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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.
Stop the Press! The New Routledge Library Newsletter is out now!
Highlights of this edition include:

The 2010 Social Work and Social Welfare catalog is now available online! Click here to browse our new titles and key backlist. Click on any URL to be taken directly to the product page on the Routledge website.

New Directions in Social Work is an innovative and integrated new series of Texts, Websites, and Interactive Case Studies for generalist courses in the Social Work curriculum at both undergraduate and graduate levels.The texts and web content work together to provide instructors with everything they need to build a comprehensive course.
You can now view our latest New Directions in Social Work leaflet online! Click here to browse the available and upcoming titles in this series. You can also visit www.routledgesw.com for further information.

'I strongly recommend this to anyone involved in or interested in the politics of climate change. If the series continues at this standard it will be a valuable addition to libraries'

Routledge Perspectives on Development series provides innovative textbooks for courses across the discipline of Development Studies, in areas such as gender, economics, environment, NGOs, and more!
Rural-Urban Dynamics, Edited by Jytte Agergaard, Niels Fold, Katherine Gough (all at the University of Copenhagen,) challenges prevalent assumptions about rural-urban dichotomies.
We are pleased to announce that Genocidal Crimes by Alex Alvarez (Northern Arizona University) has been Highly Recommended by Choice!
"Alvarez's work is an excellent foray into a previously underutilized paradigm with which to pursue a better and more accurate understanding of genocide." -- Choice, September 2010

Although there is growing interest from governments in participation levels in sport, the extent to which governments actively promote ‘sport for all’ and their motives for doing so vary greatly. Participation in Sport is the first book to examine the sport participation policies of national governments across the world and to offer a comparative analysis of the motives for, and successes and failures of those policies.

A Political Chronology of the World is a major new publication which provides an impartial and authoritative record of the political, geological and economic events that have helped to shape world history. Edited by the long standing and renowned Europa imprint, the title is a must for library reference shelves and is an excellent resource for policy makers, academics and students interested in world affairs and political history.

Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World by W.M. Adams (University of Cambridge,) provides coherent, comprehensive and critical coverage of the theory and practice of sustainable development. It is an ideal text for courses in sustainable and rural development.