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1. The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film

   Edited by Ian Aitken

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-59642-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Ernest Hemingway

   Edited by Henry Claridge

   Few twentieth-century American writers have been as influential as Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961). Whilst contemporaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner may be as widely taught and studied as Hemingway, neither had an influence on other writers—or indeed, the cognate arts—as great as...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-49120-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. The Making of Olympic Cities

   Edited by John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold

   In the first forty or so years following its revival at the end of the nineteenth century, the burdens placed on cities hosting a modern Olympic Games were relatively modest. However, as the Games have grown in size and stature, morphing from a small-scale summer festival into an intensively...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-55351-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. The Routledge Atlas of South Asian Affairs

   By Robert W. Bradnock

   South Asia has developed from a group of newly independent post-Colonial states of at most secondary importance to the wider world to its current position as a region of central strategic importance to both global economic development and world peace and stability. This Atlas highlights the...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-54513-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. James Joyce

   Edited by Colin Milton

   James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882–1941) is a towering figure in the development of English-language modernist prose fiction. And his influence extends well beyond the anglophone literary world; like his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, Joyce flew by the nets of nationality, language, and religion,...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-49182-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Corporate Social Responsibility

   Edited by Jeremy Moon, Jean-Pascal Gond

   Although the idea of social responsibility has a long and distinguished intellectual pedigree, Corporate Social Responsibility (or ‘CSR’) has re-emerged during the last fifteen years or so as a high-profile concept in both academia and business practice. This revitalized interest has come about...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-54804-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. The European Union

   Edited by Simon Usherwood

   In the fifty or so years since the Treaty of Rome, the European Union has evolved far beyond the scope of any other comparable entity. The EU is now a unique model of international cooperation and integration, and its reach extends into almost every sphere of the lives of its half a billion...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-55197-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Social Psychology

   Edited by Richard J. Crisp

   Gordon W. Allport, one of social psychology’s founding fathers, described the subdiscipline as ‘an attempt to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others’. From pioneering studies in the 1940s and...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-49940-8 | Hardback (Psychology Press)
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   The World's Major Languages, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Bernard Comrie

   This volume features over fifty of the world's languages and language families. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-60902-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Handbook of Human Rights

    Edited by Thomas Cushman

    The Handbook maps out the field of human rights for the humanities and social sciences. It provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also to promote new thinking and frameworks for the future study of human rights in the 21st century....

    December 2010 | 978-0-415-48023-9 | Hardback (Routledge)