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Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

"... a good book to add to an introduction to sociology course if you want to give your students a good sense of how sociology analyzes culture and media....Sternheimer does a good job of weaving together hard sociological data on stratification, inequalities, wage and labor trends to the narrative promoted by the celebrity culture along with changes in the structure and power relations in the industry itself....an easy read with a lot of illustrations from celebrity magazines and so is very appropriate for undergraduate audiences."
Request a complimentary exam copy of Celebrity Culture and the American Dream.

Balancing Act: Mission, Profit, and Impact in Microfinance

This new four-volume set of writings in epistemology is intended to display the extraordinary progress that has been made in the past few years in answering some of the most fundamental questions of epistemology.

Mark your calendar for this interview with the author of Play, Creativity, and Social Movements and Queer Political Performance in Protest.

Read this article about the author of the upcoming title, Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?: Abortion, Neonatal Care, Assisted Dying, and Capital Punishment.

Congratulations to Prof. Vera Mackie who has been awarded the 2011 Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research on Japanese Literature in Australia.

Nuclear proliferation is once again at the top of the international agenda. In the last decade the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has been challenged from within by Iraq, Iran and Libya while India’s, Pakistan’s and North Korea's nuclear weapon capabilities are threatening the non-proliferation norm from without. It is to delve deeper into the changing global nuclear landscape that this volume is aiming to do.

2011 has been an exciting year for Routledge Anthropology books with the publication of not one, but two Tim Ingold books.

Ideal for those studying or researching NGOs, the voluntary sector, global development or international politics, the latest edition of The Europa International Foundation Directory hit the shelves last month. World Development journal describes this title as 'an important addition to any international studies library'. For a full presentation of the book and information on ordering, please read on.