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    The Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep

    The Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep offers instructive, cautionary and innovative therapeutic approaches to help transform the lives of survivors of complex trauma. Providing an explanation of how the effects of coerced perpetration trauma are built, and the damage done to the psyches and lives of most trauma victims, the book extends our knowledge base in a thorough deconstruction of the nature of perpetration and its effects on the psyche.

32. 

    Major Works: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

    Critical Concepts in Asian Studies from Routledge Major Works includes titles from across Asian studies, including subject areas such as Asian History, Asian Politics and Asian Culture.

    This year we have two new four-volume collections coming out: Social Transformation in China and Gender and Japanese Society. Order your copies today!

    Why not browse all the bestselling backlist titles in the series here?
    

33. 

    The Tall Buildings Reference Book (May 2013)

    The Tall Buildings Reference Book addresses all the issues of building tall, from the procurement stage through the design and construction process to new technologies and the building’s contribution to the urban habitat. A case study section highlights the latest, the most innovative, the greenest and the most inspirational tall buildings being constructed today.

    To order a copy of this book click here

34. 

    Construction Materials Reference Book 2nd Edition (June 2013)

    Fully updated to reflect the latest materials and their applications, this second edition of the Construction Materials Reference Book remains the definitive reference source for professionals involved in the conception, design and specification stages of a construction project.

    For more information about the book or to pre-order your copy click here

35. 

    The State of Psychiatry (Psychology Revivals)

    To mark his retirement in 1966 from the Professorship of Psychiatry at the University of London, and the directorship of the Institute of Psychiatry, the Maudsley Hospital, Professor Lewis’s students edited and prepared an edition of his collected papers, in two volumes.

    Originally published in 1967 this volume reviews the psychiatric past, surveys the transitional stage psychiatry had reached, and looks forward to the attainable future.

36. 

    Human Destructiveness (Psychology Revivals)

    First published in 1972, this fully revised edition was originally published in 1991 and provides a classic study of humanity’s capacity for evil.

    The human species is capable of the most appalling cruelty. Why is this and where does our capacity for such destructiveness come from? In Human Destructiveness, Anthony Storr explores these important questions.

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    Critical Live Art

    Live Art is a contested category, not least because of the historical, disciplinary and institutional ambiguities that the term oftentimes tends to conceal. Live Art can be usefully defined as a peculiarly British variation on particular legacies of cultural experimentation – a historically and culturally contingent translation of categories including body art, performance art, time-based art, and endurance art. The recent social and cultural history of the UK has involved specific factors that have crucially influenced the development of Live Art since the late 1970s. These have included issues in national cultural politics relating to sexuality, gender, disability, technology, and cultural policy.

38. 

    Rhetoric, History, and Women’s Oratorical Education

    Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education: American Women Learn to Speak is the latest title in our Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication Series, our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering topics such as ancient and modern rhetoric, public relations, popular culture, ecology, food studies, and Internet studies, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
    
    Enriching our understanding of women's oratorical education and practice, this cutting-edge work makes an important contribution to scholarship in rhetoric and communication.

39. 

    New - Women’s and Gender History Catalog

    Our new Women's and Gender History Catalog is now available to view online, and includes upcoming, new and key titles as well as our series Women's and Gender History and Routledge Research in Gender and History.

40. 

    Public Relations And Nation Building: Influencing Israel

    Why not read this interview with Margalit Toledano and David McKie, authors of Public Relations And Nation Building, and find out the answers to such questions as "Does the definition of PR change when used in the context of nation building?", and "What makes Israel stand out from other countries, in terms of the use of PR to inform/build national identity?"