General Interest News & Updates – Page 2

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11. India-Pakistan: The Establishment Strikes Back

    Author of Explaining Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: Escaping India talks about the escalation of tensions over the latest incident on the Line of Control and the future of India-Pakistan relations.

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    The Battle of Cowpens anniversary – 17 January 2013

    Join Routledge author Melissa A. Walker for a reading and book signing at the Battle of Cowpens Anniversary Celebration this weekend.

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    Spotlight on: Asian Cinema

    Asian films are now widely distributed and popular with western audiences. In response to this increasingly global audience, Routledge has recently published several new books that address the history, censorship problems and cultural variations of Asian cinema.

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    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - Monday 21st January

    Monday 21st January see's the celebration of the 27th 'Martin Luther King, Jr Day' as enshrined in US law by the then President Ronald Reagan, in 1983.

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    Another Great Review for Global Television Formats

    "Readers will discover under its broad thematic umbrella a host of valuable data and informed commentary. With the decline of the top-down model of US cultural imperialism now broadly accepted, this book offers an invaluable road map to a new media landscape that is more complex than scholars have previously acknowledged." —Paul Julian Smith, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center of City University of New York

    Read the complete review here.
     

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    2013 Philosophy Catalog Now Available Online!

    Visit our online catalog to browse our latest titles in Philosophy

17. Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award for Higher Education

    Congratulations to John Goddard, co-author of The University and the City, for being awarded the Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award for Higher Education!

18. Support-Bargaining, Economics and Society

    Individual or group? Should the individual be subordinate to the group; or should individual freedom prevail? Nietsche or Marx? Right wing or left wing? The conflict is pervasive in human society. Patrick Spead's latest research, 'Support-Bargaining, Economics and Society: A Social Species', seeks to offer new insight into the argument. Read a summary of his perspective, published in the World Economics Association Newsletter.

19. Top 25 Popular Economics Blogs

    Check out a range of economics blogs covering everything from accounting and finance to public policy: http://www.accountingdegree.com/blog/2012/top-25-popular-economics-blogs/

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    Congratulations to author Raymond M. Scurfield on winning the 2012 NASW Lifetime Achievement Award!

    Routledge author Raymond Monsour Scurfield has won a lifetime achievement award from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for his "extraordinary contributions to the profession and society" and for his work and research on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. We congratulate Dr.Scurfield on this great honor! 

    For more information on the NASW National Achievement Awards, click here.