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1. Mine Plan Optimisation

   By Martin L. Smith

   With increasing challenges in mining, both mechanically and financially, efficient mine planning and mine optimisation where possible are inevitable. This textbook provides a range of tools for optimization in the mineral industry, including examples with mathematical programming. Topics covered...

   To Be Published April 30th 2014 by CRC Press
2. The Future of Events & Festivals

   Edited by Ian Yeoman, Martin Robertson, Una McMahon - Beattie, Elisa Backer, Karen Smith

   Series: Routledge Advances in Event Research Series

   This is the first book to take a futures approach to understanding event management. It takes a systematic and pattern-based understanding in order to determine the likelihood of future events and trends, capture how the industry is changing and identify important issues that will affect events now...

   To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
3. Clinton and Bush's Foreign and Security Policies

   Clear Blue Water?

   By Martin A. Smith

   Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

   This book offers a comparative analysis of the approaches, policies and records of the Clinton administration and the current administration of George W. Bush with regard to key foreign policy issues. The issue areas selected for examination are those that have aroused particular controversy and...

   To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Human Conflict

   Edited by Christopher Knüsel, Martin Smith

   If human burials were our only window onto the past, what story would they tell? Skeletal injuries constitute the most direct and unambiguous evidence for violence in the past. Whereas weapons or defenses may simply be statements of prestige or status and written sources are characteristically...

   To Be Published November 26th 2013 by Routledge
5. Where is Nato Going?

   Edited by Martin Smith

   Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since September 11 2001, the future of NATO has been the subject of intense debate. This book brings together a group of international relations specialists in order to offer fresh perspectives on the Alliance’s current and future purposes and roles....

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
6. Art, Creativity and Imagination in Social Work Practice

   Edited by Prue Chamberlayne, Martin Smith

   Harnessing the inspiration available from the arts and the imagination brings to life sensitive and effective social work practice. Workers feel most satisfied while service users and communities are more likely to benefit when creative thinking can be applied to practice dilemmas. Drawing on...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
7. Art, Creativity and Imagination in Social Work Practice

   Edited by Prue Chamberlayne, Martin Smith

   Harnessing the inspiration available from the arts and the imagination brings to life sensitive and effective social work practice. Workers feel most satisfied while service users and communities are more likely to benefit when creative thinking can be applied to practice dilemmas. Drawing on...

   Published July 31st 2010 by Routledge
8. Indigenous Archaeologies

   Decolonising Theory and Practice

   Edited by Claire Smith, H. Martin Wobst

   Series: One World Archaeology

   With case studies from North America to Australia and South Africa and covering topics from archaeological ethics to the repatriation of human remains, this book charts the development of a new form of archaeology that is informed by indigenous values and agendas. This involves fundamental changes...

   Published June 28th 2010 by Routledge
9. Plant Biology

   By Alison M. Smith, George Coupland, Liam Dolan, Nicholas Harberd, Jonathan Jones, Cathie Martin, Robert Sablowski, Abigail Amey

   Plant Biology is a new textbook written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It is an account of modern plant science, reflecting recent advances in genetics and genomics and the excitement they have created. The book begins with a review of what is known about the origins of...

   Published May 7th 2009 by Garland Science
10. Russia and NATO since 1991

    From Cold War Through Cold Peace to Partnership?

    By Martin Smith

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    This is the first comprehensive analysis of the development of relations between Russia and NATO since 1991. Since the re-emergence of Russia as an independent state in December 1991, debates and controversies surrounding its evolving relations with NATO have been a prominent feature of the...

    Published March 24th 2009 by Routledge