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Featured Book: Muslim Women and Sport
Muslim Women in Sport, edited by Tansin Benn, Haifaa Jawad (Both at University of Birmingham), and Gertrud Pfister (University of Copenhagen), makes a profound contribution to our understanding of both contemporary Islam and the complexity and diversity of women’s lives in the modern world.
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Featured Book: The Routledge Handbook of Emotions and Mass Media
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.
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Featured Book: Handbook of Local and Regional Development
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.
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Featured Book: Social Development
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.
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Featured Book: Irish Identities in Victorian Britain
Get into the spirit of St. Patrick's Day with Irish Identities in Victorian Britain. Edited by Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley, this book analyzes the complexities surrounding the self-identity of the Irish in Victorian Britain.
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Book of the Month for March: International Who’s Who in Classical/Popular Music Set
Here's something for all those music enthusiasts out there. March saw the publication of Europa's extensive and fully revised Classical and Popular Music Who's Who set. This major two-volume publication provides full listings of all the movers and shakers in today's musical landscape and is an excellent resource for researching anyone from musicians to composers and everything in between. Published on the 24th of March, this latest Who's Who title is available to pre-order today or you can recommend it to your Librarian.
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Featured Series: Studies in African American History and Culture
What's the real story of the Jim Crow laws? Find out in Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow’s Teachers, the newest book in the Studies in African American History and Culture Series. View all of the books in this series.
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Understanding Variation
Activities as varied as answering customers’ questions, preparing invoices, manufacturing products, delivering services, powering offices and factories, and even gaining new business can all be understood as “processes”. A fundamental property of all but the most trivial of processes is that their outputs vary, and such variation is usually troublesome. The foundation of Dr W Edwards Deming’s guidance on process improvement was the understanding of that variation, with the aim of reducing it and thus making the process more reliable and predictable.
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies Now in Paperback
Delivering a thoroughly revised and updated version of the most authoritative reference work in the field, this new and expanded edition of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies draws on the expertise of over ninety contributors from all over the world, providing an unparalleled global perspective which makes this volume unique. For more information, click here.
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New in 2011: The World’s Major Languages, 2nd Edition
'This excellent, thorough resource has an unsurpassed amount of detail for a single-volume survey.' – S. L. Johnson, Eastern Illinois University, Choice Reviews
The World's Major Languages describes the most interesting features of over fifty of the world's major languages and language groups. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role. For more information, click here.
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