Routledge Revivals
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Are there elusive titles that you need and have been trying to source for years but thought that you would never be able to find?
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Drawing from over 100 years of innovative, cutting-edge publishing, Routledge Revivals is an exciting programme whereby key titles from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many acclaimed imprints associated with Routledge will be re-issued.
The programme draws upon the illustrious backlists of Kegan Paul, Trench & Trubner, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Methuen, Allen & Unwin and Routledge itself.
Routledge Revivals spans the whole of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and includes works by some of the world’s greatest thinkers including Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Simone Weil, Martin Buber, Karl Jaspers and Max Beloff.
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The International Containment of Displaced Persons: Humanitarian Spaces without Exit
1st Edition
By Cecile Dubernet
March 31, 2021
This title was first published in 2001. This work examines four post-Cold War interventions launched on behalf of people on the move: international action in Iraq, Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda. Because these crises accompanied the emergence of the concept of Internationally Displaced Persons (IDPs) ...
The Language Gap: How Classroom Dialogue Fails
1st Edition
By Robert Hull
March 31, 2021
Published in 1985. Dialogue between teacher and pupil is a crucial factor in the learning experience. This book questions the role of language as a ‘natural’ vehicle for learning and considers how it may, in fact, hinder communication. In a detailed examination of day-to-day language practices ...
The Last Thirty Years in Public Health (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Sir Arthur Newsholme
March 31, 2021
First published in 1936, this book is a continuation of Sir Arthur Newsholme’s Fifty Years in Public Health and covers a wide variety of topics in relation to the subject. It is in part autobiographical as the author recollects and reflects upon his experiences of the system. The book is divided ...
The Literature of Education: A Critical Bibliography 1945-1970
1st Edition
By W. Kenneth Richmond
March 31, 2021
Original blurb: "The volume of writing on educational topics has increased so prodigiously in recent years that the student is likely to lose himself in a sea of print. This may lead him to opt for the first book that comes to hand, or waste time rifling through half a dozen when a thorough grasp ...
The Lost Elementary Schools of Victorian England: The People's Education
1st Edition
By Philip Gardner
March 31, 2021
Published in 1984. As late as 1870, a substantial proportion of working class pupils receiving an elementary education were attending private schools, run by the working class itself, instead of schools which were publicly sponsored. Previous studies in this area have concentrated on the latter, ...
The Ministry of Health (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Sir Arthur Newsholme
March 31, 2021
First published in 1925, this book explores public health and its administration. It looks at both local and central health administration and surveys the various departments including The Board of Education and The Home Office. The book discusses motives, principles, and results of reform in the ...
The New Examination System - GCSE
1st Edition
By Walter Roy
March 31, 2021
Reform of the public examination system for sixteen-year-olds presented a considerable challenge to secondary schools. The new General Certification of Secondary Education, introduced in 1988, was more than a continuation of the G.C.E. ‘O’ level and C.S.E. examinations at the time. The introduction...
The Philosophy of Schooling
1st Edition
By Robin Barrow
March 31, 2021
This book, first published in 1981, provides a penetrating and lucid introduction to the philosophy of education. The emphasis on schooling rather than education draws attention to the broad spectrum of the book: recognising that schools generally do more than educate, Dr. Barrow specifically ...
The Preachers of Culture (1975): A Study of English and its Teachers
1st Edition
By Margaret Mathieson
March 31, 2021
Published in 1975, Margaret Mathieson has drawn on her experience both in schools and in the training of English teachers to relate the discussions and writings of the previous two centuries to the debate, probably livelier than ever before, among English practitioners about the role of their ...
The Prevention of Tuberculosis (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Sir Arthur Newsholme
March 31, 2021
First published in 1908, this book presents a study of tuberculosis. It looks first at its causes, before examining how the problem of mortality from illness had already been reduced. The third part of the book then focuses on measures for reducing and annihilating tuberculosis altogether. Being ...
The Rational Good: A Study in the Logic of Practice
1st Edition
By Leonard Hobhouse
March 31, 2021
First published in 1921, this book explores the function of Reason in practical life. It considers whether there is a Rational, demonstrable, standard of values to which the actions of man and the institutions of society may be referred for judgement, and to what authority and power does it possess...
The Revelation of Nature
1st Edition
By Paul Matthews
March 31, 2021
This title was first published in 2001. "The Revelation of Nature" embraces pragmatism, aesthetics and metaphysics in an effort to narrate a fundamental relationship between the contemporary world and the natural source and site for any world of meaning. Beginning with an exploration of Heidegger's...