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Routledge Revivals Mergers and Acquisitions (Routledge Revivals): Geographical and spatial persspectives (Paperback)

Originally published in 1990 this book is the first to provide an in-depth examination of post-war North American merger activity from the perspectives of both geography and industrial class. It applies core periphery and resource dependency theories... more

Routledge Revivals The Origin of Our Knowledge of Right and Wrong (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)

Based on a lecture given before the Vienna Law Society in 1889 this title had an extraordinary influence in the field of philosophy. It provided the basis for the theory of value as this was developed by Meinong Husserl and Scheler. In addition the... more

Routledge Revivals Love or Greatness (Routledge Revivals): Max Weber and Masculine Thinking (Hardcover)

This work first published in 1990 reissues the first thorough examination of the essentially masculine nature of Max Weber s social and political thinking. Through a detailed examination of his central texts the author demonstrates Weber s masculine... more

Routledge Revivals Social Choice (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)

First published in 1971 Social Choice is both a text and reference containing the proceedings of a conference dealing with contemporary work on the normative and descriptive aspects of the social choice problem. This reissue will be of interest to... more

Routledge Revivals The Constitution of Poverty (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)

Firts published in 1991 this book looks at how capitalism has affected the organization of the poor. It also explores what the links are between notions of poverty and notions personal responsibility philanthropy morality and state forms. An intruiging... more

Routledge Revivals Resistance to Change in the Soviet Economic System (Routledge Revivals): A property rights approach (Paperback)

First published in 1991. This book uses a property rights perspective to analyse why there is such widespread resistance to change in the Soviet Economic System. Many within the ruling stratum benefit considerably from their positions particularly in... more

Routledge Revivals Knowledge Ideology & Discourse (Routledge Revivals): A Sociological Perspective (Hardcover)

This student textbook originally published in 1991 tackles the traditional problems of the sociology of knowledge from a new perspective. Drawing on recent developments in social theory Tim Dant explores crucial questions such as the roles of power and... more

Routledge Revivals Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)

This volume first published in English in 1987 makes available an important part of Weil s early writings. Although primarily known as a religious thinker she devoted enormous energy in her formative years to her work as a political activist and as a... more

Routledge Revivals Concept Formation in Social Science (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)

First published in 1983 this book examines the problems of concept formation in the social sciences and in particular sociology from the standpoint of a realistic philosophy of science. Beginning with a discussion of positivistic hermeneutic... more

Routledge Revivals Evolutionary Macroeconomics (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)

First published in 1987 Evolutionary Macroeconomics offers an evolutionary approach to macroeconomics as an alternative to contemporary new classical and Keynesian macroeconomics. In order to develop such an approach an alternative view of the... more

Routledge Revivals An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)

First published in 1953 this seminal introduction to political philosophy is intended for both the student of political theory and for the general reader. After an introduction which explains the nature and purpose of philosophy Dr Murray provides a... more

Routledge Revivals The Transcendence of the Cave (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)

First published in 1967 The Transcendence of the Cave is the second in a series of Gifford Lectures on philosophical issues and continues the themes of the first series entitled The Discipline of the Cave. In the opening chapters J N Findlay sketches... more

Routledge Revivals The London and New York Stock Exchanges 1850-1914 (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)

First published in 1987 this is a reissue of the first book to offer a detailed comparison of two of the foremost stock exchanges in world before 1914. It is not only an exercise in comparative economic history but it also relates these institutions to... more

Routledge Revivals Econometrics (Routledge Revivals): A Varying Coefficents Approach (Paperback)

Originally published in 1981 this book considers one particular area of econometrics- the linear model- where significant recent advances have been made. It considers both single and multiequation models with varying co-efficients explains the various... more

Routledge Revivals Development in Practice (Routledge Revivals): Paved with Good Intentions (Hardcover)

The Magarini Settlement Project in Kenya is typical of many large Third World rural development projects of recent years not least in its failure to fulfil even minimum goals. First published in 1991 Development in Practice explores the reasons for... more

Routledge Revivals Population Geography: Progress & Prospect (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)

First published in 1986 this book presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of knowledge in the field of population geography. It discusses the contemporary state of the art and surveys new research developments and new thinking in... more

Routledge Revivals English Tragedy Before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals): The Development of Dramatic Speech (Hardcover)

First published in English in 1961 this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy. The work offers positive standards by which to assess the development of pre-Shakespearean drama... more

Routledge Revivals The Metaphysical Theory of the State (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)

Originally published in 1918 this enduring work by renowned sociologist and Liberal politician Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse encompasses a series of five key lectures first delivered at the London School of Economics in the autumn of 1917. Outlining... more

Routledge Revivals The Economics of the Industrial Revolution (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)

In recent years scholars from a variety of disciplines have addressed many perplexing questions about the Industrial Revolution in all its aspects. Understandably economics has become the focal point for these efforts as professional economists have... more

Routledge Revivals Economic Behaviour (Routledge Revivals): An Introduction (Hardcover)

First published in 1980 Economic Behaviour: An Introduction has been written specifically to speed up the settling-in process of students new to the subject of economics. It starts at the shallow end with the family budget and proceeds via an... more

Routledge Revivals The Unity of Science (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)

As a leading member of the Vienna Circle Rudolph Carnap s aim was to bring about a unified science by applying a method of logical analysis to the empirical data of all the sciences. This work first published in English in 1934 endeavors to work out a... more

Routledge Revivals Selected Writings of Otto Jespersen (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)

This volume first published in 1960 to commemorate the one hundredth birthday of Jespersen collects together as many of his writings as possible in order to allow students of the English language or indeed of language in general to read those shorter... more

Routledge Revivals Economic Methodology and Freedom to Choose (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)

First published in 1987 Professor O Sullivan s work provides an in depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in Economics and other human sciences. The argument is unabashedly dialectical in the great Socratic-Platonic tradition and... more

Routledge Revivals A History of Europe (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)

First published in 1939 this is a reissue of Henri Pirenne s extremely popular and influential history of Europe in the Middle Ages. It begins with the Barbarian and Musulman invasions in the fifth century AD which signalled the end of the Roman world... more

Routledge Revivals Historical Materialism (Routledge Revivals): A System of Sociology (Hardcover)

First published in English in 1926 this work by Nikolai Bukharin a highly influential Marxist and Soviet Politician who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin s show trials expands upon Karl Marx s theory of historical materialism.... more

Routledge Revivals Intentional Communities (Routledge Revivals): Ideology and Alienation in Communal Societies (Hardcover)

Some communities exist for tens even hundreds of years. Others short-lived. What then makes for communal success ? Bary Shenker who lived on a Kibbutz for a number of years compares the Hutterites the Kibbutzim and therapeutic communities - and argues... more

Routledge Revivals Afghanistan: The Soviet War (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)

First published in 1985 this is a book written at the height of the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Based on five clandestine trips into Afghanistan with the resistance the book examines why the Soviets invaded in 1979 and what they were... more

Routledge Revivals National Income and Economic Growth (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)

First published in 1961 Kenneth K. Kurihara s National Income and Economic Growth makes a pioneering effort to integrate national income accounting income-employment theory and growth analysis as a unified whole. In his belief that growth economics is... more

Routledge Revivals The Status of Everyday Life (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)

First published in 1985 this reissue indicates the extent to which our basic perceptual structure is bound to and limited by a particular underlying perceptual patterning. Fiona Mackie reaches deeper even than the Habermasian approach to rationality by... more

Routledge Revivals The Elements of Social Justice (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)

First published in 1922 this title written by L. T. Hobhouse British politician and one of the leading theorists of Social Liberalism is a seminal work concerning the social application of ethical principles for the common good. The object of the book... more

Routledge Revivals The Uncertain Science (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)

First published in 1992 this clear and assured book reveals the blind alleys of sociological theory and research. The authors present a bold and persuassive case for abandoning the quest for foundationalism in the social science. Well informed and... more

Routledge Revivals Women and Recession (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)

Originally published in 1988 this book compiles a collection of works investigating the impact of recession on women s employment. The authors argue that the most important explanation of differences in women s experience between the countries is the... more

Routledge Revivals The Structure and Reform of Direct Taxation (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)

First published in 1978 The Structure and Reform of Direct Taxation presents the full findings and recommendations of the Meade committee set up by The Institute for Fiscal Studies. It represents the most important contemporary examination of the... more

Routledge Revivals The Decline of the British Motor Industry (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)

First published in 1980 this book considers the British Motor industry over the period between 1945 and 1979 analysing the ways in which the industry suffered a considerable decline in the post-war era when compared to motor industries of other... more

Routledge Revivals: Theory of Action (Routledge Revivals): Towards a New Synthesis Going Beyond Parsons (Paperback)

Modern sociology owes its existence and the progress it has made to the integration of differing kinds of orientations. In this work first published 1987 Professor Richard Münch sets out to reformulate the theory of action a notion central to... more

Routledge Revivals: The Methodology of Economic Model Building (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)

The major methodological task for modern economists has been to establish the testability of models. Too often however methodological assumptions can make a model virtually impossible to test even under ideal conditions yet few theorists have examined... more

Routledge Revivals Privilege in the Soviet Union (Routledge Revivals): A Study of Elite Life-Styles Under Communism (Paperback)

First published in 1978 this unique work throws much-needed light upon the exact nature of privilege and elite life-styles in the contemporary Soviet Union under the Communist regime. Dr Matthews study places these life-styles in a historical... more

Routledge Revivals Mourning Dress (Routledge Revivals): A Costume and Social History (Hardcover)

First published in 1983 Mourning Dress chronicles the development of European and American mourning dress and etiquette from the middle ages to the present day highlighting similarities and differences in practices between the different social strata.... more