Forthcoming Social Sciences Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Victims of Environmental Harm

   Rights, Recognition and Redress Under National and International Law

   By Matthew Hall

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

   In recent years, the increasing focus on climate change and environmental degradation has prompted unprecedented attention being paid towards the criminal liability of individuals, organisations and even states for polluting activities. These developments have given rise to a new area of...

   To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge
2. Routledge Library Editions: Advertising

   Edited by Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Advertising

   Routledge Library Editions: Advertising brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints. With titles as varied as Advertising and Psychology, Advertising in the 21st Century, Outdoor Advertising and The Economics of...

   To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge
3. Athletes, Sexual Assault, and "Trials by Media"

   Narrative Immunity

   By Deb Waterhouse-Watson

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Since footballer sexual assault became top news in 2004, six years after the first case was reported, much has been written in the news media about individual cases, footballers and women who have sex with them. Deb Waterhouse-Watson reveals how media representations of recent sexual assault cases...

   To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge
4. Food and Public Health

   Contemporary Issues and Future Directions

   Edited by Wendy Wills, Alizon Draper, Ulla Gustafsson

   This book focuses on food policy, and its relationship to public health, as an increasingly important issue in today’s society. Contributors highlight the lack of global regulation in the food supply chain and explore the common tendency to leave regulation to markets and to individual consumer...

   To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge
5. Advertising and Psychology (RLE Advertising)

   By Leslie Gill

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Advertising

   The consequences of advertising on the social life of the community has been a much-discussed topic in recent years. Advertising as a means of influencing the thought and behaviour of masses of people involves the application of such fundamental aspects of psychology as attention, motivation,...

   To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge
6. Advertising at the Crossroads (RLE Advertising)

   By Max Geller

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Advertising

   Advertising today is not only under sterner scrutiny by the various federal regulatory and judicial bodies but is also facing an ominous storm of public criticism because of certain abuses. One of the big questions troubling advertisers, agencies and media is whether advertising will be subject to...

   To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge
7. Advertising A New Approach (RLE Advertising)

   By Walter Taplin

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Advertising

   Walter Taplin here presents the first fruits of his exhaustive enquiry into the causes of this massive feature of contemporary life. Advertising has deeper and more interesting sources than the mere desire of manufacturers to secure markets, or of high-pressure salesmen to secure commissions....

   To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge
8. Advertising Today and Tomorrow (RLE Advertising)

   By W.A. Evans

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Advertising

   Advertising Today and Tomorrow surveys the structure and function of modern advertising (and in particular the modern advertising agency), investigates how appropriate its machinery is for modern business requirements, and suggests how, both for the good of itself and its clients, it can best equip...

   To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge
9. Advertising Explained (RLE Advertising)

   By Dennis Caton

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Advertising

   This work explains the various elements which go to the making of a successful advertising campaign – the planning, research and discussion – and gives some helpful information about advertising media, the creation of advertisements, about printing processes and mechanical production. It touches...

   To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge
10. Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising)

    Its Dubious Impact on American Society

    By Michael Schudson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Advertising

    What does advertising do? Is it the faith of a secular society? If so, why does it inspire so little devotion? Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion is a clear-eyed account of advertising as both business and social institution. Instead of fuelling the moral indignation surrounding the industry, or...

    To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge