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Recent Articles

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   Common Pools of Genetic Resources

   Written by a team of expert academics and practitioners in the field, this innovative book makes a timely and valuable contribution to academic and policy debates in International Environmental Law, International Biodiversity Law, Intellectual Property, Climate Law and the Law of Indigenous Populations. Taking an inductive approach, it starts from existing pools and discusses how they could be further developed to cope with the objectives of the Nagoya Protocol.
   
   For a full list of these titles publishing in June, please refer here.

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   Fraud and Carbon Markets

   The missing trader fraud on European carbon allowances markets occurred mainly between the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 and is presented in this book from a variety of different angles: financial, scientific and relatively to organized crime. Written by a former broker, it makes a unique exploration into the financial mechanisms of the fraud and the impact on the market behavior as well as illustrating the consequences on its econometric features.

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   Latest Routledge Research Titles

   We have two new titles to highlight this month: A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media, part of the Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies Series edited by Jesse Drew, and The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates, part of the Journalism Studies Series edited by Bob Franklin.

   
    

   
    

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   Digital Media and Reporting Conflict

   Digital Media and Reporting Conflict explores the impact of new forms of online reporting on the BBC’s coverage of war and terrorism. Informed by the views of over 100 BBC staff at all levels of the corporation, Bennett captures journalists’ shifting attitudes towards blogs and internet sources used to cover wars and other conflicts. He argues that the BBC’s practices and values are fundamentally evolving in response to the challenges of immediate digital publication.

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   Manga’s Cultural Crossroads

   'This is a timely collection that explores a burgeoning area of enquiry in an interesting and original manner. The chapters address a range of relevant topics for anyone interested in the study and history of manga, as well as addressing the adaptation of manga in different media.' - Matthew Green, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham
    

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   The Life of Voices

   The Life of Voices illustrates how human voices have special significance as the place where mind and body collaborate to produce everyday speech. Hannah Rockwell links Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of dialog with French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s views of the relation between bodies and speech expression to develop a unique theory of communication and bodies.

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   Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication

   This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication, which itself is undergoing a turn in its focus from post-positivistic research towards critical/interpretive and postcolonial perspectives, particularly as globalization informs more of the current and future research in the area. It emphasizes the postcolonial perspective in order to raise critical consciousness about the complexities of intercultural communication in a globalizing world, situating cosmopolitanism—the notion of global citizenship—as a multilayered lens for research.

8. 

   Major Works Giveaway

   Routledge Major Works are pleased to offer you the chance to purchase Business and Management collections at a 20% discount.

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9. 

   New Research Titles from Routledge

   We have four new theater and performance research titles to recommend this month. If you are interested in translation, live art, dance or adaptation studies read on to find out more...

10. 

    Focus on: The Arab Spring

    Did you know we have a wide selection of new and upcoming books on The Arab Spring, as well as a brand new archive of journal articles from the last year that are now available completely free of charge?