The Politics of NGOs in S.E. Asia traces the history of the emergence of NGOs in the Philippines and Southeast Asia and the political factors which encouraged this, including the complex relations b... more »

By investigating women's special skills related to goddess cults together with legends and popular traditions, the author explores the importance of the goddess as a subject for study today. <... more »

In this new edition, with a new preface and an updated bibliography, the author provides a comprehensive survey of the evolution and growth of the remarkable military enterprise of the Roman army.more »

This book challenges the view that an alternative to Western capitalism is neither possible nor desirable. Without proposing a static blueprint, the author explores a new possible scenario. more »

A valuable guide to current work in the social and cultural history of insanity. It provides a comprehensive summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twen... more »

This book examines our need to discipline our desires, our appetites and our pleasures at the table. It argues that a rationalisation of pleasure plays a positive role in our lives, allowing us to b... more »

Hippocrates' Woman presents an arresting study of the origins of gynaecology, an exploration of how the interior workings of the female body were understood and the influence of Hippocrates' theorie... more »

This influential and widely used book has been extensively revised and includes a new chapter on linguistic discrimination on the basis of class, race and ethnicity.

Routledge Language Workbooks are practical introductions to specific areas of language for absolute beginners. Vocabulary provides an introduction to the study of words, focusing in particular on En... more »

This is a new edition of a highly successful basic guide to JCT contracts, Which covers the 1996 Housing Grants and 1996 Construction Regeneration Acts, considers new case law and covers the 4 new a... more »

Why do massive inflows of capital so rarely achieve lasting development in the Third World? This study of the Arab region's oil boom argues that self-reliance and social policy are just as central t... more »

Examines under what conditions profit-sharing schemes & employee shareholding can motivate workers & generate cooperative striving and identifies exactly which schemes have the potential to realise ... more »

Conflict and Reconciliation examines the interdependent processes of conflict origins, resolutions and reconciliation, in the light of eight case studies including Yugoslavia, Israel, Northern Irela... more »

Images of the Street subjects the street to sustained critical scrutiny, enriching and extending our understanding of the making and meaning of urban space.

A tour-de-force study of the causes of the collapse of the Asian economic miracle which looks at Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Modern France is an up-to-date introducton to the nature of French society at the end of the twentieth century and examines the transition of France and French life as the nation moves from an indus... more »

This tenth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, placing international issues in their most recent geographical contexts with the integra tion of nearly 100 maps, 43 of them new for this ... more »

This accessible satellite textbook is unique in offering students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on Advertising. It includes activities, sample texts, commentaries and fur... more »

This accessible and concise introduction to psycholinguistics requires no prior knowledge of the subject. Chapter by chapter, Jean Aitchison tackles basic questions central to the study of psycholin... more »

The definitive biographical guide to the Greek and Hellenistic world from 750 BC to the end of the Roman Empire

An introduction to the basic theory behind international trade policy analysing current policy issues within a theoretical framework. Adopts a thematic approach: each chapter examining different iss... more »

Boasting more than 970 alphabetically arranged entries, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture surveys British cultural practices and icons in the latter half of the twentieth century.more »

This volume focuses on the techniques and tools currently available to the environmental manager. A theoretical background is given together with an overview of those instruments in common use today... more »

This book concentrates on the social aspects of disaster, focusing on the most expensive disaster to date in US history, the Northridge earthquake of 1994, to examine the facets of vulnerability and... more »

This book presents a comparative analysis of the role of multinationals in developing countries, looking at areas such as imports, exports, new technology and resource utilization.