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Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics
What educational approaches best serve language-minority children? What policies, programmes, and circumstances encourage or contribute to minority-language maintenance? How do we make sense of the ecology of language development and socialization in non-traditional settings? And what is the...
Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the major themes that have defined the politics of Southeast Asia. It provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge examination of this important subject. The introductory chapter provides an overview of the theoretical and ideological themes that have...
Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Critical Concepts in Law
Critical Legal Theory has conventionally been traced to the social, political, and philosophical movements of the 1960s and, before that, to the early-twentieth-century ‘realist’ critique of modern jurisprudence. In truth, however, its origins go back to classical and pre-modern thought, and to...
Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
Series: The Europa Regional Surveys of the World
Europa's comprehensive survey of the countries and territories of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia, offering users expert analysis and commentary. Also includes up-to-date economic, socio-political and directory material. There is plenty of brand new political and...
Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
Series: The Europa Regional Surveys of the World
The Far East and Australasia 2012 is a survey of the countries of East and South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, along with 22 Pacific Islands. It is essential reading for anyone with a professional interest in the region and keeps users up-to-date with current political and...
Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics
A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Pragmatics II is a four-volume collection of the very best scholarship on pragmatics. It is an essential successor collection to the editor’s Pragmatics (6 vols.) (978-0-415-11734-0), published in 1998 and described...
Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
Series: The Europa Regional Surveys of the World
The definitive survey of the countries and territories of Western Europe, comprising expert analysis and commentary. Includes up-to-date economic and socio-political data along with specially sourced directory information. New content for the 2012 edition includes: coverage of...
Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
This Dictionary gives a comprehensive survey of the whole range of ancient Near Eastern architecture from the Neolithic round huts in Palestine to the giant temples of Ptolemaic Egypt. Gwendolyn Leick examines the development of the principal styles of ancient architecture within their geographical...
Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
These are questions to which oriental thinkers have given a wide range of philosophical answers that are intellectually and imaginatively stimulating. Thirty-Five Oriental Philosophers is a succinctly informative introduction to the thought of thirty-five important figures in the Chinese, Indian,...
Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture
As a meeting point for world cultures, the USA is characterized by its breadth and diversity. Acknowledging that diversity is the fundamental feature of American culture, this volume is organized around a keen awareness of race, gender, class and space and with over 1,200 alphabetically-arranged...
Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
