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Latest Major Work on Islam & Middle East Studies from Routledge Publisher

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Islamic Banking and Finance

Edited by Amer al-Roubaie, Shafiq Alvi



Price: GBP 695

ISBN: 978-0-415-48576-0

Binding: Hardback

Published by: Routledge

Publication Date: 15th October 2009 (Available for Pre-order)

Pages: 1600

*** About the Book ***

Islamic banking refers to a financial system which is consistent with principles of Islamic law (or ?sharia?) and guided by Islamic economics. In particular, Islamic law prohibits ?riba? or usury, the collection and payment of interest. Additionally, Islamic

law prohibits investing in businesses considered unlawful (?haram?) or contrary to Islamic values. In recent years, a number of Islamic banks have been created to cater to the growing demand, driven by globalization and the vast wealth of some Muslim states

in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and Islamic finance has moved from a niche position to become a mainstream component of the global banking system.

A large amount of research has been undertaken into this subject (much of which highlights the institutional aspects of Islamic social, economic, and financial arrangements) and this new four-volume collection from Routledge meets the need for a one-stop

collection of the best scholarship. Its scope extends from the time of the creation of Islamic institutions in accordance with Quranic principles to the present day. And while Islamic Banking and Finance surveys the historic evolution of Islamic financial

institutions over the last 1,400 years, it also illustrates the directions in which the subject is moving, including its role in the new world order, good governance, and transparency, and how the gaps can be bridged between Islamic and conventional

financial systems.

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, Islamic Banking and Finance is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be

valued by economists?as well as by scholars, students, and researchers of Islamic Studies, Middle East Studies, and Business Studies?as a vital resource.

*** Table of Contents ***

Volume I: Pre- and Early Islamic Finance1. Pre-Islamic Financial Setup 2. Early Islamic Financial System 3. Islamic Economic Philosophy Volume II: Evolution of the Islamic Financial System4. Islamic Finance: Evolution and Institutions 5. The Discourse on

Interest: Religious Context 6. Islamic View of Interest 7. Secular (Modern) View of Interest Volume III8. Current Islamic Finance 9. Capitalization of Islamic Institutions 10. Markets and Design of Financial Instruments 11. Operations and Control of Islamic

Banks Volume IV: Future Islamic Finance12. Prospects for Islamic Finance 13. Challenges Facing Islamic Finance Globalization of Islamic Financial System





The Hadith

Articulating the Beliefs and Constructs of Classical Islam

Edited by Mustafa Shah



Price: GBP 650.00

ISBN: 978-0-415-47398-9

Binding: Hardback

Published by: Routledge

Publication Date: 15th October 2009 (Available for Pre-order)

Pages: 1667

*** About the Book ***

The Prophetic traditions of Islam, which are commonly referred to as the hadiths (literally: ?reports?), preserve the sum and substance of the utterances, deeds, directives, and descriptive anecdotes connected with the life of the Prophet Muhammad and his

Companions. Together with the Qur?an, the hadiths provide the religion of Islam with its principal scriptural sources.

The collection features an accessible and informative introduction which presents an outline of the significance of the hadiths within the religious tradition while also reviewing classical scholarship devoted to the literature of the traditions; moreover,

the introduction decisively sets into context the academic debates and arguments which are fleshed out in the articles selected. It also charts developments in the academic study of hadiths, summing up the current state of the field and features a detailed

bibliography listing primary classical sources germane to the field of Prophetic traditions together with recent research monographs and articles devoted to the subject.

This Major Work provides an authoritative collection of the seminal research articles produced by western academic scholarship on the subject of the hadith over the past century, including recent papers on the subject. In bringing together the finest

examples of scholarship devoted to the hadith and the classical literature that surrounds it, these volumes provide an indispensable reference resource for academics, research institutions, governmental organizations, and those with a general interest in

Arabic and Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, Arabic Cultural Studies, and Middle East History.

*** Table of Contents ***

Volume I: Hadith: Codification, Authenticity Volume II: Isnads: Transmission, Terminology, and The Issue of Dating Volume III: Hadith: Scholarship, Perspectives, and Criticism Volume IV: Hadith: Narrative, Context, and Content





Arab-Israeli Conflict

Edited by Michael Dumper



Price: GBP 650.00

ISBN: 978-0-415-44038-7

Binding: Hardback

Published by: Routledge

Publication Date: 20th February 2009

Pages: 1869

*** About the Book ***

The Arab?Israeli conflict remains one of the longest-running disputes in modern world politics and the search for a lasting peace remains as elusive as ever. The series of wars and disputes starting in 1948 after the arrival of Zionist settlers in Palestine

and the creation of the new state of Israel have primarily been about territory, but a number of other issues have exacerbated and prolonged the conflict. Externally, these include superpower rivalry and interventions in the region by Western industrial

powers to secure access to the Middle East?s huge oil reserves. Internally, issues such as religious animosities, militarized polities, and the traumas of rapid modernization and development, have all contributed to regional instability.

Attempts at resolving the conflict have included a number of agreements between Palestinians and Israelis, on the one hand, and between Israel and her neighbouring states (Egypt and Jordan), on the other. Although the Oslo Accords of 1993 between Israel and

the Palestine Liberation Organization established a framework for the partial decolonization of territories occupied in 1967, many thorny issues remain unresolved.

Understanding the evolution and unfolding of the Arab?Israeli conflict provides crucial insights into the nature of the local, national, and international politics of the region, and offers vital indications of possible future developments. Moreover, the

world crisis following the events of 11 September 2001 underscores the growing need to comprehend and resolve this conflict.

The study of the conflict has generated a huge body of literature, some of it factual and evidence-based, some more polemical and provocative. In all cases there is a wide and divergent range of views. An important tool in understanding the conflict and the

emotions it generates is to become familiar with such different perspectives and interpretations, and this new four-volume collection from Routledge provides an overview of both the principal topics and the various approaches to the conflict.

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 Arab?Israeli Conflict is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be

valued by scholars, students, and researchers of Middle East Studies, Politics, and International Relations as a vital research resource.

*** Table of Contents ***

Volume I: 1917?67 Part 1: Precursor to Partition Part 2: Conflicting Narratives on the Origins of the Conflict Part 3: Transformation of Palestine Part 4: Resistance Volume II: 1967?91 Part 5: Impact of the Occupation Part 6: Transformation of Israel Part 7:

Strategic and Regional Developments (1967?91) Volume III Part 8: Zionism Part 9: Arabism and Palestinian Nationalism Part 10: State Building, Civil Society, and Gender Part 11: Refugees Part 12: Jerusalem Volume IV: 1991?2007 Part 13: Strategic Dimensions

Part 14: Foreign Policies Part 15: The Peace Process: Impact and Failure





World Islam

Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

Edited by Andrew Rippin



Price: GBP 625.00

ISBN: 978-0-415-40103-6

Binding: Hardback

Published by: Routledge

Publication Date: 26th June 2008

Pages: 1664

*** About the Book ***

Reflecting the diversity of Islam, this collection focuses on the presence of Muslims in countries outside the traditionally conceived heartlands of the Islamic world. The history of the arrival of Islam in such countries and the nature of the way in which

Islam is practised in such places is the thematic focus of the materials selected for inclusion.

Today, the community of Muslims around the globe looks to the Arab world (and Iran) as a source of identity and authority. While this is driven as much by finances as by religious ideology, it does create a sense of there being a central Islamic world and a

?diaspora? which can be separated and considered. This separation may also be considered a historical phenomenon: the core ?Islamic world? came into existence as a result of the early military expansion of the Arabs up to about 750CE; after that point, the

spread of Islam occurred by different and more gradual means (often influenced by trade especially). Both of these ways of conceptualizing the region of interest results is a vast amount of territory in which to explore the special manifestations of Islam.

Materials selected for inclusion in this Major Work provide general information on Islam rather than being overly specific. A number of aspects are considered:

? the history of the introduction of Islam into the area;

? the means by which Islam spread;

? the attitude Muslims took to the surrounding culture;

? the character of the Islam which resulted;

? the sense of Muslim identity in the area; and

? the issues which might have emerged as a result.

The gathered material is grouped geographically with an attempt to include as many individual countries as possible within each area, while also paying attention to each of the above criteria. An initial selection of articles on ?world Islam??the process and

means of the spread of Islam in general and some consideration of what it means to talk about the presence of Islam in the world and a survey of the general diversity of characteristics of Islam?serves as an introductory section to the volumes. Additional

groupings are geographical and include South Asia; South East Asia; Australia and islands of the Pacific; China; countries of the former Soviet Union; South Africa; East Africa; West Africa; Europe; North America; Central and South America.

*** Table of Contents ***

Volume 1 Part I: Introductory, Part II: Middle East and Iran Part III: Central Asia Volume 2Part IV: South Asia Part V: East Asia Part VI: South East AsiaVolume 3 Part VII: Australia and the Pacific Part VIII: AfricaVolume 4 Part IX: Europe Part X: The

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"ISBN","Title","Aut/Ed List","Binding","Ed","Imprint","Pub Date","Price GBP","Blurb","Medium","Weight","Page Extent","Page Size","Subject 1","Subject 2","Subject 3","Type","Readership Level","Bookshop Category"

"9780415479004","The Tale of Genji","Edited by Richard H. Okada","HB","1","Routledge","12-16-13","495","This new title, co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse, is a three-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research. It brings together the best and most influential scholarship on a monumental Japanese text, The Tale of Genji, often described as â€˜the worldâ€™s oldest novelâ€™.","Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Asian Culture & Society","Asian Literature","Asian Literature ","Major Work","Postgraduate","Japanese Literature, Japanese Studies"

"9780415472579","Roland Barthes","Edited by Neil Badmington","HB","1","Routledge","12-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Cultural Theory","General Reference","Sociology of Culture","Major Work","Postgraduate","Cultural Theory / Roland Barthes"

"9780415478458","Islam and Education","Edited by Tahir Abbas","HB","1","Routledge","12-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Education Policy & Politics","Educational Research","Education Studies","Major Work"

"9780415442640","Environmental Law","Edited by Stuart Bell and Donald McGillivray","HB","1","Routledge","12-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Environmental Law - Environmental Studies","Environmental Law - Law","General Reference","Major Work","Postgraduate","Law / Environmental Law"

"9780415478434","Feminist International Relations","Edited by Christine Sylvester","HB","1","Routledge","12-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","General Reference","Gender Studies - Soc Sci","International Relations","Major Work","Postgraduate","International Relations / Gender Studies"

"9780415462914","The Politics and International Relations of Modern Korea","Edited by John Swenson-Wright","HB","1","Routledge","12-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Korean Studies","Asian Politics","International Politics","Major Work"

"9780415450201","Second-Language Acquisition","Edited by Lourdes Ortega","HB","1","Routledge","12-16-13","975",,"Printed product",,"2400","234x156 mm","Language Acquisition","General Reference",,"Major Work","Postgraduate","Linguisitics"

"9780415409117","Politics of Modern Iran","Edited by Ali M. Ansari","HB","1","Routledge","12-16-13","650","This four-volume collection brings together for the first time the very best and most influential scholarship on the politics of modern Iran. It is an invaluable source of reference for both scholars and students alike, and will allow those developing an interest in Iran quickly and easily to access the highest quality scholarship in the field.","Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Middle East Economics","Middle East History","Middle East Politics","Major Work"

"9780415407175","Social Capital","Nan Lin","HB","1","Routledge","12-16-13","650","Together with a new introduction by the editor to guide the user through its four volumes, this major work of reference provides researchers with all the key writings on social capital in one convenient and unique resource.","Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Political Economics","General Reference","Contemporary Social Theory","Major Work","Postgraduate","Sociolog"

"9780415448369","Public Sector Economics","Edited by Richard W. Tresch","HB","1","Routledge","12-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Political Economics","Public Finance","General Reference","Major Work","Postgraduate","Public Sector Economics; Public Finance"

"9780415473637","Happiness and Well-being","Edited by Felicia Huppert and P. Alex Linley","HB","1","Psychology Press","12-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Positive Psychology","General Reference",,"Major Work","Postgraduate","Psychology / Happiness and Well-being"

"9780415475174","Event Tourism","Edited by Stephen J. Page and Joanne Connell","HB","1","Routledge","12-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Tourism Geography","General Reference","Tourism","Major Work","Postgraduate","Tourism"

"9780415468268","Politics of Modern Central Asia","Edited by Bhavna DavÃ©","HB","1","Routledge","12-02-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Central Asian Studies","Asian Politics","International Politics","Major Work"

"9780415452540","The Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath","Edited by M. SÃ¼krÃ¼ Hanioglu","HB","1","Routledge","12-02-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","European History","Imperial & Colonial History","Middle East History","Major Work"

"9780415454438","Historical Linguistics","Edited by Brian D. Joseph and Hope Dawson","HB","1","Routledge","12-02-13","725",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Historical & Comparative Linguistics",,,"Major Work","Postgraduate","Linguisitics"

"9780415467643","Arab Nationalism","Edited by Michael T. Provence","HB","1","Routledge","12-02-13","575",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","World/International History","Middle East History","Middle East Politics","Major Work"

"9780415494663","Celebrity","Edited by Chris Rojek","HB","1","Routledge","11-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Cultural Theory","Mass Media & Communication","Encyclopedias","Major Work","Postgraduate","Sociology / Cultural Studies"

"9780415452434","Language and Politics","Edited by John Joseph","HB","1","Routledge","11-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Discourse Analysis","Interdisciplinary Language Studies","General Reference","Major Work","Postgraduate","Linguistics (Language and Politics)"

"9780415456012","Security Studies","Edited by Theo Farrell","HB","1","Routledge","11-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","General Reference","Security Studies - Military & Strategic","Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns","Major Work","Postgraduate","Security Studies / International Relations"

"9780415392495","Metaphor and Figurative Language","Edited by Patrick Hanks and Rachel Giora","HB","1","Routledge","11-16-13","1095",,"Printed product",,,"234x156 mm","Grammar, Syntax & Linguistic Structure","Language & Communication","Linguistic Theory","Major Work","Postgraduate","Linguistics, Cognitive Science"

"9780415478427","Migration","Edited by Steven Vertovec","HB","1","Routledge","11-16-13","825",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Human Geography","General Reference","Social & Cultural Anthropology","Major Work","Postgraduate","Migration Studies, Politics, Sociology, Demography, Economics"

"9780415400275","International Law","Edited by Joseph Weiler","HB","1","Routledge","11-16-13","825",,"Printed product",,"400","234x156 mm","International Law","International Law",,"Major Work","Postgraduate"

"9780415438742","Mathematics Education","Edited by Alan Bishop","HB","1","Routledge","11-16-13","575","A new title in the Routledge series, Major Themes in Education, this Major Work is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and foundational research about mathematics education.","Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Mathematics","Educational Research","General Reference","Major Work","Postgraduate","Education"

"9780415470766","Islamic Law","Edited by Gavin Picken","HB","1","Routledge","11-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Middle East History","Middle East Politics","Islamic Law","Major Work"

"9780415460743","Organized Crime","Edited by Federico Varese","HB","1","Routledge","11-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Organised Crime","General Reference","Criminal Justice","Major Work","Postgraduate","Criminology"

"9780415453950","Phonetics","Edited by William J. Idsardi","HB","1","Routledge","11-16-13","725",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Phonetics & Phonology",,,"Major Work","Postgraduate","Linguisitics"

"9780415475068","Urban Regeneration and Renewal","Edited by Andrew Tallon","HB","1","Routledge","11-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Social Geography","Urban Geography","Planning - Human Geography","Major Work","Postgraduate","Urban Studies/Planning/Human Geography"

"9780415450614","Politics of Modern Southeast Asia","Edited by Allen Hicken","HB","1","Routledge","11-16-13","650","The Politics of Modern Southeast Asia is a unique collection of the best work on modern Southeast Asian politics. There is no comparable volume currently in existence and this 4-Volume Set will be an invaluable resource for students and instructors interested in Southeast Asia/East Asia.","Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","South East Asian Studies","International Politics",,"Major Work"

"9780415475297","Irish Feminisms, 1825â€“1930","Edited by Mary Pierse","HB","1","Routledge","11-16-13","625",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Women's & Gender History","Gender Studies - Soc Sci",,"Major Work","Postgraduate","women's history, gender studies"

"9780415469159","Democracy, Reform and Authoritarianism in the Arab World","Edited by Gerd Nonneman","HB","1","Routledge","11-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1800","234x156 mm","World/International History","Middle East History","Middle East Politics","Major Work"

"9780415471763","Women and Christianity","Edited by Pui Lan Kwok","HB","1","Routledge","11-02-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Christianity ","Feminism",,"Major Work",,"Religion, Christianity, Women's Studies"

"9780415468275","World Christianity","Edited by Elizabeth Koepping","HB","1","Routledge","11-02-13","575",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Christianity ",,,"Major Work"

"9780415481250","Clinical Linguistics","Edited by Thomas W. Powell and Martin J Ball","HB","1","Routledge","11-02-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Linguistic Theory",,,"Major Work"

"9780415476812","Semiotics","Edited by Peer F. Bundgaard and Frederik Stjernfelt","HB","1","Routledge","11-02-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Philosophy","Interdisciplinary Language Studies","Linguistic Theory","Major Work"

"9780415439169","Feminist Economics","Edited by Drucilla Barker and Edith Kuiper","HB","1","Routledge","10-16-13","650","Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Economics . It is a four-volume collection of historical and contemporary work in the flourishing field of feminist economics, an innovative and dynamic area of scholarship that broadens the scope of economic inquiry and allows a richer and more complex view of the ways in which economies function. The first two volumes of the collection consist of work done before the founding of the International Association for Feminist Economics in 1991 and are organized historically. The final two volumes consist of cutting-edge contemporary work in feminist economics and are organized thematically.","Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Economic Theory & Philosophy","General Reference","Gender Studies - Soc Sci","Major Work","Postgraduate","Feminist Economics"

"9780415485760","Islamic Banking and Finance","Edited by Amer al-Roubaie and Shafiq Alvi","HB","1","Routledge","10-16-13","695",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Economic Theory & Philosophy","International Economics","Political Economics","Major Work"

"9780415476232","Jihad and Martyrdom","Edited by David Cook","HB","1","Routledge","10-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Islam - Religion","Islam",,"Major Work",,"Religion"

"9780415437097","Language Acquisition","Edited by Charles Yang","HB","1","Routledge","10-16-13","725","This new addition to Routledgeâ€™s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, brings together the very best and most influential scholarly research in over half a century of language-acquisition research. The collection represents and reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the field, by highlighting models and methodologies fromâ€”and implications forâ€”adjacent fields such as psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, computer science, and comparative cognition. In addition, the collection steers users to the most important, as well as controversial, issues that lie at the frontier of language acquisition research. With a new introduction by the editor, comprehensive index, and a chronological table of the gathered materials, this four-volume collection provides both student and scholar alike with all the key writings on language acquisition in one convenient and authoritative reference resource.","Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Language Acquisition","General Reference",,"Major Work","Postgraduate","Linguisitics"

"9780415498173","Victorian and Edwardian Anti-Feminism, 4-vol. set","Edited by VALERIE SANDERS and Lucy Delap","HB","1","Routledge","10-16-13","595",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Women's & Gender History","Gender Studies - Soc Sci",,"Major Work","Postgraduate","women's history, gender studies"

"9780415346870","Hanley and McMahon: The Enlightenment","Edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley and Darrin McMahon","HB","1","Routledge","10-07-13","825",,"Printed product",,,"234x156 mm","History","Philosophy","Cultural Studies","Major Work"

"9780415476911","China's International Relations in Asia","Edited by Mingjiang Li","HB","1","Routledge","10-02-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Chinese Studies","South East Asian Studies","Chinese Politics","Major Work"

"9780415481243","Islam in the West","Edited by David Westerlund and Ingvar Svanberg","HB","1","Routledge","04-02-14","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Islam - Religion","Religion & Politics","Religion & Sociology","Major Work"

"9780415476805","Islam in Southeast Asia","Edited by Joseph Liow and Nadirsyah Hosen","HB","1","Routledge","10-02-13","575",,"Printed product",,"1736","234x156 mm","Islam - Religion","South East Asian Studies","Islam","Major Work"

"9780415477871","Religion and Human Rights","Edited by Nazila Ghanea","HB","1","Routledge","10-02-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Religion","Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties","Human Rights","Major Work"

"9780415473989","The Hadith","Edited by Mustafa Shah","HB","1","Routledge","10-02-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Scriptures of Islam","Cultural Studies","Islam","Major Work",,"Islam & Islamic Studies"

"9780415490245","Religion and Politics 4V","Edited by Jeffrey Haynes","HB","1","Routledge","09-18-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1750","234x156 mm","Religion & Politics","International Politics","Political Theory","Major Work"

"9780415471916","Philosophy of Mind","Edited by Sean Crawford","HB","1","Routledge","09-16-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Consciousness & Cognition","Philosophy of Mind","General Reference","Major Work","Postgraduate","Philosophy of Mind"

"9780415472180","Women and Belief, 1832â€“1928","Edited by Jessica Cox and Mark Llewellyn","HB","1","Routledge","09-16-13","695",,"Printed product",,"2400","234x156 mm","Women's & Gender History","Religious History",,"Major Work","Postgraduate","women's history, gender studies"

"9780415441513","Politics of Modern China","Edited by Yongnian Zheng, Yiyi Lu and Lynn T. White III","HB","1","Routledge","09-09-13","650","The Politics of Modern China is a comprehensive 4-volume resource for students and teachers of modern Chinese politics as well as other interested individuals and institutions internationally.","Printed product",,"1788","234x156 mm","Chinese Politics",,,"Major Work",,"Asian Studies"

"9780415442107","Philosophy of Religion","Edited by William J. Wainwright","HB","1","Routledge","08-28-13","575",,"Printed product",,"1741","234x156 mm","Philosophy of Religion","General Reference",,"Major Work","Postgraduate","Philosophy / Religion"

"9780415299435","English Language Teaching","Edited by Patricia Hedge","HB","1","Routledge","08-08-13","975",,"Printed product",,"2451","234x156 mm","Applied Linguistics","English Language","Language Reference","Major Work","Postgraduate","Linguistics and Education"

"9780415462679","Bilingualism and Multilingualism","Edited by Li Wei","HB","1","Routledge","08-04-13","725","This four volume Major Work on Bilingualism and Multilingualism will showcase the major achievements in this multidisciplinary field, through the inclusion of the most important, as well as controversial, works that lie at the forefront of bilingualism and multilingualism research.","Printed product",,"1808","234x156 mm","Bilingualism & Multilingualism","Major Works",,"Major Work","Postgraduate","Linguistics"

"9780415450010","Restorative Justice","Edited by Carolyn Hoyle","HB","1","Routledge","07-30-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1778","234x156 mm","Restorative Justice","General Reference","Criminal Justice","Major Work","Postgraduate","Criminology"

"9780415429894","Psychology of Ageing","Edited by Patrick Rabbitt","HB","1","Psychology Press","07-28-13","650","Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this new title in Psychology Pressâ€™s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Psychology, is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research in the psychology of ageing.","Printed product",,"1575","234x156 mm","Gerontology (Ageing)","General Reference",,"Major Work","Postgraduate","Psychology"

"9780415469654","Civilization","Edited by Brett Bowden","HB","1","Routledge","07-01-13","650",,"Printed product",,"1779","234x156 mm","International Relations","Political Philosophy",,"Major Work","Postgraduate","Political Science/Political Philosophy"

"9780415344227","Translation Studies","Mona Baker","HB","1","Routledge","06-30-13","650","Translation Studies has emerged as a thriving interdisciplinary and international area of scholarship. Its rapid growth has been accompanied by diverse forms of translation research and commentary, most falling within, or crossing, traditional academic disciplines such as linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, anthropology, and, more recently, cultural studies. This new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together foundational and more recent, cutting-edge contributions to the field. The collection is both retrospective and forward-looking, making sense of the past as well as providing pointers towards the future. Fully indexed and with a comprehensive introduction, ""Translation Studies"" is an essential work of reference for use by both scholar and student as a vital one-stop research resource.","Other","0","1571","234x156 mm","Translation & Interpretation","Literature & Translation",,"Major Work",,"Linguistics"

"9780415475235","Regionalism in Asia","Edited by See Seng Tan","HB","1","Routledge","06-27-13","650","Especially since the end of the Cold War, research on and around the international relations of Asia has grown exponentially and, to make sense of what is now a vast and unwieldly corpus of scholarly literature, this new four-volume collection from ""Routledge's Critical Issues in Modern Politics"" series brings together the best and most influential work in the field. The first of the four volumes explores ASEAN and international relations theory. Volume II, meanwhile, focuses on the Association's history and evolution from 1967 to the present day. Volume III examines pan-Asian intergovernmental regionalisms by collecting the most important thinking on the 'new regionalism'. Vital questions addressed here include the nature of Asian intergovernmental institutions; the overall lack of strategic coherence; whether aims and agendas overlap; conflict or complement; and, the implications for the region as a whole. Finally, Volume IV brings together crucial work on non-governmental or unofficial multilateral processes to examine the regionalization processes in Asia and the efficacy of these bottom-up processes in influencing policy and regional security discourse. 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, this Routledge collection is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers of Asian international relations, politics, history, and current affairs as a vital resource.","Printed product",,"1564","234x156 mm","Asian Studies","Asian Politics","International Politics","Major Work",,"Asian Studies"

"9780415431453","Ecological Economics","Edited by Clive Spash","HB","1","Routledge","06-26-13","650","A new Routledge Major Work, this is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research in the field of ecological economics.","Printed product",,"2015","234x156 mm","Environmental Economics","Ecological Economics","Political Ecology","Major Work","Postgraduate","Economics / Environmental Studies"

"9780415452199","Modern Indian Culture and Society","Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen","HB","1","Routledge","06-10-13","650","During recent decades, research on India has gone through a number of changes in focus and perspective. To name but a few examples, there has been a change in emphasis from the past to the present, from the worldview of the Ã©lites to that of the subalterns, from philosophy to everyday life, from hierarchy to the critiques of hierarchy and the sources of equality in Indian culture. However, more dramatic than the changes in the focus of research have been the changes in Indian society itself. Urbanization, the liberalization and globalization of the economy, the IT revolution, the success of the global Indian diaspora, the affirmation of religious identities and reaffirmation of ancient world views, reinterpretations of history, new medias and transnational megagurus, and new political landscapes denote just some of these processes. This collection from Routledge focuses on this shift by collecting and organizing the very best scholarship on modern Indian culture and society. As the worldâ€™s largest democracy emerges as an economic and cultural superpower, there is an increased need for knowledge about it. This four-volume work answers that need by making the most important, exciting and original recent writings on central dimensions of modern Indian culture and society readily accessible.","Printed product",,"1760","234x156 mm","India (studies of)","Sociology & Social Policy",,"Major Work",,"Asian Studies"

"9780415438391","Women and Religion","Edited by Pamela Klassen","HB","1","Routledge","06-09-13","650","This collection is an essential research tool for all students specializing in religion and women's studies, and is equally useful to those working in related fields such as anthropology, cultural studies, history, literary studies, philosophy, political science, psychology, and theology. By tracing the evolution of the topic, from the beginnings of feminist research on religion to more contemporary debates about categorizations of gender in the study of religion, this four-volume collection serves the needs of both specialist and generalist users. ""Women and Religion"" includes essays treating a broad range of religious traditions, while focusing on particular methodological and theoretical concerns common to the study of women and religion. Organized thematically, each volume includes the most formative theoretical contributions to the field, grouped together with articles that explore a particular set of issues from a range of traditions, with the use of methodologies drawn from anthropology, history, sociology, textual criticism, and religious studies. Each volume's introductory essay explicitly problematizes the central categories of analysis operating in the study of women and religion - for example, women, gender, religion, body, science, and colonialism - while also setting the articles in their historical context.","Printed product",,"1699","234x156 mm","Religion & Gender","Women's Studies","Religion","Major Work",,"Religion & Women's Studies"

"9780415461399","Cognitive Neuroscience","Edited by Jamie Ward","HB","1","Routledge","05-23-13","650","Standing at the junction of psychology, neuroscience, and biology, Cognitive Neuroscience seeks to provide brain-based accounts of mental functions such as language, memory, perception, action, emotions, and decision-making. Its emergence as a coherent discipline came about relatively recently through the amalgamation of techniques that had already been in existence (such as research into the effects of brain lesion on cognition, and electrical recordings of the brain) with newly established techniques (principally brain-imaging methods), originally developed for medical diagnostic purposes. As Cognitive Neuroscience flourishes as never before, this new title in Psychology Press' ""Major Works"" series, ""Critical Concepts in Psychology"", meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject's already vast literature and the continuing explosion in research output.Edited by a prominent scholar, and the author of the field's leading student textbook, ""Cognitive Neuroscience"" is a four-volume collection of foundational and contemporary contributions. The four volumes are divided into eight principal sections: History, Methods, and Key Concepts; Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience; Perception and Attention; Action; Learning and Memory; Language; Executive Functions and Decision-Making; and Emotions and Social Neuroscience. The collection is also fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical, intellectual, and practical context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students of Cognitive Neuroscience as a vital one-stop research tool.","Printed product",,"1600","234x156 mm","Cognitive Neuropsychology","Organised Crime","General Reference","Major Work","Postgraduate","Psychology/Cognitive Science"

"9780415465397","Computer-Assisted Language Learning","Edited by Philip Hubbard","HB","1","Routledge","05-09-13","725","Edited by a leading scholar, Computer-Assisted Language Learning is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics. It is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research from a growing field of interest.","Printed product",,"1760","234x156 mm","Language & Linguistics","Language Teaching & Learning","Major Works","Major Work","Postgraduate","Linguisitics"

"9780415443401","Cross-Cultural Management","Edited by Tim G. Andrews and Richard Mead","HB","1","Routledge","05-01-13","750","A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Perspectives on Business and Management , this is a five-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research on cross-cultural management.","Printed product",,"2356","234x156 mm","International Business","Business & Corporate Strategy","General Reference","Major Work","Postgraduate","Business / Brands and Brand Management"

"9780415443081","The Information Society","Edited by Robin Mansell","HB","1","Routledge","04-07-13","675","The information society' refers to a constellation of developments arising from the growing use of communication technologies in the acquisition, storage, and processing of information, and the role of information in supporting the creation and exchange of knowledge. Research on information societies really began to take off in the 1970s when Daniel Bell wrote about 'the information age'. While there were earlier works that focused on the growing importance of information in the economy, it was not until the mid-1990s and the spread of the Internet that this field of study experienced a huge expansion across a broad range of disciplines in the social sciences and beyond.A critical mass of scholarship has now accumulated, establishing 'the information society' and 'information societies' as a terrain of substance and complexity, the exploration and understanding of which requires increasingly sophisticated navigation skills. As research in and around the area continues to flourish as never before, this new title in ""Routledge's Major Works"" series, ""Critical Concepts in Sociology"", meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature, and to provide a map of the area as it has emerged and developed over the last thirty years or so.""The Information Society"" is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students - as well as policy-makers and practitioners in the field - as a vital one-stop research resource.","Printed product",,"1926","234x156 mm","Communication Studies","Encyclopedias","Sociology of Media","Major Work","Postgraduate","Sociology/Information Society"

"9780415465984","Gifted and Talented Education","Edited by Deborah Eyre","HB","1","Routledge","03-13-13","650","The education of gifted and talented pupils is an established domain of study but research in the area has increased dramatically, particularly in the past fifteen years. The reason for this burgeoning interest relates principally not to conventional educational concerns but rather to the desire of governments around the world to maximize intellectual capital better to compete in a globalized economy. Nurturing those with exceptional ability is now seen as a societal necessity rather than simply an educational objective. A secondary aspect of this societal interest relates to equity; gifted and talented programmes are at the forefront of national and international educational policy and they are increasingly being adopted in the pursuit of meritocracy as a mechanism to improve life chances and to stimulate social mobility.As serious thinking about and around the education of the gifted and talented continues to flourish, this new title in the ""Routledge"" series, ""Major Themes in Education"", meets the need for an authoritative reference work to codify and make sense of the field's literature. Edited by Deborah Eyre, the founding Director of the world-renowned Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth at the University of Warwick, this new Major Work brings together in four volumes the foundational and the best cutting-edge scholarship. The editor has drawn on the most important and influential research from a broad range of countries to create a one-stop 'mini library' which describes and analyses the rationale and purposes of gifted education.Particular attention has been paid to the controversies surrounding definitions and the identification of giftedness, and the collection provides a substantial overview of best practice in relation to education in schools and classrooms, as well as special programmes. The material gathered also closely considers the substantial hurdles that may face children identified as especially gifted. ""Gifted and Talented Education"" is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential library purchase and is destined to be valued by scholars and students - as well as by educational policy-makers - as a vital reference work and research tool","Printed product","4005","2225","234x156 mm","Educational Research","Gifted & Talented","General Reference","Major Work","Postgraduate","Education"

"9780415445252","Women in Asia","Edited by Louise Edwards and Mina Roces","HB","1","Routledge","03-11-13","650","A new Routledge Major Work, Women in Asia is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research edited by two leading scholars in the field.","Printed product","3244",,"234x156 mm","Asian Culture & Society","Major Works","Gender Studies - Soc Sci","Major Work","Postgraduate","Asian Studies / Gender Studies"

"9780415440387","Arab-Israeli Conflict","Edited by Michael Dumper","HB","1","Routledge","02-21-13","650","The study of the Arab-Israeli conflict has generated a huge body of literature, some of it factual and evidence-based, some more polemical and provocative. This new four-volume collection provides an overview of both the principal topics and the various approaches to the conflict.","Printed product","3346",,"234x156 mm","Middle East Studies","Military & Strategic Studies","Politics & International Relations","Major Work"

"9780415457484","Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics","Edited by Andrew Kipnis, Luigi Tomba and Jonathan Unger","HB","1","Routledge","01-29-13","650","A new Routledge Major Work, Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics is a four-volume collection of foundational and the very best cutting-edge scholarship edited by three leading academics in the field. It is an essential work of reference destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.","Printed product","3333.9025",,"234x156 mm","Chinese Studies","General Reference","Chinese Politics","Major Work","Postgraduate","Asian Studies / Chinese Society and Politics"

"9780415310925","Women and Empire, 1750â€“1939, 5-vol. set","Edited by Susan K. Martin, Caroline Daley, Elizabeth Dimock, Cheryl Cassidy and Cecily Devereux","HB","1","Routledge","01-27-13","595","Women and Empire functions to extend significantly the range of The History of Feminism series, bringing together the histories of British and American women's emancipation, represented in earlier sets, into juxtaposition with histories produced by different kinds of imperial and colonial governments. The alignment of writings from a range of Anglo-imperial contexts reveals the overlapping histories and problems, while foregrounding cultural specificities and contextual inflections of imperialism.



The most novel aspect of this collection is in its capacity to highlight the common aspects of the functions of empire in their impact on women and their production of gender, and conversely, to demonstrate the actual specificity of particular regional manifestations. Concerning questions of power, gender, class and race, this set will be of interest to scholars and students of imperialism, colonization, women's history and women's writing","Printed product","3413","2016","234x156 mm","Women's & Gender History","Imperial & Colonial History","Social & Cultural History","Major Work","Postgraduate","Women's Studies, Gender Studies and History"

"9784861661013","Cyclopaedia of Modern Travel: A Record of Adventure, Exploration and Discovery, 2-vol. set","Edited by Bayard Taylor","HB","1","Edition Synapse","01-14-13","340",,"Printed product","1943","2700",,"Encyclopedias","Tourism, Society & Culture",,"Major Work"

"9784861660870","An Official Guide to Eastern Asia: Trans-continental Connections between Europe and Asia, Prepared by Imperial Japanese Government Railways, 5-vol. set","Edited by Yoshinobu Oikawa","HB","1","Edition Synapse","01-14-13","895",,"Printed product","5330","2700",,"Encyclopedias",,,"Major Work"

"9784902454482","Book of Trades: A Collection of the Nineteenth-Century Handbooks, 6-vol. set","Edited by Akio Kobayashi","HB","1","Edition Synapse","01-14-13","895",,"Printed product","4764","2700",,"Encyclopedias",,,"Major Work"

"9784861660450","Books for Children and Youth in Nineteenth-Century America Series II","Edited by Toshika Nonomura","HB","1","Edition Synapse","01-14-13","795",,"Printed product","3929","3300",,"Encyclopedias",,,"Major Work"

"9784861661020","Early Biographical Sources on Lafcadio Hearn, 4-vol. set","Edited by Junko Umemoto","HB","1","Edition Synapse","01-14-13","625",,"Printed product","3196","2700",,"Encyclopedias",,,"Major Work"

"9784902454406","Songs and Tales for Children: A Collection of Chapbooks in 19th-Century Britain","Edited by Okiko Miyake","HB","1","Edition Synapse","01-14-13","148",,"Printed product","881","2700",,"Encyclopedias",,,"Major Work"

"9784861660948","Present-Day Impressions of Japan: The History, People, Commerce, Industries and Resources of Japan and Japanâ€™s Colonial Empire, Kwantung, Chosen, Taiwan, Karafuto (2-vol. set)","Edited by W. H. Morton-Cameron and W. Feldwick","HB","1","Edition Synapse","01-14-13","640",,"Printed product","4040","2700",,"Social & Cultural History","Encyclopedias",,"Major Work"

"9784861660238","The Japan Weekly Mail, Series I: 1870-1899, Part 4, 1885-1889",,"HB","1","Edition Synapse","01-13-13","2450",,"Printed product","30409","6900",,"Encyclopedias",,,"Major Work"

"9780415447461","Feminist Legal Studies","Edited by Joanne Conaghan","HB","1","Routledge","01-09-13","650","A close engagement with law has long been a core dimension of feminist activism. However, it is only since the late twentieth century that a distinct and vital body of academic literature addressing the nature, effects, and limits of that engagement has emerged. In particular, from the 1980s onwards, a critical mass of scholarship has accumulated, establishing feminist legal studies not just as a recognizable subdiscipline, both of law and of feminist or women's studies, but also as a terrain of substance and complexity, the exploration and understanding of which requires increasingly sophisticated navigation skills.As research in and around the area flourishes as never before, this new title in the Routledge Major Works series, ""Critical Concepts in Law"", meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature, and to provide a map of feminist legal studies as it has emerged, developed, and diverged over the last thirty years. There are many ways of classifying feminist thinking within and beyond law. A typical method is to divide work into competing political or theoretical camps (such as liberal feminism, socialist feminism, and radical feminism). Another way, more common in law, is to organize feminist perspectives around issues such as abortion, equal pay, and pornography. A third treatment would be to focus on epistemologies (for example, feminist empiricism, standpoint theory, and postmodernism).However, the editor of this reference work, an internationally renowned scholar, eschews these increasingly sterile approaches and instead offers a view of feminist legal studies as a dynamic process of engagement with law which takes different forms and emphases at different points and contexts. Feminist legal studies does not, she argues, comprise a static set of ideas; it is rather an ongoing conversation. For this reason, the material gathered here in this four-volume collection is, to a considerable extent, organized chronologically, starting with the key feminist issues and interventions of the early 1980s.The collection then progresses thematically to reflect the shifts and turns of feminist legal thought. The content of the material is explicitly inter-jurisdictional, and reflects the global nature of feminist legal scholarship and, in particular, current thematic preoccupations. With a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the material in its historical and intellectual context, ""Feminist Legal Studies"" is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students of feminist law - as well as those working in allied areas - as a vital one-stop","Printed product","3349","1864","234x156 mm","Feminism","Jurisprudence & General Issues","General Reference","Major Work","Postgraduate","Law / Feminist Legal Studies"

"9780415458191","Surveillance","Edited by Benjamin Goold","HB","1","Routledge","12-20-12","650","A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Criminology , this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research on surveillance.","Printed product","2964","1640","234x156 mm","General Reference","Criminology","Urban Sociology - Urban Studies","Major Work","Postgraduate","Criminology"

"9780415426565","Society","Edited by Reiner Grundmann and Nico Stehr","HB","1","Routledge","12-16-12","650","Edited by two leading scholars in the field, this new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Sociology , is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research on the intellectual origins and the development of â€˜societyâ€™, a critical concept in the social sciences in general and sociology in particular.","Printed product","2980","1600","234x156 mm","General Reference","Historical Sociology","Theory & Political Sociology","Major Work","Postgraduate","Sociology"

"9780415408493","Sociolinguistics","Edited by Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski","HB","1","Routledge","12-13-12","1095","This title is a new collection in Routledge's ""Critical Concepts in Linguistics"" series. In six volumes, it provides a critical synthesis of the key ideas, findings, methods, and approaches that make up the interdisciplinary field of sociolinguistics. It includes both classic texts and contemporary, state-of-the-art research, with a bias towards the latter. The editors aver that the collection 'will stand as an articulation of ""the New Sociolinguistics"" as it is emerging through a sustained reflexive reassessment of the field which is now ongoing, set against a core of classic texts'. Fully indexed and with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, ""Sociolinguistics"" is an essential work of reference and is destined to be welcomed by scholars and students alike as a vital one-stop research resource.","Printed product","4731",,"234x156 mm","Language & Cultural Theory","Sociolinguistics",,"Major Work","Postgraduate"

"9780415440448","Politics of Modern South Asia","Edited by Subrata K. Mitra","HB","1","Routledge","12-13-12","825","This five-volume set provides a cross-referenced and easily accessible collection of the best scholarly articles in the field of South Asian politics. Each volume brings together scholarly articles on the following themes: History, Political Theory and Institutions; Society, Religion, Political Culture and Movements; Political Economy; International Relations. These volumes provide a comprehensive academic tool for students at the level of the advanced undergraduate or above, policy makers, journalists, and, national and international organizations, engaged in the area of South Asian politics.","Printed product","4066","2280","234x156 mm","South Asian Studies","Politics & International Relations",,"Major Work"

"9780415449120","Marketing Research","Edited by David F. Birks and Tim Macer","HB","1","Routledge","12-12-12","725","A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Perspectives on Business and Management , this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research on marketing research.","Printed product","4220","2412","234x156 mm","Market Research","Consumer Behaviour","General Reference","Major Work","Postgraduate","Marketing / Marketing Research"

"9780415403313","Medical Advice for Women, 1830â€“1915","Edited by Ruth Robbins","HB","1","Routledge","12-12-12","625","Medical Advice for Women"" is a new five-volume collection from Routledge and Edition Synapse covering professional, scientific, and medical opinion, in addition to the popular guides aimed at the female reader, between the years 1830-1915. Medical literature from this period provides a fascinating insight into the interrelations between social proscriptions, often validated by appeals to religious authority, and medical prescriptions. The narrative contained within this largely chronological collection is not necessarily a progressive one from quackery to medical and scientific enlightenment; the situation was more nuanced than selective quotation from sensational examples has implied in the past.This collection, edited and with a new introduction by Ruth Robbins, illuminates the complexity and shifting grounds of opinion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by bringing back into print a broad selection of texts offering medical advice to women, and will be of interest to all scholars and students working in gender and cultural studies, and particularly to historians and sociologists of medicine.","Printed product","4878","3152","234x156 mm","Modern History 1750-1945","Women's & Gender History","History of Medicine ","Major Work","Postgraduate"

"9780415452830","Crime Reduction","Edited by Kate Moss","HB","1","Routledge","12-11-12","650","Across the globe, challenging and contentious issues about community safety and security increasingly exercise governments and police forces - as well as, for example, town planners and car-park designers. Consequently, as a specialist area within the wider discipline of criminology, crime reduction has never before enjoyed such prominence in public and scholarly discourse. With research on and around the subject flourishing as never before, this new title in the Routledge Major Works series, ""Critical Concepts in Criminology"", meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the subdiscipline's colossal literature and the continuing explosion in research output and practice.Edited by Kate Moss, a prominent academic in the field, ""Crime Reduction"" is a four-volume collection of foundational and cutting-edge scholarship. The first volume in the collection (""Approaches to Reduction"") brings together the best research on the different approaches to crime reduction, including its classification and theory, and ideas of what is preventable. The work gathered here also includes criticisms of crime reduction, not least research around the phenomena of displacement and sustainability. Volume II (""Motivation of the Criminal Inclination"") collects the most important work on issues of crime reduction, particularly those concerned with what one thinker has described as 'structure and psyche'.The scholarship in this volume draws both on the structural perspective (which emphasizes the view that reduction is achievable only through economic and social change, especially by ameliorating inequality or levels of social exclusion), and the 'psyche' approach (which regards crime principally as a product of the human spirit and seeks to change criminal inclination and activity by policies of, for example, deterrence, incapacitation, and reform). The notion of situational crime reduction has been a particularly active area of research in recent years. But the idea that changes to the social and physical settings in which crime may occur can reduce its frequency or impact is far from uncontroversial.Volume III (""Situational Crime Reduction"") assembles the best thinking in this area tackling, for example, ethical dilemmas about the impact of some reduction strategies on our freedom and privacy rights, as well as the difficult and profound implications that arise from the increasing extent to which crime reduction has become the de facto responsibility of private rather than state organizations. The final volume in the collection (""Crime Prevention in Action"") gathers together the best cutting-edge work to highlight key examples of empirical crime reduction research in action.It includes research focusing on: the need to incentivize crime reduction to persuade more people to take responsibility for reducing a greater variety of crime; the effects of apparently subtle strategies (such as changes to street lighting); and, anticipatory changes (whereby crime seems to reduce in advance of reduction initiatives). Volume IV also includes assessments of the future developments in the field. ""Crime Reduction"" is fully indexed and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. An essential reference collection, it is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and practitioners as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.","Printed product","3044","1672","234x156 mm","Crime Prevention","General Reference","Criminal Justice","Major Work","Postgraduate","Criminology"

"9780415433242","Brands and Brand Management","Edited by Richard Elliott","HB","1","Routledge","11-29-12","650","A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Perspectives on Business and Management , this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research on brands and brand management.","Printed product","3824","2208","234x156 mm","Business & Corporate Strategy","Sales & Marketing","General Reference","Major Work","Postgraduate","Business / Brands and Brand Management"

"9780415367523","China and Southeast Asia","Edited by Geoffrey Wade","HB","1","Routledge","11-28-12","795","Providing a guided survey of the most important works that have examined the relations between China and Southeast Asia, this six-volume collection is undoubtedly a key resource for those studying this fascinating field.","Printed product","4467.8825",,"234x156 mm","Asian Studies","General Reference",,"Major Work",,"Asian Studies"

"9780415450119","Art and Aesthetics","Edited by Marta Herrero and David Inglis","HB","1","Routledge","11-26-12","650","Under what social conditions do particular sorts of arts and aesthetics arise and flourish, and under what conditions do they decline and disappear? What types of artistic and aesthetic practices exist outside of museums, galleries, and other high-cultural institutions? In what ways are social relations and broader cultural forces embedded within particular artworks, or specific artistic genres and forms? What roles can - and do - aesthetic orientations and artistic processes and products play in social life? In what ways are arts and aesthetics socially organized, regulated, distributed, and utilized? How are 'art worlds' connected to other major social institutions, such as politics and the economy, and has art become just an offshoot of consumer and celebrity culture? Serious work on dizzying questions such as these has a long pedigree, stretching back at least to the writings of Giambattista Vico and Madame de Sta'l in the eighteenth century.Very simply put, both these authors were concerned with tracing the manifold relations that can pertain between the arts - and, more broadly, 'aesthetics' - on the one hand, and 'society' on the other. Since then, social scientists in many disciplines have had compelling things to say about art and aesthetics. In some disciplines - such as anthropology - this is a fact of long standing, while in others - like human geography - it is of more recent provenance. But the most striking recent surge of interest in the area has taken place in sociology, where never before have cultural forces and phenomena been so centrally on the research agenda. Addressing the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of scholarly literature, ""Art and Aesthetics"" is a new title in the Routledge series, ""Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences"".Edited by two leading scholars, this new Major Work from Routledge brings together in four volumes foundational and the very best cutting-edge scholarship to provide a synoptic view of all the key issues and current debates. In particular, this new collection brings together for the first time the most important research on how social relations are embodied in artistic and aesthetic products and processes, and how these in turn can affect social life and societal organization. Rooted in sociology, but also embracing a broad range of diverse contributions from other disciplines - such as anthropology, philosophy, art history, cultural studies, media studies, film studies, gender studies, and postcolonial studies - ""Art and Aesthetics"" demonstrates the great vitality of this area of research and teaching.It highlights both how social scientists are increasingly developing sophisticated ways of understanding artistic and aesthetic issues, and also how scholars in the humanities are drawing upon social-scientific ideas and methods in order more fully to engage with such matters than hitherto was possible. ""Art and Aesthetics"" is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students interested in the relations between arts, aesthetics, culture, and society as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource","Printed product","3002","1430","234x156 mm","Aesthetics","General Reference","Sociology of Culture","Major Work","Postgraduate","Sociology of Culture"

"9780415456548","Biodiversity and Conservation","Edited by Richard Ladle","HB","1","Routledge","11-18-12","795","A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in the Environment, this is a five-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research on biodiversity and conservation.","Printed product","5190","2980","234x156 mm","Conservation - Environment Studies","General Reference",,"Major Work","Postgraduate","Biodiversity and Conservation"

"9780415434713","Philosophy of Language","Edited by A. P. Martinich","HB","1","Routledge","11-15-12","595","Edited by a leading scholar, The Philosophy of Language is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Philosophy. It is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research from a rich and fascinating field.","Printed product","2952","1562","234x156 mm","Philosophy of Language","Cognitive Linguistics","General Reference","Major Work","Postgraduate","Philosophy"

"9780415448642","Radio","Edited by Andrew Crisell","HB","1","Routledge","11-14-12","495","Over the last sixty years or so academic interest in the mass media has burgeoned. It is not, perhaps, surprising that this interest at first focused principally on the visual media of film and television, where it has remained intensive. Nevertheless, serious thinking about radio soon followed. Despite its apparent limitations, were there some advantages that radio enjoyed over the visual media? In what ways, for instance, could it mediate genres like drama and sport, which traditionally depended for their effectiveness on spectacle? Scholars have also examined radio's use of words in comparison with both the image-dominated media of film and television, and the spatial, stable medium of print.Questions in radio studies also abound about the special qualities of sound per se - such as the meaning and functions of music and the ontology of pure sound artefacts known as 'soundscapes', a mainstay of much experimental radio. Other lines of inquiry in the field have included investigations into the social, political, and cultural contexts of radio, prompted by questions about, for example, how broadcasting should be financed and regulated, and what purposes it should serve. And, more recently, radio researchers have grappled with notions of 'community', whether defined by geographical proximity or by commonality of identity or interest.Furthermore, the growth of new media technologies has profound implications for sound broadcasting. How will webcasting and podcasting modify or even transform radio? Indeed, does the growth of interactivity, including audience-generated content, and of time-shifted listening, mean the end of radio as we currently know it? As research on and around these kinds of question continues to flourish as never before, this new title in the Routledge Major Works series, ""Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies"", meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature, and to provide a map of the area as it has emerged and developed. It is a four-volume collection of foundational and the best cutting-edge scholarship in the field and is organized in three volumes.Volume I (""Radio Theory and Genres"") assembles the key work theorizing the medium and its different kinds of contents, most notably news, drama, and 'talk'. Much of the work gathered here is comparative, setting radio and its genres in the context of the visual media of film, television, and theatre, or the 'visible' media of newspapers and books. But the volume also includes linguistic analyses of broadcast talk and work that sees music as in some sense 'radiogenic' and traces its relationship to popular culture. The first volume also includes the best theoretical work exploring abstract sound and 'soundscapes'.Volume II (""History and Institutions"") collects the most important work tracing the political evolution of sound broadcasting. Key topics include: the development of the philosophy of public service; issues of policy, notably (de)regulation and competition; and, key historical phenomena such as the challenges posed by television, the arrival of the transistor, stereophony and FM broadcasting, the proliferation of wirelesses in cars, and the shift from mixed to streamed broadcasting. Drawing on a wide range of international sources, the final volume of the collection (""Audiences, Identities, and Communities; and Technological Developments"") assembles the best scholarship not only on general radio audiences and their patterns of consumption, but also focuses on the particular communities that radio seeks to address, whether geographic, ethnic-, or interest-based.Volume III also includes research on new technology, especially in its latest manifestations in forms such as webcasting. ""Radio"" is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students of media and cultural studies, as well as those engaged in more specialized radio courses, as a vital one-stop research resource","Printed product","2395","1278","234x156 mm","Radio","General Reference","Sociology of Culture","Major Work","Postgraduate","Sociology of Culture"

"9780415403771","Contact Languages","Edited by John Holm and Susanne Michaelis","HB","1","Routledge","10-28-12","750","Contact has always been a normal part of the development of languages, from those of ancient empires, those of colonial expansion, and to those of our globalizing planet today. Pidgin and creole studies have merged with the study of other language contact phenomena (adult second-language acquisition, bilingualism, bilingual mixed languages, language shift, partially restructured languages, language attrition, etc.) to form the flourishing field of contact linguistics. This new Routledge Major Work brings together the most important contributions advancing our understanding of language contact phenomena. Its five volumes cover almost two hundred years of scholarship and provide researchers and students with an overview of how insights about the new languages that emerged as a result of European expansion to Africa, Asia, the New World and the Pacific have led to a clearer view of what language is.Beginning fitfully in the mid-nineteenth century and then gathering momentum after 1960, the field of pidgin and creole linguistics has developed from a marginal field associated with the stigma of the languages it studied to a subfield which is now at the centre of linguistic enquiry. As it became clear that contact, far from being bizarre, has always been a normal part of the development of languages, from those of ancient empires to those of colonial expansion to those of our globalising planet today, pidgin and creole studies have merged with the study of other language contact phenomena (adult second language acquisition, bilingualism, bilingual mixed languages, language shift, partially restructured languages, language attrition, etc) to form the new field of contact linguistics.This selection of the most important contributions advancing our understanding of language contact phenomena covers almost two hundred years of scholarship and will provide students with an overview of how insights about the new languages that emerged as a result of European expansion to Africa, Asia, the New World and the Pacific have led to a clearer view of what language is. Articles are arranged chronologically; unusually for a Critical Concepts collection, each individual article is preceded by a short introduction making clear the intellectual context in which it was written, its thematic connection to earlier work, and why it is an important contribution to the field. As well as articles from scholarly journals, there are also some chapters from major books in the field. The collection is indexed for theme and language.","Printed product","4636","2608","234x156 mm","Historical & Comparative Linguistics","Linguistic Theory",,"Major Work"

"9780415443135","Health and Inequality","Edited by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson","HB","1","Routledge","10-15-12","685","A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare , this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research in the area of health and inequality.","Printed product","4603.9625","2536","234x156 mm","Allied Health","Major Works","Public Health - Health Studies","Major Work","Postgraduate","Health"

"9780415433198","War","Edited by Alex Bellamy","HB","1","Routledge","10-01-12","625","A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Political Science, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research on war.","Printed product","2869",,"234x156 mm","Encyclopedias","Military & Strategic Studies","War & Conflict Studies","Major Work","Postgraduate","War Studies"

"9780415438315","Paganism","Edited by Barbara Jane Davy","HB","1","Routledge","09-27-12","450","Contemporary Paganism emerged in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s as a new religious movement, although practitioners understood themselves to be participating in a witchcraft tradition extending back into medieval - if not prehistoric - times. In recent decades, Pagan Studies has emerged through a plethora of sophisticated anthropological, sociological, and historical studies, and this new three-volume collection from ""Routledge's Critical Concepts in Religious Studies"" series brings together the best foundational and cutting-edge scholarship in one 'mini library'.Volume I addresses the emergence of Paganism as a religion. It collects scholarly analysis of the historical evolution of Paganism, and is organized under topics including debates of historical accuracy, influences on the development of Paganism, and the process of routinization in the religion. The second volume addresses the importance of environmentalism in contemporary Paganism, including work on how Pagans think about the natural world, environmental ethics, and related political activism.The final volume addresses the importance of gender issues and feminism in contemporary Paganism, and collects the best research on topics including immanence, embodiment, self-image, and sexuality. ""Paganism"" is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.","Printed product","2120",,"234x156 mm","Neo-Paganism","Religion",,"Major Work"

"9780415378543","The History of Higher Education","Edited by Roy Lowe","HB","1","Routledge","09-26-12","750","This new major Work is a five-volume collection in Routledge's ""Major Themes in Education"" series. It charts the history and development of higher education. Encompassing the period since 1760, the principal focus is on the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, although more recent developments are also addressed. The rise and development of universities and of higher education in Britain provides the central theme of the collection and is used as a model for developments elsewhere in the English-speaking world. Particular attention is paid to the United States and the British Empire, but some material on other European countries and on the rise of higher education in countries such as Japan and China has also been included. Thus, at the core of this collection is the dissemination of a university ideal around the globe and its particular implications and interpretation in specific societies and locations.","Printed product","4063",,"234x156 mm","History of Education","Philosophy of Education","Social & Cultural History","Major Work","Postgraduate"

"9780415426107","Global Economic Institutions","Edited by Willem Molle","HB","1","Routledge","09-11-12","625","A new reference title from Routledge, this Major Work is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research about global economic institutions.","Printed product","3500","1672","234x156 mm","International Economics","International Trade & Economic Law","International Organizations","Major Work","Postgraduate","International Economics"

"9780415449502","Mental Health","Edited by Teresa L. Scheid","HB","1","Routledge","09-06-12","685",,"Printed product","3605","2032","234x156 mm","Allied Health","Major Works","Mental Health","Major Work","Postgraduate","Mental Health"

"9780415412025","Social and Emotional Development","Edited by William M. Bukowski, Brett Laursen and Kenneth H. Rubin","HB","1","Psychology Press","08-30-12","795","A new title in the Critical Concepts in Psychology series, this Routledge Major Work is a four-volume collection of the canonical and cutting-edge research in social and emotional development.","Printed product","4331.81","2560","234x156 mm","Development of Social Cognition","Emotional Development",,"Major Work","Postgraduate"

"9780415433389","Social Exclusion","Edited by David Byrne","HB","1","Routledge","08-06-12","625","Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Sociology , is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research on the intellectual origins and the development of â€˜social exclusionâ€™, a critical concept in the social sciences in general and sociology in particular.","Printed product","3401.9425",,"234x156 mm","Encyclopedias",,,"Major Work","Postgraduate","Sociology/Social Exclusion"

"9780415451598","Politics of the Modern Arab World","Edited by Laleh Khalili","HB","1","Routledge","07-17-12","595","The Politics of the Modern Arab World collection covers the Arab world, from Morocco to the borders of Iran, focusing primarily on the 20 th century, and especially the post-Second World War era. The collection defines politics broadly â€“in line with the most innovative current works in the field of political studiesâ€“ to include not only politics at the state level, but also the public, social, and popular domains that define and shape (and are in turn defined and shaped) by politics. This book will be useful for undergraduates, post-graduates and any researcher who would like a comprehensive overview of the most up-to-date debates and the ""state of the art"" in the field of Arab politics.","Printed product","3692","2128","234x156 mm","Middle East Politics",,,"Major Work"

"9780415401036","World Islam","Edited by Andrew Rippin","HB","1","Routledge","06-27-12","625","Reflecting the diversity of Islam, this collection focuses on the presence of Muslims in countries outside the traditionally conceived heartlands of the Islamic world. The history of the arrival of Islam in such countries and the nature of the way in which Islam is practised in such places is the thematic focus of the materials selected for inclusion.","Printed product","3039.0725","1664","234x156 mm","Islam - Religion","Asian Studies",,"Major Work"

"9780415439558","Politics of Modern Japan","Edited by Christopher Hood","HB","1","Routledge","06-27-12","625","Owing to the unique nature of Japan and its changing role within the world, there is a growing need for a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of the dynamics of Japanese politics. This new title from Routledge addresses that demand. In four volumes, it is a comprehensive reference collection which addresses the key issues facing Japanese politics today and explores the relationship between the Japanese polity and other institutions, including big business, the bureaucracy, and the media.","Printed product","3212","1792","234x156 mm","Japanese Studies","Politics & International Relations",,"Major Work"

"9780415437271","The Philosophy of Time","Edited by L Nathan Oaklander","HB","1","Routledge","06-27-12","625","What do 'meaning' and 'truth' mean? And how are they situated in the concrete practices of linguistic communication? What is the relationship between words and the world? How - with words - can people do such varied things as marry, inaugurate a president, and declare a country's independence? How is language able to express knowledge, belief, and other mental states? What are metaphors and how do they work? Is a mathematically rigorous account of language possible? Does language make women invisible and encode a male world view?These are the kind of questions that have been addressed by philosophers of language since ancient times. Interest in the subject stretches back to the beginnings of western philosophy (for instance, in his Academy, Plato considered the question whether the names of things were deemed by convention or by nature). Interest in the philosophy of language has also been enduring - and has blossomed anew in the past century.This new title in the ""Routledge"" series, ""Critical Concepts in Philosophy"", meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject's vast literature and the continuing explosion in research output. Edited by A. P.Martinich, one of the sub discipline's leading scholars, this collection brings together in four volumes the canonical and the very best cutting-edge scholarship in the field to provide a synoptic view of all the key issues, figures, concepts, and current debates. With comprehensive introductions to each volume, newly written by the editor, which place the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, ""Philosophy of Language"" is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by philosophers and linguists - as well as psychologists and cognitive scientists working on language - as a vital research resource.","Printed product","3107","1600","234x156 mm","Metaphysics","Philosophy of Science","General Reference","Major Work","Postgraduate","Philosophy"

"9780415422727","Gender and Development","Edited by Janet Momsen","HB","1","Routledge","06-20-12","625","Edited and introduced by a leading researcher and activist, this four-volume Major Work brings together both cutting-edge and canonical research about gender and development which enables development scholars, policy makers and workers to understand and address such challenges in this area more effectively.","Printed product","3129.7925","1600","234x156 mm","Development Studies","Human Geography","Women's Studies","Major Work","Postgraduate","Development Studies"

"9780415416788","Supply Chain Management","Edited by Steve New","HB","1","Routledge","05-28-12","665","A new title in the Routledge Critical Perspectives on Business and Management series, this Major Work is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research about supply chain management.","Printed product","3502","1600","234x156 mm","Business & Corporate Strategy","Business Competition","Enterprise Resource Management (ERP)","Major Work","Postgraduate","Business and Supply Chain Management"

"9780415380973","International Financial Reporting Standards","Edited by David Alexander and Christopher Nobes","HB","1","Routledge","05-21-12","665","International Financial Reporting Standards and the possibility of global accounting harmonization have recently gained enormously in importance, both practically and from an academic and research perspective. International Financial Reporting Standards , a new four-volume Routledge Major Work, edited by two leading experts in the field, provides a broad overview in addition to detailed coverage of this important and fascinating topic, including a discussion of the processes of change and developments which have led from a widely disparate starting position to the current situation. Fully indexed and with volume introductions.","Printed product","3552","2016","234x156 mm","International Accounting","Financial Accounting","Financial Reporting, Financial Statements","Major Work","Postgraduate"

"9780415416900","George Nathaniel Curzon: Collected Writings","Edited by Martin Ewans","HB","1","Routledge","05-16-12","625","Curzon was a man of considerable intellect and ambition, becoming both Viceroy of India at a crucial time for the colony (1898â€“1905), and British Foreign Secretary after the First World War. He was also a prolific writer. His output of books, articles, and speeches was extensive, while the official documents that he produced reveal his close attention to even minor aspects of his responsibilities. Some of his speeches and articles were concerned with British political affairs; the majority, however, stemmed from his global travels and his time as Viceroy of India. This new collection from Routledge brings together Curzon's most interesting and influential writings on Asian and Middle Eastern themes.","Printed product","4865","2272","234x156 mm","Art & Visual Culture","History of Islam","Cultural Studies","Major Work",,"Asia Studies, History"

"9780415440417","Politics of Modern Taiwan","Edited by Dafydd Fell","HB","1","Routledge","05-03-12","625","This four volume collection brings together the best publications on the contemporary politics of Taiwan. With no equivalent collection currently available, this series fills a major gap in the market. As the most influential articles on Taiwanese politics are widely dispersed in various journals and edited volumes, this collection will be an invaluable resource for both students and researchers interested in the political processes that have shaped contemporary Taiwan. Although the articles are in English, they include contributions from the leading Taiwan experts in Europe, the United States, Japan and Taiwan.","Printed product","2995","1669","234x156 mm","Asian Studies","Asian Politics",,"Major Work"

"9780415094177","The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell Volume 21","Bertrand Russell","HB","1","Routledge","04-25-12","160","How to Keep the Peace: The Pacifist Dilemma, 1935â€“38 continues publication of Routledge's multi-volume critical edition of Bertrand Russell's shorter writings.","Printed product","2270","914","234x156 mm","Russell",,,"Major Work"

"9780415411066","Politics of Modern Turkey","Edited by Ali Carkoglu and William Hale","HB","1","Routledge","04-02-12","625","A newly written introduction opens this collection, which brings together nearly seventy pieces of canonical and cutting-edge research covering all aspects of politics in Turkey from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the application for EU membership, a period of about eighty years representing one of the most dramatic modernization drives in any nation. Among issues covered are: secularism, democracy, US/Russian/Middle East/Turkish foreign policy issues, and the role of women in Turkish politics.","Printed product","3116","1680","234x156 mm","Middle East Economics","Middle East History","Middle East Politics","Major Work",,"Politics, Middle East Politics and European Politics"

"9780415420280","Social Work","Edited by Ann Buchanan","HB","1","Routledge","04-02-12","625","With just over a century of history, social work has come of age as a powerful global profession in possession of its own body of knowledge based on research, skills, competence, and an international value system with a code of ethics. Today, social work has developed from humble origins to become a vital guardian of human rights and a bulwark against the social injustices caused by global marketization. This new title in the Routledge series, Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this evolution - and the accompanying explosion in research output. Edited by a leading social work scholar, this Routledge Major Work brings together in four volumes the canonical and the best cutting-edge scholarship in the field.Volume 1 traces the development of social work from its parochial origins at the end of the nineteenth century in the UK and US, through to its formal recognition in legislation, and the huge growth in the profession after the Second World War. The first volume also contains material about the 'export' of social work to other countries, and how training and international professional bodies developed to monitor its activities. The next three volumes focus on particular client groups, bringing together key research on social work as it applies to specific consumers of social workers' services. Each volumes offers international perspectives, together with client-focused research. Volume 2 explores social work with children and families and includes material dealing with family support; prevention of maltreatment; and abuse. It also brings together the key writings on looking after children in public care, with material on residential work, fostering, and adoption.Volume 2 also considers social work in schools, the divorce courts, and in children's hospitals. Volume 3 examines social work with adults: those with mental-health problems; the elderly and people who are disabled. The material here focuses in particular on issues around 'the demographic timebomb', a particular challenge for scholars and practitioners of social work in many countries with ageing populations.There is also a particular focus on the social model of disability. Finally, Volume 4 brings together the best social work research on offending and considers issues such as the progression from juvenile delinquency to adult offending; what works in reducing criminal behaviour; probation and prison work; and rehabilitation. The research gathered here also explores the links between homelessness, mental health and offending. With comprehensive introductions to each volume, newly written by the editor, which place the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, ""Social Work"" is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars, students and practitioners as a vital research resource.","Printed product","3321","1758","234x156 mm","Public Health - Health Studies","Social Policy",,"Major Work","Postgraduate","Social Work"

"9780415439206","Metaethics","Edited by Russ Shafer-Landau","HB","1","Routledge","03-20-12","625","Edited by a leading scholar, Metaethics is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Philosophy. It is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research from a rich and flourishing field.","Printed product","2676.1925","1396","234x156 mm","Ethics Philosophy","Metaphysics","General Reference","Major Work","Postgraduate","Philosophy"

"9780415380928","Gender and Modernism: Critical Concepts 4 vols","Edited by Bonnie Kime Scott","HB","1","Routledge","03-20-12","685","A broad collection spanning the last three decades of literary criticism alongside earlier key pieces written during the modernist period. Modernism, whether seen as a period designation, a manifestation of formal experimentation, or an aspect of modernity, has since its inception been marked, consciously or unconsciously, by gender.","Printed product","2923","1494","234x156 mm","Literature & Gender Studies","Literary/Critical Theory","Modernism","Major Work","Postgraduate"

"9780415401074","The Crusades","Edited by Andrew Jotischky","HB","1","Routledge","03-20-12","625","Bringing together a representative selection of the most important research on crusading, this four volume collection features a group of carefully chosen articles which, taken together, develop themes and problematics in crusading history and provide a valuable research resource for both students and scholars.","Printed product","3327","1856","234x156 mm","Medieval History 400-1500","Islam - Religion","Middle East History","Major Work"

"9780415426770","The Economics of Innovation","Edited by Antonelli Cristiano","HB","1","Routledge","03-05-12","625","The Economics of Innovation"" is a new title in the ""Routledge Major Works"" series, ""Critical Concepts in Economics"". Edited by Cristiano Antonelli, a leading scholar in the field, it is a four-volume collection of canonical and the best cutting-edge research. Many would argue that the economics of innovation is founded on the work of Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950), though its origins can also be traced to the writings of Adam Smith (1723-90) and Karl Marx (1818-83).In modern, knowledge-based economies, characterized by rapid innovation, interest in the area has exploded in recent decades and innovation economics is increasingly the object of professional and highly specialized research. The resultant body of scholarly literature is characterized by its multiplicity of perspectives from within economics, and, indeed, across the social sciences as a whole. Furthermore, methodologies borrowed from the natural sciences, such as epidemiology, life-cycle analysis and Darwinian evolution, have also contributed to recent advances. The sheer scale of the growth in the research corpus-and the breadth of the field-makes this collection especially timely and welcome.Volume I (""Innovation and Growth: The Classical Legacy"") brings together material from and about the foundational sources of the classical analysis of the endogenous determinants of technical change, with the writings of Smith and Marx providing the two key points of departure. Volume II (""Innovation and Competition: The Schumpeterian Legacy"") collects key research following the work of Kenneth J. Arrow (b. 1921), in particular his two 1962 papers on the economics of learning and the economics of knowledge. Schumpeter's contribution to the economics of innovation is unparalleled. A key definition of innovation; an understanding of the concentration of innovation in time and space with the notion of 'gales of creative destruction'; and the analysis of the fundamental role of the corporation are all based on his thinking.Volume III (""Innovation and Knowledge: The Arrovian Legacy"") brings together the best - and most influential - work produced in Schumpeter's wake. The material collected in Volume IV (""Innovation and Complexity"") elaborates a single approach where innovation is considered as a key emergent property of an economic system recognized as both dynamic and complex, i.e. constituted by heterogeneous components that interact and change both the architecture and the performance of the whole.In this approach innovation is the result of a path-dependent, collective process that takes place in a localized context, if, when and where a sufficient number of creative reactions are made in a coherent, complementary and consistent way. Broadly speaking, this approach is the result of the integration of the strands of analysis identified in the preceding three volumes within the new emerging paradigm of complexity. With a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, ""The Economics of Innovation"" is an essential collection destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital research resource.","Printed product","3478","1920","234x156 mm","Economic Theory & Philosophy","Political Economics","Business Competition","Major Work","Postgraduate","Economics"

"9780415419437","Sufism","Edited by Lloyd Ridgeon","HB","1","Routledge","02-13-12","625","In recent years, interest in Sufismâ€”often regarded as the mystical dimension of Islamâ€”has blossomed. Taught in European and American universities for many years, Sufism is an increasingly popular area of research in disciplines such as Islamic Studies, comparative religion, area studies, anthropology, history, and politics. In this new Routledge Major Work, the editor, a leading scholar in the field, has gathered in four volumes the canonical and the very best cutting-edge literature on Sufism to create an indispensable reference resource. The collection focuses on: origins and development; hermeneutics and doctrines; ritual, authority, and word; and modern Sufism.","Printed product","2744","1416","234x156 mm","Philosophy of Islam","Religion & Politics",,"Major Work",,"Islamic Studies and Islamic Philosophy"

"9780415397513","Metaphysics","Edited by Michael Rea","HB","1","Routledge","02-02-12","665","Metaphysics, at least roughly speaking, is the systematic investigation of fundamental presuppositions underlying commonsense and scientific views of the world. Most of us believe that we have bodies and minds, that we are free, that some things in the world are composed of other things and that these things interact causally with one another; we believe that, in addition to the ""way things are"", there are other ways things could have been, and so on. Common sense tells us that things change and time passes, but contemporary physics tells us (or seems to tell us) that past, present, and future are somehow metaphysically on a par - that the past isn't ""gone"" and the future is ""already"" real. Common sense and science both take it for granted that the world is governed by laws, and that the laws in some sense represent how things must go in the world (as opposed simply to telling us how they in fact happen to go).Metaphysicians investigate all of these assumptions, and more. They ask what it is to be a body or a mind, and what the relation between body and mind might be; they ask what freedom consists in, and whether freedom is possible; they ask about the nature and possibility of causation, change, and the passage of time; they try to figure out what it takes to be a law of nature and whether the laws of nature might be necessary or contingent; and so on. This four-volume collection will gather together many of the most important classic and contemporary writings on these and other central topics in metaphysics. Unlike some of the other collections in this series, the classic writings will not occupy their own volume (or even their own section); rather, they will be sprinkled throughout as appropriate to the topics under consideration.Below is a tentative list of volume-titles, along with select tentative section headings (to give some indication of the topics that will be covered in each volum