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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.

The Routledge Handbook of Emotions and Mass Media, edited by Katrin Döveling (Technical University Dresden), Christian von Scheve (Free University of Berlin), and Elly A. Konijn (VU University, Amsterdam, is an essential reference tool for scholars and students of media, communication studies, media psychology, emotions, cultural studies, sociology, and other related disciplines.

"Finally, here is a Statistics textbook that I can assign to my students without apology or reservation. It manages the tricky feat (I’d once believed it impossible) of being highly accessible to introductory students while still containing enough depth and nuance of more advanced topics, as used in real research contexts and as I teach them in my course."
—Nathan Wright, Sociology, Bryn Mawr College

Celebrity Culture and the American Dream by Karen Sternheimer (University of Southern California) is an ideal text for Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of Culture, or just general interest! In addition, the companion website has excellent resources for instructors.

The Handbook of Local and Regional Development, edited by Andy Pike (Newcastle University), Andrés Rodríguez Pose (London School of Economics), and John Tomaney (Monash University), provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development.

Economic Geography by Andrew Wood and Sue Roberts (both at the University of Kentucky) is an excellent text for any course geared towards examining the world's changing economic geographies.
Social Development: Critical Themes and Perspectives, edited by Charles Manohar S. Pawar (Charles Sturt University) and David R. Cox (La Trobe University), argues for promoting social change at local, grassroots-level.

'Katie Willis weaves together diverse and engaging case study examples from around the world with a balanced synthesis of the complex topic that is development.'
—The Geographical Journal, 2006

A Theory of African American Offending by James Unnever (University of South Florida-Sarasota-Manatee) and Shaun L. Gabbidon (Penn State Harrisburg), is an ideal text for graduate and undergraduate courses in both race and criminal justice.
We would like to express our sympathy to all those affected by the recent events in Japan. If you would like to make a donation to the Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Appeal you can do so here:
Congratulations to Routledge author Sapir Handelman who is the winner of the 2010 Peter Becker Award for Peace & Conflict Studies.