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In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games shape a particular way of gaming by focusing on how games create meaning, lead to identification and division, persuade, and circulate ideas. Paul examines the broader social discourse about gaming, including: the way players are socialized into games, the impact of the lingering association of vid...

Peterson sees his correspondence with Paul Meehl as a privilege and would like to give others a chance to see the intellectual sparkle, erudition, human kindness, and moral passion that Paul Meehl brought to his everyday exchanges.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance. This innovative volume explores the major concepts, practice examples, and practice guidelines for this new approach.

This book discusses the idea that there is a specific Islamic form of entrepreneurship. Based on extensive original research amongst small and medium sized enterprises in Saudi Arabia, it shows how businesses are started and how they grow in the context of an Islamic economy and society.

In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current events, and popular culture through comedy that is simultaneously critical, commercial, and funny. Along with the rapid growth of television in the 1...

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This work provides a landmark in early twentieth century publishing summarizing the most up to date findings in all branches of the social sciences at a formative time and during a period of decisive historical discovery.

First published in 1984, this textbook analyses, at both aggregate and micro economic levels, the contemporary industrial conditions in Third World countries and relates this to the process of economic growth and structural transformation.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book is the first to comprehensively chart the development of Southeast Asiäs relations with the People¿s Republic of China (PRC) from 1949 to 2010, detailing each of the eleven countries¿ ties to China. In addition to assessing bilateral ties, it also examines the institutionalization of relations between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China, and is a timely contribution to Asia Pacific security Studies.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1989, this book focuses upon the phenomenon of export-led industrialisation fuelled by foreign investment and technology. The author concentrates on Mexico, where US companies have been taking advantage of inexpensive labour to establish "maquila" factories that assemble US parts for export. Through this detailed study of the maquila industry, Sklair charts the progress from the political imperialism of colonial days to the ...

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This wide-ranging and informative introduction to politics in tropical Africa, first published in 1984, is essential reading to students, businessmen, government officials and economic advisers alike. Situating the contemporary scene firmly in its historical context, which stresses both pre-colonial and colonial heritages, he emphasizes how politicians are constrained by the past, the physical environment and the world¿s economy, yet still ret...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Chuang Tzu was to Lao Tzu, the author of Tao Tê Ching, as Hui-neng, the sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism, was to Bodhidharma, and in some respects St.Paul to Jesus, he expanded the original teaching into a system and was thus the founder of Tao-ism.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Rather than being a book about `development¿ per se, this work, first published in 1975, is instead a book about ideas about development, designed for those drawn by a concern over social injustice into the development field. In a selective review of theory, which gives particular emphasis to the spatial dimension in Western, Marxist and neo-Marxist thought, Harold Brookfield traces the evolution of ideas about world inequality and the problem...