This definitive volume is the result of collaboration by top scholars in the field of children's cognition. It provides state-of-the-art summaries of current research by international specialists in different areas of cognitive development, written to be of interest to scholars as well as upper level students. The Handbook spans aspects of ...
This unique volume gathers Weber's writings on a broad array of themes, from the nature of work, to the political culture of democracy, to the uniqueness of the West, to the character of the family and race relations, to the role of science and the fate of ethical action in the modern world. It gathers Weber's writings in a comprehensive ...
This Reader provides a critical review of British transport policy since the Labour Government came into office in 1997 and looks at possible solutions to Britain's ongoing transport problems. An authoritative reader providing a critical review of recent British transport policies, this work looks at possible solutions to Britain's ongoing ...
In a critical reinterpretation of the idea of the 'disenchantment of nature', this provocative and timely book argues that contemporary ideas and practices concerning nature and technology remain closely bound up with religious ways of thinking and acting. Using examples from North America, Europe and elsewhere, many derived from original research ...
The extended second edition of this inspiring introduction to Shakespeare offers readers more insights into what makes Shakespeare great, and why we still read and perform his works. A highly innovative introduction to the extraordinary phenomenon of Shakespeare, this work: explores Shakespeare's works through the 'Seven Ages of Man', from ...
"Literature and Film" is a cornucopia of vibrant essays that chart the history and confluence of literature and film. It explores in detail a wide and international spectrum of novels and adaptations, bringing together the very latest scholarship in the field.
"Internationalizing Cultural Studies" is an unprecedented resource that introduces and consolidates cultural studies literature from diverse locales and intellectual traditions. The book contains forty-four contemporary essays that introduce and pluralize cultural studies work from diverse locales and intellectual traditions; covers regions the ...
This title offers a landmark introduction to the archaeology of Africa that challenges misconceptions & claims about Africa's past and teaches students how to evaluate these claims. It provides an unprecedented and exciting introduction to the archaeology of Africa. It challenges misconceptions & claims about Africa's past and teaches students how ...
This "Concise Companion" presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature. It contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets. This book searches out connections ...
"Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People" is a groundbreaking collection that explores the 'visual' in defining the kaleidoscope of American experience and American identity in the 20th century. The book covers enduringly important topics in American history: nationhood, class, politics of identity, and the visual mapping ...
"A Companion to Asian American Studies" is comprised of 20 previously published essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field. Essays are drawn from international publications, from the 1970s to the present. This title includes coverage of psychology, history, literature, ...
This new textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to every aspect of the technology of low-rise construction. It includes sub-structure (site work, setting out and foundations) and superstructure (flooring, roofs, finishes, fittings and fixtures). The material here covers the first year course requirement of all courses on which construction ...
This book explains the principal qualitative methods and applies them to psychological problems. It is designed for use in psychology and also other branches of social science, including anthropology and sociology. The book's main aim is to increase people's confidence to use qualitative methods in their own research.
"Television in the Antenna Age" is a brief, accessible, and engaging overview of the medium's history and development in the US. Integrating three major concerns - television as an industry, a technology, and an art - the book is a basic primer on the complex, fascinating, and often overlooked story of television and its impact on American life. ...
"Cultural Studies: From Theory to Action" is a landmark collection of key works that inspires, provokes, and revitalizes conversations about issues of social and economic justice and the current crisis in democracy. The book brings together work done in key areas of concern to cultural studies, including globalization, class analysis, media and ...
"Self and Subjectivity" is a collection of seminal essays with commentary that traces the development of conceptions of 'self' and 'subjectivity' in European and Anglo-American philosophical traditions, including feminist scholarship, from Descartes to the present.
"Insect Sampling in Forest Ecosystems" highlights the problems faced by entomologists working in forest ecosystems. Insects play a major part in all aspects of ecology. This book brings together the methodology needed to investigate insects through the various strata of the forest canopy. It covers techniques associated with various specialised ...
"The Proper Treatment of Events" offers a novel approach to the semantics of tense and aspect motivated by cognitive considerations. This title offers a new theory of the semantics of tense aspect and nominalizations that combines formal semantics and cognitive approaches. It was written accessibly for students and scholars in theoretical ...
Open Learning Units offer a very flexible approach to the teaching of psychology. They are designed to be more than sufficient for the purposes of A/S and A-Level psychology, and the applied emphasis will appeal to various vocational courses such as those offered by BTEC and also to mature students on Access courses.Their primary use will be in ...
This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to, gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. This work: provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to; offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions ...
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of Mediterranean prehistory and an essential reference to the most recent research and fieldwork. It is the only book available to offer general coverage of Mediterranean prehistory. It is written by 14 of the leading archaeologists in the field. It spans the Neolithic through the ...
Written by the late Patrick Wormald, one of the leading authorities on Bede's life and work over a 30-year period, this book is a collection of studies on Bede and early English Christian society. It is a collection of studies on Bede, the greatest historian of the English Middle Ages, and the early English church. It integrates the religious, ...
The twentieth century has been a time of immense change in virtually every facet of human life in the West. This edited volume examines how marriage, and how we theorize about marriage, has been transformed. The essays included address shifting marital trends, marriage as the focus of scientific study and the object of psychotherapeutic ...
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The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
