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Geographies of Globalization
2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Contemporary Human Geography Series
Geographies of Globalization offers a lively exploration of the geographical impacts of globalization and the distinctive contribution of human geography to studies and debates in this field. Fully up-to-date and engaging, this work: critically appraises the concept and processes of...
To Be Published January 29th 2014 by Routledge
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Diet, Exercise, and Disease
The Biological Basis of Prevention
Physical activity and exercise combined with proper nutrition bring therapeutic benefits to individuals diagnosed with chronic disease. This book presents a systems biology approach to exercise and nutritional aspects of chronic disease treatment, management, and prevention. Each chapter presents...
To Be Published January 14th 2014 by CRC Press
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Writing in Social Spaces
A social processes approach to academic writing
Series: Research into Higher Education
Writing in Social Spaces addresses the problem of making time and space for writing in academic life and work. Even those who want to write, who know how to write well and who have quality publications, report that they cannot find enough time for writing. Many supervisors are unsure about how to...
To Be Published December 4th 2013 by Routledge
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Women and Gender in Modern Latin America
An Historical Reader
In Latin American history, women have been both active players and passive recipients of state-inflicted policies. The explosion of research over the last fifteen years is testiment to how much we still have to learn about their experiences. Women and Gender in Modern Latin America is a collection...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Responses to Terrorism
Can Psychosocial Approaches Help to Break the Cycle?
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
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A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation, Second Edition
A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation presents a mathematical formulation of the kinematics, dynamics, and control of robot manipulators. It uses an elegant set of mathematical tools that emphasizes the geometry of robot motion and allows a large class of robotic manipulation problems...
To Be Published September 14th 2013 by CRC Press
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The Primordial Violence: Spanking and Its Relation to Psychological Development, Violence, and Crime
To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge Academic
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Policing and Media
Public Relations, Simulations and Communications
Series: New Directions in Critical Criminology
This book examines the relationship between policing, media and the public and analyses the shifting techniques and technologies through which they communicate. In a critical discussion of contemporary and emerging modes of mediatized police work, Lee and McGovern demonstrate how the police engage...
To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Aspirations, Access and Attainment in Widening Participation
International Perspectives and an Agenda for Change
It is perhaps ironic that as the global financial crisis has, in some cases, led governments and institutions to pull back from and/or set more modest goals and associated funding around widening participation, there is an ever-growing sense that the ideals buttressing the widening participation...
To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Relaunching Titanic
Memory and Marketing in the New Belfast
Relaunching Titanic critically considers the invocation of Titanic heritage in Belfast in contributing to a new ‘post-conflict’ understanding of the city. The authors address how the memory of Titanic is being and should be represented in the place of its origin, from where it was launched into the...
To Be Published July 25th 2013 by Routledge