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1. Strategic Social Media

   By Kelli Matthews

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Strategic Social Media provides an essential tool for contemporary public relations, tying new technologies and strategies of social media use to foundational PR values. Introducing readers to various social media channels available for use in PR campaigns, the text also provides a theoretical...

   To Be Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Raymond Williams

   By Sean Matthews

   Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

   Writing during the fraught post World War Two period, Raymond Williams found his voice as a novelist, playwright and television commentator as well as a literary and cultural theorist. Greatly concerned with notions of class, Williams sought to expand the traditional literary canon and...

   To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
3. Privilege in the Soviet Union (Routledge Revivals)

   A Study of Elite Life-Styles under Communism

   By Mervyn Matthews

   First published in 1978, this unique work throws much-needed light upon the exact nature of privilege and elite life-styles in the contemporary Soviet Union, under the Communist regime. Dr Matthews' study places these life-styles in a historical perspective, and characterises, in...

   To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Through-Life Care and Management of Concrete Structures

   Assessment, Protection, Repair and Strengthening

   By Stuart Matthews

   Most concrete structures provide satisfactory performance over many decades but a significant number experience premature deterioration and require repair, especially in aggressive environments. Existing structures represents not only a huge economic investment that cannot easily be replaced, but...

   To Be Published October 31st 2012 by IHS - BRE Press
5. Design of Durable Concrete Structures

   By Stuart Matthews

   This document aims to provide a basic understanding of the complex set of phenomena governing durability and long-term performance of concrete structures and how this forms a basis for service-life design. While consideration is given to concrete as a material, the focus is on the behaviour of the...

   To Be Published October 27th 2012 by IHS - BRE Press
6. Culture and the City

   Creativity, Tourism, Leisure

   Edited by Deborah Stevenson, Amie Matthews

   This edited collection will examine the way in which cities are imagined, experienced and shaped by those who reside within them, those who manage or govern them, and those who, as visitor, tourist or traveller, pass through them. Attention will be paid to the influence that these various...

   To Be Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. Electronically Stored Information

   The Complete Guide to Management, Understanding, Acquisition, Storage, Search, and Retrieval

   By David R. Matthews

   Accessible to readers at all levels of technological understanding, this book covers all aspects of electronic data and how to manage it. It explains what electronic information is; where it is located; different ways it can be stored; why we need to manage it from a legal and organizational...

   To Be Published July 19th 2012 by Auerbach Publications
8. Structural Assessment of Large Panel Systems (LPS) Dwelling Blocks for Accidental Loading: Handbook

   By Stuart Matthews, Barry Reeves

   The progressive collapse of part of Ronan Point tower block in east London in 1968 was a very significant event in structural engineering in relation to the understanding of disproportionate damage to structures. There have been extensive research and investigations since then, including full-scale...

   To Be Published July 1st 2012 by IHS - BRE Press
9. Reconciliation and Pedagogy

   Edited by Pal Ahluwalia, Stephen Atkinson, Peter Bishop, Pam Christie, Robert Hattam, Julie Matthews

   Series: Postcolonial Politics

   Reconciliation is one of the most significant contemporary challenges in the world today. In this innovative new volume, educational academics and practitioners across a range of cultural and political contexts examine the links between reconciliation and critical pedagogy, putting forward the...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
10. Education in the Soviet Union

    Policies and Institutions Since Stalin

    By Mervyn Matthews

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This book provides a comprehensive survey of the successes and failures of education and training in the Khrushchev and Breshnev years. The author gives an objective assessment of the accessibility of the main types of institution, of the contents of courses and of Soviet attempts to marry the...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge