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?
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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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Inside Family Viewing (Routledge Revivals): Ethnographic Research on Television's Audiences
1st Edition
By James Lull
April 07, 2015
First published in 1990, this title presents a rich account of how television intersects with family life in American and other world cultures. From an analysis of the political and cultural significance of China’s most important television series to detailed descriptions of how families in the ...
New Technology (Routledge Revivals): International Perspective on Human Resources and Industrial Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Greg J. Bamber, Russell D. Lansbury
April 07, 2015
First published in 1989, this book presents a unique comparative perspective on the relationship between technological change and human resource management. Following a detailed introduction, chapters deal with a variety of issues, including managing change, industrial democracy and employee ...
Newspeak (Routledge Revivals): A Dictionary of Jargon
1st Edition
By Jonathon Green
April 07, 2015
George Orwell coined the term ‘Newspeak’ for his novel 1984, the purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate subtlety and nuance. For this dictionary, first published to herald the year 1984, Jonathon Green compiled nearly 8, 000 entries – selected from the slangs and ...
Reading Castaneda (Routledge Revivals): A Prologue to the Social Sciences
1st Edition
By David Silverman
April 07, 2015
Carlos Castaneda’s accounts of his meeting with the Yaqui Indian magician Don Juan are well known to sociologists both in Britain and in America. Using material largely from Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan, David Silverman here seeks to introduce the student of Sociology to some of the ...
Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals): Ideology and Fiction
1st Edition
By Lennard J. Davis
April 07, 2015
"By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological." For the reader, this power of the novel needs to be resisted. But there is a double resistance at work: the novel is ...
Roman Stoicism (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Edward Arnold
April 07, 2015
Roman Stoicism, first published in 1911, offers an authoritative introduction to this fascinating chapter in the history of Western philosophy, which throughout the 20th century has been rediscovered and rehabilitated among philosophers, theologians and intellectual historians. Stoicism played a ...
Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By H. Parke
April 07, 2015
Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity, first published in 1988, is an authoritative account of a subject rarely treated in recent decades and difficult to access for non-specialists. A considerable number of books of prophecies went under the generic title of Sibylline Oracles, ...
Social Geography (Routledge Revivals): An International Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By John Eyles
April 07, 2015
Social geography has been one of the most important growth areas within the field of geography in recent decades. It has brought within geographical analysis a wide range of new topics, such as ethnic segregation, crime and environment and inner city problems. First published in 1986, this edited ...
Sociological Theory (Routledge Revivals): Pretence and Possibility
1st Edition
By Keith Dixon
April 07, 2015
First published in 1973, this book is concerned with the question of whether Sociology is, or ought to be, a theoretical science. Keith Dixon argues that the pretence to the theoretical is a hindrance to the development of the field of Sociology, which devalues significant empirical work by giving ...
The A - Z of Nuclear Jargon (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Jonathon Green
April 07, 2015
First published in 1986, the purpose of this dictionary is to clarify the technology behind nuclear jargon. The entries deal with all areas of nuclear warfare: its strategies and tactics, personnel and weapons systems, arms control and disarmament talks. The terminology of the nuclear age expands ...
The Age of Absolutism 1660-1815 (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Max Beloff
April 07, 2015
The end of eighteenth century is often regarded as the watershed between the feudal Europe of the Middle Ages and the modern Europe of the nineteenth century and beyond. The chronology covered in this title, first published in 1954, is vast, and yet covers an intellectually stimulating and exciting...
The Concept of Prayer (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By D. Z. Phillips
April 07, 2015
Many contemporary philosophers assume that, before one can discuss prayer, the question of whether there is a God or not must be settled. In this title, first published in 1965, D. Z. Phillips argues that to understand prayer is to understand what is meant by the reality of God. Beginning by ...