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Our catalogue includes details of forthcoming releases from Routledge Major Works and Routledge Library Editions, highlights some 'key forthcoming collections' and includes details of current 'special offers' we're running at present.

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Business
Economics
Education
Linguistics
Literature
Media
Middle East Studies
Philosophy
Politics
Religion
Sports Science/Leisure And Tourism

If so, Routledge Major Works will be the 'go-to' resource to aid your teaching needs. Browse by subject, explore our expansive sets to complete your subject library.

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Econometrics, ‘a unification of the theoretical-quantitative approach to economic problems’ (Ragnar Frisch), can be regarded as the most significant 20th century innovation in economics. Econometrics took shape mainly during the 1930s and 1940s and became a matured sub-discipline of economics in the subsequent three to four decades.

This present collection from Routledge is a fine-tuned assemblage of joint explorations and inventions from distinguished scholars over a span of eighty years. The collection is organised into four volumes in historical sequence. The first volume covers the very early period before econometrics became formalised, which forms the theme of the second volume. The subsequent expansion of econometric research is illustrated in the third volume, while the final volume documents major endeavours to reform and reshape econometrics since the 1970s.

The four volumes are selected to complement the relevant existing literature, such as econometrics textbooks, various handbooks of econometrics, as well as special topic collections. In particular, the selection aims at benefiting three groups of readers – students, applied economists and historians of economic and econometric thought – by filling in two major gaps in econometrics textbooks: lack of discussion on methodological issues and lack of full presentations of applied cases other than short illustrations of taught techniques.

Moreover, this Routledge collection provides readers not only with an extensive introduction of all the selected works, but also with several items which have not been published before – the lecture notes prepared by Ragnar Frisch for the Nordic Economic Meeting in Stockholm in 1931 and Jacques Drèze’s seminal paper on Bayesian econometrics, which was circulated as a working paper in 1962. This is also the first time that English translations are made available of excerpts of Oskar Morgenstern’s 1928 book in German on economic forecasting and Trygve Haavelmo’s presentation in Norwegian for the 3rd Scandinavian Meeting for young social economists at Copenhagen in 1939.

Click here for more information and a full contents listing of this title: www.routledge.com/9780415616782

The consequences of suicide are far-reaching, having considerable social, economic, and emotional impact across the globe. General facts on suicide are now widely known. For instance, suicide is usually a young male act and is strongly linked with those suffering from mental disorders. Certain groups are also considered to be at a greater risk – alcoholics, migrants, the bereaved and prisoners.

Research and investigation into the causes of suicide has greatly increased in recent years. However, much of this research is highly specialized, meaning that it is difficult to obtain an understandable overview. To help make sense in the high output of research, this text brings together authoritative reference materials from across a broad field of study and research.

The collection is edited by two leading researchers in this area – Keith Hawton and Rory O’Connor. Both Hawton and O’Connor have built strong reputations in the field for their pioneering work research and methods.

Abouth the Editors:

Keith Hawton

Professor Keith Hawton is a Consultant Psychiatrist with the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. Also a Professor of Psychiatry at Oxford University, Hawton has over 35 years of work and research in the field, publishing a wealth of material on suicide and self harm throughout this time, as well as leading research into the prevention and treatment of suicide. This year, Professor Hawton received an award for lifetime achievement and outstanding contribution in research, treatment and teaching in the field of suicidology and suicide prevention.

Rory O’Connor

Rory O’Connor works as a Professor at the University of Stirling, as well as being an honorary Professor for the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Professor O’Connor leads the Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory at the University of Stirling, which is the leading suicide and self harm group in Scotland with a reputation for producing high quality and innovative research.

To find out more about the collection, edited by leading academics in the field, visit:

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415597722/

Routledge Major Works WINTER BACKLIST OFFER! (from 12/12/12 – 12/3/13)

There is a fantastic range of titles on offer from subject areas such as Allied Health, Asian Studies, Business, Economics, Education, History, Linguistics, Literature, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion and Sociology.

This eclectic mix of titles includes collections on Mao Zedong, Sufism, Marketing Research, Journalism, Radio, French Feminists, War and Human Rights.

Click here to download our list of 50 titles currently available to purchase!

To receive 20% off simply add your selection of books to your cart, place MWINTER20 into the Discount code field and then “Update Cart”!

This particular offer really shows the scope and range of Routledge Major Works-an essential reference teaching programme for your library.

Recognised by The Economist as one of the most influential thinkers of the business world, Tom Peters is the subject of this last title in the series edited by John Wood and Michael Wood. With wide appeal to those in the subject areas of Economics, Business, Management and Accounting, Tom Peters assembles the most valuable of the critical assessments on his work in one publication.

The collection is enhanced by the editor’s introduction and expert deliberation on the commended business thinker – setting the collated critical evaluations in both historical and social context. Both John Wood and Michael Wood can be seen as true experts in their field. Their work over the last eleven years has seen the formation of the acclaimed Critical Evaluations in Business and Management Series.

Within the series, you can find an array of titles on a number of prominent figures in the subject area:

Rosabeth M. Kanter – The two volumes in this collection concentrate upon the concept, introduced by Kanter, of ‘empowerment’ in management.

Henry Mintzberg – As one of the leading thinkers in management and strategic planning, this four volume collection brings together the best critical evaluations of his work.

John P. Kotter – As a leading authority on the subject of business leadership and change, this collection takes a critical approach towards his work, setting it in both historical and intellectual context.

Michael Porter – Porter is an influential thinker in the field of management theory and introduces the concept of language and economics into the subject. The collection gathers the best critical assessments of his work.

Chris Argyris – As a key figure in the Human Relations Movement, Argyris is widely recognised as the founding father of the learning organization, making significant contributions to the understanding of organizational learning, organizational behaviour, action research and experiential learning. This collection provides a thorough critical evaluation of Argyris’ work.

Alfred D. Chandler – This two volume collection brings together vital journal articles alongside other research on Chandler, who is seen as the founder of modern business history.

H. Igor Ansoff – The theories of Ansoff on strategic business management have been widely linked with long-term profitability. The collection provides an insightful critical approach to Ansoff’s contributions.

Herbert Simon – A founding figure in the field of artificial intelligence, this three volume collection is an invaluable research resource on this central figure.

Peter F Drucker – The collection gathers keys material on the work by Drucker, who published a number of influential books. Drucker took a humanist approach to management and made the argument that it is people who make business.

Joseph M. Juran - The teachings and writings of Joseph M. Juran have had a profound impact on the quality of the products we buy and use every day. This collection gathers together key material to enable students and researchers to explore the impact of Juran's ideas.

W.E. Deming- Deming is recognised as having put Japan on the road to leadership in international business and industry. Appearing on television in America, Deming reached a wide audience with his influential work. This collection combines key material on Deming’s ideas and their impact across the globe.

George Elton Mayo - Mayo’s ideas paved the way for the human relations management and organizational thinking. The collection looks at the impact Mayo had upon business and management studies right up to the present day. 

Alfred P. Sloan – Sloan had a profound influence on management thinking in America and throughout the Western world. Sloan’s leadership and success led to a great number of writings on his management practice, which are examined here in this comprehensive collection.

Frank and Lilian Gilbreth – These two figures are closely linked to time and motion studies and sought ways to determine ‘the one best way to do work’. This collection combines in one place some of the most significant writings on the pair. 

Henry Ford – Ford’s efforts ensured that the motor car was one of the defining products of the twentieth century. This collection examines Ford’s success in management and the way in which he helped to influence management practices.

F.W Taylor – The work of Taylor has been widely associated with massive increases in productivity. The collection focuses upon the methods used by Frederick Winslow Taylor and the style of management which he adopted.

Henri Fayol – As one of the founders of ‘classical management’, Fayol was one of the first to attempt to analyse the different activities that constitute management. The collection places Fayol’s ideas in historical context and provides access to his key writings.

The series concentrates on a number of key figures in the Business and Management field and brings together the best critical reflections on some of the most influential thinkers in this subject.
  

Can you give us a brief history of Edition Synapse and how the publisher came to work with Routledge?
Our relationship with Routledge started back in the 1980’s when one of the founders of the company was based in London as a representative of a Japanese book importer. He worked closely with academic publishers such as Croom Helm, Thoemmes Press, which later merged with Routledge. During this period the Japanese academic market grew quickly, the result of the increase in new universities and academic libraries. Many of these libraries eagerly sought key scholarly materials to build their research collections, and acquired rare and antiquarian books from the western book market. The supply of original materials could not be constantly guaranteed however, and as a result we developed a programme to offer the market reprint packages of key books in facsimile format. This was the first phase of our cooperation. Edition Synapse was created 15 years ago in order for us to further develop the project, and to co-publish Major Works in various areas of the humanities.

Can you give us an insight into how you go about commissioning new publications for the programme?
Primarily our new products are generated by meeting with scholars. We attend academic conferences as often as possible where we have a booth to display our publications. As most of them take place on Saturdays and Sundays, there are no weekends in our calendar! We target new, niche topics and make attempts to contact scholars who conduct research with a thorough study of primary source materials. Academics who purchase antiquarian books for their university libraries are often our key clients, both in terms of sales and in developing products. We meet regularly with them for drinks, and quite a few of the ideas for new publications come up with the help of some Sake!

Which subjects are most popular with your customers, and why do you think British literature and cultural history has such appeal in an Asian market?
The modernization of Japan began in the mid-19th century with our encounter of western civilization. Scholarship in Japan was established by importing western systems of education and research. People may be surprized to know that the very first professor of Japanese linguistics at the University of Tokyo was a British scholar, and the first book on Japanese history of art was written in English. This is the case with various forms of Japanese culture; we are not able to talk about modern Japanese literature or theatre without touching on the influences they received from the West. The popularity of British or/and European subjects amongst today’s students is as strong as it used to be.

Edition Synapse Major Works titles aren’t available in eBook format due to Rights restrictions. Does this affect their uptake in an Asian market?
We are not particularly keen to enter into eBooks or eDatabase markets as it is our belief that providing primary source material in hard copy has value on its own. The serendipitous discovery of information often leads scholars to new areas of research and this happens more often in front of bookshelves than liquid crystal screens. Technically, too, many of our products include plates in colour and some in a large folio size which cannot be easily adapted in a standardized format of e-products.

Can you talk a little about the key Edition Synapse/Routledge co-pubs that are releasing this year?
The key title on our list is a series of reprints of The Japan Weekly Mail, which was the leading English newspaper published in Yokohama throughout the Meiji era. Yokohama Archives of History, with whom we publish the series, spent nearly ten years collecting the original issues which were published between 1871 to 1917. Every year we release a volume covering 3 to 5 years of issues. This autumn we publish the 8th volume, covering the years 1904 to 1906, which covers possibly the most interesting years of Anglo-Japanese history, when Japan fought against Russia along with the British. Women and Belief, 1852-1928, African American Writing, and Children and Empire also publish this autumn, and are three particularly interesting titles.

This new Routledge Major Work collection includes articles which have been seminal to the study of al Qaeda terrorism in three separate decades, from the academic community’s first attempts to grapple with al Qaeda terrorism in the 1990s to works examining the impact of the Arab Spring and the death of Osama bin Laden on its future. It also includes recent research outlining how documents recovered from bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound have reshaped our understanding of the inner workings of the terrorist group.

The collection will be welcomed by researchers, students, and counter-terrorism specialists as the go-to resource. The gathered materials are mainly drawn from scholarly journals of the first rank and chapters from the most authoritative books. Also included are a small number of newspaper and magazine articles which have already made an enduring impact on what is a very new field of research. Al Qaeda is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

For further information or to order a copy, please visit: www.routledge.com/9780415581745

Paul Cruickshank

Paul Cruickshank is a New York based investigative reporter specializing in Al Qaeda, a CNN Terrorism Analyst, and an Alumni Fellow at the Center on Law and Security at New York University’s School of Law. He previously worked as an investigative journalist in London, reporting on al Qaeda and its European affiliates and was part of the CNN reporting team that covered the London July 7, 2005 attacks and the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

He was part of CNN's on-air breaking news coverage immediately after news broke of the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011 and also covered the 2010 Mumbai style plot against Europe, the October 2010 package bomb plot and the Christmas Day 2009 plot to bomb an airliner over Detroit, and the November 2008 Mumbai attacks in India.

Visit the author's website at: www.paulcruickshank.com/home

We here at Routledge are all about the environment, whilst also rolling with the times to embrace new technology.

Our current ‘new toy’ is known to those in publishing as the online catalogue. This new fantastic, quick and efficient way of sharing information with you affords us the opportunity to put together a plethora of publicity material on a number of different programmes we have on offer.

Each release allows us to showcase the sheer breadth of Routledge Reference with each catalogue incorporating front list & backlist titles, documenting the latest news, features and offers. Below you will see a selection of catalogues we’ve worked on already.

2012 so far...

Subject Specific Catalogues



Asian and Middle East Studies is our latest subject specific catalogue, which publicises titles within our Major Works, Routledge Library Editions and Routledge Revivals programmes. We have also put together catalogues many others like Business and Economics - for more details visit our catalogues tab at: www.routledge.com/reference/

Monthly Catalogues

The purpose of the Advanced Book Information Catalogue is to bring you - on a monthly basis - information on some of the exciting new library reference titles we will be publishing in both print and digital form across our range of lists - Major Works, Routledge Revivals, Routledge Library Editions, and Europa lists. 

Seasonal Catalogues

Every three months we will be publicizing forthcoming titles, highlighting key series, showcasing our broad spectrum of subject areas on offer and picking our top ten 'bestsellers.' Our AMJ (April-June) Catalogue includes an FAQ section which will offer you the opportunity to learn more about each individual programme. Our next installment JAS will be available early August.

Series Catalogues 

Each of our publishing programmes contains many exceptional series. One of the latest catalogues we produced was for the Routledge Handbooks and Companions series. Each title contains freshly-commissioned new writings on key subjects by top international scholars.

So how can this benefit you I hear you ask, well each Online Catalogue has some neat functions:

• Why not save books to a booklist while you’re browsing, which you can email to friends and colleagues, save as a spreadsheet or add to your shopping basket
• Bring up full bibliographic detail for every single book, including blurbs, tables of contents, and author bios.

Why not bookmark our Routledge Reference Catalogues tab in your browser? This page will be updated with new titles and information throughout the year.

Happy browsing! 

 

Asian American Literature answers the urgent need for an authoritative reference work to map the vast critical terrain of research on and around Asian American literature.

The first volume (‘Literary History: Criticism and Theory’) brings together the best work to define, explicitly or implicitly, the parameters of Asian American literature. It addresses its political and aesthetic significance and major issues of contention. Volume II (‘Prose: Fiction and Non-Fiction’) brings together the best interpretive work and practical criticism on key works of Asian American literature, both fictive and factual. Volume III (‘Poetry’) assembles the essential scholarship on Asian American poetry, while the final volume in the collection (‘Drama and Performance’) collects the vital research on theatrical texts and performance pieces.

Asian American Literature is fully indexed and includes a comprehensive new introduction by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. An indispensable reference collection, it will enable users to make sense of the rapidly growing, and ever more complex corpus of scholarly literature which explores—among many others—dizzying questions about racial diversity and identity, cultural history, and literary value. An indispensable reference collection, it is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

Asian American Literature is now available to order online.
 

Taylor & Francis Group displayed over 2000 books covering our imprints such as Routledge, CRC Press, Garland Science, Psychology Press, Earthscan, Routledge India Originals, BIOS Scientific Publishers, Europa Publications, Marcel Dekker, SPON Press as well as our complete product range of Journals & Online Resources.

The theme of the 2012 World Book Fair was “An International Rights Exhibition of Books on Indian Cinema Towards Hundred Years of Indian Cinema.” Moreover, a catalogue including 300 titles representing publications of 800 publishers in all major languages based on Indian cinema has been released by NBT.

The World Book Fair prime motto is to provide a valuable edge between authors, publishers, booksellers and readers. The inauguration of the World Book Fair 2012 was done by Hon'ble Minister of HRD, Shri Kapil Sibal on the 25 February, 2012.

The fair was a big success and around 1300 exhibitors & 12,000 publishers displayed thousands of books in more than 20 languages. Several publishers from foreign countries like Europe, Asia and Americas participated in the event, names included HarperCollins, Random House, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan who helped make the weekend a very fulfilling and profitable experience.

The Reference team were particularly excited to see our Routledge Major Works programme poster in all its full colour glory and some of the prestigious Europa publications on display.

Law and Development, as a scholarly discipline, emerged in the United States in the 1960s; the result of the belief of some American legal academics about the possibility of achieving democratic change in developing countries through legal means.

Financial assistance from the US government, as well as US-based foundations enabled the launch of scores of ambitious research projects and the rapid growth of legal education programmes in the newly independent states of Asia and Africa, as well as in several countries in Latin America.

By the late 1960s and early 1970s, as the number of academic lawyers with direct knowledge of developing countries grew, the Law and Development movement was recognized as an important new trend in American legal education.

Despite a loss of momentum in the 1970s, as some leading figures came to realize that American liberal legalism could not easily be replicated in developing countries, Law and Development now occupies a prominent place on the agenda of all major international and national development agencies. It has also been firmly embraced by most developing countries, as they adapt their institutions and procedures to the demands generated by the process of globalization.

Law and Development’s four volumes identify key theoretical texts which served as inspiration to the Law and Development movement. Moreover, it provides a representative collection of articles written by specialists from various disciplines; and offers a selection of case studies and policy-based papers on the implementation of Law and Development projects.

The collection will appeal particularly to those with study interests in development studies as well as socio-legal studies.

For more information, and a detailed list of contents: www.routledge.com/9780415577625

 

Annually, thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate achievements. A global web of rich and diverse local activity connects women from all around the world ranging from political rallies, business conferences, and government activities and networking events through to local women's craft markets, theatrical performances, fashion parades and more.

In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday. You may ask why? Well suffragettes campaigned for women's right to vote. The word 'Suffragette' is derived from the word "suffrage" meaning the right to vote.

International Women's Day honours the work of the Suffragettes, celebrates women's success, and reminds of inequities still to be redressed. The first International Women's Day event was run in 1911. 2011 was the Global Centenary Year.

Throughout 2012 Routledge Reference will publish a wide variety of multivolume collections in and around the world of feminism. Under our major works programme our History of Feminism series makes key archival source material readily available to scholars, researchers, and students of women’s and gender studies, women’s history, and women’s writing.

Each 4-6 volume set is introduced by an expert editor, which provides users with easy access to material that is often not widely available, is inaccessible, or is scattered throughout a variety of specialist journals and books.

Past collections have included works on female journalists, travel writing, cross-dressing, suffrage and Nineteenth-Century Education. Forthcoming highlights include Women and Belief, 1852–1928 a six-volume collection of primary materials covering a wide range of opinions about women, their self-identity, and the combination of their spiritual and political beliefs.

Building on the success of Women and Empire (2009), in July the series will publish a new title by author Cheryl Cassidy which brings together in four volumes a unique range of nineteenth-century texts on children and empire.

In the history of economics, women writers were all but invisible until a few decades ago. This year we will publish Women’s Economic Thought in the Eighteenth Century a 3 volume collection which will remedy this omission.

Finally our Routledge Library Editions series will reissue three collections over the course of 2012:

• Feminism
• Women's History
• Women, Feminism and Literature.

Topics cover all aspects of women's literature, gender and feminism through literary criticism and the work of women literary theorists.

Each 'Mini-library’ will include titles by various authors, offering the purchaser the chance to buy a title individually, as thematically structured mini-sets, or as a complete set both in print and online.

To learn more about International Women's Day visit their official homepage.

Assembling the most important scholarly research concerning the biological evolution of language, Language Evolution includes excerpts from ancient sources such as the Bible, Plato, and Aristotle, along with classical sources like Condillac, Rousseau, and Herder.

The text outlines each of the major conceptions of protolanguage and examines the evolution of our human capacity for speech, as well as focusing on the modern (mostly post-1990) literature attempting to reconcile the Chomskyean approach to linguistics with a Darwinian evolutionary viewpoint. It also incorporates the new insights and approaches based on computer modelling, which have played a growing role in the recent literature.

Providing unified and ready access to a selection of the most important papers from the 1990s onward, this is an important resource for those scholars interested in possessing a deeper, historically informed overview of the immense literature on this topic.

Language Evolution is now available to order online.
 

Addressing the most debated aspects of women’s religious, social, cultural, and political rights, Women and Belief, 1852–1928, adopts an historical overview of the period and provides an authoritative representation of the wide body of literature written by and about women’s faith. Beginning with an example of how religious discourse provided a model for acceptable female behaviour and a satirical take on women’s rights and spiritualism and ending with an economist’s psychoanalytic study of female belief from 1928, the collection provides a unique collection of different viewpoints.

Bringing together the work of women writers, theologians, philosophers, and economic and cultural historians the collection illustrates the multiplicity of voices and opinions on the issues of suffrage and religious faith. This diversity is equally reflected in the broad geographical coverage of the collection which draws on works from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and India; and moves beyond the Christian into the spheres of theosophy, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. The gathered materials include works of non-fiction, poetry, analytical works, satires, pamphlets, sermons, spiritual (auto)biography, and periodical articles, which chart the gradual evolution of feminist thinking about belief, spirituality, and faith that directly fed into the emerging discourses of political and social rights for women.

To read more about this publication, or to order a copy: www.routledge.com/9780415472180

Shakespearean Adaptations in East Asia brings together newly prepared English translations of twenty-five Shakespearean adaptations and reworkings. Supplementing these new—previously unpublished—translations, each volume includes a separate critical introduction prepared for this collection by an expert volume editor, together with annotations. One or two photographs accompany each introduction to support and illustrate the discussion.

The collection showcases the variety and multiplicity of Shakespeare’s reinvented in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. It provides the first substantial and essential resource of Shakespearean adaptations in East Asia for scholars and critics, as well as graduate students interested in investigating Shakespearean re-creations in the region.

Along with the volume introductions, each adaptation is also prefaced by a succinct introduction with full consideration given to overview, performance history, and analysis.

The collection will be a definitive entry point for all students and researchers interested in Asian theatres as well as Shakespeare’s in Asia.

Click here for more information and to order your copy!