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Its long-term historical insights on globalization and its crises make world-systems analysis an indispensable tool for our time. The Handbook of World-Systems Analysis is the first comprehensive review of the field. It builds on over four decades of scholarship and includes contributions from a global, interdisciplinary group of more than 80 world-systems scholars. The clear style and broad scope of the Handbook will make it essential reading for students and scholars across the social sciences.

This landmark publication is the most comprehensive book ever published on the science of golf, covering every sub-discipline from physiology, biomechanics and psychology to strength and conditioning and equipment design. It examines the core science underpinning the game and demonstrates how it can be applied in practice.

The Routledge Handbook on Deviance brings together original contributions on deviance, with a focus on new, emerging, and hidden forms of deviant behavior. The editors have curated a comprehensive collection highlighting the relativity of deviance, with chapters exploring the deviant behaviors related to sport, leisure, substance use, religion and cults, politically marginalized populations, sexuality, online interaction, stigmatizing health and body conditions, and elite and workplace deviance. This handbook is a valuable resource for researchers and students investigating deviance across many disciplines, including criminology, criminal justice, sociology, and anthropology.

The Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies is a unique interdisciplinary resource for students, libraries, and researchers interested in the largest and most rapidly growing racial-ethnic community in the United States and elsewhere which can either be identified as Chicano, Latino, Hispanic, or Mexican-American.

The Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy covers the key perspectives and sets out the contours of the study of cultural policy. It brings together a diverse range of researchers whose work reveals how cultural policy expresses and realises common global concerns, dominant narratives, and geopolitical economic and social inequalities.

Surveying the management of sports events of every size and scale, this handbook presents key theory, best practice and ethical considerations. Each chapter addresses a specific stakeholder, defines their relationships, describes the managerial requirements for a successful event, and outlines the dimensions of stakeholder engagement.

The Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport is simply the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of social scientific research on this hugely important issue ever to be published. It presents an overview of key topics, problems, ideas, concepts and cases across seven thematic sections, including the history of doping in sport, philosophical approaches to understanding doping, the development of anti-doping policy, and WADA and national anti-doping organisations. With contributions from many of the world's leading researchers into drugs and sport, this is the perfect reference for any advanced student, researcher, policy maker, coach or administrator.

Bringing together perspectives from international experts, this book explores the intersection between criminology and forensic science and considers how knowledge from both fields can contribute to a better understanding of crime and offending.

The Routledge Handbook of European Public Policy provides an in-depth and systematic understanding of EU policies. It covers theoretical approaches on the policy process and the various stages of public policy-formulation and decision making; and discusses key questions of contemporary European governance.

This book provides the first systematic overview of the theoretical, empirical, clinical, and police issues related to sexual murderers and murder and brings together leading researchers and practitioners from across eight different countries.

TheRoutledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies weaves together the various strands of Jungian film theory, revealing a coherent theoretical position underpinning this exciting recent area of research, while also exploring and suggesting new directions for further study.

The Handbook of Art Therapy in Palliative and Bereavement Care offers a multicultural and international perspective on how art therapy can help individuals, groups, families, communities, and nations facing death and dying as well as grief and loss.

The health effects of psychosocial factors are a controversial topic. Do positive and negative emotions affect our physical health? And can we improve life expectancy by being happier or more positive? Provides methodological rigour, critical analysis and policy implications, this important book is the first to map what we know about psychosocial epidemiology, taking advantage of a huge growth in research, including several `megä studies. With chapters on a range of chronic conditions, and authored by leading researchers in the field, it will be invaluable resource for students and research across both behavioural and medical sciences, as well as those working in health and social care.

This handbook consists of 5 themes, namely, physical, social and emotional, economic, cultural and spiritual, and subjective wellbeing. This handbook sheds new light on understanding indigenous wellbeing and its determinants, and aids in the development and implementation of more appropriate policies.

The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Brexit takes stock of what we know in the social science community about the Brexit phenomenon so far, and looks to make sense of this remarkable process as it unfolds.

The War of 1812 ranged over a remarkably large territory, as the fledgling United States battled Great Britain at sea and on land across what is now the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada. Native people and the Spanish were also involved in the war¿s interrelated conflicts. Often overlooked, the War of 1812 has been the subject of an explosion of new research over the past twenty-five years. The Routledge Handbook of the War of 1812 brings together the insights of this research through an array of fresh essays by leading scholars in the field, offering an overview of current understandings of the war that will be a vital reference for students and researchers alike.The essays in this volume examine a wide range of military, political, social, and cultural dimensions of the war. With full consideration given to American, Canadian, British, and native viewpoints, the international group of contributors place the war in national and international context, chart the course of events in its different theaters, consider the war¿s legacy and commemoration, and examine the roles of women, African Americans, and natives. Capturing the state of the field in a single volume, this handbook is a must-have resource for anyone with an interest in early America.

The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government conducts a rigorous, innovative and distinctive analysis of local government within a comparative, international context.

In The Routledge International Handbook of Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy, world leaders in the field contribute their expertise to showcase contemporary psychotherapeutic practice. It covers underpinning embodiment concepts, potentials of dance movement psychotherapy and of body psychotherapy.

This handbook defines the sociological analysis of art and culture, focusing on the visual arts, literature, music and digital culture. Leading international scholars consider the restructuring of highbrow and popular culture; aesthetic preferences; ethnicity, migration and cosmopolitanism; and the rise of screen culture using state-of-the-art methods and theoretical innovations.

Drawing together a multidisciplinary range of authors from the global North and South, the Handbook explores key issues such as water, energy, gender and social education. Each chapter draws from the most recent sources, real-world best practices and tutored reflections on the strategic dimensions of climate justice and its related disciplines.