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    The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia (March 2013)

    This is the first book on IIRSA and its implications for South America and more specifically for Amazonia. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the infrastructure program and deals particularly with methods to assess the probable effects of road construction in environmentally fragile territories.

    For more information about the book and to order your copy click here

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    The Tall Buildings Reference Book (April 2013)

    The Tall Buildings Reference Book addresses all the issues of building tall, from the procurement stage through the design and construction process to new technologies and the building’s contribution to the urban habitat. A case study section highlights the latest, the most innovative, the greenest and the most inspirational tall buildings being constructed today.

    To order a copy of this book click here

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    Featured Author: Dafydd Fell

    With the paperback release of Party Politics in Taiwan, we would like to bring your attention to our featured author Dafydd Fell.

14. 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.

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    Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures - Now Available

    This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East.

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    The Unwritten Grotowski

    Theory and Practice of the Encounter
    
    By Kris Salata

    This book gives a new view on the legacy of Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999), one of the central, and yet misunderstood, figures who shaped 20th-century theater, focusing on his least known last phase of work on ancient songs and the craft of the performer.

    Learn more...

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    2013 Classical Studies Catalog - Now Available Online

    Click here to browse our new Classical Studies Catalog, including new and key titles for 2013. Remember that many of our titles are available as complimentary exam copies for instructors, just look for the blue button to order.

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    New Handbook from AERA!

    Routledge is excited to announce the publication of the new International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education!

    This handbook not only illuminates the most important concepts, findings and theories that have been developed by Environmental Education (EE) research, but also critically examines the historical progression of the field, its current debates and controversies, what is still missing from the EE research agenda, and where that agenda might be headed.

    Published for the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

    December 17th 2012 by Routledge – 592 pages.

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    What We See and What We Say

    Image-based research methods, such as arts-based research, can fill the absence of the voice of impoverished, under-privileged populations. In What We See and What We Say, Ephrat Huss argues that images are deep and universally psycho-neurological constructs through which people process their experiences. The theoretical model demonstrated in this book demonstrates that images can be used to enable three different levels of communication: with self, with others similar to oneself, and with others who differ in terms of culture and power.

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    New - The Routledge Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations

    Interest in Christian-Muslim dialog has grown considerably in recent years. How Islam and Christianity have approached each other theologically is one of the most absorbing ways of understanding the challenge of interreligious relations or Christian-Muslim polemics. This volume provides an indispensable reading and reference tool, showing how Muslim and Christian scholars have shaped the discourse on the varying interfaces between Christianity and Islam.