Routledge Library Editions: Jordan

Routledge Library Editions: Jordan
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 902
Release: 2021-03-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351783017

Routledge Library Editions: Jordan brings together some key works in the study of this strategically vital country. Widely regarded as a rare country of calm in a turbulent region, these classic titles provide an essential reference to the in-depth study of Jordan and its particular status in the Middle East.

Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography

Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 4463
Release: 2021-06-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317600789

From votes to strikes to street violence, politics is intrinsically geographical. Many of the books in this set, originally published between 1964 and 1990, illustrate that the social contexts provided by localities are crucial in defining distinctive political identities and subsequent political activities.

Essays in Political Geography

Essays in Political Geography
Author: Charles A. Fisher
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2016-05-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317605292

This volume, originally published in 1968, is in two parts. The first covers various geographical aspects of the internal structure and the external relationships of states and introduces some of the concepts which are examined in specific regional context in the case studies in Part 2.

The Geography of Border Landscapes (Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography)

The Geography of Border Landscapes (Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography)
Author: Dennis Rumley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317598806

This volume is about border landscapes, with emphasis on the varying impact that political decision-making and ideological differences can have on the environment at border locations, for example. This volume by political-geography experts from across the globe provides important insights specficially into border landscapes and so serves to further our understanding of aspects of cultural landscapes.

The Academic Library and Its Users

The Academic Library and Its Users
Author: Peter Jordan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1998
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

This text considers the influences and demands on academic libraries, and explains how to increase user satisfaction through quality management. It examines the needs of different user groups, and the requirements of subject communities, as well as those of teaching staff.

Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance

Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 10558
Release: 2021-12-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136264922

Current interest in the history of money and banking remains strong and it is opportune to survey developments both in the UK, USA, Europe and Asia. This set provides historical analysis which incorporates research from the early twentieth century onwards in a form that is both accessible to students of money & banking and economists, economic historians and bankers This set re-issues 38 volumes originally published between 1900 and 2000. It charts the history of early banking, discusses banking in the UK, Europe,Japan and the USA, analyses banks as multinationals, the UK mortgage market, banking policy and structure and examines specific sectors such as gilts and gold.

Freedom and the Welfare State

Freedom and the Welfare State
Author: Bill Jordan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2018-07-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429889151

Originally published in 1976, Freedom and the Welfare State, critiques the Welfare State in Britain and analyses the relationship between freedom and welfare. The book considers philosophical, literary and political expressions of the ideals of liberty, and relates them to present-day issues in social policy and the social services. It tackles the major questions emerging in the current welfare debate such as, does state assistance destroy individual initiative and independence and, are welfare institutions agencies of social control which reinforce the dominant economic order?

Routledge Library Editions: Syria

Routledge Library Editions: Syria
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 828
Release: 2021-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135039879

Routledge Library Editions: Syria brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints. With a variety of titles covering Syria's politics, history and culture, this set provides in one place a wealth of important reference sources from a wide range of authors expert in the field.

Routledge Library Editions: Security and Society

Routledge Library Editions: Security and Society
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 3181
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000519333

This 12-volume set contains titles, originally published between 1934 and 1995. An eclectic mix of titles, this collection draws from anthropology, economics, ethics, politics, psychology and sociology. Exploring security in both war and peacetime it includes volumes looking at: the causes of war and its effect on society as a whole; the soldiers themselves and their place in society; the portrayal of war in the press, both in words and photographs and the politics behind them.

Routledge Library Editions: Turkey

Routledge Library Editions: Turkey
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1607
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317234332

This collection of previously out-of-print titles examines the state of Turkey in both its Ottoman and modern incarnations. Radical politics are detailed alongside constitutional democracy, as well as Ottoman politics and history.