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    June Book of the Month: Translation and Web Localization

    Translation and Web Localization provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview into this emerging field of study. The book covers the key areas and main theoretical and practical approaches of the subject, rather than a step by step practical guide. Topics covered include the oftentimes controversial definition of localization, how the process develops, what constitutes a text in this process, digital genre theory and its implications, and how to conduct research or training in this field.

    This text is an indispensable book for researchers, postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students of translation studies, as well as practitioners and researchers in related fields.

72. 

    Environmental Anthropology: Now Available

    This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology. Environmental anthropologists are increasingly focusing on self-reflection - not just on themselves and their impacts on environmental research, but also on the reflexive qualities of their subjects, and the extent to which these individuals are questioning their own environmental behavior. Here, contributors confront the very notion of "natural resources" in granting non-human species their subjectivity and arguing for deeper understanding of "nature," and "wilderness" beyond the label of "ecosystem services."

73. 

    Ancient Near East: The Basics

    Ancient Near East: The Basics surveys the history of the ancient Middle East from the invention of writing to Alexander the Great’s conquest. The book introduces both the physical and intellectual environment of those times, the struggles of state-building and empire construction, and the dissent from those efforts. Featuring a glossary, chronology and suggestions for further reading, this book has all the tools the reader needs to understand the history and study of the Ancient Near East.

74. 

    Female Agency in the Urban Economy

    Available now - "This collection broadens our knowledge about women in 18th-century towns by extending the geographic focus to Scandinavia and central Europe. The contributors examine women’s experiences and contributions to a variety of urban settings and provide insight into women’s roles as financial brokers, peddlers, migrants, medical consumers, and landholders. The essays put gender squarely at the center of the development of European towns." – Amy Froide, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
     

75. 

    Revisionist Histories

    Revision and revisionism are generally seen as standard parts of historical practice, yet they are underexplored within the growing literature on historiography. In this accessibly written volume, Marnie Hughes-Warrington discusses this paucity of work on revision in history theory and raises ethical questions about linear models and spatial metaphors that have been used to explain it. Revisionist Histories emphasises the role of the authors and audiences of histories alike as the writers and rewriters of history.
     

76. 

    Routledge Author Oversees Solar Meadow Project

    Edinburgh College has shown off its green credentials with the installation of more than 2,500 photo-voltaic panels across five-acres on its Midlothian campus in Dalkeith. The Solar Meadow will cut the college's fuel bills and provide a fully functioning stomping ground for engineering students to further research the effects (and effectiveness) of solar power.
    
    Routledge author, Professor Steve Tinsley, was the project manager and as such, we’ve been able to interview him about the hows, highs and lows, of the project, as well as get a few helpful hints as to how businesses can implement their own environmental management systems. Why not take a look here at what he’s had to say?
    

77. Refurbishment and Renovation

    Routledge now publish an extensive list of books to help with all of your refurbishment and renovation needs from regulations to conservation and energy efficiency to design and planning. Below is a selection of the titles we currently publish. Watch this space for an online catalog, coming soon.

78. 

    Life-Span Maintenance of Knowledge

    This volume describes how well we maintain the knowledge we acquire throughout life. Research traditionally focuses on memory for events that are retained over short time periods that can be accommodated in experiments. This book, by contrast, uniquely describes the evolution of methods suitable for investigating memory of complex knowledge acquired over several years and retained during the entire life-span.

79. 

    Trauma, Culture, and Metaphor

    In Trauma, Culture, and Metaphor, John Wilson and Jacob Lindy explore the language of both individual and collective trauma in an era dominated by globalization and interconnectedness. Through lucid, careful discussion, this important book builds a bridge between the etymology of trauma-related terms commonly used in Western cultures and those of other cultures, such as the Burundi-Rwandan ihahamuka. It also provides the clinician with a framework for working with trauma survivors using a cross-cultural vocabulary—one oftentimes based in metaphor—to fully address the experienced trauma and to begin work on reconnection and self-reinvention. 

80. Student Discount Electrical Installation 2013

    Save 20% on your Electrical Installation Textbook - simply enter offer code TEXTBOOK20 at the checkout to receive your discount