Routledge Revivals
About the Book Series
Are there elusive titles that you need and have been trying to source for years but thought that you would never be able to find?
Well this may be the end of your quest – here is a fantastic opportunity for you to discover past brilliance and purchase previously out of print and unavailable titles by some of the world’s most eminent academic scholars.
Drawing from over 100 years of innovative, cutting-edge publishing, Routledge Revivals is an exciting programme whereby key titles from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many acclaimed imprints associated with Routledge will be re-issued.
The programme draws upon the illustrious backlists of Kegan Paul, Trench & Trubner, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Methuen, Allen & Unwin and Routledge itself.
Routledge Revivals spans the whole of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and includes works by some of the world’s greatest thinkers including Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Simone Weil, Martin Buber, Karl Jaspers and Max Beloff.
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Professions and Power (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Terence J. Johnson
May 31, 2018
First published in 1972, this book rejects as inadequate the ‘trait’ and ‘functionalist’ theories of the professions and instead presents an alternative framework to analyse the contemporaneous occupational change in industrial societies. The author describes how occupational specialisation creates...
Regulation of the Natural Gas Producing Industry
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey Dawson
May 31, 2018
Originally published in 1972, Regulation of the Natural Gas Producing Industry combines several papers prepared for a seminar in Washington D.C in 1970.The purpose of this seminar was to exchange views between specialists on the issues related to regulation natural gas production. As such these ...
Routledge Revivals: John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science (2005): The Fiction of the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross
1st Edition
By Jack Morrell
May 31, 2018
First published in 2005, this book represents the first full length biography of John Phillips, one of the most remarkable and important scientists of the Victorian period. Adopting a broad chronological approach, this book not only traces the development of Phillips’ career but clarifies and ...
Routledge Revivals: Language in Tanzania (1980)
1st Edition
Edited
By Edgar C. Polomé, C. P. Hill
May 31, 2018
Originally published in 1980, Language in Tanzania presents a comprehensive overview of the Survey of Language Use and Language Teaching in Eastern Africa. Using extensive research carried out by an interdisciplinary group of international and local scholars, the survey also covers Ethiopia, Kenya,...
Routledge Revivals: The Challenge of Islam (2005): Encounters in Interfaith Dialogue
1st Edition
By Douglas Pratt
May 31, 2018
First published in 2005, this book addresses the challenges arising from Christian-Muslim encounter and attempts to enable outsiders to understand the religion of Islam. The author offers distinctive perspectives that compliment much other literature in the study of Islam and in particular ...
Routledge Revivals: The Violence of Language (1990)
1st Edition
By Jean-Jacques Lecercle
May 31, 2018
First published in 1990, this book argues that any theory of language constructs its ‘object’ by separating ‘relevant’ from ‘irrelevant’ phenomena — excluding the latter. This leaves a ‘remainder’ which consists of the untidy, creative part of how language is used — the essence of poetry and ...
Routledge Revivals: Theories of Planning and Spatial Development (1983)
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Cooke
May 31, 2018
First published in 1983, this book attempts to unify two bodies of theory which had become severely disjointed. Theories of the planning process had become detached from those of the urban and regional processes which are the subject of planning intervention. The author argues that major weaknesses...
The Transition to Socialism in China (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Selden, Victor Lippit
May 31, 2018
First published in 1982. The dramatic changes in policy and theory following the death of Chairman Mao in 1976 and the publication of the most extensive official and unofficial data on the Chinese economy and society twenty years both necessitated and made possible a thorough reconsideration of the...
Routledge Revivals: The Design Professions and the Built Environment (1988)
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul L Knox
April 16, 2018
First published in 1988, this book argues that discussions of urban development often neglect to consider that much of the urban environment is designed by architects and planners, and that the particular world-view of architects and planners is crucial for the way proposals are taken up, modified ...
The Student Skills: Guide
1st Edition
By Sue Drew
April 16, 2018
This title was first published in 2001. This guide, in its second edition, outlines key skills for students with new sections on reflecting on your experience, critical analysis, learning styles and successful participation in seminars and meetings....
Directions in Person-Environment Research and Practice (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Jack Nasar, Wolfgang F. E. Preiser
February 12, 2018
First published in 1999, this book presents a fresh and diverse set of perspectives representing key directions of research and practice in the field of environmental design research. Leading researchers in various areas of person-environment research, such as privacy, children’s environment, ...
Encountering the North: Cultural Geography, International Relations and Northern Landscapes
1st Edition
By Frank Möller, Samu Pehkonen
February 06, 2018
This title was first published in 2003. This volume is concerned with the European north above the Arctic Circle and its representations in Cultural Geography and International Relations. The chapters in the book deal with cultural, geographical and political imaginations of northern peoples and ...