Humanities Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Religion and Democracy

   A Worldwide Comparison

   By Carsten Anckar

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

   This important new study empirically assesses the relationship between religion and democracy, looking at the global, regional and individual country picture. Using a wide range of quantitative data, Anckar tests the validity of Huntington’s claim that democracy and religion are tightly connected,...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. The Transformation of England (Routledge Revivals)

   Essays in the economic and social history of England in the eighteenth century

   By Peter Mathias

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1979, The Transformation of England discusses the creation in late eighteenth century England of the industrial system and thereby the present world. Professor Mathias poses questions about the nature of industrialization, social change and historical explanation, issues that are...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Plato (Routledge Revivals)

   Plato: The Written and Unwritten Doctrines

   By John Niemeyer Findlay

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Environmental Communication Yearbook

   Volume 1

   Edited by Susan L. Senecah

   Editorial ScopeThe Environmental Communication Yearbook is a multidisciplinary forum through which a broad audience of academics, professionals, and practitioners can share and build theoretical, critical, and applied scholarship addressing environmental communication in a variety of contexts. This...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Metaphysics of Powers

   Their Grounding and their Manifestations

   Edited by Anna Marmodoro

   Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
6. Journalists, Sources, and Credibility

   New Perspectives

   Edited by Bob Franklin, Matt Carlson

   Series: Routledge Research in Journalism

   This volume revisits what we know about the relationship between journalists and their sources. By asking new questions, employing novel methodologies, and confronting sweeping changes to journalism and media, the contributors reinvigorate the conversation about who gets to speak through the news....

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
7. Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine

   Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China

   By Marta Hanson

   Series: Needham Research Institute Series

   This book traces the history of the Chinese concept of "Warm diseases" (wenbing) from antiquity to the SARS epidemic. Following wenbing from its birth to maturity and even life in modern times Marta Hanson approaches the history of Chinese medicine from a new angle. She explores the possibility of...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
8. Disability and New Media

   By Katie Ellis, Mike Kent

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing complexity. However, as this has happened, the...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
9. Stories and Social Media

   Identities and Interaction

   By Ruth E. Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
10. Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria

    The Lives of War Orphans and Wives in Two Countries

    By Yeeshan Chan

    Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

    This book relates the experiences of the zanryu-hojin - the Japanese civilians, mostly women and children, who were abandoned in Manchuria after the end of the Second World War when Japan’s puppet state in Manchuria ended, and when most Japanese who has been based there returned to Japan. Many...

    Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge