Routledge Revivals
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Bucks and Bruisers: Pierce Egan and Regency England
1st Edition
By J.C. Reid
November 02, 2026
First published in1971, Bucks and Bruisers is a critical biography of Pierce Egan that examines his life and career. Through Egan’s life and work, it explores the Regency and Interregnum periods, providing both a social and literary history of the era. Due to the limited accessibility of Egan’s ...
Child Custody and Divorce: The Law in Social Context
1st Edition
By Susan Maidment
November 02, 2026
The number of divorces that involve custody orders for children rose constantly in the 1980s. It is against this background that Susan Maidment wrote the thought-provoking Child Custody and Divorce (originally published in 1984). It is the author’s contention that the nature of custody ...
Discovering Past Landscapes
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Reed
November 02, 2026
First published in 1984, Discovering Past Landscapes explores mapping techniques as tools for studying landscape change. The book examines how to create maps from specific documentary sources—agricultural statistics, tithe files, probate inventories, and Anglo-Saxon estate boundary surveys. It also...
Display in the Classroom: Principles, Practice and Learning Theory
1st Edition
By Hilary Cooper, Penny Hegarty, Phil Hegarty, Neil Simco
November 02, 2026
A colourful, attractive environment is the hallmark of the best primary school classrooms, but display is often seen as ‘wallpaper’ and, with increasing pressure on teacher-time, as expendable or even frivolous. First published in 1996, Display in the Classroom defends display in the classroom as ...
Evaluating Instructional Technology
1st Edition
By Christopher Kay Knapper
November 02, 2026
First published in1980, Evaluating Instructional Technology explores the application of evaluation principles and procedures to instructional technology. While focused specifically on this field, the principles presented are broadly applicable to various teaching and learning contexts. The book ...
Family Matters: Sociology and Contemporary Canadian Families
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen L. Anderson
November 02, 2026
First published in 1988, Family Matters paints a new portrait of family life in Canada. Drawing upon research interests among Canadian sociologists, this book looks at how changing attitudes towards marriage, childbearing, divorce and child rearing have altered the future of the family and the ...
Focus on Meaning: Talking to Some Purpose with Young Children
1st Edition
By Joan Tough
November 02, 2026
The young child depends on talking with adults to gain an understanding of the world around him and Focus on Meaning (originally published in 1973) helps the teacher, the parent, and all concerned with growing children to gain insight into the part that language plays during the early years of ...
For Freedom and Dignity: Historical Agency and Class Structures in the Coalfields of NSW
1st Edition
By Andrew W. Metcalfe
November 02, 2026
First published in 1988, For Freedom and Dignity is a highly original and sophisticated study of the social history of the Coalfields of the Hunter Valley, renowned as the heart of Australian political radicalism for much of the twentieth century. The book evokes without sentimentality a deep ...
Individual Development and Social Experience
1st Edition
By Sonja Hunt, Jennifer Hilton
November 02, 2026
What elements in our psychological make-up direct our behaviour, and what social influences mould our reactions from day to day? In Individual Development and Social Experience (originally published in 1975, reissuing the revised 1981 edition now with a new preface by the authors), two experienced ...
Industrialization and Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Alan B. Mountjoy
November 02, 2026
First published in 1963 as Industrialization and Under-Developed Countries (reissuing the fourth edition of 1975 here), Industrialization and Developing Countries discusses the importance of geographical factors affecting industrialization and developing countries and their relationship to economic...
Joseph Parkes of Birmingham: and the Part Which He Played in Radical Reform Movements from 1825 to 1845
1st Edition
By Jessie K. Buckley
November 02, 2026
First published in 1926, the original blurb reads: “Joseph Parkes – a descendant of Joseph Priestley, the great scientist and divine – was a notable man during the Reform Era in the nineteenth century. He played an important part in the agitation for the extension of the franchise in 1832; he was ...
Mirrors of Work: Work Simulations in Schools
1st Edition
By Ian Jamieson, Andrew Miller, A. G. Watts
November 02, 2026
In the 1980s work simulations were receiving considerable attention in schools as ways of enabling students to experience aspects of the world of work within a controlled environment. They were also seen as vehicles for the development of a wide range of knowledge, concepts and skills. Such ...