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1. The Role of 'Informal' Economies in the Post-Soviet World

   The End of Transition?

   By Peter Rodgers, John Round, Colin C. Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This book challenges the accepted notion that the transition from the command economy to market based systems is complete across the post-Soviet space. While it is noted that different political economies have developed in such states, such as Russia’s ‘managed democracy’, events such as Ukraine...

   To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
2. Global Cities

   Edited by Peter Taylor, Jonathan Beaverstock, Ben Derudder, James Faulconbridge, John Harrison, Michael Hoyler, Kathy Pain, Frank Witlox

   Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

   A striking consequence of contemporary globalization has been an increase in the importance and prestige of cities. Whereas only a generation or so ago cities were commonly viewed as ‘problems’, the sites of society’s ills, today they are more readily seen as ‘solutions’, places where twenty-first...

   To Be Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Handbook of Communication History

   Edited by Peter Simonson, Janice Peck, Robert T Craig, John Jackson

   Series: ICA Handbook Series

   The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and the historical investigation of those...

   To Be Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
4. The Foundation of the Juridico-Political

   Concept Formation in Hans Kelsen and Max Weber

   Edited by Ian Bryan, Peter Langford, John McGarry

   Addressing the foundation of the concept of the juridico-political in the work of Hans Kelsen and Max Weber, this book provides an important re-assesment of the usual distinction between legal positivism and the sociology of law. The work of Kelsen and Weber is usually understood as representing...

   To Be Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
5. Analyzing Public Policy

   2nd Edition

   By Peter John

   Series: Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies

   The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review the most common and widely used frameworks in the study of policy analysis: institutions groups and networks...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
6. Case Studies in Infectious Disease: Epstein-Barr virus

   By Peter Lydyard, Michael Cole, John Holton, Will Irving, Nino Porakishvili, Pradhib Venkatesan, Kate Ward

   Case Studies in Infectious Disease: Epstein-Barr virus presents the natural history of this infection from point of entry of the pathogen through pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment. A set of core questions explores the nature, causation, host response,...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Garland Science
7. Unions and Globalisation

   Governments, Management, and the State at Work

   By Peter Fairbrother, John O'Brien, Anne Junor, Michael O'Donnell, Glynne Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

   In recent decades, trade unions have suffered major reversals and experienced declining memberships. Transnational corporations and state-owned multi-nationals have increasingly implemented deteriorating terms and conditions of employment, with vulnerable and insecure job contracts. In this...

   Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
8. Grief, Loss and Bereavement

   Evidence and Practice for Health and Social Care Practitioners

   Edited by Peter Wimpenny, John Costello

   Dealing with the social experience of grief, loss and bereavement are challenging areas for everyone, including health and social care practitioners who are often well placed to offer help and support to the bereaved. This book draws together a comprehensive range of worldwide evidence for...

   Published September 1st 2011 by Routledge
9. Risk and Social Change in an African Rural Economy

   Livelihoods in Pastoralist Communities

   By John G. McPeak, Peter D. Little, Cheryl R. Doss

   Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

   Pastoralists’ role in contemporary Africa typically goes underappreciated and misunderstood by development agencies, external observers, and policymakers. Yet, arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), which are used predominantly for extensive livestock grazing, comprise nearly half of the continent’s land...

   Published July 20th 2011 by Routledge
10. Global Biosecurity

    Threats and Responses

    Edited by Peter Katona, John P. Sullivan, Michael D. Intriligator

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This book explores a range of biohealth and biosecurity threats, places them in context, and offers responses and solutions from global and local, networked and pyramidal, as well as specialized and interdisciplinary perspectives. Specifically covering bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases,...

    Published March 15th 2011 by Routledge