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The new, 2013 edition of Territories of the Russian Federation, published by Routledge in February, contains carefully researched, extensively revised, up-to-the-minute, political and economic information on each of the 83 territories that make up the Russian Federation.

Politically isolated until the end of the Cold War, China is now a key global player with an economic strength second only to that of the United States.

This recent rise to dominance is reflected in the Europa Handbooks and Monographs schedule which, in 2013, will publish three titles relating to the region: China and the Middle East: from Silk Road to Arab Spring, Hungry Dragon: How China’s Resource Quest is Reshaping the World and Handbook of China’s Governance and Domestic Politics. Cathy Hartley, Senior Editor for Europa, explains a little more about each title and her decision to focus commissioning on this rapidly changing country...

And the winner in the category of Best Short Film (Live Action) goes to ... eBooks for Libraries from Taylor & Francis (including all Routledge titles)! We are very proud of our new eBooks video (a bit too proud maybe). It gives you a great overview of what T&F eBooks are all about, how to trial them and how to purchase. Watch the vid here!

'The rush of foreign investments in African farmland by "ecologically ignorant" pension groups, sovereign wealth funds and speculators will end in economic disaster and possibly even conflict.' - John Vidal, The Guardian

Launched at Stockholm World Water Week the Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa is already creating an impact. Take a look at the Guardian website for an interview with editors Martin Keulertz and Tony Allen. The piece is a great background to the book – Martin and Tony make really interesting points about the potential social and environmental ill-effects of the recent acquisition of African farmland.

We've included some more details about the handbook below, and you can check out the full article on the Guardian website here. 

Here, Don Moggridge provides a new article on the influential economist, Harry G. Johnson, ahead of the publication of the 9 volume Routledge Library Editions collection, Collected Works of Harry G. Johnson, this month. Moggridge offers a brief outline of the life of Johnson and his contributions to international trade and monetary economics.

Routledge Major Works have released their first catalog of 2013- highlighting new and key titles from January to June.

The Catalog also includes upcoming title details for our Routledge Library Editions collections.

This year, the Routledge Revivals publishing program sees the start of a brand new series - Psychology Revivals. All the titles in this series are reissued titles from across the last 120 years, with titles ranging from Adler's The Science of Living to key texts on the subject of psychiatry.

Author of Towards a Theory of Schooling, David Hamilton, talks to us about this Revival and and why it is still such a timely publication today.