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Welcome to the Routledge Paperbacks Direct website. This initiative provides the opportunity to buy topical books that represent the best of our cutting-edge hardback publishing in a paperback format and price.

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Italian Children’s Literature and National Identity
Childhood, Melancholy, Modernity, 1st Edition
By Maria Truglio
This book bridges the fields of Children’s Literature and Italian Studies by examining how turn-of-the-century children’s books forged a unified national identity for the new Italian State. Through contextualized close readings of a wide range of texts, Truglio shows how the 19th-century concept of…
Paperback – 2020-01-28
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The World Multiple
The Quotidian Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds, 1st Edition
Edited by Keiichi Omura, Grant Jun Otsuki, Shiho Satsuka, Atsuro Morita
The World Multiple, as a collection, is an ambitious ethnographic experiment in understanding how the world is experienced and generated in multiple ways through people’s everyday practices. Against the dominant assumption that the world is a single universal reality that can only be known by…
Paperback – 2020-01-21
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Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion
On Mimesis and Society, 1st Edition
Edited by Christian Borch
Terrorist attacks seem to mimic other terrorist attacks. Mass shootings appear to mimic previous mass shootings. Financial traders seem to mimic other traders. It is not a novel observation that people often imitate others. Some might even suggest that mimesis is at the core of human interaction.…
Paperback – 2020-01-21
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