionals is considered throughout. Pionke's book excavates Victorian professionals' vital ritual culture at the same time that its engagement with literary representations of the professions reconstructs writers' unique place in the zero-sum contest for professional status. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138271975

The Ritual of May Day in Western EuropePast Present and Future Eric Hobsbawm claimed that the international May Day which dates back to a proclamation in 1889 by the Second International 'is perhaps the most ambitious of labour rituals'. The first international May Day demonstrations in 1890 were widely celebrated across Europe and became the one day each year when organized labour could present its goals to the public an eight-hour workday being the first concrete demand shortly followed by those for improved working conditions universal suffrage peace among nations and international solidarity. The May Day ritual celebration was the self-assertion and self-definition of the new labour class through class organization. Thus it was trade unions and social democratic and socialist parties throughout Europe which took the initiative and have sustained May Day as a labour ritual to this day. Part I of this theoretically-informed volume explores how May Day demonstrations have evolved and taken different trajectories in different political contexts. Part II focuses on May Day rituals today. By comparing demonstration level data of over 2000 questionnaires from six countries including Belgium Italy Spain Sweden Switzerland and the UK the reader is able to gain a thorough understanding of how participants are bestowing meaning on May Day rituals. By concluding with reflections on the future of the May Day ritual in Western Europe this ground-breaking book provides a detailed analysis of its evolution as a protest event. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367596507

The Ritual ProcessStructure and Anti-Structure In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure. The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. He extends Van Gennep's notion of the "liminal phase" of rites of passage to a more general level and applies it to gain understanding of a wide range of social phenomena. Once thought to be the "vestigial" organs of social conservatism rituals are now seen as arenas in which social change may emerge and be absorbed into social practice. As Roger Abrahams writes in his foreword to the revised edition: "Turner argued from specific field data. His special eloquence resided in his ability to lay open a sub-Saharan African system of belief and practice in terms that took the reader beyond the exotic features of the group among whom he carried out his fieldwork translating his experience into the terms of contemporary Western perceptions. Reflecting Turner's range of intellectual interests the book emerged as exceptional and eccentric in many ways: yet it achieved its place within the intellectual world because it so successfully synthesized continental theory with the practices of ethnographic reports." Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538320

The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos outlines the story of the Athenian-based Attis Theatre and the way its founder and director Theodoros Terzopoulos introduced bio-energetic presences of the body on the stage in an attempt to redefine and reappraise what it means today not only to have a body but to fully be a body.Terzopoulos created a very specific attitude towards life and death and it is this broad perspective on energy and consciousness that makes his work so appealing both to a general public and to students of arts theatre and drama. Freddy Decreus’ study charts the career of Greece’s most acclaimed theatre director and provides a spiritual and philosophic answer in times where former Western meta-narratives have failed. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367731519

The Rival Widows or Fair Libertine (1735) Elizabeth Cooper's The Rival Widows or Fair Libertine provides a unique opportunity to restore to scholarly and pedagogical attention a neglected female writer and a play with broad and significant implications for studies of eighteenth-century history culture and gender. Following the adventures of Lady Bellair a "glowing joyous young Widow " the storyline regenders standard expectations about desire marriage libertinism and sentiment. The play has not been reprinted since 1735; therefore this old-spelling edition gives scholars access to an important but neglected resource for studies of women writers and eighteenth-century theatre. In an original and extensive introduction Tiffany Potter presents cultural and historical information that highlights the scholarly implications of this newly available play. She offers a brief biographical sketch of the playwright; a summary of sources for specific elements of the play; an overview of the theatrical climate of the time (with particular focus on the conditions leading to the Licensing Act of 1737); a discussion of the place of women in eighteenth-century society; a summary of symbiotic cultural discourses of libertinism and sensibility in the early eighteenth century; and a discussion of the general cultural significance of Cooper's demonstration of the malleability of prescriptive gender roles. Further value is added to this edition through its appendices which reproduce documents relating to the playwright Elizabeth Cooper and to the Licensing Act of 1737 (including the text of the Act itself). Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237282

The River Dragon Has Come!Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People In the ongoing courageous struggle of a relatively small group of Chinese to prevent the completion of the Three Gorges Dam in China Dai Qing is the outspoken leader whose eloquent voice is always heard despite threats and intimidation by the Chinese authorities to silence it. Dai Qing an investigative journalist and author with a wide audience in China and abroad compiled this book of essays and field reports assessing the impact of the Three Gorges megadam now under construction at Sandouping in China's Hubei province at great risk to her own freedom. This book is an effort to prevent history from repeating itself ten-fold (a reference to the great floods in 1975 during which over 60 dams collapsed and at least 100 000 people lost their lives) if the 39 billion cubic metres of water in the Three Gorges reservoir ever escapes by natural or man-made catastrophes. These comprehensive essays reveal the deep rooted problems presented by the Three Gorges project that the government is attempting to disguise or suppress. The main concerns are population resettlement and human rights the irreversible environmental and economic impact the loss of cultural antiquities and historical sites military considerations and hidden dam disasters from the past. Opponents of the dam are attempting to kill the project or at least reduce the size of the megadam now planned to be the biggest most expensive and incidentally the most hazardous of all hydro-electric projects on this planet. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315502779

The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian EnglandNuisance Law versus Economic Efficiency Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its town population as a hitherto largely rural economy transformed itself into an urban one. Though the political and social issues arising from these events are well-known little is known about how the British legal process coped with the everyday strains that emerged from the unprecedented scale of these changes. This book explores the river pollution dilemma faced by the British courts during the second half of the nineteenth century when the legal process had to confront the new incompatible realities arising from the increasing amounts of untreatable waste flowing into the rivers. This dilemma struck at the heart of both Victorian urban and rural society as the necessary sanitary reformation of the swelling cities and expanding industry increasingly poisoned the rivers threatening the countryside and agricultural rents and livelihoods. Focusing on ten legal disputes the book investigates the dilemma that faced the courts; namely how to protect the traditional and valued rights of landholders whose rivers and lands were being polluted by industrial waste and untreated sewage whilst not hindering the progress of sanitary reform and economic progress in the towns. The case studies considered involve major industrialising centres such as Birmingham Leeds Northampton Wolverhampton and Barnsley but also include smaller towns such as Tunbridge Wells Leamington Spa and Harrogate. The fundamental issues raised remain as important today as they did in Victorian times. The need for the courts to balance a variety of conflicting needs and rights within the limits of contemporary technological capabilities often played out in surprising ways with outcomes not always in line with theoretical expectations. As such the historical context of the disputes provide fascinating insights into nineteenth-century legal process and the environmental and social attitudes of the times. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138246188

The Road from Nanomedicine to Precision Medicine The enormous advances in nanomedicine and precision medicine in the past two decades necessitated this comprehensive reference which can be relied upon by researchers clinicians pharmaceutical scientists regulators policymakers and lawyers alike. This standalone full-color resource broadly surveys innovative technologies and advances pertaining to nanomedicine and precision medicine. In addition it addresses often-neglected yet crucial areas such as translational medicine intellectual property law ethics policy FDA regulatory issues nano-nomenclature and artificial nano-machines—all accomplished in a user-friendly broad yet interconnected format. The book is essential reading for the novice and the expert alike in diverse fields such as medicine law pharmacy genomics biomedical sciences ethics and regulatory science. The book’s multidisciplinary approach will attract a global audience and serve as a valuable reference resource for industry academia and government. Media > Books > Print Books Pan Stanford Publishing 9789814800594

The Road from Nanomedicine to Precision MedicinePart A The enormous advances in nanomedicine and precision medicine in the past two decades necessitated this comprehensive reference which can be relied upon by researchers clinicians pharmaceutical scientists regulators policymakers and lawyers alike. This standalone full-color resource broadly surveys innovative technologies and advances pertaining to nanomedicine and precision medicine. In addition it addresses often-neglected yet crucial areas such as translational medicine intellectual property law ethics policy FDA regulatory issues nano-nomenclature and artificial nano-machines—all accomplished in a user-friendly broad yet interconnected format. The book is essential reading for the novice and the expert alike in diverse fields such as medicine law pharmacy genomics biomedical sciences ethics and regulatory science. The book’s multidisciplinary approach will attract a global audience and serve as a valuable reference resource for industry academia and government. Media > Books > E-books Pan Stanford Publishing 9781003027010

The Road from Nanomedicine to Precision MedicinePart B The enormous advances in nanomedicine and precision medicine in the past two decades necessitated this comprehensive reference which can be relied upon by researchers clinicians pharmaceutical scientists regulators policymakers and lawyers alike. This standalone full-color resource broadly surveys innovative technologies and advances pertaining to nanomedicine and precision medicine. In addition it addresses often-neglected yet crucial areas such as translational medicine intellectual property law ethics policy FDA regulatory issues nano-nomenclature and artificial nano-machines—all accomplished in a user-friendly broad yet interconnected format. The book is essential reading for the novice and the expert alike in diverse fields such as medicine law pharmacy genomics biomedical sciences ethics and regulatory science. The book’s multidisciplinary approach will attract a global audience and serve as a valuable reference resource for industry academia and government. Media > Books > E-books Pan Stanford Publishing 9781003027058

The Road Leading to the Market Since the reform and opening up period the world has witnessed a transformation within China. This transformation has led millions out of poverty within China and has in recent years seen China as an important and vital engine of economic growth for the rest of the world. While China has made great strides in embarking on the road to a market economy this book emphasizes that transformation within China to market-driven development is far from over. In this book Zhang puts forward the idea that the reform in China has now reached a crossroads. The next steps have a bearing not only on the sustainability of past reform but even on whether China will become a veritable world power in the future. With the reform at this pivotal juncture this book explores further reform within China and examines how the reform debate will develop. The Road Leading to the Market is a highly readable collection of essays which will appeal to researchers and students of China’s economy and a globalized economy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367516635

The Road Not TakenA History of Radical Social Work in the United States The Road Not Taken takes a new perspective on the course of social welfare policy in the twentieth century. This examination looks at the evolution of social work in the United States as a dynamic process not just driven by mainstream organizations and politics but strongly influenced by the ideas and experiences of radical individuals and marginalized groups as well. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315800646

The Road to Balcombe StreetThe IRA Reign of Terror in London The Road to Balcombe Street: The IRA Reign of Terror in London is the highly detailed account and analysis of law enforcement negotiation lessons learned from the infamous hostage standoff between the London Metropolitan Police (the Met) and four members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the winter of 1975. With eye-witness and first-hand testimony this book examines the events leading up to the clash and their political context as well as how both sides handled the hostage situation and the strategies and tactics used by the police to safely diffuse the volatile situation. Comprehensive and readable The Road to Balcombe Street: The IRA Reign of Terror in London looks at not only the six days making up the standoff but places the confrontation in unique historical context by giving a detailed summary of IRA activity in London in the years leading up to the siege. In addition this vital study explores the aftershocks arising from the apprehension of the IRA team as well as the hostage negotiation lessons learned in the conflict. This useful resource also features a thorough bibliography and list of electronic resources. The Road to Balcombe Street: The IRA Reign of Terror in London is a useful resource for practicing law enforcement negotiating teams and professionals; history sociology and social psychology students and educators; and general readers as well. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203820209

The Road To BerlinContinuing The History Of Stalin's War With Germany This book traces Russian campaigns from the counterattack at Stalingrad to the fall of Berlin and the capture of Prague. It explores in detail Stalin's wartime relations with Roosevelt and Churchill and examines the evolution of his policies toward Poland and the Balkans. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295608

The Road to Co-operationEscaping the Bottom Line This critical and informed protest against the absurdity and dishonesty of neoclassical economic theory as it has progressed through the 20th century down to the present sheds new light on the predicament faced in 2012. In The Road to Co-operation Pearson highlights the dangers of using unrealistic mathematical models of human organisational and market behaviour to guide policy prescriptions. He shows the damage done to real economies markets firms and people by the unwarranted trust in unregulated markets proclaimed by Friedman and colleagues promulgated by academia and adopted by the financial-political-corporate nexus now dominant in Anglo-American jurisdictions. Though real markets work better than known alternatives Pearson makes the crucial distinction between the real and the speculative-financial where totally different realities apply. Failure to make that distinction has transformed financial sectors from supportive of the real economy to exploitative and sometimes fraudulent. Pearson provides a comparative analysis of corporate governance theory law and practice in different jurisdictions including the self-destruction of post-mature Anglo-American governance with the more robust custom and practice in the industrial economies of Germany and Japan and emerging economies of China and India which all exercise care for their real economic strengths and provide object lessons for governance in UK and US. The Road to Co-operation proposes realistic changes in policy and practice in the context of sustainability which would be prerequisite to recapturing real long term economic success on a co-operative and non-exploitative foundation. It will be invaluable for today's business faculty students and practitioners as well as the 'madmen in authority'. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409448303

The Road to Disillusion: From Critical Marxism to Post-communism in Eastern EuropeFrom Critical Marxism to Post-communism in Eastern Europe The history of reform movements in postwar Eastern Europe is ultimately ironic inasmuch as the reformers' successes and defeats alike served to discredit and demoralize the regimes they sought to redeem. The essays in this volume examine the historic and present-day role of the internal critics who whatever their intentions used Marxism as critique to demolish Marxism as ideocracy but did not succeed in replacing it. Included here are essays by James P. Scanlan on the USSR Ferenc Feher on Hungary Leslie Holmes on the German Democratic Republic Raymond Taras on Poland James Satterwhite on Czechoslovakia Vladimir Tismaneanu on Romania Mark Baskin on Bulgaria and Oskar Gruenwald on Yugoslavia. In concert the contributors provide a comprehensive intellectual history and a veritable Who's Who of revisionist Marxism in Eastern Europe. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315699080

The Road to Einstein's RelativityFollowing in the Footsteps of the Giants CHOICE Highly Recommended Title August 2019 Expertly guided by renowned cosmologist Dr. David Lyth learn about the pioneering scientists whose work provided the foundation for Einstein’s formulation of his theories of relativity and about Einstein's groundbreaking life and work as well. This highly readable and accessible panorama of the field delicately balances history and science as it takes the reader on an adventure through the centuries. Without complex mathematics or scientific formulae this book will be of interest to all even those without a scientific background who are intrigued to find out more about what paved the way for one of our most famous physicists to push the boundaries of physics to new lengths. Features: Written by an internationally renowned physicist and cosmologist Describes the life and times of Einstein and his important predecessors Focuses on one of the most famous areas of science Einstein’s Relativity Theory Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367002534

The Road To Excellencethe Acquisition of Expert Performance in the Arts and Sciences Sports and Games Excellence and the highest levels of performance in the arts and sciences sports and games have always been an object of fascination to both scientists and lay people. Only during the last 20 years have scientists studied these levels of performance in the laboratory in order to identify their mediating mechanisms. Contrary to the common belief that innate talents are the critical factors for exceptional performance investigators have found that acquired skills knowledge and physiological adaptations in response to intense practice are the primary mechanisms mediating the highest levels of performance. This is the first and only book to examine how elite performers effect their exceptional accomplishments. The world's leading researchers on expert performance and creative achievement review theories and recent findings from many different domains of expertise on how experts optimize improvement in their performance and eventually attain excellence. Elite performers are shown to have engaged in deliberate-practice activities specifically designed to improve their performance from an early age. By age 20 they have often accumulated over 10 000 hours of practice! The essential elements of deliberate practice such as specific goals to improve performance successive refinement through repetition feedback and instruction are explicated for different domains. Although the content of practice tasks will necessarily differ from domain to domain investigators have found invariant characteristics for the optimal duration of practice sessions maximal amounts of daily practice the length of intense preparation (around 10 years) and ages of peak performance. Some of the book's chapters extend the review to the acquisition of everyday-life skills such as reading to the performance of teams of experts and to the development of creative achievement geniuses and artistic child prodigies. The book concludes with commentaries by several outstanding scientists in psychology education and history of science who discuss the generalizability of presented ideas and raise issues for future issues. EXTRA COPY...It could be said that striving for excellence is what characterizes humanity or perhaps what characterizes humanity at its best. Why do so few individuals ever reach the highest levels when so many start out on the Road to Excellence? In this book the world's foremost researchers of expert performance in domains as diverse as sports medicine chess and the arts explore the similarities and differences in the extended and strenuous Road to Excellence taken by the successful individuals in each domain. Their findings will intrigue and inspire readers who are themselves driven to achieve or who simply want to better understand the processes involved. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9781315805948

The Road to Federalism in Nepal Myanmar and Sri LankaFinding the Middle Ground Nations built on exclusion and assimilation decades of civil war widespread poverty authoritarianism and the decline of democracy. Nepal Myanmar and Sri Lanka are travelling a road to federalism. Institutions and ethnic identity have interacted to privilege some and marginalise others. But when the right conditions prevail political equality can be restored. This book charts the origins and evolution of federalism and other approaches to the accommodation of minority ethnic groups in Nepal Myanmar and Sri Lanka. It applies a historical institutionalism methodology to understand why federalism has been resisted what causes it to be established and what design options are most likely to balance otherwise competing centripetal and centrifugal forces. Breen shows how Nepal Myanmar and Sri Lanka are finding a middle ground whereby deliberative and moderating institutions are combined with accommodating ones to support a political equality among groups and individuals. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367375676

The Road to Full Employment First published in 1987. This volume explores the inter-war unemployment problem and the development of economic and social policy in relation to that problem. Contemporary policies and levels of unemployment can only be compared with the inter-war period and in recent years economists and other commentators have increasingly turned their attention to the 1930s. This book is written by a group of expert historians and policy analysts who have been in the forefront of recent research. In particular new insights into economic policy which have come from the release of cabinet and departmental papers at The Public Record Office are revealed. Recent economic theory is also taken into account and the findings question established views on many grounds. New economic lessons from the 1930s are suggested and some astonishing similarities to the 1980s and demonstrated. This work will be essential reading for students of modern British history and economic and social history as well as economic policy and government and politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367023577

The Road to Improvement This is a collection of 19 articles charting developments in school effectiveness research both on the evaluative and reflective side and the emergence from it of pro-active school improvement ideas and initiatives. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315078144

The Road to Mass DemocracyOriginal Intent and the Seventeenth Amendment Before the Seventeenth Amendment US senators were elected by state legislatures. To end the supposed corruption of state "machines" and make the Senate more responsive to the legislative needs of the industrial era the Senate was made a popularly elected body in 1913. Meanwhile the spread of information and communications technology it was argued had rendered indirect representation through state legislators unnecessary. However C. H. Hoebeke contends none of these reasons accorded with the original intent of the Constitution's framers.To the founders democracy simply meant the absolute rule of the majority. They proposed instead a "mixed" Constitution an ancient ideal under which democracy was only one element in a balanced republic. Hoebeke demonstrates that the states which were to provide the aristocratic Senate and the monarchical president never resisted egalitarian encroachments and settled for popular expedients when electing both presidents and senators long before the formal cry for amendment.The Road to Mass Democracy addresses the corruption character and conduct of senate candidates and other issues relating to the triumph of "plebiscitary government" over "representative checks and balances." This work offers a provocative readable and often satiric reexamination of America's attempt to solve the problems of democracy with more democracy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412854801

The Road to Multiculturalism in South KoreaIdeas Discourse and Institutional Change in a Homogenous Nation-State This book aims to capture the complicated development of Korea from monoethnic to multicultural society challenging the narrative of “ethnonational continuity” in Korea through a discursive institutional approach. At a time when immigration is changing the face of South Korea and an increasingly diverse society becomes empirical fact this doesn’t necessarily mean that multiculturalism has been embraced as a normative policy-based response to that fact. The approach here diverges from existing academic analyses which tend to conclude that core institutions defining Korea’s immigration and nationality regimes—nd which crucially also reflect a basic and hitherto unyielding commitment to racial and ethnic homogeneity—ill remain largely unaffected by increasing diversity. Here this title underscores the critical importance of “discursive agency” as a necessary corrective to still dominant power and interestbased arguments. In addition “discursive agents” are found to play a central role in communicating promoting and helping to instill the ideas that create a basis for change on the road to remaking Korean society. The Road to Multiculturalism in South Korea will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies immigration and migration studies race and ethnic studies as well as comparative politics broadly. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367473921

The Road to OranAnglo-French Naval Relations September 1939-July 1940 On 3 July 1940 soon after the collapse of the French front and France's request for an armistice a reluctant Royal Navy commander opened fire on the French Navy squadron at Mers-el-Kebir. Some 1 300 French sailors lost their lives. The late David Brown's detailed account finally conveys an objective understanding of the course of events that led up to this tragedy. This new book makes extensive use of primary sources such as correspondence reports and signals traffic from the British Cabinet to the admirals the commanders-in-chief and the liaison officers. It shows how the driving force behind this extraordinary event was the British government's determination that the French Fleet would never fall into the hands of the Axis powers. A combination of mistrust dissembling poor communications and outright enmity over the preceding month had catastrophic results both for the individuals concerned and for the future of Franco-British naval relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415652704

The Road to Romance and RuinTeen Films and Youth Culture This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting experience of youth. The author focuses on six major issues: alienation deviance and delinquency sex and gender the politics of consumption the apolitics of youth(ful) rebellion and regression into nostalgia. Despite the many differences within the genre this book sees all teen films as focused on a single social concern: the breakdown of traditional forms of authority – school church family. Working with the theories of such diverse scholars as Kenneth Keniston Bruno Bettelheim Erik Erikson Theodor Adorno Simon Frith and Dick Hebdige the author draws an innovative and flexible model of a cultural history of youth. Originally published in 1992. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138989863

The Road to SerfdomText and Documents: The Definitive Edition A classic work in political philosophy intellectual history and economics The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians and scholars for half a century. Originally published in 1944  it was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For Hayek the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. This new edition includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book's origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought.  Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes.  Supplemented with an appendix of related materials and forewords to earlier editions by the likes of Milton Friedman and Hayek himself this new edition of The Road to Serfdom will be the definitive version of Friedrich Hayek's enduring masterwork. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415755320

The Road to Social EuropeA Contemporary Approach to Political Cultures and Diversity in Europe In the wake of the Greek and Irish crises and at a moment when solidarity between states is hotly debated on a daily basis at EU level it is important to understand how ‘solidarity’ can happen at all. The Road to Social Europe reviews the development of political cultural processes since the nineteenth century showing how social protection and social justice have gradually become interwoven with systems of social protection or welfare states. Grounded on extensive empirical research conducted in many EU countries and in the European Commission’s administration over twenty years the book provides a cultural analysis of welfare systems in Europe. It also presents an original enquiry into the importance of languages for politics in Europe for the politics of welfare and for sociological research. It shows how sociological and ethnographic analysis can help in understanding the current and future challenges of European integration that rely unilaterally on functional economics. This in-depth sociological analysis of European diversity will appeal to a wide audience of students and scholars of sociology political science political economy and European studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138020146

The Road To StalingradStalin's War With Germany The Road to Stalingrad is designed to investigate the kind of war the Soviet Union waged the nature of command decisions and the machinery of decision-making the course of military operations the emergence of Soviet 'war aims' and the Soviet style of war with Germany. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367295615

The Roads from RioLessons Learned from Twenty Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiations At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development popularly known as the Rio Earth Summit the world’s leaders constructed a new "sustainable development" paradigm that promised to enhance environmentally sound economic and social development. Twenty years later the proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements points to an unprecedented achievement but is worth examining for its accomplishments and shortcomings. This book provides a review of twenty years of multilateral environmental negotiations (1992-2012). The authors have participated in most of these negotiating processes and use their first-hand knowledge as writers for the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Earth Negotiations Bulletin as they illustrate the changes that have taken place over the past twenty years. The chapters examine the proliferation of meetings the changes in the actors and their roles (governments nongovernmental organizations secretariats) the interlinkages of issues the impact of scientific advice and the challenges of implementation across negotiating processes including the Framework Convention on Climate Change the Convention to Combat Desertification the Convention on Biological Diversity the Commission on Sustainable Development the UN Forum on Forests the chemicals conventions (Stockholm Basel and Rotterdam) the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species the Convention on Migratory Species and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415809771

The Roanoke Voyages 1584-1590Documents to illustrate the English Voyages to North America under the Patent granted to Walter Raleigh in 158 Volume I: Texts from Hakluyt's Principall Navigations (1589) together with the items added by him in 1600 and much additional material a few documents in summary form. This volume takes the narrative to January 1586/7 and includes a descriptive list of John White's drawings of the first colony; the narrative is continued to 1590 and later in the following volume with which the main pagination is continuous. Volume II: Texts from Hakluyt's Principall Navigations (1589) together with the items added by him in 1600 and much additional material a few documents in summary form. This volume takes the narrative from January 1586/7 to 1590 and later. Appended is an article on the language of the Carolina Algonkian tribes by James A. Geary with a word-list; a chapter on the archaeology of the Roanoke settlements; a detailed account of the MS and printed sources; and a map of Ralegh's Virginia This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volumes first published in 1955. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315085364

The Roanoke Voyages 1584-1590Documents to illustrate the English Voyages to North America under the Patent granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584 Volume I Texts from Hakluyt's Principall Navigations (1589) together with the items added by him in 1600 and much additional material a few documents in summary form. This volume takes the narrative to January 1586/7 and includes a descriptive list of John White's drawings of the first colony; the narrative is continued to 1590 and later in the following volume (Second Series 105) with which the main pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1955. Media > Books > E-books Hakluyt Society 9781315553313

The Robber with a Witch's HeadMore Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach The Robber with the Witch's Head presents almost fifty new stories about demons and clever maidens and princes. Bursting with life this is a storyteller's dream full of adventure and magic translated by Jack Zipes. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138864528

The Robert Hall Diaries 1947-1953 (Routledge Revivals) Lord Roberthall was economic adviser to a succession of Labour and Conservative governments from 1947 to 1961. During that time he served under eight Chancellors and exercised more influence on economic policy than perhaps any other official. Fortunately – though it was contrary to Civil Service rules – he kept a diary in which he documented and reflected on day-to-day events. This first volume published in 1989 deals with the years between 1947 and 1953 in which Robert Hall acted as Director of the Economic Section and was faced with a variety of lingering uncertainties. This is a highly readable and fascinating account of what went on inside government in the post-war years. The book provides a unique picture of the relationship between Whitehall and Downing Street and those people who shaped this challenging period in British economic history. Edited by Sir Alec Cairncross who succeeded Lord Roberthall as Economic Adviser to HM Government in 1961 this reissue will interest any student researching policy and decision-making in the post-war period. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415739467

The Robert Hall Diaries 1954-1961 (Routledge Revivals) Lord Roberthall was economic adviser to a succession of Labour and Conservative governments from 1947 to 1961. During that time he served under eight Chancellors and exercised more influence on economic policy than perhaps any other official. Fortunately – though it was contrary to Civil Service rules – he kept a diary in which he documented and reflected on day-to-day events. This second volume published in 1991 covers the years between 1954 and 1961 after Robert Hall’s appointment as Economic Adviser to HM Government. The book includes details of conferences and negotiations in Australia the United States and Canada as well as accounts dealing with the struggles to contain inflation and moderate wages. This is a highly readable and fascinating account of what went on inside government in the post-war years. The book provides a unique picture of the relationship between Whitehall and Downing Street and those people who shaped this challenging period in British economic history. Edited by Sir Alec Cairncross who succeeded Lord Roberthall as Economic Adviser to HM Government in 1961 this reissue will interest any student researching policy and decision-making in the post-war period. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415739474

The Roberto Gerhard Companion More than forty years after the composer's death the music of Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) continues to be recorded and performed and to attract international scholarly interest. The Roberto Gerhard Companion is the first full length scholarly work on this composer noted for his sharp intellect and original exploring mind. This book builds on the outcomes of two recent international conferences and includes contributions by scholars from Spain the USA and UK. The essays collected here explore themes and trends within Gerhard’s work using individual or groups of works as case studies. Among the themes presented are the way Gerhard’s work was shaped by his Catalan heritage his education under Pedrell and Schoenberg and his very individual reaction to the latter’s teaching and methods notably Gerhard’s very distinctive approach to serialism. The influence of these and other cultural and literary figures is an important underlying theme that ties essays together. Exiled from Catalonia from 1939 Gerhard spent the remainder of his life in Cambridge England composing a string of often ground-breaking compositions notably the symphonies and concertos composed in the 1950s and 1960s. A particular focus in this book is Gerhard's electronic music. He was a pioneer in this genre and the book will contain the first rigorous studies of this music as well as the first accurate catalogue of this electronic output. His ground-breaking output of incidental music for radio and the stage is also given detailed consideration. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409445159

The Robust City Cities expand upwards and outwards and their physical structure can last a very long time not just tens but hundreds of years. Nevertheless they are rarely designed for expansion. Their layout does not allow for extension or for the retrofitting of infrastructure and can constrain and often prevent the growth and change of activities within them - cities are not 'robust' in their design. In other words change is not planned for but involves costly reconstruction. The Robust City argues that a robust expandable and sustainable urban form can be deduced from planning goals.　 Development should not just follow public transport corridors but should not be allowed beyond walking distance from them. This would create 'green enclaves' that would permit not only recreational access but also the retrofitting of infrastructure and the efficient circulation of motor vehicles. The same principles could also be applied within neighbourhoods and to facilitate the rational handling of urban intensification. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138631403

The Rock Art of Africa It has long been known that all forms of art – rock paintings carvings and scribings and also portable sculpture – are present at various locations throughout Africa. This book was the first inclusive survey and brings together in one volume accounts of African rock art which were previously scattered in scholarly monographs journals and travellers’ tales. The range of the coverage is geophysically comprehensive from the Atlas Mountains to the Cape of Good Hope. The art styles are set into a firm chronological framework and are displayed against a background of human physical and cultural evolution. Considerable discussion is also devoted to the varied purposes which the paintings and carvings served in the communities which produced them looking at the differing interpretations fully and fairly. A fascinating collection of illustrations some in colour truly reflects the variety of forms in which African rock art is manifested. Originally published 1984. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138818156

The Rock CanonCanonical Values in the Reception of Rock Albums Canons are central to our understanding of our culture and yet in the last thirty years there has been much conflict and uncertainty created by the idea of the canon. In essence the canon comprises the works and artists that are widely accepted to be the greatest in their field. Yet such an apparently simple construct embodies a complicated web of values and mechanisms. Canons are also inherently elitist; however Carys Wyn Jones here explores the emerging reflections of values terms and mechanisms from the canons of Western literature and classical music in the reception of rock music. Jones examines the concept of the canon as theorized by scholars in the fields of literary criticism and musicology before moving on to search for these canonical facets in the reception of rock music as represented by ten albums: Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds The Beatles' Revolver The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground & Nico Van Morrison's Astral Weeks Marvin Gaye's What's Going On The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. Patti Smith's Horses The Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks: Here's the Sex Pistols and Nirvana's Nevermind. Jones concludes that in the reception of rock music we are not only trying to organize the past but also mediate the present and any canon of rock music must now negotiate a far more pluralized culture and possibly accept a greater degree of change than has been evident in the canons of literature and classical music in the last two centuries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138247895

The Rock History Reader This eclectic compilation of readings tells the history of rock as it has been received and explained as a social and musical practice throughout its six decade history. This third edition includes new readings across the volume with added material on the early origins of rock 'n' roll as well as coverage of recent developments including the changing shape of the music industry in the twenty-first century. With numerous readings that delve into the often explosive issues surrounding censorship copyright race relations feminism youth subcultures and the meaning of musical value The Rock History Reader continues to appeal to scholars and students from a variety of disciplines. New to the third edition: Nine additional chapters from a broad range of perspectives Explorations of new media formations industry developments and the intersections of music and labor For the first time a companion website providing users with playlists of music referenced in the book Featuring readings as loud vibrant and colorful as rock ‘n’ roll itself The Rock History Reader is sure to leave readers informed inspired and perhaps even infuriated—but never bored. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138227712

The Rockefeller Foundation Public Health and International Diplomacy 1920–1945 Based on extensive archival research this study examines the role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of spreading good health creating a revolution in public health practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781848935679

The Rodney PapersVolume I 1742–1763: Selections from the Correspondence of Admiral Lord Rodney Overbearing avaricious and difficult yet talented and ambitious George Brydges Rodney has never attracted much sympathy or understanding. He was nevertheless an original thinker and one of the great admirals of the eighteenth century. The contents of this volume the first of three document his career from 1742 until 1763 - his private and political life. His early years as a captain were spent in the severe conditions of the North Sea and in taking privateers in the western approaches. During the peace after 1748 he was Governor of Newfoundland and in the Seven Years' War blockaded Le Havre before going as a flag officer to command in the Leeward Islands where he participated in the capture of Martinique. This volume also contains letters to his wife which indicate against past opinion that Rodney had a heart. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781911423775

The Rodney PapersVolume II: 1763-1780: Selections from the Correspondence of Admiral Lord Rodney This the second of three volumes of the correspondence of George Brydges Rodney covers the admiral's life from the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 until August 1780. This was perhaps his most eventful extraordinary and controversial period; from being a successful admiral a member of Parliament and the Governor of Greenwich Hospital Rodney plunges into debt and a debtor's exile in France only to rise again as a victorious admiral and as a national hero. At the end of the Seven Years War Rodney was disappointed and bitter at the failure of the British government to reward him for his prominent part in the capture of Martinique and other French islands in the West Indies. He was made baronet in 1764 and governor of Greenwich Hospital in 1765. He had already been a member of Parliament for Saltash in 1751-4 and sat for Okehampton Penryn and Northampton consecutively between 1759 and 1774. In 1768 he was involved in one of the most costly elections in eighteenth century parliamentary history. He secured election at Northampton but his finances were broken. Furthermore he had begun to gamble heavily and with a limited income fell into the hands of moneylenders. In 1770 he attempted to recoup his finances by becoming Commander-in-Chief at Jamaica. Nevertheless in the West Indies until 1774 Rodney managed a successful period of diplomacy with Spain of intelligence gathering and of navigational surveying especially off the coast of Florida. Even so he returned to England deeply in debt and was forced to flee to France to escape his creditors. The war with the American colonies proved to be Rodney's salvation. After war with France had broken out in 1779 the British government was desperate for an admiral who could fight and win battles. Rodney was appointed Commander-in-Chief in the Leeward Islands. His success in battle and skillful conduct of the naval war in the West Indies in 1780 restored Rodney's public standing. The stage was set for his most famous victory the Battle of the Saintes in 1782 and the restoration of his private finances. George Brydges Rodney had gone through a dramatic change of fortunes. The character of that man is revealed here. This volume will permit re-assessment of this outstanding British admiral of the American War of Independence for a new generation of historians. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781911423805

The Rohingya CrisisA Moral Ethnographic and Policy Assessment This book provides a history of the ethnic persecution of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and their disputed ethnic and national identity. It focuses on how the crisis has morphed into a geopolitical encounter among Bangladesh China India and Myanmar. It further explores the moral ethnographic and public policy issues in the humanitarian response to the crisis of the Rohingya people. The volume analyzes the question of citizenship for the Rohingyas by analyzing historical documents and interviews which chronicle the status and identity of the community and their past involvement in the government and politics of Myanmar. The authors focus specifically on the changing geopolitical context of state formation in South Asia and the tense relationships between Myanmar and its neighbours – Bangladesh China and India. The book examines the alliances and disputes in the South and Southeast Asia region which are predicated on economic and strategic gains and their impact on the Rohingya crisis. It also looks at the failure of bilateral and multilateral negotiations among these countries to adequately address or alleviate the plight of the stateless Rohingyas. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of international studies peace human rights and conflict studies sociology ethnic studies border studies migration and diaspora studies discrimination and exclusion studies public policy and Asian Studies. It will also be useful for professionals working in the media nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) think tanks and policy makers as well as general readers interested in the history of the persecution of the Rohingya people. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9780367341336

The Rohingya in South AsiaPeople Without a State The Rohingya of Myanmar are one of the world’s most persecuted minority populations without citizenship. After the latest exodus from Myanmar in 2017 there are now more than half a million Rohingya in Bangladesh living in camps often in conditions of abject poverty malnutrition and without proper access to shelter or work permits. Some of them are now compelled to take to the seas in perilous journeys to the Southeast Asian countries in search of a better life. They are now asked to go back to Myanmar but without any promise of citizenship or an end to discrimination. This book looks at the Rohingya in the South Asian region primarily India and Bangladesh. It explores the broader picture of the historical and political dimensions of the Rohingya crisis and examines subjects of statelessness human rights and humanitarian protection of these victims of forced migration. Further it chronicles the actual process of emergence of a stateless community – the transformation of a national group into a stateless existence without basic rights.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9781138611016

The ROI Fieldbook Since the publication of 'Return on Investment in Training and Performance Improvement Programs ' many individuals have attempted to implement the ROI methodology in their organizations. Having a credible process does not guarantee that an organization will implement the process effectively throughout the various functions and divisions. 'The ROI Fieldbook' will help organizations implement ROI successfully by providing concrete techniques tools strategies and reproducible items. Jack Phillips and Patti Phillips and their associates have helped hundreds of organizations and individuals with their ROI workshops. 'The ROI Fieldbook' provides many different strategies for tackling the critical issues of implementation. The authors examine every key barrier to implementation and suggest strategies for overcoming minimizing or removing the barriers. The accompanying CD contains dozens of tools instruments and templates aimed at providing helpful resources for the individual or the team responsible for implementing ROI. Case studies from a variety of organizations illustrate the broad range of application and implementation. The CD also includes interactive material such as "Are You Ready for ROI" a self-assessment test. Other material includes templates for data collection ROI analysis plan action plan and a cost summary sheet. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138433298

The ROI of PricingMeasuring the Impact and Making the Business Case As with executives and managers in so many other business functions pricing specialists are being challenged more and more to substantiate the added value of their activities. Pricing is a core function of every business and needs not only to contribute positively to short- and long-term results but also to document its impact to the bottom line. A fundamental part of this is the pricing ROI calculations. This book edited by globally renowned thought leaders Andreas Hinterhuber and Stephan Liozu is the first to outline contemporary theories and best practices of documenting pricing ROI. It provides proven methods practices and theories on how to calculate the impact of pricing activities on performance. Marketing ROI is now a common concept: this collection proves to do the same for pricing. Hinterhuber & Liozu introduce the concept of pricing ROI documenting and quantifying the return on pricing activities and on the pricing function itself is of increasing relevance today and in the future – in times of budget constraints. 20 world class specialists explore the concept of pricing ROI under both a theoretical perspective and a managerial perspective to shed much-needed light on how to measure and increase pricing ROI. This groundbreaking book will enlighten students and specialists of marketing and sales pricing managers and executives alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415730716

The Role Position and Agency of Cusp States in International Relations This work seeks to develop a new concept with which to analyse the actions and activities of states that tend to be relatively ignored by the discipline of International Relations (IR). As a discipline IR has a tendency to lean towards the analytically safe. Given the current and recent dynamism of the international system that is both surprising and undesirable. Arranged around the concept of the idea of the Cusp State (and cuspness more generally) the book consists of empirical analysis of eight different countries Brazil Iran Israel Japan Mexico Taiwan Turkey and Ukraine defined as ‘states that lie uneasily on the political and/or normative edge of what is widely believed to be an established region’. By focusing on the importance of comparing groups of states like states with high degrees of ‘cuspness’ this book argues that it is possible to categorise the world in a fresher and more original way and one which covers more of the globe than either a systemic or regionalist approach would do. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of Geopolitics International Security and Regionalism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138287945

The Role and Control of Weapons in the 1990s With the end of the Cold War many of the old threats to European security have disappeared. New ones however are now emerging particularly in the light of the rise of nationalism and the spread of nuclear biological and chemical weapons to politically unstable countries. The Role and Control of Weapons in the 1990's examines these security issues - the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Third World the threat from international terrorists the environmental damage caused by modern warfare - to argue that control over weapons of mass destruction must be dramatically increased. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203168318

The Role and Future of Special Collections in Research LibrariesBritish and American Perspectives What does the future hold for special collections in research libraries? Will special collections be an important feature in humanistic research or will technology make special collections irrelevant to research in the humanities? The Role and Future of Special Collections in Research Libraries explores the answers to these questions by examining special collections in British and American libraries and the changing trends in research and scholarship as they relate to special collections. This book examines the particular experience of a variety of special collections in British research libraries. By learning more about British experiences related to special collections North American libraries will discover new ways to manage existing information resources in light of diminished funding. The topics cover this essential role of special collections in these areas: the British perspective on issues relating to access and preservation of manuscripts reproduction from originals confidentiality and the development of collections a historical overview of changes in special collections technology and special collections balancing the collection and preservation of books and manuscripts with the acquisition of new materials in electronic format The Role and Future of Special Collections in Research Libraries brings together international perspectives on library programs to help librarians and library administrators understand the factors that influence special collections. With the help of this insightful book librarians will learn how to develop and modify future programs and services to maintain excellent special collections. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315859460

The Role of Agriculture in Climate Change Mitigation According to IPCC reports one of the greatest threats to the Earth ecosystems is climate change caused by the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases mostly carbon dioxide mainly from the combustion of fossil fuels cement production and land-use change which leads to an excessive temperature rise. Agriculture and forestry are responsible for quiet big emissions of greenhouse gases: CO2 CH4 and N2O and have significant potential to reduce these emissions mainly through enhancement of CO2 absorption by terrestrial ecosystems. To evaluate the impact of agriculture on climate change ruminant farming should be also taken into account. These animals emit considerable amounts of methane which has strong greenhouse effects. Methane emissions may be reduced by using appropriate feed for ruminants. Decreasing the meat consumption of these animals can also make an important contribution to reducing methane emissions. The methods for reducing greenhouse gas emissions through appropriate management of terrestrial ecosystems and animal husbandry are widely discussed in The Role of Agriculture in Climate Change Mitigation. The book will be of interest to academics professionals and policy makers in environmental sciences. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367433727

The Role of American NGOs in China's ModernizationInvited Influence In the waning years of the Cold War the United States and China began to cautiously engage in cultural educational and policy exchanges which in turn strengthened new security and economic ties. These links have helped shape the most important bilateral relationship in the late-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book explores the dynamics of cultural exchange through an in-depth historical investigation of three organizations at the forefront of U.S.-China non-governmental relations: the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies the National Committee on United States-China Relations and The 1990 Institute. Norton Wheeler reveals the impact of American non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on education environment fiscal policy and civil society in contemporary China. In turn this book illuminates the important role that NGOs play in complementing formal diplomacy and presents a model of society-to-society relations that moves beyond old debates over cultural imperialism. Finally the book highlights the increasingly significant role of Chinese Americans as bridges between the two societies. Based on extensive archival research and interviews with leading American and Chinese figures this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese politics and history international relations and transnational NGOs. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138022751

The Role of Art and Culture for Regional and Urban Resilience This book analyses the influence of art and culture as an engine to promote the resilience of regional and urban economies. Under a multidiscplinary perspective the book examines the contribution of some creative regions and cities as places in which processes of transformation innovation and growth are activated in response to external pressures. Through different theoretical frameworks and empirical investigations and suggesting a critical discussion of the notion of resilience the authors argue that cultural and creative resources may offer a sustainable model in order to afford different typologies of shocks. The book will appeal scholars of regional and urban science and cultural and creative economies and will open up a number of considerations for policy makers.This volume was originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367892067

The Role of Assessment in Schools "The Role of Assessment in Schools" looks at the conceptual aspects of tests and testing and also gives practical guidelines on how to use tests to their best effect. It considers the development of tests the types and scope of tests their application and interpretation and answers questions on who wants testing whether the test is appropriate or biased and whether the results are consistent?. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138421462

The Role of Assistive Technology in Fostering Inclusive EducationStrategies and Tools to Support Change The Role of Assistive Technology in Fostering Inclusive Education uses evidence-based research to explore issues related to implementation of ICT-based Assistive Technology (ICT-AT) in education. It focuses on programmes and activities that aim at the empowerment of the learners with disabilities as well as the empowerment of the entire educational ecosystem. The book provides a synthesis of political and theoretical discussions as well as practical experiences on the implementation of ICT-AT in education. Analysing international policy frameworks in relation to inclusive education and technology it discusses examples of school self-assessment and action plan methodologies for digital inclusive education as well as case studies of innovative ICT and AT solutions in educational environments. The authors elaborate on digital empowerment as a wider societal challenge through reflection on the barriers that people with disabilities meet in education and beyond. This book will be of great interest for academics researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of inclusive education and assistive technology as well as those interested in education research and policy development. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138370081

The Role of Banks in Monitoring FirmsThe Case of the Credit Mobilier This book addresses issues in the current literature on corporate finance using historical evidence. In particular it looks at the role of universal banks in relaxing the credit constraints of firms supervising managers and stabilizing share prices. The key issues is whether the Anglo-American asset based financing is more efective than the main-bank approach used in Germany and Japan. Earlier studies have found that firms with a close relationship with a major bank have high market value compared to book value although it is difficult to determine whether this is cause or effect Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138985506

The Role of Beta Receptor Agonist Therapy in Asthma Mortality First published in 1993 the Role of Beta Receptor Agonist Therapy in Asthma Mortality provides the first comprehensive review of the role of beta-receptor agonist drug therapy and asthma mortality. The book includes sections on the epidemiological and experimental methods used to examine possible relationships between beta-agonist drug therapy and asthma mortality. It also reviews the development of beta-agonist drugs and the long-term trends in asthma mortality to present a historical perspective. Internationally respected experts have contributed to this unique volume making it essential for epidemiologists pharmacologists and researchers in clinical medicine and public health. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367236618

The Role of Bioinformatics in Agriculture This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Advances in information technology and next generation sequencing have propelled the use of bioinformatics in agriculture especially in the area of crop improvement. An extremely large amount of genomics data is available from plants and animals due to tremendous improvements in the field. This book acquaints readers with state-of-the-art sequencing technologies recent developments in computing algorithms and certain biological perspectives that influence development of bioinformatics tools by giving specific examples from model plant species. The challenge is now to make sense and use of this wealth of data. Media > Books > Print Books Apple Academic Press 9781771880039

The Role of Brief Therapy in Attachment Disorders The Role of Brief Therapy in Attachment Disorders provides a comprehensive summary of the range of approaches that exist within the brief therapy world including Cognitive Analytic Therapy Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Ericksonian Therapy Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy Provocative Therapy Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367328672

The Role of Business in the Development of the Welfare State and Labor Markets in GermanyContaining Social Reforms This book assesses the role of employers in the development of welfare state and labour market institutions. Building on an in-depth analysis of Germany a market economy known to often provide economic benefits to firms this book explores one of the most contested issues in the comparative and historical literature on the welfare state. In a departure from existing employer-centered explanations the author applies new empirical data to contend that the variation in acceptance of social reform depends more on changes in the types of political challenges faced by employers than on changes in the type of institutions considered economically beneficial. Covering major reforms spanning more than a century of institutional development in unemployment insurance accident insurance pensions collective bargaining and codetermination this book argues that employers support social policy as a means to contain political outcomes that would have been worse including labour unrest and more radical reform plans. Using new and controversial findings on the role of employers in welfare state development this book considers the conditions for a peaceful coexistence of a generous welfare state and the business world. The Role of Business in the Development of the Welfare State and Labor Markets in Germany will be of interest to students and scholars of welfare and social policy politics political economy and European politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138803510

The Role Of Centrosema Desmodium And Stylosanthes In Improving Tropical Pastures This integrated collection describes the importance of forage legumes for pasture development and improvement in the tropics and subtropics. Leading agronomists review the magnitude of the need for pasture improvement; tropical and subtropical soil and climate environments; reports of the successful use of legumes in pasture development in a wet and a dry tropical environment; and the scope of the problem in terms of area to be developed and development logistics required. Three legume genera Centrosema Desmodium and Stylosanthes are discussed in detail--information is presented on taxonomy adaptation distribution productivity and usefulness--and considerable emphasis is placed on Rhizobium germplasm resources for these genera. A concluding section of technical essays addresses special considerations in using tropical legumes in pasture development and presents a coordinated multidisciplinary approach to legume exploration and evaluation. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367295622

The Role of Communication in Learning To Model In this book a number of experts from various disciplines take a look at three different strands in learning to model. They examine the activity of modeling from disparate theoretical standpoints taking into account the individual situation of the individuals involved. The chapters seek to bridge the modeling of communication and the modeling of particular scientific domains. In so doing they seek to throw light on the educational communication that goes on in conceptual learning. Taken together the chapters brought together in this volume illustrate the diversity and vivacity of research on a relatively neglected yet crucially important aspect of education across disciplines: learning to model. A common thread across the research presented is the view that communication and interaction as fundamental to most educational practices and as a repository of conceptual understanding and a learning mechanism in itself is intimately linked to elaborating meaningful coherent and valid representations of the world. The editors hope this volume will contribute to both the fundamental research in its field and ultimately provide results that can be of practical value in designing new situations for teaching and learning modeling particularly those involving computers. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9780415652711

The Role of Community in Restorative Justice Although restorative justice is probably one of the most talked about topics in contemporary criminology little has been written about how community involvement in restorative justice translates into practice. While advocates have presented the community as an essential pillar of restorative justice the rationale for why and how this is the case remains underdeveloped and largely unchallenged. This book offers an empirical and theoretical explanation of what ‘community involvement’ means and what work it does in restorative justice. Drawing on an empirical case study and the wider sociological literature The Role of Community in Restorative Justice examines the involvement of the community in one selected practice of restorative justice and also considers the implications of the English and Welsh experience for development of a more coherent framework for operationalizing community involvement in restorative justice practices. It is argued that restorative justice programmes need to start from a more concrete and up-to-date notion of community. While operationalizing community involvement they need to acknowledge all at once: the importance of place; the importance of family links friendship and other social ties; and the importance of similar social traits and identities. This book is essential reading for students researchers and academics in the fields of criminology criminal justice sociology community studies policy studies social policy and socio-legal studies. This book will also be valuable reading for a variety of practitioners and policymakers particularly working with restorative justice and youth justice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138288706

The Role of Conference Literature in Sci-Tech Libraries Most librarians working with sci-tech collections are fully aware of the importance of conference papers and proceedings which has long played a major role in keeping professionals informed of the latest developments in their field. In this book first published in 1989 responsible executives from several publishers of conference literature have joined with a number of sci-tech librarians to discuss the nature and value of conference literature in sci-tech libraries. A commercial publisher discusses the difficulties in editing a set of conference papers in a book while producers of indexing/abstracting tools describe their selection methods retrieval services and general outlook on conference materials. In addition sci-tech librarians address the problems of accessing citing and locating conference literature and explore the many aspects of the cataloguing of conference publications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367364502

The Role Of Consciousness In The Physical World Do we live in a deterministic universe that passively awaits our observation and utilization? Or do we create our own reality in the process of observing it? These questions writes the editor traditionally have been the domain of philosophers theologians and romantic writers; in recent years though they have become a concern of scientists. Ad Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367311094

The Role of Consent in Human Trafficking Human trafficking is consistently featured on the global political agenda. This book examines the trafficking of adult female victims for sexual exploitation and specifically the understanding of consent and its influence in the identification and treatment of trafficking victims. Jessica Elliott argues that when applied to situations of human trafficking migration and sexual exploitation the notion of consent presents problems which current international laws are unable to address. Establishing the presence of 'coercion' and a lack of consent can be highly problematic particularly in situations of human trafficking and exploitative prostitution; activities which may be deemed inherently coercive and problematically clandestine. By examining legal definitions of human trafficking in international instruments and their domestic implementation in different countries the book explores victimhood in the context of exploitative migration and argues that no clear line can be drawn between those who have been smuggled trafficked or 'consensually trafficked' into a situation of exploitation. The book will be great use and interest to students and researchers of migration law transnational criminal law and gender studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138215276

The Role of Constructs in Psychological and Educational Measurement Contributors to the volume represent an international "who's who" of research scientists from the fields of psychology and measurement. It offers the insights of these leading authorities regarding cognition and personality. In particular they address the roles of constructs and values in clarifying the theoretical and empirical work in these fields as well as their relation to educational assessment. It is intended for professionals and students in psychology and assessment and almost anyone doing research in cognition and personality. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138866812

The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza's PhilosophyThe God-intoxicated heretic Spinoza is commonly perceived as the great metaphysician of coherence. The Euclidean manner in which he presented his philosophy in the Ethics has led readers to assume they are facing a strict and consistent philosophical system that necessarily follows from itself. As opposed to the prevailing understanding of Spinoza and his work The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza's Philosophy explores an array of profound and pervasive contradictions in Spinoza’s system and argues they are deliberate and constitutive of his philosophical thinking and the notion of God at its heart. Relying on a meticulous and careful reading of the Theological-Political Treatise and the Ethics this book reconstructs Spinoza's philosophy of contradictions as a key to the ascending three degrees of knowledge leading to the Amor intellectualis Dei. Offering an exciting and clearly-argued interpretation of Spinoza’s philosophy this book will interest students and scholars of modern philosophy and philosophy of religion as well as Jewish studies. Yuval Jobani is Assistant Professor at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies and the School of Education at Tel-Aviv University. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367026844

The Role of Corpus Linguistics in the Ethnography of a Closed CommunitySurvival Communication The Role of Corpus Linguistics in the Ethnography of a Closed Community analyses the interactions of immigrants within an Irish reception centre for asylum seekers to highlight the instinctive resourcefulness of people who are faced with the challenge of communicating when there is no common language or culture.  Based on three years of ethnographical observation and using an illuminating and innovative blending of applied methodologies chiefly corpus linguistics ethnography and conversation analysis this book: Draws upon a corpus of 98 000 words; Examines the use of English in the interactions of residents with one another and those with English speaking staff of the centre; Challenges constructs such as speech community communicative competence and interlanguage. This book is essential reading for academics and upper-level undergraduates or graduates working in the areas of Corpus Linguistics and Applied Linguistics and those interested in research methodologies. It will also prove to be of significant interest to people interested in migration studies and to providers of English language education to immigrants. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138714427

The Role of Courts in Transitional JusticeVoices from Latin America and Spain Bringing together a group of outstanding judges scholars and experts with first-hand experience in the field of transitional justice in Latin America and Spain this book offers an insider’s perspective on the enhanced role of courts in prosecuting serious human rights violations and grave crimes such as genocide and war crimes committed in the context of a prior repressive regime or current conflict. The book also draws attention to the ways in which regional and international courts have come to contribute to the initiation of national judicial processes. All the contributions evince that the duty to investigate and prosecute grave crimes can no longer simply be brushed to the side in societies undergoing transitions. The Role of Courts in Transitional Justice is essential reading for practitioners policy-makers and scholars engaged in the transitional justice processes or interested in judicial and legal perspectives on the role of courts obstacles faced and how they may be overcome. It is unique in its ambition to offer a comprehensive and systematic account of the Latin American and Spanish experience and in bringing the insights of renowned judges and experts in the field to the forefront of the discussion. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415870252

The Role of Demand and Supply in the Generation and Diffusion of Technical Change First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415753692

The Role of Design in International Competitiveness Design is an important factor in business success. This book first published in 1989 analyses what the role of design is in business success; just what design is; and how both design and its management might be improved. It draws on extensive original research by the authors in eighty-seven companies regarded as leaders in the field of export and technological achievement and it reports on the experiences of these companies. Among the book’s many important conclusions and recommendations for improved practice are: that design rather than price is the key factor in determining customer/user satisfaction; and that success with design is the leading characteristic of firms that compete successfully in international markets. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815370864

The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda explores the relationship between education and other key sectors of development in the context of the new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda. While it is widely understood that there is a positive relationship between education and other dimensions of development and populations around the world show a clear desire for more and better education education remains an under-financed and under-prioritised sector within development. When education does make it onto the agenda investment is usually diverted towards increasing access to formal schooling without focusing on the intrinsic value of education as a tool for development within the international development community more broadly. The authors explore these tensions through a review of literature from a range of disciplines providing a clearer picture of the relationship between education and other development sectors. The book challenges silo-thinking in the SDGs by exploring how achieving the SDG education targets can be expected to support or hinder progress towards other targets and vice-versa. Drawing on examples from both low and high income countries the book demonstrates how ‘good’ education functions as an ‘enabling right’ impacting positively on many other areas. The book’s scope ranges across education and development studies economics geography sociology and environmental studies and will be of interest to any researchers and students with an interest in education and the SDGs. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367820978

The Role of Employer Associations and Labour Unions in the EMUInstitutional Requirements for European Economic Policies First published in 1999 this volume recognises that in the course of European integration national economic policy makers lose some effective policy instruments. Contributors to this omnibus volume analyse the 'room for maneuvering' available to national and EU economic and social policies under the conditions of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). They explore the possibilities for European coordination and discuss the tasks of employers’ associations and labour unions on the national and EU level in wage employment and macroeconomic policies. Section 1 of the book deals with the strengths and weaknesses of the EU in the context of global competition. In spite of national differences many of the EU member countries share important characteristics. Section 2 addresses the need for and the feasibility of policy coordination in the EMU. With the start of the EMU wage policy will have to bear the main burden of absorbing asymmetrical economic shocks. The authors from the DIW argue that a wage policy favourable to economic growth employment and convergence has to be guided by the inflation target set by the European Central Bank (ECB) and by the long-term increase of productivity in individual countries. A precondition for this kind of wage policy is coordination between the main actors of EU economic policy (ECB EcoFin social partners). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138369382

The Role of English Teaching in Modern JapanDiversity and multiculturalism through English language education in a globalized era The Role of English Teaching in Modern Japan examines the complex nature of Japan’s promotion of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In globalized societies where people with different native languages communicate through English multicultural and multilinguistic interactions are widely created. This book takes the opportunity to look at Japan and examines how these multiple realities have affected its English language teaching within the domestic context. The myth of Japan’s racial and ethnic homogeneity may hinder many Japanese in recognizing realities of its own minority groups such as Ainu Zainichi Koreans and Brazilian Japanese who are in the same EFL classrooms. Acknowledging a variety of English uses and users in Japan this book emphasizes the influence of Japan’s recent domestic diversity on its EFL curriculum and urges that such changes should be addressed. It suggests new directions for incorporating multicultural perspectives in order to develop English language education in Japan and other Asian contexts where English is often taught as a foreign language. Chapters include: 　 Social cultural and political background of Japan’s EFL education Race ethnicity and multiculturalism Representations of diversity in Japanese EFL Textbooks Perceptions of English learning and diversity in Japan The role of EFL education in multicultural Japan Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415787888

The Role of Evaluators in Curriculum Development Originally published in 1985. This is an overview of the evolution of curriculum evaluation since the reforms of the 1960s presented through the personal and practical knowledge of experienced individuals rather than abstract theoretical models which hitherto dominated the field. A collection of personal retrospective accounts by leading evaluators of their roles in the actual process of curriculum development the chapters represent diverse educational systems in a range of countries including Australia Israel England and the USA. A variety of innovative curricula are portrayed and the models which emerge are empirically based. Their diversity provides evidence for the need to accommodate and adjust theoretical and methodological principles to real situations. This is a great reference for those with an interest in comparative curriculum development. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138322028

The Role of Female Combatants in the Nicaraguan Revolution and Counter Revolutionary War The revolution in Nicaragua was unique in that a large percentage of the combatants were women. The Role of Female Combatants in the Nicaraguan Revolution and Counter Revolutionary War is a study of these women and those who fought in the Contra counter revolution on the Atlantic Coast. This book is a qualitative study based on 85 interviews with female ex-combatants in the revolution and counter revolution from the 1960s to the end of the 1980s as well as field observations in Nicaragua and the autonomous regions of the Atlantic Coast. It explores the reasons why women fought the sacrifices they made their treatment by male combatants and their insights into the impact of the revolution and counter-revolution on today’s Nicaragua. The analytical approach draws from political psychology social identity dynamics such as nationalism and indigenous identities and the role of liberation theology in the willingness of the female revolutionaries to risk their lives. Researchers and students of Gender Studies Latin American and Latino Studies and Political History will find this an illuminating account of the Nicaraguan Revolution and counter revolution which until now has been rarely shared. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367731977

The Role of Fluency in Reading Competence Assessment and instructionFluency at the intersection of Accuracy and Speed: A Special Issue of First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138423312

The Role of Formal Features in Second Language Acquisition Using Chomsky's minimalist program as a framework  this volume explores the role of formal (or functional) features in current descriptions and accounts of language acquistion. In engaging up-to-date articles distinguished experts examine the role of features in current versions of generative grammar and in learnibility theory as it relates to native non-native and impaired acquisition. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315085340

The Role of Gender in Practice KnowledgeClaiming Half the Human Experience First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138009363

The Role of Glia in Neurotoxicity Presenting the latest research in glial cell function gleaned from new techniques in imaging and molecular biology The Role of Glia in Neurotoxicity Second Edition covers multiple aspects of glial cells including morphology physiology pharmacology biochemistry pathology and their involvement in the pathophysiology of neurological diseases. The book is structured to examine the interactions between glial cells and neurons during development adulthood and senescence followed by specific examples of directly mediated glial neurotoxicity. The book also covers miscellaneous topics in glial physiology/biochemistry such as signaling and edema. The book includes coverage of advances in our knowledge and understanding of glial physiology and biochemistry. Discover what's new in the Second Edition:Neuronal-glia metabolic interactionsNeuronal-glia interactions (glutamate homeostasis)Zinc transporters in gliaEnergy deprivation/mitochondrial dysfunction - unique astrocyte susceptibilitiesAstrocytes and MPTP neurotoxicityAstroglia and food toxinsCurrent understanding of the importance of glia has caused a boom in published information. Yet while many of the published textbooks are multifaceted and multidisciplinary none includes the role of glia in neurotoxicity. Written by leaders in the field of glial research this text fills this missing gap in the literature. Broader in scope than the first edition including contributions from internationally known researchers this is still the only book dedicated to exploring the role of glial cells in mediating neurotoxicology.FeaturesSummarizes the latest research in glial cell function gleaned from new techniques in imaging and molecular biologyContains tables and figures that give you quick and easy access to precise dataIncludes a contemporary summary of literature that puts information useful for grant submissions at your fingertips Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367393380

The Role of Government in the Industrialization of Iraq 1950-1965 Since 1950 the governments of Iraq have attempted vigorously to develop the economy and have stressed industrial development. Here Dr Ferhang Jalal discusses analyses and appraises a number of policies adopted by the government of Iraq designed to promote the growth of the industrial sector. The policies were of two kinds: the establishment of enterprises financed constructed and operated by the government; and the encouragement of the expansion of private industrial enterprises through provision of finance by way of tax exemptions of all kinds through controls over the allocation of investment and by protecting them from foreign competition. The author discusses the extent to which investment programmes formulated by planners were able to be implemented and analyses in detail the factors facilitating and those constraining a more rapid rate of industrial growth. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138820302

The Role of Government in Water Markets While water is an increasingly scarce resource most existing methods to allocate it are neither economically nor environmentally efficient. In these circumstances water markets offer developed countries a form of regulatory response capable of overcoming many of the shortcomings of current water management. The debate on water markets is however a polarized one. This is mostly a result of the misunderstanding of the roles played by governments in water markets. Proponents mistakenly portrayed them as leaving governments for the most part out of the picture. Opponents in turn understand commodification of water and administration by public agencies as incompatible. Casado Pérez argues that both sides of the debate overlook that water markets require a deeper and more varied governmental intervention than markets for other goods. Drawing on economic theories of regulation based on market failure she explains the different roles governments should play to ensure a well-functioning water market and concludes that only the visible hand of governments can ensure the success of water markets. Casado Pérez proves her case by examining case studies of California and Spain to assess the success of their water markets. She explores why water markets were more extensively institutionalized in California than in Spain in the first ten years since their introduction and how the role of governments in each case study impacted water market operation.This unique analysis of governmental roles in water markets alongside qualitative studies of California and Spain offers valuable guidance to understand environmental markets and to face the challenges presented by water management in regions with periodical droughts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367595517

The Role of Governments in Legislative Agenda Setting Setting the agenda for parliament is the most significant institutional weapon for governments to shape policy outcomes because governments with significant agenda setting powers like France or the UK are able to produce the outcomes they prefer while governments that lack agenda setting powers such as the Netherlands and Italy in the beginning of the period examined see their projects significantly altered by their Parliaments. With a strong comparative framework this coherent volume examines fourteen countries and provides a detailed investigation into the mechanisms by which governments in different countries determine the agendas of their corresponding parliaments. It explores the three different ways that governments can shape legislative outcomes: institutional partisan and positional to make an important contribution to legislative politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics legislative studies/parliamentary research governments/coalition politics political economy and policy studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138989870

The Role of Grandparents in the 21st CenturyGlobal Perspectives on Changing Roles and Consequences Across the world the role of grandparents is changing. This book highlights the changing roles and the consequences of these changes for both grandchildren and grandparents by drawing together leading international authorities on grandparenting and intergenerational relations.The book includes scholarly summaries of research as well as new research findings. It should be an invaluable resource for other scholars and students investigating the role of grandparents today.This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367582784

The Role of Henri Borel in Chinese Translation History Against the historical background of Chinese translation in the West and the emergence of several prominent European translators of China this book examines the role of a translator in terms of cross-cultural communication the image of the foreign culture in the minds of the target audience and the influence of their translations on the target culture. With the focus on the career and output of the Dutch translator Henri Borel (1869–1933) this study investigates different aspects of the role of translator. The investigation is carried out by analysing texts and probing the achievements and contributions of the translator underpinned by documents from the National Archives and the Literature Museum in the Hague the Netherlands. Based on the findings derived from this study advice is offered to those now involved in the promotion and translation of Chinese culture and literature. It will make an important contribution to the burgeoning history of Chinese translation. This book will be of interest to anyone with an interest or background in the translation history of China the history of sinology in the West and the role of translators. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367425524

The Role of Higher Education in Initial Teacher Training This text explores the issue of what role if any higher education should play in intial teacher training. The authors argue for the continued involvement of higher education in teacher training and cover such areas as the 1994 Education Act the role of universities and the schools consortia. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138420878

The Role of Ideas in Political AnalysisA Portrait of Contemporary Debates Despite the proliferation of ideational accounts in the last decade or so the debate over the role of ideas remains caught up in a series of disputes over the ontological foundations epistemological status and practical pay-off of the (re)turn to ideational explanations. It is thus unsurprising that there is still little clarity about just what sort of an approach an ideational approach is and about what it would take to establish the kind of fully-fledged ideational research programme many seem to assume has already been developed. The contributors in this volume address these dilemmas in diverse but engagingly complementary ways. They argue that what plagues most attempts to accord ideas an explanatory role is the persistence of the perennial dualities in political analysis. In aspiring to eschew the current vogue for dualistic polemic the present volume reveals elements of dualistic thinking in the ideational turn and assesses the impact of the persistence of these perennial dualisms in the attempt to accord ideas an explanatory role. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415662406

The Role of Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet WorldThe End of Transition? Based on extensive ethnographic and quantitative research conducted in Ukraine and Russia between 2004 and 2012 this book’s central argument is that for many people the informal economy such as cash in hand work subsistence production and the use of social networks is of great importance to everyday life. Formal work is both a facilitator of such processes and is often supported by them as people can only afford to undertake low paid formal work as a result of their informal incomes. By looking at the informal nature of formal work and practices informal practices gift giving volunteer work and the economies of the household the book is one of the first to give an overview of the nature of the informal economy in all spheres of everyday practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138903999

The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Agriculture and Allied Sciences This important volume provides a basic understanding of the different forms of intellectual property rights in agricultural science. It provides an abundance of information on the use of IP laws in agriculture and allied subjects and their proper implementation in real-life practice. The chapter authors discuss different kinds of IP laws and their current status in developed as well as developing countries throughout the world. The protection of biological resources is crucial for food security for future generations. Biological resources are the source of several important genes. Researchers are interested in the development of plant varieties that can increase crop production withstand dramatic climatic changes etc. Protecting intellectual property rights in plant varieties and the rights of farmers and others are discussed in this volume. It also looks at new trends and developments in the field involving new IP strategies and the application of IP laws in agriculture and biotechnology and in the management of plant genetic resources.   Media > Books > Print Books Apple Academic Press 9781771886987

The Role of interest in Learning and Development Interest is just emerging as a critical bridge between cognitive and affective issues in both learning and development. This developing "interest" in interest appears to be linked to an increasing concern for studying the individual in context examining affective variables as opposed to purely structural features of text analyzing the interrelationship of cognitive and social development understanding practical applications of theories of motivation and recognizing the importance of developmental psychology for the study of learning. This book addresses both how individual interest and interest inherent in stimuli (books text toys etc.) across subjects affect cognitive performance. While the book's particular emphasis is on theory-driven research each of the contributing authors offers a unique perspective on understanding interest and its effects on learning and development. As such each has contributed a chapter in which particular questions in interest research are described and linked to a clearly stated theoretical perspective and recent findings. Relevant material from the broader literatures of psychology and education are analyzed in the context of these discussions. In addition the introductory and concluding chapters build on the contributions to the volume by providing the basis of a coherent view of interest across genres such as stories and expository text and domains as varied as play reading and mathematics. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138989887

The Role of Knowledge Brokers in EducationConnecting the Dots Between Research and Practice This ground-breaking book comprehensively addresses an area of major and sustained concern: how to improve the use of research evidence and enhance educators’ research engagement as a route to the improvement of educational practice. It focuses on the topic of knowledge brokering and mobilization in education and its role in fostering evidence-informed practice. Divided into three sections each addressing a different role of knowledge mobilizers the book is based in clear evidentiary grounding. The chapters: Explore payoffs and challenges of connecting research to practice Provide recommendations in relation to practice and decision-making Present organized and professionally-enhancing tools strategies and insights Written by internationally-recognized leaders and expert contributors The Role of Knowledge Brokers in Education brings together extensive and global perspectives in an accessible yet comprehensive volume. This book is an invaluable resource for educational leaders worldwide who are interested in using or generating research for school improvement as well as researchers academics and students in schools of education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138616141

The Role of Language in the Climate Change Debate This volume takes a distinctive look at the climate change debate already widely studied across a number of disciplines by exploring the myriad linguistic and discursive perspectives and approaches at play in the climate change debate as represented in a variety of genres. The book focuses on key linguistic themes including linguistic polyphony lexical choices metaphors narration and framing and uses examples from diverse forms of media including scientific documents policy reports op-eds and blogs to shed light on how information and knowledge on climate change can be represented disseminated and interpreted and in turn how they can inform further discussion and debate. Featuring contributions from a global team of researchers and drawing on a broad array of linguistic approaches this collection offers an extensive overview of the role of language in the climate change debate for graduate students researchers and scholars in applied linguistics environmental communication discourse analysis political science climatology and media studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367365820

The Role of Law and Regulation in Sustaining Financial Markets This book explores the role of law and regulation in sustaining financial markets in both developed and developing countries particularly the European Union United States and China. The central argument of this book is that law matters for the operation of financial markets which in turn significantly influences the performance of firms industries and economies.The Role of Law and Regulation in Sustaining Financial Markets is divided into four parts. Part one addresses the connection between law financial development and economic growth. Part two deals with the role of financial regulation which can be used to correct market failures such as negative externalities information asymmetries and monopolies. Part three focuses on the design functioning and performance of different financial instruments. Part four examines the topic of Corporate Social Responsibility. This book contributes to the ‘law and finance’ literature by studying certain conventional issues such as the relationship between finance and economic growth and the effects of regulatory quality on financial development from new perspectives and/or with new evidence data and cases. It also explores novel topics such as project finance contracts insurance and climate change the shadow banking system that have been overlooked in current literature.This book is meaningful not only for the EU and the US which have suffered considerably from the financial crisis of 2008 but also for China which is struggling to build a sound institutional infrastructure to govern its increasingly complicated financial system. By comparing the regulatory philosophies and practices of the EU the US and China this book will help the reader to understand the diverse nature of the global ‘law and finance’ nexus and avoid succumbing to the myth of "one size fits all". Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367669249

The Role of Livestock in Agricultural DevelopmentTheoretical Approaches and Their Application in the Case of Sri Lanka First published in 1999 this study aims to develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of livestock farming systems and their conditions of change. The framework should be generally applicable in developing countries and make it possible to analyse livestock farming in different agro-ecological regions. Secondly Regina Birner applies the framework to a case study in Sri Lanka the ecological conditions and agrarian structure of which is an excellent setting for studying the diverse factors influencing the action and change of livestock farming. Thirdly Birner contributes to improving the planning basis for livestock developing policies in developing countries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138366237

The Role Of Markets In The World Food Economy This book extends the discussion of world food problems by giving explicit recognition to the potential role of markets. The authors highlight the contribution of prices to the solution of food problems in low-income countries for example by providing adequate incentives to farmers to expand production assuring that food supplies can be obtained through trade when needed and giving appropriate signals to consumers. They also document the negative effects on food supply and national welfare of the actual price policies of many Third World governments. While recognizing the problems involved in defining and measuring hunger as well as in improving the food supply the authors consider the outlook for future food availability as favorable in terms of continued modest improvement in per capita food supplies at prices adjusted for inflation that are likely to continue the slow decline of recent decades. One focus of their comments is the positive roles that governments can and should play in the world food economy especially in support of research creation of human capital and provision of appropriate rural infrastructure. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367295646

The Role of Medial Temporal Lobe in Memory and Perception: Evidence from Rats Nonhuman Primates and HumansA Special Issue of the Quarterly While it is commonly accepted that structures in the medial temporal lobe play a critical role in memory current theories disagree on three fundamental issues: (a) the extent to which different regions within the medial temporal lobe can be functionally dissociated; (b) whether structures within the medial temporal lobe are specialised for memory processing or play an additional role in perception; and (c) whether there is support for functional homology across species. To address these controversial questions this Special Issue brings together researchers working on memory and perception in the medial temporal lobe and asks whether there is evidence for similar functional dissociations across species. The papers reported here include lesion and early gene imaging in rats electrophysiological and lesion studies in nonhuman primates lesion and functional neuroimaging in human participants as well as touching on computational modelling approaches. Pulling together these methodological diverse contributions a final chapter highlights the main consistencies and discrepancies with respect the three issues under debate as well as providing future directions for research in this area. The Special Issue highlights how a cross-disciplinary approach to neuroscientific research can yield powerful converging evidence and help resolve controversies that may seen to exist across methodologies and/or species. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138873285

The Role of MoneyWhat it Should Be Contrasted with What it Has Become The Role of Money examines the mystery of money in its social aspect and illustrates what money now is what is does and what it should do. The standpoint from which the book is written is that of the public. The significance of the 'money-power' of the state to issue money has been recently recognized by historians. Its key position in shaping the course of world events is here explained. Included are:* Chapters on the philosophic background* The theory of money - Virtual Wealth* The Evolution of Modern Money* International Economic Relations* Debts and Debt Redemption Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315823997

The Role of Non-State Actors in the Green TransitionBuilding a Sustainable Future This book argues that there is no way to make progress in building a sustainable future without extensive participation of non-state actors. The volume explores the contribution of non-state actors to a sustainable transition starting with citizens and communities of different kinds and ending with cities and city-networks. The authors analyse social cultural political and economic drivers and barriers for this transition from individual behaviour to structural restraints and investigate interplay between the two. Through a series of wide-ranging case studies from the UK Australia Germany Italy and Denmark and a number of comparative case studies the volume provides an empirically and theoretically robust argument that highlights the need to develop widen and scale up collective action and community-based engagement if the transition to sustainability is to be successful. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change sustainability and environmental policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367235598

The Role of Participants in Education ResearchEthics Epistemologies and Methods This book explores different perspectives on the role influence and importance of participants in education research. Drawing on a variety of philosophical theoretical and methodological approaches the book examines how researchers relate to and with their participants before during and after the collection and/or production of data; reimagining the rights of participants the role/s of participants the concept/s of "participant" itself. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138118560

The Role of Parties in Twenty-First Century PoliticsResponsive and Responsible? For a long time analyses of political parties were framed within the usual context of democracy and of the historical transformation of the forms of democratic government. More recently several authors among which eminently Peter Mair progressively began to question the relationship between the normative definition of democratic government and the actual operation of parties. These new concerns are well epitomized by the tension between ‘responsiveness’ and ‘responsibility’ that gives the title to this book.While classic democratic theory sees as desirable that parties in government (and in opposition too) are sympathetically responsive to their supporters first and more generally to public opinion and at the same time responsible toward the internal and international systemic constraints and compatibilities these two roles seem to have become more difficult to reconcile and even increasingly incompatible.The chapters of this book explore the tensions between responsiveness and responsibility decomposing the international sources from the domestic sources and discussing the options and the possibilities for political parties to continue to play the role of provider of political stability in rapidly changing domestic and international environments.This book was published as a special issue of West European Politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367738761

The Role of Phosphonates in Living Systems Throughout the last three decades a large amount of information on phosphonates has accumulated but has not been compiled. At this time of the increasing importance of phosphonate class of molecules this information needs to be drawn together to make a manageable volume for use as a reference text and as learning text for interested persons. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315897370

The Role of Phytoconstitutents in Health CareBiocompounds in Medicinal Plants This informative volume provides new insights with scientific evidence on the uses of medicinal plants in the treatment of certain diseases. It reviews various therapies with herbal phytoconstituents for certain types of disorders modes of action and pharmacological screening. It focuses on potential benefits of herbal extracts and bioactive compounds for human health care provides a comparative phytoconstituent analysis of selected medicinal plants using GCMS/FTIR techniques and discusses the role of herbal medicines in female genital infections. It goes on to look at the health-boosting properties of cabbage and the functional properties of milk yam (Ipomoea digitata L.). Media > Books > Print Books Apple Academic Press 9781771888202

The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production presents the state of knowledge on environmental factors in root growth and development and their effect on the improvement of the yield of annual crops. This book addresses the role of roots in crop production and includes references to numerous annual crops. In addition it brings together the issues and the state-of-the-art technologies that affect root growth with comprehensive reviews to facilitate efficient sustainable economical and environmentally responsible crop production.Written for plant scientists crop scientists horticulturalists and soil scientists plant physiologists breeders environmental scientists agronomists and undergraduate and graduate students in different disciplines of agricultural science The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production:Addresses root architecture and development dynamics to help users improve crop productivityEmphasizes crop production plant nutrition and soil chemistry relative to root growth and functionsCovers root morphology root functions nutrient and water uptake by roots root-soil interactions root-environment interactions root-microbe interactions physiology of root crops and management practices to improve root growthSupports content with experimental results and additional data is presented with picturesIncreasing food production worldwide has become a major issue in the 21st century. Stagnation in grain yield of important food crops in recent years in developed as well as developing countries has contributed to a sharp increase in food prices. Furthermore higher grain yield will be needed in the future to feed a burgeoning world population with a rising standard of living that requires more grain per capita. Technologies that enhance productivity ensure environmental safety and conserve natural resources are r Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367381042

The Role of Political Culture in Iranian Political Development The analysis of the impediments to political development is one of the most important discussions which has major theoretical and political consequences. This analysis has been controversial and many different aspects have been introduced as elements for political underdevelopment. In this study Dal Seung Yu takes culture a key element in this discussion and explains the major cultural impediments to political development in Iran. He focuses on the historical attitudes of people towards the political management of the society and the effect these attitudes have on slowing the development of this political system in the society. Those concerned with Iran the Middle East and political culture will be extremely interested in this provocative text. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138277786

The Role of Political Parties in the European Union At the national level political parties play an important role in making representative democracy work. They help to aggregate and communicate policy preferences link decision-making between different legislative bodies and hold politicians accountable. In the European Union however the electoral connection is weak. This casts doubt on the impact of partisan politics at the European level. Are political parties able to fulfil their role as ‘transmission belts’ ensuring political accountability and consistent decision-making in the European Union? To answer this question we look at the micro foundations of partisan politics in the European Union. The contributions in this volume all depart from a common theoretical framework but use a wide range of empirical data and research designs covering qualitative process-tracing elite interview and large-N quantitative analysis. Moreover they examine party effects in the electoral and legislative arena. Finally the volume covers all European institutions: the Commission the Council of the European Union the European Council and the European Parliament. The findings enhance our understanding of the workings of decision-making in Brussels add to the debate on the EU democratic deficit and highlight the usefulness of drawing upon insights from the literature on Comparative Politics when studying the European Union. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415851541

The Role of Religion in History This comprehensive survey of religion and its profound effects on history provides a historical context for in-depth analysis of theological social and political themes in which religion plays a major role.George Walsh first traces the rise and impact of primitive religions. He looks at Indian traditions including Hinduism Buddhism and Jainism and analyzes the Semitic tradition of Judaism and Christianity and the evolving conception of a personal God. He discusses the history and chief doctrines of Islam as well with its fundamental respect for desert tribal values and its emphasis on both the authority of God and the brotherhood of believers. Walsh then compares Judaism and Christianity. He sees Judaism as marked by a profound ambivalence between the values of tribal nomadic desert life and the values of urban civilization individualism and collectivism. Judaism is "this-worldly " but the Christian worldview is "other-wordly."Walsh closes with a timely discussion of the ethical political and economic teachings of the Judeo-Christian tradition focusing specifically on their differing attitudes toward sex reproduction and marriage; their basic views of mind and body; and man's relation to God. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412855846

The Role of Religion in Marriage and Family Counseling Religion can play a vital role in the way people relate to each other particularly with interpersonal dynamics within a family. The role of a couple or family’s religion(s) in the counseling room is no less important. This book provides practitioners with an overview of the principles of the major world religions with specific focus on how each religion can influence family dynamics and how best to incorporate this knowledge into effective practice with clients. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138871618

The Role of Religion in Modern Societies Does modernization lead to the decline of religion? This question lies at the centre of a key debate in the sociology of religion. During the past decade American scholars using primarily American data have dominated this debate and have made a strong case that the answer to this question is no. Recently however a new crop of European scholars working with new sources of European data have uncovered evidence that points toward an affirmative answer. This volume pays special attention to these trends and developments to provide the reader with a more well-rounded understanding of the many ways in which religion interacts with modernization. Respected scholars such as David Voas Steve Bruce and Anthony Gill examine modern societies across the world in this splendid book which will interest sociologists political scientists historians and theologians in equal measure. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415512534

The Role of Religion in Struggles for Global JusticeFaith in justice? Struggles for global justice are being fought by civil society groups across the globe addressing global inequalities challenging neoliberal market driven globalization and demanding to remedy its negative implications. This book examines the roles religious communities and organizations in particular play in the struggles for global justice roles too often ignored by scholars of the Global Justice Movement (GJM). It has two central themes: - the role religion and religious actors play in global justice struggles and - the idea that justice is a contested concept among both religious and secular actors which requires some sort of ‘faith’ from its proponents. These chapters transcend simplistic either/or binaries highlighting the difficulties of clearly distinguishing between religious and secular progressive and conservative or rational and irrational motives and norms in struggles for justice. Challenging the secularization paradigm that marginalizes the role religious actors play in public life these chapters show how these actors engage with a broad range of justice issues how deeply contested justice is and how its meaning may vary and change among religious actors as a result of the social or political context within which an injustice is encountered. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Globalizations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367650636

The Role of Research in Teachers' WorkNarratives of Classroom Action Research In the debate regarding what constitutes teachers’ work academics and bureaucrats continue to speak for teachers with teachers’ voices rarely heard and not accorded equal recognition. The Role of Research in Teachers’ Work addresses this imbalance by privileging teachers’ voices as they narrate their experiences of engaging in systematic inquiry. The book embeds the teacher narratives within the scholarly debates about the nature of knowledge and the nature of professional practice. Scanlon examines the knowledge teachers create through their research and how that knowledge is perceived by others within the school community. This book can be read as a companion volume to Scanlon’s 2015 Routledge publication My School or as a standalone exploration of teachers’ own narratives of engaging in action research. Together these two books are unique in contemporary writing on schools representing one of the only comprehensive longitudinal studies of a low socioeconomic secondary school from the perspective of those who learn and teach therein. This book enables teachers to be part of the scholarly conversation about their work and the place of research in that work. As such it should be essential reading for academics teacher educators and postgraduates in the field of education. It should also be of interest to policymakers and teachers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138701267

The Role of Science for Conservation The book integrates the knowledge and reflections of thirty scientists of which many have dedicated a substantial part of their professional life to the Galapagos archipelago to the conservation of its biodiversity and to the sustainable management of its resources. The book can be considered a milestone on the way to the successful conservation and sustainable development of this unique world heritage site. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138243866

The Role of Service in the Tourism & Hospitality IndustryProceedings of the Annual International Conference on Management and Technology in This proceedings volume contains papers presented at the 2014 International Conference on Management and Technology in Knowledge Service Tourism & Hospitality (SERVE 2014) covering a wide range of topics in the fields of knowledge and service management web intelligence tourism and hospitality. This overview of current state of affairs and anticipated developments will be of interest to researchers entrepreneurs and students alike. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138027367

The Role of Small States in the European Union A fully documented text which addresses a key issue of EU decision-making which is surfacing again in proposed institutional reforms. It looks at the role of smaller states deals with the important criteria of distribution and redistribution of EU budgetary expenditures in the key areas of agriculture and structural funds and explains how smaller states promote their interest more effectively than larger states. It focuses on the administrations of small states their relations with the Commission and their negotiation tactics in the Council. This is the first attempt to empirically test Peter Katzenstein’s thesis on the role of smaller states in international relations by making important recommendations on how the core assumptions of Katzenstein need to be modified especially when applied to the EU context. This work is a good supplementary text book for courses on European studies comparative politics and international relations. It is particularly suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138378247

The Role of Social Science in the Education of Professional Practitioners The Role of Social Science in the Education of Professional Practitioners explores the inter-relation between the social sciences and professional practice particularly in areas of health and social welfare and the form that professional education takes. The key issue of who provides for our health and welfare needs in the community is considered as are the values and education that drive those people to give service in society and how those professionals can come to a full and open understanding of their role. It focuses on the value orientation identity development and sense of self that will enable practitioners to develop their understanding of clients’ needs in the community. The book is divided into chapters that consider the educational and learning theories that underpin professional education and how those ideas have shaped the development of the curriculum for professional practice education. Astley provides an in-depth discussion of the nature of professional roles and how the making and taking of those roles is historically influenced by politics and policy making. The nature and dynamics of the communities in which we live including who has power is addressed with special reference to how the health and social welfare needs of citizens in those communities is assessed planned for and provided. This book will be vital reading for academics and professionals in the fields of health and social care professions’ education social and behavioural sciences higher education professional development and identity formation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367488963

The Role of Student Affairs in Advancing Community College Student SuccessAn Examination of Selected Contemporary Initiatives This collection brings together insightful chapters which explore diverse student success initiatives and programs in response to challenges faced by community colleges. Each chapter of the collection magnifies a specific aspect of student affairs to illustrate how dedicated departments and practitioners have effectively supported student success via select projects or initiatives. Readers will gain a deeper insight into the contemporary applications practices and impacts of agendas such as the assessment of student affairs and services student success programming Guided Pathways and The Completion Agenda. By demonstrating the meaningful involvement of student affairs practitioners in fulfilling institutional missions and visions this collection contributes to an overarching dialogue about promoting community college student success. This collection will be of interest to researchers academics graduates and postgraduate students in the fields of higher education administration educational leadership adult education and lifelong learning. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367231699

The Role of Surface Modification on Bacterial Adhesion of Bio-implant MaterialsMachining Characterization and Applications The Role of Surface Modification on Bacterial Adhesion of Bio-implant Materials: Machining Characterization and Applications explores the relationship between the surface roughness of artificial implants used for hard tissue replacement and their bacterial adhesion. It summarizes the reason for the failure of implants the mechanisms of bacterial formation on implant surfaces and the fundamental and established methods of implant surface modification techniques. It provides readers with an organized and rational representation about implant manufacturing and mechanical surface modification. It also explores the use of developed unidirectional abrasive flow finishing processes to finish biomaterials at the nano-level. It is an invaluable guide for academics graduate students biomaterial scientists and manufacturing engineers researching implants related infections and implant manufacturing. Key Features: Explores implant related infections Discusses surface modification techniques Contains information on the mechanical finishing processes and complete guide on developed cutting edge unidirectional abrasive flow finishing technology Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367894580

The Role of Taiwanese Civil Society Organizations in Cross-Strait Relations Despite the instability of the political relationship between Taiwan and Mainland China cross-strait activities such as trade education marriage and travel have prospered. While the main focus of current academic research has been on security and economic relationships between the two governments relatively little attention has been paid to social interactions or the role of civil society actors.　 This book investigates the role of Taiwanese civil society organizations in shaping the relationship between Mainland China and Taiwan. It explores the role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in building confidence and peace and shows that Taiwanese CSOs hold a very complicated position which has in fact added to tensions. Waisová’s research looks closely at the roles civil society organizations play in conflict transformation reconciliation and peacebuilding the modalities of playing such roles and the challenges facing them. It will be of interest to students and scholars researching cross-strait relations and also to conflict resolution think-tanks policy makers and policy analysts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409452584

The Role of Taste in Kant's Theory of Cognition First published in 1990. This title originally a Ph. D. dissertation submitted to the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University in July 1988 grew out of an interest in the foundations of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Believing that the idea of the primacy of judgment was an important one for understanding more recent issues in analytic philosophy the author started to think about its historical antecedents. By examining Kant’s Critique of Judgement Ginsborg explores the notion of a judgment of taste as a judgment which has intersubjective validity without being objectively valid and therefore bear’s directly on the notion of the primacy of judgment as an aspect of Kant's account of objectivity. This title will be of interest to students of philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138668683

The Role of Technology in Distance Education (Routledge Revivals) This book first published in 1984 provides a comprehensive review of the range of technology that was being used in distance education. Technological developments in word processing video-disc and viewdata as well as computer-based learning had revolutionised the potential for distance education. These developments required the role of more ’conventional’ distance learning media such as broadcasting tuition and text to be reassessed. This book written by international experts in the field explored the state of the art at the time and also provided their ideas on how future developments were likely to evolve. This book is ideal for those studying education and communications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138828070

The Role of the Arts in LearningCultivating Landscapes of Democracy Grounded in philosophy from John Dewey and Maxine Greene this book sheds light on difficulties and practicalities of examining culture and politics within the realm of interdisciplinary education. Providing both theoretical and concrete examples of the importance of a contemporary arts education this book offers imaginative ways the arts and sciences intersect with democratic learning and civic engagement. Chapters focus on education in relation to diversity apprenticeship and civic engagement; neuroscience and cognition; urban aesthetic experience and learning; and science and art intelligence. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367895716

The Role of the Chemist in Automotive Design From the development of polymers that make cars lighter to fuels that make them run cleaner the chemist’s role in the automotive industry has evolved to be one that is more outside the laboratory than in it. Drawing on the author’s 20 years of experience in vehicle design and laboratory experience The Role of the Chemist in Automotive Design elucidates how the skills of chemists are put to use in the automotive industry and their effect on all phases of design. A glance through the table of contents provides an overview of the issues commonly encountered by chemists in the automotive industry. The author discusses fuels cells lithium ion batteries carbon nanotubes and nickel metal hydride technology all of which require the technical knowledge of a chemist but cross the lines of various disciplines. He also covers future technology including items such as battery technology fuel cell membranes and environmentally friendly plastics such as nylons that use castor oil as a primary component. The book examines environmental concerns such as CARB legislation and how the industry plans to deal with the new legislation with strategies such as Ozone Reduction Catalyst. The increasing technological environmental and economic issues facing the auto industry underscores the need for a basic reference that covers technologies that can be used to make vehicle more fuel efficient environmentally friendly and cost efficient. Exploring the expanding role chemists will play in future automotive design and technology this book delineates the areas and technologies that require the technical knowledge of a chemist but that cross the lines of many disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138114265

The Role of the European Investment Bank (RLE Banking & Finance) This volume draws together diverse sources of information from the EIB’s own reports and bulletins as well as reports of the Us Federal Reserve Board the IMF and OECD together with press and journal sources to examine the history borrowing and lending operations from 1958-1980. It also discusses some of the environmental and social effects of its lending activities. Some consideration has also been given to the bank’s operations beyond EU boundaries. The book sheds light on an important EU institution which is crucial to EU member states’ infrastructure industry and economy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415751896

The Role of the European Union in AsiaChina and India as Strategic Partners Establishing strategic partnerships is a key objective for the European Union. These partnerships provide frameworks for flexible and long-term cooperation with global and regional players. This book focuses on the EU's strategy toward China and India and explores ways of promoting a stronger and more versatile role for the EU in Asia. The volume examines the emergence of China and India as global powers and the implications for the EU's common policies and strategies. It focuses on the role of the EU within Asia in terms of its political security-related and cultural impact in addition to economic presence and it explores the interplay of the EU China and India in global governance and in utilizing and promoting multilateralism especially in the context of climate change and energy security. The contributors discuss avenues for the EU to pursue its interests in Asia and to achieve its objectives in global governance and multilateralism through partnerships with China and India while retaining its special relationship with the United States. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553283

The Role of the G8 in International Peace and Security This Adelphi Paper is the first concise yet comprehensive analysis of the role of the G8 in international peace and security. It argues that the G7/8 has a long and impressive history in the field of international security. The G7/8 has for example spearheaded the introduction of "low politics" and "soft security" to the top table of great power diplomacy and integrated Japan and later Russia into the realm of Western security discussions. In questions of war and peace the G8 does not command the legitimacy of the UN Security Council but for the international community is a more acceptable vehicle than unilateral action. As such the G8 can be seen as a note-worthy "second best" option after the UN Security Council. This Paper further argues that China should be admitted into the G8 first as an observer and later as a member. There is also a strong argument for the European Union to have one seat at the G8 even if such a change does not seem realistic today. The G8 bears great resemblance to the 19th century Concert of Europe. Whether it will assume a similar role in the 21st century depends in the final analysis on whether the United States welcomes such a role for the G8. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138466760

The Role of the Head (Routledge Revivals) First published in 1967 this book looks at what the role of a headteacher should be challenging the traditional views of the head and the authoritarian structure of schools. Contributors explore new concepts of the head’s role in school and authors include both theorists and headteachers coming from various backgrounds including those that are historical philosophical sociological and practical. The book also benefits from some more down-to-earth musings by heads on the job. The collection as a whole offers a stimulating variety of views on a subject which is of importance to all teachers as well as those concerned with management and decision making. Although first published some time ago it explores issues that are ever present today. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138888173

The Role of the Hospitality Industry in the Lives of Individuals and Families The Role of the Hospitality Industry in the Lives of Individuals and Families explores the evolution of the hospitality industry and the relationships between hospitality providers their families and the guests they serve. Focusing on the human aspect of the business this text will give hospitality providers a better understanding of the human relations issues that they or their employees may face and show them how your services affect guests. Offering research and insight into customs and traditions that have influenced modern services The Role of the Hospitality Industry in the Lives of Individuals and Families will teach you how to better meet the needs of guests at the national or international level while learning how the industry affects employees and their lives outside of work.The Role of the Hospitality Industry in the Lives of Individuals and Families discusses many different themes that relate to the improvement of the profession for both guests and employees such as the spiritual philosophical and historical provisions of hospitality; the human resource and work issues of employees in the industry; consumer and family demands; and marketing strategies for hospitality organizations. In addition this text discusses many issues that affect guests and that affect you as an employer or employee such as: responding to the needs of travelers for a “home away from home” dealing with the social and health issues of guests recognizing the changing food habits of Americans and their impact on the hospitality industry examining the frequently negative attitude of Americans toward service hospitality employees balancing a career in the hospitality industry and family life researching the frequency of fast food patronage by older adults and the importance of hotel/motel services to older adults to determine if areas of service need improvement protecting employees from overly demanding guests balancing compassion generosity and idealism with the corporate profit maximization mandateThe Role of the Hospitality Industry in the Lives of Individuals and Families also examines the cultural relationships fostered by the hospitality industry as a benefit and proof of quality services. Complete with ideas for further research this text will help you and your employees evaluate the personal effects of the hospitality industry and help provide better services to guests. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315043487

The role of the international financial centres in underdeveloped countries This reissue first published in 1984 presents a study of the key phenomenon of global banking carried out from special financial centres in underdeveloped countries which contributed heavily to the contemporary debt crisis. This book gathers together previously disparate and unpublished data to give a detailed picture of the scope and the effects of transnational banking in the new international financial centres which have largely been set up since 1970. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415851558

The Role of the Literary Canon in the Teaching of Literature This book investigates the role of the idea of the literary canon in the teaching of literature especially in colleges and secondary schools in the United States. Before the term "canon" was widely used in literary studies which occurred in the second half of 20th century when the canon was first seriously viewed as politically and culturally problematic the idea that some literary texts were more worthy of being studied than others existed since the beginning of the discipline of the teaching of literature in the 1800s. The concept of the canon however extends as far back as to Ancient Greece and its meaning has evolved over time. Thus this book charts the changing meaning of the idea of the literary canon examining its influence specifically in the teaching of literature from the beginning of the field to the 21st century. To explain how the literary canon and the teaching of literature have changed over time and continue to change this book constructs a theory of canon formation based on the ideas of Michel Foucault and the assemblage theory of Manuel DeLanda illustrating that the literary canon while frequently contested is integral to the teaching of literature yet changes as the teaching of literature changes. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367432621

The Role of the Management AccountantLocal Variations and Global Influences There is considerable national variation in the professionalization and status of the management accountant. Although researchers from different countries have contributed to our knowledge about tasks and roles we have limited insights into the development education and socio-cultural influences in different countries and surprisingly little is known about the local and national contexts in which these roles are learned and performed.This book bridges this research gap using two complementary perspectives. The first part explores management accountants in a range of different national contexts providing information about country-specific historical developments and educational standards as well as specific roles and tasks. The second part focusses on important global developments that will increasingly impact management accountants in the future such as sustainability the financial crisis technology and changing roles. By combining local context with a global overview this insightful volume provides an agenda for future research which will be of great interest to scholars and advanced students in management accounting throughout the world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367874261

The Role of the Military in PoliticsA Case Study of Iraq to 1941 This book first published in 1982 attempts to explain how and why Iraqi military intervened in the affairs of state between 1936 and 1941. The intention is not to describe the various coups of this period but to explain the gradual assumption of a political role by the Iraqi army and the contributing factors at play for example the fragmented nature of Iraqi society and the presence of the British. In addition an understanding of the political role of the Iraqi army requires a thorough investigation of the development of the Iraqi state itself. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138925908

The Role of the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract in Gustatory Processing Providing an essential brainstem relay for three cranial nerves the NST coordinates highly complex sensory information. While other functions of the NST have received attention its role in gustatory processing has received little. The first reference devoted exclusively to gustatory processing The Role of the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract in Gustatory Processing offers an in-depth review of one of the most important central relay stations in the brain.Combining widely dispersed research into a comprehensive single volume it presents a thorough historical background documents the anatomy of the rostral nucleus of the solitary tract (rNST) and explores the properties of synaptic transmitters and neurons within that tract. The book examines the role of reflex activities and considers factors that influence how gustatory rNST neurons respond to taste stimuli. It describes the development and maturational changes the rNST undergoes and considers the challenge involved with identifying rNST neural circuits.The Role of the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract in Gustatory Processing brings together expert investigators who have contributed substantially to the current knowledge of the anatomy physiology and developmental biology of the solitary nucleus. This pertinent work serves as a standard reference for those involved in the field providing ready access to past investigations and inviting practitioners to create new approaches that will advance knowledge about the central processing of gustatory information. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367390198

The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis Forewords by Theodore Jacobs and Donnel Stern The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis is a compilation of Judy Kantrowitz’s previously published papers on the patient-analyst "match" and its effect on the process and outcome of psychoanalysis. The match between patient and analyst places attention on the dynamic effect of interactions of character and conflict of both participants on the process that evolves between them—a spectrum of compatibility and incompatibility that is relevant to the analytic work. Classical psychoanalysis had been viewed as a "one-person" enterprise with one analyst interchangeable with another. Analysts’ experiences of countertransference reactions were viewed as unresolved conflicts reasons to return to personal treatment not inevitable and potentially informative about the current analytic work. This view began to shift in the 1980s with Judy Kantrowitz’s work contributing to the development of the recognition that psychoanalysis was a "two-person" process. In this collection of her most significant papers Kantrowitz explores the importance of the match which refers to observable styles attitudes and personal characteristics that may be rooted in residual and unanalyzed conflicts triggered in any patient-analyst pair. Match is neither a predictive nor static concept. Rather it refers to the unfolding transaction that itself that may shift and change during the course of analytic work. Pulling together the history of the shift in theory from the one-person to two-person understanding of the psychoanalytic enterprise The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to contemporary psychoanalysts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367483500

The Role of the Press and Communication Technology in DemocratizationThe Nigerian Story In the 1990s Nigeria like several countries in Asia Africa Eastern Europe and Latin America underwent transition programs to return the country to democracy. Nigeria’s democratization in the 1990s was a civil and international movement to free Nigeria from over 20 years of authoritarian military rule. Agbese examines the role and agenda of the Nigerian press in the democratization process highlighting the grave challenges the Nigerian press faced – such as jail arrest and assassination – in pushing for democratization in Nigeria.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415652728

The Role of the Professional Football Manager Considering the celebrity-like status of the professional football manager surprisingly little is known about their role. This book provides an unprecedented insight into the chronically insecure and vulnerable world of the contemporary professional football manager. Drawing on original research it explores the complex challenges and skills of the football manager in an increasingly cut-throat ruthless and results-based industry. Written by a former professional footballer the book examines how personal contact networks and the social mobility of different actors within the industry influence various elements of the manager's role. Beginning with an overview of literature on football management its subsequent chapters each examine a key aspect of a manager’s work such as: managerial recruitment and appointment; the role of previous playing experience and formal education; the assessment and recruitment of players; maintaining discipline and control; maintaining successful working relationships with players coaches agents club directors and owners. Shedding light on the inner workings of the football industry this book is fascinating reading for any serious football fan and an essential resource for any student or scholar researching football sport management or sport business. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138369047

The Role of the State and Accounting TransparencyIFRS Implementation in Developing Countries Dr Mohammad Nurunnabi examines the factors that affect the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in developing countries and answers these specific research questions: - What is the relative impact of accounting regulatory frameworks and politico-institutional factors on the implementation of IFRS in developing countries? - How do cultural factors affect said implementation? - How does a study of implementing IFRS help to build an understanding of a theory of the role of the state in accounting change in developing countries? This follows a mixed methodology approach in which interviews are conducted IFRS-related enforcement documents and annual reports are evaluated. More than 138 countries have adopted IFRS yet the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) does not provide an implementation index. Financial reporting varies by country even within the area of the world that has apparently adopted IFRS and Nurunnabi offers an important viewpoint that considers the issues of IFRS implementation from various perspectives. This is an invaluable resource for Undergraduate Masters and PhD students policy makers (at local regional and international level) namely the IASB World Bank IMF practitioners and users giving them the necessary insight into the financial reporting environment and the state’s attitude towards accounting transparency. Most importantly this book contributes to military and democratic political regimes and the Max Weberian view of the theory of the role of the state’s attitude towards accounting transparency. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138320123

The Role of the State and Individual in Sustainable Land Management Bringing together case studies from Europe Africa and North and South America this book makes a fresh assessment of the role of the individual and the state in land development. It discusses a range of issues related to land reform land development and land management providing a unique reflection of the current state of research. Particular emphasis is laid on the implementation of sustainable processes of land development as an integrated principle of land management. The book examines the rights of the land users and addresses a number of issues relating to sustainability and land development ranging from emerging land markets and environmental issues through to natural resource development. The case studies provide practical examples of the application of land reform and land development to land management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138622753

The Role of the State in Development Processes First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138997400

The Role of the State in Taiwan's Development These essays are a product of a co-operative research project between American and Taiwanese social scientists. Of particular interest is the chapter discussing a comparative study of industrial policy productivity growth and structural change in manufacturing. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315699073

The Role of the StateBRICS National Systems of Innovation This series of books brings together results of an intensive research programme on aspects of the national systems of innovation in the five BRICS countries — Brazil Russia India China and South Africa. It provides a comprehensive and comparative examination of the challenges and opportunities faced by these dynamic and emerging economies. In discussing the impact of innovation with respect to economic geopolitical socio-cultural institutional and technological systems it reveals the possibilities of new development paradigms for equitable and sustainable growth.This volume first in the series analyses the relationship between the state and the evolution of the national systems of innovation. Putting forward several valuable considerations and policy recommendations it argues that the experiences and knowledge gathered here may deeply impact the way we conceive of the theory of innovation systems and implement policies and strategies for their development. Original and detailed data together with expert analyses by contributing authors on wide-ranging issues will make this an invaluable resource for researchers and scholars in economics development studies and political science as well as for policy-makers and development practitioners interested in the BRICS countries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9781138660366

The Role Of The Supreme Court In American PoliticsThe Least Dangerous Branch? When the Supreme Court's effectively decided the presidential election of 2000 it decision illustrated a classic question in American politics: what is the appropriate role for the Supreme Court? The dilemma is between judicial activism the Court's willingness to make significant changes in public policy and judicial restraint the Court's willi Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367318956

The Role of the Third Surveyor under the Party Wall Act 1996 This book is intended to clear any misconceptions about the responsibilities of the third surveyor and outlines the steps taken in choosing a professional for this role as well as discussing who may carry it out. Media > Books > Print Books Estates Gazette 9781138461406

The Role of Today's Museum The Role of Today’s Museum provides a thorough investigation of what museums do and why. Arguing that museums are multifunctional institutions the book examines the consequences of this for the services that museums provide the publics to whom they are provided and the providers themselves. Adopting a wide perspective on understandings of the roles of museums and considering the different environments within which museums operate Gray and McCall provide a new perspective on how transformations as well as the gaps between intended policies and the actual work that is undertaken within museums can be both identified and understood. By differentiating between social economic and political visions and expectations of museums the analysis in this book allows for a fuller understanding of what these organisations do and provide for their societies and the struggles and negotiations that surround their existence. The Role of Today’s Museum takes a critical interdisciplinary approach to studying museums and museum policy. As a result the book will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museums cultural policy social policy cultural sociology public policy and cultural and political economy. Highlighting the gaps that exist between policy ideals and museum practices the book also provides valuable insights to policy-makers and practitioners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367265090

The Role of Trade Literature in Sci-Tech Libraries This book first published in 1990 examines the relationship between sci-tech materials and trade literature commonly called manufacturers’ catalogues. Because very little has been published about the value and nature of trade literature in regard to sci-tech libraries this volume is important in informing librarians about a little-known segment of the larger picture of sci-tech information sources thus adding to the value of their services to their clients. It addresses the problems of handling sci-tech trade literature in a corporate technical library a large public library and a government library devoted to American history. Experts offer practical advice on selecting and organizing trade literature and on managing the growth and extent of a collection of trade literature. They discuss modern literature and older publications which often have great historical value. Libraries that collect both old and new materials are identified as are publishers of trade literature. The book also focuses on how a publisher of classic trade literature views its role. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367364120

The Role of Translators in Children’s LiteratureInvisible Storytellers This book offers a historical analysis of key classical translated works for children such as writings by Hans Christian Andersen and Grimms’ tales. Translations dominate the earliest history of texts written for children in English and stories translated from other languages have continued to shape its course to the present day. Lathey traces the role of the translator and the impact of translations on the history of English-language children’s literature from the ninth century onwards. Discussions of popular texts in each era reveal fluctuations in the reception of translated children’s texts as well as instances of cultural mediation by translators and editors. Abridgement adaptation and alteration by translators have often been viewed in a negative light yet a closer examination of historical translators’ prefaces reveals a far more varied picture than that of faceless conduits or wilful censors. From William Caxton’s dedication of his translated History of Jason to young Prince Edward in 1477 (‘to thentent/he may begynne to lerne read Englissh’) to Edgar Taylor’s justification of the first translation into English of Grimms’ tales as a means of promoting children’s imaginations in an age of reason translators have recorded in prefaces and other writings their didactic religious aesthetic financial and even political purposes for translating children’s texts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415636438

The Role of Voluntary Organisations in Social Welfare Originally published in 1985 The Role of Voluntary Organisations in Social Welfare considers the voluntary sector as a provider of social welfare. The book asks the fundamental questions for those involved in social welfare: what should the role of this voluntary sector be and what should its relationship be with the government sector? Reporting on extensive original research undertaken for the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust the study examines the functions staffing funding and control of voluntary organisations. It looks at the relationship with the government sector explores the increasingly important questions of accountability and discusses future prospects. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138609600

The Roles and Function of Parliamentary Questions Parliamentary questions are a feature of almost all national legislatures. Despite this we know very little about how questions are used by MPs and what impact questions have on controlling the government. This volume advances our theoretical and empirical knowledge of the use of questioning in a number of different parliamentary settings. The propensity of parliamentarians to ask questions indicates that the interrogatories are an important tool for measuring an individual legislator’s job. Ultimately how a parliamentarian chooses to use the questioning tool provides a unique insight into legislator behaviour and role orientation. Many of the chapters in this volume provide new empirical measures of legislator activity and use this data to provide new tests of leading theories of legislator behaviour. At an institutional level questions provide an important source of information for the chamber and are a critical tool of government oversight – as many of the chapters in the volume indicate. Evidence of the impact of questions on executive and bureaucratic oversight challenges conventional views of parliaments as weak and ineffective parts of the political process. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138107694

The Roles of Organisation Development The Roles of Organisation Development by Dr Annamaria Garden introduces a radically new and original framework to explain organisation development work and how it is done. The origin of the book came out of a question asked by a woman OD practitioner: How do you do what you do? This book is Dr Garden’s answer to that question. Dr Garden found that she did not think in terms of formal roles or roles as typically described in the organisational development or management literature. Instead she described what she did in terms of: the Seer Translator Cultivator Catalyst Navigator Teacher Guardian. These are presented primarily as roles for OD people but managers would be wise to adopt them also. They are current across the world in any organisation. Garden was trained in her PhD from MIT by two of the founding fathers of OD: Professor Ed Schein and Professor Dick Beckhard. The book refers in places to their teaching and interaction. The Roles of Organisation Development will appeal to OD strategy and marketing consultants academics as well as managers doing OD work and trying to move and change the organisation leaning on the soft skills. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367737962

The Roller Coaster EconomyFinancial Crisis Great Recession and the Public Option Written by one of the foremost experts on the business cycle this is a compelling and engaging explanation of how and why the economic downturn of 2007 became the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009. Author Howard Sherman explores the root causes of the cycle of boom and bust of the economy focusing on the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession of 2008-2009. He makes a powerful argument that recessions and the resulting painful involuntary unemployment are inherent in capitalism itself. Sherman clearly illustrates the mechanisms of business cycles and he provides a thoughtful alternative that would rein in their destructive effects. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315699066

The Roman Army 31 BC - AD 337A Sourcebook The Roman army is remarkable for its detailed organisation and professional structure. It not only extended and protected Rome's territorial empire which was the basis of Western civilisation but also maintained the politcal power of the emperors. The army was an integral part of the society and life of the empire and illustrated many aspects of Roman government. This sourcebook presents literary and epigraphic material papyri and coins which illustrate the life of the army from recruitment and in the field to peacetime and the community. It is designed as a basic tool for students of the Roman army and Roman history in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138171015

The Roman Cavalry The cavalry was a vital part of the army of Rome and it played a significant role in the expansion and success of the Roman Empire. Karen R. Dixon and Pat Southern describe the origins of the mounted units of the Roman army and trace their development from temporary allied troops to the regular alae and cohorts. They have drawn together evidence from a wide variety of sources: archaeological epigraphic and literary as well as comparing ancient testimony with more recent experience of the use of cavalry.The book covers the subject from the perspective of both the men and the horses. How were the horses selected and disposed of; how were they trained stabled and fed? How were the men recruited organized and equipped; and what were the conditions of service for a Roman cavalryman? The cavalry had to be employed in peacetime and this is discussed as well as its role in war.The image of the Roman cavalry is often one of excitement and glory but the authors are aware that a true picture must not overlook the routine and the suffering. This book provides a comprehensive account of the Roman cavalry and the current state of knowledge concerning it. The wide selection of illustrations includes original drawings by Karen R. Dixon. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138150782

The Roman City and its PeripheryFrom Rome to Gaul The first and only monograph available on the subject The Roman City and its Periphery offers a full and detailed treatment of the little-investigated aspect of Roman urbanism – the phenomenon of suburban development. Presenting archaeological and literary evidence alongside sixty-three plans of cities building plans and photographs Penelope Goodman examines how and why Roman suburbs grew up outside Roman cities what was distinctive about the nature of suburban development and what contributions buildings and activities in the suburbs might make to the character and function of the city as a whole. With full bibliography and annotations throughout this will not only provide a coherent treatment of an essential theme for students of Roman urbanism but archaeologists urban planners and geographers also will have an excellent comparative tool in the study of modern urbanism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415518444

The Roman Cult of MithrasThe God and His Mysteries First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315085333

The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 226-363A Documentary History The crisis of the third century saw Rome not only embroiled in contests of succeeding short-lived Emperors but assailed by an increasing variety of hostile peoples from outside its frontiers. Owing to the complex racial interplay of this period the sources for its history have to be compiled from a wide variety of sources. The least adequate are those in Latin the imperial lives of the Historia Augusta . These have to be supplemented by the Greek chronicles of Zosimus and John Malalas of Antioch as well as the Armenian history of Moses of Chorene the Arabic History of the Arabs of Al-Tabari as well as inscriptions in Greek Latin Hebrew Syrian and other languages. This volume collects these diverse sources for the first time in English translation and will be a uniquely valuable resource for scholars working on a period of Roman history that is attracting increasing attention. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138128736

The Roman Empire at Bay AD 180-395 The Roman Empire at Bay is the only one volume history of the critical years 180-395 AD which saw the transformation of the Roman Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome into a new polity with two capitals and a new religion—Christianity. The book integrates social and intellectual history into the narrative looking to explore the relationship between contingent events and deeper structure. It also covers an amazingly dramatic narrative from the civil wars after the death of Commodus through the conversion of Constantine to the arrival of the Goths in the Roman Empire setting in motion the final collapse of the western empire. The new edition takes account of important new scholarship in questions of Roman identity on economy and society as well as work on the age of Constantine which has advanced significantly in the last decade while recent archaeological and art historical work is more fully drawn into the narrative. At its core the central question that drives The Roman Empire at Bay remains what did it mean to be a Roman and how did that meaning change as the empire changed? Updated for a new generation of students this book remains a crucial tool in the study of this period. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415840552

The Roman Empire Divided400-700 AD In 400 the mighty Roman Empire was almost as large as it had ever been; within three centuries advances by Germanic peoples in western Europe Slavs in eastern Europe and Arabs around the eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean had brought about the loss of most of its territory. Ranging from Britain to Mesopotamia this book explores the changes that resulted from these movements.  It shows the different paths away from the classical past that were taken and how the relatively unified civilization of the ancient Mediterranean gave place to the very different civilizations that cluster around the sea today.  This comprehensive and authoritative second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated line-by-line and contains several new sections dealing for instance with the new evidence provided by recent finds like the Staffordshire Treasure and the widespread effects of  the plague. As well as a completely new bibliographical essay The Roman Empire Divided now also includes six maps and an expanded selection of illustrations fully integrated in the text.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781408249635

The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine The third century of the Roman Empire is a confused and sparsely documented period punctuated by wars victorious conquests and ignominious losses and a recurring cycle of rebellions that saw several Emperors created and eliminated by the Roman armies. In AD 260 the Empire almost collapsed and yet by the end of the third century the Roman world was brought back together and survived for another two hundred years. In this new edition of The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine Patricia Southern examines the anarchic era of the soldier Emperors that preceded the crisis of AD 260 and the reigns of underrated and sometimes maligned Emperors such as Gallienus Probus and Aurelian whose determination and hard work reunited and re-established the Empire. Their achievements laid the foundations for the absolutist sacrosanct rule of Diocletian honed to ruthless perfection by Constantine whose reign transformed the pagan Empire into a Christian state. The successes and failures of the rulers of the Roman world of the third century and the role of the armies and the civilians are re-assessed in this revised and expanded edition of The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine which incorporates the latest thinking of modern scholars and has been extended to cover the reign of Constantine and the foundations he laid on which the Christian empire was built. This is a crucial volume for students of this fascinating period in Roman history and provides invaluable background for anyone interested in the "fall of Rome" the adoption of Christianity and the establishment of the Byzantine Empire. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415738088

The Roman GardenSpace Sense and Society This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary and archaeological evidence with contemporary space theory. It applies a variety of interdisciplinary methods including access analysis literary and gender theory to offer a critical framework for interpreting Roman gardens as physical sites and representations. The Roman Garden: Space Sense and Society examines how the garden functioned as a conceptual sensual and physical space in Roman society and its use as a vehicle of cultural communication. Readers will learn not only about the content and development of the Roman garden but also how they promoted memories and experiences. It includes a detailed original analysis of garden terminology and concludes with three case studies on the House of Octavius Quartio and the House of the Menander in Pompeii Pliny’s Tuscan garden and Caligula’s Horti Lamiani in Rome. Providing both an introduction and an advanced analysis this is a valuable and original addition to the growing scholarship in ancient gardens and will complement courses on Roman history landscape archaeology and environmental history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138243064

The Roman HouseholdA Sourcebook With the help of a wide variety of source material particularly legal documents and inscriptions some of it made available for the first time in English this book illustrates the activities associated with the household demonstrating the different and frequently conflicting roles and moral values expected from its various members: male and female old and young freedman and slave. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138834934

The Roman Invasion of Britain First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138139121

The Roman Mother (Routledge Revivals) The Roman Mother first published in 1988 traces the traditional Roman attitude towards mothers to its republican origins examining the diverse roles and the relative power and influence associated with motherhood. The importance of the paterfamilias with his wide-ranging legal rights and obligations is familiar but much less attention has been devoted to the equally interesting position and duties of mothers and the particular limitations on their actions. The author considers the legal position of the mother the status of the widow and her testamentary position; the official promotion of parenthood by Augustan legislation; and the duties of mother to sons and daughters and vice versa as they altered throughout the children’s lives. Literary stereotypes of ideal senatorial mothers and of wicked step-mothers also have their part to play in interpreting the Roman view of motherhood and the influence of such values on the course of Roman history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415745130

The Roman Remains of Northern and Eastern FranceA Guidebook This book provides a thorough area by area companion to the region's wealth of monuments excavations and artefacts from Paris and Boulogne-sur-Mer to Strasbourg and Lyon. Over ninety sites are treated in detail including major attractions such as the parc archéologique in Lyon and the amphitheatre at Autun numerous local museums and secluded rural excavations.The guidebook combines a scholarly assessment of the area's Roman heritage examining and interpreting the surviving remains with practical visitor information such as directions to sites and opening hours. Comprehensively illustrated with photographs maps and plans it is a unique resource both for academic study and for visitors interested in the region's archaeological and historical background. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203349588

The Roman Remains of Southern FranceA Guide Book The Roman Remains of Southern France is the only specialist guidebook to this region available. It is the result of the most up-to-date research. Comprehensive in coverage it provides depth and context while evoking the distinctive atmosphere of the place.The book is easy to use with a large number of maps site plans and photographs and it will enable the traveller to explore the major cultural contribution made by the Romans to this part of France. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203713488

The Roman Spirit - In Religion Thought and Art Originally published between 1920-70 The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor C.K. Ogden was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians anthropologists archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings: * Prehistory and Historical Ethnography Set of 12: 0-415-15611-4: £800.00 * Greek Civilization Set of 7: 0-415-15612-2: £450.00 * Roman Civilization Set of 6: 0-415-15613-0: £400.00 * Eastern Civilizations Set of 10: 0-415-15614-9: £650.00 * Judaeo-Christian Civilization Set of 4: 0-415-15615-7: £250.00 * European Civilization Set of 11: 0-415-15616-5: £700.00 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415868037

The Roman World When originally published in 1987 this book was hailed as a landmark in the study of the Roman World. Now back in print with a new preface by the author it is still the most comprehensive survey of the Roman World available. Ranging from the founding of Rome in the eighth century BC and throughout the Empire and beyond this book will continue to be an essential resource on the subject for many years to come. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203820186

The Roman World Originally published between 1920-70 The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor C.K. Ogden was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians anthropologists archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings: * Prehistory and Historical Ethnography Set of 12: 0-415-15611-4: £800.00 * Greek Civilization Set of 7: 0-415-15612-2: £450.00 * Roman Civilization Set of 6: 0-415-15613-0: £400.00 * Eastern Civilizations Set of 10: 0-415-15614-9: £650.00 * Judaeo-Christian Civilization Set of 4: 0-415-15615-7: £250.00 * European Civilization Set of 11: 0-415-15616-5: £700.00 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415850438

The Roman World 44 BC-AD 180 The Roman World 44 BC – AD 180 deals with the transformation of the Mediterranean regions northern Europe and the Near East by the military autocrats who ruled Rome during this period. The book traces the impact of imperial politics on life in the city of Rome itself and in the rest of the empire arguing that despite long periods of apparent peace this was a society controlled as much by fear of state violence as by consent. Martin Goodman examines the reliance of Roman emperors on a huge military establishment and the threat of force. He analyses the extent to which the empire functioned as a single political economic and cultural unit and discusses region by region how much the various indigenous cultures and societies were affected by Roman rule. The book has a long section devoted to the momentous religious changes in this period which witnessed the popularity and spread of a series of elective cults and the emergence of rabbinic Judaism and Christianity from the complex world of first-century Judaea. This book provides a critical assessment of the significance of Roman rule for inhabitants of the empire and introduces readers to many of the main issues currently faced by historians of the early empire. This new edition incorporating the finds of recent scholarship includes a fuller narrative history expanded sections on the history of women and slaves and on cultural life in the city of Rome many new illustrations an updated section of bibliographical notes and other improvements designed to make the volume as useful as possible to students as well as the general reader. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415559799

The Romance First published in 1970 this work provides an overview of the Romance from the medieval period to the 20th century and tracks how the genre has changed with time including its interaction with other forms of literature such as gothic novels realism and science fiction. It explores a myriad of writers including Chaucer Sidney Tennyson Shelley Meredith and Keats and analyses key texts such as Don Quixote by Cervantes and Kubla Khan by Coleridge. This book will be of interest to those studying Romantic literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138229167

The Romance of ArthurAn Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation The Romance of Arthur James J. Wilhelm’s classic anthology of Arthurian literature is an essential text for students of the medieval Romance tradition. This fully updated third edition presents a comprehensive reader mapping the course of Arthurian literature and is expanded to cover: key authors such as Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas of Britain as well as Arthurian texts by women and more obscure sources for Arthurian romance extensive coverage of key themes and characters in the tradition a wide geographical range of texts including translations from Latin French German Spanish Welsh Middle English and Italian sources a broad chronological range of texts encompassing nearly a thousand years of Arthurian romance. Norris J. Lacy builds on the book’s source material presenting readers with a clear introduction to many accessible modern-spelling versions of Arthurian texts. The extracts are presented in a new reader-friendly format with detailed suggestions for further reading and illustrations of key places figures and scenes. The Romance of Arthur provides an excellent introduction and an extensive resource for both students and scholars of Arthurian literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415782890

The Romance of Culture in an Urban CivilisationRobert E. Park on Race and Ethnic Relations in Cities In this book originally published in 1990 the author presents a general critical overview of Robert E. Park and the Chicago school of American sociology. Lal concentrates on the contribution that Park and those working within the Chicago school tradition have made to the area of urban race and ethnicity and suggests how the current thinking among sociologists anthropologists social historians and social geographers might usefully be amalgamated with the ongoing tradition originating with Park at Chicago. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of sociology urban studies and race relations.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138036628

The Romance of Flamenca First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315804774

The Romance of Private Lifeby Sarah Harriet Burney Contains two tales - "The Renunciation" which presents a colourful picture of life abroad when an English girl travels to Italy in search of kin and supports herself as an artist offering an early feminist heroine; and "The Hermitage" a psychological thriller involving a ruined country maiden and an unsolved murder. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138235953

The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing 1790–1876 This book is the first to engage with the full range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine and the first to acknowledge the influence of the late-eighteenth-century Barbary captivity narrative on nineteenth-century travel writing about the Middle East. Brian Yothers argues that American travel writing about the Holy Land forms a coherent if greatly varied tradition which can only be fully understood when works by major writers such as Twain and Melville are studied alongside missionary accounts captivity narratives chronicles of religious pilgrimages and travel writing in the genteel tradition. Yothers also examines works by lesser-known authors such as Bayard Taylor John Lloyd Stephens and Clorinda Minor demonstrating that American travel writing is marked by a profound intertextuality with the Hebrew and Christian scriptures and with British and continental travel narratives about the Holy Land. His concluding chapter on Melville's Clarel shows how Melville's poem provides an incisive critique of the nascent imperial discourse discernible in the American texts with which it is in dialogue. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553245

The Romance of the Rose or of Guillaume de Dole Published in 1995: The author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century Le Roman de la Rose or Guillaume de Dole and L'Escoufle (The Kite) as well as Le Lai de l'Ombre Jean Renart is today recognized as the most accomplished practitioner of the "realistic romance" in Old French literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367147204

The Romance of TradeA Survey Commercial and Economic This revised edition of the original 1923 text first appeared in 1929 a decade after the end of WWI. The war left Great Britain burdened with debt and faced with the dire issues of unemployment and unstable domestic and foreign markets. In this title A.W. Kirkaldy gives a brief but thoroughly detailed account and analysis of the history of economics particularly concentrating upon the economic development of England. His work concludes with an examination of how the economic principles of England’s past can be applied and adapted in the post-war world. The Romance of Trade is a valuable resource for students interested in economics and economic history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138187474

The Romance of TristanTemplate Subtitle Published in 1989: A translation of Beroul's twelfth century Tristran from the Old French. Discussion of the author is included but since nothing is known of him (or them) the biography is limited. His literary style and historical (or legendary) influence are well surveyed. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367147303

The Romani Voice in World PoliticsThe United Nations and Non-State Actors Ilona Klímová-Alexander brings Europe's largest transnational and most marginalized ethnic minority the Roma (Gypsies) into the discourse of international relations. The book describes and analyzes the attempts of the Romani activists to gain voice in world politics by interacting with the United Nations (UN) system and explores their capabilities and impact. This study has three objectives: it provides an introduction to global Romani activism in terms of its anatomy history political manifestos goals and activities; it establishes the extent and essence of the Romani voice in world politics and its influence on the UN discourse on Roma; furthermore it looks at how interacting with the UN system has affected the organizational structure of the global Romani activism and its discourse. Based largely on primary resources and fieldwork this book will engage international relations scholars political scientists and those concerned with social movements and ethnic and racial studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138258990

The Romani Women’s MovementStruggles and Debates in Central and Eastern Europe The lack of recognition of Romani gender politics in the wider Romani movement and the women’s movements is accompanied by a scarcity of academic literature on Romani women’s mobilization in wider social justice struggles and debates. The Romani Women’s Movement highlights the role that Romani women’s politics plays in shaping equality related discourses policies and movements in Central Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Presenting the diverse experiences and voices of Romani women activists this volume reveals how they translate experiences of structural inequalities into political struggles by defining their own spaces of action; participating in formalized or less formal activist practices and challenging the agendas and mechanisms of the established Romani and women’s movements. Moving discourses on and of Romani women from the periphery of scholarly exchanges to the mainstream the volume invites scholars and activists from different disciplines and movements to critically reflect on their engagements with particular social justice agendas. It will appeal to students researchers and practitioners interested in fields such as social movements gender equality and social and ethnic justice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367486990

The Romanian Mass Media and Cultural Development This compelling book assesses the development of the mass media since the Romanian Revolution in December 1989 and the media's impact on cultural development the public sphere civil society and democracy. It controversially claims that Romania's failure to experience a thoroughgoing enlightenment project in its entire history remains a major obstacle for producing democratic ownership of the media and democratic development of society. Analyzing both the print and broadcast media and their respective effects on development the book also discusses the effects of Romanian law on media and societal development ethics and media responsibilities. It concludes however that far from having an absolutely negative impact on Romanian post-communism the media has helped produce a contradictory empirical form that equally contains positive moments in terms of subjective cultural development. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237244

The RomansAn Introduction The Romans: An Introduction is a concise readable and comprehensive survey of the Roman world which explores 1 200 years of political military and cultural history alongside religion social pressures literature art and architecture. This new edition includes updated and revised materials designed to develop analytical skills in literary and material evidence evoking themes that resonate in both ancient and modern societies: fake news class struggles urbanization concepts of race and gender imperialism constitutional power and religious intolerance. The fourth edition incorporates a number of new features and evolving fields: A new chapter on provinces provincial administration and acculturation in the Roman Empire. An extended chapter on Christianity and Rome’s legacy with new case studies in the reception of Roman culture. An extended chapter on Roman society and daily life including recent scholarship on gender and race in the ancient world. Integrated use of text and material evidence which is designed to develop analytical skills in critical source assessment. The book’s successful Open Access website updated to include new case studies on emerging topics such as performance politics religious syncretism media sensationalism and cultural heritage. Thoroughly updated and redeveloped this new edition of The Romans will continue to serve as the definitive introduction to the life history and culture of the Roman world from its foundation to its significance to later civilizations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138543898

The Romantic Fiction Of Mills & Boon 1909-1995 This study to analyzes romantic fiction's depiction of women as part of the broader history of ideas about women.; Given the success of the Mills & Boon romance their portrayal of subjects like sex love marriage class motherhood and femineity are important cultural barometers and make interesting study.; The author shows how all these themes have an historical trajectory and how these novels have come to reflect feminist concerns.; Based on a study of over 1000 Mills & Boon romances the book provides analysis of plot types and shows how these have changed in response to women's own changing position within society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138172777

The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of History The nineteenth-century Romantic understanding of history is often confused with the longing for the past Golden Age. In this book the Romantic idea of Golden Age is seen from a new angle by discussing it in the context of Friedrich Schlegel’s works. Interestingly Schlegel argued that the concept of a past Golden Age in the beginning of history was itself a product of antiquity imagined without any historical ground.The Golden Age was not bygone for Schlegel but to be produced in the future. His utopian vision of the Kingdom of God was related to the millenarian expectations of perpetual peace aroused by the revolutionary wars. Schlegel understood current era through the kairos concept which emphasized the present possibilities for public agency. Thus history could not be reduced to any kind of pre-established pattern of redemption for the future was determined only by the opportunities manifested in the present time. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367885397

The Romantic Legacy of Paradise LostReading against the Grain The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers like Dryden Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton Shears devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets contextualizing their 'misreadings' of Milton within a range of historical aesthetic and theoretical contexts and discourses. By tackling the vexed issue of whether Paradise Lost by its nature makes available and encourages alternate readings or whether misreadings are imposed on the poem from without Shears argues that the Romantic inclination towards fragmentation and a polysemous aesthetic leads to disrupted readings of Paradise Lost that obscure the theme or warp the 'grain' of the poem. Shears concludes by examining the ways in which the legacy of Romantic misreading continues to shape critical responses to Milton's epic. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367887971

The Romantic Movement First published in 1981. This study concentrates on the exponents of the central period of German Romanticism regarding as characteristic the mode in which the poet’s self becomes active only in response to external stimuli most notably those of landscape. The author traces the main strands of thought and interests that preoccupy Romantic writers; the revolutionary attitude that is yet differentiated from that of writers like Byron by the lack of emphasis on individualism the dualism of the bourgeois world and the ‘inner self’ the interest in language as an agency for the regeneration of the German spirit and the concentration on folk-themes and the idea of Wanderung. This title will be of interest to students of literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138195257

The Romantic PeriodThe Intellectual & Cultural Context of English Literature 1789-1830 The Romantic Period was one of the most exciting periods in English literary history. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the intellectual and cultural background to Romantic literature. It is accessibly written and avoids theoretical jargon providing a solid foundation for students to make their own sense of the poetry fiction and other creative writing that emerged as part of the Romantic literary tradition. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138152090

The Romantic Poets First published in 1953. At its best Romantic poetry combined the creative freedom of a dream with some of the deepest facts of human experience. In this critical survey Professor Hough examines individually the poetry of Gray Wordsworth Coleridge Byron Shelley and Keats. He sets their work firmly in the context of the major events and preoccupations of the age clarifying the origins and growth of a poetry that emerged so swiftly and differed so radically from the Augustan age that preceded it. He asserts the importance of the Romantic experience to the tradition of literature and its significance to the reader of today. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138641006

The Romantic Reviewers1802-1824 First published in 1969. This study of literary reviewing in the early nineteenth century is concerned with contemporary criticism of the works of the major Romantic poets – Wordsworth Coleridge Byron Shelley and Keats – and of seven other notable Romantic writers including Hazlitt Lamb and Scott. The criticism of all works in prose and verse excluding novels published by these writers between 1802 and 1824 is described and analysed. This study also considers the policies and practices of the reviews and their political religious and moral attitudes in literary matters. This title will be of interest to students of literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138193826

The Romantic Revolution in America: 1800-1860Main Currents in American Thought The development of literature between 1800 and 1860 in the United States was heavily influenced by two wars. The War of 1812 hastened the development of nineteenth-century ideals and the Civil War uprooted certain growths of those vigorous years. The half century between these dramatic episodes was a period of extravagant vigor the final outcome being the emergence of a new middle class.Parrington argues that America was becoming a new world with undreamed potential. This new era was no longer content with the ways of a founding generation. The older America of colonial days had been static rationalistic inclined to pessimism and fearful of innovation. During the years between the Peace of Paris (1763) and the end of the War of 1812 older America was dying. The America that emerged which is the focal point of this volume was a shifting restless world eager to better itself bent on finding easier roads to wealth than the plodding path of natural increase.The culture of this period also changed. Formal biographies written in this period often gave way to eulogy; it was believed that a writer was under obligation to speak well of the dead. Consequently scarcely a single commentary of the times can be trusted and the critic is reduced to patching together his account out of scanty odds and ends. A new introduction by Bruce Brown highlights the life of Vernon Louis Parrington and explains the importance of this second volume in the Pulitzer Prize-winning study. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412845991

The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415869492

The Romantic Tradition in British Political Thought First published in 1986. It is often suggested that the great first generation of Romantics after the first flush of their revolutionary enthusiasm ‘sold out’ to the forces of conservatism and reaction. This book starts from the thesis that the ideas of Wordsworth Coleridge and Southey did always contain powerful radical and reformist implications that set the tone of liberal and left-wing discussion for several generations. The message of the French Revolution and Wordsworth’s youthful enthusiasm continued to imbue the thought of Carlyle and his disciples Ruskin and Kingsley and its characteristic articulations are still visible in later socialists such as Keir Hardie and Blatchford. This thoughtful book not only shows how surprising are the original roots of some great socialist thinkers but also argues for a strong continuity in the English tradition of political thought from the 1780s to the early years of the twentieth century. Both students of politics and of literature and Victorian ideas will be stimulated by The Romantic Tradition in British Political Thought. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367247829

The Romantic Tradition in GermanyAn Anthology with Critical Essays and Commentaries Originally published in 1970 this book surveys the central philosophical and aesthetic doctrines which characterize German Romanticism. A selection of literary philosophical and political essays by some of the most important German Romantic thinkers illustrates the principal themes: these range from philosophical idealism and aesthetic subjectivism to folklore and emergent German nationalism from exotica and medievalism to irrationality and the metaphysics of music. Introductory essays explain the significance of the particular aspects of the Romantic tradition which are revealed in each passage and commentaries not only elucidate allusions and references which are not immediately identifiable but draw attention to wider issues either in the work of that author or in the context of 19th Century German culture as a whole. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367857035

The Romanticism of Contemporary TheoryInstitution Aesthetics Nihilism Using Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy's groundbreaking study of the persistence of German Idealist philosophy as his starting point Justin Clemens presents a valuable study of the links between Romanticism and contemporary theory. The central contention of this book is that contemporary theory is still essentially Romantic - despite all its declarations to the contrary and despite all its attempts to elude or exceed the limits bequeathed it by Romantic thought. The argument focuses on the ruses of 'Romanticism's indefinable character' under two main rubrics 'Contexts' and 'Interventions'. The first three chapters investigate 'Contexts' examining some of the broad trends in the historical and institutional development of Romantic criticism; the second section 'Interventions' comprises close readings of the work of Jacques Lacan Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Ian Hunter and Alain Badiou. In the first chapter Clemens identifies and traces the development of two interlocking recurrent themes in Romantic criticism: the Romantic desire to escape Romanticism and the problem posed to aesthetico-philosophical thought by the modern domiciliation of philosophy in the university. He develops these themes in the second chapter by examining the link forged between aesthetics and the subject in the work of Immanuel Kant. In the third chapter Clemens shows how the Romantic problems of the academic institution and aesthetics were effectively bound together by the philosophical diagnosis of nihilism. Chapter Four focuses on two key moments in the work of Jacques Lacan - his theory of the 'mirror stage' and his 'formulas of sexuation' - and demonstrates how Lacan returns to the grounding claims of Kantian aesthetics in such a way as to render him complicit with the Romantic thought he often seems to contest. In the following chapter taking Deleuze and Guattari's notion of 'multiplicity' as a guiding thread Clemens links their account to their professed 'anti-Platonism' showing how they find themselves forced back onto emblematically Romantic arguments. Chapter Six provides a close reading of Sedgwick's most influential text Epistemology of the Closet. Clemens' reading localizes her practice both in the newly consolidated academic field of 'Queer Theory' and in a conceptual genealogy whose roots can be traced back to a particular anti-Enlightenment strain of Romanticism. Clemens next turns to the professedly anti-Romantic arguments of Ian Hunter a major figure in the ongoing re-writing of modern histories of education. In the final chapter he examines the work of the contemporary French philosopher Alain Badiou. Clemens argues that if Badiou's hostility to the diagnosis of nihilism his return to Plato and mathematics and his expulsion of poetry from philosophical method all place him at a genuine distance from dominant Romantic trends even this attempt admits ciphered Romantic elements. This study will be of interest to literary theorists philosophers political theorists and cultural studies scholars. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315237220

The Romantics First published in 1981. This book aims to show Romanticism as a response to certain questions – in literature art religion philosophy and politics – that were being asked increasingly towards the end of the eighteenth century. The essays focus on growth and change (in society and the individual) nature feeling and reason and subjectivism – examining how these questions arose why they were felt to be important and the kinds of answers that consciously or unconsciously the Romantics provided. This title will be of interest to students of literature history and philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138641969

The Romantics and the May Day Tradition This important contribution to both Romantic and cultural studies situates literature by Wordsworth Southey Hunt Clare and Blake within the context of folklore and popular customs associated with May Day. Romantic responses to May Day bring into focus a range of issues now regarded as central to the writing of the period - the natural world city life the pastoral regional and national identities popular culture cultural degeneration and cultural difference. Essaka Joshua explores new connections between these issues in the context of a set of heterogeneous cultural practices that are rooted in the traditions and activities of diverse social groups. She shows how Romantic writers have positioned themselves in relation to what has become known as the public sphere and the way in which they articulate an understanding of the common sphere as a site of plebeian self-expression. Joshua's nuanced account acknowledges the full complexity of class formations and inter-class relationships and permits noncanonical and canonical texts such as the Prelude Songs of Innocence and Experience and 'The Village Minstrel' to be reinterpreted in a cultural context that has not been previously explored by literary critics. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315553238

The Romantics ReviewedContemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers First published in 1972 this set of 9 volumes contains all contemporary British periodical reviews of the first (or other significantly early) editions from 1793 and 1824 of works by William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Gordon Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. In addition a few later reviews are supplied as well as a substantial number of reviews of other contemporary figures including William Godwin Robert Southey Samuel Rogers Thomas Campbell Thomas Moore Leigh Hunt William Hazlitt and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each publication as well as names dates and bibliographical information. Headnotes offer bibliographical data of the reviews and suggested approaches to studying them. The index serves to locate authors and titles reviewed reviewers sources of quotations other people and works mentioned and other proper nouns of interest. This comprehensive set will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138688773

The Romantics ReviewedContemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume I First published in 1972 this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of the Lake Poets including Wordsworth Coleridge Southey and Lamb in publications from the Academic to the Edinburgh Observer. Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each publication as well as names dates and bibliographical information. Headnotes offer bibliographical data of the reviews and suggested approaches to studying them. This book will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138687783

The Romantics ReviewedContemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume II First published in 1972 this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of the Lake Poets including Wordsworth Coleridge Southey and Lamb in publications from the Edinburgh Review to Variety. Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each publication as well as names dates and bibliographical information. Headnotes offer bibliographical data of the reviews and suggested approaches to studying them. This book will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138687868

The Romantics ReviewedContemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part B: Byron and Regency Society poets - Volume I First published in 1972 this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of Lord Byron and Regency Society Poets including Rogers Campbell and Moore in publications from the Annual Review to the British Review. Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each publication as well as names dates and bibliographical information. Headnotes offer bibliographical data of the reviews and suggested approaches to studying them. This book will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138687912

The Romantics ReviewedContemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part B: Byron and Regency Society poets - Volume II First published in 1972 this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of Lord Byron and Regency Society Poets including Rogers Campbell and Moore in publications from Cabinet to Evangelical Magazine. Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each publication as well as names dates and bibliographical information. Headnotes offer bibliographical data of the reviews and suggested approaches to studying them. This book will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138688124

The Romantics ReviewedContemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part B: Byron and Regency Society poets - Volume III First published in 1972 this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of Lord Byron and Regency Society Poets including Rogers Campbell and Moore in publications from the Examiner to the Literary Examiner. Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each publication as well as names dates and bibliographical information. Headnotes offer bibliographical data of the reviews and suggested approaches to studying them. This book will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138688209

The Romantics ReviewedContemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part B: Byron and Regency Society poets - Volume IV First published in 1972 this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of Lord Byron and Regency Society Poets including Rogers Campbell and Moore in publications from the Literary Gazette to the Monthly Review. Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each publication as well as names dates and bibliographical information. Headnotes offer bibliographical data of the reviews and suggested approaches to studying them. This book will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138688254

The Romantics ReviewedContemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part B: Byron and Regency Society poets - Volume V First published in 1972 this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of Lord Byron and Regency Society Poets including Rogers Campbell and Moore in publications from the New Annual Register to the Yellow Dwarf. Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each publication as well as names dates and bibliographical information. Headnotes offer bibliographical data of the reviews and suggested approaches to studying them. This book will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138688285

The Romantics ReviewedContemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part C: Shelley Keats and London Radical Writers - Volume I First published in 1972 this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of Shelley Keats and London Radical Writers including William Godwin Leigh Hunt and Mary Shelley in publications from the Analytical Review to the General Weekly Register. Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each publication as well as names dates and bibliographical information. Headnotes offer bibliographical data of the reviews and suggested approaches to studying them. This book will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138688339

The Romantics ReviewedContemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part C: Shelley Keats and London Radical Writers - Volume II First published in 1972 this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of Shelley Keats and London Radical Writers including William Godwin Leigh Hunt and Mary Shelley in publications from Gentleman’s Magazine to the Theological Inquirer. Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each publication as well as names dates and bibliographical information. Headnotes offer bibliographical data of the reviews and suggested approaches to studying them. This book will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138688414

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtA Challenge to Impunity This book focuses on the Statute of the International Criminal Court gathering contributions by leading scholars and diplomats. It examines the main features of the Statute highlighting its strengths and weaknesses the role of the ICC in the international protection of human rights and the impact of the ICC Statute on the international criminal justice system. It also offers an evaluation of the prospect for the functioning of the ICC in the future. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138257108

The Rome that Did Not FallThe Survival of the East in the Fifth Century The Rome that Did Not Fall provides a well-illustrated comprehensive narrative and analysis of the Roman empire in the east charting its remarkable growth and development which resulted in the distinct and enduring civilization of Byzantium. It considers:* the fourth century background* the invasions of Attila* the resources of the east* the struggle for stability* the achievements of Anastasius. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138007031

The Root Cause Analysis HandbookA Simplified Approach to Identifying Correcting and Reporting Workplace Errors The answer is root cause analysis a process that allows you to find the cause of single events/problems in the workplace. The Root Cause Analysis Handbook presents a walkthrough example that illustrates the method and shows how to implement it.Because poor initial problem definition can (and often does) undermine the problem-solving process Ammerman places special emphasis on this area to build a solid foundation for effective analysis. He also provides guidance on preparing the final report.The need for clear documentation on dealing with problems makes this book especially valuable for quality managers engineers safety managers and teams implementing the ISO or QS standards. Written in a simple user-friendly style you will grasp the core concepts quickly and begin applying them to your work. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781138464117

The Root Causes of Biodiversity Loss The world is losing species and biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. The causes go deep and the losses are driven by a complex array of social economic political and biological factors at different levels. Immediate causes such as over-harvesting pollution and habitat change have been well studied but the socioeconomic factors driving people to degrade their environment are less well understood. This book examines the underlying causes. It provides analyses of a range of case studies from Brazil Cameroon China Danube River Basin India Mexico Pakistan Philippines Tanzania and Vietnam and integrates them into a new and interdisciplinary framework for understanding what is happening. From these results the editors are able to derive policy conclusions and recommendations for operational and institutional approaches to address the root causes and reverse the current trends. It makes a contribution to the understanding of all those - from ecologists and conservationists to economists and policy makers - working on one of the major challenges we face. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138160194

The Roots and Future of Management TheoryA Systems Perspective Interesting and easy-to-read The Roots and Future of Management Theory: A Systems Approach provides a comprehensive overview of today's workplace -past present and future. The author brings the key characters in the evolution of management theory to life. Not only will your students understand the roots of our current situation how workplace change happens and what forces are involved - they will see how it fits into changes in society as a whole.There have obviously been many changes in the workplace from the Medieval Period to the present and there will certainly be even more changes in the future. This book explores these changes and connects them to changes in: general philosophy (rationalism empiricism pragmatism); religious philosophy (Catholicism Protestantism); social philosophy (Machiavellian Humanism Christian Humanism); economic philosophy (laissez faire Communism); and workplace philosophy (technology as a friend technology as an enemy).Battles have raged through the ages between these opposing forces affecting management systems the quality of working life and life in general. The author discusses how this has lead to today's quest for a synthesis of the strengths of these forces and suggests that it has been found in the systems approach. He describes what this synthesis - combined with the powers of the computer - could and should lead to in the future.Written at a level that both graduate and undergraduate student will understand The Roots and Future of Management Theory provides an overview of management theory. Comprehensive but not overwhelming this textbook will give your students an understanding the changes in the workplace since the beginning of the industrial age and offer them some insights into the changes most likely to occur in the 21st century. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203736067

The Roots of American Communism In this definitive history of the evolution of the Com- munist Party in America--from its early background through its founding in 1919 to its emergence as a legal entity in the 1920s--Theodore Draper traces the native and foreign strains that comprised the party. He emphasizes its shifting policies and secrets as well as its open activities. He makes clear how the party in its infancy "was transformed from a new expression of American radicalism to the American appendage of a Russian revolutionary power " a fact that Draper develops in his succeeding volume American Communism and Soviet Russia.In his special prescient way Theodore Draper himself had the final words on American Communism: "It is like a museum of radical politics. In its various stages it has virtually been all things to all men... There are many ways of trying to understand such a movement but the first task is historical. In some respects there is no other way to understand it or at least to avoid seriously misunderstanding it. Every other approach tends to be static one-sided or unbalanced."Draper correctly notes that the formative period of the American Communist movement has remained a largely untold and even unknown story. In part the reasons for this are that the Communist movement although a child of the West grew to power in the Soviet East. But Draper rescues this chapter with deep appreciation for the fact that communism was not something that happened just in Russia but also in the United States. This is a must read for scholars and laypersons alike.This volume is conceived as an independent and self-contained study of the American Communist movement. Draper correctly notes that the formative period is largely untold and even unknown. In part the reasons for this are that the Communist movement although a child of the West grew to power in the Soviet East. Draper appreciates the fact that communism was not something that happened only in Russia but also took place in the United States. That experience is the focus of this volume. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138538351

The Roots of Environmental ConsciousnessPopular Tradition and Personal Experience This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of geographical and thematic case-studies explore the myth tradition and collective memory that shape our environmental thought. Containing a wealth of empirical source material this book will be invaluable for sociologists and historians alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415543996

The Roots of Fake NewsObjecting to Objective Journalism The Roots of Fake News argues that ‘fake news’ is not a problem caused by the power of the internet or by the failure of good journalism to assert itself. Rather it is within the news’s ideological foundations – professionalism neutrality and most especially objectivity – that the true roots of the current ‘crisis’ are to be found. Placing the concept of media objectivity in a fuller historical context this book examines how current perceptions of a crisis in journalism actually fit within a long history of the ways news media have avoided obscured or simply ignored the difficulties involved in promising objectivity let alone ‘truth’. The book examines journalism’s relationships with other spheres of human endeavour (science law philosophy) concerned with the pursuit of objective truth to argue that the rising tide of ‘fake news’ is not an attack on the traditional ideologies which have supported journalism. Rather it is an inevitable result of their inherent flaws and vulnerabilities. This is a valuable resource for students and scholars of journalism and history alike who are interested in understanding the historical roots and philosophical context of a fiercely contemporary issue. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367145460

The Roots of Football Hooliganism (RLE Sports Studies)An Historical and Sociological Study This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd disorderliness at association football matches in Britain and assesses both popular and academic explanations of the problem. The authors’ study starts in the 1880s when professional football first emerged in its modern form charting the pre and inter-war periods and revealing that England’s World Cup triumph formed a watershed. The changing social composition of football crowds and the changing class structure of British society is discussed and the genesis of modern football hooliganism is explained by tracing it to the cultural conditions and circumstances which reproduce in young working-class males an interest in a publicly expressed aggressive masculine style. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138989894

The Roots of Japan's Environmental Policies First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138879003

The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume OneRevelation and Apocalypse The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume One: Revelation and Apocalypse is the first volume fully annotated of a major previously unpublished two-part work by Erich Neumann (1905–1960). It was written between 1934 and 1940 after Neumann then a young philosopher and physician and freshly trained as a disciple of Jung fled Berlin to settle in Tel Aviv. He finished the second volume of this work at the end of World War II. Although he never published either volume he kept them the rest of his life. The challenge of Jewish survival frames Neumann’s work existentially. This survival he insists must be psychological and spiritual as much as physical. In Volume One Revelation and Apocalypse he argues that modern Jews must relearn what ancient Jews once understood but lost during the Babylonian Exile: that is the individual capacity to meet the sacred directly to receive revelation and to prophesy. Neumann interprets scriptural and intertestamental (apocalyptic) literature through the lens of Jung’s teaching and his reliance on the work of Jung is supplemented with references to Buber Rosenzweig and Auerbach. Including a foreword by Nancy Swift Furlotti and editorial introduction by Ann Conrad Lammers readers of this volume can hold for the first time the unpublished work of Neumann with useful annotations and insights throughout. These volumes anticipate Neumann’s later works including Depth Psychology and a New Ethic The Origins and History of Consciousness and The Great Mother. His signature contribution to analytical psychology the concept of the ego–Self axis arises indirectly in Volume One folded into Neumann’s theme of the tension between earth and YHWH. This unique work will appeal to Jungian analysts and psychotherapists in training and in practice historians of psychology Jewish scholars biblical historians teachers of comparative religion as well as academics and students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138556201

The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume TwoHasidism The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume Two: Hasidism is the second volume fullyannotated of a major previously unpublished two-part work by Erich Neumann (1905–1960). It was written between 1940 and 1945 after Neumann then a young philosopher and physician and freshly trained as a disciple of Jung fled Berlin to settle in Tel Aviv. He finished this work at the end of World War II. Although he never published it he kept it the rest of his life. Volume Two Hasidism is devoted to the psychological and spiritual wisdom embodied in Jewish spiritual tradition. Relying on Jung’s concepts and Buber’s Hasidic interpretations Neumann seeks alternatives to the legalism and anti-feminine bias that he says have dominated collective Judaism since the Second Temple. He argues that modern Jews can develop psychological wholeness through an appropriation of Hasidic legends Talmudic texts and Kabbalistic mysteries including especially the Zohar. Exclusively this volume includes a foreword by Moshe Idel. An appendix Neumann’s four-lecture series from the 1940s gives a glimpse of his intended unpublished Part Three. These volumes anticipate Neumann’s later works including Depth Psychology and a New Ethic The Origins and History of Consciousness and The Great Mother. In Volume Two Hasidism his concept of the ego–Self axis is developed in clearly psychological terms. Four previously unpublished essays appended to Volume Two illustrate Neumann’s developmental psychology including his theme of primary and secondary personalization. This unique work will appeal to Jungian analysts and psychotherapists in training and in practice historians of psychology Jewish scholars biblical historians teachers of comparative religion as well as academics and students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138556225

The Roots of Jewish Consciousness (2 Volume set) The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume One: Revelation and Apocalypse is the first volume fully annotated of a major previously unpublished two-part work by Erich Neumann (1905-1960). It was written between 1934 and 1940 after Neumann then a young philosopher and physician and freshly trained as a disciple of Jung fled Berlin to settle in Tel Aviv. He finished the second volume of this work at the end of World War Two. Although he never published either volume he kept them the rest of his life. The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume Two: Hasidism is the second volume fullyannotated of a major previously unpublished two-part work by Erich Neumann (1905-1960). It was written between 1940 and 1945 after Neumann then a young philosopher and physician and freshly trained as a disciple of Jung fled Berlin to settle in Tel Aviv. He finished this work at the end of World War Two. Although he never published it he kept it the rest of his life. These volumes anticipate Neumann’s later works including Depth Psychology and a New Ethic The Origins and History of Consciousness and The Great Mother. His signature contribution to analytical psychology the concept of the ego-Self axis arises indirectly in Volume One folded into Neumann’s theme of the tension between earth and YHWH.  In Volume Two Hasidism his concept of the ego-Self axis is developed in clearly psychological terms. Four previously unpublished essays appended to Volume Two illustrate Neumann’s developmental psychology including his theme of primary and secondary personalisation. This unique work will appeal to Jungian analysts and psychotherapists in training and in practice historians of psychology Jewish scholars biblical historians teachers of comparative religion as well as academics and students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367185213

The Roots of MetaphorA Multidisciplinary Study in Aesthetics First published in 1999 this study begins with a review of basic biological functions stressing the importance to the organism of various kinds of information. The 'biology of information' must consider how the brain reacts to new as contrasted with expected inputs; these differences are discussed chiefly in relation to language. In language processing predictability is of prime importance but to clarify what this entails it is necessary to consider just how our concepts are organized. Personal construct theory throws considerable light on this question but is less informative about fantasy which requires separate exploration. The main chapter focuses on the origins and interpretation of metaphor in which quite disparate concepts are united but which we understand nevertheless. Existing theories of metaphor are unsatisfactory but personal construct theory again helps resolve the psychological-linguistic issues. Finally the question is raised as to why a good metaphor produces a response which is recognizably aesthetic in character and its implications for our aesthetic responses to other art forms are explored. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138356634

The Roots of Modern Environmentalism Originally published in 1984 The Roots of Modern Environmentalism provides a historical philosophical and ideological background to environmentalism. Topics covered include the roots of technological environmentalism the medieval cosmology and Bacon’s philosophy the non-scientific roots of ecological environmentalism such as Romanticism and its scientific roots in the theories of Malthus and Darwin. The Marxist perspective on Nature is also discussed. The concluding chapter is a criticism of education which challenges its usefulness as an agent of socio-economic change. This book will be of interest to academics and students of environmentalism and geography. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367409654

The Roots of Political Instability in NigeriaPolitical Evolution and Development in the Niger Basin The constant drumbeat of headlines about Darfur Zimbabwe Sudan Somalia as well as the other states in Africa that are beleaguered by political instability have made the causes of failed states and intra-state political conflicts a major issue both academic and practical. Using Harry Eckstein and Ted R. Gurr's congruence-consonance theoretical framework of regime classification E.C. Ejiogu examines the internal variations of society evident in the Nigerian state to explain why the country experiences political conflict and instability. The first time this theoretical framework has been applied to an African country; E.C. Ejiogu offers a balanced and interdisciplinary analysis of the evolution in the Nigerian political system and the role played by evolved social traits in society. Exploring themes such as colonial rule and legacies economic development political authority and religion Ejiogu insists that it is critical to examine Africa's diverse nationalities in terms of their geography social economic and authority patterns as critical elements that are disregarded in accounts of their political development. At a time when the question of state building in Africa is still unresolved this timely book is a major contribution to the literature on transition processes in African politics and is particularly relevant to scholars and policy makers wanting to grapple with the issues associated with Africa's political disorder and the other social problems it spawns. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780754679875

The Roots of PraxiologyFrench Action Theory from Bourdeau and Espinas to Present Days Praxiology deals with working and doing from the point of view of effectiveness. It has three components: analysis of concepts involving purposive actions; critique of modes of action from the viewpoint of efficiency; and normative advisory aspects in recommendations for increasing human efficiency. This seventh volume of the Praxiology series focuses on the roots of the discipline. It brings together a selection of writings that illustrate various stages of French thought concerning this philosophy and methodology of action. It is also conceived as a tribute to the writings of Louis Bourdeau and V. Alfred Espinas key figures in the origin of praxiology.In the first part "The Origin of Praxiology" examines these origins in the work of Bourdeau and Espinas. Bourdeau's essay demonstrates the influence of contemporary theories in particular those of evolution and Comte's positivism but also shows the critical sense and originality of his thought. With reference to Greek philosophy Espinas's contribution underlines the complex relations between acts and laws; it enables him to follow the slow progression of individuals as they endeavor to shape their destiny according to the circumstances and the direction of their attitudes. In the second part "Science of Human Action " Maurice Blondel opposes radical rationalism and warns against the positive sciences. Abraham Moles and Elisabeth Rohmer offer an original approach inspired by phenomenology. In the third part "Action Theory and Its Applications " the texts of Roland Caude and Arnold Kaufmann focus on humanist preoccupations setting action in the economic context of the firm and the city. Victor Alexandre deals with the structural analysis of real and fictitious actions applied to a large number of elementary acts. Robert Vallée's concluding essay proposes a model consisting of operators for observation decision and effectiveness in order to formalize the link between knowledge and action.What emerges from this volume is the constant idea that an individual's destiny is linked to the efficiency of his acts but also that efficiency as a concept itself has multiple aspects none of which should be underestimated. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138516847

The Roots of ReligionExploring the Cognitive Science of Religion The cognitive science of religion is a new discipline that looks at the roots of religious belief in the cognitive architecture of the human mind. The Roots of Religion deals with the philosophical and theological implications of the cognitive science of religion which grounds religious belief in human cognitive structures: religious belief is ’natural’ in a way that even scientific thought is not. Does this new discipline support religious belief undermine it or is it despite many claims perhaps eventually neutral? This subject is of immense importance particularly given the rise of the ’new atheism’. Philosophers and theologians from North America UK and Australia explore the alleged conflict between truth claims and examine the roots of religion in human nature. Is it less ’natural’ to be an atheist than to believe in God or gods? On the other hand if we can explain theism psychologically have we explained it away. Can it still claim any truth? This book debates these and related issues. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138547070

The Roots of Special RelativityScience and Society First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315023687

The Roots of Terrorism The Roots of Terrorism is the first volume in the new Democracy and Terrorism series a three volume project intended to explore one of the most pressing issues of our time: how to reconcile the need to fight terrorism with our desire to protect and enhance democratic values. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203957301

The Rorschach Assessment of Aggressive and Psychopathic Personalities This book provides a definitive empirical study of antisocial character pathology and its assessment through the use of the Rorschach. Drawing upon a decade of research with nearly 400 individuals in various hospitals and prisons the authors paint an extraordinary intrapsychic picture of the personality structure and psychodynamics of these troublesome patients.Serving as both an educational tool and a reference text this book presents: * Rorschach data on several different antisocial groups -- conduct disordered children and adolescents antisocial personality disordered adult males with and without schizophrenia antisocial adult females and male and female sexual homicide perpetrators; * nomothetic (group) and idiographic (case study) data; * data which have been analyzed and theoretically interpreted using both structural methods and psychoanalytic approaches which represent the cutting edge of Rorschach theory and practice; and* a developmental approach in analyzing Rorschach data gathered from antisocial children adolescents and adults -- providing striking similarities. This is the first Rorschach database of this type that has ever been published. As such it serves as a valuable reference text for Rorschach users -- providing a definitive empirical base theoretical integration and a focus on individuals who create severe problems for society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138989900

The Rorschach in Multimethod Forensic AssessmentConceptual Foundations and Practical Applications This volume demonstrates how multimethod forensic assessment with the Rorschach adds incremental validity insight and practical value. Case discussions by leading forensic psychologists illustrate the integration of contemporary Rorschach assessment with the MMPI-2 and MMPI-2-RF the PAI and the HCR-20. This text addresses a wide range of forensic applications including child custody psychological trauma personal injury psychotic offenders competency evaluations immigration cases and impression management. It also shows how the recently developed Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) effectively enhances the use of the Rorschach in forensic cases while offering guidance for Comprehensive System users as well. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138925090

The RorschachA Developmental Perspective Martin Leichtman's The Rorschach is a work of stunning originality that takes as its point of departure a circumstance that has long confounded Rorschach examiners.  Attempts to use the Rorschach with young children yield results that are inconsistent if not comical.  What after all does one make of a protocol when the child treats a card like a frisbee or confidently detects "piadigats" and "red foombas"? A far more consequential problem facing examiners of adults and children alike concerns the very nature of the Rorschach test.  Despite voluminous literature establishing the personality correlates of particular Rorschach scores neither Hermann Rorschach nor his intellectual descendants have provided an adequate explanation of precisely what the subject is being asked to do.  Is the Rorschach a test of imagination? Of perception? Of projection? In point of fact Leichtman argues the two problems are intimately related.  To appreciate the stages through which children gradually master the Rorschach in its standard form is to discover the nature of the test itself.  Integrating his developmental analysis with an illuminating discussion of the extensive literature on test administration scoring and interpretation Leichtman arrives at a new understanding of the Rorschach as a test of representation and creativity.  This finding in turn leads to an intriguing reconceptualization of all projective tests that clarifies their relationships to more objective measures of ability.   Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203778784

The Rosenberg LettersA Complete Edition of the Prison Correspondence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315057118

The Rosicrucian Enlightenment A history of the role that the occult has played in the formation of modern science and medicine The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the western esoteric tradition. Beautifully illustrated it remains one of those rare works of scholarship which the general reader simply cannot afford to ignore. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138127869

The Roth Family Anthropology and Colonial Administration No family better represents the overlapping roles of administrator and scientist in the British empire than the Roths. Descended from a Hungarian emigrant to Australia two generations of Roths served the empire on four continents and at the same time produced ethnographic archaeological and linguistic studies that form the basis for much modern research. This volume assesses the often-conflicting roles and contributions of the Roths as government servants and anthropologists. Most of the volume deals with Walter E. Roth who developed foundational studies of both the Australian Aborigines—considered to be among the first systematic ethnographies anywhere—and South American tribes while serving as Chief Protector of Aborigines in Queensland and later medical officer magistrate museum curator and indigenous relations officer in British Guyana. Henry Ling Roth’s contributions to the anthropology of Tasmania Benin Sarawak and New Zealand are also enumerated as are the publications and administrative activities of the succeeding generation of Roths. This volume serves the reader as a family biography a slice of the English colonial history and an important introduction to the history of anthropology. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315417295

The Rotterdam Rules and International Trade Law This book offers an original academic study of the Rotterdam Rules. It analyses the salient articles that will have an impact on international sale contracts governed by English law including the most popularly used international law instruments terms and standard sale contracts. Looking beyond the legal relationship of carrier-shipper and carrier-receiver this book examines the important articles of the Rotterdam Rules that affect the ability of the trading protagonists to perform their sale contract. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367587291

The Rotterdam RulesA Practical Annotation The Rotterdam Rules represent the most comprehensive overhaul of the law of carriage of goods by sea in more than fifty years. To coincide with the signing ceremony six members of the Institute of Maritime Law have written a detailed commentary on the Rules. The Rotterdam Rules: A Practical Annotation examines the text of the Rules all ninety-six articles of the new Convention and compares them to the text of the Hague-Visby Rules the instrument currently covering most bills of lading. The authors have also examined the judgments in cases decided in the English Courts under the Carriage of Goods by Sea Acts of 1971 and 1992 and have indicated whether these cases would be decided differently under the new Rotterdam Rules. Media > Books > E-books Informa Law from Routledge 9781315850290

The Rough Beast: Psychoanalysis in Everyday Life The past continues to operate powerfully wordlessly in that less conscious part of our human mind and can trip us up unexpectedly. We can perceive and respond to situations in ways which are more to do with early experiences than the present. We can push from mind what we would rather not know. Feelings such as doubt and sadness can seem too weak; envy and anger too bad; feeling small and in any way in need could leave us too vulnerable. Though most will never have their own experience of psychoanalysis (or less intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy) psychoanalytic ideas can be profoundly helpful in making sense of ourselves. Having some access to those more hidden parts of our human mind we can feel more alive more real and less likely to act out in unexpected ways. An accessible sympathetic and challenging guide The Rough Beast: Psychoanalysis in Everyday Life is for all those who are curious and sceptical as to what why and how psychoanalytic understanding is useful in everyday life. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782203674

The Rousseauian Mind Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is a major figure in Western Philosophy and is one of the most widely read and studied political philosophers of all time. His writings range from abstract works such as On the Social Contract to literary masterpieces such as The Reveries of the Solitary Walker as well as immensely popular novels and operas. The Rousseauian Mind provides a comprehensive survey of his work not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising over forty chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook covers: 　 The predecessors and contemporaries to Rousseau’s work The major texts of the 'system' Autobiographical texts including Confessions Reveries of the Solitary Walker and Dialogues Rousseau’s political science The successors to Rousseau’s work Rousseau applied today. 　 Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy Rousseau’s work is central to the study of political philosophy the Enlightenment French studies the history of philosophy and political theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138205314

The Routes of ResistanceTravellers and Second-level Schooling First published in 1997 this study is an attempt to read and critique answers to that question answers offered in policy and provision and answers to those answers in talk and texts and in classroom performances an often fraught ‘conversation’ which goes on in spirals. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138360051

The Routines of Decision Making Experience is currently a hot theme in decision making. For a long time decision research was almost exclusively focused on new decisions and neglected the importance of experience. It took the field until the 1990s for a new direction in research and theorizing to become visible in the literature. There are parallel movements happening in sociology political science social psychology and business.The purpose of this edited book is to provide a balanced and representative overview of what is currently known about the dynamics of experienced-based decision making. The chapters are written by renowned experts in the field and provide the latest theoretical developments integrative frameworks and state-of-the-art reviews of research in the laboratory and in the field. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9780415652735

The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia CourseCrossing Cultural Boundaries The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries is an innovative multimedia course for advanced students of Chinese. Written by a team of highly experienced instructors the book offers advanced learners the opportunity to consolidate their knowledge of Chinese through a wide range of activities designed to build up both excellent language skills and cultural literacy.　 Divided into four thematic units covering popular culture social change cultural traditions and politics and history with each unit presenting three individual lessons the volume provides students with a structured course which efficiently supports the transition from an intermediate to an advanced level. The many different texts featured throughout the lessons present interesting and accurate information about contemporary China and introduce students to useful vocabulary speech patterns and idiosyncratic language usage. Key features include Lively and detailed discussions of grammatical points and sentence patterns Engaging exercises for developing grammatical concepts and insight into the character writing system Systematic review of earlier material to ensure consolidation of learning Coverage of diverse and culturally relevant topics such as online dating changing views of marriage food culture Confucianism　 and democracy in China. Extensive cultural and historical notes providing background to the subjects presented Complementary CDs to enhance listening skills. Free companion website (http://duke.edu/web/chinesesoc/) offering a wealth of video content forming the basis of many of the listening activities linked to topics within the book. Extensively revised and updated throughout this new edition includes new material and activities on synonyms and substantial improvements to the "composition" "Focus on characters" and "Language practicum" sections. The improved Instructor’s Resource Manual  which includes activity tips additional exercises  answer keys and the traditional character texts   is available at http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415841337/ Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415841337

The Routledge Advanced Language Training Course for K-16 Non-native Chinese Teachers The Routledge Advanced Language Training Course for K-16 Non-native Chinese Teachers  is a content-based and thematically organized textbook designed for non-native in- and pre-service K-16 Chinese language teachers. Based on five years of field testing the book offers an innovative approach to advanced language instruction allowing users to further advance their language proficiency while continuing their professional development in teaching Chinese as a second or foreign language. The textbook: covers a range of up-to-date pedagogical and cultural themes provides a variety of engaging activities and exercises allowing readers for K-16 to explore pedagogical and cultural issues in the target language with best classroom practices in mind familiarises users with authentic forms of modern communication in today’s China to better engage learners is accompanied by a Companion Website with audio recordings for each lesson as well as supplementary materials and teaching resources. The Routledge Advanced Language Training Course for K-16 Non-native Chinese Teachers is an essential resource for non-native Chinese teachers and for those on TCFL teacher training programs. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138920934

The Routledge Advanced Persian CourseFarsi Shirin Ast 3 The Routledge Advanced Persian Course: Farsi Shirin Ast 3 aims to help students of higher-level proficiency continue elevating their proficiency level to achieve near-native level. Key features include: Authentic texts on a variety of topics related to Iran’s history geography arts literature culture religions society and people. Each lesson includes a prominent poet and their most representative poem familiarizing students with the Persian literary canon while indirectly learning the higher order registers used in the language of poetry. Lessons end with a Persian proverb and the story behind it so that students will not only master the language but also the culture of the language and reach a near-native level of linguistic and cultural proficiency. The proverbs and some of the classical poetry are written in the calligraphy form to make students get used to reading handwritten texts resembling calligraphy. Audio files are provided so that learners who are studying on their own can have access to correct pronunciations. This textbook continues the series from The Routledge Intermediate Course in Persian and is ideal for Advanced or B2-C1 level students of Persian. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367367473

The Routledge Anthology of British Women Playwrights 1777-1843 The Routledge Anthology of British Women Playwrights 1777-1843 brings together ten eclectic plays by female dramatists and writers to stimulate a rich discussion of women writing and theatre history. Ranging through tragedy comedy musical theatre and mixed-genre texts this volume celebrates the breadth and experimental spirit of women's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century dramatic writing. Each play is accompanied by an introductory essay that addresses its sociopolitical and theatrical contexts and outlines its performance and reception history. The selections included here invite teachers and their students to study particular works by authors of note but also to consider the differences between works written for page and stage. While many of the plays are recognizable as published dramas they have been placed alongside textual artifacts that suggest plays or theatrical events of which no definitive record exists as well as supplementary materials that invite teachers to engage their students in exploring women's dramatic writing in this era. Organized in chronological order The Routledge Anthology of British Women Playwrights 1777-1843 traces a history of women's writing across genres and styles offering an invaluable resource to students and teachers alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138494954

The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama is the first new collection of the drama of Shakespeare’s contemporaries in over a century. This volume comprises seventeen accessible thoroughly glossed modernized play-texts intermingling a wide range of unfamiliar works—including the anonymous Look About You Massinger’s The Picture Heminge’s The Fatal Contract Heywood’s The Four Prentices of London and Greene’s James IV—with more familiar works such as Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Middleton’s Women Beware Women. Each play is edited by a different leading scholar in the field of early modern studies bringing specific expertise and context to the chosen play-text. With an unprecedented variety of plays and critical introductions that focus on the diversity and strangeness of different early modern approaches to the artistic and commercial enterprise of play-making The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama will offer vital new perspectives on early modern drama for scholars students and performers alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138953802

The Routledge Anthology of Poets on PoetsPoetic Responses to English Poetry from Chaucer to Yeats The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets collects together writings by all the major poetic figures from Chaucer to Yeats demonstrating their vivid responses to each other ranging from elegiac eulogy to burlesque and satire. The anthology is arranged in two sections. Part One contains poets' writings on the nature qualities and purpose of poetry Part Two is a chronological collection of poets' writings on their peers with an individual entry for each poet. Each extract is presented in modernized spelling and punctuation and is carefully annotated to provide full explanations of unfamiliar phrases and references. The index has been fully revised for this paperback edition. The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets will be stimulating and enjoyable for anyone interested in the history of English poetry but will also be an invaluable collection of primary source material for students and their teachers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138159341

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama brings together the work of key playwrights from 1660 to 1800 divided into three main sections: Restoring the Theatre: 1660–1700 Managing Entertainment: 1700–1760 Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions: 1760–1800 Each of the 20 plays featured is accompanied by an extraordinary wealth of print and online supplementary materials including primary critical sources commentaries illustrations and reviews of productions. Taking in the spectrum of this period’s dramatic landscape—from Restoration tragedy and comedies of manners to ballad opera and gothic spectacle—The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama is an essential resource for students and teachers alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138915428

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances beginning with Nell Gwyn in a 1668 staging of　Secret Love and moving chronologically towards the final performance of John Philip Kemble's controversial adaptation of Thomas Otway's Venice Presever'd in October 1795.　 This volume contains a wealth of contextual materials including contemporary reviews portraits advertisements and cast lists. By privileging event over publication this collection aims to encourage an understanding of performance that　emphasizes the immediacy - and changeability - of the theatrical repertoire during the long eighteenth century. Offering an invaluable insight into the performance culture of the time The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance is a unique much-needed resource for students of theatre. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138743465

The Routledge Anthology of US Drama: 1898-1949 The first half of the Twentieth Century was a vibrant period for U.S. theatre. As the United States emerged as a significant military economic political and cultural power so its theatre began to distinguish itself from the prevailing European model. The plays and dramatic texts in this anthology demonstrate the vital and volatile relationship between U.S. theatre its society and the ways in which that theatre has both supported and challenged prevailing systems of thought and action. This collection is organized around key thematic perspectives from colonialism to psychoanalysis viewing the artistic output of this era through the socio-political events and controversies that shaped it. Each play is accompanied by a critical commentary from a leading scholar and a set of archive source materials including playbills production shots reviews essays poems newspaper articles and official documents. These supplements bring to life the rich and diverse theatre cultures that operated in the United States during this period and explore the essential ways that these cultural artifacts engaged with the national debates that surrounded them. The plays themselves both support and challenge the existing canon of U.S. dramatic literature; a selection that speaks not only to aesthetic innovation but also to the critical moments of political change and national definition that helped to shape the United States. From Miller Williams and O’Neill to Angelina Grimké David Belasco and Mae West this is the ideal collection for any course in U.S. theatre.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138018365

The Routledge Applied Linguistics Reader The Routledge Applied Linguistics Reader is an essential collection of readings for students of Applied Linguistics. Divided into five sections: Language Teaching and Learning Second Language Acquisition Applied Linguistics Identity and Power and Language Use in Professional Contexts the Reader takes a broad interpretation of the subject from its traditional foundations in language teaching and learning to cover the newer subdisciplines from corpus linguistics to forensic linguistics. Using a multidisciplinary approach the Reader focuses on the topics and issues to which Applied Linguistics research has made a significant contribution in particular: our understanding of key concepts and notions in the study of real-world problems in which language and communication play a central role the theoretical debates of broader social science issues that impact on language teaching learning and use the main methodological advances. Featuring twenty-seven carefully selected readings the Reader focuses on both the major contributions of Applied Linguistics and the conceptual and theoretical issues of the subject in a variety of contexts and methods. The selection comprises seminal articles from leading researchers as well as fresh perspectives from new voices in the subject. These readings are amplified by a general introduction as well as detailed critical summaries of each section discussion questions and recommended further reading for each article. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415566209

The Routledge Atlas of African American History First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315022697

The Routledge Atlas of American History The Routledge Atlas of American History presents a series of 163 clear and detailed maps accompanied by informative captions facts and figures. The complete history of America is unravelled through vivid representations of all the significant landmarks including: Politics – from the struggle against slavery and the battle for black voting rights to the present day including the results of the 2008 Presidential election Military Events – from the War of Independence to the conflicts in Korea Vietnam and the Gulf including additional new maps covering the war in Iraq and the American campaign in Afghanistan. Social History – including the fate of the American Indians the growth of female emancipation and recent population movements and immigration Transport – from nineteenth-century railroads and canals to the growth of air travel and recent ventures into space Economics – from early farming and industry to urbanisation and the ecological struggles of the present day This revised edition is fully updated to cover the 2008 presidential election and also addresses President Obama’s healthcare policy and first overseas travels. New maps have been drawn which detail the problem of pollution as well as the most recent developments in US relations with Iran Iraq and Afghanistan. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203074442

The Routledge Atlas of British History The evolving story of the British Isles forms the central theme of this fascinating and compelling atlas which covers England Ireland Scotland and Wales – and the expansion and gradual disintegration of Britain’s overseas empire. This new edition includes: Politics – from the Saxon kingdoms and the collapse of England’s French Empire to the Tudors and Stuarts the English Civil War the Restoration Parliamentary Reform the Commonwealth and Europe the European Union and the Coalition Government formed in 2010 War and conflict – from Viking attacks and the Norman Invasion to the Armada two World Wars and the end of empire the Falklands War the Gulf War British forces overseas terror at home and the wars in Kosovo Sierra Leone Afghanistan and Iraq Trade and industry – from the post-Norman economy and Tudor trade to industrial unrest and the opening of international trade routes imports and exports arms sales and British humanitarian aid overseas Religion – from the Saxon Church to the Reformation and the multi-cultural Britain of modern times Society and economics – from civilian life in Roman Britain to the Industrial and Agricultural revolutions the General Strike and the growth of universities unemployment homelessness charitable activities and government expenditure Immigration – the growth of immigrant communities the wide range of countries from which immigrants came citizenship applications and citizenship granted. Sir Martin Gilbert is Winston Churchill’s official biographer and one of Britain’s leading historians having written eighty-two books in total. He is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College Oxford and a Distinguished Fellow of Hillsdale College Michigan. He has also most recently served on the committee of the Iraq Inquiry set up by the British Government. For more information please visit www.martingilbert.com. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415608763

The Routledge Atlas of Central Eurasian Affairs Providing concisely written entries on the most important current issues in Central Asia and Eurasia this atlas offers relevant background information on the region’s place in the contemporary political and economic world. Features include: Profiles of the constituent countries of Central Asia namely Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan Profiles of Mongolia western China Tibet and the three Caucasus states of Armenia Azerbaijan and Georgia Timely and significant original maps and data for each entry A comprehensive glossary places index and subject index of major concepts terms and regional issues Bibliography and useful websites section Designed for use in teaching undergraduate and graduate classes and seminars in geography history economics anthropology international relations political science and the environment as well as regional courses on the Former Soviet Union Central Asia and Eurasia this atlas is also a comprehensive reference source for libraries and scholars interested in these fields. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415497527

The Routledge Atlas of Classical HistoryFrom 1700 BC to AD 565 Covering an enormous range of topics in 97 clear and detailed maps this Routledge Historical Atlas includes: Politics: from ancient Egypt and the growth of the Greek city-states to the rise and fall of the Roman Empire Religion: from the spread of Judaism and Christianity to the persecution of the Christians Military History: from Salamis and Alexander the Great to the Second Punic War and the barbarian invasions of the fifth century AD Economics: from the agricultural products of Greece to the mints of the later Roman Empire. With an extensive index to make the atlas even more accessible The Routledge Atlas of Classical History is an indispensable guide to the ancient world. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315539072

The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History 'An unusual and compelling insight into Jewish history... sheer detail and breadth of scale' BBC History Magazine This newly revised and updated edition of Martin Gilbert’s Atlas of Jewish History spans over four thousand years of history in 154 maps presenting a vivid picture of a fascinating people and the trials and tribulations which have haunted their story. The themes covered include: Prejudice and Violence- from the destruction of Jewish independence between 722 and 586 BC to the flight from German persecution in the 1930s. Also covers the incidence of anti-semitic attacks in the Americas and Europe. Migrations and Movements- from the entry into the promised land to Jewish migration in the twenty- first century including new maps on recent emigration to Israel from Europe and worldwide. Society Trade and Culture- from Jewish trade routes between 800 and 900 to the situation of world Jewry in the opening years of the twenty- first century. Politics Government and War- from the Court Jews of the fifteenth century to the founding and growth of the modern State of Israel. This new edition is also updated to include maps showing Jewish museums in the United States and Canada and Europe as well as American conservation efforts abroad. Other topics covered in this revised edition include Jewish educational outreach projects in various parts of the world and Jews living under Muslim rule. Forty years on from its first publication this book is still an indispensible guide to Jewish history. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203074459

The Routledge Atlas of Russian History The complex and often turbulent history of Russia over the course of 2 000 years is brought to life in a series of 176 maps by one of the most prolific and successful historian authors today. This fourth edition of The Routledge Atlas of Russian History covers not only the wars and expansion of Russia but also a wealth of less conspicuous details of its history from famine and anarchism to the growth of naval strength and the strengths of the river systems. From 800 BC to the fall of the Soviet Union this indispensable guide to Russian history covers: war and conflict: from the triumph of the Goths between 200 and 400 BC to the defeat of Germany at the end of the Second World War and the end of the Cold War politics: from the rise of Moscow in the Middle Ages to revolution the fall of the monarchy and the collapse of communism industry economics and transport: from the Trans-Siberian Railway between 1891 and 1917 to the Virgin Lands Campaign and the growth of heavy industry society trade and culture: from the growth of monasticism to peasant discontent Labour Camps and the geographical distribution of ethnic Russians. Now bringing new material to view and including seven new maps this popular atlas will more than readily gain a place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in the history of Russia. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203074473

The Routledge Atlas of South Asian Affairs South Asia has developed from a group of newly independent post-Colonial states of at most secondary importance to the wider world to its current position as a region of central strategic importance to both global economic development and world peace and stability. This Atlas highlights the global significance of South Asia in relation to economic geopolitical and strategic interests. It provides a coherent descriptive and analytical account of the key elements of the complex societies that make up the region and its component countries. Illustrated with more than 100 original maps and offering concise entries on key issues the book is structured thematically in these sections: Global Context Geographical Environments Historical Evolution of South Asia Key Issues in modern South Asia Economy and Security Designed for use in teaching undergraduate and graduate classes and seminars in geography history economics anthropology international relations political science and the environment as well as regional courses on the South Asia this book is also a comprehensive reference source for libraries and decision makers focusing on South Asia. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415545136

The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present including the death of Yasser Arafat and recent proposals for compromise and co-operation it also illustrates the current moves towards finding peace and the efforts to bring the horrors of the fighting to an end through negotiation and agreed boundaries. In 227 maps the complete history of the conflict is revealed including: The Prelude and Background to the Conflict - from the presence of Jews in Palestine before the Arab conquest to the attitude of Britain to the Arabs and Jews since 1915 The Jewish National Home - from the early Jewish settlement and the Zionist plan for Palestine in 1919 to the involvement of the Arab world from 1945 to the present day The Intensification of the Conflict - from the Arab response to the United Nations partition plan of November 1947 to the declaration of Israeli independence in May 1948 The State of Israel - from the Israeli War of Independence and the Suez and Six Day Wars to the October War (the Yom Kippur War) the first and second intifadas the suicide-bomb campaign the Israel-Hezbollah War of 2006 Operation Cast lead against the Gaza Strip in 2009 the Gaza Flotilla of 2012 and Nakba Day 2011 The Moves to find Peace - from the first and second Camp David talks and the death of Arafat to the continuing search for peace including the Annapolis Conference 2007 the work of the Quartet Emissary Tony Blair 2007-2011 and the ongoing Palestinian search for statehood. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415699761

The Routledge Atlas of the First World War From its origins to its terrible legacy the tortuous course of the Great War is vividly set out in a series of 174 fascinating maps. Together the maps form a comprehensive and compelling picture of the war that shattered Europe and illustrate its military social political and economic aspects. Beginning with the tensions that already existed the atlas covers: the early months of the war: from the fall of Belgium to the fierce fighting at Ypres and Tannenberg: the developing war in Europe: from Gallipoli to the horrors of the Somme and Verdun life at the front: from living underground the trench system and the mud of Passchendaele to the war graves technology and the new horrors: from phosgene gas attacks to submarines tanks and mines the home fronts: from German food riots to the air defence of Britain the Russian Revolution and the collapse of Austria-Hungary the aftermath: from war debts and war deaths to the new map of Europe. This third edition contains an entirely new section depicting the visual remembrance of the war; a fascinating visitors' guide to the memorials that commemorate the tragedy of the Somme. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203074480

The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust The graphic history of the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jews of Europe during the Second World War is illustrated in this series of 333 detailed maps. The maps and the text and photographs that accompany them  powerfully depict the fate of the Jews between 1933 and 1945 while also setting the chronological story in the wider context of the war itself. The maps include: historical background â€“ from the effects of anti-Jewish violence between 1880 and 1933 to the geography of the existing Jewish communities before the advent of the Nazis the beginning of the violence â€“ from the destruction of the synagogues in November 1938 to Jewish migrations and deportations the ghettos and the establishment of the concentration camps and death camps throughout German-dominated Europe the spread of Nazi rule â€“ the fate of the Jews throughout Europe including Germany Austria Poland Greece Yugoslavia Bulgaria Russia Denmark Norway France Holland Belgium Italy and the Baltic States Jewish revolts and resistance – acts of armed resistance fighting in the forests individual acts of courage Jews in hiding – escape routes Christians who helped Jews the death marches – the advance of the Allies and the liberation of the camps the survivors and the final death toll. This revised edition includes a new section which gives an insight into the layout and organization of some of the most significant places of the Holocaust including Auschwitz Treblinka and the Warsaw ghetto  maps that will be especially useful to those visiting the sites. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203074503

The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War In The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War Martin Gilbert graphically charts the war’s political military economic and social history through 257 illuminating maps. The atlas covers all the major events from the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 to the defeat of Japan in August 1945. Focusing on the human – and inhuman â€“ aspects of the war The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War includes examination of: military naval and air campaigns on all the war fronts the war on land at sea and in the air the economic and social aspects of the war the global nature of the war in armed combat and in suffering the impact of the war on civilians both under occupation and as deportees and refugees the aftermath of the war: post-war political and national boundaries; war graves; and the human cost of the war on every continent. This paperback edition includes several updates to existing maps as well as ten new maps specially drawn for this edition. The new maps include examinations of Japanese- American and African- American soldiers serving with the United States Army British women special agents Belgium at War and the German occupation of the Channel Islands. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138380578

The Routledge Auto Biography Studies Reader The Routledge Auto|Biography Studies Reader collects together key theoretical essays in the field creating a solid base for any critical study of autobiography biography or life writing. Beginning with a foreword by Sidonie Smith and a general introduction to the collection the book is then divided into three sections—Foundations Transformations and Futures—each with its own introduction. Significant themes weave throughout the sections including canonicity; genre modality and interdisciplinarity; reclamation of texts; disability and the contested body; trauma; agency silence and voicing; celebrity culture; digital lives; subjects in the margins; postcolonialism; posthumanism; and ecocriticism. Attention has also been given to a variety of methodological approaches such as archival research genealogical study DNA testing autoethnography testimonio and oral history among others. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138904781

The Routledge Circus Studies Reader The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this diverse and emerging field. It brings together the work of over 30 scholars in this discipline including Janet Davis Helen Stoddart and Peta Tait to highlight and address the field’s key historical critical and theoretical issues. It is organised into three accessible sections Perspectives Precedents and Presents which approach historical aspects current issues and the future of circus performance. The chapters grouped together into 13 theme-based sub-sections provide a clear entry point into the field and emphasise the diversity of approaches available to students and scholars of circus studies. Classic accounts of performance including pieces by Philippe Petit and Friedrich Nietzsche are included alongside more recent scholarship in the field. Edited by two scholars whose work is strongly connected to the dynamic world of performance The Routledge Circus Studies Reader is an essential teaching and study resource for the emerging discipline of circus studies. It also provides a stimulating introduction to the field for lovers of circus. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138125353

The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal Comedy Studies in the decade since its inception in 2010. The Reader illustrates the multiple perspectives that are available when analysing comedy. Wilkie’s selections present an array of critical approaches from interdisciplinary scholars all of whom evaluate comedy from different angles and adopt a range of writing styles to explore the phenomenon. Divided into eight unique parts the Reader offers both breadth and depth with its wide range of interdisciplinary articles and international perspectives. Of interest to students scholars and lovers of comedy alike The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader offers a contemporary sample of general analyses of comedy as a mode form and genre. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367175948

The Routledge Companion for Architecture Design and PracticeEstablished and Emerging Trends The Routledge Companion for Architecture Design and Practice provides an overview of established and emerging trends in architecture practice. Contributions of the latest research from international experts examine external forces applied to the practice and discipline of architecture. Each chapter contains up-to-date and relevant information about select aspects of architecture and the changes this information will have on the future of the profession. The Companion contains thirty-five chapters divided into seven parts: Theoretical Stances Technology Sustainability Behavorism Urbanism Professional Practice and Society. Topics include: Evidence-Based Design Performativity Designing for Net Zero Energy The Substance of Light in Design Social Equity and Ethics for Sustainable Architecture Universal Design Design Psychology Architecture Branding and the Politics of Identity The Role of BIM in Green Architecture Public Health and the Design Process Affordable Housing Disaster Preparation and Mitigation Diversity and many more. Each chapter follows the running theme of examining external forces applied to the practice and discipline of architecture in order to uncover the evolving theoretical tenets of what constitutes today’s architectural profession and the tools that will be required of the future architect. This book considers architecture’s interdisciplinary nature and addresses its current and evolving perspectives related to social economic environmental technological and globalization trends. These challenges are central to the future direction of architecture and as such this Companion will serve as an invaluable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students existing practitioners and future architects. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138023154

The Routledge Companion on Architecture Literature and The City This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature architecture and the city which together form a field of interdisciplinary research that is one of the most innovative and exciting to have emerged in recent years. Bringing together a wide variety of contributors not only writers architectural and literary scholars and social scientists but graphic novelists and artists the book offers contemporary essays on everything from science fiction and the crime novel to poetry comics and oral history. It is structured into two sections: History Narrative and Genre and Strategy Language and Form. Including over ninety illustrations the book is a must read for academics and students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367517762

The Routledge Companion to Accounting Reporting and Regulation Financial accounting reporting and regulation is a vast subject area of huge global importance with interest rising significantly in the light of the ongoing global financial crisis. The authors begin with a broad overview of the subject of accounting setting the stage for a discussion on the theoretical and practical issues and debates regarding financial reporting which are expanded on in the second part of the book. This includes how to define the reporting entity recognition and measurement of the elements of financial statements fair values in financial reporting and the costs and benefits of disclosure. The third part assesses the interest need and theories behind the accounting reporting and regulation industry while parts four and five look at the institutional social and economic aspects; with issues such as accounting for environmental management and accounting regulation and financial reporting in Islamic countries both issues of ever increasing importance. This authoritative Companion presents a broad overview of the state of these disciplines today and will provide a comprehensive reference source for students and academics involved in accounting regulation and reporting. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415625739

The Routledge Companion to Accounting and Risk To date there has been little consideration of the many different ways in which accounting and risk intersect despite organisations being more determined than ever to build resilience against potential risks. This comprehensive volume overcomes this gap by providing an overview of the field drawing together current knowledge of risk in a wide range of different accounting contexts.Key themes such as corporate governance trust uncertainty and climate change are covered by a global array of contributing scholars. These contributions are divided into four areas: The broader aspects of risk and risk managementRisk in financial reportingRisk in management accountingRisk monitoringThe book is supported by a series of illustrative case studies which help to bring together theory and practice. With its wealth of examples and analyses this volume provides essential reading for students scholars and practitioners charged with understanding diverse facets of risk in the context of accounting in the business world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656232

The Routledge Companion to Accounting Communication One of the prime purposes of accounting is to communicate and yet to date this fundamental aspect of the discipline has received relatively little attention. The Routledge Companion to Accounting Communication represents the first collection of contributions to focus on the power of communication in accounting. The chapters have a shared aim of addressing the misconception that accounting is a purely technical number-based discipline by highlighting the use of narrative visual and technological methods to communicate accounting information. The contents comprise a mixture of reflective overview stinging critique technological exposition clinical analysis and practical advice on topical areas of interest such as: The miscommunication that preceded the global financial crisis The failure of sustainability reporting The development of XBRL How to cut clutter With an international coterie of contributors including a communication theorist a Big Four practitioner and accounting academics this volume provides an eclectic array of expert analysis and reflection. The contributors reveal how accounting communications represent or misrepresent the financial affairs of entities thus presenting a state-of-the-art assessment on each of the main facets of this important topic. As such this book will be of interest to a wide range of readers including: postgraduate students in management and accounting; established researchers in the fields of both accounting and communications; and accounting practitioners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138363007

The Routledge Companion to Accounting Education Many enquiries into the state of accounting education/training undertaken in several countries over the past 40 years have warned that it must change if it is to be made more relevant to students to the accounting profession and to stakeholders in the wider community. This book’s over-riding aim is to provide a comprehensive and authoritative source of reference which defines the domain of accounting education/training and which provides a critical overview of the state of this domain (including emerging and cutting edge issues) as a foundation for facilitating improved accounting education/training scholarship and research in order to enhance the educational base of accounting practice. The Routledge Companion to Accounting Education highlights the key drivers of change - whether in the field of practice on the one hand (e.g. increased regulation globalisation risk and complexity) or from developments in the academy on the other (e.g. pressures to embed technology within the classroom or to meet accreditation criteria) on the other. Thirty chapters written by leading scholars from around the world are grouped into seven themed sections which focus on different facets of their respective themes – including student curriculum pedagogic and assessment considerations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415697330

The Routledge Companion to Accounting History The Routledge Companion to Accounting History presents a single-volume synthesis of research in this expanding field exploring and analysing accounting from ancient civilisations to the modern day. No longer perceived as the narrow study of how a mysterious technique was used in past the scope of accounting history has widened substantially. This revised and updated volume moves beyond the history of accounting technologies accounting theories and practices and the accountants who applied them. 　Expert contributors from around the world explore the interfaces between accounting and the economy society culture and the polity. Accounting history is shown to offer important insights into such disparate phenomena as the evolution of capitalism control of labour gender and family relationships racial exploitation the operation of religious organisations and the functioning of the state. Illuminating the foundation and development of accounting systems this updated classic book opens the field to a new generation of accounting scholars and historians around the world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815375869

The Routledge Companion to Accounting in China There is increasing interest in accounting issues in China. Despite a relatively short history China's stock market is the world's second largest. This growth has been accompanied by increasing demand for accounting information alongside reforms of accounting and auditing rules as international investors have paid increasing attention to investment opportunities in this dynamic and energetic country with a large population and economic growth potentials. Despite this at present there are few books which offer students academics and practitioners a comprehensive guide to current accounting issues in China.The Routledge Companion to Accounting in China fills this important gap in the literature. The volume is organized in six thematic sections which cover capital market and corporate finance financial accounting managerial accounting auditing taxation and internal controls. The structure is intended to reflect the increasing diversity of contemporary accounting issues in China including a balanced overview of current knowledge identifying issues and discussing relevant debates.This book is a prestigious reference work which offers students academics and practitioners an introduction to current accounting issues in the emerging market of China. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656102

The Routledge Companion to Accounting in Emerging Economies As researchers reveal the increasing complexities of accounting practices in emerging economies there is a growing need for an overview of the topic. The Routledge Companion to Accounting in Emerging Economies is a prestige work offering an introduction to current scholarship in the field with indications of future directions for enhancing the contribution to knowledge. With regional coverage of key emerging economies such as Brazil Russia India and China the team of contributors analyse issues in accounting in detail while shedding light on the role of the accounting profession in providing accountability and governance across the developing world. Each chapter is headed up by an internationally recognised author who is a leading expert in designing and implementing research approaches to the topic. Within the team of authors some are experienced senior contributors while others are developing new avenues of exploration on the basis of high-quality doctoral study. This range of author experience has been deliberately chosen to allow the reader to envisage working in such a team while growing in confidence. This unique reference offers a comprehensive guide to advanced students academics practitioners and policy makers on the current state of and potential developments in accounting in developing economies globally. This work will be of particular interest to students and researchers looking to identify topics in emerging economies academics and practitioners seeking convenient access to an unfamiliar area and established researchers seeking a single repository on the current state of knowledge current debates and relevant literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815356202

The Routledge Companion to Accounting Information Systems Information technology has permeated all walks of life in the past two decades. Accounting is no exception. Be it financial accounting management accounting or audit information technology and systems have simplified daily tasks and routine work simplified reporting and changed how accounting is done. The Routledge Companion to Accounting Information Systems provides a prestige reference work which offers students and researchers an introduction to current and emerging scholarship in the discipline. Contributions from an international cast of authors provides a balanced view of both the technical underpinnings and organisational consequences of accounting information systems.With a focus on the business consequences of technology this unique reference book will be a vital resource for students and researchers involved in accounting and information management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367735418

The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of ‘second generation’ ANT scholars from around the world it highlights the exciting depth and breadth of contemporary ANT and its future possibilities. The companion has 38 chapters each answering a key question about ANT and its capacities. Early chapters explore ANT as an intellectual practice and highlight ANT’s dialogues with other fields and key theorists. Others open critical provocative discussions of its limitations. Later sections explore how ANT has been developed in a range of social scientific fields and how it has been used to explore a wide range of scales and sites. Chapters in the final section discuss ANT’s involvement in ‘real world’ endeavours such as disability and environmental activism and even running a Chilean hospital. Each chapter contains an overview of relevant work and introduces original examples and ideas from the authors’ recent research. The chapters orient readers in rich complex fields and can be read in any order or combination. Throughout the volume authors mobilise ANT to explore and account for a range of exciting case studies: from wheelchair activism to parliamentary decision-making; from racial profiling to energy consumption monitoring; from queer sex to Korean cities. A comprehensive introduction by the editors explores the significance of ANT more broadly and provides an overview of the volume. The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory will be an inspiring and lively companion to academics and advanced undergraduates and postgraduates from across many disciplines across the social sciences including Sociology Geography Politics and Urban Studies Environmental Studies and STS and anyone wishing to engage with ANT to understand what it has already been used to do and to imagine what it might do in the future. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138084728

The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare The Routledge Companion to Actors’ Shakespeare is a window onto how today’s actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeare’s plays. The process of acting is notoriously hard to document but this volume reaches behind famous performances to examine the actors’ craft their development and how they engage with playtexts. Each chapter relies upon privilieged access to its subject to offer an unparalleled insight into contemporary practice. This volume explores the techniques interpretive approaches and performance styles of the following actors: Simon Russell Beale Sinead Cusack Judi Dench Kate Duchene Colm Feore Mariah Gale John Harrell Greg Hicks Rory Kinnear Kevin Kline Adrian Lester Marcelo Magni Ian McKellen Patrice Naiambana Vanessa Redgrave Piotr Semak Anthony Sher Jonathan Slinger Kate Valk Harriet Walter This twin volume to The Routledge Companion to Directors’ Shakespeare is an essential work for both actors and students of Shakespeare. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415483018

The Routledge Companion to Adaptation The Routledge Companion to Adaptation offers a broad range of scholarship from this growing interdisciplinary field. With a basis in source-oriented studies such as novel-to-stage and stage-to-film adaptations this volume also seeks to highlight the new and innovative aspects of adaptation studies ranging from theatre and dance to radio television and new media. It is divided into five sections: Mapping which presents a variety of perspectives on the scope and development of adaptation studies; Historiography which investigates the ways in which adaptation engages with – and disrupts – history; Identity which considers texts and practices in adaptation as sites of multiple and fluid identity formations; Reception which examines the role played by an audience considering the unpredictable relationships between adaptations and those who experience them; Technology which focuses on the effects of ongoing technological advances and shifts on specific adaptations and on the wider field of adaptation. An emphasis on adaptation-as-practice establishes methods of investigation that move beyond a purely comparative case study model. The Routledge Companion to Adaptation celebrates the complexity and diversity of adaptation studies mapping the field across genres and disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367517816

The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture provides an essential guide to the key issues methodologies concepts debates and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising. The book contains eight sections: Historical Perspectives considers the historical roots and their relationship to recent changes of contemporary advertising and promotional practice. Political Economy examines how market forces corporate ownership and government policies shape the advertising and media promotion environment. Globalization presents work on advertising and marketing as a global intercultural and transnational practice. Audiences as Labor Consumers Interpreters Fans introduces how people construct promotional meaning and are constructed as consumers markets and labor by advertising forces. Identities analyzes the ways that advertising constructs images and definitions of groups -- such as gender race and the child -- through industry labor practices marketing as well as through representation in advertising texts. Social Institutions looks at the pervasiveness of advertising strategies in different social domains including politics music housing and education. Everyday Life highlights how a promotional ethos and advertising initiatives pervade self image values and relationships. The Environment interrogates advertising’s relationship to environmental issues the promotional efforts of corporations to construct green images and mass consumption’s relationship to material waste. With chapters written by leading international scholars working at the intersections of media studies and advertising studies this book is a go-to source for those looking to understand the ways advertising has shaped consumer culture in the past and present. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138779846

The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics The third edition of the acclaimed Routledge Companion to Aesthetics contains over sixty chapters written by leading international scholars covering all aspects of aesthetics. This companion opens with an historical overview of aesthetics including entries on Plato Aristotle Kant Nietzsche Heidegger Adorno Benjamin Foucault Goodman and Wollheim. The second part covers the central concepts and theories of aesthetics including the definitions of art taste the value of art beauty imagination fiction narrative metaphor and pictorial representation. Part three is devoted to issues and challenges in aesthetics including art and ethics art and religion creativity environmental aesthetics and feminist aesthetics. The final part addresses the individual arts including music photography film videogames literature theater dance architecture and design. With ten new entries and revisions and updated suggestions for further reading throughout The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics is essential for anyone interested in aesthetics art literature and visual studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415782876

The Routledge Companion to African American Art History This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history.  The first section examines how African American art has been constructed over the course of a century of published scholarship. The second section studies how African American art is and has been taught and researched in academia. The third part focuses on how African American art has been reflected in art galleries and museums. The final section opens up understandings of what we mean when we speak of African American art. This book will be of interest to graduate students researchers and professors and may be used in American art African American art visual culture and culture classes. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138486553

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence development and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance—from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism. Alongside chapters from scholars are contributions from theatre makers including producers theatre managers choreographers directors designers and critics. This ambitious Companion includes: A "Timeline of African American theatre and performance." Part I "Seeing ourselves onstage" explores the important experience of Black theatrical self-representation. Analyses of diverse topics including historical dramas Broadway musicals and experimental theatre allow readers to discover expansive articulations of Blackness. Part II "Institution building" highlights institutions that have nurtured Black people both on stage and behind the scenes. Topics include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) festivals and black actor training. Part III "Theatre and social change" surveys key moments when Black people harnessed the power of theatre to affirm community realities and posit new representations for themselves and the nation as a whole. Topics include Du Bois and African Muslims women of the Black Arts Movement Afro-Latinx theatre youth theatre and operatic sustenance for an Afro future. Part IV "Expanding the traditional stage" examines Black performance traditions that privilege Black worldviews sense-making rituals and innovation in everyday life. This section explores performances that prefer the space of the kitchen classroom club or field. This book engages a wide audience of scholars students and theatre practitioners with its unprecedented breadth. More than anything these invaluable insights not only offer a window onto the processes of producing work but also the labour and economic issues that have shaped and enabled African American theatre. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367478018

The Routledge Companion to Air Transport Management The Routledge Companion to Air Transport Management provides a comprehensive up-to-date review of air transport management research and literature. This exciting new handbook provides a unique repository of current knowledge and critical debate with an international focus considering both developed and emerging markets and covering key sectors of the air transport industry.The companion consists of 25 chapters that are written by 39 leading researchers scholars and industry experts based at universities research institutes and air transport companies and organisations in 12 different countries in Africa Asia-Pacific Europe and North America to provide a definitive trustworthy resource. The international team of contributors have proven experience of research and publication in their specialist areas and contribute to this companion by drawing upon research published mainly in academic industry and government sources.This seminal companion is a vital resource for researchers scholars and students of air transport management. It is organised into three parts: current state of the air transport sectors (Part I); application of management disciplines to airlines and airports (Part II); and key selected themes (Part III). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656140

The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media provides an authoritative and comprehensive examination of the diverse forms practices and philosophies of alternative and community media across the world. The volume offers a multiplicity of perspectives to examine the reasons why alternative and community media arise how they develop in particular ways and in particular places and how they can enrich our understanding of the broader media landscape and its place in society. The 50 chapters present a range of theoretical and methodological positions and arguments to demonstrate the dynamic challenging and innovative thinking around the subject locating media theory and practice within the broader concerns of democracy citizenship social exclusion race class and gender. In addition to research from the UK the US Canada Europe and Australia the Companion also includes studies from Colombia Haiti India South Korea and Zimbabwe enabling international comparisons to be made and also allowing for the problematisation of traditional - often Western - approaches to media studies. By considering media practices across a range of cultures and communities this collection is an ideal companion to the key issues and debates within alternative and community media. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138391833

The Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization Despite the Great Recession slightly different forms of global capitalism are still portrayed as the only game in town by the vast majority of people in power in the world today. Unbridled growth trade liberalisation and competition are advocated as the only or best ways of organizing the contemporary world. Unemployment yawning gaps between rich and poor political disengagement and environmental devastation are too often seen as acceptable ‘side effects’ of the dominance of neo-liberalism. But the reality is that capitalism has always been contested and that people have created many other ways of providing for themselves. This book explores economic and organizational possibilities which extend far beyond the narrow imagination of economists and management theorists. Chapters on co-operatives community currencies the transition movement scrounging co-housing and much more paints a rich picture of the ways in which another word is not only possible but already taking shape. The aim of this companion is to move beyond complaining about the present and into exploring this diversity of organisational possibilities. Our starting point is a critical analysis of contemporary global capitalism is merely the opening for thinking about organizing as a form of politics by other means and one that can be driven by the values of solidarity freedom and responsibility. This comprehensive companion with an international cast of contributors gives voice to forms of organizing which remain unrepresented or marginalised in organizational studies and conventional politics yet which offer more promising grounds for social and environmental justice. It is a valuable resource for students activists and researchers interested in alternative approaches to economy and society in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138386174

The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism Taking a thematic approach this new companion provides an interdisciplinary cross-cultural and international study of American literary journalism.From the work of Frederick Douglass and Walt Whitman to that of Joan Didion and Dorothy Parker literary journalism is a genre that both reveals and shapes American history and identity. This volume not only calls attention to literary journalism as a distinctive genre but also provides a critical foundation for future scholarship. It brings together cutting-edge research from literary journalism scholars examining historical perspectives; themes venues and genres across time; theoretical approaches and disciplinary intersections; and new directions for scholarly inquiry. Provoking reconsideration and inquiry while providing new historical interpretations this companion recognizes interacts with and honors the tradition and legacies of American literary journalism scholarship. Engaging the work of disciplines such as sociology anthropology African American studies gender studies visual studies media studies and American studies in addition to journalism and literary studies this book is perfect for students and scholars of those disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138695832

The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work. The volume is divided into six sections that consider: the foremost figures of the Anglophone Caribbean literary tradition and a history of literary critical debate textual turning points identifying key moments in both literary and critical history and bringing lesser known works into context fresh perspectives on enduring and contentious critical issues including the canon nation race gender popular culture and migration new directions for literary criticism and theory such as eco-criticism psychoanalysis and queer studies the material dissemination of Anglophone Caribbean literature and generic interfaces with film and visual art This volume is an essential text that brings together sixty-nine entries from scholars across three generations of Caribbean literary studies ranging from foundational critical voices to emergent scholars in the field. The volume's reach of subject and clarity of writing provide an excellent resource and springboard to further research for those working in literature and cultural studies postcolonial and diaspora studies as well as Caribbean studies history and geography. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415827942

The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides an up-to-date guide for the historian working within the growing field of animal-human history. Giving a sense of the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the field cutting-edge contributions explore the practices of and challenges posed by historical studies of animals and animal-human relationships. Divided into three parts the Companion takes both a theoretical and practical approach to a field that is emerging as a prominent area of study. Animals and the Practice of History considers established practices of history such as political history public history and cultural memory and how animal-human history can contribute to them. Problems and Paradigms identifies key historiographical issues to the field with contributors considering the challenges posed by topics such as agency literature art and emotional attachment. The final section Themes and Provocations looks at larger themes within the history of animal-human relationships in more depth with contributions covering topics that include breeding war hunting and eating.As it is increasingly recognised that nonhuman actors have contributed to the making of history The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides a timely and important contribution to the scholarship on animal-human history and surrounding debates. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367733650

The Routledge Companion to Anthropology and Business Interest in anthropology and ethnography has been an ongoing feature of organizational research and pedagogy; this book provides a key reference text that pulls together the different ways in which anthropology infuses the study of organizations both epistemologically and methodologically. The volume hosts key scholars and experts within the fields of Organizational Anthropology Organizational Ethnography Organizational Studies and Qualitative Research. The book provides a combination of methodological guidelines exemplars and epistemological reflection. It includes methodological viewpoints ethnographic journeys within organizations as well as beyond organizations and individual reflections on challenges faced by organizational ethnographers. This book is aimed at PhD master and advanced undergraduate students and researchers across disciplines especially those who are engaged with general management organizational behaviour strategy and anthropological/ethnographic issues. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138496422

The Routledge Companion to Applied PerformanceTwo Volume Set The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical historical and practical politics of applied performance both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within and beyond the sphere of English-speaking scholarship curated by regional experts in applied performance. The reader will gain an understanding of some of the dominant preoccupations of performance in specified regions enhanced by contextual framing. From the dis(h)arming of the human body through dance in Colombia to clowning with dementia in Australia via challenges to violent nationalism in the Balkans transgender performance in Pakistan and resistance rap in Kashmir the essays interviews and scripts are eloquent testimony to the courage and hope of people who believe in the power of art to renew the human spirit. Students academics practitioners policy-makers cultural anthropologists and activists will benefit from the opportunities to forge new networks and develop in-depth comparative research offered by this bold global project. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367546106

The Routledge Companion to Applied PerformanceVolume One – Mainland Europe North and Latin America Southern Africa and Australia and New Zealand The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical historical and practical politics of applied performance both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within and beyond the sphere of English-speaking scholarship curated by regional experts in applied performance. The reader will gain an understanding of some of the dominant preoccupations of performance in specified regions enhanced by contextual framing. From the dis(h)arming of the human body through dance in Colombia to clowning with dementia in Australia via challenges to violent nationalism in the Balkans transgender performance in Pakistan and resistance rap in Kashmir the essays interviews and scripts are eloquent testimony to the courage and hope of people who believe in the power of art to renew the human spirit. Students academics practitioners policy-makers cultural anthropologists and activists will benefit from the opportunities to forge new networks and develop in-depth comparative research offered by this bold global project. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815359654

The Routledge Companion to Applied PerformanceVolume Two – Brazil West Africa South and South East Asia United Kingdom and the Arab World The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical historical and practical politics of applied performance both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within and beyond the sphere of English-speaking scholarship curated by regional experts in applied performance. The reader will gain an understanding of some of the dominant preoccupations of performance in specified regions enhanced by contextual framing. From the dis(h)arming of the human body through dance in Colombia to clowning with dementia in Australia via challenges to violent nationalism in the Balkans transgender performance in Pakistan and resistance rap in Kashmir the essays interviews and scripts are eloquent testimony to the courage and hope of people who believe in the power of art to renew the human spirit. Students academics practitioners policy-makers cultural anthropologists and activists will benefit from the opportunities to forge new networks and develop in-depth comparative research offered by this bold global project. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367134433

The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement Socially engaged architecture is a broad and emerging architectural genre that promises to redefine architecture from a market-driven profession to a mix of social business altruism and activism that intends to eradicate poverty resolve social exclusion and construct an egalitarian global society. The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement offers a critical enquiry of socially engaged architecture’s current context characterized by socio-economic inequity climate change war increasing global poverty microfinance the evolving notion of professionalism the changing conception of public and finally the growing academic interest in re-visioning the social role of architecture. Organized around case studies from the United States Brazil Venezuela the United Kingdom South Africa Rwanda Burkina Faso Nigeria Nepal Pakistan Iran Thailand Germany Australia Taiwan and Japan the book documents the most important recent developments in the field. By examining diverse working methods and philosophies of socially engaged architecture the handbook shows how socially engaged architecture is entangled in the global politics of poverty reconstruction of the public sphere changing role of the state charity and neoliberal urbanism. The book presents debates around the issue of whether architecture actually empowers the participators and alleviates socio-economic exclusion or if it instead indirectly sustains an exploitive capitalism. Bringing together a range of theories and case studies this companion offers a platform to facilitate future lines of inquiry in education research and practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367580674

The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics and the many forms and approaches the engagement between them can take. The contributors - a diverse assembly of artists activists scholars from around the world – discuss and demonstrate ways of making art and politics legible and salient in the world. As such the 32 chapters in this volume reflect on performing and visual arts; music film and new media; as well as covering social practice community-based work conceptual interventionist and movement affiliated forms. The Companion is divided into four distinct parts: Conceptual Cartographies Institutional Materialities Modalities of Practice Making Publics Randy Martin has assembled a collection that ensures that readers will come away with a wider view of what can count as art and politics; where they might find it; and how it moves in the world. The diversity of perspectives is at once challenging and fortifying to those who might dismiss political art on the one hand as not making sufficient difference and on the other to those embracing it but seeking a means to elaborate the significance that it can make in the world. The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics brings together a range of issues and approaches and encourages critical and creative thinking about how art is produced perceived and received. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367201227

The Routledge Companion to Art Deco Scholarly interest in Art Deco has grown rapidly over the past fifty years spanning different academic disciplines. This volume provides a guide to the current state of the field of Art Deco research by highlighting past accomplishments and promising new directions. Chapters are presented in five sections based on key concepts: migration public culture fashion politics and Art Deco’s afterlife in heritage restoration and new media. The book provides a range of perspectives on and approaches to these issues as well as to the concept of Art Deco itself. It highlights the slipperiness of Art Deco yet points to its potential to shed new light on the complexities of modernity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472485144

The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm This multidisciplinary companion offers a comprehensive overview of the global arena of public art. It is organised around four distinct topics: activation social justice memory and identity and ecology with a final chapter mapping significant works of public and social practice art around the world between 2008 and 2018. The thematic approach brings into view similarities and differences in the recent globalisation of public art practices while the multidisciplinary emphasis allows for a consideration of the complex outcomes and consequences of such practices as they engage different disciplines and communities and affect a diversity of audiences beyond the existing 'art world'. The book will highlight an international selection of artist projects that illustrate the themes. This book will be of interest to scholars in contemporary art art history urban studies and museum studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138325302

The Routledge Companion to Arts Management The Routledge Companion to Arts Management contains perspectives from international scholars educators consultants and practitioners sharing opinions exploring important questions and raising concerns about the field. The book will stimulate conversations foster curiosity and open pathways to different cultural philosophical ideological political national and generational insights. Four broad thematic areas are used to organize current topics in the field of arts and culture management. Part I introduces a mixture of perspectives about the history and evolution of the practice and study of arts management the role of arts managers and how arts management is being impacted by the digital age. Part II focuses on the dynamics of entrepreneurship change processes and leadership practices. Part III includes globally focused topics on cultural policy cultural rights and community building. Part IV examines a sampling of topics related to functional activities that are common to arts and culture organizations around the world such as marketing planning increasing diversity hiring fundraising and sustainability. This book builds a comprehensive understanding of what arts management can mean in an international context creating an essential resource for students scholars and reflective practitioners involved at the intersection of business and the arts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138492226

The Routledge Companion to Arts Marketing The relationship between the arts and marketing has been growing ever more complex as the proliferation of new technologies and social media has opened up new forms of communication. This book covers the broad and involved relationship between the arts and marketing. It frames "arts marketing" in the context of wider related issues such as the creative and cultural industries cultural policy and arts funding developments in the different art forms and the impact of environmental forces on arts business models and markets. The Routledge Companion to Arts Marketing provides a comprehensive up-to-date reference guide that incorporates current analyses of arts marketing topics by leaders of academic research in the field. As such it will be a key resource for the next generation of arts marketing scholars and teachers and will constitute the single most authoritative guide on the subject internationally. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138385740

The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature offers a general introduction as well as a range of critical approaches to this important and expanding field. Divided into three sections the volume: Introduces "keywords" connecting the theories themes and methodologies distinctive to Asian American Literature Addresses historical periods geographies and literary identities Looks at different genre form and interdisciplinarity With 41 essays from scholars in the field this collection is a comprehensive guide to a significant area of literary study for students and teachers of Ethnic American Asian diasporic and Pacific Islander Literature. Contributors: Christine Bacareza Balance Victor Bascara Leslie Bow Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson Tina Chen Anne Anlin Cheng Mark Chiang Patricia P. Chu Robert Diaz Pin-chia Feng Tara Fickle Donald Goellnicht Helena Grice Eric Hayot Tamara C. Ho Hsuan L. Hsu Mark C. Jerng Laura Hyun Yi Kang Daniel Y. Kim Jodi Kim James Kyung-Jin Lee Rachel C. Lee Jinqi Ling Colleen Lye Sean Metzger Susette Min Susan Y. Najita Viet Thanh Nguyen erin Khuê Ninh Eve Oishi Josephine Nock-Hee Park Steven Salaita Shu-mei Shi Rajini Srikanth Brian Kim Stefans Erin Suzuki Theresa Tensuan Cynthia Tolentino Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu Eleanor Ty Traise Yamamoto Timothy Yu. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138638457

The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media offers readers a comprehensive examination of the way that Asian Americans have engaged with media from the long history of Asian American actors and stories that have been featured in mainstream film and television to the birth and development of a distinctly Asian American cinema to the ever-shifting frontiers of Asian American digital media. Contributor essays focus on new approaches to the study of Asian American media including explorations of transnational and diasporic media studies of intersectional identities encompassed by queer or mixed race Asian Americans and examinations of new media practices that challenge notions of representation participation and community. Expertly organized to represent work across disciplines this companion is an essential reference for the study of Asian American media and cultural studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367871925

The Routledge Companion to Auditing Auditing has been a subject of some controversy and there have been repeated attempts at reforming its practice globally. This comprehensive companion surveys the state of the discipline including emerging and cutting-edge trends. It covers the most important and controversial issues including auditing ethics auditor independence social and environmental accounting as well as the future of the field. This handbook is vital reading for legislators regulators professionals commentators students and researchers involved with auditing and accounting. The collection will also prove an ideal starting place for researchers from other fields looking to break into this vital subject. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138363083

The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature In recent years Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas heightened through television and film adaptation as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan and the development of new high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature both at home and abroad. This Companion emerges as a part of that reinvigoration considering anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes as well as tracing the transition of the field through those critical debates. It considers works of Australian literature on their own terms as well as positioning them in their critical and historical context and their ethical and interactive position in the public and private spheres. With an emphasis on literature’s responsibilities this book claims Australian literary studies as a field uniquely positioned to expose the ways in which literature engages with produces and is produced by its context provoking a critical re-evaluation of the concept of the relationship between national literatures cultures and histories and the social function of literary texts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367643560

The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage Culture and Preservation The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage Culture and Preservation explores automotive heritage its place in society and the ways we might preserve and conserve it. Drawing on contributions from academics and practitioners around the world and comprising six sections this volume carries the heritage discourse forward by exploring the complex and sometimes intricate place of automobiles within society. Taken as a whole  this book helps to shape how we think about automobile heritage and considers how that heritage explores a range of cultural intellectual emotional and material elements well outside of the automobile body itself. Most importantly perhaps it questions how we might better acknowledge the importance of automotive heritage now and in the future. The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage Culture and Preservation is unique in that it juxtaposes theory with practice academic approaches with practical experience and recognizes that issues of preservation and conservation belong in a broad context. As such  this volume should be essential reading for both academics and practitioners with an interest in automobiles cultural heritage and preservation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138389434

The Routledge Companion to Banking Regulation and Reform The Routledge Companion to Banking Regulation and Reform provides a prestigious cutting edge international reference work offering students researchers and policy makers a comprehensive guide to the paradigm shift in banking studies since the historic financial crisis in 2007. The transformation in banking over the last two decades has not been authoritatively and critically analysed by the mainstream academic literature. This unique collection brings together a multi-disciplinary group of leading authorities in the field to analyse and investigate post-crisis regulation and reform. Representing the wide spectrum of non-mainstream economics and finance topics range widely from financial innovation to misconduct in banking varieties of Eurozone banking to reforming dysfunctional global banking as well as topical issues such as off-shore financial centres Libor fixing corporate governance and the Dodd-Frank Act. Bringing together an authoritative range of international experts and perspectives this invaluable body of heterodox research work provides a comprehensive compendium for researchers and academics of banking and finance as well as regulators and policy makers concerned with the global impact of financial institutions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415855938

The Routledge Companion to Behavioural Accounting Research Behavioural research is well established in the social sciences and has flourished in the field of accounting in recent decades. This far-reaching and reliable collection provides a definitive resource on current knowledge in this new approach as well as providing a guide to the development and implementation of a Behavioural Accounting Research project.The Routledge Companion to Behavioural Accounting Research covers a full range of theoretical methodological and statistical approaches relied upon by behavioural accounting researchers giving the reader a good grounding in both theoretical perspectives and practical applications. The perspectives cover a range of countries and contexts bringing in seminal chapters by an international selection of behavioural accounting scholars including Robert Libby and William R. Kinney Jr.This book is a vital introduction for Ph.D. students as well as a valuable resource for established behavioural accounting researchers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367581022

The Routledge Companion to Big History The Routledge Companion to Big History guides readers though the variety of themes and concepts that structure contemporary scholarship in the field of big history. The volume is divided into five parts each representing current and evolving areas of interest to the community including big history’s relationship to science social science the humanities and the future as well as teaching big history and ‘little big histories’. Considering an ever-expanding range of theoretical pedagogical and research topics the book addresses such questions as what is the relationship between big history and scientific research how are big historians working with philosophers and religious thinkers to help construct ‘meaning’ how are leading theoreticians making sense of big history and its relationship to other creation narratives and paradigms what is ‘little big history’ and how does big history impact on thinking about the future? The book highlights the place of big history in historiographical traditions and the ways in which it can be used in education and public discourse across disciplines and at all levels. A timely collection with contributions from leading proponents in the field it is the ideal guide for those wanting to engage with the theories and concepts behind big history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138905818

The Routledge Companion to Bioethics The Routledge Companion to Bioethics is a comprehensive reference guide to a wide range of contemporary concerns in bioethics.　 The volume orients the reader in a changing landscape shaped by globalization health disparities and rapidly advancing technologies.　 Bioethics has begun a turn toward a systematic concern with social justice population health and public policy.　 While also covering more traditional topics this volume fully captures this recent shift and foreshadows the resulting developments in bioethics.　 It highlights emerging issues such as climate change transgender and medical tourism and re-examines enduring topics such as autonomy end-of-life care and resource allocation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138478275

The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture collects thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology in art and architecture. The book presents a diversity of hybrid art-and-science thinking revealing how science and culture are interwoven. The book situates bioart and bioarchitecture within an expanded field of biology in art architecture and design. It proposes an emergent field of biocreativity and outlines its historical and theoretical foundations from the perspective of artists architects designers scientists historians and theoreticians. Includes over 150 black and white images. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367873394

The Routledge Companion to Bourdieu's 'Distinction' This edited collection explores the genesis of Bourdieu's classical book Distinction and its international career in contemporary Social Sciences. It includes contributions from contemporary sociologists from diverse countries who question the theoretical legacy of this book in various fields and national contexts. Invited authors review and exemplify current controversies concerning the theses promoted in Distinction in the sociology of culture lifestyles social classes and stratification with a specific attention dedicated to the emerging forms of cultural capital and the logics of distinction that occur in relation to material consumption or bodily practices. They also empirically illustrate the theoretical contribution of Distinction in relation with such notions as field or habitus which fruitfulness is emphasized in relation with some methodological innovations of the book. In this respect a special focus is put on the emerging stream of "distinction studies" and on the opportunities offered by the geometrical data analysis of social spaces. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367868888

The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century Enormously rich and wide-ranging The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century brings together in one handy reference a wide range of essential information on the major aspects of eighteenth century British history. The information included is chronological statistical tabular and bibliographical and the book begins with the eighteenth century political system before going on to cover foreign affairs and the empire the major military and naval campaigns law and order religion economic and financial advances and social and cultural history. Key features of this user-friendly volume include: wide-ranging political chronologies major wars and rebellions key treaties and their terms chronologies of religious events approximately 500 biographies of leading figures essential data on population output and trade a detailed glossary of terms a comprehensive cultural and intellectual chronology set out in tabular form a uniquely detailed and comprehensive topic bibliography. All those studying or teaching eighteenth century British history will find this concise volume an indispensable resource for use and reference. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203378908

The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History Over 39 chapters The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History offers a comprehensive and revisionist overview of British cinema as on the one hand a commercial entertainment industry and on the other a series of institutions centred on economics funding and relations to government.Whereas most histories of British cinema focus on directors stars genres and themes this Companion explores the forces enabling and constraining the films’ production distribution exhibition and reception contexts from the late nineteenth century to the present day. The contributors provide a wealth of empirical and archive-based scholarship that draws on insider perspectives of key film institutions and illuminates aspects of British film culture that have been neglected or marginalized such as the watch committee system the Eady Levy the rise of the multiplex and film festivals. It also places emphasis on areas where scholarship has either been especially productive and influential such as in early and silent cinema or promoted new approaches such as audience and memory studies.  Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367581381

The Routledge Companion to British Media History The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides a comprehensive exploration of how different media have evolved within social regional and national contexts. The 50 chapters in this volume written by an outstanding team of internationally respected scholars bring together current debates and issues within media history in this era of rapid change and also provide students and researchers with an essential collection of comparable media histories. The first two parts of the Companion comprise a series of thematic chapters reflecting broadly on historiography providing historical context for discussions of the power of the media and their social importance arranged in the following sections: Media history debates Media and society The subsequent parts are made up of in-depth sections on different media formats exploring various approaches to historicizing media futures divided as follows: Newspapers Magazines Radio Film Television Digital media The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides an essential guide to key ideas issues concepts and debates in the field. Chapter 40 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www.tandfebooks.com/openaccess. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815395485

The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics The field of business ethics continues to expand intellectually and geographically. During the past five decades scholars have developed and deepened their inquiries into the ethics of commercial and corporate conduct. This Companion provides a novel overview of the discipline of business ethics covering the major areas of the field as well as new and emerging topics. The eight thematic units range over an extraordinary set of subjects and include chapters on the history and pedagogy of business ethics moral philosophy the nature of business responsibilities within the firm economic institutions the 2008 financial crisis globalization and business ethics in different regions of the world. Led by a well-respected editorial team this unique volume gathers an international array of experts whose various critical approaches yield insights from areas such as public policy economics law and history in addition to business and philosophy. With its fresh analyses wide scope and clarity of approach this volume will be an essential addition to library collections in business management and applied ethics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138789562

The Routledge Companion to Business History The Routledge Companion to Business History is a definitive work of reference and authoritative international source on business history. Compiled by leading scholars in the field it offers both researchers and students an introduction and overview of current scholarship in this expanding discipline. Drawing on a wealth of international contributions this volume expands the field and explores how business history interacts theoretically and methodologically with other fields. It charts the origins and development of business history and its global reach from Latin America and Africa to North America and Europe. With this multi-perspective approach it illustrates the unique contribution of business history and its relationship with a range of other disciplines from finance and banking to gender issues in corporations. The Routledge Companion to Business History is a vital source of reference for students and researchers in the fields of business history corporate governance and business ethics. "This collection is an excellent starting point for understanding the field and finding areas where business history management theory and social science can intersect." Canadian Business History Newsletter January 2019 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415855563

The Routledge Companion to Business in Africa Although the world's poorest inhabited continent Africa has recently shown signs of being a source of economic growth in the coming decades with increased foreign investment - notably from China - and huge growth in GDP from a number of African states. In contrast to the heaving weight of books focusing on business opportunities in Asia Eastern Europe and Latin America Africa has been poorly served by academic publishing. This compendium of scholarship offers cutting-edge knowledge relating to business in Africa. The objectives of this collection include: To shed new light on the socio-cultural and historical underpinnings of business practice in Africa and their implications for promoting entrepreneurship and business behaviour in the region To consider the important constraints on business activities in Africa and the emerging 'best practice' for redressing their real and potential impacts To facilitate a better understanding of contemporary business practice in Africa through the application of relevant theories and models including emergent ones. The Routledge Companion to Business in Africa is a comprehensive reference resource that provides the perfect platform for embarking on research and study into Africa from the business perspective. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138363045

The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance provides a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of the global art form butoh. Originating in Japan in the 1960s butoh was a major innovation in twentieth century dance and performance and it continues to shape-shift around the world. Taking inspiration from the Japanese avant-garde Surrealism 　Happenings and authors such as Genet and Artaud its influence can be seen throughout contemporary performing arts music and visual art practices. This Companion places the form in historical context documents its development in Japan and its spread around the world and brings together the theory and the practice of this compelling dance. The interdisciplinarity evident in the volume reflects the depth and the breadth of butoh and the editors bring specially commissioned essays by leading scholars and dancers together with translations of important early texts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367517908

The Routledge Companion to Career Studies The Routledge Companion to Career Studies is an in-depth reference for researchers students and practitioners looking for a comprehensive overview of the state of the art of career studies. Split into five parts the volume looks at major areas of research within career studies and reflects on the latest developments in the areas of theory empirical studies and methodology. The book's five parts cover (1) major theoretical and methodological debates and approaches to studying careers; (2) careers as dynamic ongoing processes covering such issues as time shaping careers career outcomes and patterns and the forces shaping careers; (3) the local national and global context of careers (4) implementing career research to design practical interventions in areas such as education counseling and national policy; and (5) a commentary on the current state of career scholarship and its future development as represented in this volume by founding scholars in the field. This book will be a sourcebook for scholars studying careers research students intending to take up the study of careers and anyone – scholars and practitioners – with an interest not only in understanding careers the factors shaping them and where they lead but also in how this understanding might be used in practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138939776

The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of children’s literature in all its manifestations. It features a series of essays written by expert contributors who provide an illuminating examination of why children’s literature is the way it is. Topics covered include: the history and development of children's literature various theoretical approaches used to explore the texts including narratological methods questions of gender and sexuality along with issues of race and ethnicity realism and fantasy as two prevailing modes of story-telling picture books comics and graphic novels as well as ‘young adult’ fiction and the ‘crossover’ novel media adaptations and neglected areas of children’s literature. The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature contains suggestions for further reading throughout plus a helpful timeline and a substantial glossary of key terms and names both established and more cutting-edge. This is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to an increasingly complex and popular discipline. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203889855

The Routledge Companion to Christian History The Routledge Companion to Christian History is an indispensable aid for anyone seeking comprehensive coverage of the facts in clear concise and easy to use language. It covers: all key events in the Christian calendar from the persecution of the Roman Empire to the fall of Communism and the rise of Fundamentalism the impact of Islam the Crusades Monasticism and the spread of popular religious movements cross-cultural coverage; as well as Western Christendom the Orthodox churches of the East and the 'new' churches of Asia and Africa. Fully cross referenced throughout with a combination of chronologies glossary and statistics this packed volumes contains everything for the first time student or for anyone revisiting the subject. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203099636

The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender comprises forty-three innovative essays that offer both an overview of and an intervention into the field of cinema and gender. The contributions in this volume address a variety of geographical and cultural contexts through an analysis of cinema from the representation of women and Islam in Middle Eastern film and female audience reception in Nigeria to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. The book includes a special focus on women directors in a global context examining films and filmmakers from Asia Africa Australia Europe and North and South America. Alongside a comprehensive overview of feminist perspectives on genre this collection also offers discussion on a range of approaches to spectatorship reception studies and fandom as well as transnational approaches to star studies and the relationship between feminist film theory and new media. Other topics include queer and trans* cinema ecocinema the post-human and the methodological dimensions of feminist film history. This Routledge Companion provides researchers students and scholars with an essential guide to the key political cultural and theoretical debates surrounding cinema and gender. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138391840

The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics brings together forty essays by leading film scholars and filmmakers in order to discuss the complex relationship between cinema and politics. Organised into eight parts – Approaches to Cinema and Politics; Cinema Activism and Opposition; Film Propaganda Ideology and the State; The Politics of Mobility; Political Hollywood; Alternative and Independent Film and Politics; The Politics of Cine-geographies and The Politics of Documentary – this collection covers a broad range of topics including: Third Cinema cinema after 9/11 eco-activism human rights independent Chinese documentary film festivals manifestoes film policies film as a response to the post-2008 financial crisis Soviet propaganda the impact of neoliberalism on cinema and many others. This Companion foregrounds the key debates concepts approaches and case studies that critique and explain the complex relationship between politics and cinema discussing films from around the world and including examples from film history as well as contemporary cinema. It also explores the wider relationship between politics and entertainment examines cinema’s response to political and social transformations and questions the extent to which filmmaking itself is a political act. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138391680

The Routledge Companion to Comics  This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative up-to-date overviewsof the major topics and questions within comic studies offering readers a truly global approach to understanding the field.Essays examine:the history of the temporal geographical and formal development of comics including topics like art comics manga comix and the comics code;issues such as authorship ethics adaptation and translating comics;connections between comics and other artistic media (drawing caricature film) as well as the linkages between comics and other academic fields like linguistics and philosophy;new perspectives on comics genres from funny animal comics to war comics to romance comics and beyond.The Routledge Companion to Comics expertly organizes representative work from a range of disciplines including media and cultural studies literature philosophy and linguistics. More than an introduction to the study of comics this book will serve as a crucial reference for anyone interested in pursuing research in the area guiding students scholars and comics fans alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367581534

The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte From Commedia dell’Arte came archetypal characters that are still with us today such as Harlequin and Pantalone and the rediscovered craft of writing comic dramas and masked theatre. From it came the forces that helped create and influence Opera Ballet Pantomime Shakespeare Moliere Lopes de Vega Goldoni Meyerhold and even the glove puppet Mr Punch. The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte is a wide-ranging volume written by over 50 experts that traces the history characteristics and development of this fascinating yet elusive theatre form. In synthesising the elements of Commedia this book introduces the history of the Sartori mask studio; presents a comparison between Gozzi and Goldoni’s complicated and adversarial approaches to theatre; invites discussions on Commedia’s relevance to Shakespeare and illuminates re-interpretations of Commedia in modern times. The authors are drawn from actors mask-makers pedagogues directors trainers and academics all of whom add unique insights into this fundamental pillar of western theatre. Notable contributions include: 　 • Donato Sartori on the twentieth century Sartori mask • Rob Henke on the Form and Freedom in Commedia Improvisation • Anna Cottis on Carlo Boso • Didi Hopkins on One Man Two Guv’nors • Kenneth Richards on acting companies • Antonio Fava on Commedia dell’Arte • Joan Schirle on Carlo Mazzone-Clementi and women in Commedia • M. A. Katritzky on Commedia Iconography. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138224995

The Routledge Companion to Consumer Behavior The key to marketing is understanding and satisfying consumer needs thus a knowledge of consumer behavior is essential to any organization dealing with customers users or clients. This book promises to be a contemporary classic. It brings together an international set of scholars many of whom are "household names" to examine the diverse approaches to consumer behavior topics. The editors employ a micro to macro structure dividing each topic into three parts: one reflecting foundational work one focused on emerging trends and one covering practical applications. Each part examines the relationship between consumer behaviour and motivation including well-being gender social class and more  and concludes with practitioner perspectives on the challenges and opportunities that come with understanding customers. Readers will gain insight into how drives that are constantly in flux relate to other aspects of human cognition and behavior allowing them to reach customers successfully and to meet their needs. With contributions from leading scholars including Sidney Levy and Jagdish Sheth this volume sets the standard as the most comprehensive cutting-edge resource on the subject of consumer behavior.Students of consumer behaviour and marketing will find this a useful exploration of a fast-moving field fundamental to the welfare of companies government non-profits and consumers. It will also benefit new and established academic researchers as well as practitioners who want to stay on top of current knowledge. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656171

The Routledge Companion to Consumer Behavior Analysis The Routledge Companion to Consumer Behavior Analysis provides a unique and eclectic combination of behavioral cognitive and environmental perspectives to illuminate the real-world complexities of consumer choice in a marketing-oriented economy. Edited by a leading authority in the field the contributing authors have created a unique anthology for understanding consumer preference by bringing together the very latest research and thinking in consumer behavior analysis. This comprehensive and innovative volume ranges over a broad multi-disciplinary perspective from economic psychology behavioral psychology and experimental economics but its chief focus is on the critical evaluation of consumer choice in the natural settings of affluent marketing-oriented economies. By focussing on human economic and social choices which involve social exchange it explores and reveals the enormous potential of consumer behavior analysis to illuminate the role of modern marketing-oriented business organizations in shaping and responding to consumer choice. This will be of particular interest to academics researchers and advanced students in marketing consumer behavior behavior analysis social psychology behavioral economics and behavioral psychology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415729925

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology is an invaluable guide and major reference source for students and scholars alike introducing its readers to key contemporary perspectives and approaches within the field. Written by an experienced international team of contributors with an interdisciplinary range of essays this collection provides a powerful overview of the transformations currently affecting anthropology. The volume both addresses the concerns of the discipline and comments on its construction through texts classroom interactions engagements with various publics and changing relations with other academic subjects. Persuasively demonstrating that a number of key contemporary issues can be usefully analyzed through an anthropological lens the contributors cover important topics such as globalization law and politics collaborative archaeology economics religion citizenship and community health and the environment. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology is a fascinating examination of this lively and constantly evolving discipline. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367199685

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art Visual Culture and Climate Change International in scope this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art visual culture activism and climate change and addresses key questions such as: why and how do art and visual culture and their ethics and values matter with regard to a world increasingly shaped by climate breakdown? Foregrounding a decolonial and climate-justice-based approach this book joins efforts within the environmental humanities in seeking to widen considerations of climate change as it intersects with social political and cultural realms. It simultaneously expands the nascent branches of ecocritical art history and visual culture and builds toward the advancement of a robust and critical interdisciplinarity appropriate to the complex entanglements of climate change. This book will be of special interest to scholars and practitioners of contemporary art and visual culture environmental studies cultural geography and political ecology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367221102

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Brand Management The amount and range of brand related literature published in the last fifty years can be overwhelming for brand scholars. This Companion provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of contemporary issues in brand management research and the challenges faced by brands and their managers. Original contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars from Europe US Asia and Africa provide a diverse range of insights on different areas of branding reflecting the state of the art and insights into future challenges.　 Designed to provide not only a comprehensive overview but also to stimulate new insights this will be an essential resource for researchers educators and advanced students in branding and brand management consumer behaviour marketing and advertising. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415747905

The Routledge Companion to Coopetition Strategies As more and more strategic alliances are forged between competitors a dedicated word has been coined to described this strategy: coopetition. Coopetition strategy research began in the early 1990s and has been steadily increasing; yet a global overview of the field has been lacking. This reference volume is the first to provide a comprehensive international survey of coopetition research. Organized thematically and written by the world’s most-cited researchers in the field it views the topic through the lens of a variety of disciplines including innovation strategic management operations management and marketing. This reference book is the definitive resource for researchers looking to understand the field of coopetition throughout business and management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138736894

The Routledge Companion to Copyright and Creativity in the 21st Century These collected chapters and interviews explore the current issues and debates about how copyright will or should adapt to meet the practices of 21st-century creators and internet users. The book begins with an overview of copyright law basics. It is organized by parts that correspond to creative genres: Literary Works Visual Arts Fine Art Music Video Games and Virtual Worlds Fashion and Technology. The chapters and interviews address issues such as copyright ownership in work created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) the musical remix market whether appropriation is ever a fair use of a copyrighted work or if it is always theft and whether internet- based platforms should do more to deter piracy of creators’ works. Each part ends with an essay explaining the significance of one or two landmark or trendsetting cases to help the reader understand the practical implications of the law. Written to be accessible to both lay and legal audiences this unique collection addresses contemporary legal issues that all creators need to understand and will be essential reading for artists designers and musicians as well as the lawyers who represent them. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138999251

The Routledge Companion to Cost Management Over the last two decades cost management has been an area of dynamic change and development. This is evident in the extensive inventory of new high-profile techniques that have emerged. With cost management now firmly established as a distinct sub-discipline within management accounting The Routledge Companion to Cost Management is a timely reference volume covering both practical developments and research in this area. Topics covered include: Cost control issues Cost analysis and decision making Cost management systems Environmental cost management With chapters from an international team of contributors this prestigious companion will prove an indispensible addition to any library with aspirations of keeping up-to-date with the world of accounting. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415592475

The Routledge Companion to Creativity Creativity can be as difficult to define as it is to achieve. This is a complex and compelling area of study and this volume is perfectly poised to explore how creativity can be better understood and used in a range of contexts. The book not only centres on creativity in wider organizational theory but also defines the conditions in which creativity can flourish and assesses how the contemporary business environment has an impact on creative solutions. The volume grounds the concept of creativity in a sound theoretical framework and explores issues of practical and theoretical consequence covering a range of themes including: innovation and entrepreneurship creativity and design environmental influences knowledge management meta-theories of creativity personal creativity structured interventions. Comprising contributions written by an unusually wide array of leading creativity scholars The Routledge Companion to Creativity is an insightful and cutting edge resource. It is an essential purchase for anyone with an interest in creativity from a business psychology or design perspective. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138385900

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five original chapters specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends. The volume is divided into three parts. Part I Approaches rearticulates the key theoretical questions posed by the crime genre. Part II Devices examines the textual characteristics of the genre. Part III Interfaces investigates the complex ways in which crime fiction engages with the defining issues of its context – from policing and forensic science through war migration and narcotics to digital media and the environment. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars of crime fiction. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138320352

The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts A comprehensive one-stop reference text The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts (the ‘Companion’) will find a place on every bookshelf whether it be that of a budding scholar or a seasoned academic. Comprising over a hundred concise and authoritative essays written by leading scholars in the field this volume explains in a clear and inviting way the emergence context evolution and current status of key criminological theories and conceptual themes. The Companion is divided into six historical and thematic parts each introduced by the editors and containing a selection of accessible and engaging short essays written specifically for this text: Foundations of criminological thought and contemporary revitalizations The emergence and growth of American criminology From appreciation to critique Late critical criminologies and new directions Punishment and security Geographies of crime Comprehensive cross-referencing between entries will provide the reader with signposts to later developments to critiques and to associated theoretical developments explored within the book and lists of further reading in every entry will encourage independent thinking and study. This book is an essential reference work for criminology students at all levels and is the perfect companion for courses on criminological theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138819009

The Routledge Companion to Critical Accounting The field of critical accounting has expanded rapidly since its inception and has become recognised　as offering a wealth of provocative insights in the wake of the global financial crisis. It is now firmly embedded within accounting literature and in how accounting is taught. Surveying the evolving field of Critical Accounting including theory ethics history development and sustainability this Companion presents key debates in the field providing a comprehensive overview. Incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives on accounting the volume concludes by considering new directions in which critical accounting research may travel. With an international array of established and respected contributors this Routledge Companion is a vital resource for students and researchers across the world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656188

The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship including: Marxism Trauma Theory Ecocriticism Psychoanalysis Feminism Posthumanism Gender and Queer Theory Structuralism Narrative Postcolonialism Deconstruction Postmodernism With three new essays an updated introduction further reading and a wealth of new dictionary entries this text is an indispensible guide for all students of the theoretically informed arts humanities and social sciences. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415668309

The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture art history urbanism geography anthropology media and performance studies computer science bio-engineering environmental studies and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global architecture of the twenty-first century. New chapters by 36 contributors illustrated with over 140 black-and-white images are assembled in six parts concerning both real and virtual spaces: design materiality alterity technologies cityscapes and practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138917569

The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies The scholarly field of Critical Management Studies (CMS) is in a state of flux. Against a backdrop of dramatic global shifts CMS scholarship has lately taken a number of new and exciting directions and at times challenged older critical voices. Novel theoretical frameworks and diverse research interests mark the CMS field as never before. Interrogating conventional critiques of management and arguing for fresh approaches The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies captures this intellectual ferment and new spirit of inquiry within CMS and showcases the pluralistic generation of CMS scholars that has emerged in recent years. Setting the scene for a crucial period for the discipline this insightful volume covers new ground and essential areas grouped under the following themes: Critique and its (dis-)contents Difference otherness marginality Knowledge at the crossroads History and discourse Global predicaments. Drawing on the expertise of an international team of contributing scholars The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies is a rich resource and the perfect reference tool for students and researchers of management and organization. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138386204

The Routledge Companion to Critical Marketing The Routledge Companion to Critical Marketing brings together the latest research in Critical Marketing Studies in one authoritative and convenient volume. The world’s leading scholars and rising stars collaborate here to provide a survey of this lively subdiscipline. In doing so they demonstrate how a critical approach yields an enriched understanding of marketing theory and practice its role in society and its relationship with consumers themselves.It is the first attempt to capture the state of Critical Marketing research in many years. As such this seminal work is unmissable for scholars and students of marketing and consumer research as well as those exploring sociology media studies anthropology and consumption scholarship more generally. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656089

The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art Architecture and Design The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art Architecture and Design presents an in-depth exploration of criticism and criticality in theory and practice across the disciplines of art architecture and design. Professional criticism is a vital part of understanding the cultural significance of designed objects and environments that we engage with on a daily basis yet there is evidence to show that this practice is changing. This edited volume investigates how practitioners researchers educators and professionals engage with think about and value the practice of critique. With contributions from a multi-disciplinary authorship from nine countries - the UK USA Australia India Netherlands Switzerland South Africa Belgium and Denmark - this companion provides a wide range of leading perspectives evaluating the landscape of criticality and how it is being shaped by technological and social advances. Illustrated with over 60 black and white images and structured into five sections The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art Architecture and Design is a comprehensive volume for researchers educators and students exploring the changing role of criticism through interdisciplinary perspectives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367659813

The Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management This Routledge Companion provides a timely and authoritative overview of cross-cultural management as an academic domain and field of practice for academics and students. With contributions from over 60 authors from 20 countries the book is organised in to five thematic areas: Review survey and critique Language and languages: moving from the periphery to the core Cross-cultural management research and education The new international business landscape Rethinking a multidisciplinary paradigm. Edited by an international team of scholars and featuring contributions from a range of leading cross-cultural management experts this prestigious volume represents the most comprehensive guide to the development and scope of cross-cultural management as an academic discipline. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138363274

The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema offers an overview of the field of cult cinema – films at the margin of popular culture and art that have received exceptional cultural visibility and status mostly because they break rules offend and challenge understandings of achievement (some are so bad they’re good others so good they remain inaccessible). Cult cinema is no longer only comprised of the midnight movie or the extreme genre film. Its range has widened and the issues it broaches have become battlegrounds in cultural debates that typify the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Sections are introduced with the major theoretical frameworks philosophical inspirations and methodologies for studying cult films with individual chapters excavating the most salient criticism of how the field impacts cultural discourse at large. Case studies include the worst films ever; exploitation films; genre cinema; multiple media formats cult cinema is expressed through; issues of cultural national and gender representations; elements of the production culture of cult cinema; and throughout aspects of the aesthetics of cult cinema – its genre style look impact and ability to yank viewers out of their comfort zones. The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema goes beyond the traditional scope of Anglophone and North American cinema by including case studies of East and South Asia continental Europe the Middle East and Latin America making it an innovative and important resource for researchers and students alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138950276

The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is a comprehensive examination of recent discussions and findings in the exciting field of cultural history. A synthesis of how the new cultural history has transformed the study of history the volume is divided into three parts – medieval early modern and modern – that emphasize the way people made sense of the world around them. Contributions cover such themes as material cultures of living mobility and transport cultural exchange and transfer power and conflict emotion and communication and the history of the senses. The focus is on the Western world but the notion of the West is a flexible one. In bringing together 36 authors from 15 countries the book takes a wide geographical coverage devoting continuous attention to global connections and the emerging trend of globalization. It builds a panorama of the transformation of Western identities and the critical ramifications of that evolution from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century that offers the reader a wide-ranging illustration of the potentials of cultural history as a way of studying the past in a variety of times spaces and aspects of human experience. Engaging with historiographical debate and covering a vast range of themes periods and places The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is the ideal resource for cultural history students and scholars to understand and advance this dynamic field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138649460

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of this field of enquiry. The global range of authors use international case studies to encourage a comparative understanding of how cultural property has emerged in different parts of the world and continues to frame vital issues of national sovereignty the free market international law and cultural heritage. Sections explore how cultural property is scaled to the state and the market; cultural property as law; cultural property and cultural rights; and emerging forms of cultural property from yoga to the national archive. By bringing together disciplinary perspectives from anthropology archaeology law Indigenous studies history folklore studies and policy this volume facilitates fresh debate and broadens our understanding of this issue of growing importance. This comprehensive and coherent statement of cultural property issues will be of great interest to cultural sector professionals and policy makers as well as students and academic researchers engaged with cultural property in a variety of disciplines.  Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138812642

The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture In this companion an international range of contributors examine the cultural formation of cyberpunk from micro-level analyses of example texts to macro-level debates of movements providing readers with snapshots of cyberpunk culture and also cyberpunk as culture. With technology seamlessly integrated into our lives and our selves and social systems veering towards globalization and corporatization cyberpunk has become a ubiquitous cultural formation that dominates our twenty-first century techno-digital landscapes. The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture traces cyberpunk through its historical developments as a literary science fiction form to its spread into other media such as comics film television and video games. Moreover seeing cyberpunk as a general cultural practice the Companion provides insights into photography music fashion and activism. Cyberpunk as the chapters presented here argue is integrated with other critical theoretical tenets of our times such as posthumanism the Anthropocene animality and empire. And lastly cyberpunk is a vehicle that lends itself to the rise of new futurisms occupying a variety of positions in our regionally diverse reality and thus linking as much as differentiating our perspectives on a globalized technoscientific world. With original entries that engage cyberpunk’s diverse ‘angles’ and its proliferation in our life worlds this critical reference will be of significant interest to humanities students and scholars of media cultural studies literature and beyond. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815351931

The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies maps out the key features of dance studies as the field stands today while pointing to potential future developments. It locates these features both historically—within dance in particular social and cultural contexts—and in relation to other academic influences that have impinged on dance studies as a discipline. The editors use a thematically based approach that emphasizes that dance scholarship does not stand alone as a single entity but is inevitably linked to other related fields debates and concerns. Authors from across continents have contributed chapters based on theoretical methodological ethnographic and practice-based case studies bringing together a wealth of expertise and insight to offer a study that is in-depth and wide-ranging. Ideal for scholars and upper-level students of dance and performance studies The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies challenges the reader to expand their knowledge of this vibrant exciting interdisciplinary field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138234581

The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying Few issues apply universally to people as poignantly as death and dying. All religions address concerns with death from the handling of human remains to defining death to suggesting what happens after life. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying provides readers with an overview of the study of death and dying. Questions of death mortality and more recently of end-of-life care have long been important ones and scholars from a range of fields have approached the topic in a number of ways. Comprising over fifty-two chapters from a team of international contributors the companion covers:funerary and mourning practices;concepts of the afterlife;psychical issues associated with death and dying;clinical and ethical issues;philosophical issues;death and dying as represented in popular culture.This comprehensive collection of essays will bring together perspectives from fields as diverse as history philosophy literature psychology archaeology and religious studies while including various religious traditions including established religions like Christianity Judaism Islam Hinduism and Buddhism as well as new or less widely known traditions such as the Spiritualist Movement the Church of Latter Day Saints and Raëlianism. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies philosophy and literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367581268

The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale Catherine Belling Ronald Schleifer Helen Swift and Ira Nadel as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe who bring valuable transnational insights. Encompassing a diverse range of mediums and genres – including biography and autobiography documentary drama elegy film the novel and graphic novel opera picturebooks poetry television and more – the contributors offer a dynamic mix of approaches that range from expansive perspectives on particular periods and genres to extended analyses of select case studies. Essays are included from every major Western period including Classical Middle Ages Renaissance and so on right up to the contemporary. This collection provides a telling demonstration of the myriad ways that humanity has learned to live with the inevitability of death where “live with” itself might mean any number of things: from consoling to memorializing to rationalizing to fending off to evading and perhaps most compellingly of all to escaping. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars working in the fields of medical humanities thanatography (death studies) life writing Victorian studies modernist studies narrative contemporary fiction popular culture and more. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367619015

The Routledge Companion to Design Research The Routledge Companion to Design Research offers a comprehensive examination of design research celebrating the plurality of design research and the wide range of conceptual methodological technological and theoretical approaches evident in contemporary design research. This volume comprises 39 original and high quality design research chapters from contributors around the world with offerings from the vast array of disciplines in and around modern design praxis including areas such as industrial and product design visual communication interaction design fashion design service design engineering and architecture. The Routledge Companion to Design Research is divided into five distinct parts with chapters that examine the nature and process of design research the purpose of design research and how one might embark on design research. They also explore how leading design researchers conduct their design research through formulating and asking questions in novel ways and the creative methods and tools they use to collect and analyse data. The Routledge Companion to Design Research also includes a number of case studies that illustrate how one might best communicate and disseminate design research through contributions that offer techniques for writing and publicising research. The Routledge Companion to Design Research will have wide appeal to researchers and educators in design and design-related disciplines such as engineering business marketing and computing and will make an invaluable contribution to state-of-the-art design research at postgraduate doctoral and post-doctoral levels and teaching across a wide range of different disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138310247

The Routledge Companion to Design Studies Since the 1990s in response to dramatic transformations in the worlds of technology and the economy design – a once relatively definable discipline complete with a set of subdisciplines – has become unrecognizable. Consequently design scholars have begun to address new issues themes and sub-disciplines such as: sustainable design design for well-being empathic design design activism design anthropology and many more. The Routledge Companion to Design Studies charts this new expanded spectrum and embraces the wide range of scholarship relating to design – theoretical practice-related and historical – that has emerged over the past four decades. Comprising forty-three newly commissioned chapters the Companion is organized into the following six sections: Defining design: discipline process Defining design: objects spaces Designing identities: gender sexuality age nation Designing society: empathy responsibility consumption the everyday Design and politics: activism intervention regulation Designing the world: globalization transnationalism translation. Contributors include both established and emerging scholars and the chapters offer an international scope covering work emanating from and relating to design in the United Kingdom mainland Europe North America Asia Australasia and Africa. This comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of Design Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367201685

The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption The first generation that has grown up in a digital world is now in our university classrooms. They their teachers and their parents have been fundamentally affected by the digitization of text images sound objects and signals. They interact socially play games shop read write work listen to music collaborate produce and co-produce search and browse very differently than in the pre-digital age. Adopting emerging technologies easily spending a large proportion of time online and multitasking are signs of the increasingly digital nature of our everyday lives. Yet consumer research is just beginning to emerge on how this affects basic human and consumer behaviours such as attention learning communications relationships entertainment and knowledge. The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption offers an introduction to the perspectives needed to rethink consumer behaviour in a digital age that we are coming to take for granted and which therefore often escapes careful research and reflective critical appraisal. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138385689

The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media ethnographic approaches to digital and networked media have helped to elucidate the dynamic cultural and social dimensions of media practice. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography provides an authoritative up-to-date intellectually broad and conceptually cutting-edge guide to this emergent and diverse area.Features include:a comprehensive history of computers and digitization in anthropology;exploration of various ethnographic methods in the context of digital tools and network relations;consideration of social networking and communication technologies on a local and global scale;in-depth analyses of different interfaces in ethnography from mobile technologies to digital archives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367873585

The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History offers a broad survey of cutting-edge intersections between digital technologies and the study of art history museum practices and cultural heritage. The volume focuses not only on new computational tools that have been developed for the study of artworks and their histories but also debates the disciplinary opportunities and challenges that have emerged in response to the use of digital resources and methodologies. Chapters cover a wide range of technical and conceptual themes that define the current state of the field and outline strategies for future development. This book offers a timely perspective on trans-disciplinary developments that are reshaping art historical research conservation and teaching. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history historical theory method and historiography and research methods in education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138585584

The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies offers an unprecedented collection of essays addressing the key issues and debates shaping the field of Digital Journalism Studies today. Across the last decade journalism has undergone many changes which have driven scholars to reassess its most fundamental questions and in the face of digital change to ask again: ‘Who is a journalist?’ and ‘What is journalism?’. This companion explores a developing scholarly agenda committed to understanding digital journalism and brings together the work of key scholars seeking to address key theoretical concerns and solve unique methodological riddles. Comprising 58 original essays from distinguished academics across the globe this Companion draws together the work of those making sense of this fundamental reconceptualization of journalism and assesses its impacts on journalism’s products its practices resources and its relationship with audiences. It also outlines the challenge presented by studying digital journalism and more importantly offers a first set of answers. This collection is the very first of its kind to attempt to distinguish this emerging field as a unique area of academic inquiry. Through identifying its core questions and presenting its fundamental debates this Companion sets the agenda for years to come in defining this new field of study as Digital Journalism Studies making it an essential point of reference for students and scholars of journalism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367205027

The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children This companion presents the newest research in this important area showcasing the huge diversity in children’s relationships with digital media around the globe and exploring the benefits challenges history and emerging developments in the field. Children are finding novel ways to express their passions and priorities through innovative uses of digital communication tools. This collection investigates and critiques the dynamism of children's lives online with contributions fielding both global and hyper-local issues and bridging the wide spectrum of connected media created for and by children. From education to children's rights to cyberbullying and youth in challenging circumstances the interdisciplinary approach ensures a careful nuanced multi-dimensional exploration of children’s relationships with digital media. Featuring a highly international range of case studies perspectives and socio-cultural contexts The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children is the perfect reference tool for students and researchers of media and communication family and technology studies psychology education anthropology and sociology as well as interested teachers policy makers and parents. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138544345

The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media An authoritative and indispensable guide to disability and media this thoughtfully curated collection features varied and provocative contributions from distinguished scholars globally  alongside next-generation research leaders. Disability and media has emerged as a dynamic and exciting area of contemporary culture and social life. Media–– especially digital technology––play a vital role in disability transformations with widespread implications for global societies and how we understand communications. This book addresses this development from representation and audience through technologies innovations and challenges of the field. Through the varied and global perspectives of leading researchers writers and practitioners including many authors with lived experience of disability it covers a wide range of traditional emergent and future media forms and formats. International in scope and orientation The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media offers students and scholars alike a comprehensive survey of the intersections between disability studies and media studies This book is available as an accessible eBook. For more information please visit https://taylorandfrancis.com/about/corporate-responsibility/accessibility-at-taylor-francis/. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138884588

The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy Dramaturgy in its many forms is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre. In its earliest definition the word itself means a comprehensive theory of "play making." Although it initially grew out of theatre contemporary dramaturgy has made enormous advances in recent years and it now permeates all kinds of narrative forms and structures: from opera to performance art; from dance and multimedia to filmmaking and robotics. In our global mediated context of multinational group collaborations that dissolve traditional divisions of roles as well as unbend previously intransigent rules of time and space the dramaturg is also the ultimate globalist: intercultural mediator information and research manager media content analyst interdisciplinary negotiator social media strategist. This collection focuses on contemporary dramaturgical practice bringing together contributions not only from academics but also from prominent working dramaturgs. The inclusion of both means a strong level of engagement with current issues in dramaturgy from the impact of social media to the ongoing centrality of interdisciplinary and intermedial processes. The contributions survey the field through eight main lenses: world dramaturgy and global perspective dramaturgy as function verb and skill dramaturgical leadership and season planning production dramaturgy in translation adaptation and new play development interdisciplinary dramaturgy play analysis in postdramatic and new media dramaturgy social media and audience outreach. Magda Romanska is Visiting Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University Associate Professor of Theatre and Dramaturgy at Emerson College and Dramaturg for Boston Lyric Opera. Her books include The Post-Traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor (2012) Boguslaw Schaeffer: An Anthology (2012) and Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2014). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138946330

The Routledge Companion to Dyslexia The Routledge Companion to Dyslexia is a ground-breaking analysis of the whole field of dyslexia by a distinguished team of international contributors and editors engaged in literacy inclusion and learning. Their diverse perspectives and wide expertise make this invaluable guide one of the most important additions to the field of dyslexia for over a decade. Dyslexia is without doubt the most high profile and contentious learning difficulty and it is a topic that has attracted a vast amount of research opinion professional schisms and debate. The Companion provides an invaluable overview of the field of dyslexia with vital and clear emphasis on linking theoretical perspectives with best practice. This accessible text: presents a survey of current and future development in research with a focus on how research can inform practice focuses on areas such as neurobiology phonological processing literacy acquisition numeracy and multilingualism considers assessment and identification with contributions on early identification reading spelling and mathematics addresses identifying and meeting needs in an inclusive context discusses inclusion and barriers to learning in a variety of different national contexts includes models of instruction direct instruction co-operative learning and cross-curricular learning. The Routledge Companion to Dyslexia is a superb resource for anyone interested in the subject whether in education or related subjects such as psychology or neurology. Fully indexed and cross-referenced with helpful further reading sections at the end of each entry it is ideal for those coming to the field of dyslexia for the first time as well as students and practitioners already familiar with the subject. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203549230

The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Europe 1453-1763 This compact and highly accessible work of reference covers the broad sweep of events as Europe transformed during the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. This Companion examines the centuries that saw the Reformation and Counter-Reformation the expansion of Europe and the beginnings of imperialism and enormous changes in the way government and kingship were conducted. With a wealth of chronologies tables family trees and maps this handy book is an indispensable resource for all students and teachers of early modern history. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203969199

The Routledge Companion to Education Who are the key thinkers in education? What are the hot topics in education? Where will education go from here? The Routledge Companion to Education presents the most comprehensive up-to-date guide available to the key theories themes and topics in education. Forty specially commissioned chapters covering all aspects of education introduce you to the ideas research and issues that have shaped this most diverse dynamic and fluid field. Part one provides an introduction to the key theories thinkers and disciplines within education Part two covers ideas and issues about how what and why learning takes place Part three includes analysis on particular approaches to education and explores the issues that attract much contemporary interest. Written by an international team of expert contributors the chapters all include a descriptive introduction an analysis of the key ideas and debates an overview of the latest research key questions for research and carefully selected further reading. The Routledge Companion to Education is a succinct detailed authoritative overview of the topics which are at the forefront of educational research and discourse today. This classic collection is a bookshelf essential for every student and scholar serious about the study of education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415583473

The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy The Eighteenth century is one of the most important periods in the history of Western philosophy witnessing philosophical scientific and social and political change on a vast scale. In spite of this there are few single volume overviews of the philosophy of the period as a whole. The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy is an authoritative survey and assessment of this momentous period covering major thinkers topics and movements in Eighteenth century philosophy. Beginning with a substantial introduction by Aaron Garrett the thirty-five specially commissioned chapters by an outstanding team of international contributors are organised into seven clear parts: Context and Movements Metaphysics and Understanding Mind Soul and Perception Morals and Aesthetics Politics and Society Philosophy in relation to the Arts and Sciences Major Figures. Major topics and themes are explored and discussed ranging from materialism free will and personal identity; to the emotions the social contract aesthetics and the sciences including mathematics and biology. The final section examines in more detail three figures central to the period: Hume Rousseau and Kant. As such The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy is essential reading for all students of the period both in philosophy and related disciplines such as politics literature history and religious studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138574663

The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction captures a new paradigm in the study of music interaction as a wave of recent research focuses on the role of the human body in musical experiences. This volume brings together a broad collection of work that explores all aspects of this new approach to understanding how we interact with music addressing the issues that have roused the curiosities of scientists for ages: to understand the complex and multi-faceted way in which music manifests itself not just as sound but also as a variety of cultural styles not just as experience but also as awareness of that experience.With contributions from an interdisciplinary and international array of scholars including both empirical and theoretical perspectives the Companion explores an equally impressive array of topics including: Dynamical music interaction theories and conceptsExpressive gestural interactionSocial music interactionSociological and anthropological approachesEmpowering health and well-beingModeling music interactionMusic-based interaction technologies and applicationsThis book is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand human interaction with music from an embodied perspective. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367876845

The Routledge Companion to Employment Relations Comprising five thematic sections this volume provides a critical international and interdisciplinary exploration of employment relations. It examines the major subjects and emerging areas within the field including essays on institutional theory voice new actors precarious work and employment. Led by a well-respected team of editors the contributors examine current knowledge and debates within each topic offering cutting-edge analysis and reflection. The Routledge Companion to Employment Relations is an extensive reference work that offers students and researchers an introduction to current scholarship in the longstanding discipline of employment relations. It will be an essential addition to library collections in business and management law economics  sociology and political economy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138911178

The Routledge Companion to English Studies English is now a global phenomenon no longer defined by fixed territorial cultural and social functions. The Routledge Companion to English Studies provides an authoritative overview of the subject area. Taking into account the changing conceptualisations of English this companion considers both historical trajectories and contemporary perspectives while also showcasing the state-of-the-art contributions made by the established scholars of the field. The Routledge Companion to English Studies: provides a set of broad perspectives on English as a subject of study and research; 　 highlights the importance of the link between English and other languages within the concepts of multilingualism and polylingualism;　 investigates the use of language in communication through the medium of digital technology covering key issues such as digital literacies multimodal literacies and games and broadcast language;　 explores the role of English in education taking account of social ethnographic and global perspectives on pedagogical issues. This collection of 34 newly commissioned articles provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the dynamic and diverse field of English studies and will be an invaluable text for advanced students and researchers in this area. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138484276

The Routledge Companion to Entrepreneurship Research in entrepreneurship has been booming with perspectives from a range of disciplines and numerous developing schools of thought. It can be difficult for young scholars and even long-time researchers to find their way through the lush garden of ideas we see before us. 　 The purpose of this book is to map the research terrain of entrepreneurship providing the perfect starting point for new and existing researchers looking to explore. Topics covered range from emerging perspective through issues at the core of the field to innovative methodologies. Starting off with a preface by Bill Gartner each section of the book brings together a world class set of established leading researchers and rising stars.　 This considered comprehensive and conclusive companion integrates the recent debates in entrepreneurship research under one cover to provide a resource which will be useful across disciplinary boundaries and for a whole range of students and researchers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138363182

The Routledge Companion to Environmental Planning This Companion presents a distinctive approach to environmental planning by: situating the debate in its social cultural political and institutional context; being attentive to depth and breadth of discussions; providing up-to-date accounts of the contemporary practices in environmental planning and their changes over time; adopting multiple theoretical and analytical lenses and different disciplinary approaches; and drawing on knowledge and expertise of a wide range of leading international scholars from across the social science disciplines and beyond. It aims to provide critical reviews of the state-of-the-art theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and understandings of environmental planning; encourage dialogue across disciplines and national policy contexts about a wide range of environmental planning themes; and engage with and reflect on politics policies practices and decision-making tools in environmental planning. The Companion provides a deeper understanding of the interdependencies between the themes in the four parts of the book (Understanding ‘the environment’ Environmental governance Critical environmental pressures and responses and Methods and approaches to environmental planning) and its 37 chapters. It presents critical perspectives on the role of meanings values governance approaches and participations in environmental planning. Situating environmental planning debates in the wider ecological political ethical institutional social and cultural debates it aims to shine light on some of the critical journeys that we have traversed and those that we are yet to navigate and their implications for environmental planning research and practice. The Companion provides a reference point mapping out the terrain of environmental planning in an international and multidisciplinary context. The depth and breadth of discussions by leading international scholars make it relevant to and useful for those who are curious about wish to learn more want to make sense of and care for the environment within the field of environmental planning and beyond. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138894808

The Routledge Companion to Epistemology Epistemology the philosophy of knowledge is at the core of many of the central debates and issues in philosophy interrogating the notions of truth objectivity trust belief and perception. The Routledge Companion to Epistemology provides a comprehensive and the up-to-date survey of epistemology charting its history providing a thorough account of its key thinkers and movements and addressing enduring questions and contemporary research in the field. Organized thematically the Companion is divided into ten sections: Foundational Issues The Analysis of Knowledge The Structure of Knowledge Kinds of Knowledge Skepticism Responses to Skepticism Knowledge and Knowledge Attributions Formal Epistemology The History of Epistemology and Metaepistemological Issues. Seventy-eight chapters each between 5000 and 7000 words and written by the world’s leading epistemologists provide students with an outstanding and accessible guide to the field. Designed to fit the most comprehensive syllabus in the discipline this text will be an indispensible resource for anyone interested in this central area of philosophy. The Routledge Companion to Epistemology is essential reading for students of philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415722698

The Routledge Companion to Ethics The Routledge Companion to Ethics is an outstanding survey of the whole field of ethics by a distinguished international team of contributors. Over 60 chapters are divided into six clear sections: the history of ethics meta-ethics perspectives from outside ethics ethical perspectives morality debates in ethics. The Companion opens with a comprehensive historical overview of ethics including chapters on Plato Aristotle Hume and Kant and ethical thinking in China India and the Arabic tradition. The second part covers the domain of meta-ethics. The third part covers important challenges to ethics from the fields of anthropology psychology sociobiology and economics. The fourth and fifth sections cover competing theories of ethics and the nature of morality respectively with entries on consequentialism Kantian morality virtue ethics relativism evil and responsibility amongst many others. A comprehensive final section includes the most important topics and controversies in applied ethics such as rights justice and distribution the end of life the environment poverty war and terrorism. The Routledge Companion to Ethics is a superb resource for anyone interested in the subject whether in philosophy or related disciplines such as politics education or law. Fully indexed and cross-referenced with helpful further reading sections at the end of each chapter it is ideal for those coming to the field of ethics for the first time as well as readers already familiar with the subject. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415415163

The Routledge Companion to Ethics Politics and Organizations The Routledge Companion to Ethics Politics and Organizations synthesizes and extends existing research on ethics in organizations by explicitly focusing on ‘ethico-politics’ - where ethics informs political action. It draws connections between ethics and politics in and around organizations and the workplace examines cutting-edge areas and sets the scene for future research. Through a wealth of international and multidisciplinary contributions this volume considers the broad range of ways in which ethics and politics can be conceived and understood. The chapters look at various ethical traditions as well as the discursive deployment of ethical terminology in organizational settings and they also examine large scale political structures and processes and how they relate to different forms of politics which affect behaviour in organizations. These many possibilities are united by a focus on how ethics can be used to inform and justify the exercise of power in organizations. This collection will be a valuable reference source for students and researchers across the disciplines of organizational studies ethics and politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415821261

The Routledge Companion to Ethnic Marketing The globalization of marketing has brought about an interesting paradox: as the discipline becomes more global the need to understand cultural differences becomes all the more crucial. This is the challenge in an increasingly international marketplace and a problem that the world's most powerful businesses must solve. From this challenge has grown the exciting discipline of ethnic marketing which seeks to understand the considerable opportunities and challenges presented by cultural and ethnic diversity in the marketplace.To date scholarship in the area has been lively but disparate. This volume brings together cutting-edge research on　ethnic marketing from thought leaders across the world. Each chapter covers a key theme reflecting the increasing diversity of the latest research including models of culture change parenting and socialization responses to web and advertising role of space and social innovation in ethnic marketing ethnic consumer decision making religiosity differing attitudes to materialism acculturation targeting and ethical and public policy issues.The result is a solid framework and a comprehensive reference point for consumer researchers students and practitioners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367867423

The Routledge Companion to European Business International Business is a well-established research field in which regionalisation has recently gained significant prominence. Europe comprises marketplaces characterised by unique patterns of highly advanced economic integration. No other marketplace in the world has progressed to the same levels of harmonisation across sovereign countries and economies. European Business is a subject in its own right with its own research momentum. Contemporary research evidences that firms view Europe as a challenging mostly – yet not entirely – mature market location. Yet this location often seen from a multi-country perspective is subject to complexities revealing strategic corporate strengths and weaknesses. Theory concepts and models known from International Business hence often vary in their applicability and relevance in this business environment. This comprehensive reference volume brings together a global team of contributors to analyse and overview the key issues themes and phenomena that affect business in Europe. With interdisciplinary perspectives the book covers crucial themes that any European Business research needs to acknowledge including business cultures and identity entrepreneurship and innovation M&A and institutional trends European HRM migration climate change issues Brexit and more. The selection of authors from 17 countries worldwide reflects the international scope of this research field and its agenda. A unique resource this book provides an essential guide to researchers research students and scholars of business and the social sciences as well as the informed business community. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138226586

The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking when the very category of the literary is coming under intense pressure. How will literature reconfigure itself in the future? The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature maps this expansive and multifaceted field with essays on: the history of literary experiment from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present the impact of new media on literature including multimodal literature digital fiction and code poetry the development of experimental genres from graphic narratives and found poetry through to gaming and interactive fiction experimental movements from Futurism and Surrealism to Postmodernism Avant-Pop and Flarf. Shedding new light on often critically neglected terrain the contributors introduce this vibrant area define its current state and offer exciting new perspectives on its future. This volume is the ideal introduction for those approaching the study of experimental literature for the first time or looking to further their knowledge. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138797383

The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context is a challenging exploration of the transnational formation dissemination and transformation of expressionism outside of the German-speaking world in regions such as Central and Eastern Europe the Baltics and Scandinavia Western and Southern Europe North and Latin America and South Africa in the first half of the twentieth century. Comprising a series of essays by an international group of scholars in the fields of art history and literary and cultural studies the volume addresses the intellectual discussions and artistic developments arising in the context of the expressionist movement in the various art centers and cultural regions. The authors also examine the implications of expressionism in artistic practice and its influence on modern and contemporary cultural production. Essential for an in-depth understanding and discussion of expressionism this volume opens up new perspectives on developments in the visual arts of this period and challenges the traditional narratives that have predominantly focused on artistic styles and national movements. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138712553

The Routledge Companion to Fair Value and Financial Reporting Comprising contributions from a unique mixture of academics standard setters and practitioners and edited by an internationally recognized expert this book on a controversial and intensely debated topic is the only definitive reference source available on the topics of fair value and financial reporting. Drawing chapters from a diverse range of contributors on different aspects of the subject together into one volume it: examines the use of fair value in international financial reporting standards and the US standard SFAS 157 Fair Value Measurement setting out the case for and against looks at fair value from a number of different theoretical perspectives including possible future uses alternative measurement paradigms and how it compares with other valuation models explores fair value accounting in practice including audit financial instruments impairments an investment banking perspective approaches to fair value in Japan and the USA and Enron’s use of fair value An outstanding resource this volume is an indispensable reference that is deserving of a place on the bookshelves of both libraries and all those working in studying or researching the areas of international accounting financial accounting and reporting. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203815151

The Routledge Companion to Fair Value in Accounting The concept of "fair value" marked a major departure from traditional cost accounting. In theory under this approach a balance sheet that better reflects the current value of assets and liabilities. Critics of fair value argue that it is less useful over longer time frames and prone to distortion by market inefficiencies resulting in procyclicality in the financial system by exacerbating market swings.Comprising contributions from a unique mixture of academics standard setters and practitioners and edited by internationally recognized experts this book on a controversial and intensely debated topic is a comprehensive reference source which:examines the use of fair value in international financial reporting standards and the US standard SFAS 157 Fair Value Measurement setting out the case for and againstlooks at fair value from a number of different theoretical and practical perspectives including a critical review of the merits and arguments against the use of fair value accountingexplores fair value accounting in practice involvement in the Great Financial Crisis implications for managerial reporting discretion compensation and investmentThis volume is an indispensable reference that is deserving of a place on the bookshelves of both libraries and all those working in studying or researching the areas of international accounting financial accounting and reporting. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656133

The Routledge Companion to Family Business The Routledge Companion to Family Business offers a definitive survey of a field that has seen rapid growth in research in recent years. Edited by leading scholars with contributions from the top minds in family business from around the world this volume provides researchers and scholars with a comprehensive understanding of the state of the discipline. Over 25 chapters address a wide variety of subjects providing readers with a thorough review of the key research themes in the modern family firm such as corporate social responsibility and bank debt rationing. International examples cover a wide range of economies including China Europe and Latin America. The book will appeal to undergraduates postgraduates and business instructors seeking a definitive view of the issues and solutions that affect and support family business. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138919112

The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics subjects thinkers and debates in feminist philosophy. Fifty-six chapters written by an international team of contributors specifically for the Companion are organized into five sections: (1) Engaging the Past; (2) Mind Body and World; (3) Knowledge Language and Science; (4) Intersections; (5) Ethics Politics and Aesthetics. The volume provides a mutually enriching representation of the several philosophical traditions that contribute to feminist philosophy. It also foregrounds issues of global concern and scope; shows how feminist theory meshes with rich theoretical approaches that start from transgender identities race and ethnicity sexuality disabilities and other axes of identity and oppression; and highlights the interdisciplinarity of feminist philosophy and the ways that it both critiques and contributes to the whole range of subfields within philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367257989

The Routledge Companion to Financial Accounting Theory Financial accounting theory has numerous practical applications and policy implications for instance international accounting standard setters are increasingly relying on theoretical accounting concepts in the creation of new standards; and corporate regulators are increasingly turning to various conceptual frameworks of accounting to guide regulation and the interpretation of accounting practices.The global financial crisis has also led to a new found appreciation of the social economic and political importance of accounting concepts generally and corporate financial reporting in particular. For instance the fundamentals of capital market theory (i.e. market efficiency) and measurement theory (i.e. fair value) have received widespread public and regulatory attention.This comprehensive authoritative volume provides a prestige reference work which offers students academics regulators and practitioners a valuable resource containing the current scholarship and practice in the established field of financial accounting theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656294

The Routledge Companion to Financial Services Marketing Interest in Financial Services Marketing has grown hugely over the last few decades particularly since the financial crisis which scarred the industry and its relationship with customers. It reflects the importance of the financial services industry to the economies of every nation and the realisation that the consumption and marketing of financial services differs from that of tangible goods and indeed many other intangible services. 　 This book is therefore a timely and much needed comprehensive compendium that reflects the development and maturation of the research domain and pulls together in a single volume the current state of thinking and debate. The events associated with the financial crisis have highlighted that there is a need for banks and other financial institutions to understand how to rebuild trust and confidence improve relationships and derive value from the marketing process. Edited by an international team of experts this book will provide the latest thinking on how to manage such challenges and will be vital reading for students and lecturers in financial services marketing policy makers and practitioners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415829144

The Routledge Companion to Free Will Questions concerning free will are intertwined with issues in almost every area of philosophy from metaphysics to philosophy of mind to moral philosophy and are also informed by work in different areas of science (principally physics neuroscience and social psychology). Free will is also a perennial concern of serious thinkers in theology and in non-western traditions. Because free will can be approached from so many different perspectives and has implications for so many debates a comprehensive survey needs to encompass an enormous range of approaches. This book is the first to draw together leading experts on every aspect of free will from those who are central to the current philosophical debates to non-western perspectives to scientific contributions and to those who know the rich history of the subject. Chapter 37 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138795815_oachapter37.pdf Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367869977

The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban PlanningTools for Design Teaching and Research The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning aims to identify and showcase the rich diversity of games including: simulation games game-like approaches game scenarios and gamification processes for teaching/learning design and research in architecture and urban planning. This collection creates an opportunity for exchange and reflection on games in architecture and urban planning. Theoretical discussions descriptive accounts and case studies presenting empirical evidence are featured; combined with reflections constructive critical analysis discussions of connections and various influences on this field. Twenty-eight international contributors have come together from eleven countries and five continents to present their studies on games in architecture and urban planning pose new questions and advocate for innovative perspectives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138339026

The Routledge Companion to Gender Sex and Latin American Culture The Routledge Companion to Gender Sex and Latin American Culture is the first comprehensive volume to explore the intersections between gender sexuality and the creation consumption and interpretation of popular culture in the Américas.The chapters seek to enrich our understanding of the role of pop culture in the everyday lives of its creators and consumers primarily in the 20th and 21st centuries. They reveal how popular culture expresses the historical social cultural and political commonalities that have shaped the lives of peoples that make up the Américas and also highlight how pop culture can conform to and solidify existing social hierarchies whilst on other occasions contest and resist the status quo. Front and center in this collection are issues of gender and sexuality making visible the ways in which subjects who inhabit intersectional identities (sex gender race class) are "othered" as well as demonstrating how these same subjects can and do use pop-cultural phenomena in self-affirmative and progressively transformative ways. Topics covered in this volume include TV film pop and performance art hip-hop dance slam poetry gender-fluid religious ritual theater stand-up comedy graffiti videogames photography graphic arts sports spectacles comic books sci-fi and other genre novels lotería card games news web and digital media. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367734350

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture This Companion is a comprehensive examination of the varied ways in which gender issues manifest throughout culture in Japan using a range of international perspectives to examine private and public constructions of identity as well as gender- and sexuality-inflected cultural production. The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture features both new work and updated accounts of classic scholarship providing a go-to reference work for contemporary scholarship on gender in Japanese culture. The volume is interdisciplinary in scope with chapters drawing from a range of perspectives fields and disciplines including anthropology art history history law linguistics literature media and cultural studies politics and sociology. This reflects the fundamentally interdisciplinary nature of the dual focal points of this volume—gender and culture—and the ways in which these themes infuse a range of disciplines and subfields. In this volume Jennifer Coates Lucy Fraser and Mark Pendleton have brought together an essential guide to experiences of gender in Japanese culture today—perfect for students scholars and anyone else interested in Japan culture gender studies and beyond. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138895201

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies is a comprehensive global and interdisciplinary examination of the essential relationship between Gender Sexuality Comics and Graphic Novels. A diverse range of international and interdisciplinary scholars take a closer look at how gender and sexuality have been essential in the evolution of comics and how gender and sexuality in comics demand that we re-frame and re-view comics history. Chapters cover a wide array of intersectional topics including Queer Underground and Alternative comics Feminist Autobiography re-drawing disability Latina testimony and re-evaluating the critical whiteness and masculinity of superheroes in this first truly global reference text to gender and sexuality in comics. Comics have always been an important place for the radical exploration of feminist and non-binary sexualities and identities and the growth of non-normative comic book traditions as a field of inquiry makes this an essential text for upper-level undergraduates postgraduates and researchers studying Comics Studies Women’s and Gender Studies Literary Studies and Cultural Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367209414

The Routledge Companion to Global Female Entrepreneurship The literature in female entrepreneurship has witnessed significant development in the last 30 years with the research emphasis shifting from purely descriptive explorations towards a clear effort to embed research within highly informed conceptual frameworks. With contributions from leading and emerging researchers The Routledge Companion to Global Female Entrepreneurship brings together the latest international research concepts and thinking in the area. With a strong international dimension this book will facilitate comparative discussion and analysis on all aspects of female entrepreneurship including start-ups socio-economic influences entrepreneurial capital and minority entrepreneurship. Reflecting the subject’s growing importance for researchers academics and policy makers as well as those involved in supporting women’s entrepreneurship through training programmes networks consultancy or the provision of venture capital The Routledge Companion to Global Female Entrepreneurship will be an invaluable reference resource. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138015180

The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories brings together research on the diverse Internet histories that have evolved in different regions language cultures and social contexts across the globe. While the Internet is now in its fifth decade the understanding and formulation of its histories outside of an anglophone framework is still very much in its infancy. From Tunisia to Taiwan this volume emphasizes the importance of understanding and formulating Internet histories outside of the anglophone case studies and theoretical paradigms that have thus far dominated academic scholarship on Internet history. Interdisciplinary in scope the collection offers a variety of historical lenses on the development of the Internet: as a new communication technology seen in the context of older technologies; as a new form of sociality read alongside previous technologically mediated means of relating; and as a new media "vehicle" for the communication of content. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367870751

The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture Research on popular culture is a dynamic fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms it cuts across many areas including communication studies sociology history American studies anthropology literature journalism folklore economics and media and cultural studies. The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture provides an authoritative up-to-date intellectually broad internationally-aware and conceptually agile guide to the most important aspects of popular culture scholarship. Specifically this Companion includes: interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing popular culture; wide-ranging case studies; discussions of economic and policy underpinnings; analysis of textual manifestations of popular culture; examinations of political social and cultural dynamics; and discussions of emerging issues such as ecological sustainability and labor. Featuring scholarly voices from across six continents The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture presents a nuanced and wide-ranging survey of popular culture research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138214767

The Routledge Companion to Global Television Featuring scholarly perspectives from around the globe and drawing on a legacy of television studies but with an eye toward the future this authoritative collection examines both the thoroughly global nature of television and the multiple and varied experiences that constitute television in the twenty-first century. Companion chapters include original essays by some of the leading scholars of television studies as well as emerging voices engaging television on six continents offering readers a truly global range of perspectives. The volume features multidisciplinary analyses that offer models and guides for the study of global television with approaches focused on the theories audiences content culture and institutions of television. A wide array of examples and case studies engage the transforming practices technologies systems and texts constituing television around the world today providing readers with a contemporary and multi-faceted perspective. In this volume editor Shawn Shimpach has brought together an essential guide to understanding television in the world today how it works and what it means – perfect for students scholars and anyone else interested in television global media studies and beyond. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138724341

The Routledge Companion to Happiness at Work An unprecedented and important reference work this research companion covers a range of aspects of happiness an aim everyone aspires to achieve yet can be easily overlooked in today’s demanding and multi-challenged world or confused with a plethora of quantifiable or career goals. This book helps readers to internalize happiness form a healthy opinion about this emotion and detach it from external factors that can only cause temporary discomfort or delight. A group of expert authors considers happiness within three critical realms: internally interactively and work-related. Their thoughtful contributions approach happiness from a multiplicity of angles and present a full spectrum of backgrounds and perspectives to consider based on a wide range of circumstances personal and professional. This companion will be valuable for researchers students and coaches whether they seek input for future theory development or motivation for performance in personal and professional life. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367266554

The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities The health humanities is a rapidly rising field advancing an inclusive democratizing activist applied critical and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being through the arts and humanities. It has generated new kinds of interdisciplinary research knowledge and communities of practice globally. It has also acted to bring greater coherence and political force to contributions across a range of related disciplines and traditions. In this volume a formidable set of authors explore the history current state and future of the health humanities in particular how its vision of the arts and humanities: Promotes creative public health. Opens new routes to health and well-being. Informs and drives better health care. Interrogates relationships between ill health and social equality. Develops humanist theory in relation to health and social care practice. Foregrounds cultural difference as a resource for positive change in society. Tests the humanity of an increasingly globalized health-care system. Looks to overcome structural and process obstacles to cross-disciplinary ventures. Champions co-construction co-design and mutuality in solving health and well-being challenges. Showcases less familiar prominent or celebrated creative practices. Includes multiple perspectives on the value and health benefits of the arts and humanities not limited to or dominated by medicine. Divided into two main sections the Companion looks at "Reflections and Critical Perspectives " offering current thinking and definitions within health humanities and "Applications " comprising a wide selection of applied arts and humanities practices from comedy writing and dancing to yoga cooking and horticultural display. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138579903

The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics Hermeneutics is a major theoretical and practical form of intellectual enquiry central not only to philosophy but many other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. With phenomenology and existentialism it is also one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophical movements and includes major thinkers such as Heidegger Gadamer and Ricoeur. The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key philosophers topics and themes in this exciting subject and is the first volume of its kind. Comprising over fifty chapters by a team of international contributors the Companion is divided into five parts: main figures in the hermeneutical tradition movement including Heidegger Gadamer and Ricoeur main topics in hermeneutics such as language truth relativism and history the engagement of hermeneutics with central disciplines such as literature religion race and gender and art hermeneutics and world philosophies including Asian Islamic and Judaic thought hermeneutic challenges and debates such as critical theory structuralism and phenomenology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138574632

The Routledge Companion to Human Resource Development The field of Human Resource Development (HRD) has grown in prominence as an independent discipline from its roots in both management and education since the 1980s. There has been continual debate about the boundaries of HRD ever since. Drawing on a wide and respected international contributor base and with a focus on international markets this book provides a thematic overview of current knowledge in HRD across the globe. The text is separated into nine sections which explore the origins of the field adjacent and related fields theoretical approaches policy perspectives interventions core issues and concerns HRD as a profession HRD around the world and emerging topics and future trends. An epilogue rounds off the volume by considering the present and future states of the discipline and suggesting areas for further research. The Routledge Companion to Human Resource Development is an essential resource for researchers students and HRD professionals alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415820424

The Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action The Companion on Humanitarian Action addresses the political ethical legal and practical issues which influence reactions to humanitarian crisis. It does so by exploring the daily dilemmas faced by a range of actors including policy makers aid workers the private sector and the beneficiaries of aid and by challenging common perceptions regarding humanitarian crisis and the policies put in place to address these.    Through such explorations it provides practitioners and scholars with the knowledge needed to both understand and improve upon current forms of humanitarian action.   The Companion will be of use to those interested a range of humanitarian programmes ranging from emergency medical assistance   military interventions managing refugee flows and the implementation of international humanitarian law.  As opposed to addressing specific programmes it will explore five themes seen as relevant to understanding and engaging in all modes of humanitarian action.  The first section explores varying interpretations of humanitarianism including critical historical and political-economic explanations as well as more practice based explorations focused on notions needs assessments and evaluation.  Following this readers will be exposed to the latest debates on a range of humanitarian principles including neutrality and sovereignty before exploring the key issues faced by the main actors involved in  humanitarian crisis (from international  NGOs to local community based organizations). The final two sections address what are seen as key dilemmas in regards to humanitarian action and emerging trends in the humanitarian system including the increasing role of social media in responding to crises.  Whilst not a ‘how to guide’ the Companion contains many practical insights for policy makers and aid workers whilst also offering analytical insights for students of hu Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367868000

The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies takes an important place in the scholarly landscape by bringing together a compelling collection of essays that reflect the evolving ways in which researchers think and write about the Iberian Peninsula. Features include: A comprehensive approach to the different languages and cultural traditions of the Iberian Peninsula; Five chronological sections spanning the period from the Middle Ages to the 21st century; A state-of-the-art account of the field reaffirming Iberian Studies as a dynamic and evolving discipline with promising areas for future research; An array of topics of an interdisciplinary nature (history and politics language and literature cultural studies and visual arts) focusing on the cultural distinctiveness of Iberian traditions; New perspectives and avenues of inquiry that aim to promote a comparative mode within Iberian Studies and Hispanism. The fifty authoritative original essays will provide readers with a diverse cross-section of texts that will enrich their knowledge of Iberian Studies from an international perspective. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367867386

The Routledge Companion to Identity and Consumption "Tell me what you eat I'll tell you who you are " said Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Today "You are what you consume" is more apt. Barbara Krueger’s ironic twist of Descartes - "I shop therefore I am" - has lost its irony. Such phrases have become commonplace descriptions of our identity in the contemporary world. In our materialistic world it seems as if there is no debate that our consumption behaviour is fused with our self-identity - shaping it changing it and often challenging it. The Routledge Companion to Identity and Consumption introduces the reader to state-of-the-art research written by the world’s leading scholars regarding the interplay between identity and consumption. The book addresses the diverse issues regarding the ways identity affects our consumption behaviour and vice-versa and in doing so presents a broad perspective on the dynamics of self-identity and consumption. With chapters discussing the theory research and practical implications of these dynamics including the way they change across our life span and their expression within different social cultural and religious contexts this book will be a valuable reference source for students and academics from a variety of disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415783064

The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media including literature television film and games. From the Star Trek universe Thomas More’s classic Utopia and J. R. R. Tolkien’s Arda to elaborate user-created game worlds like Minecraft contributors present interdisciplinary perspectives on authorship world structure/design and narrative. The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds offers new approaches to imaginary worlds as an art form and cultural phenomenon explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of world-building and studies of specific worlds and worldbuilders. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367876302

The Routledge Companion to Inclusive Leadership An important reference work on a practice that is needed more than ever in a VUCA world this book helps readers understand the importance of responsible and constructive practices and behavior in leadership. The broad approach to inclusive leadership presented in this volume highlights correlations between inclusive leadership and myriad issues qualities and circumstances that serve as foundations or impact factors on it. Some contributors review contemporary concepts and challenges such as change innovation the bottom line sustainability and performance excellence against inclusive leadership. Other contributors reflect on critical practices and qualities such as trust passion ethics spirituality and empathy and their relationships with inclusive leadership. A range of religious and spiritual influences are also evaluated in the context of inclusive leadership such as (but not limited to) Buddhism Taoism Hinduism Jainism and Christianity. Postgraduate students instructors and coaches will appreciate this comprehensive look at inclusive leadership which has become an urgent concept to be internalized and practiced by all regardless of positions possessions locations or generations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367265670

The Routledge Companion to Indigenous RepatriationReturn Reconcile Renew This volume brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous repatriation practitioners and researchers to provide the reader with an international overview of the removal and return of Ancestral Remains. The Ancestral Remains of Indigenous peoples are today housed in museums and other collecting institutions globally. They were taken from anywhere the deceased can be found and their removal occurred within a context of deep power imbalance within a colonial project that had a lasting effect on Indigenous peoples worldwide. Through the efforts of First Nations campaigners many have returned home. However a large number are still retained. In many countries the repatriation issue has driven a profound change in the relationship between Indigenous peoples and collecting institutions. It has enabled significant steps towards resetting this relationship from one constrained by colonisation to one that seeks a more just dignified and truthful basis for interaction. The history of repatriation is one of Indigenous perseverance and success. The authors of this book contribute major new work and explore new facets of this global movement. They reflect on nearly 40 years of repatriation its meaning and value impact and effect. This book is an invaluable contribution to repatriation practice and research providing a wealth of new knowledge to readers with interests in Indigenous histories self-determination and the relationship between collecting institutions and Indigenous peoples. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138303584

The Routledge Companion to Innovation Management Innovation contributes to corporate competitiveness economic performance and environmental sustainability. In the Internet era innovation intelligence is transferred across borders and languages at an unprecedented rate yet the ability to benefit from it seems to become more divergent among different corporations and countries. How much an organization can benefit from innovation largely depends on how well innovation is managed in it. Thus there is a discernible increase in interest in the study of innovation management. This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to this subject.The handbook introduces the basic framework of innovation and innovation management. It also presents innovation management from the perspectives of strategy organization and resource as well as institution and culture. The book’s comprehensive coverage on all areas of innovation management makes this a very useful reference for anyone interested in the subject. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656065

The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage This collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage the book also discusses local-level conceptualizations of living cultural traditions practices and expressions and reflects on the efforts that seek to safeguard them. Exploring a global range of case studies the book considers the diverse perspectives currently involved with intangible cultural heritage and presents a rich picture of the geographic socioeconomic and political contexts impacting research in this area. With contributions from established and emerging scholars public servants professionals students and community members this volume is also deeply enhanced by an interdisciplinary approach which draws on the theories and practices of heritage and museum studies anthropology folklore studies ethnomusicology and the study of cultural policy and related law. The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage undoubtedly broadens the international heritage discourse and is an invaluable learning tool for instructors students and practitioners in the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367872076

The Routledge Companion to Intellectual Capital The Routledge Companion to Intellectual Capital offers a comprehensive overview of an important field that has seen a diverse range of developments in research in recent years. Edited by leading scholars and with contributions from top academics and practitioners from around the world this volume will provide not just theoretical analysis but also evaluate practice through case studies. Combining theoretical and practice perspectives this comprehensive Companion addresses the role of IC inside and between organisations and institutions and how these contribute to the IC of nations regions and clusters. Drawing on an extensive range of leading contributors The Routledge Companion to Intellectual Capital will be of interest to scholars who want to understand IC from a variety of perspectives as well as students who are seeking an authoritative and comprehensive source on IC and knowledge management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138228214

The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies An essential overview of this blossoming field The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies is the first collection to draw together the diverse approaches and perspectives on the field highlighting the importance of Inter-American Studies as it is practiced today. Including contributions from canonical figures in the field as well as a younger generation of scholars reflecting the foundation and emergence of the field and establishing links between older and newer methodologies this Companion covers: Theoretical reflections Colonial and historical perspectives Cultural and political intersections Border discourses Sites and mobilities Literary and linguistic perspectives Area studies global studies and postnational studies Phenomena of transfer interconnectedness power asymmetry and transversality within the Americas. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138184671

The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing Volume I: Development The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing Volume I: Development introduces the many voices necessary to better understand the act of singing—a complex human behaviour that emerges without deliberate training. Presenting research from the social sciences and humanities alongside that of the natural sciences and medicine alike this companion explores the relationship between hearing sensitivity and vocal production in turn identifying how singing is integrated with sensory and cognitive systems while investigating the ways we test and measure singing ability and development. Contributors consider the development of singing within the context of the entire lifespan focusing on its cognitive social and emotional significance in four parts: Musical historical and scientific foundations Perception and production Multimodality Assessment In 2009 the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded a seven-year major collaborative research initiative known as Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS). Together global researchers from a broad range of disciplines addressed three challenging questions: How does singing develop in every human being? How should singing be taught and used to teach? How does singing impact wellbeing? Across three volumes The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing consolidates the findings of each of these three questions defining the current state of theory and research in the field. Volume I: Development tackles the first of these three questions tracking development from infancy through childhood to adult years. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138059306

The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing Volume II: Education The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing Volume II: Education examines the many methods and motivations for vocal pedagogy promoting singing not just as an art form arising from the musical instrument found within every individual but also as a means of communication with social psychological and didactic functions. Presenting research from myriad fields of study beyond music—including psychology education sociology computer science linguistics physiology and neuroscience—the contributors address singing in three parts: Learning to Sing Naturally Formal Teaching of Singing Using Singing to Teach In 2009 the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded a seven-year major collaborative research initiative known as Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS). Together global researchers from a broad range of disciplines addressed three challenging questions: How does singing develop in every human being? How should singing be taught and used to teach? How does singing impact wellbeing? Across three volumes The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing consolidates the findings of each of these three questions defining the current state of theory and research in the field. Volume II: Education focuses on the second question and offers an invaluable resource for anyone who identifies as a singer wishes to become a singer works with singers or is interested in the application of singing for the purposes of education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138061149

The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing Volume III: Wellbeing The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing Volume III: Wellbeing explores the connections between singing and health promoting the power of singing—in public policy and in practice—in confronting health challenges across the lifespan. These chapters shape an interdisciplinary research agenda that advances singing’s theoretical empirical and applied contributions providing methodologies that reflect individual and cultural diversities. Contributors assess the current state of knowledge and present opportunities for discovery in three parts: Singing and Health Singing and Cultural Understanding Singing and Intergenerational Understanding In 2009 the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded a seven-year major collaborative research initiative known as Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS). Together global researchers from a broad range of disciplines addressed three challenging questions: How does singing develop in every human being? How should singing be taught and used to teach? How does singing impact wellbeing? Across three volumes The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing consolidates the findings of each of these three questions defining the current state of theory and research in the field. Volume III: Wellbeing focuses on this third question and the health benefits of singing singing praises for its effects on wellbeing. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138061224

The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature Demonstrating the aesthetic cultural political and intellectual diversity of children’s literature across the globe The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature is the first volume of its kind to focus on the undervisited regions of the world. With particular focus on Asia Africa and Latin America the collection raises awareness of children’s literature and related media as they exist in large regions of the world to which ‘mainstream’ European and North American scholarship pays very little attention. Sections cover: • Concepts and theories • Historical contexts and national identity • Cultural forms and children’s texts • Traditional story and adaptation • Picture books across the majority world • Trends in children’s and young adult literatures.   Exposition of the literary cultural and historical contexts in which children’s literature is produced together with an exploration of intersections between these literatures and more extensively researched areas will enhance access and understanding for a large range of international readers. The essays offer an ideal introduction for those newly approaching literature for children in specific areas looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives or interested in directions for future scholarship. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138778061

The Routledge Companion to International Entrepreneurship The domain of international entrepreneurship has continued to gain momentum in an era that sees entrepreneurship and globalization as critical issues in the world of business. Given the flourish of new research in this area there is a need to provide an up-to-date perspective on the field and its future. This volume draws together a team of experts purposely selected from both the entrepreneurship and international business fields to present a comprehensive resource on the cutting-edge conversations within international entrepreneurship. This prestigious reference book will offer students and researchers an introduction to leading scholarship in international entrepreneurship and also serve as a catapult for future research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415829199

The Routledge Companion to International Hospitality Management The hospitality sector is facing increasing competition and complexity over recent decades in its development towards a global industry. The strategic response to this is still that hospitality companies try to grow outside their traditional territories and domestic markets while the expansion patterns and M&A activities of international hotel and restaurant chains reflect this phenomenon. Yet interestingly the strategies concepts and methods of internationalization as well as the managerial and organizational challenges and impacts of globalizing the hospitality business are under-researched in this industry. While the mainstream research on international management offers an abundance of information and knowledge on topics players trends concepts frameworks or methodologies its ability to produce viable insights for the hospitality industry is limited as the mainstream research is taking place outside of the service sector. Specific research directions and related cases like the international dimensions of strategy organization marketing sales staffing control culture and others to the hospitality industry are rarely identifiable so far. The core rationale of this book is therefore to present newest insights from research and industry in the field of international hospitality drawing together recent scientific knowledge and state-of-the-art expertise to suggest directions for future work. It is designed to raise awareness on the international factors influencing the strategy and performance of hospitality organizations while analyzing and discussing the present and future challenges for hospitality firms going or being international. This book will provide a comprehensive overview and deeper understanding of trends and issues to researchers practitioners and students by showing how to master current and future challenges when entering and competing in the global hospitality industry. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138386372

The Routledge Companion to International Human Resource Management International human resource management (IHRM) is a key area of research in the sphere of international business and management. Described as a field in its infancy in the 1980s IHRM has quickly advanced through adolescence and into maturity. Today it is a vibrant and diverse discipline which boasts a large and active body of researchers across the globe. This volume examines cutting-edge themes with the input of contributions from both established and emerging scholars. The Routledge Companion to International Human Resource Management gives a state-of-the-art overview of the key themes topics and debates in the discipline with valuable insights into directions for future research. Drawing on a large and respected international contributor base and with its focus on mature and emerging markets this book is an essential resource for researchers students and IHRM professionals alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138386198

The Routledge Companion to International Management Education Crises and scandals in the world of international management have brought a new spotlight onto how the subject is taught studied and understood. There has been a plethora of literature on international management but a lack of focus on how international management education (IME) can be shaped to respond to existing and future global business challenges. The Routledge Companion to International Management Education gathers together contributors from academia industry and university administration involved in IME to: introduce the domain of IME; describe the emerging state in new geographical areas; discuss the major issues and debates revolving around IME; explore the linkage of technology and international management and shed light on the future of IME. The diverse background of the contributors provides a global perspective that challenges the dominant Anglo-American view with up-to-date specific insights originating from their indigenous view points which has often been neglected and inadequately covered. The volume answers important questions such as: Do we need a vision in IME? What is the current state of IME? How has IME grown in emerging market segments? What roles does technology play in its recent development? The volume provides thought-provoking reading for educators administrators policy makers human resources professionals and researchers. It will also give future international management students a glimpse of IME from a global inside-out perspective. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415783149

The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy This valuable reference work synthesizes and elucidates traditional themes and issues in Islamic philosophy as well as prominent topics emerging from the last twenty years of scholarship. Written for a wide readership of students and scholars The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy is unique in including coverage of both perennial philosophical issues in an Islamic context and also distinct concerns that emerge from Islamic religious thought. This work constitutes a substantial affirmation that Islamic philosophy is an integral part of the Western philosophical tradition. Featuring 33 chapters divided into seven thematic sections this volume explores the major areas of philosophy: Logic Metaphysics Philosophy in the Sciences Philosophy of Mind/Epistemology and Ethics/Politics as well as philosophical issues salient in Islamic revelation theology prophecy and mysticism. Other features include: •A focus on both the classical and post-classical periods •A contributing body that includes both widely respected scholars from around the world and a handful of the very best younger scholars •"Reference" and "Further Reading" sections for each chapter and a comprehensive index for the whole volume The result is a work that captures Islamic philosophy as philosophy. In this way it serves students and scholars of philosophy and religious studies and at the same time provides valuable essays relevant to the study of Islamic thought and theology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138478268

The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist ArchitectureReception and Legacy Today nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to power in Italy questions about the built legacy of the regime provoke polemics among architects and scholars. Mussolini’s government constructed thousands of new buildings across the Italian Peninsula and islands and in colonial territories. From hospitals post offices and stadia to housing summer camps Fascist Party Headquarters ceremonial spaces roads railways and bridges the physical traces of the regime have a presence in nearly every Italian town.　 The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture investigates what has become of the architectural and urban projects of Italian fascism how sites have been transformed or adapted and what constitutes the meaning of these buildings and cities today. The essays include a rich array of new arguments by both senior and early career scholars from Italy and beyond. They examine the reception of fascist architecture through studies of destruction and adaptation debates over reuse artistic interventions and even routine daily practices which may slowly alter collective understandings of such places. Paolo Portoghesi sheds light on the subject from his internal perspective while Harald Bodenschatz situates Italy among period totalitarian authorities and their symbols across Europe. Section editors frame synthesize and moderate essays that explore fascism’s afterlife; how the physical legacy of the regime has been altered and preserved and what it means now. This critical history of interpretations of fascist-era architecture and urban projects broadens our understanding of the relationships among politics identity memory and place. This companion will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields including Italian history architectural history cultural studies visual sociology political science and art history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367348519

The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq presents a thorough overview and analysis of Jacques Lecoq's life work and philosophy of theatre. Through an exemplary collection of specially commissioned chapters from leading writers specialists and practitioners it draws together writings and reflections on his pedagogy his practice and his influence on the wider theatrical environment. It is a comprehensive guide to the work and legacy of one of the major figures of Western theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. In a four-part structure over fifty chapters the book examines: The historical artistic and social context out of which Lecoq's work and pedagogy arose and its relation to such figures as Jacques Copeau Antonin Artaud Jean-Louis Barrault and Dario Fo. Core themes of Lecoq's International School of Theatre such as movement play improvisation masks language comedy and tragedy investigated by former teachers and graduates of the School. The significance and value of his pedagogical approaches in the context of contemporary theatre practices. The diaspora of performance practice from the School from the perspective of many of the most prominent artists themselves. This is an important and authoritative guide for anyone interested in Lecoq's work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138611849

The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies presents over forty articles from internationally renowned scholars and highlights the strengths of current jazz scholarship in a cross-disciplinary field of enquiry. Each chapter reflects on developments within jazz studies over the last twenty-five years offering surveys and new insights into the major perspectives and approaches to jazz research. The collection provides an essential research resource for students scholars and enthusiasts and will serve as the definitive survey of current jazz scholarship in the Anglophone world to-date. It extends the critical debates about jazz that were set in motion by formative texts in the 1990s and sets the agenda for the future scholarship by focusing on key issues and providing a framework for new lines of enquiry. It is organized around six themes: I. Historical Perspectives II. Methodologies III. Core Issues and Topics IV. Individuals Collectives and Communities V. Politics Discourse and Ideology and VI. New Directions and Debates. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138231160

The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography provides an overview of Jewish history from the biblical to the contemporary period while simultaneously placing Jewish history into conversation with the most central historiographical methods and issues and some of the core source materials used by scholars within the field.The field of Jewish history is profitably interdisciplinary. Drawing from the historical methods and themes employed in the study of various periods and geographical regions as well as from academic fields outside of history it utilizes a broad range of source materials produced by Jews and non-Jews. It grapples with many issues that were core to Jewish life culture community and identity in the past while reflecting and addressing contemporary concerns and perspectives. Divided into four parts this volume examines how Jewish history has engaged with and developed more general historiographical methods and considerations. Part I provides a general overview of Jewish history while Parts II and III respectively address the rich sources and methodologies used to study Jewish history.Concluding in Part IV with a timeline glossary and index to help frame and connect the history sources and methodologies presented throughout The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography is the perfect volume for anyone interested in Jewish history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367733285

The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media Labor resides at the center of all media and communication production from the workers who create the information technologies that form the dynamic core of the global capitalist system and the designers who create media content to the salvage workers who dismantle the industry’s high-tech trash. The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media is the first book to bring together representative research from the diverse body of scholarly work surrounding this often fragmentary field and seeks to provide a comprehensive resource for the study and teaching of media and labor. Essays examine work on the mostly unglamorous side of media and cultural production technology manufacture and every occupation in between. Specifically this book features: -wide-ranging international case studies spanning the major global hubs of media labor; -interdisciplinary approaches for thinking about and analyzing class and labor in information communication technology (ICT) consumer electronics (CE) and media/cultural production; -an overview of global political economic conditions affecting media workers; -reports on chemical environments and their effect on the health of media workers and consumers; -activist scholarship on media and labor and inspiring stories of resistance and solidarity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138731776

The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies contains an updated and expanded selection of original chapters which explore research directions in an array of disciplines sharing a concern for ‘landscape’ a term which has many uses and meanings. It features 33 revised and/or updated chapters and 14 entirely new chapters on topics such as the Anthropocene Indigenous landscapes challenging landscape Eurocentrisms photography and green infrastructure planning. The volume is divided into four parts: Experiencing landscape; Landscape heritage and culture; Landscape society and justice; and Design and planning for landscape. Collectively the book provides a critical review of the various fields related to the study of landscapes including the future development of conceptual and theoretical approaches as well as current empirical knowledge and understanding. It encourages dialogue across disciplinary barriers and between academics and practitioners and reflects upon the implications of research findings for local national and international policy in relation to landscape.The Companion provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to current thinking about landscapes and serves as an invaluable point of reference for scholars researchers and graduate students alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367733759

The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema is the most comprehensive survey of Latin American cinemas available in a single volume. While highlighting state-of-the-field research essays also offer readers a cohesive overview of multiple facets of filmmaking in the region from the production system and aesthetic tendencies to the nature of circulation and reception. The volume recognizes the recent "new cinemas" in Argentina Brazil Chile and Mexico and at the same time provides a much deeper understanding of the contemporary moment by commenting on the aesthetic trends and industrial structures in earlier periods. The collection features essays by established scholars as well as up-and-coming investigators in ways that depart from existing scholarship and suggest new directions for the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367581114

The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media provides students and scholars with an indispensable overview of the domestic and transnational dynamics at play within multi-lingual Latina/o media.　 The book examines both independent and mainstream media via race and gender in its theoretical and empirical engagement with questions of production access policy representation and consumption. Contributions consider a range of media formats including television radio film print media music video and social media with particular attention to understudied fields such as audience and production studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367868789

The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture Latina/o popular culture has experienced major growth and change with the expanding demographic of Latina/os in mainstream media. In The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Pop Culture contributors pay serious critical attention to all facets of Latina/o popular culture including TV films performance art food lowrider culture theatre photography dance pulp fiction music comic books video games news web and digital media healing rituals quinceñeras and much more. Features include:consideration of differences between pop culture made by and about Latina/os;comprehensive and critical analyses of various pop cultural forms;concrete and detailed treatments of major primary works from children’s television to representations of dia de los muertos;new perspectives on the political social and historical dynamic of Latina/o pop culture;Chapters select summarize explain contextualize and assess key critical interpretations perspectives developments and debates in Latina/o popular cultural studies. A vitally engaging and informative volume this compliation of wide-ranging case studies in Latina/o pop culture phenomena encourages scholars and students to view Latina/o pop culture within the broader study of global popular culture. Contributors: Stacey Alex Cecilia Aragon Mary Beltrán William A. Calvo-Quirós Melissa Castillo-Garsow Nicholas Centino Ben Chappell Fabio Chee Osvaldo Cleger David A. Colón Marivel T. Danielson Laura Fernández Camilla Fojas Kathryn M. Frank Enrique García Christopher González Rachel González-Martin Matthew David Goodwin Ellie D. Hernandez Jorge Iber Guisela Latorre Stephanie Lewthwaite Richard Alexander Lou Stacy I. Macías Desirée Martin Paloma Martínez-Cruz Pancho McFarland Cruz Medina Isabel Millán Amelia Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367876920

The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature Latino/a literature is one of the fastest developing fields in the discipline of literary studies. It represents an identity that is characterized by fluidity and diversity often explored through divisions formed by language race gender sexuality and immigration. The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature presents over forty essays by leading and emerging international scholars of Latino/a literature and analyses: Regional cultural and sexual identities in Latino/a literature Worldviews and traditions of Latino/a cultural creation Latino/a literature in different international contexts The impact of differing literary forms of Latino/a literature The politics of canon formation in Latino/a literature. This collection provides a map of the critical issues central to the discipline as well as uncovering new perspectives and new directions for the development of the field. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the past present and future of this literary culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138783133

The Routledge Companion to Leadership Leadership has never been more important – and divisive – than it is today. The idea and discourse of the leader remains a critical factor in organizational and societal performance but there is evident tension between the persistent focus on the critical importance of individual leaders and the increasing emphasis on collective leadership. The Routledge Companion to Leadership provides a survey of the contentious and dynamic discipline of leadership. This collection covers key themes in the field including advances in leadership theory leadership in a range of contexts and geographies leadership failure leadership process and leadership development. Topics range from micro studies to wider political analyses of leadership taking in unusual but important aspects such as portrayals of leadership in architecture media and science fiction. Contributions from 61 internationally renowned authors from 16 countries make available the full range of perspectives approaches and insights on the idea of leadership. Providing both a social sciences and a psychological approach these go beyond common themes to offer diverse perspectives on such topics as emotion and leadership portrayals of leadership. This volume situates leadership debates and evidence within contemporary leadership crises while ensuring that the explorations of the issues are of enduring relevance. With wide and critical coverage of the key topics and potent contextualization of themes in current events The Routledge Companion to Leadership is the ideal resource for graduate study in leadership. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138825574

The Routledge Companion to Lean Management Interest in the phenomenon known as "lean" has grown significantly in recent years. This is the first volume to provide an academically rigorous overview of the field of lean management introducing the reader to the application of lean in diverse application areas from the production floor to sales and marketing from the automobile industry to academic institutions. The volume collects contributions from well-known lean experts and up-and-coming scholars from around the world. The chapters provide a detailed description of lean management across the manufacturing enterprise (supply chain accounting production sales IT etc.) and offer important perspectives for applying lean across different industries (construction healthcare logistics). The contributors address challenges and opportunities for future development in each of the lean application areas concluding most chapters with a short case study to illustrate current best practice. The book is divided into three parts:The Lean EnterpriseLean across IndustriesA Lean World.This handbook is an excellent resource for business and management students as well as any academics scholars practitioners and consultants interested in the "lean world." Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367873592

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability brings together some of the most influential and important contemporary perspectives in this growing field. The book traces the history of the field and locates literary disability studies in the wider context of activism and theory. It introduces debates about definitions of disability and explores intersectional approaches in which disability is understood in relation to gender race class sexuality nationality and ethnicity. Divided broadly into sections according to literary genre this is an important resource for those interested in exploring and deepening their knowledge of the field of literature and disability studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138043602

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics The study of literature and economics is by no means a new one but since the financial crash of 2008 the field has grown considerably with a broad range of both fiction and criticism. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics is the first authoritative guide tying together the seemingly disparate areas of literature and economics. Drawing together 38 critics the Companion offers both an introduction and a springboard to this sometimes complex but highly relevant field. With sections on "Critical traditions " "Histories " "Principles " and "Contemporary culture " the book looks at examples from Medieval and Renaissance literature through to poetry of the Great Depression and novels depicting the 2008 financial crisis. Covering topics from Austen to austerity Marxism to modernism the collated essays offer indispensable analysis of the relationship between literary studies and the economy. Representing a wide spectrum of approaches this book introduces the basics of economics while engaging with essential theory and debate. As the reality of economic hardship and disparity is widely acknowledged and spreads across disciplines this Companion offers students and scholars a chance to enter this crucially important interdisciplinary area. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138190870

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a wide-reaching view of the long histories and preoccupations of literary food studies with attentiveness to recent developments and shifts the volume illuminates the aesthetic cultural political and intellectual diversity of the representation of food and eating in literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138048430

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive transnational and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings on key topics. The first of its kind this volume covers essential issues and themes necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and humanities. Sections cover: subjects with pieces on subjectivity humanity identity gender universality the particular the body forms visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted and formed via the literary the visual the performative and the oral contexts tracing the development of the literature over time and in relation to specific regions and historical events impacts considering the power and limits of human rights literature rhetoric and visual culture Drawn from many different global contexts the essays offer an ideal introduction for those approaching the study of literature and human rights for the first time looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives or interested in new directions for future scholarship. Contributors: Chris Abani Jonathan E. Abel Elizabeth S. Anker Arturo Arias Ariella Azoulay Ralph Bauer Anna Bernard Brenda Carr Vellino Eleni Coundouriotis James Dawes Erik Doxtader Marc D. Falkoff Keith P. Feldman Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg Audrey J. Golden Mark Goodale Barbara Harlow Wendy S. Hesford Peter Hitchcock David Holloway Christine Hong Madelaine Hron Meg Jensen Luz Angélica Kirschner Susan Maslan Julie Avril Minich Alexandra Schultheis Moore Greg Mullins Laura T. Murphy Hanna Musiol Makau Mutua Zoe Norridge David Palumbo-Liu Crystal Parikh Katrina M. Powell Claudia Sadowski-Smith Mark Sanders Karen-Magrethe Simonsen Joseph R. Slaughter Sharon Sliwinski Sidonie Smith Domna C. Stanton Sarah G. Waisvisz Belinda Walzer Ban Wang Julia Watson Gillian Whitlock and Sarah Winter. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367365516

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion This unique and comprehensive volume looks at the study of literature and religion from a contemporary critical perspective. Including discussion of global literature and world religions this Companion looks at: key moments in the story of religion and literary studies from Matthew Arnold through to the impact of 9/11; a variety of theoretical approaches to the study of religion and literature; different ways that religion and literature are connected from overtly religious writing to subtle religious readings; analysis of key sacred texts and the way they have been studied re-written and questioned by literature; political implications of work on religion and literature. Thoroughly introduced and contextualized this volume is an engaging introduction to this huge and complex field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367365608

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature science technology mathematics and medicine. Divided into three main sections this volume: links diverse literatures to scientific disciplines from Artificial Intelligence to Thermodynamics surveys current theoretical and disciplinary approaches from Animal Studies to Semiotics traces the history and culture of literature and science from Greece and Rome to Postmodernism. Ranging from classical origins and modern revolutions to current developments in cultural science studies and the posthumanities this indispensible volume offers a comprehensive resource for undergraduates postgraduates and researchers. With authoritative accessible and succinct treatments of the sciences in their literary dimensions and cultural frameworks here is the essential guide to this vibrant area of study. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415509596

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma Literary trauma studies is a rapidly developing field which examines how literature deals with the personal and cultural aspects of trauma and engages with such historical and current phenomena as the Holocaust and other genocides 9/11 climate catastrophe or the still unsettled legacy of colonialism. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma is a comprehensive guide to the history and theory of trauma studies including key concepts consideration of critical perspectives and discussion of future developments. It also explores different genres and media such as poetry life-writing graphic narratives photography and post-apocalyptic fiction and analyses how literature engages with particular traumatic situations and events such as the Holocaust the Occupation of France the Rwandan genocide Hurricane Katrina and transgenerational nuclear trauma. Forty essays from top thinkers in the field demonstrate the range and vitality of trauma studies as it has been used to further the understanding of literature and other cultural forms across the world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138494923

The Routledge Companion to Local Media and Journalism This comprehensive edited collection provides key contributions in the field mapping out fundamental topics and analysing current trends through an international lens. Offering a collection of invited contributions from scholars across the world the volume is structured in seven parts each exploring an aspect of local media and journalism. It brings together and consolidates the latest research and theorisations from the field and provides fresh understandings of local media from a comparative perspective and within a global context. This volume reaches across national cultural technological and socio-economic boundaries to bring new understandings to the dominant foci of research in the field and highlights interconnection and thematic links. Addressing the significant changes local media and journalism have undergone in the last decade  the collection explores the history politics ethics and contents of local media as well as delving deeper into the business and practices that affect not only the journalists and media-makers involved but consumers and communities as well. For students and researchers in the fields of journalism studies journalism education cultural studies and media and communications programmes this is the comprehensive guide to local media and journalism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815375364

The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History The field of management and organizational history has reached a level of maturity that means an overview is long overdue.Written by a team of globally renowned scholars this comprehensive companion analyses management and organizational history reflecting on the most influential periods and highlighting gaps for future research. From the impact of the Cold War to Global Warming it examines the field from a wide array of perspectives from humanities to the social sciences. Covering the entire spectrum of the field this volume provides an essential resource for researchers of business and management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656300

The Routledge Companion to Management and Workplace Spirituality The Routledge Companion to Management and Workplace Spirituality provides readers with a broad cutting-edge overview of the discipline of management spirituality and religion (MSR). Marques has gathered leading scholars from around the world who share their insights and research on important topics such as linking spirituality and religion cultural influences on workplace spirituality mindfulness and managing spiritually averse people. The volume also covers each of the major religions from both East and West as well as leadership and spirituality and issues related to linking spirituality to ethics sustainability and corporate social responsibility. This volume will prove invaluable to any student or researcher looking for a comprehensive survey of the field of MSR. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138499188

The Routledge Companion to Management Buyouts Management Buyouts (MBOs) first came to prominence in the US during the early 1980s and have subsequently become a global phenomenon and a highly significant transaction within the corporate restructuring landscape Although much recent attention has focused on private equity (PE) backed buyouts these are only a subset of the total MBO market. The Routledge Companion to Management Buyouts takes a much broader definition reviewing the current state of research and theory and where further developments are likely to occur and incorporating PE and non-PE backed buyouts as well as variations such as management buy-ins and management-employee buyouts. It goes beyond the purely financial perspective exploring the many different aspects of management buyouts and incorporating related disciplines including strategy organizational change and HRM providing the first truly comprehensive authoritative resource on the topic. Expertly edited and drawing on international scholarship this unique volume will be an invaluable sourcebook on MBOs for researchers and advanced students as well as those interested in the broader areas of corporate restructuring and ownership change. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138713840

The Routledge Companion to Management Information Systems The field of Information Systems has been evolving since the first application of computers in organizations in the early 1950s. Focusing on information systems analysis and design up to and including the 1980s the field has expanded enormously with our assumptions about information and knowledge being challenged along with both intended and unintended consequences of information technology.This prestige reference work offers students and researchers a critical reflection on major topics and current scholarship in the evolving field of Information Systems. This single-volume survey of the field is organized into four parts. The first section deals with Disciplinary and Methodological Foundations. The second section deals with Development Adoption and Use of MIS – topics that formed the centrepiece of the field of IS in the last century. The third section deals with Managing Organizational IS Knowledge and Innovation while the final section considers emerging and continuing issues and controversies in the field – IS in Society and a Global Context. Each chapter provides a balanced overview of current knowledge identifying issues and discussing relevant debates.This prestigious book is required reading for any student or researcher in Management Information Systems academics and students covering the breadth of the field and established researchers seeking a single-volume repository on the current state of knowledge current debates and relevant literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656195

The Routledge Companion to Managing Digital Outsourcing This unique comprehensive collection presents the latest multi-disciplinary research in strategic digital outsourcing and digital business strategy providing a management decision-making framework for successful long-term relationships and collaboration based on trust and governance. Part I: Innovation in Business Models and Digital Outsourcing takes an internal company perspective on strategic digital outsourcing and the importance of trust in outsourcing relationships. Part II: Inter-organizational Relations and Transfer explores topics underpinning service recipients and service suppliers’ relationships including governance knowledge transfer and legal aspects. Part III: From On-site to Cloud discusses the challenges presented by moving to a cloud environment including risks and controls. Part IV: Developments to Come explores emerging technologies and their impact on digital outsourcing such as blockchain and the Internet of Things. In a fiercely competitive market companies must transform their business models and embrace new approaches. This Companion provides a comprehensive management overview of strategic digital outsourcing and is an invaluable resource for researchers and advanced students in business and strategic information management as well as a timely resource for systems professionals. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138489370

The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400-1800 The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime history culture and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the field. Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval warfare the book shows how once-traditional and often Euro-chauvinistic depictions of oceanic ‘mastery’ during the early modern period have been replaced by newer global ideas. This comprehensive volume challenges underlying assumptions by balancing its assessment of the consequences and accomplishments of European navigators in the era of Columbus da Gama and Magellan with an awareness of the sophistication and maritime expertise in Asia the Arab world and the Americas. By imparting riveting new stories and global perceptions of maritime history and culture the contributors provide readers with fresh insights concerning early modern entanglements between humans and the vast unpredictable ocean. With maritime studies growing and the ocean’s health in decline this volume is essential reading for academics and students interested in the historicization of the ocean and the ways early modern cultures both conceptualized and utilized seas. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367471842

The Routledge Companion to Marketing History The Routledge Companion to Marketing History is the first collection of readings that surveys the broader field of marketing history including the key activities and practices in the marketing process. With contributors from leading international scholars working in marketing history this companion provides nine country-specific histories of marketing practice as well as a broad analysis of the field including: the histories of advertising retailing channels of distribution product design and branding pricing strategies and consumption behavior. While other collections have provided an overview of the history of marketing thought this is the first of its kind to do so from the perspective of companies industries and even whole economies. The Routledge Companion to Marketing History ranges across many countries and industries engaging in substantive detail with marketing practices as they were performed in a variety of historical periods extending back to ancient times. It is not to be missed by any historian or student of business. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367868710

The Routledge Companion to Media Sex and Sexuality The Routledge Companion to Media Sex and Sexuality is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of the ways in which sex and sexualities are mediated in modern media and everyday life.The 40 chapters in this volume offer a snapshot of the remarkable diversification of approaches and research within the field bringing together a wide range of scholars and researchers from around the world and from different disciplinary backgrounds including cultural studies education history media studies sexuality studies and sociology.The volume presents a broad array of global and transnational issues and intersectional perspectives as authors address a series of important questions that have consequences for current and future thinking in the field. Topics explored include post-feminism masculinities media industries queer identities video games media activism music videos sexualisation celebrities sport sex-advice books pornography and erotica and social and mobile media.The Routledge Companion to Media Sex and Sexuality is an essential guide to the central ideas concepts and debates currently shaping research in mediated sexualities and the connections between conceptions of sexual identity bodies and media technologies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367581176

The Routledge Companion to Media & Gender The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender offers a comprehensive examination of media and gender studies charting its histories investigating ongoing controversies and assessing future trends. The 59 chapters in this volume written by leading researchers from around the world provide scholars and students with an engaging and authoritative survey of current thinking in media and gender research. The Companion includes the following features: With each chapter addressing a distinct concrete set of issues the volume includes research from around the world to engage readers in a broad array of global and transnational issues and intersectional perspectives. Authors address a series of important questions that have consequences for current and future thinking in the field including postfeminism sexual violence masculinity media industries queer identities video games digital policy media activism sexualization docusoaps teen drama cosmetic surgery media Islamophobia sport telenovelas news audiences pornography and social and mobile media. A range of academic disciplines inform exploration of key issues around production and policymaking representation audience engagement and the place of gender in media studies. The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender is an essential guide to the central ideas concepts and debates currently shaping media and gender research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138849129

The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism is a wide-ranging collection of 42 original and authoritative essays by leading contributors from a variety of academic disciplines. Introducing and exploring central debates about the diverse relationships between both media and protest and communication and social change the book offers readers a reliable and informed guide to understanding how media and activism influence one another. The expert contributors examine the tactics and strategies of protest movements and how activists organize themselves and each other; they investigate the dilemmas of media coverage and the creation of alternative media spaces and platforms; and they emphasize the importance of creativity and art in social change. Bringing together case studies and contributors from six continents the collection is organized around themes that address past present and future developments from around the world. The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism is an essential reference and guide for those who want to understand this vital area. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367659967

The Routledge Companion to Media and Class This companion brings together scholars working at the intersection of media and class with a focus on how understandings of class are changing in contemporary global media contexts. From the memes of and about working-class supporters of billionaire "populists" to well-publicized and critiqued philanthropic efforts to bring communication technologies into developing country contexts to the behind-the-scenes work of migrant tech workers class is undergoing change both in and through media. Diverse and thoughtfully curated contributions unpack how media industries digital technologies everyday media practices—and media studies itself—feed into and comment upon broader interdisciplinary discussions. They cover a wide range of topics such as economic inequality workplace stratification the sharing economy democracy and journalism globalization and mobility/migration. Outward-looking intersectional and highly contemporary The Routledge Companion to Media and Class is a must-read for students and researchers interested in the intersections between media class sociology technology and a changing world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138493612

The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures From Cinderella to comic con to colonialism and more this companion provides readers with a comprehensive and current guide to the fantastic uncanny and wonderful worlds of the fairy tale across media and cultures. It offers a clear detailed and expansive overview of contemporary themes and issues throughout the intersections of the fields of fairy-tale studies media studies and cultural studies addressing among others issues of reception audience cultures ideology remediation and adaptation. Examples and case studies are drawn from a wide range of pertinent disciplines and settings providing thorough accessible treatment of central topics and specific media from around the globe. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367580735

The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights offers a comprehensive and contemporary survey of the key themes approaches and debates in the field of media and human rights.The Companion is the first collection to bring together two distinct ways of thinking about human rights and media including scholarship that examines media as a human right alongside that which looks at media coverage of human rights issues. This international collection of 49 newly written pieces thus provides a unique overview of current research in the field while also providing historical context to help students and scholars appreciate how such developments depart from past practices.The volume examines the universal principals of freedom of expression legal instruments the right to know media as a human right and the role of media organisations and journalistic work. It is organised thematically in five parts:Communication Expression and Human RightsMedia Performance and Human Rights: Political ProcessesMedia Performance and Human Rights: News and JournalismDigital Activism Witnessing and Human RightsMedia Representation of Human Rights: Cultural Social and Political.Individual essays cover an array of topics including mass-surveillance LGBT advocacy press law freedom of information and children’s rights in the digital age. With contributions from both leading scholars and emerging scholars the Companion offers an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach to media and human rights allowing for international comparisons and varying perspectives.The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights provides a comprehensive introduction to the current field useful for both students and researchers and defines the agenda for future research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367581220

The Routledge Companion to Media and Race The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars students and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and understanding. Broad in scope and richly presented from a diversity of perspectives the book is divided into three sections: first it summarizes the theoretical approaches that scholars have adopted to analyze the complexities of media messages about race and ethnicity from the notion of "representation" to more recent concepts like Critical Race Theory. Second the book reviews studies related to a variety of media including film television print media social media music and video games. Finally contributors present a broad summary of media issues related to specific races and ethnicities and describe the relationship of the study of race to the study of gender and sexuality. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367869533

The Routledge Companion to Media and Risk This collection presents new work in risk media studies from critical humanities perspectives. Defining historicizing and consolidating current scholarship the volume seeks to shape an emerging field signposting its generative insights while examining its implicit assumptions. When and under what conditions does risk emerge? How is risk mediated? Who are the targets of risk media? Who manages risk? Who lives with it? Who are most in danger? Such questions—the what how who when and why of risk media—inform the scope of this volume. With roots in critical media studies and science and technology studies it hopes to inspire new questions perspectives frameworks and analytical tools not only for risk media and communication studies but also for social and cultural theories. Editors Bishnupriya Ghosh and Bhaskar Sarkar bring together contributors who elucidate and interrogate risk media’s varied histories and futures. This book is meant for students and scholars of media and communication studies science and technology studies and the interdisciplinary humanities looking either to deepen their engagement with risk media or to broaden their knowledge of this emerging field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138638938

The Routledge Companion to Media and Scandal Howard Tumber is Professor in the Department of Journalism at City University of London UK. He is a founder and co-editor of Journalism: Theory Practice and Criticism. He has published widely in the field of the sociology of media and journalism. Silvio Waisbord is Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University USA. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Communication and he has published widely about news politics and social change. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815387596

The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism provides a comprehensive overview of the research into the convergence of media and tourism and specifically investigates the concept of mediatized tourism. This Companion offers a holistic look at the relationship between media and tourism by drawing from a global range of contributions by scholars from disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. The book is divided into five parts covering diverse aspects of mediatization of tourism including place and space representation cultural production and transmedia. It features a comprehensive theoretical introduction and an afterword by leading scholars in this emerging field delving into the ways in which different forms of media content and consumption converge and the consequential effects on tourism and tourists. The collection is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of tourism studies cultural studies and media and communication as well as those with a particular interest in mediatization convergence culture and contemporary culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138366282

The Routledge Companion to Media Education Copyright and Fair Use Media literacy educators rely on the ability to make use of copyrighted materials from mass media digital media and popular culture for both analysis and production activities. Whether they work in higher education elementary and secondary schools or in informal learning settings in libraries community and non-profit organizations educators know that the practice of media literacy depends on a robust interpretation of copyright and fair use. With chapters written by leading scholars and practitioners from the fields of media studies education writing and rhetoric law and society library and information studies and the digital humanities this companion provides a scholarly and professional context for understanding the ways in which new conceptualizations of copyright and fair use are shaping the pedagogical practices of media literacy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138638891

The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom The field of fan studies has seen exponential growth in recent years and this companion brings together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of established scholars to reflect on the state of the field and to point to new research directions. Engaging an impressive array of media texts and formats and incorporating a variety of methodologies this collection is organized into six main sections: methods and ethics technologies and practices identities race and transcultural fandom industry and futures. Each section concludes with a conversation among some of the field’s leading scholars and industry insiders to address a wealth of questions relevant to each section topic. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367528065

The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities Although media studies and digital humanities are established fields their overlaps have not been examined in depth. This comprehensive collection fills that gap giving readers a critical guide to understanding the array of methodologies and projects operating at the intersections of media culture and practice. Topics include: access praxis social justice design interaction interfaces mediation materiality remediation data memory making programming and hacking. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367580681

The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence While so many books on technology look at new advances and digital technologies The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence looks back at analog technologies that are disappearing considering their demise and what it says about media history pop culture and the nature of nostalgia. From card catalogs and typewriters to stock tickers and cathode ray tubes contributors examine the legacy of analog technologies including those like vinyl records that may be experiencing a resurgency. Each essay includes a brief history of the technology leading up to its peak an analysis of the reasons for its decline and a discussion of its influence on newer technologies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138216266

The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography Sometimes enjoying considerable favor sometimes less iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline. Some of the greatest art historians – including Mâle Warburg Panofsky Morey and Schapiro – have devoted their lives to understanding and structuring what exactly the subject matter of a work of medieval art can tell. Over the last thirty or so years scholarship has seen the meaning and methodologies of the term considerably broadened.This companion provides a state-of-the-art assessment of the influence of the foremost iconographers as well as the methodologies employed and themes that underpin the discipline. The first section focuses on influential thinkers in the field while the second covers some of the best-known methodologies; the third and largest section looks at some of the major themes in medieval art. Taken together the three sections include thirty-eight chapters each of which deals with an individual topic. An introduction historiographical evaluation and bibliography accompany the individual essays. The authors are recognized experts in the field and each essay includes original analyses and/or case studies which will hopefully open the field for future research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367334321

The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy Like any other group of philosophers scholastic thinkers from the Middle Ages disagreed about even the most fundamental of concepts. With their characteristic style of rigorous semantic and logical analysis they produced a wide variety of diverse theories about a huge number of topics.The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy offers readers an outstanding survey of many of these diverse theories on a wide array of subjects. Its 35 chapters all written exclusively for this Companion by leading international scholars are organized into seven parts: I Language and LogicII MetaphysicsIII Cosmology and Physics IV Psychology V Cognition VI Ethics and Moral Philosophy VII Political Philosophy In addition to shedding new light on the most well-known philosophical debates and problems of the medieval era the Companion brings to the fore topics that may not traditionally be associated with scholastic philosophy but were in fact a veritable part of the tradition. These include chapters covering scholastic theories about propositions atomism consciousness and democracy and representation. The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy is a helpful comprehensive introduction to the field for undergraduate students and other newcomers as well as a unique and valuable resource for researchers in all areas of philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415658270

The Routledge Companion to Mergers and Acquisitions Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are events that attract considerable interest from academics and practitioners and much research has been conducted into their impact on individuals organizations and societies. Yet despite all the existing research and the varied theoretical and methodological approaches employed there remains more to learn about M&As. The Routledge Companion to Mergers and Acquisitions takes a detailed look at this multifacted subject using a novel framework of four domains – substantive issues contextual issues methodological issues and conceptual issues. Drawing on the expertise of its international team of contributors the volume surveys the state of the field including emerging and cutting-edge areas such as social network analysis and corporate branding. This Companion will be a rich resource for students researchers and practitioners involved in the study of M&As and organizational and strategic studies more widely. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415704663

The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics is an outstanding comprehensive and accessible guide to the major themes thinkers and issues in metaphysics. The Companion features over fifty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars which are organized into three clear parts: History of Metaphysics Ontology Metaphysics and Science. Each section features an introduction which places the range of essays in context while an extensive glossary allows easy reference to key terms and definitions. The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics is essential reading for students of philosophy and anyone interested in surveying the central topics and problems in metaphysics from causation to vagueness and from Plato and Aristotle to the present-day. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415493963

The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov brings together Chekhov specialists from around the world - theatre practitioners theorists historians and archivists – to provide an astonishingly comprehensive assessment of his life work and legacy. This volume aims to connect East and West; theatre theory and practice. It reconsiders the history of Chekhov’s acting method directing and pedagogy using the archival documents found across the globe: in Russia England America Germany Lithuania and Switzerland. It presents Chekhov’s legacy and ideas in the framework of interdisciplinary theatre practices and theories as well as at the crossroads of cultures in the context of his forays into such areas as Western mime and Asian cosmology. This remarkable Companion thoughtfully edited by two leading Chekhov scholars will prove invaluable to students and scholars of theatre theatre practitioners and theoreticians and specialists in Slavic and transcultural studies. Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu is Director of Research at the National Center For Scientific Research and Assistant-Director of Sorbonne-CNRS Institute EUR’ORBEM. She is an historian of theatre and specialist in Russian and Soviet theatre.Yana Meerzon is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre University of Ottawa. Her book publications include Adapting Chekhov: The Text and Its Mutations co-edited with Professor J. Douglas Clayton University of Ottawa (Routlegde 2012). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138224810

The Routledge Companion to Migration Communication and Politics The Routledge Companion to Migration Communication and Politics brings together academics from numerous disciplines to show the legal political communicative theoretical methodological and media implications of migration. The collection makes the compelling case that migration does not occur in a vacuum; rather it is driven by and reacts to various factors including the political economic and cultural worlds in which individuals live. The 25 chapters reveal the complex nature of migration from various angles not only looking at how policy affects migrants but also how individuals and marginalized groups are impacted by such acts. In Part I contributors examine migration law debating the role of the state in managing migration flows and investigating existing migration policy. Part II offers theories and methods that integrate communication studies political science and law into the study of migration including cultural fusion theory and Gebserian theory. Part III looks at how contemporary perceptions of migration and migrants intersect with media representations across media outlets worldwide. Finally Part IV offers case studies that present the intricacies of migration within different cultural national and political groups. Migration is the key political economic and cultural issue of our time and this companion takes the next step in the debate; namely the effects of the how in addition to the how and why. Researchers and students of communication politics media and law will find this an invaluable intervention. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138058149

The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods This new handbook is about the practices of conducting research on military issues.　 As an edited collection it brings together an extensive group of authors from a range of disciplinary perspectives whose chapters engage with the conceptual practical and political questions raised when doing military research.　 The book considers a wide range of questions around research about on and with military organisations personnel and activities from diverse starting-points across the social sciences arts and humanities. Each chapter in this volume:Describes the nature of the military research topic under scrutiny and explains what research practices were undertaken and why.　 Discusses the author's research activities addressing the nature of their engagement with their subjects and explaining how the method or approach under scrutiny was distinctive because of the military context or subject of the research.　 Reflects on the author’s research experiences and the specific often unique negotiations with the politics and practices of military institutions and military personnel before during and after their research fieldwork.　 The book provides a focussed overview of methodological approaches to critical studies of military personnel and institutions and processes and practices of militarisation and militarism.　 In particular it engages with the growth in qualitative approaches to military research particularly research carried out on military topics outside military research institutions. The handbook provides the reader with a comprehensive guide to how critical military research is being undertaken by social scientists and humanities scholars today and sets out suggestions for future approaches to military research.　 This book will be of much interest to students of military studies war and conflict studies and research methods in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367581626

The Routledge Companion to Mindfulness at Work Given the ever-growing interest in the benefits of mindfulness to organizations and the individuals who work in them this Companion is a comprehensive primary reference work for mindfulness (including creativity and flow) in the workplace including business healthcare and educational settings. Research shows that mindfulness boosts creativity through greater insight receptivity and balance and increases energy and a sense of wellbeing. This Companion traces the genesis and growth of this burgeoning field tracks its application to the workplace and suggests trends and future directions. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in business leadership psychology healthcare education and other related fields The Routledge Companion to Mindfulness at Work is an extensive reference work which will be a vital resource to the fields of management and organizational studies human resource management psychology spirituality cultural anthropology and sociology. Each chapter will present a listing of key topics a case or situation that illustrates the application of the themes workplace lessons and reflection questions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367200046

The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media The last decade has witnessed the rise of the cell phone from a mode of communication to an indispensable multimedia device and this phenomenon has led to the burgeoning of mobile communication studies in media cultural studies and communication departments across the academy.The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media seeks to be the definitive publication for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of mobile media. This collection which gathers together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines sets out to contextualize the increasingly convergent areas surrounding social geosocial and mobile media discourses. Features include: comprehensive and interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing mobile media; wide-ranging case studies that draw from this truly global field including China Africa Southeast Asia the Middle East and Latin America as well as Europe the UK and the US; a consideration of mobile media as part of broader media ecologies and histories; chapters setting out the economic and policy underpinnings of mobile media; explorations of the artistic and creative dimensions of mobile media; studies of emerging issues such as ecological sustainability; up-to-date overviews on social and locative media by pioneers in the field. Drawn from a range of theoretical artistic and cultural approaches The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media will serve as a crucial reference text to inform and orient those interested in this quickly expanding and far-reaching field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138695450

The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media Art In this companion a diverse international and interdisciplinary group of contributors and editors examine the rapidly expanding far-reaching field of mobile media as it intersects with art across a range of spaces—theoretical practical and conceptual. As a vehicle for—and of—the everyday mobile media is recalibrating the relationship between art and digital networked media and reshaping how creative practices such as writing photography video art and filmmaking are being conceptualized and practised. In exploring these innovations The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media Art pulls together comprehensive culturally nuanced and interdisciplinary approaches; considerations of broader media ecologies and histories and political social and cultural dynamics; and critical and considered perspectives on the intersections between mobile media and art. This book is the definitive publication for researchers artists and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of mobile media art covering digital media and culture internet studies games studies anthropology sociology geography media and communication cultural studies and design. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367197162

The Routledge Companion to Modern Christian Thought This Companion provides an unrivalled view of the field of modern Christian thought from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century and beyond. Written by an outstanding team of theologians and philosophers of religion it covers the following topics within Christian thought: Key figures and influencers Central events and movements Major theological issues and key approaches to Christian Theology Recent topics and trends in Christian thought Each entry is clear and accessible making the book the ideal resource for students of Christian thought and history and philosophy of religion and a valuable reference for professional theologians and philosophers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138638495

The Routledge Companion to Modernity Space and Gender The Routledge Companion to Modernity Space and Gender reframes the discussion of modernity space and gender by examining how "modernity" has been defined in various cultural contexts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries how this definition has been expressed spatially and architecturally and what effect this has had on women in their everyday lives. In doing so this volume presents theories and methods for understanding space and gender as they relate to the development of cities urban space and individual building types (such as housing work spaces or commercial spaces) in both the creation of and resistance to social transformations and modern global capitalism. The book contains a diverse range of case studies from the US Europe the UK  and Asian countries such as China and India which bring together a multiplicity of approaches to a continuing and common issue and reinforces the need for alternatives to the existing theoretical canon. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367505608

The Routledge Companion to Motherhood Interdisciplinary and intersectional in emphasis the Routledge Companion to Motherhood brings together essays on current intellectual themes issues and debates while also creating a foundation for future scholarship and study as the field of Motherhood Studies continues to develop globally. This Routledge Companion is the first extensive collection on the wide-ranging topics themes issues and debates that ground the intellectual work being done on motherhood. Global in scope and including a range of disciplinary perspectives including anthropology literature communication studies sociology women’s and gender studies history and economics this volume introduces the foundational topics and ideas in motherhood delineates the diversity and complexity of mothering and also stimulates dialogue among scholars and students approaching from divergent backgrounds and intellectual perspectives. This will become a foundational text for academics in Women's and Gender Studies and interdisciplinary researchers interested in this important complex and rapidly growing topic. Scholars of psychology sociology or public policy and activists in both university and workplace settings interested in motherhood and mothering will find it an invaluable guide. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138052413

The Routledge Companion to Museum EthicsRedefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners it explores contemporary museum ethics as an opportunity for growth rather than a burden of compliance. The volume represents diverse strands in museum activity from exhibitions to marketing as ethics is embedded in all areas of the museum sector. What the contributions share is an understanding of the contingent nature of museum ethics in the twenty-first century—its relations with complex economic social political and technological forces and its fluid ever-shifting sensibility. The volume examines contemporary museum ethics through the prism of those disciplines and methods that have shaped it most. It argues for a museum ethics discourse defined by social responsibility radical transparency and shared guardianship of heritage. And it demonstrates the moral agency of museums: the concept that museum ethics is more than the personal and professional ethics of individuals and concerns the capacity of institutions to generate self-reflective and activist practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415566124

The Routledge Companion to Music Mind and Well-being In recent decades the relationship between music emotions health and well-being has become a hot topic. Scientific research and new neuro-imaging technologies have provided extraordinary new insights into how music affects our brains and bodies and researchers in fields ranging from psychology and music therapy to history and sociology have turned their attention to the question of how music relates to mind body feelings and health generating a wealth of insights as well as new challenges. Yet this work is often divided by discipline and methodology resulting in parallel yet separate discourses. In this context The Routledge Companion to Music Mind and Well-being seeks to foster truly interdisciplinary approaches to key questions about the nature of musical experience and to demonstrate the importance of the conceptual and ideological frameworks underlying research in this field. Incorporating perspectives from musicology history psychology neuroscience music education philosophy sociology linguistics and music therapy this volume opens the way for a generative dialogue across both scientific and humanistic scholarship.The Companion is divided into two sections. The chapters in the first historical section consider the varied ways in which music the emotions well-being and their interactions have been understood in the past from Antiquity to the twentieth century shedding light on the intellectual origins of debates that continue today. The chapters in the second contemporary section offer a variety of current scientific perspectives on these topics and engage wider philosophical problems. The Companion ends with chapters that explore the practical application of music in healthcare education and welfare drawing on work on music as a social and ecological phenomenon.Contextualising contemporary scientific research on music within the history of ideas this volume provides a unique overview of what it means to study music in relation to the mind and well-being. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367659677

The Routledge Companion to Music Technology and Education The Routledge Companion to Music Technology and Education is a comprehensive resource that draws together burgeoning research on the use of technology in music education around the world. Rather than following a procedural how-to approach this companion considers technology musicianship and pedagogy from a philosophical theoretical and empirically-driven perspective offering an essential overview of current scholarship while providing support for future research. The 37 chapters in this volume consider the major aspects of the use of technology in music education:Part I. Contexts. Examines the historical and philosophical contexts of technology in music. This section addresses themes such as special education cognition experimentation audience engagement gender and information and communication technologies. Part II. Real Worlds. Discusses real world scenarios that relate to music technology and education. Topics such as computers composition performance and the curriculum are covered here.Part III. Virtual Worlds. Explores the virtual world of learning through our understanding of media video games and online collaboration. Part IV. Developing and Supporting Musicianship. Highlights the framework for providing support and development for teachers using technology to understand and develop musical understanding.The Routledge Companion to Music Technology and Education will appeal to undergraduate and post-graduate students music educators teacher training specialists and music education researchers. It serves as an ideal introduction to the issues surrounding technology in music education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367869618

The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture As a coherent field of research the field of music and visual culture has seen rapid growth in recent years. The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture serves as the first comprehensive reference on the intersection between these two areas of study an ideal introduction for those coming to the field for the first time as well as a useful source of information for seasoned researchers. This collection of over forty entries from musicologists and art historians from the US and UK delineate the key concepts in the field in five parts: Starting Points Methodologies Reciprocation – the musical in visual culture and the visual in musical culture Convergence –in metaphor in conception and in practice Hybrid Arts This reference work speaks to the important questions concerning this burgeoning field of research –what are the established approaches to studying musical and visual cultures side by side? What have been the major points of contact between these two areas and what kind of questions can this interdisciplinary research address moving forward? The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the field of music and visual culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367148652

The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition addresses fundamental questions about the nature of music from a psychological perspective. Music cognition is presented as the field that investigates the psychological physiological and physical processes that allow music to take place seeking to explain how and why music has such powerful and mysterious effects on us. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of research in music cognition balancing accessibility with depth and sophistication. A diverse range of global scholars—music theorists musicologists pedagogues neuroscientists and psychologists—address the implications of music in everyday life while broadening the range of topics in music cognition research deliberately seeking connections with the kinds of music and musical experiences that are meaningful to the population at large but are often overlooked in the study of music cognition. Such topics include:Music’s impact on physical and emotional healthMusic cognition in various genresMusic cognition in diverse populations including people with amusia and hearing impairmentThe relationship of music to learning and accomplishment in academics sport and recreationThe broader sociological and anthropological uses of musicConsisting of over forty essays the volume is organized by five primary themes. The first section "Music from the Air to the Brain " provides a neuroscientific and theoretical basis for the book. The next three sections are based on musical actions: "Hearing and Listening to Music " "Making and Using Music " and "Developing Musicality." The closing section "Musical Meanings " returns to fundamental questions related to music’s meaning and significance seen from historical and contemporary perspectives. The Routledge Companion to Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367876555

The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy Today’s music theory instructors face a changing environment one where the traditional lecture format is in decline. The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy addresses this change head-on featuring battle-tested lesson plans alongside theoretical discussions of music theory curriculum and course design. With the modern student in mind scholars are developing creative new approaches to teaching music theory encouraging active student participation within contemporary contexts such as flipped classrooms music industry programs and popular music studies. This volume takes a unique approach to provide resources for both the conceptual and pragmatic sides of music theory pedagogy. Each section includes thematic "anchor" chapters that address key issues accompanied by short "topics" chapters offering applied examples that instructors can readily adopt in their own teaching. In eight parts leading pedagogues from across North America explore how to most effectively teach the core elements of the music theory curriculum: Fundamentals Rhythm and Meter Core Curriculum Aural Skills Post-Tonal Theory Form Popular Music Who What and How We Teach A broad musical repertoire demonstrates formal principles that transcend the Western canon catering to a diverse student body with diverse musical goals. Reflecting growing interest in the field and with an emphasis on easy implementation The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy presents strategies and challenges to illustrate and inspire in a comprehensive resource for all teachers of music theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138585010

The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature engages the multiple scenes of tension — historical political cultural and aesthetic — that constitutes a problematic legacy in terms of community identity ethnicity gender and sexuality language and sovereignty in the study of Native American literature. This important and timely addition to the field provides context for issues that enter into Native American literary texts through allusions references and language use. The volume presents over forty essays by leading and emerging international scholars and analyses: regional cultural racial and sexual identities in Native American literature key historical moments from the earliest period of colonial contact to the present worldviews in relation to issues such as health spirituality animals and physical environments traditions of cultural creation that are key to understanding the styles allusions and language of Native American Literature the impact of differing literary forms of Native American literature. This collection provides a map of the critical issues central to the discipline as well as uncovering new perspectives and new directions for the development of the field. It supports academic study and also assists general readers who require a comprehensive yet manageable introduction to the contexts essential to approaching Native American Literature. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the past present and future of this literary culture. Contributors: Joseph Bauerkemper Susan Bernardin Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez Kirby Brown David J. Carlson Cari M. Carpenter Eric Cheyfitz  Tova Cooper Alicia Cox Birgit Däwes Janet Fiskio Earl E. Fitz John Gamber Kathryn N. Gray Sarah Henzi Susannah Hopson Hsinya Huang Brian K. Hudson Bruce E. Johansen Judit Ágnes Kádár Amelia V. Katanski Susan Kollin Chris LaLonde A. Robert Lee Iping Liang Drew Lopenzina Brandy Nālani McDougall Deborah Madsen Diveena Seshetta Marcus Sabine N. Meyer Carol Miller David L. Moore Birgit Brander Rasmussen Mark Rifkin Kenneth M. Roemer Oliver Scheiding Lee Schweninger Stephanie A. Sellers Kathryn W. Shanley Leah Sneider David Stirrup Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. Tammy Wahpeconiah Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138020603

The Routledge Companion to Network Industries In recent decades network industries around the world have gone through periods of de- and re-regulation. With vast amounts of sometimes conflicting research carried out into specific network industries the time has come for a critical over-arching assessment of this entire industry in order to provide a platform of understanding to aid future research and practice. This comprehensive resource provides an orientation for academics policy makers and managers as to the main economic regulatory and commercial challenges in the network industries. The book is split into sections covering market policy regulation management perspectives  whilst all of the key network industries are covered including energy transport water and telecommunications.Overseen by world-class Editors and experts in the field this inter-disciplinary resource is essential reading for students and researchers in international business industrial economics and the industries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656263

The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History presents the most recent approaches and methods in the study of the social experience of cinema from its origins in vaudeville and traveling exhibitions to the multiplexes of today.Exploring its history from the perspective of the cinemagoer the study of new cinema history examines the circulation and consumption of cinema the political and legal structures that underpinned its activities the place that it occupied in the lives of its audiences and the traces that it left in their memories. Using a broad range of methods from the statistical analyses of box office economics to ethnography oral history and memory studies this approach has brought about an undisputable change in how we study cinema and the questions we ask about its history. This companion examines the place space and practices of film exhibition and programming; the questions of gender and ethnicity within the cinematic experience; and the ways in which audiences gave meaning to cinemagoing practices specific films stars and venues and its operation as a site of social and cultural exchange from Detroit and Laredo to Bandung and Chennai. Contributors demonstrate how the digitization of source materials and the use of digital research tools have enabled them to map previously unexplored aspects of cinema’s business and social history and undertake comparative analysis of the diversity of the social experience of cinema across regional national and continental boundaries. With contributions from leading scholars in the field The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History enlarges and refines our understanding of cinema’s place in the social history of the twentieth century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367659578

The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism presents an authoritative comprehensive assessment of diverse forms of news media reporting – past present and future. Including 60 chapters written by an outstanding team of internationally respected authors the Companion provides scholars and students with a reliable historically informed guide to news media and journalism studies. The Companion has the following features: It is organised to address a series of themes pertinent to the on-going theoretical and methodological development of news and journalism studies around the globe. The focus encompasses news institutions production processes texts and audiences. Individual chapters are problem-led seeking to address ‘real world’ concerns that cast light on an important dimension of news and journalism – and show why it matters. Entries draw on a range of academic disciplines to explore pertinent topics particularly around the role of journalism in democracy such as citizenship power and public trust. Discussion revolves primarily around academic research conducted in the UK and the US with further contributions from other national contexts - thereby allowing international comparisons to be made. The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism provides an essential guide to key ideas issues concepts and debates while also stressing the value of reinvigorating scholarship with a critical eye to developments in the professional realm. The paperback edition of this Companion includes four new chapters focusing on news framing newsmagazines digital radio news and social media. Contributors: G. Stuart Adam Stuart Allan Chris Atton Brian Baresch Geoffrey Baym W. Lance Bennett Rodney Benson S. Elizabeth Bird R. Warwick Blood Tanja Bosch Raymond Boyle Bonnie Brennen Qing Cao Cynthia Carter Anabela Carvalho Deborah Chambers Lilie Chouliaraki Lisbeth Clausen James R. Compton Simon Cottle Ros Coward Andrew Crisell Mark Deuze Roger Dickinson Wolfgang Donsbach Mats Ekström James S.Ettema Natalie Fenton Bob Franklin Herbert J. Gans Mark Glaser Mark Hampton Joseph Harker Jackie Harrison John Hartley Alfred Hermida Andrew Hoskins Shih-Hsien Hsu Dale Jacquette Bengt Johansson Richard Kaplan Carolyn Kitch Douglas Kellner Larsåke Larsson Justin Lewis Jake Lynch Mirca Madianou Donald Matheson Heidi Mau Brian McNair Kaitlynn Mendes Máire Messenger Davies Toby Miller Martin Montgomery Marguerite Moritz Mohammed el-Nawawy Henrik Örnebring Julian Petley Shawn Powers Greg Philo Stephen D. Reese Barry Richards David Rowe Philip Seib Jane B. Singer Guy Starkey Linda Steiner Daya Kishan Thassu John Tulloch Howard Tumber Silvio Waisbord Gary Whannel Andrew Williams Barbie Zelizer Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415669535

The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy The nineteenth century is a period of stunning philosophical originality characterised by radical engagement with the emerging human sciences. Often overshadowed by twentieth century philosophy which sought to reject some of its central tenets the philosophers of the nineteenth century have re-emerged as profoundly important figures. The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy is an outstanding survey and assessment of the century as a whole. Divided into seven parts and including thirty chapters written by leading international scholars the Companion examines and assesses the central topics themes and philosophers of the nineteenth century presenting the first comprehensive picture of the period in a single volume: German Idealism philosophy as political action including young Hegelians Marx and Tocqueville philosophy and subjectivity including Schopenhauer Kierkegaard and Nietzsche scientific naturalism including Darwinism philosophy of race experimental psychology and Neo-Kantianism utilitarianism and British Idealism American Idealism and Pragmatism new directions in Mind and Logic including Brentano Frege and Husserl. The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy is essential reading for students of philosophy and for anyone interested in this period in related disciplines such as politics history literature and religion. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415404518

The Routledge Companion to Non-Market Strategy It is commonplace for today’s transnational enterprises to undertake political risk analysis when choosing foreign markets and creating entry strategies. Despite this non-market elements of corporate strategy are less well researched than the traditional market-based perspectives. Providing comprehensive and leading edge overviews of current scholarship this Companion surveys the current state of the field and provides a basis for improving our understanding of the non-market environment encouraging new insights to improve strategies for enhancing a firm’s performance and legitimacy. With a foreword by David Baron the international team of contributors includes Jean-Philippe Bonardi Bennet Zelner and Jonathan Doh who combine to create a book that is essential reading for students and researchers in business management and politics including those interested in business regulation environmental policy political risk and corporate social responsibility. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138363236

The Routledge Companion to Nonprofit Management Over the past three decades or so the nonprofit voluntary or third sector has undergone a major transformation from a small cottage industry to a major economic force in virtually every part of the developed world as well as elsewhere around the globe. Nonprofit organizations are now major providers of public services working in close cooperation with governments at all levels and increasingly find themselves in competition with commercial firms across various social marketplaces. This transformation has come with ever-increasing demands for enhancing the organizational capacities and professionalizing the management of nonprofit institutions. The Routledge Companion to Nonprofit Management is the first internationally focused effort to capture the full breadth of current nonprofit management research and knowledge that has arisen in response to these developments. With newly commissioned contributions from an international set of scholars at the forefront of nonprofit management research this volume provides a thorough overview of the most current management thinking in this field. It contextualizes nonprofit management globally provides an extensive introduction to key management functions core revenue sources and the emerging social enterprise space and raises a number of emerging topics and issues that will shape nonprofit management in future decades. As graduate programs continue to evolve to serve the training needs in the field The Routledge Companion to Nonprofit Management is an essential reference and resource for graduate students researchers and practitioners interested in a deeper understanding of the operation of the nonprofit sector. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138744462

The Routledge Companion to Nonprofit Marketing This timely collection of cutting-edge articles offers a complete overview of marketing in the nonprofit sector. Written by a leading team of international experts  it examines the issues faced by public and nonprofit organizations in marketing and raising funds and provides a comprehensive review of the latest research. An introductory section reviews the history of ideas in nonprofit marketing and examines those fundamental marketing principles of special relevance to nonprofit organizations. The book then explores in-depth the latest thinking in each of the most important nonprofit arenas including: voluntary sector marketing fundraising arts marketing education marketing political marketing social marketing volunteer recruitment management and retention public sector marketing and e-government. Containing real-world examples and case study material throughout The Routledge Companion to Nonprofit Marketing makes an important contribution to our understanding of marketing theory and practice in the nonprofit sector. It is an essential reference for all students researchers and practitioners working in nonprofit marketing fundraising or philanthropy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138385849

The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change Organizations change. They grow they adapt they evolve. The effects of organizational change are important varied and complex and analyzing and understanding them is vital for students academics and researchers in all business schools. The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change offers a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field. The volume brings together the very best contributors not only from the field of organizational change but also from adjacent fields such as strategy and leadership. These contributors offer fresh and challenging insights to the mainstream themes of this discipline. Surveying the state of the discipline and introducing new cutting-edge themes this book is a valuable reference source for students and academics in this area. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138386051

The Routledge Companion to Organizational Diversity Research Methods Organizational diversity has become a topic of interest for practitioners and academics alike. This book explores how diversity in organizations is and can be researched providing readers with insights into the potential research designs for studies in contemporary organizations. This includes paying attention to methods but also to the role of the researcher and research bodies in the field their potential as activists as well as to the theoretical question of standpoints in researching organizational diversity. Chapters also consider the diversity of research participants inclusive research and intersectionality. All contributors are experts in diversity research and in their contributions they reflect upon the appropriate methods for the specific type of diversity research they conduct noting strengths and weaknesses and illustrating their arguments with practical examples from their work.　 This handbook will be of great value to academics students researchers practitioners and professionals with an interest in broadening their understanding of how to research organizational diversity in contemporary organizations or seeking to develop their awareness of diversity when researching management and organization more generally. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367211486

The Routledge Companion to Paradigms of Performativity in Design and ArchitectureUsing Time to Craft an Enduring Resilient and Relevant Architecture The Routledge Companion to Paradigms of Performativity in Design and Architecture focuses on a non-linear multilateral ethical way of design thinking positioning the design process as a journey. It expands on the multiple facets and paradigms of performative design thinking as an emerging trend in design methodology. This edited collection explores the meaning of performativity by examining its relevance in conjunction with three fundamental principles: firmness commodity and delight. The scope and broader meaning of performativity performative architecture and performance-based building design are discussed in terms of how they influence today’s design thinking. With contributions from 44 expert practitioners educators and researchers this volume engages theory history technology and the human aspects of performative design thinking and its implications for the future of design. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367076191

The Routledge Companion to Performance Management and Control Performance management is key to the ongoing success of any organisation allowing it to meet its strategic objectives by designing and implementing management control systems. This book goes beyond the usual discussion of performance management in accounting and finance to consider strategic management human behaviour and performance management in different countries and contexts. With a global mix of world-renowned researchers this book systematically covers the what the who the where and the why of performance management and control (PMC) systems. A comprehensive state-of-the-art collection edited by a leading expert in the field this book is a vital resource for all scholars students and researchers with an interest in business management and accounting. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656201

The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays conversations collaborative creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts debates methods discourses and practices in this developing field. Firstly the collection offers new insights on the fundamental question of how thinking happens: where when how and by whom philosophy is performed. Secondly it provides a plurality of new accounts of performance and performativity – as the production of ideas bodies and knowledges – in the arts and beyond. Comprising texts written by international artists philosophers and scholars from multiple disciplines the essays engage with questions of how performance thinks and how thought is performed in a wide range of philosophies and performances from the ancient to the contemporary. Concepts and practices from diverse geographical regions and cultural traditions are analysed to draw conclusions about how performance operates across art philosophy and everyday life. The collection both contributes to and critiques the philosophy of music dance theatre and performance exploring the idea of a philosophy from the arts. It is crucial reading material for those interested in the hierarchy of the relationship between philosophy and the arts advancing debates on philosophical method and the relation between Performance and Philosophy more broadly. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138495623

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice.　 With all 22 practitioners from the original series represented this is the definitive first step for students scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367903480

The Routledge Companion to Performance PractitionersVolume One The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate how each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice.　 All 22 practitioners from the original series are represented with this volume covering those born before the end of the First World War. This is the definitive first step for students scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures.　 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367417321

The Routledge Companion to Performance PractitionersVolume Two The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate how each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice.　 All 22 practitioners from the original series are represented with this volume covering those born after 1915. This is the definitive first step for students scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138953758

The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology Phenomenology was one of the twentieth century’s major philosophical movements and continues to be a vibrant and widely studied subject today. The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key philosophers topics and themes in this exciting subject and essential reading for any student or scholar of phenomenology. Comprising over fifty chapters by a team of international contributors the Companion is divided into five clear parts: main figures in the phenomenological movement from Brentano to Derrida main topics in phenomenology phenomenological contributions to philosophy phenomenological intersections historical postscript. Close attention is paid to the core topics in phenomenology such as intentionality perception subjectivity the self the body being and phenomenological method. An important feature of the Companion is its examination of how phenomenology has contributed to central disciplines in philosophy such as metaphysics philosophy of mind moral philosophy aesthetics and philosophy of religion as well as disciplines beyond philosophy such as race cognitive science psychiatry literary criticism and psychoanalysis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415858410

The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy Philanthropy – the use of private resources for public purposes – is undergoing a transformation both in practice and as an emerging field of study. Expectations of what philanthropy can achieve have risen significantly in recent years reflecting a substantial but uneven increase in global wealth and the rolling back of state services in anticipation that philanthropy will fill the void. In addition to this experiments with entrepreneurial and venture philanthropy are producing novel intersections of the public non-profit and private spheres accompanied by new kinds of partnerships and hybrid organisational forms. The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy examines these changes and other challenges that philanthropists and philanthropic organisations face.With contributions from an international team of leading contemporary thinkers on philanthropy this Companion provides an introduction to and critical exploration of philanthropy; discussing current theories research and the diverse professional practices within the field from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy is a rich and valuable resource for students researchers practitioners and policymakers working in or interested in philanthropy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367866600

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics subjects thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six clear sections: general issues emotion history figures kinds of music music philosophy and related disciplines The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy music and musicology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415858397

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies provides a wide-ranging overview of the significance of philosophy in organizations. The volume brings together a veritable "who’s-who" of scholars that are acclaimed international experts in their specialist subject within organizational studies and philosophy. The contributions to this collection are grouped into three distinct sections: Foundations - exploring philosophical building blocks with which organizational researchers need to become familiar. Theories - representing some of the dominant traditions in organizational studies and how they are dealt with philosophically. Topics – examining the issues themes and topics relevant to understanding how philosophy infuses organization studies. Primarily aimed at students and academics associated with business schools and organizational research The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies is a valuable reference source for anyone engaged in this field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415702867

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law provides a comprehensive non-technical philosophical treatment of the fundamental questions about the nature of law. Its coverage includes law’s relation to morality and the moral obligations to obey the law the main philosophical debates about particular legal areas such as criminal responsibility property contracts family law law and justice in the international domain legal paternalism and the rule of law. The entirely new content has been written specifically for newcomers to the field making the volume particularly useful for undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy of law and related areas. All 39 chapters written by the world’s leading researchers and edited by an internationally distinguished scholar bring a focused philosophical perspective to their subjects. The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law promises to be a valuable and much consulted student resource for many years. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138776234

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature is an in-depth examination of literature through a philosophical lens written by distinguished figures across the major divisions of philosophy. Its 40 newly-commissioned essays are divided into six sections: historical foundations what is literature? aesthetics & appreciation meaning & interpretation metaphysics & epistemology ethics & political theory The Companion opens with a comprehensive historical overview of the philosophy of literature including chapters on the study’s ancient origins up to the 18th-20th centuries. The second part defines literature and its different categories. The third part covers the aesthetics of literature. The fourth and fifth sections discuss the meaning and consequences of philosophical interpretation of literature as well as epistemological and metaphysical issues such as literary cognitivism and imaginative resistance. The sixth section contextualizes the place of philosophy of literature in the "real world" with essays on topics such as morality politics race and gender. Fully indexed with helpful further reading sections at the end of each chapter this Companion is an ideal starting point for those coming to philosophy of literature for the first time as well as a valuable reference for readers more familiar with the subject. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367360399

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine is a comprehensive guide to topics in the fields of epistemology and metaphysics of medicine. It examines traditional topics such as the concept of disease causality in medicine the epistemology of the randomized controlled trial the biopsychosocial model explanation clinical judgment and phenomenology of medicine and emerging topics such as philosophy of epidemiology measuring harms the concept of disability nursing perspectives race and gender the metaphysics of Chinese medicine and narrative medicine. Each of the 48 chapters is written especially for this volume and with a student audience in mind. For pedagogy and clarity each chapter contains an extended example illustrating the ideas discussed. This text is intended for use as a reference for students in courses in philosophy of medicine and philosophy of science and pairs well with The Routledge Companion to Bioethics for use in medical humanities and social science courses. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367360368

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology Second Edition is an invaluable guide and major reference source to the key topics problems concepts and debates in philosophy of psychology and is the first companion of its kind. A team of renowned international contributors provide forty-eight chapters organized into six clear parts: Historical background to philosophy of psychology Psychological explanation Cognition and representation The biological basis of psychology Perceptual experience Personhood. The Companion covers key topics such as the origins of experimental psychology; folk psychology; behaviorism and functionalism; philosophy psychology and neuroscience; the language of thought modularity nativism and representational theories of mind; consciousness and the senses; dreams emotion and temporality; personal identity; and the philosophy of psychopathology. For the second edition six new chapters have been added to address the following important topics: belief and representation in nonhuman animals; prediction error minimization; contemporary neuroscience; plant neurobiology; epistemic judgment; and group cognition. Essential reading for all students of philosophy of mind science and psychology The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology will also be of interest to anyone studying psychology and its related disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367336790

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science is an indispensable reference source and guide to the major themes debates problems and topics in philosophy of science. It contains sixty-two specially commissioned entries by a leading team of international contributors. Organized into four parts it covers: historical and philosophical context debates concepts the individual sciences. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science addresses all of the essential topics that students of philosophy of science need to know - from empiricism explanation and experiment to causation observation prediction and more - and contains many helpful features including chapters on individual sciences (such as biology chemistry physics and psychology) further reading and cross-referencing at the end of each chapter. Expanded and revised throughout this second edition includes new chapters on Conventionalism Social Epistemology Computer Simulation Thought Experiments Pseudoscience Species and Taxonomy and Cosmology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415518758

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is an outstanding guide to the major themes movements debates and topics in the philosophy of social science. It includes thirty-seven newly written chapters by many of the leading scholars in the field as well as a comprehensive introduction by the editors. Insofar as possible the material in this volume is presented in accessible language with an eye toward undergraduate and graduate students who may be coming to some of this material for the first time. Scholars too will appreciate this clarity along with the chance to read about the latest advances in the discipline. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is broken up into four parts.Historical and Philosophical ContextConceptsDebatesIndividual SciencesEdited by two of the leading scholars in the discipline this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of social science and its many areas of connection and overlap with key debates in the philosophy of science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367871574

The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture is a seminal reference source for the ever-changing field of photography. Comprising an impressive range of essays and interviews by experts and scholars from across the globe this book examines the medium’s history its central issues and emerging trends and its much-discussed future. The collected essays and interviews explore the current debates surrounding the photograph as object art document propaganda truth selling tool and universal language; the perception of photography archives as burdens rather than treasures; the continual technological development reshaping the field; photography as a tool of representation and control and more. One of the most comprehensive volumes of its kind this companion is essential reading for photographers and historians alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138667396

The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory With newly commissioned essays by some of the leading writers on photography today this companion tackles some of the most pressing questions about photography theory’s direction relevance and purpose. This book shows how digital technologies and global dissemination have radically advanced the pluralism of photographic meaning and fundamentally transformed photography theory. Having assimilated the histories of semiotic analysis and post-structural theory critiques of representation continue to move away from the notion of original and copy and towards materiality process and the interdisciplinary. The implications of what it means to ‘see’ an image is now understood to encompass not only the optical but the conceptual ethical and haptic experience of encountering an image. The 'fractal' is now used to theorize the new condition of photography as an algorithmic medium and leads us to reposition our relationship to photographs and lend nuances to what essentially underlies any photography theory — that is the relationship of the image to the real world and how we conceive what that means. Diverse in its scope and themes The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory is an indispensable collection of essays and interviews for students researchers and teachers. The volume also features extensive images including beautiful colour plates of key photographs. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138845770

The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks Containing forty-eight chapters The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks. It contains a detailed introduction surveying the history and development of the field and emphasizing the international and cultural diversity of picturebooks. Divided into five key parts this volume covers: Concepts and topics â€“ from hybridity and ideology to metafiction and emotions; Genres – from baby books through to picturebooks for adults; Interfaces – their relations to other forms such as comics and visual media; Domains and theoretical approaches including developmental psychology and cognitive studies; Adaptations. With ground-breaking contributions from leading and emerging scholars alike this comprehensive volume is one of the first to focus solely on picturebook research. Its interdisciplinary approach makes it key for both scholars and students of literature as well as education and media. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138853188

The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an edited collection on planning in parts of the world which more often than not are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning texts. In doing so its intention is not to fill a ‘gap’ that leaves this ‘mainstream’ unquestioned but to re-theorise planning from a deep understanding of ‘place’ as well as a commitment to recognise the diverse modes of practice that come within it. The chapters thus take the form not of generalised ‘universal’ analyses and prescriptions but instead are critical and located reflections in thinking about how to plan act and intervene in highly complex city regional and national contexts. Chapter authors in this Companion are not all planners or are planners of very different kinds and this diversity ensures a rich variety of insights primarily based on cases to emphasise the complexity of the world in which planning is expected to happen. The book is divided into a framing Introduction followed by five sections: planning and the state; economy and economic actors; new drivers of urban change; landscapes of citizenship; and planning pedagogy. This volume will be of interest to all those wanting to explore the complexities of planning practice and the need for new theories of knowledge from which to draw insight to face the challenges of the 21st century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138094130

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music AnalysisExpanding Approaches The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the scope of analytical approaches for popular music by incorporating methods developed for analyzing contemporary art music. This study endeavors to create a new analytical paradigm for examining popular music from the perspective of developments in contemporary art music."Expanded approaches" for popular music analysis is broadly defined as as exploring the pitch-class structures form timbre rhythm or aesthetics of various forms of popular music in a conceptual space not limited to the domain of common practice tonality but broadened to include any applicable compositional analytical or theoretical concept that illuminates the music. The essays in this collection investigate a variety of analytical theoretical historical and aesthetic commonalities popular music shares with 20th and 21st century art music. From rock and pop to hip hop and rap dance and electronica from the 1930s to present day this companion explores these connections in five parts:Establishing and Expanding Analytical FrameworksTechnology and TimbreRhythm Pitch and HarmonyForm and StructureCritical Frameworks: Analytical Formal Structural and PoliticalWith contributions by established scholars and promising emerging scholars in music theory and historical musicology from North America Europe and Australia The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches offers nuanced and detailed perspectives that address the relationships between concert and popular music. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367570545

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor An essential part of human expression humor plays a role in all forms of art and humorous and comedic aspects have always been part of popular music. For the first time The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor draws together scholarship exploring how the element of humor interacts with the artistic and social aspects of the musical experience. Discussing humor in popular music across eras from Tin Pan Alley to the present and examining the role of humor in different musical genres case studies of artists and media forms this volume is a groundbreaking collection that provides a go-to reference for scholars in music popular culture and media studies.While most scholars when considering humor’s place in popular music tend to focus on more "literate" forms the contributors in this collection seek to fill in the gaps by surveying all kinds of humor critical theories and popular musics. Across eight parts the essays in this collection explore topics both highbrow and low including:Parody and satireHumor in rock and global musicGender sexuality and politicsThe music mockumentaryNovelty songsHumor has long been a fixture of the popular music soundscape whether on stage in performance on record or on film. The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor covers it all presenting itself as the most comprehensive treatment of the topic to date. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367729905

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage examines the social cultural political and economic value of popular music as history and heritage. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach the volume explores the relationship between popular music and the past and how interpretations of the changing nature of the past in post-industrial societies play out in the field of popular music.In-depth chapters cover key themes around historiography heritage memory and institutions alongside case studies from around the world including the UK Australia South Africa and India exploring popular music’s connection to culture both past and present.Wide-ranging in scope the book is an excellent introduction for students and scholars working in musicology ethnomusicology popular music studies critical heritage studies cultural studies memory studies and other related fields. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367659929

The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism This fully revised third edition of The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism provides the ideal introduction to postmodernist thought. Featuring contributions from a cast of international scholars the Companion contains 19 detailed essays on major themes and topics along with an A-Z of key terms and concepts. As well as revised essays on philosophy politics literature and more the first section now contains brand new essays on critical theory business gender and the performing arts. The concepts section too has been enhanced with new topics ranging from hypermedia to global warming. Students interested in any aspect of postmodernism will continue to find this an indispensable resource. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415583329

The Routledge Companion to Production and Operations Management This remarkable volume highlights the importance of Production and Operations Management (POM) as a field of study and research contributing to substantial business and social growth. The editors emphasize how POM works with a range of systems—agriculture disaster management e-commerce healthcare hospitality military systems not-for-profit retail sports sustainability telecommunications and transport—and how it contributes to the growth of each.Martin K. Starr and Sushil K. Gupta gather an international team of experts to provide researchers and students with a panoramic vision of the field. Divided into eight parts the book presents the history of POM and establishes the foundation upon which POM has been built while also revisiting and revitalizing topics that have long been essential. It examines the significance of processes and projects to the fundamental growth of the POM field. Critical emerging themes and new research are examined with open minds and this is followed by opportunities to interface with other business functions. Finally the next era is discussed in ways that combine practical skill with philosophy in its analysis of POM including traditional and nontraditional applications before concluding with the editors’ thoughts on the future of the discipline. Students of POM will find this a comprehensive definitive resource on the state of the discipline and its future directions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367873073

The Routledge Companion to Public-Private Partnerships A public-private partnership (PPP) is a contractual arrangement with appropriate risk sharing between public and private partners for the delivery of public infrastructure or services which is intended to create value-for-money to the taxpayer. The Routledge Companion to Public-Private Partnerships provides a cutting-edge survey of the field. PPPs remain a highly controversial subject matter globally and this comprehensive and authoritative volume provides a terrific compendium of information for students and scholars charged with understanding critiquing and advancing this model. With sections devoted to legal aspects institutional economics perspectives finance and accountability - the editors draw together an impressive range of contributors from around the world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415781992

The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-ranging perspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluating the theoretical historical and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects. This book proposes a collaborative responsive model for broader artistic engagement in and with the material world. Its 28 chapters aim to advance the study of the puppet not only as a theatrical object but also as a vibrant artistic and scholarly discipline. This Companion looks at puppetry and material performance from six perspectives: theoretical approaches to the puppet perspectives from practitioners revisiting history negotiating tradition material performances in contemporary theatre and hybrid forms. Its wide range of topics which span 15 countries over five continents encompasses: • visual dramaturgy • theatrical juxtapositions of robots and humans • contemporary transformations of Indonesian wayang kulit • Japanese ritual body substitutes • recent European productions featuring toys clay and food. The book features newly commissioned essays by leading scholars such as Matthew Isaac Cohen Kathy Foley Jane Marie Law Eleanor Margolies Cody Poulton and Jane Taylor. It also celebrates the vital link between puppetry as a discipline and as a creative practice with chapters by active practitioners including Handspring Puppet Company’s Basil Jones Redmoon’s Jim Lasko and Bread and Puppet’s Peter Schumann. Fully illustrated with more than 60 images this volume comprises the most expansive English-language collection of international puppetry scholarship to date. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138913837

The Routledge Companion to Qualitative Accounting Research Methods Selecting from the wide range of research methodologies remains a dilemma for all scholars not least those looking to study the world of accounting. Both established and emerging research methods are frequently advocated creating a challengingly broad range of choices. Covering a selection of qualitative methodological issues research strategies and methods this comprehensive compilation provides an essential guide to the choice and execution of qualitative research approaches in this field. The contributions are grouped into four sections: Worldview and paradigmsMethodologies and strategiesData collection methods and analysisExperiencing qualitative field research: personal reflectionsEdited by leading scholars with contributions from experts and rising stars this volume will be essential reading for anyone looking to undertake research in the qualitative accounting field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367581305

The Routledge Companion to Qualitative Research in Organization Studies This comprehensive book collects contributions from leading international scholars to highlight the diverse qualitative approaches available to organizational researchers each grounded in its own philosophy. The editors provide a cutting edge globally oriented resource on the state of qualitative research methodologies helping readers to grasp the theories practices and future of the field. Beginning with an overview of qualitative methodologies the book examines ways in which research employing these techniques is conducted in a variety of disciplines including entrepreneurship innovation strategy information systems and organizational behavior. It offers timely updates on how traditions like case studies ethnographies historical methods narrative approaches and critical research are practiced today and how emerging trends including increasing legitimacy and feminization are impacting the domain. The final chapters provide templates for engaging with the future as well as essays that critically assess how qualitative inquiry has evolved within organization studies. Readers will become acquainted with contemporary tools for conducting qualitative studies learning to appreciate the emerging domains of qualitative inquiry within a dynamic and complex organizational world. Doctoral students and early-career researchers in organizational studies especially those engaged with general management organizational behavior human resource management innovation entrepreneurship and strategy will benefit from reading this relevant and inclusive handbook. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138921948

The Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity The second edition of The Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity offers readers a broad overview of scholarly exploration of the ways that humans have organized themselves (and have been organized) according to racial and ethnic divisions. More than 80 scholars from around the world and representing multiple academic traditions contribute entries to this accessible yet sophisticated volume that addresses contemporary issues in historical context. The first half of the book challenges readers to grapple with some of the most controversial aspects of categorization prejudice and discrimination through focused chapters ranging from the notion of Whiteness to the supposed biological rationale for racial categorization. The second half is comprised of 70 shorter entries on specialized concepts persons and groups that are crucial to understanding these issues. Taken as a whole this volume provides a broad multi-disciplinary and global overview of issues that continue to provide challenges to notions of equality and justice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367179519

The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice All the world’s criminal justice systems need to undertake direct work with people who have come into their care or are under their supervision as a result of criminal offences. Typically this is organized in penal and correctional services – in custody in prisons or in the community supervised by services such as probation. Bringing together international experts this book is the go-to source for students researchers and practitioners in criminal justice looking for a comprehensive and authoritative summary of available knowledge in the field. Covering a variety of contexts settings needs and approaches and drawing on theory and practice this Companion brings together over 90 entries offering readers concise and definitive overviews of a range of key contemporary issues on working with offenders. The book is split into thematic sections and includes coverage of: Theories and models for working with offenders Policy contexts of offender supervision and rehabilitation Direct work with offenders Control surveillance and practice Resettlement Application to specific groups including female offenders young offenders families and ethnic minorities Application to specific needs and contexts such as substance misuse mental health violence and risk assessment Practitioner and offender perspectives The development of an evidence base This book is an essential and flexible resource for researchers and practitioners alike and is an authoritative guide for students taking courses on working with offenders criminal justice policy probation prisons penology and community corrections. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138103320

The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education The position and role of the business school and its educational programmes have become increasingly prominent yet also questioned and contested. What management education entails and how it is enacted has become a matter of profound concern in the field of higher education and more generally for the development of the organized world. Drawing upon the humanities and social sciences The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education imagines a different and better education offered to students of management entrepreneurship and organization studies. It is an intervention into the debates on what is taught and how learning takes place demonstrating both the potential and the limits of what the humanities and social sciences can do for management education. Divided into six sections the book traces the history and theory of management education reimagining central educational principles and outlining an emerging practice-based approach. With an international cast of authors The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education has been written for contemporary and future educators and for students and scholars who seek to make a difference through their practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415727372

The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture Religion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It explores: key issues of definition and of methodology religious encounters with popular culture across media material culture and space ranging from videogames and social networks to cooking and kitsch architecture and national monuments representations of religious traditions in the media and popular culture including important non-Western spheres such as Bollywood This Companion will serve as an enjoyable and informative resource for students and a stimulus to future scholarly work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138322738

The Routledge Companion to Religion and Science The field of religion and science is one of the most exciting and dynamic areas of research today. This Companion brings together an outstanding team of scholars to explore the ways in which science intersects with the major religions of the world and religious naturalism. The collection provides an overview of the field and also indicates ways in which it is developing. Its multicultural breadth and scientific rigor on topics that are and will be compelling issues in the first part of the twenty-first century and beyond will be welcomed by students and scholars alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415742207

The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies comprises contemporary texts by key authors and artists who are active in the emerging field of remix studies. As an organic international movement remix culture originated in the popular music culture of the 1970s and has since grown into a rich cultural activity encompassing numerous forms of media. The act of recombining pre-existing material brings up pressing questions of authenticity reception authorship copyright and the techno-politics of media activism. This book approaches remix studies from various angles including sections on history aesthetics ethics politics and practice and presents theoretical chapters alongside case studies of remix projects. The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies is a valuable resource for both researchers and remix practitioners as well as a teaching tool for instructors using remix practices in the classroom. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138216716

The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying structuring and resolving some of the key issues in the debate about the nature of research in the arts which have surfaced during the establishment of this subject over the last decade. Contributions are located in the contemporary intellectual environment of research in the arts and more widely in the universities in the strategic and political environment of national research funding and in the international environment of trans-national cooperation and communication. The book is divided into three principal sections – Foundations Voices and Contexts – each with an introduction from the editors highlighting the main issues agreements and debates in each section. The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts addresses a wide variety of concepts and issues including: the diversity of views on what constitutes arts-based research and scholarship what it should be and its potential contribution the trans-national communication difficulties arising from terminological and ontological differences in arts-based research traditional and non-traditional concepts of knowledge their relationship to professional practice and their outcomes and audiences a consideration of the role of written spoken and artefact-based languages in the formation and communication of understandings. This comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of arts-based research by setting down a framework for addressing these and other topical issues. It will be essential reading for research managers and policy-makers in research councils and universities as well as individual researchers research supervisors and doctoral candidates. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415697941

The Routledge Companion to Reward Management The Routledge Companion to Reward Management provides a prestige reference work and a state-of-the-art compilation mapping out contemporary developments and debates on rewarding people in employment and how they relate to business corporate governance and management. Reward management stands at the interdisciplinary interface between economics industrial relations and HRM industrial psychology and organizational sociology and increasingly corporate governance incorporating debates around equity and fairness in and around the employment relationship and wider capital-labour relations. In recent years trade union decline and widening differentials between those employed at the top of organizations have generated critical commentary in the popular media which can negatively impact on social cohesion. Theoretically underpinned but practically oriented this Companion will synthesise these trends and controversies around issues while tracing conceptual and empirical provenance currency and future prospects. It will be an invaluable resource for policy makers practitioners students and researchers in reward management corporate governance management and HRM seeking convenient access to an area which is highly complex and controversial in application. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138294264

The Routledge Companion to Risk Crisis and Emergency Management This volume provides a comprehensive up-to-date overview of the latest management and organizational research related to risk crisis and emergency management. It is the first volume to present these separate but related disciplines together. Combined with a distinctly social and organizational science approach to the topics (as opposed to engineering or financial economics) the research presented here strengthens the intellectual foundations of the discipline while contributing to the development of the field. The Routledge Companion to Risk Crisis and Emergency Management promises to be a definitive treatise of the discipline today with contributions from several key academics from around the world. It will prove a valuable reference for students researchers and practitioners seeking a broad integrative view of risk and crisis management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138208865

The Routledge Companion to Risk Crisis and Security in Business Aware that a single crisis event can devastate their business managers must be prepared for the worst from an expansive array of threats. The Routledge Companion to Risk Crisis and Security in Business comprises a professional and scholarly collection of work in this critical field. Risks come in many varieties and there is a growing concern for organizations to respond to the challenge. Businesses can be severely impacted by natural and man-made disasters including: floods earthquakes tsunami environmental threats terrorism supply chain risks pandemics and white-collar crime. An organization’s resilience is dependent not only on their own system security and infrastructure but also on the wider infrastructure providing health and safety utilities transportation and communication.Developments in risk security and management knowledge offer a path towards resilience and recovery through effective leadership in crisis situations. The growing body of knowledge in research and methodologies is a basis for decisions to safeguard people and assets and to ensure the survivability of an organization from a crisis. Not only can businesses become more secure through risk management but an effective program can also facilitate innovation and afford new opportunities.With chapters written by an international selection of leading experts this book fills a crucial gap in our current knowledge of risk crisis and security in business by exploring a broad spectrum of topics in the field. Edited by a globally-recognized expert on risk this book is a vital reference for researchers professionals and students with an interest in current scholarship in this expanding discipline. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656126

The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning provides a critical account and state of the art review of rural planning in the early years of the twenty-first century. Looking across different international experiences – from Europe North America and Australasia to the transition and emerging economies including BRIC and former communist states â€“ it aims to develop new conceptual propositions and theoretical insights supported by detailed case studies and reviews of available data. The Companion gives coverage to emerging topics in the field and seeks to position rural planning in the broader context of global challenges: climate change the loss of biodiversity food and energy security and low carbon futures. It also looks at old established questions in new ways: at social and spatial justice place shaping economic development and environmental and landscape management. Planning in the twenty-first century must grapple not only with the challenges presented by cities and urban concentration but also grasp the opportunities – and understand the risks – arising from rural change and restructuring. Rural areas are diverse and dynamic. This Companion attempts to capture and analyse at least some of this diversity fostering a dialogue on likely and possible rural futures between a global community of rural planning researchers.Primarily intended for scholars and graduate students across a range of disciplines such as planning rural geography rural sociology agricultural studies development studies environmental studies and countryside management this book will prove to be an invaluable and up-to-date resource. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367731960

The Routledge Companion to Scenography The Routledge Companion to Scenography is the largest and most comprehensive collection of original essays to survey the historical conceptual critical and theoretical aspects of this increasingly important aspect of theatre and performance studies. Editor and leading scholar Arnold Aronson brings together a uniquely valuable anthology of texts especially commissioned from across the discipline of theatre and performance studies. Establishing a stable terminology for a deeply contested term for the first time this volume looks at scenography as the totality of all the visual spatial and sensory aspects of performance. Tracing a line from Aristotle’s Poetics down to Brecht and Artaud and into contemporary immersive theatre and digital media The Routledge Companion to Scenography is a vital addition to every theatre library. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367509637

The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of screen music and sound studies addressing the ways in which music and sound interact with forms of narrative media such as television videogames and film. The inclusive framework of "screen music and sound" allows readers to explore the intersections and connections between various types of media and music and sound reflecting the current state of scholarship and the future of the field.A diverse range of international scholars have contributed an impressive set of forty-six chapters that move from foundational knowledge to cutting edge topics that highlight new key areas. The companion is thematically organized into five cohesive areas of study:Issues in the Study of Screen Music and Sound—discusses the essential topics of the disciplineHistorical Approaches—examines periods of historical change or transitionProduction and Process—focuses on issues of collaboration institutional politics and the impact of technology and industrial practicesCultural and Aesthetic Perspectives—contextualizes an aesthetic approach within a wider framework of cultural knowledgeAnalyses and Methodologies—explores potential methodologies for interrogating screen music and sound Covering a wide range of topic areas drawn from musicology sound studies and media studies The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides researchers and students with an effective overview of music’s role in narrative media as well as new methodological and aesthetic insights. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367871192

The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy is an outstanding survey of one of the most important eras in the history of Western philosophy - one which witnessed philosophical scientific religious and social change on a massive scale.A team of twenty international contributors provide students and scholars of philosophy and related disciplines with a detailed and accessible guide to seventeenth century philosophy. The Companion is divided into seven parts:Historical ContextMetaphysicsEpistemologyMind and LanguageMoral and Political PhilosophyNatural Philosophy and the Material WorldPhilosophical Theology.Major topics and themes are explored and discussed including the scholastic context that shaped philosophy of the period free will skepticism logic mind-body problems consciousness arguments for the existence of God and the problem of evil. As such The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy is essential reading for all students of the period both in philosophy and related disciplines such as literature history politics and religious studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367865016

The Routledge Companion to Severe Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties The Routledge Companion to Severe Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties is a timely and rich resource with contributions from writing teams of acknowledged experts providing a balance of both academic and practitioner perspectives. The book covers a myriad of topics and themes and has the core purpose of informing and supporting everyone who is interested in improving the quality of education and support for children and young adults with severe profound and multiple learning difficulties and their families. Each chapter contains careful presentations and analyses of the findings from influential research and its practical applications and the book is a treasure chest of experiences suggestions and ideas from practitioners that will be invaluable for many years to come. The chapters include many vignettes gathered from practitioners in the field and are written specifically to be rigorous yet accessible. The contributors cover topics related to the rights and needs of children and young adults from 0-25 years crucial features of high quality education characteristics of integrated provision and effective and sensitive working with families to ensure the best possible outcomes for their children. Crucially the voice of the learners themselves shines through. Historical provision that has had an impact on developing services and modern legislation aimed at improving provision and services are also discussed. The contributed chapters are organised into six themed parts: Provision for learners with SLD/PMLD. Involving stakeholders. Priorities for meeting the personal and social needs of learners. Developing the curriculum. Strategies for supporting teaching and learning. Towards a new understanding of education for learners with SLD/PMLD. This text is an essential read for students on courses and staff working in and with the whole range of educational settings catering for children and young adults with severe profound and multiple learning difficulties not just for teachers but also for support staff speech and language therapists physiotherapists psychologists nurses social workers and other specialists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415709989

The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy Iago’s ‘I am not what I am’ epitomises how Shakespeare’s work is rich in philosophy from issues of deception and moral deviance to those concerning the complex nature of the self the notions of being and identity and the possibility or impossibility of self-knowledge and knowledge of others. Shakespeare’s plays and poems address subjects including ethics epistemology metaphysics philosophy of mind and social and political philosophy. They also raise major philosophical questions about the nature of theatre literature tragedy representation and fiction. The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy is the first major guide and reference source to Shakespeare and philosophy. It examines the following important topics: What roles can be played in an approach to Shakespeare by drawing on philosophical frameworks and the work of philosophers? What can philosophical theories of meaning and communication show about the dynamics of Shakespearean interactions and vice versa? How are notions such as political and social obligation justice equality love agency and the ethics of interpersonal relationships demonstrated in Shakespeare’s works? What do the plays and poems invite us to say about the nature of knowledge belief doubt deception and epistemic responsibility? How can the ways in which Shakespeare’s characters behave illuminate existential issues concerning meaning absurdity death and nothingness? What might Shakespeare’s characters and their actions show about the nature of the self the mind and the identity of individuals? How can Shakespeare’s works inform philosophical approaches to notions such as beauty humour horror and tragedy? How do Shakespeare’s works illuminate philosophical questions about the nature of fiction the attitudes and expectations involved in engagement with theatre and the role of acting and actors in creating representations? 　 The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy is essential reading for students and researchers in aesthetics philosophy of literature and philosophy of theatre as well as those exploring Shakespeare in disciplines such as literature and theatre and drama studies. It is also relevant reading for those in areas of philosophy such as ethics epistemology and philosophy of language. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138936126

The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities explores the question of what it means for a city to be ‘smart’ raises some of the tensions emerging in smart city developments and considers the implications for future ways of inhabiting and understanding the urban condition. The volume draws together a critical and cross-disciplinary overview of the emerging topic of smart cities and explores it from a range of theoretical and empirical viewpoints. This timely book brings together key thinkers and projects from a wide range of fields and perspectives into one volume to provide a valuable resource that would enable the reader to take their own critical position within the topic. To situate the topic of the smart city for the reader and establish key concepts the volume sets out the various interpretations and aspects of what constitutes and defines smart cities. It investigates and considers the range of factors that shape the characteristics of smart cities and draws together different disciplinary perspectives. The consideration of what shapes the smart city is explored through discussing three broad ‘parts’ – issues of governance the nature of urban development and how visions are realised – and includes chapters that draw on empirical studies to frame the discussion with an understanding not just of the nature of the smart city but also how it is studied understood and reflected upon. The Companion will appeal to academics and advanced undergraduates and postgraduates from across many disciplines including Urban Studies Geography Urban Planning Sociology and Architecture by providing state of the art reviews of key themes by leading scholars in the field arranged under clearly themed sections. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138036673

The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy is a comprehensive definitive reference work providing an up-to-date survey of the field charting its history and key figures and movements and addressing enduring questions as well as contemporary research. Features unique to the Companion are: an extensive coverage of the history of social and political thought including separate chapters on the development of political thought in the Islamic world India and China as well in modern Germany France and Britain a focus on the core concepts and the normative foundations of social and political theory a seven-chapter section devoted exclusively to distributive justice the central issue of political philosophy since Rawls' Theory of Justice extensive coverage of global justice and international issues which recently have emerged as vital topics an eight-chapter section on issues in social and political philosophy. The Companion is divided into eight thematic sections: The History of Social and Political Theory; Political Theories and Ideologies; Normative Foundations; The National State and Beyond; Distributive Justice; Political Concepts; Concepts and Methods in Social Philosophy; Issues in Social and Political Philosophy. Comprised of sixty-nine newly commissioned essays by leading scholars from throughout the world The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy is the most comprehensive and authoritative resource in social and political philosophy for students and scholars. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138064874

The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics Social media are now widely used for political protests campaigns and communication in developed and developing nations but available research has not yet paid sufficient attention to experiences beyond the US and UK. This collection tackles this imbalance head-on compiling cutting-edge research across six continents to provide a comprehensive global up-to-date review of recent political uses of social media. Drawing together empirical analyses of the use of social media by political movements and in national and regional elections and referenda The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics presents studies ranging from Anonymous and the Arab Spring to the Greek Aganaktismenoi and from South Korean presidential elections to the Scottish independence referendum. The book is framed by a selection of keystone theoretical contributions evaluating and updating existing frameworks for the social media age. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138300934

The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies is an extensive volume presenting a comparative and historically informed understanding of the workings of sound in culture while also mapping potential future directions for research in the field. Experts from a variety of disciplines within sound studies cover such diverse topics as politics gender media race literature and sport. Individual sections that consider the importance of sound in an increasingly mediated world; the role that sound media play in the construction of experience; and the ways in which sound has been theorized to produce a distinctive sensory contribution to knowledge. This wide-ranging and vibrant collection provides a rich resource for scholars and students of media and culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367659745

The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art presents an overview of the issues methods and approaches crucial for the study of sound in artistic practice. Thirty-six essays cover a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to studying sounding art from the fields of musicology cultural studies sound design auditory culture art history and philosophy. The companion website hosts sound examples and links to further resources.The collection is organized around six main themes:Sounding Art: The notion of sounding art its relation to sound studies and its evolution and possibilities.Acoustic Knowledge and Communication: How we approach study and analyze sound and the challenges of writing about sound.Listening and Memory: Listening from different perspectives from the psychology of listening to embodied and technologically mediated listening.Acoustic Spaces Identities and Communities: How humans arrange their sonic environments how this relates to sonic identity how music contributes to our environment and the ethical and political implications of sound. Sonic Histories: How studying sounding art can contribute methodologically and epistemologically to historiography. Sound Technologies and Media: The impact of sonic technologies on contemporary culture electroacoustic innovation and how the way we make and access music has changed. With contributions from leading scholars and cutting-edge researchers The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art is an essential resource for anyone studying the intersection of sound and art. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367581510

The Routledge Companion to Spatial History The Routledge Companion to Spatial History explores the full range of ways in which GIS can be used to study the past considering key questions such as what types of new knowledge can be developed solely as a consequence of using GIS and how effective GIS can be for different types of research. Global in scope and covering a broad range of subjects the chapters in this volume discuss ways of turning sources into a GIS database methods of analysing these databases methods of visualising the results of the analyses and approaches to interpreting analyses and visualisations. Chapter authors draw from a diverse collection of case studies from around the world covering topics from state power in imperial China to the urban property market in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro health and society in twentieth-century Britain and the demographic impact of the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. Critically evaluating both the strengths and limitations of GIS and illustrated with over two hundred maps and figures this volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars interested in the use of GIS and spatial analysis as a method of historical research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367735371

The Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky Stanislavsky’s system of actor-training has revolutionised modern theatre practice and he is widely recognised to be one of the great cultural innovators of the twentieth century. The Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky is an essential book for students and scholars alike providing the first overview of the field for the 21st century. An important feature of this book is the balance between Stanislavsky’s theory and practice as international contributors present scholarly and artistic interpretations of his work. With chapters including academic essays and personal narratives the Companion is divided into four clear parts exploring Stanislavsky on stage as an acting teacher as a theorist and finally as a theatre practitioner. Bringing together a dazzling selection of original scholarship notable contributions include: Anatoly Smeliansky on Stanislavsky’s letters William D. Gunn on staging ideology at the Moscow Art Theatre Sharon Marie Carnicke and David Rosen on opera Rosemary Malague on the feminist perspective of new translations W.B. Worthen on cognitive science Julia Listengarten on the avant-garde David Krasner on the System in America and Dennis Beck on Stanislavsky’s legacy in non-realistic theatre R. Andrew White is Associate Professor of Theatre at Valparaiso University where he annually directs productions. He has an MFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon University and the Moscow Art Theatre School and has worked as an actor at a variety of theatres in the United States. In addition his scholarship has appeared in edited works published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan as well as in top American journals including Theatre Survey TDR/The Drama Review and New England Theatre Journal. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815357148

The Routledge Companion to Strabo The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE – c. CE 24) a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost his major opus of the Geography includes an encyclopaedic look at the entire world known at the time: numerous ethnographic topographic historical mythological botanical and zoological details and much more. This volume offers various insights to the literary and historical context of the man and his world. The Companion in twenty-eight chapters written by an international group of scholars examines several aspects of Strabo’s personality the political and scholarly environment in which he was active his choices as an author and his ideas of history and geography. This selection of ongoing Strabonian studies is an invaluable resource not just for students and scholars of Strabo himself but also for anyone interested in ancient geography and in the world of the early Roman Empire. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367581299

The Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management Combining up-to-date research innovative content and practical perspectives this book is the benchmark by which all other strategic HRM reference works should be measured. Leading figures from around the globe survey the current state of the discipline while also introducing and exploring new cutting edge themes in order to offer a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field. Section introductions and integrative critiques pull together the separate themes to provide cross-comparisons between chapters to create a cohesive and well-structured volume. Unlike other texts in this area The Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management incorporates contributions from leading management and business writers in areas adjacent to human resource management including strategy innovation and organizational learning. These add fresh and challenging insights into HRM themes from key mainstream business and management thinking. The field of strategic HRM is thus enriched and extended by this volume.  Focusing on the interplay between theory and practice this book is an essential resource for researchers and students studying human resource management and strategy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138386006

The Routledge Companion to Strategic Marketing The Routledge Companion to Strategic Marketing offers the latest insights into marketing strategy. Bodo Schlegelmilch and Russ Winer present 29 specially commissioned chapters which include up-to-date thinking on a diverse range of marketing strategy topics. Readers benefit from the latest strategic insights of leading experts from universities around the world. Contributing authors are from among others the U.S. (Berkeley Cornell MIT New York University Texas A&M) Europe (the Hanken School of Economics INSEAD the University of Oxford the University of Groningen WU Vienna) and Asia (the Indian School of Business Tongji University). The topics addressed include economic foundations of marketing strategy competition in digital marketing strategy (e.g. mobile payment systems and social media strategy) marketing strategy and corporate social responsibility as well as perspectives on capturing the impact of marketing strategy. Collectively this authoritative guide is an accessible tool for researchers students and practitioners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138489080

The Routledge Companion to Strategic Risk Management Managing risk in and across organizations has always been of vital importance both for individual firms and for the globalized economy more generally. With the global financial crisis a dramatic lesson was learnt about what happens when risk is underestimated misinterpreted or even overlooked. Many possible solutions have been competing for international recognition yet there is little empirical evidence to support the purported effectiveness of these regulations and structured control approaches which leaves the field wide open for further interpretation and conceptual development.This comprehensive book pulls together a team of experts from around the world in a range of key disciplines such as management economics and accounting to provide a comprehensive resource detailing everything that needs to be known in this emerging area. With no single text currently available the book fills a much needed gap in our current understanding of strategic risk management offering the potential to advance research efforts and enhance our approaches to effective risk management practices. Edited by a globally recognized expert on strategic risk management this book will be an essential reference for students researchers and professionals with an interest in risk management strategic management and finance. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367869540

The Routledge Companion to Tax Avoidance Research An inherently interdisciplinary subject tax avoidance has attracted growing interest of scholars in many fields. No longer limited to law and accounting research increasingly has been conducted from other perspectives such as anthropology business ethics corporate social responsibility and economic psychology. This was –recently stimulated by politicians mass media and the public focussing on tax avoidance after the global financial and economic crisis put a squeeze on private and public finances. New challenges were posed by changing definitions and controversies in the interpretation of tax avoidance concept as well as a host of new rules and policies that need to be fully understood. This collection provides a comprehensive guide to students and academics on the subjects of tax avoidance from an interdisciplinary perspective exploring the areas of accounting law economics psychology and sociology. It covers global as well as regional issues presents a discussion of the definition legality morality and psychology of tax avoidance and provides guidance on measurement of economic effect of tax avoidance activities. With a truly international selection of authors from the UK North America Africa Asia Australasia Middle East and continental Europe with well-known experts and rising stars of the field the contributors cover the entire terrain of this important topic.The Routledge Companion to Tax Avoidance Research is a ground-breaking attempt to bring together scholarly research in tax avoidance offering rigorous academic analysis of an important and hotly debated issue in a structured and balanced way. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656164

The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical is dedicated to the musical’s evolving relationship to American culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In the past decade-and-a-half international scholars from an ever-widening number of disciplines and specializations have been actively contributing to the interdisciplinary field of musical theater studies. Musicals have served not only to mirror the sociopolitical economic and cultural tenor of the times but have helped shape and influence it in America and across the globe: a genre that may seem at first glance light-hearted and escapist serves also as a bold commentary on society. Forty-four essays examine the contemporary musical as an ever-shifting product of an ever-changing culture. This volume sheds new light on the American musical as a thriving contemporary performing arts genre one that could have died out in the post-Tin Pan Alley era but instead has managed to remain culturally viable and influential in part by newly embracing a series of complex contradictions. At present the American musical is a live localized old-fashioned genre that has simultaneously developed into an increasingly globalized tech-savvy intensely mediated mass entertainment form. Similarly as it has become increasingly international in its scope and appeal the stage musical has also become more firmly rooted to Broadway—the idea if not the place—and thus branded as a quintessentially American entertainment. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138684614

The Routledge Companion to the Crusades A compilation of facts figures maps family trees summaries of the major crusades and their historiography the Routledge Companion to the Crusades spans a broad chronological range from the eleventh to the eighteenth century and gives a chronological framework and context for modern research on the crusading movement. Not just a history of the Crusades but an overview of the logistical economic social and biographical history  this is a core text for students of history and religious studies. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203389638

The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries is collection of contemporary scholarship that seeks to re-assert the importance of cultural production and consumption against the purely economic imperatives of the ‘creative industries’. Across 43 chapters drawn from a wide range of geographic and disciplinary perspectives this comprehensive volume offers a critical and empirically informed examination of the contemporary cultural industries. A range of industries are explored from video games to art galleries all the time focussing on the culture that is being produced and its wider symbolic and socio-cultural meaning. Individual chapters consider their industrial structure the policy that governs them their geography the labour that produces them and the meaning they offer to consumers and participants. The collection also explores the historical dimension of cultural industry debates providing context for new readers as well as critical orientation for those more familiar with the subject. Questions of industry structure labour place international development consumption and regulation are all explored in terms of their historical trajectory and potential future direction. By assessing the current challenges facing the cultural industries this collection provides students and researchers with an essential guide to key ideas issues concepts and debates in the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138391871

The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive transnational and interdisciplinary map to the field offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship. Articulating the significance of humanistic perspectives for our collective social engagement with ecological crises the volume explores the potential of the environmental humanities for organizing humanistic research opening up new forms of interdisciplinarity and shaping public debate and policies on environmental issues. Sections cover: The Anthropocene and the Domestication of Earth Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities Inequality and Environmental Justice　 Decline and Resilience: Environmental Narratives History and Memory Environmental Arts Media and Technologies The State of the Environmental Humanities The first of its kind this companion covers essential issues and themes necessarily crossing disciplines within the humanities and with the social and natural sciences. Exploring how the environmental humanities contribute to policy and action concerning some of the key intellectual social and environmental challenges of our times the chapters offer an ideal guide to this rapidly developing field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138786745

The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School The portentous terms and phrases associated with the first decades of the Frankfurt School – exile the dominance of capitalism fascism – seem as salient today as they were in the early twentieth century. The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School addresses the many early concerns of critical theory and brings those concerns into direct engagement with our shared world today. In this volume a distinguished group of international scholars from a variety of disciplines revisits the philosophical and political contributions of Theodor W. Adorno Walter Benjamin Max Horkheimer Herbert Marcuse Jürgen Habermas Axel Honneth and others.　 Throughout the Companion’s focus is on the major ideas that have made the Frankfurt School such a consequential and enduring movement. It offers a crucial resource for those who are trying to make sense of the global and cultural crisis that has now seized our contemporary world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367659714

The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History engages with some of the most recent trends in French revolutionary scholarship by considering the Revolution in its global context. Across seventeen chapters an international team of contributors examine the impact of the Revolution not only on its European neighbours but on Latin America North America and Africa assess how far events there impacted on the Revolution in France and suggest something of the Revolution’s enduring legacy in the modern world. The Companion views the French Revolution through a deliberately wide lens. The first section deals with its global repercussions from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and includes a discussion of major insurrections such as those in Haiti and Venezuela. Three chapters then dissect the often complex and entangled relations with other revolutionary movements in seventeenth-century Britain the American colonies and Meiji Japan. The focus then switches to international involvement in the events of 1789 and the circulation of ideas people goods and capital. In a final section contributors throw light on how the Revolution was and is still remembered across the globe with chapters on Russia China and Australasia. An introduction by the editors places the Revolution in its political historical and historiographical context. The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History is a timely and important contribution to scholarship of the French Revolution. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138333734

The Routledge Companion to the Future of Marketing The Routledge Companion to the Future of Marketing provides the reader with a comprehensive and original set of visionary insights into the future of marketing. This prestigious collection aims to challenge the mindset of academics moving their thinking processes from current thinking into new perspectives and advances in marketing knowledge.Selected Contents: Part 1: New Paradigms and Philosophical Insights  Part 2: Contributions from other Scientific Fields  Part 3: Reconnecting with Consumers and Markets  Part 4: New Methodological Insights in Scholarly Research in the Field Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415625920

The Routledge Companion to the Geography of International Business The fields of Economic Geography and International Business share an interest in the same phenomena whilst each provides both a differing perspective and different research methods in attempting to understand those phenomena. The Routledge Companion to the Geography of International Business explores the nature and scope of inter-disciplinary work between Economic Geography and International Business in explaining the central issues in the international economy. Contributions written by leading specialists in each field (including some chapters written by inter-disciplinary teams) focus on the nature of multinational firms and their strategies where they choose to locate their activities how they create and manage international networks and the key relationships between multinationals and the places where they place their operations. Topics covered include the internationalisation of service industries the influence of location on the competitiveness of firms and the economic dynamism of regions and where economic activity takes place and how knowledge goods and services flow between locations. The book examines the areas for fruitful inter-disciplinary work between International Business and Economic Geography and sets out a road map for future joint research and is an essential resource for students and practitioners of International Business and Economic Development. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138953345

The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary volume that brings together an international team of contributors to provide a unique transnational overview of the Hispanic Enlightenment integrating both Spain and Latin America. Challenging the usual conceptions of the Enlightenment in Spain and Latin America as mere stepsisters to Enlightenments in other countries the Companion explores the existence of a distinctive Hispanic Enlightenment. The interdisciplinary approach makes it an invaluable resource for students of Hispanic studies and researchers unfamiliar with the Hispanic Enlightenment introducing them to the varied aspects of this rich cultural period including the literature visual art and social and cultural history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138747791

The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing Retail history is a rich cross-disciplinary field that demonstrates the centrality of retailing to many aspects of human experience from the provisioning of everyday goods to the shaping of urban environments; from earning a living to the construction of identity. Over the last few decades interest in the history of retail has increased greatly spanning centuries extending to all areas of the globe and drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives.　　By offering an up-to-date comprehensive thematic spatial and chronological coverage of the history of retailing this Companion goes beyond traditional narratives that are too simplistic and Euro-centric and offers a vibrant survey of this field. It is divided into four broad sections: 1) Contexts 2) Spaces and places 3) People processes and practices and 4) Geographical variations. Chapters are written in an analytical and synthetic manner accessible to the general reader as well as challenging for specialists and with an international perspective.This volume is an important resource to a wide range of readers including marketing and management specialists historians geographers economists sociologists and urban planners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367656072

The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business draws together a wide array of state-of-the-art research on multinational enterprises. The volume aims to deepen our historical understanding of how firms and entrepreneurs contributed to transformative processes of globalization. This book explores how global business facilitated the mechanisms of cross-border interactions that affected individuals organizations industries national economies and international relations. The 37 chapters span the Middle Ages to the present day analyzing the emergence of institutions and actors alongside key contextual factors for global business development. Contributors examine business as a central actor in globalization covering myriad entrepreneurs organizational forms and key industrial sectors. Taking a historical view the chapters highlight the intertwined and evolving nature of economic political social technological and environmental patterns and relationships. They explore dynamic change as well as lasting continuities both of which often only become visible – and can only be fully understood – when analyzed in the long run. With dedicated chapters on challenges such as political risk sustainability and economic growth this prestigious collection provides a one-stop shop for a key business discipline. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138242654

The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Modern Entrepreneurship Once relegated to the dusty shelves of ancient muses research and scholarship on entrepreneurship has exploded as a field of research with impactful additions from a range of disciplines rendering the field a tricky one to traverse. The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Modern Entrepreneurship offers a comprehensive guide to entrepreneurship providing an authoritative exploration of the key people and their ideas. This book tells the stories of the scholars who have set the standard and tone for thinking and analysing entrepreneurship.Edited by two of the world’s leading entrepreneurship scholars this comprehensive volume offers a platform for understanding and future research that is both state-of-the-art and authoritative. It expands on how modern entrepreneurship has developed with a focus on the key "makers" of the field – including theories such as social psychology; concepts such as neuroeconomics; and types such as political entrepreneurship.The contributions to the collection are grouped into three sections:Emergence of Entrepreneurship ResearchTheories in Modern EntrepreneurshipConcepts and Makers in Modern EntrepreneurshipThis companion is essential reading for students and academics interested in entrepreneurship entrepreneurial management and business management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367871567

The Routledge Companion to the New Cosmology Just what is Einstein's Theory of Relativity? The Big Bang Theory? Curvature of Spacetime? What do astronomers mean when they talk of a 'flat universe'?This approachable and authoritative guide to the cosmos answers these questions and more. Taking advantage of the distinctive Companion format readers can use the extensive cross-referenced background chapters as a fascinating and accessible introduction to the current state of cosmological knowledge - or they can use the convenient A-Z body of entries as a quick reference to a wide range of terms and concepts. Entries include topics such as: Black Hole; Doppler Effect; Fermi Enrico; Heat Death of the Universe; Life in the Universe; Olber's Paradox; Quantum Field Theory; Supernova; and much more. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138834644

The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race For many decades race and racism have been common areas of study in departments of sociology history political science English and anthropology. Much more recently as the historical concept of race and racial categories have faced significant scientific and political challenges philosophers have become more interested in these areas. This changing understanding of the ontology of race has invited inquiry from researchers in moral philosophy metaphysics epistemology philosophy of science philosophy of language and aesthetics. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Race offers in one comprehensive volume newly written articles on race from the world’s leading analytic and continental philosophers. It is however accessible to a readership beyond philosophy as well providing a cohesive reference for a wide student and academic readership. The Companion synthesizes current philosophical understandings of race providing 37 chapters on the history of philosophy and race as well as how race might be investigated in the usual frameworks of contemporary philosophy. The volume concludes with a section on philosophical approaches to some topics with broad interest outside of philosophy like colonialism affirmative action eugenics immigration race and disability and post-racialism. By clearly explaining and carefully organizing the leading current philosophical thinking on race this timely collection will help define the subject and bring renewed understanding of race to students and researchers in the humanities social science and sciences. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367659981

The Routledge Companion to the Practice of Christian Theology This Companion introduces readers to the practice of Christian theology covering what theologians do why they do it and what steps readers can take in order to become theological practitioners themselves. The volume aims to capture the variety of practices involved in doing theology highlighting the virtues that guide them and the responsibilities that shape them. It　also　shows that the description of these practices virtues and responsibilities is itself theological: what Christian theologians do is shaped by the wider practices and beliefs of Christianity. Written by a team of leading theologians the Companion provides a unique resource for students and scholars of theology alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367459680

The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism is a state-of-the-art reference work which maps out the current developments and debates around the sociology of the professions and how they relate to management and organizations. Supported by an international contributor team specializing in the disciplines of organizational studies and sociology the collection provides extensive coverage of this field of research. It brings together the core concepts and issues and has chapters on all the key aspects of professions in both the public and private sectors including issues of governance and regulation. The volume closes with a set of international case studies which provide valuable practical insights into the subject. This Companion will be an indispensable reference source for students scholars and educators within the social sciences especially within management organizational studies and sociology. It will also be highly relevant for those working and studying in the area of professional education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138018891

The Routledge Companion to the Stuart Age 1603-1714 Here is an invaluable user-friendly and compact compendium packed with facts and figures on the seventeenth century – one of the most tumultuous and complex periods in British history. From James I to Queen Anne this Companion includes detailed information on political religious and cultural developments as well as military activity foreign affairs and colonial expansion. Chronologies biographies documents maps and genealogies and an extensive bibliography navigate the reader through this fascinating and formative epoch as the book details the key events and themes of the era including: the English Civil War and its military campaigns the Gunpowder Plot Catholic persecution and the influence of Puritanism imperial adventures in America Asia Africa and the Caribbean Scotland and the Act of Union 1707 the Irish Confederate wars and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland the Great Fire of 1666 and the rebuilding of London biographies of key figures including women artists architects writers and scientists the Restoration and the revival of drama. With complete lists of offices of state an extensive glossary of key constitutional political and religious terminology and up-to-date thematic annotated bibliographies to aid further research this student-friendly reference guide is essential for all those interested in the Stuart Age. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203390139

The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking WINNER OF THE 2019 SOCIETY OF ETHNOMUSICLOGY ELLEN KOSKOFF PRIZE FOR EDITED COLLECTIONSThe Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking provides a reference to how cross-culturally musicking constructs locality and how locality is constructed by the musicking that takes place within it that is how people engage with ideas of community and place through music. The term "musicking" has gained currency in music studies and refers to the diverse ways in which people engage with music regardless of the nature of this engagement. By linking musicking to the local this book highlights the ways in which musical practices and discourses interact with people’s everyday experiences and understandings of their immediate environment their connections and commitment to that locality and the people who exist within it. It explores what makes local musicking "local." By viewing musicking from the perspective of where it takes place the contributions in this collection engage with debates on the processes of musicking identity construction community-building and network formation competitions and rivalries place and space making and local-global dynamics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367570552

The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs provides one of the most comprehensive examinations available to date of the suburbs around the world. International in scope and interdisciplinary in nature this volume will serve as the definitive reference for scholars and students of the suburbs. This volume brings together the leading scholars of the suburbs researching in different parts of the world to better understand how and why suburbs and their communities grow decline and regenerate. The volume sets out four goals: 1) to provide a synthesis and critical appraisal of the historical and current state of understanding about the development of suburbs in the world; 2) to provide a forum for a comprehensive examination into the conceptual theoretical spatial and empirical discontents of suburbanization; 3) to engage in a scholarly conversation about the transformation of suburbs that is interdisciplinary in nature and bridges the divide between the Global North and the Global South; and 4) to reflect on the implications of the socioeconomic cultural and political transformations of the suburbs for policymakers and planners. The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs is composed of original scholarly contributions from the leading scholars of the study of how and why suburbs grow decline and transform. Special attention is paid to the global nature of suburbanization and its regional variations with a focus on comparative analysis of suburbs through regions across the world in the Global North and the Global South. Articulated in a common voice the volume is integrated by the very nature of the concept of a suburb as the unit of analysis offering multidisciplinary perspectives from the fields of economics geography planning political science sociology and urban studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367733711

The Routledge Companion to the Tudor Age This new Companion is an invaluable guide to one of the most colourful periods in history. Covering everything from the Reformation controversies over the succession and the prayer book to literature the family and education this highly accessible reference tool contains commentary on the key events in the reigns of the five Tudor monarchs from Henry VII to Elizabeth I. Opening with a general introduction it includes a wealth of chronologies biographies statistics and maps as well as a glossary and a guide to the key works in the field. Topics covered include: The establishment of the Tudor dynasty; monarchs and their consorts; rebellions against the Tudors The legal system- central and ecclesiastical courts Government- central and local; the Monarchy and Parliament The Church – structure and changes throughout this tumultuous period Ireland- timeline of key events Population- numbers and distribution The World of Learning- education; literature; religion The key debates in the field. This book will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the Tudor Age. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203850466

The Routledge Companion to the Work of John R. Rickford This comprehensive collection is the first full book-length volume to bring together writing focused around and inspired by the work of John Rickford and his role in sociolinguistic research over the last four decades. Featuring contributions from more than 40 leading scholars in the field the volume integrates both historical and current perspectives on key topics in Rickford’s body of work at the intersection of language and society highlighting the influence of his work from diverse fields such as sociolinguistics stylistics creole studies and language and education. The volume is organized around four sections each representing one of the fundamental strands in Rickford’s scholarship over the course of his career bookended by short vignettes that feature stories from the field to more broadly contextualize his intellectual legacy: • Language contact from a sociolinguistic and sociohistorical point of view • The political ramifications of linguistic heterogeneity • The stylistic implications of language variation and change • The educational implications of linguistic heterogeneity and social injustice Taken together The Routledge Companion to the Work of John R. Rickford serves as a platform to showcase Rickford’s pioneering contributions to the field and in turn to socially reflective linguistic research more generally making this key reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics creole studies language and style and language and education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138370708

The Routledge Companion to Theatre Performance and Cognitive Science The Routledge Companion to Theatre Performance and Cognitive Science integrates key findings from the cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology neuroscience evolutionary studies and relevant social sciences) with insights from theatre and performance studies. This rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field dynamically advances critical and theoretical knowledge as well as driving innovation in practice. The anthology includes 30 specially commissioned chapters many written by authors who have been at the cutting-edge of research and practice in the field over the last 15 years. These authors offer many empirical answers to four significant questions: How can performances in theatre dance and other media achieve more emotional and social impact? How can we become more adept teachers and learners of performance both within and outside of classrooms?　 What can the cognitive sciences reveal about the nature of drama and human nature in general?　 How can knowledge transfer from a synthesis of science and performance assist professionals such as nurses care-givers therapists and emergency workers in their jobs? A wide-ranging and authoritative guide The Routledge Companion to Theatre Performance and Cognitive Science is an accessible tool for not only students but practitioners and researchers in the arts and sciences as well. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138048898

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how are they different? What events people practices and ideas have shaped theatre and performance in the twentieth and twenty-first century? The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance offers some answers to these big questions. It provides an analytical informative and engaging introduction to important people companies events concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson megamusicals postdramatic theatre and documentation. Each entry includes crucial historical and contextual information extensive cross-referencing detailed analysis and an annotated bibliography. The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance is a perfect reference guide for the keen student. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415636315

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography sets the agenda for inclusive and wide-ranging approaches to writing history embracing the diverse perspectives of the twenty-first century and Critical Media History. Written by an international team of authors whose expertise spans a multitude of historical periods and cultures this collection of fascinating essays poses the central question: "what is specific to the historiography of the performative?" The study of theatre in conjunction with the wider sphere of performance involves an array of multi-faceted methods for collecting evidence interpreting sources and creating meaning. Reflecting on issues of recording — from early modern musical scores through VHS-technology to latest digital procedures — and on what is missing from records or oblique in practices the contributors convey how theatre and performance history is integral to social and cultural relations. This expertly curated collection repositions theatre and performance history and is essential reading for Theatre and Performance Studies students or those interested in social and cultural history more generally. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138575516

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays provocations and interventions on the most important questions faced by today’s writers critics audiences and theatre and performance makers. Featuring texts written by scholars and artists who are diversely situated (geographically culturally politically and institutionally) its multiple perspectives broadly address the question "How can we be political now?" To respond to this question Peter Eckersall and Helena Grehan have created eight galvanising themes as frameworks or rubrics to rethink the critical creative and activist perspectives on questions of politics and theatre. Each theme is linked to a set of guiding keywords: Post (post consensus post-Brexit post-Fukushima post-neoliberalism post-humanism post-global financial crisis post-acting   the real) Assembly (assemblage disappearance permission community citizen protest refugee) Gap (who is in and out what can be seen/heard/funded/allowed) Institution (visibility/darkness inclusion rules) Machine (biodata surveillance economy mediatisation) Message (performance and conviction didacticism propaganda) End (suffering stasis collapse entropy) Re. (reset rescale reanimate reimagine replay: how to bring complexity back into the public arena how art can help to do this). These themes were developed in conversation with key thinkers and artists in the field and the resulting texts engage with artistic works across a range of modes including traditional theatre contemporary performance public protest events activism and community and participatory theatre. Suitable for academics performance makers and students The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics explores questions of how to be political in the early 21st century by exploring how theatre and performance might provoke unsettle reinforce or productively destabilise the status quo. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138303485

The Routledge Companion to Theatre of the Oppressed This dynamic book offers a comprehensive companion to the theory and practice of Theatre of the Oppressed. Developed by Brazilian director and theorist Augusto Boal these theatrical forms invite people to mobilize their knowledge and rehearse struggles against oppression. Featuring a diverse array of voices (many of them as yet unheard in the academic world) the book hosts dialogues on the following questions among others: Why and how did Theatre of the Oppressed develop? What are the differences between the 1970s (when Theatre of the Oppressed began) and today? How has Theatre of the Oppressed been shaped by local and global shifts of the last 40-plus years? Why has Theatre of the Oppressed spread or "multiplied" across so many geographic national and cultural borders? How has Theatre of the Oppressed been shaped by globalization "development " and neoliberalism? What are the stakes challenges and possibilities of Theatre of the Oppressed today? How can Theatre of the Oppressed balance practical analysis of what is with ambitious insistence on what could be? How can Theatre of the Oppressed hope but concretely? Broad in scope yet rich in detail The Routledge Companion to Theatre of the Oppressed contains practical and critical content relevant to artists activists teachers students and researchers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138291027

The Routledge Companion to Theism There are deep and pervasive disagreements today in universities and colleges and popular culture in general over the credibility and value of belief in God.  This has given rise to an urgent need for a balanced comprehensive accessible resource book that can inform the public and scholarly debate over theism.  While scholars with as diverse interests as Daniel Dennett Terry Eagleton Richard Dawkins Jürgen Habermas and Rowan Williams have recently contributed books to this debate "theism" as a concept remains poorly understood and requires a more thorough and systematic analysis than it has so far received in any single volume.  The Routledge Companion to Theism addresses this need by investigating theism's history as well as its relationship to inquiry in the sciences social sciences and humanities and to its wider cultural contexts. The contents are not confined within the philosophy of religion or even within the more expansive borders of philosophy.  Rather The Routledge Companion to Theism investigates its subject through the lens of a wide variety of disciplines and explores the ramifications of theism considered as a way of life as well as an intellectual conviction.  The five parts of the volume indicate its inclusive scope: I. What is Theism?; II. Theism and Inquiry; III. Theism and the Socio-Political Realm; IV. Theism and Culture; V. Theism as a Way of Life.  The result is a well ordered and thorough collection that should provide a wide spectrum of readers with a better understanding of a subject that's much discussed but frequently misunderstood.  As the editors note in their Introduction while stimulating and informing the contemporary debate a key aim of the volume is to open new avenues of inquiry into theism and thereby to encourage further research into this vital topic. Comprised of 54 essays by leading scholars in philosophy history theology religious studies political science education and sociology The Routledge Companion to Theism promises to be the most useful comprehensive resource on an emerging subject of interest for students and scholars. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415881647

The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the modern era and they also play central roles in a range of fields from physics to politics. The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments is an invaluable guide and reference source to this multifaceted subject. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the Companion covers the following important areas: · the history of thought experiments from antiquity to the trolley problem and quantum non-locality; · thought experiments in the humanities arts and sciences including ethics physics theology biology mathematics economics and politics; · theories about the nature of thought experiments; · new discussions concerning the impact of experimental philosophy cross-cultural comparison studies metaphilosophy computer simulations idealization dialectics cognitive science the artistic nature of thought experiments and metaphysical issues. This broad ranging Companion goes backwards through history and sideways across disciplines. It also engages with philosophical perspectives from empiricism rationalism naturalism skepticism pluralism contextualism and neo-Kantianism to phenomenology. This volume will be valuable for anyone studying the methods of philosophy or any discipline that employs thought experiments as well as anyone interested in the power and limits of the mind. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415735087

The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies Around the globe people now engage with media content across multiple platforms following stories characters worlds brands and other information across a spectrum of media channels. This transmedia phenomenon has led to the burgeoning of transmedia studies in media cultural studies and communication departments across the academy. The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies is the definitive volume for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of transmediality. This collection which gathers together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines sets out to contextualize problematize and scrutinize the current status and future directions of transmediality exploring the industries arts practices cultures and methodologies of studying convergent media across multiple platforms. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367580506

The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies provides scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies as a discipline and practice. In more than 30 essays the volume offers a history of the concept of the "transnational" and takes readers from the Barbary frontier to Guam from Mexico's border crossings to the intifada's contested zones. Together the essays develop new ways for Americanists to read events images sound literature identity film politics or performance transnationally through the work of diverse figures such as Confucius Edward Said Pauline Hopkins Poe Faulkner Michael Jackson Onoto Watanna and others. This timely volume also addresses presidential politics and interpictorial US history from Lincoln in Africa to Obama and Mandela to Trump.　 The essays written by prominent global Americanists as well as the emerging scholars shaping the field seek to provide foundational resources as well as experimental and forward-leaning approaches to Transnational American Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138058903

The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing As many places around the world confront issues of globalization migration and postcoloniality travel writing has become a serious genre of study reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals investigative reports guidebooks memoirs comic sketches and lyrical reveries travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many subjects within the humanities and social sciences. An ideal starting point for beginners but also offering new perspectives for those familiar with the field The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing examines: • Key debates within the field including postcolonial studies gender sexuality and visual culture • Historical and cultural contexts tracing the evolution of travel writing across time and over cultures • Different styles modes and themes of travel writing from pilgrimage to tourism • Imagined geographies and the relationship between travel writing and the social ideological and occasionally fictional constructs through which we view the different regions of the world. Covering all of the major topics and debates this is an essential overview of the field which will also encourage new and exciting directions for study.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367365295

The Routledge Companion to Trust In recent years trust has enjoyed increasing interest from a wide range of parties including organizations policymakers and the media. Perennially linked to turbulence and scandals the damaging and rebuilding of trust is a contemporary concern affecting all areas of society. Comprising six thematic sections The Routledge Companion to Trust provides a comprehensive survey of trust research. With contributions from international experts this volume examines the major topics and emerging areas within the field including essays on the foundations levels and theories of trust. It also examines trust repair and explores trust in settings such as healthcare finance food supply chains and the internet. The Routledge Companion to Trust is an extensive reference work which will be a vital resource to researchers and practitioners across the fields of management and organizational studies behavioural economics psychology cultural anthropology political science and sociology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138817593

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban DesignA History of Shifting Manifestoes Paradigms Generic Soluti The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design is a fully illustrated descriptive and explanatory history of the development of urban design ideas and paradigms of the past 150 years. The ideas and projects hypothetical and built range in scale from the city to the urban block level. The focus is on where the generic ideas originated the projects that were designed following their precepts the functions they address and/or afford and what we can learn from them. The morphology of a city—its built environment—evolves unselfconsciously as private and governmental investors self-consciously erect buildings and infrastructure in a pragmatic piecemeal manner to meet their own ends. Philosophers novelists architects and social scientists have produced myriad ideas about the nature of the built environment that they consider to be superior to those forms resulting from a laissez-faire attitude to urban development. Rationalist theorists dream of ideal futures based on assumptions about what is good; empiricists draw inspirations from what they perceive to be working well in existing situations. Both groups have presented their advocacies in manifestoes and often in the form of generic solutions or illustrative designs. This book traces the history of these ideas and will become a standard reference for scholars and students interested in the history of urban spaces including architects planners urban historians urban geographers and urban morphologists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367860509

The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one. Contemporary fiction has immediate relevance to popular culture the news scholarly organizations and education – where it is found on the syllabus in schools and universities – but it also offers challenges. What is ‘contemporary’? How do we track cultural shifts and changes? The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction takes on this challenge mapping key literary trends from the year 2000 onwards as the landscape of our century continues to take shape around us. A significant and central intervention into contemporary literature this Companion offers essential coverage of writers who have risen to prominence since then such as Hari Kunzru Jennifer Egan David Mitchell Jonathan Lethem Ali Smith A. L. Kennedy Hilary Mantel Marilynne Robinson and Colson Whitehead. Thirty-eight essays by leading and emerging international scholars cover topics such as: • Identity including race sexuality class and religion in the twenty-first century; • The impact of technology terrorism activism and the global economy on the modern world and modern literature; • The form and format of twenty-first century literary fiction including analysis of established genres such as the pastoral graphic novels and comedic writing and how these have been adapted in recent years. Accessible to experts students and general readers The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction provides a map of the critical issues central to the discipline as well as uncovering new perspectives and new directions for the development of the field. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the past present and future of contemporary literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415716048

The Routledge Companion to UK Counter-Terrorism The United Kingdom has long been an island under siege from terrorists who believe they can advance their aims through acts of violence. Protecting the public from the excesses of extremism remains the primary responsibility of government. For over a century Special Branch MI5 and MI6 have prevented terrorist atrocities and have pursued those who wish to destroy the United Kingdom’s free and democratic way of life. Yet despite developing one of the world’s most sophisticated security architectures successful terrorist attacks have occurred with alarming regularity. For the very first time this new volume explores the evolution of counter-terrorism practice in the United Kingdom brought to life with dramatic case studies and personal insider accounts provided by leading policy makers prosecutors and counter-terrorism practitioners who openly reveal the challenges and operational reality of countering contemporary terrorist threats. From the troubles in Northern Ireland to the al Qa’ida inspired genre of international terrorism this volume plots the trajectory of counter-terrorism policy and practice exploring the events that have served to change the course of civil protection. This unique title is enriched by leading academic perspectives providing analysis of counter-terrorism responses and identifies lessons to be learned from the past the present as well as exploring the terrorist threats of the future to be tackled by the next generation of counter-terrorism practitioners. This accessible and authoritative volume is required reading for all in authority and academia who are concerned with national security counter-terrorism and the law as well as those with a vested interest in the preservation of human rights the protection of civil liberties and democracy itself. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415685856

The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries delves into examples of urban imaginaries across multiple media and geographies: from new visions of smart eco and resilient cities to urban dystopias in popular culture; from architectural renderings of starchitecture and luxury living to performative activism for new spatial justice; and from speculative experiments in urban planning fiction and photography to augmented urban realities in crowd-mapping and mobile apps.The volume brings various global perspectives together and into close dialogue to offer a broad interdisciplinary and critical overview of the current state of research on urban imaginaries. Questioning the politics of urban imagination the companion gives particular attention to the role that urban imaginaries play in shaping the future of urban societies communities and built environments. Throughout the companion issues of power resistance and uneven geographical development remain central. Adopting a transnational perspective the volume challenges research on urban imaginaries from the perspective of globalization and postcolonial studies inviting critical reconsiderations of urbanism in its diverse current forms and definitions. In the process the companion explores issues of Western-centrism in urban research and design and accommodates current attempts to radically rethink urban form and experience.This is an essential resource for scholars and graduate researchers in the fields of urban planning and architecture; art media and cultural studies; film visual and literary studies; sociology and political science; geography; and anthropology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367733049

The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on mediated cities and urban communication. The volume brings together diverse perspectives and global case studies to map key areas of research within media cultural and urban studies where a joint focus on communications and cities has made important innovations in how we understand urban space technology identity and community. Exploring the rise and growing complexity of urban media and communication as the next key theme for both urban and media studies the book gathers and reviews fast-developing knowledge on specific emergent phenomena such as: reading the city as symbol and text; understanding urban infrastructures as media (and vice-versa); the rise of global cities; urban and suburban media cultures: newspapers cinema radio television and the mobile phone; changing spaces and practices of urban consumption; the mediation of the neighbourhood community and diaspora; the centrality of culture to urban regeneration; communicative responses to urban crises such as racism poverty and pollution; the role of street art in the negotiation of ‘the right to the city’; city competition and urban branding; outdoor advertising; moving image architecture; ‘smart’/cyber urbanism; the emergence of Media City production spaces and clusters. Charting key debates and neglected connections between cities and media this book challenges what we know about contemporary urban living and introduces innovative frameworks for understanding cities media and their futures. As such it will be an essential resource for students and scholars of media and communication studies urban communication urban sociology urban planning and design architecture visual cultures urban geography art history politics cultural studies anthropology and cultural policy studies as well as those working with governmental agencies cultural foundations and institutes and policy think tanks. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415792554

The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration In the past decade urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges such as sustainability budgetary constraints demands for community involvement and rapid urbanization in the Global South. Urban regeneration remains a high profile and important field of government-led intervention and policy and practice continue to adapt to the fresh challenges and opportunities of the 21st century as well as confronting long standing intractable urban problems and dilemmas.This Companion provides cutting edge critical review and synthesis of recent conceptual policy and practical developments within the field. With contributions from 70 international experts within the field it explores the meaning of ‘urban regeneration’ in differing national contexts asking questions and providing informed discussion and analyses to illuminate how an apparently disparate field of research policy and practice can be rendered coherent drawing out common themes and significant differences. The Companion is divided into six sections exploring: globalization and neo-liberal perspectives on urban regeneration; emerging reconceptualizations of regeneration; public infrastructure and public space; housing and cosmopolitan communities; community centred regeneration; and culture-led regeneration. The concluding chapter considers the future of urban regeneration and proposes a nine-point research agenda.This Companion assembles a diversity of approaches and insights in one comprehensive volume to provide a state of the art review of the field. It is a valuable resource for both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in Urban Planning Built Environment Urban Studies and Urban Regeneration as well as academics practitioners and politicians. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367660130

The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political cultural and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and inspiring. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that is both historically sensitive and theoretically informed the Routledge Companion places the genres of the novel poetry and drama and issues of gender social class and race in conversation with subjects like ecology colonialism the Gothic digital humanities sexualities disability material culture and animal studies. This guide is aimed at scholars who want to know the most significant critical approaches in Victorian studies often written by the very scholars who helped found those fields. It addresses major theoretical movements such as narrative theory formalism historicism and economic theory as well as Victorian models of subjects such as anthropology cognitive science and religion. With its lists of key works rich cross-referencing extensive bibliographies and explications of scholarly trajectories the book is a crucial resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates while offering invaluable support to more seasoned scholars. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138579866

The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies The number of publications dealing with video game studies has exploded over the course of the last decade but the field has produced few comprehensive reference works. The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies compiled by well-known video game scholars Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron aims to address the ongoing theoretical and methodological development of game studies providing students scholars and game designers with a definitive look at contemporary video game studies. Features include: comprehensive and interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing video games; new perspectives on video games both as art form and cultural phenomenon; explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of video games; accounts of the political social and cultural dynamics of video games. Each essay provides a lively and succinct summary of its target area quickly bringing the reader up-to-date on the pertinent issues surrounding each aspect of the field including references for further reading. Together they provide an overview of the present state of game studies that will undoubtedly prove invaluable to student scholar and designer alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138657052

The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics Virtue ethics is on the move both in Anglo-American philosophy and in the rest of the world. This volume uniquely emphasizes non-Western varieties of virtue ethics at the same time that it includes work in the many different fields or areas of philosophy where virtue ethics has recently spread its wings. Just as significantly several chapters make comparisons between virtue ethics and other ways of approaching ethics or political philosophy or show how virtue ethics can be applied to "real world" problems. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138478220

The Routledge Companion to Visual Organization The visual constitutes an increasingly significant element of contemporary organization as post-industrial societies move towards economies founded on creative and knowledge-intensive industries. The visual has thereby entered into almost every aspect of corporate strategy operations and communication; reconfiguring basic notions of management practice and introducing new challenges in the study of organizations. This volume provides a comprehensive insight into the ways in which organizations and their members visualize their identities and practices and how they are viewed by those who are external to organizations including researchers. With contributions from leading academics across the world The Routledge Companion to Visual Organization is a valuable reference source for students and academics interested in disciplines such as film studies entrepreneurship marketing sociology and most importantly organizational behaviour. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415783675

The Routledge Companion to Wellbeing at Work Over recent years many companies have developed an awareness of the importance of an active rather than passive approach to wellbeing at work. Whilst the value of this approach is widely accepted turning theory into effective practice is still a challenge for many companies. The Routledge Companion to Wellbeing at Work is a comprehensive reference volume addressing every aspect of the topic. Split into five parts it explores different models of wellbeing; personal qualities contributing to wellbeing; job insecurity and organizational wellbeing; workplace supports for wellbeing; and initiatives to enhance wellbeing. The international team of contributors provide a solid foundation to research and practice including contemporary topics such as architecture coaching and fitness in the workplace. Edited by two of the world’s leading scholars on the subject this text is a valuable tool for researchers students and practitioners in HRM and organizational psychology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138955943

The Routledge Companion to William Morris William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet decorative artist translator romance writer book designer preservationist socialist theorist and political activist whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice. This Companion draws together historical and critical responses to the impressive range of Morris’s multi-faceted life and activities: his homes travels family business practices decorative artwork poetry fantasy romances translations political activism eco-socialism and book collecting and design. Each chapter provides valuable historical and literary background information reviews relevant opinions on its subject from the late-nineteenth century to the present and offers new approaches to important aspects of its topic. Morris’s eclectic methodology and the perennial relevance of his insights and practice make this an essential handbook for those interested in art history poetry translation literature book design environmentalism political activism and Victorian and utopian studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415347433

The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently addresses certain issues across all dynasties: title; role in succession; the situation of mothers wives and daughters of kings; regnant and co-regnant women; role in cult and in dynastic image; and examines a sampling of the careers of individual women while placing them within broader contexts. Written by an international group of experts this collection is based on the assumption that women played a fundamental role in ancient monarchy that they were part of not apart from it and that it is necessary to understand their role to understand ancient monarchies. This is a crucial resource for anyone interested in the role of women in antiquity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138358843

The Routledge Companion to World Cinema The Routledge Companion to World Cinema explores and examines a global range of films and filmmakers their movements and audiences comparing their cultural technological and political dynamics identifying the impulses that constantly reshape the form and function of the cinemas of the world. Each of the forty chapters provides a survey of a topic explaining why the issue or area is important and critically discussing the leading views in the area. Designed as a dynamic forum for forty world-leading scholars this companion contains significant expertise and insight and is dedicated to challenging complacent views of hegemonic film cultures and replacing outmoded ideas about production distribution and reception. It offers both a survey and an investigation into the condition and activity of contemporary filmmaking worldwide often challenging long-standing categories and weighted—often politically motivated—value judgements thereby grounding and aligning the reader in an activity of remapping which is designed to prompt rethinking. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367581077

The Routledge Companion to World Literature In the age of globalization the category of "World Literature" is increasingly important to academic teaching and research. The Routledge Companion to World Literature offers a comprehensive pathway into this burgeoning and popular field. Separated into four key sections the volume covers: the history of World Literature through significant writers and theorists from Goethe to Said Casanova and Moretti the disciplinary relationship of World Literature to areas such as philology translation globalization and diaspora studies theoretical issues in World Literature including gender politics and ethics a global perspective on the politics of World Literature. The forty-eight outstanding contributors to this companion offer an ideal introduction to those approaching the field for the first time or looking to further their knowledge of this extensive field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415827959

The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History is a comprehensive and engaging volume combining essays from historians and literary academics to create a space for productive cross-cultural encounters between the two fields. In addition to the 27 essays the Companion includes general introductions from two of the leading scholars of history and literature David Damrosch and Patrick Manning as well as personal testimonies from artists working in the area and editorials asking provocative questions. The volume includes sections on: People – with essays looking at World Literature Intellectual Commerce Religion language and war and Indigenous ethnography Networks and methods – examining maps geography morality and the crises of world literature Transformations – including essays on race colonialism and the non-human Interdisciplinary and groundbreaking this volume brings to light various ways in which scholars of literature and history analyse assimilate or reveal the intellectual heritage of the past at the same moment as they try consciously to deal with an unending amount of new information and an awareness of global connections and discrepancies. Including work from leading academics in the field as well as newer voices the Companion is ideal for students and scholars alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138921658

The Routledge Compendium of Primary Education First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138421837

The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World's Languages This second edition of The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World’s Languages has been completely revised to provide up-to-date and accurate descriptions of a wide cross-section of natural-language systems. All cultural and historical notes as well as statistical data for each language have been checked updated and in many cases expanded.Now offering an even broader range of languages including a greater number of the lesser-known ones such as Cree Maltese and Haitian Creole this new edition of The Routledge Concise Compendium covers a total of 111 languages.Key features include:complete rewriting and systematization of the phonology sections for all languagesprovision of IPA symbol grids arranged by articulatory feature and by alphabetic resemblance to facilitate use of the new phonology sectionsexpansion of morphology descriptions for all languagesprovision of new illustrative text samples addition of a glossary of technical terms comparative tables of the numerals 1-10 in all languages covered and also grouped by familyclassification by genetic relationship of all languages covered.Using the wealth of recent developments and research in language typology and broadened availability of descriptive data this new incarnation of The Routledge Concise Compendium brings a much-loved survey emphatically into the twenty-first century for a new generation of readers.The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World’s Languages remains the ideal compact reference for all interested linguists and professionals alike. Gary King is Series Advisor for the Roultedge Colloquials and the author of numerous books on language and linguistics. He is also UCAS co-ordinator and a lecturer at a large sixth-form college. George L. Campbell worked for the BBC World Service and was a polyglot linguist and translator. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367581251

The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature introduces the fiction poetry and drama of Canada in its historical political and cultural contexts. In this clear and structured volume Richard Lane outlines: the history of Canadian literature from colonial times to the present key texts for Canadian First Peoples and the literature of Quebec the impact of English translation and the Canadian immigrant experience critical themes such as landscape ethnicity orality textuality war and nationhood contemporary debate on the canon feminism postcoloniality queer theory and cultural and ethnic diversity the work of canonical and lesser-known writers from Catherine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie to Robert Service Maria Campbell and Douglas Coupland. Written in an engaging and accessible style and offering a glossary maps and further reading sections this guidebook is a crucial resource for students working in the field of Canadian Literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415470469

The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature presents the first comprehensive overview of these popular experimental and diverse literary cultures. Frederick Luis Aldama traces a historical path through Latino/a literature examining both the historical and political contexts of the works as well as their authors and the readership. He also provides an enlightening analysis of: the differing sub-groups of Latino/a literature including Mexican American Cuban American Puerto Rican American Dominican American and Central and South American émigré authors established and emerging literary trends such as the postmodern historical chica-lit storytelling formats and the graphic novel key literary themes including gender and sexuality feminist and queer voices and migration and borderlands. The author’s methodology and interpretation of a wealth of information will put this rich and diverse area of literary culture into a new light for scholars. The book’s student-friendly features such as a glossary guide to further reading explanatory text boxes and chapter summaries make this the ideal text for anyone approaching the area for the first time. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415667883

The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature In The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashley Dawson identifies the key British writers and texts shaped by era-defining cultural and historical events and movements from the period. He provides: Analysis of works by a diverse range of influential authors Examination of the cultural and literary impact of crucial historical social political and cultural events Discussion of Britain’s imperial status in the century and the diversification of the nation through Black and Asian British Literature Readers are also provided with a comprehensive timeline  a glossary of terms further reading and explanatory text boxes featuring further information on key figures and events. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415572460

The Routledge Concise History of World Literature This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of World Literature. Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism to postmodernism Theo D’haen examines: the return of the term "world literature" and its changing meaning Goethe’s concept of Weltliteratur and how this relates to current debates theories and theorists who have had an impact on world literature non-canonical and less-known literatures from around the globe the possibility and implications of a definition of world literature. This book is the ideal guide to an increasingly popular and important term in literary studies. It is accessible and engaging and will be invaluable to students of world literature comparative literature translation and postcolonial studies and anyone with an interest in these or related topics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415495899

The Routledge Course in Business Chinese • Fourth-year language learning or above in preparation for real-life business situations各专业学生汉语四年级（或以上）适用 • Timeless business topics ranging from frequently occurring business activities economic systems and phenomena to issues of broad interest使用通用商务题材确保教材长期相对稳定 • Simulated real-world tasks connecting the classroom to China’s current economic developments through students’ own efforts组织大量以学生为主体的任务型实践活动 ，实现题材即时更新 • A focus on formal language style and business terminology 注重正式语体和专业词语的学习 • Summary of important features of Chinese with emphasis on language learning skills to cultivate self-sustained and effective language learners 归纳汉语基本特点，教授学习方法，培养自学能力 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138479272

The Routledge Course in Business Korean The Routledge Course in Business Korean is a textbook for teaching Korean to mid-intermediate to low-advanced students to learn the language used in a business context in every-day life in Korea. The authors’ intuitive approach makes it easy for students to follow the units while the relevant and practical learning objectives benefit both student and teacher alike. The book introduces the vocabulary and key phrases of business Korean and focuses on delivering real business-related situations authentic expressions and linguistically and culturally rich introductions and explanations of Korean business life. Audio files can be found on the accompanying e-Resource. By the end of this course you will be at level B2 of the Common European Framework for Languages and Advanced Mid-High on the ACTFL proficiency scales. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138291393

The Routledge Course in Chinese Media Literacy The Routledge Course in Chinese Media Literacy is aimed at lower advanced level students of Mandarin who wish to build media literacy in the Chinese language. The book is written by university professors who have hands-on experience as media professionals. It gathers newsworthy authentic materials on topics covered by reporters on a day-to-day basis and makes them accessible through prereading exercises grammatical analysis vocabulary associations and research training for language learners. From front page headlines to business education crime and sports and entertainment the student reader will be exposed to the full scope of news coverage and become familiar with their presentation in a Chinese context. A companion website with audio video accompanying materials and a traditional Chinese edition is available at www.routledge.com/cw/li. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138191150

The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation brings together for the first time material dedicated to the theory and practice of translation to and from Japanese. This one semester advanced course in Japanese translation is designed to raise awareness of the many considerations that must be taken into account when translating a text. As students progress through the course they will acquire various tools to deal with the common problems typically involved in the practice of translation. Particular attention is paid to the structural differences between Japanese and English and to cross-cultural dissimilarities in stylistics. Essential theory and information on the translation process are provided as well as abundant practical tasks. The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation is essential reading for all serious students of Japanese at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415486866

The Routledge Course in Korean Translation The Routledge Course in Korean Translation brings together for the first time materials dedicated to the theory and practice of translation to and from Korean. This advanced course in Korean translation discusses cross-linguistic and cross-cultural issues that arise in the course of Korean-English and English-Korean translation and offers useful tools for dealing with the problems that arise in the actual practice of translation. Equipped with examples from a range of genres this book provides a foundational understanding in translation theory that is necessary in Korean translation. The Routledge Course in Korean Translation is essential reading for students of Korean at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels interested in translation as well as for students and researchers with knowledge of Korean who are interested in linguistics and cultural and comunication studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138669246