Humanities Books

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41. L2 Writing in Secondary Classrooms

    Student Experiences, Academic Issues, and Teacher Education

    Edited by Luciana C. de Oliveira, Tony Silva

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    Second language writers and the teaching of writing at the secondary level have received little attention compared with other skills such as reading. Addressing this gap, this volume uniquely looks at both adolescent L2 writing and the preparation of secondary teachers to work with this population...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
42. The Routledge Handbook of Archaeological Human Remains and Legislation

    An international guide to laws and practice in the excavation and treatment of archaeological human remains

    Edited by Nicholas Marquez-Grant, Linda Fibiger

    Methodologies and legislative frameworks regarding the archaeological excavation, retrieval, analysis, curation and potential reburial of human skeletal remains differ throughout the world. As work forces have become increasingly mobile and international research collaborations are steadily...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
43. Galerius and the Will of Diocletian

    By William Lewis Leadbetter

    Series: Roman Imperial Biographies

    Drawing from a variety of sources - literary, visual, archaeological; papyri, inscriptions and coins – the author studies the nature of Diocletian’s imperial strategy, his wars, his religious views and his abdication. The author also examines Galerius’ endeavour to take control of Diocletian’s...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
44. Classical Vaisesika in Indian Philosophy

    On Knowing and What is to Be Known

    By ShashiPrabha Kumar

    Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

    Vaisesika is one of the six systems of Hindu philosophy. It represents a pluralistic realism and is usually held to be an atomistic, metaphysical theory. This book explores the basic tenets of the Vaisesika classical school of Indian philosophy from a new perspective. It argues that it reveals an...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
45. The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth Century Britain

    By Ellen Jordan

    Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

    In the first half of the nineteenth century the main employments open to young women in Britain were in teaching, dressmaking, textile manufacture and domestic service. After 1850, however, young women began to enter previously all-male areas like medicine, pharmacy, librarianship, the civil...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
46. Science and the Media

    Alternative Routes to Scientific Communications

    By Massimiano Bucchi

    Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

    In the days of global warming and BSE, science is increasingly a public issue. This book provides a theoretical framework which allows us to understand why and how scientists address the general public. The author develops the argument that turning to the public is not simply a response to...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
47. Dewey-Arg Philosophers

    By J.E. Tiles

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
48. Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

    By Richard Wittman

    Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

    This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Presenting a fresh theoretical...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
49. American Regulatory Federalism and Telecommunications Infrastructure

    Edited by Paul E. Teske

    Series: LEA Telecommunications Series

    During this era of construction of the information superhighway, this volume presents a prudent analysis of the pros and cons of continuing state regulation of telecommunications. While interested parties either attack or defend state regulation, careful scholarly analysis is required to strike the...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
50. Information Society Studies

    By Alistair S. Duff

    Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

    We are often told that we are "living in an information society" or that we are "information workers." But what exactly do these claims mean, and how might they be verified? In this important methodological study, Alistair S. Duff cuts through the rhetoric to get to the bottom of the "information...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge