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Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
Recent Articles
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Ancient Graffiti in the Boston Globe
Ancient Graffiti in Context is featured on the Boston Globe website. Co-editor of the volume Dr. Jennifer Baird helps explain why context is so important when viewing ancient graffiti. Read the full article here.
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Successful Book launch for Radical Records at Word Power Books in Edinburgh
A lively, well-attended event to launch the re-issued publication in Scotland took place in Word Power Books in Edinburgh in February. The event was part of a larger program to celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) History Month.
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Featured Book: Carbon Management in Tourism
Carbon Management in Tourism by Stefan Gössling (Lund University) is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academic researchers interested in Tourism, Environmental Management, Geography and Carbon Management.
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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: Key Themes in Youth Sport
Key Themes in Youth Sport by Ken Green (University of Chester) is an essential text for any course related to young people’s relationship with sport, exercise and leisure.
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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: Social Statistics
"Finally, here is a Statistics textbook that I can assign to my students without apology or reservation. It manages the tricky feat (I’d once believed it impossible) of being highly accessible to introductory students while still containing enough depth and nuance of more advanced topics, as used in real research contexts and as I teach them in my course."
—Nathan Wright, Sociology, Bryn Mawr College
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Celebrity Culture and the American Dream, Book of the Month, March 2011
Celebrity Culture and the American Dream by Karen Sternheimer (University of Southern California) is an ideal text for Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of Culture, or just general interest! In addition, the companion website has excellent resources for instructors.
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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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Economic Geography, Book of the Month, March 2011
Economic Geography by Andrew Wood and Sue Roberts (both at the University of Kentucky) is an excellent text for any course geared towards examining the world's changing economic geographies.
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