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The Routledge Handbook of Pediatric Physical Activity surveys many issues facing this field. It helps to develop an understanding of the underlying issues related to pediatric physical activity as well as the role physical activity plays on cognitive, psychomotor, and social aspects of childhood.

Written in a clear and direct style, and from a conceptual, multidisciplinary and international perspective, the Handbook will provide students, scholars and practitioners with an overview of the most pressing issues of Racisms in our time.

This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary gender and feminist geographies in an international and multi-disciplinary context.

This handbook provides an authoritative and comprehensive look at the latest developments in the 21st Century penal abolitionism movement, both reflecting on key critical thought and setting the agenda for local and global abolitionist ideas and interventions over the coming decade.

This handbook provides researchers and students with an overview of the field of sustainability indicators and indices (SIIs) as applied in the interdisciplianry field of sustainable development. The editors have sought to include views from the centre ground of SII development but also divergent views which represent some of the diverse, challenging and even edgy observations which are prominent in the wider field of environmental indicator thinking.

This handbook details the key developments and state of the art research across elections, voting behavior and the public opinion by providing both an advanced overview of each core area and engaging in debate about the relative merits of differing approaches in a comprehensive and accessible way.

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.

Routledge Handbook of Irish Studies begins with the reversal in Irish fortunes after the 2008 global economic crash. The essays included address not only changes in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland but also changes in disciplinary approaches to Irish Studies that the last decade of political, economic, and cultural unrest have stimulated.

The Routledge Handbook of Africana Criminologies plugs a gaping hole in criminological literature, which remains dominated by work on Europe and settler-colonial locations at the expense of neo-colonial locations and at a huge cost to the discipline that remains relatively underdeveloped.

An authoritative reference overviewing the current scholarship in social neuroendocrinology, considering the relationships between hormones, the brain, and social behavior.

This fully revised and updated edition of Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a remarkably clear overview of social and cultural research in the social sciences and humanities, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for social and cultural theory in the twenty-first century.

This comprehensive handbook provides a prestige reference volume for researchers interested in accounting and business ethics.

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the contributions of feminist economics to the discipline of economics and beyond. Each chapter situates the topic within the history of the field, reflects upon current debates, and looks forward to identify cutting-edge research.

This handbook maps the expanding field of gender and EU Politics, giving an overview of the fundamentals and new directions of the sub-discipline, and serving as a reference book for (gender) scholars and students at different levels interested in the EU.

This handbook showcases the broad spectrum of diverse approaches to environmental accounting over the past 30 years, and provides a summary of past and contemporary research whilst highlighting areas in which the field may evolve. A vital resource for students and scholars of environmental accounting and environmental economics.

This book makes an important contribution to the international understanding of domestic violence and shares the latest knowledge of what causes and sustains domestic violence between intimate partners, as well as the effectiveness of responses in working with adult and child victims, and those who act abusively towards their partners.

The third edition of the Handbook brings the reviews up-to-date and deepens the analysis including four new chapters addressing enduring themes (science publics, science-media theories), recent trends (art-science interactions) and new proposed insights on science communication as culture and as the social conversation around science.

The International Handbook of Psychobiology provides authoritative, cutting-edge research across the range of areas that fall under the umbrella of psychobiology.

This unique and in-depth reference work offers comprehensive coverage of the opportunities, challenges and future trends of financial technology. It will appeal to students, established researchers seeking a single repository on the subject, as well as policy makers and market professionals seeking convenient access to a one-stop guide.

The Routledge Handbook of Public Transport is a reference work of chapters providing in-depth examination of the current issues and future developments facing public transport.

Bringing together a diverse body of work from across the globe and a wide range of fat studies topics and perspectives, this is the first major collection of its kind to explore the epistemology, ontology and methodology of fatness, with attention to issues such as gender and sexuality, disability and embodiment, health, and pedagogy.

With original contributions from more than 60 authors with expertise in a wide range of resource types and world regions, this handbook offers an essential guide to the study of resources and their role in socio-environmental change.

This handbook provides an evidence-based account of psychological perspectives on issues in music education and music in the community through the life-course, exploring our understanding of music learning and participation across contexts.

This handbook is a landmark volume providing students and teachers with a comprehensive and accessible guide to the major topics and trends of research in the social sciences of artificial intelligence.

This book demonstrates the diversity of the interactionist perspective in social science, providing an overview of the developments in interactionist theory, methods and research. Thematically organised, it explores the history, contemporary state and possible future of interactionist research.

This book covers crime, criminal justice and victimization in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, focusing on the issues, their effect on the country and the government's efforts to mitigate them. Authors are from the U.S., India, UK, Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Singapore.