Routledge Revivals
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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?
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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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Navies and Foreign Policy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Ken Booth
October 13, 2015
First published in 1977, this study offers a comprehensive, systematic and integrated survey of the important relationship between navies and the making and execution of foreign policy. Ken Booth explains the functions navies can perform in both war and peace, the influence they have on particular ...
Our Knowledge of the Growth of Knowledge: Popper or Wittgenstein?
1st Edition
By Peter Munz
October 13, 2015
Peter Munz, a former student of both Popper and Wittgenstein, begins his comparison of the two great twentieth-century philosophers, by explaining that since the demise of positivism there have emerged, broadly speaking, two philosophical options: Wittgenstein, with the absolute relativism of his ...
Personal Enmity in Roman Politics (Routledge Revivals): 218-43 BC
1st Edition
By David Epstein
October 13, 2015
The Roman Republic was governed by a small group of men who agreed far more than they disagreed on the fundamental questions facing the state. The details of their public behaviour can thus only be understood in relation to the idiosyncrasies deeply embedded in Roman political culture, one of the ...
Point of View (Routledge Revivals): A Linguistic Analysis of Literary Style
1st Edition
By Susan L. Ehrlich
October 13, 2015
The purpose of Point of View, first published in 1990, is twofold: from the perspective of linguistics, to analyse the discourse structure of texts; from the perspective of literary studies, to explain certain non-linguistic aspects of the texts in terms of linguistic form. This study therefore ...
Selected Genetic Papers of J.B.S. Haldane (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Krishna R. Dronamraju
October 13, 2015
First published in 1990, this is a compilation of several important papers that have contributed to the foundation of population genetics, evolutionary biology and human genetics. The collection includes Haldane’s first paper in genetics, which was published in 1915, reporting the first case ...
Sophists, Socratics and Cynics (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By David Rankin
October 13, 2015
The Sophists, the Socratics and the Cynics had one important characteristic in common: they mainly used spoken natural language as their instrument of investigation, and they were more concerned to discover human nature in its various practical manifestations than the facts of the physical world. ...
Strategy and Ethnocentrism (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Ken Booth
October 13, 2015
Ken Booth’s study, first published in 1979, investigates the way in which cultural distortions have affected the theory and execution of strategy. Its aim is to illustrate the importance of ethnocentrism in all areas of the subject, to follow through its implications and to suggest approaches to ...
The Crisis of Keynesian Economics (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Pilling
October 13, 2015
Geoffrey Pilling’s treatment of this complex issue in political economy, first published in 1986, concentrates on a review of Keynes’ writings rather than the vast literature that has developed surrounding his work since the Second World War. It does, however, consider the work of the ‘Left ...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Rod Hackney
October 13, 2015
First published in 1990, this title presents the personal reflections of renowned community architect Rod Hackney, who served for many years as President of both the Royal Institute of British Architects and the International Union of Architects. Educated in the Modernist tradition of architecture ...
The People of Aristophanes (Routledge Revivals): A Sociology of Old Attic Comedy
1st Edition
By Victor Ehrenberg
October 13, 2015
First published in 1951, The People of Aristophanes provides a sociological account of Athens in the period of its greatest glory. Drawing upon Old Attic Comedy and the plays of Aristophanes, the author recreates, for the reader, the life of Athens at that time. He writes extensively about social ...
The Rise and Decline of Small Firms (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Jonathan Boswell
October 13, 2015
First published in 1973, this title examines the development patterns of small businesses. It considers why people found firms; the factors that contribute to entrepreneurial success; problems of management succession and inheritance; the strengths and weaknesses of family firms; the reasons ...
Translation and the Nature of Philosophy (Routledge Revivals): A New Theory of Words
1st Edition
By Roger Holmes
October 13, 2015
This engrossing study, first published in 1989, explores the basic mutuality between philosophy and translation. By studying the conceptions of translation in Plato, Seneca, Davidson, Walter Benjamin and Freud, Andrew Benjamin reveals the interplay between the two disciplines not only in their ...