Subject Code Books

New and Published Books

1. Models of Madness

   Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Psychosis

   Edited by John Read, Jacqui Dillon

   Series: The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis Book Series

   Are hallucinations and delusions really symptoms of an illness called ‘schizophrenia’? Are mental health problems really caused by chemical imbalances and genetic predispositions? Are psychiatric drugs as effective and safe as the drug companies claim? Is madness preventable? This second edition of...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Media, Religion and Gender

   Key Issues and New Challenges

   Edited by Mia Lövheim

   Series: Media, Religion and Culture

   Media, Religion and Gender presents a selection of eminent current scholarship that explores the role gender plays when religion, media use and values in contemporary society interact. The book: surveys the development of research on media, religion and culture through the lens of key...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Applied Meta-Analysis with R

   By Ding-Geng (Din) Chen, Karl E. Peace

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

   In biostatistical research and courses, practitioners and students often lack a thorough understanding of how to apply statistical methods to synthesize biomedical and clinical trial data. Filling this knowledge gap, Applied Meta-Analysis with R shows how to implement statistical meta-analysis...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
4. Time to Talk

   Implementing outstanding practice in speech, language and communication

   By Jean Gross

   Series: David Fulton / Nasen

   Time to Talk provides a powerful and accessible resource for practitioners to help develop their own skills, as well as supporting a whole-school or setting approach to speaking and listening. Written by the government’s former Communication Champion for children, it showcases and celebrates...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
5. Translation and Web Localization

   By Miguel A. Jimenez-Crespo

   Web localization is a cognitive, textual, communicative and technological process by which interactive web texts are modified to be used by audiences in different sociolinguistic contexts. Translation and Web Localization provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview into this emerging field of...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
6. All's Well, That Ends Well

   New Critical Essays

   Edited by Gary Waller

   Series: Shakespeare Criticism

   Described as one of Shakespeare’s most intriguing plays, All’s Well That Ends Well has only recently begun to receive the critical attention it deserves. Noted as a crucial point of development in Shakespeare’s career, this collection of new essays reflects the growing interest in the play and...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
7. Ricardo on Money and Finance

   A Bicentenary Reappraisal

   Edited by Yuji Sato, Susumu Takenaga

   David Ricardo, one of the major figures in the history of economic thought, particularly in the English classical political economy, deployed his activities as economist just two hundreds of years ago. Since then his economics has been generally estimated as the culminating point of the classical...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
8. Conspicuous and Inconspicuous Discriminations in Everyday Life

   By Victor N. Shaw

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   In everyday life, people negotiate on issues, entertain offers and counteroffers, and gain or lose in terms of economic capital, political power, communal status, and social influence. Although life goes on in the form of compromise, feelings of discrimination or misfortune haunt consciously or...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
9. Syria’s Uprising and the Fracturing of the Levant

   By Emile Hokayem

   Series: Adelphi series

   As an upbeat and peaceful uprising quickly and brutally descended into a zero-sum civil war, Syria has crumbled from a regional player into an arena in which a multitude of local and foreign actors compete. The volatile regional fault lines that run through Syria have ruptured during this conflict,...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
10. Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations

    The Politics of Transgression in the Maghreb

    By Alina Sajed

    Series: Interventions

    Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations examines the social and cultural aspects of the political violence that underpinned the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the multi-layered postcolonial realities that ensued. This book explores the reality of the lives of North...

    Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge