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The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys
The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys is the outcome of the Cambridge Primary Review – England’s biggest enquiry into primary education for over forty years. Fully independent of government, it was launched in 2006 to investigate the condition and future of primary education...
To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
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Environmental Social Work
Social work has been late to engage with the environmental movement. Often working with an exclusively social understanding of environment, much of the social work profession has overlooked the importance of environmental issues. However, recently, the impact of and worldwide attention to climate...
Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Matériel Culture
The Archaeology of Twentieth-Century Conflict
Series: One World Archaeology
Matériel culture encompasses the material remains of conflict, from buildings and monuments to artefacts and militia, as well as human remains. This collection of essays, from an international range of contributors, illustrates the diversity in this material record, highlights the...
Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics
This book explores neoliberalism – a view of the world that puts the market at its centre- from the perspective of applied linguistics. Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics argues that while applied linguistics has become more interdisciplinary in orientation, it has ignored or downplayed the...
Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge
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Reconstructions of Secondary Education
Theory, Myth and Practice Since the Second World War
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
British secondary education has changed in major ways since 1945. This book examines some consequences and implications of both change and stability, drawing on a unique series of national surveys of school leavers in Scotland. The authors provide an empirical and theoretical account of central...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Liberalisms (Routledge Revivals)
Essays in Political Philosophy
Liberalisms, a work first published in 1991, provides a coherent and comprehensive analytical guide to liberal thinking over the past century and considers the dominance of liberal thought in Anglo-American political philosophy over the past 20 years. John Gray assesses the work of all the major...
Published October 2nd 2010 by Routledge
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Enlightenment's Wake
Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age
Series: Routledge Classics
John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern which brought a mainstream readership to a man who was already one of the UK's most well respected thinkers and political theorists. Gray wrote Enlightenment’s Wake in 1995 – six years after...
Published July 2nd 2007 by Routledge
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In Your Face
Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth
From In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth, you'll gain a clearer understanding of the specific needs of gay/lesbian/bisexual youth and, thus, will gain the tools needed to more effectively meet these unique needs. This groundbreaking book presents discussion generated by gay, lesbian...
Published March 25th 1999 by Routledge
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Hayek on Liberty
3rd Edition
Not available since the 1980s, this up-dated edition by the leading political philosopher, John Gray, outlines his new position on Hayek. In a substantial new chapter, Gray assesses how far the historical development of the last ten years can be deployed in a critique of Hayek's thought. His...
Published May 13th 1998 by Routledge
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Enlightenment's Wake
Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age
Now in paperback, Enlightenment's Wake stakes out the elements of John Gray's new position. He argues that all schools of contemporary political thought are variations on the Enlightenment Project - the Westernizing project of a universal civilization - and that this Enlightenment Project has...
Published August 27th 1997 by Routledge