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31. Spon's Irish Construction Price Book, Third Edition

    Edited by Franklin + Andrews

    Series: Spon's International Price Books

    This new edition of Spon's Irish Construction Price Book, edited by Franklin + Andrews, is the only complete, tailored and up-to-date source of cost data for the Irish construction industry. This price book is an essential aid to profitable contracting for all those operating in Ireland's ...

    Published April 2nd 2008 by Spon Press
32. Pulling Newspapers Apart

    Analysing Print Journalism

    Edited by Bob Franklin

    Pulling Newspapers Apart: Analysing Print Journalism explores contemporary UK national and local newspapers at a significant and pivotal moment in their development when some pundits are busily, if mistakenly, announcing their demise. The book offers a detailed examination of features which...

    Published March 18th 2008 by Routledge
33. Smart Structures

    Innovative Systems for Seismic Response Control

    By Franklin Y. Cheng, Hongping Jiang, Kangyu Lou

    An innovative concept, smart structural systems have proven to be extremely effective in absorbing damaging energy and/or counteracting potentially devastating force, thus limiting structural collapse and subsequent injury. As this technology rapidly evolves, there is an ever-increasing need for an...

    Published February 24th 2008 by CRC Press
34. Postcolonial Politics, The Internet and Everyday Life

    Pacific Traversals Online

    By M.I. Franklin

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    In this ground-breaking study M.I. Franklin explores the form and substance of everyday life online from a critical postcolonial perspective. With Internet access and social media uses accelerating in the Global South, in-depth studies of just how non-western communities, at home and living abroad,...

    Published October 21st 2007 by Routledge
35. Byron

    By Caroline Franklin

    Series: Routledge Guides to Literature

    Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a poet and satirist, as famous in his time for his love affairs and questionable morals as he was for his poetry. Looking beyond the scandal, Byron leaves us a body of work that proved crucial to the development of English poetry and provides a fascinating counterpoint to...

    Published October 24th 2006 by Routledge
36. Local Journalism and Local Media

    Making the Local News, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Bob Franklin

    The local media - local newspapers and radio, regional television, cable television and local news on the internet - represents a diverse and rapidly-changing sector of the British media landscape. Bringing together media academics, local journalists and other media professionals, this text...

    Published August 21st 2006 by Routledge
37. Understanding Forest Disturbance and Spatial Pattern

    Remote Sensing and GIS Approaches

    Edited by Michael A. Wulder, Steven E. Franklin

    Remote sensing and GIS are increasingly used as tools for monitoring and managing forests. Remotely sensed and GIS data are now the data sources of choice for capturing, documenting, and understanding forest disturbance and landscape pattern. Sitting astride the fields of ecology, forestry, and...

    Published July 26th 2006 by CRC Press
38. Housing Transformations

    Shaping the Space of Twenty-First Century Living

    By Bridget Franklin

    Series: Housing and Society Series

    Drawing together a wide range of literature, this original book combines social theory with elements from the built environment disciplines to provide insight into how and why we build places and dwell in spaces that are at once contradictory, confining, liberating and illuminating. This...

    Published June 5th 2006 by Routledge
39. Women's Travel Writing, 1750-1850

    Edited by Caroline Franklin

    Series: History of Feminism

    The Romantic Period saw a massive advance in British colonial expansion, which was accompanied by a corresponding expansion in travel writings. These published letters, journals and books provided British readers with detailed accounts of new and exotic locations and thus engaged the reading public...

    Published May 11th 2006 by Routledge
40. Liquid Assets

    An Economic Approach for Water Management and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East and Beyond

    By Franklin Fisher, Annette Huber-Lee

    Liquid Assets shows that the common view of water as an inevitable cause of future wars is neither rational nor necessary. Typically, two or more parties with claim to the same water sources are thought to play a zero-sum game with each side placing a high emotional and political value over the...

    Published September 13th 2005 by Routledge