Routledge Revivals
About the Book Series
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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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Decision Making (Routledge Revivals): A case study of the decision to raise the Bank Rate in September 1957
1st Edition
By Richard A. Chapman
February 11, 2013
Originally published in 1968, Richard Chapman’s pioneering work illuminates the process of decision making by analysis of a particular example: the decision to raise the Bank Rate in September, 1957. The legal responsibility for a decision may be easy to pinpoint; in this case the Court of ...
Leadership in the British Civil Service (Routledge Revivals): A study of Sir Percival Waterfield and the creation of the Civil Service Selection Board
1st Edition
By Richard A. Chapman
February 11, 2013
First published in 1984, this book examines the style of leadership amongst senior civil servants and its impact on administrative reform by investigating the work of Sir Percival Waterfield who was First Civil Service Commissioner from 1939 to 1951. He was responsible for setting up the Civil ...
Open Government (Routledge Revivals): A Study of the Prospects of Open Government Within the Limitations of the British Political System
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard A. Chapman, Michael Hunt
February 11, 2013
First published in 1987 this book considers the practical implications of increasing public access to official information in Britain, both from the perspective of increasing Freedom of Information and reforming Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act. It draws attention to the practical problems ...
Plato (Routledge Revivals): Plato: The Written and Unwritten Doctrines
1st Edition
By Pierre R. Crosson
February 11, 2013
First published in 1974, J. N. Findlay's work argues persuasively for a new interpretation of the Platonic writings. He believes that Plato's Unwritten Doctrines were present in the background of all the great philosopher's mature written work....
Raymond Williams on Television (Routledge Revivals): Selected Writings
1st Edition
By Raymond Williams
February 11, 2013
First Published in 1989, this work is based around a monthly TV column which Raymond Williams wrote for The Listener between 1968 and 1972. Those were the years of the Prague Spring, of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, of fighting in Cambodia and Northern Ireland, of hope for McGovern in the United...
Science and Football (Routledge Revivals): Proceedings of the first World Congress of Science and Football Liverpool, 13-17th April 1987
1st Edition
Edited
By Tom Reilly, Adrian Lees, Keith Davids, W. J. Murphy
February 11, 2013
First published in 1988, this book contains edited and revised papers presented at the first World Congress of Science and Football. Held under the auspices of the International Council of Sport, Science, and Physical Education, the Congress was a unique gathering of international scientists ...
The Modernization of the American Stock Exchange 1971-1989 (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Stuart Bruchey
February 11, 2013
First published in 1991, Stuart Bruchey’s study is a historical tribute to the financial innovation of the American Stock Exchange. He chronicles the heyday of Wall Street – from events leading to the Great Depression, through the New Deal and World War II, to the electronic era, the crash of’87, ...
The Stubborn Structure (Routledge Revivals): Essays on Criticism and Society
1st Edition
By Northrop Frye
February 11, 2013
First published in 1970, this collection is made up of a selection of essays composed between 1962 and 1968, written by distinguished humanist and literary critic Northrop Frye. The book is divided into two parts: one deals largely with the contexts of literary criticism; the other offers more ...
The Use of Philosophy (Routledge Revivals): Californian Addresses
1st Edition
By John Muirhead
February 11, 2013
First published in 1928, this book reproduces the lectures and addresses that John Henry Muirhead gave on various occasions during the two and a half years he spent as Lecturer of Philosophy on the Mills Foundation at the University of California, USA. The different chapters look at the meaning and...
Wealth and Life (Routledge Revivals): A Study in Values
1st Edition
By J. A. Hobson
February 11, 2013
First published in 1930, this book endeavours to trace and express the relations between economic and human values, between wealth and life. Hobson studies everything from the role of production processes and consumption in the determination of human welfare; to the changing attitudes of economic ...
Appraising and Exploring Organisations (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Shaun Tyson, K. F. Ackermann, Michel Domsch, Patrick Joynt
December 15, 2012
First published in 1988, this book offers a comprehensive description of the functions and performance of organisational surveys from a wide range of European experts in the field. The book examines the utility of organisational surveys as a method of research for the social sciences and as a ...
A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Nigel Ashford, Stephen Davies
November 22, 2012
First published in 1991, this is a reissue of the pathbreaking Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought, the first book to examine the ideals and arguments produced by the intellectual traditions of both conservatism and classical liberalism. Covering the ideas of many...