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By Verner Møller, Ivan Waddington, John Hoberman
May 17, 2017
Doping has become one of the most important and high-profile issues in contemporary sport. Shocking cases such as that of Lance Armstrong and the US Postal cycling team have exposed the complicated relationships between athletes, teams, physicians, sports governing bodies, drugs providers, and ...
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By Simon McGrath, Qing Gu
May 10, 2017
This timely Handbook takes stock of the range of debates that characterise the field of international education and development, and suggests key aspects of a research agenda for the next period. It is deliberately divergent in its approach, recognising the major ideological and epistemological ...
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By Emma Tomalin
May 10, 2017
This Handbook provides a cutting-edge survey of the state of research on religions and global development. Part one highlights critical debates that have emerged within research on religions and development, particularly with respect to theoretical, conceptual and methodological considerations, ...
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By David Tyfield, Rebecca Lave, Samuel Randalls, Charles Thorpe
May 03, 2017
The political economy of research and innovation (R&I) is one of the central issues of the early twenty-first century. ‘Science’ and ‘innovation’ are increasingly tasked with driving and reshaping a troubled global economy while also tackling multiple, overlapping global challenges, such as ...
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By Cliff Roberson
April 20, 2017
The Routledge Handbook on Victims’ Issues in Criminal Justice is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook on current issues, with a distinctive emphasis on the delivery of suitable and effective services. The editor provides an introduction and conclusion to the handbook, synthesizing original ...
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By Zahirul Hoque, Lee D. Parker, Kathryn Haynes
March 27, 2017
Selecting from the wide range of research methodologies remains a dilemma for all scholars, not least those looking to study the world of accounting. Both established and emerging research methods are frequently advocated, creating a challengingly broad range of choices. Covering a selection of ...
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By Nicolas Chanavat, Michel Desbordes, Nicolas Lorgnier
March 24, 2017
Football is big business. The top teams and leagues in world football generate billions of dollars in revenue and serve an audience of billions of fans. This book focuses on the marketing of football as the apex of the contemporary football industry. Drawing upon key theories and concepts in sport ...
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By David M. Brennan, David Kristjanson-Gural, Catherine P. Mulder, Erik K. Olsen
March 17, 2017
Most developed economies are characterized by high levels of inequality and an inability to provide stability or opportunity for many of their citizens. Mainstream economics has proven to be of little assistance in addressing these systemic failures, and this has led both scholars and students to ...
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By Joseph Baker, Stephen Cobley, Jörg Schorer, Nick Wattie
March 14, 2017
Identifying athletic talent and developing that talent to its full potential is a central concern in sport. Understanding talent identification and its implications for both positive and negative developmental outcomes is crucial to sporting success. This is the first comprehensive resource for ...
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By Arjan Blokland, Victor van der Geest
March 07, 2017
Since its introduction in the latter half of the 1980s, the meticulous study of distinct criminal career dimensions, like onset, frequency, and crime mix, has yielded a wealth of information on the way crime develops over the life-span. Policymakers in turn have used this information in their ...
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By Christina Holtz-Bacha, Marion R. Just
March 01, 2017
This Handbook provides the most comprehensive overview of the role of electoral advertising on television and new forms of advertising in countries from all parts of the world currently available. Thematic chapters address advertising effects, negative ads, the perspective of practitioners and ...
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By Margit Keller, Bente Halkier, Terhi-Anna Wilska, Monica Truninger
February 28, 2017
Consumption research is burgeoning across a wide range of disciplines. The Routledge Handbook on Consumption gathers experts from around the world to provide a nuanced overview of the latest scholarship in this expanding field. At once ambitious and timely, the volume provides an ideal map for ...