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1. Critical Histories of Accounting

   Sinister Inscriptions in the Modern Era

   Edited by Richard K. Fleischman, Warwick Funnell, Stephen Walker

   Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

   The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline’s academic scholarship. Some critical literature has confronted the responsibility of accounting and accountants in precipitating contemporary crises, such as the audit failures that spawned...

   To Be Published July 3rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Race, Class and Education (RLE Edu L)

   Edited by Len Barton, Stephen Walker

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   One problem which continues to absorb social scientists is the way in which so much social deprivation stems from racial or class status. The discussion in this book is developed in two ways: firstly, careful attention is given to an examination of the way minority groups create and maintain...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
3. Schooling, Ideology and the Curriculum (RLE Edu L)

   Edited by Len Barton, Roland Meighan, Stephen Walker

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   Although the different contributions to this book range over a wide spectrum of substantive issues, they share a common interest. This is a concern to explore the ways in which notions of the relations between theory and practice, between belief and action, can be used to develop three kinds of...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
4. Social Crisis and Educational Research (RLE Edu L)

   Edited by Len Barton, Stephen Walker

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   Originally written at a time of crisis in the education system of Britain – occasioned by cuts, contradictions and change - many of the issues discussed in this book are still relevant today. Debate in the book focuses upon an examination of the nature of the crisis, an exploration of the impact of...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
5. Schools, Teachers and Teaching (RLE Edu N)

   Edited by Len Barton, Stephen Walker

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This volume considers how various sociological approaches to the exploration of the conditions of teachers’ might be co-ordinated so as to produce a more penetrating and reliable understanding of the main dimensions of teachers’ work. Three dimensions are selected for special attention: historical,...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
6. Rethinking Foreign Policy Analysis

   States, Leaders, and the Microfoundations of Behavioral International Relations

   Edited by Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici, Mark Schafer

   Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici, and Mark Schafer present a definitive, social-psychological approach to integrating theories of foreign policy analysis and international relations—addressing the agent-centered, micro-political study of decisions by leaders and the structure-oriented,...

   Published December 7th 2010 by Routledge
7. Agency

   Working With Uncertain Architectures

   Edited by Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk, Stephen Walker

   Series: Critiques

   While the potential of agency is most frequently taken to be the power and freedom to act for oneself, for the architectural community this also involves the power and responsibility to act as intermediaries on behalf of others. Presenting current thinking from practitioners and scholars from...

   Published November 15th 2009 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Companion to Accounting History

   Edited by John Richard Edwards, Stephen P. Walker

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   The Routledge Companion to Accounting History shows how the seemingly innocuous practice of accounting has pervaded human existence in fascinating ways at numerous times and places; from ancient civilisations to the modern day, and from the personal to the political. Placing the history of...

   Published July 20th 2008 by Routledge
9. Studies in Early Professionalism

   Scottish Chartered Accountants 1853-1918

   By Stephen P. Walker, T. A. Lee

   Edited by Thomas A. Lee, Stephen P. Walker

   Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

   This text aims to provide an in-depth review of recent historical research on the emergence and maturation of institutionalized public accountancy in Scotland from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Individual contributions cover a range of historical studies including the original foundations and...

   Published June 30th 1999 by Routledge
10. Trade Associations and Uniform Costing in the British Printing Industry, 1900-1963

    Edited by Stephen P. Walker, Falconer Mitchell

    Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

    Published August 31st 1997 by Routledge