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21. Fatherhood (Routledge Revivals)

    By Brian Jackson

    First published in 1984, this groundbreaking title explores the concept of fatherhood, by following a hundred men who become fathers for the first time. The book is addressed to men who are discovering fatherhood and to women who wish to hear what a man feels and thinks about having a child. Many...

    Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
22. Critical Criminology (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Ian Taylor, Paul Walton, Jock Young

    First published in 1975, this collection of essays expands upon the themes and ideas developed in the editors’ previous work, the visionary and groundbreaking text: The New Criminology. Directed at orthodox criminology, this is a partisan work written by a group of criminologists committed to a...

    Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
23. Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject

    Edited by Fintan Walsh, Matthew Causey

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    This book stages a timely discussion about the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. It acknowledges the important close relationship between the discourses and practices historically while maintaining that theatre and performance can enlighten ways of being with...

    Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
24. Consumer Behavior Analysis

    (A) Rational Approach to Consumer Choice

    Edited by Donald A. Hantula, Victoria K. Wells

    Consumption is the primary economic activity in our post-industrial society. We are consumers, not producers. Consumer behavior analysis is leading heterodox marketing scholarship and innovative applied behavioral work, with much to offer both constituencies. This volume shows how consumer behavior...

    Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
25. Feminist Theory Across Disciplines

    Feminist Community and American Women's Poetry

    By Shira Wolosky

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    Defying traditional definitions of public and private as gendered terms, and broadening discussion of women’s writing in relation to feminist work done in other fields, this study addresses American women’s poetry from the seventeenth to late-twentieth century. Engaging the fields of literary...

    Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
26. Making

    Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture

    By Tim Ingold

    Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines together in a way...

    Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
27. Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe

    By Virag Molnar

    Series: Architext

    The built environment of former socialist countries is often deemed uniform and drab, an apt reflection of a repressive regime. Building the State peeks behind the grey façade to reveal a colourful struggle over competing meanings of the nation, Europe, modernity and the past in a divided continent...

    Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
28. Creating Sanctuary

    Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies, Revised Edition

    By Sandra L Bloom

    Creating Sanctuary is a description of a hospital-based program to treat adults who had been abused as children and the revolutionary knowledge about trauma and adversity that the program was based upon. This book focuses on the biological, psychological, and social aspects of trauma. Fifteen years...

    Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
29. Global Criminology

    Crime and Victimization in a Globalized Era

    Edited by K. Jaishankar, Natti Ronel

    Global criminology is an emerging field covering international and transnational crimes that have not traditionally been the focus of mainstream criminology or criminal justice. Global Criminology: Crime and Victimization in a Globalized Era is a collection of rigorously peer-reviewed papers...

    Published March 24th 2013 by CRC Press
30. 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...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge