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1. The Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History

   Edited by Randall Parker, Robert Whaples

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History aims to introduce readers to the important macroeconomic events of the past two hundred years. The chapters endeavour to explain what went on and why during the most significant economic epochs of the nineteenth, twentieth and early...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
2. Routledge Handbook of Sports Development

   Edited by Barrie Houlihan, Mick Green

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Sports development has become a prominent concern within both the academic study of sport and within the organisation and administration of sport. Now available in paperback, the Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of sports...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology

   Edited by Nigel South, Avi Brisman

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Academic and general interest in environmental crimes, harms, and threats, as well as in environmental legislation and regulation, has grown sharply in recent years. The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology is the most in-depth and comprehensive volume on these issues to date....

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History

   Edited by Robert Whaples, Randall Parker

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History aims to introduce readers to important approaches and findings of economic historians who study the modern world. Its short chapters reflect the most up-to-date research and are written by well-known economic historians who are authorities on their...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning

   Edited by Albert Gollhofer, Wolfgang Taube, Jens Bo Nielsen

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of neurophysiological, behavioural and biomechanical aspects of motor function. Adopting an integrative approach, it examines the full range of key topics in contemporary human movement...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. Governance in the Middle East and North Africa

   A Handbook

   Edited by Abbas Kadhim

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Governance in the Middle East and North African will be essential reading for scholars, activists and policy makers. This new Handbook presents the first comprehensive framework of the question of governance in the Middle East in its various forms and manifestations: political,...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
7. Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching

   Edited by Paul Potrac, Wade Gilbert, Jim Denison

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine into a sophisticated, reflective and multi-disciplinary profession. In parallel with this, coach education and coaching studies within higher education have developed...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
8. International Handbook of Migration Studies

   Edited by Steven J. Gold, Stephanie J. Nawyn

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The current era is marked by an unparalleled level of human migration, the consequence of both recent and long-term political, economic, cultural, social, demographic and technological developments. Despite increased efforts to limit its size and consequences, migration has wide-ranging impacts...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies

   Edited by Peter Howard, Ian Thompson, Emma Waterton

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Landscape is a vital, synergistic concept which opens up ways of thinking about many of the problems which beset our contemporary world, such as climate change, social alienation, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity and destruction of heritage. As a concept, landscape does not respect...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
10. Handbook of China's Governance and Domestic Politics

    Edited by Chris Ogden

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    This Handbook looks at how China is governed, how its domestic political system functions and the critical issues that it currently faces. Governed by the world’s largest political party in the world’s longest-ruling Communist regime, China is undergoing a transitional period of rapid...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge