Handbooks Books

New and Published Books

1. Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports

   Edited by Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew

   Series: Routledge Sports Reference Series

   Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times to the present day in all of the United Kingdom and Ireland.This book brings together several distinct types of traditional rural sports with...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa

   Foreign direct investment and food and water security

   Edited by John Anthony Allan, Martin Keulertz, Suvi Sojamo, Jeroen Warner

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   According to estimates by the International Land Coalition based at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 57 million hectares of land have been leased to foreign investors since 2007. Current research has focused on human rights issues related to inward investment in land but...

   Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Routledge International Handbook of Internet Gambling

   Edited by Robert Williams, Robert Wood, Jonathan Parke

   Internet gambling is a rapidly growing phenomenon, which has profound social, psychological, economic, political, and policy implications. Until recently, Internet gambling has been understudied by the research community, but now a growing body of literature is emerging, on all aspects of Internet...

   Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts

   Edited by Michael Biggs, Henrik Karlsson

   The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, structuring and resolving some of the key issues in...

   Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge
8. Handbook of Oil Politics

   Edited by Robert Looney

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   These days, one would have a difficult time picking up a newspaper, or watching a newscast that did not have a lead story dealing with some aspect of oil. From instability in the Middle East, to stock market crashes and concerns over the health of the world economy, to wars that seem to break out...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
9. Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

   Edited by Ben Wisner, J.C. Gaillard, Ilan Kelman

   The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual,...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
10. Handbook of Nuclear Proliferation

    Edited by Harsh V Pant

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    There was an expectation that the end of the Cold War would herald a new era of peace and stability in which the importance of nuclear weapons was marginalized. Instead, we have been left with a fractious, inter-dependent international community rife with ethnic and religious tension and unbound by...

    Published December 5th 2011 by Routledge