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Routledge Studies in Anthropology: Decolonising Indigenous Rights (Paperback)

Covering a wide range of issues relating to the topic this book examines the experiences and perceptions of indigenous peoples in the context of the national states and political systems that have been externally imposed and implemented upon them.... more

Routledge Studies in Anthropology: Africa and Urban Anthropology: Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Contemporary Fieldwork (Hardcover)

This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa covering a range of cities across a continent that has become one of the fastest urbanizing geographic areas of the globe. Consideration is given to the structures social formations... more

Routledge Studies in Anthropology: Rethinking Relation-Substance Dualism: Submutances and the Body (Hardcover)

This book analyses anthropological debates on relationism (referring to methodological and theoretical issues) and sets out to reconsider these discussions with regards to the notion of substance (generally associated with the body). more

Routledge Studies in Cultural History: Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe (Paperback)

Carnival has been described as one of the foundational elements of European culture bearing an emblematic and iconic status as the festive phenomenon par excellence. Its origins are partly obscure but its stratified and complex history rich symbolic... more

Routledge Revivals: Mirrors of Mortality (Routledge Revivals): Social Studies in the History of Death (Paperback)

First published in 1981 this reissue examines mankind s preoccupation with death and mortality by isolating various societies in different periods of time. The authors examine not only the formal rituals associated with the last rite of passage but... more

Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Contex: Trade Unions in Renewal: A Comparative Study (Paperback)

This comprehensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions looks at five primarily English-speaking countries: the USA Canada Australia New Zealand and the UK. The authors consider the recent re-examination by trade union movements of the basis... more

Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies: Political Thought in Islam: A Study in Intellectual Boundaries (Paperback)

This book is a study of political thought in Islam from the viewpoint of the history of ideas and the relevance of these ideas to contemporary Arabic political discourse. The author examines the use of the classical Islamic tradition (turath) and its... more

Case Studies on Chinese Enterprises (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy) - Xia Donglin

This book is a collection of teaching cases on two Chinese companies UFIDA and Founder. The cases describe the management practices of typical Chinese companies. UFIDA is a well-known company providing management software while Founder is a... more

Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History: Mamluks and Ottomans: Studies in Honour of Michael Winter (Paperback)

Focusing on Near Eastern history in Mamluk and Ottoman times this book dedicated to Michael Winter stresses elements of variety and continuity in the history of the Near East an area of study which has traditionally attracted little attention from... more

Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Business and Management: System Actor and Process: Keywords in Organization Studies (Hardcover)

System Actor and Process: Keywords in Organization Studies is intended as an epistemological compass to navigate through the multifaceted key concepts typically used in organizational practice and research. The book illustrates thirty-four keywords... more

Routledge International Case Studies in Tourism: International Case Studies in Event Management (Paperback)

This international case study book provides 27 expertly curated case studies on the topic of events management each with detailed implementation instructions for the instructor. more

Routledge Studies in Management Organizations and Society: Commitment to Work and Job Satisfaction: Studies of Work Orientations (Hardcover)

People s work orientations and attitudes to paid work are highly important for the welfare of any country. Still little is currently known about how such attitudes are distributed among different countries men and women classes occupations age groups... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia: Revisiting Japan s Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation (Paperback)

This volume presents the reader with thirty-one short chapters that capture an exciting new moment in the study of the Meiji Restoration. The chapters offer a kaleidoscope of approaches and interpretations of the Restoration that showcase the strengths... more

Routledge Studies in Accounting: Accounting for Goodwill (Hardcover)

This book provides an illuminating analysis of Internally Generated Goodwill from a strategic point of view. The author launches his strategic analysis from a foundational understanding of Internally Generated Goodwill as determined largely in... more

Routledge Studies in South Asian History: The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India (Hardcover)

This book analyzes the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. It explores a unique set of themes that capture the diversities of India such as public health medical institutions mental illness and the politics... more

Routledge Studies in Corporate Governance: The Value Creating Board (Hardcover)

This book presents boards of directors from a strategic and entrepreneurial management perspective. Boards of directors are receiving increased interest in the business world as well as among academic audiences however few contributions integrate... more

Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History: Ending Empire in the Middle East: Britain the United States and Post-war Decolonization 1945-1973 (Hardcover)

This book is a major and wide-ranging re-assessment of Anglo-American relations in the Middle Eastern context. It analyses the process of ending of empire in the Middle East from 1945 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Based on original research into both... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy: Expanding Frontiers of Global Trade Rules: The Political Economy Dynamics of the International Trading System (Paperback)

This book analyses one of the most controversial areas in the political economy of international trade namely the issues surrounding the creation of new trade rules . Various concerns are addressed including the environment labour standards... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East European Studies: The Emancipation of the Serfs in Russia (Hardcover)

In the wake of the disastrous Crimean War the Russian autocracy completely renovated its most basic social political and economic systems by emancipating some 23 million privately-owned serfs. This had enormous consequences for all aspects of Russian... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia: Science Public Health and the State in Modern Asia (Hardcover)

This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now. It discusses the transfer of scientific knowledge of... more

Routledge Studies in Marketing: Artificial Intelligence for Marketing Management (Hardcover)

Artificial intelligence (AI) has driven businesses to adopt new business practices rapidly enhance product development and services has helped to power AI-based market intelligence and customer insights and improve customer relationship management.... more

Routledge Studies in Modern European History: European Integration and Disintegration: Essays from the Next Generation of Europe s Thinkers (Hardcover)

European integration is an ambitious goal that attempts to reconcile grandiose visions for the future of Europe with complicated national attitudes toward unity. The added complexity of political crises which have characterized the European project... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Italy: Mussolini s Camps: Civilian Internment in Fascist Italy (1940-1943) (Paperback)

This book--which is based on vast archival research and on a variety of primary sources--has filled a gap in Italy s historiography on Fascism and in European and world history about concentration camps in our contemporary world. It provides for the... more

Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Pro: The Third Sector in Europe (Paperback)

Edited by a leading light in the field this book presents contemporary research into the voluntary sector in Europe exploring its contribution to European society as well as the key challenges it faces drawing from both economics and sociology. more

Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies: Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity (Paperback)

In Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity Olson argues that clothing functioned as part of the process of communication by which elite male influence masculinity and sexuality were made known and acknowledged and furthermore that these concepts... more

Routledge Studies in the History of Economics: Adam Smith s Theory of Value and Distribution: Economics as a Moral Science Once Again (Hardcover)

This book provides a close reading of Adam Smith s theory of value and also incorporates material from other parts of Smith s oeuvre. The book operates on the assumption that Smith is proposing relatively simple ideas about price and takes a... more

Europe and the Mediterranean Economy (Routledge Studies in the European Economy) - Costa-Font Joan

With the creation of the Mediterranean partnership and the recent move towards the creation of the Union for the Mediterranean in 2008 a new emphasis is placed on the Mediterranean in the study of European Integration.This book brings together a... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East European Studies: Disease Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia: Life and Death on the Volga 1823-1914 (Hardcover)

This book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia contributing significantly to current debates about how far and how successfully modernisation was being implemented by the Tsarist regime. It focuses on successive... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy: The Global Economic Crisis in Latin America (Hardcover)

When the 2008 housing market bubble burst in the United States a financial crisis rippled from the epi-center in the United States across borders into economies both near and far causing persistent social and economic detriment in many countries. The... more

Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Political Right in Israel (Hardcover)

This book takes a fresh look at the trajectories of Israeli politics since the election of Likud in 1977 examining how right wing parties have adopted populist policies in order to carve out an identity and win support at the polls. As such it... more

Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas: Rio de Janeiro in the Global Meat Market C. 1850 to C. 1930: How Fresh and Salted Meat Arrived at the Carioca Table (Hardcover)

This book examines the meat provision system of Rio de Janeiro from the 1850s to the 1930s. Until the 1920s Rio was Brazil s economic hub main industrial city and prime consumer market. Meat consumption was an indicator of living standards and a matter... more

Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Business and Management: Computational Finance: Matlab(r) Oriented Modeling (Paperback)

Computational finance is increasingly important in the financial industry as a necessary instrument for applying theoretical models to real-world challenges. Indeed many models used in practice involve complex mathematical problems for which an exact... more

Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking: Behavioural Public Finance: Individuals Society and the State (Hardcover)

This book tackles political social and behavioural aspects of public finance and fiscal exchange. The book combines conventional approaches toward public finance with new developments in economics such as political governance social and individual... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy: Economic Growth and Convergence: Global Analysis Through Econometric and Hidden Markov Models (Hardcover)

There are many different types of convergence within economics as well as several methods to analyse each of them. This book addresses the concept of real economic convergence or the gradual levelling-off of GDP (gross domestic product) per capita... more

Routledge Focus on Communication Studies: Enhancing Intercultural Communication in Organizations: Insights from Project Advisers (Paperback)

This book provides a qualitative analysis of the process of consultancy to prove how intercultural communication can solve issues rising from multiculturalism in organizations and policymaking. Experts in intercultural consultancy examine 12 different... more

Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management: Conflict Management and African Politics: Ripeness Bargaining and Mediation (Paperback)

This edited volume builds on a core set of concepts developed by I. William Zartman to offer new insights into conflict management and African politics. Key concepts such as ripe moments hurting stalemates and collapsed states are built upon in order... more

Routledge Studies in the European Economy: Rethinking Economic and Monetary Union in Europe: A Post-Keynesian Alternative (Paperback)

In the wake of the Greek crisis the future of the EU is the subject of a great deal of debate. This book critically evaluates the current new monetarist model of Economic and Monetary Union in Europe presenting an alternative post-Keynesian... more

Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies: Family in the Middle East: Ideational Change in Egypt Iran and Tunisia (Paperback)

Explores from a historical comparative perspective the globalization of dominant myths of modern family and society and their effects on families in Egypt Iran and Tunisia uniquely contributing to sociological debates about globalization. more