Area Studies Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. European Union Law

   3rd Edition

   By Alina Kaczorowska

   Fully revised and updated, the third edition of EU Law provides an exhaustive, yet easily readable, account of the complex and ever changing subject of EU law. The author gives thorough, authoritative, and up-to-the-minute treatment to the institutional, constitutional and substantive elements of...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Risk

   Second Edition

   By Deborah Lupton

   Series: Key Ideas

   Risk (second edition) is a fully revised and expanded update of a highly-cited, influential and well-known book. It reviews the three major approaches to risk in social and cultural theory, devoting a chapter to each one. These approaches were first identified and described by Deborah Lupton in the...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Latin American Development

   By Julie Cupples

   Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development

   Latin America’s diverse political and economic struggles and triumphs have captured the global imagination. The region has been a site of brutal dictators, revolutionary heroes, the Cold War struggle and as a place in which the global debt crisis has had some of its most lasting and...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. Gender Development

   By Judith E. Owen Blakemore, Sheri A. Berenbaum, Lynn S. Liben

   This new text offers a unique developmental focus on gender. Gender development is examined from infancy through adolescence, integrating biological, socialization, and cognitive perspectives. The book’s current empirical focus is complemented by a lively and readable style that includes anecdotes...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
5. The Body and Everyday Life

   By Helen Thomas

   Series: The New Sociology

   In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal theories that highlight the fluid, shifting,...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. Readings for Diversity and Social Justice

   3rd Edition

   Edited by Maurianne Adams, Warren Blumenfeld, Carmelita Castaneda, Heather W. Hackman, Madeline L. Peters, Ximena Zuniga

   For more than a decade, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice has been the trusted, leading anthology to cover the full range of social oppressions from a social justice standpoint. With full sections dedicated to racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, and ableism, as well as transgender...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
7. Finance in Asia

   Institutions, Regulation and Policy

   By Qiao Liu, Paul Lejot, Douglas W. Arner

   Series: Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance

   Asia’s demand for second-generation financial institutions and markets needs to be met in order for the region’s further development to be sustained. This book provides a compelling, fact-based assessment of current practices and regulations in Asia’s financial institutions and markets and...

   Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
8. American Government (Package)

   with The American Anomaly 2nd Edition

   By Cal Jillson

   Cal Jillson’s American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change shows students how the nation’s past is present in all aspects of contemporary politics, using the dynamics of change as a tool to understand how politics works and how institutions, systems, avenues of participation,...

   Published January 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. American Government (Package)

   with Perspectives on American Government, 7th Edition

   By Cal Jillson

   Cal Jillson’s American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change shows students how the nation’s past is present in all aspects of contemporary politics, using the dynamics of change as a tool to understand how politics works and how institutions, systems, avenues of participation,...

   Published January 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. American Government (Package)

    with In Defense of Politicans, 7th Edition

    By Cal Jillson

    Cal Jillson’s American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change shows students how the nation’s past is present in all aspects of contemporary politics, using the dynamics of change as a tool to understand how politics works and how institutions, systems, avenues of participation,...

    Published January 14th 2013 by Routledge