Social Sciences Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Islam, Law and Identity

   Edited by Marinos Diamantides, Adam Gearey

   The essays brought together in Islam, Law and Identity are the product of a series of interdisciplinary workshops that brought together scholars from a plethora of countries. Funded by the British Academy the workshops convened over a period of two years in London, Cairo and Izmir. The workshops...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
2. 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
3. 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
4. The Futures of the City Region

   Edited by Michael Neuman, Angela Hull

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
5. Society and Nature

   A Sociological Inquiry

   By Hans Kelsen

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Gender, Migration and Domestic Service

   Edited by Janet Henshall Momsen

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Information Society Studies

   By Alistair S. Duff

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   We are often told that we are "living in an information society" or that we are "information workers." But what exactly do these claims mean, and how might they be verified? In this important methodological study, Alistair S. Duff cuts through the rhetoric to get to the bottom of the "information...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran

   State-Building, Modernization and Islamicization

   By Majid Mohammadi

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Iran is now at the center of political and social developments in the Middle East. This book examines the reform of the judicial system in 20th century Iran and is the first to relate state-building process with rule of law promotion and judicial reform in the region. This subject occupies the...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. The Changing Village Environment in Southeast Asia

   Applied anthropology and environmental reclamation in the northern Philippines

   By Ben Wallace

   Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

   This book follows the work of the 'Good Roots Project' - a multi-year forestry and agriculture research project in the Philippines. The scheme is an attempt on the part of industry, science and the government to better understand the processes of deforestation and initiate a strategy by which...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S.

    By Susan C. Boyd

    Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

    Drug prohibition emerged at the same time as the discovery of film, and their histories intersect in interesting ways. This book examines the ideological assumptions embedded in the narrative and imagery of one hundred fictional drug films produced in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. from 1912 to 2006...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge