Routledge - Böcker

This text argues that women's rights are violated in many ways everyday but these violations are ignored. It claims that the mere extension of exisiting human rights protection to women is insufficient: women's rights must be understood as human r...

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This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions - what is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical truth exist...

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Event Studies is the only book devoted to developing knowledge and theory about planned events. It focuses on event planning and management, outcomes, the experience of events and the meanings attached to them, the dynamic processes shaping events...

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Workplace and professional learning, lifelong learning, adult learning, learning in different contexts have become of more and more interest and now dominate all aspects of 21st century life. Learning is no longer about 'storing and recall' but 'd...

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"The fact that "Rethinking Germany" will force historians to reconsider their views, if not to discard them altogether, makes it a valuable addition to the literature."--"The Historian"<br>..".for its many ...

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James Meade, awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1977, has over five decades written and published on theoretical and applied problems in most fields of economics. He has always been as concerned with problems of economic policy as with purely...

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In 37 full-colour international maps, "The State of the Earth" examines the health of the planet and the quality of human life. It illustrates all the critical issues - global warming, holes in the ozone layer, rainforest destruction, th...

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The main aim of this stimulating book is to demonstrate the inadequacy of a history that is always written by the winners'. Draws on original studies from Africa, North America, Australia and the Pacific in order to make the point. Emphasizes that...

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A comprehensive study of the social and political thought of Thomas Paine, one of the most important political writers of the modern era and author of "The Rights of Man". This study concentrates on that political tract, and places it in...

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Following the author's earlier book "London 2000", this publication takes a new look at planning in London and the South East of England. This book looks back and examines the achievements. It asks what happened to the dream of the 1960s...

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This text presents an examination of NATO's strategy for the defence of the central front - the concern that has lain at the heart of NATO since its formation 40 years ago. Politically, the central front marked the post-war division of Europe into...

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This book presents an original collection of papers based on a major research initiative into changes in the urban and regional system in the UK. It contains several years of research into seven different selected localities - inner city, new town...

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In this personal discussion of subsistence farming in the Third World and its potential for development, Andrew MacDonald argues that the farming system is limited in its potential for development by the energy value of manpower and, unless the im...

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Commissioned by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, the book appraises the 15 or more years work involved in the controversial Green Revolution - and just how far this has improved the position of people in less develope...

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The core of this book consists of 18 teachers' reports on attempts to change traditional learning environments. The reports, mainly from secondary schools, range from innovative work in 'A' English, GCSE Maths and Business Studies to a school pott...

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Images of home ownership in Britain today are often cosy in character and to a large extent, lack any critical awareness. This has encouraged even the most sophisticated commentators to focus upon the virtues of the tenure while neglecting both it...

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The structure and style of philosophy has evolved in response to philosophy's confrontation with its own limits. Are these limits real or are they just phantoms haunting the philosophical project? How do philosophy and philosophers attempt to over...

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