Textbooks
Routledge publishes textbooks for the newest subject areas as well as the most established, and for students at all stages of their degree.
All our texts are widely researched and reviewed by active teachers in the field, and often trialled in courses to ensure they meet the needs of both lecturers and students. Our emphasis on pedagogy and text development, combined with lively and imaginative design, supports students with all the information they need for their course, and guides them to further study and independent learning.
Many of our textbooks have accompanying websites, providing further resources and supporting materials for both lecturers and students.
In addition to core course material, we publish field-defining readers, companions, supplementary reading, a wide range of student guides and handbooks, helping students throughout their academic careers.
Please select a subject area to view a list of textbooks in that field:
- Architecture & Built Environment
- The Arts, Music, Theatre and Performance Studies
- Business & Economics
- Education
- Citizenship Through Secondary Schools
- Early Years
- Issues in Teaching
- Learning to Teach in the Secondary School
- OU Flexible PGCE Readers: Perspectives on Practice"
- OU Flexible PGCE Readers: Teaching in Secondary Schools
- Open University Readers
- Primary Curriculum Subjects
- Primary Pre-course Reading
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- Routledge-Falmer Readers
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- Teaching School Subjects 11-19
- Theory of Education
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- Discourse Analysis
- English Grammar
- Introductions to English Language Study
- History of English
- Language, Gender & Sexuality
- Psycholinguistics
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- Teaching English: TESOL/EFL/ELT
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- Human Rights, Civil Liberties, Discrimination and Immigration Law
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- International and Comparative Law
- Introduction to Law
- Jurisprudence and Legal Theory
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- Legal Skills, Method and Systems
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- Strategic Studies
- Psychology
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- Philosophy
- Philosophy - Aesthetics
- Philosophy - Continental
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- Philosophy - Essential Reference
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- Philosophy - Feminist
- Philosophy - Fundamentals
- Philosophy - General Introductions
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- Philosophy - Routledge Contemporary Introductions
- Philosophy - Routledge Contemporary Readings
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- Introductory Sociology
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- Social Research Methods
- Social Theory
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- Technology, Science and Society
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