Routledge Revivals
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Radical Adult Education: A Political Critique
1st Edition
By Brendan Evans
May 01, 2026
First published in 1987, Radical Adult Education examines the critical relationship between politics and adult education, exploring how public policy shapes educational opportunities for adults. It traces the evolution of adult education from voluntary sector origins to substantial state ...
Reading and Learning from Text
1st Edition
By Harry Singer, Dan Donlan
May 01, 2026
Originally published in 1989 (the second edition), Reading and Learning from Text tackles challenges in reading instruction by delivering research-based solutions for teaching students to read and learn effectively from text across all content areas. The authors identify key problems facing ...
Reflections on Governance and Development in Nigeria
1st Edition
By Ladipo Adamolekun
May 01, 2026
In this book, published for the first time with Routledge in 2025 and including some previously unpublished papers, the renowned professor of public administration Ladipo Adamolekun argues powerfully that only a devolved Nigerian federation can become a well-performing state that is capable of ...
Rotten to the Core?: The Life and Death of Neville Heath
1st Edition
By Francis Selwyn
May 01, 2026
The Second World War created heroes and scoundrels in good measure. Few men shifted from role to role with the insolent ease of Neville Heath. Exchanging one alias for another, he was at various times Lord ‘Jimmy’ Dudley, Captain Bruce Lockhart, ‘The Cambridge Blue’, Group-Captain Rupert Brooke, ...
Social Change in Industrial Society: Twentieth-Century America
1st Edition
By Thomas C. Cochran
May 01, 2026
Originally published in 1972, social change was one of the key issues in the study of Western industrial society: by blending widely accepted social science concepts with profound historical insight, Professor Cochran synthesizes scholarship of the time in a stimulating interpretation of the causes...
Subject and Topic
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles N. Li
May 01, 2026
First published in 1976, Subject and Topic presents research from the 1975 University of California, Santa Barbara symposium that sought to achieve thorough understanding of two important grammatical concepts: subject and topic. Drawing empirical evidence from diverse language families including ...
Teaching Children’s Literature in the Primary School
1st Edition
By Geoff Fenwick
May 01, 2026
First published in 1990, Teaching Children’s Literature in the Primary School addresses a critical educational debate of its time. As literature teaching became an integral component of the National Curriculum, many primary school teachers, particularly those in nursery and infant departments, ...
Technology in School: A Handbook of Practical Approaches and Ideas
1st Edition
By John Cave
May 01, 2026
Originally published in 1986, Technology in School is an ideas resource book designed specifically for Craft, Design and Technology teachers in schools. Packed with relevant and realistic suggestions for activities and fully illustrated throughout, it will also be of interest to science and primary...
The 1992 Single European Market and the Third World
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandro Sideri, Jayshree Sengupta
May 01, 2026
The 1992 Single European Market and the Third World (1992) looks at the impact of the Project 1992 of integrating the member countries of the European Community (EC) into a Single European Market (SEM) on countries of the developing world....
The Administrative 'Revolution' in Whitehall: A Study of the Politics of Administrative Change in British Central Government Since the 1950s
1st Edition
By Geoffrey K. Fry
May 01, 2026
In the latter half of the twentieth century, an administrative revolution took place in British central government, which few parts of central government, from the Treasury downwards, escaped. Originally published in 1981, this book provides a comprehensive, analytical review of these changes. It ...
The Burlesque Tradition in the English Theatre After 1660
1st Edition
By V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
May 01, 2026
Originally published in 1952 this book assembles what the author called ‘the basic jokes’ of theatrical burlesque. It traces their pedigrees through the works of the Shakespeare to Leacock. The book distinguishes between burlesque as a literary form and other forms of comedy, such as satire and ...
The Changing Civil Service
1st Edition
By Geoffrey K. Fry
May 01, 2026
When this was originally published in 1985, this was the first dispassionate, scholarly study of the British Civil Service as it had developed since the Fulton Report of 1986. The author discusses such controversial topics as the politicization of the Higher Civil Service, training and recruitment ...