Humanities Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Dewey-Arg Philosophers

   By J.E. Tiles

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

   By Richard Wittman

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Presenting a fresh theoretical...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
3. American Regulatory Federalism and Telecommunications Infrastructure

   Edited by Paul E. Teske

   Series: LEA Telecommunications Series

   During this era of construction of the information superhighway, this volume presents a prudent analysis of the pros and cons of continuing state regulation of telecommunications. While interested parties either attack or defend state regulation, careful scholarly analysis is required to strike the...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
4. Augustan Egypt

   The Creation of a Roman Province

   By Livia Capponi

   Series: Studies in Classics

   With updated documents including papyri, inscriptions and ostraka, this book casts fresh and original light on the administration and economy issues faced with the transition of Egypt from an allied kingdom of Rome to a province of the Roman Empire...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
5. Cultures, Politics, and Research Programs

   An International Assessment of Practical Problems in Field Research

   Edited by Uma Narula, W. Barnett Pearce

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   A compilation of authoritative reports from seasoned researchers working in eight different countries on five continents, this volume examines the concept that conditions of local feasibility are constitutive of research practices not simply obstructions to the realization of an ideal. The result...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
6. Emptiness Appraised

   A Critical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy

   By David F. Burton

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence - entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowledge are shown...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
7. Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal

   The Fifteenth-Century Reformation of Newar Buddhism

   By Will Tuladhar-Douglas

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism - Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies

   Will Tuladhar-Douglas sheds new light on an important branch of Mahayana Buddhism and establishes the existence, character and causes of a renaissance of Buddhism in the fifteenth century in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. He provides the basis for the historical study of Newar Buddhism as...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
8. A Colonial Economy in Crisis

   Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s

   By Ian Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   The book challenges the orthodox argument that rural populations which abandoned self-sufficiency to become single commodity producers, and were supposedly very vulnerable to the commodity price collapse of the 1930s Depression, did not suffer as much as has been supposed. It shows how the effects...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
9. The World of Perception

   By Maurice Merleau-Ponty

   'Painting does not imitate the world, but is a world of its own.'In 1948, Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote and delivered on French radio a series of seven lectures on the theme of perception. Translated here into English for the first time, they offer a lucid and concise insight into one of the great...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
10. Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church

    By Amanda Udis-Kessler

    Series: New Approaches in Sociology

    The United Methodist Church has been in conflict over lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender inclusion issues since 1972. That year, in response to the gay liberation and gay rights movements, wording was added to the UMC Book of Discipline (the compilation of denominational policies and doctrines)...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge