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1. Natural Stone in the Built Environment

   Resources, Use and Conservation

   By Bernard Smith, Akos Torok, Richard Prikryl, Jirina Prikrylova

   Fundamental and interdisciplinary textbook on natural stone properties, occurrence, exploration, use, decay and conservation. Primary information source for third level students and professionals using natural stone in the built environment. Indented for a wide academic and professional...

   To Be Published December 31st 2012 by CRC Press
2. Mapping China and Managing the World

   Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times

   By Richard J. Smith

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship

   From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China’s bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in...

   To Be Published October 3rd 2012 by Routledge
3. Principles of Mucosal Immunology

   By Society for Mucosal Immunology

   Edited by Phillip Smith, Thomas MacDonald, Richard Blumberg

   Principles of Mucosal Immunology is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, researchers in immunology and microbiology, and medical and dental students. It presents the basic and clinical aspects of the mucosal immune system, focusing on the major components of the mucosal...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Garland Science
4. The Invasion of Afghanistan and UK-Soviet Relations, 1979-1982

   Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume VIII

   Edited by Richard Smith, Patrick Salmon, Stephen Twigge

   Series: Whitehall Histories

   This volume examines British policy towards the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979. The documents in this volume, many released into the public realm for the first time, describe the development of British policy towards the Soviet Union during the...

   Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge
5. Negotiating Environment and Science

   "An Insider's View of International Agreements, from Driftnets to the Space Station"

   By Richard J. Smith

   In this thought-provoking new book, career U.S. State Department negotiator Richard J. Smith offers readers unprecedented access to the details about some of the most complex and politically charged international agreements of the late and immediate post Cold War era. During his nine years as...

   Published March 1st 2012 by RFF Press
6. Hegemony

   Studies in Consensus and Coercion

   Edited by Richard Howson, Kylie Smith

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   The originality and depth of Gramsci's theory of hegemony is now evidenced in the wide-ranging intellectual applications within a growing corpus of research and writings that include social, political and cultural theory, historical interpretation, gender and globalization. The reason that hegemony...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
7. MediaWriting

   Print, Broadcast, and Public Relations, 4th Edition

   By W. Richard Whitaker, Janet E. Ramsey, Ronald D. Smith

   MediaWriting is an introductory, hands-on textbook for students preparing to write in the current multimedia environment. Rather than just talk about the differences among the styles of print, broadcast, and public relations, MediaWriting sythensizes and integrates them, while weaving in basic...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. Jean Baudrillard

   Fatal Theories

   Edited by David B. Clarke, Marcus Doel, William Merrin, Richard G. Smith

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Jean Baudrillard was one of the most influential, radical, and visionary thinkers of our age. His ideas have had a profound bearing on countless fields, from art and politics to science and technology. Once hailed as the high priest of postmodernity, Baudrillard’s sophisticated theoretical analyses...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
9. Academic Advancement in Composition Studies

   Scholarship, Publication, Promotion, Tenure

   Edited by Richard C. Gebhardt, Barbara Genelle Smith Gebhardt

   This volume deals with a number of related issues that are becoming increasingly crucial for English studies during this time when most faculty in the field are assistant professors approaching tenure review or associate professors seeking promotion. These critical issues focus on: * The diversity...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
10. Freedom and Discipline (RLE Edu K)

    By Richard Smith

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Questions of discipline and order arise wherever formal education is practised, and are particularly acute for those training to teach or in their first school posts. For many years now writing on these topics has tended to depict teaching as the deployment of ‘skills’ and ‘techniques’ and...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge